THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. —Who is Smith? Go to Petriken hall on Sunday afternoon and find out. ——M rs. Charles McAvoy gave birth to a little son, in the Bellefonte hospital Wednesday morning. ——James B. Strohm, of Centre Hall, this week sold his farm in Potter town- ship to James C. Goodhart, of Centre Hill. ——The ladies of the Reformed church will hold one of their famous Thanksgiv- ing markets, Tuesday and Wednesday of Thanksgiving week. ——The condition of Mrs. Calvin Walz, who has been seriously ill for the past year at her home at Pleasant Gap, is not improving as rapidly as her friends would wish. — Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Josephine Snedinger, of Rosslyn, L. I, and S. Durbin Gray, of Jamaica, L. I. The wedding will not take place for two years. ——James D. Schaeffer, who for anum- ber of years past has been station agent at Beech Creek, has been transferred to Clearfield and Simeon Mains has been promoted from tower operator to agent at Beech Creek. ——Fred B. Smith will deliver an ad- dress to the women of Bellefonte at ten o'clock tomorrow (Saturday) morning in the W.C. T. U. room in Petriken hall. Subject, “Civic Government.” All are urgently invited. —(;. Oscar Gray last week purchas- ed the Cassidy residence on Thomas street now occupied by John L. Knisely and family. He will take possession on April 1st, 1911. Dominic Judge, Mrs. Gray's father, will make his home with them. —(eorge T. Bush last week bought a second hand Ford runabout, similar to the one owned by Dr. Irwin, of Union- ville, from a dealer in New York and for the next week or so all his spare time will be taken up learning to operate the machine. ~The employees of the Pennsylvania railroad in and around Bellefonte; the Bellefonte Central and the Central Rail- road of Pennsylvania have raised and contributed forty-six dollars towards the installation of the elevator in the Belle- fonte hospital. ~Mr. and Mrs. Edward Latham moved back to Bellefonte last Friday and are now occupying the Walkey home on Logan street. The reason of their return is that Mr. Latham has been transferred from the P. and E. railroad to the Lewis- burg and Tyrone, with headquarters here. ~The members of the Bellefonte High school football team are very much elated over their victory last Saturday over the Lock Haven Normal reserves. That it was a close and interesting game all through is shown by the score which was 6-0 in favor of the Bellefonte boys, Harrison Kline making the touchdown and kicking the goal. —pPhiladelphia and Chicago have been very much in the public eye this week on account of the interest attached to the world’s series of baseball games, but the Scenic is always popular because of the good program of moving pictures shown there every evening. You don’t have to take our word for this, just pat- ronize it and see for yourself. ——On Sunday afternoon Harry Baum and J. H. Robb were driving up High street in a buggy and when crossing the High street bridge the shafts came loose from the buggy and fell down on the horse’s heels. The animal was a spirited one and naturally tried to get away but Mr. Robb jumped out, got hold of the bridle and they soon had him quieted «down. ~——MTr. Nick Vallimont and daughter, ‘Miss Grace Vallimont, recently moved from Pine Glenn to Bellefonte and are now located with Mr. Deitrick, on Logan street. Miss Vallimont has accepted the position as teacher of the school in Bush Addition which was made vacant by the resignation of Miss Mame Woods, who on Monday will take charge of the new achool to be established in the new High school building. Cyrus Bowman, a resident of ‘Blanchard and well known veteran of the Civil war, was arrested on Monday morn- ing on the alleged charge of distributing poison. The warrant was issued on in- formation made by Cloe Heverley, who claims to have seen Mr. Bowman throw- ing around minced ham in which poison was concealed. Mr. Bowman wili have a hearing before "Squire M. F. Pletcher some time today. ——Harvey Davis, who was arrested in Tyrone last week on the charge of having robbed the tailor shop of Louis Smith, of Lock Haven, was taken to that city and given a hearing on Thursday afternoon. Mr. Smith identified the cloth found in Davis’ possession as identical with that stolen from his shop but the latter main- tained that he had bought it from a Hebrew peddler in Bellefonte. But the fact that he offered to pay for the cloth if he was released was somewhat against him and he was held for trial by court. Murder or Suicide. Mrs. John Baudis, of Scotia, found with Her Head Nearly Cut off within One Hundred Yards of her Home. Circum+ stances Point to a Horrible Murder and Bert Delige is in Jail as a suspect. The little village of Scotia up in the Barrens was thrown into a furore of excitement on Sunday evening when it became known that Mrs. Hilda Baudis, widow of John Baudis, the well known merry-go-round man who committed sui- cide in Williamsport on August 14th, had either committed suicide herself or else been foully murdered, as her dead but yet life-warm body had been found in a grassfield about three hundred feet from the Baudis home, with her throat cut from ear to ear. The Baudis home is located a half mile or more from Scotia and late Sunday af- ternoon Mrs. Baudis went over to the town to visit a friend. It was in the neighborhood of seven o'clock when she started home, and naturally quite dark. To lessen the journey she took a short cut across the old mud dam and through a small grassfield. It was probably ten minutes past seven o'clock when Thomas Baudis, the unfortunate woman's son, who was standing in the doorway attheir home, heard a woman's shrill scream out in the darkness in the direction of the field. He is merely a lad and did not at first realize that the cry was one of dis- tress, but a few moments later thinking of his mother’s delay in getting home ran down the path into the field to investigate and had gone probably three hundred feet when he found her lying across the path. Realizing that something fearful had happened he ran back to the house and told his sister and their cries for help were heard in Scotia and promptly responded to. A large crowd soon gathered and the doctor being summoned found that the woman was dead and that the first cuton her neck had severed the jugular vein and windpipe and caused almost instant death. District attorney W. G. Runkle and other Bellefonte officials were at once notified and after instructing the people of Scotia what to do with the body Mr. Runkle se- cured an automobile and went up to the scene of the tragedy. After inspecting the body and the scene of the crime Mr. Runkle felt satisfied it was not a case of suicide but of murder and at once started in on an investigation that led to the ar- rest on Monday afternoon of Bert Delige, colored, on suspicion of having commit- ted the deed. Dr. Huff, coroner, went to Scotia on Monday and held a post mortem and in- quest over the body. His examination disclosed the fact that the woman's throat toear and had cut in almost to the back- bone. Within the principal gash were three or four smaller cuts, as if the per- son who did the deed was not satisfied that the first cut would cause death. In the opinion of the district attorney, the coroner and the coroner's jury it was a physical impossibility for the woman to have inflicted such wounds upon herself, and as evidence to absolve her of having committed suicide no knife or weapon of any kind was found upon or in the vicinity of the body; and the coroner's jury found that the woman had been murdered by parties unknown to them. Delige had been in the employ of Bau- dis before he committed suicide and has since worked for Mrs. Baudis up until a week or so ago; in fact was helping to operate the merry-go-round here during fair week. After the machine was housed for the winter Mrs. Baudis had no more work for Delige and then they had a dispute over seven dol- lais the latter claimed was due him from before Mr. Baudis’ death; a claim denied by Edward Baudis and which Mrs. Bau- dis refused to pay. Delige is alleged to have declared only a few days ago that he would get it somehow. It is also said that he was drinking on Sunday and had been seen in the vicinity of the Bau- dis home only a short time before the crime was committed. An investigation of the ground in the field where the body was found and in an adjoining cornfield showed fresh tracks leading from the body in the direction of the Delige home, and on securing the shoes that Bert wore the night before they were found to fit the tracks exactly. The most incriminating feature of the tracks was that the sole on one of the shoes was worn through and the one end wrinkled up and this peculiar indentation was found in every track made by that foot. Delige, though he evidently knew he was under suspicion, made no effort to down to the Gray farm to raise potatoes for Mr. Griffin and it was there Sheriff Hurley found him when it was decided to arrest him on suspicion. He made no resistance whatever to the officers and was brought to Bellefonte in the evening and locked up. He took his ar- rest very nonchalantly, of course denying that he had committed the crime. Delige however, has a bad reputation and has been out of the penitentiary about two years after serving a term for manslaugh. ter for shooting a boy; which by the way was the second shooting escapade in is guilty or innocent remains to be proven, but so far the authorities have no | suspicion of anyone else. The main | question is, of course, is ita case of mur- | COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. —Mr. Beezer, of der or suicide? | the South ward was the only member On October 1st the writer had a busi- | absent at the regular meeting of borough ness call from Mrs. Baudis and while council on Monday evening. In the re- nothing transpired that throws any light | ports of the standing committees the on the deplorable affair of Sunday yet | Water committee reported a number of the woman's mental distress was so ap- repairs and improvements in various parent that we could readily believe that parts of the town, principally along the she might have destroyed herself. As to | route of the new state road. The other whether she did or did not, that of course, | committees had nothing of importance to depends on the visible evidences found | report. on the spot and the limitations of physic- | « A petition was presented to council al possibilities. At the time we talked | signed by a number of citizens of the with her she was in abject distress over North ward asking that a pavement of the merry-go-round in which her husband : some kind be put down from Rhoads’ had invested all of his savings and which corner on north Water street to Frank was the indirect cause of his suicide. She McCoy's property, replacing the one torn said that her husband was a scrupulously away in the building of the new state honest man. We believe that such was road. A letter received from Joseph J. | the case for we found him to be so on Rhoads, of Altoona, in regard to the many occasions when he could have been building of a pavement there, stated that | dishonest greatly to his advantage with- the old boardwalk had been torn away by out any chance of being detected. He the contractors without any notification had tied up practically the savings of a to the adjoining property owner that such life time in a merry-go-round, but being action wouldbe necessary; that the street unadapted to such a business had not | there had been widened so as to leave made much of a success of it. In order | insufficient room for a pavement, and | to make the final payments on the ma- that in cutting down the street to secure chine he had failed to pay other obliga- | a proper grade considerable damage had tions contracted and though they were | been done to their property. In view of small they worried him and these in con- | all this Mr. Rhoads asked for some kind junction with his longing for home life | of anamicable adjustment of the entire which he could not have while traveling affair in order to avoid any litigation. in such business, she thought, led to his | The matter was referred to the Street end. The final payment on the machine, | committee to see what arrangements get away but Monday morning went |. which he had figured. Whether Delige | Six children which cost over two thousand dollars, will be due in a month or so and the woman, almost distracted by her hus- band’s death, physically a frail, lifeless, disconsolate looking soul, was under the impression that unless she could make this last payment all that had been made before would be lost. It was her utter payment that was causing the distress at the time we talked to her. And, as we have said before, we can see how per- haps in a frenzy of worriment she might have temporarily lost control of herself and made an end of it all. On the other hand she talked about her husband's sui- cide in a way that intimated that she was accustomed to going to her knees before the Master and that she realized what “an awful thing in His sight John had done.” Although she was in the aban- don of dejection so much so and so daz- ed by her distress that she didn't seem to comprehend at all the meaning of an offer to protect her in the final payment of the machine that has certainly been the cause of both tragedies, for we firm- ly believe that if her's was not suicide, when the truth is out, the merry-go- round will be in some way connected with her murder. One of the instances that led to a sus- picion that Delige may have murdered Mrs. Baudis was the fact that when her dead and mutilated body was found it { who did not go to the scene of the crime. And the next morning when he was on his way to the Gray farm to help raise potatoes, and was told by a man he hap- pened to meet that Mrs. Baudis had been murdered he merely shrugged his shoul- ders, said “has she,” and continued on his way. When sheriff Hurley and po- liceman Harry Dukeman went to the Gray place to arrest Delige he was on a load of potatoes with another man on their way from the field to the house. The wagon was stopped and Dukeman told Delige to get down that he was wanted. The latter wanted to know what for and when told that he very like- ly knew what for he replied: “Oh, that’s the way; whenever there is anything bad happens at Scotia it is always Bert who did it.” When the crime was first discovered and Edward Baudis, the dead woman's son, was not to be found in that locality it was thought by some that he may have been implicated in some way, inasmuch as he was known to have been at home the latter part of last week. But all sus- picion as to him was dispelled when it became known that he had come to Bellefonte on Saturday evening, remain- ed here until Tuesday afternoon and then gone to Unionville on the 4.44 train and out to the home of his wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Spotts, in Bush Hollow. The authorities tried to get word to him on Sunday night but could not as he was be- yond the reach of the telephone. Mon- day morning he went to the mountain to cut props and it was well along in the forenoon when he got the word of his mother’s unfortunate end. He immedi- ately went to Unionville, came to Belle- fonte on the afternoon train and went up to Scotia over the Bellefonte Central. Delige is one of a large family who were born and raised at Scotia. They have afternoon in the Pine Hall cemetery. hopelessness at being able to make this | | could be made and report at next meet- ing. | H. C. Quigley Esq., secretary of the local board of health, appeared before council and stated that inasmuch as , council had so far failed to pass an or- | dinance adopting a set of rules for the benefit of the board, they had decided to go'ahead and do what they could under {the various state health laws, and he ! asked that a new member of the board be appointed to take the place of Dr. J. L. Seibert, resigned. Dr. Seibert’s unex- pired term runs to January 1st, 1913, and Mr. Quigley suggested that Dr. R. G. H. Hayes be appointed in his stead. He also ! gave notice that the five year term of A. | C. Mingle would expire on January 1st. 11911, and asked for his reappointment. | No action was taken in the matter at this meeting. Frank McCoy asked permission to blow away the point of the hill below his resi- dence in order to afford a better entrance thereto. Council granted the permission on condition that he use due precaution and be responsible for any damages that may be done; the permission, however, not carrying with it the right to trespass upon any other person's property. Mr. McAvoy, superintendent of the Bellefonte Electric company, made a proposition to council for a better light- | ing of the Diamond after the completion of the new state road. He stated that it had been cut with a remarkably sharp | naturally created great excitement in | was the purpose of the American Union knife or instrument, probably a razor, ! that place and Delige was probably the | telephone company to remove their posts and that the first slash extended from ear | only person in that whole neighborhood | on that portion of Allegheny street to | be paved by brick and this would natur- ! ally require the changing of the electrtc lights, and the proposition that the com- pany had to make was that they would erect eight iron posts with underground wires, one on each of the eight corners of the Diamond, to be equipped with one hundred watt lamps; the installation of the new equipment to be done at the ex- pense of the company and the only charge to the borough to be for two of the lights, or $44 per year. The propo- sition was accepted. A month or more ago complaint was made to council of the bad condition of a large number of pavements in various parts of the town and the clerk was in- structed to give notice to property own. ers that same must be repaired within twenty days. At Monday night's meeting the clerk gave notice that the time limit had expired and upon motion of Mr. Keller the Street committee was author- ized to go ahead and make repairs or build new pavements wherever needed, provided notice to same had been given property owners; which means that if you have a bad pavement and don't re- pair it soon it will be done by the bor- ough at your expense. Complaint was made about the chicken house and dog kennel on the property of John Sebring, on Spring street, now oc- cupied by Dr.R. L. Weston, being a nuisance, and the borough solicitor was instructed to notify the owner to remove the same. The slowness in the progress of the new state road was brought up and the clerk was instructed to write a letter to the State Highway Commissioner stating the condition the streets are in and ask- ing that the work be expedited, if possi- ble. Mr. Meyer, the inspector, was pres- ent, and stated that with the exception of the steam heating traps everything was now out of the way and they would be abie to push the work more rapidly. This completed the business of the evening and after the approval of bills to house | the amount of $780.03 council adjourn- ed. —Last Saturday afternoon James within a week or so to move into the Rhoads residence on Linn street. They will occupy a portion of the house and Edward K. and Miss Rebecca Rhoads will board with them, though retaining their own private rooms. On Tuesday Mr. Weston moved his chickens out to the Rhoads hen house and most of them got out in the afternoon and he had hard work catching them again. ——Who is Smith? Go to Petriken hall on Sunday afternoon and find out. — i, NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. —Mrs. Wallace Musser, of Altoona, spent Sat- urday and Sunday with friends in Bellefonte. —Mrs. H. C. Valentine and son, Harry Jr., spent several days this week in Williamsport. —Miss Bessie Green, of Altoona, has been spending the week with friends in Bellefonte. ~—Amos Cole, of Lewistown, was an over Sun- day guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. C- Tuten. —Mrs. Georgianna Dale, of Lemont, has been visiting with friends at Howard, the greater part of this week. —Edward Fleming, of Altoona, spent Sunday in this place with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. —Mrs. F. Potts Green, who has been spending a week in Mifflinburg and Lewisburg, will return to Bellefonte Saturday. —Mprs. Cameron Burnside is in Bellefonte after visiting for six weeks with her niece, in Canton, Ohio, and with her sister, in Buffalo. ~—Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Miller returned the latter part of last week from Atlantic City and will make their home in Bellefonte. —Lawrence and Miss Lulu McMullen, of Hecla, had as their guests over Sunday Andrew McNitt and Miss Anna Fox, both of this place. —Mr. and Mrs. Charley Glenn and daughter, of Cleveland, Ohio, are visiting Mr. Glenn's brother Jerre Glenn and family at Curtin. —Hugh N. Crider left yesterday with the State College football team for Philadelphia where he will witness the State—Penn game on Saturday. —Mrs. Maurice Wilson and two children re- turned to their home in Danville, after a two week's visit with relatives here and at Buffalo Run —Mrs. Edward Gengher and little child, of Pittsburg, are visiting at the home of her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs, William Hamilton, on Penn street. —After a pleasant visit of ten days with rela- tives in Pittsburg, Mrs. Walter Fulton and littie son Joseph, returned to their home on east Lamb street on Saturday. —Mrs. Ella M. Moore and Miss Sadie Dannley, of State College, were in Bellefonte on a shopping tour on Wednesday and were pleasant callers at the WATCHMAN office. —Mrs. George B. Brandon, of Scranton, is in Bellefonte, having stopped on her way home from Ohio, where she and Mrs. Naginey had been for a week with their sister, Mrs. Rowe. —Rev. Dr. Schmidt and C. T. Gerberich left Wednesday morning for Reading, Pa., where they will attend the 164th annual sessions of the Eastern Synod of the Reformed church. —Mrs. G. J. Ingram and little son, of Williams- port, have been guests the past week at the home of her brother-in-law, Frank W. Ingram, book-keeper for the Bellefonte Furnace com- pany. —After being away from Bellefonte for over two years, William Meese, of Woodland, Clear- field county, spent several days of this week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Meese, of Thomas street. —Miss Thamazine Potter came to Bellefonte Sunday, for a short visit, returning to Ashbourne Wednesday accompanied by Mrs. W. F. Reynolds, who after spending a few days there will go on to New York. —Miss Helen Ceader and Mrs. Hugh Crider, went to Baltimore Tuesday, to spend the week at Notre Dame, going over to Philadelphia for Sunday. They expect to return to Bellefonte the beginning of the week. ~Lieut. and Mrs. Clarence T. Arnold, of Bos- ton, are here for a short visit with Mrs. Arnold's parents, Judge and Mrs. Ellis L. Orvis, prior to leaving for the Philippines, where Lieut. Arnold has been detailed for service. —Harry Bowersox came in from Johnstown on Saturday evening to join his wife, who before her marriage was Miss Bessie Ostrander, who had been visiting here for some time, and on Monday they both left for their home in the Flood city. —Miss Daisy Potter and her sister Janet, came to Bellefonte last week from Ashbourne, Pa., where Miss Janet has been visiting for a month. Miss Daisy is in Bellefonte to spend some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James H. Potter —Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Humes with Mr. and Mrs. Hepburn and their child of Jersey Shore, came to Bellefonte in their motor car Thursday morning and had as their guests at the Bush house for dinner, Miss Humes, of Bellefonte, and Mrs. S. Durbin Gray, of Jamaica, L. I. i on the company's invitation to be among the ! officials present at the openirg of the tunnels and , the magnificent new terminal in that city. 1 | to Philadelphia on Sunday where Mrs. Brown is having her eyes treated by specialist. Mr Brown was among the big crowd at the world’s , series baseball games in the beginning of the week. During their absence Mr. and Mrs. W. | C. Cassidy have been helping out at the Scenic, —Robt. Kinkead and L. G. Dom Philipsburg —Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Weston expect Rossman and Michael Meyers undertook | to do up Stewart Hampton on the pave. | 2essors. and Frank Bair, of South Philipsburg. fluence of liquor, was too much for both men and got the better of them. In ad- dition to getting pretty badly pummeled Rossman and Meyers were arrested and Henry Brown gave them their choice of paying a fine of five dollars each or serv- ing fifteen days in jail, and being a little | short of cash the men chose the latter. mm—— Qf ————— of the opinion that if it didn’t cost too much it was money spent to very good purpose. —John Davis, of Coleville, was in town yester- day, squaring up a few little bills. It was the American Lime and Stone Co's pay day and John got his and promptly began the work of dis- tributing it. The fact that he came into the | WATCHMAN office on his rounds is evidence that | Johnisn't going to let the labelon his paper stand AFTER SIX YEARS A StoLEN WATCH on the L. & T. R. R. walked into Blair's jewelry store to sell some chances on a gold watch. He showed the watch to R. Russel Blair who recognized it at once as one that had been stolen fron their store over six years ago. In all the thousands of customer's watches that the Blairs have handled only one ever has been lost. This was the ome and the story of its disappearaace and return is interesting. It happened in the Christmas season when so many small engraving orders and repairs are being made in addition to the rush of the holiday trade, that this ladies gold watch was left at the store to be cleaned. It was put in the usual place for keeping customer's watches until the time would come when it could be looked after. When that time came it was not to found. While no charges were made for want of positive proof the senior member of the firm always entertained a suspi- cion as to where it had gone. Just six months later the Italian who produced it Saturday night was wandering through Mulberry St., in New York, and seeing a gold watch in the window of a pawn broker's office ‘was attracted by it and inquired the price. He was offered the watch for $35.00 but finally succeeded in buying it for $25.00. He worked a while in New York, then in Philadelphia and finally came to Bellefonte; never dream- ing that he possessed something that had been stolen from here years before and probably it would never have been known had he not decided to chance it off and wandered into Blair's to sell tickets. It cost him not only the watch, but a great deal of grief as to how he will reimburse those to whom he had already sold chances. The watch was a treasured trinket of Mrs. John A. Woodward, of Howard, who strangly enough, was lying dead at her home at the moment of its return and shortly before her death she had re- marked that if it should ever turn up she wanted it given to a certain member of her family. — THE TIME THE PLACE AND THE GIRL.— Beautiful girls, exquisite scenic environ- ment, clever comedians, startling electric. al surprises, all sweet singing, graceful dancing, picturesque groupings, witty di- alogue, brilliant lyrics, catchy songs and tuneful music, are said to be the chief ingredients which have been responsible for the universal praise with which that piquant musical mixture, “The Time, the Place and the Girl," has been accorded in every large city in which it has been presented. The entire production as shown during its New York, Chicago and Boston runs, will be presented at the Gar- man opera house, Thursday, November 3rd. SYLVUS — MCKELVEY. — On Monday Clyde Sylvus, of Sunbury, and Miss Nan- cy McKelvey, of this place, went to Ty- rone where they were quietly married in the parlor of the Arlington hotel by the bride's brother, Rev. Harry McKelvey, of Port Matilda. Owing to the serious ill- ness of the bride's mother, Mrs. John McKelvey, of east Lamb street, a wed- ding trip was necessarily dispensed with and the young couple returned to Belle- fonte on the 1.23 p. m. train. They ex- pect eventually to take up their residence in Sunbury where the bridegroom has a good position. CRAIN—WILLIAMS.—Harrison Crain and Miss Belva L. Williams, both of Port Ma- tilda, went to Lock Haven on Monday where they were united in marriage that evening by Rev. J. B. Brenneman, pastor of the Methodist church. ——W. Francis Speer on Tuesday re- signed his position as local editor on the Centre Democrat. ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. Bellefonte Produce Markets. Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer. 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