We have a hazy recollection of
having said, two weeks ago, that we
intended spending our vacation in
towns that we have never seen be-
fore. ‘We did it. We oozed the Chev.
over eleven hundred and nine miles
of unfamiliar roads and got into so
many towns we had never seen be- |
fore that the old bean gets all in a
whirl when we try to conjure up
some particular incident,
place in any of them that might dif-
ferentiate it from the others.
We're too old to step so fast. We
found that out after we had reached
St.’ Albans, Vt., in time for dinner in
the evening of the second day. The
spirit was willing enough but the
flesh couldn’t get out of bed the next
morning and a physician had to be
called to the Tavern. We thought,
possibly, it was auto-intoxication, but
ae put the sphymanometer on our
arm, the stethescope on the heart,
amped our tongue, rolled the eyelids
>ack and looked wise. We were not
nuch perturbed until he got fooli’
round with our eyelids. Then we had
7isions of his gently closing them,
aying on the coppers and posing at
yur bedside as the doctors do in such
icenes in the movies—you know how
ve mean. All at once it struck us
iow inconvenient it would be to be
lead in St. Albans. And dead of
nere auto-intoxication when there
vas another kind possible just forty
niles away, in Canada.
We had heard so much of the
jreen Mountains of Vermont that we
lecided to get an allopathic dose of
hem and get through with it, so we
tarted in at Pownal, on the Massa-
husetts border, and hit right north
hrough Bennington,
tutland. Middlebury and Burlington
o St. Albans. Generally speaking
10st of the route was over historic
nd hallowed ground. For the most
art the roads were good, gravel
reated with nitrate of potash to
eep the dust down, the houses were
11 painted white with green shutters
nd the landscape just about what
ne would see driving along the foot-
ills of the Alleghenies from Yarnell
> Romola. There was so little to
rite home about that we never even
ought of buying a post-card until
¢ got to Bennington and there we
id sit in front of the house that
en. David Robinson built, in 1796,
nd qualified as a real tourist. Who
en. Dave was and what he did we
on’t recall that Barne’s U. S. his-
ry ever told us, but he must have
en a gallant fellow for Bennington:
oks with much reverence on that
use.
They don’t seem to have the hot
)g fever up there because we ran
iles and miles without seeing a
and at which they are dispensed.
1 fact it was discomfiting because
lere were so few places to enquire
i-to whether we were on the right
ad. Of course there was only one
ad through that valley but you
10w how uneasy one gets when he
1ows he’s on the right road and
n't find anyone to reassure him.
Near Rutland we saw frame
uses resting on marble foundations
din Manchester, where many Re-
blican millionaires and Mr. Orvis re-
ie, they actually have marble side-
ilks. Marble in Manchester how-
er means just about as much as
nestone in Bellefonte, for it is only
out thirty-five miles from Rutland
iere our marker would probably
ve come from had we not fooled
em in St. Albans.
So far as we could see the princi-
1
1ieat and only here and there little
tches of corn and oats.
is a dairying country and while we
w plenty of milk receiving stations
: actually saw fewer cows all the
ly through Vermont than we later
~ on four New York State farms,
tween Cooperstown and Mt. Upton.
When we started on this vacation
p we had no idea where we were
ing.
s-conscious that landed us in Que-
>. However that may have been,
did us no good for the St. Albans
serience was still a hang-over
en we were seated in the dining
ym of the Chateau Frontenac and
ard everyone else demanding the
1e list first. That's what they prob-
y went to Quebec for. We're not
'e separating the sheep from the
its, but we do want to say that we
re more concerned about who our
npanion might take on after she
1 shed her weeds than as to wheth-
t would be a martini or a man-
tan.
All in all the jaunt was delightful.
de so because we had only one
,» saw much country we had never
n in before and met no one who
sn’t just as courteous as the most
cting could hope for. Aside from
transcendent glory of the outlook
m the embattlement in front of
‘Chateau Frontenac we saw noth-
by way of grandeur that could
pse the view of Penns Valley
m the top of Nittany mountain.
t north and just south of Towan-
on the Lakes to the Sea highway,
more far reaching views, but
y don’t so perfectly comprehend
ad, fertile valleys nestling be-
en towering mountains.
face or
Manchester, |
crop was hay. There was no
Evidently :
It was probably something :
Demoerali
SED
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
allman
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BELLEFONT
E, PA.. JULY 12. 1929.
NO. 27.
Grundy Invited to Move.
ers in Congress have found it nec-
essary to put a restraint on the ac-
tivities of Joe Grundy, president of
the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ as-
sociation, in c(nnection with tariff
legislation. Since some time before
the opening of the special session Mr.
Grundy has been maintaining an ex-
tensive lobby in Washington for the
purpose of influencing action on the
pending tariff bill. The House of
Representatives submitted to his im-
portunities quietly and in most in-
stances complied with his demands.
But when he shifted his base of ope-
rations to the Senate he encountered
a different atmosphere. His med-
dling provoked resentment.
The other day, according to a re-
porter of one of the news services,
Mr. Grundy “received pointed inti-
mations that his presence in Wash-
ington is embarrasing rather than
helping the administration in its ef-
forts to write a new tariff bill.”
From other sources it is learned that
his methods are crude and his man-
ners arrogant and offensive to the
' Senators. Even Senator Reed, of
Pennsylvania, has become disgusted
| and “feels that the cause of the ad-
ministration tariff bill would be serv-
ed best by Grundy if the latter were
to absent himself from Washington
| forthwith.” Senator Smoot, chair-
[man of the Senate Finance commit-
tee, is said to concur in this view.
| They say “he has overplayed his
{ hand.”
| This turn of affairs comes as a
| surprise to the friends of the Penn-
i sylvania slush fund grubber. They
{had come to the opinion that Mr.
! Grundy had earned the right to do
' and say whatever came into his mind
1in relation to tariff legislation, and
a considerable lee-way in framing
the policies of the party both in and
out of Congress. In the recent Pres-
idential campaign he raised the larg-
est fund of any individual and his
demands for excessive tariff sched-
ules on manufactured products is for
‘the purpose of providing means to
reimburse those who helped him..to
earn the only distinction he ever ac-
quired. This is a cruel world, and
Republicans as well as Republics are
ungrateful.
—————— eer ————
J. C. Hosterman, owner and editor
of the Millheim Journal for thirty
1 years, has disposed of his interests
‘to Charles E. Musser, who has been
associate editor the past six years.
the Journal wil continue in its high
standard of excellence. ;
Uncle Andy Again Rebuked.
Some days ago Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon specifically stated
that the administration had no pur-
pose of tax reduction in mind in the
‘near future. He was somewhat
i boastfully reviewing the operations
| of the department during the fiscal
year ended June 30, and announced
that the approximately $200,000,000
surplus in the treasury would be us-
ed reducing the public debt. The sur-
| of the stock market speculation and
the canny mind of the Secretary could
conceive no better purpose in which
to employ it. If the speculative
frenzy continues, he intimates, there
may be another surplus next year,
[but “sufficient unto’ the day is the
disposal of it.”
A. day later President Hoover, ac-
cording to press dispatches, announc-
ed that “we are giving careful study
to the possibility of tax. reduction”
during the life of the present Con-
gress and treasury experts have al-
ready been instructed to determine
what taxes could be best reduced.
| Of course the measurements will be |
made by political yardsticks in the
hands of skillful party engineers and
due consideration given to the inter-
ests which promise generous contri-
butions to the slush fund. Secretary
Mellon, being more a banker than
politician, probably failed to discern
the possibilities: of such a policy and
ing the “board of strategy.”
To further confound the confusion
caused by these diverse statements
a day later an announcement was is-
sued from the White House to the
effect that there is no difference be-
tween the President and the Secre-
tary of the Treasury on the subject.
The unidentified voice declared that
“the President’s statement of yester-
day had been approved by Mellon be-
fore it was issued.” Possibly that is
frue, but it
language of Hoover with that of Mel-
lon. What it does imply is that the
Secretary of the Treasury was offi-
cially notified that he is not the fram-
er of the policies of the administra-
tion. But as we have said before,
Uncle Andy likes his job too well to
resent a rebuke.
Even the hard-boiled tariff-mong- |
——Owing to continued ill health
With Mr. Musser in complete charge
plus was an unexpected development
issued his statement without consult-
fails to reconcile the |
“Barkus” Davis is Willing.
Mr. James J. Davis, Secretary of
Labor in Washington, has made up
his mind to “crash the gate” of the
Mellon machine. In a statement re-
cently issued he modestly announced
that he “will run for Governor of
i
1
‘
Pennsylvania if the people want him
and if he is assured of an honest
count.”
cerity in this statement he prompt-
ly enlisted the services of the chair
man of the legislative board of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen to
urge members of that Brotherhood to
ask Mr. Davis to become a candidate.
Sixty thousand letters have been
written in pursuance of this plan of
campaign and a postcard enclosed in
,each with a request that it be mailed
to Mr. Davis.
If a considerable number of the
60,000 trainmen take the trouble ™
sign the postcards and deposit them
in the mail receptacles
will be interpreted as proof that the
people of the State want Mr. Davis
to run for Governor.
quire a great force to persuade a
man to follow his own ardent incli-
nations. But the second “if” presents
a more uncertain proposition. As-
surance of an “honest count” of
votes cast at a Republican primary
election in Pennsylvania is practical-
ly impossible, and the recollection of
the last contest for Governor prob-
ably inspired the proposition. Things
happened on that occasion, accord-
ing to popular belief, that cast doubts
on an “honest count.” :
Mr. Davis wisely sets forth, more-
over, that he is not willing to enter
upon a contest ‘on a commercial
basis.” It is generally understood
that he is financially “well fixed,”
even as fortunes are now rated, but
‘others have thousands where 1
have pennies,” he added, thus dep-
precating the futility rather than the
immorality of an auction sale of the
favor in this case. But’ he implies
a willingness to spend money in the
levent the other conditions are met,
He offers to finance an organization
in the 8000 election precincts in the
"sive. For example, 60,000 letters
with enclosures already sent out by
the Brotherhood official must have
cost a good deal.
me ———— A ————
——The air-rail = service between
New York and Los Angeles was suc-
cesfully inaugurated, on Sunday, and
those who can afford it may now
cover the distance from the Atlantic
to the Pacific in forty-eight hours.
Sr —— A ———————
As an evidence of his sin-.
the result
It doesn’t re-
‘are ‘expén-.
——
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Bellefonte Kiwanians at Unionville Milesburg Highway Bids to be Opened
Grange.
A large delegation of: the Belle-
fonte Kiwanis club were guests of
the members of Union Grange, in
their spacious hall at Unionville, on
Tuesday evening, where they were
entertained with a chicken and noodle
dinner. The meeting was one of the
best of the inter-fraternal gatherings
held this year by the Kiwanis mem-
bers and their farmer neighbors.
Among the visitors were Harry W.
Butts, of the Lancaster Kiwanis club,
ex-Lieutenant Governor of State
“clubs, who came here from Bradford
in order to have credit for a perfect
attendance at four sessions; C. A.
Callahan, of Pittsburgh; E. F. Smith,
of Indianapolis; Musser Gettig and
W. H. Geissinger, of Bellefonte, and
Elliot Hollobaugh, of Franklin, N. J.
Kyle Alexander, on behalf of Un-
ion Grange, welcomed the Kiwanians
in a brief but witty address, which
was responded to by president W.
Harrison Walker. The latter then
turned the meeting over to Kiwanian
JBlaney, chairman of the Farmers-
Kiwanis committee, who introduced
Edward Hall. of Union Grange. That
gentleman proceeded to give a brief
historical sketch of that organization
from the date of its institution on
‘August 11th, 1874, by the late Hon.
Leonard Rhone, at that time State
deputy and later Master of the State
Grange. The first meetings were held
in the Plum Grove school house but
‘as the Grange widened its influence
and prospered a building was rented
in Unionville which was later pur-
chased and made over into the spa-
cious hall of the present time. It
‘now has a list of sixty-one active
members. The late Dr. W. U. Irwin °
was an ex-master of the organization.
{ Fred Leininger, of the farm and
research bureau, State College, was
the principal speaker. He dwelt
principally on farm management and
discussed the relationship of the
present farm bureau with the farm-
er, especially from the standpoint as
to whether it will eventually solve
Arg many problems which have made
the farmer question one’ of - national
issue for some years past.
Considerable amusement was furn-
ished in auctioning off a fine hand-
made quilt by auctioneer L. Frank
‘Mayes, which was later presented to
|
Miss Freda Edmidson for her hope
chest. During the evening a group
picture of the gathering was taken
by Kiwanian Ralph Mallory.
Bellefonte Banks Have New Money.
Over fifteen thousand doliars of
, Movement Inaugurated for County the new paper currency, bills of the
Home for Poor.
{ Petitions are now being circulated
‘for signers in connection with a
movement for the establishment of a
county home for the poor and friend-
less. Such petitions, which must
bear the signatures of not less than
fone thousand legal voters, will be
presented to the county com-
missioners and the question of the
establishment of such a home will
then be put up to the people of the
: county to vote upon at the November
election.
The movement has the whole-
hearted approval of Judge M. Ward
Fleming, is favored by the county
commissioners and warmly sponsored
by the juvenile court officer, Rev. W.
-C. Thompson. :
Just how it will stand with the av-
erage voter. throughout the county is
another matter. There are some
townships in the county where the
poor tax is unusually high, and in
such places the voters are likely to
favor a county home. But there are
others where the tax is so small as
to be almost negligible. These will
probably be against it.
It is also quite possible that senti-
ment against it will develop in the
fact that it will be taking from each
' borough ‘and township a prerogative
‘ distinctly local and centralizing it
under a county management. In oth-
er words, it will do away with all
poor overseers, and make the coun-
ty commissioners responsible for the
' management of the home, for which
| they would be paid an increased sal
ary.
| © But a county home, properly ope-
‘rated, would provide for the deserving
poor a place of comfort and a means
of partial support. That is, providing
i the home should be established on a
farm, where the inmates could work
according to their physical ability.
These are things that will probably
'be given due consideration when the
. question is presented on the ballot at
the November election.
——There are signs that “the
{worm may turn.” Rumors are cur-
| rent in Washington that Uncle Andy
| may resign.
—Subscribe for the Watchman.
the smaller denominations, were re-
‘ceived by the three Bellefonte banks,
on Wednesday. The First National
Bank and the Bellefonte Trust com-
pany each received $6700, while the
Farmers National bank got less than
three thousand.
Inasmuch as the Treasury Depart-
ment, at Washington, was unable to
supply an amount sufficient to re-
deem all the old paper money in cir-
culation at this time the supply of
new bills was sent out pro rata
among all the banks in the country,
which accounts for the limited
amount received by the Bellefonte
banks. In the meantime the bureau
of engraving, at Washington, is turn-
ing out the new bills as fast as pos-
sible and as old and worn out cur-
rency is sent in to Federal Reserve
banks for redemption they will be re-
placed by the smaller bills. At that
it might be a year before the old bills
have passed away from general cir-
culation.
——————————————————
New Highway Patrol Might be Sta-
tioned Here.
Announcement was made at Har-
risburg, on Monday, of the promotion-
of Lieut. J. M. Bender, of Troop B,
State highway patrol, to a captaincy
and to be placed in charge of the new
troop created by order of Governor
Fisher and to be known as Troop C.
The troop will consist of eighty-five
men, and will have its headquarters
in Bellefonte if a suitable building
and location can be obtained as troop
barracks.
Captain Bender has been here look- |
ing around for a place for headquar-
ters for the new organization. Sev-
eral places have been inspected but
so far no decision has been reached.
While the new troop will consist of
eighty-five men, it does not follow
that a house large enough to accom-
modate this number will be requir-
ed, as most of the men will be sta-
tioned in details. at other places
throughout the central portion of the
State.
——Sheriff Dunlap has twenty-six
regular boarders in the county jail
‘at the. present time, which is about
up to the average since he took
charge eighteen months ago.
——
Next Week.
According to
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Suit for $500,000 was filed against
the county of Mercer, on Tuesday, by
William D. Reed, of Youngstown, O.,
who claims to have been injured while
working on the Mercer county hospital
building at Sharon in 1910.
—Cliff Woodbury, veteran automobile
race pilot, who was seriously injured at
the time Ray Keech was killed at the Al-
toona track June 15, has made known that
he has retired as a speedway driver. The
announcement came as Woodbury was
discharged from the Altoona hospital,
where he had been a patient since the ac-
cident.
—Seeking vangeance after they were re-
fused a night's lodging, two tramps built
a fire under a porch at the Maus farm,
at Mausdale, Montour county, owned by
| the Geisinger Home for Women, and then
fled. Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Gerring, ten-
advertisements pub- | ants of the farm, discovered the blaze and
lished in Philipsburg papers bids : called aid from the Geisinger hospital, be-
for the reconstruction of the State | fore serious damage resulted.
highway between Milesburg and
Bellefonte will be opened at Harris-
burg on Friday of next week. The i
advertisements call for bids on the’
reconstruction of 8908 linear feet of
—Unconscious for thirteen hours, Ben-
! jamin Carrollo, of Shamokin, stung by a
tropical insect, probably a tarantaula, is in
a serious condition in the Shamokin State
hospital. Carrollo, with other employees
i of the Jalmisano Fruit company, was un-
one course cement concrete roadway | loading a car of bananas when the insect
20 feet in width.
From the number of lenear feet
given it would appear that the High-
way Department is not figuring on
bit him on the
right hand.
tip of a finger of the
He staggered to the com-
pany’s office and fell over.
—Having lived for eight days with a
rebuilding the road into Bellefonte, as | bullet in his brain, Ernest Guerra, eight
no definite arrangements have yet
been made as to the route determin-
ed upon. The department favors
an entirely new route over the
course of the old Central Railroad
of Pennsylvania from the sharp
curve north of Bellefonte into the
borough limits. Uptown business
men opposed this plan because they
believed it would result in diverting
most of the traffic down town.
Borough council is not strongly in
favor of it because of the expense it
will entail. As veiwed now, the
damages entailed and the expense
to the borough of building the extra
width provided in the highway’s
survey will aggregate $25,000, or
more, and the finanical condition of
the borough, at this time, is not in
shape to meet such an expense.
Uptown merchants contend that
the most feasible route would be
right out Allegheny street and down
the road to Red Roost. This, of
course, would be the shortest way,
but highway officials contend that |
the expense of construction would
be too great.
And so the matter stands at pres-
ent.. Whether council will take any
action at its meeting next Monday
evening remains to be seen.
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Church Corner Stone Laid at War-
riors Mark.
The corner stone for the new
Methodist church, at Warriors Mark,
appropriate services. Dr. J. McKen-
drie Reiley, district superintendent,
was in charge, and the speaker was |’
Dr. J. E. Skillington, of Altoona.
The men’s quartette from the State
Lollege, Methodist church, assisted
with the music.
The stone, a nicely cut block of
marble, was a free will gift of J.
Will Mayes. of Howard. The
church will replace the one destroy-
ed by fire last January, and will be
the fourth edifice in the history of
the congregation. The first was
built in 1810. In 1840 the congrega-
tion had outgrown its church and a
new edifice was built on a site more
centrally located. In 1873 it was re-
placed by a two story church which
stood for fifty-six years. The new
church will be built of native stone
and will be a modern structure in
every respect, with provision . for
Sunday school, grades church school
work, social hall, kitchen, etc. It is
planned to have it completed by late
fall or early winter. Rev. L. L
Owens is the pastor in charge.
mp ———
Bellefonte Had Safe and Sane 4th.
With no disturbance during the
day and no jollification at night
Bellefonte had a reasonably safe
and sane Fourth of July. This is
accounted for by the fact that sixty
per cent of the town’s population
went elsewhere to celebrate and
when they returned home were sad-
ly lacking in enthusiasm.
A good crowd was in attendance
at the Logan fire company’s picnic,
at Hecla park. the American Legion
1drum corps and a good representa-
tion of members went to Clearfield
for the Legion celebration, while
members of Troop B attended the
‘horse show of Troop K, at Lock
Haven. Bellefonte’s crack riders
led in the various events of horse-
manship, scoring a total of 18
points, against Troop K with 16 and
Boal troop 11. Private Howard
won the privates’ jumping contest,
Sergt. Garbrick the contest for
non-commissioned officers, and Sergt.
| Fanning the Roman jumping contest.
i
——The twentieth annual summer
session which opened July 1 at the
Pennsylvania State College with an
enrollment of more than 3000 stu-
dents, the largest for any summer
session in the history of the college,
has been ushered in with a full week's
schedule of classes. On account of
| missing one full day for registration,
| all classes were held on July 4th.
Nearly 100 teachers and administra-
| tors from all over the country are
| registered in the three-weeks insti-
tute of progressive education, and ap-
proximately 75 advanced students
are enrolled in the French institute.
Large enrollments also are reported
‘ for the English and music institutes.
new :
{ years old, of Charleroi, died on Monday.
A post-mortem examinatiol disclosed the
bullet had lodged an inch and a half from
‘ the back of the boy's head. The lad was
i shot by a playmate, Frank Hidek, 22.
Hidek fled but returned home three nights
after the shooting. The police said he
!told them he was firing at a target and
| shot Guerra.
—The A. W. Lee homestead, on South
. Second street, Clearfield, has been sold
to the Bell Telephone company for $26,000.
| The property includes a lot 80 feet by 200
‘and the buildings thereon. The sale did
i not include the old Huntingdon and Clear-
| field telephone building, which is owned
"by A. W. Lee, Jr. It is not known what
the Bell company intends to use the prop-
erty for but it is supposed that a modern
exchange building will be erected on the--
site at some future time.
—The coal tipple, bin, conveyor and
electric equipment of the Deer Run Coal
Mining company, at Mahaffey, was de-
| stroyed by fire, Thursday afternoon, July
| 4th, with a loss estimated at about $30,000.
i The mine had not been operated for over
'a year and it is not known as yet how
i much of the inside property was stored
"in the tipple. The mine is owned by Wil-
liam Eck, of Carrolltown, and William
Thompson and Andrew Rhody, of Patton.
The origin of the fire was not learned.
—The home of Colonel James M. Guffey,
in Pittsburgh, former Democratic Nation-
al Committeeman for Pennsylvania, was
sold at sheriff's sale, last Friday, in ‘fore-
closure of a mortgage for $248,568.70, in-
cluding interest, held by the Pittsburgh
Trust company. The bank bought the
property for $1,772.35. Furniture in the
residence recently was sold at public sale.
Several months ago Colonel Guffey was
carried from his home when .the. place
took fire. He is nearly 90 years old and
in feeble health.
— Prospecting for oil and gas is under
way in the northern end of Columbia
county. Local residents took a lease on
several hundred acres of property there
i about five years ‘ago, but nothing was
done with it until this summer. ‘The
lease still has a year to run and before
renewing it, decision was reached to have
the prospecting done. Some years ago
i prospecting there revealed small quantities
of copper. Other metals were sought, but
, the presence of gas indicated to the en-
| gineers that their efforts were in vain.
| They were not intrested at that time in
either oil or gas.
| —While walking on ihe mountain near
"his Lome at Mt. Carmel, in the western
part of Adams countv, In ompany with
his father, Robert Shindledeckes, 7-year-
oid son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shindle-
‘ Gecker, was biter twics on the right leg
{ by a copperhead snake. The tatker cut
| each hole made by the poisonous fangs of
the serpent with his pocketknife and al-
‘lowed the blood to wash away some of
the poison. He then took the boy toa
physician in Cashtown who stated the
| father’s presence of mind in cutting the
| bites will save the boy much suffering.
The father killed the snake.
—JIn saving a little boy from serious
injury and possibly death, Elwood Burn-
ley, of Richmond, Va., with the carnival
company showing at Clearfield, last week
saw a little fellow about 5 years old car-
rying a nine inch dynamite bomb, Friday
morning, and hunting a place to set it off.
Fearing the lad could not fire it with safe-
ty he induced the youngster to let him fire
it. After lighting the short fuse he was
7An the act of throwing it from him into
the park grounds when it exploded, mang-
ling the hand horribly. It was necessary
to amputate it at the wrist. V. F. Ston2,
another carnival man, was cut about the
face by flying particles of the bomb.
—The annual reunion of woodsmen of
this section will be held at Shoemaker
park, at McElhattan, on July 20. It will
be sponsored by Col. Henry W. Shoe«
maker, who has held these reunions for
the lumbermen for several years. A un-
ique feature of the program this year will
be an accordian contest in which accordian
players from among the ranks of the old
lumber jacks will compete. These cld
lumbermen cleared the Black Forast fer
the sites of Clinton, Potter and Tioga
counties. Nearly all of them are cver
eighty years of age and some are over
ninety. Special prizes will be offered for
the best accordian player and the oldest
contestant.
—Just as the Washington and Waynes-
burg narrow guage railway train pulled
around a curve and out of sight of the
station at Waynesburg, on the last trip
of its existence, on Tuesday, Leasure
Shull, conductor, for 83 years in the em-
ploy of the road, dropped dead. On
Tuesday the road, which had run eight
trains daily since 1877, suspended opera-
tion and the 55-year old man who had
been conductor for 25 years appeared to
be grieving as he collected tickets over
the 25 mile run on all but the last trip.
He declined to make the final run and his
place was taken by ‘a brakeman. Shuil
stood on the station platform watching
the little train out of sight. Just as the
last car turned a curve he collapsed and
died.