Bewrai atdan. ‘ Bellefonte, Pa., April 12, 1918. P. GRAY MEEK, shal Terms of Subscription.—Until further motice this paper will be furnished to sub- scribers at the following rates: Paid strictly in advance - - $1.50 Paid before expiration of year - 1.75 Paid after expiration of year - 2.00 Centre County’s Showing in Savings and Thrift Stamps. For the week ending March 30th, Centre county was credited with 44 cents per capita in the sales of war savings and thrift stamps, or a total of $2.44 for the entire campaign, and we retained tenth place in the list of counties for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania, but for the week we dropped to ninth place, while Union county had a per capita of $2.17, Lan- caster $1.21, Wayne 64 cents, and Elk 60 cents. For the information of those inter- ested in the war savings certificates, please note the per capitas of the nine counties leading Centre county for the entire campaign: Union Columbia Bik. Carbon Cameron Sullivan Montour Lancaster. ... Cumberland The Bellefonte High school war savings society for the past ten weeks has sold $3327.88 in war savings and thrift stamps. The week ending April 6th was the “banner” week, with $1030.00 to its credit. Arrangements are now being made for a meeting at Bellefonte during the coming month, at which time the state director, Mr. Cassett, and sev-= eral others in charge of the National war savings committee for Pennsyl-’ vania, will be present. The exact day and date will be announced later. Let me suggest to those interested in winning this war to adopt the “Na- tional Acre” plan: Set aside one acre of your farm to be planted and cultivated as the “Na- tional Acre,” the proceeds of which are to be used in buying war savings and thrift stamps. The “National Acre” plan has been adopted, and is rapidly spreading over Georgia and South Carolina, and let me suggest the advisability of every person in Centre county thinking se- riously of, and finally adopting, this plan. We must raise the money with which to win this war. We must maintain the young men whom we send to the front. You will be per- forming a patriotic duty by loaning. your money to the government. Our government has the same power to conscript wealth as it has to conscript. men. . Let every man, woman and child in Centre county join in every movement to lend money to the gov- ernment by purchasing war savings and thrift stamps. From the tabulated report of sales, above indicated, you will notice that although Centre county retains tenth place in the Eastern district of Penn- sylvania, yet we have dropped in weekly sales, and there are three or four counties within a few cents of the amount credited to Centre county, and unless we make considerable gain within a very short time, we will not be able to maintain our present stand- ing. Then again we should not be satisfied to stand still. We should move toward place No. 1, but we can- not do that unless every man, woman and child in the county will do his or her patriotic duty. DETAILED STATEMENT OF SALES IN THE COUNTY. Following is a detailed statement of the sales in every district in Cen- tre county: Col. 1 is the number of saving stamps taken during March. Col. 2 the number of thrift stamps tak- en during March. Col. 3 the number of saving stamps tak- en from Dec. 1, ’17, to April 1, "18. Col, 4 the number of thrift stamps tak- en from Dec. 1, ’17, to April 1, "18. Aaronsburg .... 423 8 484 129 Axe Mann ..... 11 13 Benore ..:..... Bellefonte ..... a7 2540 3942 6048 Blanchard ..... 204 129 339 161 Boalsburg ..... 98 23 218 80 Centre Hall ... 580 322 919 554 Clarence ........ 14 8 20 Coburn ........ rid 26 7¢ 1 49 Curtin ........... 5 5 45 60 Fleming. .....«. 586 59 588 217 Howard, ....... 129 189 498 575 Hublersburg ... 38 4 46 4 Julian ......... 21 81 116 Bato .....+..... Lemont -....... 2 38 128 138 Linden Hall .. 20 23 20 23 Livonia ....... 2 S 3 20 Madisonburg .. 331 16 331 16 Martha Furnace 30 32 8 164 Milesburg ...... 30 26 Millheim ....... 553 54 968 139 Mingoville ..... 5 38 25 58 Monument ..... 72 150 21 Moshannon .... 48 48 Nittany ........ 71 5 98 5 Oak Hall ...... 3 3 Orviston ........ 2 3 111 256 Pine Glen ...... Philipsburg 2506 4480 5401 6019 Pine Grove ... 53 13 68 70 Pleasant Gap .. 34 20 54 67 Port Matilda ... Powelton ...... 199 243 63 ~ Rebersburg ....1070 2 1075 2 Runville ....... 2 2 Sandy Ridge .. 136 291 152 335 Smuliton -...... . 5 80 9 150 Snow Shoe .... 724 1331 Spring Mills .. 294 12 463 26 Stormstown .. 6 20 1 State College .. 808 1354 2360 3933 Tusesyville .... 9 2 87 22 Waddle ........ 2 8 2 8 Wingate ..... i 40 40 Wolfs Store ... 6 6 Woodward ..... 124 24 125 24 Yarnell ........ ZION ie sien 73 24 7 24 W. HARRISON WALKER, Chairman War Savings Committee for Centre County. ——W. T. Griffith, food administra- tor for Clinton county, last Thursday closed the grocery store of A. M. Greninger, at Beech Creek, for a per- iod of thirty days because he persist- ed in selling wheat flour without the required amount of substitutes. Gren- inger was previously accused of mak- ing disloyal utterances as to Ameri- ca’s participation in the war. GREEN.—G. Dorsey Green, for al- most half a century one of the best known farmers in Buffalo Run valley, passed away at his home above Fill- more about one o'clock on Saturday afternoon. He had an attack of ill- . | ness about a month ago but had recov- ered from the primary cause of his sickness but other complications fol- lowed and his death resulted at the time above given. Deceased was descended from Gen. Samuel Miles of revolutionary fame, his father being Gen. Samuel Miles Green, a prominent attorney and who served one term as deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania. G. Dorsey Green was born at Centre Furnace on March 13th, 1832, hence was 86 years and 24 days old. After attending the local subscription school he attended the Lewisburg Academy then took a course at Lawrenceville, N. J., where he graduated at the age of eighteen years. Returning home he went to work for his father and Gen. Irvin at the Barre iron works which they were then operating, first as a clerk, then as storekeeper and finally as manager. In 1836 he became proprietor of the works and managed them very suc- cessfully until 1874 when he was caught heavily in the failure of Jay Cooke and could not weather the financial storm. It is a fact not gen- erally known but from his Barre works went out the blooms from which the wire was made for the con- struction of the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls as well as the bridge over the Allegheny river at Pitts- burgh. When Mr. Green was com- pelled to close down his Barre iron works in 1874 he came to Centre coun- ty and purchased the four hundred acre farm in Buffalo Run valley where he has made his home ever since. Another incident in Mr. Green’s life is not generally known. He was always an ardent Republican and in 1860 his brother Joseph was a dele- gate to the National Republican con- vention at Chicago which nominated Abraham Lincoln for President and G. Dorsey accompanied him and was present when the nomination was made. He also served as an aide on the staff of Governor Packer but never assumed the title of Colonel to which that appointment entitled him. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and for a number of years su- perintendent of the Sunday school. He was united in marriage to Miss Mary Gregg, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Gregg, who died some years ago. Surviving him, however, are the following children: Mrs. W. E. Gray, of Bellefonte; Samuel Miles, in the employ of a railroad company in California; Elizabeth Dorsey, at home; Allen McGregor, whose where- abouts are unknown, and Dr. George D. Green,. of Lock Haven. He also leaves one sister, Miss Hannah E., of Philadelphia. , Funeral services were held at his late home Jat 2:30 o'clock on.Tuesday afternoon by Dr. W. K. McKinney, after which burial was made in the Union cemetery. Il i THOMAS.—Robert E. Thomas, a former resident of Bellefonte, died at his home in Wilkinsburg last Thurs- day morning after only five days’ ill- nell ‘with lobar pneumonia. He was a son of Morgan and Mar- tha Thomas and was born in Milton on March 6th, 1885, being 33 years and 27 days old. He came to Belle- fonte when a boy and spent a number of years here, learning the trade of a moulder. “A few years ago he moved to Wilkinsburg where he worked for the Union Switch and Signal compa- ny. He was a member of the Metho- dist church of Bellefonte and of the Knights of Malta. He was united in marriage to Miss Mary Miller, of this place, who sur- vives with three small children, Mary, Robert and Thelma. He also leaves his father, living in Hollidaysburg and the. following brothers and sis- ters: George, in the army; David, of Williamsport; Mrs. S. B. Leitzell, of Butler, and Ellen, of Cornway, Pa. The remains were brought to Belle- fonte Saturday and taken to the home of Mrs. Harry Miller, where funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock on Sunday afternoon by Dr. E. H. Yo- cum, after which burial was made in the Union cemetery. , il 11 SHAUGHNESSY.—Mrs. Catherine Shaughnessy, wife. of Thomas Shaughnessy, died at 6:50 o’clock on Friday evening of general debility. She was a daughter of John and Mary Flynn, and was born in County Gal- way, Ireland, in August, 1834, hence was in her eighty-fourth year. She came to this country in 1851 and in September, 1862, was united in mar- riage to Thomas Shaughnessy who survives with the following children: John P., of Fairmount, Ind.; Mrs. J. H. Crain, of Altoona; Mrs. John C. Nolan, of Tyrone; Thomas, of Clarks- burg, and Catharine, at home. She was the last of her father’s family. Rev. Father Downes had charge of the funeral which was held at the Cath- olic church at ten o'clock Wednesday morning, after which burial was made in the Catholic cemetery. Il 1l MASON.—Mrs. Mary E. Mason,. widow of Samuel B. Mason and a sis- ter of Mrs. Rachael Stover, of Coburn, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Amanda E. Weaver, in Altoona, last Thursday evening, in her eighty- fifth year. Burial was made in Rose Hill cemetery, Altoona, on Sunday. il Il YINGLING.—James A. Yingling, father of Mrs. A. L. Maguire, of Port Matilda, died in Martinsburg on Sun- day morning aged eighty-two years. He was a veteran of the Civil war and is survived by six children. Burial was made in Martinsburg on Tuesday afternoon. RAY.—Calder Landis Ray, only son of Sylvester D. and Sarah Mec- Ginley Ray, died very suddenly at 5:30 o'clock on Sunday afternoon while sitting in a chair at the Ray home on Howard street. He had com- plained during the day of suffering with a headache and ate only a light dinner. He then went to bed for an hour or two but got up about the mid- dle of the afternoon and went to the kitchen for a smoke. Between five and six o’clock members of the family heard a peculiar noise in the kitchen and Mr. Ray went out and found his son lying over the arm of the chair. He spoke to him, but got no answer and going closer was horrified to find him dead. Deceased was born in Bellefonte on November 25th, 1884, hence was 33 years, 4 months and 13 days old. He was a graduate of the Bellefonte High school and most of his time since had been spent with his father in the shirt factory, though for a time he was par- cel post carrier at the postoffice. A few weeks ago he went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he took a course in vul- canizing and welding, having return- ed home on Wednesday of last week. He was a past master of the Belle- fonte Lodge of Odd Fellows and a member of the Encampment. He had been 2 member of the Methodist church since boyhood and was an ex- emplary young man in every way. In addition to his parents he is survived well known resident of Curtin, died at the Bellefonte hospital on Monday from a fractured skull sustained in a peculiar accident at Curtin on April 1st. Mr. Bathurst climbed on top of a box car to assist another workman in loosening a brake. In doing so the stick they were using slipped and struck Mr. Bathurst on the head frac- turing his skull and throwing him | from the car. He was brought to the hospital but nothing could be done to save his life. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. : Thomas Bathurst and was born at Curtin fifty-four years ago, living there all his life. He was a laborer | by occupation and a good citizen in {every way. He had been 2 member {of the Methodist church for many {years and took an active part in all {kinds of church work. | Mrs. Bathurst died several years {ago but surviving him are the follow- {ing children: Mrs. Burns Stover, ‘Mrs. Ray Lutz and Mrs. Barney Mec- | Govern, all of Bellefonte; Mrs. Sam- ‘uel Stanley, of Milesburg; Mrs. Ezek- iel Lucas, of Curtin; Mrs. Samuel | | Hines, of Hecla; Susan, Ralph and | Laird, at home. He also leaves two { brothers, Edward, of Niagara Falls, and Rev. Zeb Bathurst, of Orbisonia. ! the ' The funeral procession left home of Mrs. Burns Stover, in this afternoon, going to Curtin where place, at one o’clock on Wednesday by two sisters, Miss Mary Ray, at! services were heid in the church and home, and Mrs. R. Harold Smith, of burial made in the Curtin cemetery. Bridgeton, N. J. Il li Funeral services were held in the| GARDNER.—Following an illness Methodist church at two o'clock on |of several years with tuberculosis Wednesday afternoon by Dr. Ezra H.|Mrs. Rachael Gardner, wife of H. E. BATHURST.—Calvin Bathurst, a Escaped Prisoner Caught After Five | Months’ Liberty. | The old biblical laws of the Medes ! and Persians were decreed as inexor- able as fate but did they exist today it would probably be easier to evade one of them than to escape from ‘the | western penitentiary at Rockview. | On the eighteenth of last October : David Hummell, sent up from Altoo- na, and Peter Hartman, convicted in , Allegheny county on the charge of {larceny and receiving stolen goods, ‘escaped from the western penitentiary and made their way into Bald Eagle i valley where they spent the second ‘night of their liberty in an old cabin ‘on the mountain south of Unionville. | | The next morning, which was Sat- | {urday, the opening of the hunting | season, the two men were apprehend- ced by J. C. Fox and H. J. Stere, of Unionville. Hummell acquiesced to the demand of the young men for his ‘surrender but Hartman made a dash for liberty and escaped. That was the last heard of him until last week he {was discovered working in a rubber factory in Akron, Ohio. Officers got trace of him through the fact that he had sent for his family and they had moved to Akron from Pittsburgh. Hartman was working there under the assumed name of William Mallory ‘and was not only caring well for his family but living a decent, law-abid- ing life; so much so, in fact, that several citizens of Akron interceded | in an effort to have the mandate of | "the law set aside but such could not | be done and Hartman was brought! back to Bellefonte on Sunday, taken ! before Judge Quigley on Monday and | A Record-Breaking Snow. i There may have been years when ‘snow fell in April but so far as the | writer is able to recall the snow of | this week was a record-breaker. Fol- lowing Monday’s rain it began to snow !on Tuesday morning and snowed con- | tinuously all day. Most of the snow { melted during the day but by evening | the temperature dropped to below the | freezing point and most of the snow i that fell during the night lay on the ‘ground and by Wednesday morning 'it was six inches deep. It snowed in- | termitently all of Wednesday and ! snow shovels that had been put away | for the summer had to be gotten out iand pavements cleaned off. {| Just what the result of the snow i fall will be is hard to contemplate. It ‘will not hurt the grain nor the grass, ‘and is not likely to do any damage to the garden truck now in the ground. : The only fear is that it may affect the | fruit crop. Many trees were starting ito bud, and while the snow itself, would do no damage yet the cold that ‘accompanied the snow might have done considerable. It is to be hoped, . however, that the buds were not far enough advanced to be killed. | While the snow of Tuesday and | Wednesday was a record-breaker so far as the amount of it is concerned, i yet it is not an unusual thing to have (snow in April. In fact a record kept [by weather forecaster E. C. Lorentz, {and published in Wednesday’s Johns- town Democrat, gives the following snowfalls in April in the past sixteen years: April 8, 1902, 4 inches. April 11, 1904, 4 inches. April 10, 1907, 2 inches. Yocum and burial in the Union ceme- tery was in charge of the Odd Fel- lows. I I WILSON.—Mrs. Sarah Irvin Kin- ney Wilson, widow of Dr. James Wil- son, died at her home in Milesburg last Friday following an illness of about a week as the result of a stroke of apoplexy, aged about eighty-two years. She was a daughter of Henry and Sarah Gregg Kinney and was born in Bald Eagle valley. Owing to the death of her mother when she was very young her life as a child was spent in the family of Gen. and Mrs. James Irvin, living in Bellefonte and nearby vicinity. She was educated in the schools of Belle- fonte and at Lawrenceville, N. J. On September 13th, 1854, she was united in marriage to Dr. James Wilson and they had one daughter, Julia I., who died when ten years old. Dr. Wilson was a surgeon in the volunteers dur- ing the Civil war and died in 1864. Surviving her, however, are one sister, Mrs. John Brotherline, of Hol- lidaysburg, one half-sister and two half-brothers, namely: Miss Emma Kinney, Edward and Henry Kinney, all of Milesburg. Funeral services were held in St. John’s Catholic ‘church on Tues day morning by Rev. Father Downes, after which burial was made in the Union cemetery. i il FRANKS.—William Franks, well known in the western part of Centre county, was found dead in bed at his home in Altoona on Sunday morning. He had not been in good health the past six months but was no worse than usual when he retired Saturday night. He was born at McAlevy’s Fort on March 20th, 1845, making his age 73 years and 18 days. When in his teens he enlisted for service in the Civil war and had an enviable record as a sol- dier. During the past thirty-four years he had lived in Altoona where he worked in the lumber yard of the Pennsylvania railroad company until his retirement three years ago. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and the Knights of Pythias. He was married to Miss Rebecca Barr who survives with a sister and two brothers, namely: Mrs. Valen- tine, of Greencastle; Joseph, of Mt. Etna, and James, of McAlevy’s Fort. Burial was made in the Rose Hill cem- etery, Altoona, on Tuesday afternoon. Il 1l SANGER.—Joseph Sanger, a well known resident of Millheim, was found dead in bed last Friday morn- ing at the home of his sister, Mrs. E. F. Bowersox, at Aaronsburg, where he had gone the day before for a brief visit. - Apoplexy was assigned as the cause of death. He was born in 1844, hence was seventy-four years old. For a number of years he followed his trade as a shoemaker in which he was quite proficient. He was married to Miss Julia Schreckengast who died a number of years ago but surviving him are two sisters, Mrs. Bowersox, of Aaronsburg, and Mrs. William Hoover, of Lock Haven. Funeral serv- ices were held at the Bowersox home at ten o’clock on Tuesday morning by Rev. Snyder, of the United Evangel- ical church, after which burial was made in the Fairview cemetery, at Millheim. ll Il ROTE.—Miss May Rote, of Tyrone, but a native of Bellefonte, died at the Altoona hospital on Wednesday morn- ing after several week’s illness with septicemia. She was a daughter of Samuel and Margaret Wise Rote, and was born in Bellefonte on March 26th, 1863, hence was 55 years and 15 days old. Her early life was spent in Belle- fonte but about twenty-five years ago she went to Tyrone where she follow- ed her trade as dressmaker. She was a member of the Presbyterian church and a devout, christian woman. Sur- viving her are her mother and. one sister, Mrs. Sayre, living at Winfield, Pa. Funeral services were held at her late home in Tyrone last evening and this morning the remains will be brought to Bellefonte for interment in the Union cemetery. | Gardner, died at her home in Tyrone 'on Sunday evening. . i She was a daughter of John and Malinda Frantz and was born at Port Matilda on March 16th, 1879, thus at old. In May, 1895, she was married to Mr. Gardner who survives with the following children: Mrs. James Ham- mond, of Swissvale; Mrs. and Celia at home. She also leaves her parents, living at Braddock and the following brothers and sisters: Daniel Frantz, of Pittsburgh; Clyde, of California, Pa.; Nathan, of Osceo- la Mills; Archibald, of Sandy Ridge; Mrs. Harry Goss, of Osceola Mills; Mrs. Harvey Kennedy, of Blue Ball; Mrs. Levi Kennedy, of Sandy Ridge; Mrs. James Barry, of Retort, and Miss Annie, of Sandy Ridge. She had been a member of the United Brethren church since girl- hood and Rev. E. G. Sawyer had charge of the funeral services which were held in the United Brethren church at Tyrone at 1:30 o’clock on Wednesday+ afternoon, after which burial was raade in the Grandview cemetery, that place. il BROWN.—Huey Stewart Brown, a former Béllefonte boy, died on Monday night at the home of his brother Clar- ence, in Canton, Ohio, of pleuro-pneu- monia, after a brief illness. The young man was a machinist by trade and since leaving Bellefonte several years ago had been working in a large machine shop at Pitcairn. He went to Canton, Ohio, recently to visit his brother and while there was taken ill and died. Deceased was a son of Robert and Annie Brown and was born in Belle- fonte on April 14th, 1899, hence was within six days of being nineteen years old. Most of his life was spent here and he was an industrious and exemplary young man. His father died a year or two ago but surviving him are his mother and the following brothers and sisters: ton, Ohio; Homer, of Pitcairn; Mrs. Joseph Thompson and Mrs. Clarence C. Rhoads, of Bellefonte. The remains were brought to Belle- fonte on Thursday afternoon and the funeral will be held tomorrow. Rev. T. Hugh MacLeod will officiate and burial will be made in the Union cem- etery. i 1 SWITZER, —Miss Mary Switzer, of Spring creek, died in the Bellefonte hospital on Sunday . following an ill- ness of a number of weeks with a complication of diseases, aged 63 years. Her brother George died about three weeks ago but surviving her is another brother, Abraham Switzer, of Halfmoon hill. The funeral