INK SLINGS.
BY GEORGE R. MEEK.
—If you are grateful to John Boob
for having gone to France to fight
for your home and your family say
it with votes on November 3rd.
—The only trouble with the Presi-
dent's many plans for the relief of
the business depression is that none |
of them show any signs of relieving |
it.
—A vote for John Wetsler for|™ © — eee
Register would be a vote for a man MUCH MISCELLANEOUS
both deserving of the office and com- BUSINESS TRANSACTED
petent to fill it to the satisfaction of | BY BOROUGH COUNCIL.
all classes. ! ——
Lamb Street Bridge Approved by
—We felt that State's foot-ball |
| State Highway Department. Total
t s $8030
eam would be weak this year, but t 1
not so weak as to be defeated by
two schools that haven't a fourth as| pyre marshal John J. Bower ap-
many students to pick from. | peared before council, Monday eve-
VOL. 76.
—People who want to vote for ning, and stated that application bank is eligible as a State de- Monday.
license pository if it will deposit with the morning 371 young men and
county are paying him no compli- tags for the Logan's new pumper; State Treasurer bonds to secure the registered, which was a slight in-
Mr. Hunter for Treasurer of the should be made at once for
LARGE STATE DEPOSITS
| IN CENTRE COUNTY BANKS. |
| According to a statement publicly |
'advertised by State Treasurer Ed-|
ward Martin the Commonwealth |
|of Pennsylvania has approximately |
eighty million dollars on deposit in|
| various banks in the State.
According to the regulations any |
E RIGHTS AND
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 23, 1931.
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FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 42.
TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE MASONS CELEBRATE
IN SESSION THIS WEEK 200DTH ANNIVERSARY,
IS LARGELY ATTENDED. nu. .. -—0 Accepted
A Total of 371 Teachers in Attend- | Masons was established in Pennsyl-
. Largest Enrollment in His- Vania 200 years ago and in celebra-
tory of County. jton of the event Bellefonte lodge,
— No. 268, held a special meeting in
The 85th annual teachers’ insti- their rooms in the Masonic temple,
tute convened in the court house on
At the enrollment in the ning. Two hundred or more mem-
women | bers of the order were present, prin-
|cipally from Bellefonte, Centre Hall
ment by making the condition of a and that the title skould be record- funds, pay 39% interest on inactive crease over last year, notwithstand- and State College, with a few guests
trade as the price of their offer.
—The city of Milwaukee has a CUS™: The matter was referred to
surplus of five million dellars ad] HFile and Police committee for
not even a scandal brewing. In- |
cidentally, Milwaukee hasn't any A petition was presented from
more of the stuff that made her residents of east Logan street for
famous brewing, either. | the installation of a light at the
{corner of the brick school house
—If a new order of things in the grounds. Referred to the Street
County Commissioner's office is de- committee.
sired J. Victor Brungart will have to | Mrs. Merrill Eisenhauer asked for
be elected. Any combination of |
|a reduction of her water tax owing
the three of the four candidatesfor|,.v.."qeath of her husband during
the office that does not include him rred
will leave a majority of the present | we Pas } Year Rete 10:3 the
issi till i : |
Commissioners ¢ 8 conn] | A communication was received
—The Republican factions in ¢rom §. D. Gettig stating that he
Pittsburgh are at each other's has been employed by the Gamble
throats, but a sophisticated Demo- | yeirs in connection with the contro-
crat will take little comfort from |versy over the “Island,” suggesting
It is only occasionally they that the borough purchase the same
steal elections from one anotherout ,r an action for damages for tres-
there, but when it comes to stealing | qq will be instituted. Referred
them from Democrats the habit Bb the Finance and Water commit-
chronic. tees and the borough solicitor.
~—Well, they've indicted Bishop] A communication was received
Cannon. We're mighty giad of it. from superintendent C. W. Roberts,
If the powers that be in the Meth- of the State highway department,
odist church—our church, under- suggesting that the borough pass
stand—were not always seeing the an ordinance making provision for
advancement of the cause of Christ the connection of new streets with
through partisan Republican glasses | borough highways, as required un-
Cannon would have been unfrocked der an act passed by the last Leg-
long ago. islature. Referred to the Street
—Frem what we are able to gath- | committee.
er from reports that come into this, Another communication from the
office Claude Herr's re-election as | State highway department informed
Prothonotary is practically assured. council that they have no authority
That would be as it should be, for to trim or remove trees along high-
never was there an official in Cen- way rouse in and through any mu-
tre county who more fully possessed ' y:
Ee Te a A report was received from the
fice: Faithfulness, accuracy and engineer of the highway department
ar A os i mEert V2 {stating that W. H. Drawbaugh -
completed the Lamb street bridge
—Let us have two Democratic according to specifications, and that
County Auditors. Two men who!
it has been approved and accepted
will have the courage to really check |p the department. The entire cost
up on what has been going on in the |
|of the structure is $8030.13, of which
Commissioner's office for the past the borough is to pay one-third and
four years. There's something rot. county two-thirds, which will
ten in Denmark and the people who | Be 1. two be
pay the taxes will never know what o the
it is until they vote to put men who | o0rreq to the Street committee to
are not under the thumb of any polit- confer with the County Commission:
ical boss to the job of prying into org relative to the payment of their
things. | portion.
—Resorting to its chronic habitof B. H. Harvey again submitted a
shouting Stop, Thief! the Gazette | proposition for accident insurance op
‘ast week accused the Democratic the streets. For the Water depart
papers of Centre county of slinging ment the premium would be $100 8
1 $2676.71 for the borough and $5353.42 |
county. The matter was |
mud. During a local political cam-
paign we read the county papers
with more interest than at any oth- houses.
year, $57.60 for the Street depart:
ment and $20.00 for the two fire
Referred to the Street,
:r time and we must say that up to Water and Fire and Police commit:
the time the Gazette intimated that tees for further investigation.
t was being done we hadn't found
1 line in any of them that could
i1ave given ground for Mr. Harter's
ipparent hallucination.
—Thomas A. Fdison is dead. He
{led mystified as to what the future
lds. He was an agnostic, rather
‘han an atheist. He merely thought
‘here must have been a Creator.
Why should there have been doubt
n the mind of such a genius? Like
Burbank, perhaps, he concentrated
30 much on co-ordinating the ele-
ments at hand that he gave only
jeeting thought as to why they
were there. Burbank crossed flow-
ars and vegetables that were and
sroduced wonderful new ones, but
1e created nothing. Edison turned
he electricity that Franklin had
sulled down from the sky a cen.
:ury before he was born into com-
nercial light, yet he died doubtful as
.0 where the element with which he
was so much of wizard came from.
—As to whe paid for the love
‘east (7) that tke Republican candi-
iates had at the Nittany Country
lub or who paid for the tent at
‘he Granger's picnic and the cigars
hat were passed out from it we are
wt concerned. However, if Mr.
{eeler got by without paying any-
‘hing, as Mr. Mayes charges, he
was merely running true to form.
Jp until the time he thought he had
ight reasons for picking off the
yest job the Republican party has
0 offer a chance for in Centre coun-
.y no member of that party knew
vhether Mr. Keeler was a Democrat,
.. Republican, Prohibitionist or Klux-
'r. No Republican ever heard of
)r saw him handling a window book
r devoting a day to work for can-
lidates of his party who needed his
1elp as badly as he needs their's
1ow. For service rendered to his
arty the Republican candidate for
Sheriff has about as much claim to
he job as we would have had we
ockeyed ourself into the nomination
1e got.
The Street committee reported
cleaning out Spring creek and fix-
ing Lamb street at the new bridge,
as well as general repairs.
The Water committee reported re-
pairs to iwo meters, cleaning eels
from water wheel and digging out
the tail race, and the collection of
$1600 on water rentals and $136.16
for rent, Etc. Meter bills for the
quarter ending October 1st amount:
ed to $2221.28.
A communication was received
from borough engineer H. B. Shat-
tuck regarding repairs to the res-
ervoir but he expressed the belief
that it is too late in the year to
undertake anything permanent and
suggested that temporary repairs be
made to last until next spring.
The Finance committee reported a
balance in the borough fund of
$408.99 and in the water fund
$882.76. No notes were presented
for renewal but two new notes ag-
gregating $1500 were authorized tc
meet current borough bills.
The Fire and Police committee
reported that the Logan Fire com-
pany wants the borough to pay the
bill of $25.00 for the underwriters
test of their new steamer. It had
previously been reported to council
that when the Undines got their
new triple pumper they paid for the
test and the matter was referred to
the committee to ascertain the facts.
The Special committee reported
progress in the matter of securing
a reduction of insurance rates.
Ralph Lightner, of the West Penn
Power company, was present regard-
ing the stand-by service of the
electric pumps at the old pumping
station. Some four months ago he
submitted to council several propo-
sitions, the most favorable of which
was a charge of $4860 a month
which entitles the borough to use
the electric pump twenty hours each
month. Anything over and above
the twenty hours will be charged
for at three cents a kilowatt hour
additional. He also stated that the
|ed in the name of Bellefonte bor- accounts and 29% interest on such as ing the fact that in a few districts |
|are active. |
| $177,500.00 of the grand total, as |
|of August 31st, 1931, were on de- |
posit in Centre county institutions,
| distributed as follows:
| First National, of Philipsburg,
| $60,000.00.
| Moshannon National, of Philips- |
| burg, $35,000.00. |
First National, of State College, |
$40,000.00. |
. Farmer's National, of Millheim, |
$20,000.00 of the general fund ac-
(count and $5,000.00 of the motor li- |
| cense fund. i
| First National, of Howard, $10,
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First National, of Centre Hall,
| $7,500.00
{CENTRE COUNTY HAS
MORE MEN THAN WOMEN.
Here's hope for the girls of Cen.
| tre county.
|sus reports there are 1264 more men
lin the county than women so that
there is no reason for doing without
|a man, providing you can find one
|suitable. The total number of males
{in the county is 23,779, and females |
|22,515. Of the total population 45,
870 are whites and 420 negroes.
| Benner township has the most ne-
|groes, 250, but they are all inmates
of Rockview penitentiary and are
only transients. Bellefonte's negro
| population is 69. The foreign born |
| population of the county numbers
11,766. Rush township has the larg-
‘est number of these, 523, while in
| Bellefonte there are only 108. Belle- |
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under five years of age.
county of whom 13945 are
13281 are women. At
primary less than 509 of the eligi-
ble vote was polled. !
WOMAN ELECTED HEAD OF
PENN STATE PARENTS,
At the annual meeting of the as-
sociation of Penn State parents, at
State College on Saturday, Mrs. F.
W. Haller was chosen president of
the organization, the first time in
it's history that a woman has been
elevated to that position. Other of-
ficers elected were M. E. Musser,
Lancaster, vice president; Prof. J.
Orvis Keller, of State College, secre-
tary and treasurer, and executive
committee, Mrs. M. Elizabeth Ole-
wine, Bellefonte; R. W. Cummings,
Lancaster; E. E. Hewitt, Indiana; H.
C. Herpel, McKeesport, and H. D.
Davis, Philadelphia.
The association decided to estab-
lish a loan fund for students. Dean
of men, A. R. Warnock, reported
the college resources for this pur-
pose were nearly exhausted.
|
——A small barn or stable on the
property of William Benner, out
near the Jewish cemetery, was burn-
ed to the ground on Monday after-
noon. Both fire companies re-
sponded to an alarm but when they
reached the scene of the fire were
unable to get any water from the
fire plug nearest the Benner home.
The plug, by the way, is not in the
borough or under borough control.
company would simply forget the
elapsed time and date the contract
from the time the pump was used
in October when the eels clogged the
water wheel at Gamble mill. Coun-
cil concurred in the fairness of the
proposition but as Mr. Cobb, chair-
man of the Water committee, was
not present, asked that execution of
the contract be held over until the
next meeting and Mr. Lightner read.
ily agreed to do so.
A number of bids had been re-
ceived by the Street committee for
pipe for the proposed sanitary sew.
er down Spring creek, but president |
Walker stating that all the bide.
were not in, ruled that no action be
taken. He stated, however, that it
{how it applies to our
his treatise of the subject was so
from other towns and adjoining
oie of the schools were consolida- counties. The principal speaker of
N | the evening was Thomas G. Seixas,
At the opening session, Monday |of Philadelphia. Following the busi-
afternoon, Rev. A. Ward Campbell | ness session a buffet luncheon was
led the Sovotional servics. Coty | served und social hous re L
uperintendent F. Glenn Rogers made resen resn
a brief talk in which he urged the | forty-two lodges in seven States and
teachers to not only be regular in one forsign country.
attendance but punctual in getting |
there. NAVY'S AIRSHIP “AKRO
The y= Spealier Sntriduced waa PASSED OVER TYRONE.
Prof. W. T. h who | ———
spoke on the fundamental factors in| Many Bellefonters got a crick in
all teaching situations. Teaching the neck, on Wednesday, watching
is an art that we cannot master, for the flight east of the U. S.
was one of his assertions. Much Navy's big airship, the “Akron,” but
depends upon thr physical equip- | they watched in vain. The ship
ment, desks, books, Etc. The did not pass over Bellefonte but
(teacher, to be a success, must be made the flight by way of Johns-
master of what he teaches. One town, Altoona, Tyrone and down the
cannot teach what he does not Juniata valley. The ship, built to
know, and some cannot teach all fly one hundred miles an hour, was
they know. | held down to a much lower speed on
The next speaker was Dr. W. D, |Its eastern flight. It weighed off
talked on the meaning of democracy. When it headed into the east. It
ATI oy ond coun. flew over Pitsburgh at 750, Indi-
tries of the world,” he said, “is en-| 208 Pa. at 8:15, Johnstown at 9:18,
tering one of the most terrible win- | Tyrone at 9.50 and Lewistown at
ters since the starvation period. We 10.15. Just where it went from
have greater crops than ever before, there is not known at this writing.
but wheat will be fed to the hogs
and tramped in the mire while our
children go cold and hungry.” Con-
tinuing his talk Dr. Henderson said
that there are three types of gov-
ernment today!
practiced in Russia;
Italy; Democracy in Britain and
America. He then went on to de.
lineate what democracy means and
TWO PRISONERS ESCAPE
FROM ROCKVIEW PEN.
Two prisoners made their escape
from Rockview penitentiary this
week, the first in almost two months.
The first man to get away was
Robert Brown, negro, sent up from
Cambria county for 191% to 20 years
for second degree murder. He go*
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til the prisoners were locked up for
interestingly applicable to the pres- the night at 8.30 o'clock.
|on Allegheny street, on Tuesday eve- |
PE Sap an aot on | or Soe
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
———
~~When the bungalow owned and oc-
cupied by Thomas Pittman, at Lewis-
town, was destroyed by fire early Mon-
day morning, $9060 in money in a pock-
etbook under his pillow was destroyed.
The heat was so intense that he had no
time to stop to save the money.
—President Judge Hargest, of Dau-
phin county courts charged a jury in six-
teen words on Monday. He said: “The
ham was there; the defendant was there;
the ham was gone; the defendant was
gone.” John Jackson, later found guilty
of larceny of the ham from a pot of
boiling sauerkraut, will be called for
sentence later,
—Working his second day after several
months of idleness, John Haupt, of Trev-
orton, employed as an ewectrician by the
Reading Coal and Iron company, at
Henry Clay colliery, Shamokin, was
| electrocuted at 10 o'clock last Friday
morning, when: he received 220 volts of
current while at work on top of a pole.
He and Cyrus Didium, also of Trevor.
ton, were putting up a new arc light on
the public highway leading to Gowan
City near the colliery.
~The body of Jonathan Herb, 76, vet
eran farmer of Limestone Valley, near
Liverpool, was discovered by his son in
{& barn after a herd of hogs had muti-
{lated it. Harold Herb found the hogs
fighting over his father's body. They
attacked him when he tried to chase
them out of the barn. While it is be-
lieved by the family physician that Mr.
Herb died from a heart attack while in
the barn, veteran farmers of the Lime-
stone Valley say his herd of hogs might
have killed him,
~The New York Board of Transporta-
tion has awarded a contract totaling $10,-
581,500, to the American Car and Foun-
dry company, for 500 new steel passen-
ger cars. The new cars, which are for
the city subway system, undoubtedly
will be built at the Berwick plant of the
company. An order for 250 of the same
| type cars for the New York system was
[built at the Berwick plant last year.
| The big order will be a real boon for
| that plant, which is one of the largest
|in the American Car and Foundry come
| pany’s network.
—The State Health Department is seek-
ing the typhoid carrier believed respons-
|ible for the outbreak of 30 mild cases
| among the students of the West Ches-
{ter State teachers college. A motor lab-
| oratory was dispatched to West Chester
According to the cen-| Henderson, of Ann Arbor, Mich. He at Akron city twice and it was 6.25 early in the week to aid in the search.
| Tests of the milk, water and vegetable
| supplies of the school were negative.
Already 20 of the 50 student waiters
have been tested and found free of the
tyhoid germ. The student patients have
been sent to their homes in Pennsylva-
nia, New Jersey and Maryland because
of the limited hospital facilities of the
school.
—Student celebrations reached new
heights at Dickinson College early Mon-
day morning when Carlisle police of-
ficers used more than a dozen tear gas.
bombs to quell the demonstration staged
by Dickinson College students to cele-
brate their first football victory ovar
Penn State in more than a q
tury. The students waited
minute after midnight to
until
A truce was called by the officers when
{five of the participants were locked in
ent trend of times, and so different
from the ordinary discussions atin-
stitute that teachers and visitors
were most favorably impressed with
his remarks.
the local jail. Monday Dickinson stu-
The second man to go was Frank dents went on a big prwcnic to top off the
Clark, of Greene county, serving gemonstration.
eighteen months to three years for _ pg, county's claimant to the title
larceny. He walked away from |, champion snake killer dispatched 154
the creamery shortly after six o'clock | full-grown reptiles during the summer
At the Tuesday morning session |
Prof. Felts talked on the learning
cycle and in the afternoon Dr. Wil- |
liam Rainey Bennett, of Chicago, |
gave a rather humorous discourse |
on second wind—wings, feet and!
legs.
At a meeting of the rural section,
held in the court house at 11 o'clock
Tuesday morning, G. E. Ardery gave |
a report of the State Educational
Association convention. Similar re-
ports were made to the graded sec-
tion in the High school building by
Miss Martha Barnhart, and the
High school section by H. S. Als-
house. In the latter section, on
Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Robert C.
Shaw, deputy State superintendent
of public instruction, discussed
teacher's. compensation.
On Wednesday morning Dr. Ben-
Jett talked on the art of living and
in starting out stated that we have
the greatest country in the world
but haven't learned how to run it
In Chicago 125,000 children started
to school this fall hungry and if
something isn't done some of them
will faint in the school rooms.
There are three things wrong with
our country. Greed, stupidity,
ignorance. Greed has killed the
goose that laid the golden egg.
Stupidity has allowed us to go
along until we are ashamed to admit
itt Ignorance has temporarily
wrecked the world but we are going
to snap out of it. We do not want
communism or facism. Stop help-
ing Europe and allow our people to
consume our own product. Raise
wages, shorten hours and lower
prices. Keep children out of fac-
tories and put them in school where
they belong.
Dr. Shaw talked on creating val-
ues and compared the amount of
money spent on education in Penn-
sylvania, $188,000,000, with what is
spent annually for tobacco, drink,
ice cream, the theatres, jewelry and
sporting goods, approximately $574,-
000,000. Yet people say we are
spending too much on education.
In the afternoon Dr. Henderson
talked on education for democracy
and Dr. Bennett continued his dis-
had been the decision of the com-
mittee to use cast iron pipe and the
matter was referred to the commit. |
tee with power to make selection of
the lowest bid when all the bids
have been received.
Borough bills amounting to $1,-
030.64 and water bills for $882.76
course on the art of living.
Delegates elected to an education-
al convention in Pittsburgh includ-
ed H. O. Crain and Miss Louise L.
Hoffer, of Philipsburg.
—-—The Ladies Aid society of the
Presbyterian church will hold it's
were approved for payment, after
which council adjourned.
on Tuesday morning. | season, according to his statement last
————— | week. Ninety-seven of the snakes were
| copperheads and 57 rattlers. The claim-
MISSIONARY RALLY AT jant to the title is M. H. Kuhn, resi-
EVANGELICAL CHURCH. (dent of Canoe Creek, Frankstownn town-
yo — | ship, who carried on his highly success-
The Woman's Missionary society (y war against the reptiles while engag-
of the rt district, Evan. ed in cutting a right-useway over Tus-
gelical church, held a group rally in carora mountain for the Penn Central
the Bellefonte church last Thursday.
The program consisted of devotional
services, special music, readings, a
round table conference and splendid
talks at both the afternoon and eve-
ning sessions by Rev. E. A. Lehman,
superintendent of the Red Bird mis-
sion, in Kentucky. The local so-
ciety served a delicious supper, in
the social room of the church, to the
sixty-five delegates and friends pres-
ent from all over the district.
BROTHER CLEANING GUN,
SISTER SHOT IN HIP.
Edith M. Auman, fifteen year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
Auman, of Spring Mills, was brought
to the Centre County hospital, Mon-
day evening, with a bullet in her
left hip, the result of an older broth-
er cleaning a gun which he didn’t
know was loaded. The accident
occurred late Monday afternoon. At
this writing the bullet has not been
located and until an X-ray is taken
it will not be possible to determine
how serious the wound is. It is not
likely, however, that the girl's con-
dition will prove critical.
HARTER'S GARAGE ROBBED
OF TWO SETS AUTO TOOLS.
Last Thursday night some un.
known individual broke into the pri-
vate garage of editor Thomas H.
Harter and stole all the tools from
the Harter car, as well asthe entire
set from the Ford car of Charles
Mensch Jr. So far as could be
seen no attempt was made to take
out either of the cars, and the fact
that tools, only, were taken would
look as if the robbery had been com-
mitted by boys who intended selling
the tools or some one who wanted
to equip a garage of his own.
After a continuous service of
more than forty-eight years with
the West Virginia Pulp and Paper
company, at Tyrone, Richard Beas-
ton will be placed on the retired
list on October 31st. With his re-
tirement the pulpwood department
of the company, of which he had
annual sale at the chapel Thursday,
December 10th.
charge, will be moved to New York
city.
! Light and Power company. Most of
| them were killed between Lewistown and
Shade Gap. The right-of-way was 12
miles long. A number of the skins
were preserved by Mr, Kuhn and are be-
ing made into belts.
—Bear can't kill sheep for John Yoder,
Reedsville farmer, and get away with it.
Mr. Yoder borrowed a rifle from a
neighbor after a sheep from his flock
had been killed and on the way home
heard his dogs barking. He found a
huge black bear up a large oak tree.
As Mr. Yoder approached bruin dropped
to the ground and reared himself on his
hind legs. Mr. Yoder's first shot broke
the bear's neck. Ralph McCoy, Mifflin
county game protector, and Herman Fish-
er, game refuge keeper, were called and
took charge of the carcass. They skin-
ned it and gave the meat to the Mifflin
county almshcuse and the head and hide
to Mr. Yoder, The pear weighed 210
pounds dressed, one of the largest ever
shot in that region.
—Prominent in church, political and
fraternal circles, Porter W. Smith, Ty-
rone, clerk of Tyrone camp, No. 5518,
Modern Woodmen of America, on Mon-
day confessed to misappropriating $1,-
800 of the order's funds. On Sunday he
told William Wolfgang of his defalca-
tions, and Monday morning went to the
Tyrone office of Richard H. Gilbert, dis.
trict attorney, and admitted his guilt.
He was taken to the county jail later in
the day. Tle discrepancies in Smith's
books were revealed wnen the Tyrone
camep received a communication recent-
ly from national head-quarters, stating
that the camp had been suspended on ac-
count of non-payment of dues. Smith
is heavily bonded and it is believed that
the bonding company will press the
charges against him.
—Zachary Sprankle, Blair county farme
er and teamster, has had bad luck. Sev-
eral weeks ago Sprankle lost his home in
a disastrous fire. His wife and two
children suffered painful burns in the
blaze and required medical attention.
The family lost all of their clothing and
personal belongings. A.ter getting tem-
porarily settled, Sprankle sent his truck
to town several days ago and the driver
hit a young woman, adding expense to
his troubles and worries. And to cli-
max the series of events, he is now care
rying his right arm in a sling the re-
sult of falling off his ‘‘cookery” at his
farm where he prepares food for his
hogs. He was making some minor re-
pairs to the ‘cookery when he fell to
the ground. And with all that, Zak says
“‘qverything’s O, K. by me,” emphasize
|ing his remark with a smile,