i | BELLEFONTE MAN Commits SuiCDE.| ——The Index and F. P. Blair & Son —George Gault, a well known carpenter | have new holiday adds in this issue. Read CwickeN THIEF SENT TO REFORMA- ~~ NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. | Dr. RGB. Hayes accompanied his daughter TORY.—Alfred Heaten, who during the Ellen, on her meturn to college at Sweet Briar, jof this place, committed suicide at the | them over and see the bargains offered. summer py nik of Fiiadehhis. seat the | V2- a Sitatay. - ai EE — —===' Haag hotel on Monday evening by drink- ete ' roosts by Bellefonte business - Conley, of Centre spent Bellefonte, Pa., November 29, 1912. | Son. er fi i ——The Tau chapter of the Delta Tau ; __—Mr.and Mss W. Gross Mingle, of Cente Thanksgiving in Bellefonte with her son, J. Will rs ses | 108 WivyShiie ih ginger se ard pus life" | Delta fraternity was organized at Shue { elt), Gus Srseuted in Tynone yt Ful Hall, were Bellefonte visitors on Wednesday. | Conley and family. To CORRRSPONDENTS.—No communications ni . | College last Friday afternoon and in the | 0 hic 4 —Miss Julia Gray, of State College, will be the —~Mz. 30d Min. Prank K. Rukenbach, of Ty- published unless accompanied by the real name A Nine and ten o'clock on Tuesday MOTH: | + ening the members and guests, num- | ickens, brought to Bellefonte on guest of friends in Bellefonte for the week-end. | sate a vankagiving dinner at the Luk. of the writer. ‘ing. Gault, who lived with his othe | fifty tin all, at the | 9:32 train Saturday morning, ar- —W. Fred Rees, of Renovo, was an over Sus. | <203ch home place. - : on Curtin street, was a man addicted to bering eigh banque 8 raigned before Judge Orvis an hour later, ' day visitor at the home of his parents, Mr. and | —Mrs. Jemnie Curtin. of Curtin, spent the drink and when indulging rather freely | house in this place. The Ger- | guilty was sentenced to the Hunt, MG. W. Rees | Caankagiving day with her on. James Latimer he would spend the nights most any. Mania orchestraof Lock Haven, furnished —Mrs. Alice M. Magoffin, of Bealsburg, was in | Curtin. at his home near ——That new splash board still adorns | where instead of at home, though he had | the Musicand it was almost daylight Sat- the oc the damn Spring creck | wae ore Son deed ou a the 7A 1 a ot me ep er titi a ——Did you have your fill of Thanks- Haag house. On Monday evening he was This is the _, Unionville and Union township have been part of the week with Mrs. Samuel Sheffer at the | —Mrs. Harry D. Otto and two children, of giving turkey and fixin's yesterday? | drinking and going to the Haag house tor ist 3at the this Say : missing their chickens. Hardly a hen Sheffer home on Curtin street. | Mire Jerry ot of aeronte visitng her mother. ——A little daughter was born last | after séven o'clock he asked for a room. 1 a. e College year. | house in that locality escaped a visit but | —Mr. and Mrs. W. Harrison Walker went over | Mrs. Jerry Nolan, of south Thomas street. week to Mr. and Mrs. Orrie Kline, at Landlord Henry Kline was at supper and | | —The Red Cross Christmas seals all efforts to catch the thief proved futile © Johnstown Wednesday, to spend their Thanks. | their home on Bishop street. | the only one in the office was his son THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. " | Bellefonte on Tuesday, attending to. some busi- | ness and calling on friends. other points of —Mrs. David Dale is entertaining Mrs. Arm. | interest in the west before returning home, which sell for one cent each, can again until Friday. That morning a young “"% With Mz. Walker's brother. ——Mrs. Harry Walkey, who has been | Harrison. Without making any inquiry | i man passed the home of Carson Smith, . ‘critically ill at the Bellefonte hospital, | ‘during the past week, is thought to be | -slowly growing better. —-A Thanksgiving present, in the way of a little son, came to Mr. and Mrs. Luther Strouse yesterday morning, at their home near State College. ——The Woman’s Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. of Bellefonte, will meet on Mon- day evening next at 8 o'clock, at which time a full attendance is hoped for. ~The Bellefonte Academy football team journeyed to Wilkes-Barre last Fri- day and on Saturday defeated the Wy- oming Seminary team by the score of 14 to 9. ——Most of the yearling trout at the Bellefonte fish hatchery have been dis- tributed and the taking of spawn and hatching process for next year's supply will soon begin. ——A little baby girl arrived in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dickerson, on Sunday, and as it is the first one for some years the parents are quite proud of the little Miss. ~The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church will hold a chicken and waffle supper on Thursday evening, De- cember 5th, at the Y. M. C. A. The pub- lic is invited to attend. ———Dr. H. F. Whiting, recently a mem- ber of the Dickinson College faculty, has accepted the post of teacher of mathe- matics in the Bellefonte High school, vice A. D. Latimer resigned. ~——Announcement was made Wed- nesday, of the engagement of Miss Christine Blanchard, of Chicago, and J. Norman Sherer, of Harrisburg. The wedding is arranged to take place in June. ——The Parent-Teachers association will hold a pie social after an interesting program, on Tuesday evening, December 10th, at the High school building, to which all parents and their friends are cordially invited. Mrs. George H. Hazel, Sec- retary. 57-2t ——A broken spring on the locomotive tied up traffic on the Bellefonte Central railroad several hours last Friday morn- ing, and the special leaving here at 8.15 o'clock conveying people to the Pennsyl- vania Day exercises at the College did not reach there until almost noon. —Ex-county commissioner Harry E. Zimmerman and family last week moved from Bellefonte to their new home in Pleasant Gap and the house they occu- pied in Bush's Addition was purchased by Mr. Zimmerman's son Oscar, who moved into it on Thursday of last week. ———An order issued from the War De- partment last week assigned Lieut. James B. Taylor, of Bellefonte, as an instructor at the military academy at West Point, to take effect at once. The assignment is for a period of four years and Lieut Taylor isone of the youngest men ever given such a post. ——A farewell evening was given Joseph Robb, by his many young friends at Anna Eckenroths, Friday evening of last week. Joseph who with the family, will make his home at Pitcairn, left at this time to enter school, the other mem- bers of the family expecting to join him there as soon as possible. ——The demented man arrested in Coleville two weeks ago by policeman Harry Dukeman and who at the time gave his name as Jerusha Willhelm, prov- ed upon investigation to be J. Vought, who escaped from the asylum at Harris- burg on November 4th. A keeper of the asylum came to Bellefonte last Friday eyening and on Saturday took Vought back to the institution. ——Mr. and Mrs, Edward P. Irwin, who have been occupying rooms in the Gar- man house on the corner of High and Spring streets, since coming to Belle- fonte from Cherry Tree a short time ago, have leased the small house adjoining the Clayton Brown house on Spring street. Mr. and Mrs. Irwin will move into their new home as soon as the furniture, which has been shipped from Cherry Tree arrives. ——Many turkeys were brought to -~ Bellefonte by farmers on Monday and | Tuesday and offered for sale at 18 and 20 cents a pound, although the latter price was the one most frequently asked. Quite a number of the birds were taken Bellefonte dealers who were virtually ‘compelled to have turkey for their Thanksgiving t but some farmers were compelled to take their turkeys ‘back home because buyers could not be found willing to pay the price demanded. Western turkeys have recently been ship- “ped to Bellefonte at 25} cents a pound dressed, the above price including express _ and all incidental expenses, and they are ¥, he showed Gault up to a room. About nine o'clock Gault went down- stairs to the bar room and asked for both whiskey and beer. He was refused both by the bartender, Barney Bilger, as nothing intoxicating had been sold him at that hotel for months. He then asked for a bottle of ginger ale, which was given him. Paying for the bottle he took it and went upstairs to his room. No further attention was paid to the matter until about nine o'clock on Tuesday morning when the chambermaid went to the room and found it locked. She knock- ed and getting no response called Mr. Kline. He knocked loud and long and failing to get an answer went out on the veranda and climbed in at the window. At first he thought the man was merely sleeping soundly, as he was in bed and undressed, but an examination showed that he was dead and had been so for many hours, From appearances Gault on going to his room had undressed, carefully placed his clothes over a chair and his shoes and stockings on the floor. A partly emptied bottle of strychmpine standing on the dresser told the tale. The poison had been poured into a glass and the lat- ter filled with ginger ale which the man drank then went to bed and his death. Dr. Dale was summoned and he declared that the man had been dead for hours, so that the deed was probably committed Monday evening. After carefully exam- ining everything the doctor anthorized the removal of the body to Naginey’s morgue, and coroner P. S. Fisher being notified of the circumstances decided that an inquest was unnecessary. On Wednesday morning, however, an inquest was held and the empty bottle on which was written “Sulphate of Strych- nia,” whichis strychnine, was offered as evidence and after hearing all the de- tails the jury returned a verdict of suicide from strychnine poisoning, self-adminis- tered. Deceased was a son of Samuel (deceas- ed) and Catharine Gault and was born in Bellefonte thirty-four vears ago. He was a carpenter by occupation and a good workman. He was twice married, his first wife having been divorced, and whether it was marital troubles that caused him to take his life or not will never be known His second wife was Miss Dora Sellers, of Milesburg, to whom he was married early last December. They have not lived together for some time and at pres. ent she is making her home in Lock Haven. He leaves no children but is sur- vived by his mother, Mrs. Catharine Gault, of Curtin street, and the following broth- ers and sisters: Henry and James, of Howard township; Mrs. C. M. Showers and Mrs. A. F. Showers, of Bellefonte; Mrs. W. A. Knepp, of Huntingdon; Mrs. George H. Barnes and Mrs. H. E. Stover, of Altoona. The funeral was held at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, services conducted by Dr. G. E Hawes, of the Presbyterian church, burial being made in the Union cemetery. a ———— BELLEFONTE FOUNDRY TO BE Pur IN OPERATION.~On Saturday of last week the papers were signed in the lease of the Bellefonte foundry and machine shops to R. T. White, of Philadelphia, and Henry Johnson, of Oil City, and the plant will be put in operation at once under the firm name of the R. T. White Company, foundrymen and machinists. Mr. John- son came to Bellefonte on Monday and this week has had a half dozen or more men at work cleaning up about the plant and getting things in readiness to begin operations. Mr. White will move his be- longings here next week and will be in direct charge of the company’s business, It must not be supposed that the plant will be started in full force right away, as that will be impossible after lying idle as long as it has. The new proprietors have some work that they can start in on just as soon as the plant can be gotten in shape. It is the intention to begin on a small and conservative basis and build hope of everybody in the community that their undertaking may prove a good thing for Bellefonte as well as profitable to themselves. a : pleas list is long and there is not much indication that the attorneys will be over- from the sale of these stamps are used in the fight against the white plague, which benefits the great army of tubercu- losis sufferers throughout our country. Everyone who buys a stamp, is contribut- ing to a cause in which all the charitable people of our civilized world are inter- ested. ——When you feel weary and depress- ed, out of sorts with yourself and all the world, don’t gorge yourself with quack hour there every evening will help you to forget your troubles and give you a pleasant and interesting time. No better moving picture show in the State. Al- ways among the first to show special fea- tures while the regular program is new and up-to-date. These are details that manager Brown never overlooks. Five cents will admit you any evening during the week. ——The dancing class and school which for several years has been so successful- ly conducted by Miss Eva Crissman in the Bush Arcade, and who gave her fare- well dance last night, on account of her approaching marriage, will be continued under the management of Mrs. Harry Garber. A class for children will be held Saturday afternoon from two until four o'clock, beginning December 7th, while the class and dance for older peo- ple will be as usual, on Friday night, the class beginning at seven o'clock followed immediately by a general dance. REUNION OF THE FORTY-FIFTH.—Be- tween forty and fifty survivors of the old Forty-fifth regiment held their annual re. union in Williamsport last Thursday. The business meeting was held in the afternoon at which the following officers were elected: President, Reese G. Rich- ards; vice president, E. E. Meyers; sec- retary, Allen D. Albert; treasurer, Wil- liam Robert. Mr. Albert is the man who compiled and edited the very complete history of the regiment which was pub- lished during the past year. A very in- teresting campfire on Thursday evening completed the program of the reunion. The regiment had quite a number of Centre countians in its ranks during the war. -——R. J. Eisenhauer, who gave his home as Millmont, Centre county, is in the Blair county jail in default of three hundred dollars bail on the charge of forgery. It is alleged that Eisenhauer bought a railroad ticket in Pittsburgh last Thursday for Millmont via Bellefonte, and that he scratched out the latter name and made the ticket read by way of Har- risburg. The conductor noticed the change and had the man arrested when the train reached Altoona. He was given a hearing in that place on Friday morn- ing and in default of three hundred dol- lars bail was committed to jail. On Tues- day he plead guilty in open court, when sentence was suspended pending good be- havior. ——The receipts from the Harvest dance as reported at the regular meeting Monday night, were $140.00 from the sale of tickets less $70.00 expenses. This dance was the third annual Charity Ball given under the auspices of the Wom- an's club of Bellefonte, and the proceeds will go directly to its treasury to be used in the different departments of its work, which are civics, educational and charity. The work of the women through this or- ganization has become a powerful factor for the betterment of conditions and the uplift of humanity; co-operation with these women in this struggle to put Belle- fonte where all progressive towns at home and abroad have been for years, is asked from the property owners and tain farmer brought a load of to Bellefonte and at the time the writer saw him he had not disposed of the load. We personally inspected the potatoes and without exaggeration one-tenth of them, at least, were cut or damaged in some way, probably in raising, in on a number of them. They cer- 2 medicines but go to the Scenic. One! from Miss Overton, who so | gotten Sento gov bo time to this aid in at Northwood, near Tyrone, and from the Hagerstown. Md., Saturday of last week. world’s work a year ago. The receipts | i | fact that he had a bag of chickens over | strong, who came to Bellefonte from her home at | —Mrs. George Brandon, of Scranton, has been | —Joe Kats, one of the prominent merchants. of Lewistown, was in Bellefonte yesterday to spend the vacation day with his father, Aaron Katz. his shoulder caused Mr. Smith to tele- in Bellefonte with her parents and sister, Mr | —Lieutenant James B. Taylor arrived in Belle. phone policeman A. R. Barr, at Tyrone to look him up. That gentleman started | on the trail and caught the man on Penn- | sylvania avenue. He showed fight but | being a smaller man than the officer was | and Mrs, Shank and Mrs. F. E. Naginey. ~Mr. and Mrs. Mose Levi and family and | Miss AnnaCherry spent Thanksgiving In Lock | Haven with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Swiler. i —Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Frum and family, of Al | toona, were guests of Rev. and Mrs. D. J. Frum | soon overpowered and taken into custody. | and family at Pleasant Gap over Thanksgiving. When he realized he was up against | Edmund Blanchard Esa. let on Wedtaay ‘to spend Thanksgiving and i i oy Rs Tr | —Miss Grace I. Saydertown, was in the thief who had been robbing the ben popes cease 1. Beck, of Savacrioun. vas in roosts in Bald Eagle valley. In fact he | three week's visit with hersisters, at Pittsburgh. rather boasted of his prowess in that | —Hon. John T. McCormick, of State College, respect. He stated that most of the was in Bellefonte on Monday looking after the chickens he had taken to Tyrone and Petition for the opening of a new road in College sold to different parties at considerable | "7": below the market price. In order to avoid paying railroad fare he generally bum. med his way on a freight train. When asked whose chickens he had with him when he was arrested Heaton replied: “Well, when I go to rob a chicken coop, I don't make it 2 practice to go around | to the front door of the house and ask | who lives there.” Upon his own con- fession the young man, who is only twen- ty years old, was brought to Bellefonte and after being sentenced was taken by Captain Barr to the reformatory. NITTANY LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER PLANT SoLD.—A deal was closed on Mon- | day whereby the Nittany Light, Heat and | Power plant, of State College, will become the property of Asbury M. Lee, A. J. Musser and J. W. Wrigley, of Clearfield, and others associated with them. The consideration has no: been made public. It will be remembered that last spring the above three gentleman were granted charters for electric light and power com- panies in Howard, Milesburg and Union. ville boroughs; Benner, Boggs, Potter, Spring and Union townships, and at the time they declared that they had in view the building of a stupendous electric sys- tem to cover practically all of the above territory for the purpose of furnishing light and power at a cost considerably less than the average cost. At the same time an application was made for a char- ter for a similar company in State Col- lege borough but as the granting of same would be an infringement upon the rights of the Nittany Light, Heat and Power company, this charter was not granted. The present purchase of the latter com- pany by Messrs. Lee, Musser and Wrigley gives them the right to operate in State College, and it is asserted on good au. thority that some big developments will be made in the near future, Just what this will be has not been made public but the original intention of the projectors was the erection of an im- mense power plant at some convenient and economical point from which electric current for all purposes can be supplied to any place within the above named ter- ritory. The purchase of the State College company and franchise would indicate that the original purpose is now to be carried out; and this may result in hav- ing a iot to do in the erection of a trolley line between Bellefonte and State Col- lege. BPP on. YounG HUNTER BREAKS NECK.—James DeHaas, of Ford City, while on a cross- ing watching for deer Wednesday morn- ing fell from the stump of an old tree and broke his neck, dying instantly. The young man, who was only fourteen years old, was out in the Big Run district in the Alleghenies with a party of hunters among whom were his father, Jacob DeHaas, of Ford City, and Edwin S. Mobley, of Beech Creek. Early Wed. nesday morning the hunters went out on a drive and after the boy was placed on a crossing he climbed on a high stump in order to get a better view of the sur- rounding country. How he come to fall is not known. The accident occurred at a point about twelve miles from Beech Creek and quite a distance from habitation. The nearest place, in fact, is the farm of Clarence Shank, on the top of the Alleghenies, and | time, on his return home from Lock Haven, —Mrs. Shuey, wife of Dr. A. Shuey, of Marion county, Ohio, is spending some time at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hezekiah Hoy, on Water street. —Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Mabus and little son Richard went down to Lewisburg on Wednesd ay afternoon to spend Thanksgiving with Mr. Ma- | bus’ parents. —Mr. and Mrs. C. U, Hoffer are in Bellefonte, having come from Philipsburg Wednesday, to be for the Thanksgiving with Mrs. Hcoffer's father, C. T. Gerberich. ~—Mrs. J. A. Aiken went to Beaver Falls last Saturday, where she bas been spending a week and the Thanksgiving with her daughter, Mrs. George T. Johnston. =Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Spigelmyer were guests | yesterday of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. D. Huffman, at | Williamsport, having gone down Wednesday | afternoon for the Thanksgiving day. | —Dr. M. J. Locke went down to Philadelphia | on Monday to attend to a little business, going | from there to Haverford to see the Sophomore— ' Freshman football game on Tuesday. | —~Mrs. Cyrus Strickland, who spent the sum- | mer in Milroy with Mr. and Mrs. Lester Sheffer, | returned this week and will spend the winter | with her daughter, Mrs. M. I. Gardner. : —Mrs. Philip Meyer, of Centre Hall, and Mr. | and Mrs. Lioyd Zettle, of Nebraska, were guests | the latter part of last woek, of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Musser and family, on east Lamb street. —~Thomas Moore, of Philadelphia, who has been spending the hunting season with the Pan. thers in Little Sugar valley, was in Bellefonte on Saturday and a pleasant caller at this office. —Charies A. Schroyer, of Chicago, was in Bellefonte Thursday of last week for a short where he had been for a visit with his sister, Mrs, Evans. been ill at her home on High street, for the past two weeks. —Miss Nan Hoy returned to Bellefonte last week, after having spent the greater part of two months with Mrs, Wistar Morris. Miss Hoy went to Overbrook for the MacCoy—Wood wedding, and remained for a visit as Mrs. Morris’ guest, ~—Mrs. W. F. Reynolds went to New York Tues- day, where she met Philip, expecting to go onto Newport to spend Thanksgiving with her older son, Frederic, who is a student at St. George's | school, Colonel Reynolds joined his family there | Wednesday. —Robert H. Reed, a well known resident of Be- nore, transacted business in Bellefonte last Sat. urday. The people of that section, by the way, miss the operation of the Scotia ore mines and at present there is not much hope of their being started soon. —Mr. and Mrs. John Harris Jr., and two chil dren, of Mount Union, and Dr. and Mrs, Edward Harris and two children, of Snow Shoe, were in Bellefonte yesterday and ate their Thanksgiving dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Har ris, on east Linn street. ~Harry Green, Francis T. Speer and George R. Meek were among the great State following on its trip of victory to Pittsburgh Wednesday afternoon. Francis, in addition to going out for the game expected to visit with his brother, Wil liam T. Speer, at Crafton. —Mrs. John G. Love and her daughter Kathe rine left on Monday for Philadelphia, where they were joined Wednesday by Mrs. Love's son, John G. Love Jr., who is at school at Haverford. From Philadelphia Mrs. Love and her children went to Atlantic City for their Thanksgiving. —LeRoy Locke, a Sophomore at Haverford and a member of the football team, spent from Sun- day morning until Monday noon with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. M. J. Locke. He was on his way back to college from Pittsburgh where Haver- ford played Carnegie Tech on Saturday. —Mr. and Mrs. William Nelson, of Lansdowne, and their little son Billy, have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Walker, since Wednesday. Mr. Nelson, who is with the Pennsylvania railroad, at their Broad Street offices, has been taking a two week's vacation and will return to Philadelphia today. ~—Miss Prince, Mrs, Paul Sheffer and Tom Bea- ver went to Pittsburgh Wednesday to see the State-tiniversity of Pittsburgh Thursds afternoon. Miss Prince and Mrs, Sheffer will join Mrs. Donald Potter as guests of Mr. and Mrs, Prince, at Crafton, during their stay at Pitts- a . Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. a yanday sveing ahs ek ot or to at West Point. new —Miss Grace Cook left Wednesday with the people for PRisbuigh, expecting to attead the State—University Pittsburgh Thanksgiving game, yesterday afterncos. —Miss Annie Baker, of Altoona, came to Belle- fonte Wednesday, to join the family pasty Linn entertained for Nise —Miss Annie Fogleman went to Lemont Wed- desday afternoon to join the family party at the butchering of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Shuey, Miss Fogleman being a sister of Mrs. Shuey. avenue —lIrvin O. Noll, principal of the Conshohocken High school, came home for and will remain until Sunday. He is getting along splendidly in his new position and likes the place very much. —H.E. Van Norman, of State College, will leave for California next week, where he will spend a Short ene with D:. Hunt at the University at to Pennsylvania. i —Mrs. J. H. Robb is spending this week in Wil- liamsport where her sister, Helen Grayce,is filling an engagement at the Lycoming opera house, Her husband joined her on Wednesday evening for Thanksgiving. —Mrs. William Harper i$ visiting this week at Perry Gentzels, on the farm near Zion. Mrs. Har. per went down to help prepare for and be at the butchering, one of the most important events this fall's work of the farmer. ay —'Squire Henry D. Brown laid majes- ty of the law and yesterday en for Pittsburgh to witness the big football game be- tween State and Pitt and to spend an extra day or two there before returning home. —~Horace Rodgers, a Junior at State College after spending three weeks in the Bellefonte hos. pital, was discharged in the early part of the week and spent several days with John Rankin, on Curtin street, before leaving for his home at Picture Rocks on Wednesday, —Mr. H. F. Grabe, who has recently purchased Heberling, at State College, purposes that end of the county with an establishment will not be outclassed anywhere thn —The American farmer has $40,000, 000 invested in his business, and produc- €s an average of $25,000,000 of new wealth every day. Ee — Bellefonte Produce Markets. Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer. The prices quoted are those paid for Srtersraserane The following discounts will be allowed on ad- EE i SERIE Ty make this his first trip east since leaving many | taken of to ny woice be sive 10 his life, with his mother at Lemont. by the cash.