THE PATRIOT Published Weekly By THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY, Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue Marshall Building, INDIANA, PENNA Locai Phone 250-Z F. BIAMONTE, Editor and Manager Y. ACETI, Italian Editor. Entered as second-class matter September 26, 1914, at the postoffice at Indiana, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR . . SI.OO | SIX MONTHS. . $75 Tbe Aim of tbe Foreign Language Papere of America \ TO HELP PRESERVE THE IDEALS AND SACRED TRAD- THIS, OUR ADOPTED COUNTRY, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ; To REVERE ITS LAWS AND IN SPIRE OTHERS TO OBEY THEM ; To STRTVE UNCEASING LY TO QUICKEN THE PUBLIC'S BKNSE OF CIVIC DUTY; IN ALL WAYS TO AID IN MAKING THIS COUNTRY GREAT ER AND BETTER R THAN WE FOUND IT. Editorials from New York Papers . Verdun and Mexico When the Senate and the House of Representati ves eee that all the available army of the United States has been called into Mexico to hunt an outlaw, a fugitive from his own government as well as well as from ours, and that stili we haven't enough men in the chase to do the work as it ought to be done, and when they think of the battle of Ver dun with many hundreds of thonsamìsof men engaged on that small battlefield and with perhaps twice the number of the proposed new army of the United States dead, wound ed or missing-when Corigress compares those two situations it is possible that it can be so mad as to believe that for the nation, for any considerarle part of the nation, for even a tmall seaboard strip of one of our important states, we can get military preparedness with an army of 160,000 men or 2!20,000 trained men? —FROM NEW YORK PRESS Board of Naval Strategy The rcported acceptance by the naval committee of the House of Representatives of an intelligible pian for the formation of a permanent board of strategy for the navy is the most encouraging news of its kind we have had sin ce the national campaign fordefense began. Between accept ance by both liouses of Congress there are many perilous steps, but this ray of sunshine through clouds that have tlius far obscured the progress of naval extension is most welcome. The board of strategy, if its powers are to be as comprehensive as the dispatches indicate, will serve as the general staff of the navy. Wliat it may be called does not signify. FROM KEW YORK TIMES down the hill. Clark narrowly escaped being killed. He is in a serious condition. Circus Coming—The Hagen beck and Wallace circus will show in Indiana on Friday, May 13. The advanced man was here Monday making the pre liminary arrangements. Ebey Sells Studio—Wilson B. Ebey, the Philadelphia Street photographer, sold his studio to Cari Douglass Monday morning. Mr. Ebey will soon leave for Cleveland, Ohio, where he ex pects to engagé in photoplay work. Spring Term Opens The spring term of the Indiana Nor mal School opened Wednesday. The enrolment this term is con sidered larger than last term. Rooms in ali the buildings were fìlled without any difficulty. Lizt cf Letters Remaining uncalled for in the In diana office Aprii 8, 1916: Miss Edna Blair, xMr. H. L. Bath, Mr. Eleck Cyupa, Miss Joye Cleuin ger, Mr.Knolton Fairman. Mr. Fred erick M. Gebhard Mr. Arnold Gibson, Mr. Tom Gibsou, James R. Hancock, Mr. C. K. Heckman, Miss 'Marguret Hill, Mr. W. L. Hooper, Mr. Harry F. Johnson, Miss Helen Johnson, G. J. Johnson, Miss M. Kolena. Mrs. Charlotte F. Kline, Mrs Lizzie Love lace, Mr. George Long, Miss M. B. McCune, Mr. J. A. McCann, E. J. Miller, Mr. Dan Miller, Mr. Luther Fattoli, Mr. L. E. Robinson, Albert Stalder, J. S. Stewart, Mr. Ralph Slieldon, Mrs. Clyde Simmons, Mr. Elmer Stoney, Mr. T. A. Stncliel, Miss Oarrie Tibbena, R. R. Velhem, Mr. J. B. Weaver, Miss Gledys Wil sot, Mr- Abe J. "\Vulfberg, Miss Sad ie Young. "When inquiring for letters in this list please state that they were advertised, giving date. HARRY W. FEE, P. M. MORE RESERVES CALLED INTO SERVICE IN ITALY. Rome, Aprii 14—The Italian gov ernment has recalled to the colors cavalrymen of the class of 1890; ar tilleryman of the classes of 1882 aDd 1883; mounted artillerymen of the classes of 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885 andlSß6, and ali territorials belong ing to the cavalry. artillery and engin eering di vision of the classes of 1882 to 1885 inclusive. They are to report Aprii 16. FOK SALE - House that cost f2, 200; 10 rov,-.-. sun parler, Sx24 feet, lot 50x170: well-water piped in house; half of house rented ats7 per month. Price SI3OO. Inquire of John McConnell, Farmers Bank Bldg. © Many Lik« Hlm. Gibbs—Bilson orpressed a good deal of sympathy for poor Black. Dld you try hlm for a contributlon? Dibbs— No; I know Bilson. Ile's like the let ter "p"—first In pity and last In belp.— Boston Transcrlpt. TOPICS IN BRIEF Making an army and navy while you wait is not easy, but history shows that it has been done. "Villa Has Close Shave" saysa headline, but Cacranza needs it most. . It's a safe bet that those Carranza deserters are going to get their desserts. p Germany boasts that her war loans are larger tlian those of the Allies —They have to be. Luke MeLuke says that most of the girls are either knock-kneed or bow-legged—But liow does Luke know ì Germany seems to have forgotten that the Allies intend to have something to ssy about terms of peace. Instead of going to hell, as Villa used to invite us, U. jS. will becontent with giving it to liim. Bernard Shaw threatens to become an American if the ! war doesn't end soon Let us order another Peace Prayer Day immediately, Carranza, it is said will let us use his railroads on the quiet—This will mean several moie ties between us and the whiskered patriot. Human nature is funny, and the woman wlio sports a hefty mustache is always sure that ali the men are ali the time achiDg to steal a kiss. The New York Americans, the sporting page informs us have recalled Pitcher Tipple They will probably use him when the bases are full. Editors who had Villa's obituary "set up" a week or so ago are beginning to realize that this preparedness business can sometimes be overdone. Then there is the idiot who rings you up on the pilone and opens the dialogue with that intellectual gem, 4 'Betcha you can't guess who this is." The hospitality of T. R's. West Indies hosts, was be yond reproach and we see where they even carefully select ed a new bird for him to discover. SOME OF THE TROUBLES WITH OUR STATE MILITIA. —Williams in Indianapolis News. Rather tlian waste the arguing,a wise man will let the fool have his own way. Some people are willing to be good if paid for it, and others are good for nothing. A las for the intelleet when the understanding is limit ed only by the sizeof the feet. The man who quotes poetry is never asked to make an additional nuisance of himself by explaining the meaning. Col. House is suggested for the vice-presidency, prob ably by some enemy who thinks the ccloncl is receiving too much publicity. St. Patrick, however, never used a hyplien. When he became an Irishman lie became an Irishman, and not a hy phenated Frenchman. Between the alarm clock, the door beli and the tele phone, life is just one d ding-dong after another. "Bees Buzzing in Indiana", says a headline. Also at Oyster Bay, The §50,000 reward for his own capture is about the only loose change in Mexico that Villa does not hope to lav hold of. In considering a new inauguration date, March may as well be tossed into the discard When it comes to Mexico, Mr. Bryan seems inclined to | admit that an olive branch has its limitations. The "coldest on record" statistica waited ti il March to Itake their innintjrs ini» year. 1 J Secretary Baker arrives at a crowded hour, justas the staff was hanginga map of Mexico over the map oi Europe. Mexican troops desert so easily that Villa may be war ranted from a military point of view to keep his in hiding. So far as the next presidency is concerned, T. R. knows the handwriting is on the wall because he did a big part of the penmanship himself. It is a big wonder that some of cupidi victims haven't turned and put him out of the running long ago, says an editor. He's such a slick little fellow. PENNSYLVANIA NEWSJN BRIEF Interesting Items From Ali Sec tions of the State. GULLED FOR QUICK READING News of AH Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout the Keystone State. A 7-mill tax rate has been adopted by Boyertown council. New Holland is floating a loan of S7OOO for a new town hall. Carlisle held a test of its new auto mobile fire apparatus recenti}*. District Attorney W. G. Light will be Lebanon's city solicltor, at SIOOO. Almost $4 ,000,000 passed through the clearing house in Lancaster in two days. Twenty-two new auto tires were stolen from the Hazleton garage of I. P. Pardee. E. D. Schmittle has been appointed justice for Cromwell township, Hunt ingdon county. As a result of playing with matches, Oscar Dunk, three years old of Sha mokin, is dead. A ban has been put on liquor drink ing in the Hazleton police department, and on entering saloons. Falling from a bicycle, seven-year old Agnes Brazza fractured her skull at Mahanoy City and died. Along the Lincoln highway, near GraefTenburg, automobilists eaw six teen deer grazing in flelds. Married at fifteen and deserted in two months, Mrs. John Oudeck, Eck ley is applying for divorce. Despondent, Jacob S. Atkinson com mitted suicide by shooting in the head at his home in Williamsport. Sewing has been introduced into Freeland public schools under the aus pices of the Anthracite Mission. One thousand miners employed at Ellsworth, Cokeburg and Acme have demanded an increase of ten per cent. Two thousand white pine tree sprouts wiill be planted by Boyertown along its entire watershed at Gabels ville. Worried over his wife's illness, Brakeman James A. Bradley, of Leba non, hanged himself and died at Ann ville. Charles Olson, of Chambersburg, convicted of assaulting a ten-year-old child, was granted a new trial on an alibi. Demand for coal in the mills of the Pittsburgh district is such that min ing records are being broken almost daily. Employers recognized their union, and 2000 of the 8000 Kiskimintas val ley workers who struck have resumed work. At Welsh Run Mrs. Elizabeth Vance, ninety-eight years old, has quietly celebrated the anniversary of her birth. Miners of No. 6 colliery of the G. B. Markle company, at Highland, were refused extra pay for curving buggy roads. From a pin prick in her right hand, Mrs. John Wasko, of West Berwick, is in a criticai condition with blood poi soning. The great demand for coal for in dustriai plants in Pittsburgh has re- Hulted ft a boost in prices to domestic consumers. Their big brown bear growing balky, two Street exhibitors had to put bruin into a taxicab and haul him out of Conyngham. C. Wizard Hill, of Hazleton, has been reappointed United States com missioner for the locai district by Judge Witmer. While burning waste paper, Mrs. Wilson Benders, BetMehem, suffered probable fatai burns when her cloth- Ing caught lire. The .large brick hall of the Tamaqua Maennerchor society, remodeled at a cost of SSOOO, was dedlcated with im posing ceremonies. Boys' Brigades, Boy Scouts and school students will plant in one day the 50,000 young trees the state do nates to Altoona. Crossing the tracks at Madeira Hill coflliery, Mahanoy Piane, Thomas Mor gan was knocked down and crushed to death by a car. William J. Laidley, a farmer of Car michaels, has flled a voluntary peti tion in bankruptcy. Assets, $112,100; Uabilities, $208,738. Preliminary to a campaign for play grounds, the Altoona chahber of com merce has donated SSOO for a recrea tion survey of Altoona. Allentown Street cleanera have been put in the regulation white wings uni form and have had their wages ad vanced to $1.75 a day. Wilkinsburg society women are bell ina cats at the instance of the Ornith ologists' association, to warn birds of the approaching felines. Lured to a deserted hall in Lancas ter, C. T. Reid, of Parkesburg, was robbed of his wallet containing $75 ?Tirt Jewelry valued at S6O. The wife of the proprietor and two children were carried unconscious from the burning drygoods store of Israel Weiner, in Pittsburgh. A small bottle of wine removed from the cornerstone of the old boys* high school, in Lancaster, built in 1875, had nearly evaporated. Governo* Brumbaugh has recaEed the warrant for electrocution of Jacob Miller, Philadelphia, as his appeal is DOW in the supreme court. The state banklng commissionar hae issued a cali for statement» as ci March 30 from state banks, trust oom panies and savings instltutions. Because of an epidemie of rabies in Corrv, neariy flfty dogs are under quarrantine and a dozen have beeu killed, having bitten residente. Bumping a knee against a tomb stone, Thomas Kummel, a seventy four-year-old war veteran of Lewi«- town, is using his first crutches. Overturning a burning lamp in her sleep, Mary Coheland, of Frackville, set fire to her home and was found unconscious on the floor by flremen. Mrs. Susan Shoner, aged seventy one, of Mavsville, la., is visiting her brother, John Metz, whom she had not seen in thirty years, at West Hazleton. An exteusion meeting of the Lay men's Missionary convention at Har risburg will be held in the First Pree byterian church in Caritele on May 2. An exploding dynamite cap, caro lessdy left in coal by miners at Lewis town, injured the right arm of Wil liam R. Beason, a Pennsylvania flreman Charles Reiger, S. C. Moore and Adam Schenck, commissioners of But ler county in 1915, have been sur charged $652.21 by the county audit ore. After a year of paralysis from a blood clot on the brain, inflicted in a boxing bout, Danny Cullen, of Hazle ton, has recovered, but can never flght agaiu. Lehigh county farmers protested to the state bighway commissioner against roads so 6mooth that horees slip and fall, They were promised rolief. D. Edward Ixmg, defeated for the judgeship in Franklin county by Judge W. RUsh Gillan, and who polled the anti-liquor vote, is to run for state senator. Cumberland county will lose the state apportionment of the mothers' pension fund, S2OOO, unlees action to establish the project is taken before May 31. The Connellsville coke trade reach ed a new high record last week, ship ments being 477,000 tons, an increase of 135,000 tons over the first week in January. Bethlehem and South Bethlehem are in need of 2500 new houses to accom modate the large number of people drawn there by the extension of the steel works. Seven track laborers, ali foreigners, were injured at West Brownsville Junctlon when a freight train backed into them on a siding of the Pennsyl vania railroad. Cyrus Fisher, of Belle Vernon, near Charleroi, was seriously injured when a heifer that he was taking 'jome from a sale butted hìm into a gutter and Juiupci' on hlm. Unable to recali how it happened, Cyrus Snavely, aged fifty-four, ls in the Emergency hospital, Mifflin, with one leg amputated as a result of a railroad accident. Sixteen-year-old Johjn Heffleflnger, who ran away from his Carlisle home, enilisted as twenty-one and waa found out, has worked his way home from Fort Slocum, N. Y. Charles Renniger, a farmer of New Hanover Square, near Boyertown, whose condition was pronounced hope less, is recovering from lockjaw by a scratch from a rusty nail. Borrowing a dollar lrom Burgess J. A. Heineman, in Butler, for a marriage license, S. A. Ambustcr swallowed poi son with suicidai intent after two days of wedlock. He will recover. Notice has been given by City En gineer Briggs, of Erie, that the bed of Garrison Run must be repaired at once, as a disastrous flood through the valley wouild follow a heavy rain. For punishing Hiram Breudle, four teen years old, for non-attendance, Samuel Eberly, a teacher in the Adamstown public school, has been prosecuted on the charge of assault. Earl Berkheimer, flve-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Berkeimer, Me chanicsburg, while trying to stand on a playmate's shoulders lost his bai ance and fell to the ground, sustainlng a concusslon of the brain. The smallpox epidemie in Paint township, Somerset county, where there are eixteen cases, has spread into Adams township, Cambria county, just across the dividing line. About 200 employes of No. 42 mine will be vaccinated. Confronted by the father of Miss Elizabeth Young, seventeen years old, of Pittsburgh, whom he was engaged to marry, with the charge that he waa a married man, Albert Smithey, twen ty-seven years old, blew cut his brains with a revolver. Absent from her homo la Oka, Que bec, Canada, for Ave years, Mayoi Filbert, of Readiag, has been asked to assist in a searcii for Mary Bowen Mingiki, who will be an Leir to a wealthy estate at the death of her father, who is past niuety. The Berwind-White Coal Mining company, in Johnstown, has advised ita 8000 employes, non-members of the United Mine Workers of America, of a two-year agreement to increate wages amounting to three centa per ton for machine and pick coal and Ave per c*n«. on ali iauor. An autemeb?'® signal block system will be instailed on Monongahela railway lines from South Brownsville to the West Virginia state line, the contract for the work having been awarded, according to the announce ment from General Superintendent G. B. Obey's office in Brownsville. Industriai activity throughout the country has created an unusual de mand for men technically trained at the Pennsylvania State college. Ali departments of chemistry, engineering and applied mechanics are deluged with appHcatlons for students who will graduate in scientiflc courses in June.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers