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BY GEORGE R. MEEK.
__The Norfolk, Virginia, Peacock
that strutted so during the hunt for
the Lindbergh baby, isn’t nearly the
gorgeous bird he was before his
tail feathers were plucked.
Congressman Kvale, of Minne-
gota, who represents Volstead’s Dis-
trict, and Congressman Howard, for-
mer private secretary of the late
william Jennings Bryan, both voted
for the beer bill.
__Our solution of the depression
problem is to float enough bonds to
rovide one half of the country’s
opulation with all the money it
needs to buy gas and hot dogs and
the other half with enough to build
filling stations and wienie roasters.
Another inspection period for
motors will begin on July 1. As the
great army of public officials in-
creases something must be improvis-
ed to keep it busy. The day rapidly
approaches when all the public will
have time to do is fill ou. govern-
ment reports and submit to official
inquisition.
_In 1926 Governor Pinchot said
ten cents a vote was all that any-
one should be permitted to expend
in a primary campaign. Nearly
four times that much was spent in
the vain endeavor to nominate his
set- up in the recent Senatorial race.
As yet there has been no protest
from the Governor.
—We are amazed that any Demo-
crat would give serious heed to the
story sent out by Republican trouble
makers to the effect that Al Smith
will run as an independent if Roocse-
velt is nominated for President by
our party. In the first place, Alis'nt
digging his own political grave, just
yet. In the second, he isn’t and never
was that kind of a Democrat.
—Beware of political snake doc-
tors who have schemes to lift the
country out of the slough. There is
no possible legislation that can cure
the present ailment. It must cure
itself by normal economic processes
and the sooner the people accept
this diagnosis the sooner they will
settle down to adjusting themselves
to the deflated order of things, One
can’t eat his cake and have it, too.
—After all, the further investiga-
tors dig into the financial wizardy
of Ivar Kreugar, the Sweedish Match
King, the more convinced the pub-
lic ought to become that there
would never be “Cassie” Chadwicks,
Ponzies and Kreugars if the financial
streams were not so full of suckers.
Ivar owed merely one hundred and
sixty-eight million when he decided
to head off the process servers with
a bullet.
—Amelia Earhart Putnam cele-
‘brated the fifth anniversary of
Lindbergh's solo flight across the At-
lantic by doing the same thing her-
Self, When the glory of the achieve-
ment wears off we wonder whether
Amelia, in the moments of retro-
Spection that come to us all, will be
disturbed by the thought that her
husband was rather light hearted
when she fared forth on that peril-
ous flight.
—On Monday, when the bill was
before Congress to legalize 2.759,
beer the Hon. J. Banks Kurtz voted
“No.” The Hon. J, Mitchell Chase
was present, but was recorded as
not voting. The result was closer
than was expected. A change of
thirty votes would have carried the
proposal. The test was made mere-
ly to put every Congressman who is
Seeking re-election on record as to
Just where he stands with regard to
modifying the Volstead Act,
—Remember, please, that it was
Senator David I. Walsh, a Demo-
‘crat, who reintroduced a bill to pass
a general sales tax and eliminate all
the nuisance taxes that have been
Proposed to raise revenue. After all,
a sales tax would be the fairest
revenue measure that could be
enacted. It would be Democratic,
because it would discriminate
against no one. We want you to
keep in mind the fact that Demo-
‘crats in the Senate and in the House
are offering a Republican Senate
and a Republican President all the
Sane opportunities to get some-
Where,
—The Roosevelt-for-President
League, of Pennsylvania, controlled
the Democratic State Committee
when it met to organize for the
‘ampaign on Thursday of last week.
John R. Collins was defeated for re-
election as State Chairman by War-
Ted VanDyke, his former secretary,
and Sedwick Kistler was re-elected
35 Pennsylvania’s member of the
Nationa] Committee, The vote for
State Chairman was 65 to 46, show-
ing that Mr, Joseph Guffey, of
Pittsburgh, who set out to put him-
Self in control of the organization
5 soon as Roosevelt looked like
the best bet for the presidential
Nomination, played his cards with
bis accustomed skill. The re-elec-
tion of Mr. Kistler was only a sop.
He would have been treated as ruth-
lessly as John Collins had Guffey
Dot been so foolish as to figure that
he will continue to be the “Angel”
% the party in the State. Mr. Kist-
er should not resign, neither should
he continue to be “the butter and
82 man” for a lot of political sol-
diers of fortune.
ARs
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AA ANN
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 22.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 27, 1932.
A LARGE NUMBER OF
CASES DISPOSED OF
IN COURT LAST WEEK
Woman Sent to Mifflin County Jail
Because She Couldn’t Pay a Fine
and Costs.
In addition to the large number of
pleas of guilty heard at quarter
sessions court and published in last
week’s Watchman, the following
cases were disposed of last week:
Clifford Kelly, of Philipsburg, as-
sault and battery and threats. Pros-
ecutor Budd Wining. The jury re-
turned a verdict of not guilty and di-
vided the costs between the prosecu-
tor and defendant, the court commit-
ting both men until costs are paid.
Margaret Peters, of Philipsburg,
plead guilty to contributing to the
delinquency of a minor child (her
sister) and was sentenced to pay
the costs, a dollar fine and commit-
ted to the industrial home for wo-
men, at Muncy.
Mary Jane Bartlebaugh, of Phil-
ipsburg, plead guilty to the charge
of fornication and was sentenced to
pay the costs, $100 fine and stand
committed until the sentence is
complied with. Not being able to
settle she was taken to the Mifflin
county jail, at Lewistown,
Clyde Albert, of Osceola Mills,
faced the court on a charge of lar-
ceny but after a jury was drawn and
sworn in counsel for the defendant
asked that a juror be withdrawn and
the case continued until the Septem-
ber term of court, which was done
at the cost of the defendant.
William Matts, of Port Matilda,
was convicted of the charge of dis-
orderly conduct, but his attorney
promptly made an application tor a
new trial and sentence was suspend-
ed pending disposition of the appli- |
cation.
In the case of Bruce Reed, of Phi:-
ipsburg, tried on the charge of as-
sault and battery and robbery, a
verdict of not guilty was returned,
but in another case against him on
the charge of malicious mischief he
was found guilty. Sentence was sus-
pended pending action against the
man for failure to make good on a
court order for $20 a month for the
support of his wife issued in Febru-
ary, 1929.
Russel Flick, of Philipsburg, plead
guilty to the charge of malicious
mischief and was sentenced to pay
the costs, a dollar fine and six
month’s imprisonment in the Alle-
gheny county workhouse.
Annie Sokolosky, of Philipsburg,
who has been before the Centre
county court so frequently that she
might be characterized as a ‘“regu-
lar,” was convicted of a violation of
the liquor laws and was sentenced
to pay the costs, $500 for the use of
Centre county and imprisonment in
the Allegheny county workhouse for
two years, the imprisonment to be
suspended pending her good behav-
ior.
Bernard Smith, of Philipsburg,
plead guilty to the charge of deser-
tion and non-support and was sen-
tenced to pay $30 a month for the
support of his wife, was released for
to file a bond in the sum of $300
within ten days or be committed to
the Allegheny couny workhouse.
Frank R. Stricker, who is in ar-
rears on a court order made in May,
1929, to pay $25 a month to the
support of his wife, was released for
thirty days so he can make an effort
to pay something on the order.
George R. Kohut, of State Coilege,
brought into court on a bench war-
rant to face a charge of violation of
the liquor laws, was sentenced to
pay the costs, $25 fine and placed on
probation for two years.
LeRoy Umholtz entered a plea of
nolle contendre to the charge of the
larceny of a motor vehicle and was
sentenced to pay the costs, a dollar
fine and one year’s imprisonment in
the county jail. In another case
against Umbholtz for breaking, enter-
ing and larceny, sentence was sus-
pended upon the payment of the
costs.
George Long plead guilty to the
charge of larceny, breaking and en-
tering and was sentenced to pay the
costs, a dollar fine and imprisonment
in the county jail for three to eigh-
teen months to date from May 6th.
A detainer was also lodged against
Long on the charge of perjury.
Jeremiah Lehman plead guilty to
the charge of desertion and non-
support and was ordered to pay $20
a month, give bond in the sum of
$500 within ten days or be commit-
ted to the Allegheny county work-
house.
Nolle prosses were entered in the
cases against David Dixon, charged
with surety of the peace, and Fred
Reitz, of Harris township, charged
with a violation of the liquor laws.
Attorney John J. Bower presented
a petition for the parole of Sylvester
(Doggie) Meyers, of Jacksonville,
who several months ago was sen-
tenced to pay a fine of $100 and
|
ELECTRIC SERVICE
MAY BE EXTENDED
DOWN TO WOODWARD
A public meeting was held in the
P. O. S. of A, hall at Woodward, on
Wednesday evening, in an effort to
interest residents of that section of
the county in an extension of ‘ine
West Penn Power company’s service
line from Aaronsburg to Woodward.
The movement was started at this
time because the Department of
Commerce has made application for
electric service at the Woodward
i beacon light, which offers an excel-
lent opportunity for farmers along
the line as well as business men and
residents of Woodward to secure the
service at a minimum rate.
The meeting, Wednesday evening,
was attended by a number of West
Penn officials, Mr. McGee, a com-
missioner of rural electrification in
the State Department of Labor and
Industry, and Mr. Black, an electri-
cal engineer in the same depart-
{ ment, Some fifteen or twenty resi-
dents of that section of the county
attended the meeting.
In order to secure the construc-
tion of a line by the West Penn, un-
der an order of the Public Service
Commission it will be necessary for
the citizens of that locality to give
a guarantee of $90 a month revenue.
This would require thirty signers
or guarantors at a minimum cost
of $3.00 a month. Some ten or
twelve signers had been received
previous to the meeting on Wednes-
day evening, and eight or ten at the
meeting. The number already signed,
however, is not sufficient to justify
construction of the line by the West
Penn.
If sufficient signers are not ob-
tained within a reasonable time the
Department of Commerce will build
it’s own line to the Woodward bea-
con light and then, if at anytime in
the future residents of that locality
desire to secure electric service it
will cost them considerably more
than is now asked, probably a guar-
antee of from $6.00 to$8.00 a month.
They can never expect to get a
better opportunity than the preseht
to secure the service at such a rea-
sonable cost.
| WORK PROGRESSING AT
BELLEFONTE RESERVOIR
Contractor C. A. Talbert is push-
ing the work of repairing the Belle-
fonte reservoir as fast as possible
but at that it is going to prove a
much bigger job than the Walter
committee anticipated. A trench sev-
eral feet deep has been dug entire-
ly around the wall of the reservoir
land from the condition of the wall
it will have to be put down another
foot or eighteen inches as the foun-
dation for the concrete retaining
wall.
The reservoir, by the way, is a
regular milestone of the growth cf
Bellefonte. The original storage basin
was about 16x7 feet in size and 10
feet deep. When it was enlarged to
its present size it was built up only
about ten feet. Later it was raised
some five feet and as the town ex-
panded and buildings were erected
on the higher points another addi-
tion was built. on top of the old
wall until now it is 26 feet deep.
The present repairs call for anoth-
er addition of from 18 inches to
two feet. While the upper portion
of the wall has been where the
most leakage occurred, there is a
seepage through the lower section
and it is because of this fact that
the retaining wall will be put down.
deeper than was at first anticipated.
With a concrete retaining wall on
the outside and a concrete lining on
the inside, to be poured without a
break, it is believed that the reset-
voir can be made absolutely water
tight.
——Recently there has been con-
siderable speculation among the
people of Bellefonte as to how the
Kreuger financial fiasco will effect
the Bellefonte plant of the Federal
Match company, and inquiry, at the
office of the plant brought forth no
definite information. Mr. Troup,
manager, stated that he didn't be-
lieve it would affect the plant in
any way, although he had no defi-
nite information as to the outcome,
The plant has been operating on full
time during the past few weeks but
how long it will last is not known.
——At a hearing before United
States commissioner Charles S. Wil-
liams, in Williamsport, last Friday,
Lee Rossman, of Salona, was held in
$2000 bail for trial at federal court
on the charge of possession and
manufacturing intoxicating liquor.
His mother, Mrs .Sidney Rossman,
signed his bail bond.
serve a year in jail for a violation of
the liquor laws, but the court defer-
red a decision at this time.
MRS. ECKEL BUYS THE
HOME PROPERTY AT
ORPHAN’S COURT SALE
The real estate and personal prop-
erty of the late John P. Eckel was
sold at orphan’s court sale, last Sat-
urday. The real estate consisting of
the house and lot on Reynolds ave-
nue and an adjoining lot, was pur-
chased by Mrs. Eckel for $1200. She
also bought the automobile and va-
rious other things.
Included in the offerings were in
the neighborhood of 800 shares of a
dozen different kind of stocks, among
them 11 shares of the Farmer's Na-
tional Bank of Bellefonte. This
stock was bid up to $69, which was
considered too low, and it was bid
in at $70 a share. Five shares of
Durant motors went for 75 cents,
Fifteen shares of the Glass Casket
corporation were purchased by a Le-
mont woman for $3.00. Eliminating
the Farmers National bank stock all
the others brought considerably less
than fifty dollars, and that was prob-
ably more than they were worth to-
day, as not one of the dozen or
more Stocks is listed on any ex-
change.
BOLD BURGLARS ROBBED
HAROLD COWHER’S STORE
Between 10:30 and 11 o’clock, last
Friday night, two bold burglars
broke the rear window in Harold
Cowher’s clothing store, on south
Allegheny street, and got away with
goods of an estimated value of
$160.00.
They took five dozen neckties,
three dozen shirts, four or five pairs
of shoes and several pairs of trous-
ers.
To get to the rear of the store
the meh went in through the nar-
row alleyway between Frank Gal-
braith’s and the Bellefonte Hardware
company building. Mr, Galbraith
heard them and went to his bedroom
window to see what was going on
just as the men climbed out of the
rear window. Afraid to go out the
alleyway they climbed a high board
fence to the rear of Clevenstine’s
bakery, As it happened, Clevenstine
had a lot of ice cream containers
piled against the fence and ome of
the men dropped onto them and up-
set the whole pile, creating a rack-
et sufficient to rouse most every-
body in that neighborhood. Mr.
Clevenstine went to the window but
not quick enough to see the men.
The Caldwells, across the street,
were playing cards at the time, and
the mon ran out to see what had oc-
curred, but were too late to get a
glimpse of the robbers. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Galbraith saw them, but did not
recognize them.
In crawling over the high hoard
fence one of the men lost three of
the stolen shoes and a pair of trous-
ers.
BURNS PROVE FATAL TO
WARRIORSMARK CHILD
Virginia Genie Biddle, five year
old daughter of Paul and Catherine
Biddle, of Warriorsmark, died at the
Philipsburg State hospital, last Sat-
urday, as he result of major burns
sustained two days previous.
The child was playing in the yard
where it’s mother was heating water
in a large kettle over an open log
fire to do the family wash She
gathered a handful of waste paper
and in an effort to throw it on the
fire got too close to the flames with
the result that her clothing caught
fire. Her mother smothered the
flames as quickly as possible but
not before the little girl was hadly
burned about the face, head ard up-
per portion of the body. First aid
was rendered by a local physician
after which she was taken to the
Philipsburg hospital. %
The parents and thirteen brothers
and sisters survive, Burial was
made in Burkett’s cemetery on Mon-
day morning.
——Eleven noted authors will lec-
ture during the coming summer
session at the Pennsylvania State
College. Among them ‘will be Corne-
lia Bryce Pinchot, wife of the Gov-
ernor, who will speak of the South
Seas and show motion pictures tak-
en on their recent voyage; Major
Thomas Coulson, author of “Mata
Hari;” T. Ray Hansen, lawyer, who
has been active in prosecuting gang-
sters; Dr. W. T. Root, head of the
department of psychology, Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh; George E. Sokol-
sky, an authority on political and
economic conditions in Russia; Har-
old Field, executive director of the
national league for American citizen-
ship; Thomas Craven, art critic;
Davis Edwards, dramatic elecution-
ist; Frederick M. Snyder, of Johns-
Hopkins University; Dr, H. E. Howe,
editor of “Industrial Engineering
Chemistry;” and Tom Skeyhill, sol-
dier, poet and author.
BELLEFONTE HIGH SCHOOL -
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT
The annual commencement exer-
cises of the Bellefonte High school
will begin with the baccalaureate
sermon in the Presbyterian church,
Sunday evening, at 7:30 o'clock.
The Junior declamatory contest
will be held on Monday evening.
The closing exercises of the grade
schools will be held in the Richelieu
theatre next Thursday morning, at
9:45 o'clock. They will be as fol-
lows:
Part I. Grades 5-6, A and B, sing-
ing “The Ride of Paul Revere.”
Part II. Grades 7-8, A and B,
presenting “Four Episodes in the
Life of George Washington.”
Part III. Grades 1-2 Bishop street
building, presenting the modern
version of the ‘Old Woman Who
Lived in a Shoe.”
Part IV. Grades 1-2 Allegheny
street, ‘“Goldenlocks and the Three
Bears.”
Part V. 3-4, A and B, “America,
the Melting Pot of the World.”
The graduating class numbers 61
as follows: Lee Alexander, Charles
Beckwith, Nevin Bierly, Marlon
Bruss, Ardery Calhoun, Clark Hile,
Randolph Houck, Francis Koski,
Leonard Lambert, Kenneth Lucas,
Carl McKinley, George Meek, Sam-
uel Noll, Harold O'Bryan, Albert
Osman, George Parsons, Pearce
Rumberger, Charles Sellers, Walter
Smith, Franklin Stover, Thomas
Summers, Gerald Tressler, Robert
Wayne, Allen Weaver, Robert Wil-
kinson, James Williams, Dale Zim-
merman.
Mary Bickett, Gladys Billett,
Isabel Breon, Adaline Brooks, Caro-
line Brouse, Martha Brugger, Betty
Campbell, Lillian Cox, Annette Deck-
er, Aline Fisher, Vivian Fisher, Mary
Fleming, Christine Gunsallus, Eliza-
beth Herr, Arlene Houtz, Geraldine
Hoy, Isabel Jodon, Eleanor Johnson,
Effie Keller, Eleanor Lucas,
Marian MacMillan, Phyllis Malone,
Sarah Osman, Ruth Poorman, Eve-
lyn Roberts, Pearl Rote, Mildred
Smith, Bernadine Spear, Dorothy
Stover, Grace Stover, Gladys Walk-
er, Martha Walker, Eleanor Weaver,
Mabel Woomer,
BELLEFONTE WOMEN WILL
DISCUSS BUGS AND BUGS
The Woman’s Club of Bellefonte
will hold its final meeting for the
year at the home of Mrs. Henry
Kahlmus, on east Curtin street,
Tuesday evening, May thirty-first,
at seven-thirty o’clock. The election
of officers will be held and reports
will be given by the chairmen of
the various committees. Part of the
evening will be devoted to the dis-
cussion of household insects and
their control.
These insects, spoken of as the
“fearful seven,” are flies, mosquitoes,
moths, cockroaches, bedbugs, fleas
and ants, all of which are the most
dangerous and most deadly of man’s
insect foes, In comparison to the
number of insects there are only a
handful of people in the world. A
few other facts of interest are that
the depradations of insects in the
United States each year nullifies the
labor of a million men; that the
annual vital loss (human and ani-
mal) to the nation attributed to in-
sects reaches the staggering sum
of $358,000,000; that household in-
sects carry the germs of not less
than 30 diseases; that in a single
season one female can produce 5,-
598,720,000,000 flies; that the tiny
household fly has been responsible
for more deaths than all the wars
and wild beasts combined; that
“America has more flies and more
typhoid fever than any other nation
in the world.” It would be difficult
to find a subject of more vital con-
cern to the health and welfare of the
individual and the nation.
A paper entitled “Insect Menace
to Public Health,” prepared by the
Rex Research Foundation of Chicago,
under the direction of Dr. O. F.
Hedenburg, noted scientist and in-
sect authority, will be read by Miss
Isabella Sinclair Hill, teacher of
English at the Bellefonte Academy.
This is a really worth-while educa-
tional program, and all members
and their friends are invited to be
present.
As it has always been customary
to discontinue the meetings of the
club during the summer months, this
will be the last meeting until Sep-
tember.
According to a report filed in
Harrisburg, on Monday, the Pinchot
committee of Centre county receiv-
ed $900 of the fund raised by the
two per cent assessment on the sal-
aries of State employees for the
primary campaign in the county.
Who got the money or how it was
expended report saith not.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONB
—Requests for more than 70,000 ring-
neck phesant eggs for hatching have
been filed with the State Game Commis-
sion.
—Ralph Kramer, 7, of near Shamokin,
died as the result of a 15-inch splinter
puncturing his stomach while he was
sliding down a board at Edgewood Park.
—At least two million visitors are ex-
pected to enjoy the recreational areas
within the Pennsylvania State Forests
this year, according to an announcement
from Harrisburg.
—Police are looking for some thieves
who went to a lot of trouble to tow a
foot bridge out of Lycoming creek, near
Williamsport. Their trail was picked up
when the stringers of the bridge were
found on the banks of the Susquehanna
river some distance above the mouth of
the creek.
—Gerald Tingley, 32, of New Milford,
Susquehanna county, was crushed to
death Monday afternoon when a tractor
which he was endeavoring to unload
from a truck fell upon him. The accident
occurred on the farm of Harold Stewart,
at New Milford. Tingley is survived by
his widow and two children.
—Robbers who stole $2500 Mike Good-
ish had buried in the basement of hid
home in Allison, Pa., are being sought
by state police. Goodish said there was
no indication that the ground over the
glass jar holding the money had been
disturbed. He discovered the loss when
he became apprehensive and dug up the
jar.
—Durbin L. Fye, Oil City, 3eeks a
total of $75,000 damages in a suit on ile
in Franklin against three Oil City phy-
sicians and the Oil City hospital. Fye
charges he suffered permanent injuries
when through negligence infection de-
veloped in a fractured leg. He was un-
der treatment in the hospital more than
two months.
—The Hanover fair grounds were re-
cently sold at public auction to L. B.
Sheppard, of Hanover, for $56,750. The
real estate was owned by the Hanover
Agricultural society which held annual
agricultural exhibitions on the grounds:
for the past 47 years. The transfer af-
fected 43 acres of land, stables and ex-
hibition buildings.
—Ivan Breth, of Mahaffey, driver of
the car which struck and killed Mervin
J. Queen, formerly of Coalport, who at-
tempted to hold him up after having
robbed several persons in Mrs. Clara
Bradbury’s gas station, near McGee's
Mills one week ago, was completely ex-
onerated by a coroner’s jury at an in-
quest held in Clearfield.
—Thieves who carried away a 1400-
pound safe in the office of the Allen
Quarries Co., on the Hickley pike, near
Allentown, and cracked it open, found
only a bunch of keys and a time book.
Constable Harvey Fenstermacher, of
Egypt, and State Highway patrolman
Czarick, discovered the safe on the road
between West Coplay and Eagle Point.
—Convicted of driving his auto while
intoxicated, Harry F. Knapp, a farmer
living near Shamokin, pleaded with Judge
Morganroth in court at Sunbury that i
he were jailed on his six month’s sen-
tence immediately he would not be able to
work his farm. Judge Morganroth decreed
sentence should begin next October 1, so
Knapp can plant and harvest his crops
and support his family.
—George R. Webb, suspended Lock
Haven policeman and David L. Probst,
detective of the same city, have been
granted postponement of their appeals
for a new trial by the U. S. district court.
Their pleas were put over until the June
term because they could not raise $700
to have testimony transcribed. They were
convicted in Scranton in April on charges
of intimidating federal witaesses.
—A Sunday picnic was at its height
near Washington, Pa., on Sunday, when
Edward Markle, 18, decided he’d give
Margaret Wiley, a friend, a scare and a
thrill. He adjusted his belt around his
neck, fixing the catch so it wouldn't be
too tight. He leaped from a tree, after
fastening the end of the belt to a limb.
Something went wrong. Before the youth
could be rescued he strangled to death.
—Five years ago Katherine Monori
came to America from Budapest, unable
to speak a word of English. On the first
day of school she knew two English
words, ‘yes’ and ‘no.” Tuesday night
she was graduated with second highést
honors in a class of 271 from the Wil-
kinsburg High school and delivered the
salutatory address on ‘‘Law Enforcement
in America” with scarcely a trace of
foreign accent. By winning honors in the
class she also won a four year scholar-
ship in Westminister College.
—An aged Civil war veteran and his
wife, Mr. and Mrs. John Kepler, of Shin-
town, Clinton county, were robbed of
about $450 in bills from recently cashed
pension checks, Saturday night, by
thieves who entered their home while
they were asleep. Mr. Kepler had re-
cently cashed pension checks amounting
to about $450 and the bills had been
left in a roll in the pocket of his trous-
ers. His watch and chain, small change,
and other articles in the pockets were
not taken, but the roll of bills was gone.
—Humane death and .lecant burial of
all of Mrs. Jennie S. Bris*or's household
pets is directed in her will, entered at
the Franklin county court house at Cham-
bersburg for probate. The woman in her
will stated: ‘I most earnestly desire and
most emphatically request and direct my
said executor, H. H. Spangler (Mercers-
burg attorney), to have all my dumb
animals, both dogs and cats, which have
been my faithful companions and only
comfort during my declining years, put
to death in the most merciful humane
manner possible and to be decently
buried in the garden where I now live.”
—Horace Bressler, 52-year-old barber,
of Danville, shot and fatally wounded
his wife, Mrs. Emma M. Bressler, aged
42 years, in the bedroom of their home
early on Wednesday morning, and then
ended his life with a pistol bullet
through his brain. Following the shoot-
ing Mrs. Bressler was taken to the Geis-
inger hospital, where she died at 10:40
the same morning, eastern standard
time. She suffered wounds of the neck
and left ear. Two sons and three daugh-
ters, three of the children being at
home, survive. Neighbors told police the
couple had been quarreling intermittent-
ly for the last two days and that on
Tuesday Bressler was overheard to say
he ‘had a surprise’ for his wife.