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INK SLINGS.
BY GEORGE R. MEEK.
—Can’'t you see Mrs. Nick Long-
worth thumbing her nose at Dolly
Gans if the Republicans scrap Vice
President Curtis.
—It was significant that mention |
of Roosevelts' name in the Republi-
can Convention incited more vocifer-
ous cheering than that of Hoover.
The Pennsylvania delegation
to tke Republican National Conven-
tion got away from State Chairman
Martin on the prohibition question
and left him to pusseyfoot alone.
—At Newark, N. J., September 17,
1928, Herbert Hoover said: “We
have reached the highest standard
of living, unparalleled in the world.”
So we had, but he was elected two
months later and look at us now,
—If they send Gaston B. Means
to the pen for having bamboozled
Mrs. Evalyn Walsh out of a hundred |
grand they ought to appoint a com- |
missic to put her in a place where
she will no longer be a temptation
for slickers.
—The boys and girls whom the
depression has chased to the parent-
al mahogany for a meal ticket are
not saying: “What's the big idea ?" |
when their father or mother vouch-
safes a bit of sound advice. They
have discovered that nobody ever
gets the world by the tail.
—Clarence True Wilson, F. Scott
McBride and Bishop Cannon are at
the Chicago Convention. And, It)
might be said, they have had a
hectic time between keeping the
Republican elephant from tramping
on them and dodging the hoofs of
“The Brewers' Big Horses."
— The Bellefonte Sportsmen's As-|
sociation is going to dedicate its |
organization to the promotion of
good manners among thoze who hunt
and fish. It will be a hard job, made
so because the homes and the schools
of our land seem to have forgotten
that gentility is a desirable trait.
Seersucker suits are said to be
in vogue for summer Wear. If you
have to be in style and wear a
thirty-eight, buy a forty-eight. We
the last time they were
worn, and when it came home from
its first visit to the laundry the
whole thing wouldn't have mace a
slobbering bib for a baby.
who told him that Glenn's dead
body had been found in the creek
Troutwine, an Altoona fisherman.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 77.
STATE COLLEGE YOUTH |
DROWNED LAST WEEK
NEAR McALEVY’'S FORT.
Had Gone There With Fishing Party | The Centre county board of the
For a Few Hours Sport on Stone | Mothers’ Assistance Fund met in
Creek, | the library of the court house, on
er | Tuesday, to reorganize for the en-
Joseph Glenn, 21-year-old son of 4 year, a fact rendered neces-
Mrs. Elsie Glenn Meyer, of State) by Governor Pinchot's removal
College, was drowned in a shallow | of “two members of the old board
pool of water, in Stone creek, near! ang the appointment of two other
McAlevy's Fort, on Wednesday af- women to take their place, and the
ternoon of last week, Nobody S&W | appointment of a third new member
the accident happen and the actual to take the place of one whose term
cause of his death is mostly surmise. nad expired.
Glenn has for some years been Present at the meeting were Mrs.
subject to fainting spells. On Wed- | Frank D. Gardner and Mrs. William
nesday afternoon he accompanied F.| Young, of State College; Miss Mary
L. Struble, of State College, and Hunter Linn and Mrs, John S. Som-
James Kline, of Pine Grove Mills, | merville, of Bellefonte, and Mrs.
on a fishing trip to Stone creek. Ruth Crain, of Port Matilda. Mrs.
They arrived at McAlevy's Fort Arthur C. Dale, one of the new
about two o'clock. Kline decided he members appointed by the Governor,
would fish for suckers and made his was detained at home owing to the
way to a deep hole in the creek. illness of one of her children.
Struble went down stream fly-cast- The board reorganized by electing
ing for trout. Glenn stated that he Mrs. Gardner, president; Mrs. Crain,
would stay with Kline, | vice president, and Mrs. Young,
Struble fished until about five! secretary-treasurer,
o'clock then went up stream to join, On Tuesday Governor Pinchot ap-
his companions. He found Kline who pointed Mrs. Edna B. Hassinger, of
told him that Glenn had started Millheim, a member of the board in
down stream an hour previous. place of Miss Linn, of Bellefonte,
Struble went to where their car was whose term had expired and who
parked but Glenn was not there. refused a reappointment. This will
Kline then started up stream to make four new members of the
hunt for him but he had not gone board, the most pronounced change
far when he met several fishermen since the fund was established four-
teen years ago.
Up to this time Governor Pinchot
has not even acknowledged the let-
| ter of protest sent him last week by
The body was left where it was the Centre- County Commissioners
discovered until the arrival of Dr. over his disruption of the old board,
John M. Keichline, coroner of Hunt-| and they are somewhat uncertain
ingdon county, who, after a com- | what action to take. One member
plete examination, pronounced death of the board averred this week that
the result of suffocation as no water he will stand pat on his declaration
was found in the lungs. The young of last week not to recognize the
man evidently had been overcome new board and is in favor of with-
with one of his fainting spells, fall- drawing the county's support.
en into the water which at that Whether that can be done in the
point was not over eighteen inches middle of the biennium period is a
deep, and been suffocated. | question. But
He was a son of Samuel and checks will be forwarded to the
about 4:50 o'clock by William
BELLEFONTE, PA.
whatever happens
because he wants to go back. But}
Col, Fred Kerr, who fought with the
boys on the other side and is their |
friend for other than political rea-
sons, is going to be the next Con-|
gressman from this District. |
—If the “Roosevelt Democrat”
from Karthaus will send us his name
we will be pleased to publish his
criticism of an editorial that appear-
ed in the Watchman of May 27.
Why so much mystery was made of
getting it to this office we are at a
‘loss to understand and as anony-
mous contributions are taboo here
we shall have to withhold publica-
tion until the writer reveals himself.
—After Fall, Sinclair and the
others of the modern Jesse Jameses
who are hanging onto the Republi-
can stole the governments’
oil fields right out from under the
very nose of Uncle Sam and a
Democratic Senator caught them
the Republican convention in Chica- |
go staged a parade of the aisles be- |
cause a plank was being written in- |
to their platform that promised
that hereafter all Republican pilfer-
ers of public resources will be slap-|
ped on the wrist. | voir
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—Right now the radio is pouring |
into our ears the report that Mr. |
Garfield is making for the resolu-|
tions committee of the Republican
National Convention in Chicago, Af-
ter having blamed all our troubles
on Central Europe he is proceeding
to tell the world what Mr. Hoover
has done and will do if given anoth-
er chance. Mr. Garfield's fulmina-
tions are now going in one ear and
out the other because we feel that
Mr. Hoover has done enough already
to make it foolhardy to think of
giving him another chance.
— Governor Harry Flood Byrd, of
Virginia, has a presidential lightning
rod up.’ While it is not likely to be
struck the Virginia Governor has
done things for his State that arrest
national attention. That is, national
so far as every other part of the
country except Harrisburg is con-
| ternoon, by Rev. Assendorf, of the
' Reformed church, burial being made |
| in the Centre Hall cemetery.
cerned. Pinchot would think Byrd
was a fool for reorganizing Virgin-| after 8 o'clock
that | out interruption
fa’s administrative process sO
one hundred different agencies were,
consolidated into twelve departments
at a saving of eight hundred thou-|
sand dollars effected in operating
costs.
Elsie Foreman Glenn and was born | mothers this month, as usual.
at Lemont. Following his father's
death his mother married Garris)
Meyer, In addition to his mother
he is survived by two brothers, |
Frank and Lynn Glenn, a half-broth-
er and a half-sister, Peter and
Sarah Meyer. Funeral services were
held at his late home, at State Col-
lege, at two o'clock on Saturday af-
TWO MEN ARRESTED
FOR FURNISHING LIQUOR |
TO ROCKVIEW PRISONERS |
Charles Bilger, of Nittany moun- |
tain, and Ambrose Dobson, of Mingo- |
ville, were arrested, last Friday
morning, on the alleged charge of
furnishing liquor to prisoners at)
released on bail but at this writing
Dobson is still in jail.
For some time past officials at |
Rockview have been convinced of the |
fact that some of the inmates were |
getting liquor from some source but
they were unable to get even a
of the underground channel until a
week or ten days ago when a negro |
inmate was found who undoubtedly
had been sampling the cup that
cheers. On being searched a partly
emptied bottle of moonshine was |
found concealed in his shi. While
the negro didn't exactly state who |
furnished him the liquor he told |
enough to give officials a lead to]
work on. |
Mr. Bilger has a saw mill on the
penitentiary lands above the reser-
in MacBride's Gap, where he
has a contract cutting timber and |
sawing railroad ties. An officer was
set to watch that place and on Fri.
day morning, concealed in the under-
brush, he saw Dobson put something
in the shirt of a prisoner, Stepping
out of his place of concealment he
accosted the prisoner and found in-
side his shirt a bottle of liquor. Dob-
son was placed under arrest and he
implicated Bilger. Both men were
brought to the Centre county jail,
but Bilger was released on bail the
same afternoon.
Furnishing liquor to prisoners in
a State institution is a serious of-
fense and punishable under an old
act of the Legislature with a fine of
$5000 and from five to twenty years
in tise penitentiary.
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——No rain that has fallen in
years was more welcome than that
Rockview penitentiary. Bilger ve |
| of Sunday. It began to rain shortly
and continued with-
until about Wwe in
ra afternoon. Sufficient water fell
during that time to soak the ground
to garden spade depth, and the re-
sult has been a big boost to farm
| bobwhite quail will
| and garden crops.
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GAME COMMISSION
MAKES SHORTER SEASON
FOR SHOOTING BEAR
Fifteen days has been knocked off
the open season for killing bear, this
year, according to an announcement
|' made by the Game Commission on
Tuesday. The season will be Novem-
ber 10th to 30th, inclusive, instead
of November 10th to December 15th.
And hunting camps will be limited
to three bear instead of four, as in
| former years. This further protection
is thrown around bear because they
appear to be growing scarcer in the
State,
Buck deer will be the only kind of
that species of game animal legal
shooting this year. The season and
limit has not been changed.
The season on wild turkeys, ring-
necked pheasants, ruffed grouse and
extend from
November 1 to November 26, inclu-
sive, with hunting permitted only on
Tuesday and Wednesday of the first
week; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday |
hint | and Friday of the second week, and |
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
the third and fourth weeks.
The season on squirrels, rabbits
and hares will extend from Novem-
ber 1 to November 30, inclusive,
with the customary six-day-a-week
hunting.
There will be no season on either
Hungarian partridges or Reeves
pheasants.
The season on fur-bearing animals
including mink, opossum, skunk, and
others remains unchanged and will
extend from November 1 to Februa-
ry 28, 1933, inclusive.
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CLEARFIELD CO. FARMERS
TO TOUR STATE COLLEGE.
Members of the Clearfield county
Dairy Herd Improvement association
and farmers in general will make a
tour to State College on Wednesday
of next week. Enroute to the Col-
lege they will stop at the Peters
Bros. dairy farm, at Stormstown, to
inspect their herd of twenty Holstein
cows. From there they will proceed
to the College where Dean R. L.
Watts will play host to the visitors,
——Sterling Decker, general man-
ager of the Montgomery Furniture
company in Lycoming county, who
died from injuries sustained on Mon-
day morning of last week when his
automobile was hit by a Pennsylva-
nia railroad train on a crossing be-
tween Montgomery and Williams-
port, was married to a Centre coun-
ty girl, Miss Berenice Swartz
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Ww.
Swartz, of State College. She sur-
vives with two children, Sterling
Jr., and Vivian.
| ESCAPED PRISONER .
Hundreds of people, probably sev-
eral thousand, all told, thronged the
Diamond, Saturday evening, to wit-
ness the raising and official presen-
| tation to Centre county of a beauti-
! ful flag and standard by Bellefonte
{camp P. O. 8. of A.
at 6:30
JUNE 17, 1932.
| The exercises began
| o'clock with a parade led by the Odd | cancelled checks.
including mem- |
| Fellows band and
| bers of Washington camp,
Belle- |
| fonte
ON BANK CHECKS
WIZL GO INTO EFFECT
TUESDAY, JUNE 21ST
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The two cent tax on all checks,
TAX
| drasis and similar instruments will |
become effective next Tuesday, June
21st. While it will hit every man
and woman who carries a checking |
account in any bank there will be
one redeeming feature, the drawer
of the check won't be bothered at-|
taching a stamp to it, The bank |
simply charges up the two cents to |
the man's account and encloses a
statement of the amount with the
Just what effect the tax may |
have on the banking business is as |
, the ladies of the P. O. of
| yet problematical. Here in Bellefonte
| A visiting delegations and Troop | yo have heard several people say |
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| sentation. The flag was accepted on
| behalf of the county by Robert F.
Hunter, County Treasurer. At the
| was unfurled to the breeze by mem- |
| bers of the camp while the band
rendered “America,” |
At this stage of the proceedings
| Mr. Love took occasion to i
District attorney John G. Love)
| paying small bills in cash. In soc do-
presided and explained in brief the | ing they will of course save the two
purpose of the gathering. Rev. Rob- | >
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| conclusion of his speech the flag Sul Hduging from a few cents to
they will cut down their
business as much as possible
by |
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checks passed through banks
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Another redeeming feature in the
new tax law is that counter checks
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drawn for cash and presented by the |
depositor are not subject to the tax. |
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—A sale of 4,844 acres of mountain
land in Noyes and Leidy townships,
Clinton county, owned by W. A. Simp-
son estate, was made recently to the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for $10,-
399.52. The coal, ciay, gas and oil rights
were retained for 40 years.
—Fastening a stick of dynamite to his
belt and setting it off with a dry-cell
battery, Michael Kerusky, 38, unemploy-
ed miner, killed himself in the cellar of
his home at Forrestviile, Sunday. He
was the father of nine children, and
had been out of work for some months.
—When John Hanik went to Union
town from Brownsville to withdraw his
$1,400 from the Citizens Title and Tiust
company, he learned for the first time
that the bank closed three years ago
and that his deposit had dwindled to
$560, the extent of the 40 per cent divi.
2ands paid.
—David Dugan, of Beaver, Pa., chided
his 18-year-old daughter for staying out
until midnight. She flew into a tantrum
and broke his glasses. Dugan spanked
her. The next day the girl charged her
father with assault and battery. In court,
Judge William A. McConnel condoned
the spanking, discharged Dugan and
placed the costs on the county.
—Three highwaymen blocked the road
and robbed George Ashcroft, Altoona ga-
rage man, while he was driving to
Pittsburgh last Thursday. They took $90
in cash and several checks from him.
The robbery occurred near Munster.
Ashecroft's car was disabled so he could
not pursue the bandits. They were in a
car bearing Michigan license plates.
—Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kepler, of
Shintown, near Renovo, from whom sav-
ings of a lifetime, approximately $1,000,
were stolen on May 22, are asking mer-
chants and business men to be on the
lookout for the money. Mr. Kepler is a
Civil war veteran, and has been a resi-
Judge M. Ward Fleming was intro-
| time saver in every bank as it will | dent of Shintown 64 years. The money
| duced and made the speech of pre- cut out & lot of book-keeping neces- | taken was mostly in $20
| sitated by the large number of
$10 and $5
bills, old currency, some gold back, and
some dated as far back as 1880. In new
currency there were $20, $10, $5 and $1
bills.
—Mrs. Adam Shafter, aged 59 years,
died Friday at her home at Maple Hill,
near Montgomery, Lycoming county, of a
fever which developed from the bite of
a rat, which she suffered about five
| Hence if John Jones has half a doz- | weeks ago. Mrs. Shaffer had been work-
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(of A. in the purchase of the flag
| and pole and the erection of the
| latter on the southwestern corner |
| of the court house yard. He then
| introduced Judge Albert W,
‘son, of Lewisburg, who made the
| principal address of the evening. He
was folldwed by Harry J. Farr, of
| Sayre, Pa, an officer in the State
tion.
At the conclusion of the flag-rais-
ing exercises there was a band con-'
cert and festival on the vacant lot, |
on Howard street, near the public
building. The gross receipts at the
festival were $146.00.
SENT BACK TO PEN AND
THREE PAROLES GRANTED
At a special session of court, on
Saturday morning, William Marlin,
who escaped from Rockview peni-
tentiary on August 1st, 1890, snd
was captured at the home of Mrs.
John- |
large majority of individuals will
come into direct contact with, There ' micial motor vehicle inspection period
will be a hundred more but they will | which runs from July 1 to September
be taken indirectly—that is, lifted 30. The new
in a way
Gamber, at Saxton, Bed-
ford county, on May 25th, was sen-
tenced to pay the costs, a dollar fine |
the penitentiary following the expir-
ation of a similar sentence imposed
in Cambria county after being con-
victed of burglary.
Austin Eisenman, the State Col-
lege young man who, two weeks
ago, passed two forged checks in
DuBois, and who at the time was
under parole in the Centre county
court for passing a worthless check,
was sentenced to pay the costs of |
bringing him back to Centre county
and had his parole term extended to
September, i834, after the probation
and parole officer made an earnest
| plea that he be given another chance,
| Sophomore to the Junior class at
State College,
James 8. Ball, a State College
student, appeared before the court
to answer to nine indictments charg- |
ing him with
checks, all of them for quite
sums and none of them over five dol-
lars, He plead guilty and was sen-
tenced to pay the costs in each case,
make good the amount of the checks
and placed on parole for two years.
The costs in the nine cases entered
against him amounted to $161.75.
John Coble, of College township,
who on February 18th, was senten-
ced to pay $100 fine and serve a
year in jail for violation of the
liquor law, was granted a parole on
condition he go to work and earn
money with which to pay his fine
and costs.
Henry (Crow) Brown, who, at the
September sessions, 1931, was con-
victed of aggravated assault and
battery for shooting a man in the
arm, and who on November
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College where he can have police
protection against the crowd that
usually hovers about his domicile.
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——The fortieth annual com-
mencement will be held at the Penn-
sylvania industrial school, at Hunt-
ingdon, at two o'clock on Monday
afternoon. The speaker for the oc-
casion will be Austin H. MacCor-
mick, assistant director of the fed-
eral bureau of prisons. The public
further testimony was taken in the
case of a
State College against the Neidigh
Bros., an equity action to compel
of that borough. That was the sec- |
| plaster on the walls of their homes
but the stones thrown by the blasts
passing worthless heavy machinery in the quarries.
opened and were in operation before
detestable nuisance to the entire
embedded.
the Cummissioner’s attorney. Justic-
is invited,
during the current yesr. _
can go to the bank, issue a counter
check, get money sufficient to pay
the bills and then go around and |
settle. But in such cases he will then
have to lose five or ten minutes at
each place until the man he pays)
makes out a receipt.
The new postage rates will be- |
come effective at midnight July 5th.
After that and until July 6th, 1934, |
unless the law is repealed in the
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mail a letter instead of two. The
new regulations for airmail provide
for eight cents for the first ounce
| meantime, or instead of two. The
and thirteen cents for each addition- |
al ounce. The present rate is five
are the two taxes that the
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that the general public is |
not able to realize, like having your
appendix taken out while under an
| anesthetic. |
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and serve three to seven years in EQUITY CASE AGAINST
THE NEIDIGH BROTHERS |
LONG DRAWN OUT
At a session of court, last Sat-
urday morning, and also this week,
number of residents of
the defendants to cease operating
their limestone quarries just south
ond and third sittings of the court
to take testimony in the case and
the end is not yet.
The complainants in the action al-
are dangerous to life and limb. They
also denounce as a nuisance the
noise and continuous vibration of the |
While the writer is not informed
as to whether the quarries had been
the homes of the complainants were
erected, or whether it was afterward
that the industry was started, it
would seem as if a man had certain |
rights in law to conduct most any
kind of an enterprise on his own |
property, so long as it was not a
community. One thing is certain, the
Neidigh Bros have no way of mov-
ing the ledge of rock which forms
the basis of their operation to anoth-
er location, If they are to be per-
mitted to operate their quarries at
all, it must be where the rock is
——The County Commissioners
have notified justices of the peace,
constables and the county coroner
that no costs will be paid in the fu-
ture unless an itemized bill for same
has been presented and approved by
es of the peace have also been cau-
tioned against entering any and all
prosecutions without merit, such as
petty cases in which the defendant
is discharged and the costs put upon
the county. During 1931 justices of
the peace, constables and the coun-
ty coroner drew a tctal of about
$8,000 from the county treasury in
costs, and the Commissioners
to pare this sum down v
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business firms and individual hi f
ES a Ths 0 | ot small bills lhe wats 10:ay he iug in the garden af har home when 3
large rat bit her finger. It maintained
its hold on her hand, until aided by her
daughter, she was able to kill it. The
wound was not considered serious for a
time but later a fever developed, which
caused the woman's death.
—There will be rn. more shaved heads
at the Pennsylvania Industrial 3echool
Reformatory at Huntingdon. Trustess
rescinded the rule requiring each new
inmate to have his head shaved on ad-
mittance and the hair trimmed short for
the first six months. New arrivals also
will be permitted to eat in the dining
hall during the first six months insted
of in their cells as customary herastofore.
Smoking also is io allowed, trusteas
ruled after superintendent John R. Cran-
er recommended the non-smoking rule
—The department of revenue Aas ane
nounced that a new type sticker has
been designed for the second semi-annual
sticker will be ultramarine
It will be waterproof, will
not wrinkle and can not be removed
whole, as could the present stickecs.
The date of inspection will be punched
on the sticker and there will be no writ-
ing or blurring. The number of the in-
spection station will
the stickers assigned to the various
tions,
Mrs. Lillian Smith, 28, shot and kill-
ed her husband, Wilbur, 29, of Derry,
as he sat in an outbuilding back of their
home on Saturday. Mrs. Smith told state
police she didn't know she had killed
her husband until about 20 minutes later
when she opened the door to the build-
ing. The young woman said she had
been shooting at rats with a .22 calibre
rifle and that she recalled shooting in
the general direction of the outbuilding.
She e surprise that a .22 bullet
could kill a man. State police are investi-
gating. They indicated hat Mrs. Smith
will not be arrested.
—Edwin J. Lapham, 33, of Cleveland,
a school teacher in that city, while at-
tempting to put up an aeriai for his
mother's radio, at Ridgway, was electro-
cuted on Monday afternoon while his
wife stood nearby. Lapham, with his
wife, had gone to Ridgway Friday on his
vacation to visit his mother. He threw a
wire over a 2300-voit line of the West
Penn Power company, in endeavoring to
run it from a tree on the hillside oppo-
site the home. The coil of wire was
around his right arm. His wife saw him
fall and rushed to his side. She was
stunned as she grabbed the wire, but
escaped serious injury.
—In a packing-house hovel that served
as his home near Broughton, Allegheny
county, Michael Hussie, a former miner,
starved to death. His body was found on
Sunday. Hussie had been unable to find
work for two years. He was 60 years
old and in recent months had been fore-
ed to live off the bounty of other near-
starving miners out of work. Rut food
became so scarce the others could help
no longer. The last visitor to Hussie's
shack sald he had a crust of bread and
two onions to eat. That was a week ago.
The old man was not seen for four days
and on Sunday a friend found him dead.
The coroner reported he had starved to
death.
—The Rev. David Y. Brouse, of Al-
toona, instituted proceedings in the York
county courts claiming damages totaling
$8,052 from Leo Redling, propriator of
the New Way Dry Cleaning company, of
York, as the result of an automebil: ac-
cident which occurred in York oa Feb-
ruary 19, at the intersection of Pershing
avenue and Princess street. The plaintiff
claims that he sustained contusions ard
lacerations of the head, broken ribs, a
seriously sprained back, contusions and
lacerations of the legs and other injuries
internal and external. The injurias tha
plaintiff claims, prevented him from at-
tending to his duties for a period of nine
weeks. Rev. Brouse, a Methodist minis-
ter, was at one time located on the Pine
Grove Mills charge.
blue and gold.
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