-
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
. | «Stricken with apoplexy while beating
| a carpet for a neighbor, Michael Volki, 64
years old, died the same night in the. Sa-
cred Heart hospital, at Allentown. Volki
lived alome in Rittersville, but said he had
INK SLINGS.
_—Within half an hour after taking
a pledge to abstain from liquor John
Regan dropped dead in New York.
The moral is :
—Anyway, the late spring will save
us. from the blah of the fellow who
some times has potatoes out of his
own garden on the Fourth of July.
_ — Jim Heverly got the consolation
prize. He won the Prohibition nom-
“ination for Assembly. But that is far
from being a ticket to Harrisburg
and if Jim really wants to go down
he’d better start walking now.
—In his speech to the Democracy
of Ohio Senator Jim Reed said: “I
won’t say Coolidge knew of the oil
deal, for I'd never say that Coolidge
“knew anything unless I knew he
“knew.” Now, wouldn’t that send Cal’s
nose a few tilts higher?
—Will someone please explain to
‘us why Capt. Fitzmaurice, the Irish
aero lion of the hour, always appears
in high rubber boots when he has
his picture taken. Are they ceremon-
ial foot-gear in Ireland or does Fitz
«expect to have to wade home?
—Was it Jack Sharkey’s soporific
punch that flattened Delaney Monday
night or was “Bright Eyes so well
‘greased’ ” that he slipped and fell
down? It was one or the other and,
unfortunately for professional boxing,
many are of the opinion that the
knockout was “framed.”
—Several weeks ago the Watchman
pulled a good one that we expected to
be razzed about, but since nobody else
seems to have noticed it we repro-
duce it here just to see whether you
get the smile we got out of reading
it. In telling if interesting spiritual
services held in the county jail our
co-worker, C. L. G. said: “they were
greatly enjoyed by all those who had
‘the privilege of being present.”
—Incidentally, we shall jump off on
another mental tangent long enough
to ask the West Penn Power Co.,
what’s the use of that Milesburg
serve plant could be fired up and put
into service in just such an emer-
gency as was that of last Saturday.
—A ten thousand ton Diesel engine
propelled ship will cost $2,150,000 if
you buy it in an American ship yard.
A ship of the same specifications can
‘be bought in a British shipyard for
‘$720,000. What accounts for the dif-
ference in cost. Probably wages for
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 73.
Colonel Stewart “Vindicated.” Mr. Sinclair Needs a Guardian.
Colonel Robert W. Stewart, chair- | - Something ought to be dome by
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MAY 4, 1928.
Mr. Ford's Inconsistency.
Henry Ford, said to be the only
man of the Standard Oil company of somebody to conserve the financial in- billionaire in the world, who is now
Indiana, like Mr. Harry F. Sinclair, | terests of Mr. Harry F. Sinclair, of |
of Teapot Dome fame, has been vin- | Teapot Dome notoriety, for the pro-.
dicated. That is he has been assured, | tection of his family. It is true that
for the present at least, of immunity he is a very wealthy man and his es-
from jail sentence for contempt of the | tate could stand a good deal of
Senate. Mr. Stewart was associated “drainage” before the wolves would
with Mr. Sinclair in the operations of A be attracted to his door. But recent
the Continental Trading company, of , incidents in reference to his habits of
Canada, which is believed to have life reveal such a degree of careless-
enjoying the time of his life, hob- |
nobbing with Kings, princés and po-
tentates in Europe, addressed a meet-
ing of business men in London, the
other day, and threw a surprise into
his audience by declaring that he
“doesn’t believe in anything else but
free ‘trade all around. I don’t know
what a tariff means except it means
| stolen from the shareholders of the
several concerns they were managing
some $3,000,000 by a erooked deal.
When the Senate committee investi-
! gating the matter asked Stewart how
the profits were divided he swore pos-
itively that he had received no part of
them and hadn’t made a cent out of
the transaction.
‘Having acknowledged the deal and
admitted participation in it the com-
mittee reasoned that he must know
something about the distribution of
the profits and insisted upon answers.
But the haughty Colonel was obdur-
ate, protested that the questions were
irrelevant, and indignantly denied the
right of the Senate to “pry into his
private affairs.” The result was a
citation for contempt and subsequent
indictment by the grand jury of the
District of Columbia Supreme court.
Meantime the committee continued
the investigation in other directions
and discovered that he had been cash-
ing the coupons on the bonds in ques-
tion. This disclosure brought him to
terms and he offered to “tell all.”
ness in the disposal of assets or pros-
pects as to suggest mental infirmities
of so grave a type that no fortune, -
however fabulous, is secure. Of
course it is not proper for a rank out-
sider to intervene but somebody might
find some way of protecting him from
an obvious danger.
The other day a distinguished of-
ficer of the United States navy testi-
fied before the Senate committee on:
public lands in Washington that in a
poker game staged in his apartment
in a Washington hotel Mr. Sinclair
“laid down a winning hand.” This,
in itself, could not be interpreted as
an indication of mental weakness.”
The participants in the game were
guests whose friendship and favor he
was trying to acquire. In such ecir-
cumstances the “laying down of a
: winning hand” may have been a very
wise thing and the fullest measure of .
diplomatic finesse. The beneficiaries
of his generosity could hardly be in-
sensible to the favors thus magnan-.
imously bestowed upon them.
But another incident more recently.
| Accordingly the committee sub - developed by the testimony of unwill- |
emergency plant if it won’t emerge. poenaed him to appear again and he 'ing witnesses before the same tribun-
We have a hazy recollection of acknowledged that he had received al is of much graver importance. It
having O. K’d for publication a story one-fourth of the tainted profits but was testified that Mr. Sinclair had
sent out by that corporation some set up the surprising alibi that he had paid to Secretary of the Interior Fall
time ago that contained what now ap- ' deposited his share in trust for the | $233,000 in Liberty bonds and $25,000
pears to have been a lot of “bull” company which had been cheated by in cash for a third interest in a ranch
about how quickly the Milesburg re- the operation and that since his in- the assessed value of which is only
dictment for contempt he had actual-
ly made a legal transfer of the bonds
in question. That releases him from
the custody of the court but convicts
him of perjury in his previous state-
ments. Possibly that will satisfy the
wealthy gentlemen with whom he is
$125,000, and the real value about
$200,000. Even if the purpose had
been to purchase property no sane
man would have paid more than dou-
ble the value of the entire tract for
giving one crowd an advantage over
another.” This recalls to mind that
some: twenty-five or thirty years ago,
while ;the Payne-Aldrich tariff law
wag in the making, Mr. Ford protest-
ed against levying a tariff tax on au-
‘tomobiles, though at that time his en-
terptise at Detroit was, in fact, an
“infant industry.”
At that time Senator James Cou-
zens was treasurer of the Ford com-
pany and took no part and had little
interest in politics or public life. But
he had brains of his own and faith in
the head of his enterprise. With Mr.
Ford’s consent and encouragement’ he
went to Washington to oppose a prop-
osition to tariff tax foreign made
automobiles and before the Commit-
tee on Finance of the Senate, to the
dismay of the tariff-mongers in con-
trol, ‘declared “that tariffs meant
waste, inefficiency ‘and nepotism in
every. business that was covered by
them, since it gave a margin under
which the business could be carelessly
_ or l@¥ishly operated and still make
money.” It seems that Mr. Ford is
still_of that opinion.
ge old-time: advocates of. prohibi-
tion; when that service was per-
formed by sincere teetotalers, were
accustomed -to -vrging ‘men. who pro-
fesSed sympathy with the cause, to
“vote as they spoke.” In other words
they could discover no value in lip
service in favor of prohibition legis-
lation by persons ‘who habitually
voted for representatives in Congress
and “Fegislatures: who opposed such
legislation. The same objection may ,
Two Brave Men of the Air.
From the Pittsburgh Press.
No cleaner, brighter page of hero-
ism and sacrifice stands in the book
of aviation history than that on which
is written the story of the death of
Floyd Bennett. Though he died in
bed of pneumonia, Bennett gave his
life for his comrades of the air, the
crew of the German Bremen, as cer-
tainly as. if he had crashed on the
bleak shores of Greenly Island.
Interwoven in the story of Ben-
nett’s fight for life is the bold flight
of Lindbergh from New York to Que-
bec with serum with which it was
hoped to fight off death. The Lone
Eagle’s feat was rendered futile by
the development of the disease which
gripped Bennett. But not even the
epic flight of Lindbergh to Paris was
so challenging to the world’s thought
as his unplanned trip of mercy yes-
terday in the teeth of a snow-laden
gale up to the Canadian city.
Commander Byrd, with whom Ben-
net had flown to the North Pole, and
with. whom he was to fly to the Ant-
arctic late this year, soared up from
Boston to be with his mate of the
frozen spaces while the battle for life
went on. With one of their own in
desperate plight, the man-birds of the
air went to him by the upper roads he
himself had helped to chart, spanning
the miles of ether as casually as one
would walking across the street to
a hospital.
Bennett was ill when the word came
to Detroit that a rescue plane was
needed to carry supplies to the Bre-
men, and permit it to rise from
Greenly Island and complete its flight
to New York. He should néver have
started on the trip. But he knew
‘from experience the hazards of the
air in the frozen north, his .airman-
ship might prove the difference be-
tween success and failure for the ven-
ure. . ? ; 1
So unquestionably he stepped into
a plane. with .Bert Balchen and hopped
off. With less than half the, distance
completed he became so ill that he
was forced to come down. He was
taken to a hospital in Quebec, pnen-
monia gripped him, and death came
in its trail.
There have been more spectacular
a one-third interest. Besides Mr. Sin-
clair, according to the evidence, nei-
be raised against Mr. Ford’s support flights, other adventures in the air
of free trade.. He talks right but us- , which: caused the world to take .a
ually ¥otes wrong, for while eulogiz- deeper breath, but none which hold a
associated in business, but it will im- | ther asked for nor received any title
press indellibly on the minds of all deed or other evidence of ownership.
honest people that, like his partner Clearly cy:
‘he opposes .it by
ing dave economic systems with his greater element of drama or so chal-
no voting. for lenge
admiration as the.
a wife and several children in Europe;
—8ix persons were drowned early on
Tuesday when a small boat was over-
turned in the Monongahela River between
Masontown and Greensboro, Fayette coun-
ty, when a floating log crashed into it.
The boat was used to ferry passengers
across the river and carried nine persons.
—An 11-year-old West Leesport youth
made a gruesome discovery early Tuesday
evening when he returned to his home,
in Berks county, to find his mother had
ended her life by hanging. The suicide
was Mrs. Clayton Davis, aged 39, mother
of four children. She had been in ill
health for six months.
—Twenty ham sandwiches in 20 minutes
flat is the record of Michael Harvan, of
Westmoreland county. He performed this
feat when challenged to eat the sandwich-
es in 30 minutes. Although he won his
$10 wager, Harvan said he has just about
lost his appetite for ham. He is proprie-
tor of a garage at Hecla.
—Prisoners at the Snyder county jail
will earn their board and clothes in the
future. The county commissioners have
decided to hire out the men as common
laborers, and any funds received from
their services, beyond their keep at the
jail, will be applied to the maintenance of
the prisoners’ dependents.
—While his wife was driving him home
from a. school entertainment, at Lewis-
town, Monday night, Dr. James W. Mitch-
ell, 58, member of the State Legislature in
1920-21, died of a heart attack in his own
automobile. When he became suddenly
ill his wife volunteered to drive the ma-
chine. Upon arriving home she found Dr.
Mitchell dead.
—Mrs. Adah Kauffman, recently con-
victed of embezzlement of funds of the
Exchange Bank and Trust company, of
Franklin, and sentenced to ten months in
the county jail, was placed on trial, last
week on a charge of making false entries
in the bank’s books. John A. Kauffman,
husband of the woman, is yet to be tried
on charges of complicity in both cases.
—Shot in the neck by a 38-caliber bul-
let from his own gun, which was dis-
charged when it fell from his pocket, Al-
bert W. Thompson, paymaster at the Cam-
éron colliery for fifteen years, is in the *
Shamokin State hospital fighting for . his
life. The accident. occurred when the. of-
ficer - was . preparing to. alight from a
touring car in which were thousands of
dollars he was guarding.
—Terminating 25 years of service, coun-
ty engineer Charles 8S.’ Sanders resigned,
on Tuesday, to enter the real estate de-
velopment business. He erected more than
three-score concrete bridges in Berks coun-
ty, in the last decade, among them the
Lindbergh viaduct, about to be thrown
open in the city of Reading, his home
town; structures over the Schuylkill at
Birdsboro, three at Reading and another
at Hamburg. "
Milton Meckley, 35, and W. F. Mattern,
40, of Franklin, were instantly killed, last
Friday, when they fell 100 feet from the
roof of a tank at the Franklin steel works.
JA ‘post. erected in: the ‘center of ‘the: tank
there is a mental delinqu
of ‘Benmett and “effort ut | and supporting wu Scaffold on the outside
2 it, but, certainly; not all -of - a oare opposed to them. This
Sa
‘such a vast disparity. Keep these Jshrent, i
figures in mind when someone gets to |
o; he has escaped just pun-|
According to Associated Press dis-
arguing with you that a ship subsidy
‘bill should be passed by Congress so
“that a great American merchant ma-
rine can be built up. What they want
:ship subsidy for is to build up the
American shipbuilders.
patches the Senate has already taken
steps toward testing the question of
culpability in the courts. It has cer-
tified to the court parts of his. testi-
mony on each occasion in which he
! contradicted himself “for study to de-
; . termine whether a jury charge should
—Hoover has the Republican nomi- 1}, lodged against him.” There can
nation for President about cinched. je no doubt as to the result of this
He is the choice of the financiers and ,p51ysis, He deliberately lied on one '
the corporations, but from what we . ;ccasion or the other, and obviously
hear the agricultural classes are not ,. the purpose of deceiving the com-
turning handsprings over the prospect | :itaa Uttering a falsehood with
‘of his nomination. They figure that {10 purpose to deceive is perjury, ac-
he did them a great injustice during cing to the literal definition. Le-
‘the war when he fixed the price of g,| technicalities or interpretations
wheat. The farmers would not feel ,,u twist definitions but to all in-
cas they do if Mr. Hoover had put the iti -
same curb on other products of Amer- ous 8d gurposes 16s 2 case of por
‘ican industry, but he didn’t and they :
are so sore that any Democratic nomi- |
nee stands a good chance of carrying
several of the Republican western
. States.
—So far as we are concerned we’re
«off Mayor Jimmy Walker, of New
York. Up to Monday we had thought
“him a very colorful and interesting
_personage, with a mind of his own Glancing at the volume number of
and the courage to assert it. But the Watchman, in the heading above,
“Jimmy isn’t what we thought him to readers will see that the paper is sev-
be. He's afraid of his wife. When enty-three years and eighteen weeks
the charming looking Mrs. Koel pub- | oid.
“licly osculated the dapper Mayor, on | At his home in Unionville, yester-
Monday, someone in the crowd yelled day morning a gentleman who had
to him to slip a kiss to Mrs. Fitz- read the first copy of the Watchman
maurice. The news doesn’t reveal and every succeeding one, up until
‘that she reacted in an unfavorable the time his sight failed, passed to
manner to the suggestion, but Jimmy his last reward.
flinched. No man who isn’t afraid of In the heyday of his physical and
his wife would do that. imental activity George W. Rumber-
— Always, there’s a fly in the oint- 8€r was a great man in Centre coun-
ment. For years we have believed ty. Great in a way that has left a
“that “the wet spring of ’37” summed More lasting impress, perhaps, than
up everything that was bad in weath- }
.er. Often we have used it as a ence in public affairs or amassed
marker of time, just as you probably great wealth. Great, because he had
use “before the war.” Then came the | the heart to be kindly and the will to
“big snow of April ’28 and we thought | let it find expression in friendly serv-
we had moved up into modern times ice to all humanity, high and low,
with an event and date so unusual Yich and poor. La
‘that everyone would know just what _ The imaginary flights of “Domino
we meant when we might have occa- in his aeroplane are ended but the
;'sion to say “we haven’t had a pair soul of the revered author is a-wing
since the big snow of April, 28.” The to the haven of eternal rest.
big snow of April 28 doesn’t seem tet——_p————
to have been a big snow at all. Capt. | —“Swearing she’d ne'er consent”
Fry told us, on Sunday, that in the | France has agreed to pay the United
middle of May, 1856, there was a States $11,250,000 on her war debt in
three-foot snowfall. Oats and corn 'June. France is wise as well as wick-
‘had both been planted and up nicely, ed.
‘but neither was hurt. All wild birds |
perished, however. We can’t corrob- | Germany is willing to sign a mul-
orate the Captain’s story, of course, |tilateral or any other kind of a pact
but we believe him, just the same, be- | to outlaw war, which proves that
cause he said they had had the logs | “the world do move.”
.cut for a barn and as a little boy he
drove one of the teams that dragged
ithe logs to the sawmill on that snow.
‘We believe the Captain because we
have seen the log barn he says was
‘built of the logs he hauled on a May
. SNOW.
—Claude G. Bowers, who will be
“keynoter” at the Houston conven-
tion, is a newcomer in Democratic
councils but he moves with surpris-
ing speed and terriffic force.
George Washington Rumberger.
—A double row of Norway spruce
trees is being planted along the Snow
Shoe highway, which in due time will
act as a snowbreak and take the place
ed for the winter season.
if he had achieved nation-wide emin-
—The Spirit of St. Louis, having
carried Lindy 40,000 miles through
space and into the hearts of millions
of people, is now an antique in the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington.
Secretary Mellon to Support Hoover.
The primary elections, held in
April, have not given Mr. Herbert
Hoover a guaranteed title to the Re-
publican nomination for President,
but they have made it practically cer-
tain that all he needs to secure it is
the support of Andrew W. Mellon,
Secretary of the Treasury. The re-
sult of the vote in Ohio and Massa-
chusetts has brought him to within a
few votes of the necessary majority.
The seventy-six votes of Pennsylva-
‘nia, which Mr. Mellon “carries in his
‘vest pocket,” will serve the purpose.
Mr. Mellon has not yet indicated his
preference among the candidates. He
would undoubtedly be for President
Coolidge if that gentleman were in-
clined to take a “third cup of coffee.”
i Mr. Mellon has developed a great
. fondness for public life. Entering pol-
itics late he has found it a vast reser-
voir of pleasure and profit. With all
his wealth and commercial prestige in
, Pittsburgh he probably never dreamed
of controlling or influencing import-
‘ant legislation until after he became
‘Secretary of the Treasury. -Accord-
ing to his own statement, it cost him
"only $2000 dollars, in the form of a
contribution to the campaign fund in
11920, to acquire that office and within
'a few years he was able, by influenc-
ing Congress in framing the income
tax law, to save himself $800,000 a
year ever since. It was probably one
of the most profitable investments he
ever made.
Naturally, in view of these facts,
Myr. Mellon is anxious to retain the
office. It gives him vast power over
the financial activities of the country,
, which is flattering to the vanity of a
man whose whole life has been dedi-
cated to banking and corporation
projects. He was for Cooldige be-
cause his re-election would have made
Mellon’s reappointment certain. He
| can be induced to support Hoover by
an assurance that he will be contin-
‘ued in office and his support carries
the full strength of the Pennsylvania
' delegation in the Kansas City conven-
tion. It remains to be seen how Mr.
| Hoover, acocrding to gossip, but the
will treat the problem. We predict
| that Mellon will support Hoover.
|
—Mayor Mackey, of Philadelphia,
is making great promises of reform
| now to create a smoke screen for the
iniquities to come later on.
| —If Congress continues to award
medals at the present rate the mak-
ing industry.
aid by Lindbergh. It is the stoic
heroism of such men, their unassum-
1 ing challenge to peril, not for “stunt-
; ing” or glory but for the carrying on
—The wise politician will spend as of jis world’s work, which advances
little money as possible this year and aviation. : 2 :
that little with infinite discretion. The world will stand in tribute to
1, brave men, the living and the
‘dead.
Borah Invents a Comparison. |
is. made plain in his support of Pres-
ident Coolidge.
Senator Borah has again proved
himself the most consummate humbug
in public life. Posing as a great law-
yer and master of forensic art he pro-
fesses sublime independence of ac-
tion and thought, but invariably in- |
vokes contemptible partisan tricks to
serve the purposes of his political
masters. Having been mentioned by
some admirers as a suitable candidate
for President he has completely lost
all sense of proportion and indulged
‘in absurdities which would “make an-
gels weep,” His proposition to “lift
an obligation of shame” from his par-
ty by presenting Sinclair with a con-
siderable fortune was bad enough. But
it was not the worst of his partisan
follies.
The other day, in addressing a Re-
publican club in Chicago, he described
the sort of man his party must nomi-
nate for President this year by giving
a pen sketch of himself as he sees
himself in his mirror. He must be
“courageous and clean,” in order “to
demonstrate that the Republican par-
ty belongs to neither crooks nor cow-
ards.” I? the party fails to nominate
such a man “he will not be responsible
for the result.” This leaves the party
in a bad plight. Mr. Borah is fully
persuaded that he is the only Repub-
lican in the country who measures up
to that standard, and he employed all
his eloquence to induce his audience
to adopt the same view of the sub-
ject.
Having thus set the pattern Mr.
Borah dismounted from his high horse
and set about to convince the Chicago
politicians present that he is quite
equal to Big Bill Thompson in dema-
goguery. He resorted to the methods
of the frontier pettifoggers by com-
paring the oil scandals in Washing-
ton with a recent incident in Queens-
boro, New York. In. that case it is
alleged that a ward politician, by sin-
ister means, had himself elected to a
municipal office and betrayed his
trust. The oil scandal involved three
or four cabinet officers and several
leaders of the Republican party. The
Queensboro culprit was promptly re-
. pudiated. The oil swindlers were vig-
orously defended. Where is the par-
allel ?
}
—Some politicians are bold enough
jv say that Cooldige couldn’t get the
nomination now if he tried.
—Speaking of Presidential candi-
of the temporary snow fences erect- ing of medals may become a promis- dates, “many are called but few chos-
en.”
S—
A Real Show Place.
From the Ilarrisburg Telegraph.
| State Librarian Frederic C. God-
“charles and Boyd P. Rothrock, ¢urator
of the State Museum, display real
vision in plans announced today for
the transformation of the museum in-
to a real historical show place.
To visualize for all time the lost
arts of early Pennsylvania is to per-
form a real service. The time to do
it is now, for in a few years the ma-
terial for the reconstruction of those
Colonial households, farm and trade
scenes will have disappeared forever.
Even now the tools and appliances
are scarce and hard to find.
The proposed display is of interest
especially for the reason that when
the early settlers went into Penn’s
Woods they were able to carry little
with them and means of transporta-
tion were so crude that few tools or
pieces of apparatus could follow
them. But necessity is the nother of
invention and they soon learned to de-
vise the appliances they needed for
their homes, their farms and the
trades that sprung up to meet the
needs of the people. Many of these
were of original design, display in-
ventive skill and mechanical dexter-
ity. They have been pushed into the
discard by modern factory products.
But no historical collection: would be
complete without them, and to display
them as they were actually used adds
a great educational feature to the
work.
Nor is Mr. Rothrock’s natural his-
tory display, each group of birds, rep-
tiles and mammals in the actual sur-
roundings from which they were tak-
en, of any less importance.
Hundreds of thousands of people
visit Pennsylvania’s capitol. The bus-
iness of visualizing the history and
the wild life of the State for their
benefit is a great piece of advertising,
the value of which, apart from its
educational importance, cannot be ov-
er-estimated.
—Wall Street is offering odds on
Hoover according to gossip, but the
wide open spaces in the west tackle
the subject from a different angle.
—Lindy is to fly to Europe again.
We are fearful every time the idol
takes to the air, for his good luck
can’t follow him always.
————————— A —————————
—The Senate committee on public
lands will have a job for life if it un-
dertakes to investigate all oil leases
and contracts in the Salt Creek field.
———The Watchman gives all the
news while it is news.
collapsed, throwing the men to the ground.
Meckley and Mattern suffered fractured
skulls and broken arms and legs. William
Rhoades, working on top of the tank, was
narrowly missed by the flying end of
‘a broken guy wire,
—Injuries sustained by a Pittsburgh
woman with an artificial leg when her
good leg went through the floor of a mov-
| ing picture house are valued at $100,000
{in a suit filed by Mrs. Mary E. Abraham
lagainst Nathan Rosen and Abraham
' Joseph, of the Model theatre. Mrs. Abra-
ham says that on February 4, as she was
leaving her seat in the theater, her left
foot sank through a decayed board in the
floor. She claims she had to spend $260
for a new artificial leg and was perma-
nently injured.
—Shoemakers, at McAdoo, Pa., had the
thrill of their lives when John Mehalicks,
a tunnel worker, dashed, half-dressed and
with the grime of the mines still on his
face and hands, through their shops,
examining old shoes. His boarding mis-
tress, in sending his shoes to be soled, had
: included one pair that was his “bank.”
| All his savings were in ‘them and when
{ Mehalicks came home from work and
found them gone he started a tour of all
; the shops. He found the shoes in’ the
last place visited and the money was ail
there. %
—So that retailers may be put on notice
before laying in their stock of Fourth of
July fireworks, Mayor Jacob E. Weaver,
of York, last week issued a proclamation
to the effect that he will this year place
an absolute ban on the retail sale of all
fireworks for use in that city. The police
department will be utilized in enforcing
the edict. In past years the city ordi-
nance prohibiting the sale of fireworks for
use in York has been rather loosely en-
forced, but Mayor Weaver intends that
this year its provisions shall be carried
out.
—A State Treasury voucher made in
1861 for $2500 has been found in the home
of Dr. P. T, Fitzpatrick, at Lancaster, and
will be presented to the State Treasurer
for payment. The voucher, hidden away
in an old pocketbook, was found by Dr.
Fitzpatrick’s sister. She was about te
toss the yellow paper into the fire when
she discovered its value. The voucher was
indorsed by the owner to the father of
Dr. Fitzpatrick. It is doubtful whether
Dr. Fitzpatrick will be able to collect in-
terest, but if State records are intact he
will be able to collect the face value of the
security. :
—Suit for $100,000 damages was started
in common pleas court, at Doylestown, on
Saturday, by Mrs. Rosa Fekete and her
husband, Ernest, of Wismer, Bucks coun-
ty, against John Funk, of Plumsteadville.
An alleged fist fight over a crate of chick-
ens led to the suit. Mrs. Fekete, alleges
that Funk, through another party, pur-
chased a crate of chickens at $1.40 a bird.
When the chickens were placed in an au-
tomobile, the woman alleges, Funk jumped
from a hiding place in the truck and
handed her $2.40 for the lot, saying it was
the difference between a sum of money due
him by the plaintiff and the value of the
chickens. Mrs. Fekete alleges when she
held onto the crate Funk struck her with
his fists and knocked her unconscious. She
is asking $75,000 damages for injuries and
her husband seeks $25,000,