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Bellefonte, Pa., February 8, 1918.
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To Correspondents.—No communications
published unless accompanied by the real
name of the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
——So far no German aliens have
presented themselves for registration
at the local postoffice.
Mrs. Isaac Miller, of the Toll
Gate, is lying quite ill with pneumo-
nia at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
E. P. Moore, in Tyrone.
——The regular meeting of bor-
ough council on Monday evening was
cancelled owing to the enforced ab-
sence of most of the old members.
——The item furnished the “Watch-
man” last week that James Watson
had rented a flat over Lyon & Co’s
store proved incorrect, as the flat is
still for rent.
The three members of the state
constabulary have been moved from
Pleasant Gap into Bellefonte and
have taken board and lodging with
Mrs. E. C. Tuten.
——Ray Brandman is making ar-
rangements to do over his Lyric the-
atre. The floor will be lowered to
within two steps of the pavement and
another entrance will be added.
——On Wednesday of last week
Governor Brumbaugh appointed John
M. Keichline justice of the peace in
the South and West wards of Belle-
fonte, vice G. Wash Rees resigned.
——Some person or persons stole
a quantity of candy and several dol-
lars in money from the show case in
the Y. M. C. A. last Friday night. Ev-
idently that institution has not made
the right kind of an impression upon
them.
Word has been received in this
place of the mariage in St. Louis, Mo.,
on December 24th, of Mrs. Sabra
Campbell-Garman to W. A. Eichen-
ger, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the
latter is engaged in the real estate
business.
R. C. Whitmer, who was so
badly burned in the face several
weeks ago by the explosion of a bat-
tery, has recovered sufficiently to look
after his electrical supply business
and will not lose the sight of his eye,
as was at first feared. :
L. H. Gettig has retired from
the butchering business having rented
his meat market in the Bush house
block to his brother Irvin Gettig, and
Clyde Wetzel, who for some years
past has been located in Nebraska
but who returned east last November.
——Up to January 26th just $20,-
890 of saving and thrift stamps had
been sold in Centre county, which is
about 47 cents for each mgn, woman
and child in the county. But Centre
county’s allotment is $876,200 which
is about $20 per capita, so we are a
long ways short of what the county
is supposed to take.
——Groundhog or no groundhog
the Scenic will be open as usual to
furnish amusement and entertainment
to the citizens of Bellefonte and com-
munity, notwithstanding the frigidity
of the weather. Manager T. Clayton
Brown is now getting the best motion
pictures obtainable and they are
thrown upon the screen every night
to the delight of large audiences.
When nowhere else to go to spend
these winter evenings try the Scenic.
——Announcement has been made
of the marriage on November 15th of
Chauncey I. DeLong, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Irvin DeLong, of Beeck Creek,
and Miss Verna Suling, of New York,
the wedding having been a surprise
to the young man’s friends. Mr. De-
Long had enlisted in the U. S. caval-
ry but was transferred at his own re-
quest to the 213th aerial squadron and
trained at Hampstead, N. Y. It is
understood that he left for foreign
service on or about January 15th.
——The “Watchman” is in receipt
of a program of the road supervisors
meeting of Blair county, which will
be held in the court house at Holli-
dayspurg on February 12th, and as
evidence that Blair county citizens are
heart and soul in the good roads
movement is the fact that Rev. Isaac
Krider, of ei is secretary
of the association. He evidently be-
_ Heves in good roads for the saint and
sinner here below as well as smooth-
ing the pathway of all to their heav-
enly home.
——LeRoy Gates, of Pennsylvania
Furnace, who some weeks ago volun-
teered as an electrician with an Amer-
ican Ice Plant company for duty in
France, has arrived safely in that
country and the unit with which he
is connected ‘is now hard at ‘work
erecting a plant for the manufacture
of artificial ice for the use of the
American. Expeditionary force.
Among other things that Mr. Gates
wants from his home country is the
“Watchman” and it will be sent to
him every week.
——Group Six of the Pennsylvania
Bankers’ association will hold its
twenty-third annual meeting at the
Commerce building, Altoona, on Lin-
coin’s birthday, February 12th. The
business session will be at 11 o'clock
with & luncheon at the Logan house
at one p. m. The principal address
at the meeting will be by Mr. W. S.
VanDyke, vice president of the Real
Estate Trust company, of Pittsburgh,
while among the speakers at the
luncheon will be Hon. William B. Wil-
son, Secretary of Labor, and S. H.
Layton, superintendent of the public
schools of Altoona. Col. J. L. Spang-
ler is president of the Bankers’ asso-
ciation and John D. Meyer secretary.
Bellefonte Suffers in Many Ways. !
Railroads Blockaded and Traffic
Impeded.
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Had the Bellefonte Steam Heating |
company consulted a medium able to |
foretell the future they could not |
have selected a more inauspicious
time to die than they did when they
closed down for good at noon last |
Saturday. With only three day’s no-
tice it was utterly impossible for its
patrons to prepare to shift for them-
selves. Even if furnaces could have
been obtained there are not enough
plumbers in Bellefonte to install
them. The supply of stoves was ex-
hausted early and any kind of an old
second hand sold at a premium. And
to render the situation still worse, if
such a thing is possible, the coal
supply in Bellefonte has been so low
the past week that it has been a vir-
tual yard to the stove process. Deal-
ers have been out of anthracite for a
week and bituminous was doled out in
as low as two hundred pound lots.
The result was self-evident. Peo-
ple who could afford it went to the
hotels. Others doubled up in private
residences but those less fortunate
were compelled to stay at home and
|get along as best they could. And
that in most cases has been greater
privation than they ever endured be-
fore. Many people are living in two
land three rooms and fortunate in be-
ing able to do that. And to cap the
climax the groundhog had a full day
of it on Saturday in which to see his
shadow and the rather moderate
weather of Sunday was followed by
one of the worst blizzards of the win-
ter on Monday and Monday night.
While no snow fell it blew a perfect
gale and Tuesday morning it was
eighteen degrees below zero in Belle-
fonte. Water pipes froze and burst
and canned goods froze in many cel-!
lars in which such a thing had never
occurred before.
RAILROADS BADLY BLOCKADED
While the cold and blizzard hit all
railroads extremely hard it complete-
ly disorganized the service so far as
Centre county is concerned. A good
part of last week’s snow fall lay loose
upon the ground and the high wind
carried it into huge drifts everywhere.
The first effect of it was felt on the
Lewisburg & Tyrone railroad on Mon-
day morning when the train due to ar-
rive here at 9:15 stuck near Centre
Hall. The shifting engine and crew
were sent over to help pull it in and
vardmaster Joseph Kelleher went
along. While making a coupling on
the stalled train Mr. Kelleher slipped
and fell, knocking his left shoulder
out of joint. He was brought to
Bellefonte on the train which finally
| and steam turned on at six o’clock on
rone thousand dollars a week during
{COLD WEATHER PLAYS HAVOC. compelled to haul a supply every day | LARGE STOCK BARN BURNED.
for their stock and domestic use.
INTERESTING INCIDENTS OF THE '
WEEK.
Fifty years ago on Wednesday W. |
L. Malin arrived in Bellefonte and |
when he reached the town the ther- !
mometer was just 23 degrees below
Zero. |
The severe cold of Monday night |
froze all the water pipes in the Ma- |
sonic Temple as well as all the liquid |
drugs and medicines of Dr. M. W. |
Reed, so that his loss is considerable. |
The big boiler installed in the
Brockerhoff house was connected up
Saturday evening and the guests there
are more comfortable now than they
have been in five years.
Officials of the steam heating com-
pany claim that the plant ran behind
the month of January and they are
now going to try and make up some
of it by selling bituminous coal from
the car.
Butcher John P. Eckel came up
from North Thomas street on Tues-
day morning and he naturally realized
that it was cold but he was almost
dumbfounded when he got into his
shop on High street and found the
thermometer standing just at zero.
The steam heating plant in the Em-
erick garage froze and blew up on
Tuesday noon and that was only a
small part of his troubles. Last Sat-
urday Mr. Gilbert, of Philipsburg, a
brother of Mrs. Emerick, and who has
charge of the Emerick Transportation
company in that place, came to Belle-
fonte with his wife to visit over Sun-
day and Mr. Gilbert got an attack of
tonsilitis and is confined to bed. At
ten o’clock Wednesday night he got
word that the Philipsburg garage had
caught fire and burned down, though
practically all the cars had been
saved.
On Monday evening Thomas Hazel
took a sledding party of twenty peo-
ple to the Old Fort hotel for a chick-
en and waffle supper. They left here
at four o’clock and it took them three
hours to go over, upsetting when they
were almost in sight of the hotel.
When they got there they were as-
tounded to find that it was ten de-
grees below zero. They started home
at nine o’clock and hardly had they
gotten under way when they upset
for the second time and it was neces-
sary for a man to go ahead and lead
the horses until they passed through
Centre Hall and struck the foot of
the mountain. The road from there
was open and they reached home at
twelve o’clock.
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Lumberman Charles Bilger Had a
Thrilling Experience.
reached Bellefonte at 1:05 o’clock and
taken home, where the bone was put
in place.
The same train left Bellefonte Mon-
day afternoon on time on the return
trip and again stuck in the snow at |
Grange park, Centre Hall. In fact it
became completely marooned, being
unable to go either forward or back-
ward. Three big locomotives and a
snow plow were then sent out from
Sunbury to open the road and the
passenger train west was held at
Lewisburg until the locomotives and
plow passed to open the road. The
latter got through to Mifflinburg
without any trouble and the train fol-
lowed to that point.
Leaving Mifflinburg the big plow
cleared the tracks as far as Beale
where it struck a snow drift six feet
deep and 600 feet long and after plow-
ing into it a short distance stuck. In
the meantime the snow drifted in be-
hind the locomotives and they and the
snow plow became marooned. Then
a relief train was sent out from Sun-
bury with 176 snow shovelers and
they shoveled the snow plow out and
got it started up the road. But its
progress was slow and on Tuesday
morning word was sent to Bellwood
for the big plow there, but as the one
out on the road began to make better
headway the order was cancelled.
Later in the day the snow plow at
Renovo was started this way.
In the meantime the passenger
train due to arrive here on Monday
evening was behind the snow plow
and of course could not get through.
The size of the job it was to open the
road can be understood from the fact
that it was just 4:20 o’clock on Tues-
day afternoon when the snow plow
finally reached Bellefonte, while the
train that should have arrived here at
4:20 p. m. Monday did not get here
until after ten o’clock on Tuesday
night.
About five o'clock Wednesday
morning the snow plow from Renovo
arrived here and it was sent out over
the road, the train being held here
until 9:30 when it was sent out. Wed-
nesday morning’s incoming train did
not reach here until after two o’clock
in the afternoon and the morning
train from Tyrone did not reach here
untii 12:30, owing to a breakdown of
the locomotive at Snow Shoe Inter-
section.
But the Pennsylvania is not the on-
ly railroad that has been blocked as
at this writing (Wednesday after-
noon) the Bellefonte Central has only
been able to get as far as Waddle
while the Central Railroad of Penn-
sylvania has not reached Hecla. The
travel on this road means something,
just now, as there are some ten or
twelve carloads of coal at Mill Hall
consigned to Bellefonte which are
very badly needed.
The public roads have been drifted
shut in many places and the big motor
busses have been unable to make their
regular trips to State College. The
blockade is also hard on those far-
mers who are out of water and are
On Wednesday morning of last
week lumberman Charles Bilger, of
Pleasant Gap, started with one horse
in a sleigh to go to his lumbering
camp in Green’s valley. He got up
the mountain all right to where the
road turns off to the valley but there
he found nothing but the white ex-
panse of deep snow that fell on Sun-
day night and Monday. He got along
all right on the main road but finally
came to the new road which he had
built as a short cut to his camp.
He hadn’t gone very far until he
found the road blocked by huge drifts
and to avoid getting stuck fast in one
of them he turned out into an old
field where the snow did not appear to
be so deep. He got along all right
for a short distance but before he
knew it his horse was floundering in
four feet of snow, he having unknow-
ingly driven into a gully that had
been drifted level full of snow, and
which was not packed hard enough to
bear the weight of the horse. In an
effort to drive the animal through the
horse fell down and could not get up,
hitched as it was to the sleigh.
Mr. Bilger had a shovel with him
and he set to work to shovel the horse
out, but it seemed an almost hopeless
task, notwithstanding the fact that he
is a strong and rugged man. Fortu-
nately, though the weather was cold,
there was little or no wind and he
was able to keep warm by his strenu-
ous work. After shoveling for almost
an hour he managed to clear a space
around the horse big enough to work
in and then unhitched the animal
from the sleigh. The horse managed
to struggle to its feet and leading it
Mr. Bilger finally made his way into
camp utterly exhausted.
Two of his men employed on the
lumbering job took a team of fresh
horses and with shovels went out and
dug the sleigh out and managed to
get it into camp. Mr. Bilger asserts
that it was the most thrilling exper-
ience he ever had in his life and does
not hesitate to admit that had the
wind been blowing a gale, as it fre-
quently has, he never could have stood
it, but would likely have perished on
the spot.
The same morning Israel Witten,
the junk dealer of Bellefonte, started
on a trip to Mr. Hoover’s, the forest
ranger in Green’s valley. He follow-
ed Mr. Bilger’s tracks on the main
road until the latter turned off on the
short road to his camp, but not being
acquainted with the route Witten
stuck to the main road and thus miss-
ed being of any assistance to Mr. Bil-
ger. Witten got through without a
mishap.
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——Hon. Harry B. Scott, of Phil-
ipsburg, has been appointed an assist-
ant fuel regulator for the district
composed of Centre county and por-
tions of Cambria, Indiana and Clear-
field counties. His duties will be to
look after an equitable distribution of
the coal from the mines within his
district and to see that a supply con-
signed to a certain place is not divert-
ed to another.
Gates’ Property is Destroyed.
The large stock barn on the George | —Dewey Reynolds, of Williamsport, was | with her niece.
H. Gates farm near Matternville was
entirely destroyed by fire between six
and seven o'clock last Friday even-
ing and with it went all of the con-
tents as well as eight head of horses,
three cows and a calf.
The farm is tenanted by Harry Car-
son and assisting him in conducting
the place is Stewart Gates, a brother
of George Harry Gates. The fire
started about 6:30 o’clock on Friday
evening when a lantern carried by
Stewart Gates while getting hay for
the horses exploded. In the barn were
seventeen head of horses and a num-
ber of cows. A supreme effort was
made to save the stock and nine
horses were gotten out safely but
eight were burned. The men were
also unable to save three cows and a
calf.
The year’s wheat crop in the barn
as well as a lot of hay and other feed
was also destroyed, with a number of
farming implements. The exact loss
or the amount of insurance carried
could not be obtained upon inquiry by
a “Watchman” representative.
Six National Army Men Sent to
Camp Meade.
Six National army men were sent
to Camp Meade yesterday morning by
the local exemption board, four of
them to fill out Centre county's eighty
per cent. quota and two former Cen-
tre county boys transferred here from
Detroit, Mich. The four called to
service to fill out the Centre county
quota are as follows:
Amos Fye, Waddle.
William Earl Musser, Lemont.
Howard Allen Andrew Dunlap, Port
Matilda.
Alvin Andrew Bohn, Oak Hall.
The two certified here from Detroit
who were sent along with the above
are John G. Ishler, of State College,
and Fred Yarnell, a son of Sheriff
George H. Yarnell.
The exemption board also transfer-
red Jacob Ralph Lee, of Spring Mills,
to Division 3, of New Orleans, La.,
where he has been working for some
time, to be sent to Camp Pike, Little
Rock, Ark.
The young men were given a fare-
well dinner by Sheriff Yarnell at the
Brockerhoff house on Wednesday
evening which was presided over by
burgess W. Harrison Walker. Other
guests present were Col. H. S. Tay-
lor, Edmund Blanchard, J. Will Con-
ley, J. Thomas Mitchell and Rash
Irvin,
The local exemption board is fairly
well along in the classifying of all
registrants in Centre county and
High school students, under the diree-
tion of supervising principal Jonas E.
Wagner are now assisting in classify-
ing all registrants as regards occu-
pations, ete., which was one of the re-
quirements made under the ruling in
December. This is made necessary
in order to get a record of all regis-
trants so that if they may be needed
for any kind of work or duty aside of
military duty they can be immediate-
ly requisitioned.
In connection with this work it
might be stated that the Bellefonte
hospital, being on the list of such in-
stitutions in the State that had been
tendered the government for any use
it could be put to, an advisory board
of three physicians, namely: Drs. M.
J. Locke, J. L. Seibert and M. W.
Reed, was appointed, and one of the
duties assigned the board was the ex-
amination of all young men now re-
siding in Centre county but who had
registered in other places. The local
exemption board petitioned against
Dr. Reed serving on the advisory
board on account of being a member
of the local board and Drs. Locke and
Seibert declined the appointment on
the advisory board, so at present there
is no advisory board to make the ex-
aminations referred to and the work
will likely be performed by the medic-
al officers of the local board, such of
it as has not been done already.
Two More Sent to Jail.
At a brief session of court last Sat-
urday afternoon Joe Woods, the man
who was arrested at Orviston last
week for stealing $75.25 and a silver
watch from Emerson Confer, plead
guilty to three counts, entering a
dwelling to commit a larceny, larceny
and receiving stolen goods. He was
sentenced on the first count to six
months in the county jail and sen-
tence was suspended on the other two
counts.
Clarence Shirk plead guilty to a
charge preferred by Miss Crissie
Emenhizer, of Milesburg, and was
given the usual sentence.
Business Movings.
Editor Charles E. Dorworth has
leased the rooms on High street cecu-
pied by Miss Marvin's millinery and
will move the Republican office there
when he vacates the rooms he now
occupies in the Olewine and Smith
building adjoining the McClain block.
Clarence F. Tate, the plumber, has
leased the room in Petrikin hall now
occupied by the McSuley paper store
and will move there on or about April
first.
——Bellefonte residents will re-
gret to learn of the death of Harry
Parker, manager of the famous Re-
pasz band, of Williamsport, who drop-
ped dead on the street Saturday even-
ing. Mr. Parker was married to Miss
Elsie Herkimer, of this place, who
survives with a number of children.
Flat for Rent.—Inquire of Lyon &
Co. 5-1t
| NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
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. Horses and Cattle Perish When G. H.| —Mrs. John Pearl returned last week !
| from a ten day's visit with friends in Al-
! toona.
a visitor in Bellefonte the early
the week.
—Dr. Walter Stewart, of Wilkes-Barre,
was a week-end guest of his mother, Mrs.
Miller Stewart.
—William Kerin, of Moshannon, trans-
acted business in Bellefonte the latter
| part of the week.
—Mrs. Christ Beezer went out to Pitts-
burgh on Saturday to visit with her sis-
ter, Mrs. A. J. Benson.
—Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Miller, of east
High street, had as week-end guests Mrs.
Ray Strunk, of Tyrone, and her two chil-
dren.
—Mrs. Charles Martin and two children,
Irvin and Marie, went to Tyrone on Mon-
day to attend the funeral of a distant rel-
ative.
—Judge Henry C. Quigley went out to
Pittsburgh on Sunday where for the
fourth time he will spend two weeks hold-
ing court.
—Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wright are liv-
ing at the Bush house while packing their
household goods preparatory to leaving
Bellefonte.
—Russell Jury, of Cleveland, Ohio, came
to Bellefonte last week to spend his win-
ter vacation visiting here with relatives
and friends.
—Mrs. Robert Strunk is in Centre Hall,
called there by the serious condition of
her sister, Mrs. Isaac Smith, who has been
ill with pneumonia.
—Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Gheen and their
small son were guests the fore part of the
week of Mr. Gheen’s brother, Clarence
Gheen and his family, at Antes Fort.
—C. D. Casebeer accompanied Mrs. Case-
beer and their daughter Betty to Somerset
Saturday, where Mrs. Casebeer and the
child will visit during the extreme weath-
er.
part of
—Mrs. Thomas A. Shoemaker will leave
this week for Camp Hancock to spend two
weeks with her son, Lieut. Philip Shoe-
maker, with the 107th Machine Gun Bat-
talion.
—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Carpeneto return-
ed home on Wednesday from Kingston,
N. Y., where they had been called on ac-
count of the death of Mrs. Carpeneto’s
mother.
—Mrs. Thomas Gramley, of Altoona, was
in Bellefonte over night the after part of
last week, on her way to Oak Hall, for a
short stay with her daughter, Mrs. Ross
Louder.
—Mrs. Henry Weaver has moved from
Mrs. Newcomer's to the Bush house, where
Mr. Weaver, who is employed at the new
western penitentiary, joins her for the
week-ends.
—Miss Adaline Robb, of Wilkinsburg,
is with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Robb.
Miss Robb came to Bellefonte before
Christmas, expecting to remain at home
until April.
—Mrs. Charles Moerschbacher was in
Philadelphia last week, having gone down
for thé funeral of her brother, Charles
Wadlinger, who died at his home in that
place Monday.
—Hardman P. Harris has closed his
house, leaving yesterday for an indefinite
stay with his brothers, Wilbur and John,
in Harrisburg, and with Mr. and Mrs.
James Harris, in Reading.
—Mrs. Mabel Huber, of State College,
visited here for the week-end as a guest
of her cousin, Mrs. Della Miller. Both
women attended the funeral of Henry Ir-
win, at Unionville, Sunday.
—Mrs. W. H. Tate will return to Belle-
fonte next month to look after some busi-
ness and to make arrangements for going
to Philadelphia, where she will make her
home with her mother and sister.
—Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Mitchell have
been at the Brockerhoff house since the
closing down of the steam heat plant, ex-
pecting to remain there until. a boiler is
installed in their house on Allegheny
street.
—H., E. Homan, of Centre Hall, was
among those who defied the weather and
drove to Bellefonte during the week. Al-
though making the trip over the moun-
tain safely, he says he never so nearly
perished in his life.
—Mrs. M. C. Gephart spent Friday and
Saturday here on her way to Millheim for
an indefinite stay with Mr. Gephart’s rel-
atives. Mrs. Gephart had been visiting
with her brother and his family in Johns-
town, since leaving Bellefonte.
—Mrs. James C. Wian and her adopted
daughter, Virginia, left Tuesday morning
to return to Philadelphia, where they will
be for an indefinite time with Mrs. Wian’s
daughter, Mrs. Aukerbrand. Mrs. Wian
has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. H.
Wian during her stay in Bellefonte.
—Owing to the closing down of the
Steam Heat works, the Misses Benner
were obliged to leave their home Satur-
day, being guests of Mr. and Mrs. James
R. Hughes over Sunday. Upon leaving
the Academy they went to the Brocker-
hoff house, where they will live for the
present, expecting to go to Atlantic City
for, the after part of the winter.
—Lloyd Wilson, who for some time past
has been telegraph operator at Mount Un-
ion, was a Bellefonte visitor over Tuesday
night, having stopped here to see his
friends while returning from a trip to
Sunbury. Mr. Wilson was on the selec-
tive registration list to be called on or
about February 23rd, but asked that he be
put on the list to be sent to Camp Lee
this week and the sheriff of Huntingdon
county accommodated him and he went to
the training camp yesterday.
—Miss Jane Hafer, who had been doing
Red Cross work in France since last
spring, arrived at Newport News on Jan-
uary 23rd, returning home with sixty oth-
er patients, all of whom had broken down
under the strenuous war work in Europe.
Miss Hafer had been in care of a special
nurse for eight weeks and with the other
patients was taken to the U. 8. General
hospital at Fort Mc Henry, at Baltimare,
where She will be until able to join her
sister, Mrs. Bidwell, in New York.
—Mrs. William Galway, of Radford,
Virginia; Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur ¥. Harris
and Mr. and Mrs, John Tonner Harris, of
Harrisburg; James Harris, of Reading;
Dr. and Mrs. Edward Harris, of Snow
Shoe; George S. Reinoehl, Division Man-
ager of the Bell Telephone at Harrisburg;
BE. G. Mateer, District Manager at Altoona;
K. C. Kaup, District Manager at Williams-
port and S. H. Urian, District Traffic Su-
perintendent at Williamsport, were all in
Bellefonte yesterday for the funeral of
Mrs. Henry P. Harris.
CHRO,
| —Mr. and Mrs. G. Fred Musser will
| leave Sunday for New York, where Mr.
Musser will look after some business per-
j taining to the Danenhower Wholesale Gro-
{ cery house, while Mrs. Musser will visit
Upon leaving there they
{ will spend a short time with relatives in
{ Philadelphia before returning to Belle-
| fonte.
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To the Housekeepers of Bellefonte
and Vicinity.
The Retail Grocers’ association of
Bellefonte wish to call your attention
to a matter that concerns both your-
selves and us and which we think is
of first importance just at this time.
We refer to the free delivery system;
you may not have given the subject
much attention, but those who are ca-
pable of judging, and after careful ex-
amination, are of the opinion that the
system (or rather lack of system) as
now conducted by us cannot long en-
dure; if it is not reformed and care-
fully systematized it will soon break
down under its own weight.
There are now more than twenty
firms delivering food and household
supplies to the people of Bellefonte
and adjacent territory. This requires
the whole or a large part of the time
of from twenty to twenty-five men,
which, with the costs of gasoline,
other incidental expenses and the up-
keep of trucks, is now costing more
than fifteen thousand dollars a year
for the one item of free delivery
alone in a comparatively small neigh-
borhood. We think this is a higher
cost and more elaborate service than
is rendered in any community of
equal size.
- We think you will readily recog-
nize the need of reform.
We have no thought of laying down
any arbitrary rules, but we appeal to
you as friends and patrons to give us
your help and co-operation; alone we
could hardly succeed, but with your
approval and help we cannot fail.
Our proposed plan is that all or-
ders received up to 9 o'clock a. m. will
be delivered not later than 12 o’clock
noon; all orders received up to 3 p.
m. will be delivered not later than 6
p. m.; this to include but one delivery
to any house on the same day.
This may at first sight seem like a
severe curtailment of service, but it
certainly is fair and reasonable.
The United States government has
in contemplation a far more radical
reduction in the delivery service than
the plan we propose.
We think it would be wise that both
parties co-operate and try to main-
tain the service as herein proposed.
It is our purpose to put this plan
into operation Monday, February
11th.
We hope and trust we may receive
your cordial approval and co-opera-
tion in this matter.
Yours to help win the war,
RETAIL GROCER’S ASSOCIATION.
——The Senior class of the Walker
township High school will serve a
chicken and noodle supper in the High
school room on the evening of Wash-
ington’s birthday. The public is in-
vited.
Sale Register.
February 28, 1918—At the residence of W.
H. Coldwell on the Aaron Hall farm, 3%
miles north of Unionville, on the Rattle-
snake road, 10 head horses and colts, 6
cows, 9 young cattle, brood sows, shoats
and full line of farm implements. Sale
at 10 a. m. IL. F. Mayes, auctioneer.
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer
The prices quoted are those paid for produce.
Potatoes per bushel.....c......cccceinerrsirrrarern $1
Eggs, per dozen...
Lard, per pound
Butter, per pound.
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
The following are the quotations up tosix o'clock
Thursday evening, when our paper goes to press.
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Rye, per bushel...............
Corn, shelled, per bushel.
Corn, ears, per bushel.....
Oats, old and new, per b
Barley, per bushel.
Philadelphia Markets.
The following are the closing prices of the
Philadelphia markets on Wednesday evening:
Wheat—Red... $217@ 2.19
* —No. 2 2.15@ 2.17
Corm —Yellow.. 35@ 2.40
“ —Mixed new 2.30@ 2.25
ORES... series rirsissiasisiurarssrasnssiussonts 91@ 42
Flour—Winter, per barrel. 10.10@10.25
‘“ —Favorite Brands.. 11.00@11.25
RyeF lour, ber barrel..... 9.75@10.60
Baled Hay—Choice Timot! 15.00@ 29.00
te r “Mixed No. lL....... 22.50@28.00
SEIAW 1... ict iaciinsnssiessasins 14.00@18.00
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