Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, December 06, 1918, Image 5

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    With the Churches of the
County.
Christian Science Society.
Christian Science society, Furst
building, High street. Sunday service
11 a. m. Sunday school 9.45. Wed-
nesday evening meeting at 8 o’clock.
To these meetings all are welcome. A
free reading-room is open to the pub- |
lic every Thursday afternoon from 2
to 4. Here the Bible and Christian |
Science literature may be read, bor- |
rowed or purchased. Subject, De-
cember 8th, “God the Only Cause an
Creator.”
St. John’s church (Episcopal).
Services beginning December 8: The
second Sunday in Advent, 8 a. m., Ho-
ly Eucharist. 10 a. m., church school.
11 a. m., Matins and sermon. 7:30 p.
m., evensong and sermon. Friday,
7:30 p. m., the Litany and instruc-
tion. Visitors always welcome.
Rev. M. DeP. Maynard, Rector.
Doings of the Borough Dads.
Seven members were present at the
regular meeting of borough council
en Monday evening, the absentees be-
ing Messrs. Cherry and Brouse, of the
West ward.
There were no verbal or written
communications. Chairman Harris,
of the Street committee reported
south Water street practically com-
pleted to the railroad and that ar-
rangements were being made to find
an outlet for the Pennsylvania Match
company by way of the Bellefonte
Lumber company yard while that por-
tion of the road between the railroad
and the bridge is being bricked.
Chairman Seibert, of the Water
committee, reported repairs complet-
ed at the Phoenix pumping station
and that progress was being made in
the matter of checking up the water
tax delinquents.
Chairman Flack, of the Fire and
Police committee, reported the elec-
tric sirene fire alarm as being out of
order. He stated that an examina-
tion disclosed the fact that the bear-
ings were literally congealed to the
shaft, the result of the lack of oil.
The committee was instructed to have
the alarm put in shape at once.
The Finance committee reported a
balance in the hands of the treasurer
on December 2nd of $2733.84. A note
for $2000 dated November 22nd, was
presented for renewal for six months
and three notes for $600, $5000 and
$1500 respectively, dated December
6th, were also presented for renewal
for three months, all of which were
authorized.
The question of defective pave-
ments was brought before council ow-
ing to the petition of residents of
north Spring street for a better pave-
ment along the John Porter Lyon
home, and residents of Curtin street
about the dangerous condition of the
boardwalk along the south side of
that thoroughfare. Among the pave-
ments mentioned on the main streets
of the town that are badly in need of
repair before winter sets in are those
in front of the Elks home and the
Wilson property on the south side of
High street; the pavement at the Val-
entine property on High and Spring
streets, and the pavement at the
Brockerhoff property on Bishop and
Spring streets. The reporters were
requested to publish the fact that
council will enforce the ordinance re-
garding the putting and keeping of
all pavements, wherever located, in
a safe condition for travel.
Borough solicitor J. Thomas Mitch-
ell presented a written opinion on the
legal status of south Potter street, so
far as it was possible to obtain facts
thereon, and in the solicitor’s judg-
ment the buildings erected thereon on
the south side of that thoroughfare
have no legal status and should be re-
moved. The question of the exact lo-
cation of this street has been a bug-
bear before council the past three or
four years and as no way has so far
been found to reach an amicable ad-
justment of the matter members of .
council evidently deemed it best to
test the matter out in the courts and
to this end the borough solicitor was
instructed to prepare a bill in equity
requiring the owner or owners of the
buildings in question to show cause
why they should not be removed and
the street located as originally laid
out.
Bills to the amount of $3219.88 were
approved and council adjourned.
Who All Our Peace Conferees Are.
A condensed history of the five men
who will represent the United States
at the peace conference in France is
as follows:
Woodrow Wilson, aged sixty-two,
born in Tanten, Virginia, ancestry
Scotch-Irish — Princeton ’79—eleven
times LL. D. professor of politics and
writer on political subjects, and presi-
dent of Princeton until he moved to
Trenton to become Governor and
thence on to Washington. Home,
Princeton, N. J.
Robert Lansing, age fifty-four, born
in Watertown, N. Y. Amherst ’86,
admitted to bar in 1889. Counsel] in
international arbitration cases repeat-
edly singe 1892. Counsel of depart-
ment of State March 20, 1914. Sec-
retary since June, 1915. Home, Wa-
tertown, N. Y.
Edward Mandell House, aged sixty.
Born in Houston, Texas. Cornell ’81.
Active in Democratic politics in Tex-
as and then in national and interna-
tional affairs, but never a candidate
for office. Home, Austin, Texas.
Henry White, aged sixty-eight.
Born in Baltimore. Educated by pri-
vate tutors. Secretary American le-
ation in Vienna 1883-4, London,
1884-1895, Ambassador to Italy and
France until Taft superseded him.
Active since with Smithsonian, Red
Cross, Washington cathedral. Home,
‘Washington.
Tasker H. Bliss, aged sixty-five.
Born in Lewisburg, Pa. West Point
"75. Made a fine record in Cuba, Phil-
ippines and Mexican border and as
professor of war college. Chief of
staff 1917. Home, Rosemont, Pa.
PINE GROVE MENTION.
W. H. Roush, of Altoona, is here
: for his share of venison.
Farmer John Martin, at White Hall,
shoused up with a bealed jaw.
Everybody who owned a gun made
| for the woods bright and early Mon-
day morning in quest of deer.
Alfred Reed and Leslie Gates, of
| Cresson, and J. H. Everts, of Pitcairn,
| are here for their annual deer hunt.
Mrs. Sallie Musser, of Bellefonte,
: spent Thanksgiving day at the Dr. G.
!
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d | H. Woods home on west Main street.
Mrs. Margaret Gates, of Cresson,
has been visiting old neighbors and
friends in and out of town this week.
Mrs. Nannie Mayes, with her two
interesting boys, are visiting the J.
H. Jigher ing home at Tyrone this
week.
After a ten day’s visit with rela-
| tives in New York and Philadelphia,
Mrs. E. S. Bierly returned home on
Saturday.
Mrs. L. H. Sunday, with several of
his interesting children, motored to
Bellefonte on Tuesday on a shopping
expedition.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lykens, of
White Hall, were Sunday callers at
the Mrs. Mary Brouse home on east
| Main street.
J. H. McCracken has men at work
building a concrete cistern, 30x10x10
feet in size at his No. 2 farm occupied
by Ed. Frank.
Ernest Struble and mother came
over from State College on Sunday
and called on a number of friends in
this neighborhood.
The young man who was out in the
wee sma’ hours Sunday morning can
! recover his red halter by calling on
the writer and paying for this notice.
John Trostle, of Greensburg, was
here over Sunday greeting old friends
before leaving for the Sucker State,
Xho he expects to locate at Spring-
eld.
William Sasserman and wife came
down from Altoona last week and on
Thanksgiving day assisted at a big
Dutchonng at the elder Sasserman
ome.
Taking advantage of the closed
schools at Tyrone Paul and Hugh
Goss are spending their enforced va-
cation at the A. F. Fry home at Fair-
brook.
A little son—a new farm boy—ar-
rived in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
James Hoover, on the David George
Meek farm at Fairbrook, yesterday
morning.
Walter Sager, of Winburne, has
been visiting relatives in this section
the past week, and was fortunate in
getting in on a number of big butch-
ering dinners.
Mr. and Mrs. David C. Krebs mo-
tored over from State College to
spend the Sabbath with friends in
town, and on the way had a liftle
more than their share of tire trouble.
News has reached here of the first
arrival in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence T. Gates, at their home in
Dorothy, W. Va. The boy has been
christened Lester, after his big uncle.
George W. O’Bryan, the hustling
merchant at Axe Mann, accompanied
by his wife and children, motored to
our town and spent Sunday at the pa-
rental O'Bryan home on Church
-street. *
Last Sunday Dr. R. M. Campbell
occupied the pulpit of the Presbyter-
ian church at Tyrone, and during his
absence Rev. L. N. Fleck filled his
appointments at Graysville and Bai-
leyville.
Last Thursday while Leslie Harp-
ster was out on the mountain looking
for a wild turkey he espied a nice red
fox and brought it to earth with the
first shot. The pelt and scalp yield-
ed him fourteen dollars.
After spending six weeks at Pit-
cairn, Mrs. Sadie Everts returned
home on Monday bringing with her
her daughter Helen, who has been ill
the past month as the result of an at-
tack of the flu. They were accompa-
nied by Mrs. J. H. Everts.
Farmer Samuel Everhart spent
Sunday at the John E. Reed home at
Rock Springs. Both Mr. Reed and A.
E. Tressler, the popular creamery
man, are housed up with the rheuma-
tism. Clifford Reed came over from
Philipsburg to spend the Sabbath
with his family.
Dallas Morrison, one of White
Hall's energetic young farmers, is
planning a trip to Dixie Land, hoping
to spend the holiday season at his pa-
rental home at Columbia, Ky. Mrs.
Morrison is just recovering from an
attack of influenza and will not be
able to join her husband on his trip.
Dr. W. M. Neidigh, who has been
engaged in veterinary work at Camp
Lee, spent a brief furlough among
relatives and friends in the valley last
week, leaving for his post of duty on
Monday morning. He is in fine health
and spirits and anticipates being dis-
charged from service in the near fu-
ture.
W. H. Grambling and family, who
always spend their summers here and
like the birds migrate south for the
winter, left last week in their Ford
car for the overland trip to their win-
ter home at Tampa, Fla., where they
have considerable property. But like
the wild geese they will return next
spring.
The I. W. T. band will serve a sup-
per in the hall at Rock Springs to-
morrow (Saturday) evening. Oys-
ters, chicken, ice cream, cake and
fruit will be on tap. Prices 25 and 35
cents. The proceeds will be devoted
to maintaining a room in Dr. Go-
heen’s hospital in India, and as the
object is a most worthy one a liberal
patronage is hoped for.
The township board of health re-
ports some forty cases of the flu
throughout the valley, a greater num-
ber than at any previous time. For-
tunately most of them are of a mild
nature and so far only one death has
occurred. In some cases entire fami-
lies are afflicted. Mrs. Annie Garner
is helping take care of the G. C. Corl
family on the Branch, where most of
them are sick.
Rev. Dr. L. N. Fleck and family
have completed their arrangements
to vacate the parsonage and move to
Tyrone next ‘Tuesday, the reverend
intending to take a little vacation
from his ministerial work. During
the past three years he has served the
Pine Grove Mills charge faithfully
and well. He is a splendid pulpit or-
Elks.
ator and one who always has the wel-
fate of his parishioners very much at
eart.
Among our soldier boys overseas
who have been heard from recently
are Paul Ward, Clayton Corl, James
Gummo, Ira Harpster, Thomas Frank,
Robert Saul, J. O. Harpster, Judson
Neidigh, Paul Tate and Winfred Arm-
strong. All are in fine shape but the
latter, who is in a base hospital on ac-
count of wounds received in action,
though his condition is not alarming.
OAK HALL.
Harry Wagner, who is employed at
Spangler, was a recent visitor at this
place.
Lloyd Tate will move into one of
Elmer Ross’ houses at Lemont, on
Thursday.
Charles Whitehill, who has been
working at Philipsburg, visited his
family in this place.
Mrs. J. F. Zechman and Miss Anna
Dale, of Boalsburg, spent a short time
in town Monday afternoon.
O. L. Rishel and wife left for
Wilkes-Barre on Thursday, where
they will make their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Zong and
children were Sunday visitors at the
Jacob Zong home at Linden Hall.
Samuel Reitz, who has been living
near Snow Shoe, moved into his own
house on Main street, last Monday.
Miss Minnie Luther spent her
Thanksgiving vacation with her sis-
ter, Mrs. W. J. Clymer, at Lock Ha-
ven.
Mr. and Mrs. Matthias Durner,
who sold their property and house-
hold goods last spring and went to
live with their daughter in Wiscon-
sin, have returned to this place and
have gone to housekeeping in one of
William Ferre’s houses.
Poland Larger than France.
Through German sources of infor-
mation there seems to have come a
prevailing impression in the United
States that the Polish nation is small
—one not larger in numbers and ter-
ritory, for example, than Serbia. The
fact is that Poland when reunited
would be one of the most homogene-
ous people in Europe, for it would
have a territorial area considerably
larger than that of France; in it there
would be more than thirty millions of
people speaking pure Polish, and in
addition other ethnic strains like the
Slovaks, who practically speak Polish.
Is not the question whether 30,000,-
000 of people of the same racial stock
and speaking the same language shall
come justly to their own, which has
been taken away from them by des-
potic military power, one of the great
questions of the war?
The figures in so good an authority
as the Statesman’s Year Book of Eng-
land give the number of Polish-speak-
ing people in what are commonly re-
garded as the Polish provinces of Rus-
sia, Prussia and Austria as 20,000,
000. Polish statistics, as we have al-
ready intimated, largely come from
German sources and it is the politic- |’
al interest of Austria and Germany,
as it was before the war to the Ro-
manoff dynasty, to make the number
of ethnically distinct Poles as small
as possible. Moreover, the statistics
in the Statesman’s Year Book ac-
count only for Galicia (or Austrian
Poland); Posen (or Prussian Poland),
and so-called Russian Poland, often
spoken of as the Vistula province.
There are in addition the provinces of
East Prussia (where all the peasants
even under the strict control of Ger-
many speak Polish), and Lithuania,
Podolya and Volhynia, the last three
being under Russian control.
If the inhabitants of these provine-
es, which should rightly form an in-
tegral part of the new Poland, are
taken into account, the total number
of Polish-speaking people in what is
rightly Polish territory would un-
doubtedly amount to about 30,000,000.
Soft Coal is Cheaper.
The expected break in the soft coal
market has begun. The curtailments
of industry following the armistice in
the face of a 13 per cent. increase in
the bituminous output has weakened
the demand so that there are now
many instances of coal selling below
the government price. Consumers
are delaying purchases till coal gets
cheaper.
Naturally, the lower-grade coals
were affected first. Distributors re-
port sales 40 cents a ton below the
fixed maximum at Cleveland, Ohio;
20 cents below in Chicago, and great-
er reductions in Montreal.
They predict that in two or three
weeks all grades will be selling below
government prices in the coal market
throughout the country. But for the
influenza epidemic, which has slowed
up production for the last two months
so that the present output is running
about where it was at this time in
1916 and 1917, the break in prices, in
their opinion, would be general now.
To find a way of saving the situa-
tion for the industry, a committee rep-
resenting the National Coal Associa-
tion has been laboring with the War
Trade Board the last few days. The
condition is accentuated just at this
time by the closing of lake navigation
to coal. Boats now have to go with-
out insurance. A few may take a
chance to meet a special demand, but
lake coal movement is practically at
an end for this year. That throws
the whole output elsewhere.
The best opening in prospect for
the accumulating supply of soft coal
is thought to be in the expansion of
the export coal trade, and it is with
this in view that the National Coal
Association has appealed to the War
Trade Board.
Men Fight Dogs for Food.
London.—Dogs and men are bat-
tling in Petrograd for the flesh of
horses which drop dead in the streets,
according to a British business man
who has just arrived in London. He
escaped from Petrograd early in No-
vember and evaded the Bolshevik
guard at the Finnish border at night.
The Bolshevik government, he said,
has announced since the recapture of
Kazan, Simbirsk and Samara, that
they would have grain enough to feed
the soldiers, sailors and their own
partisans throughout the
persons. As a result money has lost
its food-buying power and the non-
Bolshevik Russians are in a desper- |
ate condition.
( winter. |
They will not issue food to any other |
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FINE GROCERIES
LL GOODS in our line are thirty to sixty days late this sea-
son. Prices are somewhat, but not strongly above the lev-
el at this time last season. It is not safe to predict, but it
does seem that prices are just now “passing over the top” and may
be somewhat more reasonable in the near future.
We Have Received
New Evaporated Apricots at 25c and 30c a Ib. Fancy Peaches 20c
and 22c Ib. Very Fancy Evaporated Corn at 35c a Ib. or 3 cans for
$1.00. Fancy Selected Sweet Potatoes 5c a Ib.—some grades at 3c
to 4c a Ib. Very Fancy Cranberries at 18c per quart or pound.
Almerin White Grapes, Celery, New Paper-shell Almonds, California
Walnuts, Finest Quality Cheese.
INCLUDE OYSTERS IN YOUR ORDERS
We will deliver fresh opened, solid measure at cost with other
goods.
WE MAKE OUR OWN MINCE MEAT.
No item is cut our or cut short on account of cost—it is just THE
BEST WE CAN MAKE and is highly recommended by all those
who have tried it. If you have used it you already know—or try it
just now. - 2
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Caroline Stine, et al, to Harry
Kenan, et al, tract in Philipsburg;
August Ratz, et ux, to August Tra-
veny, et ux, tract in Rush township;
$1800.
Harry Keller, et al, to Isaac M.
Orndorf, tract in Haines township;
$700.
Verna J. Gehret, et bar, to Bertha
Kline, tract in Bellefonte; $800.
H. B. Scott, et al, to William Hol-
lenbaugh, tract in Rush township;
Mary Taylor to W. G. Crawford,
tract in Rush township; $200.
Mary Taylor to Lenora Johnson,
tract in Rush township; $1500.
Edna H. Cooney, et al, to Samuel
Hoy, tract in Centre Hall; $3200.
John W. Delige, et ux, to Frank J.
Finigan, tract in Philipsburg; $1400.
Bertha Bunzer to Joseph Walko,
tract in Rush township; $100. |
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Clyde B. Hartman and Mary G.'
Wands, State College.
Peter Rose and Munzy C. Torsell,
Bellefonte.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
Bush House Block, - 57-1 - - - Bellefonte, Pa.
——A Missouri livery stable keep-
er put his hand in a mule’s mouth to
see how many teeth the mule had.
The mule closed his mouth to see how
many fingers the man had. Thus was
the curiosity of both man and mule
satisfied. —Pittsburgh Leader.
ESTABLISHED IN 1853.
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11th Street Below Chestnut,
63-34-6m. PHILADELPHIA, PA.
DMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.—Letters
of administration having been
granted to the undersigned upon
the estate of Ralph E. Thomas, late of
Milesburg borough, deceased, all persons
knowing themselves indebted to the same
are requested to make prompt payment,
and thost having claims against said es-
tate must present them duly authenticat-
ed for settlement,
CHARLES W. THOMAS,
Green’s Pharmacy Co,
ws The largest and oldest Drug Store in Centre County
W. Harrison Walker, Administrator,
Attorney. No. 52 River Ave.
63-16-6t Johnstown, Pa.
DMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.—Letters
of administration having been
granted to the undersigned upon
the estate of John H. Crosthwaite, late of
Boggs township, deceased, all persons
knowing themselves indebted thereto are
requested to make prompt payments, and
those having claims against said estate
must present the same, duly authenticated,
for settlement.
We have won the war, and the
period of readjustment is here. New con-
ditions confront us that will call for the wisest
counsel,
(. FRED MUSSER,
W. Harrison Walker, Administrator,
63-45-6t Attorney. Bellefonte, Pa.
testamentary in the estate of May-
: nard Meeker, late of Potter town-
ship, Centre county, deceased, having been
granted to the undersigned all parties
knowing themselves indebted to said es-
tate are Biesely
and those havin
properly authenticated,
signed.
A PM istmentary in NOTICE.—Letters , i
The banks are relieved to some extent from
the service required by the successive issues
of Liberty Loans.
We are better prepared than
ever before for any business that you may
have in the way of banking.
notified to make payment
g claims to present them,
to the under-
F. W. BRADFORD,
Mrs. CLARA MEEKER,
Administrators.
Centre Hall, Pa.
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W. Harrison Walker,
Attorney for Estate.
UDITOR’S NOTICE.—In the Matter of
the Estate of Catharine A. Hoy, |
late of Walker township, deceas-
ed. In the Orphans’ Court of Centre
county.
The undersigned an Auditor appointed
by the Orphans’ Court in the above estate,
to pass upon the exceptions filed, and re-
state the account of the Administrators if
necessary, and to make distribution of the
funds in the hands of the accountants to
and among those legally entitled thereto,
will perform the duties of said appoint-
ment on Friday, the 3rd day of January,
A. D. 1919, at ten o'clock a. m., at his of-
fices in the Masonic Temple building,
Bellefonte, Penna. at which time and
place the parties in interest will appear
and present their claims or be forever de-
barred from coming in upon said fund. |
W. HARRISON WALKER, |
Auditor. |
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