Bellefonte, Pa., August 22, 1913. P. GRAY MEEK, BR — — ee - - = TeaMs oF SuBscrIPTION,.—Until turther notice paper will be furnished to subscribers at the flowin rates: Paid strictly in advance Paid before expiration of year - $1.00 1.50 Duty. Our uptown contemporary— The Lem- ocrai—known as the organ of the present “alf-an-alf” Surveyor of Customs at Phil- adelphia, charles r. kurtz, announces with seeming pleasure the candidacy of W. D. Zersy, of this place, for State Committeeman. After informing its readers that Mr. ZERBY “was a former county chairman and is known in local politics as a reorganization Democrat who has been in sympathy with that movement Jor years,” it assures its readers that if Mr. Zerby is elected “he wili support A. MITCHELL PALMER, GEO. W. GUTHRIE” and, we presume, VANCE McCorMICK who are now known and acting as bosses of the Democratic party of the State. In the column of space given to an- nouncing Mr. ZERBY'S ambition The Democrat makes no reference whatever to the fact that there are Democrats in Centre county whom Centre county's State Committeeman ought to represent. It seems to imagine that the duties and pur- poses of our new State Committeeman should be solely to “support the PALMER- GUTHRIE-MCCORMICK element in our party;” whether they be right or whether they be wrong. The WATCHMAN has no idea that the Democrats of Centre county have any desire to either endorse or perpetuate factionalism in the party. It does not believe that they have so little care for party harmony, or so little concern for the party’s good as to enthuse over a candidate whose boss impudently an- nounces that he wants to be State Com- mitteeman merely to support PALMER and his crowd and not to represent the Democrats of Centre county. WiLLiam F. Smith, of Millheim, former Prothonotary of the county and a loyal, working Democrat before Mr. ZERBY was heard of, is also aspiring to be State Committeeman. And the WATCHMAN is for him because he doesn’t represent any faction and because the people of Mill heim, Penn, Miles and Haines town- ships have petitioned in large numbers to make him the representative of the Democrats of Centre county. He is the kind of man we want. One with enough back-bone to represent the home Demo- crats, and is not announcing that he only wants to be State Committeeman to work for a faction and thus keep the party divided and dis! The Case of Murderer Thaw. If there were any hope that HARRY K. THAW would “hie himself to a nunnery,” or take himself into permanent seclusion by any other route we could cheertully join a Philadelphia contemporary in pro- nouncing his escape from Matteawan a “good riddance.” This offensive person has been thrusting himself into public view so much since his murder of STAND- FORD WHITE some years ago, that any way of getting rid of him must be wel- comed. But we can see no reason to ex- pect such a solution of the problem. The chances are ten to one that he will con- tinue to be a noisome nuisance in the future as he has been in the past. HARRY THAW is simply a murderer with all the brutal instincts which usual- ly characterize murderers. We have never believed that he was insane when he killed his victim or that he has been crazy at any time since that event. But he escaped the just punishment of a murderer by pretending to be insane and should be required to pay the penalty of that act by being held in the mad house until his release by death. His insolent employment of money with the purpose of avoiding that consequence of his crime is an insult to the morals of the public. The sinister assistance given him by his family proves that his viciousness is in- herited. HARRY THAW ought to have been hung for his crime immediately after it was committed or as soon after as might have been under the law. If he had been poor or in reasonable circumstances, financial- ly, that is precisely what would have been the result of his trial. But he es- caped the proper punishment of an atro- cious murder by the corrupt use of in- herited money and ever since he has been flouting public sentiment and decent opinion by keeping himself in the public eye. There is no room for miscreants of his type in the life of this country and he ought to be remanded to the asylum and kept there until his death. ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS. —Elliot Lane, of Linn street, is home from the tournament of the Northwestern Tennis Asso. at Newcastle, with the third consecutive trophy forsingles. For three years he has won the championship there and surprising as it may seem few of his friends here have ever seen him play in real form for the reason that he has never had opposition to draw him out in games played here. We congratulate the young champion. 1 Erse.—In the death of Charles H. Eise; WITH THE BOROUGH FATHERS.—Seven : Milesburg lost one of its best known and members of borough council hatless and | prominent citizens. He had been ill only | coatless sweltered around the council about a week with general debility and table for an hour on Monday evening ! heart trouble and his death occurred at ‘regulating the affairs of the town and its | three o'clock on Monday morning. residents. : : Deceased was a son of Charles H. and| Barber R. A. Beck was present and | Francis Bayard Else and was born at Sa- made complaint about the motor busses | 4 Jona on July 4th, 1846, thus being 67 making a depot of the street in front of | be] | years, 1 month and 14 days old. During hisshop. He stated that they not only | 81 | the Civil war he served as a member of ‘shut off the light but the noise they | i Troop E, Seventh Penna. cavalry. In: ; 1872 he located in Milesburg and for sev- | jump, and that wasn’t a good thing for a | en years was in the hardware business. barber. The matter was referred to the | { He later engaged in the drug business | Fire and Police committee with the sug- F | and for many years conducted the only | gestion that they request the drivers ! | drugstore in Milesburg. He was a mem- | of the busses to move a little further | Fl | ber of the Methodist church and an up- | down the street. ] '! | right christian gentleman. On January | ‘Squire W. H. Musser was ‘present and : 2nd, 1873, he was united in marriage to ! made complaint about the condition of | ; Miss Mary G. Ryman, who survives her the boardwalk along the Morrison prop- | husband. They had two children, Edith | erty on east Lamb street and the condi- | died almost four years ago, and Mary | properties on that thoroughfare. The | i! | who died in infancy. The following ' of Orlando, Fla.; Mrs. C. W. Kirby and put down a new pavement and failing | Mrs. E. C. Poorman, of Tyrone. | to do so within the required time coun- | EPliote, by Mallory. Bellefonte. j i Funeral services were held at his late | cil voted instructions to the Street com- i FisHER.—Between nine and ten o'clock | home at 1.30 o'clock on Wednesday after- | mittee to put down a concrete pavement | on Tuesday morning Dr. Philip S. Fisher | 550 by Revs. Ash and Piper, after which | and enter a lien against the property for passed away at his home at Zion, this | interment was made in the Union ceme- | county, after a protacted illness. During the winter of 1911 he had a bad fall on the ice and injured his head. A cancer- ous trouble developed and his condition | gradually grew worse. He had been con- | fined to his home since April. 1912, and to his bed since July of the same year. Dr. Fisher was a son of Rev. Peter S. and Verona (Heckert) Fisher and was DR. PHILIP S. FISHER. i i tended the funeral were Miss Esther L.| to the Street committee for proper ac-| Greeno, of Milford, Ohio; Mrs. Eliza | tion. i Parsons, Altoona; Mr. and Mrs. E. C| Poorman and Isaac Shirk, of Tyrone, and In the reports of committees the Water | committee reported meter bills for the | Mrs. H. A. Moore, of Howard. quarter ending July 1st as $470.78, with | | i | several of the largest water users not in- | STIVER.—Dr. Thomas J. Stiver, who {led a bead. GE od muds oa was born and to manhood in Cen.! Under the head of of ness bora at Boalshurg on. December 6th. },., un, or his home in Freeport | Street committee reported that they had | 1845, hence was in his sixty-eighth year.) 0 prgay afternoon, after a pro- | examined the bridge over Buffalo Run at His early education was received in the | 04 iinecc Deceased was a son of | the old glass works and while the tim- public schools after which he attended | py 0.0) ong Mary Stiver and was born | bers were still in fair condition one of the Boalsburg Academy, the Allentown | ‘bo iory Mills on January 9th, 1860, | the abutments was in bad shape. The Military and Collegiate Seminary and |, .yino his age 53 years, 9 months | bridge is almost on the borough line and Frederick Institute. He taught school |. 6 4avc™ His education was received | the Street committee was instructed to several years and in 1865 began the study in the public and Normal schools after | see the county commissioners and find of medicine with his brother-in-law, Dr.| Zo bo taught school five years. He out if they would not join with the leaiah J. Wite of lle, .and i . | borough in putting down a anent later Dr. John N. Faust. He attended | Went West in 1882 and was located con. | borough in putting perm . | secutively at Sidney, Neb., Woodland and ; structure. two courses of lectures in the medical |g, pranciccn Cal. While at the latter | The Fire and Police committee report- department of the University of Penn- | place he n the study of medicine and | ¢d the repairing of the roof, new spout- Sylvania and graduated in March, 1368, | Pr ie beg three os couse at the ing and painting of public building. The following June he began the prac- | University of Denver. Aiter his gradua-| The Water committee recommended tice of medicine at Zion, and] ved and | tion he practised in Denver for seven or | that in order to give the residents of east practised therethe balanceof hislife. His , eight years, during five years of which Howard street adequate water facilities practice. extendel over Wide aren and | ine he also held a professorship in the | and fire protection a six inch main be he was extremely charitable in his work. | University. Owing to an accident in laid as far east as the residence of Robert Dr. Fisher was the chief organizer of | i194) pig pealth became enfeebled and | Armstrong. The committee was empow- the Zion Normal and Classical Institute | he went to Illinois, locating near Free. | ered to have the work done. 4 in 1889; was a charter member of the port. He was unmarried but is survived | Dr. Brockerhoff stated that residents of Centre Sounty medical Society when or. | by four brothers and one sister, namely: east Bishop street were complaining ganized in 1876 and president of the |p, wv B oq R J. Stiver, and P. C. about the shortage of water and asked same in 1888. He became a member of | . iver, | what had been done in the matter of a the State Medical society in 1882 and was | Stiver, of Freeport, IL; Dr. D, S. Stiver, -— Our Correspondents’ Opinions. Thus column is at the service of those of our of general or interest. The = Watchman’ will in no gy be responsible for their ideas or state ments. rea! name of the author must accom- pany all communications, but will be withheld from publication when the request is made. An Interesting Trip Through the Far West. Dr. Thos. C. Van Tries returned last Friday evening from an extended trip made with a cut-out muffler made him | through the far west, including the Pa- | cific coast. He visited the following cities and places: Chicago, Omaha, Lin- coln, Denver, Colorado Springs. Manitou, Pikes Peak, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sac- ramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Pasadena and adjacent towns. He traveled nearly eight thousand miles. Not so bad for a young man of nearly seventy-four years. He was delighted with Sait Lake City. 21 1 L., married to Claude W. Smith and who | tion of the gutter in front of some of the | It is beautifully situated at the base of | the Wasatch mountains. Population regular notice has been given the sup- | 110,000. Met many of the Mormons, and | | brother and sisters survive: Benjamin, | posed owner of the Morrison property to | looked into their peculiar institutions. | Was introduced to Joseph F. Smith, pres. | ident of the Mormon church, and his Board of Counselors, when they were in session. A very pleasant and courteous gentleman of seventy-five years. the cost of same. The question of the | California is emphatically the land of | tery, Bellefonte. Among those who at- | gutters on the same street was referred | flowers, greatly surpassing the south in| this particular. The doctor was surprised and forcibly impressed with the immense area of ex- cellent land which is useless from the want of water. Arizona and New Mexico. The river beds in summer are as dry as a city street and irrigation is impossible. This largely explains why Congress delayed so long in the admission of these two States. These lands are as level as the prairies of Illinois, and when irrigated, are just as productive. The doctor thinks San Francisco is the coming city of the United States. The Panama canal will bring it into connec- tion with the trade of Europe. China and Japan are destined to be among the leading civilized nations of the world; their traffic with the United States will be immense. The Golden Gate is the entrance to San Francisco bay and is about one and one-half or two miles wide. Inside of it is the bay or harbor of SanjFrancisco, which is about seventy miles long, varying in width from five to fifteen miles. Completely sheltered on all sides, it is the largest land-locked har- bor in thejworld, into which the largest and heaviest ships can enter with ease on all tides. The harbor has few if any equals in the world. Itsferry and excur- sion boats are screw steamers, not side- This is specially true of | medical examiner on the Bellefonte pen- sion board a number of years. He was elected coroner of Centre county in 1872 over his brother, Dr. C. P. W. Fisher, by thirteen hundred majority. In 1905 he was again elected coroner but was de- feated in 1908 by Dr. Huff, of Milesburg. At the direct primaries in September, 1911, he received the highest number of votes on both the Republican and Demo- cratic tickets, and although a life-long {of Chicago, and Mrs. J. E. Ward, of standpipe in the reservoir. Mr. Seibert | Bellefonte. The remains were buried at | stated that he had not yet completed his Lena, Iil.. on Sunday. | computations as to the cost of same but 1 | would have them ready by next meeting GARBRICK.—Sarah Ellen, the little | night. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tress Garbrick, | Bills to the amount of $501.43 were : who live near the Valentine furnace, died | approved and council adjourned. lat six o'clock yesterday morning of rT ' cholera infantum, after a brief illness. PEACHES AT THE PENITENTIARY.—The | The little girl was two years old the first | auad of trusty prisoners who are now “of June. The funeral will be held at two O° the new penitentiary farms at Peru o'clock on Saturday afternoon, burial to *™® "Ot really living on peaches and Democrat, his vote in the Republican : tery. Cream but some of them are having column at the polis in November was | 2° made in the Sunnyside com peaches from morning until night. They wheeled. Los Angeles is a delightful city. Pasa- dena is eleven miles from Los Angeles, and is a city of homes. Its population is 35,000; has no saloons, and very few manufactories. It contains the residenc- es of forty millionaires, from all parts of the United States. Part of Pasadena abounds in the most wild and romantic scenery. Its orange groves are famous. The doctor was much interested in the many large orchards of English walnut trees; also some almond orchards which larger than the Democratic vote. Dr. Fisher served as school director of Walk- er township eight years and was secre- tary of the board three years. He was a member of the L O. O. F., the Knights of the Golden Eagle, the Heptasophs, Elks, and Patrons of Husbandry. He was the author of papers on whooping cough and cancer. In 1872 he he was united in marriage to Miss Eliza B. Fryberger, daughter of John Fryberger, of Milesburg. Their surviving children are Mrs. Nelson E. Robb and Charles Nevin, of State College, and Arthur Bruce Fisher, of Granite City, Ill. He also leaves five grand-chil- dren and the following brothers and sis- ters: Gen. B. F. Fisher, of Valley Forge; Monsigneur Nevin A. Fisher, of Phila. delphia; Mrs. C. S. Cordie, of Oil City, and Mrs. Margaret Wireback, of Pitts. burgh. The funeral will be held from his late home at Zion at ten o'clock tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Revs. Schmidt, Hoover and Shultz will officiate and bur- ial will be made in the Zion cemetery. I | BECK.— Joseph Beck, a native of Centre county, died at his home at Fort Scott, Kansas, on August 9th, 1913, of general debility. He was a son of Daniel and Elizabeth Beck and was born in Half- moon township on March 30th, 1828, hence at his death was 85 years, 4 months and 10 days old. He married Miss Mar- tha E. Corbin on September 19th, 1854, and in 1856 they moved to Kansas where they spent the remainder of their lives. Mrs. Beck preceded her husband to the grave just one month and two days, but surviving him are two children, John and Alice, both of Fort Scott, He also leaves two brothers, Isaac and Isaiah Beck, both of Halfmoon township, this county. | I POTTER.—Mrs. Ellen Potter, widow of the late Dr. Thomas B. Potter, of Phil- ipsburg, died at her home in that place last Friday morning after a long illness. Her maiden name was Ellen McMullen and she was born at Orbiscnia, Hunting- don county. On April 18th, 1878, she was united in marriage to Dr. Thomas Potter and ever since had been a resident of Philipsburg. Her husband died in 1906 and her only survivors are one brother, J. W. McMullen, of Tyrone, and one sister, Mrs. F. H. Madden, of Orbi- sonia. Private burial was made in the Philipsburg cemetery on Monday morn- ! ing. { Rev. G. E. Hepler, of the Free Methodist | church, will have charge of the service. | | GIVIN — Georgie Geraldine, fourth | daughter of Martha M. and the late George W. Givin, died at the home of | her mother, 5221 Chester avenue, Phila- | delphia, on Wednesday, August 6th. In | terment was made in Arlington cemetery. The Givin family were at one time resi- dents of Bellefonte. REILEY—-WITMAN.—The wedding last | dree Reiley, the popular pastor of the | Methodist church at State College, and Miss Eleanor Witman, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. E. H. Witman, of Danville, was an event of considerable interest. The the bride's father. Miss May Witman was maid of honor and Dr. W. A. Reiley, of Clearfield, was best man. Mary Low- ther, of Bellwood, was flower girl and the bride was given away by her uncle, Franklin Witman, of Berwick. Miss Ra- chael Sanford, of Patton, played the wed- Home service on Sunday, September 14th, at the Grange encampment at Cen- tre Hall, will be in charge of Rev. W. H. Schuyler, but instead of the customary sermon an appropriate religious address will be made by Miss Anna B. Taft, of New York city, assistant superintendent of the department of church and country life of the Presbyterian church. Miss Taft will also have at the encampment ! Thursday evening of Rev. James McKen- | are now engaged in picking the peach | crop in the penitentiary’s big peach orch- lard. Comparatively speaking the crop is | a short one this year, being conservative- | ly estimated at from five to six hundred bushels, though some claim it will run close to a thousand. The peaches are picked by the prisoners and hauled to | the farm buildings where for several | days they were sold to all comers at sev- enty-five cents a basket, unassorted. On Saturday Mr. North, manager of the Lauderbach-Barber company’s store | in this place, went up to the orchard and | agreed to take the entire crop at a cer- | tain price for choice fruit, but on Mon- day evening he was notified by telephone that a number of farmers had agreed to ceremony, which took place at the home | take the entire crop. While some of the of the bride's parents, was performed by | peaches are only of average size much of the fruit is unusually large and of fine quality. STARS THAT SCINTILLATE.—Interesting notice of the coming of the Great Sig Sautelle Shows, Circus, Menagerie, Hip- podrome and Wild West to this fortu- nate city of Bellefonte, Thursday, Aug- ust 28th, circus grounds, Hughes’ field, Bishop street, will be more interesting if schedule is given of the actors, stars and features. Sig Sautelle’'s educated horses are a ranking attraction. No handsom- er or better trained equines ever stepped proudly into a ring. Miss Rose Rey- nolds, with her performing lions, start- les by her bravery and fearlessness. Cap- tain Frank Cramer, the Bostock of the cages, in his desperate encounter with Rajah, the man-eating lion, sends thrills and shudders down the backs of the on- lookers. And the third bravest animal trainer and subduer, Miss Delores Franciscos, should be enrolled here as a star of the animal kingdom. This brave little lady juggles with leopards, jaguars and pan- thers as if they were house-cats. ROAD VIEWERS TO MEET.—The board of road and bridge viewers will hold a meeting in the grand jury room in the court house at ten o’clock on Monday, September 15th, for the purpose of hear- ing testimony in the damage appeal cases of the Pennsylvania Railroad company vs. Robert Cooke, Geo. A. Confer and Burdine Butler, all of Howard township, and the Forge Run railroad company vs. H. B. Prentiss, of Rush township. The cases are all damage cases for land taken. an exhibit of charts showing the results of the work being done by the depart. ment in various parts of this country. he saw in the Sacramento valley. Orch- ards in California frequently contain from fifty to one hundred acres. There are also immense fields of sugar beets and lima beans. The climate is semi-tropical. Palm trees, especially the date palm, abound, to say nothing of the beautiful magnolia and oleander with their gor- geous and fragrant flowers. Across the bay from San Francisco is Oakland, a city of 250,000 inhabitants. It is situated or related to San Francisco just as Jersey City is to New York. Trains from the east are run upon ferry boats or transports at Oakland, and the passengers are thus conveyed across the bay to San Francisco. Berkeley and Al- amanda are also cities on the opposite side of the bay. Fg Facts About the Bellefonte Schools. To the Patrons of the Bellefonte Public Schools: All departments of the public schools will open on Monday, September 8th. Examinations for entrance to any de- partment will be conducted on Tuesday, September 2nd, in the new building. As the semi-annual promotion system will be introduced into the schools this year, provision will be made for begin- ners to enter during the first two weeks of the term and the first two weeks of February. Beginners becoming six years of age after the opening of school in September and before the first of Febru- ary will enter in September, and those ing on the part of the pupil in so it is not inconsistent with the tions of the school. Very respectfully, Jonas E. WAGNER, Supervising regula- SOLDIERS’ ORPHANS’ REUNION.—~The sixth annual reunion of the Society of the McAlisterville Soldiers’ Orphans’ School, 1864-1889 will be held at Burn- ham park, near Lewistown, Pa, on Thursday, August 28, 1913, when a liter- ary and musical program will be render- ed, in addition to the usual social fea- — A on — —=Have your Job Work done here. tures of these reunions. | Sunday School Workers Must Get Busy. Sunday school workers in Centre coun- ty will doubtless be interested in the fol- lowing information: For two years Cen- ! tre county has been one of the front line counties in the State. Last year the last county in the State reached that posi- | tion. This year it was hoped that every | county would maintain the work. This | will probably be the case except for one ‘county. That county is Centre. In or- | der that it makes good again this year thirty schools must have feacker traning | classes that have taken an examination | since the first of October last, and before ! the first of next October. Of these thir- | ty schools, but twelve have met the re- : quirement. Unless eighteen more schools i get their classes to take tests within the 'next two months, the county will not | stay where it has been during the last two years and will be at the bottom of the list of Sunday school counties in { Pennsylvania. There is yet time to re- deem the county, and this is a call from the county and State associations to all | Sunday school workers in the county to i get to work AT ONCE and save the day | for the county. There should be a teach- i er training class in every Sunday school in the county. If your school has none, begin to plan to get it into such a class, ! and help out your school and county at | once. Y M. C. A. NEws.—The rear founda- tion walls of the Bellefonte Y. M. C. A. gymnasium have given away and it will be necessary to move the building back at least fifteen feet in order to find solid ground for a new foundation. When the swimming pool was built and opened to the public it sprung a leak at the valve of the emptying pipe. The leak was not discovered for some time and the water that escaped found a course under the rear of the gymnasium with the result that the ground was literally honeycomb- ed and finally the foundation walls gave way and the building sank. An investi- gation shows that it will be impossi- ble to rebuild the foundaticn there and the only way to repair the building is to move it back about fifteen feet upon a new foundation. To do this will cost in the neighborhood of fifteen hundred dol- lars. To meet this unusual and extraordi- nary expense the Ladies Auxiliary are planning to hold a several days carnival during the latter part of September. The carnival will be held at the association and will be big enough to occupy not only the gymnasium but most of the rooms in the association building. One of the features in connection therewith will be a baby show. This will be some- thing new for Bellefonte, but as there is no lack of babies in this community it ought to prove a popular innovation. There will be booths of all kinds, repre- senting various nations, so that there will be plenty to amuse and entertain the crowd during the time the carnival is in progress. Friends of the association have com- pleted plans for the installation of a pub- lic drinking fountain, to be built in the front wall of the building between the two windows. The fountain will project only a few inches outside the level of the wall except at the faucet. It will be equipped with sanitary drinking cups and a modern press-the-button-and-get-a- drink appliance. The plans also include an extension of the fountain to the curb, by a pipe under the pavement, where a watering place for animals will be placed, if permission to make this extension can be secured from the borough council. It is not proposed to have the water run- ning continuously at the watering place, but arranged to turn on only when need- ed. A drain will be put in to connect with the sewer pipe running from the gym- nasium. This fountain will be placed in position before the end of August. General secretary Weston has com- pleted his program for the Star course entertainments the coming season and it is one of the best ever offered, including the following attractions: November 3.~International Opera company. November 20.—Lecture by Richard Pearson Hobson. January 16.—~The Cambridge Players. evening. The talking-motion pictures is one of the wonderful inventions in recent years and when first shown in the large cities drew immense crowds. Their first ECE RET will be at the Centre county good horse race is like a tonic to worked farmer, who knows flesh when he sees it, and g i 553 2 TH