Cheapest Method of Transportation Known tfl 125 miles per gallon of Gasoline climbs any hill; always ready; fits on any bicycle. €| Now selling fast; get your order in now; cash or payments. Over 10,000 SATISFIED USERS Indiana Cycle Company Indian Motorcycles. Smith Motor-wheels. Indian Bicycles, and Accessories unite e Riwie pei Di ne Batiii lemii D. Have you read the Consti tution of the United States? R. Yes. D. What form of Government is this! R. Republic. D. What is the Constitution of the United States! R. It is the fundamental law of this country. D. Who makes the laws of the United States! R. The Congress. D. What does Congress consist of! R. Senate and House of Rep resentatives. D. Who is our State Senator! 3 PENNSYLVANIA NEWSJ BRIEF Interesting Items From All Sec tions ot the State. GULLED FOR QUICK READING Ntwt of All Kinds Gathered From Various Point* Throughout th# Keystone State. Caterpillars are becoming a Read ing plague. Beaverdale has a hen thirty-six years old, still laying. A cloudburst at Elysburg did dam age that will cost $lO,OOO. Citizens of Hanover paraded for pre paredness In a big demonstration. Altoona has only one new case of typhoid, and the epidemic is well in hand. The hay crop throughout the Lehigh ▼alley this year is the best in many years. Paul Youtz, of Mountville, stepped in front of a freight train and was killed. Lion Cicanovitch and Frank Kichin were drowned while bathing at Shen andoah. Seventeen cases of typhoid fever at Altoona have been traced to infected Ice cream. The Switchback railroad at Mauch Chunk has opened a swimming pool at Hacklebernie. Residents of Corner Stores have started a movement to be annexed to Phoenixville. Carbon county farmers say the pota to bug pest is the worst this season in many years. New Cumberland voters have de cided to borrow $15,000 for school im provements. Struck by lightning, Wilbur Shultz, a Pennsy track walker, died at Blooms burg hospital. Paring a corn with a rusty knife, Mrs. Mary Boody, Berwick, is expected to die of gangrene. P. A. Brwln, was elected superin tendent of the Bethlehem municipal water department William Cunningham, thirty-two, a lineman, was electrocuted on a high pole at Shamokln. Cigars, tobacco and cigarettes gratis are assured to Lancaster guardsmen on the Mexican border. John Walter Albright, twenty-nine, drowned himself in the Conestoga creek near Lancaster. Touching a live wire thirty-five feet above the ground at Lancaster, Line man Habecker was killed. Andrew Beecze, of Westmoreland county, was electrocuted at the new penitentiary, near Bellefonte. Dumped from his wagon at Middle Spring, Cumberland county, Robert J. McLaughlin broke four ribß. Trackman Samuel Mummert "was killed by a Western Maryland railroad passenger train at Hanover. By the explosion of a stick of dy namite, John Crozak, six, of Coaldale, lost his left hand, blown off. An automobile telephone bell scared burglars from the home of Professor A. E. Greenhalgh, at Hazleton. Falling coal fatally injured Joseph Yankowsky, forty years old, labor leader, at William Penn colliery. Overcome by heat while working on his farm In Quakake, William H. Elb ert fell and died in a few minutes. H. A. Amig, of near Mifflin, set eleven ring neck pheasant eggs under a hen and now has seven peeps. Reading has spent $12,000 to coat Its streets with oil; but a second coat ing is badly needed on some of them. Preparation of a new roster of the officers of the national guard has been started at the adjutant general's office. The Lewistown board of trade enter tained 100 members of the Lock Haven Business Men's Association at lunch. Run down by a Reading passenger train while returning home to Buck Mountain, Cheater Williams was kill ed. In and around Hazleton labor is so scarce that wives and daughters of farmers are working in the harvest fields. Four daily vacation Bible schools were opened in Reading with 387 per sons enrolled and a dozen teachers in charge. Kicked in the stomach by a horse he was stabling, at Bloomsburg, George Miller, nineteen, is at the point of death. The Lehigh Valley railroad an nounced that tt would start work at once on new freight terminals at Hazleton. Seized with a severe eoughing spell at Berwick, William Breece, eight, fell to the floor unconscious and died of a weak heart A gasoline explosion at Mechanics burg destroyed a $2500 touring car owned by Professor Mark Keller, of Harrisburg. Traffic has been resumed on the 3. B. & B. railroad after a three-day washout between Bloomsburg and Watsontown. Joseph Yochinsky, a Shamokin miner, was instantly killed by being caught under a fall of coal at the Cam i eron colliery. Because the attorney, not the sherifT, served the papers, a divorce was re ' fused James W. Remaley, Lehighton, by Judge Barber. Thrown from a horse at Blooms burg, Miss Irene Fenstermacher, Eas ton, suffered a right leg fracture and internal injuries. FN SALE 11 WANT IDS. Advertisements under this head lc a word each insertion. FOR SALE—Farm of 53 acres in Rayne township, 1-4 mile from Kimmel station on the 8., R. and P. Good house and barn, fruit and good spring water. Cheap to quick buyer. Inquire at Patriot Office. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa^AAA/SAAAAAA* Local Phone, Office, 263-z, Residence, 246-y. DR. C. J. DICKIE DENTIST Room 14, second floor Marshall building INDIANA, PENN'A. A^WVWVWWVWWVWWWVW I trade marks and copyrights obtained or no H I fee. Stud model, sketches or pbotoa and do- ■ ■ acription for PR KB BEARCH an* report ■ ■ on patentability. Bank reference*. PATENTS BUILD PORTUNBB for I ■ you. Oar free booklets tell how, what to Invent ■ I and are you money. Write today. ID. SWIFT &CO.I PATENT LAWYERS, 1303 Seventh St., Washington, D. C. jf HOUSEHOLD NECESSITIES For sewing machines, Vacu um cleaners, mops, etc., see J. K. Carney, White building, In diana, Pa. • Until his drastic ordinance can be approved or voted down at the polls, Altoona'a mayor will enforce the old Sunday blue laws. The contract to erect the new SL Mary's Greek Catholic church in Al lentown has been awarded to Butz A dadar for $25,000. As a result of burns received in a Fourth of July accident, three-year, old Florence Nagle has died at the Allentown hospital. The new gas plant of the GlrardvtHe Gas company, to light and heat Coal* dale, Lansford and Summit Hill, is about completed. Rev. E. E. Dietrich has resigned as pastor of the Lutheran church at Baia bridge, to accept a call to Montgom ery, Lycoming county. New Cumberland council has de cided not to allow the Northern Cen tral railway to lay a siding on one of the borough streets. Struck by lightning while standing in her home at Knob Mountain, near Berwick, Ethel Suit, thirteen, is still unconscious and may die. Crazed by the heat, Charles McAn drews, aged sixty, New Allentown, tried to set fire to his barn and when restrained threatened murder. Rev. Dr. D. B. Schneder, who was visiting his old home, Reading, has left to resume his duties as president of North Japan college, Sendai. George Smith, Jr., aged twenty-four, son of "Germany" Smith, formerly a National League ball player, dropped dead of heart disease in Altoona. Preliminary steps were taken in Pottstown to hold a big union Luther an picnic, to include congregations in that town and neighboring regions. William Hallier, the deaf snake charmer and catcher of East Mauch Chunk, has caught another rattlesnakf three feet In length, and has It alive Friends of Daniel T. McKelvey, city detective of Hazleton, called at hli home while he was out on a case and left a handsome engraved loving cup. Struck by an engine at Carlisle, George Blair, aged seventy-five, suf fered two fractures of an arm and Is In the hospital In a critical condition. Companies that started extensive street paving contracts at Hazleton found labor so scarce that they were forced to send to other cities for men. His jaw broken by a wild pitch, Gordon McKellar finished a baseball game at Hazleton before going to his physician father to have the bone set. The State Association of City Plan ning Commissions of Pennsylvania was organized at Harrlsburg, electing as president A. D. Farquhar, of Tork. Out of seventeen pheasant eggs re ceived from the state game commis sion, Frank Reichelderfer, Lansford, has eight young birds hatched out by a hen. The husband believed to have enlist ed, the destitute wife of Frank Cigler, Weatherly, and her two children have been taken in by Laurytown alms house. Howard Bertell and Willard Conner caught forty-five salmon, ranging from fourteen to twenty-two Inches, In four hours' trolling in the Juniata river at Lewis town. Leland Seifert, a young resident of Lower San con, was almost instantly killed by Clayton Buss, a companion, who, while gunning mistook Seifert for a groundhog. A Centre county Soldiers' Relief as sociation has been organited, with Colonel J. L. SpangJer, president, for taking care of the families of soldiers on the Mexican border. Wearing gloves, so no finger-mark evidence could be given against him, a thief entered the heme of H. H. Barr, of Reading, and stole a card ! r j Continued on page 3 To the Heart of Leisureland where woods are cool, streams alluring, vacations ideal. Be tween New York City (with Albany and Troy the gate ways) and LAKE GEORGE THE ADIRONDACKS LAKE CHAPLAIN IHE NORTH ANO WEST The logical route is "The Luxurious Way" Largest and most magnificent river steamships in the world DAILY SERVICE Send for free copy of beautiful "Searchlight Magazine" Hudson Navigation Corn y. Pitr 32, North River New York " THE SEARCHLIGHT ROUTE " RAILROAD WAGES i Shall they be determined by Industrial Warfare or Federal Inquiry? —a—-Maaa. .. j To the American Public: Do you believe in arbitration or indu£ trial warfare? The train employes on all the railroads are voting whether they will give their leaders authority to tie up the commerce of the country to enforce their demands for a 100 million dollar wage increase, t The railroads arc in the public servicey your service. This army of employes is in the public service—your service. ; You pay for rail transportation 3 billion dollars a year, and 44 cents out of every dollar from you goes to the employes. On all the Eastern Railroads in 1915, seventy-fire per cent of the train employes earned these wages (lowest, highest, and areraga of all) as shown by the payrolls— PtMMftr Freight Yard : *3224 $1931 *1783 $1543 - . . 1553 1552 1145 .... C « Uct *" 3004 183 1 2901 1642 1991 1315 g*—9sl 1128 1109 935 Fmwum . 1125 1109 1g33 Bnkaaaa. 1141 »73 1085 1707 1521 1635 The average yearly wage payments to sll Eastern train em* ployes (including those who worked only part of the yeat) as shown by the 1915 payrolls were — fiMmfar Freight Y«i4 Eagiaecn • • • • • *51796 $1546 $1384 Conductor* 1724 1404 1238 Fiftßtn 1033 903 844 Brakines. • • • • • 1018 858 990 A 100 million dollar wage increase for men in freight and yard service (less than one-fifth of all employes) is equal to a 5 per cent advance in all freight rates. The managers of the railroads, as trustees for the public, have no right to place this burden on the cost of transportation to you without a clear mandate from a public tri bunal speaking for you. The railroads have proposed the settle ment of this controversy either under the existing national arbitration law, or by refer ence to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. This offer has been refused by the employes' representatives. Shall a nation-wide strike or an investigation under the Gov ernment determine this issue? National Conference Committee of the Railways BLiSHA LIZ, CAafcmaa. *■l - ■" ' r a f— ** w «hiliml •**Tin ii«n wm4 AtlmmtU CM Um» WmiYwmi C. W. KOUNS, (Wl Mi n r, L. W. BALDTIR, 6*l Mm *>**"■. 4 ** BmiHr.?. ■. W. MoMAJTKB. Cmmt M ■ Mir, C L BABDO, CM'/ Mmmmgf, a»4 lata Brio l.flvuS. N«rar T.rk, tUm Hint A HatM BafbwA H J) MAHEA, rum B. B. COAFMAJ*, ru-rr~UUm*. Pi*rf*lk mm* Vhmti ftaliwap, a«Uwy. JAMES BUSSELL, cw»*t a. B. COI I ik, CM 1 Mammgmr Dravct A Bi* Oraaie H»ilro««L Wahm ** Railway. 4. M. sCHOYEB, KodMi "I Pi aa„ P. L CHOWLXT, /4m*. ' In-ftaUMt penai