Dome rE INK SLINGS ~~ —What has become of the old 2ashioned people who used to call peonies “pineys?” __Milesburg borough seems to have gotten away from ‘everybody but Miss Bessie Miles. ~ Of course some were mis- taken in their calculation and oth- ers were simply bluffing. The experience England had with a tea tax in this country ought to admonish Ramsay Mac- Donald against a salt tax in India. __We congratulate former Judge Dale on his great political victory. As state Chairman for Mr. Pinchot he landed his candidate a winner against all the odds of the machine methods that were gainst him. Lady-luck certainly does ride wath the former Judge. —_As the grand exalted ruler of the Republican party in the West ward of Bellefonte Overseer Tom | Fleming isn't going to point with : pride at what he did for Senator Scott or Wilson I. Fleming or Miss Miles. At least he isn’t going to do it when anybody familiar with the vote over there is looking at him. What Pinchot did to Francis Shunk in State College borough was something awful. Eight years ago, when the Sage of Milford sped west on College Ave. scarcely deigning to doff his lid to the crowd gathered there to give him hearing, one would never have thought that in so short a time that borough would do such grand and | lofty tumbling to get onto his band wagon. — Bond White sells oil. Frank Mayes sells tombstones, Bond was Pinchot’s manager in Centre county. Frank looked after Brown's in- terests. Everybody needs oil Everybody puts off tombstones for George to get. And when it comes to tombstones George never shows up until after the fight is over. Maybe that is the reason Bond grabbed off 5538 votes for Pinchot in Centre county and Frank ran around and gathered up 1565 to put on Brown’s political tombstone. Now its all over. There isn’t a Republican living in Pennnsylvania who got just exactly what he want- ed and voted for. ‘We invite every one who didn’t to consider the nominees on the Democratic ticket. A better, cleaner set of men and women have never. been advocated for office. Because they are Demo- crats some Republicans might say they would wreck the country. If they could make things worse than they are, they're dandies and ought to be elected on that score alone, — Incidentally, the editor of the Bellefonte Republican might now de- vote an hour or so to preparing a two-column editorial reading former Judge Arthur C. Dale back into the party. It wasn’t so long ago that he devoted that much space to reading the former Judge out. And, incidentally again, if Pinchot is elected former Judge Dale will be sitting so pretty that we hate to think of the spectacle a lot of Re- publicans who have been minimiz. ing his consequence will make of themselves in trying to get under cover. —Senator Scott lost Bellefonte borough for renomination for Sena- tor by 20 votes and he lost it for state committeeman by 185. In fact every Scott-Fleming candidate for county office lost every ward in Bellefonte. We refer to this not only to cast a grain of comfort into the sanctum of the Republican office but as a suggestion to Sena- tor Scott that he isn't getting value received from his Bellefonte lieuten- ants. When they get to telling him how “we trimmed Dorworth” he might ask them to explain just how they did it? —There’s so much fun in politics when when one has a sense of humor. On Wednesday a gentleman only recently converted to the idea that Senator Scott is really a human being and not anything near as black as this same gentleman painted him to be in a speech he made at Pleasant Gap some years ago, told us what wonderful work he had done for the Senator in a precinct twelve miles from the one he votes in. The gentleman has a lot of in- fluence in his home precinct. It went against the Senator by eleven votes. The one he went to work in was all set for Scott before our friend became converted to him. —The Returns seem to indicate that if both wings of the Republi- can party in Centre county were flapping together for Brown they didn’t flap very hard, Since Francis Shunk got few more votes than a fourth as many as Pinchot we are inclined to believe that the Scott and Dorworth crowds let everything else slide but their candidates for state . committeeman and county chairman. In that contest the Sec- retary of Forests and Waters didn’t. do so bad, although it was bad enough to give his struggle for leadership of the Republican party in Centre county quite a set back. We still believe that had Phil. D. Foster lived the result, so far as county chairman was concerned, probably would have been different, VOL. 75. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. 23. 1930. BELLEFONTE. PA.. MAY PINCHOT IS LEADING | FOR GOVERNOR BY 11,919. , At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon with only 93 precincts in the State to hear from Pinchot had a lead of 11,919 over Brown. The missing precincts are in Allegheny, Erie and Chester counties. When election day comes around in November Centre county Demo- crats can meet the enemy with a solid front, while the Republican ranks will be rent with factional strife the result of Tuesday's prima- ries. With no contests to induce Demo- crats to go to the primaries the vote cast in the county, on Tuesday, are evidence that the rank and file of the party are still very much alive and will nobly respond when the op- portunity comes for victory. This was indicated by the total vote cast, on Tuesday, for the following of- fices: For Governor: John M. Hemphill..iiiienicnns 1156 For Congress: Maxwell J. MOOT. .oeeecnnsoracasnnnnasanans 1173 For Legislature: John G. Miller. eeeeecieaniinsnnanenananees 1210 For State Committeeman: Dr. F. K. White ricnenicannean 1135 In the Republican party however, wide-open strife may be expected from the highest office in the State to the lowest in the county. In Centre county the main efforts of both factions were concentrated on the control of the party organi- zation. The Scott- Fleming faction retained their hold by re-electing county chairman W. I Fleming and vice chairman Besse A. Miles by substantial majorities over the Fish-- er administration candidates. i On the State ticket Pinchot had a big walkover with practically four ' thousand majority, while Grundy | made a remarkable run for United | States Senator. These were the two most vital contests. i While there are no figures avail- able for the total vote cast for the | leading candidates on the State | ticket Davis will have at least 225 000 majority, over Grundy. ; The Brown headquarters have not yet given up hope and may await the official count before conceding Pinchot’s nomination. In fact it; would not be a surprise if a number of contests developed over the re- | turns from some counties. : As the situation stands as the Watchman went to press the two | complete tickets that will be pre- ented to the voters at the Novem- | ber election will be as follows. | | DEMOCRATIC. . | U. S. Senator—Sedgwick Kistler, | Lock Haven. Governor—John ‘M, Hemphill, West Chester. Lieutenant Governor—Guy Bord, Lancaster county. Secretary of Internal Affairs— Lucy D. Winston, Mechancsburg. Judge of Supreme Court—Henry C. Niles, York. Judges of Superior Court—Aaron E. Reiber, Butler; George F. Doug- las, Philadelphia. Representative in Congress—Max- well J. Moore, Bradford. State Senator—Don Gingery, Clear- field. : i Legislature—John G. Miller. REPUBLICAN. Governor—@Gifford Pinchot, ford U. §S. Senator—James J. Davis, Pittsburgh. Lieutenant Governor—Edward C. Shannon, Columbia. Secretary of Internal Affairs— Philip H. Dewey, Gaines, Pa. , Judge of Supreme Court—George W. Maxey, Scranton. Judges of Superior Court—William B. Linn, Philadelphia, and J. Frank Graff, Kittaning. Representative in Congress—J. Mitchell Chase, Clearfield. State Senator—Harry B. Philipsburg. Legislature— John L. State College. | The table showing the vote by! precincts in the county will be | found on page 4. ————— ——————— — Although he was the only man on the ticket without opposition 717 Republicans who were at the primaries on Tuesday failed to mark their ballots for the Hon. Holmes for Member of the General As- sembly. Probably they figured that | he didn’t need their votes and, then, again, they might be the 717 who will vote for John G. Miller at the coming election. K. Mil- Scott, Holmes, — Census supervisor W. H. Freemyer announces the population of Union township, Centre county, as 577, a gain of 41 over 1920, when = the = population was 536. There are 83 farms in the township. LIME DUST NUISANCE PROTESTED BY WOMEN. A delegation of women from east Curtin street appeared before bor- ough council, on Monday evening, and entered a vigorous protest against the lime dust from the big hydrating plant of the American Lime and Stone company, which they characterized as an abominable nuisance, not only because of the dirt but because of its destructive qualites. They asked council to intercede in securing some relief. The matter was referred to the Sanitary committee. It is under- stood that the company has been making efforts to abate the nui- sance but so far has not been very successful. A written communication was re- ceived from the Mother's club ask- ing council to reconsider its action in refusing to permit the closing of a portion of Lamb street for High school purposes. No action was taken. The Street committee reported the laying of sixty feet of four inch sewer pipe on Cherry alley, and the completion of the grading of east Curtin and north Wilson streets. Also receipt of $30 from Homer P. Barnes for sewer permit and $100 from H. G. Witter as a contribution toward the Curtin street sewers, The chairman of committee also reported the purchase of a new truck from the Beatty Motor com- pany for $846.50, less a refund of $22.50. On motion of Mr. Emerick coun- cil approved the profile map of the sewer. lines of the borough as pre- pared by borough engineer H. B. Shattuck and authorized the for- warding of a map to the State Sanitary Water Board. The Street committee was au- thorized to oil and top-dress east Curtin and north Wilson streets. The Water committee reported making three new taps and repair- ing a fire hydrant at Linn and Lamb streets. Also the collection of $700 on water taxes. The Finance committee reported ‘a balance of $1835.93 in the borough ' fund and $4226.93 fund. Request in the water JUVENILE COURT LAD STEALS, THEN RUNS AWAY. Edward Sweitzer, 13 years old, who for the past month has been in the care of Mrs. Mary Kane, at Roopsburg, as a charge of the juve- nile court, cut quite a caper, Satur- day evening, by stealing Mrs. Kane's pocketbook then running away. He was caught in Tyrone, on Sundav morning, but had spent about forty llars of the money taken. ‘about a month ago, took Elliott Lane's car and drove it around town until it was wrecked and abandoned. | Hfe was then placed in the custody {of Mrs, Kane until court action could be taken. On Saturday evening he ‘hunted the key to a drawer in the side | board at the home of Mrs. Kane, | where he knew she kept her pocket- ‘book. He unlocked the drawer, took ‘the pocketbook, relocked the drawer and going out threw the key away. He then watched his opportunity land left the Kane home. | Mrs. Kane had in money and in her pocketbook, either | $77.15 or $87.15, she is not certain 'as to the amount, and coming into | Bellefonte Sweitzer bought a wrist | watch at the Potter-Hoy store, went to a shoe store and bought a pair | of shoes, and purchased clothing at | Montgomery and Co’s. and the B. iand B. store. Realizing that the | police would likely be on a hunt for {him he got something to eat at a restaurant then went around onto | Howard street and spent the night {in one of the old cars parked in ‘the rear of the Rossman garage. He | also changed his clothing in the car, {leaving his old clothes behind so | that when he appeared on the street, | Sunday morning, he was not | ognized. ' checks, | Bought a ticket for Tyrone and left {on the train for that place. He was : recognized by John Scholl who noti- | fied chief of police Dukeman. The | latter called railroad officer Barr, in | Tyrone, and when the train reached | there Sweitzer was taken into cus- (tody. Mrs. Kane went to Tyrone and brought the lad back to her { home. She recovered her pocket- was mage for the Jgook with the checks intact, but renewal of notes ad BT vi LE about forty dollars of the the same was authorized. Mr. Emerick inquired of the Fire and Police committee whether any action had been taken in connection with the dogs running at large, stating that he, personally, felt that the nuisance should be abated at once. He advocated creating a pound and employing a dog catcher. J. D. Seibert suggested that the Gamble mill be used temporarily and the dogs be allowed to catch the rats which infest that building. The matter was referred to the Fire and Police committee for im- mediate action. Secretary Kelly was authorized to prepare and have posted the re- quired number of notices in connec- tion with a public hearing on the opening of Blanchard street, which will be held at the next meeting of borough council. On recommendation of the chair- man of the Town Improvement com- mittee permits to erect new houses were granted to Harry C. Taylor and Horace Hartranft, for east Linn street, and Mrs. Ed. Spich- er and Herman Spicher for Logan street. Counicl authorized the fire mar- shal, a representative of each fire company and members of the Fire committees and Police and Special of council to visit Milton and in- spect the new fire alarm system installed there. Bills in excess of $2300 were ap- proved for payment after council adjourned. CLEARFIELD COUNTY GIRL KILLED BY AUTO. On her way home from school, last Friday afternoon, Geraldine Mec- Cully, eleven year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCully, of Maytown, near Morrisdale, was run down and fatally injured by a car driven by George L. Gearhart, of Centre Hall. According to reports the accident happened near Morris. dale and was unavoidable, as the girl, who was with a group of school children, ran out into the road right in front of the machine and the driver had no chance to stop or evade hitting her. She was the eldest of the McCul- ley family and in addition to her parents is survived by five sisters, ranging in age from eight years to two. Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon, burial being made in the Philipsburg cemetery. — Soybeans make the best emergency hay for the dairy herd and they should be planted this month. which | amount of money taken, all the rest ‘had been spent by the boy. : WOMEN GOLFERS IN INTER-CLUB MATCHES. . The Central Pennsylvania Wo- ‘men’s Golf association has complet- ‘ed arrangements for the inter-club ' matches for the 1930 schedule. The - association comprises Country club, Hollidaysburg, | Ralph Bell, chairman; Huntingdon { Country club at Huntingdon, Mrs, C. iB. Miller, chairman; Nittany Coun- H. Allison, chairman, and the Philipsburg Country club at Philips- | burg, Mrs. Charles Lesher, chair- i man. ; Mrs. Robert B. Gable, general chairman of the association, an- nounces the schedule of matches as follows: Tuesday, June 3, Nittany at Philipsburg and Huntingdon at Blair- mont. Tuesday, July 1, Blairmont at | Blairmont and Nittany at Hunting- | don. i Tuesday, July 1, Blairmont at Nittany and Philipsburg at Hunt- ingdon. Tuesday, July 15, Huntingdon at Nittany and Blairmont at Philips- burg. Tuesday, July 29, Blairmont at Huntingdon and Philipsburg at Nit- tany. Tuesday, August 5, Nittany at Blairmont and Huntingdon at Philipsburg. | The Blairmont team has won the trophy the past two years. The annual meeting of the asso- ciation will be held at Philipsburg August 15. HOWARD BOROUGH GAINS THE TOWNSHIP LOSES. The complete census report for the borough of Howard, county, 1930, there were 662 residents there. That makes a gain of one over the population as recorded ten years ago when there were 661 souls. in Howard. Out in ‘the townshio of Howard the enumerators were able to list only 609 persons whereas in 1920 there were 619 residents there. Now that the primaries are over and we know definitely who the candidates will be the public in general can forego political discus- sions for a month or two and de- vote their energies to making a liv- ing. rec- try club, Bellefonte, Miss Catherine { 4 | “Going to the railroad station he tion! : companied them, Blairmont | the band. He carries the E-flat Mrs. | torchlight. NO. 21, FIFTY YEARS AGO IN CENTRE COUNTY. Items from the Watchman issue of May 28, 1880. Died—On the 19th day of May, 1880, at Hublersburg, this county, George Peter Markle, at the age of 79 years, three months and fourteen days. | Died—On the 7th of May, 1880, | Mrs. Hannah McKinney, wife of | David McKinney, of Stormstown, | { ve Pa; H © Sweitzer was one of the boys who, | a.'at the age of 65 years —John Love Esq. will be the; Decoration day orator at Milesburg | and Maj. Foster will be the orator at Rebersburg, — Miss Maggie E. Myer, a pleasant | young lady from Coogan Station, | Lycoming county, is visiting Mrs. ' W. I. Fleming in this place. —Charley McCafferty says that | as he has only a few hundred thous- | and dollars in the stock of the | Reading R.R.Co., it’s bust up won't | effect him much. —John B. Linn, D. F. Fortney, ! Jack Spangler and W. C. Heinle | will all speak at the Decoration : day services at Pine Grove Mills. —Father O'Brien, late pastor of | the Catholic church here, left Belle- | fonte for another charge several | weeks ago. The change was made | with the hope of benefitting the | good Father's health, which had not | been good of late, He was a very pleasant gentleman and his depar- ture is generally regretted. — While repairing his house at Zion, this county, William Cronoble | found in the plastering a copy of af Philadelphia newspaper called “The | Pennnsylvania Freeman.” It is. dated “Fifth day, Sixth Month, | 1839” and the name of its editor is John G. Whittier, since then be- | come the famous Quaker poet. Of: course “the Freeman” was an anti- | slavery paper and was vigorous in its discussion of the slavery ques- | Whittier is an old man now, slavery has been abolished and he finds other themes for his, muse. i __Mr. Frank Wetzel and Miss Ella | Yearick, of this place, were mar- ried on Tuesday last. | —The Buffalo Run Methodists, have raised the frame work of their new church edifice, which, when completed, will add much to the appearance of that locality. The dinner for the occasion was an ele- | t one and was prepared by the | Tiberal citizens of that vicinity. — Mrs. Hannah Swartz, wife of George Swartz Esq, of Hublers- burg, died very suddenly last Sun-' day evening of dropsy of the chest. She was buried at Snydertown on Tuesday. — The Watchman office devil went to Williamsport yesterday with the Masons. Well, not exactly with them, but with the band that ac- He belongs to, —The new military company just organized in this place to replace Co. B., disbanded for disorderly con- duct is to be called the “Bellefonte Fencibles,” which is the name of the military company in existence here when the Civil war broke out. The new company already has an enrollment of 52 men, which is the regular peace footing. On Friday evening of last week what might have turned out to be a frightful accident occurred near Axe Mann. W. W. Rupert, who lives in the neighborhood of Zion, was taking Miss Lizzie, daughter of Col. William Shortlidge, for a buggy ride behind his spirited team of roadsters. When the horses frightened at something by the roadside and shied badly Rupert jumped from the buggy to get to their heads. Just as he was about to reach their bridles they dashed off with the young lady alone in the buggy. They were going at break- neck speed when one of the lines became entangled in a wheel and wound round it so tight that it pull- ed the horses round in a circle." They were going SO fast that they made three complete revolutions in the road. This slowed them up, of course, and on the second time around Miss Shortlidge jumped out. It’s good she did, for the third time around the buggy upset. —————————————— LOCAL WOMAN'S CLUB TO ELECT OFFICERS. The regular May meeting of the Woman's club of Bellefonte will be held in the director’s room of the Centre | High school building next Monday shows that of April 1st, | evening at 7:30. | This will be the time for the an- nual reports and election of officers for the ensuing year. Every member is urgently requested to attend ase it will be the last regular meeting until September. The club will be addressed by Mr. G. L. Singer, physical director of the Bellefonte Y. M. C. A, who will speak about the summer camp for boys on the Bald Eagle creek. ——The Central Pennsylvania Gas company has distributed a car load of pipe in Centre Hall in anticipation of extending its service across the mountain from Pleasant Gap. ! sort of orchard that has ‘bus i “The . this week. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE — Using pistols as credentials, six youths crashed a party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Cartilege, in Phila- delphia Saturday night, and robbed tho twelve: men and seven women guests of about $600, in addition to rings, brace- lets and watches. —The meanest thief in Mifflin county has been stealing from Mary M. Dellet, a widow of Lockport. She owns a lit- tle home and works hard. The thief dug up her potatoes, stole onions and parsnips and even a pick used to dig the crops. Boards from buildings and tires from an old car have been stolen. —Investigating the condition of inmates of Coal Township almshouse, Schuylkill county, it was discovered that Lena Fetter, resident for two years, enjoys a bank balance of $2000. The poor board will ask court to appoint a guardian for the woman and will then seek settlement for the years the woman has spent in the almshouse. —The Pennsylvania State Health De- parment announced that it is diligently ‘following up all cases of children treat- ed in the last year, with toxin-antitoxin. The Schick testing will be applied in the next few months to approximately 40,000 children, the actual work being done by the personnel connected with the State Department's bureau of nursing. —A freight run of 320 miles without change of engines, the longest through run ever established by the Pennsylva- nia railroad, is in effect between Crest- line, O., and Altoona, Pa., by way of Pittsburgh, vice president E. W. Smith made known last week. Massive M-1 locomotives are being used to haul the trains, Smith said, with one scheduled stop at Sharpsburg, where crews are changed and fires cleaned. _M. Hoke Gottschall, 52, former chief of the bureau of statistics and informa- tion of the Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs, fell dead Saturday night while mowing the lawn of his home in a suburb of Pittsburgh. Physicians as- cribed his death to heart disease. Gott- schall served as secretary to E. ¥. Babcock when the latter was mayor of Pittsburgh. He was the secretary of a local oil company at the time of his death. _A hurry call from the Danville hos- pital for the insane informed county officials that a maniac, more dangerous than the ,inmates of the instiuttion, was trying to break in. On investigation police found that the man was Joseph Kesanskie, of Kingston. Four times he has been released from prison only to set out on some new petty adventure. The man burned a boathouse near Sun- bury, terrorized the residents of Stoning- ton and broke a plate glass store win- dow. {Cats are taking sick and dying in large numbers in Sayre, Bradford coun- ty, and residents are complaining that the cause is the poison with which rep- resentatives of the Federal Department of Agriculture are treating the soil in the fight against the Japanese beetle in that section, Cats are known to nibble shoots of grass and it is believed they get the poison in that way. If the poison is not to blame, there is some deadly cat epidemic prevalent in the part of the State. —The peach crop in York county will He an absolute failure this year,.. accord- ing to County Agent G. G. E. Weber, who has just completed a survey of the situation. He estimates that the crop will not average more than five per cent of 4 normal yield. Not a single come under his ob- a yield of more Orchards came with a fair set of the servation will have than 10 per cent. through the winter peaches but the late frosts ruined prospects of a good yield. —The Susquehanna Transit company, subsidiary of the Susquehanna Traction company, has applied to the Public Service Commission for approval of its organization, creation and incor- poration to serve as a common carrier in Clinton county for the transporation of persons by motor vehicle from Lock Haven via Flemington to Mill Hall. The applicant company desires to substitute buses for the present trolley service between Lock Haven and Mill Hall. The incorporators of the company, which has a capital stock of $15,000, are P,P. Grifin, M. M. Maley and A. T. Maley, all of Lock Haven. _Search for Frank Wagner, who dis- appeared more than a week ago while helping fight a forest fire near Sigler- ville has about ceased. Several parties continued the search over the week-end in the hope of finding his body in some of the sink holes or avandoned quarry pits in the vicinity but without result. Sinks” in Treaster Valley were drained on Sunday but no sign of the lost man was found. He had suffered a head injury some months ago and it is believed that he had a lapse of memory and wandered off into the mountains, which extend for many miles to the north and east of where he was last seen. Governor Fisher has appointed Asher Odenwelder Jr., of Easton, as a member of the State Forest Commission. He succeeds Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, publisher of the Altoona Tribune, who resigned to become minister to Bulgaria. Commissioner Odenwelder is a member of one of the oldest families in Easton and graduated from Lafayete college in the class of 1906. He is director of the : Northampton National bank, manager of the Baston Water company, and is con- nected with many other business enter- prises. Early in life he became in- trested in conservation work, in which he has taken an active part, particular- ly in the Pocono region. } A keystone of growing plants as 2 memorial to former service men of the 28th Division in the World war is bein planted. in Capitol park, Harrisburg Tt is a short distance south west of the capitol building. It. wil have a red centre, formed by 710 coieus and a green border of 220 bOXWO0 plants. The red keystone was the shoulder emblem of the division in thc war. It will replace a - keystone plant- ed - several - years ago by World war veterans. That keystone was outlined by arbor vitae trees, with the centre open. So many of the trees had died, however, that the outline was destroyed. The keystone in color will be planted at the same spot.
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