VOL. XCV. WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER | SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE Since the meeting of Congress, April 11, the Republican administration, both in the executive and legislative branch- es, has been making history rapidly but in the opinion of observant Democratic leaders, it is the kind of history that will be of benefit principally as campaign material for the Democratic party, Among the big outstanding events of political interest and importance was the action of President Harding and Secre- tary of State Hughes in making the United States again a participant in the various Allied Councils, whica has caused a great conflict of opinion among Republican leaders, and which has been openly challenged in the State by Sena- tor LaFollette (Rep. Wis.) as ‘contrary to American ideals and principles,” Some of the Republican irreconcila- bles see in it a return to the foreign policies of President Wilson and opening wedge to America’s final en- trance into the League of Nations, and this view is shared by some Democratic leaders, Others point out that the pres- ent co-operation of the United States with the Allies goes far and beyond ac- ceptance of the League principle and is likely to involve the United States in Foreigh entanglements and ‘‘commit- ments” never contemplated by advo- cates of the League, These their statements on the language Secretary Hughes's note to the Allies, naming the American representatives in the Allied Councils, which is as follows “Mr. George Harvey, appointed Am- bassador to Great Britain, will be in- structed on his arrival in England to take part as the representative of the ’resident of the United States, in the deliberations of the Supreme Council. The American Ambassador to France (Mr. Wallace) will be instructed to re- sume his place as unofficial observer on the conference of Ambassadors, and Mr. Roland W. Boyden will be instructed to sit again in an unofficlal capacity on the reparations commission,” Ambassador Wallace and Mr. Boyden simply resume the services of “‘unoffici- al observers" which were performed by our Ambassador to France and by Mr. Boyden under the Wilson administra- tion, but attention is called to the fact that Col. Harvey is not designated as an unofficial participant in the Supreme Council, but as the representative of the President of the United States and is to take part in the deliberation of the Su- preme Council.” The Supreme an latter base of Council referred to is Council of the League of Na- t 1s made up of the Allied pre- ies to co-ord- inate war activities, which went out of legal Nations was formed, There never was any dispute that the Allied Council was a superstate, a form of su- per-government, with autocratic power, backed only by foie. existence when the League of te Supreme It is recalled that one of objections urged against was that it constituted super-state, and the more discerning now insist that if the League was a super-state, which they deny on the ground that it was only an association ‘of Nations re- quiring unanimous consent in all vital action, the Allied Supreme Council is a Super state, with autocratic power and that by the appointment of Col. Harvey as his representative in this body, Presi- dent Ha: ding has committed this nation as an active participant in the very form of government to which he and his party professed to be opposed. Despite this, some Democratic leaders profess to foresee that under the guid- ance of Secretaries Hughes and Hoover, the Harding foreign policy eventually will be to accept the principles of the League, whatever the present inconsist- ency and complications, the principal the League a Among the purely political develop ments of the week was President Hard ing's modification of President Wilson's order for the: selection of first, second, and third-class postmasters under civil service requirements. Instead of being required to select the candidate standing highest, the administration may under President Harding's order give the place to anyone of the first three at the head of the list, About 13,000 Post Offices are affected, Deserving Repub- licans, who are present in Washington in large numbers, seem to have no doubt that that out of the highest three on the list the Postmaster General will find one Republican, Politically speaking. there is a general disposition among Democratic leaders to avoid carping and factious criticism of the Harding administration and only to oppose such measures and policies as are clearly antagonistic to the welfare of the country. The general inclination is to give the administration a fair show, and then to hold if to strict accountabili- ty on its record, % | CHAUTAUQUA--JUNE 20-22 | TH COUNTY RIFLE MATCH wei ON JUNE 17TH. A Feature of Annual Meeting of Con- servation 'Assoc., to Be Held at Bellefonte,—State Officials to Be Present, The annual meeting of the Conserva- tion Association to be held at Bellefonte, June 17th, promises to be an interesting occasion, Mr. N. R, Buller, Fish Com- missioner, State Department of Fish- eries, and Mr, Seth Gordan, Game Com- missioner, State Department of Game, have promised to be present, There will be other speakers of note af the meeting to be held in the afternoon, During the morning there has been planned a County Rifle Match with both high power and smailer rifles, and Bait Casting Contests and Fly Casting Con- tests. There will be exhibits by the school children of the county in mount- ed flowers and leaves, and bird houses, and by the Boy Scout troops. Helping Crippled Children. James McClenahan. a little crippled boy from Centre Hall, was taken to a surgeon in Harrisburg a short time ago by the State College Red Cross. Miss Shipps, the Secretary, and Miss Hilda Thompson drove down in the Red Cross car with the youngster in order to take him to, Dr. George B. Stull, who has been doing some splendid work in ortho- paedic cases. James stayed in the Har- risburg Hospital a couple of days while a very thorough examination was made was measured for braces ; three or four » a and he in weeks be will be walking as never been able to walk at all, that will be quite .an event for him, James is a plucky little friends he is delighted with around in his new braces and, he is now ten years old and has chap and readily made the Hal | in the pro- spect of being able to walk so soon. The chapter is making arrangements for Dr. Stull to come to State College next month, and with the Drs, some tin Co- yperation of William and Grover rlenn, he will hold an orthopaedic clinic at the hospital, Miss Shipps is making the preliminary arrangements with the prospective patients and says there will probably be fifteen or twenty children who are crippled one way or another to take advantage of the opportunity to have the services of a specialist. A A —————— Notice from Board of Health. The Centre Hall Board of ular meeting held last cided to enforce Board Health, relating to sanitary gulations within the borot Health, at week, the State de an order of of rticle 111, on decaying matter, reads thus No garbage, als, decaying 1 Organic ubstance of shall be thrown or deposited ravine, ditch or gutter ; on any stree highway ; into any waters of the State or be permitted to remain exposed upon the surface of the ground. mace, “Section 2. Manure shall not be al. lowed to 3 nulate in any place where it can prejudically affect any source of drinking water or as a source of fly breeding it may become a menace to public health. "Section 3. The carcass of any dead animal not killed for food shall be re. moved and disposed of by burial or in- cineration or other method approved by law or the Commissioner of Health with in twenty-four hours after death, If the carcass is buried it shall be placed so that every part shall be covered by at least two feet of earth and at a loca- tion not less than 100 feet from any overflow by said waters, “In all cases of death from communi- cable disease the carcass shall be thoroughly enveloped in unslaked lime," By order Board of Health of Centre Hall, A rp —— Prizes for Essays on Conservation. The Centre County Conservation As- sociation offers prizes for essays on con- servation, and the contest is open to all pupils in the schools of Centre county. The prize essays are to be read before the annual convention of the Centre County Conservation Association to be held in Bellefonte on June 17, 2921, Terms of the contest are : Essays to be written by pupils in the secondary schools of the county on the following subjects ; Conservation in Centre County. Conservation and Fish, Conservation and Game, Conservation and Song Birds. £.Conservation and Insectivorous Birds. Conservation and Wild Flowers, Conservation and Recreation. Conservation and Education. Cofiservation and Forestry, Essays must be sent by June 1oth to chairman of the Committee on Educa- tion of the Conservation district who will appoint a committee to select the best three from his district. The best essays from the Conserva. tion districts will then be sent to Prof, J. A. Pletcher, Howard, Pa., the chair- man of the county Committee on Educa. tion of the Conservation Association, who will appoint a committee which will award a first and second prize, Place an ad, in the Reporter, THREE IN AUTO HAVE . CLOSE CALL FROM DEATH Big Cadillac Car Leaves Road and Topples Into Creek.— Timely Res- cue from Drowning. Miss Rebecca Rhoads, the well-known temperance worker of Bellefonte, and two nurses of the Bellefonte hospital, had a thrilling experience on Sunday afternoon which came near taking the lives of all three, Miss Rhoads planned to take a lady friend of hers, who had been ill at the Belletonte hospital, to her home at State College, The patient was accom- panied by two nurses, and the trip to the College was made without incident. On the return, and while making the turn at the “Griffith curve” between Bellefonte and Axemann, on the State road, Miss Rhoads suddenly discovered that the steering apparatus was not working properly and that the car failed to respond to her turning of the wheel, and instead of taking a curved course was continuing in a straight line, As the big Cadillac-eight approached the edge of the road, the soft earth gave way and the car toppled down a four- enbankment the creek. The three women rtu foot into were held fast, but forto- nately a family by the pame of Hoover, iving nearby, witnessed the accident, and Mr. Hoover, summoning other men, was soon at the scene and lifted the car sufficiently to permit the ladies to crawl out trom under, The creek is very nar row and the water had commenced to rise. so that had got the accident been Hoover, the nate people whould have met death by witnessed by Mr unfortu. drowning in a very few minutes, injury was su £4) r Of the occupants of the car, nurses suffered a sprained ankle. rmed. Miss ined only a few slight body the other was 3 and lacerations. hie car received a smashed top, brok 1a to fenders iamage i after be ishield, ¢ and board, and ing brought ack onto the road, had to be towed to a garage, All Service Men Out. local charge of rmorial Day make a urgent call for all Service Men to viforms on Memorial ticipate in the exercises i This Servi committee arrangen heir Day honor invita a of the deceased veterans. tion is extended to all Centre Hall and the entire surrounding 4 community, Not one should be absent, = URSDAY, MAY NINTH INNING RALLY WINS, Centre Hall Hammers Out Victory Over the Strong Linden Hall Boys ~Three Runs in Ninth Win. **All's well that ends well,” and ‘a good beginning sometimes makes a bad ending,” are copy-boock maxims that apply very well to the baseball game played on Grange park on Saturday afternoon between the Linden Hall and Centre Hall teams. Centre Hall got away to a bad start by permitting the visitors to score three runs in the very first inning through Gross’ erratic pitching in this frame. Harry hit three batters and with the aid of a few hits [the count stood 3 to o, Centre Hall managed to tie the score in the fourth at 4 to 4, but again Linden Hall outdistanced their rivals and in the gixth inning the visitors looked like win- ners with the score 8 to 4 in their favor, I'he locals cut {down this lead by one run in the seventh. In the eighth inn- ing Linden Hall scored two more, mak- Six runs to win two innings to play. Well, Hall those six runs and won the game, 11 to 10. The beauty of it was that good old-fashioned hitting won the game, and it was all that could win, for the Linden Hall boys put up an impregnable defense, and were good also with the club, collecting nine safe The fifteen hits collected off Oil the star left-hander of the ing the count 10 to s. but Centre and made team were good for eleven runs: un was an earned one, closing to ¢ Gettin back to the score at the 0 the in ' favor, Centre Hall pounded out 2 with score 10 eighth, ” a. s and each was good fora ru be beginning of the ninth inning Hall, but that ; bore peaches for the locals. Gross, fir ,wasoutona fly ; Foust hit a two-bagger and “Newt” Crawford followed with a single. With third and ipied, Knarr hit one to deep his two pals on the utch™ roosting on sec- ond and one run needed to win, drove one of McClintic's fast ones second base and scored Kunarr with the winning run. Harry Gross pitched a fine game after ing, and struck out fifteen The steady bombardment by the locals was sweet music in the ears of the partisan bystanders. The oppos- is one of the best twirlers on any team lin the valley, the locals were simply *“‘all set” for a batting spree on Saturday, and could not be stopped. The Linden Hall team, as a whole, is fast, good in fielding and hitting, and will doubtless prove a win. prov- ed frui s for Linden same inp second riod SAE at f bases. Bailey over Game over, " gy # > 5 the first inn batsmen, y Peet ng pitc wer amateur but tor it is a duty devolving upon each and The committee thay the men be in uniform by 4:30 o'clock. every one. asks Machine Gun Company Coming. A detachmen the Machine Gun Company, from Bellefonte, will partici- pate in the Memorial Day exercises at Centre Hall, on Monday evening, and will fire a salute over the graves of the soldier dead. of Memorial Day Speaker. Hon. F, C. Bowersox, of Lewistown, is the Memorial Day speaker for Centre Hall, His address will be delivered in the cemetery at 6:00 p. m. AA A A ATA Jury Considers It an Accident. A jury in the Union county court on Saturday acquitted Lester Horman, member of a prominent family, of man- slaughter. Horman accidentally ran down and fatally hurt Walter M. Fred. ericks on January 8 in Lewisburg, and Frederick's widow had him arrested. A ATA AAA AANA Bazaar and Exchange sale will be held at the livery barn of D, Wagner Geiss, at Bellefonte, on the 1st and ard Tues- days of each moath until further notice. Persons having articles for sale, includ. ing live stock, potatoes, produce, furni- ture, anything, bring it to the sale barn any time, Persons desiring such artic. les may buy on 1st and ard Tuesdays a — AABN, TOMPKINS ELECTROCUTED, Man Convicted of Killing Three Pays Penalty for His Crime. George C, Tompkins, of Philadel phia, who on June 15, 1917, killed his partner in the coal business in Cambria county, Edward 1. Humphries, his wife and son, Edward, Jr., on a lonely road near Carrollton, paid the penalty for his crime on Monday when he was electrocuted at the Rockview penitentiary, Tomp- kins was taken to the death chair at 5:26 and was pronounced dead by Dr, Rob. ert J. Campuell, at 7:31, L The body was claimed by relatives and taken to Philadelphia for burial, Tompkins was tried four times. His plea was insanity, : Prior to the electrocution of Tomp- kins, John Currey, a negro, of Somerset county, was sent to the death chair for a murder committed in 1920,} ner this season. Umpires of the game were Wm, W Kerlin, on balls and strikes, and Joseph Reifsnyder, on the bases, The following shows the hits and rupf CENTRE HALL RI sb 32 LINDEN HALL RH N Crawford, Knarr, 2b Bailey, 1b Reese, ss Keller, if A Crawford, Frank, c¢ Gross, p Emery, rf Faust, rf Nagoer ¢ Ross, 2b alston. 3b McClintic, ss Searson, If ¥ L R 2 | C McClintie, of 2 | McClellan, rf 1 o | M McClintic, p 1 1 CO 0 Www Totals 10 9 The score by innings : Centre Hallo 1 1 200 1 3 3—11 Linden Hall—-3 010130 2 010 Struck out, by Gross, 15 ; by McClin- tic, g. Totals, 11 1% Ss a ————— Eberhart Reunion. The annual reunion of the Eber hart family will be held at the Lewis- burg Fair Grounds, Lewisburg, Uuion county, Thursday, June and, 1921. All members and friends of the family are cordially invited to attend. A good time and plenty to eat is assured to all, a ———— AAA ANAND Rubin and Rubin Here To-morrow. Dr. David B. Rubin, of Rubin and Rubin, Harrisburg’s leading eyesight specialists, will be at Centre Hall hotel on Friday, May 27. Be sure to see him if you have any eye trouble. No drops used and no charge tor examining your eyes, “IHR LITTLE ONES’ | A Beautiful Service for the Children. At the LUTHERAN CHURCH SUNDAY EVENING , at 7:30. ——— EVERYBODY WELCOME | CHAUTAUQUA--JUNE 20.22 | 1921. NO. 21 BIG DOUBLE CIRCUS HAS VAST PROGRAM. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bai- ley To Present Scores of Entirely New Features. The announcement that the far-famed Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bai- ley Combined Shows are to exhibit at Lewistown, Tuesday, May 31, has aroused no end of interest, It would seem as though practically all the young- sters and grown-ups in this section were planning to attend, Twice eash day for almost two months New York's great Madison Square Gar- deu was packed with those who throng- ed to see this biggest program in circus history. They saw scores of the jungles most ferocious beasts, subjugated to such a degree, that these beautiful ani. mals leaped to and rode on the backs of elephants and horses, jumped through hoops of fire, opened their mouths that their men and women trainers might lay their heads apd hands inside them, or leaped from pedestal to pedestal like trained dogs. And these marvelous dumb actors are all on tour with the great double circus, The four immense steel arenas in which they perform are set up in the mammoth main tent. There is no additional charge—every- thing is on the one program. And by “everything” is meant not only the wild animal displays, but the entire circus. More than 600 men and women, embrac- ing the world’s foremost arenmic stars, take part. There are almost 100 clowns Aside from the ferocious beasts, the pro- gram includes thirty trained elephants, Troups of camels perform in the rings, There are five companies of trained seals, many dogs, bears, monkeys, pigs and pigeons. Fully seventy trained horses and Shetlands are presented, It is the biggest circus program the world has ever seen, given under the largest tent and, in connection, is the famous combined Ringling Brothers and Bar- num & Bailey menagerie, Letter from Illinois. Chicago, IIL, May 19, 1921. Editor Reporter As my subscription to the Reporter expirefl last Jasuary, you will find in- closed check for three dollars in pay- ment for the years 1931 and 1922, We are having grand weather here in Chicago and have had a very fine winter, only had what you might call cold for two days, and they were not so very bad. We havehad a good many thousand people out of work here for the last year and now the building lock-out has put many more out, The rents are very high and flats or houses are hard to get at any price. We are very fortunate in having our seven-room residence, and I sure bought at the right time when property was very reasonable. So the land-lord does not worry me in the least, I wish I could be back there among the dear old friends, and get around the mountains for a month or so this sum. mer. 1 am going to try my best and do 80 if possible. I bought my son LeRoy a new bicycle two weeks ago, and last Saturday some tough guy about 23 or 24 years of age came along and took it away from him. One of the young boys living in the block happened to know him, so I had a warrant sworn out for him Monday, but the police have not been able to get him ashe has not been home since, The crime in the city has been very great for the last year or two. A person is hardly safe on the streets, day or night, the way they are holding up the people, and robbing banks, stores and houses. Will close ; best regards to all old friends, Cras, A. MiTTeRLING, A —————— Letter from Ohio. Columbus, Ohio, May 16, 1921, Editor Reporter : As my subscription to the Reporter has about run out, you will ind enclosed check for another year, We are still having cold weather, the fruit is all frozen ; the other crops look good, The farmers are kept back with theif corn ; it is too wet and cold. 1 don't know if we can blame this on the President or not, but we all know that things don’t brighten ap very fast, Very little is doing in Coldmbus and the Re- publicans make the biggest fuss. It would be all right if we didn't all have to suffer with them, Mugs. Eviza Grexosig, Died in Beloit, Kansas. Mrs. Alfred James, a daughter of JK. Geiss, a tormer resident of Potter town- ship, died at her home in Beloit, Kan. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, s— HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS CHAUTAUQUA--JUNE 20.22 | Dr. G. I. Yearick and Rev. M, C. Drumn made a business trip to Wash- ington, D. C., the latter part of last week. Harry Catherman, of Williamsport, is in charge of the Centre Hall railroad station during Agent W. FP. Bradford's absence, . sand and salt at Bradford & Co.'s at the Cen. tre Hall station. A carload of each has just been unloaded. ady, You can get best quality brick, ‘Squire Cyrus Brungart was recently appointed registrar ot vital statistics for Centre Hall borough and Potter town- He succeeds J. C. Rossman, D. A. Boozer, the local assessor, can- vassed the borough last week for the purpose of determining the party af- filiations of the female population, ghin ship. Rev. R. R. Jones attended the annual meeting of the West Susquehanna class. is, in session at Howard, this week. Dr. H. F. Bitoer, of [Lewisburg, was also present, 8. P. Hennigh, who fractured his leg a fall from a ladder some time ago, is getting along nicely in the Bellefonte hospital, but expects to remain there for four weeks yet, Russel Reish, a graduate of the Cen- tre Hall High school, class 1921, went to Lancaster following his graduation with ihe thought of taking a business course, but after looking over the work in the school decided that there was nothing that appealed to him, and returned home last week. we in about he ’ The “Helping Hand” class the utheran Sunday school will hold a festival in the Grange Hall on the even: ing of Memorial Day for the benefit of work, and serve chicken and corn soup, salad, sandwiches, pick- les, ice-cream, cake and coffee. Will also have fishing pond. adv, 2t of i ia church will The first Dodge car to come to Centre Hall is now being re-modeled at the L. L. Smith garage, It was purchased by Richard Brooks, of near Centre Hall, and was driven by him many thousand of miles. A trade was recently effected whereby Mr. Brooks became the owner of a new Ford in the transaction. The inauguration of Dr. Jobn M, Thomas as present of the Pennsyl. vania State College has been set for Friday, October 14, and will be the greatest holiday celebration ever held at Penn State. Governor Sproul has ac- cepted an invitation to be present for the occasion, and scores of college presidents, government and state offic. ials will attend. , Three forest fires burned over about 300 acres in the Penn State Forest Dis- trict, in Mifflin and Centre counties, last week, according to a report sent to the Pennsylvania Department of For- estry by District Forester W, J. Barts. chat of Milroy. The largest fire, cover- ing about 250 acres, burned on Tussey Mountain, and in Treaster Kettle, Part of this fire extended into the Logan State Forest. One morning last week, Mrs. Sadie Gfrerer, upon entering her chicken yard, was confronted with the sight of forty of her eight weeks old chicks lying on the ground dead. A close examination showed that every chick had been bitten in the neck and its lifeblood drained. Making an investigation about the chick. ed house, a monster rat was discovered unable to get through the hole at which he entered after having so completely filled himself at the expense of the little chicks. The rodent was speedily killed. Roy McKinley and Forrest Aikens, both ot Milesburg, while working for Undertaker Frank Wetzler, a short time ago, in removing the body of a Civil war veteran who had been buried in the old Milesburg cemetery 11 years ago, found it had petrified. They secured two men to help them raise the body, as it weigh. ed over goo pounds and was as hard as stone. It is believed that it petrified on account of the action of lime water, which flows continually at the plot where the body had lain, The body was interred in Tresiyulny cemetery. Col, Theodore Davis Boal, of Boals- burg, just called long enough at this office to say that the new schedule for bus running between State and Lewistown would be by the way of Old Fort and so arranged that persons from Centre Hall wishing to go to State Col- lege could leave here before the noon hour and return about six o'clock, giving time at State College to attend to busi.
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