py
INK SLINGS,
~ ——Al Capone can live in his |
Florida home. according to a court
decision, if he can get there with-
out being arrested.
~——The thunder and lightning of |
Tuesday evening resulted as those !
who believe in signs say it always
does: Colder weather.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
——Mr. Pinchot is doing well
but to a spectator on the side line
he is promising too much. There's
VOL. 75.
a limit in achievement.
—Government by commissions and
prosperity by proclamation have In support of his bills providing
turned the full dinner pail into soup for the relief of the unemployed
houses and bread lines. , (throughout the country, which have
© ——But wouldn't it be an awful been reposing in Congressional pig-
thing to deprive the country of the €0n holes for months, Senator Wag-
official services of James J. Davis ner, of New York, - told a Senate
and his exceptional qualifications, | committee that unemployment con-
| ditions are more acute now than at
— Former Senator Wadsworth, |
.. any other period within ten years,
of New York, concedes Pennsylvania |
to the Democrats this year unless [ He declared that in New York city
the Republicans adopt a wet plat- hte are red, Tues Danse oma
form. ._ laverage of 2500 men and women
—The Republican State organiza- | 5re provided with bread every day.
tion is a very potent force in {In view of -the fact that organized
Pennsylvania politics, but Brown cparity agencies are disbursing
and Davis seem to have the DOYS thousands of dollars every day - for
" behind them and the boys bring in : the relief of unemployed, this is a
the votes. | flat contradiction of the repeated
« —If Mr. Canera wants to fight statements of the President that
why doesn’t he take on someone of | prosperity prevails. ;
his size in the person of George Following the statement of Sena-
Godfrey. My, what a sight those tor Wagner, Professor Benjamin M.
two elephants would make swap- Squires, of the University of Chica-
Industrial Conditions Worst Ever
ping punches. |
| 80, protested against the frequent
—In just eighteen days we will | proclamations of prosperity as a
have our annual corroboration of deterrent rather than a promoter of
our theory that one gets a thous- : industrial improvement, and cited
and times more pleasure out of the experience - of one industrial
anticipation than he does out of plant which employs 40,000 men
realization. Trout fishing season | which had an industrial turnover of
will be open then and we'll be darn Sixty-two per cent “as an example
lucky if we get even one of the of the waste and inefficiency in the
countless dandies we've been drag- | method of handling the labor prob-
ging out, in our mind, all winter. |lem,” and added that “glossing con-
oe oo: i ditions” and “prosperity by procla-
"My garden” is under way. We, mation” are not conducive to the
di
went to all the frouble of nding. 8 desired results. They are simply
man to dig a patch, the lady of the
house bought the sets, the man
stuck them and if they keep them
watered and cultivated properly it
won’t be many moons until we'll be
doing just what nine out of ten
other men do: bragging about hav-
ing had a mess of new onions out
of “My garden.”
—Delaware county has been
rected to build a jail twice as
as the present retreat for the re-
calcitrants in that community, We
are not going to say anything about
the predictions that we heard about
twelve years ago to the effect that
all the prisons would be torn down
by this time. All we want to say
is to reiterate our belief that the
world is getting better, except in
such benighted places as Delaware
county... war ANG :
—Harry A. Rossman, Register of
Wills for Centre county, has picked
up the torch so tragically thrown
down by the late Phil. Foster last
Friday. Mr. Rossman says that he
“yields to the appeal of a rep-
resentative group of Republicans”
and intends to make a fight for the
chairmanship of his party in the
county. The “representative group”
referred to were the Dorworth
crowd, of course, but just who were
among them? Oh, that is what the
Flemings would like to know.
—It’s just too bad, but it can’t
be helped, the way the Secretary of
Forests and Waters exploited the
Undine Fire Co., of Bellefonte, on
the occasion of its St. Patrick’s day
dinner. Being an old friend of the
Company we rise to refute the gos-
sip on ail sides to the effect that it
has entered local politics. The Un-
dines are not that kind. All thatis
the matter with them is that they
are so concentrated on the idea of
being useful to Bellefonte as a
whole that they can’t conceive of
their devotion to a cause being
turned to the aggrandizement of an
individual.
—The Schroeder woman who
murdered highway patrolman Brady
Paul was convicted of murder out
at New Castle. Murder in the first
di-
hig
4 sh
a ca
degree, without mercy, was the
verdict. If it is carried out she
will be the first woman to be
electrocuted at Rockview. It isn’t
a pleasant thing to contemplate,
but it is the law. We are wonder-
ing how many of the people who
are so rampant about enforcing the
law to the letter in the matter of
Prohibition will be just as rampant
in demanding its enforcement in
this case of cold blooded, deliberate
murder. We have a “hunch” that
Irene won't go to the chair,
—We offer the columns of the
Watchman to the members of the
Water committee of the Bellefonte
council if they wish to explain why
they have not gone ahead with the
equipment of the Gamble mill prop-
erty. Bellefonte is paying interest on
that investment and approximately
five hundred dollars a month in wa-
ter pumping bills while the power
that was bought to save the latter
is running to waste. Council author-
zed the purchase of a wheel and
oump three months ago. At itslast
neeting the matter was inquired in-
:0, but nothing has been done since.
if there is “a nigger in the wood-
rile” we intend to dig him out. That's
he reason we offer the Water com-
nittee the use of the columns of the
Watchman to explain why we should
ot have a suspicion that there isn't
‘something rotten in Denmark” and
ro digging for the concealed African,
| Democratic policies are rx
| demned”as the influencing
expedients to deceive the people to
a futile hope for political purposes,
a smoke screen to conecal the
facts.
Meantime what about the “con-
spiracy of silence” on the bread
lines? Starving men and women in
Pittsburgh and bread lines and soup |
houses in Chicago and New York
seem to be concealed from public
view by the press associations and
only come under popular notice |
when a stray copy of the Congres-
sional record containing a speech
of some Senator or Congressman
reveals it. During Democratic ad-
ministrations in Washington the
slighest sign of industrial distress is
“first page stuff” in all the leading
newspapers of the country and
cause of
disaster. We are under a Republi-
can administration now and the
conditions are worse than ever be-
fore.
——President Hoover's “expert
witnessess” are still assuring the
public that the industrial life of the
country is in fine form. But “ex-
pert witnesses” are in bad repute in
these practical times, i
. Hoover - Improperly Classified.
‘Late information from London. in-
dicates complete failure of the na-
val conference. Washington; accord-
ing to press dispatches, “has given
up whatever hope may have been
held for a five-power treaty dealing
with all categories of vessels.” There
is still a possibility of an agree-
ment on parity between the United
States annd Great Britain and upon
a ratio for Japan somewhat in-
creased over that fixed by the con-
ference of 11922. But there will be
no decrease in naval equipment any-
where. The parity will probably be
obtained by additional - construction
in this country.
‘Last fall while Prime Minister
MacDonald was a guest of the gov-
ernment at Washington President
Hoover had himself pictured in the
newspapers as the "apostle of peace
and the supreme ' architect of in-
ternational tranquility. Olive
branches were sprouting from all
parts of his person and a confiding
public was assured that the demon
War was done for forever. After
the disastrous smash in Wall street,
last fall, Mr. Hoover again assumed
the role of ‘father bountiful” and
announced that he had laid lines
which would restore prosperity and
make industrial roses bloom on
thistle plants.
But neither of these alluring
promises has been fulfilled. The
naval conference speedily degenerat-
ed into a convention of suspicious
self-seekers, each striving to get
an advantage over the others and
agreeing finally to disagree. The
original fiction concerning the res-
toration of prosperity has been
supplemented frequently by equally
false statements of economic im-
provement while soup kitchens are
multiplying and bread lines increas-
ing in length. The logical inference
is that Herbert Hoover is not prop-
erly placed. He is a ballyhooer,
not a statesman.
——Admiral Byrd will soon be
home and maybe he will then tell
the world what it’s all about.
——Then the idea of sending
dly cons:
Grundy back to the lobby is intol-
erable.
Pilots Protest Change in for Boys When
Route. Kites.
Eleven Pittsburgh airplane pilots With the arrival of the kite flying
have filed a vigorous protest with Season, any windy day will find scores
Clarence Young, assistant secretary of kites of all colors and description
of commerce for aeronautics in Soaring, weaving, and dipping over
Pennsylvania, against mapping outa almost every town. Kite flying is
new airway across Pennsylvania. a healthful and interesting recreation
the new route, as planned, would for boys, but unless certain precau-
start at Philadelphia and go by way tions are taken there is likely to be
of Harrisburg, Andersonburg, New- injury more or less serious to the
ton Hamilton, Williamsburg, Altoona, boy flying the kite, or damage to
Ebensburg, Black Lick and thence to Property that causes considerable
Pittsburgh. The fliers admit that a expense and trouble,
feasible route might be found by fol- = Within the last week an example
lowing closely the line of the Lincoln Was brought before the public when
highway, but claim that no other a kite became entangled in a tele-
route that might be selected is pref- phone wire resulting in a breakdown
erable to the present one by way of of phone service to a large number
Bellefonte. of people for several hours. A sim-
Naturally, with . the rapid strides ilar interruption to service - came
aviation is making as a means of through the breakdown of electric
travel and carrying airmail and ex- light wires by kite or kite strings.
press, every town in the State of = If a kite becomes entangleu -in
any size and importance is awaken- electric light wires, boys should not
ing to the possible future advantages attempt to climb the poles or to
of being on an airplane line of some knock down the kite with stones.
kind; and their various Chambers of By climbing a pole the boy is expos-
Commerce, Kiwanis and Rotary ed to live wires which cause serious
clubs, and business men’s associa- burns or death, and he also runs the
tions can hardly be blamed for ad- .risk of injury through a fall. Stones
vertising the advantages and pros- thrown at a kite may break the wire
pective possibilities of their respec- and damage property when falling.
tive towns. In the event of a tangled kite, the
~ But so far thére has been no in- local West Penn office should be noti-
timation from the U. S. Department fied so that proper steps can be
of Commerce, the National Air taken to remove ‘it. In no case
Transport or any flying organizations should wire or metal ‘string be used
using the present New York to Chi- on a kite or on a kite tail. Wire is
cago route that a change is even a’ conductor of electricity and can
contemplated. In fact all the mail cause as much damage as actual con-
fliers are now so well acquainted tact with a live wire. Wet string is
with the present route that it would also a conductor of electricity.
really be hazardous to attempt to Often a boy intent on getting a
switch them onto a new route. kite to a high altitude will run
. agross a public highway with great
danger of being struck by a passing
automobile.
‘The best place to fly a kite is in
rk 2D open or unobstructed field or lot
in away . from all highways, electric
wires, and high voltage transmission
towers,
‘Kites should not be flown so that
they come in contact with radio
aerials. Serious and fatal injuries
have occurred when boys construct
radio aerials and attempt to draw
Ste —————————————
R. R. Work Train Will be Here
Permanently
P.
The Pennsylvania railroad = wo
train, which formerly was located
Tyrone but which has beenin Belle-
fonte the past month putting down
additional tracks in- the yards north
of town, has been shifted to Belle-:
fonte permanently. The main equip-
page of the train is just now at’
low water mark, consisting of the
train. crew of four .menfand - six
RE or Bedi construction of aerials. .In no case
forth on the trains, but it is quite Should they cross telephone or light
possible that some of the men, at Wires. :
least, will eventually come to Belle-
fonte to - live. rat + ——By the beginning of April the
General - superintendent ~H. M. State Game Commission expects to
Carson, and division superintendent receive the first shipments of a 15000
H. H. Russell, of Williamsport, were quail consignment that will be sent
both in Bellefonte, on Thursday of here from Texas for liberation in
last week, ‘and ‘spent the day look- various favorable sections of the
ing over the company’s - facilities State.
for handling the - ‘business consigned - i
to it here. -Bellefonte' is easily the ‘Proposed Mausoleum is a ‘Stately
most important shipping point on Edifice
the Bald Eagle Valley road, and! :
On page 3 of this edition of the
while there has been no definite as- |
surance as to the extent of improve- Watchman is a prospectus of a mau-
ments that will be made here both soleum that will probably be built in
Mr. Carson and Mr. Russell are the Union cemetery in this place. A
evincing more than the ordinary in- glimpse at it will reveal it to be a
terest in the company’s welfare here. very stately and appropriate struc-
ture. .
According to plans already com-.
pleted it will stand on the lot front.
ing on east High street now occu-
pied as a residence property by
Charles Lose and immediately ad-
joining the cemetery property at
that point. The lot has been pur-
chased by the projectors in conse-
‘quence of an agreement with the
trustees of the cemetery association
and the location will give the mauso-
leum a site fitting its dignified de-
sign. ;
In it are to be one hundred and
forty crypts, or burial vaults, sin-
gle, in pairs and family groups.
There is also to be a chapel and a
receiving vault, where bodies may be
laid temporarily while awaiting final
burial.
The project has many desirable
features. It will be an imposing mon-
ument in the cemetury. It will solve
the problem of many who have put
off too long the matter of securing a
desirable burial plot. The Union
cemetery is nearly @ll pre.empted
and the only extension possible for it
is by crossing Wilson street to
ground east of that thoroughfare or
buying all the properties on east
High street that break its northern
line.
Of course the mausoleum will be
built only if enough crypts can be
sold to justify the undertaking. Its
desirability should appeal to all who
have not already made provision for
the inevitable. As we understand it
the price of crypts, singly or in pairs
are to be offered at a price that will
be lower than many would expend
on what they would regard as a suit-
able marker. In addition to thisad-
vantage there is the other that per-
petual care would be assured.
It is a matter wotrhy the serious
consideration of those concerned
about where their last resting place
will be and in‘ what condition it
might be a few years after they
‘| have gone to ft. aol :
ret ee ———
A Distinguished Knight to Visit
Bellefonte
— srg d
“Bellefonte Council, No. 1314,
Knights of Columbus, will be honor-
ed Sunday by a fraternal visit
from the Hon. James A, Flaherty,
of Philadelphia. Mr. Flaherty is
probably the most eminent Knight in
America. He isa Past Supreme
Knight of the Order and present
Supreme Councillor. :
By way of a proper reception for
the distinguished visitor the local
Council has planned for an open
meeting to be held in the State
theatre Sunday afternoon at 2:30, to
which the public, generally, is invit-
ed. The program will include some
musical numbers and ah address by
the guest of honor. There will be
no admission fee and no collection
lifted.
——Owing to the fact that the
star witness is suffering with an at-
tack of the measles the alleged rob-
bery case against Sydney Crawford
and Dalbert Heaton did not come up
for a hearing before S. Kline Wood-
ring, on Wednesday afternoon. The
young men are charged with steal-
ing the cash register from W, E.
Wion’s garage. The hearing was
continued until the chief witness gets
out of quarantine, which will proba-
bly be three weeks.
——If Grundy and Lewis and
Brown and Davis will withdraw
from the contest for Governor and
Senator and Judge Von Moschzisker
and Governor Fisher are nominated
the harmony negotiations will take
another slant.
——Anyway the Pennsylvania
Republican machine is in the worst
panic it has experienced since 1910.
'—Get your job work dome here.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. MARCH 2S. 1930.
Flying FIFTY YEARS AGO
NO. 13.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Pregbyterian churches in the State
have instituted a nation-wide search
for the Rev. Raymond E. Muthard,
Erie pastor, missing since December 26.
—Miss Mary Walter, 91, who for the
past 25 years worshipped alone in the
Friends meeting house in Catawissa,
died in a hospital at Bloomsburg, on
Monday night. She was ill for several
weeks. "
—A covered bridge, a landmark on the
Altoona-Hopewell State route, erected in
1781, will be razed within the next week.
The State will construct a new concrete
bridge. The bridge, the last of its kind
on any much-used highway in that dis-
trict, is located at Yellow Creek.
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
Items taken from the Watchman issue of
March 26, 1880.
—A most remarkable circum-
stance happened near Jacksonville,
Marion township, on Saturday the |
14 inst. A cow owned by John Hoy |!
Jr., on that day dropped a calf with
two perfectly developed heads, four
eyes and three ears. Unfortunately
the calf was born dead else Mr.
Hoy might have raised a freak that
would have made his fortune in the
sideshow of a circus.
—Michael Decker Sr., of Georges
Valley, Gregg township, died on the
5th inst., of consumption, aged over
—Some person has stolen the revenue
stamps from a number of documents in
Clinton county offices, presumably to add
to his collection. A check-up of the pa-
pers shows that the thefts have been go-
ing on for several weeks. It is said tha‘
with the stamps removed the legality of
the papers could be questioned
—Samuel A. Reitz, 53, veteran mail car-
rier of Northumberland county, died of a
heart attack at Augustaville, near Sun-
bury, on Monday. He was making his
daily trip through a rural section when
the attack came. He drew to the side
of the road, summoned a farmer and was
carried into a nearby home where he suc-
cumbed within a few minutes.
—Evan Pugh, a Scranton fireman,
known in court circles as ‘the talking
juror,” was fined $50 by United States
86 years. Judge Johnson. on Monday for discussing
—The community learned with a case to other firemen while he was serv-
deep regret onlast Monday that Mr, |ing as a juror in the case of three auto
Joseph Schnell had expired that thieves. Pugh is said to have told fellow
afternoon at his residence on east firemen the government could never con-
Bishop street, after a short illness |vict the defendants and also to have scor-
with pneumonia. Mr. Schnell was a | od State troopers’ third degree methods.
Frenchman, having been born in —Lawrence H. Rupp, attorney, of Al-
Strasbourg in 1812 and was in his
68th year. In 1833 he married Miss|
Catharine, daughter of Thaddeus |
Brew, in the Catholic church of this
place, from which union sprang . a
large family of children.
—Thomas Flack, of the West ward, |
Bellefonte died on Tuesday last, of
lung fever, in the 67th year of his
age. He was a foreman in the em- :
ploy of the Valentines and had re- |
sided here since 1862. He married
a lady, by name Logan, who sur-'
vives him with eleven children, an-
other having preceded him to the
i
lentown, has formally withdrawn his
name as candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania.
In announcing his decision Rupp pointed
out that his candidacy for the grand ex-
| alted rulership of the Elks has gone to
such a point ‘that he cannot break faith
with the Elks.” John M. Hemphill, of
West Chester, has been named as a
likely candidate.
—A Chippendale solid mahogany card
table, inlaid, was sold to Dr. F. G. Hart-
man for'a record price of $285 at the auc
tion of antiques and other effects of Dr.
tbe aerial ‘scross electric wires. Ex- .
‘treme care should be exercised in the.
grave.
— Trains on the Bald Eagle val-
ley leave Bellefonte for Tyrone at
. 6:40 in’ the morning and 5:05 in
the afternoon. For Lock Haven, they
leave here at 10:03 in the morning
and 8:32 in the evening.
—Theodore Deschner is advertis-
ing a fine line of fishing tackle,
which may be seen at his emporium
on High street.
—Mr. Sands will resume the
bakery and confectionery business on
Monday next, at his old stand on
Allegheny street, lately occupied by
Mr. Ceader.
—On the 1st of April the popular
hotel, the Brockerhoff house, will
be under the sole control of one of
ler, who
hereafter.
—John D. Foote, of Millheim,
who hurt one of his legs a: year
or so ago, had the injured limb am-
putated last Tuesday by Dr. Mus-
ser, assisted by Dr. Mingle, and a
physician from Union county whose
name we have not learned. A can-
cerous condition had developed and
to save Mr. Foote’s life the leg
had to be taken off.
—Rev. A. D. Yocum, who was
scheduled to deliver his farewell
sermon to his Methodist congrega-
tion here, last Sunday night, was
forced to forego it because of a bad
cold and left for his new charge in
Carlisle, followed by the regrets and
‘is going to go it. alone,
kind wishes of this entire com-
munity.
.—Mr. “Cam” Burnside came in
not long ago to learn what his
title is to be under the Cameron
empire that we say is being built
up in the State. Being a grand son
of Lord Simon Cameron, Earl of
Susquehannah, and a nephew of His
Grace, James Donald Cameron,
Duke of Pennsylvania, we propose
to give our good looking friend the
benefit of the historic stream that
winds its silvery course past the
palatial residence (now the sum-
mer home of the Garmans at Axe
Mann—Ed.) of his most noble aunt,
and confer upon him the title:
Baron Cameron of Burnside and
Count of Logan's Branch.
The venerable John Letterman, of
Pleasant - Gap, started for Cass
county on Monday afternoon. He is
84 years old and very courageous
to make such a trip, but his daugh. |
ter who lives there wanted her
father with her and he went, his
son-in-law having come in to take
him out.
! —We are sorry to report that Mr.
James Mitchell, of Spring street, is
still very ill with rheumatism.
—Bellefonte’s curb market will
reopen tomorrow,
—Rev. J. Donahoe, the new
minister assigned to the Methodist
church, will preach his first sermon
here on Sunday.
! —Master John Fryberger, of
, Philipsburg, came to town on Wed-
‘nesday evening on a visit to his
grandma, Mrs. John Brachbill. His
little playmates are now much
pleased at his coming, as he has
been greatly missed by them.—What
memories this item awaken. We
were one of the playmates. And
what the friendship of the boys of
that day ripened into only God and
John and we know. At fifty he was
‘as sterling and unflinching as
he was at eight.
——Unit buildings are gradually
displacing the “little red school
house”. of other years in the rural
districts of Pennsylvania. - In 1920
there were 158 one-room buildings in
Centre’ county.” There are now only
1108. sluolslial “
the present proprietors, W. R. Tel-
i Martin M. Musser, retired dentist, on the
| Musser farm, near Lancaster on Saturday.
' A “Pennsylvania Dutch’’ desk, a posses-.
sion of Dr. Musser’s grandfather, was
sold to Mrs. Elmer E. Shelman for $152
and a swell-front chest of drawers, with
the original handles, brought $192.
—Miss Esther Bland, 41, of Harrisburg,
i was found dead in her home on Monday,
! the victim of an attack by rats. Medical
authorities who investigated the death said
| they could find nothing organically wrong
and that the woman had apparently bat-
tled off the invading rodents until she was
overcome. The tragedy was discovered
when neighbors saw newspapers of Fri-
day and Saturday at the door of the house
i where the woman lived alone. Investigat-
ing they found her body badly mutilated
on the floor.
i —Mrs. Frances Krenz, widow of B. A.
Krenz who met death near Titusville.
November 3, 1925, has annoounced in ad- _.
vertisements a reward of $3,000 for ap-
prehension of those guilty of the
murder of her husband. Krenz was
found dead along a highway and it was
at first believed he had been fatally
hurt when an automobile passed over
him. Persons with him were not pros-
ecuted when it was testified by doctors
that Krenz died of a heart attack be-
fore he was run over by the car. :
—The bravery of Pennsylvania troops in
action during the World war was official-
ly recognized by the Government last
week when the War Department announc-
ed the award of citations for gallantry
in action to five members of the Twenty-
eighth division, composed of National
Guard troops from Pennsylvania The
names of the five cited are William M.
Zimmer and Francis P. McCormick, Phil-
adelphia; Carlton E. Kisner, Danville;
John M. Stitzinger, Vandergrift; John
Lotto, Blair Station. The award in the
case of Lotto is posthumous. He was
killed in action shortly after the deed of
gallantry for which he was cited.
—The State fish fund, used for stock-
ing streams and propagating fish, is to be
enriched by $4000 a year as a result of
the $30,000,000 hydro-electric plant which
is to be built on the Susquehanna river
at’ Safe Harbor, Nathan R. Buller, com-
missioner of fisheries, announced today
after a contract calling for the payment
of that sum per year by the Safe Harbor
| Water Power Corporation had been sign-
ed. The agreement was reached under
| the act of assembly compelling either con-
struction of fishways or payment of rep-
arations to the State for damage to fish-
ing caused by erection of dams. The
amount is the maximum provided by law.
—The churches at Mount Carmel are
, sponsoring a movement designed to ob-
tain the lighting of the viaduct which is
being built on United States highway
route 120 from that city to Exchange, ov-
er the Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley
Railroad lines, at the southwestern end
i of the town. Churches of all denomina-
tions have parishioners residing in Ex-
change and pastors point out that it
would not be safe to traverse the haif-
mile-long bridge after services unless it
were lighted. The police also point out
that thousands of miners will use the
| bridge to get from Mount Carmel to
| their place of work and in view of the
, many robberies of miners with pay en-
, velopes in that section recently they, too.
urge that the structure be illuminated.
—An errand to the Eastern National
bank, in York, Pa., resulted disastrously
for Raymond Good, 12 year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Good, who
own a grocery store in the East End,
that city. On his way home a roll of
$138 worked its way out of the lad’s
| pocket and only $11 of it has been re-
| covered. The boy was sent by his
mother to the bank to get some checks
cashed. He put the paper bills in his
trousers. He explained his loss by say-
ing that the money fell info a sewer
catch basin. The parents notified the
city highway department and several
laborers fished a five and a, one-dollar
bill’ out of the sewer. Another $5 bill
was found on the street. What happened
to the remainder of the money, totalling
$127, remains a mystery.