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Belletonte, Pa., March 8, 1918.
“Wo Correspondents.—No communications
published unless accompanied by the real
name of the writer.
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THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
Wilbur F. Malin, who has been
ill for the past month or six weeks, has
recovered sufficiently to be out for a
short time each day. Mr. Malin’s
sickness began with an attack of the
grip, which was followed by a nervous
collapse.
— Beginning March 15th, 1918,
packages of merchandise weighing 70
pounds will be accepted for mailing
within the first, second and third
zones. Packages weighing 50 pounds
will be accepted for mailing beyond
the third zone.
— The annual dues social of the
Woman's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C.
A. will be held at the home of Miss
Mary Hunter Linn next Wednesday
afternoon, March 13th, at 3:30
o'clock. All members and friends are
cordially invited.
— Friends of Howard Holzworth
Rowland, son of Congressman and
Mrs. Charles H. Rowland, of Philips-
burg, have received word from him
that he is at an Atlantic port and ex-
pects soon to embark for France.
Rowland was among the second large
contingent of national army men sent
from Centre county to Camp Meade.
——The canvass by the Red Cross
for monthly contributions has result-
ed in the collection of $150.00 for the
month of February. This will just
about pay for the gauze used this
month in making surgical dressings,
so if any one has been missed in the
canvass don’t fail to tell the collector
in your district and make your contri-
bution when they come around again.
— The American Red Cross has
issued an urgent appeal for volun-
teers for work abroad in connection:
with both military and civil affairs.
The greatest need at the present time
is for store keepers, mechanical engi-
neers and experts, the men of execu-
tive ability to act in the capacity of
office managers and assistants. All
applicants, in this division, for Red
Cross positions are requested to ap-
ply through their local Chapters.
If a connoisseur desires to see
the very best in art he naturally goes
to where the best pictures are exhib-
ited, and when Bellefonters want to
see the best motion pictures they nat-
urally go to the Scenic. This popular
moving picture show has an estab-
lished reputation, not only among the
people of Bellefonte and community,
but among traveling men and others
who make periodical trips to Belle-
2. And the pictures for the com-
they h ve been in the past and if you
miss one you are very likely to miss
the best.
— Philip B. Waddle has changed
his location from New Kensington to
Brownsville, having resigned his po-
sition as chief clerk at the New Ken-
sington hotel to accept a similar po-
sition with T. S. Strawn at the Mo-
nongahela hotel, Brownsville. In re-
questing his paper changed to that
place Mr. Waddle says: “We look
for the “Watchman” as an old soldier
looks and longs for his pension,” and
then adds, “News from home, my
what a lot of aching hearts must be
across the waters looking and long-
ing for news from home.” And it
might also be added how many ach-
ing hearts on this side waiting for
news from their boy over there.
——Game warden Charles Batch-
eler, of Philipsburg, was in Bellefonte
last week for the purpose of probat-
ing scalps of noxious animals, and
while a number were presented the
list was below the average. In fact
he stated that the past winter was a
hard one for trappers, owing to the
deep snow, and the result was that
the pelts of fur bearing animals are
scarcer than they have been in a num-
ber of years, and naturally command
a higher price. The pelts presented
to Mr. Batcheler, however, have all
been first class in every particular,
which is to be accounted for by the
long, cold winter. Pelts are always
better, he avers, when there is a hard
winter than when the season is mild
and open. In the latter case the fur
is not so good and more easily pulled
out. The comparatively small number
of pelts secured the past winter has
sent the price soaring and milady’s
furs next winter will be a costly lux-
ury.
Frank L. Dersham, the income
tax man, closed his work here last
Saturday morning and in the after-
noon left for his home in Lewisburg.
Before going, however, he left some
blanks in the various -offices at the
court house and if there are any per-
sons whe have not filled out their re-
turns they can probably secure a
blank at the court house. Mr. Der-
sham came to Bellefonte on February
2nd and during his four weeks’ stay
here was as busy every day as he
possibly could be and his treatment
of the public in general was so courte-
ous and considerate that he made
many friends during his stay in Belle-
fonte. In assisting or advising a man
regarding his income returns he was
just as conscientious in safeguarding
the rights of the individual as he was
in leoking after the interests of the
government. The very fact that it
took Mr. Dersham four weeks in
which to dispose of the income tax
cases brought before him here would
indicate that the number of people in
Centre county who will be required to
pay an income tax is quite large.
. just as high class as
| SUPERVISORS HOLD MEETING.
Interesting Sessions Held Here Last
Friday.
The road supervisors of Centre
county met in their annual convention
at the court house last Friday and it
was the largest gathering of these
township officials ever held in Centre
county. In the absence of the presi-
dent Milfred Pletcher, of Howard
township, presided. Before the busi-
ness of the meeting was taken up Col.
H. S. Taylor was introduced and not
only urged the supervisors to do their
duty in regard to keeping the roads
in as good condition as possible, but
told them to be loyal and patriotic in
every movement asked of them by the
government for the successful prose-
cution of the war in which we are now
engaged.
W. Harrison Walker, chairman of
the war savings and thrift stamps
committee in Centre county, was then
introduced, and urged the supervisors
to do what they could ‘to increase the
sale of the stamps in their various lo-
calities. The meeting then proceed-
ed to business by the election of the
following officers for the ensuing
year:
President—Milfred
Howard township.
Vice President—Ira G. Burkett, of
Halfmoon township.
Secretary— William H. Austin, of
Liberty township.
Treasurer—L. P. Smith, of Gregg
township.
Following the election of officers
W. A. Wynn, of the engineering bu-
reau of township highways, was in-
troduced and he complimented the su-
pervisors by telling them that theirs
was the best meeting he had attend-
ed this year. He then made a talk on
the best methods for building town-
ship roads, not state highways.
Another session was held in the
afternoon at which the supervisors
themselves discussed various ques-
tions of direct importance to them,
such as the removal of snow from
township highways, which the past
winter proved very expensive; bridg-
es and culverts, the labor problem and
how best to meet it, township equip-
ment, accounts, etc. The meeting
finally adjourned at 3:30 p. m.
Following is a complete list of the
supervisors in the county, nearly all
of whom were present at the meeting:
Benner—D. L. Shuey, James Rowan, Ira
Benner.
Boggs—HBllis Pownell, Jesse P. Confer, G.
P. Heverley.
Burnside—Roland Barger,
Elmer L. Yothers.
College— William Houtz, BE.
Daniel S. Louder.
Curtin—W. R. McCloskey, Oscar C. Wea-
ver, James Neiman.
Terguson— E. T. Parsons, G. BE. Cor}, F.
Pletcher, of
Harry Beates,
M. Houser,
H. Swabb.
Gregg—L. E. Rossman, Jacob Musser, L.
P. Smith.
©. S. Winkleblech, Frank W.
ames Vonada. eM
Halfmoon—I. G. Burkett, D. H. Way, D.
C. Harpster.
Harris—David Bohn, D. B. Thomas, Oscar
W. Stover.
Howard—Milfred P. Pletcher,
Schenck, William Aikey.
Huston—Philip Straw, Aaron Fahr, W. O.
Steele.
Liberty—Christ Harmon, Albert Schenck,
W. H. Austin.
Marion—William Bechdel, W. H. Sortman,
B. F. Vonada.
Miles—W. F. Bowersox, B. W. Royer, W.
J. Bair.
Patton—J. B. Meek, J. W. Hartsock, J. W.
Blair.
Penn—Henry Snavely, J. W. Confer, Nic-
odemus Luse.
Potter—Robert Bloom, Frank Bogden, W.
A. Jordan.
Rush—H. M. Moore,
ward Hess.
Snow Shoe—Rush Quick, C. L. Quick, Geo.
W. Witherite.
Spring—James L. Kerstetter, Robert Har-
tle, John Garbrick.
Taylor—A. J. Beckwith, M. C. Walk, Da-
vid Howard.
Union—David H. Custer, Daniel Boop, 7.
G. Ingram.
walker—Jack S. Royer, E. J. Evers, Wil-
liam Clevenstine.
Oscar L.
Daniel Moore, Ed-
Worth—(G. W. Woodring, Dennis Reese,
J. 8S. Williams.
Bellefonte Business Man Severed
Telephone Wires.
Following an altercation over some
business matters Frank E. Naginey
on Saturday evening notified district
manager W. S. Mallalieu, of the Bell
Telephone company of Pennsylvania,
to remove all the wires running over
his property by nine o’clock Monday
morning or he would remove them
himself. The notification was not tak-
en seriously by Mr. Mallalieu and no
effort was made on the part of the
company to remove the wires.
But true to his declaration, shortly
after nine o’clock on Monday morning
Mr. Naginey climbed to the roof of
his building in the rear of his store
room and cut the wires composing the
loops to six telephones. He later sent
the company a bill for $200 for rental
of the air space above his building oc-
cupied by the six loops of wire. And
then, not to show any partiality, he
also sent the American Telephone
company and the State-Centre Elec-
tric company bills for the air space
occupied by their wires in crossing
over his building.
So far as the Bell company is con-
cerned, when they learned their wires
had been cut a force of linemen were
sent to the scene and the wires were
strung around Mr. Naginey’s build-
ing and service on the six phones was
re-established the same day.
———Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Bachman
and family are moving this week from
the S. B. Miller farm northeast of
Bellefonte to the William Groh Run-
kle farm in Boggs township.
Are you reading “Over the
Top” now being published in the
“Watchman?”
ATTENTION,
Farmers of Centre County.
Under a ruling just made by the
federal government deferred classifi-
cation in the draft of Centre county
men will be granted not only to far-
mers and graduates of agricultural
schools who have scientific or highly
technical agricultural knowledge, but
also to general farm labor, which
means a man skilled in the ordinary
work of the farm and not being a col-
lege graduate or possessed of special
scientific knowledge. The draft board
for Centre county have placed many
men who are farm laborers in Class
Al, for the reason that they have no
option in the matter. They can grant
deferred classification only where de-
pendents are actually shown, or phys-
ical disability is evident.
All of these farm laborers can now
be deferred to later classification by
at once communicating with the dis-
trict draft board, which alone has ju-
risdiction in this matter.
For the benefit of farmers who are
in danger of losing needed help
through the next draft, which will be
called before their spring crops are
planted, we would advise immediate
appeal to the District Draft Board,
address District Draft Board, Judicial
District No. 2, Harrisburg, Pa.
oe —
Among the Soldiers.
Dr. Joseph Helfrich received orders
yesterday to report as soon as possi-
ble at Fortress Monroe to be muster-
ed into the medical department serv-
ice of the U. S. army after which he
will be sent to the hospital at Wash-
ington barracks, Washington, D. C.
Inasmuch as the doctor is registered
in Centre county he will have to be
inducted into the service by the local
exemption board.
Friends in Bellefonte received word
on Wednesday that Dr. George P. Bi-
ble had arrived safely in France. Dr.
Bible went there as a Y. M. C. A.
worker among the soldiers.
Harold Ward, who was home from
Norfolk, Va., on a brief furlough, re-
turned to that place Wednesday.
Arthur Beezer, who accompanied
the remains of William Lester Breon
home from Camp Hancock last Thurs-
day returned to camp yesterday.
William Lambert came home from
Camp Hancock the fore part of the
week on a week’s furlough.
been in Bellefonte several weeks
awaiting a call, received orders on
Wednesday to report to the medical
afternoon. :
Paul Haag, who is now in the vet-
erinary department at Camp Han-
cock, came home on Tuesday on a ten
day’s furlough.
—— eee
Barnes Had Narrow
Escape.
Dairyman
Dairyman John C. Barnes and his
son Joseph barely escaped with their
lives on Wednesday morning when
their dairy. rig was struck by an en-
gine running light near the Pleasant
Gap station on the Lewisburg and Ty-
rone railroad, but their horse was in-
stantly killed and the dairy wagon
badly wrecked.
The accident happened shortly be-
fore seven o’clock. Mr. Barnes and
son were on their way across to the
Hamilton farm to get their usual
milk supply. They had carefully look-
ed down the track toward Bellefonte
and saw that the road was clear.
When they were just on the crossing
they heard the whistle of a locomo-
tive and almost on the instant the lat-
ter came down the track from the di-
rection of Lemont. Mr. Barnes and
his son both jumped and got out of
the way but the horse was right on
the track and was struck and killed
before their eyes. In jumping Mr.
Barnes sprained one of his legs and
his son fell and sustained a slight cut
on his forehead.
The engine was an extra coming to
Bellefonte to haul the local freight,
the regular engine having broken
down the night before. Though very
nervous over the accident Mr. Barnes
got out his automobile and served his
customers as usual that morning.
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Work of Milesburg Red Cross.
Milesburg is doing its bit in help-
ing in the Red Cross work. For the
Holiday drive it reported 215 mem-
bers. Since then its members have
made 204 articles, making a total of
865 pieces made and sent in since it
has been an organization.
Every once in a while some new re-
port is given circulation somewhere
in the county. This tends to discour-
age Red Cross work. Nevertheless,
the Red Cross at Milesburg knows
that the government would not long
be back of an unworthy movement
and it will keep on doing its bit.
——Every man and woman, as well
as children of an understandable age,
should read Arthur Guy Empey’s
story, “Over the Top,” now being
published in the “Watchman.” It is
regarded as one of the best word pic-
tures of the world war in which we
are now engaged so far written. Don’t
fail to read it and tell your friends
about it.
——Did you tell your neighbors
how interesting are the opening chap-
ters of “Over the Top,” the big patri-
otic story begun in the “Watchman”
last week? ~~ =~ : Tw
Lieut. Thomas Morgan, who has.
department at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.,
land left for that place yesterday
BUY WAR THRIFT STAMPS.
How Various Sections Stand On the
Per Capita Basis.
Unionville borough leads every oth-
er district in Centre county in the
purchase of war savings and thrift
stamps with a showing of $6.90 for
each man, woman and child. Port
Matilda is next with $6.67, Howard,
$4.52, State College $3.52, Philips-
burg $3.10 and Bellefonte $2.43. The
sale of the stamps in the public
schools of Bellefonte have averaged
$120.00 a week for the past five
weeks, or $600.00 all told.
Last Friday afternoon the people
of Rebersburg made a house to house
canvass and in less than two hours
sold $175.00 worth of stamps, and just
before the “Watchman” went to press
yesterday afternoon C. M. Gramley
telephoned the fact that the sale of
the stamps in Rebersburg now
amounted to just $9.75 per capita,
which puts that town ahead of Union-
ville.
Centre county is creeping up slow-
ly and W. Harrison Walker, chairman
of the Centre county committee, ex-
pressed the opinion that when the re-
turns are in for the week ending
March 9th they will show that the
county has passed the $1.00 per capita
mark. Centre county will be expect-
ed to sell a certain number of the
third Liberty Loan bonds, and if its
quota of war savings and thrift
stamps ($876,200) is to be made up
the people must get busy.
While some districts in the county
have organized and are carrying on
energetic campaigns Mr. Walker
would like to know what has become
of the rural sections of the county.
He says, “not interested.”
Every postmaster in the county
will be asked very soon to submit to
Mr. Walker a complete report show-
ing the number of sales of war sav-
ings and thrift stamps made during
the month of March, and also a report
showing the total sales made since
December 1st. This report will be
sent to the state director and publish-
ed in every newspaper in Centre coun-
ty early in April.
Every postmaster, clerk and car-
rier is a federal employee, and as such
has been requested, and is therefore
expected, to take an active interest
in raising the necessary funds to make
the “world safe for democracy.”
P. B. Crider & Son’s Lumber Office
Burglarized.
Bold, bad burglars played havoc in
the office of P. B. Crider & Son some
time during Sunday evening or night,
though the exact time is not known.
Milton Straub was at the office short-
ly before four o’clock on Sunday after-
noon fixing the fire in the stove.
When he went there a little after six
o’clock Monday morning the interior
of the office looked as if it had gone
through a Kansas eyclone. The floor
was littered with papers and articles
of office furniture. Empty drawers
and other articles of office furniture
were scattered around in a confused
jumble, chairs were upturned, one
typewriter badly damaged and the
knobs on the doors of one of the safes
broken off. The job had all the ear-
marks of amateurs in the art of bur-
glarizing, and young ones at that.
They gained an entrance through a
window by prying loose the window-
facing and pulling the window out
from the bottom.
That they were after money is evi-
dent from their attempts to force the
safe. The screw tops were taken off
of the hinges, the knobs, which were
three-quarter inch steel, were broken
off, but fortunately the combination
was not damaged. No attempt was
made to blow the safe, which is con-
sidered proof that the men were not
professionals. Failing to force the
safe the robbers turned their atten-
tion to the desks. At one of the
desks they got 23 cents change in a
stamp box, but did not take the
stamps. Another desk was broken
open and all the drawers pulled out,
while all the papers and books were
scattered over the floor. They even
ransacked a cupboard and threw most
of its contents on the floor. Taking
a pair of scissors found on one of the
desks they cut a lot of the papers in-
to bits.
The keys on one of the typewriters
were badly smashed, and looked as if
one of the burglars had jumped on the
machine. Other parts of the machine
were also damaged. A pencil sharp-
ener was torn loose from the desk and
various other things in the office brok-
en. Before leaving one of the men
committed a nuisance in the office
which was more exasperating than all
their other depredations.
While the material damage done
was not great the trouble of rear-
ranging the papers, etc., was the
worst feature. It is highly probable
that the job was done by local people
and the police are investigating.
Another Big Dance at Pleasant Gap.
The Harmonic club went to Pleas-
ant Gap last Friday evening, the sec-
ond time within a month, and gave a
musical recital and furnished the mu-
sic for a big dance at the hotel at that
place conducted by Mrs. Morris Yea-
ger. About one hundred people were
present and enjoyed the music, the
dance and the delicious refreshments
served by the hostess.
The Harmonic club is under the di-
rection of Miss Sallie Fitzgerald and
its members are as follows: Bertha
Dietrich, pianist; Sallie Fitzgerald
and Alice Waite, first violins; Mary
Beezer and Louise Carpeneto, second
violins; Grace Crawford, Della Beez-
er and Julia Waite, mandolins, and
Ida Brandman, traps.
~——Subsecribe for the “Watchman.”
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
__ Mrs. Stover, of Altoona, spent the
week-end here with her sister, Mrs. How-
ard Barclay.
__Miss Caroline Harper left Tuesday
morning for Philadelphia to spend several
days shopping.
— Mr. and Mrs. W. Harrison Walker and
Mrs. James Clark have been spending the
week in Philadelphia.
— Miss Mary Dale, of Lemont, spent Mon-
day looking after some business and in
the shops of Bellefonte.
—_Hon. Samuel Hamilton, of Clearfield,
was a business visitor in Bellefonte Mon-
day night and Tuesday.
__Miss Josie Decker is in Pittsburgh,
having gone out Tuesday on account of
the illness of her aunt, Mrs. Shrefier.
Mrs. Maurice Miller has returned to
Bellefonte after a visit of a month or
more with Mr. Miller, at Pittock, Pa.
—Judge Henry C. Quigley went out to
Pittsburgh on Sunday where he will be
engaged the next two weeks holding court.
__M. A. Landsy returned on Sunday from
a six week’s business trip to Franklin and
other towns in the western part of the
State.
Reuben Lucas, of Philipsburg, spent
Saturday in the vicinity of Bellefonte,
having come over to attend the first of the
spring sales.
— Mrs. Charles Kirby Rath, of Elizabeth,
N. J., has been visiting for a part of the
week with her mother, Mrs. F. W. Crider,
who is ill at her home on Linn street.
— Mrs. George B. Johnston, of Beaver
Falls, and her youngest daughter, Lillian
May, have been in Bellefonte this week
with Mrs. Johnston's mother, Mrs. J. A.
Aiken.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hull, who has been
first cook at the Academy for nine years,
will leave there next week to accept a po-
sition as one of the superintendents in the
City bakery.
__ Mrs. Jared Hazel will come here this
week from Williamsport, to spend two
months or more in Bellefonte, visiting
with her sons, George and Thomas Hazel
and their families.
__Miss Helen Ceader came home from
Philadelphia Monday night, after a three
week’s visit with her brother, Joseph Cea-
der Jr., in service at the Philadelphia
wharf, and with her aunt, Mrs. Robert
Gilmour.
__Arthur B. Kimport, ex-prothonotary
of Centre county, was a Bellefonte visitor
last Saturday, having come up from his
home in Montgomery county to attest a
will on which he and D. Paul Fortney
were the witnesses.
Mr. and Mrs. I. O. Campbell, of Fair-
brook, with their small son and Mr. Camp-
bell’s sister, Miss Agnes Campbell, of State
College, drove to Bellefonte Tuesday,
spending the day doing their early spring
buying for the farm.
— Mrs. C. T. Hennig has returned from
Mt. Clemens, where she had been under
the care of specialists for six weeks. After
a rest at home Mrs. Hennig expects to re-
turn to the Michigan sanitarium to con-
tinue the treatments.
Mrs. Eben Bower went to Aaronsburg
Saturday, in answer to a request from
Supt. D. O. Etters, asking her to finish
the term of the Aaronsburg primary
school. Before her marriage Mrs. Bower
had had charge of this school for six years.
— Mrs. William Dawson and Mrs. Harry
Griflith went to Philadelphia Tuesday,
where Mrs. Dawson will visit with Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Moore while under the
care of medical specialists. Mrs. Griffith,
during her stay, will be a guest of Mrs.
Harry Dawson.
__ Mrs. Sue Wooden left the latter part
of last week for a visit in Reading and
Philadelphia. It has been Mrs. Wooden's
custom for a number of years to spend
the late winter and spring with her nieces,
Mrs. Seixas, of Philadelphia, and Mrs.
Harris, of Reading.
—J. Linn McGinley will leave for An-
napolis Sunday to tutor until the 15th of
April, at which time he will take his ex-
amination for entering the naval acade-
my. Linn is one of the thousand boys
chosen from our battleships for the com-
petitive examination.
— Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morris and their
two sons left here Monday morning for
Kennebunk Port, Maine, where Mrs. Mor-
ris and the children will be for an indefi-
nite time with Mrs. Morris’ mother, Mrs.
Titcom. After a short visit in Maine, Mr.
Morris will return to Bellefonte.
—Randolph Breese left Saturday for
Philadelphia, where he will undergo a
physical examination for ~ government
work. Mr. Breese has been here since fall
on account of his health, and if it be suf-
ficiently improved to resume work, he will
remain, otherwise he will return to Belle-
fonte.
— Mrs. James Scarlet, Mrs. Howard
Shultz and Miss Caroline Lyon, all sisters
of William A. Lyon, came here from Dan-
ville the fore part of the week and have
been guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lyon, at their
home on High street. The condition of
Mr. Lyon has improved slightly during
the week.
— Mrs. Jonathan Miller and Mrs, J. Har-
vey Miller left Tuesday for Selinsgrove,
where Israel Straub, a brother-in-law of
Mrs. Jonathan Miller, is seriously ill. Mrs.
Miller will remain with her sister, Mrs.
Straub for several weeks, while Mrs. Har-
vey Miller expects to return to Bellefonte
in a few days.
—Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. McCargar have been
entertaining Mr. McCargar’s sister, Mrs.
Carrie C. Mosher, of Genoa, N. Y. Mrs.
Mosher spent last winter here with her
brother, returning again to Bellefonte this
winter in December. Leaving for Genoa
in April, Mrs. Mosher will spend the sum-
mer in her home in New York.
—Mrs. Harry Keller and her son, Lieut.
John Orvis Keller, went to Atlantic City
Tuesday to spend the greater part of the
month of March. Lieut. Keller, who is in
charge of the Ordnance school at Penn
State, has been obliged to accept a -sick
leave, which he will spend at the Shore,
expecting by the change to soon become
physically fit to return to his work.
—Robert Bloom and Elmer Royer, two
well known residents of Potter township,
were “Watchman” office callers last Fri-
day. Mr. Bloom, who is one of the super-
visors of Potter township, was in Belle-
fonte attending the supervisors’ conven-
tion and one of the bits of information he
imparted to the “Watchman’ editor was
the fact that Potter township would not
be able to do much new road work or any
extensive repairing this year, as it cost
the taxpayers over a thousand dollars to
clean the roads of snow during the winter.
Other sections of the county will likely
be in the same fix.
—Miss Edna Kline went to Philadelphia
the early part of the week for a visit with
friends.
—Joseph Thomas is a patient at the
Wills Eye hospital in Philadelphia, having
let here Tuseday.
—Mrs. Theodore Gordon is in Philadel-
phia, where she will spend several weeks
with Mrs. John Bair.
—Mrs. Charles K. Kase, of Sunbury, was
a guest for the week-end of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Spigelmyer.
—Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Gray have had as
a guest this week Mr. Gray's brother,
Spencer Gray, of Bethlehem.
—Mrs. H. W. Tate will come to Belle-
fonte next week to arrange for shipping
her furniture to Philadelphia.
— Miss Jennie Reifsnyder, of Millheim,
spent a week in Bellefonte recently, being
a guest while here of Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
McCargar.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rowan spent Sat-
urday afternoon in Bellefonte, the greater
part of the time being devoted to business
and shopping.
—Mrs. Harry Badger left Sunday for a
ten day's visit with her sisters, Mrs. D.
M. Markle, of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Wil-
liams, of Coschocton, Ohio.
—Harvey D. Dunkle came up from Min-
goville in the bus yesterday to look after
some business matters and incidentally
found time to call at the “Watchman” of-
fice.
—J. Samuel Rowe, of Centre Hall, was
a “Watchman” office caller yesterday and
took a good look at our new Intertype.
Being a machinist himself he naturally
was much interested in the efficiency of
the work it does.
—B. C. Bloom, of Benore, was among
the men from Patton township who trans-
acted business in Bellefonte the early part
of the week. Although Mr. Bloom has had
the car fever for some time, he is still
traveling on the Bellefonte Central rail-
road. ’
—John McGinley, one of Bellefonte's
cigar dealers, is contemplating closing out
his business this month in view of locat-
ing elsewhere. Mr. McGinley spent the
fore part of the week at Mount Union,
where, along with several other places, he
is considering making his home.
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Academy Minstrel Dates Fixed.
The dates for the Bellefonte Acad-
emy minstrels for the benefit of the
Red Cross have been definitely fixed
for Thursday and Friday, April 18th
and 19th, and members of the Red
Cross join with the Academy boys in
requesting other organizations in
Bellefonte not to arrange any other
affair to conflict with these dates.
The Academy boys are practicing dil-
igently to givea good entertainment
and they naturally wish to make as
good a showing for the Red Cross as
possible.
——On several occasions the
“Watchman” has advised farmers to
dispose of their surplus stock of po-
tatoes, even if by throwing them on
the market causes a small drop in
price. A few have done so but there
are still many potatoes being held
throughout the county. As an exam-
ple of what may happen before long
on Wednesday two hundred bushels
of potatoes were sold at a public sale
in Pennsvalley for the low price of 40
cents a bushel, and it took hard work
on the part of the auctioneer to get
that sum for them.
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—--L. L. Weaver, of Woodward, and
C. H. Poorman, of Pleasant Gap, have
rented the vacant room in the Rey-
nolds block, on Bishop street, which
they will immediately convert into a
show room for the Willys-Overland
automobile, for which they have the
Centre county agency. They will in-
stall a service station for Overlands
only at the rear of the building and
as the Overland will have a great sur-
prise car to put on the market June
1st they anticipate a very active sea-
son during 1918.
On Monday afternoon Raymond
Hazlett, a prisoner at the penitentiary
from Allegheny county, deliberately
left his work and started toward
Pleasant Gap. He was detected in
the act of running away by Ralph
Noll, a guard at the pen, who order-
ed him to stop. The man did so and
Mr. Noll took him back to the peni-
tentiary where a complaint was lodg-
ed against him and he was brought to
Bellefonte and lodged in jail.
— Although the average house-
wife may not know it oranges were
selling in Bellefonte yesterday at 76
cents the dozen, and dealers fear they
will go to $1.00. An advance to $7.00
and $8.00 a box wholesale caused the
big increase in the local market.
— While attempting to fix a hop-
per on one of the dinkey cars at
Whiterock quarries, last Friday morn-
ing, Ralph Sampsel was painfully in-
jured when the hopper fell against
his leg badly bruising it.
— Gross Bros. grocery are selling
onion sets, or young onions for plant-
ing, at 15 cts. per quart or pound.
Get them at once as the supply will be
limited. 63-10-1t
Sale Register.
Tuesday, March 12.—H. H. Evey will sell
3 horses, 1 cow, lot of farm implements
and some household goods, at his home
at Pleasant Gap. Sale at 1 p. m. Derr
& Hoy auctioneers. +
Saturday, Mareh 16.—At the McClain resi-
dence on north Allegheny street, all
kinds of household furniture, chinaware,
dishes, ete. Sale at 1 o'clock, p. m.
James Derr, auctioneer.
ee cetormma———
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer.
The prices quoted are those paid for produce,
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Bellefonte Grain Markets.
The following are the quotations up tosix o'clock
Thursday evening, when our paper goes to press.
Potatoes per bushelicceeuiniiiiiiiiasinine 1.00
Onions.......;eeereeven to 2.50
Eggs, per dozen.. . 30
Lard, per pound.. 25 -
Butter, per pound 45
Red Wheat $2.05.
White Wheat... 2.00
Rye, per bushel...... 1.50
Corn, shelled, per bu 1.60
Corn, ears, pet bushel... 15
Qats, old and new, per .
Barley, per bushel........... 1.00
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