Bewrai atdan.
‘ Bellefonte, Pa., April 12, 1918.
P. GRAY MEEK, shal
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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.
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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. ,
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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.
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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.
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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. !
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 <was held
on Thursday, burial being made in
the Union cemetery.
The latest “bit” done by the Belle-
fonte Chapter D..A. R. was a resolu-
tion passed last Thursday afternoon
at the regular monthly meeting held
at the home of Mrs. Edwin Erle
Sparks, State College, that each mem-
ber of the Chapter purchase yarn for
one pair of soldiers’ socks and knit
‘the same.
They also put themselves on record
as approving the propaganda of the
war relief service committee of the
National society—promising to abide
by its recommendations and spread
them as they can—a propaganda
against women knitting bright-color-
ed sweaters for their own use, that
through lack of demand merchants
will not order from the manufactur-
ers yarns in any* colors but khaki and
gray, and that thus the supply of kha-
ki and gray yarns may be greatly
preserved.
Marriage Licenses.
Following is the list of marriage li-
censes granted during the past week
by Register Frank Sasserman:
Wickliffe H. Gardner, Howard, and
Jennie H. Irwin, Bellefonte. :
D. L. M. Homan, Spring Mills, and
Ruth N. Stover, Aaronsburg.
Lief A: Olsen and Marguerite B.
Coxey, Bellefonte.
her death being 39 years and 22 days |
Edwin
Smith, of: Charleroi; Paul, John, Ruth |
John, of Oil City; Clarence, of Can-
sentenced to serve out the unexpired
portion of his original term and an
additional term of from two to three |
!years. He was taken back to the
Pittsburgh institution on Tuesday.
Though Hartman claims that he
was wrongly accused and convicted
i penitentiary officials aver that he was
! serving his third term when he escap-
‘ed. Be that as it may Hartman’s ar-
rest after he had been gone over five
i months is evidence that it is almost
impossible to get away from the pen-
|itentiary and not be caught, and the
‘man who tries it is doubly foolish.
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| Baseball Season to Open Tuesday,
* April 30th.
Another meeting of the magnates
. of the Red Cross baseball league was
{held on Wednesday evening with
{ President J. M. Cunningham presid-
jing. The committee appointed last
week to formulate rules and regula-
tions for the government of the league
presented its report and the same was
{adopted as read.
A motion was passed that the open-
|ing game of the season be played on
: Tuesday, April 30th, at 7 o'clock in
! the evening and G. L. Carpeneto, Har-
| XY Ruhl and George Hazel were ap-
schedule for the season. ft was ‘the
sense of the meeting that all games
| shall be played in the evening in or-
{der to afford as many people as pos-
| sible an opportunity to attend.
| A call was sent out to each ward to
| organize, select a manager, enroll
| their players and report same at the
"next meeting of the league to be held
lon Tuesday evening, April 23rd. All
| persons in the North ward willing to
play on the team should report at
once to Geo. L. Carpeneto, those in
the South ward to J. Mac Heinle and
{those in the West ward to George
Hazel. :
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County Supt. David O.
elected.
Etters Re-
At a meeting of the school direc-
{tors of Centre county, held in the
| court house on Tuesday morning, Da-
vid. O. Etters, of State College, was
re-elected county superintendent for
the fourth term. Dr. M. J. Locke, of
Bellefonte, presided over the meeting
and Mr. Etters was nominated by M.
S. McDowell, of State College. No
other nominations were made and on
a poll of the directors Mr. Etters re-
ceived the unanimous vote of the nine-
ty-nine present. Following his elec-
tion he made a brief speech to the
directors.
At the conclusion of the county su-
perintendent’s talk stirring and pa-
triotic addresses were made by James
Scarlet Esq., of Danville, Col. J. L.
Spangler and Judge Henry C. Quig-
ley. All of the speakers urged the di-
rectors to do all they could in their
home communities in the Liberty loan
and thrift stamp campaigns, as well
as in every move for the support of
the government and its war program.
Gas for Bellefonte Seems Assured.
For some time past it has been re-
ported that the Bellefonte gas plant
would be rebuilt and put in operation
this spring but everybody was rather
skeptical about the report owing to
the uncertainty of everything con-
nected with the steam heat and gas
plant during the past two years. But
the fact that six new retorts were re-
ceived during the past week, and that
men are now at work on rebuilding
the plant looks very much as if the
present owners mean to operate the
plant. Wilbur Saxion is in charge
and he asserts that the company will
be making gas and in a position to
furnish same early in May.
The Red Cross has outgrown
its present quarters and secured in
addition the two vacant rooms on the
first floor of the Garman house on
north Spring street. Those rooms
will be used for the work of the Aux-
iliaries under the management of Mrs.
John Shugert. Surgical dressings
will be made as heretofore in the li-
brary of the court house and Petrikin
hall will be rearranged and used for
the other branches of the work.
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| April 9 and 10, 1916, 7 inches.
April 8.and 9, 1917, 1.3 inches.
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| Engineer Joseph Twitmire Injured in
Wreck.
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Joseph Twitmire, son of Mr. Wilbur
| T. Twitmire, of this place, and who is
{an engineer on the Pennsylvania rail-
{road running between Tyrone and
Sunbury, was injured in a freight
wreck near Mill Hall late Wednesday
afternoon and is now in the Lock Ha-
ven hospital with a badly crushed
arm.
Mr. Twitmire’s run, it appears, is
from Lock Haven to Sunbury and
back to Tyrone. From the latter
place he has been traveling in a cab
back to Lock Haven. He was making
this part of the trip Wednesday after-
noon and was asleep on one of the
bunks in the cab when the train reach-
ed Mill Hall. The train had evidently
stopped at Mill Hall and was run in-
to by another train. The cab was
wrecked and Mr. Twitmire had one of
his arms badly crushed and sustain-
ed several minor cuts on the head.
It was at first thought he was very
seriously injured but at the Lock Ha-
ven hospital, where he was taken as
soon as possible, it was found that his
worst injury was his crushed arm, and
the latest word received is in effect
that the arm can be saved but wheth-
er he will lose his hand or not is not
known. Mr. Twitmire went to Lock
Haven Wednesday evening and has
not returned at this writing so that
definite information of his son’s con-
Olsen—Coxey.—The home of Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. Coxey, on Bishop
street, was the scene of a pretty wed-
ding, at seven o'clock on Wednesday
evening when their daughter, Miss
Marguerite B. Coxey, was united in
marriage to Lief A. Olsen. Only mem-
bers of the two families were present
to witness the ceremony which was
performed by Chaplain T. W. Young,
of the western penitentiary. There
were no attendants and immediately
after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Ol-
sen went directly to their already fur-
nished home in the Harper house on
Bishop street, having decided to dis-
pense with the regulation wedding
trip for the time being.
The bride is the eldest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Coxey, is a graduate of
the Bellefonte High school and for
several years filled the position of
book-keeper and cashier in Sim the
Clothier’s store. The bridegroom is
connected with the Abramsen Engi-
neering company and is an indus-
trious and energetic young gentleman.
The “Watchman” extends congratu-
lations.
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Glass—Woomer.—Dr. George Rob-
inson Glass, of Uniontown, and ‘Miss
Catharine Stewart Woomer, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Woomer, of
Graysville, were married at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Clark, in Al-
toona, last Thursday evening, by Rev.
Joseph C. Kelly. The young couple
will make their home in Uniontown.
Electrocuted Monday Morning.
Mike Uptic, a foreigner of West-
moreland county, was electrocuted at
the Rockview penitentiary on Monday
morning for the murder of Mrs. Vlad-,
islaw Szpulsky and two children near
Vandergrift on the morning of April
24th, 1917. Uptic was taken to the
chair at 7:06 o'clock and after four
contacts was pronounced dead at 7:11
by Dr. W. Felker.
William (Bill) Warren, a negro, of
Chester county, who was to have been
electrocuted at the same time for the
murder of William Kirk, near Avon-
dale on the morning of May 27th,
1917, was granted a respite after he
had been brought to the penitentiary
last Friday.
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Private Sale—During the next two
or three weeks the undersigned will
offer for sale two kitchen ranges, two
kitchen tables, one heavy lap robe,
two one-horse spring wagons, one cut-
ting box, one pair buggy ha ‘ness, one
one-horse cutter.
64-14-1t
JAMES L. ROTE.
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