Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, February 04, 1910, Image 4
Samuel P. and Sarah Gray, was born this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the | in Halfmoon valley, September 28th, 1828. following rates : ny has just published two exceedingly neat little booklets for distribution to ag- riculturists and others intercsted in the fertility of soils and their crops. One is on “Alfalfa;” the other is on “Use of Lime on Land.” Both are edited by the School of Agriculture and Experiment Station of The Pennsylvania State Col- lege and contain helpful hints in growing alfalfa and in the use of lime on the soils. They are most gratifying in that they show the interest which the worlds great- est railroad corporation is taking in the work done at Centre county's great insti- tution of learning. While we realize that this interest is not wholly charitable, in truth it is probably wholly selfish, never- theless it will make for much good for the farmers of Pennsylvania. For if The Pennsylvania State College can tell them crops to market. That is exactly what it is after. The moral of it all is this: I this great railroad corporation has enough faith to believe that college information will help the farmers then the farmers should have even greater faith and should seek with avidity all the information to be disseminated by this most recent plan, ~—In these days when the high price of all kinds of food products is being dis- cussed the country over Dr. H. P. ARMSBY, of State College, has come to the front with a statement that the proper solution to the question will be to conserve the grain food products for the use of hu- manity and feed the horses, cattle and hogs on the coarser food products not suitable for man. He claims that forty- five per cent. of the grain raised in the country is now fed to animals, whereas if this was conserved for the use of man it would so increase the supply that a decrease in the price would be sure to follow. He is now attempting to solve the question of the coarse food products for animals in his work with the respi- ration calorimeter, at State College, but has not yet reached that stage where he can safely prescribe a fit substitute for grain for the animal kingdom. ——Emperor WILLIAM was fifty-one years old last week and celebrated the event in a quiet way with his family. He has mellowed a good deal since he assum- ed the crown thirty years or so ago and has achieved much for his country since he stopped ranting about the importance of great armies and navies. ——Attorney General WICKERSHAM says he inherited that lese majestic suit against the New York World from his predecessor in office. But any man who is fool enough to accept an inheritance from such a stu- pid source must not expect popular sym- pathy. ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS. ——The ice crop has all been harvest- ed in this community and everybody has a liberal supply on hand. ee ein ——The Ladies Mite society of the Presbyterian church will hold a fair in the chapel on Thursday, March 10th, at which cakes, candy and all kinds of fancy work will be offered for sale. ——Ed. Keichline, who was recently awarded a free scholarship in the Sus- quehanna University, at Selinsgrove, will enter that institution immediately after the Easter vacation for a short course in English and book-keeping. a ——William Showers, engineer at the plant of the Bellefonte Lumber company, has decided to move to his farm near Hecla in the spring, where he will be able to give closer attention to the cultivation of the choice fruit he grows every year. ———The Misses Helen Shaeffer,Christine Curry and Louise Brachbill, with William Runkle, Andy McNitt, Irwin Noll and William Shoop composed a party that drove to Centre Hall Tuesday evening for Miss Laura Runkle’s dinner at which twenty covers were laid. ——Prof. J. Angel, the eye specialist of Williamsport, who has been coming to Bellefonte long enough to be well known in this community, will be at the Brock- erhoff house on Wednesday and Thurs- day of next week, as per his advertise- ment published in this paper the past two weeks. oe ——On Friday W. C. Cassidy withdrew his name as a candidate for justice of the peace on the Republican ticket in the South and West wards and the name of Henry Brown was substituted, so that the tickets will be printed with Mr. Brown as the Republican candidate and John M. Keichline the Democratic candidate. en —— —Just because their wives were out for the evening Dr. J. Allison Platts, Hon. J. C. Meyer, Dr. J. E. Ward, W. B. Rankin, M. L Gardner, James K. Barnhart, H. B. Pontius and Claude Cook went up to Unionville on the 4:44 train Tuesday af- ternoon and partook of a chicken and waffle supper at the hotel there, returning on the 8;16 train. | youth united with the Gray's Methodist Episco- pal church. After her marriage to Caleb H. Kephart, who was a faithful member of the church of his wife's choice, and lately deceased, she transferred her mem- bership to the M. E. church at Filmore, where in her christian activities she most signally honored her Master and glorified her creator. The married life of this de- voted wife and husband was pleasant to behold and in no home could a minister of the gospel of any communion find a more cordial welcome than in theirs. For fifty-seven years there was an un- broken family record untii November 30th, 1909, when the husband and father laid by the implements of toil to receive the crown of life. . Mrs. Kephart was a sister of Rev. George Torring Gray, for thirty-twoyedrs an honored member of the Central Penn- sylvania Conference of the M. E. church, and a skillful workman in the Master's vineyard, of whom it was said, “God's finger touched him and he slept;” of S. Durbin Gray, who was a prominent law- yer in Centre county and a very useful member of the M. E. church in Bellefonte, where he served with honor in many of- ficial positions, and of Harriet S. Gray, a sweet spirited christian who passed to i her reward long since. The loss of her devoted husband seem- ed too much for her to bear and almost from that very day her friends could see that her sorrow was fast hastening the day of her demise which occurred January 24th, 1910. She was conscious, clear, self-possessed and triumphant until angels beckoned her away and Jesus bade her come, surrounded by her family of five children who sang as she looked out and passed on to the side of her companion in the Heavenly land. Funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. A. L. Frank, assisted by Rev. C. C. Shuey, on Friday morning at 10 a. m. at her late home at Filmore. Inter- ment was made in the family plot in Gray's cemetery. She awaits the dawn of the morn eternal. A FRIEND. i f .FisHBURN.—Following an illness of six weeks with a complication of diseases Mrs. Esther Fishburn, wife of Henry Fishburn, died at her home on Willow- bank street at six o'clock last Friday evening. She had been in failing health the past thrée years, and of late had been a great though patient sufferer. Deceased was a daughter of Rev. and Mrs. David E. Klopp and was born at Lebanon. She was 67 years, 5 months and 17 days old. She was a consistent member of the Reformed church since girlhood and was a good christian wom- an. After her marriage to Mr. Fishburn she lived on the farm in Benner town- ship until a few years ago when they re- tired and moved to Bellefonte. Mrs. Fishburn was the mother of six- teen children, ten of whom are living, as follows: Jacob P., of Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. Minnie M. Martin, of Harrisburg; George K., of Amboy, Ill.; William N., of Bellefonte; Mrs. Agnes M. Tate, of Quickside; Charles H., of Freeport, Ill; John S., of Wilkinsburg; Frederick S., of Swissvale; Oscar W., of Quickside, and Paul S., of Wilkinsburg. She is also sur- vived by her husband, who is eighty-five years old and feels her death very keen- ly. The funeral was held from St. John's Reformed church at ten o'clock on Wed- nesday morning. Dr. Ambrose M. Schmidt officiated at the services and burial was made in the Union cemetery. 1 i DusLING.—At three o'clock on Tuesday morning Anthony Dusling died at his home in Bush Addition as the result of cancer. The disease affected his mouth and throat so that for some weeks it was almost impossible for him to take nour- ishment, though he was not confined to the house longer than about a month be- fore his death. He was about seventy-seven years of age and was born in Germany though he came to this country when a young man. During his life he followed farming, work- ed as a stone mason or did most anything in the way of labor, being an unusually industrious man. He acquired considerable property and a competence suffi- cient to keep him comfortably when ill health kept him from work. He was a member of the Catholic church and 2 man who was respected by all who knew him. He is survived by his wife and one daughter, Miss Rose O. Dusling. The funeral was held from the Catholic church at ten o'clock yesterday morning, burial being made in the Catholic cemetery. i i WRIGHT.—Rev. Robert Erskine Wright, who was rector of St. John's Episcopal church in this place from 1893 to 1897, but who of late was rector of All-Saints church, at Fallsington, Bucks county, died at the Wright homestead in Philadelphia last Friday night. He was a man of great culture and wide popularity and his death is a source of deep regret among the clergy as well as laity of the church wherever he was known. : EE ————— : ; y - 3 | 2 g i were summoned, and during his entire | illness his brother, Dr. R. E. Sleppy, was almost constantly at his bedside. But He was a son of Rev. and Mrs. AL J. Sleppy, of Pittsburg, and was nineteen years of age. He came to the Bellefonte Academy from the Allegheny High school and this would have been his last year here as he was preparing to enter State College next year. In addition to being ‘a good student he was a thorough ath- lete, being a member of the Academy baseball, football and basketball teams. His record as pitcher for the baseball team last season was a very good one and he was elected captain of the team for next year. In addition to his parents he is survived by five brothers and three sisters. The remains were taken to the frater- nity house on the hill where they lay in state until Monday evening when brief funeral services were held by Dr. J. Alli- son Platts, a close friend of the family. Tuesday morning the body was taken to Pittsburg to the residence of bis brother, Dr. R. E. Sleppy, on the North Side, from where the funeral was held at 2.300'clock on Wednesday afternoon. i i HORNER.—Residents of Pleasant Gap were shocked last Saturday afternoon to learn of the sudden death of Ellis Horner, of that place. At half past three o'clock he left Noll's store for home in usual good health and spoke to several people on the way. Reaching home he sat down and was talking with members of his family when just on the stroke of four his head dropped to one side and he died instant. ly; heart failure evidently being the cause. A fatality of sudden deaths seems to follow that family. It will be remem- bered that deceased’s father a number of years ago was stung on the nose by a yellow jacket and died within twenty-four hours from blood poison, while a brother of the deceased also died quite suddenly. Deceased was a son of the late n Horner and was about fifty-four yeat$ of age. He was a laborer by occupation and of late had been engaged in cutting prop timber on an operation on Nittany mountain. He is survived by his wife and nine children, five of whom are quite small; he also leaves one brother, George Horner, who lives on the old homestead on Nittany mountain. The funeral was held on Tuesday morning, burial being made in the Lutheran church cemetery. i i SHUGERT.— William Finley Shugert, only brother of the late J. Dunlop Shu- gert, died at his home in Washington on Tuesday afternoon. When comparative- ly a young man he suffered a stroke of paralysis which left him more or less crippled and itis presumed that his death was caused by another stroke. He was sixty-eight years of age and was well known in this community, where he spent the early part of his life. In 1866 he went to Washington and secured a position in the patent office in which he had been employed ever since. He was a man of superior education and well in- formed cn all the leading questions of the day. His only immediate survivor is his wife. The remains were brought to Bellefonte on the 4.10 train last evening and taken direct to the Episcopal church where brief funeral services were held after which interment was made in the Shugert plot in the Union cemetery. i i GEHRET.—Charles Gehret, an old sol- dier and well known citizen of Bellefonte, died at his home on Burnside street at three o'clock on Sunday afternoon of pheumonia. He had been in feeble health for some time but his last illness was only of a few days duration. He was born in this place and was past eighty-one years of age. He served dur- ing the Civil war and was a member of Gregg Post, No. 95. A number of years ago he was street commissioner of Belle- fonte and was always an honest, indus- trious man. He is survived by his wife and the following children: Frank, Charles, Boyd, and Mrs. Anna McQuil- lan. He also leaves three brothers, Wil- RaymoND.~Edward, the six month's old son of Harry Raymond, of Beaver street, died on Saturday noon. He had been delicate since birth and his death about ten days before his death when he | became ill and was compelled to take his bed. From that time on his decline was ' gradual until the end. Deceased was a member of one of the most prominent families in Centre coun- ty. His grandfather came to this country from Scottland in the eighteenth cen- tury and located at Linden Hall where they made their home for half a century. It was there Mr. Irvin was born on January 23rd, 1830, thus being at the time of his death eighty years and six days old. His parents were John and Hannah Greene Irvin. His early education was re- ceived in the public schools after which he took a course inthe Lawrenceville Academy. Returning from there he en- tered the woolen mill at Oak Hall and shortly afterwards was made a partner in the business and finally became sole owner, He also conducted the Oak Hall foundry for a number of years until ad- vancing age compelled his retirement, He was married in 1854 to Miss Jane Riley, a daughter of Daniel Riley, of Boalsburg, and a sister of the late Judge Riley. They took up their residence at Oak Hall in the house in which they have lived ever since. Three children were the result of that union, two of whom sur- vive, namely: Mrs. William F. Mitchell, of Washington, Pa., and Mrs. Thomas F. Johnson, of Philadelphia, but who has been at home most of the time during the past year. Mrs. Irvin also survives, although she has been quite ill since the night of her_ husband's death. He also leaves two half-sisters in the west. Mr. Irvin was a Republican in politics and for thirty-five years was a prominent member of the Presbyterian church. The funeral was held from his late home at | 10:30 o'clock on;Monday morning. Rev. i W. K. Harnish officiated at the services and interment was made in the Branch cemetery. I i FEARON. — Sidney John Fearon died quite unexpectedly at his home in Beech Creek on Tuesday afternoon. He was one of the rural mail carriers from that borough and about September first he was stricken with typhoid fever. He had just recovered therefrom and about ten days ago decided he would go back on his route on Tuesday when he contracted a | cold which developed into pleurisy. At’ no time, however, was his condition con- | sidered even serious, even up until within’ a few minutes of his death. | He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. j Fearon and was born in Beech Creek. ' He is survived by his wife, two brothers | and two sisters. Dr. J. Allison Platts, of | this place, officiated at the funeral which was held at one o'clock yesterday after- noon, interment being made in the Beech : Creek cemetery. fi li Rousn.—After being practically an in- valid for almost a year Henry Roush died | at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John | H. Detwiler, near Old Fort, on January 20th. His illness was the result of his ad} | vanced age, he being 71 years, 2 months | and 15 days old. He was a farmer by | occupation and for many years lived on a | farm near Penn Hall, in Gregg township. | Surviving him. are his wife and the fol- | lowing children: Mrs. Perry W. Breon, | Potters Mills; Mrs. Ephraim Shook, Spring | Mills; James, of Aaronsburg; Mrs. John | H. Detwiler, of Potter township; Miss | Dora Roush, Mrs. Dallas Duck and John Roush, all of Salona. The funeral was held on the Sunday following his death, Rev. H. A. Snook, of Spring Mills, officiat- | ing and burial being made in the Heck- man cemetery. I i LIMBERT.—Aaronsburg lost one of its oldest and best known citizens last week in the death on Friday afternoon of Frederick Limbert after a short illness with pneumonia. He was seventy-one years of age and a veteran of the Civil war, having served as a private in the 148th regiment Pennsylvania volunteers. His wife, three sons and three daugaters | survive, as follows: Elmer, of Penn town. | ship; Charles, of Haines township; Fred. | erick, of Altoona; Mrs. Annie Swarm, of Olean, N. Y.; Mrs. Kate Keller, of Lock Haven, and Mrs. Carrie Musser, of Haines township. Rev. W. D. Donat officiated at the funeral which was held on Tuesday morning, burial being made in the Aarons- burg Sm . , : OSTRANDER.—Samuel Ostrander died in the asylum at Danville last Saturday, where he had been for some time under- going treatment. He was about twenty- three years of age and was a son of Mrs. Amanda Ostrander, who survives with two sisters, Minnie and Bessie, and one brother, Oscar. The remains were brought to Bellefonte on Monday and taken to the home of hisaunt, Mrs. James Woods, from where the funeral was held at one o'clock i i ] PALMER.—Noah Palmer, a native of New York State but who for several years past has lived with his sister, Mrs. Eliza- beth Casselbury, in Howard township, died quite suddenly on Monday morning. He was eighty years and five months old. Methodist church at ten o'clock on Wed- | nesday morning, interment being made +in the Schenck cemetery. | in one of the German Universities before ! driver couldn't see and the Colonel took er of a little baby about ten days previ. ous and her death was the result. She was born in Bellefonte and was about twenty-four years of age. She was an accomplished musician and for some time previous to leaving Bellefonte played the organ in the Catholic church, of which she was a devout member. About two years ago she with her mother moved to New York where her two brothers, Ar- thur and Anthony were located. There she met the man, John Moreno, a Cuban, who afterwards became her husband, they having been married a few days less than a year ago, or February 15th, 1909. The funeral was heid on Tuesday morn- ing, from the parish of St. Thomas Aqui- nas, the Bronx, New York city. The services were conducted by Rev. Father Barry assisted by Rev. Father David Ken- nedy, of the Church of St. Paul the Apos- i A i CLEAN THE PAVEMENTS.—Not in years have the pavements of Bellefonte beer in such a dangerous condition with ice and snow as they have been this winter and it is only a matter of good luck that pedes- trians have not been injured from falling thereon. Business men and property owners have shown a marked degree of negligence or carelessness in even trying properties clean. Even two weeks ago when the hard rain and thaw softened the ice so that it all could have been cleaned off the pavements with little or no trouble very few took advantage of it with the result that it again froze and left the pavements ina worse condition than ever. There is an ordinance in Bellefonte re- quiring property owners and business men to remove all the snow and ice from the . pavements within forty-eight hours but it is utterly disregarded. It is also a well known law that property owners are liable for damages for any injury sustain- ed by an individual in a fall on an icy pavement, and this fact alone ought to be enough to induce all to at least make an tle. Interment was made in St. Ray- | attempt to keep their pavements clean and monds Catholic cemetery. at Westchester, | N.'y. ~——Announcement was made in Ty- | rone, on Saturday evening, of the en- gagement of Miss Jane Witter, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Witter. of that place, and W. H. Agnew, a promi nent photographer of Tyrone, the wed- ding to take place in the very near fu- ture. Miss Witter has frequently visited in Bellefonte and has many friends among the younger set here. ~The “Lincoln Day" addiess at State College, (Saturday morning, Febru- ary 12th), this year will be delivered by Hon. Clark E. Carr, of Illinois, an associ- ate and friend of both Lincoln and Doug- las, while they lived. He was one of the committee on arrangements for the Lin- coln-Douglas debate in Galesburg, in 1858, and is provided with a store of rem- iniscences of those bygone days, that will be deeply interesting to those who can participate in the exercises of the occa- sion, ——Dr. P. Hoffer Dale, of Centre Hall, has bought the office and good will of Dr. John Robinson, of State College, and will move there for the practice of his profession on or before April first. The delay in the change is made for the pur- pose of giving him an opportunity to dis- pose of his practice at Centre Hall. Dr. Robinson expects to leave State College but just where he will locate is not yet known. He will probably take a course he seeks a new location. ——As an art lecturer Col. J. L. Spang- ler yet has his opportunity to make good. As a pilot of sleighing parties he isa] dismal failure, as was demonstrated the | other night when hé headed a crowd that | drove to Hublersburg for supper. Their ] the reins only to freeze his hands, then he floundered in snow drifts up to his neck for an hour or more before finding a country boy who was willing to drive them home. They reached here shortly before daylight and the Colonel had his own troubles getting the boy back to Nittany valley. $6 eis | ——Last week we mentioned the fact of Mrs. Charlotte W. Elliott, of New York, being in Bellefonte a few hours on Wednesday. Mrs. Elliott is the woman who last summer enticed about thirty-five Bellefonters into an American University course at $29.50 per member and then failed to carry out the promises made. The result was a general kick and a number of the subscribers quit paying their monthly installments while Mrs. Elliott was written up in the newspapers. When she was here last week she threw out hints which rather intimated that she contemplated proceedings for damages but that was not her mission at all. She came here to see if she couldn't compel the delinquent subscribers to resume their payments but she talked to the wrong man first and he advised her to drop the matter and get out of town, which she did on the next train. . ——Two mad bulls in a china shop would be about a correct comparison to the swoop of about two hundred State College students into Bellefonte last Fri- day afternoon and evening. Having suc- cessfully passed their mid-winter ex- aminations they were hunting an outlet for a big dose of surcharged energy and they selected Bellefonte as the place to shoot it off. The first shot was made shortly after the arrival of the noon train when one of a bunch of three threw a suit case through one of the big windows in the Pennsylvania railroad passenger depot. The next shot was fired by the Bellefonte police when the offenders were ’ ‘ in a safe condition. Some of the worst pavements in Bellefonte are in front of | properties the owners of which are the best able to keep them clean, and some day they may be compelled to pay for their negligence by being the defendant in a suit for damages. cms FO Sniodiadii ——Since the scaffolding has been re- moved from the court room the public can appreciate just how beautiful and artistic the room will look when it is all finished and the furnishings in place. And if the entire court house, old part and new addition,corresponds when completed with the court room it will be a job that will more than likely meet with the ap- proval of a large percentage of the pub- lic. The work on the remainder of the building is not progressing very rapidly, and it will take some tall hustling to get the room in readiness for holding the February term of court, which is only a few days over three weeks off. In that time the new stairways will have to be put in place and the glass partition in the rear of the room put up. The benches will all have to be varnished and arranged in place and accommodations made for both the grand and traverse juries. Work- men have begun on rearranging the vaults 80 as to install the new steel book-racks and filing cases, most of which are now here. The plasterers are working on the new building and it will not be long until it will be ready for the interior woodwork finish. THE GIRL FROM THE U. S. A.—“The Girl from the U. S. A.” the attraction at the opera house on Tuesday evening, February 8th, is a joyous creation, and something new in stage-land. The girl goes tantalizingly light-hearted into delici- ous entanglements that keep the action of the play splendidly melo-dramatic. The clean, fine atmosphere of the production is most wholesome and welcome. The heart-interest is deep and natural. There is a triangle love-affair and the story of the play contains several social astonish- ments that are delightfully artful yet genuine episodes of real life. —. ~ ——Robert Sechler, mail agent on the Lewisburg and Tyrone railroad, has leased the house owned by Mrs. James Harris, on Spring street, and will move there the first of April. Mrs. S. A. Bell and Miss Alice Tate will move from the Curtin house on the corner of Allegheny and Howard streets to the one side of the Kline house on Spring street. Jacob Smith has leased the Jared Harper house on the corner of High and Thomas streets and will go there when moving day comes around. ane a ——The Bellefonte Tent, Ladies of the Maccabees, had quite a social time last Thursday afternoon and evening. In the afternoon the new officers for the ensuing year were installed by Mrs. Belle M. Doughty, state organizer, of Corydon, Pa. In the evening they had a banquet and euchre in the Maccabees hall in the Mec- Clain block at which about fifty members and guests were present. nr A mnt ——The North Wales Choir, one of the famous Welsh musical organizations now touring in this country, will give a con- cert in the auditorium at State College next Thursday evening, February 10th. The Welsh singers have a world-wide reputation and their entertainment at the college will be of a high class order and one that should draw a large audience. ———— ee ——Both the Boston and New York National league baseball clubs are after Bud Sharpe, the former State College and Bellefonte Academy baseball player. He played at Newark last season and was re- served by Pittsburg. ——Only a week from next Tuesday will be election day but up to date there is not much evidence of unusual activity among the various candidatesin the elec- tioneering line. another bunch made a football rush in hn the Brockerhoff house office and mis- Marriage Licenses. taking the cigar case for the goal posts gy pushed one of their number through the | Jo" YN ha Awa M. Portuy, glass front. Fifth shot, more greenbacks John H. Condo and Margaret C. Schil- to pay damages. By that timea good |. ot come Hall, many of them were half shot and it wasa George W. Sharer and Sarah J. Reish, opera house aa Ju the of SEUe Hal. ind show, much to the discomfort of both the oie, of Yinden Fal players and the audience. Before they John E. Ertel, of Spring Mills, and Ed- left for home that night some one or na Limbert, of Madisonburg. more of them stole several hundred cigars Harry W. Bowersox and Bessie Ostzan- from the broken cigar case in the Brock- der, of Bellefonte. -erhooff house office but three boxes were ' Ah amma recovered. : ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.