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INK SLINGS.
-—“Dep” Dunlap is going to be our
next Sheriff or we miss our guess.
He deserves to be because he is fit for
the office, he served usin time of war
and his opponent has already had a
good share from the public pie coun-
ter. : :
* —If there were no other reason we
should think Doc Parrish should be
elected County Commissioner because
he had sense enough to get out of the
printin’ business when he was young
enough to get into something that has
some money in it.
—There is a “Talk With the Editor”
on page 3 of this edition that we think
you will enjoy reading. If you don’t,
do some talking yourself. We would
like to make that column a feature in
‘the Watchman and it can’t be done
unless you help do it.
—In the light of what happened in
Philadelphia Saturday we are bobbing
around between three conclusions:
Either Bucknell is very strong, or
Penn is very weak or State wasn’t
doing what she is capable of when the
Bisons defeated her on the previous
Saturday.
—Remember this! What Centre
county does by way of choosing county
aofficials next month will have no
effect on who is to be the next Presi-
dent of the United States. Whatever
else you don’t let anybody talk you out
of voting for the local officials you
favor with such “bunk” as that.
It’s an ill wind that blows no-
body good. The rain during the early
part of the week not only filled up the
cisterns and springs for the farmers,
but confined them to their homes and
barns where the candidates were able
to find them without having to hike
out into the back fields to show them-
selves.
—There are two county offices to be
filled next month for which business
men are peculiarly qualified. One of
them is that of Auditor. Certainly
men accustomed to checking up on
‘things are needed as Auditors. For
‘that reason, especially, we advise you
to vote for H. E. Garbrick and O. J.
Stover, both of whom are business
men.
—If it is true, as we have been told,
‘that Mr. Wilkinson actually thinks no
one else is capable of running the Pro-
thonotary’s office we shudder to think
of what a hopeless condition Centre
county would have been in if he
hadn’t decided to quit running things
in Philadelphia and move up here and
save us from the possibility of pro-
thonotarial chaos.
—Just when we thought we had
gotten across to our two hopefuls a
very graphic resume of Dean Watts’
recent interesting deliverance of what
the Pennsylvania State College has
done for the agriculture of the State
through its development of “Pennsyl-
vania 44” wheat, one of them remark-
ed: “Yes, the farmers are buying La
Salles and the College is still starv-
ing.”
—Let us elect Lyman L. Smith
Treasurer of the county and avoid all
possibility of a question as to his eli-
gibility. There is uncertainty as to
whether Mr. Holtzworth could lawful-
ly fill the office, even were he elected.
He is thoroughly capable of doing it
but it is a debatable question as to
whether anyone can step from the
office of County Commissioner into
that of County Treasurer. Why take
a chance on such an uncertainty when
Mr. Smith would make just as satis-
factory an official as Mr. Holtzworth
could.
—Of course we are sometimes mis-
informed, but we have been told that
Prothonotary Wilkinson actually
thinks there is nobody else in Centre
county who could handle his office as
capably as he does. If the prothono-
tarial mind is so exaggeratedly egoed
it means that he thinks that he was the
only “good fish in the sea” and all
the rest are suckers. If you are one
of the suckers whom Roy expects to
grab at that bait let us tell you that it
was Dave Foreman who showed Roy
the ropes of his office and, fortunately,
Dave is still living.
—It is a pity that Frank Boal, can-
didate for Register, hasn’t been able
to get out over the county like a man
who can afford to lose time from his
work is able to do. Just a look and a
few words with him would convince
any voter that he is worthy of mighty
serious consideration when he or she
goes to vote for a man to fill the Reg-
ister’s office. Of course they didn’t
think of that when he was baptised
but Frank was certainly the name
that suited him. He is a gentleman,
all over, sensible and capable of being
a courteous and competent public
official.
—The English Bishop who is trying
to make the world believe that the
book of Genesis is only folk-lore will
find his preachments as futile as were
those of that other modernist—what
was his name—who tried to destroy
the Garden of Eden story because
science claims that apples couldn’t
have grown where the Garden is sup-
posed to have been located. The lat-
ter iconoclast might have gotten some-
where had he not contended that if
the fundamentalist idea is correct the
banana and not the apple must have
been the forbidden fruit. What flap-
doodle! Can’t you picture a piece of
banana sticking in the gullet of Eve’s
man long enough to turn into an
Adam’s apple?
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE
VOL. 72.
Vare Bluff Promptly Called.
Senator Reed, of Missouri, chair-
man of the Slush Fund committee, has
promptly called the absurd bluff that
the Senate, on reassembling, will ad-
mit Vare of Pennsylvania and Smith
of Illinois to seats in that body. The
story originated in a Washington
newspaper and implied that Senator
King, of Utah, a Democratic member
of the Slush Fund committee, had con-
ceded the right of the “Slush Fund
Twins” to the seats. Senator Reed
promptly telegraphed from his Kan-
sas City home that he has not altered
his position on the subject. His atti-
tude is that both Vare and Smith
should be barred because of the exces-
sive use of money, improperly obtain-
ed, in their primary campaigns.
Senator Norris, of Nebraska, head
of the Senate independent contingent,
is decisively of the same mind. “When
the Senate by a vote declined to per-
mit Frank L. Smith, of Illinois, to be
sworn when he presented himself dur-
ing the last session with an appoint-
ment from the Governor it took a
definite stand on this question,” de-
clared the Nebraskan. “I do not see
how any Senator who voted against
seating Smith in the last session,” he
continued, “can vote to seat Smith or
Vare in the coming session.” It
wasn’t a question of fraudulent votes
or hand made majorities that was con-
sidered. It was a matter of the cor-
rupt use of money in the campaign
and the source of the supply.
Mr. Smith obtained his vast slush
fund from officials of public service
corporations, presumably in considera-
tion of favors, previously bestowed
by him as chairman of the Public
Service Commission. For this reason
his demand to be sworn in as Senator
was refused, though there was no
doubt of the right of the Governor of
the State to fill a vacancy. Mr. Vare
is believed to have acquired his slush
fund from an even more objectionable
source. The gamblers, bootleggers
and dive keepers of Philadelphia are
alleged to have contributed the $50,-
000 handed to the Vare committee by
Thomas Cunningham, an eight. thous-
this belief neither Vare nor Smith
will be seated.
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The corruption in Philadelphia
cupidity. Recent developments sug-
gest..that stupidity is a strong ele-
ment in the equation.
An Apt Scholar in Graft.
Colonel Eric Fisher Wood, secre-
tary of the Republican Executive
committee of Pennsylvania, has cer-
tainly proved an apt pupil in the
school of politics and graft. Within
two years from the time of his en-
trance into the game he acquired con-
tracts for work as architect, by fav-
oritism, amounting to nearly $4,-
000,000, upon which his fees will
amount to upward of half a million
dollars. Except two jobs for Pitts-
burgh and Allegheny county, all this
fat patronage has been obtained from
the State administration, and includ-
ing the two, all were forced from the
authorities by alleged implied threats
of reprisals in the event his applica-
tions for the work were refused.
Among the jobs thus acquired by
Colonel Wood were the Warren State
hospital, the Ashland State hospital,
the Locust Mountain State hospital,
the Pennsylvania . Training School,
Morganza; the Colony for Epileptics,
Selinsgrove; the Mayview city home
and hospital, Pittsburgh, and the
Seventh Street bridge, Pittsburgh.
The contract for the Mayview home
was awarded by city authorities of
Pittsburgh and that for the bridge by
the commissioners of Allegheny coun-
ty. The other contracts were let by
the boards of trustees of the several
institutions who were influenced by
an intimation that appropriations to
them would be generous or otherwise
according to who was favored with
the awards.
Colonel Wood is a capable archi-
tect and if his bids had been consid-
ered “on the level” in competition
with those of other equally competent
bidders, his success would have given
no just cause of complaint. But he
carried into the competition an at-
mosphere of politics and as executive
chairman of the party and confidential
friend of the Mellons he simply ter-
rorized the charity agencies. He
tried to compel the Department of
Property and Supplies to dismiss the
architect of the public buildings at
Harrisburg and substitute himself,
but Governor Fisher refused to ac-
quiesce. For a new beginner in po-
litical graft Colonel Eric Fisher Wood
seems to be a ”cooco.”
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——A Spokane, Washington, gold
fish bowl set’ a house on fire which
proves there’s nothing impossible
under the sun either.
and dolla#-a year official. Becausa of
has been ascribed to venality’ and
Teapot Dome Oil Lease Revoked.
The decision of the Supreme court
of the United States, handed down by
lease of the Teapot Dome naval oil
reserve, to Harry F. Sinclair, invalid,
indicates that justice, though tardy
is still potent This transaction so
palpably conceived in fraud has been
under investigation for six years in
various tribunals. It was exposed by
committee of the United States Senate
in 1922 in a report recommending
civil and criminal action.
The late Senator LaFollette had pre-
viously called public attention to the
iniquity and began -an investigation
but found it so completely entrenched
in an environment of Big Business
that he dispaired of success. In the
succeeding Congress Senator Walsh,
of Montana, renewed the effort with
such energy and legal skill that the
courts were compelled to take notice.
The result of the decision handed
down by Justice Butler not only re-
stores that property and another of
even greater value, the Elk Hills re-
serve of California, to their rightful
owner, the government of the United
States, but compels the fraudulent
claimants to refund more than $100,-
00,000 which they had acquired as
profits of the operations during the
period since the lease was made. The
history of the corrupt transaction and
subsequent investigation is interest-
ing but shameful. After the adop-
tion of oil as fuel for ships Congress
enacted a law providing for the res-
ervation of oil lands at Teapot Dome,
Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California,
to provide fuel for the Navy in the
future. The act designated the Sec-
retary of the Navy as administrator
of the property. These conditions
were complied with during the ad-
ministrations of Presidents Taft and
Wilson.
When President Harding succeed-
ed Wilson in the White House Al-
bert B. Fall was made Secretary of
the Interior and Edwin Denby See-
retary of the Navy. Soon afterward
Edward Doheney and Harry Sinclair
proposed to Fall that these oil reserves
be leased to them on terms which
ed, said would yield him a orofit of
was reluctant to make the deal and
Fall applied to President Harding to
issue an order transferring the cus-
tody of the property to him as Sec-
retary of the Interior. There was no :
legal authority for such an order but
it was issued and the leases signed.
{The investigation followed and
{though the administration interposed
every barrier available and courts and
‘public officials have been corrupted,
iit has been completed to the full sat.
| isfaction of justice and the public.
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Trying to Fool Them Again.
We are told that an attempt is be-
ing made to lead the voters of How-
ard township into the Fleming camp
with the promise of a State road out
through the Romola section.
There is no doubt but that they
need a good road, but promising one
and getting it for them are very dif-
ferent things. .
Roads have been held out as a lure
to voters in the lower end of Bald
Eagle valley on numerous occasions,
when the fat of certain candidates has
been in the fire. They know, better
than we can tell them, how often they
have listened to the siren voiced poli-
ticians only to be disappointed.
Mr. Fleming’s workers are appar-
ently very glib at promising things.
They bait their hooks with the insin-
uation that Senator Scott will see that
it is done.
Just now Senator Scott is rather a
weak reed to lean on when favors are
sought at Harrisburg. Governor
Fisher’s friends are in the saddle
there and will be as long as Senator
Scott’s present term continues. Since
he made it a personal matter to see
that the candidate for Judge whom
the Governor had appointed was de-
feated for nomination at the primary
it isn’t at all likely that the Governor
will be passing out roads to help along
Senator Scott’s pet scheme.
If the people of Howard or any
other township need roads and are
entitled to them under the State’s
plans for building or aiding in the
building of them it is the duty of our
Senator and of our Representative to
get behind the project, without any
conditious at all, and help in what-
ever they can, We are certain that
both Senator Scott and the Hon.
Holmes would do that very thing, so
why are these workers permitted to
play on the credulity of a community
and make promises that they are not
at all certain they can keep, merely to
entice voters into the camp of their
favorite.
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~The Watchman gives all the
news while it is news.
Justice Butler last week, declaring the '
Doheney, after the leases were sign-
$100,000,000. Denby, a stupid fellow,
. PA.. OCTOBER 21. 192%.
A Judge Should Have a Human Side. | Ruth Elder Failed in Flight, but Es.
Mr. Walker Has It.
W. Harrison Walker, candidate for
the important office of Judge in Cen-
tre county, is 53 years of age, and has
practiced at the Centre county bar for
about thirty-two years, or twice as
long as his opponent. He is a man
of quiet and domestic habits. Hap-
pily married, he is the father of two
children. He has never held a salaried
‘office; and yet he is one of the most
widely known personages, not only in
his own neghborhood, but also in the
State of Pennsylvania. The question
naturally arises, what is the cause?
Devoted as he is to his family, ac-
tive and earnest as he is in the prac-
tice of his chosen profession, he has
found the time to respond to innum-
erable calls from his neighbors and
the public, to interest himself with in-
tense zeal in the social, urban and
patriotic activities of the State and
county.
Born upon a farm and taught from
infancy to labor with his hands, and
from his early youth to labor with his
mind, endowed with unusual energy,
supplemented with a kindly and gen-
erous spirit and an open mind natur-
ally disposed to respond to merited
appeal, he has during his whole na-
tural life not only been personally
identified with every elemosenary,
patriotic and beneficial movement, but
by reason of the aforesaid qualifica-
tions has become inevitably a leader.
Three times the citizens of Belle-
fonte have called upon him to be their
Chief Burgess, which office at the best
is a thankless one, imposing upon the
official many annoying and unpleas-
ant duties, which he has cheerfully,
courteously and efficiently solved. He
has never refused an. invitation to
help dedicate a monument, or raise a
flag, or speak at a religious gather-
jing, or address departing or home-
coming soldiers, or commemorate the
heroic actions of heroes of the Re-
public; though these claims have been
so frequent during his busy life as to
have made a serious breach in his
home and professional life. He was
| fit appointed a Notary Public
sovernor Hastings and has held os
little office ever since. In all these
i Passing years his services as Notary
bave been free to every old soldier
and veteran of any of the wars of the
Republic, to all applicants for pen-
sions, and to all citizens required to
make questionnaires.
In special war work Mr. Walker has
been pre-eminent. For practically
two years he gave up his extensive
practice and devoted himself almost
exclusively to special war work after
the United States had entered the
great World War. In this work,
which meant so much of sacrifice of
time and earning power, he obtained
an eminence and distinction that be-
came State wide, certainly not equall-
ed by anyone in the county or the
central part of the Commonwealth.
As an illustration, he travelled over
the central portion of Pennsylvania,
devoting his whole time to the sale
of Liberty Bonds, the aggregate of
which sale ran into the millions of
dollars,
The answer is therefore an easy
one. It has been these personal and
‘unselfish activities and accomplish-
ments that have made his individual-
ity so well known throughout the
State of Pennsylvania. These same
qualifications and that experience are
now offered to voters of Centre coun-
ty. The electorate that has for so
many years called upon Mr. Walker
to render so much of his time and
strength to public work without com-
pensation, now has an opportunity to
reward him by elevating him to the
Bench; and that, too, at the time
when his mental powers are most
matured and ripened by hard work,
study, and experience. He is fitted
for every duty of the Judicial cffice.
As a devoted father and husband, he
will give most sympathetic attention
to the juvenile and kindred work of
the county; as a lawyer he will be
open minded to the legal arguments
of his professional brethren and will
decide the questions at issue with
fairness and conscientious study and
impartiality. But added to these
qualifications there is back of these
activities and thi professional ex-
perience, a real, live, red-blooded
human being who has an effection
and sympathetic heart and will al-
ways consider the equities and human
side of the cases before him.
—All those persons who think that
because Roy Wilkinson has been a
courteous obliging official in the Pro-
thonotary’s office nobody else should
have a chance to show how courteous
and obliging they could be at seven
thousand a year will likely vote to
give him twenty-eight thousand more
to add to the fifty-six thousand, or
thereabouts, he has already gotten.
Those who think that enough’s enough
will vote to give Claude Herr a
chance. .
caped with Her Life.
Ruth Elder failed by a scant 800
miles of accomplishing the feat of be-
ing the first woman to cross the At-
lantic by airplane.
She and her co-pilot, Captain
George Haldeman, were forced down
on the waters of the Atlantic on
Thursday by a broken oil pipe and
and were taken aboard the Dutch
tanker Barendrecht. Their plane, the
“American Girl,” was estimated to
have traveled 3,000 miles along its
3,800 mile journey.
The plane was destroyed by fire as
the tanker was attempting to sal-
vage it.
Miss Elder and her co-pilot were
landed on the Azores, on Saturday,
with nothing but the clothing they
wore, the girl’s lipstick and a lot of
enthusiasm.
Very little news of the flight has
leaked out from the little island in
the Atlantic, but that little indicates
that the girl had her courage tested
in full measure before coming down
in the sea alongside the rescue steam-
er.
Because of heavy sleet that froze as
it fell on the airplane, it was neces-
sary to throw some of the gasoline
overboard. This was done in turn by
the girl and her pilot, George Halde-
man, and on one ocasion it became
necessary for Ruth to crawl out on
the tail of the plane to effect a bal-
ance. This she did without a sign of
wavering and came back in safety.
Added to the danger from the low-
ered oil pressure because of a broken
oil pipe, was the menace of the sleet
which until the plane was lightened
threatened to force it down.
Owing to the fact that everything
Miss Elder and Capt. Haldeman had
taken with them was lost in the de-
struetion of their plane ‘it was neces-
sary for the American consul in the
Azores to cable their backers and
friends in the United States for funds
to enable them to continue their
Journey to France. The two left the
island on Monday going to Lisbon,
Spain, on the Portuguese liner Lima,
expecting to continue their journey
from Lisbon to Paris. ;
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Royal Taste for American
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Queen Marie of Rumania must real-
ly mean to visit this country; she has
done little but talk about it since her
return to her own. The latest story
is that she will bring little King
Michael and Lis mother, the Princess
Helen, with her on her next trip. She
Is credited with the theory that there
will be something educative for a
young sovereign in a view of the
American scene. How much one of
his years would gain from it must
remain a matter of speculation. He
would be a remarkable child if be ob-
tained anything but a vague impres-
sion of what he was permitted to see,
It is interesting to note that the
Quen is a devotee of American cul-
nary art. She now has at Bucharest
a chef who can prepare chicken Mary-
land, waffles and baked beans. This
1s not a very comprehensive selection
from the American menu. The little
King likes, we are told, various Am-
erican breakfast foods, jam and
maple syrup. Its a safe guess that the
last named cannot be obtained in its
genuine state anywhere in Europe.
Still, it is not to be concluded that
the Rumanian royal family designs
to eat its way into American affection.
This expressed preference for our food
may be genuine enough; but presum-
ably it is mainly intended to be a
gracious compliment. Queen Marie
is an eminently diplomatic person.
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Good Luck, That’s All
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Ruth Elder and her pilot chanced to
alight in mid-ocean on a disabled
plane alongside a steamship. They
were lucky, that’s all. Therein lay
the difference between their fate and
the fate of those who went to watery
graves when their machines came
down with no ship in sight.
This latest failure to fly the Atlan-
tic justifies what Byrd and Lindbergh
have written concerning the difficul-
ties that lie between the present stage
of air navigation and transoceanic
flights on a commercial basis.
Ruth Elder’s attempt was a reck-
less bid for international notoriety.
If she had succeeded she would have
posed as the first woman to cross the
ocean by air, but credit for the trip
would have gone to her pilot, who
made the flight possible.
Her failure shows up the weakness-
es of even the best and most depend-
able present-day planes and the per-
ils passengers must face who put the
machines to exceptionally long per-
iods of excessive strain. To be sure,
each failure teaches a lesson in con-
struction, provided the participants in
the accident live to tell the tale, but
more might be accomplished by long-
distance flights over land, where the
chances for alighting safely in case
the development of mechanical defects
are at least fifty-fifty. A
——-Senator Reed of Missouri
doesn’t seem to have fallen precipi-
tately for the scheme of Senator Reed
of Pittsburgh to put the evidence of
fraud into the hands of a partisan
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYTSONE.
“~A common pleas court jury at Pitts-
burgh, has awarded Miss Fancis M.
Stewart $12,000 damages against the Penn-
sylvania railroad for the loss of a leg in
a railroad accident two years ago. Her
mother: was awarded $3,000 by the same
jury.
—Injuries suffered when he fell beneath
a truck have resulted in the death at the
Indiana’ hospital of Richard B. Smith, 18
year old coal miner, of Barnesboro, Cam-
bria county. Smith was riding in the
truck when he lost his balance and fell to
the highway, the rear wheels of the ma-
chine passing over his body.
—Plans and specifications for the first
units of the new fish hatcheries at Tion-
esta and Reynoldsdale were submitted to
Arthur Townsend; budget officer, by the
State Fish Commision at its meeting in
Harrisburg, last’ week. Work will be start-
ed on the hatcheries as soon as the plans
are approved by the budget officer. The
—B. ‘A. Seically, ‘22, of Darby, Tenn.,
had his right ear almost severed from his
head when a bolt from machinery with
which he was working flew up, striking
him back of the ear with such force that
the member was torn away. The young
man is in the employ of the Bethel Con-
struction company at work on the State
highway between Renovo and Keating.
—Joseph Huntingdon, who has been in
the Clinton county jail at Lock Haven
awaiting trial at the October term of
criminal court for the murder of Herman
Klobe, of Sugar Valley, is seeking funds
for his trial, and the case may be carried
over until the January term of court {o
permit him more time to secure the ser-
vices of an attorney and save the county
the attorney’s fees.
first unit of the Tionesta plans will cost
approximately $100,000. and will be de-
voted to the propagation of all species of
fish which are used to stock Pennsylvania
streams, with the exception of trout. The
Reynoldsdale hatchery will be devoted ex-
clusively to the hatching of trout. Li-
censes next year will cost $1.50, an in-
crease of 50 cents which will be used large-
ly for the propagation of fish and re-
stocking of streams.
—An irate farmer is bing held in Lan-
caster on charges of aggravated assault
and battery with intent te kill after shoot-
ing two boys, 13 and 10 years of age, while
the latter were in his orchard near Millers-
ville on Sunday. The farmer, Henry C.
Meyers, declares that the boys were pick-
ing up apples and that he shot into a gul-
ley in an effort to scare them. The boys,
William Zahm, Jr., and Donald Hengel,
both are in St. Joseph’s hospital, each
with several perforations from gunshot.
. —Officials of the Pennsylvania railroad
inspected the tracks and equipment in
Lock Haven recently, and conferred on
matters relating to the construction of new
tracks there for the Bald Eagle Valley
trains, in the lower railroad yards. It is
said they also discussed the advisability
of. again making Lock Haven a termianl
point for freight trains running from
Ralston and Northumberland to Altoona.
That point was abandoned as a terminal
last spring, removing fully twenty fam-
ilies from the city. .
, =A ring supposedly lost in the Juniata
river near an old dam west of Huntingdon
forty-six years ago has been recovered
from the gullet of a thirteen-pound carp
caught near the dam by George Ballan-
tyne, local fisherman. Forty-six years
ago a dozen Huntingdon youths held a
picnic on the bank of the Juniata river.
Several of the young men displayed their
prowess in rowing a boat, the one youth
accidentally dropping an amethyst ring.
The old dam was replaced by a large
hydro-power dam, and when the fisher-
man recently caught the thirteen-pound
carp near the dam, cleaned it for use as
food, he found the ring.
—A sentence of 15 to 30 years in the
eastern penitentiary was pronounced on A.
S. Banmiller, of Harrisburg, on Monday,
former assistant treasurer of the Common-
wealth Trust company, as the penalty for
his part in the embezzlement of nearly
three quarters of a million dollars from
the bank. In addition he was fined $500
and costs. Banmiller was the first of
seven, charged with wrongdoing in con-
nection with the shortage, to be arrested
and he has been in jail since his arrest in
March. He is the only one who declined
to enter any defense and since the prose-
cution started was regarded as the prin-
cipal defendant. .
—The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has arranged to enlarge both the classi-
fication and shop yards at Lewistown
Junction. Seven tracks that will accom-
modate fifty cars to the track will be in-
stalled in the classification yards in the
space between the chute and thoroughfare
tracks. Nine tracks of nine to twelve cars
each will be added to the shop car yards.
These will be buggy tracks with space
enough between tracks to truck material
and insure the safety of the men. The
Penn Central Light & Power company
will install flood and arc lights that will
light the yard from Granville bridge to
the main station, one and a half miles.
—Two juries placed a valuation of $15,-
000 upon a lost leg in separate personal
damage suits heard in common pleas court
at Pittsburgh, on Monday. Mrs. Francis
Stewart and her mother were awarded that
amount in a case against the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, and Richey Bonach,
11, and his father received a similar verdict
against the City of Pittsburgh. Miss
Stewart lost a leg in a railroad mishap,
while the Bonach boy’s leg was ampu-
tated after being struck by a piece of steel
thrown by an explosion of an automobile
gasoline tank as the machine was being
wrecked in the street by a junkman. The
city was held negligent for permitting
wreckers to work in the street.
—Ten sisters and two brothers held
their first remnion in twelve years at the
home of one of the sisters, Mrs. Charles
B. Greib, at Lamar, near Lock Haven, re-
cently. All are married and the ten sis-
ters, whose ages range from 42 to 65 years,
have forty-nine sons and daughters and
fifty-three grandchildren, while the two
brothers have twelve sons and daughters.
The brothers are William and Harry Fish-
er, both of Mill Hall, and the sisters are
Mrs. N. M. Kunes, of Altoona; Mrs. James
Moore, of Flemington; Mrs. Ida Batche-
let Berry, Mrs. Netta Pennington, Mrs, M.
C. Reeder and Mrs. Lulu Burnell, of Lock
Haven; Mrs. George Moore and Mrs. Dan-
iel - Markel, of Mill Hall; Mrs. Herbert
Nighart of Castanea, and Mrs. Charles
committee.
Grieb, of Lamar.