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Bellefonte, Pa., June 2, 1911.
To CoRRESPONDENTS.—No communications
published unless accompanied by the real name
of the writer. ¢
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND p—
~—A little son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. William Houser last Friday.
——Communion services will be held
in the United Brethren church Sunday
morning and evening.
——1]J. C. Jodon denies that he purchas-
ed any of the Miller stock, claiming that
his present stock is all new.
——Rev. W. K. Harnish, of Lemont,
will preach in the Bellefonte Presbyter-
jan church Sunday morning and evening
——All the regular services will be
held in the Reformed church next Sun-
day, including Sunday school and C.E.
meeting.
——Beginning next Sunday the Belle-
fonte Methodist Sunday school will be
held at 9.30 o'clock in the morning instead
of 2.30 o'clock in the afternoon.
——Mr. and Mrs. Howard Neff, of Cur-
tin, think they are about the only people
in that locality at present, all because a
young son came into their home last
Thursday.
——Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. O'Donnell,
of Brooklyn, N. Y., have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Mary Marguerite O'Donnell, to Thomas
Reynolds Pierpont, son of Mr. and Mrs.
James Pierpont, of Philadelphia. No date
has as yet been set for the wedding.
——Rev. H. N. Hepler, pastor of the
Free Methodist church, announces the
beginning of revival meetings at Buffalo
Run next Tuesday evening, June 6th, to
continue a fortnight or as long as suf-
ficient religious interest is manifested.
The public is cordially invited to attend
these meetings.
——The Nittany Country club will have
a formal opening of their new house on
Friday evening, June 16th. By that time
the house will have been papered through-
out and present a more finished and
handsome appearance than it has any
time since its erection. The opening will
be for members only.
——Joseph R. Shultz, who the past year
was the teacher of sciences in the Belle-
fonte High school, has accepted a posi-
tion as head of the science department in
the Perkiomen Seminary, at Pennsburg.
Mr. Shultz also had charge of the athletics
in the High school and in both depart-
ments did good work.
——Balser Weber, of Howard, last
week purchased from the Murray estate
the Howard rolling mill property and it
is his intention to put the tool factory in
operation in the near future, giving em-
ployment to about twenty-five men. The
price paid was in the neighborhood of
fifteen thousand dollars.
——An enjoyable occasion at the farm
home of Frank Musser, south of Belle-
fonte, on Wednesday was a reunion of the
Musser family given for Mrs. William
Schock, Mrs. Wetzel and Samuel Musser,
of Scranton, the only surviving members
of that generation of Mussers. About
forty people were present.
——The Bellefonte Lodge of Moose
have already pre-empted the Fourth of
July date for the holding of a big picnic
at Hecla park. So far as now known
this will be the only thing going on in
this section and it will likely attracta
large crowd. Just so it is a safe and
sane Fourth Bellefonte people will be
satisfied.
——The people of Boalsburg are not
only patriotic and enthusiastic in their
work of observing Memorial day but that
evening they had a festival, the proceeds
of which went into the fund for paying
the street lighting. Seventy gallons of
ice cream were disposed of before nine
o'clock and the large crowd was hardly
half satisfied.
——Miss Anna M. Shuey entertained
the twenty-three members of the High
school graduating class and members of
the faculty at dinner at 6.30 o'clock last
evening. In all twenty-eight covers were
laid. On Wednesday night Miss Winifred
M. Gates entertained sixteen young lady
friends in honor of Miss Mary Cowdrick,
of Niagara Falls, who is visiting in Belle-
fonte.
——Tom Beaver and W. C. Snyder, of
enjoying every minute of it with the pos-
sible exception of one when Tom stepped
out of the canoe into what he thought
was only a fewinches of water but found
it to be three feet deep.
—The high water of two weeks ago
washed a big pile of drift down Logan's
branch, which naturally lodged against
the Lewisburg and Tyrone railroad bridge
above the depot. Last week the railroad
workmen dislodged the drift and it flcat-
ed down to the dam above this office where
it lodged until removed last Saturday.
Now it is strewn all along the creek from
this office down to the Central Railroad
of Pennsylvania depot and is an eyesore
to every passerby. Some one who has
the authority to do so should have this
mass of logs and rubbish removed from
the stream entirely and not wait for high
water to carry it away.
on Tuesday was appropriately observed
in Bellefonte but it must be confessed
twenty-five years ago, which is accounted
for naturally in the thinning of the ranks
of the old soldiers by death. A quarter
of a century ago Gregg Post was able to
marshall a band of one hundred or more
veterans to perform the chivalrous duty
of paying homage to their dead brethren.
On Tuesday just twenty-eight old soldiers
were all that could be mustered in line and
this small band of men, all of whom had
passed the three score mark, composed
the guard of honor in the parade made
up of the new City band, Company L,
N. G. P., and delegations of the Undine
and Logan fire companies.
The usual ceremonies were held at the
cemetery and the grave of every deceas-
ed soldier was decorated with flowers and
a flag and marker. For a number of years
past it has been customary to have a
speech made at the tomb of the "Old
War Governor,” the late Andrew G. Cur-
tin, but this was dispensed with this year
and the only special mark of homage paid
this loyal son of Bellefonte was the firing
of a salute across his grave by a squad of
Company L.
After the decoration ceremonies in the
cemetery were completed the parade re-
formed and marched back to the court
house where the address of the day was
delivered by Rev. E. H. Yocum, pastor of
the Bellefonte Methodist church. It was
a most interesting talk throughout and
was listened to with the closest attention
by all present. The speaker not only
payed tribute to the men who fought for
the preservation of their country but re-
counted a number of very interesting in-
cidents of the Civil war which have never
been recorded in history.
Following the exercises in the court
house the old soldiers, thirty-five in all,
were entertained by the Bellefonte Lodge
of Elks, in their very comfortable home
(the old Curtin mansion) on High street.
Judge Ellis L. Orvis made the address of
welcome which was responded to by Gen.
James A. Beaver, after which light re-
freshments were served and the guests
given the liberty of the house for a period
of two hours. It was the enjoyable fea-
ture of the day and everyone appreciated
it after their parade in the hot sun to the
cemetery.
Through the untiring efforts of Mrs-
Harry C. Valentine, chairman of a com.
mittee of the Bellefonte Chapter, D. A
A., the graves of the following soldiers of
the Revolutionary war and real Daughters
of the Revolution were decorated on
Memorial day with the Betsy Ross flag
and marker:
Bellefonte, Union cemetery.—Col. James Dun
lop, James Harris, Capt. Joshua Williams. Rea
Tusseyville cemetery.—Michael Stiver.
Pennington cemetery.—John Frederick Ream.
Snydertown cemetery.—John Snyder.
Jacksonville cemetery.—Capt. Thomas Gray,
Matthew Allison.
Spring Mills, Heckman cemetery.—Archibaly
Allison, Christian Miller. John Adam Sunday.
CATCHING TROUT IN PLENTY.— Last
week the WATCHMAN told the story of
the hard storm two weeks ago today and
the high water which flooded the Belle-
fonte fish hatchery and washed away
thousands of adult trout. Most of the
trout naturally were washed into Logan's
branch and this week fishermen have had
a snap catching trout out of that stream,
Most every day there have been quite a
number of men and boys trying their
luck and they all made good catches. On
Monday a bunch of fishermen from anoth.
er part of the county were on the stream
and not only made good catches them,
selves but it is alleged that they bought
trout from a number of parties. It is
very likely that trout are bought and sold
frequently, even in Centre county, but the
transaction has never been so open and
above-board as the alleged deals of Mon-
day, and agood fish warden or two would
probably be a good thing along Logan's
branch during the remainder of the sea-
son. Of course practically all the trout
taken from Logan's branch these days are
the hatchery trout, and even those who
catch them admit that they are soft and
not good eating; and for this very reason
they ought to be protected now and left
in the stream until next season when they
would be more like the natural trout in
Do You WANT TO ADD YEARS TO YOUR
LiFE?—The WATCHNAN, last week, pub-
lished a review of Dr. Lorand’s great
work, on how to prevent growing old, or,
as its title indicates, "Old Age Deferred.”
they are likely to under other conditions.
ob commencemen
ert Seely DeGolyer, on the evening af ‘week and -the fact ‘that
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NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Miss Harriet Foster, of this place, and Wil-
liam Baird, of Juniata, were Lock Haven visitors
on Memorial day.
—~Miss Helen McGowan has returned to her
home in Snow Shoe after a pleasant visit with her
cousin, Miss Stella Daley.
—Mrs. Ezra Yocum went Friday of last week to
Northumberland, where she visited for a week
with her daughter, Mrs. Rice.
~Mrs. Hartsock returned to her home at Al-
. | toona Monday, after a short visit with Mr. and
Mrs. Kennedy Johnston in Bellefonte.
—Joe Katz came over from Lewistown on Sun-
day and joined a stag party at the House of Lords
on Nittany mountain for the fore part of the
week.
—Mrs. Dunning, whose home is in the far west,
is with her little daughter, visiting with Mrs.
Verest. : | Mr. Wolfe’s Reo car to visit the family
——As it looks now Bellefonte will not ©f Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Walizer. They left
low
players, and playing ind 4 g al; Speed Mie. Walle Jed Ho woes om
That is the situation in Huntingdon, Ty- ro “oo ie itinuiug of
roneand a number of other towns and the w his death.
people in those places always get con- When the motor stopped running the
siderable sport out of the game. car started backwards down the hill and
ecco Al ne ie | Mr. Wolfe applied the brakes but the car
——There was some trout fishing with- was an old one and the brakes were not
in a short distance of Bellefonte the lat- sufficient to hold it. Every second it
evening.after
hela City helping Joe Fauble through a busy sea’
son in his clothing store.
to have landed sixty,ten ot which weighed | left the road and plunged backwards over
twenty pounds. Friday evening they an eight foot embankment into the rocky
came in with twenty-six and on Saturday bed of a small stream. Mr. Wolfe was
evening forty; pretty good catches out of | caught fairly beneath the car and had his
streams supposed to be almost depopulat- skull crushed, causing instant death.
ed. All the other occupants of the car were
——While in Philadelphia ly p, thrown out but all escaped witha few
slight bruises except Mrs. Glantz, who
W. Crider placed an order for a Hupp—
Yates electric brougham which he expects was quite badly cut and bruised and sus-
| tained a severe nervous shock, but her
to receive direct from the factory in De- :
troit, Mich., in the near future. This condition is not considered at all critical.
: ! As soon as Mr. Glantz and the women in
will be the first machine of the kind and |
the only electric machine in Bellefonte. | the party got on their feet they went to
Mr. Crider to insalia d ing | the aid of Mr. Wolfe but he was already
EXpec | dead and pinned so securely beneath the
system in his barn where the machine | Loar that it wis nesessary £0 salmon
Son be charged every night for use next laelp to release him.
Ab Emm—-+ When it became evident that life was
——During the past week but one new | surely extinct undertaker Samuel Camp-
case of scarlet fever developedin Belle- | bell, of Millheim, was summoned and the
fonte, and that the little daughter of Mr. | remains were tenderly conveyed to the
and Mrs. Andrew Young, whose home | unfortunate man’s late home where they
was quarantinedon Monday. All the old | were prepared for burial. Mr. Wolfe was
cases are recovering nicely and the scare | aged about sixty-two years and is sur-
is practically over. By a continuance of | vived by his wife and a number of grown
the strict quarantine regulations now in | up children. }iis parents were among
force there is little likelihood of any fur- | the pioneer settlers of Miles township
ther spread of the disease, except perhaps | and one of the most prominent families
a stray case or two. in that section of the county. His fun-
So faz this summer 10 _p ition eral, which was held on Wednesday, was
largely attended.
Jag btn Be : bo Sn the Jgjpesa This is the first fatal auto accident to
to get rid of the dust nuisance: happen in Centre county, notwithstanding
Pleats the fact that the machine has come into
t year and in the fall of 1909 the ex- tt 1 onl :
periment was tried and while it proved | © use, Not only in the
but throughout the country districts. And
efficacious to a great extent the matter it would not have occurred had the brakes
of securing the oil and in one instance, on the car been all right, evidence that
at least, the paying for it also, was left to the owner or driver of a machine cannot
a few persons and they don't feel like do- be too careful in seeing that every part
ing the work a second time. of his car is always in good condition.
day and Decoration day in Bellefonte with her
mother, Mrs. C. A. Sullivan.
~Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kirby Raith, of Eliza.
beth, N. J., were arrivals in Bellefonte on Sunday
to spend some time at the home of Mrs. Raith's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Crider.
~Mrs. Charles McCue, of Pittsburgh, has been
with her mother, Mrs. W. W. Montgomery, since
her serious illness three weeks ago, and will con-
tinue in Bellefonte for a short time longer.
—Mrs. Ralph Mallory and her children left
Bellefonte Wednesday, with Mrs. Mallory's
brother, George Murphy, for a visit in Philadel
phia. Mr. Murphy, whose home is in Philadel
ia has been the sweat of HS SEE ginee Surur
—Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McClellan and chil-
dren came down from Altoona on Sunday and
were with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Mc-
Clellan, on east Lamb street, until Tuesday when
they went to Unionville for the Memorial day ex-
~Miss S. Gertrude Quigley arrived in Belle-
fonte on Saturday evening from Yonkers, N. Y.,
and after spending the night with her brother, H.
C. Quigley Esq-, and family, went down to Eagle-
ville on Sunday moraing to visit her parents,
Capt. and Mrs. J. A. Quigley.
—Henry C. Quigley Esq., was over in Philips-
burg on Monday on business connected with the
organization of that two hundred thousand dol-
lar Philipsburg Silica Sand company which has
been promoted to develop an alleged valuable
vein of rock found on the Christ Sharer property
in Rush township.
—Rev. and Mrs, S. M. Reeder, of Glen Rock,
visited friends in Boalsburg a few days the past
week on their return from attending the General
Synod of the Reformed church of Canton, Ohio,
and on Sunday evening the reverend preached to
a large and appreciative congregation in the
Boalsburg Reformed church.
—Morris W. Cowdrick arrived in Bellefonte
very unexpectedly from Niagara Falls last Satur.
day evening. He is one of the old-time residents
of Beliefonte and although he haslived in Niagara
Falls a number of years he still seems as much a
Bellefonter as ever. And all his friends here
were naturally glad to see him looking so well.
—F. G. Roberts, of Camden, N. J., who repre-
——Mr. Abram W. Harris, of Evans-
ton, TIL, has issued invitations for the SeeciAL FEATURES OF STATE COLLEGE
i : COMMENCEMENT. — While the visit of
marriage reception of his sister, Miss .
Ei onor Van Tries Harris, aud Mr. Rol, | C2218 Yin Tang to State College during
Saturday, the seventeenth of June, at his commencement address will be the
’ first speech he will make on the Chinese
8:30 o'clock, Chicago avenue and Clark | = co agri ody
street, Evanston, Ill. Mrs. Louise Harris, question since being in tates |
of this place, the prospective bride's as Minister from China, is naturally look-
mother, went to Ear last week to ed upon as the big feature of the week
be + at the weikding. and tion. A a more than usual
— Last Thursday evening an interest- | One of these will be the fiftieth re-
ing meeting of the W. C. Patterson chap- | union of the first graduating class, the
ter of the Methodist Brotherhood was class of '61. Seven members of the twelve
held in the Methodist Episcopal church, | Survive and will be present. They are
of State College. Dr. E. H. Yocum, pas- | John N. Banks, Indiana, Pa; A. C.
tor of the Bellefonte Methodist Episco- | Church, Luzerne, Pa.; John W. Eckman,
pal church, gave an inspiring address to Pulaski, Va.; Milton S. Lytle, Philadel-
the fifty men present. After the colla- phia; E. P. McCormick, Germantown; C.
tion, which was served in fine style by | Alfred Smith, Chicago; Colonel Charles
six of the men, D. F. Kapp as toastmas. | E- Troutman, National Soldiers’ Home,
ter introduced Rev. C. C. Shuey, of Belle- | Tenn:
fonte; Prof. I. L. Foster, W. D. Custard | Dr T. R. Baker, of Rawlins College,
and the pastor, J. McK. Reiley who made Florida, who was a member of the State
brief addresses. The evening was profita- | faculty in 1861, will be a guest. A bache-
bly spent. lor degree will be conferred upon J. H.
—— amen Isett, of Isett, Pa., who left college in 1862
——The supervisors and farmers of | to join General Sherman's body guard
Benner township deserve considerable | two months before his graduation. A
praise for their efforts to improve the | degree will be conferred upon Judge G.
Rishel hill road. They have gone over | B. Orlady, at one time a student at the
the entire stretch of it and rounded it up | college, as of the class of 1868.
in the centre so as to afford a natural| The graduating class will number about
drainage. Of course, it has not been | 232, of whom seven are young women in
properly broken yet, and ought to be | the Home Economic course. Last year’s
thoroughly rolled with a steam roller, | class numbered 169. The class valedictor-
but when the work is completed it will |ian is Willard Raymond, of Roaring
be in far better shape than it was. The | Creek, Pa.
Spring township people are at work this
week improving the condition of Rishel’s McNITr—HUYETT SAW MILL BURNED.
hill, but so far as the writer is informed | —Some time during Sunday night or
the College township supervisors and | early Monday morning the saw mills of
farmers have done nothing at all. The | the McNitt—Huyett Lumber company at
movement for the repair of this road had | Waddle were entirely destroyed by fire.
its inception at State College and the | The destruction included the saw mill,
people up there should see that their end stave mill and machinery ware house.
of the road is put in repair. The office building, company houses, and
the fore part of the week and stayed over one day
longer than usual, and did't make any pretense
that it was because of Memorial day, either. He
is a very pleasant, engaging young man, and his
friends here always like to see him come around.
—Mr. and Mrs. C. Wilson Thomas, of Lewis-
town, were pleasant callers at the WATCHMAN of-
fice on Monday. They had been in Milesburg
visiting Mr. Thomas’ father, Mr. W. B. Thomas,
and naturally spent some time among other
friends before returning home. Regarding busi-
ness in Lewistown Mr. Thomas states that while
it isn't at high water mark his cash sales in the
store exceed those for this time last year.
—Mr. and Mrs. Schoch are visiting with rela-
tives in Bellefonte, expecting to leave soon for
Rochester, Pa., where they will be the guests of
two of their children for six months. Mrs.
Schoch, Mrs, John Wetzel and Samuel Musser,
who have been visiting his daughter, Mrs. Paul
Sheffer, being the only members of this Musser
family left, have been spending the past week in a
continuous round of entertainment among their
friends.
—W. L. Antrim, of the firm of Antrim and
ten day's vacation. During his stay here he wil;
look over the old paintings of judges who presid-
ed over the bar of Centre county many ysars ago
with a view of retouching and fixing them up in
modern style. Mr. Antrim’s skill as a portrait
painter is well known in Bellefonte, as his work is
always of a high standard.
—Mrs. E. R. Longacre having shipped her
~Mrs. Isaac Miller, of the toll gate, went to
Tyrone on Wednesday to make an indefinite visit
with her daughter, Mrs. E. P. Moore. Since the
big flood out there of two weeks ago when the
Miller family were almost drowned out of house
and home they felt vary much like vacating the
premises, but the Turnpike company has decided
to raise the house and put it in good repair and
also reimburse them for the damages sustained,
and it is while all this is being done that Mrs.
Miller will remain in Tyrone.
——Forest Bullock had a narrow escape | yard were unharmed. It is not known
from being badly burned on Tuesday | how the fire originated but it is believed
morning at his shop on south Water | to have been from a smouldering spark
street. He was engaged in doing over a | in the sawdust. All day on Sunday the
milk wagon and was using wood alcohol | watchman smelled burning wood but he
in burning off the old paint. In some way | was unable to discover fire anywhere and
he spilled some of the alcohol on his | it was not until during the night that the
trousers and it caught fire. In a flash the | smouldering spark was fanned into a
flame flared up higher than his head. His | blaze and when discovered had gained
predicament was discovered by several | such headway that it was impossible to
men passing the shop in an automobile | do anything but confine the flames to the
who called to Blaine Mabus to go to Mr. | mill buildings.
Bullock's rescue, the automobilists re-| The loss on these is placed atjfifteen
turning as soon as they could stop and | thousand dollars, about half of which is
back the machine. Mr. Bullock, however, | covered by insurance. The lumber stored
did not lose his presence of mind butim- | in the yard is valued at many thousand
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water out of his cooling tub drenched | in being able to save it. The mills will
himself from the neck down, extinguish- | be rebuilt at once, and the men in charge
ing the most of the flames, the rest being | claim they will be running again in thirty
smothered by the outsiders who had | days. The McNitt—Huyett peopie have
gathered in the shop in the meantime. | cut a large quantityof lumber and staves
Fortunately noteven a blister was burned | in that locality, but at that they are hard-
on his hands or face, nor a hole burned |ly half through with their contract.
in his clothing, though it was somewhat | Seventy-five men are employed continually
discolored. on the job.
George Elliot; Mrs. Dunning being Mrs. Elliot's
niece. :
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| —A.B. Ammerman was in Bellefonte Thursday
going on to State College, where he is now at the
home of D. F. Smith.
—Mrs. Kerstetter, of Harrisburg, spent Decora.
tion day in Bellefogte with her sisters, Mrs. Yeag-
er and Mrs. Geissinger.
~—Miss Virginia Dale, who anticipates spending
a part of the month of June at Atlantic City, will
leave Bellefonte June Sth.
+ ==Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Allison, with their
daughter, Katherine, were week-end guests of
Edward Allison, at Potters Mills.
—Mrs. Charles Hewes, of Erie, has been while
in Bellefonte, the guest of Mr. Hewes sister, Mrs.
Hutchinson, of Howard street.
' —Harrison Kline, son of landlord Henry Kline,
: of the Haag hotel, left yesterday for Akron, Ohio,
where he has accepted a position with the Good"
rich Tire company.
—Joseph Markle, of State College, spent a busy
; day Thursday in Bellefonte, rounding up his busi-
| ness here that it might need no further attention
until the excitement of commencement week is
over,
~—Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Riling and Mr. and Mrs.
~Miss Curtin, Mrs. Sheldon and Gregg Shel
| don will leave Bellefonte next week, expecting to
| be in Philadelphia for a week before going to
Ventnor, where they will spend the summer with
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Sheldon at their cottage.
~Among the WATCHMAN office callers on Wed.
nesday was Dr. Thomas C. Van Tries, who came
in to order the paper sent to his sister, Mrs.
Louisa Harris, of Evanston, Ill, because he said
he wanted to send her the best loca! paper in the
venes at Aberdeen, Scotland, in June, 1913, He
was also made a member of a committee to pre-
pare a new hymnal for the Reformed church in
the United States.
~H. M. Bidwell dropped into this office on
in the hospital at Norfolk, Va., the past six weeks
with a case of typhoid fever, has so far recovered
that he is able to sit up in a chair. And if he con.
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roof of the house wasdiscovered to be on
fire. With the help of nearby neighbors
most of the furniture was saved, though
some clothing and bedclothing were
burned. The house and contents were
insured in a Millersburg fire insurance
company.
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