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Bellefonte, Pa., November 22, 1918.
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THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
Next week will be W. Harrison
Walker's “over the top” week for war
savings stamps. Help him to it.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
Aid society will hold an apron and food
sale in the Presbyterian chapel on the
12th of December, opening at 2:30 -p. m.
At this time last year the
ground was covered with snow. In
fact a good tracking snow fell on No-
vember 19th, and it was snow from
that time on until spring.
——A business meeting of the W. C.
TT. U. will be held at the home ef Mrs.
James Potter, Linn street, Friday, No-
vember 22nd, at 3 p. m. All the mem-
bers are urged to be present.
——Quite a number of new cases of
influenza in Bellefonte this week moved
the board of health to close the public
schools again on Wednesday until De-
cember 2nd, unless otherwise ordered.
Mrs. Howard Wells died at her
home on High street yesterday after-
noon from the effects of influenza, with
which she had been ill only a short
time. The family only recently moved
to this place from Pleasant Gap.
——Contractor R. B. Taylor began
work yesterday on laying the brick on
south Water street, on the stretch from
High street to the bridge. With good
weather this part of the road ought to
be completed in ten days or two weeks.
——A new sugar ruling has been
made that on and after December first
the allowance shall be four pounds
per person & month. This in additon
to all wheat bread, will not be such
bad living the coming winter if we are
all able to get the other things we'll
need.
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The Patriotic League girls will
hold a fancy dress party in the pub-
lic building this (Friday) evening,
November 22nd. Every member is
given a cordial invitation to be pres-
ent. For further information, see
Miss Sally Fitzgerald.
At Bethlehem on Saturday the
State College football team defeated
Lehigh by the close score of 7 to 6.
Lehigh’s inability to kick a goal is
what gave State the victory. And
speaking of football, the season will
come to an end next week.
: George Robb, of Coleville, had
his annual butchering on Tuesday and
in accordance with his usual custom
invited a number of Bellefonte gen-
tlemen out to partake of the big din-
ner, which is always the most prom-
inent part of his butchering.
——FEdward Bberhart, one of the
assistants at the P. R. R. baggage
room had his right leg injured last
week by a casting falling against it,
but fortunately no bones were brok-
en, and he is now around again,
though not yet in condition to run a
foot'race. : : :
Baptiste Dantine, of
Westmoreland county, and Frank
Ressler, of Lehigh county, were elec-
trocuted at the Rockview penitentiary
on Monday morning. Robbery was
the incentive that led both men to
commit a crime which landed them
in the death chair. :
Have you tried the Lyric since
it has been thoroughly remodeled and
made over into one of the classiest
moving picture theatres in this part
of the State? If not, don’t fail to do
so. You will not only be pleased with
your surroundings but will appreciate
the kind of pictures now shown there.
——Joseph L. Runkle, with three
good dogs, left on Wednesday for the
wilds of Clearfield county on a rab-
bit hunting expedition. Last year
Mr. Runkle made a similar trip and
was successful in bagging thirty-nine
rabbits in seventeen hours’ actual
huntin gtime, and he is going to make
an attempt to repeat the performance
this year.
——The Bellefonte hospital author-
ities ask that the general public be
most generous in a donation in the
form of money or food stuff for
Thanksgiving day. It has been ar-
ranged that some one in authority
will wait upon each citizen on No-
vember 26th or 27th, and it is hoped
that everybody will respond kindly
and most generously to this request.
———Like the birds migrating south
for the winter the Budinger family,
of Snow Shoe, last week took their
departure for their winter home in
St. Petersburg, Florida. The party
included Mr. and Mrs. Budinger and
their daughters Sarah and Blanche.
They went by motor car and intended
making the journey by easy stages,
stopping enroute wherever and when-
ever their fancy might dictate.
¥ Now that the big war in Eu-
rope is over people generally feel the
need of more relaxation and nowhere
can this be found to better advantage
than at the moving pictures. And
the Scenic always shows a big pro-
gram of the best pictures obtainable.
Serials that cannot be seen anywhere
else in Bellefonte, weekly pictorials
of current events that in themselves
are worth the price of admission and
enough of the comedy to please those
who like such pictures.
*—— While Harry Taylof, of the Ti-
tan Metal company, is not a safe
cracker by any means, he has a knack
of opening obstreperous safes that
comes in very handy for any of his
friends who happen to get into a dif-
ficulty of that kind. A few days ago
W. Harrison Walker brought to his
office his father’s small safe, and as
it happened it hadn’t been opened for
siX years and when he undertook to
open it he found it couldn’t be done,
by him, at any rate. He was told of
Mr. Taylor’s adaptability to open
safes and asked him to try his hand.
He did so, and in a very short time
had it open, without having been told
the combination or anything else.
WORK BEGUN ON AERIAL MAIL
STATION.
What It Will Mean to Centre County
and Bellefonte in Particular.
Those people who have been at all
skeptical about Bellefonte having
been selected as a landing station on
the Wilson aerial mail route between
New York and Chicago will have all
their doubts dispelled if they visit the
field on the Beaver farm selected as
the location for the station. Con-
tractor Gheret already has the foun-
dations for the buildings dug out and
men at work on the concrete.
On Monday, in company with G. C.
Conner, the government’s representa-
tive, Mr. Gehret made a trip to Wil-
liamsport and there purchased all the
material h ecould not get in Belle-
fonte needed in the construction of
the buildings and it will be here this
week, if it has not already arrived.
He has a sufficient force of men en-
gaged to rush the buildings to com-
pletion and will have them ready for
the government by December 9th, if
possible; but in any event by the time
the service is to be started, which will
be December 15th.
A little explanation might be made
regarding the contribution of $1600
of the people of Bellefonte and Cen-
tre county toward the erection of the
buildings. While the government did
not demand the money, the fact was
presented to the Bellefonte board of |
trade that at the present time there
was no appropriation to draw from
for the establishment of this aerial
mail route and the Postoffice Depart-
ment was going on the assumption
that Congress would later appropriate
a sum of money for the work; but just
how much no one could tell. Under
those circumstances if the people of
Bellefonte and Centre county would
contribute a certain amount ($1600)
it would demonstrate the fact that
they were desirous of having the sta-
tion located here. Now the fact musn
be borne in mind that Bellefonte had
up to that time made no effort to se-
cure the station. In faet the question
was not even considered until
pilot Max Miller made his flight over
this section and after landing here
and inspecting the field recommended
Bellefonte as the place in preference
to Mill Hall. Even then representa-
tives from Lock Haven offered all
kinds of inducements to secure the
landing station but without success.
When the Bellefonte board of trade
went to the County Commissioners
and asked for an appropriation to help
and in the amount of money needed
they readily saw the possibilities of
a landing station here and appropriat-
ed $500. Bellefonte borough council
appropriated $300 and business men
and individuals will be asked to give
th ebalance. It might be further stat-
ed that the amount of money Belle-
fonte has agreed to give is only a
smal Ipart of the cost of the buildings.
It will cost the government about
$6,000 additional for the buildings
that are now under way and eventu-
ally the cost of the plant they will lo-
cate here will cost anywhere from fif-
ty thousand dollars up. 5
Now for the possibilities: Take a
map of the United States and draw
a straight line from New York to
Chicago and it will go through Mill
Hall, but that place was eliminated
in favor of Bellefonte. Again draw
a straight line from Boston to Cincin-
nati and you will pass close to Belle-
fonte. Draw another line from Wash-
ington or Baltimore to Buffalo, N. Y.,
and you will pass close to Bellefonte.
Now if the era of aeroplanes for com-
mercial purposes is just beginning,
and there is hardly any question on
this point, a station here will eventu-
ally mean a stopping place on all the
main arteries of travel between the
east and west and north and south.
As it is in this one instance of the
Wilson aerial mail route Bellefonte
will be the only scheduled landing place
in Pennsylvania, Lehighton and Clar-
ion being sub-stations in case of an
emergency landing.
Now it shouldn’t be a difficult matter
to figure out the advantages to Belle-
fonte and all of Centre county in hav-
ing the station here. It is an adver-
tisement for the whole community, and
in the future when aerial transport has
become an established reality Centre
county will have advantages that few
other sections of the State will enjoy.
In conclusion it might be added that
Bellefonte was selected by the pilots
making the trial flights because of the
ideal landing field, its altitude and
freedom from treacherous air currents,
all of which weigh very heavily with
aeronauts when it comes to landing or
making an ascent in a heavy plane.
——The remains of Miss Katharine
8. Beaver, who died in the Presbyter-
ian hospital, N. Y., on Wednesday of
last week following an operation for
appendicitis were brought to Belle-
fonte last Saturday morning, accom-
panied by her mother, Mrs. Gilbert A.
Beaver! Mrs. Fred Harris, of York-
town Heights, a friend of the family,
and Thomas Beaver. The body was
taken to the home of Miss Beaver's
grandmother, Mrs. James A. Beaver,
on the corner of Allegheny and Curtin
streets, where funeral services were
held at three o'clock on Saturday aft-
ernoon. Dr. W. K. McKinney officiat-
ed and burial was made in the Beaver
lot in the Union cemetery.
State College Music Head to Lead
Camp Upton Sings.
Clarence C. Robinson, director of
music at The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege, has been appointed chief song
master at Camp Upton. He left this
week for his new post, having been
granted a leave of absence from the
college. Camp Upton will be one of
the principal points of disembarkation
for American troops returning from
France.
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Consolidation of the services of
the Western Union and Postal tele-
graph companies under government
control has been announced to become
effective December first.
Farmer W. W. Herman Made an
Assignment.
W. W. Herman, who lives on the
Mrs. Matilda Dale farm in College |
township, last week made an assign-
ment for the benefit of his creditors
to I. J. Dreese, of Lemont. His lia-
bilities are placed at about $6,200 and
his assets $4,000. Mr. Herman start-
ed farming on the Mrs. Dale farm
less than two years ago and was ar-
ranging to make sale some time next
month and quit the farm when his
creditors began action that forced his
assignment.
Auto License Tags Ready Dec. 1.
Shipment of 1919 automobile li-
cense tags will start on December 1,
which date is two weeks earlier than
when the initial shipment went out in
former years. If the public will co-
operate with the State Highway De-
partment by making early applica-
tion, tags can be mailed early in De-
, cember, thereby avoiding the conges-
tion in the mails which usually occurs
| later in the month, and this method
! will also insure receipt of the tags by
| the owners in ample time, so that
they will be available for use on Jan-
uary 1, as is required by the Penn-
- sylvania Automobile law. Under the
| provisions of the law, all motor ve-
| hicles must be equipped with new tags
| on January 1, under penalty of arrest
i and fine.
! Women in Agriculture.
at
| Due to the extreme labor shortage,
| many women are taking over lines of
work in agriculture which have form-
erly been handled by men. While
much of this work has been new to
them, and much skepticism prevailed
as to their ability to handle it suc-
cessfully there is no question but that
they have made good and that, as
time goes on, more and more women
will be employed in agricultural work.
In view of the demand for trained
women in agricultural work, The
Pennsylvania State College this win-
train women in agriculture. The
eight-weeks short course, starting
January 1 and closing March 2, will
give special instruction in the care
and handling of livestock, crops, and
soils. Special instruction will also be
given in tractor handling, creamery
work and cow testing association
work. All who are interested in this
course should write to the Dean of the
School of Agriculture, State College,
Pa., for catalogue and further infor-
mation.
Report of Pine Grove Mills Red Cross.
The Pine Grove auxiliary of the
Red Cross was organized June 15th,
1917, and at present it consists of 120
adult members and 59 juniors. To
date they have made and shipped the
following articles:
36 fracture pillows, 145 ice ‘bag covers,
230. pillow cases, 30 sheets, 41 wash cloths,
315 towels, 57 treach hospital pillow cases,
131 undershirts, 54 sweaters, 2 mufflers, 14
pair socks, 32 dresses, 15 housewives, 15
comfort bags, 21 capes with hoods, 32
sacques, 42 pair booties, 17 shirts, 4 knit-
ted hoods, 12 blankets, 24 convalescent
robes, a total of 1269 articles.
Donated by auxiliary—15 ice bag covers,
15 yards shaker flannel, 2 sweaters, 18
dozen buttons, 41 wash cloths.
Result of linen shower—3 sheets, 10
handkerchiefs, 5 bath towels.
Bought material to amount eof $4.96, and
all thread used the first year.
Amount of money paid to David F.
Kapp for materials:
September 15, 101(................ $ 15.00
November 2, 10Y¢... i. 00 0. Gl 30.00
May 7, 1918....... lesa ke haribha .. 100.00
June 17, 1918, ...... 0. vor ibviiiiiinie, 30.00
September 17, 1918, ......ccicnivrvees 125.00
TPOtal. icccninsnssnirvnsgs $300.00
Mrs. W. E. REED, Chairman.
Mrs. G. H. WOODS, Vice Chairman.
Mrs. J. N. Everts, Secretary.
Mrs. G. W. DUNLAP, Treasurer.
——— ene
Sunday School Census
Township.
of Miles
This census was conducted under
the auspices of the Centre county
Sabbath school association. The
township was divided into a number
of convenient districts. A joint com-
mittee of forty-eight was appointed
by the Sunday schools in the town-
ship. This committee sent its mem-
bers by twos into the sub-districts to
secure the data called for by the
county association, and from the re-
ports handed in the tabulation as
found below was obtained. A few
cards were not properly executed. A
few families were omitted, but cor-
rections were made where it could be
done. The fact that quite a number
of people are enrolled in districts in
which they do not reside made the
work difficult. The report is not per-
fect but is approximately correct.
The table shows a few startling
things. The population of the town-
ship of 1512 in 1880 dwindled down to
991 at the time this census was tak-
en, a loss of nearly one-third. It al-
so shows that twenty-nine out of
every hundred are not in the Sunday
school, and less than 12 per cent. of
those not enrolled will enroll. Twen-
ty-two per cent. of the children un-
der 18 years of age are not in Sun-
day school. There is food for thought
in this report, which was furnished
the “Watchman” by C. L. Gramley,
chairman of the committee:
First ccolumn—Population.
Second column—S. 8. Enrollment.
Third column—Will Enroll.
Fourth column—Under 18 years.
Fifth column—Enrolled Under 18.
Madisonburg ....... 204 155 3 58 49
Rebersburg .........487 380 12 157 138
Smuliton J. .000 103 6 ¥ 34 19
Wolf's Store ........002 16 g 85) MM
Livonia .... ......... 4 22 2 36 Nn
Total ...%... 991 703 33 316 251
Number of church members in the
township, 510—fifty-two per cent. of
population.
——Constance Talmadge, Norma
Talmadge, Clara Kimball Young, Mar-
ion Davies and Alice Brady in their
latest productions at the Lyric. 46-1t
ter intends to make special effort to
W. S. S. DRIVE NEXT WEEK.
Buy to the Limit and Send Centre
County Over the Top.
To further the sales of W. S. S.
your chairman has designated the
week of November 25th as “over the
top week.” Every banker, postmas-
ter, district chairman, school teacher,
and in fact every patriotic citizen in-
terested in our brave boys is urgently
requested to sell and also to buy W.
S. S. to the limit during the week.
Centre county must go “over the
top.”
our boys until “they come. marching
home.”
An armistice has been agreed to,
but our boys will be needed for im-
portant service “over there” until all
the details of a lasting peace have
been agreed to by Germany and her
allies, that will be entirely satisfac-
tory to France and her allies.
| Let us continue to support our boys.
I It is our duty. Buy W. S. S. during
| the week of November 25th to the
| limit of your ability. :
Certificates are now ready for cir-
SHation to the limit holders of W.
S.S. !
{ The public school teachers in the
i county have been asked to put forth
| their best efforts between this and
December 1st, to sell and deliver 200
yor more W. S. 8., and to enlist the
i support of the pupils of each school,
or grade, in the county, for that pur-
pose. To every school selling and de-
livering 200 or more W. S. S., a “cer-
tificate of service” will be presented,
which will be suitable for framing,
and which can remain in the school
room for many years to come, which
will show to the future pupils of
those particular schools having them,
that patriotic service, during the
great conflict, was rendered by the
teacher and pupils in 1918.
A W. S. S. honor flag will be pre-
sented to every borough and township
going “over the top” in actual sales.
These honor flags will be distributed
after December 1st, 1918.
W. HARRISON WALKER,
Chairman War Savings Committee
for Centre County.
Samples of the new war Sav-
ings stamps to be issued next year
have been received at headquarters
of the National War Savings commit-
tee in Philadelphia. - The stamp is blue
and bears the head of Benjamin
Franklin, the apostle of saving, who
was once Postmaster General. The
new series will mature January 1,
1924, and in practically all respects
will be issued in the same terms and
in the same manner as the present
series of 1918. The new stamp will
be placed on sale early in 1919.
The same green thrift stamps and
the thrift cards now in use, will be
continued next year and will be ex-
changed into the new series of 1919
war savings stamps, payable January
1, 1924, in the same way as the ex-
charige has been made during this
year into the series of 1918 war sav-
ings stamps. :
Borough Council Appropriated $300
to Aero Mail Station.
Robert F. Hunter, president of the
Bellefonte board of trade, appeared
before council on Monday evening
and asked for an appropriation of
$300 toward the amount to be con-
tributed by Bellefonte and Centre
county for the aerial mail station
which has been located on the Beaver
farm just east of Bellefonte. Mr.
Hunter explained ihe possibie advan-
tages of having the station in Centre
county, and at Bellefonte, the county
seat, and council voted to appropriate
the amount requested.
The secretary of council presented
an order from contractor R. B. Taylor
to the borough to pay to the Belle-
fonte Trust company an additional
$1,500 on account of the south Water
street state road contract. .
A petition was received from resi-
dents of north Spring street complain-
ing about the dangerous condition of
the boardwalk on that thoroughfare,
and another petition was received
from residents of east Curtin street
requesting council to see that new
pavements were laid along a number
of properties on the south side of that
thoroughfare. Both petitions were re-
ferred to the Street committee.
Neither the Street or Water com-
mittees had anything of special im-
portance to report.
The Fire and Police committee pre-
sented the request of the janitors at
the public building and Undine fire
company building for an increase in
pay for firing the boilers of the heat-
ing plants. The matter was referred
to the committee with power to act.
Mr. Fauble, of the Finance com-
mittee, recommended that council ap-
prove the bills of the attorneys in the
matter of the sale and transfer of the
Pruner orphanage property in Ty-
rone to the U. S. government and au-
thorize the payment of the same,
making a motion to that effect. Coun-
cil so ordered.
A statement was received from the
State-Centre Electric company on the
water taxes for 1917, showing the
amount collected, exonerations claim-
ed and the amount still due. The
matter was referred to the Water
committee and secretary to check up.
Bills to the amount of $1173.72
were approved and council adjourned.
Bellefonte will have an oppor-
tunity to see one good game of foot-
ball this season, on Thanksgiving aft-
ernoon, at 2:30 o'clock when the All-
Scholastics team, of Altoona, will play
the Bellefonte Academy on Hughes
field. This will be a good chance to
equal up with the Academy for the
loan of its baseball material during the
Red Cross league games. Therefore
be sure to attend. Price of admission
will be 50 cents.
ewe
Tatty Arbuckle, Mack Sennett
and Charlie Chaplin comedies at the
Lyric. 46-1t
We must continue to support
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs, H. M. Wetzel will return home
after a visit of five weeks with her
daughter, Mrs. Farrow, at Algonquin, W.
Va,
-—H. T. McDowell, of Howard, was
among those from over the county who
came to Bellefonte Saturday for the Farm
Bureau meeting.
—J. Elmer Royer and William Meyer
drove over from Centre Hall yesterday, '
spending a part of the day looking after
business in Bellefonte.
—Mrs. Maurice Miller and Mrs. J. L.
Garthoff visited the fore part of last week
with Mr, Garthoff’s sister, Mrs. Calvin
M. Sanders, at Vicksburg,
—Mrs. C. D. Tanner went to
week ago for a short visit
davghter, Mrs. Boyle, and to
at their big peace celebration.
—Miss Katherine Allison and Miss De-
shiel, went to Salesbury, Md., Wednes-
day, where they will visit at Miss De-
shiel’s home until the schools are reopen-
ed.
—Mrs. W. T. Hunt and her two sons
came here from Renovo, Fraday, visiting
while in Bellefonte with Mrs. Hunt's
father and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. D. W.
Woodring.
—Mrs. John Stetson and Miss Thoma-
zine Potter, of Ashbourne, Pa., have been
guests this week of Col. and Mrs. W. F.
Reynolds. Both came up Tuesday, Mrs.
Stetson in her car and Miss Potter by
train.
—W. E. Hartsock, of Juniata, spent last
week up Buffalo Run visiting with réla-
tives and boyhood friends. Mr. Hart: ck
is recovering from a nervous collapse of
over a year ago, and expects soon eo re-
sume: his work.
Hazleton a
with her
be present
—Miss Anna Hoffffer, of Philipsburg, is i
spending the week here with her mother
and grandfather, Mrs. C. U. Hoffer, and
C. T. Gerberich. Mrs. Hoffer has been
with her father for the greater part of the
summer and fall.
—Mr and Mrs. J. Norman Sherer drove
to Bellefonte Friday of last week from
Reading, remaining until Sunday. Mr.
Sherer’s time was spent looking after
some business interests, while Mrs. Sher-
er visited with relatives.
—Mrs. Alvin G, McMillen with her
small child and maid came here from
Harrisburg Tuesday, called to Bellefonte
on account of the illness of her mother,
Mrs, Odillie Mott. Mrs. Mott is rapidly
recovering from the recent illness.
—Mr. and Mrs. Trood Parker, with Mr.
Parker's small son, came to Bellefonte
from Clearfield the after part of last
week, to leave the child here with Mr.
Parker’s mother, Mrs. Alice Parker, while
they went on for a short visit in Phila-
delphia.
—The Misses Elizabeth and Emily Par-
ker, of Somerset, came to Bellefonte TFri-
day of last week, Miss Emily returning
home after a very short stay while her
sister remained to spend an indefinite
time with her brother, G. Ross Parker and
his family.
—Mrs. Archibald Saxe, of Minersville,
with her two small daughters and her
sister, Miss Louise G. Harper, are ex-
pected in Bellefonte within a short time;
stopping here on their way to Elwood
City, where Mr. Saxe has already accept-
ed a position with another mining com-
pany. fe
. —Mr. and Mrs. Norman M. Kirk and
their son, Norman Jr., are guests of Dr.
and Mrs. M. A. Kirk. Mr. and Mrs. Kirk,
who will be in Bellefonte for a month,
came here from Chatham, Va., and at the
end of their visit will go to Green county,
Va., where Mr. Kirk will resume his work
in government soil survey.
—Mrs. L. T. Munson left Wednesday
for Sheffield, Ala., where she will be for
an indefinite time with her son, John
Gephart Munson, and his family. Mrs.
Munson was accompanied as far as
‘Washington by Richard Brown, who was
returning to his work in Texas, having
come north with the family two weeks
ago.
—The Misses Grace and Veda Wetzel
went to Harrisburg last week for a visit
of several days with Miss Beltz, who had
been quite ill at her home in that place.
Miss Wetzel was called back to Bellefonte
Friday and left Saturday to take a case
in Pittsburgh, while Miss Veda remained
in Harrisburg until the beginning of the
week.
—Mrs. Grant Pifer returned to Belle-
fonte Friday afternoon from Turbotville,
having gone from here there two weeks
ago, in answer to a call for help from her
sister’s family, who were all ill with the
influenza. Mrs. Pifer expects to go on to
her home in Wilkinsburg, after spending
this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
H. K. Hoy.
S——r etme —
An Acknowledgement.
This issue of the “Watchman” prob-
ably never would have reached its
readers had it not been for the courte-
sy extended this office by the Keystone
Gazette.
On Tuesday the heat unit in our
type setting machine burned out mak-
ing further operation impossible, A
long distance call to the factory
brought only the discouraging infor-
mation that they could not promise de-
livery of new units at any time as the
General Electric Co.,, which manufac-
tures them, was then two months be-
hind with orders for the elements vi-
tal to the continued operation of In-
tertypes of our voltage.
The Gazette very considerately plac-
ed the idle time of its machine at our
disposal and through that channel we
have been able to get the “Watchman”
out in time.
Its appearance is not up to standard,
of course, for the reason that the type
we had already set when the accident
happened is not of the same face as
that used by the Gazette but the news
is all here, thanks to our up town con-
temporary.
Galaidai—Derstine.— Jerry Galai-
dai, of Butler, and Miss Pearl Ders-
tine, of Bellefonte, were married at
Butler on Monday of last week. The
bridegroom is a former member of
the state constabulary and was locat-
ed in Bellefonte during the summer.
After being recalled to Butler three
weeks ago he resigned as a member
of the constabulary with the inten-
tion of entering an officers’ training
school but the end of the war has put
an end to his ambitions in that direc-
tion. Mr. and Mrs. Galaidai have
been spending the week at the bride’s
home in this place. >
All the new Paramount Art-craft
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| War Work Campaign a Success.
The big drive in the war work cam-
paign came to an end officially on
Monday, but as there are still some
districts in Centre county that have
not yet reported no definite announce-
ment can be made of the results,
though it is quite certain that the
‘county went over its allotment of
$41,000.
Last Friday a prominent marker in
the shape of a U. S. flag was erected
in the Diamond in Bellefonte each il-
luminated star representing one
‘ thousand dollars. It was started with
eight stars and by Monday evening
contained nineteen illuminated stars,
| representing $19,000. This amount
i did not include the money raised at
i State College, Snow Shoe, Philips-
; burg and Rush township. The Coun-
| ty Commissioners appropriated $1,000
to the fund and the Patriotic League
$50, while there were a number of
large contributions from individuals.
Mrs. J. Thomas Mitchell was in per-
sonal charge of the drive and deserves
a large measure of credit for the suc-
cess achieved.
And right here it might be stated
that the committee wishes to acknowl-
edge with thanks the work of A. L.
| McGinley, Edward F. Gehret and the
| State-Centre Electric company for the
work they did on the electric flag
which registered on the Diamond the
progress of the drive.
The United War Work Drive is Still
On in Centre County.
i Officially the drive to raise funds in
i Centre county for the various organi-
i zations doing construction war work
, among our soldiers at home and abroad
| was to have ended on Monday night,
: November 18th, but owing to condi-
tions in many communities in the
county the time has been extended to
include all of this week and as much
of the next as will be required for the
workers in the various boroughs and
townships to make a complete can-
vas.
In some sections the influenza has
made a thorough canvas impossible.
In others fall farming work, bad
weather and other influences have de-
terred the campaign; held it back so
that they are not nearly up to the mark
that will satisfy their pride and prove
a credit to their interest in the welfare
of the boys who have left home and
everything to fight for them.
Centre Hall was the first borough
over the top. Its quota was $800 and in
a jiffy a committee composed of young
ladies raised $860.
Bellefonte and Spring township with
a combined quota of $11,500.00 have
come through with $12,614.83 and will
make it more when all of the indus-
tries are heard from. The industry
campaign here, organized by Mr. A.
Fauble, has been a striking success. In
fact every industry enlisted has made
a one hundred per cent. record. That
is, all men employed have contributed
at least a day’s wages. Some of them
much more.
Philipsburg and Rush township, with
a combined quota of $11,000.00 have
thus far reported only $4000.00, but
Philipsburg has never been behind
Bellefonte in any of these drives and
we are looking for her to go way over
the top as soon as she gets out of the
clutches of the flu, which has been ab-
sorbing much of the attention of the
people over there.
Milesburg is over the top with her
quota of $500.
Unionville is over the top with her
quota. of $500.
Liberty township is nearly thirty per
cent. over the top; having raised
$682.75 on its quota of $450.
Ferguson township has reported $545
of her quota of $1500.
Halfmoon has reported $81.25 against
a quota of $400.
Millheim, Penn, Haines, Miles and
Gregg constitute a district with a quo-
ta of $5050.00 of which they have thus
far reported $1279.00.
The total collections recorded on the
flag in the Diamond here amount to
$26,000.00 now and we must get at least
$15,000.00 more subscribed before we
have reached the county’s quota of
$41,000.00. Of course the State College
student contribution of $23,000.00 is not
counted in this, but we should go over
the top as a county without that.
Smaller and less prosperous coun-
ties than Centre, Clinton for example,
is away over the top already, with to-
tal contributions amounting to about
$45,000.00.
We have faith in Centre, therefor the
prediction that the next issue of the
“Watchman” will announce that she
has not fallen down in this last but one
of the most important of war activi-
ties.
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The United War Work Campaign.
Centre county has subscribed to the
United War Work campaign drive
$26,600.00. Bellefonte, Centre Hall,
Milesburg, State College and Union-
ville boroughs; Liberty and Harris
townships have subscribed or over-
subscribed their quotas.
We hope the remaining parts of the
county will feel that it is their duty to
complete their work. As some places
are still suffering from influenza, the
drive has been extended until Friday
night, the 22nd. We ask all chairmen
to send in their reports as soon as pos-
sible.
Lina T. Mitchell, Chairman.
Office County Council of National
Defense and Committee of Public Safe-
ty. Bell telephone 118, and Commercial
telephone.
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Centre County Pomona Grange.
The Centre county Pomona Grange
will meet with the Penn. State Grange
on Saturday, December 7th, at 10 a.
m., in room 100 horticultural building
at State College.
Business of importance will be trans-
acted at the forenoon session. The
afternoon session will be taken up by
any remaining business. The lectures
program, and conferring of the 5th de-
gree at 3 o'clock. Each person is sup-
posed to take their own lunch and hot
coffee will be served by the Penn
State Grange C. R. Neff, Master. S.
W. Smith, Secretary.
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