Bellefonte, Pa., February 22, 1918.
P. GRAY MEEK, - -
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MANY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
INSPECTED.
Work Done by Inspector Deemer T.
Pearce During 1917.
Any person who thinks the position
of inspector of weights and measures
in Centre county is a soft job can eas-
ily have his mind disabused of that
fact by glancing over the work done
by inspector Deemer T. Pearce during
the year 1917. All told he examined
just 646 scales and measures, which
would be an average of over two a
day in the year, and to do this he had
to travel all over Centre county. Of
the above number 525 were found cor-
rect and sealed, fifty were adjusted
and 67 were found incorrect and con-
demned. There were two prosecutions
during the year, but the reason for
same was not given. Following is a
statement of the work done:
Cor Incor
and and
Srd Cn’d Adj
Mine geales......x. L000 12 4 3
Hopper scales............ 4
Wagon scales............ 17 9 1
Other platform scales.... 50 10 1
Counter: scales............ 20 8 1
Spring balances........... 7 3 x
Beam scales. cou... 4 1 5
Computing seales........ 62 1 9
Dry wmeasures,........... 13 13
Liquid measures......... 41 10
Milk jors,................ 40
Gas ‘pumps............. vibe 17 2 6
Yard sticks. .............. 6
Avoirdupois weights. .... 236 6 23
Tofal..........:. 529 67 50
Among the Soldier Boys.
A. Linn McGinley Jr., arrived
home very unexpectedly on Tuesday
evening and brought with him a story
of good luck that is very gratifying
to his parents and friends. The young
man was among the first bunch of
High school ‘boys to enlist early last
summer for service in the navy and
has evidently made good on the job.
Recently the Navy Department decid-
ed to reward those patriotic and am-
bitious young men who were quick
to respond when there was a call for
service by sending them to Annapo-
lis. In order to make the selection a
competitive one one thousand young
men were selected and sent to their
homes, on full pay, to spend two
months in study and on April 15th
they will report to Annapolis for ex-
amination and the one hundred rank-
ing highest will be assigned to An-
napolis for a three year’s course.
Young McGinley was one of eight se-
lected from the battleship Minnesota
and he will at once enter the High
school for a two month’s course in
study of the special branches assign-
ed. Naturally all his friends hope he
will make good and secure the much-
coveted appointment.
Willard Eckel, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John P. Eckel, returned home on Sun-
day evening from Camp Hancock,
having been discharged from the
108th "gun troop on account of his
age, he being less than seventeen
years old. -
Beware of the Ttinerant Peddler.
One day last week a stranger of
decidedly foreign nativity canvassed
Bellefonte selling small packages of
sachet powder.
he did not have a grip or package of
any kind but carried the powder done
up in small envelopes in his coat pock-
et and became very indignant when
the lady of the house refused to buy.
So far as could be learned he did not
do a thriving business and some of
the few who did purchase were afraid
to use the powder and threw it in the
stove.
While in this case the powder may
have been all right there is just a
possibility that it may have been mix-
ed with some poisonous matter. In
these days it is the wisest policy to
shun the itinerant peddler of any
commodity of that kind and make
your purchases through a reputable
local dealer. It is the one way of be-
ing sure of what you buy.
In this connection it might be
added that burgess W. Harrison
Walker has decided to refuse licenses
to any stranger who comes into Belle-
fonte to sell a commodity the exact
nature of which is unknown, or even
in doubt, and this in itself will be
some protection to the innocent citi-
zen who might be persuaded by a
smooth-tongued individual into buy-
ing something because he was selling
it at a price cheaper than the staple
article can be bought for.
mae ee ll erin
State College Scholarships.
McAllister scholarships at The
Pennsylvania State College will be
awarded this year to students from
Cameron, Centre, Juniata, Mifflin and
Wyoming counties. These five coun-
ties show the highest ratio of stu-
dents enrolled in the college to the to-
tal population of the counties.
High school principals will conduct
competitive examinations to select
candidates for the scholarships. Tests
will be given in United States history,
plane geometry, algebra to quadratics,
civil government, English grammar
and English classics.
The scholarships were established
by. Dr. and Mrs. T. R. Hayes, of Belle-
fonte. They are valid for one year,
beginning next September. Exam-
inations will be held and appointments
will be made before June 1st.
——They are all good enough, but
the “Watchman” is always the best.
Sudden Death of Rev. John Hewitt.
Unlike most peddlers
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A telegram received in Bellefonte |
on Tuesday from Coldwater, Mich. |
announced the death there that morn-
ing of Rev. John Hewitt, a former .
rector of St. John’s Episcopal church !
in Bellefonte and who was quite well
known throughout Pennsylvania. The
cause and manner of his death is un-
known at this writing. Funeral serv- |
ices were held and burial made at:
Coldwater, Mich., yesterday after-
noon.
Rev. Hewitt was about seventy-four !
years old and was born in England,
his father being an Episcopal rector. !
When he was but a child his parents |
came to this country and settled in|
the mountains of North Carolina and |
it was there his boyhood was spent, !
his father and mother looking after |
his early education. When fifteen |
years old his parents moved to Balti- |
more and there he had the advantage |
of two years of college. His health |
at that time being none of the best |
he went into the country and rented |
a small farm which he cultivated him- |
self and pursued his studies for the |
ministry, and thus through his own |
indomitable will so equipped himself |
that he was ordained to the ministry
at the age of twenty-two.
He then went south and engaged in
teaching returning later to the Man-
ual Labor school in Maryland and
then in succession taught at Burling-
ton College in New Jersey, Latin at
a private school in Mississippi, from
whence he came to Bloomsburg as
principal of the State Normal school.
At that time his parents lived at Sun-
bury and it was there they died and
are buried. From Bloomsburg he came
to Bellefonte in 1887 as rector of the
Episcopal church, remaining here
nine years. On leaving here he went
to Lincoln, Neb., where he not only
officiated as a minister but founded
and was principal of a preparatory
school to the State University of
Nebraska. From Nebraska he return-
ed to Columbus, Ohio, and in 1911
came to Bellefonte a second time as
rector of the Episcopal church. He
remained here until June, 1914, when
he resigned his pastorate and went to
Sunbury as a supply rector. From
there he went to Erie and later to
Coldwater, Mich., his last appoint-
ment.
Although raised in the atmosphere
of the southeran confederacy, and
having been a soldier in the confed-
erate army, Rev. Hewitt later became
a member of the G. A. R. and was an
enthusiastic worker in the same all
his life. During his residence in
Nebraska he served as Grand Com-
mander of the organization in that
State. He was also an enthusiastic
member of the Masonic fraternity
and during his first residence in Belle-
fonte was elected to the office of
Grand Prelate and was again elevat-
ed to the same rank during his sec-
ond residence here. Ba,
Having” traveled ~ widely through
this country he naturally at one time
or another came in contact with many
of the great men of his day and had
thus achieved a wonderful knowledge
of state and national affairs. He was
broadminded in all his viewpoints of
life and a most agreeable and com-
panionable gentleman at all times. In
1914 he waged a campaign in this
district as the peoples’ candidate for
Congress but withdrew before the pri-
mary election.
He was married to Miss Margaret
Pierson, of Baltimore, and she sur-
vives with ‘two sons, Charles, of Al-
bany, N. Y., and Stafford, in Georgia.
He also leaves one sister and a broth-
er, Mrs. Susie Broughton and Dr.
Hewitt, both in the west.
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CUPP.—Mrs. Eliza Cupp, one of
the best known women of Warriors-
mark valley, died at her home at Cen-
tre Line at an early hour Wednesday
morning as the result of a stroke of
paralysis sustained last Friday morn-
ing while attending to her regular
household duties.
She was a daughter of the late Cy-
rus and Margaret Chronister, early
settlers at Centre Line, where she was
born on January 31st, 1841, making
her age 77 years and 20 days. Her
entire life was spent in the vicinity of
her birth. She was a charter member
of the Centre Line Methodist church
and was always one of the hardest
workers in its behalf. Over sixty
years ago she was united in marriage
to Henry Cupp, who was ninety years
old yesterday, and he survives with
the following children: Mrs. Harry
Branstetter, Mrs. George Rumberger
and Mrs. Harry Gensimore, of War-
riorsmark valley; Mrs. Irene Newlin,
of Tyrone, and Edgar Cupp, living on
a farm near Tyrone. She also leaves
one brother, Jacob Chronister, of Ty-
rone.
Funeral services will be held in the
Centre Line Methodist church at ten
o’clock tomorrow morning by Rev.
Wardner W. Willard, after which
burial will be made in the Centre Line
cemetery. ;
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KNOX.—Mrs. Sarah J. Knox, wife
of James Knox, died at her home on
Buffalo Run on Tuesday evening fol-
lowing four week’s illness with heart
trouble. Her maiden name was Sa-
rah Armagast and she was born in
Benner township over seventy years
ago. When a girl she became a mem-
ber of the Presbyterian church and
had been a faithful worshiper in the
same ever since. In addition to her
husband she is survived by three chil:
dren, namely: Miss Lulu A, at home;
Henry, in Ohio, and Miss Damarius, a
seamstress located in Philadelphia.
Funeral services will be held at her
late home this (Friday) morning and
burial will be made in the Meyers
cemetery.
——Subseribe for the “Watchman.”
WHEN THE WAR WILL END.
(Anonymous.)
Absolute knowledge have I none
But my aunt’s washerwoman’s son
Heard a policeman on his beat
Say to a laborer on the street
That he had a letter just last week,
Written in the finest Greek
From a Chinese coolie in Timbuctoo,
Who said that the niggers in Cuba knew
Of a colored man in a Texas town
Who got it straight from a circus clown,
That a man in the Klondike heard the news
From a bunch of South American stews
About some one in Borneo
Who heard of a man who claimed to know
Of a swell society female rake
Whose mother-in-law
will undertake
To prove that her seventh lying spouse
Has started the news
from house to house’
That he has a son who has a friena
Who knows just when the war will end.
Lanning Irvin Died from Kick of a
Colt.
Lanning Irvin, for years a well
known farmer of Union township,
died at 7:45 o'clock on Wednesday
morning as the result of injuries sus-
tained on Monday evening when he
was kicked in the stomach by a colt
he was leading to water. After being
kicked Mr. Irvin was able to walk to
the house and summon a physician
who at once saw that his injuries were
likely to prove fatal, but every effort
was made to save his life. The doc-
tor’s skill, however, did not avail and
he died on Wednesday morning.
Mr. Irvin was a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Taylor Irvin and was born in Union
township on February 20th, 1854,
hence was almost sixty-four years of
age. His entire life was spent on the
farm in Union township until the past
two years, during which time he oc-
cupied the Boggs township poor farm
near Snow Shoe Intersection. He had
been a member of the United Breth-
ren church the past twenty-five years
and was a good citizen in every way.
He was twice married, his first wife
having been Miss Emma Lucas, to
whom he had two children, E. C. Ir-
vin, of Altoona, and Mrs. Harris
Hugg, of Fleming. His first wife
died in 1889 and four years later he
married Miss Lydia Miller who sur-
vives with the following children:
Edan, Ethel and Florence, all at home.
He also leaves five brothers and one
sister, namely: Marner Irvin, of
Swissvale; Harry and John, of Pitts-
burgh; William, of Coney Island;
Samuel, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs.
{ William Bush, of Clearfield.
Revs. Orlidge and Piper will have
charge of the funeral which will be
held at ten o’clock tomorrow morning,
burial to be made in the Stover cem-
etery near Unionville.
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TYSON.—Amos. O. Tyson, a for-
mer Ferguson township resident, died
last Friday afternoon at his home in
Greensburg following a lingering ill-
ness. He was a son of Samuel and
Mary Hamer Tyson, early settlers of
Spring township, where he was born
on August 8th, 1841. In the spring of
1865 the family moved to Ferguson
township and engaged in farming.
Following the death of his parents he
took over the farm and worked it un-
til 1909 when he sold out and moved
to Greensburg where he engaged in
truck farming.
He was united in marriage to Miss
Margaret Aston, who died in 1888,
leaving him with four sons and two
daughters. He also leaves one broth-
er, James G. Tyson, of Howard. He
was a member of the Methodist church
for sixty-five years, had held the of-
fice of steward and for many years
was a teacher in the Sunday school.
He was a most progressive Granger
and a past master of Washington
Grange.
The remains were brought to Cen-
tre county on Monday afternoon and
taken direct to the Reformed church
‘at Pine Hall where funeral services
were held by Rev. Homer Hadden, of
Greensburg, after which burial was
made in the Pine Hall cemetery.
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MARKLE.—John Markle, a native
of Centre county, but who had been a
resident ‘of Tyrone the past nine
years, died at his home in that place
on Monday morning following an ill-
ness of about six months with can-
cer.
He was a son of the late Jesse and
Nancy Kuhn Markle and was born at
Boalsburg on March 2nd, 1856, mak-
ing his age almost sixty-two years.
His early life was spent on the farm
but nine years ago he went to Tyrone
and secured employment with the
West Virginia Pulp and Paper com-
pany where he remained until over-
come by illness.
On September 15th, 1878, he was
united in marriage to Miss Alice Ir-
win, at Boalsburg, and she survives
with two children, James C. Markle,
of Bridgeport, Conn., and Mrs. R. R.
Krebs, of Altoona. He also leaves
two brothers and two sisters, namely:
Joseph Markle, of White Deer; George
C., of Linden Hall; Miss Margaret, of
Boalsburg, and Mrs. Anna Klinefel-
ter, of Tusseyville.
Mr. Markle was a member of the
First Methodist church, of Tyrone,
and Rev. A. S. Fasick will have charge
of the funeral which will be held at
2:30 o’clock this (Friday) afternoon,
burial to be made in the Eastlawn
cemeiery, Tyrone.
——-Subseribe for the “Watchman.”
SMITH.—Spring Mills lost a good
citizen on Wednesday of last week in
the death of Robert Smith, who pass-
ed away following an.illness of some
months with arterio sclerosis.
He was a son of Charles and Eliz- |
abeth Schnure Smith and was born
near Fiedler postoffice on February
bth, 1841, hence was 77 years and 8
days old. He was the youngest of a
family of five children and at eighteen
years of age, after securing what ed-
ucation he could in the subscription
schools of that period, he engaged to
learn the carpenter trade with Squire
Rinehart and after working one year
started out on his own hook as a jour-
neyman. Having a desire to see as
much of this country as possible he
went on the hunt of a job and during
the ensuing twelve or thirteen years
worked in many places from the At-
lantic to the Pacific, in both northern
and southern States. In 1873, weary-
"ing of his unsettled life but with a
, mind well filled with the best ideas of
i his trade he returned to Centre coun-
ty and went to work for W. V.
! Hughes, in Bellefonte. In one year
he had shown such marked ability as
a workman that he was made fore-
man, a position he held over thirteen
years, during which time he had
charge of the construction of many
buildings in Bellefonte and elsewhere.
In 1886 he took the contract for the
erection of the Reformed church at
Aaronsburg and it now stands a mon-
ument to his skill. On the comple-
tion of that edifice he went to Cali-
fornia where he spent two years, re-
turning early in 1889 and resuming
his old position with W. V. Hughes.
It. was during that year, or after the:
ed the building of the Johnstown li-
brary and the Cambria Iron compa-
'ny’s big store in Johnstown.
! In 1891 he resigned his position
; with Mr. Hughes and the following
| year moved to Spring Mills where he
purchased from the Barcroft estate
i the old Spring Mills hotel on the hill,
which he disposed of in 1896, two
!store buildings and two residences,
!all of which he put in good repair and
| then retired from active life. He was
a member of the Reformed church
and had held the offices of deacon and
lelder. He was also a member of the
! Bellefonte Lodge I. O. O. F. In poli-
| tics he was a Republican and his first
vote was cast for Lincoln in 1864.
In 1890 he was married in Belle-
!fonte to Miss Emma Heckman, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John F.
Heckman, of Penn Hall, who survives
with two daughters, Mrs. William
Harter, of Altoona, and Miss Ruth, at
home. He also leaves one brother,
Charles Smith, aged 85 years, living
about a mile east of Aaronsburg.
Funeral services were held at his
late home at ten o’clock on Monday
morning, by Rev. R. Raymond Jones,
after which burial was made in the
Heckman cemetery near Spring Mills.
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BERRY.—Mrs. Etta Berry, wife of
Thomas Berry, died at her home near
Beech Creek shortly before six o’clock
on Friday evening following an acute
attack of bronchitis. Her maiden
name was Glossner and she was born
in Liberty”township, this county, fif-
ty-two years ago. She was a member
of the Disciple church at Blanchard
the past twenty years and was an ex-
cellent christian woman.
In addition to her husband she is
survived by three daughters and a
son, namely: Mrs. Alva Miller, of
Monument; Mrs. Rembrandt Welsh,
of Lock Haven; Amy and Roosevelt
Berry at home. She also leaves five
brothers and two sisters as follows:
Fred and Samuel Glossner, of Beech
Creek; John and Daniel, of Lock Ha-
ven; A. U., in Bald Eagle township,
Clinton county; Mrs. George Bitner,
of Beech Creek, and Mrs. Minnie
Shaffer, of Lock Haven.
Funeral services were held in the
Disciple church at Blanchard at two
o'clock on Monday afternoon by Rev.
Dudley, after which burial was made
in the Disciple cemetery.
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WISE.—William F. Wise, a promi-
nent resident of Tyrone, died at the
Altoona hospital last Thursday night
after two week’s illness with nephri-
tis, aged 64 years, 1 month and 28
days. He was a native of Dauphin
county but located in Tyrone in 1881
and engaged in scenic painting. It
was he who did the first scenic paint-
ing in Garman’s opera house when it
was built in the latter eighties. Later
he qualified as an architect and build-
er and continued in that line of work
&
until his death. He was a thirty-sec-
ond degree Mason and a member of
the Elks. Burial was made at Ly-
kens, Dauphin county, on Monday
afternoon.
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GROVE.—MTrs. Sarah Neesc Grove,
widow of the late William Grove, of
Benner township, died on Tuesday
evening at the home of her son, E.
Howard Grove, near Centre Hall, fol-
lowing a brief illness with congestion
| of the lungs and heart trouble.
She was a daughter of David and
Susanna Kerstetter Neese and was
born in Gregg township on November
4th, 1842, hence at her death was 76
years, 3 months and 15 days old. She
dren, her ancestors being among the
early settlers of Pennsvalley. She
was united in marriage to William L.
Grove in 1861, he dying three years
ago. Surviving her, however, are the
following children: E. Howard
Grove, of Centre Hall; Mrs. Alice
Moyer, of Punxsutawney; Mrs. D. M.
Shearer, of Reynoldsville; William H.,
of Coburn; John S., of Bellefonte, and
Mrs. Warren Minnemyer, of Coleville.
She also leaves one brother, Emanuel
Neese, of Penn Hall.
Rev. C. C. Shuey will have charge
of the funeral which will be held at
ten o'clock this (Friday) morning,
burial to be made in the Meyers cem-
etery on Buffalo Run.
War Savings and Thrift Stamps.
| From the weekly report of sales of
war savings and thrift stamps, end-
ing February 9th, I find that Centre
county had an increase of 2 cents per
person for that week.
In this report it was noticed that
several other counties had passed
the $1.00 per person mark, and those
that had exceeded the $1.00 mark, as
indicated by the report of last week,
made material gains.
In an editorial in the State College
Times I find that the borough of State
College has purchased $2.27 per per-
son, although the entire county has
purchased but 55c. per person.
Certain sections of this county are
doing considerable toward the pur-
chase of these stamps, while from oth-
er sections I have reports to the ef-
fect that even the postmasters are un-
able to sell a single thrift or savings
stamp. There is something radically
wrong in these several localities, and
they should waken up to their duty
as patriotic citizens, and comply in a
reasonable way with the request of
the government, in the purchase of
these government securities.
A letter, in which was enclosed
posters, circulars, etc., has gone for-
ward to every minister, Sunday school
superintendent and school teacher in
the county and they are expected to
do their duty in advocating the sale
of these stamps.
Centre county is expected to form
| 140 war savings societies. The Belle--
Johnstown flood, that he superintend- |
fonte High school has organized the
| first society of this character, and has
elected William W. Sieg president,
{and Mary E. Taylor secretary. There
{should be one of these societies in
i every church, High school and town-
ship, and the, people to whom these
circulars have been sent are the ones
the government expects to form these
societies.
i All the information desired by the
people of Centre county, relative to
these government securities, may be
obtained either by calling, or by ad-
dressing a letter to the chairman.
Additional posters, circulars, etc., are
here for the public, and for those in-
terested in government securities.
Every newspaper will receive week-
ly, if possible, a report from Centre
county, and if you will, therefore, re-
tain your local papers from week to
week, you will observe the advance-
ment made.
W. HARRISON
Chairman War Savings
Centre County.
Junior Red Cross Drive.
WALKER,
Committee for
A big drive is now on in Centre
county for members for the Junior
Red Cross. It began on Lincoln’s
birthday and was to continue until
Washington’s birthday but the time
has now been extended to next Mon-
day. The managers desire, however,
to have all reports sent in on Monday
so that a full compilation can be
made by February 28th. This drive
kis being made particularly in the
public schools of Centre county and
when completed every one of the
eight hundred children in the schools
of Bellefonte will be enrolled as mem-
bers. 2
All those who can afford to do so
are willingly paying the twenty-five
cents, which is the membership fee
in the Junior branch of the Red Cross,
and those who can’t afford to give the
money their fee will be paid out of
the fund raised by the entertainment
given at the High school building last
Friday evening, when the pupils from
the old brick building very ably pre-
sented “The Princess Chrysanthe-
mum.” The amount cleared at the
entertainment was just $120.00, and
as much ‘of it as necessary will be
used in taking out memberships in
the Junior Red Cross for pupils who
really can’t afford to pay the mem-
bership fee and the balance be turn-
ed over to the Red Cross.
In publishing the cast of leading
characters in the play last week the
“Watchman” unintentionally omitted
one of the leading charact>rs, “The
Emperor,” which was very ably taken
by Edward Miller.
——Frank Sapko, nineteen years
old, was brought to the hospital from
Snow Shoe on Wednesday morning.
He was suffering with a broken collar
bone received by having been caught
between a mine car and the side of
i the mine opening in which he was
working.
was one of a family of twelve chil--
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Substitutes for Wheat Flour Hard to
Obtain.
The “Watchman” is a firm and con-
scientious advocate of the conserva-
tion of all food stuffs, but especially
wheat and its constituent parts, as it
is so much needed for our soldiers in
France and to help feed our allies,
but so many complaints have come to
this office of the inability of custom-
ers to get the desired substitutes for
flour, and the high price of same that
a visit was made to one of the town’s
leading grocery stores on Tuesday
just to find out the exact situation.
Following is a list of the substitutes
given for use instead of flour and
of which the customer is required to
purchase pound for pound with wheat
flour:
Cornmeal Cornstarch
Corn Flour Hominy
Corngrits Barley Flour
Rice Rice Flour
Oatmeal Rolled Oats
Buckwheat Flour Potato Flour
Sweet Potato Flour Soy Bean Flour
Feterita Flours and Meals
As named above, fifteen substi-
tutes are given for use instead of
wheat flour and of that number only
five were in stock in the grocery store
and they only in limited quantities,
while the price of each was almost
double that of wheat flour. The five
substitutes in stock and the price are
as follows:
Cornmeal, S8¢ per 1b., 10 lbs. 6Cc.
Cornstarch, per 1b., 12¢.
Rice, per 1lb., 121%ec.
Oatmeal, 10c¢ per lb., 3 lbs. 25¢.
Buckwheat flour, 12 1bs., $1.00.
And in the case of buckwheat flour
an advance is imminent to $1.50 for
a 12 lb. sack. Rye flour will be in the
market after March 3rd, but what the
price of it will be could not be given.
Now as a comparison, a 24 lb. sack
of wheat flour costs today $1.40, while
the same quantity of corn meal, the
cheapest substitute above named,
costs $1.52, while the others run from
$2.00 to $3.00 for 24 Ibs. And at that,
the grocer claimed, the few substi-
tutes on hand were hard to get and a
rise in their price was imminent.
Whether anything can be done to
change the situation is a question un-
known to the writer, but it certainly
is a matter that should be looked in-
to by the Food Commission, both na-
tional and State. There are few peo-
ple, indeed, who are not patriotic
enough to do all they can to conserve
the food supply, but there are some
people in every community who can ill
afford to pay the high price demand-
ed for wheat flour substitutes.
rere moraines
Bellefonte Housewives Fleeced by Fe-
male Dupe.
A number of Bellefonte housewives
are anxiously watching for the wom-
an who sold them good-sized bills of
remarkably cheap supplies on Thurs-
day of last week, collected partial
payments on same but so far has fail-
ed to deliver any of the goods. The
woman visited various homes last
Thursday and took orders for pro-
duce, offering eggs at 25 cents a doz-
en, country ham at 20 cents a pound
and potatoes at $1.00 a bushel.
She represented herself as being
the wife of a farmer living near State
College and gave as the reason why
she did not sell her produce at the
stores in that place the fact that she
preferred selling direct to the consum-
er and giving them the advantage of
the margin of profit that the stores
were taking. Wherever she got an
order she collected money, in amounts
ranging from ninety cents to as high
as five dollars, and for such payment
she gave a receipt signed with the
name of Helen Lawrence. The pro-
duce was all to be delivered last Fri-
day.
When Friday passed around and no
produce was forthcoming some of the
women who had been fleeced reported
the matter to the police and an inves-
tigation showed that the woman in
question came to Bellefonte on Wed-
nesday and spent the night at one of
the leading hotels of the town where
she registered as “Mrs. James Woods,
Tyrone.” After canvassing the town
on Thursday and making a good day’s
work of it, she took supper at another
hotel where she registered as “Mrs.
James Woods, Lock Haven.” She left
Bellefonte on the train east Thursday
evening and is probably at this time
selling cheap produce in some other
town.
Police officials are of the opinion
that she had a male accomplice with
her but have not been able to trace
the fact definitely.
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Test Your Seed Corn.
R. H. Olmstead agent of the county
Farm Bureau says we have received
further results from our seed corn
survey which brings very discourag-
ing results. To date we have tested
27 cribs of corn which have given the
following results on the basis of per
cent. germination: 89, 23, 55, 93, 82,
96, 50, 85, 100, 82, 92, 67, 72, 90, 75,
63, 25, 65, 64, 67, 41, 39, 83, 83, 92,
92, 64.
The question arises as to what per
cent. germination can one afford to
plant. We will say that it takes 15
ears to plant an acre with an average
yield of 90 bushels. Every ear you
plant is equal to a yield of 6 bushels
or in other words every ear you plant
is worth approximately $10.00. Can
you therefore afford to plant any seed
below 100 per cent. germination? It
brings the fact further home that
every single ear should be tested in
order to get a perfect stand as far as
the seed is concerned.
If you are interested in testing your
seed corn and need any information
call or write the Farm Bureau, Belle-
fonte, Pa.
——The regular session of the Feb-
ruary term of court will begin next
Monday morning.