a i BOY SLAIN WHILE HANDLING GUN.— ——The sleeping tent and cook tent of KeLLER—NOLL.—On Wednesday of last - —C. U. Hoffer, of Philipsburg, was in Beile-
- The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Percy the Rebersburg hunting club, in camp week 3 wedding of interest to many Cen. forse Tueday. sieudionto sone bisivass.
Blackford, of New Castle, formerly of four miles east of Livonia, in the Brush tre countians was celebrated at the aa Migs Geaktie Sétmares, I ay.
Belletonte, Pa., December S, 1913.
Bellefonte, will sympathize with them in valley Narrows, were totally destroyed ' Methodist parsonage in Hollidaysburg,
the tragedy which was enacted in their by fire on Tuesday of last week. Every- the contracting parties being E. Paul
To CommesroNDENTS.—No communications Nome on Thanksgiving day, in which thing they contained except a box con- Keller. of Altoona, and Miss Madeline K.
published unless accompanied by the real name their eleven year old son, Brooke LeRoy taining the belongings of Isaac Shawver, Noll, of Pleasant Gap. The ceremony
of the writer.
EE — the heart, dying instantly.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. Mr. Blackfordand his son Gilbert were
out hunting that day and LeRoy wanted
ers believe the tent was set on fire by
other hunters.
——The winter course in agriculture
—A good show for popular prices at to go along but was not allowed to do so
Garman’s tonight and tomorrow, matinee
and evening.
—The Woman's Exchange will be open
every afternoon and evening until fur-
ther notice.
because of the hard tramp. When the at State College began on Wednesday
and will continue for ten weeks, or until
father and son returned in the evening 3
the lutter cleaned and oiled the guns and ePruary 29th, 1914. “Farmer's week
after both ends of the barrels 2% the College will be December 29th to
put Satin ina et in one of the January 3rd inclusive. There is a large
class in the winter course in agriculture
~——Until Christmas Lyon & Co. open ' bed rooms.
Sveny evening until 8 o'clock, Saturday Tired Sh shite 8 rather ous
evening until 10. | Thanksgiving y LeRoy went up-
——A nice little baby boy was born to stairs to bed shortly after eight o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence McClure, at the The other members of the family were
Bellefonte hospital, on Tuesday of last downstairs when they heard a muffled re-
and from the number of inquiries receiv-
ed daily the indications are for a large
attendance at the “Farmers’ week” exer-
cises. eL
| ——G. Wash Rees, deputy internal rev-
week.
—If the weather of the last Friday
in the mouth rules the succeeding month
December will surely be a drizzly, dismal
month.
——The supper which was to have
been held by the ladies of the Methodist
church on December 11th, has been post-
poned to some future date.
——Mrs. Augusta King, who came
from Williamsport last week to visit her
brother, Dr. J. E. Ward, is seriously ill at
the Ward home on Curtin street.
——Ten members of the Bellefonte
Social Elite Club (colored) celebrated
Thanksgiving with a coon and possum
supper at the home of A. V. Jackson, on
east High street.
——Harry D. Gehret has resigned his
position as driverof R. S. Brouse's de-
livery wagon, to take effect Saturday,
and has accepted a position as clerk in
Robert Morris’ store.
——Howard Leaper was arrested at
Alto on Monday afternoon by policeman
Harry Dukeman, and Tuesday was taken
to Williamsburg, Blair county, to answer
the charge of wife desertion.
——Mr. Daniel Eberhart, of east High
port. Realizing that something was enue collector, last week received orders
! wrong Mrs. Blackford went upstairs and from collector Hershey, of Scranton, to |
found her son lying backwards on the drop all other work and proceed at once |
bed, gasping. Her screams brought the to make up a list of all persons in his
rest of the family and an examination ' district who will be liable for the new in-
' disclosed the fact that the boy had been come tax. This information is to be ob-
shot through the heart and was then ' tained in the best way possible and must
dead. | be substantially accurate. Mr. Rees has
He had evidently gotten the gun from six counties in his sub-district, and it is
the closet, pulled the plug out of the butt not hard to figure out just how stupen-
end of the barrel andinserted a cartridge dous his task will be.
he had been carrying around for several | =e $98 Sere
days, then got on the bed and while en-| ——While none of the stores in ques-
| deavoring to get the plug out of the tion are advertising the fact we have
| muzzle of the barrel the gun evidently | been told that there is an unusually fine
! slipped, the hammer struck the side of assortment of Christmas toys at several
|the bed exploding the cartridge. The | Of the shops in Bellefonte. The WATCH-
'boy was a member of the Bethany Luth- MAN has always advised its readers to
|
| eran Sunday school and his tragic death i buy at home, where you know the deal- |
| was a shock to all his schoolmates as | er: and, in this case, it advises the same
| well as his family. | course, because everything a child could
| In addition to his parents he is surviy- A Want in the toy line is to be had here
ed by the following brothers and sisters: | and at prices considerably under those
Mary, Florence, Elizabeth, Blanche, Sid- | quoted in the catalogues of city toy
ney, Grace and Gilbert. The funeral was = Stores.
held on Sunday afternoon and was at-
—
Blackford was accidentally shot throught of Millheim, was also burned. The hunt- was performed by the pastor, Rev. G. F.
Boggs. The bride is a daughter of coun-
| ty commissioner and Mrs. Wm. H. Noll,
| of Pleasant Gap. She is a graduate of
the Lock Haven Normal school and dur-
ing the past eighteen months had been
| one of the clerks to the county commis-
| sioners. The bridegroom was formerly
' of Pleasant Gap but has been located in
| Altoona the past two years as book-
i keeper in one of the offices of the Penn-
: sylvania railrcad company. Following
their marriagz the happy young couple
came to Centre county and visited
| friends until this week when they went
to Altoona where they will reside. The
WATCHMAN extends congratulations.
Snow—HAINES.—A quiet wedding was
| celebrated at the parsonage of the first
i Lutheran church in Altoona, on Wednes-
day afternoon of last week when Allen
| Bayard Snow, of that city, was united in
| marriage to Miss Mary Elizabeth Haines,
| of Bellefonte. The ceremony was per-
‘formed by the pastor, Rev. Marion J.
' Kline, the ring service being used. The
' bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
‘liam E. Haines, of this place, but for
some time past has been living in Al-
| toona. The bridegroom is a son of Mr. |
‘and Mrs E. B. Snow, of that city and an
| exemplary young man. They will reside
(in Altoona.
HANCOCK—SHERIFF.—A wedding of
| some interest took place at the home of
| Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Sheriff, at Chester
| Hill, on Wednesday evening of last week,
| when their daughter, Miss Edna Mae be-
| came the bride of Clyde Raymond Han-
| cock, a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Han-
—James Fox, of Philadelphia, was home to
spend Thanksgiving with his mother, Mrs.
Joseph Fox.
~Mrs. Jane Foster came down from Juniata
last Saturdsy to visit her son, Samuel Foster
and family.
~—Miss Freda Baum returned on Wednesday
evening from a two weeks visit among friends in
New York city.
—F. S. Ammerman, of Fleming, was a business
visitor in Bellefonte on Saturday and a pleasant
caller at this office.
~—After visiting for three months among rela.
tives in Centre county Miss Clara Boalich left on
Saturday for her home in Port Allegheny.
—Albert Hoy came from New York last week,
to spend the Thanksgiving with his sisters, the
Misses Nan and Mary Hoy and Mrs. Reynolds.
—Ogden Malin, who is emploved inthe P. R. R.
shops at Altoona, was in Bellefonte on Sunday
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Malin.
—Mrs. Reuben Lucas, of Philipsburg, who
visited friends in Bellefonte the latter part of last
week, was a pleasant caller at this office on Fri-
day.
—Frank Crissman came up from Sunbury for
Thanksgiving and a week-end visit at the home
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Homer Criss.
man.
—Charles Gillen, of Pittsburgh. and Augustus
Gillen, of Linden, were in Bellefonte for Thanks-
giving and several days visit among their rela.
tives.
~Miss Catharine Snyder, of Altoona, arrived
in Bellefonte last Friday and visited for several
‘days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Shields.
~Mr. snd Mrs. William Magee, of Philadelphia,
will spend the Christmas holidays with Mrs.
| Magee's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Huyett, at
. Centre Hall.
—Edgar Smith, who has been at Rock View
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Washington
| Smith, since early in October, returned to his
work at Pittsburgh Sunday.
! =—Mrs. LeRoy Plomb, who has been in Belle
' fonte the past three weeks visiting her mother,
Mrs. Henry Fox, on Bishop street, will leave for
_ her home in Newton, Kan, today.
i =Mr. and Mrs. Park Paxson, of Canton, Ohio,
! spent 7 janksgiving and until Saturday in Belle-
fonte with Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cassidy. Mrs.
——Miss Helen E. C. Overton has re- | cock, of Philipsburg The ceremony was | F*x*0n is a sister of Mr. Cassidy.
| tended by Clyde Blackford and Mrs. Sid- ceived a su
pply of Red Cross Christmas
| Bey Keefer; of Bellafonte. seals and announces to the public that
| m—— Ps om.
| performed by Rev. George M. Glenn, as-
| sisted by Rev. W. H. Spangler. Mr.
~Mrs. Walter Fulton with her little son Joseph
came in from Pittsburgh on Thanksgiving day
and will visit for several weeks with her parents,
YOUNG MAN HAD HAND Brown Opp.— | the same will be on sale at most of the | Hancock has a good situation in a large | Mr. and Mrs. William Daley, of east Lamb street.
Curtin Dunklegerger, the nineteen-year- | Stores in Bellefonte. Inasmuch as the drug store in Philadelphia, and after a | —Zeph Underwood. of Wilmington, Ohio, came
street, was eighty years old on Saturday, old son of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Dunkle-
and he is one of the most vigorous men | berger, of Pleasant Gap, had the biggest
for his age in Bellefonte, working every part of his left hand blown off by the
day at the Pennsylvznia match factory. bursting of an old musket on Thanks-
——W. Blaine Port is erecting a tailor giving morning. The young man took
shop on a lot adjoining his father’s resi- | the gus, which had not been used for
dence on east Howard street and when | Some years and was clogged with rust
the same is completed will move there | and dirt, and it is claimed loaded it with
from his present quarters in the Lyric | almost two ounces of powder and a tight
theatre building.
| wad. He then went across the street
money derived from the sale of these short wedding trip the young couple will = to Bellefonte on Saturday and spent Sunday and
seals goes toward helping to stamp out
tuberculosis, the public is asked for a
the Red
liberal patronage. In using
Cross seals always put them on the re-
| take up their residence in Germantown.
SEARLE—FARLEY.—~A quiet wedding
| was celebrated at the Presbyterian
| a part of the week atthe home of his uncle, Mr.
Isaac Underwoud and family, on Spring street.
—Miss Alice Barnhart went out to Pittsburgh
| Wednesday evening of last week to spend
| Thanksgiving with her three brothsrs, and also
verse side of a letter or package from the | Manse on Tuesday morning, the con- take in the State—Pitt game. She returned home
one bearing the address and stamp. | tracting parties being Richard B.Searle, Sunday evening.
Placed on the same side as the stamp Of Beech Creek, and Miss Maggie Farley, | —Miss Celia Haupt went to Lock Haven on
makes the package unmailable.
-—
——The big biblical picture, "From | Mrs. Searle will make their future home
| of Lock Haven. The ceremony was per-
| Saturday where she remained over Sunday with
| her sister, Mrs. LeRoy Fox and family, and on
{formed by Dr. G. E. Hawes. Mr. and | yonday proceded to Philadelphia to resume her
——Among the eighty-one prisoners | from Noll's store to fire it off just to hear
released on parole from the western pen. the noise.
itentiary last Friday were thirteen from | It made noise enough but the gun ex-
the Centre county institution. Each ploded and tore off three fingers and the
prisoner was given a new suit of clothes, index finger down to the first joint, and
hat, shoes and underwear, and ten dol. , the lower part of the hand almost back
larsin-cash, . , to the wrist joint. The injured member
was bound up to stop the fiow of blood
——Sunday afternoon the annual me- and he was then brought to the Belle-
morial services of the Bellefonte Lodge fonte hospital where the mangled hand
B P.O. of E. will be held in Petrikin was given proper surgical attention.
hall. The address will be delivered by While he is now getting along all right
Benjamin M. Nead Esq, of Harrisburg. he wil be a cripple for life. Three years |
There will also be appropriate music. ago while taking part in some Thanks
The public is invited. giving sports the same young man had
——On Thanksgiving day Richard Gun. his leg broken.
j abroad. When you miss an evening
sallus butchered two hogs that dressed EO
850 Ibs, and they rendered five cans of a
lard from them. With pork selling at er, Sop of Mr. and Mrs; y iam Brower, |
103 cents dressed it will be. seen that of Dix Run, was the victim of a railroad |
Richard has laid up nearly $90 00 worth accident in he neighborhiond of Greens.
of ment for thie winter. burg on Sunday night which resulted in
. his death in the Greensburg hospital on
——A little baby girl recently arrived Tuesday evening. He was brakeman on |
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edson Parks a freight train and had been on the road
Hill, at Liverpool, N. Y., and the little only about two months. Just how he
daughter has been christened Martha met his injury could not be learned out-
Arrilla Hill. Mrs. Hill's maiden name side the fact that it wasin a collision. It
was Miss Mable Otto, a daughter of Mr. was at first reported that a broken leg
and Mrs. Hamilton Otto. . was his worst injury, but it later develop-
— George Young, son of Andrew B. ©d that the leg was crushed and had to
Young, foreman in the WATCHMAN office, be amputated and his death was the re-
developed a severe case of pneumonia SYlt-
the latter part of last week and on Mon. Deceased was about twenty-one years
day was removed to the Bellefonte hos. ©!d and in addition to his parents is sur.
pital for treatment. At noon yesterday ViVed by eleven brothers and sisters, his
his condition was reported as being de- being the first death in the family. The
cidedly improved. emai were Uicaighs horse Jysinsaiy
' day night and the funera esterda
—At Garman's tonight, the Norwood su burial being made £ the a
Stock company in “Dora Thorne.” To- |ver cemetery on Dix Run.
morrow night that wonderful play, “At | te sees
the Cavalry Post.” Ladies and children! KILLED ON LUMBER JoB.—Claire C.
should attend the matinee at 2.30 o'clock | Stricker the seventeen year old son of
Saturday afternoon. Prices, 10, 20 and Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Stricker, of
30 cents. The company is well recom- Aaronsburg, met a horrible death last
KILLED ON THE RAILROAD. -Clyde Brow- |
the Manger to the Cross” was a drawing | at Beech Creek. |
card at the Scenic last night and hun-
dreds were thereto see it. But lots of other | GORDON—PACKER—Benjamin T. Gor-
good pictures are presented there eve. don and Miss Dorothy Packer, both of
ning after evening every week, so that it | Bellefonte, were quietly married on Sat-
is not necessary to wait for a special i urday of last week by justice of the peace
feature to see something interesting. Henry D. Brown, at his office in the
| position as a dressmaker.
—Miss Helen Stull, of Wyncote, is the guest of
| Mrs, Lewis Daggett. Miss Stull came to Belle-
| fonte last week with Mrs. Daggett, upon her re-
turn from Wyncote, where she had been visiting
| with her mother, Mrs. Canfield,
i
| =Lieut. William Marsh, in charge of the west-
' ern division of the state constabulary with head.
quarters at Greensburg, was in Bellefonte last
For the small sum of five cents you get Lyric theatre building. Friday night inspecting troop A., and found the
SABO—ToFF.—Steve Sabo and Miss
Ferris Toff, two young residents of the
foreign settlement up Buffalo Run, were
| united in marriage on Thursday by jus-
you ave Hable to miss something good. | tice of the peace Henry D. Brown.
——Mrs. J. F. Mattern and Miss Grace | a
Chisholm, of Altoona, spent the latter |
part of last week visiting friends in
Perrsvalley. They started on their re-
‘rip home Saturday afternoon but
the Lewisburg and Tyrone train was late | Breon, of State College.
and when it reached Bellefonte the train | Backer SaLe.—The special sale of
west had gone. The ladies were short Christmas baskets at China Hall, Belle-
of money for their night's lodging but fonte Pa. commences December 13th. All
going to the Brockerhoff house Mrs. Mat- | baskets will be sold at attractive prices.
tern called up a friend in Bellefonte who | Tis is an opportunity to purchase
loaned them money enough to assure yor Christmas presents.
them proper accommodations. In the | 58.48-2t
meantime Mr. Mattern had come down | re prem
from Altoona to Tyrone to meet his wife ~~ ——Since the first of September Thom-
and when she failed to return on the as Crosthwaite, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bald Eagle train he took the night train Frank Crosthwaite, has been employed |
and came to Bellefonte and joined his ' by the Adams Express company in Phil-
wife, returning to Altoona with both adelphia. Recently he was the victim of |
ladies on Sunday morning. a collision in which his nose was broken
— | and his face badly cut and lacerated. He
——A hearing in the United States | is just now able to get out of the Luspital
District court at Harrisburg yesterday ‘and so good attention did he receive that
was the bankruptcy case against W. H. it is not believed he will be in anyway
Macker, of Bellefonte. Mr. Macker went | disfigured. For the present heis with his
into voluntary bankruptcy in the fall of aunt, Mrs. M. R. Sample, in Philadel-
1912, and at a hearing beiore the referee phia.
t sc QP ms — i
beat ir vin mone be” yale mi two
out of | hi heatin plan
the county. At the time he was notified "cW Poilersat his steam g t
by the referee that if he failed to declare , 3° 3 t0 be equipped to keep the town
a full hour of entertainment and amuse- |
ment, pictures put out by the recognized |
standard film companies at home and |
the Reformed parsonage, Boalsburg, by
MONG-BREON.—On December 2nd, at’
members in fit shape for any emergency,
| —Mrs. Charles Kurtz was in Bellefonte Satur-
day, having come from Altoona where she had
. been attending the funeral of a relative. After
spending a part of the day with her friends here,
Mrs. Kurtz left for her home at Overbrook at
| noon.
—John G. Love Jr., was in Bellefonte with his
John, who is a student at Haverford, has been
Rev. S. C. Stover, Charles S. Mong, of 'convelescing so rapidly from his serious illness of
| Pine Grove Mills, and Miss Carrie C | the fall, that he has resumed all of his college
work.
—Miss Mabel Allison stopped in Bellefonte
Wednesday for » short visit on her way to her
home in Spring Miils. Miss Allison was return.
ing from Canada, where she had been for three
weeks with her brother, Charles Allison, at
Toronto.
~Miss Mildred Grimm was the guest of Miss
Lilly Smith, ducing her stay in Bellefonte the |
forepart of the week. Miss Grimm was return- |
M. I. GARDNER. ingto her home at Punxsutawnev for the winter, Potatoes per bushel, new......................
after having finished the season's work as a trim-
mer, in one of the leading millinery thouses at Lard
Milton.
—Miss Catharine Cooney, a nurse in the state
hospital at Hazelton, who underwent an opera- |
tion for appendicitis, early in November, has |
recovered to that event that she was able to
cometo Bellefonte :nd while recuperating her |
strength will be for the month of December at
the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin
—John Mechtley, one of the progressive and
well-to-do farmers of Benner township, was in
Bellefonte on Monday and dropped one of those |
long Williams in our till to help us tide over the
| . Mech has sincere thanks _ The are the
| Holidays. Mr. tley has our following Se
for his prompt response to the little item in last
week's paper and there are a number of others
who we would like to thank in the same way if
they only give us the opportunity.
~Calvin Smith, a student at Bucknell Univer-
mother, Mrs. John G. Love, for Thanksgiving, .
warm no difference how cold the weather ' “210 home Thanksgiving morning to eat
ganic Hans. teturnud vo bis work st Renovo,
Monday, after spending Thanksgiving his
home in Bellefonte. . .
—Mrs, W. E. Seel returned to Paxtang Thurs
day, after a short visit in Bellefonte with her
mother, Mrs. Martin Fauble.
~Miss Alice Robb went to State College Wed-
nesday, where she visited for two days with her
son, Nelson Robb and his family.
~Miss Bella Confer is at her home in Belle-
fonte, after a visit of tendays with friends at
State College and Pine Grove Mills.
~Miss Graham, the instructor in stenography
in the Bellefonte High school, was at her home
in Harrisburg for the Thanksgiving vacation.
~-Mrs. Alexander G. Morris and her daughter,
Miss Morris, went to Tyrone Thursday, and
will spend the remainder of the week with Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Cass.
—Paul Parker and Randolph Johnson, both of
Jersey Shore, were week-end guests of Mrs. Par-
ker and her daughter, Mrs. Galer Morrison, at
their home on Bishop street,
~Mrs. James Curtin, of Curtin, was in Belle-
fonte Tuesday, on her way to Johnstown, to
spend several days attending the evangelistic
: services conducted by “Billy” Sunday.
—Mrs William H. Page is at Williamsport,
where she will visit for several weeks with her
sisters. Mrs. Page left Bellefonte Wednesday
and expects to return before Christmas.
—Miss Kate Sanderson of Mill Hall, has been
in Bellefonte for several weeks, a guest at the
home of Mrs. George L. Potter. Miss Sanderson
will be Mrs. Potter's guest until after Christmas.
—After spending a month or more with her sis-
ter, Mrs. George F. Harris, and her many friends
in Bellefonte, Mrs. Burnet left Monday for Phila.
delphia to visit with her brother, William Wilson
Curtin.
=Mrs. Edward P. Irvin, who is among those to
be entertained by Mrs. Bush and Mrs, Callaway,
atthe apartments which they have taken for the
winter at Atlantic City, will leave Bellefonte
Tuesday of next week, expecting to spend
week at the shore, 8
—Mrs. A. B. Steele will go to Williamspor ,
Sunday, where she will remain for a week in
order that Dr. Haskins may continue the treat.
ment of hereyes, which have been in a serious
condition for several years. Mrs. Steele is
threatened with total blindness.
~Milton H Willard, who will sail on the 6th
of December for the Canal Zone to accept a posi-
tion with the Panama R. R. Co., is spending a
week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. I. wil.
lard. Mr. Willard goes to join his brother, who
lhas been in the employe of this company for the
past year.
~Miss Emma Montgomery. who has been at
Aspinwall with her sister, Mrs. C. J. McHugh, re-
turned to Bellefonte Saturday. Miss Montgom.
ery was accompanied by Mrs. McHugh, both
having come in owing to the illness of their
mother, Mrs. W. W. Montgomery, who is now
slowly recovering from a recent sickness.
—Miss Bess Gilmore the youngest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gilmore of Philadelphia,
came to Bellefonte Monday and will spend two
weeks with her relatives and many friends.
Miss Gilmore lived here all the earlier part of
her life, leaving with her parents when they
went to make their home in Philadelphia.
| =Dr.R.G. H. Hayes, who went to Atlantic
. City Monday. summoned there on account of the
serious illness of his uncle, Dr. Thomas R.
Hayes, returned to Bellefonte Wednesday night.
Dr. and Mrs. Hayes are at Atlantic City
for the winter, hoping the sea air may be of bene-
fit to the Doctor's health, which had improved
since his going there a month ago,
=D. R. Thomas, of Snow Shoe, was in town
on some business or other Monday and when on
. his way to the station to catch the evening train
home, just dropped in to start a little sprinkle to
| lead off the dollar shower we are hoping for
| about December 20th. Mr. Thomas is usually in
the front ranks of everying that is going on and
so far as the WATCHMAN'S business with him is
concerned it would like to have many mo
marching beside him. Re
—Joseph M. Snyder, of the class of 1012, State,
is in Bellefonte, having come from Alabama
where he has been employed by the government
in the soil survey work during the past year. Mr.
Snyder joined his sister, Miss Cathorine Snyder,
for a visit with their mother, sisters and broth-
er, Mrs. Shields, Mrs. Jackson and Mr. Hazel,
expecting to go to their home at Altoona for
Christmas. Upon returning South, Mr. Snyder's
work will be in North Carolina.
Bellefonte Produce Markets,
Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer.
The prices quoted are those paid for produce.
75
er cesessessrreen &
Butter” et pound. ya
me coe
Thursday
Com
mended wherever it has appeared.
—The Ladies Aid society of the Luth-
eran church, will hold a food sale, con-
sisting of everything in the baked line,
and also have on hand aprons, quilts and
fancy articles suitable for Christmas pres- |
ents, December 13th, in Mrs. Aikens' va- |
cant store room, Bellefonte, at which the |
y
——George A. Beezer this week re.
| Friday while at work on the Whitmer— the same at an adjourned hearing he
so. | Hundred feet, mangling his body in a
Steele lumbering operations near Morris-
dale. He fell off of a twenty-ton steam
log loader that was being operated by his
father, who was switching some log cars
at the Schoonover crossing. Before the
machine could be stopped the young
man had been dragged almost two
terrible manner. The young man is sur-
vived by his parents, three brothers and
three sisters. The remains were taken
would be adjudged in contempt of court
and would have to stand a hearing in the
U. S. District court. The hearing yester-
day was the result. N. B. Spangler Esq.,
represented the creditors and S. Kline
Woodring Esq., represented Mr. Macker.
Up to the hour of going to press last
evening no word was received of the
finding or decision of the court.
——At the party given by the Misses
ceived a car load of new 1914 Studebak- | to Aaaonsburg on Saturday where the
er automobiles. There were to have funeral was held in the United Evangel.
been three machines in the car but ow- ical church. Rev. W. J. Dice officiated
ing to one of the cars being a big six | and burial was made at Aaronsburg.
cylinder, seven passenger machine, the
- oid oid aly two. The six cylin- Samuel Shannon, the six year old son of
Rat a 1o¢ Lasty Nugent, of Clarsnes, | p,q, Shannon, died at the Cottage on
while there are several prospective buy- pital, Philipsburg, last Thursday t,
ers for the other two. as the result of shot in the leg.
—Coming out of the Methodist (7 i's iow ays presous he had ed
churchlast Wednesday evening after at. after a siege of typhoid fever. On Wed-
tending the union Thanksgiving services, nesday he and the twelve year old son of
Mrs. James Harris dropped her money | William Cartw
purse. A young gir wa seen to pick it RS1S, Out In the vir playing. Young
up who afterwards stated she had given lessly handling it oo, dis-
it to the janitor. The janitor states that charged. The contents hit the Shannon
00 purse was gives his and if the girl bey Sh the ok
who picked it up wants to avoid trouble weakened
she had better return the purse and Owing fo his rendition, how!
money at once,
Weaver at their home on Howard street,
Saturday afternoon, from three until six
o'clock, twelve guests were entertained
and five hundred was in play. The same
evening Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Morris en-
tertained a few of their friends, in cele-
bration of their forty-ninth wedding an-
niversary. Tuesday night Mrs. W. Har-
rison Walker gave a dinner at her home
on Allegheny street. Thanksgiving even-
ing Miss Elizabeth Morris gave a house
|
her girl friends at her home on Spring
street. Monday evening Mrs. Bogle was
hostess at perhaps the most beautifully
| nine function of the winter, when
\ members of the Bellefonte Chap-
ter of the D. A. R. were her guests at
-! their annual monthly meeting.
dance in honor of her friends who were |
| home from school, and the same evening
| Miss Fitzgerald entertained a number of
may get this winter; a fact his many pa-
trons will appreciate.
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs. Robert Irwin returned to Bellefonte
Wednesday, after visiting for a week with friends
at Altoona.
—Miss Hanna Newman, of Altoona, spent the
week-end in Bellefonte, a gues* o’ "Ar. and Mrs.
Louis Grauer, of Linn street.
—Miss Verna Dougherty, of Tyrone, visited at
Benore the early part of last week, and while
there was the guest of Miss Ruth Farber.
—Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Richard have re.
turned from a month's stay at Atlantic City and
Philadelphia, and will spend the Christmas in
Bellefonte.
—Mrs. Charles Pennington, of State College,
with her children, were guests last week of Mrs.
Pennington's mother, Mrs, Peter Smith, at her
home on Bishop street.
~Mrs. Harry Cox, of Franklin, and her small
son Robert are expected in Bellefonte this week,
and during their visit here will be guests of Mrs.
| Cox's parents, Mr. and Mrs, Robert Sechler.
—Mrs. Catherine Gault, of Bellefonte, and Mrs,
Susan Ruhl, of Spring Mills, have been visiting
at Howard since Saturday, The main reason for
this visit was butchering day at the home of both
Mrs. Gaults sons, James and Henry Gault,
—Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Derstine with their daugh-
ters Dorothy and Betty, went to Ambridge Wed*
nesday to spend Thanksgiving day with Mrs,
Derstine’s mother, Mrs. E. B. Poorman. Mr,
Derstine returned Friday to his work at the P. R.
R. freight station, while Mrs. Derstine remained
n Ambridge for a visit of two weeks.
his Thanksgiving dinner with his father, Regis-
dinner at the Smith home, witnessed the Belle:
fonte High school—Bucknell Freshmen football |
Mr. Brew’s sister, Mrs. Harry E. Fenlon until
left Ronceverte two weeks ago, and after spend-
| ing a short time in Washington, visited
. with William T. Brew in New York, Harry Brew
{in Philadelphia, Mrs. Fenlon and left here
for Lansford, where they will be guests of Tom
:
—After spending Thanksgiving in Huntingdon
with Mrs. McClure's parents Harvey McClure
came to Bellefonte on Friday to visit his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James I. McClure. Mrs, McClure
came to Bellefonte on Saturday and both
remained untii Sunday when they left for their
ure has been
com-
£
| home in Oil City, where Mr. McCl
made manager of the Citizen's Traction
Ciiy and Franklin and furnishes all the electric |
light and power used in the two cities. i
—Two very pleasant callers at the WATCHMAN
Martha, and David Behrers, of Halfmoon valley,
both of whom were jurors in attendance at court. |
Mr. Eberts retired from farming last spring and
| is taking life a little easier in his declining years
| while his son, O. D. Eberts is managing the farm.
Baied
ter J. Frank Smith and family, and remained un- |
til Monday morning. He was accompanied by | Straw
four classmates, who also had their Thanksgiving |
Brew until Saturday. { Gscrutisusd a Fall a d
pany, which operates a trolley line between Oil '
office on Monday afternoon were J. A. Eberts, of | ——-
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game and returned home Friday afternoon. t rn
—Ceorge T. Brew and his daughter Jane: = "ime | to
to Bellefonte Thanksgiving day, remaining with | age togxpress, its
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