SIR aan.
INK SLINGS
—Theatrical business is bad and
the P. R. R. is “begging people to
ride on our trains” but every once
in a while the “S. R. O.” sign is be-
ing hung out at the diminutive
railroad station here. Again we
suggest to Kiwanians that they
keep an eye on things,
. ——To the correspondent from !
York, Pa., who wrote to “kid” us
about our marmota monax faux pas
last week we want to say that he
did see his shodow on Sunday, but
if he had waited until we invited him
out of his hibernation he wouldn't
have seen it. In consequence we feel
that we did our best to avert the
six more weeks of winter that his
untimely appearance threatens us
with. ;
—We have no alibi to offer for the
awful “bull” we pulled last week
when we set groundhog day back to
last Tuesday, We can’t explain just
how we did it, but we're glad, nev-
ertheless, for our inadvertence
gave so many people pleasure in call.
ing us. Since “calling” is the thing
we enjoy little else but, it is just
compensation when we blunder into
putting the shoe on some other ob-
serving person’s foot.
—The resignation of Chief Justice
Taft and the appointment of Charles
Evans Hughes as his successor on the
bench of the Supreme Court of the
United States has been the outstand-
ing event of the week, We believe that
Justice Hughes is the better lawyer
of the two, but it isn’t always the
better lawyer who makes
Judge. Hughes cannot bring to the
highest tribunal of the land the
confidence that is begotten of a
feeling that there is a human side
to great jurists such as Mr. Taft in-
spired. Who ever saw Charles Evans
Hughes smile?
—We have always believed that
an organization without a fight in
it couldn’t survive long. Just as we
have always believed that a real
man develops the most there is in
him under a load of debt. Being a
Methodist and feeling always that
our church could have - given both
Newton Baker and Josephus Daniels |
pointers in 1917-1918 as to how to
fight we are delighted that the lo-
cal Episcopalians have developed
belligerency and threaten to become
militant. Last Monday night at
Council meeting we saw the spec-
tacle of their bell wether, their “good
angel” and their “sweet singer in Is-
rael” coming in conflict. Stand up,
everybody, and sing the Doxology.
When the Episcopal church gets a
real fight started it will fill its pews
with partisans far faster than it
can with saints—and the same ap-
plies to every other church.
“= Mr. Roscoe R. Koch, a deputy
Attorney General for Pennsylvania,
has just handed down an opinion
that employment of boys under four-
teen years of age as caddies on a
golf course is in violation of the
child labor act of May 13, 1915.
Doubtless Mr. Koch knows his law.
But what a law! A boy under
fourteen on a farm may put down
hay for the cattle, carry heavy buck-
ets of swill for the pigs and do
many other chores that would bend
the backs of many of their town or
city seniors, yet a boy under. four-
teen may not go out into the pure,
open air of a golf course on Satur-
day afternoon and earn a few pen-
nies for the movies by ambling
around a beautiful bit of country-
side, carrying clubs and hunting
balls for a couple of wheezy, near-
sighted old gentlemen whose pace
would make that of a snail look
like Lindbergh in flight. If such
interpretation is to be put on the
labor law we suppose we’ll have to
stop giving kids a dime to carry a
letter to the post-office for us.
‘ —The local political pot is begin-
ning to boil. Senator Scott has an-
nounced that he would like to suc-
ceed himself and also be the State
Committeeman of his party from
this county. Phil. D. Foster has
announced that he would like to be
the chairman of the Republican
county committee. The Hon, Holmes
would like to be our Member in
the Legislature for another term.
Charles P. Long would like to go
t6 Congress and the dear only
knows who wouldn't like to be a
paster and folder or any other old
thing that pulls down a maximum
of pay for a minimum of work.
Such is politics. It would be
sweet as mother's love if it
were as unselfish, but—it isn’t.
Senator Scott has to kill off
Charley Long because Centre coun-
ty can’t have both the Senatorial
and Congressional candidates. Phil
Foster has to harpoon that grand
old veteran of Republicanism, Wil-
son I. Fleming. And the Hon.
Holmes has to fool the Prohibition
folks and the P. O. S. of A. once
again. Mitch Chase will help Harry
nip the budding ambition of the re-
tired merchant of Spring Mills.
Mr. Dorworth mobilized the State's
steam rollers last Saturday night
and supplied the gas for Phil Fos-
ter to step on in his attempt to flat-
ten out the Flemings in Centre
county. - As yet we haven't heard
what the W. C. T. U. and the P. O.
S. of A. are going to do for the
Hon. Holmes. We surmise, however,
they'll spread penance all over him
for what they failed to do for
Phil. Johnston—You know election
day to the P. O. S. of A. and the
Prohibition fanatics is like “roodles”
in a poker game—all rules are off.
the best |
VOL. 75.
Boulder Dam to be Monopolized.
dicate that the long-drawn out effort
of Senator Norris to guarantee to
the public substantial benefits
‘from the Boulder dam proj-
ject was wasted "time and energy.
The enterprise has cost the govern-
‘ment a large amount of money and
additional vast sums will be requir-
'ed to complete it. If employed, as
{it was intended to be, to serve the
! people of the adjacent States with
! electric energy and control the wa-
i ters. of the turbulent Colorado river
for irrigation purposes and creating
| electric energy, it would have been
worth the money. But the rumor is
| that Secretary of the Interior Wil-
bur has decided to give to private
power companies all the power to
be generated at the plant.
{ This is precisely what the power
| monopoly contended for from the
| beginning and spent millions of dol-
lars to accomplish, The law author-
izing the creation of the plant pro-
i vides ‘that preference be given to
States and municipalities in case
| they submit satisfactory plans for
| development and operation.” It
‘was for the reason that President
1 Hoover favored the private operation
‘and control of the plant that Sena-
| tor Norris refused to support him
for President and urged the elec-
| tion. of Governor Smith, who was
committed to the policy of public
operation, It ‘now appears that
| Secretary Wilbur intends to ignore
! that provision of the law and place
in the hands of monopoly full power
to exploit the property in its own
| selfish interests.
Those who so valiantly fought
jover a period of ten years to pre-
i serve to the public this immensely
valuable franchise are not entirely
surprised at’ the purpose of the
Secretary of the Interior. When the
law passed the Senate in the form
of a compromise Senator Norris pre-
dicted that “those who have charge
of it might easily turn over to some
representative of the water power
trust the generation of electricity
at the dam.” Other Senators sound-
ed an alarm of such a result and
Borah declared “there will be no
doubt about the policy which will
be carried into effect.” ~ An effort
is now being made to check it but
with little hope of success. The
public seems to enjoy being swin-
dled.
omens tte lene eee.
——Whatever effect the resigna-
tion of Chief Justice Taft may have
on other interests
olies. The appointment of Mr. Hughes
guarantees that fact.
-
Distressing Comparative Statistics.
‘It is not necessary to be for or
against the Eighteenth amendment
or prohibition enforcement to find
cause for alarm in the increase of
the death rate from alcoholism, as
revealed in the annual report of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance com-
pany, made public last week. There
are 19,000,000 industrial policy
holders in that corporation in the
United States and Canada, and the
recent report shows an increase of
deaths from alcoholism of approxi-
mately 600 per cent. as compared
with the record of 1920, the first
year of national prohibition, and the
low water mark in mortality from
that source.
The 1929 mortality rate, the state-
ment shows, “is approximately dou-
the World war, and nearly two-
and-one-half times as high as the
figure for 1919,” commonly known
as the “wartime prohibition” year.
But, continues the report, “if the
deaths from wood and denatured
alcohol poisoning were added to
the totals for years beginning with
1920, and if the comparison were
limited to policy holders in the
United States alone, the death rate
now prevailing would equal, or very
closely approach, those for certain
pre-war years,” The record for
Canada is very much better.
Of the 19,000,000 policy holders in
the United States and Canada, 17,
750,000 are in this country and
1,150,000 in Canada. There were
628 deaths from acoholism in the
United States last year and only
ieleven in Canada, This is a dis-
| tressing comparison from whatever
angle it is approached. But it is
not the most significant. The report
continues. “In the wage earning
population, at least, the alcoholism
death rate during the past eight
years has been six times as high in
the United States as in Canada.”
, These figures are not assembled for
| propaganda purposes or to com-
fort either the wets or drys. But
‘they indicate something is wrong.
| ——1In view of President Hoover's
first appointment to the Supreme
court bench the fact that he may
have several other appointments to
make is just cause for alarm.
Rumors current in Washington in-
it will not be |
harmful to corporations and monop- |
STATE RIGHT
Between the Devil and the Deep
Fas
#
E. Taylor, Secretary of Property and
Supplies in the Fisher
tion at Harrisburg, positively de-
clinesto be a candidatefor Lieuten-
ant Governor on the Grundy slate.
For an unexplained reason the polit-
ical dopesters interpret this action
as a certain sign that he isa candi-
date for Governor, In his letter
he says: “Governor Fisher has en-
trusted me with the responsibility of
carrying out his extensive building
programme and it is my deep de-
sire to complete that trust.” This
may mean that he is unwilling to
withdraw present personal atten-
tion to the task or that he hopes
to tal : an unfinished job at the ex-
piratiin of Mr. Fisher's term.
Mr, Taylor's relations
organization of his party are rath-
er complicated. He is a close friend
of Sam Lewis and under pledge to
support him for the nomination, He
is deeply attached to Governor Fish-
er, who is unalterably opposed to
the nomination of Lewis. The only
pressure, so far as the public is in-
formed, to put Taylor in the race
for Governor comes from the Gov-
ernor’s office and there is a strong
suspicion that the purpose is more
to injure Lewis than to help Tay-
lor. Grundy is openly for Lewis
and the earnest support of Taylor
would practically guarantee his
nomination. : The nomination and
election of a slate so made up
would eliminate the Mellon machine
“and the Fisher contingent,
No well informed politician believes
that Taylor has a chance for the
nomination for Governor. He might
easily have got the nomination for
Lieutenant Governor in a combina-
tion with Grundy for Senator and
Lewis for Governor or a hook-up
with Vare for Senator and Davis
for Governor, It is known that
the Mellons think well of him and
might support his candidacy if it.
looked promising. But the value of
that help is problematical. The
political confusion now existing, not
only in Pittsburgh but throughout
the Western counties, casts a doubt
upon the potency of Mellon
.even jn its: own. neighborhood:
these reasons the Taylor announce-
ment is without real importance,
——Charles Evans Hughesis a fine
lawyer and a good citizen but he
probably owes his recent preferment
to the fact that he is ‘‘corporation-.
minded.”
Grundy Accepts Brown
| According to the latest gossip Sen-
‘ator Grundy has consented to the
slating of Francis Shunk’ Brown for
. Governor. But it was not a cheer-
, ful concession. It came after a hard
and fast bargain. The Vare war
board, striving to save something for
. the boss, presented the claims of Mr.
Brown with much earnestness. But
{Grundy is a stiff bargainer. “What
| assurance can you give that Vare
will withdraw,” he asked. The an-
swer appears to have been satisfac-
tory for the Mellons, urged by Gen-
eral Atterbury, have accepted the of-
fer. Mr. Vare may be disappointed
, when the agreement is presented to
him for signature. But it is really
‘a triumph for him. It will enable
him to feel that he has some power
left.
There will be heartaches over this
‘bargain among the party bosses to
| dispense the official favors. Francis
ble that of 1918, the final year of Shunk Brown has done nothing for |
| the people of Pennsylvania. He is a
shrewd lawyer and an . industrious
‘worker for himself and family. But
{he has contributed nothing toward
the public welfare. Samuel S. Lewis
has championed public interests on
several occasions, as in his fight
against the excessive and unneces-
‘sary gas tax, and Secretary of La-
bor Davis has stood for the interests
of labor when Grundy was fighting
to hold wage
slavery. Each of these gentlemen
has hosts of friends among the Re-
publican voters. But they will be
obliged to submit to the bosses.
At no time in the history of Penn-
sylvania has political bossism been
so bold as now. At no time in the
history of politics have party favors
been so openly commercialized. Half
a dozen millionaires assemble in
Washington or New York and parcel
out the party favors and there is
not enough spirit in the electorate
to make a protest.
ful spectacle. Corporate greed dom-
inates the official life of the State
and the people suffer while the
bosses celebrate their victories. But
they are “riding to a fall” The
people will not always endure such
excesses and when the day of reck-
oning comes the right will prevail.
The opportunity is near, The ballot
box offers the remedy.
——The Brown-Grundy combina-
tion gives Mr. Pinchot a splendid op-
portunity to crusade.
Ina letter toa friend Mr. Benson
administra-
with the,
influence '
earners in industrial
It is a shame-
S$ AND FEDERAL UNION.
Senator Grundy Continues to Blunder
“Every time Mr. Grundy opens his
“mouth he puts his foot in it. In a
speech delivered before the Ameri-
can Tariff League in December, 1928,
he held President Hoover up to ridi-
‘cule as a man ignorant of all the
‘principles of government. “He never
ran for office,” Mr. Grundy said, “not
even for dog catcher” and was no
‘better, so far as understanding of
tariffs and other legislative opera-
tions than the Senators representing
the “backward States of the West”
or “the sons of wild jackasses” as
those Senators were described by
Senator Moses, of New Hampshire,
When his attention was called to his
Tariff League speech, the oth.r day,
he lectured the Senate for wasting
its time on trifles.
_ The incident is important only in
that it reveals the intellectual equip-
ment of Joe Grundy and measures
the qualifications of those who ele-
vated him into high office. Andy
and W. L. Mellon and Governor John
S. Fisher entertain precisely the
same opinion of Herbert Hoover.
“He doesn't know anything at all,
from experience, what legislation
means. His mind runs on other than
economic subjects,” Mr. Grundy de-
clared and the Mellons and the Gov-
ernor reward him for his intelligent
understanding of such subjects, ac-
quired by long practice in the lobby,
by appointing him to a postin which
he may guide the party chief in
“ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain,” but serve the party.
Of all the Republicans in Pennsyl-
vania who might, in consideration of
public service to their communities
or the State at large, aspire to serv-
ice in the Senate, Joseph R. Grundy
is the least fit. In all his life he has
never contributed a single thing for
the improvement of the social, moral
or economic condition of the people.
He actively opposed every piece of
legislation which had for its purpose
the betterment of labor conditions or
the ameliorization of suffering hu-
manity. But because the Governor
imagined that his presence on the
floor of the Senate would be offen-
'sive to a group of sincere men who
denounced the crimes that made
ed.
| —When Mr. Grundy satisfactorily
| explains to the working people of
; Pennsylvania why he has fought
| every piece of legislation that has
been introduced in their behalf in
Harrisburg he might persuade some
of them to believe that his pet
| theory of tariff on everything has
gotten as much for them as it has
| for him and his like. The truth of
| the matter is that Mr. Grundy is a
Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. He lobbies
for a tariff in Washington and jus-
tifies it by - the claim that he is
providing employment for labor.
Then he turns his attention to Har-
into defeating every move labor
makes to get any benefit from the
tariff.
Chairman Collins Visits Centre.
Happy, hopeful and inspiring with
their true-blue Democracy Chair-
man John R. Collins and secretary
Warren VanDyke of the Democratic
State Committee spent last Monday
night in Bellefonte.
Their business here was merely
carrying out chairman Collins’ plans
to keep in touch with the party or-
ganization in every county in the
State and by such personal contact
encourage militant
| erywhere,
| County Chairman John J. Bower
| had gotten the word to pretty near-
ly allof his district committeemen
'so that there was quite a gathering
'at the Brockerhoff house to greet
| the visitors and talk over the situa-
' tion in the State, District and coun-
‘ty contests that will be made this
| year.
| It was not a formal meeting so
that there were no speeches. How-
ever, chairman Collins and secretary
' vanDyke outlined what they hope
might be done and assured the local
Democrats that the State organiza-
tion will be constantly behind them
in every effort for revival of party
interest.
one with his sincerity and enthusi-
asm and his visit undoubtedly will
result in an awakening of the old
time spirit of Democracy in Centre
county.
— The promotion of Justice
Holmes would have been a gracious
gesture as well as a token of just
appreciation of distinguished and
long continued service to the coun-
try.
——Mr. Grundy's opinion of th
Blue Laws would be interesting. Ev-
wer+Governor, Grundy was. favor-
risburg and scares the Legislature.
Chairman Collins impressed every-
BELLEFONTE. PA.. FEBRUARY 7. 1930.
NO. 6.
Argument, Pro and Con, on Closing
Lamb Street
The closing of a small section of
Lamb street for an athletic field for
public school ‘purposes or refusal to
do so is now up to borough council.
The citizens generally had a hearing
before council, on Monday evening,
and sentiment both for and against
was so well defined and ably sup-
ported that council as an entirely
felt that the question is one of such
vital importance that it was deem-
ed wise to hold it over for more
deliberate consideration.
Two dozen or more citizens were
present at the public hearing in the
council chamber, Monday evening.
Dr. M. J. Locke, president of the
Bellefonte school board, opened the
hearing. He was very brief, confin-
ing himself to reading two letters
from officials in the State Depart-
ment of Education in which they ap-
proved the steps being taken by the
school board to secure an athletic
field.
District attorney John G. Love
read a letter from Ellis Keller, a
former member of the High school
faculty, which strongly endorsed the
closing of the street.
Former Judge James C, Furst rep-
resented the opponents to the clos-
ing of the street owing to a slight
indisposition of former Judge Orvis,
who could not be present.
Prof. A. H. Sloop presented a peti-
tion signed by all the pupils in the
High school and upper grades asking
council to close the street.
Col. W. F. Reynolds, representing
the vestry of St. John's Episcopal
church, explained the position of
that body in its opposition to the
closing of the street. He stated that
there is nothing personal about it.
That the members of the vestry felt
that it might detract from the ad-
vantages of their parish house in the
event they ever wanted to find a
tenant for it in the future, as they
frequently have done in the past.
He was entirely fair, however, in
making it plain that none of the
members were opposing the proposi-
tion because of any wall that might
be built there.
Rev. Gast, rector of the church,
“was the next speaker. In opening
organization ev-
his remarks he stated that he was
not representing the Episcopal
church or the congregation but
speaking merely as a transient who
is here today and may be gone to-
morrow. He also qualified his re-
marks by stating if the ground was
large enough to make a complete
athletic field he would be in favor of
it, but maintained that it would not
be. He then outlined the congested
condition of the streets with auto-
mobiles that would undoubtedly re-
sult should the'street be closed.
Conrad Miller opposed the closing
of the street because he or some of
his employees use it every day in go-
ing to and from their work and he
claimed they should not be incon-
venienced in order to fix up a play
ground for children. :
John Blanchard Esq., made an im-
passioned appeal in favor of closing
the street, citing the fact that cities
and towns everywhere today are
taking over properties and closing
portions of streets to afford an out-
door. space not only for the children
but for older people, He cited that
today there is not a spot in Belle-
fonte big enough for the children to
congregate on, and now when there
is an opportunity to get one it should
not be allowed to pass simply be-
cause a few people might be incon-
venienced.
J. Kennedy Johnston also spoke in
favor of closing the street and
Charles F. Cook added a few words
in behalf of the school board.
Conrad Miller closed the hearing
by offering to give the school board
an acre and a half of ground free
‘for an athletic field which he said
“mobile.
i
was only a ten minute trip by auto-
, Everybody having been heard Mr.
Beaver suggested that the matter be
laid on the table until next meeting
of council in order that the council-
men might hear the reaction of the
public. President Walker also ex-
pressed the opinion that it would be
best to consider the matter further,
and thus it now stands.
— The resignation of Chief Jus-
tice Taft came as a surprise to the
country and taking one considera-
tion with another is a matter of re-
gret.
The London Naval conference is
setting a splendid example of lady-
like behavior. Everybody concern-
ed in the proceedings is polite.
——Colonel Lindbergh made a nar-
row escape from an accident the
other day which indicates that he is
erybody knows how he feels on labor getting careless.
legislation.
——Don’t take the Groundhog ser-
-——It pays to advertise in the jously. His rule of the weather is
- Watchman,
limited to Lancaster county.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Two days after Mr. and Mrs. Clar-
ence Rishel moved into their new home
near Alexandria, the residence was de-
stroyed by - fire on Tuesday morning,
when a lighted lamp expleded.
! —The new $3,000,000 Locust Summit
breaker of the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron company, near Shamokin,
will begin operations March 1. Six near-
by collieries will ‘‘feed” it with coal.
The breaker is the most modern and the
largest in the lower anthracite field.
| —Because he refused to give her a cig-
aret, police reported, Mrs. Bernice Case,
28, of Bradford, stabbed her husband,
Leon Case, 29, in their home on Sunday
night. Case was stabbed in the back with
|
. ; a bread knife, one lung being punctured.
He was reported in a critical condition
in Bradford hospital.
! —Albert Madden, 53, a negro, appeared
at police headquarters in Wilkes--Barre
bleeding from a wound on the chin. He
told the desk sergeant that he owns two
pet white rats. While he was asleep, he
said, one of the pets crawled upon the
bed and bit him. A doctor was called,
the wound cauterized and tetanus serum
injected.
—Kenneth, 5 year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. O. D. Rhinard, of Stillwater, Colum-
bia county, complained of a sore nose.
His parents found what apeared to be an
abscess and took him to the family physi-
cian, who took him to a nose specialist.
With difficulty the specialist removed a
hazlenut which the boy had put in his
nose last fall.
—After Burgess Carey Groff had vetoed
a borough “blue law’ at Perkasie, on
Tuesday night, the city council went into
executive session and by a vote of 6
to 8 passed a Sunday closing ordinance
over the veto. The ordinance prohibits
the playing of any game or sport or the
giving of any music or other form of en-
tertainment to which admission is charg-
ed.
- —Whisky taken internally is a cure for
fallen arches, according to the pro-
prietress of a Wilkes-Barre tea room who
thus explained the presence of illicit li-
quor when police raided her establish-
ment. Seven barrels of wine also found
in the place took the place of water serv-
ed with her customers’ meals, she said.
Police Magistrate Brown was skeptical on
the cure and fined her $100 and costs.
—Joseph Sparrow, 40, of Dickson City,
a suburb of Scranton, ended his life in a
cell in the borough building late Tuesday
night by hanging himself with a piece of
white musline which he used as a belt.
Sparrow was arrested late on Tuesday on
a disorderly conduct charge after he
ejected from home his five children, the
oldest of whom is 17 years. The children
told police that they desired to go to
work, but that the father would not al-
low them to do so.
—Word was received by Tyrone post-
office officials, on Monday that Algernon
Blair, Montgomery, Ala., has been award-
ed the contract for the construction of
the new federal building in Tyrone. The
contract price is $116,428, based upon the
revised or curtailed plans. The Blair
firm has been notified by the government
to start work immediately and it is an-
ticipated that actual construction will get
under way during the present month,
providing weather conditions do not in-
| terfere.
— Warrants, charging Alex Foster. one
of Danville’s most prominent citizens,
with embezzlement and fraudulent con-
version of $9000 and upwards of funds of:
the Danville Stove Manufacturing com-.
pany were issued on Saturday. Until a
year ago manager of the stove works,
Foster became a deputy auditor general
at Harrisburg following his resignation
and resigned his State position on Thurs-
day, it was stated. He has not returned
to Danville and the warrants have not
been served.
—Perry O. Jordan, 42, herdsmen of the
Huntingdon reformatory, is in the Blair
Memorial hospital at Huntingdon, with
concussion of the brain due to an attack
by two of the inmates, Girard B. Crawley
and John Flannigan, both of Philadel-
phia. The inmates beat him over the head
the previous night with a hose nozzle
rendering him unconscious, after which
they seized his revolver and fled to the
woods on Warrior Ridge. They were
captured several hours later by State po-
lice and reformatory guards. Superin-
tendent J. W. Herron announced that
Jordan’s assailants would be turned over
to the county authorities for prosecution.
—Harry L. Raub, Jr., 38, former city
solicitor and a prominent lawyer, died in
a hospital at Lancaster, on Sunday, from
a bullet wound which a deputy coroner
said was self-inflicted.» His secretary
found Raub slumped in a chair in his of-
fice Saturday night, with a bullet wound
in the head. Raub, it was said, left a
letter addressed to his brother, William S.
Raub, who was the coalition mayorality
candidate at the last election. Police
turned the letter over to the brother and
its contents was not revealed. Harry
Raub for eight years was city solicitor.
He retired from the office last month. He
was a veteran of the World war. A wid-
ow and two chidlren survive him.
—Crops raised on the institutional
farms under the jurisdiction of the State
Department of Welfare are well above
the State average for production per
acre, according to a report of R. Bruce
| Dunlap, agriculturist of the department
‘of Mrs. E. S. H. McCauley, State Secre-
tary of Welfare. In wheat production,
the Warren State hospital leads with a
32.4 bushels per acre yield, the State av-
erage being 20 bushels. Norristown
State hospital leads in oats, with 52.7
bushels, State average being 32; Muncy
leads in hay with 2.86 tons, the State av-
erage being 1.31. Penhurst averaged 65
: bushels of corn, which was 24 bushels ov-
| er the State average; and Muncy led in
potatoes with 300 bushels as compared
with a State average of 112.
—As the result of a piece of beefsteak
becoming lodged in his throat in such a
manner that the air passage into his
i lungs was partly closed, Anthony Low-
| eranitis, a well known resident of Hel-
vetia, Clearfield county, died on Sunday
afternoon at 4:15 o'clock after an hour
and a quarter's effort on the part of rel-
atives to dislodge the obstacle. Mr. Low-
! eranitis, who lived at the home of his
| brother, George Loweranitis, sat down to
dinner at, 8 o'clock. Almost immediately
after starting the meal the meat became
lodged in his throat and he was gasping
for breath. Other members of the family
attempted to aid him and a call was sent
' to the office of the Helvetia physician. He
was not at home at the time and before
the services. of another physician could
be procured the man had died of strangu-
lation. 5