INK SLINGS
. —We wish Bellefonte’s new coun- !
cil the best of luck. I
—Robins were chirping and lilacs
blooming in parts of Montgomery
county on Tuesday. That ain't so
hot. We saw dandelions in bloom
not twenty miles from Bellefonte
last Friday. |
—What an inconsiderate old chap
Frank W. Savin, New York million-
aire must have been, He left ten
million to his fourth wife, who hap-
pened to be his house-keeper when
he married her, and not a cent to his
third wife's brother-in-law.
—“Uncle Andy” has annnouced
that the country can look forward to
further very great tax reductions.
Looking backward, it seems to us
that it was only a year or so ago that
“Uncle” was shouting woe is me and
the whole country if even a little cut
were to be made.
~~ —Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards
headed an army of sixty thousand
men in France, but he'll have to get
sixty million behind him if he has
really set out to wipe the Volstead
law off the statutes with the idea of
seing as successful in his crusade
ver here as he was over there.
—Archeologists are digging around
Ur of the Chaldees and not without
esults for they have unearthed evi-
ience of a rather advanced civiliza-
don back as far as 3100 B. C.
WNouldn’t it be funny if some day
wrcheology should reveal the hull of
Noah’s ark and the stump of that
pple tree that caused all our woes.
Those who might have been
wnticipating an invitation to the
wuse-warming of the Cabin we have
een, laboring on so enthusiastically
or the past six months are hereby
otified to cease anticipating. The
abin warmed itself last Sunday
ight and is now only a pile of gray
shes in which are buried many
herished treasures and thoughts of
auch pleasure we might have had
nd given to others,
—A. Lawrence Lowell, president
f - Harvard University, is of the
pinion that intercollegiate sports
ctivities should be restricted to one
ame a year in each major sport.
r. Lowell’s suggestion is not likely
> be acquiesced in by the Coonskin
‘oaters and the In-and-Outers at
Fair Harvard” or any other institu-
on, for that matter, What are col-
jges for, anyhow, and aren't they
ated more by the size of their bowls
1an by the comprehensiveness of
1eir curriculums.
—We are wondering what the
on, Mitch Chase is thinking about
harley Long’s ambition to go to
~~ Cy P:*has a habit of go--
g after things in earnest when he
ses at all and his decision to enter
ie race :will come very near upset-
ng several applecarts. While it has
ippened it is not often that one
mnty in a district gets both the
mgressional and senatorial nom-
ees, so the ambition of the retired
sring Mills business man can’t be
ewed with anything but alarm by
'nator Scott, who probably thinks
has right to succeed himself, at
ast once. From what we hear
ere are already a number of bud- |
ng candidates for Sheriff, County
‘easurer and Prothonotary, two
ars off. These gentleman also,
e going to have some mighty un-'
mfortable moments should Senator
:ott and Mr, Long, whose political
terests in this case are diametri-
ty opposed, both call on them for
pport. ;
—Any observant person knows
at passenger business on the rail-
ads” has been so cut by the opera-
n_of automobiles and busses that |
any . trains are probably run at a
38, Always there have been some
ations, and now probably many
ore, that are on the debit side of
e company’s books, even when the |
sight receipts are added to those |
>m passenger, express, and mail |
rriage charges. It has been nec-
sary for all public carriers to re- |
snch wherever possible but we:
ver dreamed that retrenchment on |
1e Standard Railroad of America,” |
: P. R. R, would reach the point |
ere it would split up a passenger |
ition in Bellefonte that never was
mmensurate with the importance
the town, in order to gain a lit-
rental from it. We used “the
portance of the town” advisedly,
> aside from the proud position it
s held for a hundred years among
ter towns of the State and nation
is important to the Pennsylvania
ilroad because it probably orig-
tes more freight than any town of
size on the entire system. We
» not speaking from any specific
ormation, but we are certainly
: very wide of the truth when we
iture the assertion that there are
: three cities between Philadelphia
i Pittsburgh that originate more
ight than is routed out of Belle-
ite every day. And until we are
wn something to convince us to
. contrary we cling to the thought
it, perchance, there isn't one. In
~~: face of the fact that Bellefonte
the best paying station on “the
it paying single tracked railroad
the world” we just can’t under-
nd a parsimony that will so be-
le our own in the eyes of the
veling public. If the sixty to
hty cars of freight we give the
at corporation every day doesn’t
tify a little loss of possible rental
the station here then let us take
an annual subscription to make
‘such a loss and save the face of.
town. t
|=
~
ment.
VOL. 75.
“Juggling the Prohibition Problem,
Passing the buck continues to be
the most popular in-door sport in
Washington. At the suggestion of
President Hoover the Senate has al-
ready adopted a resolution provid-
ing for a joint committee of Con-
gress to receive, consider and prob-
ably dispose of the expected report
of the crimes commission appointed
by the President some months ago.
The tardiness of that commission
provoked the recent flurry on the
subject and Senator Borah’s de-
nunciation of the entire system of
prohibition enforcement. In order
to appease the Borah group the
crimes commission will make a re-
port in the near future to the pro-
posed Congressional joint committee
which will take its own time to re-
port to the public.
The creating of the joint committee
depends upon action of the House
of Representatives yet to be taken,
But as it is an expedient of the
President no trouble is expected in
that quarter. In anticipation of
prompt concurrence, however, Sena-
tor Fess, of Ohio, has undertaken
to have Senator Borah named as
head of the joint committee, Mr.
Fess is an ultra-dry but the most ser-
vile supporter of the administration
in Congress and as the President is
“jockeying” for delay Fess is willing
to take a chance that the investiga-
tion of the joint committee may be
prolonged for a considerable time and
Borah as chairman, will be muz-
zled during that period, whether
long or short.
This juggling may serve the
purpose for a time but it won't fool
the people always. As Senator
Borah has said, the failure of en-
forcement of the Volstead law is
not the fault of the law but of the
system. The public is coming to un-
derstand this fact and is growing
impatient. Sooner or later there
must be a ‘show-down,’ and the
sooner the better, No government
can endure that is incapable of en-
forcing its own mandates. It may
cost a lot of money and a vast
amount of trouble, but there is no
escape from. the obligation., The
‘administration at Washington must
“face the music.” Party interests
make strong appeal but they must
give way to public duty.
———Chairman Collins, of the Dem-
ocratic State committee, is getting
his forces in line for the greatest
campaign of recent years, Conditions
are ripe for a political revolution in
Pennsylvania.
Shearer Inquisition to be Resumed
tivities of William B. Shearer is to
be resumed in the near future ac-
cording to information from Wash-
ington. This inquiry was in progress
at the time that Premier MacDon-
ald came over to talk with Presi-
dent Hoover about decreasing arma-
ments and was adjourned for the
reason that the disclosures being
made might be unpleasant to the
sensitive ears of that distinguished
Englishman. Now that arrange-
ments have been completed for a
parley on naval parity it is consid-
ered safe to resume the investigation
and fully unfold the wretched story
of the failure of the naval parley of
last year held at Geneva, if the
whole truth is told. £
Of course the whole truth will not
be told for that is not the purpose
lof the inquisition. But Shearer will
be justly condemned as a fraud and
false pretender, though as a matter
of fact he is not the most culpable
of the conspirators who were con-
cerned in the crime, not only against
the people of the United States but
of the whole civilized world. Shear-
er did what he could to defeat a ma-
jor movement in the direction of
world peace but those who employ-
ed and paid him large sums of
money for his work are equally
guilty and quite as deserving of pub-
lic execration. The shipbuilders who
for selfish purposes sent him to
Geneva, ought to share in his pun-
ishment, :
In a statement made public, the
other day, Shearer declared that the
“shipbuilders were perfectly satisfied
to continue on with me but former
Secretary Kellogg protested against
my employment by them and as a
result my income was cut off.” These
captains of industry knew perfectly
well what he had done at Geneva
were satisfied with his achievements
and willing to continue their rela- |
tionship with him. But Secretary
of State Kellogg, anticipating the
scandal whch subsequently develop-
ed, warned the shipbuilders of the
danger and demanded that Shearer
be discharged. It was an entirely
proper course to pursue but the of-
fenders ought to be treated alike. |
——Congress has resumed busi-
ness with grave apprehensions of
trouble and little hope of achieve-
STATE RIGHTS
Good or Evil of Big Business. j
General Atterbury, president of
the Pennsylvania railroad, in a New
Year's day address to the pupils of
Girard College, Philadelphia, paid
the tribute of cordial approval to
“the great combinations of indus-
trial enterprises” commonly known
as trusts. “We know that wealth is
the most potent material power for
good that exists in the world,” he
said, and added “other things being
equal the bigger and stronger any
useful and capably managed busi-
ness enterprise becomes the better
and more beneficial it is to the
welfare of the country as a whole.”
This is the philosophy of big busi-
ness and the monopolies of he coun-
try are paying vast sums of money
to sell it to the people.
It is true that these great combi-
nations of wealth in industry were
once feared and “are now recogniz-
ed as among our greatest national
assets” and there are reasons for
this changed attitude of public sen-
timent, When they were feared it
was for the sufficient reason that they
were comparatively unrestrained in
their « operations and tyrannical in
their practices. Corporations, big
or little, are not philanthropies, and
until public opinion resented their
cruelties with such force as to cause
a change in their methods they de-
served all the execration that was
bestowed upon them and some
more. That they are in better
repute now is because of the great
change in their methods and man-
ners.
The nature and the purpose of
men who organize and operate giant
corporations and strive by every
conceivable means to convey them
into heartless monopolies, have not
changed. “When the devil was sick,
the devil a Monk would be; when
the devil got well, the devila Monk
was he.” By yielding, in most cas-
es reluctantly, to public demand for
better behavior, they have removed
a large part of the popular opposi-
tion which existed some years ago,
But there is no assurance that if
the opportunity presents itself they
1 aaron to the
will not-¥revert tothe evil “practices 'ddmonished again
which earned for them the just
condemnation of all right-minded
men and women. It will be a safe
public policy to hold a tight rein
on them,
Mr. Vare is enjoying the soft
breezes of Florida while his friends
are negotiating with Grundy to put
Francis Shunk Brown on the slate
for Governor,
Negotiations in Progress
Negotiations for the sale, “in
bulk” of the votes of the Vare or-
ganization to Grundy are already in
progress. Vare had scarcely reach-
ed his destination in Florida when
his “war board” called on Mayor
AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. JANUARY 10. 1930.
7
Something Like Refusal in Sight
One of the first duties which de-
volved on Ambassador Edge after
assuming his office in Paris was to
enter a protest against a high tar-
iff tax which the French govern-
ment proposes to levy on motor
cars, trucks and automobile parts.
Mr. Edge, previous to his entrance
into the diplomatic service, was a
Senator in Congress from New Jer--
sey and a tariff monger of the most
ultra type. He practically dictated
the rates in the schedule which shut
out French competition from the
products of the Trenton potteries
and cheerfully accepted the rates
suggested by Mr. Joe Grundy in all
other schedules, There was no more
valiant and vocal defender of the
“home market” in Congress than
Senator Edge.
It is said that the proposed
French tariff tax will be a serious
blow to the automobile industry of
this country, Automobile parts
have become a leading feature of
our export trade. Even in some of
the French makes American parts
are used. This is probably the rea- |
son that most of the motor vehicle
builders
eign competition. Free trade in
their products encouraged a spirit
of reciprocity which worked to the
decided advantage of American pro-
ducers. The proposed French tariff
it is said, will compel Henry Ford
to abandon business in France or
manufacture his parts in that coun-
try. Now they are shipped from
his American plants,
This action of France indicates
that the protests made by the sev.
eral governments abroad when the
pending tariff bill was under consid-
eration in the House Committee on
Ways and Means were not idle ges-
tures. There were no threats of
reprisals but they were easily inter-
preted as notices that the right to
exclude products of other nationali-
ties, in order to secure monopoly of
home markets, is universal. Presi-
dent McKinley in his last public
American ople
“$hi§ danger to
American industry. The proposed
French tariff may be the beginning
of a movement which will limit our
sales as well as our purchases to
the home market and that will be
disastrous.
—Now that council has decided to
apply receipts from the borough’s
water rentals to nothing else than
maintenance of and payment of debts
incurred by the water service de-
partment of the borough we expect
‘to see an oft made prophesy of the
Watchman fulfilled. We believe it
will maintain itself and whittle down
on the mortgages on the Phoenix
, and Gamble stations at a gratifying
Mackey to enlist his branch of the
organization in a movement to sup-
port Grundy for Senator and Francis
Shunk Brown for Governor. It is
understood that Mr. Grundy favors
the combination and it is believed
that the Mellons will acquiesce,
course Governor Fisher will “go
along” and it is hoped that a suffi-
cient number of the county leaders
will join in. The Mayor was plainly
pleased with the visitation but a tri-
fle coquettish. He reserved hig de-
cision and invited further confer-
ences.
The Vare “war board” is compos-
ed of sheriff Cunningham, council-
man Hall and chairman of the Re-
publican city committee James M.
Hazlet. All of them have been ser-
vile dependents upon Vare's favor
for years. After the campaign of
last fall they publicly “read”. Mayor
Mackey out of the party because he
opposed the Vare ticket for munici-
pal offices. Their appeal to him now
tohelp in an enterprise which must
work humiliation to Vare was not
only flattering to his vanity but a
tribute to his power, And unless
the visit had the sanction of Vare,
which is improbable in the face of
his declaration that “he is in the
treachery.
That Mr, Mackey will ultimately
join in the movement may be accept-
ed as certain. He was among the
first of the party leaders to pledge
approval of the Grundy appointment
and support of the Grundy ambi-
tions, - He would like to be the can-
didate for Governor, himself, and
bolted from the Vare ticket last fall
in the hope of thereby promoting
that aspiration. But the result of
that gesture-was disappointing.. The
defeat by an overwhelming majority
of the really worthy ticket he sup-
ported was largely because of his
association with it and that is that.
Besides, he likes Grundy and is
friendly with Brown and present
service to them may work to future
service to him, go
——Congress proposes to protect
the Bald Eagle as long as he be-
haves, ;
fight to the finish,” it was flagrant
rate. Another splendid result of the
new plan will be discovery by coun-
cil that since it ‘won't be permissible
| to throw all the money into one pot
any longer more serious attention
will have to be given to budgeting
for street and interest purposes..and
of {laying enough millage to actually
meet such budgets, with due allow-
ance for defaults in tax payments.
——Word comes from Clearfield
county that the wide-awake Demo-
cratic leaders over there have hopes
of inducing William A. Hagerty, now
burgess of Clearfield, to become a
candidate for State Senator. Should
he hearken to the call and decide to
enter the race he will probably have
no opposition. either in Clearfield or
Centre county, in securing the nom-
ination; and it is hardly possible for
the Democrats to find a stronger
man to wage a contest for the elec-
tion than Mr. Hagerty, regardless of
who his Republican anagonist might
be. Mr. Hagerty is not only well
known throughout his own county
but also in most of Centre, and he
has the ability and commanding ap-
pearance to make a very efficient
member in the upper house in Har-
risburg.
— Governor Fisher declares that
Sam Lewis and Jim Davis are “ag-
gressive” ‘and Shunk Brown and
Benson Taylor “potential” candidates
for Governor. Upon what founda-
tion does he build the adjectives?
——The railroad problem is like-
ly to develope a new investigation.
The recent operations of “holding
companies” are exciting suspicions.
—1t is admitted now that Gov-
ernor Fisher appointed Grundy to
spite the western Senators who had
impeached his title to office.
——@Grundy is beginning to real-
ize that wise cracking forms a poor
background for pretences of states-
manship.
eantime Governor. Pinchot is
viewing “the parade : from. the side
lines with a‘ keen eye for opportun-
ities. i
in this country protested
against any tariff tax against for-
‘| country says:
| Time to go Fishin.’ ”
- From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
| For A-1, Simon pure, never-say
| die enthusiasm, the fisherman has
jit all over the golfer a hundred per
cent. If you doubt it consult the
statistics. Was there a golfer on
; the local links last Thursday? Not
,one, but 170 Harrisburg fishermen
. took out licenses that day, and were
'in a great hurry to get them in
‘order to go sucker fishing. Again,
faccording to the department this
was no mere burst of interest caus-
ed by awarm day in January. These
anglers had parked their red worms
in favorable places last fall and
were all set to go. This shows
| forethought prompted by premedi-
; tated purpose,
' But there is more than a mere
{argument in favor of the enthu-
i siasm of fishermen in this. It indi-
| cates that with the holiday season
‘behind us we have begun already
{to think of the advent of spring
rand a resumption of activities along
‘all lines. If business men are as
foreminded and as energetic as
these anglers in going out after
i trade, the forecasters who predict
good business for the year will be
wondering before six months are
‘gone why they didn’t see the ap-
proaching avalanche of prosperity.
It is a good thing to look hope-
fully ahead and to try to antici-
pate the seasons. The practice
keeps our minds on the future, and
to the future we must look for the
results of the present. If we plan
wisely and work intelligently, we
are apt to be happy, providing of
course we keep our aims directed
toward what lies ahead.
We shall notc with interest the
arrival of the first seed catalogue,
the advent of the first robin, the
blooming of the first hepatica, the
appearance of the first shad fly.
They will make us a little happier
for their coming, because they will
point toward spring, “and spring
unlocks the flowers to paint the
laughing soil,” which is satisfactory
enough in itself, but it also brings
surcease from carrying ashes, wear-
ing overshoes, putting chains on the
car and the sad business of finding
the coal bin empty and the bill still
unpaid.
Three rousing cheers, then, gentle-
~ men for ‘these 170 fishermen who
in the . winter of our discontent,
bring us the first harbinger of the
gentle season of Easter eggs, spring
hats. warm winds through the wil-
lows, streams bankful between ver-
dant shrubbery and the trout sea-
son just around the corner.
The Year’s Promise to Industry.
From the Philadelphia Record.
‘What makes an unemployment
situation ?
Primarily, lack of confidence, not
in the distant future, but in the im-
mediate future, :
_ Every business man, at any time,
is sure of the ultimate industrial
health of the country. But in order
to keep men at work he must be
sure of his market for the current
month, and the next month.
A report just presented to Secre-
tary Davis by Francis I, Jones, di-
rector of the employment service of
the Department of Labor, indicates
that business is reviving precisely
this important form of confidence,
Unemployment undoubtedly in-
creased during the closing weeks of
11929. The automobile industry,
steel and radio suffered setbacks,
largely seasonal in nature.
© The turn of the year sees the
' major railroads entering upon am-
bitious projects, necessitating the
i employment - of large numbers of
| men and the purchase of vast quan-
, tities of basic materials.
| The automobile trade, quiet now,
(had the best year in its history. Re-
{ placement orders alone, to care for
| cars now unfit for the road, should
| be record breaking in volume. Radio
| expects the same sort of activity.
| ~ It is undoubtedly true that con-
fidence was shaken for a time. In
| the nature of things it was inevit-
able. It is just as true that the
| prompt rallying of industrial and
| construction forces, under the Pres-
i ident’s leadership, took up the shock
and put the workaday world back
on the track.
The Hoover principle that a re-
serve of construction works can be
used to stabilize prosperity is work-
ing out. In an atmosphere of great
projects swiftly executed, fear must
subside, Confidence in the present,
so much more stimulating than
confidence in the future, must arise.
The new year seems to hold our
great promise to the country and
its people.
mms pr —————
Not So Bad as Feared
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Every day that passes establishes
the fact that the recent Wall Street
crash is not nearly so bad as had
been feared. Accepted authorities in
the industrial and business world all
point out that the general ‘business
situation is resting on a solid foun.
dation. * It is expected recuperation
will be rapid after the first shock of
the stock market slump passes away.
One of the leading experts of the
nt “We are disposed to
look forward with hopefulness and
feel that with the fundamental and
economic position strong much: bet-
ter things can confidently be expect-
ed after the necessary adjustments
are completed.” oe
NO. 2. |
!
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—The toll of the last hunting season
was 53 killed and 213 wounded according
i to incomplete reports to the Game Com-
' mission. : :
| —Several hundred thousand legal size
; trout are now available at the hatcheries
for distribution to those who applied dur-
!ing 1929, the Board of Fish Commission.
ers announced today. :
| —Since the organization of the State
| Police force twenty-five years ago, twen-
| members have met violent deaths;
since the organization of the Highway
| Patrol, nine have met violent deaths. Of
| the 29, eleven were shot and killed. 3
—Application of Joseph Cauffiel, cone
| victed Mayor of Johnstown, for a par-
- { don will be heard by the State Pardon
{ board at its hearings in Harrisburg, Jan-
| vary 22. Caufflel, convicted of conspiracy,
{ has been denied a new trial by the lower
and Appellate Courts.
—Permission to discontinue a bus line
between Tyrone and Nealmont by the
Logan Valley Bus company was granted
_on Saturday, by the Public Service Com-
- mission. Inadequate revenue from the
, operation was the reason given by the
, company for discontinuing the line.
! —Following 50% years of continuous
! service in the public schools, Miss Mary
Connor, teacher of the first grade at
High Street school, Phoenixville, has re-
signed because of ill health. For 20
| years, from 1907 until 1927, she did not
miss a day from her school room and in
the entire half century of service her
days absent totaled 14, all because of ill-
ness.
—Pleading guilty to the larceny of an
electric refrigerator by changing the ad-
dress upon it while he was working as
a messenger on a train, W. L. Dubel was
sentenced to from six to twelve months
in jail by President Judge William M.
Hargest, in Dauphin county court. At
the same time his parole was revoked on
a similar charge of having stolen a radio
late last year.
—Pennsylvania is still the leading pro-
ducer of buckwheat and cigar-leaf tobac-
co, according to the State Department of
Agriculture, which says 2.383,000 bushels
of buckwheat valued at $3,383,000 and 47,-
601,000 pounds of tobacco valued at $8,-
521,000 were produced last year. Only
one State produced a more valuable po-
tato crop and but three produced more
valuable apple crops, according to the
department. .
—To make death doubly sure, a de-
spondent Germantown gardener on Sun-
day locked himself in a garage, started the
engine of an automobile and cut his
throat. He was dead when found. The
suicide victim was James Aiken, 38, of
406 West Rittenhouse street. When a
brother, Eugene Aiken, with whom Aiken
lived, went to the garage at 5524 Pulaski
avenue to get his automobile he found
the gardener’s body across a fender of
the car.
—Kenneth M. Shambaugh, Lykens tax
collector, won't go out after money. It
will come to him in his wheel chair. Ac-
cidentally shot by a companion when 12
years old, Mr. Shambaugh was crippled
for life. The bullet penetrated the spinal
column. In the last election he was the
candidate of the Kenneth M. Shambaugh
Booster League and both Republican and
“Democratic opposition were borne down
by his plea for a chance to be self-sup-
porting. His four-year term began on
Monday.
—Mrs. Kenneth Ulp, 23, of Northum-
! berland, missed death last Friday, by a
half inch when a bullet from an explod-
ing shell in a rubbish fire struck her
chest. It penetrated the flesh for several
inches and went out of her body. She
{is not seriously wounded. A physician
said that had the ball been a half inch
further in her body it would have struck
the heart and been fatal. The woman
had thrown several empty 32-caliber car-
| tridge shells in the fire with rubbish, and
| apparently did not see the one that was
| loaded.
—C. R. Swanson, of Castanea, foreman
of section No. 4 of the New York Central
railroad, a distance of five miles extend-
ing from a point west of Youngdale to
a short distance east of Mill Hall, has
won the prize for 1929 for maintaining
the best section of track in 25 sections
known as the Beech Creek district and
comprising 200 miles. The prize, for
which all the section foremen strive, is
an increase of $5 a month in salary. The
inspection was made October 28 last and
the decision has just been announced.
A foreman in each of the more than 40
districts of the New York Central system
is awarded a prize each year.
"—School attendance figures in Pennsyl-
vania show a constant trend toward 100
per cent. records, Drv. John A. H. Keith,
superintendent of public instruction said
today. The last monthly report for
which results were tabulated by the at-
tendance bureau showed a State average
of 95 per cent. believed to be a record
accomplishment. Three school districts
under the jurisdiction of district superin-
tendents maintained a percentage of 99;
77 districts maintained a percentage of
98; 55, a percentage of 97; 20, a percent-
age of 96; and four, a percentage of 95.
Twenty-four of the 66 counties maintain-
ed a percentage of 96 and seven, a per-
centage of 95.
—A piece of paper, found under a
peony bush in. the yard of the home of
Miss Ella Brunner Krick, of Spring
township, Berks county, last year, where
a bonfire of Miss Krick’s old papers had
been made, will be admitted to probate
in orphans’ court at Reading, Judge F. A.
Marx decided on Saturday. The paper
had blown away from the bonfire and
was later found to be an informal will
signed by Miss Krick. It bore a date two
months before that of her death in June.
Charles L. Young was named as the
beneficiary of her estate, valued at $6000.
The will accepted in Saturday's opinion
displaces another previously probated,
giving the estate to others. Young at-
tended the woman in her last illness.
" —Construction work on the new Meth-
odist church, Warriors Mark, is rapidly
being completed. Plans are now being
made for the dedication ceremony to be
held Sunday, March 2. The preacher for
the morning service will be the Rev. Dr.
W. L. McDowell, research secretary of
the board of Home Missions and Church
Extension, Philadelphia. Dedication ser-
vice will be in charge of the Rev. Dr. J.
McKendree Reiley, superintendent of the
Altoona district of the Methodist church.
He will also preach at the night ‘service.
Services in the morning will start at 10
o'clock. Following dedication day; two
weeks of services will be = held during
which’ time ‘former and community - pas-
tors’ will preach. = Special music will fea