Bown
INK SLINGS.
— Tomorrow will be ground-hog
Jay and sausage would make an ap-
propriate breakfast. i
__If General Bramwell Booth and
his High Council want peace in the
Salvation Army we would suggest |
that they change the name of the
“War Cry” to “Whoopee.”
Those who fear that they will!
get through reading their new Alma- |
nac and mail order house catalogue
before more gratuitous literature is
.available are reminded that Messrs,
Burpee, Vick and Dreer will be send-
ing out their seed books in a very
few weeks.
__ David Watts has confessed that |
he stole two hundred dollars from the
collection box of the Lutheran Sun-
.day school in Lewistown. We'd like
to say something mean about David.
He deserves it. But speech is knock-
.ed completely out of us by the an-
nouncement that a Sunday school
collection box actually had two hun-
dred dolla.s in it.
—_ Incidentally, the young rector of
the local Episcopal church did more
for his Master's cause in the mom-
ent he decided to stand in the pul-
‘pit of another denomination and in-
vited a minister of another denomi-
nation to stand in his than he might
accomplish in years of zealous, iso-
lated christian endeavor. If God's
cause is to prevail it needs a united
army.
— With two million more people in
the State last year than there were
in 1910 eight thousand fewer babies
were born. Some will view the an-
nouncement with alarm. We don’t
The present era of sophistication will
continue to sophisticate until babies
are so rare as to become “something
new.” Then watch out. The infant
industry will start running again at
one hundred per cent capacity. Ev-
2rybody will be after ome.
——As proof that Republican offi-
cials sometimes do things that please
us very much we heartily commend
the action of Governor Fisher in hav-
ing appointed Tom Baldridge to the
‘vacancy on the Superior court bench
and chosen Cyrus E. Woods to carry
con as his Attorney General. Both
are the types of men who will bring
‘honor to the posts to which they
‘have been called and prove the wis-
.dom of Governor Fisher’s choice.
— Being ever eager to oblige we
respond to “Col.” H. ¥’s thought that
a “Fifty Years Ago Today” column
would be very interesting. The most
important thing that we recall as
having happened in Bellefonte fifty
years ago today was our laughing
out loud in “Miss Mallie” Petriken’s
school when the late A. Scott Harris
turned his upper eye-lashes inside out
and made a face such as we have nev-
er seen imitated since. The impor-
tant part about it was when “Miss
Mallie” grabbed up her little black
ruler, that was supposed to have
lime on it so it wold burn lots, and
‘beckoned us to the ante-room of the
little school house that stood where
the Petriken apartments how stand.
Courses were elective then as now
and when we were given the choice
of a beatin “on the bare” or stay in
until five o’clock—Well, time meant
nothing to us then.
—A word of caution is never
amiss, so we admonish our Catholic
friends of Bellefonte to keep January
30, 1929, indellibly stamped in their
memories. The wonderful testimoni-
al they gave Very Reverend William
E. Downes on the twenty-fifth anni-
versary of his ordination in the
priest-nood set a precedent that
might easily corrupt His Reverence’s
ideas of chronology. We know that
some years ago when he and Dr. Mc-
Kinney, of the Presbyterian church,
were almost a daily twosome on the
golf course, their memories became
so bad about remembering strokes
that each had to keep a card on the
other. In the light of such supposed
faulty counting and especially with a
thousand dollar purse as a precedent
‘St. John's congregation had better
keep their eyes on the calendar or
they might be celebrating the golden
anniversary of their able rector in
about fifteen years.
— Last week a lady sent us the edi-
torial pages from the New York Her-
ald-Tribune of the Friday and Sat-
urday before. On each an editorial
was marked and on the margin of
the sheet she had written: “Reminds
me of some of the Watchman’s writ-
ings.” The Herald-Tribune, as you
know, is one of the greatest of Amer-
ican newspapers. And while we,
alone, know that the Watchman is
THE greatest of American newspa- |
pers we were none-the-less flattered
by the ladies suggestion that the
Herald-Tribune might be aping the
Watchman. We were about to dedi-
cate a paragraph to the soundness of
her judgment of editorial and re-
portorial values when we thought it
might be better to read the marked
articles first. One was “needled”
with raspberry jelly and the other |
played up a half-barrel of applesauce
that evidently is part of the picture
of a New England farm home cellar.
Personally we like applesauce but
we're not going to dish out any to a
lady who tells us “our writings re-
mind” her of it. And as for razz-
berries—that was the unkindest cut
of all.
Secretary Mellon Called to Account.
concede that Uncle Andy Mellon is
a great financier and some of them
believe that he is “the greatest Sec-
retary of the Treasury since Alex-
of fact, never accomplished much
“out of the ordinary.” But it ap-
pears that there are quite a few
Senators who entertain doubts as to
the fairness of the Secretary, while
a few have the temerity to question
his efficiency.
that on several occasions he has gone
been wrong in levying income taxes.
The blame for such blunders may be-
long to the revenue hoard but Uncle
Andy is responsible for the board and
gets credit for its merits.
But there have been so many tax
refunds of vast amounts, and sO
many of them to corporations in
which the Mellon family is directly
or indirectly interested, lately, that
suspicion has been aroused among
the Senators. It has been the recent
custom to pay claims for tax refunds
in the quietest way possible, and
when an enormous sum was handed
over to the Steel trust a short time
ago the tongue of gossip began wag-
ging mildly. A few weeks later sever-
al millions were refunded to the
Aluminum trust and lesser but con-
siderable sums to other corporations
which provoked open criticism and a
resolution in the Senate that here-
after such claims be turned over to
the board of tax appeals. This sug-
Secretary and his admirers.
Probably the claims for tax re-
funds are just but they indicate a
faulty method of assessment. And
there is no valid excuse for secret
consideration in any event. Such
functions should be performed in the
open. Senator Norris, of Nebraska,
uttered a truth when he said “the
idea of a great government depart-
ment acting in secret on a question
of such magnitude was detrimental
ta.the. public interest.” - It is posi-
tively repugnant to every principle of
popular government. It is not suf-
ficient that a citizen of Pennsylvania
or Towa may have access to the rec-
ords if he will go where they are kept
He is entitled to full information us
to how and why the records ar2
made.
afford that just measure Hut it is a
step in that direction.
Tariff Taxation and Export Products.
In an address on the “Economics
of the Dairy Situation,” delivered at
a banquet of the Pennsylvania Dairy-
men’s Association, held in Harris-
burg last week as a feature of the
State farm products show, Dr. Clyde
L. King, professor of economics at
the University of Pennsylvania, re-
futed the absurd theory that tariff
taxation will benefit farmers. Dr.
King was Secretary of the Common-
wealth during the Pinchot adminis-
tration at Harrisburg and presuma-
bly is interested in politics. As pro-
fessor of economics in the University
of Pennsylvania he ought to have an
understanding of the subject he was
discussing. His positive declaration
that tariff is no pancacea for farm-
er’s ills commands attention.
“The election is over and we may
as well face the facts,” he said. “Tar-
iff duty cannot by any possible means
affect the exports, but only the im-
ports of a country. The United
States exports one-third of the wheat
of the world, so there can be no hope
for the wheat growers from the tar-
iff. We produce more hogs, more
potatoes than we need and it will not
exporting milk products,” he contin-
ued. The comparatively few eggs im-
ported and the equally trifling quan-
tities of other farm products, mostly
brought in as ballast, he might have
added, exercise a negligible influence
on prices in the markets of this coun-
try. But in the recent campaign
eggs became an issue.
Dr. King is absolutely correct in
his opinion that tariff taxation bene-
fits only the imports of a country,
which is obviously the idea he want-
| ed to convey to the dairymen he was
addressing. An exporter gets noth-
ing, directly or indirectly, by taxa-
tion on imports. But every competi-
tor in the market boosts the price of
domestic products to the limit of val-
ue and tax of the imported goods.
| And tariff taxation does materially
| affect the people of exporting coun-
| tries. It increases the price of ev-
ery commodity the exporters have
' to buy in order to produce the things
| they export. It is conservativly es-
| timated that the present tariff costs
the consumers of this country $t,-
1 000,000,000 a year.
Most of the Senators in Congress |
ander Hamilton,” who, as a matter
It must be admitted
wildly astray in statements of the.
condition of the treasury, and accord-
ing to the records he has frequently
gestion was bitterly opposed by the |
The Senate resolution doesn't |
be more than ten years until we are |
STATE RI
Evil Product of Single Track Mind.
At what he called “the last budget
meeting” of his administration Pres-
“ident Coolidge made it plain that he
will leave the great office of Presi-
' dent as he entered it with a ‘‘single
track mind.” It was on the occasion
of an address to the business organ-
ization of the government at a ses-
sion held in Washington on Monday
evening last. The substance of his
speech was in the nature of an eulogy
of the budget system for the inven-
tion as well as the achievements of
‘which he arrogates to the Republi-
can party in general and himself in
particular. In assuming this atti-
tude on the subject he ignores the
| fact that the system had been under
{ consideration some time during the
| Wilson administration and was de-
| layed by the world war.
| At the outset Mr. Coolidge declar-
| ed that government expenditures for
| 1921 “exclusive of debt reduction,
were about $5,000,000,000.
i terest charge alone was more than
| $1,000,000,000 and our outstanding
indebtedness was nearly $24,000,000,-
{ 000. The business of the country was
| prostrate. Its different branches of
{ agriculture, commerce, banking,
| manufacturing and transportation
| were suffering from severe depres-
| sion. Employment was difficult to
| secure. Wages were declining, five
i million people were out of work.”
| His obvious purpose in this enumer-
' ation of adversities was to justify his
| previous statement that under the
| Wilson administration “the
| government structure was permeat-
| ed with extravagance.”
HTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
3ELLEFONTE. PA.. FEBRUARY 1. 1929.
The in-
entire
Tax Problem Bothering Bosses.
State Treasurer Sam Lewis has
taken another shot at Governor Fish-
er's administration programme in the
form of a public statement in oppo-
sition to an increase of the gasoline
tax. In his public declarations and
private conversations Governor Fish-
er recommends not only making per-
manent the emergency tax of one
cent a gallon on gasoline but adding
another cent to the levy in order to
provide funds to take over the toll
bridges and ‘city streets forming
parts of highway routes.” Both of
these purposes are widely favored
by the motoring public but there is
ia deep-seated aversion to the pro-
posed method of accomplishing the
result. That is motorists and oth-
ers think the gas tax is high enough.
It is practically certain that the
Anthracite coal tax will be repealed
during the present session and it will
be necessary to provide a new sourc2
of revenue to balance the loss of five
‘or six million dollars a year which
that tax affords. An additional cent
on the gas tax would easily supply
this demand. The alternative is a
tax on shares of manufaciuring cor-
porations but Joe Grundy is irrevo-
cably opposed to such a levy and
Grundy is the “Grand Old Man” of
the General Assembly at this time.
It may even be assumed that he in-
spired the suggestion of the Governor
to increase the gas tax having in
mind the idea of averting the tax on
manufacturing corporations.
terest to the party leaders to cause
| a conference to be held in Harrisburg
Il
The question was of sufficient in-
NO. 5.
of a Notable Democratic
Statesman. 2
i The Passing
From the Philadelphia Record.
In the death of Oscar W. Under-
wood ‘the Demoeratic party loses a
leader of more than ordinary attain-
ments and the nation loses a states-
man. :
While Underwood had retired from
active participation in the. affairs of
nis country, after a notable career
which had connected his name with
much constructive legislation, his in-
fluence was still felt in the councils
of his party. And always it was ex-
erted on the side of conservatism.
In House and Senate the voice of
Underwood was effectively raised in
debate; but it was not as an orator
that this minority party chieftain
made his deepest impress upon the
conduct of national affairs. A keen
student of the science of Govern-
ment, profoundly versed in the law,
familiar with the intricate processes
of business, a stalwart champion of
Jeffersonian principles, he came to be
regarded by his colleagues as a sound
adviser and a safe guide. Democra-
cy never lacked for enthusiastic
champions of new ideas and new
principles. Without being at all re-
actionary, it was Underwood's habit
to keep both feet on the ground, and
| to approach with caution radical de-
' partures from the faith in which he
was trained. His influence was a
wholesome counterbalance.
Unquestionably of Presidential cal-
iber, Oscar Underwood, though nam-
ed in conventions, never expected to
secure the nomination of his party,
and probably considered that geo-
graphical considerations kept that
honor beyond his reach. His party's
| latest tariff act bore his name, and
| his talents were drawn upon in the
framing of much of the constructive
When a statement of facts is made on Monday and magnetic force "legislation of the Wilson Adminis-
with the deliberate purpose to de- | enough to draw Mr. W. L. Mellon out trations.
| ceive it is a malicious falsehood and
, it seems impossible to think that
| Mr. Coolidge had any other idea in
| mind when he spoke as above quot-
'ed. We had just emerged from the
! most destructive war in the history
| of the world, our own part in which
had cost more than all the other ex-
penses of the government from the
beginning of our national life. Our
i large share in the war was conducted :
| without. a scandal. The creation,
| equipment and maintenance of an
‘army of four millions and the sub-
‘ sequent demobilization of the force
The late Rutherford Haves was 2a
great statesman in comparison with
Coolidge.
— Herbert Hoover appears to be
trying to be a “Me Too” to Presi-
dent Coolidge.
" Grundy’s Waiting to be Tested.
If the press reports from Harris-
burg are true Mr. Joe Grundy’s pre-
tense that he will control the pro-
ceedings of the General
during the present session will be
brought to an early and acid test.
Mr. Grundy is very much opposed to
the repeal of the anthracite coal tax.
The reasons for his attitude on this
question are quite obvious.
derstands that if the coal tax is re-
tion will have to be found to make up
the revenue deficit. He is also aware
that the most likely new subject of
taxation will be manufacturing cor-
poration shares which have gone free
of such a burden for many years,
complaint in the past.
The proposition to repeal the coal
tax has formidable support. The coal
for repeal and are earnestly aided
and abetted in their efforts by the
mercantile organizations of the coal
producing counties. An organization
of the Senators and Representatives
| of those counties in the Legislature
| has been effected and the indications
point to a stubborn contest. If the
repeal movement is defeated the re-
sult will be accepted as a license to
Mr. Grundy to regulate the proceed-
ings of the Legislature as well as di-
rect the activities of the party in the
State, according to his fancy. It will
commission him as absolute party
boss.
Realizing the value of the stake
| Mr. Grundy is investing all his ener-
{ gy and ingenuity in the contest. He
| let it be known, to employ the lan-
| guage of one of the newspaper cor-
| respondents, that “the door has been
| left open for dealing.” But this made |
| no impression on the minds of the
coal region solons. It was whisper-
ed about the lobby that Governor
Fisher “will probably line up with
Grundy” hut that failed to cause any
detour in the purposes of the repeal-
ers. In the coal regions the slump
in the coal industry is widely blam-
ed on the anthracite tax and the re-
covery of trade is more important
than the political ambitions of a
rather “raw” adventurer. It prom-
| ises to be a pretty fight.
| were expensive but not extravagant. |
| But the speech was characteristic.
Assembly |
pealed some other subject of taxa- |
and has been a cause of considerable °
carrying corporations, the operators |
and the miners are actively striving |
of his recently announced retirement.
'It was held at the Executive Man-
.gsion and besides Mr. Mellon, Mr.
| Grundy and the Governor, Cyrus
| Woods, Mr. Lewis and State Chair-
man Martin were present. What con-
clusion was reached has not been re-
| gelet but will appear in the trend
of legislation within a few days. It
lis a safe guess, however, that Mr.
ndy will be able to prevent the
tékation of manufacturing-corpora-
| tions though such a levy would not
{only be popular with the public but
: just to the farmers of the State.
Fish Commissioner Buller has just
| anmounced that last year the hatcher-
{ies of Pennsylvania planted seven
| hundred ninety four thousand three
| hundred and twelve trout in the
i streams of the State. Gosh what a
| lot of fish! But unless the coming
| season proves better than the last
i one, so far as we are concerned, on
i the first day of February, 1930, all
| but about twelve of them will be
| right where Mr. Buller put them last
! year.
1
|
| —When Hoover and Smith met in
| Florida we wonder whether the Pres-
| ident-elect said to the former Gov-
ernor of New York what the Gover-
nor of North Carolina once said to
the Governor of South Carolina.
He un-
— Now that Trotzky has escapeil
from the custody of the Soviet gov-
ernment he may give the world some
valuable information concerning that
organization in Russia.
— President Coolidge is unable to
i conceal his fears that the country
will go headlong to the ‘“demnition
bow-wows’”’ the moment he leaves the
White House.
a RL,
King George is recovering and
Marshal Foch is almost restored to
health is the good news which comes
from the European capitals.
es ies
——Possibly a well adjusted muz-
zle might serve to restrain the mis-
chievous tongue of Representative
Britten, of Illinois.
dir EL
— Nobody of right mind will be-
grudge the splendid success of the
Pennsylvania railroad during last
| year.
——After all Grundy may have to
| sacrifice Sam Lewis to save the man-
ufacturing corporations from taxa-
{ tion.
errr peers
——1It is to be hoped that no blood
was shed when Mr. Hoover and Mr.
1
Mayor Mackey, of Philadel
phia, continues to keep the people of
that city guessing and laughing.
———It may soon become a question
chine is worth saving.
——The period of Vare’s false pre-
tense to a seat in the Senate is draw-
ing short.
—Subscribe for the Watchman.
Smith met in Florida the other day. !
as to whether or not the Vare ma-
Among the finest of the old South-
ern Democrats, the fame of Oscar W.
Underwood is secure. He was a cap-
able and faithful servant of a grate-
ful country.
A Militant Democracy.
From the Roanoke World-News.
Speaking over the radio last night,
former Governor Alfred E. Smith,
of New York, made an able plea for
. Democratic party solidarity and for
continuous party effort. The bur-
den of his argument was that the
party should function as a party at
all times, not merely during the heat
of a. presidential campaign. Outlining |
his view of the function and duty of |
a minority party, he advocated the
opening of permanent offices, with
a campetent staff, for examination
of public measures and for the dis-
semination of party information. To
get up a new party organization a
few months before a presidential
election each four years is not only
costly, but results in the use of
amateurs where experience is need-
ed. Illustrating by the proposal to
amend the tariff law at the coming
special session of Congress, Gov-
ernor Smith suggested thal such an
office’ could analyze the proposals for
changes in the tariff schedules in the |
light of the Democratic party view-
point, and keep the country informed
as to the extent to which the country
is departing from Democratic prin-
ciples. . . .
The argument for a two-party
system is now well established in
State and Nation, whether the mi- |
nority party be the Republican party
in the State, or the Democratic party
in the Nation. In either case there
is a real responsibility resting on the .
minority, not to block progress by
carping criticism and inaction, but to
examine critically the proposals of
the majority, and see how they ac-
cord with the estblished principles on
which both parties have been estab-
lished.
In a country as large and as di-
versified as the United States, it is
almost impossible to conduct a cam-
paign of education in party principles
during the heat and personalities of
a presidential campaign. The oppor-
tunity the former Democratic candi-
date points for bringing before the
people of this country the true prin-
ciples of Democracy throughout the
years, and not just at election time,
is too valuable to be longer overlook-
ed.
meme.
The Prince of Wales to the Rescue.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
A recent appeal by the Prince of
Wales in behalf of the English min-
ers has already had striking results;
money to meet their needs has been
| given generously. Now he is follow-
| ing this action by a visit to the dis-
tressed mining districts. He knew
them when they were prosperous, and
he is well fitted to discover exactly
what their needs are.
This is the sort of thing which the
King would doubtless have done had
he not been dangerously ill The
Prince reveals his full understanding
of the duties and responsibilities of
royalty by doing it himself. 'Th2 un-
fortunate miners couid uot have a
more sympathetic and useful :riend.
er———— A ————
| Joseph Ficarra
' member of the freshman squad of
lspawLs FROM THE KEYSTONE.
23 ——
—The drillers for oil and gas on the
George Gates farm, three miles east of
Lewistown, have reached a depth of 1400
feet, and it is reported that there are
| some evidences of oil and gas already.
—Mrs. Annie O’Brien, of Sunbury, wid-
ow of Charles ‘‘Pegie’’ O’Brien, widely-
known circus clown, in her will directs
that the preacher who officiates at her
funeral shall receive $10 and each pall-
bearer $5 for his services. Her estate is
worth a few hundred dollars. O’Brien
died eight years ago.
—Mrs. Anna Doria, 76, died a! Scranton.
on Sunday morning and left one aundred
fifty-eight survivors. They comprise five
sons, three daughters, eighty grand-chil-
dren, and the remainder great grand-chil-
! dren. She came to this country from
Ttaly twenty years ago and had lived in
Scranton and vicinity ever since.
—When Robert Snyder, 16, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert P. Snyder, of Mifflinburg,
was caught in his cellar by Earl VanHorn,
the irate man took him before Justice
Willis, who held the boy in $300 bail for
the March term of criminal court. Van-
Horn then went his bail when it was
found he could get no other surety.
Miss Leota Znadey, 21, student nurse,
| died in a Pittsburgh hospital Monday
| night from poison she drank early Sun-
| day while temporarily insane, it was re-
| ported to the coroner's office, which pro-
: nounced the case suicide. Miss Znadey,
| whose home was in Port Allegany, Mc-
Kean county, had been ill for some time.
_Keys to the Union county prison, a
| $10 bill, and an auto license were stolen
fat the Lutheran Sunday school at Lewis-
burg Sunday night. Miss Villa Frock.
| daughter of the sheriff, who is church
| organist, said she left them in her coat
jin the Sunday school room, from where
! they disappeared and have not been
| found.
The biggest gasser in the Clarion
| county field in years is roaring out at bet-
i ter than 3,000,000 feet a day. The well,
| property of the United Natural Gas com-
{| pany, was brought in on the C. A. Mey-
| ers farm in Piney township, near Curlls-
| ville. about nine miles south of Clarion.
Gas was found in the 100 foot sand, at
a depth of 1021 feet.
William Moore, farm-hand of 3omer-
set county, was located a week ago after
having lived in an abandoned coal mine
for 43 days, is dead from exposure. The
! man was in a weakened condition and his
clothing was in tatters when he was
found... While he was being treated at
a Somerset hospital, an inquiry also was
being made into his mental cordifion.
—A man giving his name as Frank
Jones, 58, a self-styled herb doctor, was
found by city health authorities at Sun-
bury, on Saturday. living in a small lean-
to on a garbage dump. He readily ad-
mitted getting his food from the place,
saying ‘‘there is plenty there for my sim-
ple wants.” Jones was offered a berth
in the poorhouse, but declined to go. He
was allowed to stay in the shack.
__Charles Roe and Mary Groce, of Juni-
ata county, were arrested by a special
j officer and lodged in jail at New Bloom-
field. The night previous the pair broke
Lino the chicken house of Hirt Brothers,
| Parry county. it is alleged. and were en-
| zaged in filling ‘crates with choice fowls
! when they were discovered. Both manh-
! aged to get away but not before being
| identified, leaving the crates and chickens
! on the ground. They were followed to
| Juniata county and the arrest made. The
{ pair are now in jail in default of 3500 bail.
__Mrs. Sophrona Strang Bills, aged 76,
wife of Loren Bills, was burned to death
| when their home near Enterprise, Forest
| county, was destroyed by fire. The wo-
man was sleeping upstairs, and the hus-
{ band and son. Lee Bills, were on the
! lower floor when fire was discovered. She
{ was trapped on the upper floor, and could
not find her way out on account of the
The son was SO badly burned in:
| an effort to rescue his mother that he was .
| taken to the Titusville hospital. The fire
is supposed to have been caused by an
| overheated stove.
__David Watts, 33. of Lewistown, has
made a full confession to police to rob-
bing the St. John's Lutheran Sunday
. school fund of $200. The money was In
| charge of Walter Heck, treasurer of the
Sunday school, and he was in the habit
. of cacheing the money in a stationary
i vault at the Russel National bank, where
he is trust officer. Watts, the janitor,
saw him hide the money. With his con-
fession he returned about $100. Watts
! qerved time in the Mifflin county jail for
embezzlement of funds of the Lewistown
Pure Milk company.
What was the site of the abandoned
town of Instanter has become the proper-
ty of the Ridgway Y. M. C. A. through
the generosity of Mrs. J. K. Gardner, of
| Ridgway. This will give the organiza-
, tion ome of the finest camp sites in Penn-
i sylvania. The land purchased by Mrs.
Gardner includes the property of the Elk
| Tanning company, the school property, 2
‘large number of houses, and 160 acres of
i land. Two good trout streams run through
| the property and deer can be seen al-
most any evening at a crossing above and
below the camp. There is an abundance
of spring water, and a good site for a
swimming hole.
—Police suspect foul play in connection
| with the death of Dominic Kisser, 42.
Timblin, Jefferson county, who died
shortly after he was found lying between
the rails of the Pittsburgh & Shawmut
railroad near Timblin. Authorities at first
pelieved he had been run down by a train.
but later it was said blood was found on a
| by-road 200 feet from where Kisser was
picked up. This led to belief he might
have been attacked and carried to the
tracks to make it appear that he had been
hit by a train. He had suffered a frac-
tured skull and concussions of the chest
and arms. Physicians, however, said he
| died of exposure.
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| smoke.
| Fred C. Koller, auctioneer at a sale
lin the lower end of York county, was
| called upon to sell a horse that has false
| teeth. The animal, once a fast stepper
on the track, is 18 years old and was
owned by a Maryland dentist twelve years
| ago. An accident in a race caused the
' horse to lose two front teeth. The own-
er modeled two teeth out of walrus ivory
was the only | and then performed a neat job of bridge-
work in the mouth of his racer. The den-
Bellefonte Hi foot-ball players who | tist died eight years ago and since then
was able to win the coveted “B.” We
saw Joe in action in the Lock Haven
game and he impressed us then as a
flashy little player. ;
the horse has had several owners. Event-
ually, his fate was to work as a farm
horse. The late owner died and his farm
and other belongings, along with the
horse, went on the auction block.