Bellefonte, Pa., May 26, 1916. .
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ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.
W. C. T. U. Convention.
The thirty-first annual convention
of the W. C. T. U. of Centre county
was held at State College last Thurs-
day and Friday, with a good attend-
ance. Miss Rebecca N. Rhoads, pres-
ident of the Union, presided. Follow-
ing the preliminary opening a greet-
ing to the convention delegates was
delivered by Mrs. A. L. Wright, of
State College, the response being by
Mrs. ‘A, M. Schmidt, of Bellefonte.
Mrs. Lora S. LaMance, of Missouri,
national organizer and lecturer, ad-
dressed the convention briefly. . She
was followed by Dr.
president of the College, in an official
address of welcome, and then as a fit-
ting diversion Miss Gladys Dunkle, of
State College, sang a beautiful solo.
The roll call showed thirteen out of
seventeen Unions in the county repre-
sented at the gathering. Following
the appointment of the various com-
mittees Miss Rhoads delivered her an-
nual address. Dr. Fred Lewis Pat-
tee was introduced and made a very
encouraging talk to the ladies, which
was followed with the annual report
of the corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Anna M. Clees, of Philipsburg, which
showed an increase in membership
during the past year. The report of
the county treasurer, Miss Savilla
Rearick, of Centre Hall, showed a
comfortable balance in the treasury.
Following another brief talk by Mrs.
LaMance Mrs. Frank Gardner, of
State College, consumed a few min-
utes explaining the provisions of the
Mothers’ Pension bill.
At Thursday evening’s session the
speakers were Dean Thomas Blais-
dell, of State College; Mrs. LeMance
and Galen Wood. A feature of this
session was the singing of a band of
L. T. I’s.,, (children) and music by
the college orchestra and male quar-
tette.
At Friday morning’s session Miss
Gladys Dunkle, of State College, was
elected superintendent of the county
Y. P. B.; Mrs. Ida Harter, of Rebers-
burg, superintendent of: the. flower
mission department; Miss Freda Bai-
ley, of Centre Hall, superintendent of
press work, and Mrs. Walter Dudley,
of Blanchard, superintendent of the
medal contest work. Mrs. Clees an-
nounced that the next contest would
be for a gold medal instead of silver,
as formerly. The various superin-
tendents then submitted their annu-
al reports.
Dr. Irving L. Foster told of the re-
cent campaign work in Centre county
and Mr. Hamilton gave an illustra-
tion showing that prohibition does
prohibit. All the old officers were re-
elected with the exception of the
county treasurer, Miss Savilla Rear-
ick, of Centre Hall, who by the way
will soon be married and leave the
county, and Mrs. Melissa Kapp, of
State College, was elected in her
place. The officers elected are as fol-
lows: President, Miss Rebecca N.
Rhoads, Bellefonte; vice president,
Mrs. John P. Harris, Bellefonte; cor-
rosponding secretary, Mrs. Anna M.
Clees, of Philipsburg; recording sec-
retary, Mrs. C. V. Ridge, of Blanch-
ard, :
At Friday afternoon’s session the
silver medal contest was held which
was participated in by the following
members of the Loyal Temperance
Legion: Lois Foreman, of Belle-
fonte; Richard Hoffman, of Howard;
Evelyn McClellan, of Unionville; Hel-
en Bechdel, of Blanchard; John
Holmes, of State College; Gerald Da-
vis, of Bellefonte, and Miriam C.
Foss, of Centre Hall. Three members
of the college faculty acted as judg-
es and they awarded the silver medal
to Lois Foreman, honorable mention
to Richard Hoffman and silver mono-
gram “M. C.” pins to the other con-
testants. Lois Foreman, the winner
of the silver medal, is a daughter of
prothonotary and Mrs. D. R. Fore-
man, of this place.
The report of the committee on
resolutions was adopted as read. The
closing address to the convention was
made by Dean Arthur Holmes, fol-
lowing which there was a half hour's
“open forum,” and then the conven-
tion adjourned after one of the most
successful gatherings ever held in
the county.
——Mrs. John Kreamer has receiv-
ed word from her husband, who went
west several weeks ago on account of
his health, that he had arrived in
Denver, Col.,, and has secured em-
ployment which he can do very easi-
ly and is already better. His
Bellefonte friends will be glad to
learn that his future outlook is so
encouraging. 2 wae om +s
E. E. Sparks,
| suddenly and unexpectedly at his home
{ at Baileyvile last Saturday evening of
bed at 9.30 o’clock, was taken sick after
ten o'clock and died at 10.30.
Claude Buchanan Hess was a son of
Lewis and Sarah Slack Hess and was
born near Centre Hall on July 26th,
1839, hence at his death was 77 years, 9
months and 24 days old. His early life
of 1861 he entered the Pine Grove Mills
er at the battle of Winchester, in Vir-
ginia, and spent almost two years in Lib-
by and Andersonville prisons.
Returning from the war he again en-
tered the Pine Grove Mills Academy and
quite well known in educational circles
at that time. Later he engaged in farm-
Fairbrook M. E. church, of Centre Grange
he was a chaplain.
Mr. Hess was twice married, his first
wife being Miss Ellen Williams, to whom
| he had six children all of whom survive,
as follows: Mrs. J. A. Hines, of Altoona;
Mrs. Ira D. Slagle, of State College; Mrs.
George B. Miller, of Hollidaysburg; Lew-
is, of Calgary, Can.; Robert, of Ham-
mond, Ind, and Joseph, of Columbus,
Ohio. He also leaves one sister, Mrs. S.
D. Gordon, of Albeon, Pa. In December,
1907, he married Miss Anna Ward, who
survives with no children.
Funeral services were held at his late
home at ten o’clock on Tuesday morn-
ing by Rev. Mr. Nearhoff and burial in
Meek’s cemetery was made with the
honors of war.
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SMITH.—Mrs. Eliza Melissa Smith,wife
of Adam Smith, farmer on the Humes
farm south of Bellefonte, died quite sud-
denly of apoplexy on Saturday evening
at 9.30 o'clock. Mrs. Smith and her
maid came to Bellefonte earlier in the
evening with Mr. Smith and attended
the Scenic. When they were ready to
go home they decided to walk out as the
evening was nice. When they reached
the brick school house Mrs. Smith com-
plained of feeling badly and the two
women sat down on the steps a few mo-
ments to rest. They then continued
their way and had just reached the
Frank Clevenstine home on Burnside
street when Mrs. Smith staggered and
would have fallen had not her compan-
ion caught her. She managed to get her
onto the steps of the Clevenstine house
where she died.
Deceased was a daughter of James and
Elizabeth Weaver and was born in Jef-
ferson county almost sixty-three years
ago. She was married forty-four years
ago to Adam Smith who survives with
the following children: Harry Thompson
Smith, of DuBois; Mrs. Laura Jennie
Wike, of Endicott, N. Y.; Mrs. Rose
Annetta Armstrong, of Clearfield; Mrs.
Elizabeth Joanna Ritchie, of Philadel-
phia; Mrs. Minnie May Coulson, of Net-
tleton, Pa. She also leaves these broth-
ers and sisters; Henry Weaver, of Du-
Bois; William, of Big Run; Mrs. Mary
Loudon, of Cloe, Pa.; James and Robert,
of DuBois; Mrs. Hannah Means, of Punx-
sutawney; Jacobin the west and Mrs.
Myrtle Hawk, of Big Run.
Funeral services were held at her late
home at 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning
by Dr. E. H. Yocum, of the Methodist
church, after which burial was made in
the Union cemetery.
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CARNEY. — Mrs. Katherine Carney,
widow of the late John Carney, of east
Logan street, died at the borough home
at eight o'clock on Monday morning, of
old age. She was a daughter of Patrick
and Rosa Burke, and was born in Ireland
ninety years ago. She came to this coun-
try when a young woman and forty years
ago was married in St. John’s Catholic
church, Bellefonte, to John Carney, who
preceded her to the grave several years
ago. She had no children and so far as
known no surviving relatives. Funeral
mass was held in the Catholic church at
10 o'clock on Wednesday morning by
Rev. Father McArdle, after which burial
was made in the Catholic cemetery.
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DREESE.—George B. Dreese, a one
time student of the Bellefonte Academy
but recently attending the Susquehanna
University where he played on the re-
serve base ball team, died at his home in
Middleburg on Saturday of pneumonia,
which developed from a cold contracted
two weeks previous while playing ball in
Lock Haven. The young man was twen-
ty-three years old and was a son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Dreese, of Middleburg.
He was buried at Middleburg on Wed-
nesday.
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IRWIN—MTrs. June Myrtle Irwin, wife
of William J. Irwin, of Canan Station,
died at the Altoona hospital on Saturday
evening, after a brief illness with heart
trouble. She was a daughter of James
R. and Mary Ellenberger and was born
in Centre county forty-seven years ago.
She is survived by her husband and three
children; her mother, two brothers and
one sister. Burial was made in the Car-
son valley cemetery on Wednesday after-
noon.
neuralgia of the heart. He retired to.
was spent on the farm and in the spring
Academy. When the Civil war broke
out he gave up his studies and enlisted !
in Company I, Fifteenth Penna. regiment. |
On July 2nd, 1863, he was made a prison- |
fitted himself for teaching, a profession
be followed for twenty vears, and was
ing in Ferguson township, an occupation |
he followed until his retirement a few |
years ago. He was a member of the.
and Capt. J. O. Campbell Post, of which
HEess.—Claude B. Hess, a long time | YINGLING.—Henry M. Yingling, an old
resident of Ferguson township, died very : soldier of the Civil war, passed away at |
his home at Bald Eagle of diseases inci-
dent to his advanced age.
He was born at Bellwood on Novem-
ber 28th, 1832, hence was past eighty-
three years of age. He served twenty-
two months during the Civil war asa
member of Company H, 143rd Penna. in-
fantry, being wounded in the battle of
the Wilderness. In 1871 he located in
upper Bald Eagle valley and engaged in
farming, an occupation he followed all
his life. He is survived by the following
children: A. J. Yingling, of Osceola
Mills; M. F., of Tyrone; Mrs. John W.
Morgan, of Summerhill; Mrs. Frank
Owens, of Gold Beach, Oregon, and
Charles at home.
held in the Bald Eagle Methodist church
, at ten o'clock on Saturday morning by
Rev. D. P. Hoover, after which burial :
was made in the Bald Eagle cemetery.
LosT ON THE MOUNTAINS.—Rev. J. J.
Wolf, formerly of Milesburg but now
pastor of the Presbyterian church at
Snow Shoe, had a thrilling experience
about two weeks or more ago when he
became lost on the Allegheny mountains
and wandered around most of the day
before he got out of the woods and then
jit was to find himself seventeen miles
; from home and the shades of night al-
ready falling.
| As the story goes Rev. Wolf went out
for a walk one morning and came across
‘ W. C. Snyder, who was examining some
timber land. The reverend gentleman
| stopped for a chat with Mr. Snyder and
in course of their conversation complain-
{ ed of not getting enough exercise. In a
| joking way Mr. Snyder told him that if it
| was exercise he wanted he could take a
| stroll around their land and see that the
; wire fence and posts were all right, not
thinking for a minute that Rev. Wolf
would attempt to do it. But he started
to follow the single strand of wire
; through woods and brush and continued
ion and on, as the number of acres en-
i closed runs into the thousands.
| Noontime came and passed and by
| that time the reverend had lost his bear-
ings and did not know in what direction
| Snow Shoe was located and, in fact, was
pretty well bewildered. His judgment,
however, told him that to get off of the
mountain and into the lowlands would
surely result in finding a road, and that
would lead to somewhere. Taking the
sun as a guide he picked out a certain
direction and followed it, finally coming
to the Beech Creek railroad, but even
then he did not know in what direction
lay Snow Shoe.
In his dilemma he picked out the
wrong direction and after walking until
almost exhausted he finally came to a
station and village, which proved to be
Gordon Heights; ‘seventeen’ miles from
his starting point. He was not only tired
but almost famished, but kind friends
took him in charge, saw that he was
properly fed and refreshed, then kept
him all night and the next morning he
returned to Snow Shoe, well satisfied that
for one day at least he had had an ample
sufficiency of physical exercise.
——— A et teams.
—Don’t overlook the fact that this is
the evening for the concert by the High
school orchestra, at the High school
building at 8 o’clock. Admission 25 cents.
Go out and patronize the young people
and make them feel you are interested in
their success.
—Raymond R. Jenkins who, since
his graduation from State College has
been with the General Electric company
at Schenectady, N. Y., has been promot-
ed to the alternating current engineering
department and is getting along splendid-
ly with his work.
——The Pennsylvania railroad com-
pany has ready for distribution a forty
page folder descriptive of the seashore
and mountain resorts reached by its
lines which it is distributing free, either
through its ticket agents or by mail post-
paid. Anyone contemplating a summer
outing can secure a lot of valuable infor-
mation from the above folder and ought
to secure one without delay.
—Robert T. Garman, the well known
jeweler of Tyrone, recently presented to
the Bellefonte Academy a beautiful gold
lined silver loving cup, on which will be
engraved the names of athletes making
the largest number of points during the
year. At the big interscholastic meet
at Pittsburgh last Saturday Frank Speer,
an Academy student, won the 440 yard
dash over quite a number of contestants,
and has thus won the honor of having
his name the first to be engraved upon
the cup. Both the faculty and the stu-
dent body appreciate Mr. Garman’s
gift very much.
—If you really enjoy a big circus
come to Bellefonte next Wednesday. The
WATCHMAN is perfectly honestand candid
in stating that it is the biggest show that
has been in Bellefonte since Ringlings
was here seventeen years ago. For years
Bellefonte has been getting from twelve
to twenty-one car shows. Need we tell
you more than that the Hagenbeck and
Wallace railroad manifest calls for sixty-
five cars. This is not a paid advertise-
ment. It isa voluntary statement on the
part of the WATCHMAN for the benefit of
its readers who enjoy a good circus. This
will be one worth taking a day off to see.
—Nevin Cole, second clerk to the
County Commissioners, has been off
duty the past three weeks on account of
illness.
Funeral services were -
Second Week of Court.
The second week of the May term
of court convened on Monday morn-
‘ing and after disposing of a number
‘of motions and petitions the trial list
| was gone over and all cases not open
i for trial marked continued. The fol-
lowing cases were disposed of:
Mary E. Krape vs. Ellis L. Miller,
executor of G. Woods Miller, deceas-
ed, mortgagor with notice to E. L.
Miller and Albert Eves, occupant.
Verdict for the plaintiff for $1663.
i Frank K. Lukenbach, B. D. Gray
and H. L. Orr, executors of H. M.
Gray, assignee of Harry Keller, J.
Kennedy Johnston and J. Thomas
Mitchell trustees of the estate of W.
A. Thomas, deceased, vs. Ellis Miller,
executor of G. Woods Miller. Ver-
dict for plaintiff of $2281.33.
i Thomas J. Lee, trustee, vs. Maude
: L. Hale and Florence Shoop Faulk-
| ner, a scire facias mortgage. Ver-
! diet for the plaintiff for $6304.
| W. D. Carskadden, executor, vs.
{Harry MecAulay, administrator of
| etc, an action to revive a mortgage.
| Verdict for the plaintiff for $830.35.
! Samuel B. Weaver vs. National
i Ben Franklin Insurance company, an
‘ action to recover on a fire insurance
policy for $600. The case is from
{ Taylor township and the plaintiff had
| his barn insured in the above compa-
: ny, the policy bearing the clause that
| was the absolute and
the “assured
sole owner of the real estate and the
occupant thereof.” The evidence
| showed that there was not only a
! dispute over the title to the property
. but that the plaintiff did not occupy
i the same at the date of the burning of
i the barn. The court directed a ver-
| dict for the defendant.
Charles E. Decker vs. John TU.
Krumrine, A. H. Krumrine, W. H.
Kerstetter, and Charles A. Ker-
stetter, being an action in eject-
ment to recover about five acres of
land in State College borough. The
land had originally been owned by
the plaintiff and meeting with finan-
cial reverses he made an assignment
to John N. Krumrine and brother for
the benefit of his creditors. Later
the real estate was sold at assignee’s
sale, the sale confirmed by the court
and the entire matter supposed to be
closed. The property was improved
and is today worth at least one-half
more than it brought at the sale and
Mr. Decker’s claim was that he was
entitled to at least a part of the in-
crease. The plaintiff was represent-
ed by Clement Dale and H. M. Me-
Clure, of Lewisburg, while the de-
fendants were represented by N. B.
Spangler and ex-judge Ellis L. Orvis.
After hearing part of the testimony
Mr. Orvis asked for a non-suit and
after due argument it was granted.
John Corman vs. the Overseers of
the poor of Howard township, an ac-
tion to recover six hundred dollars for
the maintenance of Eliza Haines. Mrs.
Haines had been an inmate of the
Corman family for a number of years
and the plaintiff asked remuneration
for her support. The defendants con-
tended that they had given Mr. Cor-
man notice that they would not be li-
able for the woman’s support. The
jury returned a verdict of $410 for
the plaintiff.
The case of Nora Zerby vs. Penn
township, an action in trespass to
collect damages for injury on the
public road. Case settled by the su-
pervisors of the township agreeing to
pay nominal damages and all the
costs.
Two Fish Stories.
On Wednesday morning Matthew
Wagner landed a twenty-five inch
brown trout from Spring creek just
below the falls. Several weeks ago
he caught one equally large. All told
Wagner has caught 115 trout this
season, the majority of which exceed-
ed ten inches in length.
Yesterday morning a very good
friend of the “Watchman” called this
office and told us that young Smith
had just caught a trout down near the
Central Railroad of Pennsylvania
depot that measured twenty-nine
inches, and that he had caught it by
using a live swallow as bait. In fact
the trout was reported to have swal-
lowed the swallow, feathers and all.
Of course this is a good story but the
“good friend” who telephoned it in
forgot that the man who originally
told the story was somewhat of a
fisherman himself, with all the quali-
fications.
——The ladies in charge of the pri-
mary Sunday school cleared $55.00 at
their “Children of Fifty Years Ago”
entertainment in the chapel last Fri-
day evening. The proceeds will be de-
voted to repairing and tuning the
piano now in use in the Sunday school
room which will then be installed in
the primary department, Mrs. W. P.
iWilson being he generous donor of a
new piano for the Sunday school
room. :
——Word was received in Belle-
fonte this week that Arthur Haupt,
who has been employed at the Stand-
ard Steel works at Burnham, is quite
ill in the Lewistown hospital with
pneumonia. i
Bellefonte Academy Notes.
Melvin Bassett, of Philadelphia, a
grand-son of Rev. James P. Hughes,
and Ernest Poole, of Reading, two
students, of the Academy this year
have been very successful in passing
the recent examination for admission
into the United States Naval academy
at Annapolis.
A good game of baseball is sched-
uled for tomorrow afternoon at
Hughes field between the strong State
Freshmen nine and the Academy. The
State lads have been defeating all
comers. Game will be called at 3.15
sharp.
Frank Speer, an Academy student,
1 attended the interscholastic meet at
| Pittsburgh last Saturday and won the
quarter mile run from many contest-
ants, representing schools of Ohio,
West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
He broke the interscholastic record
and will be the first student to have
his name engraved on the handsome
silver “Point” cup presented to the
Academy by Robert F. Garman, of
Tyrone, an alumnus of the Academy.
A most interesting and instructive
prize debate will be held at the Acad-
emy next Monday afternoon at three
o'clock to which all friends of the
school are most cordially invited.
The question to be debated is a most
popular one: “Resolved, That the
United States should ‘adopt a system
of compulsory military service model-
ed after that of Switzerland.” The
affirmative will be upheld by George
Neesham, of Crafton, and William
Motter, of York, while Elliott Thomp-
son, of New Castle, and Edwin Thom-
as, of Lewistown, will defend the neg-
ative.
Two students will enter West Point
in June by the Academy certificate.
The Birth of a Nation.
Turn to the sixth page of today’s
“Watchman” and read the big adver-
tisement of “The Birth of a Na-
tion,” D. W. Griffith’s masterpiece. It
is the greatest conception of realistic
facts ever perfected and deals with
one of the most critical stages in
American history. Nothing like it in
the motion picture line was ever at-
tempted before. It required the serv-
ices of thousands of people to stage
it, at an expense of a half million dol-
lars.
The Ford theatre scene alone is
worth the price of admission, while
the whole picture teaches to the pres-
ent generation a lesson in history that
they have never dreamed of. The
picture must be seen to be appreciat-
ed and every person who can do so
ought to see it at Garman’s May 31st
and June 1st, with a matinee on the
last named day. Prices will be within
the reach of all. Read the big adver-
tisement. :
Pleasant Gap Items.
Memorial services will be held here
on Sunday, May 28th, at five o'clock
p. m., by a detail of Gregg Post No.
95, G. A. R., assisted by the Pleasant
Gap band and members of the Luth-
eran and Methodist churches. Church
members and citizens are requested
to assemble promptly at 4.30 o'clock
at Noll’s hall, and proceed from there
to the cemeteries. Prior to the Memo-
rial services a sacred concert will be
given by the band and church choirs
at 3.30 o'clock. All persons taking
part are required to assemble at three
o'clock prompt. The concert will be
in charge of J. Thomas Harrison.
Should the weather not permit the
concert will be in the hall. The com-
mittee in charge consists of W. H.
Noll Jr., William Bilger and W. A.
Hoover, and the public is invited to
attend. Bien
Local U. S. Marine Afloat.
Ploughing the seven seas on board
the superdreadnaught Pennsylvania,
the largest, most powerful and formi-
dable fighting ship afloat, is a local
U. S. Marine—John G. Baudis,
brother of Mrs. Emma Slagle, of
State College, this county.
Young Baudis enlisted in the Unit-
ed States Marine Corps at its Pitts-
burgh recruiting station on December
16th, 1915. Marines wear a distinct-
ively military uniform, and they per-
form a soldier’s duties while roving
the seas aboard ship. They are al-
ways first landed when trouble
threatens, and they bear the brunt of
the initial fighting. Usually these
“soldiers of the sea” are able to cope
with any situation that may arise
abroad without having to call in the
army to assist.
——Mrs. Maurice Yeager has rent-
ed the hotel at Pleasant Gap and will
take charge some time between the
first and fifth of June. In addition to
running it as a hotel proper she will
have on sale at all times ice cream
and will give special attention to
serving light lunches, such as sand-
wiches and coffee, and to the enter-
tainment of automobile parties, Mrs.
Yeager has had considerable exper-
ience along this line and will doubt-
less be a success in her new venture.
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Boy RUN OVER BY AUTOMOBILE. —
Claire Tressler, the ten year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tressler, of Shiloh,
was knocked down and run over bya
Ford car driven by N. S. Westbrook, of
Altoona, on the street near Beezer’s meat
market between four and five o’clock on
Saturday afternoon, sustaining a broken
left arm, an injured spine and some bad
bruises, but fortunately no critical in-
juries.
Mrs. Tressler and children had driven
into town in a two horse spring wagon
and when ready to go home happened
across Samuel Fravel, of Axe Mann, and
invited him to go along out. Mr. Fravel
willingly consented and volunteered to
drive. Leaving the Diamond they start-
ed down High street but stopped oppo-
site Beezer’s meat market, as the Tress-
ler’s wanted to get some meat. The boy
jumped off the rear of the wagon and
had only taken a step or two when Mr.
Westbrook in his Ford car ran between
the Tressler wagon and the curb, knock-
ing the boy down and running over him.
Westbrook protested that he was not
running fast, and witnesses of the acci-
dent corroborated his statement and aver
that he was entirely blameless.
Westbrook was placed under arrest by
constable Howard Smead and held pend-
ing the boy’s injuries. He was not lock-
ed up, however, his car being held as col-
lateral. On Monday the case was settled
by Westbrook paying a portion of the
physitian’s charges, the hospital bill, buy-
ing the boy a new suit and paying the
justices’ costs, etc., the total cost to him
being about forty dollars.
Dip THEY ELOPE?—Paul Waite, the
eighteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Waite, and Miss Anna Heisey,
the sixteen year old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Heisey, both of Pleasant
Gap, have been missing since Sunday and
so far no trace of their whereabouts has
been secured. Naturally the parents of
both are inclined to the opinion that they
eloped. Young Waite, who has been op-
erating a steam shovel at the peniten-
J tiary, had been paying attention to Miss
Heisey, but her father some time ago ob-
jected and forbade him coming to the
house. Since then, it is alleged, the two
had been meeting clandestinely.
On Sunday they were both seen com-
ing toward Bellefonte and when Miss
Heisey’s father learned the fact he tele-
phoned the police here to take them into
custody. But the police ,couldn’t find
them and they evidently managed to get
away without falling into the clutches of
the law.
MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES. — Memorial
day will be observed by members of
Lieut. George L. Jackson Camp No. 70,
Spanish-American war veterans, by the
Camp turning out on Sunday, May 28th,
at 10 a. m., and together with Gregg Post
march to the U. B. church to hear the
Memorial sermon by Rev. MacLeod. In
the afternoon the members are asked to
accompany the old soldiers to Meyers’,
Shiloh and Pleasant Gap cemeteries. On
May 30th the members will report at the
Post rooms at one p. m., and march to
the Diamond where at 1.30 p. m. the
parade will form and proceed to the
Union cemetery where services will be
held at the grave of the late Lieut. George
L. Jackson. By order:of
S. D. GETTIG, Commander.
A. J. NEALIS, Adjutant.
FARMERS’ INSTITUTES. — The county
board of farmers’ institute managers
will meet at the County Commissioners’
office on the second Tuesday of June, to
arrange for the place where institutes
are to be held this season. All of our
people who desire institutes, ought to at-
tend this meeting and present their
claims. This board is composed of the
local member of the State Board of Ag-
riculture, and one representative from
each county agricultural society, the Po-
mona Grange, County Alliance and other
kindred organizations. If you find that
you cannot attend this meeting, address
a letter with your request to the chair-
man of the board of institute managers,
care of County Commissioners.
JoHN A. WOODWARD.
CRRA hei
——Last Saturday counsel for B. Paul
Swartz, who was last week sentenced by
Judge Quigley to not less than ten nor
more than fifteen years in the peniten-
tiary for sending threatening letters and
attempted extortion, took out a certiorari
to the Superior court, the rule returna-
ble the first Monday in June. While the
rule is returnable at that early date the
case will not be heard in the higher
court before the first week in October,
and in the meantime Mr. Swartz will
have to remain a prisoner in the Centre
county jail, unless he is able to give suf-
ficient bail to secure his release.
CUL VER—SCANLON. — A quiet wedding
was celebrated at the parsonage of St.
John’s Catholic church on Wednesday
afternoon when Ernest Culver, of Snow
Shoe, was married to Miss Agnes Scanlon,
of Axe Mann. Rev. Father McArdle per-
formed the ceremony and the couple
were attended by Miss Mary Gross and
John McDonough. The bride is a daugh-
ter of the late Patrick and Bridget Scan-
lon and is well and favorably known in
Bellefonte. Mr. Culver holds a responsi-
ble position with a coal company in Snow
Shoe and it is there they will make their
home.
SWARTZ—SHUEY.— Roy E. Swartz, of
Pleasant Gap, and Miss Minnie M. Shuey,
of Benner township, were married on
Saturday of last week, at the Lutheran
parsonage, by the pastor, Rev. W. M. B.
Glanding.