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FOOD CONSERVATION TRAIN.
Will Visit Bellefonte Wednesday,
Nov. 14th, and Should be Visited
by the Public Generally.
The food conservation train which
is being operated under the auspices
of the department of food supply
(Committee of Public Safety, Penn-
sylvania), The Pennsylvania State
College, the U. S. food administration
and the Pennsylvania railroad will be
in Bellefonte, on the siding near the
passenger station, on Wednesday of
next week, November 14th. The train
will be open to the inspection of the
public from 10 to 12 a. m,, and 1:30
to 5 p. m., and the Woman's club of
Bellefonte has assigned the following
women to act as a reception commit-
tee and assist those in charge of the
train in explaining its mission to the
people:
From 10 to 12 o'clock, Mrs. J.
Thomas Mitchell, Miss Emma J. Ai-
ken and Miss Adaline Olewine.
From 1:30 to 3:30 o'clock, Mrs. R.
S. Brouse, Mrs. J. C. Harper and Mrs.
Charles Keichline.
From 3:30 to 5 o’clock, Miss Mary
Gray Meek, Mrs. George Hazel and
Mrs. Harvey Shaffer.
The train is made up of three cars
and its purpose is to impress upon
the minds of the public the necessity
of conserving the food supply and
also give demonstrations of just how
this can best be done. Recipes will
also be given away free. To give the
public an idea of just how the train
is made up we publish the following:
Brief Meeting of Borough Council.
For the first time in months every
member of borough council was pres-
ent at the regular meeting on Monday
evening and the atmosphere seemed
charged with a gravity of apprehen-
sion that sort of presaged a very im-
portant session, and naturally the
“Watchman” reporter anticipated an
interesting article for this week’s pa-
per, but the gravity in the atmos-
phere cleared away like mist before
the summer sun and the session was
one of the shortest and most uninter-
esting of any held in weeks. Here
are the proceedings in a nutshell:
Secretary W. T. Kelly presented
the statement of the State-Centre
Electric company for pumping water
to November 1st, and other incident-
als, amounting to $1,924.64. Refer-
red to Water and Special commit-
tees by the president.
Street committee reported new
pavement put down at the Julia Kel-
ley property on Logan street.
Water committee reported repair-
ing pipe on Spring and north High
streets, making connection for the
new Kelley garage and ordering pipe
for the new water line to the new Ti-
tan Metal company plant. Many fire-
plugs also need repairing before win-
ter sets in.
Fire and Police committee report-
ed fire at the Twitmire house on south
Water street on October 25th.
Finance committee reported a bal-
ance in the treasury November first
of $792.22. : :
Special committee reported “pro-
gress.”
Bills amounting to $1,361.80 were
approved and council adjourned.
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Motz—Smith.—A wedding that will
be of interest to “Watchman” read-
ers was that in Akron, Ohio, on Wed-
nesday evening of last week, of
George D. Motz, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl D. Motz, of Woodward, this
county, and Miss Isabel Smith, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James K.
Smith, of Akron. The wedding took
place in the Calvary Evangelical
church in the presence of a large
number of invited guests. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. E. Rad-
ebaugh, pastor of the church.
The attendants were Mrs. Henry
Mingle, matron of honor; Miss Mar-
jan Smith and Miss Ruth Nichol,
bridesmaids; Alger Smith and Harry
Walters, groomsmen, with a comple-
ment of ribbon bearers, flower girls
and ring bearer. The ushers were
James Smith, of Agron; Roy Musser,
of Woodward; Henry Mingle, of
Aaronsburg; Roland Weaver, of Lock
Haven, and Edwin Long, of Milton.
Immediately following the ceremony
a wedding. dinner was served the bri-
dal party and more than one hundred
guests were present.
The same evening Mr. and Mrs.
Motz left on a wedding trip east
which will include a trip to his old
home at Woodward and later they
will take up their residence in Akron,
where the bridegroom holds a respon-
sible position with the Peoples’ Sav-
ings and Trust company.
Fye—Lucas—Roland G. Fye and
Miss Lucy Lucas, both of Moshannon,
were married at the parsonage of the
Trinity Methodist church in Lock Ha-
ven, on Monday morning, by the pas-
tor, Rev. Oliver S. Metzger. They
were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Hen-
ry Fye.
FOOD CONSERVATION TRAIN
0.5. FOOD ADMINISTRATION PERNA. STATE COLLEGE PEMA OUT. 0% Joos Swoosy
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Commissioners’ Clerk Meyer Victim
of Court House Ring.
Last spring when seed potatoes
were so very scare that they literal-
ly sold at a premium Commissioners’
clerk Harry N. Meyer furnished Syl-
vanus Lucus, of Union township, with
two bushels of seed, agreeing to take
a certain share of the potatoes this
fall in payment therefore.
On Tuesday Mr. Lucas came to
Bellefonte with eleven bushels of po-
tatoes for Mr. Meyer as his share of
the crop. Tuesday being election day,
it was also a holiday in the commis-
sioners’ office and Mr. Meyer took ad-
vantage of this fact to go on an auto-
mobile trip to Altoona with Mrs.
Meyer and several friends. Natural-
ly, then, when Mr. Lucas arrived with
the potatoes he did not find any one at
home, so went to the court house to
make inquiry for him.
Several of the members of the
court house ring happened to be
around and they informed Mr. Lucas
that Mr. Meyer had gone away and
suggested leaving the potatoes on the
porch. But that gentleman did not
like the suggestion as he was afraid
the potatoes would freeze. Another
member then suggested storing them
in the upper rear corridor of the court
house and this struck Mr. Lucas as a
favorable place, so he began to car-
ry them in. Finally another member
of the ring suggested that if he would
pour them down the coal chute into
the cellar they surely would not
freeze, and without a word Mr. Lucas
carried one bag around and dumped it
into the coal bin.
He was then advised to store the
rest in the court house corridor, and
after carrying them all in he asked
the gentlemen present to tell Mr.
Meyer to send the bags up as soon as
possible as he needed them.
“Empty the potatoes in the cor-
ner,” said a member of the ring, “and
take the bags along.”
“Won’t it make too much dirt?”
asked Lucas.
“Qh, no,” chorused the court house
ring. “We've got two janitors here
and they can easily clean it up.”
And with this cheering news Mr.
Lucas dumped the potatoes on the
marble floor just back of the door
leading into the judge’s chambers and
taking his bags smilingly walked
away. 2
Up to this writing, however, the
C. H. R. has had no opportunity to
enjoy their “little joke” at Mr. Mey-
er’s expense, as he got the potatoes
out of the court house early Wednes-
day morning before any of the ring
was around, even if he did have to
labor a little strenuously to do it.
Death of Jerry (Horse) Potter.
Having served his masters faith-
fully and well the past twenty-six
years the Potter-Hoy Hardware com-
pany’s horse, Jerry, fell on the state
road near Milesburg last Friday and
was put out of of its misery and sent
to horse heaven at the same time via
the gun route. The carcass was bur-
ied the same day in the phosphoric
vats in the foothills of the Allegheny
mountains north of Milesburg in or-
der to avoid the fate of his mate
which, being chloroformed two
month’s ago, was decently buried, on-
ly to be disinterred within two days
and the hide taken for tanning pur-
poses. Jerry horse had been in the
Potter family eleven years.
Sunday School Mid-Year Conference.
The Centre county Sunday school
association will hold a mid-year con-
ference in the Presbyterian chapel,
Bellefonte, Friday, November 16th,
when all the superintendents, pastors
and workers are requested to be pres-
ent that they may be better prepared
to keep up to the pressing needs of
the bible school work. Mr. W.D.
Reel, one of the State workers, will
attend this meeting to bring new
methods to the workers. This is your
opportunity, attend. First session at
10 o’cleck a. m.
~The popular W. C. T. U.
“Thimble Bees” were started again
for the winter, several weeks ago, at
the home of Mrs. George Lentz, west
High street. In spite of the inclement
weather there was a good attendance
and all had a delightful time and ac-
complished a goodly lot of work. The
next meeting, which was to have been
at Mrs. Barnhart’s, on west Linn
street, next week, has been postponed
on account of teacher’s institute until
a week later.
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—Last week we mentioned the
fact that Joseph L. Runkle had gone
to the new penitentiary as a guard,
but we were misinformed. He went
there as master mechanic, succeeding
Harry Rossman, and his shop in
Bellefonte will be open every evening.
———No member of the President’s
Cabinet grows with the situation
more rapidly than Secretary Daniels
and no member has been more ma-
ligned.
U. S. SOLDIERS IN FIRST FIGHT.
Surprised in Trench by Germans They
Put Up Gallant Resistance.
With the
American Army in
tachment of American
was attacked in the front line trench-
es early Saturday morning by a much
superior force” of German shock
troops. The Americans were cut off
from relief by the heavy barrage in
their rear. They fought gallantly un-
til overwhelmed by superior numbers.
The fighting in the trenches was
hand-to-hand. It was brief and fierce
in the extreme.
As a result of the encounter, three
Americans were killed and five
wounded. A sergeant and corporal
and ten men were taken prisoners.
Two French soldiers, who were in
the trenches also were killed. The
enemy lost some men, but the num-
ber is unknown, as their dead and
wounded were carried off by the re-
tiring Germans.
From the beginning of the engage-
ment until the end the Americans
lived up to all the traditions of the
American army, the records showing
the bravery of the detachment and of
individual members.
The German raid on the American
trench was carried out against mem-
bers of the second contingent enter-
ing the trenches for training. These
men had only been in a few days. Be-
fore dawn Saturday the Germans be-
gan shelling vigorously the barbed
wire front of the trenches, dropping
many high explosives of large cali-
bre. A heavy artillery fire was then
directed so as to cover all the adja-
cent territory, including the passage
leading up to the trenches, thereby
forming a most effective barrage in
the rear as well as in the front.
The young lieutenant in charge of
the detachment of Americans started
back to the communicating trenches
to his immediate superior for orders.
The barrage knocked him down, but
he picked himself up and started off
again. He was knocked down a sec-
ond time, but, determined to reach his
objective, got up again. A third time
he was knocked down and badly shell-
shocked and put out of action.
. Soon after that Germans to the
number, according to the report, of
9210 rushed through the breaches and
wire entanglements on each side of
the salient, their general objective
barrage in the forefield having lifted
for a moment. The Germans went in-
to the trenches at several points. They
met with stout resistance. Pistols,
grenades, knives and bayonets were
freely used.
For many minutes there was con-
siderable confusion in the trenches,
the Germans stalking the Americans
Louis Dammers
Philadelphia
Eyesight Specialist,
ONE DAY ONLY
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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Thursday, November 22nd, 1917
9.30 a. m. to 6.00 p. m.
HOWARD
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Friday, November 23rd, 1917
8.00 a. m. to 4.00 p. m.
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Saturday, November 24th, 1917
8.00 a. m. to 2.00 p. m.
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and the Americans stalking the Ger-
mans. In one section of the trench,
an American private engaged two
Germans with the bayonet. That was
the last seen of him until after the
raid, when a dead American was
France, November 5.—A small de-. found on the spot. Another was kill-
infantrymen |
ed by a blow on the head with a rifle
butt from above.
Some of the Americans apparently
at the beginning of the attack did
not realize just what was going on.
One of the wounded, a private, said:
“I was standing in a communicating
trench waiting for orders. I heard a
noise back of me and looked around
in time to see a German fire in my
direction. I felt a bullet hit my arm.”
The Germans left the trench as soon
as possible, taking their dead and
wounded with them.
An inspection showed, however, that
they had abandoned three rifles, a
number of knives and helmets.
The raid was evidently carefully
planned, and American officers admit
that it was well executed. As a raid,
however, there was nothing unusual
about it. It was such as is happen-
ing all along the line. There is rea-
son for believing that the Germans
were greatly surprised when they
found Americans in the trenches in-
stead of the French. The French
general in command of the division,
of which the American detachment
formed a part, expressed extreme sat-
isfaction at the action of the Amer-
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THERE
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BY LOUIS WESLYN
AUTHOR OF
The Million Dollar Doll
40 People | Chorus of 25
Original Cast and Production, with
Harvey and Harold {Orr
PRETTY GIRLS
"STUNNING GOWNS
HAUNTING MUSIC
SAXAPHONE QUARTET
Augmented Orchestra
A Show of Music,
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icans, for they fought bravely against
a numerically superior enemy, the
handful of men fighting until they
were smothered.
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Philip B. Iddings Dies On the Street.
Following close on the sudden death
of Dr. Tate on Wednesday morning
Philip B. Iddings, a well known resi-
dent of Bellefonte, died on the street
yesterday morning. * Shortly after six
o’clock he, in company with George
Gehret and Herbert Test, the latter
of Philipsburg, started out the Nit-
tany valley railroad to hunt rabbits.
In the vicinity of William Boyer’s
home, Mr. Iddings fell to the ground
unconscious. Word was telephoned
to Dr. Rogers and he suggested get-
ting Harry Macker to bring him to
his office. This was done but when
they got there the doctor took a look
at the man in the car and informed
his friends that he was already dead.
Deceased was born at Snow Shoe
Intersection almost fifty-nine years
ago, being a son of Mr. and Mrs. Reu-
ben Iddings. He followed farming
most of his life but the past few years
has been living retired. He is surviv-
ed by the following children:
Carrie, Lucy, Myrtle and Reuben. He
also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Carrie
Fisher, of Wingate, and Mrs. Olive
White, in Ohio. The time of the fun-
eral is not known at this writing.
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URNISHED ROOMS,
apartments, with all conveniences,
are for rent in the Shoemaker
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Inquire of
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XECUTRIX NOTICE.--The undersign- |
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testament of Dr. Wm M. B. Gland-
ing, late of the borough of Bellefonte, de-
ceased, hereby gives notice to all those !
knowing themselves indebted to said de-
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thereof and those having claims to present |
them, properly authenticated to her for ,
settlement. i
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