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TUESDAY, DKO. 20, 19141. atest Dews from Surrounding Towns t. South Royal- ton Items eomsmensunl TIE St, %. CHURCH COMPLETED weXMAS BEXERCISES MONDAY NEWS, South Ttoyniton, Doc. 22%..-Theo M. IL Church is completed | ank looks vory nice. There will ho Chricstmas exorclges in the church Monday even« ing. Mrk Hugeno Brewor's father, who lives in Lockport, has had m stroke. | Ho Is somowhat better at present. Cioorge Tannoy of Buiffato was hore calling on hig sister, Mrs, Cornelius Himg to bid the fotks good-bye as he acon loaves to make his horas in Calt- fornia. Mis. Framk - Middaugh, who beon qulto i!1, Is somc better, Mr. (Hlletto as Juror is attonding gourt. Mise Kirby, our toachor, is board- ing with Mra. Albott Schultz, Elle Middaugh Is staying with Mrs, Ttoy Milles for & while. dohn Claxton Is quite il1 with heart trouble. The roads aro very bad. Will bo botter goon. Thore wilt boe Christmas oexorcigeg In tho school Friday afternoon. fals Han Inherits a Larsg [United Presg Association.] BUFFALO, Doc. #8%.--Mrg, Caroline IL Toward, who dicd here Ost, T loft an outato valued at $461,418.06, gocording to tho statement fils] with tho surrogate | by Fransfor Tax Ap- pralsor Tull Tho expenses, Including the stato tax, amounted to $6698. | amounting | to - $60 009 wore mude to volatives, friends and employes of thoe hougchdld, The te maindor of the property Is left to her #00, Efenty H, foward, president of thoe Nlagara Fulls Dark. $400,448.06. Judes Pound Says Hidew Bas Riokt TO DISPOSH OP PROPERTY OFP CAMERON WAI/NON, WHO Y OWN WILL has Hope they W R Niagara Falls, Dec. 28.«-BRecnuse ho disitkod fiwyors and their ways, Thomag Uamerort Walton, one time medical ditector at tho United States navil neadetay, drow up his will con« veying an ceatuto of about $150,000, with hig own hand, and in the opin- fon of Fustice Pound, made something of a moss of affairs. Elle widow found that sho could not dispose of certain of the property folft by Walton, notably Island Park at Wilson, and she engaged a firm of Inwyors hore to test tho will In tho gourts with the result thut Justice Found hold that sho has the right to dispose of the property. wonsssiemies OFFICIAL RECORD, Lockport, N. YC,, Doc. 21, 1911. Doods. Wilbur &. Tnger and ano. Thomas Carlisle and ano. $1.00. Thomas Crilisle and ano. to WIH- bus C. Unger and ano, $4.00. Alfred & Stuart and ano. to Mollte i Barratt, $1.00, Ida B. fHowo to Fran T& CGornell $1.00, Sohoclikopt«Pfohl Company to Po- ter P. Fiohl, $1.00. Porey L. fowo and ano., to Chaldoa Martin $1.00, Ann Quadi to Anadrow I, $1.00. Fesste TK Sinclair and ano. to W. Bradford Plereo, $1.00, Movignges, Ifolon K. Hoffman to Nigg, Bugs. & Ta Ass'n, $520.00, Michael Czlsowslit and ano. to Niag. Bugs. & L. Asg n, $910.00, Judges io Dine With Judge Pardon wr cmicon me to Smith, Per. Alt the Jndses of the Court of Ap« pois and the furtlees of the Huprerac Court in the fifth, seventh and cishtn fudictat distrlets, taklmy In 22 cona« ti n ttes, have heet invite! to attend a Is yuts (Bi and $61 Port Chester, Pining, fand $6. Late News of Middleport PURITY REBERKATS ELECT NEW OrPFICERS-INTERESTING PERSONAF~, A Middloport, Doc, 22.-Mrs. Gog, Thompson and Mrs. Sterrit spent Wednesday at Buffalo. Miss Vera Kenyon loft Thursday morning for New York city, where sho will spend two weeks with her slstor, Miss Eva Kenyon. Ir, and Mrs, EH. L, Downey spent Wodnesday at Buffalo, Purity Rebekah Lodge No. 274, has clacted new officers Monday evening, for tho onsuing year as follows: N. G., Mrs. Martha Davidson; V. G., Miss Katheyn Bruch; Rec. Seo,, Miss Myrtic Arnold; F. Seo. Mrs. A. Webber; Treasurer, Miss May Braddock; Trus- teo, Alfred Saile. Miss Umma Shilling won $10 in gold in the contest In the Herald of- toe, Miss Margaret Mullen was at Buf- flo Wodnesday. W. J. Coon opened his bowling al- ley Saturday night and is meeting with success, Mrs. Lowis Kenyon and Miss Vora Kenyon spent Wednesday at Buffalo, the guosts of Mr, and Mrs. John Kon- you. Miss Josslo Prisch of Wellesley Col- lego, Mass., is home to spend the hol- idays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. I. Prisch, Arthur Wilmot of Columbla College, New York city, is the guest of his fsthor, Dr, If. A. Wilmot. Mrg. Alfred Salo {friends at Rochester, Mrs. Frank Dennison spent Thurs- day in Medina, the guest of Mrs. Paul McClue, Lockooit Baby => Booth fate Low GOVERNMENT CENSUS REPORT sows CIty Is amMoxa now. EST IN STATE,. Washington, - Dec. 2.-Following recent special announcements of vital statistics drawn from Census Bulletin 112, which contains the prellminary results for the year 1910, and advance summary presenting statistics on the mortality of infants in that year was issued today by Director Durand, of tho Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce and Labor. It was pre- pared under the supervision of Lr. Cressy L. Wilbur, chief stattsticlan for viral statistics, in the Census Bureau. 'the deaths complied in the advance bulletin and the annual registration report do not {nclude all the deiths that occur in the Uinted States, but culy those returned from what is known | as the | \death registration arem.\ 'This embraces certain states iaving effective registration laws and certain citlos In nonregistration states i1. which deaths are collected under locat ordinances, From this aren the Census Rurenu received transcripts of 805,41%% deaths in 1910, of which number 154,878, or 19.2 por cent, were infants under 1 year of age. In 1009 the total number of deaths of Infants under 1 year of ago was 140,- 067, reprosenting 194 per cest, of the totwl 782,588 in that year. In New York, Albany reported 13 Ler cent. of Its doaths as being among children under 1 year, and 19 por cont. among children under 5 years; «Amsterdam, 20 and 41 per cont., res- prectively; Auburn, 19 and 28; Batavia, 16 and 18; Binghamton, 15 and 19; Truffalo, 28 and 88; Cohoos, 25 and 80; Corning, 15 and 19; Cortland, 17 and 2%; Dunkirk, 26 and 40; Mlmira, 18 ind 17; Fulton, 20 and 85; Geneva, 10 and 14; Glons Falls, 1% and 17; (Hoversville, 19 and 28; Hornell, 11 aind 16; Hudson, 16 and 18; Ithaca, 9 and 18; Jamestown, 17 and 22; Johns- town, 14 and 17; Kingston, 15 and 20; Lackawanna, 62 and 79; Little Falls, 1b and 20; Lockport, 12 and 15; Mid- dlotown, 5 and 9; Mount Vernon, 19 and 27; Now ERochelle, 19 and 30; Now York, 21 and 82; Newburgh, 15 and 22; Niagara Walls, 29% gad 27; North Tonawanda, 36 amid 18; burg, 14 and 18; Olesn, 1% un&« £0; Ossining, 14 and £5; Oswego. 40 and 24; Pockskil, 15 and 25; hut-flung, 44 and 39; Poughlkcepgic, 16 and 20; Rensselaer, 229 and #8; Rochoster, 140 and 20; Homo, 16 und 21; Springs 1d and $0; Schenertady, 27 and Syracuse, #1 and 47; Troy, 14 and 20; Ttiouy $2 and $91; Watertown, 18 and $5; Waterviet, 19 and 28; - White *4 and 24; and Yonlters, 2 n—v. «bj (Humor to be siyen in Rochester cen Doc. 48 for Justice Pardon Wil« , ilams for the mopollate diviaien, who ' will fotito tike month,. The glasses used In some Hungarian enfeg nre i umbered so as to prevent the spread of disease by the inters« chanee of is the guest of | THE NIAGARA SUN, s OUND G 8D CDL NEARLY SEVENTEEN HOURS REACHING A VERDICT IN COTRT TOLD JURY IT HAD NO AL- TERNATIVE-COCUCLDN'T BLAME HOFPHEINS FOR CRIME. After being out 16 and a half hours the jury in the case of Richard D. Larkin which retired in County Court atb:30 p. m. yesterday, to consider the charges of grand larceny upon which he was on trial there since Monday morning last, returned into court at 10 o'clock this morning, with a ver- dict of guilty of taking $752.86 by means of checks drawn to a fictitious account from his employer, the Trans- fer Lumber and Shingle Company of North Tonawanda, It is understood that the jury carly in the night stood 11 to 1 for convic- tlon. 'This was later changed, it is suid, to nint to three for conviction, until a short time before court open- ed when a unanimous vote for con- viection was agreed upon. Larkins counsel after the verdict was reported, moved for a new trial on the usual grounds. Judge Hickey reserved decision on the matter. The entire afternoon yesterday was consumed by - respective counsel, Al- bert R. Smith of North Tonawanda for the prisoner, and District Attor- ney Fred M. Ackerson for the people, in vigorously summing up the case. Judge Hickey in his charge to the Jury told them that their plain duty under the evidence left no possible way of bringing in any verdict other than of conviction, the defendant him- self having confessed his guilt Attorney Smith asked the court to charge certain requests in behalf of the defendant, tending to mitigate his act and fasten the blame thereon upon his employer, Franklin A. Hof- heins, treasurer of the company, which the court declined to do,asserting that Hofheins was not the company and Larkin did not have to commit a crime to please him and gain wealth for - himself - and - Hofheins, even though the latter owned a majority of the company's stock. Shortly after the jury retired it sent word to Judge Hickey, who remained at the Court House for a while to see If a verlict was likely to be reached soon, that he could go to supper and not wait on their ac- count. Regarding the claim of Larkin that Hofheins went into a deal with him, Ho{heins took the stand and positive- ly denied that that statement was true. He furthermore gave evidence through figures written on the black- board in the court room showing that instead of gaining anything by such a procedure he would be a loser to the extent of #80 qn two checks which figure in the \W H. Hall\ mat- tor. Larkin's story was that of two checks-one for $752.86, upon which he was tried, and another for $589.69, which made a total of - $13428.55- Hofheins would gain about $802 by \divyying\ with him. Hofheins showed that this sum was less than what he would have receiv- td as his share from the transaction by reason of the amount of his stock in the concern. He said that he would have made $8§2 in reality if the money came to him honestly and legitimately. =a Mr. Stephanski's Idea Nets Him Check of $50 For an idea-apparently simpie- suggested while on a visit to the plant of the National Cash Register Co. of Dayton, O., which adds another fea- ture to the mechanical eashier, Presi- dent Petterson of the National Co., presented Robert Stephanski, Jr., pro- prictor of the \Smoke Shop\ No. 40 Main St., with a check of $50.00. Ac- companying the check was a con- gratulatory letter to Mr. Stephanski, on having secured the first illuminat- ed sign register turned out by the company, the idea of which was giv- en birth in the mind of the local mer- chant. It is on display at the \Smoke Shop\ and is attracting a deal of at- tention. The illuminated sign register, to- gether with many other features, eliminates hours of poring over book accounts,that the country storekeeper is wont to do even today. Master me- chanies have worked for years to per- fect its many features, and it was but a few months ago that their unceas- ing efforts were crowned with suc- cess. The \Smoke Shop\ register was in- stalled yesterday by G. W. Leighbody, sales agent of the National Cash Reg- ister Co., in this district, who inciden- taily just received word from the company that he had qualified for the One Hundred point club, Ice Cream Made Mostly of Beef Fat 'TICAGO, Dec. 22.-Ice cream that is composed almost entirely of beef fat is the last evasion of the pure food laws Alscovered here, LOCkKPORT, N. ¥. Able Arguments Presented in Favor of Bringing New Road Through This City. HUNDREDS ATTENDED 7 HE BUFFALO HEARING Although limited to thirty-five min- vies, four eloquent speakers, Former City Attorney J. Frank Smith, Attor- ney §. Wallace Dempsey, Attorney Eugene McCollum of this city, and Attorney George F. Thompson, of Middleport, ably presented to the State Highway Commission at the hearing in Buffalo yesterday after- neon, unanswerable arguments why the new million dollar State High- way, known as Route No. 30, should come through Lockport on its way through Niagara County to connect with Route No. 18 at Niagara Falls. As stated in yesterday's Tnion-Sun, the hearing was attended by hundreds e Lockportians and residents from Middleport, Gasport and the towns eust of this city, who are enthusiasti- cally supporting the efforts of those who wish the new highway to come this way. Big crowds were also pres- ent from Niagara Falls, North Ton- awanda and the north towns of 'the county who are fighting to land the new route for the Ridge road. Attorney Smith, who was the first speaker for the Lockport route, ap- peared as the representative of this city; Attorney Dempsey represented the Slayton Settlement road support- ers, Attorney McCollum spoke for, the Lockport Board of Trade and Attor- ney Thompson presented the claims of Middleport, Gasport, Town of Roy- alton and those interests east of Lock- prot who desire the highway to pass through that section. For the Ridge Road the speakers were E. T. Williams, Augustus Por- ter and County Attorney George M. Tuttle, of Niagara Falls, Alderman I'rentiss, of North Tonawanda; Stan- ley McKay and Supervisor John C. Taylor of the Town of Hartland; Frank Bradley, of Somerset, represt- ing the Fapmer's club and fruit in- terests of that locality, and Assembly- man Frank Waters, of Oak Orchard, Orleans county, the latter speaking in behalf of that county solely. While no decision was announced by the Commission, it is expected, however,. that it will shortly make a selection in this important - matter, with every hope of Lockportians and those favorable to the Lockport route that it will be decided in their favor. C. Gordon Reel, state highway sup- erintendent; Charles F. Treman, state superintendent of public works, and John A. Bensel, state engineer and surveyor, composing the state high- way commission, gave a two-hour hearing to both Niagara County and Orleans County contestants yesterday afternoon. The commission had giv- en a previous hearing at Albany about a week ago, and some expected the commission would give its decision af- ter yesterday's hearing, but the com- mission reserved its conclusions and said it would give full and fair con- sideration to all the arguments ad- vanced in the speeches as well as to briefs or additional data that may be sent to it later. \I can't tell when our decision will be reached,\ said Superintendent Tre- man. \We ourselves may lock horns on the questions raised.\ County Engineer George C. Diehl of Erie county attended the hearing, ex- pecting that the Niagara Falls boule- vard matter might be taken up. But it wasn't. However, Superintendent Reel told reporters that the boulevard is as good as a settled thing. He says the route probably will follow Kenilworth Avenue after leaving Main Street, pass the Kenilworth race track, cross the canal at Martinsville, follow Sawyer's and Bergholtz creeks to La Salle, thence follow the Mile Strip to Pine Street, Niagara Falls. The commission started to hold the hearing in the supervisors cnamber, but the crowd of Niagara and Orleans county folk in attendance was so big that the room was packed, and about 100 were standing. So the hearing was moved to the common council chamber, which was more than com- fortably filled, the attendance being about 500. The two Niagara county factions came on the same train,but they sepa- | rated and marched separately to City Hall. 'The Niagara Falls faction wore badges on which the words Ridge Road were inscribed in letters as large as the name of any candidate or cause at a big convention. Some of the inscriptions expressed the contingent' sentiments thus: \Thirty thousand majority in Niag- ara County favor the Ridge road.\ \God Almighty laid out the Ridge. It is up to the state to keep it up to date.\ \Mr. Commission: Don't kill father in the Canal Death Trap. Let him ride on the Bidge.\ 'The assesed valuation of Niagara County is $65,000,000. For canal route, $13,000,000. For Ridge route, $52,000,000.\ \A million fruit trees in Niagara County. Four fifths of them north of the Ridge.\ Speaking for the Ridge road E. T. Williams of the Niagara Falls board of trade said that Niagara Falls, the fastest growing city in the United States, was unanimously in favor of the Ridge road route for the new state highway. Urged by Dewitt Clinton. \In state commission was appointed to in- vestigate the state water routes. At this time DeWitt Clinon called at- tention to the Ridge road. He said that it was only 78 miles from river to river following this road; the con- dition of the soil along the route was ideal for a great trunk line, and that with very little labor & {Foard could be made that would be the best in the state.\ An. overwhelming majority of the people of Niagara County wére repre- sented by those present, said Mr. Wil- liams who would speak in favor of the Ridge road, and for the best in- terests of all he hoped the commis- sion would favor that plan. George M. Tuttle, attorney for the board of supervisors of Niagara coun- ty directed the attention of the com- mission to the high cost of living and intimated that prices of produce in Niagara Falls and the Tonawandas might be lowered if the Ridge road route were chosen. The farmers could get their produce into the markets much handier and thereby save a great deal of expense, he argued. When the matter came up before the board of supervisors, said Mr.Tut- tle, a resolution favoring the Ridge road was passed. The vote of the sup- ervisors show, figuring by the districts they represent, that the population of the county are for the Ridge road by 60,000 to 28,000 against it. The value of this route to the farmers was also touched by Mr. Tuttle. John E. Riordan approved - the Ridge road from the farmer's view- point. A. F. Premus, representing the citi- zens of North Tonawanda, said that city's public market will be better supplied by the towns of Porter, Lew- ist Cambria, Newfane, Hartland and Wilson, if the Ridge route is chosen. The Rev. Stanley A. McKay made an eloquent, impassioned plea - for the Ridge road. He called it the Gar- den of Eden, the most beautiful spot in the county. He also emphasied its topography and geology as best fitted to make a road that would last. He said the South' road (the Saunders Settlement road is \forever heaving and tumbling from the frost.\ In five years, he predicted, the Ridge road, if improved by the state ,will do mir- acles for industrial Niagara, accom- modating 5000 tons of traffic per mile per season. Frank A. Waters, Frank M. Brad- ley, J. Boardman Scoville and John C. Taylor also spoke of the Ridge road. \We do not appear before you with badges and buffoon umbrellas,\ said J. Frank Smith, speaking for the Lockport interests. ''We come before you as a jury to hear and deliberate upon our plea. A road to serve the best interests of the people must be put where it can do the most good. An air line drawn from Rchester to the Falls would come almost directly through Lockport. The ridge road ac- commodates only a few men in a lit- el triangle in the northwestern part of the county who have a few apple trees on their land. They ask you to go four miles north and then after go- ing 30 miles, turn south again and go around three sides of a square. The board of trade of North Tonawanda endorsed the telegraph road last year, but has since revoked the endorse- ment, because Niagara Falls has a board of trade agent. \The Ridge road has been there for 125 years. It starts nowhere and gets nowhere. There is no village of any size along its entire route. It is thought by the Falls people and the farmers along the route of the Pro- posed road that they are going to get something for nothing and they're coming to the fight by the hundreds. \It seems that Buffalo should have some say. The telegraph road will be the more available to Buffalo and it should be considered that this is A state proposition rather than confined to any locality or localities.\ \Ttility and expediency come ahcad of beauty of scenery,\ he continued. \I will trust the state engineering de- partment to put the road where it is 1810,\ said Mr. Williams, \s. Sidewalk By HOWARD L. RANN Sketches MARRIAGE ARRIAGE is a state where the recall has not been adopted, although it is fast coming to it. and also the renig, which amounts to the same thing. They have the recall at Reno and Sioux Falls In the marriage ceremony the groom is expected to take the bride for better or submission. is the lot of marriage. on it. at the breakfast table. have a parting kiss at the front deor than a chess for a pattern hat, but it isn't always safe to gamble We don't know which is more to be pitied-- for worse and the bride is expected to take the groom for a miniature mint, and when either one falls down there is coldness in the home. Some people achieve marriage and others have it forced upon them, while a still more numerou§ class chase it up against a hair sofa and strangle it into It is a pathetic sight to see a meek groom led up to the altar by & determined spinster to the strains of Gottschalk's \Last Hope,\ but this man. Men rarely court their wives with any considerable degree of enthusiasm after If they did, there would be less haukgur Some women would ratbs? a woman who marries the drink habit or the man who marries an ornamental vacuum. If it is true that there is no marry- ing or giving in marriage in heaven, there is likely to be quite a demand for transfers on the part of wives who offered to substitute for the Keeley cure. When a girl marries for money, she is called an adventuress, but when a man marries a complexion and a set of false hair he is considered a lucky dog until the next term of court. Some of our happiest marriages are founded upon collateral consisting of a second-hand cookst9ve and an elm dresser, while the divorce docket is loaded up with the martial troubles of the idle rich. Poverty has its compensations. ~ SIR WALILR RALEIGH IR WALTER RALEIGH is remembered by a grateful posterity chiefly as the inventor and patentee of the cubeh cigarette. stances leadmg up to the discovery of tobacco constitute & There was considerable Lord Raleigh and his second wife, and one evening Mrs. Raleigh drove the noted explorer into the cow barn and compelled him to sleep on the hay. he awoke in the morning he found that he had contracted a crick in the back and an attack of Hay fever, which hindered him in his work, whenever he started out to explore something he would be interrupted by sounded like the exhaust from a motor truck. thereupon inverted the Virginia cheroot and open- ed a chain of cigar stores in London, which gave him an independent income and enabled him to discover the Irish potato on the shores of North He later discovered the secret entrance to a quiet dungeon in the Tower of London, where he devoted his life to literature, becoming quite a proficient speller. story. Carolina. The circum- fascinating friction - between When for a series of sneezes that He Lord Raleigh did most of his discovering around home, generally sending red-necked substitutes to the front, while he stayed in London and married several of the queen's maids of honor. Queen Elizabeth finally got tired of having him hanging around the kitchen and sentenced him to be beheaded at sunrise with a dull axe, despite the fact that Raleigh had ruined a new $12 chavenette by spreading it in front of the royal limousine. Lord Raleigh was divorced several times at the urgent request of the divorcee, and finally his alimony ate up his patrimony, so that at his death his estate consisted of a quill pen and a safety razor. He left a number of widows and a flourishing entourage of . grass widows, and as a result the London newspapers were filled with cards of thanks for two weeks after his death safe.\ He said Buffalo uses more ap- ples than all Niagara County and de- clared that the Lockport route would be more direct to Buifalo, He also as- serted that 90 per cent .of the pro- duce is shiped over the Rome, Water- town and Ogdensburg railroad and will still be after the state road is built, He could see no good reason why an indirect route should be chos- en and such villages as Gasport and Middleport be shut out. He Proposes a Compromise. Wallace Dempsey proposed a com- promise. There was a highway ly- ing midway between the two argued routes, he said, that should prove of value to both. 'This road he named the Slayton Settlement road. It was the most direct route into Lockport from Reynold's basin, shor er and better in every way than cith- er of those proposed. Eugene McCollum of the board of trade of Lockport said the Slayton Settlement road would be the best choice. Lockport was growing and the road would be a cause for de- velopment, while it would not mater- ially affect Niagarq Falls It would benefit both cities. George F. Thompson said that al- though he owned a farm on the Ridge road and would profit if the new road took that route, he believed the tele- graph road would be the wiser and better way for the state. Safford P. Church, representing Or- leans County interests, spoke briefly, favoring the telegraph road. He ask- ed to be allowed to file briefs, saying that there was not sufficient time to argue the matter as it should be ar- gued. Barry Murphy of the board of trustees of Medina spoke of the route the road should take in that village. The committee allowed Messrs. Mur- phy and Church to file briefs. Hissing Mrs, Pok fetus to Cy HUSBAND SECUULES WARRANT ON CHARGE AGAINST HER OP ABANDONING CHILD. Mrs. Emma Poole, wife of Edward Poole, who disappeared so myster- iously several months ago, returned to the home of her mother, Mrs. Spring, on Green street, early this week. No account of her whereabouts during the time she was away has been given out. Her husband complained to the po- lice yesterday that she had abandoned her child, a boy who was left with him. He asked for a warrant and secured it. Detective Costello served the warrant and Mrs. Poole went to police headquarters where her mother gave a bond of $500 for her appear- ance $1 court early in January. All Kinds of Job Work mautiy »execul» @S at reasonsble prices at this Oflca® , & COUNTY SEALER COYLE GETS SWEEPING ORDERS FROM STATE TO ACT ON JAN. i. County Sealer of Weights and Measures E. M. Coyle, has received instructions from the state depart- ment that after Jan. 1 all scales not complying with state specifications must be condemned. Balance balls on all scales must be so constructed that an outside me- chanical device is necessary to operate them. The. state department has given manufacturers ample opportunity to make required changes iv their pat- terns and remedy defects found in scales and when a scale is found with balance ball not complying with the regulations it must be forthwith con-» demned. The state specifications also require an outside mechanical device to ope- rate the adjusting screw on spring balances, otherwise they must be con- demned. Leveling serews on computing scales must be replaced with herdless serews or covered with a cap so that the screw cannot be changed or tam= pered with.). Computing scales on which the ref» erence wire is bent or changed so it does not give the correct reading must be condemned. Six quart dry measures and bottom- less measures are illegal and must be condemned. Counter tacks for measurement with beads over % inch in diameter must be removed by the sealer. - Oil pumps must be arranged that the stops can be sealed. . The sealer must visit all hardwars stores and see that the scales offérEd for sale comply with the cations. Mr. Coyle has also received instruc- tions that the law relative to baled hay must be enforced. This section provides that a person selling baled hay must attach - his name and address on some board or wood on the bale and that such bale must be sold with or without deduc- tion for tare and by the weight marked or any standard weight as agreed between seller and buyer. The penalty is a fine of $5 for each vio- lation. 520% sd coum Pennsylvania opened her first well of natural gas in 1882, since which time the State has produced about one-half the natural gas consumed in the United States, F
