i * ; ¥ | Bemarraic, Wiatdne Bellefonte, Pa., September 28, 1917. — P. GRAY MEEK, - - Editor. | Terms of Subscription.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to sub- scribers at the following rates: Paid strictly in advance - - $1.50 Paid before expiration of year - 175 Paid after expiration of year - 2.00 Som—— LIBERTY BOND CAMPAIGN. Centre County Organized for a Big Drive Next Week. In compliance with the call sent out last week by Charles M. McCurdy, president of the First National bank, representatives from practically all the banks in Centre county met at the Country club last Saturday evening and perfected an organization to make a big drive on the sale of the second issue of Liberty Bonds which will be- gin on October 1st and end on the 27th. The organization as perfected includes the following officers: Chairman—Charles M. McCurdy, president of the First National bank, Bellefonte. : Vice Chairman—John E. Fryberger, First National bank, Philipsburg. Secretary—George R. Meek, Centre County bank, Bellefonte. Treasurer—D. F. Kapp, First Na- tional bank, State College. It was planned at the meeting to have the ministers throughout the county preach a special Safety Bond sermon on a day and date to be an- nounced later, and October 24th will be celebrated as Liberty Day. Public meetings will be held throughout the county and every effort made to make this sale of Liberty Bonds the people’s buy. As a means of thoroughly or- ganizing the county a committee was appointed which included the follow- ing representative citizens: Burnside—LeRoy Lewis, Pine Glen. Curtin—Ellis Harvey, Orviston. Liberty—W. H. Austin, Blanchard. Marion—J."W. Orr, Nittany, R. F. D. Walker—Lawrence McMullen, Mingoville. Miles—C. L. Gramley, Rebersburg. Haines—1.. J. Bartlet, Aaronsburg. Gregg—M. T. Zubler, Spring Mills, R. P. Campbell, Centre Hall, R. F. D, Potter—Cyrus Brungard and C. R. Neff, Centre Hall. Harris—Dr. L. E. Kidder, Boalsburg. Ferguson—Dr. G. H. Woods, Pine Grove Mills, and Mr. Peterson, Pennsylvania Fur- nace. College—John Mitchell, Lemont. Halfmoon—Ira Burket, Stormstown. Patton—Linn Mattern, Benore. Benner—Thomas M. Tressler. Worth—H. C. Woodring, Port Matilda. Huston—W. M. Cronister, Martha, Union—Geo. W. Rumberger, Unionville. Boggs—Ira Confer, Yarnell, and James H. Weaver, Milesburg. Rush—Postmaster Heath, Sandy Ridge. Howard—W. C. Thompson, Howard. Spring—W. H. Noll Jr., Pleasant Gap. ro and Hauling Coal to Bellefonte by Auto Truck. While W. J. Emerick, the well known auto bus proprietor of Belle- fonte, is not exactly engaged in “haul- ing coals to New Castle,” he is doing his best to relieve the coal shortage in this place by hauling coal here from the Snow Shoe region by auto truck. Mr. Emerick has equipped a White chassis with a truck body, capacity four tons, and makes two round trips daily between Moshannon and Belle- fonte. The coal he delivers is the can- nel coal from the Patrick Ward place near Moshannon. The coal is deliver- ed in Bellefonte for six dollars a ton and Mr. Emerick is supplying the court house and a number of private individuals. In fact, it is stated that he has almost enough standing orders to keep him busy until the first of the year. Mr. Emerick was the pioneer in mo- tor bus transit in this section and he has now introduced a means of getting coal from the mine to the consumer, when it cannot be gotten here fast enough by railroad on account of shortage of cars, and other motor busses in Bellefonte may yet be util- ized in the same way. One thing is certain, with so many individual heat- ing plants in operation this winters in addition to the town plant, a larger coal supply for the town will be nec- essary and it is only the part of wis- dom to figure out in time how to get it, and the motor bus will no doubt prove a good way. Physicians Increase Charges for Pro- fessional Services. At a regular meeting of the Centre County Medical society, held in the court house in Bellefonte, Wednesday, September 19th, 1917, the following i were unanimously adopt- ed: Whereas: That the constantly in- creasing cost of all medicines and sur- gical supplies, together with that of all other needs pertaining to both his family and personal requirements, make it necessary for him to increase oll Jus professional charges; therefore ei Resolved: That on and after the first day of October, 1917, an advance of fifty per cent. (50 per cent.) will be made, as based on previous charges, for all professional services rendered; and be it further Resolved: That the” public is re- spectfully requested to refrain from calling physicians for immediate re- sponse during their office hours, ex- cept for cases of emergency when they will be responded to as speedily as possible. Pressure from the strong fol- lowing of New York voice students, at his Scranton studio, has obliged Dr. Lee B. Woodcock to divide his time between these two cities, in conse- quence of which, he has opened a stu- dio in Carnegie Hall, New York, where he spends two days of the week. RHONE.—At just 9:30 o’clock on Tuesday night Hon. Leonard Rhone passed away at his home, “Rhoney- meade,” in Centre Hall. He had been | ailing ever since last winter when he fell on the ice and injured himself, but at that his death was rather unex- pected. Two weeks ago he was pres- ent at the Grange encampment at Grange Park, but was compelled to spend most of the time lying down in the headquarters tent. His death was the result of a general wearing out of his once strong and sturdy system. Mr. Rhone was of German extrac- tion, his great grandfather, John Rhone, coming to.this country from Hamburg, Germany. The founder of the Centre county branch of the fam- ily was Michael Rhone, who came here from Berks county and located in Haines township. One of his sons was Jacob Rhone, father of Leonard Rhone. The latter was born on the old homestead in Potter township on July 21st, 1838, hence at his death was 79 years, 2 months and 4 days old. He was educated at the old Fairfield pub- lic school near the home farm, with one year at the Kishacoquillas Semi- nary. During the winter of 1858-59 he taught the Tusseyville school but being reared as a farmer boy he turned his attention to agriculture and took charge of the home farm. When the Patrons of Husbandry were first organized he at once became interested in the association as a means of bettering the condition of farmers generally and he was one of the original members in Centre coun- ty. As early as 1874 he was appoint- ed the first deputy of the county by the Master of the State Grange. In 1875 he was elected Master of the Po- mona Grange of Centre county and re- elected five times. In 1877 he was elected Master of the Centre Hall Grange, filling the position one year then being elected overseer of the State Grange. Two years later, or in 1880, he was elected Master of the State Grange, a position he held for the long term of eighteen years. He also was an active worker in the Na- tional Grange and was chairman of the executive committee a number of years. In 1880 he was elected a trus- tee of The Pennsylvania State College and was nominated on the Greenback ticket as a candidate for the Legisla- ture but declined to run. He was nominated two years later on the same ticket and again declined. In 1885 he was nominated by the Democrats of Centre county and was elected, being | re-elected in 1887. During his two terms in the Legislature he was al- ways a staunch advocate of all kinds of legislation that would be of benefit to the farmers and farming communi- ties generally. He was one of the ad- vocates of the big Granger’s picnic at Williams Grove and was instrumental in starting the annual picnic in Centre county which in course of time became the Grange encampment and fair which is now held yearly on their own grounds, Grange Park, at Centre Hall. When he retired in 1889 as the active head of the State Grange he devoted his energies to the work at home. The old homestead on which Mr. Rhone passed most of his life is com- posed of 215 acres of some of the most fertile land in Potter township and, notwithstanding his activities in pub- lic life, Mr. Rhone gave it personal su- pervision. He also took a deep inter- est in the home affairs of the commu- nity in which he lived both from an economical and social standpoint. He was a life-long member of the Luth- eran church at Tusseyville and a mem- ber of the Centre Hall Lodge of Ma- sons. In 1864 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Margaret Sankey, a daughter of James Sankey Esq., of Potters Mills, and she died about five or six years ago. He is survived, how- ever, by two daughters, Miss Mae V. Rhone, chief clerk in the Department of Zoology at Harrisburg, and Miss Florence S., at home. He also leaves three sisters, namely: Mrs. John Hess, of Medina, Ohio; Mrs. Lewis F. Mason, of Grinnell, Towa, and Mrs. John W. Hixon, of Newton, Iowa. The funeral will be held at 9:30 o’clock tomorrow (Saturday) morn- ing. Rev. Kurtz will officiate at the house and burial in the Centre Hall cemetery will be in charge of the Grange and Masonic fraternity. HENRY. Mrs. Jennie rvompion Henry, widow of James Beatty Henry, of Milroy, died at two o’clock yester- day morning at the home of her brother, Budd Thompson, at Martha Furnace. She had been ill for more than three years and had been confin- ed to her bed for about a year. A stroke of paralysis a week ago hast- ened her death. Deceased was the eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson and was born at Martha Furnace. During her married life the family lived at Mil- roy but since the death of her hus- band about twenty years ago she has made her home with her brother. She had two children, a daughter who died a number of years ago, and one son, Thompson Henry, a mining engineer located at Shenandoah. She also leaves one sister, Mrs. James A. Thompson, of Port Matilda, and one brother, Budd Thompson, of Martha. Funeral services will be held at the Thompson home at Martha at four o’clock on Sunday afternoon and on Monday morning the remains will be taken to Reedsville for burial beside those of her husband. HOY. Mr. and Mrs. Haney I. Hoy, of Marion township, are mourning the death of their infant son, Floyd Lee, aged 3 months and 18 days, who died last Thursday morning of cholera in- fantum. This is the second child they have lost within six weeks. Burial was made at Jacksonville on Sunday afternoon, GLANDING.—The people of Belle- fonte sustained another shock on Sun- day morning when the tidings were ! heralded broadcast that Rev. W. M. B. | Glanding had been found dead in bed at the Lutheran parsonage on east Linn street. During the past year or more Rev. Glanding had enjoyed splendid health and on Saturday morning Mrs. Glanding and their daughter Margaret left for a visit with Mrs. Glanding's sister, at New- port, Pa., intending later to go to At- lantic City for a brief sojourn. Dur- ing their absence Rev. Glanding in- tended staying alone at the parson- age. He was around town on Satur- day and was seen by friends on Sat- urday evening. Sunday morning he failed to make his customary appear- ance at Sunday school and as he al- ways took a great interest in this branch of church work one of the members of the church went to the parsonage and rang the door bell but got no response. The hour for church services arrived and still Rev. Gland- ing had not put in an appearance. By that time considerable alarm had spread among the members of the congregation and G. F. Hartranft, Charles Shaffer and another member went to investigate. No response be- ing made to their ringing of the door- bell they went around to the rear of the parsonage, removed the window sticks from a window, hoisted it and entered. Everything was in order downstairs and Mr. Hartranft ascend- ed the stairs to the pastor’s bedroom. He found Rev. Glanding dead in bed. He was lying on his back and the fact that he had a house coat on over his sleeping robe indicated that he had been up some time during the night, probably toward morning, as the body was not entirely cold. The bed covers were drawn up to his chin and were not disarranged in any way, showing that his death was sudden and with- out pain. Two physicians were sum- moned who agreed that death had tak- en place several hours previous to the finding of the body. Mrs. Glanding and daughter were notified by tele- phone and came from Newport by au- tomobile, arriving here about 4:30 o’clock. Rev. Dr. William Marquard Beetem Glanding was a son of John Nelson and Caroline Beetem Glanding and was born in Altoona on May 27th, 1856, hence at his death was 61 years, 3 months and 27 days old. His early education was received in the public schools and the High school of Altoo- na, after which he took a course at Dickinson College, Carlisle, graduat- ing in 1878 as the valedictorian of his class. He then took a course in the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. He was ordained to the Lutheran ministry in the early eighties and at once went to Atchison, Kan., where he took up the work on his first charge, and during his stay there helped to found Midland college. After a few years he returned to Pennsylvania and accepted a charge at Newport, Pa. His subsequent charges were Lock Haven, York, Syr- acuse, N. Y., and Bellefonte, coming here about four years ago. Dr. Gland- ing was an earnest student of bible literature, ancient and modern histo- ry, hence was a forceful and convine- ing speaker. He was a hard worker in his chosen profession and a man who at all times practiced what he preach- ed. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Theta Pi fraternities and the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by his Alma Mater. Surviving him are his wife and one daughter, Margaret Glanding. The funeral services in the Luther- an church at four o’clock on Monday afternoon were in charge of the Belle- fonte Ministerium. Eulogies were paid their departed brother by Dr. E. H. Yocum, Dr. A. M. Schmidt and Rev. E.P. Dunn, of Bellefonte; Rev.C. N. Shindler, of Lock Haven, and Rev. L. N. Fleck, of Pine Grove Mills. On Tuesday morning the remains were taken to Newport and on Wednesday afternoon they were laid to rest in the Newport cemetery. D. A. Bartlet accompanied the body to Newport, while Mrs. Glanding, her daughter, Miss Margaret Glanding, and her sister, Mrs. Baird, from whose home the funeral was held, drove over with Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Craw- ford. Accompanying them was Thom- as Hazel’s car, in which was Mr. Ha- zel’s son, Hammond, John Garthoff, H. P. Schaeffer, G. F. Hartranft, Milton Kerns and Arthur Dale. Il Il THOMAS.—Myrs. Catharine J. Thomas, wife of Samuel Thomas, died at her home on Halfmoon hill at ten o’clock last Thursday evening fol- lowing a prolonged illness with rheu- matism. She was a daughter of George and Mary Pratt and was born at Axe mann on March 8th, 1859, hence at her death was 58 years, 6 months and 12 days old. She was married to Mr. Thomas on October 21st, 1880, and all her life has been spent in this vicinity. She was a life- long member of the United Brethren church, and a woman who gave her undivided attention to her family and her home. In addition to her husband she is survived by three children, as follows: Frank, of Hollidaysburg; George, of Coleville, and Mrs. Carrie Neff, of Bellefonte. She also leaves five sisters, namely: Mrs. James Mackey, of Jacksonville; Mrs. Carrie Showers, of Bellefonte; Mrs. Bella Jackson, State College; Miss Joseph- ine Pratt, of Jacksonville, and Mrs. Lena Miller, Buffalo, N. Y. Funeral services were held in the United Brethren church at 2:30 o’clock on Monday afternoon by Rev. T. Hugh MacLeod, after which burial was made in the Union cemetery. ——For high class Job Work come to the “Watchman” Office. Kylertown Resident Commits Suicide. ! Dr. O. Perry Reese, one of the old- ! est and best known residents of Ky- | lertown, Clearfield county, committed ! suicide about six o'clock on Sunday : morning by shooting himself in the | head and falling dead in the doorway of the small store he has conducted in ! the village for a number of years past. | Dr. Reese had been a sufferer with | asthma the past few years and was especially bad the last week or ten days and it is believed that other bod- | ily ills had impaired his mind to that extent that he did not realize what he was doing. Deceased was a son of Christian and Elizabeth Evans Reese and was born at the old Reese homestead on the mountain in Patton township, this county, eighty-two years ago. His parents were descendants of revolu- tionary heroes and were pioneer set- tlers in their mountain home, which has been in the family well over one hundred years. When a young man 0. Perry Reese took a course in medi- cine at Ann Arbor, Mich.,, and for many years was a successful practi- tioner. He finally retired from the practice of his profession to accept the position of postmaster of Kylertown and later opened a little store which he conducted until his death. His wife, who before her marriage was Miss Martha Hunter, died twenty- six years ago, but surviving him are the following children: H. A. Reese and Mrs. Cyrus Shope, of Kylertown; Alfred, in West Virginia; Mrs. Mary Abbott, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Joseph- ine Nesting, of St. Louis, Mo.; Leon- ard and Miss Jennie, at home. He al- so leaves two brothers and two sisters, namely: A. W. Reese, of Port Matil- da; Joseph, of Marysville, Mo., and Mrs. A. H. Hoover and Mrs. Catharine Burkett, on the old homestead. Funeral services were held in the Kylertown Methodist church on Tues- day afternoon after which burial was made in the Presbyterian cemetery. Il BEIGHTOL.—Mrs. Nellie Richards Beightol, widow of Emanuel Beightol, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Howard, in Tyrone, shortly after eleven o'clock on Saturday night. Mrs. Beightol had been in her usual health on Saturday evening and was among the large crowd at the Tyrone depot watching the departure of the nation- al army men for their training can- tonment at Camp Lee. On the way home she collapsed and gradually sank until her death. Deceased was a daughter of Jesse and Marjorie Richards and was born at Julian, this county, fifty-eight years ago. Her girlhood life was spent there and when a young woman she was united in marriage at Sandy Ridge to Emanuel Beightol. Most of their married life was spent there but about twelve years ago the family moved to Tyrone. Mrs. Beightol was a member of the United Brethren church and always lived a consistent, christian life. Her husband died a few years ago but surviving her are two daughters and a son, namely: Mrs. John How- ard, of Tyrone; Mrs. Fred Dixon, of Woodland, Clearfield county, and Ed- ward, a private in the Third regiment now in training at Fort Hancock, Au- gusta, Ga. She also leaves two broth- ers and one sister, Milliken Richards, of Julian; John, of Bellefonte, and Sarah, of Patton. Funeral services were held at the Howard home in Ty- rone at eight o’clock on Tuesday even- ing and on Wednesday morning the remains were taken to Julian where final services were held in the United Brethren church, after which burial was made in the church Srsien | KELLEY.—James Kelley, an aged and well known resident of Axe Mann, died on Sunday morning of diseases incident to his advanced age. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kelley and was born in Ireland ninety years ago. He came to this country with his par- ents when twelve years of age and his first location in Centre county was at Howard. Later he moved to Axe Mann and had lived there for forty years, for a number of years being an ore in- spector. Deceased was twice married His first wife was Biddy King and by this marriage the following children survive: J. P. Kelley, of Punxsutaw- ney; Mrs. Joseph Brudding, of Phila- delphia, and William Kelley, of Clear- field. His second wife was Miss Mary Toner who survives with three chil- dren, Mrs. James McNichols, of Belle- fonte; Harry and Maggie, at home. Funeral services were held in St. John’s Catholic church on Wednesday morning by Rev. Father Downes, after which burial was made in the Catholic cemetery. Il 1l MINGLE.—James B. Mingle, who came to Bellefonte last week to visit his brother-in-law, Donald Snyder, on east Lamb street, was taken violently sick on Thursday afternoon and died at the Bellefonte hospital on Tuesday afternoon. Heart disease and stom- ach trouble was given as the cause. Deceased was a son of James and Mary Mingle and was born at Bir- mingham, being 24 years, 1 month and 27 days old. For some time past he had been employed by the Pennsylva- nia railroad company as ticket agent at Birmingham. He was married to Miss Helen Heaton, of Milesburg, who survives with two sisters and a broth- er, namely: Mrs. C. E. Snyder and Robert Mingle, of State College, and Miss Alice Mingle, of Bentleyville. Funeral services will be held at the Snyder home at State College this (Friday) morning at 10 o’clock and burial will be made in the Pine Hall cemetery. ——The throne of the late Russian Dynasty has been placed in the Na- tional Museum at Helsingfors. Items of News from Troop L. While the “Watchman” has not yet secured a correspondent to keep the home people informed of Troop L and their life at Camp Hancock the editor has personal information that all the boys are well and contented. Contra- ry to rumors that have been circulat- ed around Bellefonte that they were short on rations, there is plenty of food and all of a good quality. Re- | garding the water, it has been tested as absolutely pure, but of course it is not the cool, limpid water that the boys have been used to drinking out of the Bellefonte spring. But the camp is liberally supplied with ice and thus the water is kept in good shape for drinking purposes. Quartermaster Sergeant J. Homer Decker was discharged on Monday and left for home that afternoon, and will probably be in Centre county by the time the “Watchman” reaches its readers. The “Watchman” this week was handed a note from private Ellis O. Keller in which he says: “If the peo- ple back home could see the disap- pointed faces of the boys at mail time when they get no mail they would write immediately. I have been es- pecially fortunate in receiving three letters so far. Lots of the boys haven’t even heard once from home.” Another letter from one of the boys says that mail time is the signal for one grand rush and everybody is look- ing for word for home. So if any one has a son, a brother or even a friend down there, and reads these lines, don’t hesitate but write your soldier boy. It will not only keep him from getting lonely and homesick but will make him a better man, a better sol- dier and a truer American to know that the people back home have his welfare at heart. ————e Reorganization of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Army orders were issued on Sun- day for the reorganization of the Pennsylvania National Guard now in training at Fort Hancock, Augusta, Ga., along lines similar to the compo- sition of the European armies. In do- ing this four old National Guard units. lose their identity, the eight regiments being consolidated into four regiments to be known as the 109th, 110th, 111th and 112th infantry, the two former to compose the 55th brigade and the two latter the 56th. The different machine gun troops have also been merged into two batal- lions to be known as the 107th and 108th, the latter to be connected with the 55th brigade. Centre countians are especially interested in the latter because the batallion will be made up of the Boal mounted machine gun troop, 96 men; 96 men from Company E, of the old Sixth infantry; 97 men from Company F, of the Sixth; 96 men from Company G; 96 men from Company H; 74 men from the ma- chine gun company of the Eighth reg- iment and 10 men from the sanitary detachment of the Fourth infantry, making a total of 565 men. The offi- cers to command the batallion were transferred from the Boal troop, as follows: Capt., Wilbur F. Leitzell; first lieutenant, Joseph C. Butter- worth; second lieatenants, John F. Harvey and Philip C. Shoemaker. The First cavalry regiment of which Troop L is a part, will remain intact, and inasmuch as five thousand horses have been consigned to Camp Hancock it is probable that the troop will be given mounts, though at pres- ent they are training on foot. Col. Spangler Appointed On Concilia- tion Board. On Thursday of last week President Wilson announced the creation of another special commission to be known as the conciliation board whose duties it will be to visit localities in which there is unrest in the labor situ- ation and develop, if possible, a better understanding between employers and employees, appointing as one member of the committee Col. J. L. Spangler, of Bellefonte. - The commission is headed by Sec- reary of Labor William L. Wilson and the other members are Col. Spangler, Verner Z. Reed, of Colorado; John H. Walker, of Illinois, and E. P. Marsh, of Washington. Felix Frankfurter, of New York, was appointed secretary of the commission. When the fact is taken into consid- eration that the new commission rep- resents the entire United States it is quite an honor to Col. Spangler and a compliment to Bellefonte that he was selected. Col. Spangler left at noon on Wednesday for Washington where he met the other members of the com- mission and they will proceed at once to the Pacific coast to investigate la- bor troubles at Kingston, Arizona; and in California and Oregon. How long Col. Spangler will be absent will de- pend entirely upon the gravity of the situation in the different places the commission will visit, but at the least he expects to be away from six weeks to two months. Work of Centre County Exemption Board. Now that the time has passed for the filing of any claims of exemption or discharge from the selective draft, the following statement will fairly represent the work of the local board to date: Selected Men: No exemption claims.......:....... 112 Exemptions refused................ 24—136 Exempted: In military service... ....... ce. ini 23 Ministers and divinity students.... 5— 28 Discharged: Bor dependents. ..........uaeiiny 141 For physical reasons.............. 108—249 Failed fo appear...... .s...... 29 Total drawn. ..........iveio,. 435 In many cases those who failed to appear did not receive their notices ! through failure of the postal author- ities to locate them. The board has no knowledge yet of any of the select- ed men who is actually a slacker. The War Library Fund. The American Library Association has undertaken to supply libraries to our soldiers. This country is asked to raise $1,000,000. In Bellefonte the ef- fort is being made to raise its share of this fund through organized as well as by individual contributions. A number of organizations cannot reported before: the end of the week, but the Woman’s Club, which held its meeting on Monday evening, contrib- uted $25.00. A request has been sent out to the Woman’s Suffrage organization through the county and to the mem- bers in Bellefonte, which has resulted so far in a response of $25.00. At the Grange picnic, $14.25 was raised. The St. John’s Guild of the Episcopal church has contributed $10.00. It is hoped the other organizations will do their share and report as ear- ly as possible. Mrs. ROBERT MILLS BEACH, Chairman. Auto Speeders Discharged by Justice of the Peace. Borough officials of Howard recent- ly decided to go after automobilists who persisted in running through that town at a speed exceeding fifteen miles an hour and accordingly set a trap and employed two plain clothes men to get the victims. How well they did the work assigned them was shown in the fact that last week just seventy-four owners of automobiles: throughout the country, and some of whom live in Bellefonte, received no- tice that they were indebted to the borough of Howard to the extent of $12.50, being the legal fine and. costs for breaking the speed limit while passing through that borough, and they were notified to please remit the same at once to ’Squire A. A. Pletch- er But the victims didn’t remit. They banded together and declared they would contest the case and engaged attorney S. D. Gettig, of this place, to do the contesting. Mr. Gettig made a trip to Howard to look over the ground and his astute vision promptly espied the fact that the caution signs put up by the borough were not as re- quired by law, hence had no legal stat- us. The law requires a sign with five inch letters whereas the signs at How- ard have only four inch letters, and as soon as attorney Gettig discovered that fact he quit investigating and prepared for the contest. The hearing before Squire Pletcher was set for two o’clock Monday after- noon and when the hour arrived the ’Squire’s office would not have been: big enough to hold the crowd of au- tomobilists and others who gathered for the contest. But there was no con- test and very little fun for the crowd. ‘Squire Pletcher merely appeared on the front porch and announced that acting upon the advice of the bor- ough’s attorney, N. B. Spangler, inas- much as the letters on the sign were not of the size prescribed by law, all the cases were nolle prossed. No an- nouncement was made as to the dis- position of the costs. coo A Double Wedding. Walter B. Rankin, son of Mr. W. B. Rankin, of this place, and Miss Irene Rohrer, a teacher in the public schools. of Harrisburg, were united in mar- riage at four o’clock on Wednesday afternoon in Stephens Memorial Methodist church in Harrisburg by the pastor, Rev. Clayton Albert Smucker. At the same time the bride’s sister, Miss Helen Rohrer, was united in marriage to Charles Storey, of Har- risburg, one couple standing for the other. Both weddings were quiet, only immediate friends being present. Mr. and Mrs. Rankin will live in Harris- burg. Butz—Joyner.—Lieut. Gerald Butz, eldest son of Mrs. George C. Butz, of State College, and Miss Elizabeth Joy- ner, of “Darlington,” Cambridge, Mass., were married on Wednesday evening of this week. The bride- groom is a first lieutenant in the Unit- ed States regular army and is now stationed at Fortress Monroe, Va. ——On the fifth page of today’s “Watchman” will be found an adver- tisement of the Beatty Motor compa- ny, which has established its head- quarters in the rear of Crider’s Ex- change. This company will handle the Ford cars only and a full line of Ford repairs and will represent practically all of Centre county. The men con- nected with the company are all car experts, having gotten their training in the Ford factory, and their work will be guaranteed as of the highest quality. If you are a Ford owner and need repairs give them a trial. If you are a prospective buyer, give them a call before purchasing. ——The Centre county exemption board has been notified to have five per cent. of the county’s quota of na- tional army men ready to send to Camp Meade on or about Oc- tober 3rd, and seven of the young men who were sent back home last week have been summoned to come to Belle- fonte next Tuesday and be ready to go to camp when ordered. Only six men will be sent but seven have been noti- fied to appear here to be sure of hav- ing the quota. ! ——On Wednesday Harry F. Cha- ney, a life-long resident of Port Ma- tilda, sold his home in that place, con- sisting of a good house and six acres of land, to O. D. Eberts, of Martha, the price being $4,000. Mr. and Mrs. Chaney will sell their household goods at public sale tomorrow and then go to Detroit, Mich., where their three sons are now located. wd -n
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