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——Speaking of news, if the Tar-
if Commission should recommend a
decrease in the rate on something,
that would be news.
——Let us hope that the marriage
of Princess Ileana, of Rumania, will
'SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—June graduations from 835 Pe nsylva-
nia secondary schools, the high school
classification, totaled 48,000 boys and
girls, according to the Departmant cf
Public Instruction. The number in-
creased 5,000 over the 1930 total gradua-
| tions.
—All hunting licenses which were Is-
sued after May 1, 1930, will be in force
until August 31, 1931, which marks the
termination of the old hunting license
period. After August 31, 1981, all li-
be more happy and enduring than
that of her royal brother, King
Carol. |
——Even a tear-bomb can't close | VOL. 76.
Jit Davi?’ mouth. That methog}™" = — =
was tried on him at Wilkes-Barre, Another Administration Policy Has
the other day, and it only postponed Been Changed.
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bis speech. | The administration has practical-
——Doyle Confer, 15 year old son |y yielded to the demand of indus-
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Confer, of trialists on the question of wage re-
Madisonburg, fell off of a truck, ductions. From the beginning of
last Saturday, and broke his right the depression the President has per-
leg above the ankle. He was brought | sisted in the fiction that the 1929
to the Centre County hospital to standard of wages has been main-
have the fracture reduced. | tained notwithstanding the diminish-
—In England the national anthem ed pay envelopes. But the other
is “God Save the King.” If they day, in aletter to Congressman Con-
get any results from singing it we don, of Rhode Island, Secretary of
would suggest “Muddy Water” as Commerce Lamont, speaking for the
the name for a national anthem for administration. says, “I do not be-
our trout to sing. It has saved lieve that it is’ the duty of the gov-
more trout this season than the ernment to interfere in such cases
State hatcheries can produce in a —neither do I believe that such -
dozen. | Lovierence would be eficslive) Tuere
'is no unce y at statement.
—The passing of W. T. Twitmire. yy, Condon had complained in a
for more than sixty years contibu- ,.¢ier to the President that the Ver-
ously in bis ifigep in Bellefonte, Was |. ,n: textile manufacturers are re-
Bits a ae Solmanity ’ jos ducing wages and the President for-
Be of life . A es og | warded the letter to Secretary La-
su e's span can be expected ,.n; for reply. This coming on
any moment. Few men carry to i, ove of a meeting of the direc-
the grave such a record as was his. |, 0 the Steel trust has been in-
BELLEFONTE,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Another Wolf In Sheep's Clothing.
The indications are that an at-| The friends of President Hoover
tempt will be made to lay the lines are developing a rare talent in the
of the next Presidential election on line of propaganda and pubHcity.
religious bigotry and prohibition For example, every event of public
fanaticism. Arthur J. Barton, chair- interest which gives promise of
man of the executive committee of popularity or beneficence is ascribed
the Anti-Saloon League, has set the to Hoover, labeled Hoover plan or
machinery in motion to compass this Hoover idea and placed on the front
result by an attack upon Governor page of all newspapers in big type.
Roosevelt based upon a =ecent dec- At the opening of the London con-
laration of Joseph F. Guffey that a ference Prime Minister MacDonald
large majority of the Pennsylvania said: “There seem to be two main
delegates to the Democratic Nation- alternatives. The one is to find the
al convention will support the New means of providing new loans or
York Governor. Mr. Barton, who credits to Germany. That is a
is a Bishop of the Baptist church, matter that I understood has been
was associated with Bishop Cannon, under consideration at Paris.” Any
of the Methodist church, South, in intelligent newspaper reporter could
the crusade against Governor Smith have easily phrased this idea into a
in 1928. ! H
It was fondly hoped by most of After this statement had been
the real religious men and women of ‘made acting Secretary of State Cas-
the country that such an issue never tle, acting Secretary of the Treas-
would be raised again. Even Mr. ury Mills and Senator Morrow, of
Hoover expressed a sense of shame New Jersey, got their heads to-
that it became so important an ele- gether, wrote out a paper and chris-
ment in his victory. Though he tened it the “Hoover Plan.” It had
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PA. JULY 31, 1931.
| Moratoriums, New Credits—Then
will be issued for the year begin-
ning September 1 and ending August 21
|of the following year.
| —Lambert P Stout, 88, of Worcolrich,
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died in a hospital, last Friday, as the
{result of a fall from his porch at hie
| home. He recently retired from employ-
| ment with the Woolrich woilen mills on
— a pension after a service > sixty-eight
From the Philadelphia Record. | consecutive years, during all of Tne
Much American money is invested time he had never missed 1 day or been
in Chile, Argentina and Brazil. a minute late.
American investments in Argentina
NO. 30.
What ?
—Just as the casket bearing the body
total about $300,000,000. The Amer- | o¢ Anthony Rice was lowered into a
ican people's stake in Chile is be- grave in a cemetery at Frackville, on
tween $600,000,000 and $700,000,000. | Tussday, a detective arrested one of the
| Premier Blanquier, of Chile, an-| njef mourners, Andrew Rice, of Phila
(nouncing a moratorium on foreign | geiphia and Gilberton, a brother of the
| debts—scheduled to run to Augustl jeceased. Rice has been wanted by po-
but all likely to be extended bY jie at South Fork, on a charge prefer-
decree from month to month unless r.q by a girl of that place.
Chile's nnancial condition improves— = o.... © pau
gives painfully practical point to the o. Hattie E. Patil. wus awarded
theoretical observation that nowa-
days the nations are linked and
locked in an economic relationship
irresistibly overruling all political
plans of governments.
And that is the lesson America|
(and all the world must learn,
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| $26,000 damages in a verdict handed down
in court, at Sunbury, against the Atlantic
Refining company for the death of her
husband, W. E. Paul, Reading company
engineer, who died of burns suffered
when his train struck a gasoline truck
{at Muncy. [Chis is the largest verdict
learning: that isolation is dead and ever awarded in Northumberland county
national exclusiveness will have to °*“™* AR
give way to international co-opera-| —Spending the last 45 cents of an
tion. | $8000 legacy to purchase a ticket to Re-
| Chile depends chiefly upon copper ‘reat Almshouse, James Kelly, 54, of Ed-
‘and nitrate for its living. When the Wardsville, was refused admittance be-
markets in these commodities are cause he had been a resident of Ranson
| demoralized, Chile is | poor district. At the death of an aunt
Even tempered, devoted christian
gentleman that he was his life was
a daily benediction to those who
came in contact with it. Though
never aggressive by nature the un-
assuming dignity of his business,
social and spiritual sides was, per-
haps, more of a force in the build-
ing of good citizenship than positive
leadership would have been.
-——When you play politics in
|terpreted as an administration con-
sent to wage cutting by that cor-
| poration. Senator Watson, who as-
sured the public that within thirty
days after the passage of the Grundy
tariff bill prosperity would return,
| was greatly alarmed about it. “Any
‘action by the steel corporation to
| reduce wages,” he said, “would be
a catastrophe.”
| But to observant persons this re-
‘sanctioned the processes
and Colonel Mann, of Tennessee,
while they were at work in his be-
half and encouraged the Ku Klux
Klan activities, it is a matter of rec- the plan is “as much a product of g
ord that as soon as possible after
his inauguration, he repudiated all
|of them. Mrs. Willebrandt
| removed from the office of assistant
| Attorney General and the others
employed
by Bishop Cannon, Mrs. Willebrandt
‘already been skeletonized in Paris, |
{approved by Premier MacDonald, in |
London, and was finally stolen by
Hoover. Commenting upon it in
| London Secretary Stimson declared
British thought as American,
|actual introduction of which was
| ald.”
| newspapers of Europe and America
Chile controls the world's market
in natural nitrates. Chilean pro-
ducers have been in conference with
the synthetic nitrogen makers of
nine European countries.
Germany tried a squeeze play.
he placed a prohibitive duty onall
ean nitrates. But all the nations
trade
several years ago Kelly was bequeathed
$8000, the money to be paid him ina
monthly stipends. His last $50 fell due
in June.
—Creditors of Aaron Engle, a North
Cornwall township farmer, Lebanon
county, lost the full amount of their
the nitrogenous fertilizers and on Chil: | claims as the result of a bolt of light-
ning which caused the destruction with
Was made by Prime Minister MacDon- which would be affected by that tax its contents of the barn on a farm of
But it was published in all the —except Chile—are protected by which Engle was the tenant.
Engle had
made a deed of assignment, but BE. D.
Philadelphia dealing from the bot- versal of administration policy is
tom wouldn't get you anywhere. Mr. not surprising. For some time the
Vare would have the cards so stack- Wall Street bankers have been urg-
ed that even ten boys couldn't do ing what they call “liquidating
a man’s job. Hall, Cunningham and wages,” as a remedy for industrial
| were simply ignored in the disposal as the Hoover plan and Hoover and
|of patronage though all were look- his friends are responsible for the
|ing for rewards. | false claim.
| Whether Governor Roosevelt 8 When Wall Street
i warned Mr
‘nominated for President by the Dem-
Hoover that billions of dollars of
agreements,
The ean delegates, denouncing Siegrist, as auditor, found assets follow-
|the new impost as deliberately dis- ing the fire to be insufficient to pay even
| criminatory their country’s the tax claims.
| product, withdrew from the confer-| _ patrolman Robert J. Bigelow, of the
‘ence. So w.ule resumes open-mar- . y
| ket trading; co-operation with | Altoona police, (n Sunday arrested his
Campbell, with their Biles decoy,
were only ‘“push-overs” to give the
impression that the near Senator
was seeking respectability when he
“Hampy” Moore as his
candidate in opposition to the “set-
ups” who challenged the Vare dic-
tatorship. “Hampy” will get the
nomination and be elected Mayor of
Philadelphia again. It is almost a
parallel to the case of Quay and old
Judge Pennypacker, except that
Sage of Wetzel's Swamp.”
nany times when he wanted a swim
n water that is warmer than that
»f the “horse hole” on Spring créek.
His offspring cou'dn’t understand
fe hard hearted (7?) refusal and
ame through with this: “I can’t
inderstand father at all. He wants
18 to do everything as our ancestors
iid. That's like the Chinese do
wnd there's no progress in them.
We'll get nowhere that way.” The
yy didn't get to the “horse hole.”
——A good bit is being said about
‘he condition of the farmer. We
mow enough about farming to
selieve that legislation can't help
We do know that economics
that he is getting a dirty
some instances he is pay-
more taxes than he ought to,
farm property is as-
sessed out of all proportion to urban
-ealty. He pays more per day to
skilled mechanic who works
‘or him than his average farm in-
some will show that he receives for
iis own work. We know a farmer
n Benner township who will have
-wo hundred bushels of wheat to
sell this fall. It is his only pay crop.
Jis corn. oats and barley will be used
‘or feed for the stock. He sells milk
ind ought to have some pigs for
narket, but he needs a carpenter
0 do some repairing about the house
ind barn. A carpenter wants eighty
sents an hour for the work and puts
n only twelve and one half days of
en hours each and the wheat crop of
‘he farmer at fifty cents per bush-
s1 all must be sold to pay him.
We have figured the whole thing
ut and believe that during the
ast three years the average farmer
n Centre county in his house rent,
ais butter, eggs, milk, pork, chickens,
zeal, bull calves for beef, vegetables
and all, hasn't earned more than
three dollars per day. We have no
quarrel with the carpenter for
jemanding eighty cents an hour
from one who earns thirty cents
sut we do think that the farmers
would be better off if a lot of them
would go to carpentering. In other
words, farmers are fools for produc-
ing anything more than will put
them in position to say to those
whom they may have to employ: I
will pay you just as much per hour
tor your work as I receive for mine.
|depression and unemployment and
| President Hoover invariably complies
has probably come to an under-
standing that the wage earners are
not being fooled by the pretense
that wage standards are being main-
tained. The pay envelope is the
truest yard stick for the measure-
ment of wages and for more than
a year it has been proving the fals-
ity of the pretense that stand-
Li ac Chat wage. sium
—The Wickersham crime com-
mission has made one report that
will be generally accepted. In its
ninth installment it declares that
our penal system is a flat failure.
Supreme Court Will Decide.
The right of Governor Pinchot to
require all applicants for office to
sign a pledge to support the policies
of his administration will be carried
to the Supreme court. To the usual
form of application the Governor has
added a pledge “to support the
policies approved by the people at
the election of the Governor in 1930.”
A Philadelphia applicant for appoint-
ment to the office of notary public
refused to subscribe to this pledge
and the appointment was refused for
that reason. Application for a man-
damus was made in the Dauphin
county court and the judge decided
that he had no power to enjoin the
Governor in the matter of appoint-
ments.
The iaw authorizing the appoint-
ment of notaries public is not spe-
cific as to qualifications. Officers
and stockholders in banks and per-
sons “holding judicial or other of-
fices of trust or profit under the
constitution or laws of the United
States” are ineligible. It is also
necessary that the applicant shall
be a resident of the city or county
for ‘one year immediately preced-
ing appointment.” If these condi-
tions are fulfilled and the applicant
is capable and of good reputation, it
would seem that he or she has an
inherent right to aspire to that or
any other office within the gift of
the Governor or the people.
The Governor holds, no doubt, that
he has a legal right to refuse to
appoint any applicant and without
giving reason for his action. That
is true, but his right to deny the
privilege of applying may well be
questioned and the condition express-
ed in his application form practi-
cally works that result to all who
are unwilling to take the pledge.
In any event his refusal to consider
applications with the pledge elimi-
nated indicates a narrow mind.
purpose is to organize a personal
political machine by process of con-
scription, and that purpose deserves
the execration of every fair-minded
citizen of the State.
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~The western farmers reason
that on the principle that ‘“‘cha-ity
begins at home” it is time President
Hoover should do something towdrd
their relief.
——S8ecretary of State Stimson is
negotiating for the American-Ger-
man vote by making generous prom-
ises to Chancellor Bruening, in Ber-
lin.
|ocratic National convention next
| year is a matter of minor import-
that bigotry and fanaticism is to be-
come a potential force in the politi-
cal life of the country. Bishop Can.
non has been eliminated from the
equation. His record for hypocrisy
and immorality made any appeal by
him futile. Even those who sym-
pathized with his purpose cam no
masquerad
ing in the robes of a Bishop hopes
to carry on his pernicious work.
But he will be disappointed in the
result. The public can't be fooled
again.
——An armistice has been declar-
ed in the war between Oklahoma
and Texas. “Alfalfa Bill” Governor
of Oklahoma, having accomplished
his purpose, bows to an order from
the Federal court.
Politics in Philadelphia.
The Republican squabble in Phil-
adelphia increases in interest as its
details are revealed. It expresses
an irreparable fracture of the Vare
machine, which ought not to be a sub-
ject of regret outside of those im-
mediately concerned. But it fails
to inspire confidence of improvement
however it ends. Selfishness is the
source of the contention on both
sides and spoils the objective of all
involved. Whichever factions wins
the people stand to lose. The pi-
rates represented by Mr. Biles, hav-
ing lost in the first skirmish, the
gangsters represented by Hampy
Moore are ahead in the game.
The candidacy of Mr. Biles, for
Mayor, was supported by Tom Cun-
ningham, Charlie Hall and Bill Camp-
bell, a trio of buccaneers who have
outraged decency and looted the pub-
lic for many years. The candidacy
of Mr. Moore is sponsored by Bill
Vare, Jim Hazett and Sam Salus.
equally corrupt and defiant of public
and political morals and persuaded
that he will serve their purpose. Mr.
Moore flirted with both sides for a
time. The Biles crowd offered him
a seat in Congress which was en-
ticing. The Vare offer was more
tempting but less certain. He final-
ly figured out that the Vare offer
promised most for himself and ac-
cepted it.
Various other names have been
mentioned as willing to accept the
nomination of either faction but
with few exceptions they are of the
scurvy type. Meantime Governor
Pinchot stands on the side line
watching the progress of the scrim-
His | mage with intense interest and ready
to take a hand in the finish. Thus
neither faction but it is practically
certain that if Biles had not with-
drawn from the contest. the Gover-
nor would have lined up with Vare.
Politics has made strange bed-fel-
Pinchot and Vare under the same
blanket would make a mew record.
n—— —————
cled the globe and made several
its most ambitious as well as peril-
ous enterprise.
the North Pole.
with their demands. Besides, he oc. compared with the menace
far he has expressed preference for
lows in the past, but the spectacle of
——The Graf Zeppelin, having cir-
trips across the Atlantic, is now on
It is heading for
| American money were in immediate
| peril he sent for Owen D. Young to
Mr. Young suggested the moratorium |
and Hoover promptly proclaimed it’
as a product of his own mind be-
cause it met with popular favor. He
made his last campaign on false
issues, such as religious bigotry and
prohibition fanaticism. He now pro-
poses to make an equally fraudulent
to.the emotions of the public,
world. But his record of stupidity
and ineptness in dealing with ques-
tions of importance in the past re-
futes his pretense.
——If the Vare victory eliminates
Cunningham, Hall and Campbell
from public life it will be worth
what it costs, including the triumph
of others not much better.
Wickersham Commission Worthless.
The Wickersham Commission is-
sued its final report, the other day,
having previously, at irregular inter-
vals, made five or six other reports.
In the course of its long life and
arduous labor it expended well onto
half a million dollars of public money
and apparently accomplished noth-
ing. It was given to the public as
an instrument for making “an ac-
curate examination of fact and
cause” of the prevalence of crime
and the suggestion of “constructive,
courageous conclusions” concerning
remedies. If any thing of this kind
has been achieved it has escaped
public notice.
The original purpose of the Com-
mission, as interpreted by the peo-
ple, was to discover a method for the
enforcement of the prohibition amend-
ment and the Volstead law. Butat
the outset its functions were expand-
ed so as to embrace all forms of
crime and every aspect of criminal
jurisprudence. Probably the princi-
pal reason for its failure was that
“it took in too much territory.” In
any event it made no progress eith-
er in ascertaining the cause of the
crime wave which brought it into
existence or the reasons for failure
of enforcing the repressive legisla-
tion.
The Commission was disappoint-
ing, moreover, because public opin-
ion had been deceived in its opera-
tions. The idea conveyed by the
President and accepted by the peo-
ple was that it would gather the facts
and recommend remedies which
would be accepted by the President.
In other words, there was an implied
promise that the recommendation of
the Commission would be approved
by the President. But the first re-
port made by the Commission was
repudiated by the President and the
public was forced to the conclusion
that the whole scheme was a form
of “passing the buck” to save the
face of the President.
—Jfike most of the achieve-
ments of the Hoover administration
the success of the moratorium is
enveloped in doubt.
——The Navy Department is un-
dertaking to measure the depth of
that justly celebrated “hole in the
bottom of the sea.”
European producers of the synthetic |
product 8 prog and competition begins
point a way to avert the calamity. again.
This moratorium is “different.” It|
is onme-sideu. It runs hind end
foremost, being declared by a Scistos |
instead of granted by a creditor.
The old-fashioned word for it is" De- |
fault.”
But it works out the same way.
America will have to foreclose, with
no chance to collect, or else okay
the moratorium in that trade
will pick up and be re
sumed.
The interlocking of the present- |
day international credit is |
old-time theories— like
brother, James H. Bigelow, 31, on a
charge of murder following a shooting,
believed the result of jealousy. Rige-
low is charged with fatally wounding
George Raymond Peacock, 22, «f Coal
port, when he found the 'atter in (ume
pany with Mra. Amelia Masciarelli, 31 of
Altoona. The hooting followed a vevf-
fle at the woman's home. Peacock was
shot in the stomaca, dying before reach-
ing the hospital.
--After breaking ‘nto a brewery, at
St enandoah, las: Thursday night where
six trucks were being loaded with brew,
charges of carrying deadly weapons and
were forced to leave the place under a
a rrowed the barrage of stones snd refuse hurled at
COE tn at a the head. |them by an irate group of citizens. ‘In
Theories yield place to conditions. #ddition to nitering us teluty » Kio
essit world . rests, Agents 2indro an ower hod their
Nee y drives The Sais | automobile wrecked l'y ‘he milling mob,
not live forever on credit. |
vernm | which literally ripped the machine apart
Go outa muse get together and as it stood in fron: of the brawery,
use the breathing space provided by
the war debt moratorium to make —Armed with a loaded rifle, Mrs. John
definite plans for resumption of trad- E. Thomas, of Scranton, on Monday de-
ing on She uid gemie. {fled a gang of carpenters who tried to
Chilean default emphasizes the | cut off part of the porch of her home.
Her husband was not at home at the
time. When she threatened to ‘‘blow
off the head of the urst man who dared
to lay a finger on her property,’ the men
beat a retreat. For some time a dis-
pute over the building line has existed
between the Thomas family and a neigh-
bor, Joseph Schamberger, who engaged
the carpenters to saw off a portion of the
porch he claims projects over the line.
—Because the cops made it hot for
her, Miss Elsie Devine, 24, of St. Peter's,
Chester county, made it even hotter for
the cops at Pottstown, on Monday. Miss
Devine was locked up at city hall on a
charge of being drunk in a public place,
to wit, the street. She liked the street
a lot better than her stuffy cell and pro-
ceeded to throw. a shoe through one of
the two tiny windows to get more venti-
lation. Jailers took her to another cell,
one of them losing a shirt, ripped off by
Miss Devine. There she announced that
it was too hot to be locked up and set
fire to a mattress to which she had been
strapped. Jailers rescued her and ex-
tinguished the flames. Burgess Klink
gave her a 30-day sentence in the ‘‘cool-
er.”
—Joseph Miller, a Wilkes-Barre teleg-
rapher, denied on Monday that he was
drowned at Niagara Falls Sunday after-
noon. In fact, he wired police of that
city that the portion of a body recov-
ered from the river was not his, that he
was in the best of health and back at
his job with the Lehigh Valley Railroad
at the terminal in Wilkes-Barre. The
mixup came about when Edward Hatt-
macker, ticket sgent at Bear Creek, who
accompanied Miller on the week-end trip,
fell asleep while tie latter was in bath-
ing, above the rapids. When he awoke
and found Miller missing, he notified po-
lice. In their search police recovered a
part of a man's body, which was believ-
ed to have been that of Miller, Hatt
macker prepared to return alone, when
he found Miller waiting for him on the
train.
—Two convicted burglars awaiting sen-
tence, escaped from the Bradford coun-
ty jail Saturday night by sawing their
way into the boller room and walking
through Sheriff 3cCicliand’s apartment.
The fugitives are William Chandler, 28,
and Anthony Sindona, 19, both of Den-
ver, Colo. In a previous attempt to es-
cape they had tried to tunnel out through
a wall. Shortly before midnight Satur
day they began their second attempt.
First they seized trusty Charles Sullivan
and while one was sawing, the other
stood over Sullivan with a steel 10d
broken from a bed. After breaking
through to the room containing the steam
heater, they jimmied open the door to
the sheriff's apartment, walked through
and out his front door. They escaped
at 4. A. M. Posses of citizens and of-
ficers have found no trace of the pair.
necessity of converting the morato- |
rium Device into a Design. Unless
that is done, the moratorium period |
will hasten to its ends with nothing
accomplished but new credits piled up |
on top of the old, temporarily sus-
ones. |
President Hoover “started some- |
thing.” It is to be carried to a fin-
ish—and how? |
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——Residents of Bellefonte have
been pestered with more mosqui-|
toes this year than ever before and
the impression has been pretty gen- |
eral that they come from the upper |
marshes of John McCoy's dam. |
Whie that may be their breeding
place we notice in our exchanges |
that the pestiferous insects are also
more numerous than ever before in
surrounding towns. Philipsburg, Ty-!
rone and Lock Haven people are all
complaining, and in Philipsburg the
matter has been before town coun-
cil, which had been appealed to to
devise some method of exterminating
the insects. While every means
possible should be resorted toto get
rid of the mosquito there are other
kinds of bugs that seem more nu-
merous and destructive on flowers and
gardens this year than ever before,
and to wage a fight against all of
them would keep a man busy from
early morn til late at night. It is
quite possibie that the extremely hot
and wet weather we have had this
year has been especially ‘avorable |
to the increase in the bug kingdom.
——The States of Maine, New
York, New Jersey, Ohio, Maryland,
Virginia, South Carolina and Illinois,
as well as a number of towns in
Pennsylvania, were represented in
the attendance at the Bellefonte |
Methodist church, last Sunday morn- |
ing. Rev. Harold I. Zook, pastor of
the First Methodist Protestant
church, of Kittanning, participated
in the service. At the Sunday school
the attendance was 49 in excess of
the same Sunday a year ago, the
number including twelve visitors.
——Dog days are here
and
right way to treat dogs now
cf
is
give them as wide a berth as pos-
sible.
——Senator Capper says the Kan-
sas farmers are trying to like the
Farm Board but can't.