Bratton
—Inasmuch as we told you last
week that we would be in Texas at!
the time you read our announcement
of intention of making a few explora- |
tions on the hither and yon side of
the Rio Grande we shall devote the
column to some of our minor obser-
vations on the trip. Before we for-
get it let us tell you that down in
the “Big” country, as Arthur Bris-
bane called it last Saturday, they
pronounce Rio Grande as if it were
spelled Rio Grandie.
Between trains in St. Louis, son.
day, March 9, we wandered not more
than six squares from the terminal
and we have never met so many ap-
parently down-and-outers on any
city street before. There are few
cities of importance in this country
that we have not visited at one time
or another but it remained for the.
Missouri metropolis to bring us face
to face with the first exhibit of mass
poverty we have ever seen. Fully
two thousand men, young, old, crip-
pled and hale were loitering in the
vicinity of three missions, waiting
for the hour of 5 to toll so that they
might be admitted to get ‘‘soup, soap
and salvation for 5 cts.” They evi-
dently needed soup, we know the
most of them could have used soap
to advantage and we'll bet all of
them passed up the salvation. You |
know the Republican party has been
saving labor for so many years that
those poor derelicts couldn’t think of
getting salvation in any other way
than by voting the Republican ticket.
At Houston we saw everything
axcept the colosseum in which Al was
aominated. The pilot of our rubber-
ieck wagon gave imitations of the
Democratic donkey's bray, but he
jidn’t attempt one of the ass Texas
nade of itself when it came to vot-
ng for Al. He did claim, however,
‘hat Huston, in point of tonnage, is
‘he fourth largest port in the Unit-
:d States. That surprised us as
nuch as Senator Sheppard's idea!
hat a person who buys moonshine
hould be punished for it did.
At LaFeria, which is some three
iundred and forty-one miles south-
vest of Huston, we entered a land:
hat but for the fact that they can’t |
‘row apples there might easily es-
ablish a claim to having been the
riginal Garden of Eden. There we
1et a really distinguished person.
fe was Charles Plummer, the smiling,
old toothed, nature tanned chef
rhose wholesome visage emblazons
ne Cream of Wheat advertising. We
te three breakfasts that he prepar-
1 and when we say that, excepting
ne other man, we would soonest have
harles on our camp cuisine staff
‘e are paying him some compliment.
f course we met other people at La
eria, ~We met Lloyd Parker, who
second in command of the Parker
scurities Co., which organization
as our host. And we met Judge
auls, who is one of its vice presi-
:nts. Probably we were rude, but
ie Judge looked so much like our
d star football friend, Bill Hollen-
«ch, that we ogled him worse than
e did the lady on the “Spirit of St.
»uis” diner when she was trying to
use her digits in the finger bowl
the carmine on her finger nails
>uldn’t turn water into wine. Evi-
ntly the Judge is some—we were
ing .to say citrus fruit, but we
ange itto hot tamale—down there.
stranger in Brownsville told us
at he had been elected to all the
fices that is and I reckon he join-
up with Al Parker because that
vy he can do so much for southern
xas.” In this connection the Judge
d told a pertinent story to the
rty we perigrinated with. All
uthern Texas land is irrigated,
hen an “agriculturist” down there
nts rain he doesn’t call the saint-
into a huddle to pray, nor does he
.e a few bombs out onto the plains
d fire them at the sky. He calls
‘the “ditch rider” and tells him he
nts water at 2:05 and at 2:05 wa-
» is coming around the grape
\it and orange trees, along the fur-
vs of the cotton plants, the pota-
is, tomatoes and what not. It ap-
irs that a northern gentleman was
iting in south Texas when his host
de a telephone call for irrigation
n. He saw it coming five minutes
er and when asked whether he
ld work such marvels, he replied:
ell, I wouldn't have had Central
.?” We must get to Brownsville.
3rownsville is about twenty miles
m La Feria. It is on the Rio
inde, a semi-Mexican town where
ler kraut and chile con carne
nd on the grocers’ shelves like
tle Boy Blue's tin soldiers.
is only the width of the Rio
nde from Matamoras, Tamps,
xico. Last week we told you that
had heard that the Rio Grande
3 perfectly safe to wade—going
r. We were misinformed. There
t as much water flowing through
wnsville today as Spring creek is
rying past the Watchman office at
moment of our going to press. If
should be dry wading over it he
ldn’t be wet coming back unless he
saturated himself with Sabinas.
ut there is no necessity for wad-
Busses haul you over for fif-
1 cents and the sign that greets
on the other side of the bridge
“First and Last Chance.”
s we said last week: Just as be-
4 the St. Lawrence lies Canada,
>nd the Rio Grande lies Mexico.
can’t swim the St Lawrence, you
't need to swim the Rio Grande.
merely step over it,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 75.
Secretary Mellon Charged With
Waste.
|
In a speech on the floor of the
House of Representatives in Wash-
ington, the other day, Representa-
tive Garner, of Texas, Democratic
floor leader, made a charge that
Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew
W. Mellon, “is frittering away the
people’s money in unnecessarily
large refunds for his personal gain.
Complaints have been made on this
score at intervals for several years,
but never before in such direct and
emphatic language. The incident
was brought about by an announce-
ment issued by Secretary Mellon
that “a refund of about $33,000,000
had been granted to the United
States Steel corporation on income
and profit taxes collected for 1918,
1919 and 1920.
Representative Garner presented.
figures obtained from the Treasury
Department which disclosed other
refunds amounting to $27,000,000,
nearly all of which were made to
Pennsylvania corporations and in
many of which Mr. Mellon has fi-
nancial interests, “From these tax.
refunds,” Mr. Garner infers, “that
Pennsylvania has the most generous
tax-payers in the Union, or the
most ignorant people who do not
know how to make out their in-
come tax returns.” That inference
is both natural and reasonable. Ev-
ery few months notice of large tax
refunds is issued from the Treasury
Department and by singular coinci-
dence most of them concern cor- |
porations in which the Secretary or
the Mellon family is concerned.
It is a well established fact that
Uncle Andy is enamored of his job.
It is widely believed that his ap-
pointment to the office by Presi-
dent Hoover was a reluctant con-
cession to some outside influence and
with an implied understanding that
it was only temporary. The salary
can have no attraction for Mr. Mel-
lon and any honor which attaches
to the occupancy would hardly sur-
vive the expiration of one term. But
Mr. Mellon is now serving a third
term and the recompense for a year
will scarcely equal what he might
earn in a week in business. But be-
cause of his office he got his income
tax cut a million a year and he
is able to help his friends to fre-
quent and substantial refunds.
|
i
Pinchot is still plugging away |
at the Public Service Commission |
and incidentally throwing harpoons |
into the Republican machine.
Secretary Davis Out for Senator
Having finally, after much deliber-
ation, selected: an. office to run for
and with equal premeditation chosen
a place from which to broadcast the
fact, Secretary of Labor James J.
Davis, on Sunday last, at Pittsburgh,
announced that he is a candidate for
the office of United States Senator.
Mr. Davis feels that he "is particu-
larly qualified to represent this great
Commonwealth because of the knowl-
edge and experience gained while
serving as Secretary of Labor under
three Republican Presidents, Hard-
ing, Coolidge and Hoover. “During
the nine years I have been in Wash-
ington,” he adds, “I have acquired
intimate knowledge of the problems
of government, State, national and
foreign.”
There are no symptoms of exces-
sive modesty in this appraisement of
equipment for Senatorial service. It
is true that most of Mr. Davis’ as-
sociates in the cabinet of Harding
are inclined to keep quiet about it,
and the achievements of the adminis-
tration of Coolidge were more or less
negligible, while there is a deep-
seated impression in the public mind
that Hoover is quite willing to name
a successor to him in the office. But |
even at that his fitness for the office
is superior to that of his competitor
for the party favor who has had no
experience in public life outside of
the lobby. Mr. Grundy is a past-
master in the fraternity of lobbyists,
which is the fringe of the political
underworld.
Secretary Davis has been a fairly |
efficient Secretary of Labor. He isa
good talker, a successful mixer and |
an industrious . worker. He was in-
troduced into the public life of the
country by the Mellon family and has
been a rather servile supporter of Sed
ambitions of that group of amateur
politicians. But they are not sup- |
porting him for Senator. Before he |
acquired wealth, largely after his af- |
filiation with a prominent benevolent |
organization, he belonged to a labor
union and has since professed adher- |
ence to that organization. He is as
strong for tariff taxation as Grundy
but his record on labor and humane
legislation is much better and his
chances of winning seem favorable.
— The forest fires have begun Al Capone is a distinguished public |
early this year which fact should ad-
monish everybody to be careful.
ibe lifted to defray expenses.
hardly measure
Pinchot Threats Produce Results.
The good effect of Gifford Pinchot'’s
ambitions to “get his old job back”
is already revealed. The Pennsyl-
vania Public Service Commission
has announced its purpose to in-
augurate a sweeping investigation
into the rate charges of Pennsyl-
vania utilities, electric and other
forms. Ever since it was converted
into a political machine, twenty
years or more ago, the Public Serv-
ice Commission has been a servile
instrument of corporate greed. While
in office before, Mr. Pinchot tried
to correct this evil, but failed. Now
that he has brought it forward as
a campaign issue the Commission
has decided to reverse itself and
pretend to be what it was intended
to be, a guardian of public interests.
On August 1st, 1928, the Scranton
Water company, which serves a
large part of the Wyoming valley,
raised its rates out of all proportion,
and the Public Service Commission
authorized
their reasonableness,
tion had become a
holding company
The corpora-
subsidiary of a
located in New
| York. Investigation showed that in
the merging operation the capital
of the Scranton company had been
largely padded, and upon the ex-
panded capitalization it had been
earning dividends of from thirty to
fifty per cent. But the Public Serv-
ice Commission, though constantly
importuned to act, refused to do so
and thus permitted the looting to
| continue for nearly two years.
This injustice, or criminal
gence, cost the consumer
and electrical power in that wide
and wealthy section of the State
millions of dollars. But so long as
the Public Service Commission ad-
hered to its policy of non-interfer-
ence, until protest adopted the form
of expensive public complaint, there
was no redress for the sufferers. But
upon Mr. Pinchot’s threat to appeal
to the court of public opinion the
service board took notice. It was
impervious to protest so long as its
masters were enjoying the fruits of
its perfidy. But it has finally wakened
up to the danger which confronts
the Republican - machine and makes
what may prove to be a false
promise to reform.
negli-
Residents of Milesburg are be-
coming interested in a movement to
beautify their town and to this end
will hold a public meeting in the
Methodist church, in that place, this
(Friday) evening, at which time H.
| A. Hartling, an assistant divisional
forester in the Department of High-
ways, will give an illustrated talk on
beautifying’ streets, approaches to a
village and highway planting in gen-
eral. Mr. Hartling is a graduate of
State College and prior to accepting
a position in the Highway Depart-
ment did considerable work trim-
ming trees in Bellefonte. Another
speaker at the meeting, this evening,
will be W. C. Springer, a former Ger-
man officer, who will give a person-
al talk on conditions in Germany
during the world war. No admission
will be charged but a collection will
The
meeting has been arranged by Toner
A. Hugg, Rev. A. G. Herr and Rev.
M. H. Crawford. The public is invit-
ed.
nn — A —————
— A meeting of the directors of
the Clearfield-Centre baseball league
was held at the office of E. J. Thomp-
son Esq. in Philipsburg, on Monday
evening. Bellefonte was not repre-
sented but directors from Clearfield,
Houtzdale and Philipsburg were pres-
ent. Officers elected for the ensuing
year included W. J. Kerr, Clearfield,
president; Rev. A. Kammroth, Houtz-
dale, vice president, and Karl L.
Hamilton, Philipsburg, secretary and
treasurer. Just what Bellefonte will
do in regard to entering the league
again this year has not been deter-
mined.
A grass fire out on the hillside,
near Prossertown, assumed such a
threatening condition, at noon on
Monday, that the Bellefonte fire de-
partment was appealed to for assist-
ance. The Logans responded and
succeeded in extinguishing the
flames before they communicated to
any buildings.
Mr. Grundy also has a fairly
favorable opinion of his qualifications
for Senatorial service, but he can
up to the Davis
standard.
——The man who wrote Grundy’s
St. Patrick’s day speech earned a
year’s salary at the rate given by Mr.
Grundy in his testimony in Washing-
ton.
——One might think that Scarface
benefactor for whose safety the
whole world is deeply concerned.
it to collect at the new
rates pending a determination of
of water
ELLEFONTE. PA.. MARCH 21. 1930.
Work of the Lobby Committee.
Mr. Claudius H. Huston, chairman
of the Republican National commit-
| tee, has a poor opinion of the work
,of the lobby investigation which
| calls to mind the ancient adage, ‘no
‘rogue e’er felt the halter draw with
‘good opinion of the law.” The lobby
committee has brought out some
facts that may seriously impair the
plans to re-elect Herbert Hoover,
which is Mr. Huston’s job. It has
also plucked some of the most
highly valued feathers out of Mr.
Huston’s plumage and naturally he
is somewhat resentful. But squwak-
ing gets nothing and lands him no-
where. His own evidence proves
every statement the committee has
made concerning him and petulance
is a poor magnet to attract public
sympathy.
A witness previously examined by
the committee had testified that Mr,
Huston had taken some part in the
effort to turn the Muscles Shoals
property of the government over
to a private corporation. The exact
language of the witness was that
“Huston had done as much as he
could in view of his position in pub-
lic life.” In his testimony he admit-
ted activity as president of the
Tennessee River association in a
movement to turn the government
property over to the American
_Cyanamid company,
operated in conjunction with other
power corporations which had been
assessed by the Tennessee company
in order to keep the work in motion.
| That was certainly taking part in
the movement.
The lobby investigation has per-
‘formed a most valuable service to
ithe people of the country. It has re-
vealed corruption in nearly every
branch of the government and ex-
posed frauds of the most startling
character. It has proved that tariff
legislation is simply a process of
trading among political hucksters,
each striving to get the larger
share of ‘the graft. It has demon-
strated that there are men sitting
in both -branches of Congress whose
highest aim is to get their hands
into the treasury, and that some of
them enjoy the most intimate re-
‘Jativis with ‘the President’ of the
‘United States. The Republican
leaders may sneer at its achieve-
ment but the public will take notice.
ly end today, according to the cal-
endar, though it is only to be expect-
ed that we will have more cold
weather, and probably snow. But
right in Bellefonte the snowfall. of
the winter has been the lightestin a
number of years, only about a foot
number of years, only about a foot
not over half a dozen days on which
the temperature dropped below zero.
February, which is generally the
locality, was marked with ideal
weather, while March so far has
been unusually mild and spring-like.
While we have had comparatively
little snow the rainfall was above
normal.
——Councilman Thomas B. Beav-
er, of Bellefonte, was notified last
week of his appointment as chief of
the escheat bureau in the Revenue
Department at Harrisburg, effective
March 1st. He succeeds John C.
Groome, of Cumberland county. The
escheat bureau is that department of
the State Government which gathers
in the money of all those who die
without any legal heirs, as well as
bank accounts which have been al-
lowed to lie dead for twelve years
and for which no claimant can be
found.
Er ———————
——During the school year of 1929
there were 692 pupils in the schools
of Centre county who neither missed
a day nor were tardy. And 839 re-
ceived seals which indicated perfect
attendance not only last year, but
during 1928 as well.
———After all Mr. Doheny must ad-
mit that his $100,000 gift to Secre-
tary Fall was made at the psycologi-
cal moment. In other words it was
mysteriously sent at the time the oil
leases were under consideration.
—— Ae ———————
——Governor Fisher, on Monday,
reappointed the full membership of
the board of fish commissioners. Edi-
tor Thomas H. Harter, of Bellefonte,
is one of the members of the board.
——Taking him at his own valua-
tion Mr, Secretary Davis is about the
fittest man for office that “ever came
up the pike.”
——Mr. Wickersham has a pene-
trating eye but he can't see any ne-
cessity for investigating his investiga-
| tion.
—If you don’t find it in this paper
it isn’t worth reading.
and that he’
— The winter season will official-
coldest month of the year in this!
NO..1=2.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
Items taken from the Watchman issue of
March 20, 1880.
—Appointments of Methodist
ministers in this district have been
announced by Conference as follows:
Milesburg and Unionville, J. A.
Woodcock; Port Matilda, J::R.
King; Howard, H. F. Cares, A.
R. Crounce; Penn's Valley, J. B.
Akers; Bellefonte, J. Donahue;
Pleasant Gap, E W. Wonner;
Half Moon, G. W. Bouse; Pine Grove
Mills, L. G. Heck; Philipsburg, A. M.
Creighton; Snow Shoe, H. S. Lundy.
—Mr. Benjamin Bradley, of this
place, met with an accident in Ar-
dell and Co’s planing mill on Monday
last by which he lost a portion of
the first two fingers of his left hand,
which in some way became entangled
in the machinery of a joiner.
—MTr. John Uzzle, of Snow Shoe,
was in town yesterday, looking a lit-
tle delicate and weak. He was the
recent victim of a “billy,” A young
man named Lucas went into his ho-
tel, a few nights ago and wanted a
half-pint of wiskey. The young man
had had enough already and the bar
, was closed so John refused his re-
quest. An altercation followed and
an ejectment was in progress when
Lucas drew a “billy” and struck Mr.
Uzzle three times on the head. The
assault would probably have killed a
less robust person.
—If Philipsburg cannot boast of
as big a spring, as high taxes, as
fine homes or as many people as
Bellefonte, it can gloat on having
more enterprise in getting good
horses than this or any other town in
this section of the State. In addition
. to the many excellent driving horses
‘that everybody out there takes pride
in they have three of the best bred
and most promising sires in Central
Pennsylvania. We refer to W. W.
Hale's young bay “Patterson” and
his black and tan “Mambrino Allen,”
both from the celebrated stock farm
of A. J. Alexander, at Woodburn,
Kentucky. And L. G. Lingle’s young
iron gray ‘“Leclare”.
i —A Unionville correspondent writes
as follows: On Wednesday evening,
March 17, 1880, a number of young
ladies of Unionville asserted their
right for the first time in four years
and tendered their gentlemen friends
a leap year party, which was held at
the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ben-
jamin Rich, It was a Kaleidoscope
in form and there were fifty couples
present to enjoy it. No doubt there
were some proposals made, but time,
alone, will reveal that.
—ZEleven persons were baptized at
Julian Furnace last Sunday, accord-
ing to the rites of the Baptist church.
Rev. Ridge was the officiating clergy-
man and Bald Eagle creek was the
scene because there was “much wa-
ter there.”
—Any person who wants a nice
carpet made to order should take
their materials to Mr. Leonard Bart-
ley, at Hublersburg. He has resum-
ed his carpet weaving and wool card-
ing business in that place.
. —Ground has been broken for a
new M. E. church on Buffalo Run on
| the property of Mrs. Sarah Steven-
| 2%, at Waddle. Mr. Stevenson is
: making preparation for the erection
,of a new barn and Isaac Gray is
getting ready to build a new barn on
he old Andy Hunter farm.
—After the first of April the town
| council will meet in the audience
room of the Logan Hose Co. house,
on Howard street.
—Mr. J, H. Van Ormer, of Mill-
heim, is to be the miller at Humes’
mill, on Logan's Branch, just south
of the Boiling Springs, after April 1.
—Last Friday S. H. McMurtrie, of
Coleville, shouldered his gun, called
his dog and started out early to hunt
foxes, which are said to be very
plentiful. On the Armor farm, just
below town. he shot a papa and a
mamma fox and then was suprised to
find seven little foxes near by, which
had to be dispatched. That made
nine for one day so he quit after hav-
ing taken a shot at another old one
that came on the scene while he was
skinning the critters.
—Discovered in time a fire in the
Reformed church, corner of Linnand
Spring streets, was put out by the
Logan Hose Co., last Sunday after-
noon, before it had done more dam-
age than burn a large hole in the
floor near the heater.
——A one hundred foot section of
the big auto speedway bowl, at Tip-
ton, was destroyed by fire, on Mon-
day, entailing a loss estimated at
$2,500. Workmen repairing the bowl
and putting it in shape for the flag
day races on June 14th, built a fire to
burn some rubbish. Flying sparks
set fire to the plank flooring while
the workmen were at dinner. Bell-
wood and Tyrone firemen responded
to a call for assistance and before the
flames could be extinguished one
hundred feet or more of the track
was destroyed.
— It is a safe bet that Governor
Fisher will support the candidate for
Governor whom Grundy and Mellon
tell him to support.
——One trouble with President
Hoover is that he ballyhoos too
much. :
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Antonia Champi, in jail at Hunting-
don charged with the murder of Elliott
Dick, has gone on a silence strike. He re-
fuses to talk to anyone.
—Frank Ambrose, 45,
caretaker at the dumping grounds of
West Hazleton, was burned to death
early Tuesday when fire destroyed the
shanty in which he made his home.
—Benjamin Franklin Wise, aged 80,
member of the lumber firm of Pellicioni
and Wise, Gallitzin, was found dead in
the firm's office shortly after noon on
Thursday of last week, by a neighbor.
Examination revealed that death probably
occurred about 10 or 11 o'clock as the re-
sult of heart disease.
—While his family and relatives were-
tearfully wating for his body to be
brought home. Harrison Callahan, of
Scranton, reported killed in a train acci-
dent, appeared at his home in perfectly
sound condition. He was in Wilkes-Barre
arranging a display at an auto show
when his wife received a telephone mes-
sage he had been fatally injured.
—The 500 occupants of the county alms-
house near Treverton were awakened
early on Monday when a car, driven at
terrific speed, got beyond control of the
driver, John Cleary, of Shamokin, and
left the State highway to crash into an
outbuilding, demolishing car and build-
ing. The driver, who had borrowed the
car, is in the State hospital with a brok-
en leg and arm and internal injuries.
—Being held for six months as a ma-
terial witness in a murder case and paid
off at the rate of $1.50 a day while im-
prisoned, is not satisfactory to Joseph
Lomski, a vagrant, of Wilkes-Barre. Lom-
ski claims that he is entitled to $5 a day
under an act passed by the 1929 Legisla-
ture, and has instructed an attorney to
carry the case to the Superior court. Four
other vagrants also held as witnesses will
take similar action.
—James E. Schrock, of Lock Haven,
now 63 years old, was placed on the re-
tired list March 1st, after 41 years of
work in the railway mail service. At the
time of his retirement, Mr. Schrock, who
is well known in Central Pennsylvania,
was a clerk of the Lock Haven and Ty-
rone railway post office, ‘where he had
been assigned for a number of years.
Previously he was on the run between
Lock Haven and Harrisburg.
—Mrs. Lillian Fields, 52 years old, of
Bradford, Pa., who had been uncon-
scious since January 25, when she was
struck by an automobile, died on Mon-
day a short time before her brother,
Frank Curtis, had been run _down by a
car. The brother was unconscious when
his sister died at the same hospital, but
is expected to get well. Mrs. Fields,
during the approximately fifty-six days
a crippled
since the accident, had not spoken a
word.
—Walking in at the front door and
emerging from the rear a 14-point buck
deer on Monday, almost frightened Mrs.
Roy Sholl out of her wits at Independ-
ence, Snyder county. Mrs. Sholl was in
her home, the doors of which were stand-
ing open because of the mild weather.
The animal stood on the carpet until it
saw the woman in the backyard when it
became : frightened and dashing over the
fence swam across the nearby Susquehan-
na river and disappeared.
— Thomas Marks, William O'Mara and
Thomas Coder, of Huntingdon, returning
last week, from a visit to a hunting
lodge on Stone Mountain, reported that
black bears, presumably awakened from
their hibernation, and hungry, had antici-
pated the visit of the camp owners by en-
tering the lodge through a low window
provender, including three hams, boxes of
crackers, jellies and preserves and a
quantity of buried apples.
of the invaders was betrayed by their
footprints.
—Joseph Evans, 42, Sealer of Weights
and Measures of Cambria county for the
last four years, committed suicide at
noon Sunday at his home in the old
Evans hotel, at St. Benedict, when he
fired the full load of a shotgun through
his head. Ill health over a period of
several months is believed to have been
the motive for the man ending his life.
The act was committed in what formerly
was the barroom of the old Evans
hotel. Norbert Reightner, who resides
in the building, heard the shot and
found Mr. Evans dead.
—Charging that State police from Quar-
ryville who raided the Black Horse hotel
near Paradise, Lancaster county, wore no
uniforms, did not display badges, failed
to read a search warrant and knocked
him down ten or twelve times with a
blackjack, Lloyd Eckman, of Paradise,
has instituted criminal proceedings against
trooper James McDonnell on charges of
aggravated assault and battery. Other as-
sault and battery charges against the
trooper were brought by Harry S. Groft,
alleged proprietor of the hotel, who
claims he was floored with a blow on the
jaw.
A diamond bracelet, valued at $3,000,
which was lost nearly 13 years ago, was
found, last Thursday, in Swift run near
Gettysburg, by workmen engaged in wid-
ening a bridge. The bracelet was owned
by Mrs. Morrison S. Rosenfleld, wife of a
Chicago physician. In the summer of
1917, Mrs. Rosenfield, with her two
daughters, was touring the east. At the
bridge over Swift run, their automobile
was struck by a truck, and Mrs. Rosen-
field and her daughters were thrown from
the car. The bracelet was torn from
Mrs. Rosenfield’s arm, and it rolled into
the water. Irvin Presel, of New Oxford,
was the workman who found the bracelet.
He said he has written Chicago in an ef-
fort to locate Mrs. Rosenfield.
—James M. Scott, a model man judged
by all the standards of righteousness
but one, was sentenced to 18 months
in the Federal penitentiary at Philadel-
phia, for embezzlement of $6700. Scott
was assistant cashier of the Farmers’
National Bank of Oxford, Chester coun-
ty. His former superiors and attorney
told Judge J. Whitaker Thompson,
Scott doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke and
contributes liberally to his church.
Their plea for clemency was strength-
ened by support of Scott's neighbors
and the restitution of the stolen funds
by his father-in-law. Judge Thompson
ruled that Scott's defalcations discovered
last April, were inexcusable and pro-
nounced sentence. Scott is 27, the fath-
er of two small children and lived on
Norwood street, above Chelten avenue.
the backyard when the deer came through
and rifling the premises of all available
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