Belletonte, Pa., November 16, 1917.
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To Correspondents.—No communications
published unless accompanied by the real
name of the writer.
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THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
The kiddies have undoubtedly
enjoyed their week’s vacation, owing
to the teachers’ institute.
Rev. Norman L. Horn, of State
College, has accepted a call to the
pastorate of the Trinity Reformed
church at Lewistown at a salary of
$1,800 a year, he to furnish his own
parsonage.
——The next W. C. T. U. “Thimble
Bee” will be held next Wednesday
afternoon, November 21st, from two
to five o'clock, at the home of Mrs.
James K. Barnhart, on west Linn
street. A full attendance is re-
quested.
Lieut. Davenport Browne, U.
S. navy, and Miss Katherine Mer-
rick, a daughter of Pay Director and
Mrs. Ramsey, of Norfolk, Virginia,
were married on Saturday, November |
10th. The groom is a son of Rev. and
Mrs. George Israel Browne, formerly
of this place.
Twenty automobiles parked
around the court house every day this
week was evidence that quite a num-
ber of school teachers motored to
town in the morning, attended the ses-
sions of the teachers’ institute and
motored home at night, thereby sav-
ing their lodging expense in town.
—The large barn on the Hoover
property at Unionville ‘was entirely
destroyed by fire on Wednesday morn-
ing with all of this year’s crops and
a Studebaker automobile belonging
to Grant Hoover, of Williamsport.
The barn was the property of Grant
but the crops belonged jointly to him
and his brother Richard. How the
fire originated is a mystery.
Miss Ida A. Turner, of Port
Matilda, a member of the Freshman
elass in the course of home econom-
ics at The Pennsylvania State College,
won the cross country race for girls
last Friday in a string of thirty-six
contestants. She covered the two
and one-half mile course in thirty-
two minutes. Dr. E. E. Sparks, pres-
ident of the college, presented a sil-
ver cup to the winner.
——Andrew Runkle, a student in
the Bellefonte High school, had his
right leg broken just above the ankle
on Wednesday morning while prac-
ticing foot ball on the old glass works
meadow grounds. He had been in the
skirmish only a few minutes when he
was tackled by another player, fall-
ing in such a way as to break his leg.
He was taken to the Bellefonte hos-
pital where the fracture was reduced.
The “Watchman” was the first
paper to announce last week that over
ene hundred State College students
had husked corn on the experimental
farms all day on Tuesday. As a re-
sult of their work 3,500 bushels of
corn were housed that day. The stu-
dents were paid five cents a bushel
for husking and David R. Pheasant,
of Mapleton, Huntingdon county, a
member of the Junior class, proved
the champion husker, he having sixty
bushels to his credit.
About 8:30 o'clock Wednesday
evening two foreigners from Stevens
quarries left Bellefonte with a horse
and buggy to drive home. When
they reached Roopsburg they evident-
ly had forgotten ‘the fact that the
bridge there was undergoing repair
and instead of fording the creek drove
right onto the bridge and when they
came to the point where there is no
floor horse, buggy and foreigners top-
pled into the creek. Fortunately the
horse was not badly hurt and the men
uninjured but one got a good dose of
water before he was dragged from the
stream.
On Monday Cecil Walker em-
ployed by McCalmont & Co., drove in
for the mail in John S. Walker’s Ford
ear. He drove down in front of Par-
rish’s drug store and left the car
stand while he went into the store on
an errand. The brakes did not hold
and the car started down the street,
gaining: momentum as it ran. At the
intersection of Howard and Allegheny
streets it veered across the street and
ran head on into an iron electric light
post located on the corner at the
Humes residence, breaking it off at
the ground. The car had to be towed
in for repairs.
——Some fifteen or twenty mem-
bers of the State College hospital
unit in training at Allentown got a
furlough to attend the Pennsylvania
day exercises at Penn State, their fur-
lough expiring at a certain hour on
Monday evening. As trains are run-
ning nowadays the Pennsylvania-Le-
high was about two hours late and
that would deliver them at Allentown
after their furlough had expired, and
there was more or less worriment
among the young men while waiting
here on the delayed train as to just
what they would run up against when
they got back to camp.
——William Doak, the blind man
who tries to make a living by selling
lead pencils and shoestrings on the
streets of Bellefonte, is badly in need
of an overcoat and makes this appeal
to the public in the hopes of getting
one. Bill is not asking for a new
coat but for one that some man has
cast aside and which is still good
enough to kep him warm. He wears
either a 37 or 38 size, but says thata
“fat man’s coat” will do. Anyone in-
clined to favor Bill should leave the
coat at either F. P. Blair & Co’s jew-
elry store or Beezer’s meat market.
Bellefonte, Philipsburg and State College, Important!
In less than two weeks Christmas boxes intended for the soldiers who
have gone out from Centre county should be on their way if they are to
reach their destination in time.
While many of our boys who are in the camps have relatives and
friends who will not fail to remember them, there might be some to whom
Christmas will have nothing of cheer unless an organized effort is made
to circumvent such an unfortunate eventuality.
The “Watchman” knows.of no organized movement to look after the
matter, therefor it takes the liberty of suggesting that Bellefonte, Phil-
ipsburg and State College organize at once for the purpose of finding
out what boys in the serivce might not receive a Christmas box and to
prepare boxes for them.
It need not be a very burdensome matter for the reason that there are
probably only a few who will not be remembered from home.
But it
would be better that all of the boys be forgotten than one of them. Boys
who will get boxes from home and friends can be picked out very easily,
either from the rolls or by inquiry, and those who are uncertain should
surely be thought of.
It is our suggestion that the people of Bellefonte look after Troop L
and the Hospital Corps.
The people of Philipsburg might take the men at Camp Meade.
And the people of State College, Boalsburg, Lemont, Oak Hall, Linden
Hall and Pine Grove Mills take care of the boys in the Boal Machine
Gun Troop.
The plan could be worked out in either of two ways. First, by the plan
suggested above of going over the list and picking out those about whom
there might be any uncertainty and shipping the boxes directly to them
or by making up such a list and then shipping all of the boxes to one per-
son with instructions to present them on Christmas morning to those on
the list. This latter method would probably be the best for through it a
few extra boxes could be put in so that if any should accidentally be over-
looked there would be an emergency remembrance for them.
We must act quickly in th: matter. Will the ¢hurches or some other
organization in the places named take it in charge?
The “Watchman” will furnish the list of men in each encampment for
_your guidance if you will undertake to see that Christmas really is to
mean Christmas to every boy who has gone out from Centre county.
What to Send the Soldier Boys.
The time is drawing nigh when
everybody who has a son or a friend
among the soldier boys abroad or in
the training camps will plan to send
him a Christmas box and here are a
few suggestions of things he will most
appreciate in addition to any articles
of clothing he may need:
Sweet chocolate Chewing gum
Sand tarts ¥ruit crackers
Ginger snaps Fruit cake
Salted peanuts Shelled nuts
Figs Dates
Raisins Hard candy
Chocolate in tin foilLiicorice
Tobacco Pipes
Pipe cleaners Cigarette papers
Safety matches Flash light
Compass Other games
Playing cards Steel mirror
Boy Scout knife Mechanical puzzles
Mouth organ Envelopes
Writing paper Lead pencils
Writing tablets Toilet soap
Water tight match boxes
Khaki colored neckties
Red Cross checker board
Khaki colored handkerchiefs
Pack the articles in a man’s shoe
box, or a box similar in size. Do not
pack anything in glass.
If you feel inclined to do so send
the boys a letter in your box, with
home news.
If you pack tobacco of any sort,
place in a box, so that the odor will
not be absorbed by ‘other food.
If toilet soap is sent in the boxes,
wrap in the same way as the tobacco.
Wrap your box in Christmas wrap-
pings, and then in stout wrapping pa-
per.
You are not limited to the articles
named above—you may think of
something better.
These boxes, with the information
the committee now has, will be need-
ed for shipment the 27th of Novem-
ber.
Patriotic Centre Countians.
With Col. W. Fred Reynolds as
chairman, and George R. Meek treas-
urer, both of Bellefonte, the Y. M. C.
A. “war work fund campaign” is now
on.
Shall we stand by our soldier boys
at the front? Shall we uphold them
morally, by good home-like influences,
while they are upholding our nation-
al honor? $35,000,000 is to be rais-
ed. Shall Centre county show her es-
tablished patriotism by contributing
her full share? On next Sunday, No-
vember 18th, all congregations in all
churches should be reminded of .this
important means of winning the war.
Next Monday, the 19th, will be known
as “Drive day.” Shall we “go over
the top?” Assist the solicitors. The
answer will be determined by each
and all contributing liberally. Make
all remittances, whether small or
large to the above named treasurer.
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Among the Soldier Boys.
John F. Smith, of the U. S. navy,
came home from Norfolk last week on
a six days’ furlough.
George T. Tate, a member of Troop
L, arrived home on Wednesday even-
ing on a ten days’ furlough and oth-
ers of the troop are expected home
soon. :
On Monday morning Carl G.
Schreffler went to Williamsport to en-
list for the navy but failed to pass the
examination. He then tried for the
army, passed and was sent to Fort
Slocum, N. Y.
Hassell Montgomery, who took the
storeskeeping course at State College
last summer, has been ordered to re-
port at the Philadelphia arsenal next
week where he will be assigned to
the clothing and food department.
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——Dr. Robert J. Campbell, who
has been identified with the western
penitentiary for a number of years,
has enlisted for service in France and
his last trip to the Rockview peniten-
tiary was made on Monday when he
officiated at the double electrocution
which took place there. Dr. W. Fel-
ker, who has been resident physician
at the Rockview institution, has been
transferred to Pittsburgh to take Dr.
Campbell’s place and Dr. C. J. New-
comb has been appointed resident
physician at Rockview.
——Automobilists and others who
have enjoyed the drive to Snow Shoe
the past two summers cannot brag
very much of the delights of that
drive at the present time. The road
is not so bad until beyond the Reese
farm when it begins to show the hard
usage and once the top of the moun-
tain is reached it is cut up into innu-
‘merable ruts, both deep and shallow,
a condition that prevails for about a
mile. This bad piece of road, it is
said, has been caused by the heavy
trucks hauling coal from Snow Shoe
to Bellefonte.
——Down in Lycoming county the
farmers are compelled to have husk-
ing bees on Sunday in order to get
their corn crop husked and while it
may not have been a matter of real
compulsion about forty of County
Treasurer David Chambers friends in
Snow Shoe and Boggs townships
on Sunday last gathered at his
farm in the latter township, bet-
ter known as the old Jacob Croft
farm, and joined in skinnin’ the nub-
bins in his corn field. The farm is
tenanted by John Bogish and that
gentleman and his wife served a very
substantial meal to all present. The
meal was served on the lawn and
every man did ample justice to it.
Among the crowd that gathered there
was that well known gentleman,
Grant Kessling, of Snow Shoe, and
while he was not very agile in the
corn field he made a full hand at the
dinner table.
GO rm me
——While the fact may not be gen-
erally known yet it is true that
County Superintendent David O. Et-
ters is possessed of one of the most
remarkable memories of any man
within the writer’s knowledge. Desir-
ing to publish a complete list of the
school teachers in Centre county this
week in connection with our institute
report one of the “Watchman” force
went to Supt. Etters and asked for
his enrollment list and was promptly
told that there is none in existence.
That the only record he had of the
teachers was in his head. Quite nat-
urally it was impossible for the re-
porter to get at it there and make a
copy, but the superintendent very
generously offered to make a list of
the teachers for our benefit, and the
list as it appears in today’s paper was
written from memory Wednesday
night after the entertainment in the
court house. Hence we leave it to
you, dear reader, if that isn’t an ex-
ample of one of the most remarkable
memories you ever heard of.
——Four automobile hacks regular-
ly meet every train coming into Belle-
fonte and as each driver does his best
to cop as many fares as possible some
amusing things occur. One of
these happened on Saturday morn-
ing when a rather comely young wom-
an nurse came to town. She had two
well filled suit cases and at the bag-
gage room she asked if they could get
her some one to deliver herself and
baggage to her destination. Mr.
Macker was called upon for service
and responded with alacrity, grab-
bing the two heavy suit cases and lug-
ging them along the depot to the auto-
mobile stand. In the meantime the
comely nurse had made her way
through the crowd to the line of auto-
mobiles and was hailed by Frank Da-
vis. She at once accepted his offer of
a car and directed him to get her suit
cases from Mr. Macker who by that
time had carried them almost to the
automobile. Davis got the suit cases
and with a smile on his face wrs just
about to usher the nurse into his au-
to when Robert Roan drove up. “Are
you the nurse for Mr. ——he asked ?”
On being told that she was he said,
“This way, please, I was sent down
to get you,” and taking the suit cases
from Davis he bundled them and the
nurse into his machine and away he
sped, leaving both Macker and Davis
gasping and speechless at the audaci-
ty of the whole transaction.
FIRST CAVALRY REASSEMBLED.
Centre County Boys Again Back in
Troop L, in Which They En-
listed.
“Regiment to reassemble.
L once again.”
Such was the brief message sent by
Capt. H. Laird Curtin to his wife on
Monday afternoon and it was the first
information Bellefonters had that the
First Pennsylvania cavalry regiment,
which was dismembered two weeks
ago, would be reassembled as a unit
and be known as the 101st U. S. cav-
alry. Naturally the announcement
was received here with considerable
satisfaction, as it gives the Centre
county soldier boys the chance to
serve in that branch of the service in
which they enlisted. Just how the
announcement of the order reassem-
bling the regiment was received by
the soldier boys is told in the follow-
ing dispatch:
Troop
Camp Hancock, Ga., Nov. 12.—
Smiles-and smiles and then more
smiles filled the reservation of the
Old First Pennsylvania Cavalry,
which last week was dismembered
and scattered to all parts of the di-
vision, but which this morning was
collected and synthesized and made
the One Hundred and First United
States Cavalry, and placed under the
command of Col. John P. Wood, re-
recently assigned to the One Hundred
and Third Engineers.
Not a man of the old regiment was
absent when the first assembly was
ordered and everyone from Colonel
Wood down to the most humble pri-
vate wore a smile. There was a joy in
the hearts of all tne men, because it
meant that the esrvice for which they
had enlisted was to be retained and
they could take their places with the
men from their own home town.
The assembling of the cavalry after
its personnel had been taken to fill
other units in the division was the re-
sult of a War Department order. The
camp had been filled for some time
with rumors that the cavalry was to
be rehabilitated, but no announcement
was made of it at division headquar-
ters until the order was published.
The men early this morning, with
the announcement of the order, came
from all parts of the division. Some
hurried to their old camping ground
from the artillery; two miles; some
from the engineers, some from the
medical units. At the head of Penn-
sylvania avenue, the regimental
street, they were received by their
own band and marched down to the
various areas.
Mrs. Bosciano Awarded Big Com-
pensation.
On October 8th, Anthony Bosciano
was killed in the quarries of the
Chemical Lime company up Buffalo
Run by being run over by a loaded
car of stone. On Monday W. Walter
Henry, of Altoona, awarded the wid-
ow, Mrs. Lila Bosciano, and children
the largest amount of compensation
so far paid by the State insurance
fund or granted under the Pennsylva-
nia compensation law.
As a result of the settlement Mrs.
Bosciano and eleven children, one yet
unborn, will be paid a total of $6,616
to compensate them for the death of
the husband and father. The prompt
and efficient work of the State fund
department was shown in this case,
the adjuster calling and making all
arrangements for the final settlement
the day after the funeral.
The case stands on record as a
precedent for number of dependents
and the total insurance amount paid
under the compensation law. There
are ten children, their ages being
15,14, 18,11, 10, 8, 6, 5, 3, 2. A
birth is expected in the home in the
near future. The payments will be
made semi-monthly and will extend
from the date of death until Septem-
ber 23rd, 1931, when the final pay-
ment will be made. From time to
time, as each child reaches the age of
16, its compensation allotment will be
subtracted from the payments. The
varying amounts to be paid follow:
Amount
No. Weeks Weekly Total
300 $12.00 $3,600
109 , 10.00 1,090
73 & 4 days 9.00
94 7.00 658
77 & 3 days 5.00 387
72 3.00 218
ORY. ii resis sina sid Pans $6.616
Another unusual feature of the case
is that Bosciano received an average
wage of $125 monthly. Of this
amount $45 is not available as a ba-
sis for figuring compensation since
the law places the maximum wage on
which compensation can be reckoned
at $80. :
Pennsylvania Day at State.
Pennsylvania day at State College
on Saturday drew about the usual
crowd of visitors from all parts of the
State, special trains coming from both
the east and the west. Governor
Brumbaugh was not present, being on
a trip through the south inspecting
Pennsylvania soldiers in their vari-
ous training camps. The School of
Engineering and the School of Agri-
culture had their customary displays
of the handiwork of the students, but
the two big events of the day were
the exhibition drill by the college ca-
dets and: the football game between
State and Lehigh. The latter won by
the score of 9 to 0.
$25.00 Reward Offered.
On Saturday morning a dead cat
was found in the reservoir. From the
appearance of the carcass it had not
been there long and it is the general
belief that it had been thrown in by
some malicious person. Members of
the borough council have authorized
the “Watchman” to state that a re-
ward of $25.00 will be paid for infor-
‘mation that will lead to the arrest and
conviction of the person or persons
guilty of throwing the cat into the
reservoir.
——“Send him a photograph”’—
Mallory Studio. C89
ammunition train and some from the
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Miss Ruth Gamble has returned from
a two month's visit with her sister, Mrs.
Ostertag, in Harrisburg.
“Hans and Fritz” the famous |
cartoon play, will be the next attrac- |
tion at Garman’s. Coming soon.
—Miss Jeannette Johnston of Beaver
Falls, will spend the week-end in Belle-
fonte with her grandmother, Mrs. J. A.
Aiken.
—Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Michaels and Mr.
and Mrs. Martin drove here from Altoona
Saturday, being guests at the Bush house
for the week-end.
—Mrs, Henry Wetzel went to Jackson-
ville Saturday, and has been visiting for
the greater part of the week with her
daughter, Mrs. Pifer.
—Mrs. M. Fauble, her daughter,
Schloss, and Miss Newman drove
toona Sunday to visit for the day
Miss Newman's sister. Mrs. Grauer.
—Mrs. George B. Thompson was in
Bellefonte Tuesday night and Wednesday,
spending the time at the Bush house, as a
guest of her grandmother, Mrs. D. G.
Bush.
—Miss Lena Waugh and Miss Hilda
Hagyard, both belonging to Centre coun-
ty’'s corps of teachers, from Philipsburg,
spent the week in Bellefonte attending in-
stitute.
-———Evidently tiring of the noise and
bustle of city life Abram V. Miller came
up from Philadelphia the latter part of
last week and will spend some time with
his brother, Robert V. Miller.
—Mrs. Hugh N. Crider returned home
on nday from a ten days’ motor trip
with Tyrone friends, most of the time be-
ing spent at Latrobe and other points in
the western part of the State.
—W,_ A. Alexander, of Centre Hall, was
a business visitor in Bellefonte on Wed-
nesday and with Mrs. Alexander took a
look at the sights in the conservation train
that was in Bellefonte that day.
—James L. Hammil, of Columbus, Ohio,
was a guest of Col. and Mrs. Reynolds
Friday night. Coming for the trustee
meeting at Penn State Friday, Mr. Ham-
mil left for Philadelphia Saturday.
—Mrs. Marcy C. Breese and her son Ran-
dolph came here from Downingtown Mon-
day and are visiting with Mrs. Dreese'’s
sister, Mrs. George F. Harris. Mrs. Breese
and Mrs. Harris are considering going to
California for the winter,
—Mrs. Alfred Hagyard, of Philipsburg,
one of the most enthusiastic and progres-
sive agriculturists of central Pennsylvania,
stopped in Bellefonte for a short time Sat-
urday, on her way to State Cillege, where
she was going for Pennsylvania day.
—7F. HB. Wieland, one of the school di-
rectors of Harris township, with Mrs.
Wieland, were in Bellefonte for director's
day at the institute, and to see the demon-
stration for food conservation made by the
government, in their train now touring the
State.
—Mrs. R. S. Brouse went to Brooklyn a
week ago, called there by the illness of
her son-in-law, ¥F. W. Topelt. Mr. Topelt
was operated on the same day for appen-
dicitis, and although a bad case, his im-
provement during the week has been quite
marked.
—Edward P. Irwin spent Sunday at his
home here. He is now traveling for the
Colonial supply company, of Pittsburgh,
selling mine supplies and like all other
salesmen says that it is not so much of a
trick to sell nowadays as it is to get de-
liveries of the materials after they are
sold.
—Miss Daise Keichline, in charge of the
infirmary of Wilson College, chaperoned
one of the house parties at State College
for Pennsylvania day. Upon leaving the
college Miss Keichline came to Bellefonte
Mrs.
Al-
with
to
for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John M. Keichline,
Chambersburg.
—Mrs. C. U. Hoffer, of Philipsburg, and
her two daughters, the Misses Louise and
Anna Hoffer, have all been guests of Mrs.
Hoffer’s father, C. T. Gerberich. Mrs,
Hoffer came the early part of last week
for a two week’s visit; Miss Louise is at-
tending institute and Miss Anna drove
over with friends to visit for two days.
A “Watchman” office visitor on Mon-
day morning was Mrs. David Diehl, of
Swissvale, who was on her way home from
a visit at her old home in Brush valley.
Mrs. Diehl prior to her marriage was a
Miss Auman, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John C. Auman, of Rebersburg, and her
mission in this office was to order the
paper sent to her regularly at her home
in Swissvale.
—S. H. Griffith returned to Bellefonte
last week from Camden, where he and Mrs.
Griffith had moved several months ago.
Having shipped their furniture earlier in
the week, immediately upon its arrival
here Mr. and Mrs. Griffith will take posses-
sion of the little stone house on the
grounds of the Quaker meeting house.
Mrs. Griffith joined her husband this week,
remaining im Philadelphia for a visit with
her son, Harry Dawson, who was home on
a furlough from Camp Hancock.
—Mr. and Mrs. August Glinz, with their
daughter, Mrs. Albert Edward Day, and
grandson, Robert August Day, arrived in
Bellefonte on Saturday afternoon from
New Kensington, where the former had
been visiting at the Dr. Day home. The
Day home, by the way, is located just one
block from the big aluminum plant where
the explosion took place at eight o’clock
on Monday morning of last week. The
force of the explosion was so great that
most of the windows in the Day home
were broken, chandeliers knocked loose
and Mr. Glinz was thrown out of bed
against an arm chair, injuring his right
shoulder.
—A very pleasant caller at the ‘“Watch-
man’ office on Wednesday was Mr. C. D.
Moore, of State College, who just return-
ed last Friday from spending three
months in St. James, Missouri. He was in
Bellefonte spending the day at the teach-
ers’ institute and was very much impress-
ed with the different talks. Mr. Moore,
like other people who have been in Belle-
fonte the past several weeks, was very
much attracted by the big trout spawning
in Spring creek and that led him to tell
us a fish story of his own that happened
while he was in Missouri. He said that
the Merrimac river there is about as wide
as High street and varies in depth from
two to twelve feet, and that it is veritably
alive with black bass, wall-eyed perch,
catfish, suckers and eels, and that on one
of their fishing trips he and his friends
caught just 188 fish, mostly bass and
perch, and some of the bass were 14 to 17
inches long. The water is so clear in the
river, Mr. Moore said, that big schools of
fish can be seen swimming around every-
before returning to
where.
—J. D. Mitchell, of Burnham, was in
Bellefonte the fore-part of the week.
—Dr. Bertha Caldwell, of Johnstown,
will spend the week-end with Dr. Eloise
Meek.
—Miss Florence Hawkins, of Philips-
burg, has been a guest of Miss Lois Kirk
for the week.
~—~Mr. and Mrs, Orrin Miller have gone
to spend the winter with their son, Arthur
Miller, at Erie.
—Mrs. Kimport, of Cherry Tree,
been a guest of Mrs. E. P. Irwin at
Bush house, this week.
—Mr. and Mrs. William McGowan
entertaining Mrs. J. W_ Steinkirchner
Mrs.
N.Y.
—Mr. and Mrs. G. Willard Hall, of Har-
risburg, have been obliged to prolong their
visit in Bellefonte, owing to the illness of
of Mr. Hall.
—Mrs. Satterfield returned Saturday
from a two month's visit in Philadelphia,
has
the
are
and
Katherine King, both of Rochester,
da for the winter.
—Miss Katherine Allison was a week-
end guest of Miss Boyce, of Clearfield.
Miss Boyce was Miss Allison's guest in
Bellefonte last week.
—Mrs. Walter Cohen and her two young-
er children left last week for Wilkes-Bar-
re, to spend two weeks with friends there
and in Binghampton, N. Y.
—Miss Lizzie Weaver, of Milesburg, ex-
pects to leave for Windber in a few days.
She will spend the winter there with her
brother Willis and his family.
—George N. VanDyke is so rapidly re-
covering from his recent illness that he
Clarksville. Mr. VanDyke has been ill for
a month or more.
—Miss Geraldine Noonan went to New
York Friday of last week for a short vis-
it, with her aunt, Mrs. Seymore, and with
her sister, Miss Margaret Noonan, a stu-
dent at Sacred Heart Manhattan College.
—Mrs. Cecil B. Craig and her brother,
Harvey Steele, have returned to Pitts-
burgh, both having been called here on
account of the serious illness of their
mother, Mrs. William Steele. Mrs. Steele’s
condition is improving slowly.
—Miss Nannie Murphy, of Herkeimer,
N. Y,, and her niece, Miss Caroline Mur-
phy, were in Bellefonte this week. Miss
Murphy will spend the winter with rela-
tives up Buffalo Run, while her niece went
on to Pittsburgh to resume her work.
—Mrs. Hugh Taylor Sr., who spent most
of the fall mouths with her daughters in
Pittsburgh, returned home on Tuesday ac-
companied by her daughter, Mrs. Warren
Else and the latter's little daughter, and
will open her house on High street for the
winter.
—Mr. and Mrs. John H. Puff, of Centre
Hall, spent Wednesday in Bellefonte at-
tending institute. Mr. Puff is one of many
of Centre county’s loyal citizens who has
given his best to his country, his only
child, Roy, having enlisted with the 35th
Illinois engineers.
—Mrs. BE. A. McGill, formerly Miss Jessie
Harter, of State College, and Mrs. Hoffer
Dale, spent Wednesday afternoon in town
on a shopping expedition. Mrs. McGill,
who now lives in West View, near Pitts-
burgh, is spending two weeks as a guest
at the home of Dr, Hoffer Dale, State Col-
lege. Dr. Dale is in war service and was
stationed at Oglethorpe, but is now at
Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky., where Mrs.
Dale is anticipating visiting him some-
time this month.
Notice.
To all mambers of the Bellefonte
Chapter of American Red Cross:
The annual election will be held on
Saturday, November 17th, at the
work rooms in Petrikin hall, from
two to five o’clock p. m., to elect the
four Chapter officers and five mem-
bers of an executive committee.
Every member of the Chapter and its
Auxiliaries is entitled to a vote.
Ballots will be found at the work
rooms.
The ballot as now arranged will in-
clude the following names but extra
space will be left at each name to
write in another, if a member so pre-
fers:
Chairman—Col W. F. Reynolds.
Vice Chairman—Mrs. D. H. Hastings.
Secretary—Rev. M. DePue Maynard.
Treasurer—Charles M. McCurdy.
Executive Committee:
Miss Mary M. Blanchard.
Mrs. Blanche Schloss,
Mrs. John I. Olewine.
Mrs. Robert Mills Beach.
Mrs. J. Thomas Mitchell.
Entertained at Dinner.
Mrs. H. S. Taylor entertained at
dinner on Wednesday evening Mrs.
C. U. Hoffer, of Philipsburg, and a
number of the young lady school
teachers from that place.
Mrs. W. D. Zerby’s guests at her
dinner on Wednesday evening were
her mother and sister, Mrs. Warren
Else, of Pittsburgh, and her brother,
Lieut. E. R. Taylor.
——J. W. Houser has resigned his
job as driver of the Brouse grocery
delivery truck and is now driving one
of Lewis Daggett’s taxis.
——“Send him a photograph”—
Mallory Studio. 39-tf
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer
The prices quoted are those paid for produce.
Potatoes per b senuen we $1.25
Onions 50
Eggs, per dozen... 38
Lard, per pound... 2
Butter, per pound. 38
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
The following are the quotations up tosix o'clock
Thursday evening, when our paper goes to press.
White Wheat... 195
Rye, per bushel............. 1.50
Corn, shelled, per bushel 1.80
Corn, ears, per bushel 1.80
Qats, old and new, per 60
Barley, per bushel 90
Philadelphia Markets.
The following are the closing prices of the
Philadelphia markets on Wednesday evening.
$ 2.17@ 2.19
. 215@ 2.17
—Mixed new. 30@ 2.35
Oats ...ccovinrusnsrsaressasarene 69@ 70
Flour —Winter, per barre 10.10@10.25
ET 20@10.00
Rye Flour per barrel........ 5
aled Hay—Choice Timo 15.00@27.00
Bled ij; ae Mixed No. L........ 22.00@26.50
Straw ..ccceens sense ibensessaveiisssiie siseisvrisd 13.50@17.00
and is now contemplating going to Flori- °
hopes to return shortly to his work at
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