Beware Wc. Bellefonte, Pa., May 19, 1911. Texus oF SuBsCRIPTION.—Until further notice | this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates : - Paid strictly in advance - - $1.00 Paid before expiration of year - 1.50 Paid after expiration of year 2.00 —————————————— ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS. SoME MORE BRIDGE NEWS.—Last week the WATCHMAN stated that the High street bridge was again delayed because of the continuing of this week of court and the cancellation of the sitting of the grand jury. This was an error, but itis an error that has been made alike by the press and public universally. It has been the general supposition that a petition for a new bridge must go before two suc- cessive grand juries, but such is not the jaw. : The Act of the Legislature providing for the erection of new bridges by the pointed and their recommendation shall be presented to the court at the ensuing term, and that the same shall be held over until the next regular term of court for approval or otherwise. Shall the court approve the same at the second term of court then the matter goes be- fore the grand jury for their approval; and one grand jury is sufficient. In other words, had there been court this week and the grand jury had ap- proved the recommendation of the view- ers as made last week, the matter would have been held over until the September term of court for the approval of the court, if he was favorable thereto, though it would not have gone before the grand jury at that term. So that the question of there being no court this week will not effect the delay in the building of the bridge one hour. The above legal construction of the case was given the editor of the WATCH- MAN by one in a position to know, hence there is no question about its correct- ness. Under this condition of affairs the only thing to do is to abide the time when the law can take its course in reg- ular process and trust that the matter will not be unduly delayed thereafter. ~The man who can invent or con- coct something to get rid of the dust nuisance, and which will be cheap enough for general use, will in a few years be able to command a fortune that Rocker- feller would envy. There is hardly any- thing as disagreeable and more disease- spreading than the clouds of dust on a much traveled thoroughfare, and the au- tomobiles of today make it worse than ever before. A man would pay any rea- sonable price for perfect immunity there- from. PENNSYLVANIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION TO MEET AT STATE COLLEGE.—The Penn- sylvania Forestry Association will hold its spring meeting at State College on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, May 24th, 25th and 26th. This will be the first time in the history of the Associa- tion that a meeting will be held so far west in the State, and undoubtedly many of the western members and others inter- ested in forestry work will be present. ‘The meetings will be held in the audito- rium, agricultural and forestry buildings. The students will give demonstrations of all phases of the college practicum work, such as forest mapping, packing, nursery work, etc. All meetings and demonstra- tion work will be open to the pub- lic. The program prepared for the three days is quite lengthy and includes ad- dresses and discussions by all the lead- ing foresters in Pennsylvania as well as from other States. Governor Tener and Dr. H. S. Graves, forester of the United | pleted, States Department of Agriculture, have been invited to attend and the latter, at least, is expected to be present. The Pennsylvania Forestry Association is one of the oldest of its kind in the country and has done splendid service in the organization of a Forestry Commis- sion which now controls nearly 1,000,000 acres of State reserves. To continue the work which the Association has so ably begun, they need the help of every one interested in forestry in the State and therefore, the College and the Forestry Association invite you to attend the meeting and become a member of the Association. Annual dues $2.00 includ- ing cost of Forest Leaves. ms PARRISH'S DRUG STORE BURGLARIZED. Some time between ten and twelve o'clock on Tuesday night robbers broke into Parrish’s drug store by way of the side | ymned window on Pike alley, and breaking open the cash register got away with about five dollars in change without being de- tected by anybody. It lacked only a few minutes of ten o'clock when Dr. Parrish and his clerk, John Martin, closed the store and went to the reception and dance in the Knights of Columbus hall. They both left there about twelve o'clock, young Martin direct to the storeand the first thing he discovered was the broken cash register and the rear door standing open the robbers having made their exit that way. At this writing no clue to their identity has been discovered. soe —Dick Weston, son of Dr. Weston, of the Y. M. C. A,, has been compelled to give up his studies at State College for this year and return home on account of impaired health. Court House to be Dedicated Today. Eminent Jurists Will Speak at the Ex’ ercises This Morning. Historical Sketch of the Temple of Justice. Centre county's remodeled court house will be dedicated today and while the cere- monies will be at an end before this issue of the WATCHMAN reachesits hundreds of readers throughout the county Bellefont- | ers, and especially those who have never | been through the temple of justice since it | has been overhauled, are hereby reminded | will undoubtedly be interesting, then you | will also be afforded an opportunity to in- | spect the building throughout. The libra- | ry, memorial hall, or whatever you may | choose to call it, was only furnished last | week and it is a room of surpassing beau- | ty and splendor. The only thing lacking | so far is the gallery of portraits of Cen-, tre county judges and a number of these | are now being painted by W. L. Antrim | and M. A. Landsy, of Philadelphia, and at least four of them, Judges Linn, Furst, | Love and Orvis, are so far completed that they will be on exhibition today and very likely will be formally presented to the bar association as historical court rec- ords. 10.30 o'clock with Judge Ellis L. Orvis presiding. The committee of arrange- ments had hoped to have Supreme court | the justice Robert Von Moschzisker, of Phila- | delphia, here to make an address repre- senting the Supreme court of the State, but he cannot come. Gen. James A. Bea. ver will make an address representing the Superior court; Judge H. M. McClure, of Lewisburg, will speak on the Common Pleas court and Judge Thomas J. Bald- ridge, of Blair county, will also be pres- ent and make an address. William H | Keller, Esq., of Lancaster, an old Belle- | fonte boy will be here, and with various other visiting Jawyers from surrounding counties will make brief addresses. But speaking will not be everything on the program. The Coburn band will be on hand and furnish music for the occa- sion, so that in every way the exercises : will be fitting and appropriate to the for- mal dedication of a court house which | has no superior and few equals in Cen- tral Pennsylvania. Commissioner's clerk E. J. Williams has had published under copyright a souve- nir booklet containing exterior and inter- fine half tone pictures of Judge Orvis, the commissioners and clerks and all the county officials, which will be distributed free to all who attend today’s exercises. This booklet contains a very interesting historical sketch of the Centre county court house with a list of all the presi- dent judges since the organization of the county, which we publish as follows with The exercises will begin promptly Mh permission: HISTORICAL SKETCH. In the passage of the actof 13th of Feb- | ruary, 1800, erecting Centre county, it was provided that Bellefonte should be- come the county seat. The principal con- | sideration therefore was set forth in the | deed from the proprietors of the town to | the trustees of the new county whereby they not only set aside the square for the erection of county buildings thereon, ! but conveyed an undivided one-thi terest in all the lots of the town to the and county. By the beginning of the r 1805 it was found that this fund A ony suf- ficiently to warrant the erection of a court house. Up until this time the sessions of the court were held in the stone house at the northeast corner of High and Spring streets, then the of James Dun- lop and now owned the Jacob Valen- tine estate. The first court house was an unpreten- tious two-story stone building occupying the space now taken up by front lob- by and the offices of the ry and register. This structure was com- as nearly as can be ascertained, in the fall of the year 1805 or the spring of | 1806, the second story being devoted to | the court room. During the next five years the business of the county grew so rapidly that the lit- tle court house was i cient for its needs, and wings were built in the year 1811 to both the northern and soul ends extending somewhat beyond western front of the original building. For many years these additions were ap- pargtly sufficient for their purpose and n 1835 it was that be ornamented dignified by the tion of the present columned porch which pleted during that year. g fiset g 3 i delay meetings or for the transaction of the county's business with the numerous citi- zens who come to see them, and the regu- lar office work was greatly handicapped 4—Neither the judge, the district at- torney, the schools, nor the county surveyor, had of- fices in the building, t putting the county to the annual expense of much ide office rent. 5—The laws of this State provide for the maintenance of a law library in con- nection with each county court house. The old library, located in what was prac- tically a passage-way or cloak-room, was laces) ont open shelving ygaching to the top of a fifteen-foot and the valuable thereon were not only ruined by dust and dirt, but many of them were out reach. S-=Tlie Maik entranced 10 ti Soles § 0m were so arranged t coming gO- ing of those in attendance at court caused the auditorium were raised in such a manner that the rising and seating of the audiences during the court proceedings caused much interruption; while the ceil ing of the court-room was in bad condi- tion. and Needed geveral repairs, and the done piecemeal g ml ri I u many years, was neither in harmony with the style of the building nor of the room itself. Je offices on the first floor were badly | with no ventilation, as the old bui had no cellar or basement floor, and retaining walls along the side streets were so high and so close to the building that they increased the un- healt ridor derdrain, and was impossible to keep clean and in a sanitary condition. There was no running water in the building and the toilet conveniences were few, poor and unsanitary. 8—The roof of the building was im- propesty supported and had sunk in sev- places until it was in danger of col- lapse. The roofing material was leaky repaired and patched so often tha iece. 9—The court house was constructed in 1855 fifty-six years ago, and of late years | asl was necessity of | Once.—A second meeting of the joint county superintendent of | COLLEGE ROAD TO BE IMPROVED AT committees on the improvement of the road between Bellefonte and State College was held at the Elk’s club last Friday evening. State College, Bellefonte and Benner township were represented. Mr. Gephart, of the State Highway Department, was present and stated that the road could be put in fair- ly good condition at a nominal cost per mile. He stated that he had made a trip over the entire route and had mark- ed the places where underground drains ought to be put in in order to get rid of all the surface drains, breakers and un- necessary “thank-e-mams.” About six or eight underground drains will be all that will be necessary on the entire road and these will be of twelve inch iron pipe, so as to be durable. After these have been put in and the breakers filled up all that will be necessary will be to go over the road with a road making machine, scoop off the sides, crush the stones thus ob- tained and use them to round up the middle of the road. Regarding the money necessary to do this work the Benner township supervis- ors agree to expend about $250 in helping to put the two miles of road in their township in good condition, while a num- jes gi. armless ig, the same township have agreed to give either a team or labor to assist in the work. State College people have pledged themselves to raise as much of a fund as possible while Col. W. F. | Reynolds and James H. Potter, for the Potter-Hoy Hardware company, have each subscribed fifty dollars. Gen. James A. Beaver has pledged himself to give ten dollars for every one hundred sub- scribed in Bellefonte and subscription pa- pers are now being circulated among the business men of the town to ascertain just how much of a fund can be raised here. It is quite likely the Bellefonte toward the work. College township, which has six miles of the road in ques- Motor ¢iub will make an appropriation | MCCLELLAN, —Mrs. Emma L. McClel- lan died at the Bellefonte hospital about eight o'clock on Tuesday morning. For several years past she had made her home in Bellefonte with her sister, Mrs. J. L. Spangler and about two weeks ago she was taken quite ill. Her condition continued to grow worse and on Sunday she was taken to the Bellefonte hospital for the purpose of an operation. Her ailment had been diagnosed as gall stones but when the physicians came to perform the operation they found that instead of gall stones her trouble was adhesions in the gall duct and that her case was so extremely critical that there was very little hope of her recovery. Deceased’s maiden name was Emma L. Wagner, a daughter of David and El- vira Johnston Wagner; she was born in Bellefonte. On April 26th, 1876, she was united in marriage to Jack McClellan, a Chambersburg man who came to Bellefonte with the late William T. Speer to start the old car works. They lived here several years then moved to Altoo- na where Mr. McClellan accepted a po- sition as master mechanic with the Penn- sylvania railroad company. After leaving Altoona they lived in Ashland, Philadel. phia and other places until about three years ago when Mrs. McClellan came to Bellefonte and this had been her home since. : She was a member of the Presbyterian church and a woman of great refinement and modest demeanor and her death is mourned by a large circle of friends. She was the mother of five children, three of | whom are living, namely: Mrs. George | Gaches, of Butler; Jack and Frank. Two | sisters also survive, namely: Mrs. John | Harris and Mrs. J. L. Spangler, both of this place. | The funeral was held from the Spang: ‘ler residence at two o'clock yesterday afternoon. In the absence of Dr. Fife, of | the Presbyterian chnrch, Rev. E. H. Yo- j Sum, of the Methodist church, officiated I and burial was made in the Union cem- | | tion, was not represented at last Friday | etery. liberal spirit manifested by Bellefonte, | State College and Benner township the | College township people cannot afford to i land in general bad condition, and the {1rE mechanism of the town clock had been | hold off, as it will beas much or more to their benefit as it will to the public at Work on the road will be begun next it | Monday when an engineer from the could no longer be considered a time- | State Highway Department will be here ior views of the court house as well as | p it. His labor will charge, all compensation to take charge of be free of become a source of heavy annual ex- required being his actual expenses. He pense to the county in continual repairs. | will come equipped with a motor-cycle | : and while making his headquarters in | | Bellefonte will be able to be on the job at | | an early hour and oversee the work all With these reasons as a basis, the pres. ent Board of Commissioners decided to build the addition to the eastern end of the court house building, which had so often been strenuously recommended by grand juries, and to undertake the other improvements also recommended them. They then consulted various ar- tects Newman & Harris, of PHiiaddipiia, for the building of the eastern and of certain necessary and long needed improvements to the old building. i | along the road. If the people of this section want a good road between Belle- | fonte and State College now is the time | chitects and men of experience in such ! for all to turn in and help improve it. | matters, which deliberations finally result- | | ed in the selection of the plans of archi- | ——Enameled ‘stoves Guaraiiiaed not to burn off at Miller's Hardware Store, Belle- ition | fonte, Pa. ec. I —— CENTRE COUNTY YOUNg MAN MADE board then Jrosented the plans for | SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT.—It is always a the contemplated ments at a meeting held at the home of Judge Ellis L. Orvis, of his hon- or, the judge, each A Beaver. After a complete investiga: tion and Siscussion of the subject, hese gentlemen not unanimously a of the same as _— in line with pins ommendations of many uries, but urged the board to take immediate action thereon. It was the general opinion of the great majority of persons a on subject that the main portico or front of the building, erected in 1835, should not be changed in any way. Upon careful examination it was found that while the were consul addition to the eastern end of the structure was the only solution of the problem. The plans as originally decided contemplated the building of the eastern addition eighty feet wide and forty feet deep, to contain sufficient room for the commissioners on 3 the first floor, with offices for udge district a sufficient room for a Sing terations and improve- | i i great pleasure, and a pride, too, to hear of the successful career of a native of | member a bar of | Centre county. Prof. John G. Rossman, rd in- | Centre county, who was able to attend, | son of H. F. Rossman, merchant of Spring | Superior court judge, General James | Mills, has been connected with the Strutt- gart training schools, at Struttgart, Ar- kansas, for several years and his course and discipline has been so successful and satisfactory that at a recent meeting of the school board he was elected superin- tendent of the public schools of that place. Mr. Rossman is quite a young man, highly educated, refined and a polisized gentleman. He is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall college and possesses all the requisites necessary for the profession of teaching and government of schools. As stated in the newspaper published at Struttgart, in complimenting him on his election: “As the successor of Prof. Mur- phy Mr. Rossman requires no introduc- tion. In his intercourse with our citizens he has by his courteous and agreeable manners won golden opinions from all | sorts of people and will commence the next year as superintendent of the schools with the high regard and best wishes of all in this community.” MONDAY SESSION OF COURT.—Thoiigh there was no quarter sessions court this week nor jury trials there was a brief session on Monday morning to hear the returns of constables and receive any motions and petitions the various at- torneys might have to present. ~The members of the bar petitioned the court to have the recorder re-copy two books which have become very defective, a deed book and a mortgage book, and the court granted an order on that official to purchase the books and recopy the de- fective books at the cost of the county. Mrs. W. P. Wilson petitioned the court for an order granting her the right to adopt Mrs. Blanche Hayes Hiller, wife of the | Dr. H. M. Hiller, of West Chester, as her legal child and heir, and the same was granted. The viewers report on the High street bridge, recommending a new structure throughout was presented to the court and confirmed nisi. If no objections are filed thereto and the same is approved by the grand jury at the September term of court, it will be confirmed absolutely. tion to the court for the privilege of Ammerman, the minor Ammerman, and the same hy condition of the offices. The cor- | evening's meeting, but the supervisors | I | fide floor was merely a Stop Pavement, and citizens of that district will hold a over fifty years ago without any un-| no in Lemont some time this week | to decide on what they can do. With the \ SourBECK.—Harrison Sourbeck, young- | est son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Sour- | beck, died at his parents home in this | place about ten o'clock yesterday morn- ing. Three years ago last fall the lower | part of his body and both his legs became | paralyzed and the only cause that could ' be assigned was over-exertion while out | on a hunting trip. Since that time he | has been in different hospitals for treat. | ment without receiving any benefit. The past year or so he had been at home and | becoming physically strong in the upper | portion of his body it was thought that an operation might restore the partial use, at least, of his legs. Two or three months ago he went to the Orthopoedic hospital, Philadelphia, and submitted to the treatment but it was too severe for ‘him. About three weeks ago he went | alone from Philadelphia to Brooklyn to | visit his sister, Mrs. Herbert Bellringer. { While there he was taken sick and last ' week his mother went down to bring him home. They arrived in Bellefonte on | Wednesday morning and, although he | was considerably tired out by the long ‘trip that afternoon he appeared much brighter and stronger. Wednesday night, however, he became violently ill and from that time his condition gradually | grew worse until the end. Deceased was born in Bellefonte and was twenty-three years old. He was ed- ucated in the public schools and later as- sisted his father in his green grocery store until illness overtook him. He was sober and industrious and his untimely death is a severe blow to his parents, who survive with one sister and two brothers, Mrs. Herbert Bellringer, of Brooklyn, and Fred and John. Up to the time the WATCHMAN went to press no definite ar- rafigements for the funeral had been m | | GRAMLEY.—Mrs. James J. Gramley, wife of one of Centre county’s former county treasurers, died at her home at Madisonburg on Sunday evening after a lingering illness with diabetes. She was born and raised in Haines township and spent her entire life of sixty-five years there with the exception of the short while they lived in Bellefonte. Surviving her are her husband and the following children: Mrs. Fred Yocum, of Waddle; Ammon Gramley, of Belle- fonte; Ellis, of Freeport, Ill.; Joseph, of Dakota, Ill; Mrs. David Bateman, of Elburn, Ill, and Mrs. Herbert M. Bartley, of Leck Haven. Funeral services were {held in the Reformed church at Madi- sonburg yesterday morning, after which burial was made in the cemetery adjoin- ing the church. I i GuMMO.—Mrs. Edward Gummo died on Tuesday of last week at her home near Beech Creek of cancer of the stom- ach, after a long illness. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Packer and was born near Beech Creek fifty-seven years ago. Surviving her are her husband and one daughter, Miss Mary, at home; also her mother. Funeral services were held at her late home on Friday after- noon by Rev. J. B. Brenneman, of Mill Hall, after which the remains were taken to Cedar Springs for burial. | | JonNsoN.—Last Saturday while Mrs. George Johnson was walking in the orch- ard at her home near Graysville she suf- fered a stroke of paralysis from which she died the following evening. She was fifty-eight years old and was the mother {of a large family of children. The re- ! mains were taken to Marysville on Wed- . ' nesday for burial. STEVENS.—Rev. Benjamin Fletcher Stev- ens, one of the oldest ministers in the Central Pennsylvania M. E. conference, died in Harris urg on Monday,aged eighty years. He entered tle ministry in 1855, and although he retired from active work in 1891, after thirty-six years hard work in the pulpit, he wcrked as a super- numerary seven years and during the past thirteen years preached on various occasions. His funeral yesterday was at- tended by a large number of his fellow ministers in the conference. — mms THE BUILDING OUTLOOK.—At this time there is not much prospect for any great activity in building operations in Bellefonte this summer, though it is pos- sible a few new houses will be erected. John Sebring has broken ground for a new house on Howard steet and F. W. Crider is having plans and specifications made for a row of three new houses he purposes building on the south side of east Linn street. He is also considering the erection of a number of tenement houses on Lamb street but is undecided whether to go ahead with these or not. Allegheny and Bishop streets, known as the Macbride block, is considering the erection of a modern steel frame and brick business block, three stories in height, but his plans have not advanced to that stage where he is willing to an- nounce them as a certainty. When one considers the business con- dition of Bellefonte today it must be ad- mitted there is no demand for additional houses and still less inducement to busi- ness men to invest in building operations. With both furnaces idle and no telling | when they will be put in operation; with | none of the lime operations around here | operating to their full capacity; with only [a handful of men employed at the Lin- gle foundry there is no demand for labor and consequently no demand for any large number of new houses. With such a condition of affairs prevailing here there never was a time of more pressing need for a live board of trade. Other towns are securing new industries and Bellefonte could do likewise if the matter were gone about in the right way. ——Tents, awnings and camp furniture at Miller's Hardware Store, llefonte, a. PAINTINGS OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT.— In our report of the dedication of the court house today, published in another column, reference is made to the oil paintings of four judges of the county ex- ecuted by W. L. Antrim and M, A. Land- sy, of Philadelphia, and which were hung in Memorial hall this week. It is due to these associate artists to state that two of the pictures, those of the late Judge Love and of Judge Orvis are not considered finished but were brought here for today's dedication and for criticism as to any alterations desired by the parties interested. The painting of the late Judge Love, for instance, was made from a photograph taken twenty-five years ago and is a remarkable likeness of him at that time, though it is too young to rep- resent him in the latter years of his life, The one painting, however, that is finish- ed is that of the late Judge Austin O. Furst, and a more remarkable piece of work, so far as realism is concerned was never brought to Bellefonte by the above artists, and they have brought some very clever work here. The likeness of this picture to Mr. Furst as he looked when he was judge of Centre county is so real as to be almost startling. All the paint- ings are in fine gold frames and are being presented by friends to the bar of Centre county. — ROBBERY MYSTERY SOLVED BUT THIEF EscaPep.—Two years ago last month the tailoring establishment of William Mil- ler, in Philipsburg, was burglarized and goods to the value of six hundred dollars carried away. All efforts to find some trace of the robbers proved futile until recently when the authorites of that place got an inkling that the burglary had been perpetrated by John Kolozei, a Hungarian, of Winburne. A warrant was secured for the man’s arrest but when the officers went to nab him they found that he had skipped, and incident- ally jumped a bail bond of $1,000 for his appearance at the Clearfield court, At the home of Kolozei’'s brother, Frank Kolozei, in Portage, a large trunk was found in which was a portion of the goods stolen from Miller's store and which were identified by him. Frank Kolozei and wife have been held in their own recognizance for secreting stolen goods and Mrs. John Kolozei has been held in three hundred dollors bail for transporting the goods from Winburne to Portage, as it was she who took the trunk from their home to that of Frank Kolozei. FARMERS’ INSTITUTES. — The county board of farmers’ institute managers, will meet at the county commissioners’ office on the second Tuesday of June, to arrange for the place where institutes are to be held this season. All persons who desire institutes ought to attend this meeting and present their claims. This board is composed of the local members of the State Board of Agriculture and one repre- sentative from each county agricultural society, the Pomona Grange and County Alliance. If you find that you cannot at- tend this meeting, address a letter with your request to John A. Woodward, chair- man of Board of Institute Managers, Howard, Pa.