Re —
Sewer.
INK SLINGS.
—If more people stayed at home
on Sunday the undertakers would not
be so busy on Monday.
—Brother MecSparran has called
on Gov. Smith to resign and Al will
probably do it—like the old woman
kept tavern out west.
—Thank the Lorl, the farmers are
having a season of propitious weath-
er in which to salvage their short
grass and scant wheat crops.
The selection of Mr. Raskob as
chairman of the Democratic National
committee knocks the bread-line and
soup-house scares out of the Republi-
can campaign map.
—The assassination of President-
elect Obregon, of Mexico, is not likely
to have a very quieting effect on the
domestic turmoil of our temperamen-
tal sister Republic south of the Rio
Grande. Mexico just can’t do without
tragedy.
—As tragedy after tragedy piles
up in the wake of the disastrous No-
bile polar expedition it seems to be
about time for the world to notify
those who persist in flying into the
jaws of death that if they can’t fly
out again they can stay there.
—“Hoover Goes West” was the
head-lines in metropolitan papers on
‘Saturday. The Americo - English,
Demo-Republican gentleman who re-
signed from the cabinet of President
Coolidge to aspire to be President of
the United States will “go west” right
in November.
—The Tunney-Heeney fight, which
is. less than a week off, hasn’t aroused
as much interest as usually precedes
a fistic contest in which the heavy-
weight championship of the world is
involved. We figure that Tunney will
retain his title if he doesn’t find it
necessary to recline on the canvas
fourteen seconds again.
— According to the records compil-
ed in 1927 one person is killed with
every nine-hundred and eighty-four
automobiles that are turned out. Bear
this in mind when you are reading
stories of the daily out-put of the
Ford and General Motors factories
and it might scare you into being a
little more careful at road intersec-
tions and keep you far enough from
the white lines on curves to save your
neck from the fool driver who thinks
he can straddle them in safety.
—Word comes from Evanston, Ill,
to the effect that Vice President
Dawes is a bit peeved because the
Kansas City convention didn’t re-
nominate him. Explaining the selec-
tion of Curtis instead it is intimated
that Charley was rather too forceful
and self assertive to suit Coolidge.
Suit Coolidge and why ? He’s through
and what did he do as President, any-
how? His has been the most color-
less administration we have recollec-
tion of.
—Scientists must have it in for the
aluminum manufacturers. They are
responsible for the spreading notion
that cooking utensils made of the
light metal are contributory cause
for the increase in cancer in this
country. Some chemical reaction
when food stuffs are cooked in alum-
inum vessels is said to impregnate the
food with an element that starts the
cancer germ in the human system. We
don’t know whether there is anything
to it or not, but the purchasing public
is taking no chances, for the dealers
in aluminum-ware will tell you that
sales are falling off at an appalling
rate.
—The prominent business man who
recently left his office and went out
to play a strenuous game of tennis
in broiling mid-afternoon sunshine is
dead as a result of his indiscretion.
Sunshine is very beneficial to health
when it is used properly. The case
in question shows, however, that it
is quite the reverse when abused. On
Monday we gave a homeward bound
lime kiln fireman a lift. That man
does a ten hour shift every day be-
fore the hottest kind of a fire, yet he
told us that he would like to take a
week off to go out and help some
farmer make hay, but was afraid he
couldn’ stand the heat of the sun.
—State Treasurer Sam Lewis is
right in his contention that the State
has enough funds available to take
care of every need of the five depart-
ments and institutions for the benefit
of which new bond issues are propos-
ed. But Sam has been sticking
around Harrisburg long enough to
know—and he does know—that no
matter how many millions are avail-
able log rolling and political expe-
diency are the motivating impulses in
the House and Senate appropriation
committees. Four of the five pro-
posals are really meritorious. They
are welfare work, reforestation, roads
and State College. Roads have al-
ready more than twenty-three million
dollars income from motor licenses
this year and it is only half gone =o
we think it would be bad business to
bond the State for more funds for that
department. Welfare, reforestation
and the Pennsylvania State College
have no such annual income and will
not be adequately provided for if the
electorate of the State does not de-
clare that they must be. For that
reason this columr and this paper
favors three of the bond proposals
namely: That for the Pennsylvania
State College; that for reforestation
of our denuded mountain lands and
that for providing sufficient retreats
for our physical derelicts.
pr
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
VOL. 73.
The Campaign Auspiciously Opened.
The reorganization of the Demo-
cratic National committee affords a
comforting assurance of a vigorous
chairman, John J. Raskob, is not wide-
ternationally famous as an organizer
and business executive. His appoint-
ment to the important office will serve
two significant purposes. It is a
guarantee of energy and efficiency in
the management of the campaign and
a warrant that business, big or little
if honest, has nothing to fear in the
event the Democratic candidate for
President is elected. Mr. Raskob is
the head of one of the largest and
easily the most successful enterprises
in the country.
In accepting the call of his party
to service Mr. Raskob is as candid as
he is confident. There will be no
pussyfooting in the campaign on his
side, on the prohibition or any other
question in issue. He favors the rig-
id enforcement of the prohibition
amendment to the constitution, rather
than the false pretense which has
been practiced since the adoption of
the provision. He favors the enforce-
ment of the Volstead law with equal
energy and fidelity but maintains the
legal right to improve it by any pro-
cess which will “absolutely prevent
the return of the saloon, eliminate
boot-legging with its accompanying
evils—graft, corruption and murder
—and restore temperate life in our
country.”
This is precisely the attitude ex-
pressed by Governor Smith in his
telegram to the Houston convention
and is the best promise that has ever
been made to enforce the Eighteenth
amendment. He is in full accord with
our candidate on the subjects of tar-
riff taxation and farm relief and the
records and reputation of both for in-
tegrity and sincerity afford substan-
tial reasons why the chairman should
be cordially supported and the candi-
date triumphantly elected. It can be
safely said that the campaign has
been started on right lines and it may
be surely predicted that it will end in
a complete victory for the people. It
is a contest between the masses and
the Class. aon miimpss Vipers
During his brief stop-over in
Chicago Herbert Hoover was the
guest of Vice President Dawes. If
President Coolidge should visit that
city he would probably pay a lunch |
courtesy debt to Big Bill Thompson.
Vare Machine Intimidates Witnesses.
The arrest of one of the witnesses
in the Wilson-Vare contest on a pal-
pably framed charge, reveals the pan-
icky condition of the Vare machine.
On Wednesday of last week Freder- :
ick Schadt, who had served as deputy
| zation.
i fy the crimes.
Frauds Shown in Philadelphia.
For a period of more than a week
Senator Waterman, of Colorado, sit-
{ting as a sub-committee of the Sen-
and successful campaign. The new’
ate committee on Privileges and Elec-
‘tions, listened to witnesses reciting
ly known as a politician but he is in-
the details of frauds committed in
Philadelphia at the Senatorial elec-
tion of 1926. Each day brought out
fresh evidence of crime perpetrated,
not by the illiterate and dependent
. victims of a vicious machine, but the
crafty managers of the Vare organi-
Every effort that minds
schooled in political chicanery could
invent was made to explain or justi-
But they stood out in
plain view and the inquisitor, though
a Republican, was appalled at their
enormity.
In one election division, as they are
called in Philadelphia, it was shown
that ninety per cent. of the votes cast
and counted for Vare were fraudu-
lent. In every division covered by
the inquiry a large proportion of the
votes cast and counted for Vare were
fraudulent. And all these crimes
were committed with guilty knowl-
edge of ward and district leaders, and
in some instances at- the request of
BELLEFONTE. PA.. JULY 20. 1928.
‘ Fine Arrangement for the Trust.
The “strangle hold” which the
Electric trust has acquired on the
government of the United States is
further revealed in the fact that prop-
aganda in the interest of electrical
| devices is now being distributed “in
i official government statements en-
i closed in postage-free envelopes of the |
! Department of State” with the entire
sanction of the department. The de-
liberate stifling of the Boulder Dam
project and the pocket veto of the
Muscle Shoals legislation were strong
symptoms. But the flagrant misuse
‘of the franking privileges positive
proof. It is levying upon the public,
through the Postoffice Department,
the cost of advertising by mail the
commodities of the Electric trust.
This organization has been invest-
ing vast sums of money in purchas-
ing seats in both branches of Con-
"gress, in the State Legislatures and
in the several courts, State and Fed-
eral. It has been paying large sums
'of money in an effort to introduce
its propaganda into the text books
| of the public schools. But these ad-
{ ventures, reprehensible as they are,
have been undertaken at their own
magistrates and other county and | expense. Of course they expect re-
municipal officials. Though only one | fiburs ethent b a y
| y raising prices after
form of fraud was developed enough | on 0001v has been established. But
was shown to wipe out the Vare ma- lth ; De
jority in some of the divisions. When ' § New scheme of Saddling the ex
the other forms of fraud are expos-
ed there will be little left of the Vare
majority even in “the .neck.”
There can be but one conclusion
drawn from the evidence thus far
presented. That is that the Senator-
ial election of 1926 in the twenty rive
er wards of Philadelphia was so ov-
erwhelmingly fraudulent that it is
completely void. More than two-
thirds of the Vare majority were poll-
or Mackey testified that the voters
do not know who they are voting for.
Eliminating the returns of those
wards the fifty thousand majority for
William B. Wilson in the State, out-
side of Philadelphia, would entitle
but of the election. Mr. Vare may
manage to delay the decision for
some time but the ultimate result is
_ j certain.
:
step personalities
and by the same token bigotry and
fanaticism ought to be cut out, too.
Signs of Agricultural Distress.
| The farming industry in Pennsyl-
| vania is gradually but certainly pass-
{ing out of the hands of land owners
| and into the hands of tenants, ac-
‘ cording to a report recently filed by
| the Federal-State crop reporting
i service. In Lancaster county 41.2 per
! cent. of the farms are operated by
ed in the twenty wards in which May- |
him to the certificate, not of doubt, |
{| ——Of course we all agree to side-'
! in the campaign
tax receiver in 1926, testified before tenants, in Cumberland county 36.8 per
the subcommittee of the Senate Com- | cent., and in Franklin county 33.9 per
mittee on Privileges and Elections, | cent. are so cultivated. In Centre,
that he had given some ninety tax re- | Union and Mifflin counties the per-
ceipts to persons who had applied for : centage is about 33.3. The only coun-
registration for which no payment } tes in which the percentage of ten-
was made at the time, at the request
of Magistrate Connor, who vabres |
quently, as party committeeman, paid counties where the average is five
for them. This was a violation of the | per cent. The report indicates a
law and nullified the ballot of each |similar condition in other States.
of the persons who voted on the | The mortgage debt on farms in
strength of that fraudulent qualifica- | Pennsylvania is also increasing, ac-
tion. cording to the same statement. Since
Early next morning Magistrate Con- | 1900 the total mortgaged debt on
nor was passing a place in which Mr, | Pennsylvania farms has increased
Schadt was engaged in a conversation | $1,000,000 and the farmers’ equity in
or controversy with a man named ; the farms has declined from 66 to 59
Wednick. On some pretext Connor Per cent. The average value of the
ordered the arrest of Schadt for mortgaged farms is $5803 and the
“breach of the peace.” The prisoner | average mortgaged debt $2385. There
was taken to Magistrate Connor’s has been little or no change in the
court and Connor committed him to value of farms since 1920, the report
jail. Mr. Schadt notified the attorney continues, “but the increase in the
antry is low are Cameron, Carboa, .
Elk, Jefferson, Sullivan and Wayne |
who had subpoenaed him and bail was
promptly supplied. When the sub-
poena to testify was served on Mr. |
Schadt he said to the attorney that
“if he told the truth he would be like-
ly to get into trouble.” Upon assur-
ance of the protection of the Senate
committee he consented to testify.
The obvious purpose of this fla-
grant persecution of a witness was to
intimidate other witnesses who have
been or are to be subpoenaed. Inci-
dentally it was probably intended to
punish Mr. Schadt for having told the
truth but warning to others was the
principal motive. It is an important
feature of the system of the Vare ma-
chine. While ballot reform legisla-
tion was pending in the last Legisla-
ture it was shown that men were
afraid to complain or expose frauds
because of reprisals that were cer-
tain to follow. But this great evil
has never before been so concretely
expressed and unless the courts of
Philadelphia are as rotten as the pol-
itics of that city, this instance will
be the last. .
President Coolidge predicts a
treasury deficit in 1930. In other
words Republican leaders are already
preparing to blame things on the in-
coming Smith administration.
i average mortgage debt was over
| $400” during that period. There are
ward absentee ownership and the oth-
er in the indication of unprofitable
: operation.
| In any event, however, it is difficult
to reconcile such a condition in agri-
cultural life of the country with the
continued boasts of prosperity. Agri-
culture is the basic industry of the
country and while the ownership of
the farms is slipping away from
those who cultivate the fields and the
mortgage debts are increasing, there
can be no substantial prosperity. The
sky rocketing of values of speculative
securities and the paid for propagan-
da of tariff pampered industries are
not signs of prosperity. Substantial
prosperity comes from the soil and
labor, and while the farmers are los-
ing their land and wages decreasing
there can be no real prosperity.
|
i ——Henry Ford’s support of Hoov-
jer will be about as effective as his
' peace mission to Europe during the
World war.
i
| ——Telling the truth is an unpar-
, donable sin among the political crooks
of the Vare school.
| pense upon the public treasury, by
dispatching their literature in frank-
ed envelopes, is a step in advance of
| either of the others.
The pretense under which this out-
rage is perpetrated is an Act of Con-
gress creating the American Seville
Commission for the purpose of organ-
i izing an American exhibit in the In-
ternational Exposition at Seville, fo
be staged some time in the future.
Originally the Department of State
handled the matter but since the crea-
tion of the commission it has been
handed over to a private “press
agency” which performs all the work
i except paying the bills. In addition
to the compensation paid this private
, agency the Electric trust pays liber-
ally for recommending its wares and
the ‘agency located in New York ful-
somely praises the product of the
triwit at the expense of the tax-pay-
- ‘ers of the United States. It is a fine
arrangement far the Electric trust.
——Up at Juniata, on Saturday
afternoon, a thirty-three year old wo-
man, mother of nine children rang-
ing in age from fourteen years to
four months, shot and killed her forty
year old husband when he attacked
her with a butcher knife. The parties
in the tragedy were Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Witt. The man is said to have
been possessed of a violent and un-
governable temper and had frequeni-
ly beaten and otherwise ill-treated his
wife. He became enraged on Satur-
day because supper was not ready
when he reached home shortly after
three o’clock. Mrs. Witt was exon-
erated of all blame in the killing.
With nine children to take care of she
will be amply punished for an act
which seems wholly justified.
| ——The Pennsylvania railroad com-
pany is going the limit in curtailing
expenses. Quite a number of agen-
cies over the entire system have been
discontinued. On the Bald Eagle Val-
ley road the agencies cut out are at
Julian, Snow Shoe Intersection and
Eagleville. Instead of the regular
authorized agents at these points
clerks are now in charge. James
Snyder, who has been agent at Snow
Shoe Intersection for many years,
was laid off and Merrill Lyons, of
Bellefonte, installed as clerk. Mr.
Snyder, who is not far from the re-
tiring age, was placed on the relief
and will likely be put on the retired |
mtg
| No Terror in This Poison Gas.
From the Philadelphia Record.
i Yesterday The New York Times
"editorially administered a well-mer-
ited rebuke to the .authors of a con-
i temptible “whisp. sing campaign”
which is alread’ ander way against
the Presidential = lidacy of Gover-
: nor Smith. Eo
| That such a campaign would be in-
raugurated by irresponsible - ynder-
i lings, despite the desire of candidate
Hoover to play fair, was to have been
i expected. /
Happily, however, red E. Smith
‘seems to be invulnerable to the cow-
‘ardly stab in the back, the slinking
| back-stairs gossip, that the would-be
| destroyers of charatcer aim at him.
There is evidence of this in New York
State election returns.
All the discreditable methods that
are now being used to influence votes
against Governor Smith's Presiden-
tial candidacy were employed against
him in his five campaigns for th
Governorship of New York. :
The first time he ran, in 1918, he
was elected by 15,108 votes. The
electorate at that time had little
knowledge of his executive capacity.
In 1920 Governor Smith ran for re-
election. It was the year of the
Harding landslide. He was defeated
by 74,000, but ran a million votes
ahead of the Presidential candidate
of his party. Ve
In 1922 he was again a candidate,
and received a plurality of 385,945
largest ever given up to that for
any candidate for State or local’ office
in the country. . :
When President Coolidge carried
New York in 1924, Governor Smith
rolled up a plurality of 108,559, and
was the only Democrat on the State
ticket to be elected.
In 1926 the Smith plurality was
247,676.
Here is a man whose standing, per-
sonal and official, is proof against
poison gas. Not that skulking slan-
der may not deprive him of the votes
of the comparatively few whose self-
respect is at such low ebb as to per-
‘mit them to give ear to it, but that
for every drop of malice so distilled
there are two drops of antidote in
the public knowledge of the Smith
i character and record.
Let us put on our gas masks, make
. sure that the disinfectants are handy,
and proceed cheerfully with a contest
to secure indorsement of those prin-
ciples best suited to
‘fare of the country.
| Leaving the Farms.
Irom the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Inability to “make ends meet” is
probably the largest single factor,
while old age is the second largest,
according to a statement just made
public by Dr. C. J. Galpin, senior
economist of the Federal Department
lof Agriculture.
Dr. Galpin’s statement was based
on a questionnaire survey of 20,000
men who formerly were farmers.
| Of those replying it was found that
one-third had left farming because
it was a “poor business,” while one-
fourth based their departure on oid
age and inability to carry on under
its attendant liabilities. g
{ In other words, it is the old, old
story of the cartoonist who summed
it up in the words: “They all look
good when they are far away.”
i The man on the farm sees only the
large wage scale and the short hours
i of the town worker, and both of these
are greatly over-advertised. The man
who has worked all his life on the
farm thinks longingly of a little
home in town and no chores to do the
remainder of his days, just as the
, city man yearns to spend his old age
"in the quiet and peace of the farm.
It would be intere to know just
‘how many of these 20,000 have since
| wished they were back in the country.
| But Government statistics cover no
| such illuminating points, however im-
portant they may be. ;
Discovery of the United States.
i From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Governor Smith is from New York,
two sources of worry in this condition
‘of affairs. One lies in the trend to-
roll in due time.
——Oral argument was made be-
fore the Insterstate Commerce Com-
mission, in Washington, on Monday,
in the matter of the several applica-
tions of the Bellefonte Central Rail-
road company to take oven and ope-
rate the Fairbrook branch. A deci-
sion is expected within thirty days.
—If it is true that Wm. Fisher, a
Reading cafe proprietor, suffered a
twenty-one inch scalp wound when a
soused customer threw a bottle at
him he must have a “bean” like a
flour barrel.
——The number of stolen cars that
are wrecked in the effort to get away
ought to admonish those inclined to
that form of felony that it is futile
as well as foolish.
——The Russian Soviet govern-
ment’s activity in the rescue of the
Nobile aviators from the drifting Arc-
tic ice reflects credit on Moscow.
——We are entirely willing to have
“the Democratic party judged by its
performances” during the World war
under the Wilson administration.
| Mr. Hoover from California, Senator
| Curtis from Kansas and Senator Rob-
inson from Arkansas.
i That might be termed the. discov-
ery of the United States. Hereto-
fore only one other Presidential can-
didate has come from the region west
of the Mississippi. That was Mr.
Byran, three times the Democratic
nominee. No Vice President has ever
come from that part of the country,
.nor has any Vice President come
from south of the Mason and Dixon
line since the civil war. The election
of Mr. Hoover and Senator Curtis
would therefore be a double and the
“election of Senator Robinson a single
innovation.
Indeed, politics in the United States
‘tend to a balance which they have
never enjoyed. There is no reason
why the President of the United
States should not come from any part
of it, but usually they all come from
a very restricted area. The United
States west of the Mississippi is
| much larger than the United States
‘east of that river, but it has never
given the country a President.
It would be a much better balanced
country politically if the pra: tice fol-
lowed at the Kansas City and Hous-
ton conventions became a custom.
——Advertisements placed in the
Watchman always bring restilts be-
| cause they are read every week.
—
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—A 16 weeks old heifer, owned by Lloyd
Grugan, Shintown, was bitten on the end
of the nose by a copperhead snake in a
field near Grugan’s home, and died 20
minutes after being bitten.
—C. M. Kift caught a nineteen-inch
brook trout in the cellar of his home in
Muncy last Friday. The recent storm had
filled his cellar half-full of water and up-
on going down there he saw a fish flound-
ering around. Securing a rod and line he
returned and after a few minutes’ effort,
landed the trout.
—A patient in the Danville hospital for
the insane committed suicide by hanging
himself with a strip of linen torn from
his bed. The man, John Saver, 35, of
Montoursville, earlier had had an alterca-
tion with another patient and had been
put to bed. Later he turned his bed on
end, tore a strip from a sheet and hanged
himself from the bed.
—Public sale of the Bloomsburg and
Sullivan railroad is not believed by many
residents to mean the passing of railroad
service on that line. It is understood that
several other firms are interested in the
line, despite falling off in passenger and
freight service during the last several
years. The sale is understood to be
scheduled for October.
—When the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre -
Coal company paid $650,000 for the form-
er Krupp coal lands near Wilkes-Barre,
recently, a record for recent years was
set. It was the largest purchase of coal
and—143 acres—since the World war.
The property was taken over by the
alien property custodian when the United
States entered the war against Germany.
—When constable John Feeny appeared
at the home of Clarence Gillian, 55 years
old, of Uniontown, to arrest him on a
charge preferred by Mrs. Gillian, the hus-
band went to the bedroom occupied by his
two children and Mrs. J. A. Redman, his
step-mother, and killed himself with a re-
volver. Mrs. Gillian said her husband had
followed her around with a gun, threaten-
ing to kill her.
—John Gerald Parks, 17-year-old son
of James and Mary Parks, of Lloydell,
was instantly killed Thursday, July 12th,
by an explosion of a stick of dynamite
while working with his father in the Ir-
vona Coal company mine at Coalpert,
Clearfield county. The victim was badly
mangled, both legs being terribly shatter-
ed, left hand blown off and badly cut and
bruised about the face.
—The Berwick plant of the American
Car & Foundry company has received an
order for 800 box-cars for two Brazilian
railroads, it was announced on Monday.
The cars will be crated for shipment and
then rebuilt in Brazil. The Central Brazil
Railroad has ordered 550 cars and the
Paulista Railroad 250. The company also
will build a large order for an Argentine
railroad, but assignment of the order to
a plant has not been made.
—Grant Arnold, dairy farmer of Mifflin
county, lost a valuable dairy cow, and
four heifers, recently through some mys-
terious poisoning. Their deaths were due
to lead-poisoning, according to an analysis
made by the authorities at State College
to whom the stomach of one of the dead
animals was shipped. A search of the
pasture lands showed part of a wagon
load of old paint tins and other rubbish
Jikely to have been dumped by a firm of
painters and paperhangers.
— Information is being sought regard-
ing the whereabouts of Floyd L. Fowler,
of South Williamsport, who disappeared
from his home over a week ago and cop-
cerning whom no word has been received.
Members of his family believe he may be
a victim of amnesia, as he had been com-
plaining of severe headaches. Mr. Fowler
is described as being five feet, six inches
tall, with light hair and eyes. When last
seen he was wearing a light suit and cap.
He carried a large sum of money.
—When Mrs. C. H. Rogers opened the
cash drawer of a gasoline station conduct-
ed on the Lycoming creek road, Lycoming
county, to make change for a small bill
given by several gypsy women, one of the
latter snatched a handful of bills from
the drawer and fled. The amount was
$83. Of this Mrs. Rogers was abde to re-
cover $52 after chasing the woman. Po-
lice of Jersey Shore later stopped the car-
avan with which the women were travel-
ing and forced its members to give up the
remainder of the money before allowing
them to proceed.
—Orders to record ultimate rights-of
way on nine highways situated in Blair,
Lancaster, Clearfield, Philadelphia, Bucks,
McKean, Sommerset and Montgomery
counties were issued on Monday by Secre-
tary of Highways Stuart after approval
by Governor Fisher. Seven of the plans
provide for ultimate widths from eighty
to 100 feet, while the other two, because
they are situated in built-up or congested
districts, provide for ultimate widths of
sixty to seventy feet. Four of the new
rights-of-way are in Montgomery county,
and one on Legislative Route No. 57 for
5.44 miles in Rlair county from the Ty-
rone borough-Snyder township line to the
Blair-Centre county line.
—Lewis Hoffman was shot and killed
and his brother Herman was seriously
wounded on their farm near Salix, Cam-
bria county, Saturday night by three men,
believed to be highjackers in search of
liquor. The suspected highjackers were
met at the farm by the brothers. In the
fight that followed Lewis Hoffman was
struck by two bullets. After shooting
Herman the men fired at Homer Hoffman,
12, another brother, but the bullets went
wild. The assailants escaped. County
authorities found a still and a large quan-
tity of liquor and mash on a farm said
to have been leased by George Hoffman,
father of the boys, to a South Fork man.
The father was not at home when the
shooting occurred.
—The entire group conducting tent
evangelistic meetings of the Pentecostal
church at Shady Grove, Dauphin county,
was quarantined for eighteen days against
smallpox by State and county health au-
thorities last Thursday. Although no
cases of the disease were discoveed among
the colony, Dr. J. H. Kinter, county medical
officer, said he was satisfied the present
smallpox epidemic, discovered Tuesday
along the southern border of the county,
had its origin in the evangelistic meet-
ings of the group. The leaders and their
assistants conveyed their tents to Shady
Grove from Maryland, Dr. Kinter said.
They refused vaccination and the health
officials established the quarantine, con-
fining all the evangelists and closing the
{ canvas “tabernacles.”