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Bellefonte, Pa., January 31, 1919. |
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——The boys of the machine gun
detachment of Bellefonte gave a de-
lightful dance in the armory on Tues-
day night.
From all indications there will
be fewer public sales of live stock and
farm implements in Centre county
this spring than there has been in a
number of years.
The price of butter has fallen
twenty cents a pound on the Chicago
markets the past week, but no reduc-
tion of a like nature has yet been no-
ticed in Bellefonte.
——1If every man in Centre county
comes out for an office who is report-
ed as coming out the crop of candi-
dates promises to be the biggest this
year ever known in the county.
——Among the motion picture
characters which is proving a draw-
ing card at the Lyric is Fatty Ar-
buckle. And all the other pictures
shown by the Lyric are worth seeing.
——The regular spring inspection
of the Bellefonte machine gun detach-
ment will be held on Friday, Febru-
ary 21st. This inspection will be
made by Brigadier General Charles
T. Cresswell.
——New York ratified the national
prohibition amendment on Wednes-
day, making the forty-fourth State so
to act, and the only four which have
not yet acted upon the amendment are
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecti-
cut and Rhode Island.
' ——Sunday will be groundhog day
but according to reports the little crit-
ter has not kept close to his winter
quarters but has already been cavort-
ing around as if springtime were al-
ready here. Let us hope he will keep
in next Sunday, however.
Traffic on the Lewisburg and
Tyrone railroad was tied up several
hours on Saturday by several cars
running off the track at the plant of
the Oak Hall Lime and Stone compa-
ny. Fortunately nobody was injur-
ed when the mishap occurred.
——~Rev. R. P. Miller has resigned
the pastorate of the Presbyterian
church of Philipsburg to take up
evangelistic work in the Huntingdon
Presbytery. The Philipsburg congre-
gation will now be up against the
question of picking his successor.
Many farmers are complaining
because of the glut in the potato mar-
ket. Notwithstanding the fact that
the crop in Centre county was not an
overly large one last year, quite a
number of farmers have a supply of
the tubers on hand and can’t get rid
of them.
On Tuesday the wreckers took
eut the iron trestle that spanned the '
highway at the Nittany valley junc-
tion of the C. R. R. of Pa. All of the
rails are now removed from a point
just west of the station at Lamar to !
the siding of the Emnire Lime kilns
near this place.
—-John P. Fcke! has bought the |
Joseph Grossman home on Reynolds '
avenue and wiil occupy it in the
spring. Mr. Grossman and his fami-
ly will move to Williamsport where
he expects to be engaged in the up-
keep of a large block of houses and
to securc permanent employment for
his grandson as well.
——Good pictures, good business,
that’s the motto of T. Clayton Brown,
of the Scenic. And the fact that the
Scenic is crowded every evening is
evidence that the kind of pictures
shown there are appreciated. By
missing one evening’s program you !
are liable to miss the very picture
you have been longing to see. !
Rev. D. O. Reynolds, of Cam-
bria county, preached in the Lutheran
church at Pine Grove Mills on Sun-
day, he being one of the candidates
to succeed to the vacancy in the pas-
torate caused by the recent resigna-
tion of Rev. L. N. Fleck. Rev. Rey-
nolds preached a very forceful sermon :
and pleased his hearers very much.
The Stag basket ball team of
Lock Haven will play the Bellefonte |
Academy a return game on the Y. M. |
C. A. floor this (Friday) evening at |
8:30 sharp. Last Wednesday even-
ing the Stag team defeated the Acad- !
emy by a narrow margin and Belle- |
fonte fans are urged to turn out and |
see the local boys get even. Admis- |
sion, 25 cents.
The money for the $30,000,000 |
fund for the relief in the Near East
will be sent in Wednesday, February
5th. All churches, organizations and
individual givers are asked by the
Centre county committee to send in |
their contributions before that time |
to Mary H. Linn, chairman of the |
Centre county campaign committee |
for relief in the Near East.
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Rev. M. C. Piper was a victim
of an accident on Tuesday afternoon
at the Sampsel turn on the road to
Pleasant Gap. He attempted to cross
the road ahead of one of the big motor
busses which caught his buggy and
threw him out. Although considera-
bly shaken up he was not seriously
hurt. Mr. Emerick took him home to
Milesburg in an automobile and also
looked after his horse and buggy.
Bellefonte people will be inter-
ested in learning that Mrs. Belle Wal-
lace Shaner, a former resident here,
was married in May, 1918, to Guy W.
Bange, a prominent attorney of Han-
over, Pa., where the family are now
living. Mrs. Shaner left Bellefonte
more than a year ago and this will |
probably be the first information her |
friends will have of her good fortune
in securing not only a good husband i
but a happy home.
| ILLUSTRATED WAR LECTURES. |
| Will be Given at the High School |
Building Beginning Monday
Evening, February 3rd.
A series of illustrated lectures on
American war activities, under the
general caption of “America at War,” |
has been prepared and issued by the
committee on Public Information at
Washington. The entire series of
eight lectures, with 459 slides, was
purchased by the Bellefonte Board of
Education for the use of the schools.
That the general public might have :
the advantage of seeing these pic-
tures, and hearing the lectures ac-
companying them, it has been decid-
ed to give the entire set in groups of
two. Thus on four different evenings
of about one hour each the complete
list will be shown.
On Monday, February 3rd, at 8 p.
m.,, the first two of the series, viz.:
“The Call to Arms,” with 58 slides,
and “Trenches and Trench Warfare,”
with 78 slides, will be given.
The other lectures, including the
groups “Airplanes and How They are
Made,” and “Flying for America,”
with a total of 115 slides; “The Amer-
ican Navy” and “The Navy at Work,”
with 87 slides; and “Building a Bridge
of Ships,” and “Transporting the Ar-
my to France,” with 126 slides, will
be given on dates to be announced
later.
The small admission fee of 10 cents
for each of these four
lectures necessary to help defray
the cost of the slides and the use of
the projection apparatus, will be
charged and the general public is
urged to take advantage of this op-
portunity to see and hear something
that has real historic value attached
to it.
Binghamten, N. Y. Young Man Ar-
rested for Larceny.
L. H. Swanson, of Binghamton, N. |
Y., who has been a student in Belle-
fonte since last September, was ar-
rested at noon on Wednesday on two
separate charges of larceny with
another charge of the same crime
hanging over him which has not yet
been pushed. The major charge is
for stealing jewelry from the store of
F. P. Blair & Son, among the items
taken being a number of Bellefonte
Academy seal rings, several otRer
rings, one of which was priced at
$21.50; two gold watches, priced re-
spectively at $24.00 and $25.00; a sil-
ver cigarette holder, match box, em-
blem pins and a locket, the total val-
ue of which has been placed at a lit-
tle over $140.00.
The Bellefonte Academy seal rings
were probably what led to the disclo-
sure which resulted in the young
man’s arrest. Such a number of the
young man’s associates had the rings
that inquiry was made as to where
they got them and in most every case
they were traced to Swanson. Chief
of; police Harry Dukeman was given
the case and he traced the rings to
‘ Blair's jewelry store and there ascex-
tained that while Swanson had loafed
considerably in the store and had fre-
quently asked to look at trays of jew-
elry, he had purchased very little.
When the young man was taken to
task and charged with the theft he
stoutly denied all knowledge of it,
but being confronted with the pur-
chasers of the rings he finally wilted
and confessed. Most of the stolen
jewelry was recovered. His method
of operation would be to ask to look
at a tray of jewelry on the pretense
of wanting to buy something, then
conceal a piece or two in the palm of
his hand and get away with it. On
the charge of robbing Blair's jewelry
: store Swanson was held under $1000
bail and is also under guard pending
: the arrival of his father.
The unearthing of the jewelry theft
, also revealed the fact that in a like
, manner he had stolen five $3.00 foun-
tain pens from the Index stationery
store and also a fancy vest from Sim
the Clothier. From the vest he had
removed the dealer’s label and had
pinned in place an old label of a Bing-
hamton clothier. Investigations are
also being made at one or two other
places where the young man has been
in the habit of loafing.
So far as known all the stealing has
been done during the months of De-
cember and January, though the ex- |
act dates are not known. Swanson is
the son of a prominent furniture deal-
er in Binghamton, N. Y. He is be-
tween seventeen and eighteen years
old and apparently bright and intelli-
gent and why he stooped to such petty
larceny or fooled himself into the be-
lief that he could get away with it
without being caught is inexplicable.
——“Hearts of the World,” which
will be shown at State College on
February 19th and 20th is even a more
enthralling film story than was “The
Birth of a Nation.” It is the one
great picture that this section has not
vet seen and is certainly a feature
show. It will be screened with a fine
symphony orchestra in support and
the opportunity to see it should not
be lost.
——David Finklestine has added
the United Cigar Stores line of smok-
ings and his big pool room in the Ar-
cade is now more popular than ever.
The United line includes everything
worth while in cigars, cigarettes and
chewing tobacco and the most mod-
ern humidor cases in which to carry
them so that the stock is constantly
in prime condition.
——Dr. John Sebring is now driv-
ing a new Oldsmobile Coupelet, which
is one of the most attractive cars of
that design seen in Bellefonte.
Wanted—House for rent. All mod-
ern conveniences preferred. Inquire
at this office. 64-5-2t*
combination |
{ tra,” the colossal photoplay, Scenic
theatre Feb. 3rd and 4th. 5-1t
——The annual inventory sale at
| the Potter-Hoy Hardware Co. is now
lon. Come in and get some of the bar-
| gains. 5-1t
The first pay by checks on the
Tyrone division was made this week.
{ Payday in Tyrone was on Monday and
: the banks there opened an hour in the
| evening to cash the checks of the rail-
{ road employees.
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| ——A surprise kitchen shower was
given Miss Sarah Wetzel by her girl
friends on Tuesday evening in honor
of her approaching marriage to Earl
Hoffer, the happy event to take place
week after next.
——A branch of the United cigar
stores is being opened in Bellefonte
this week in the Jacob Finklestine
cigar store and pool room in the Bush
Arcade. A large new show’ case and
cabinet was installed on Monday in
which to carry the United’s line of
goods.
——See the advertisement else-
where in this issue of D. W. Griffith’s
“Hearts of the World,” which will be
shown at the Pastime theatre, State
i orchestra will furnish the music aec-
i companying the picture. Don’t over-
look the dates.
| ——On Sunday a local freight over
| the Lewisburg and Tyrone railroad
i brought eight cars of hard coal into
Bellefonte which, with two cars
brought on Saturday evening made
i ten cars standing on the siding at one
‘time. How different from last year
| when a carload of hard coal looked
| like a prize package.
i ——Miss Elinor Cook on Tuesday
i received her summons to report at
| once for her trip to Turkey as one of
{ the force the United States is send-
'ing there for educational reconstruc-
‘tion work. Having all her plans and
| preparations completed for some days
{ Miss Cook left for New York city on
| Wednesday, but the exact day and
{ date of her sailing is not known. Miss
Louise Hoffer, of Philipsburg, has
{ been secured to teach the Bellefonte
school vacated by Miss Cook’s depar-
| ture.
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——Hammon Sechler, the dean of
| Bellefonte grocerymen, was seventy-
| eight years old last Saturday and the
{only kind of a celebration he made of
| the event was to put in a full day’s
work at his store just as if being
three score and eighteen years old
was an event of no unusual import-
ance. Mr. Sechler well deserves the
title of dean of grocerymen, for not
only has he been in the business years
"longer than any other man in Belle-
fonte but he knows groceries like he
knows his alphabet.
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The regular term of argument
court will
among the cases which will come up
for trial will be those of I. G. Gray
and his two sons, George and Clyde,
on their applications for a new tria ing. The fire was discovered at 1:30
t o’clock in the morning and, although
The three men are now out on bail
and the future of the case against
them is, of course, problematical.
Should the Centre county court refuse tho fir to Spear Bt the birdie
a new trial they can exercise their
right to carry the case to a higher
court, but whether they will do so or
not remains to be seen.
——“Miss Blue Eyes,” the new mu-
sical comedy success which appears
at Garman’s next Tuesday evening,
February 4th, is known as the “hap-
piest of all musical successes.” It is
in three acts of continuous laughter
——See Theda Bara in “Cleopa- |
College, February 19th and 20th. The | who cannot afford to furnish a train-
{ producing company’s own Symphony |
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be held next week and:
. is published,
RED CROSS NURSE.
A COMMUNITY NURSE NOW ASSURED
FOR BELLEFONTE AND VICINITY.
The Red Cross district nurse is
now an assured fact in Bellefonte
and the surrounding parts of the coun- |
ty included in the jurisdiction of the
local Chapter. For three months the
Red Cross will try out a valued work-
er of this kind, and during that time
it is not the nurse who will be on tri-
al, for the hospital will furnish one of
its best, nor the idea of having such
a district nurse which will be on tri-
al, for it has proved a decided public
health asset in countless other centres
of population, but this community will
be on trial in the proper use of this
nurse. If this district nurse project
is a success after three months, there
will be no difficulty in perpetuating
the office and its usefulness. Mean-
time the nurse is the gift of your Red
Cross Chapter and is subject to call
upon the part of any physician of
Bellefonte and the country sections
nearby. Mrs. R. S. Brouse, a mem-
ber of the executive committee, will
represent the Red Cross in this mat-
ter, being chairman of the Chapter’s
district nursing activities. Physi-
cians needing the help of this nurse
among such families or individuals
ed nurse for themselves should eall
the hospital and ask for the services
of the Red Cross nurse. Families or
individuals who need this nurse should
call Mrs. Brouse or the hospital, and
upon recommendation of a physician
the nurse will be sent to them.
Miss Lida Morris, supervisor of
‘knitting, asks that all knit goods,
either finished products or yarn that
has not yet been used, be returned to
her before Saturday, preferably to
her residence, east Linn street; or, on
Thursday afternoon only, to the work
rooms, in the Masonic building.
The allotment of work in hospital
and refugee garments up to Februa-
ry 1st has already been finished.
There is a good attendance of work-
ers every afternoon, but still room
for more to help “carry on” with the
tasks before the Red Cross.
The complete enrollment to date
for our Chapter is 3138. Of these
only thirty subscribe for the splendid
Red Cross magazine. The Red Cross
desires to secure more subscribers.
In many ways it will be the great
magazine of reconstruction. Annual
members may take the magazine by
paying a dollar additional. Last year
there was some complaint about the
non-arrival of the magazine, but in
every case where such non-arrival
was reported to the local officials,
who in turn reported it to Garden
City, where the Red Cross magazine
the magazine came
thereafter regularly.
The Old Wooden River Bridge at Lock
Haven Destroyed by Fire.
The big wooden bridge across the
Susquehanna river from Lock Haven
, to Lockport was totally destroyed by
fire at an early hour on Monday morn-
the flames had made considerable
headway persons who were among
‘bridge aver that there was ample ev-
idence of incendiarism. They claim
- that the woodwork of the bridge had
, been saturated with coal oil and then
set on fire. :
This bridge, by the way, was a
- rather historic structure. It was built
and has a plot that is both fascinat- '
, ing and funny. One of the many fea-
tures with this big production is
youth, with the charm of exquisite
i girlhood. The young ladies of “Miss
' Blue Eyes” are distinctly not of the
ordinary chorus-girl type but instead,
young ladies who possess both youth,
; beauty and talent. This attraction is |
| announced as one of the best of the
in 1853-54 and at that time lumber
was so plentiful in this section of the
State that only the choicest grade of
yellow pine was used in the construc-
tion of the bridge. One span was
washed away in the flood of 1876 and
when it was rebuilt the entire bridge
was raised six feet. For many years
it was operated as a toll bridge and
the old brick toll house still stands at
i the Lock Haven end. The burning of
the bridge cuts off the means of di-
rect travel between the people on the
i season’s bookings and patrons are north side of the river and Lock Ha-
| urged to reserve their seats early at
' Parrish’s drug store.
| School Directors : Held
! Meeting.
The thirty-second annual meeting
i of the school directors’ association of
i Centre county was held in the court
i house last Friday with a fair attend-
| ance. Owing to the lateness of the
McDowell, of State College, president
of the association, did not arrive in
M. E. Brouse, vice president, presid-
ed. Prof. Charles Lose, principal of
ven, and Prof. C. D. Koch, deputy su-
perintendent of public instruction,
were present and discussed questions
of interest to the director as well as
of schools generally.
The most important question to the
directors, however, was the failure to
receive their appropriations from the
State. It is claimed that no part of
the appropriation has been received
since last June and that up to the
present nothing has been received on
the appropriation for vocational
schools. The advisability of sending
a delegation to Harrisburg to look in-
to the matter was earnestly discussed.
At the election of officers for the
ensuing year Mrs. M. E. Brouse, of
Bellefonte, was chosen president; F.
E. Weiland, Harris township, and Roy
H. Bennison, Walker township, vice
presidents; Charles F. Cook, Belle-
fonte, secretary, and A. C. Mingle,
Bellefonte, treasurer. The delegates
to the State directors’ convention to
township, and James F. Uzzle, of
Snow Shoe.
the State Normal school at Lock Ha- :
be held in Harrisburg February 6th |
and 7th are H. M. Miles, of Union
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Lewisburg and Tyrone train M. S. |
time for the opening session and Mrs. | ages of
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ven, so that now they will be com-
pelled to make a detour by the way
of “The Island,” a distance of almost
Annual | {6 miles, to reach Lock Haven. The
burning of this bridge leaves but one
of the old-time covered wooden
bridges standing in the Susquehanna
valley, the one near Sunbury. Wheth-
er the bridge will be rebuilt at once is
not known at this writing.
For Boys and Girls.
The boys and girls between the
sixteen and twenty-two
years, of the Sunday schools of Belle-
fonte, Pleasant Gap and Milesburg
are requested to meet next Sunday,
i February 2nd, at two o’clock p. m.,
at the Presbyterian church, Belle-
fonte, for the purpose of appointing
committees to arrange for the holding
of an older boys and girls conference
in Centre county on Wednesday,
March 5th. While this conference is
for the boys and girls your help is
needed to make it a success. Bring
along your superintendent.
JOSEPH JODON, Com.
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Important ‘Notice.
The reorganization meeting of the
Bellefonte Young Men’s Christian As-
sociation will be held in their rooms
at 4 o'clock p. m. today (Friday). It
is important to have all members of
the various committees present to
make the reorganization a success.
A. G. MORRIS, Chairman.
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——R. C. Witmer, the electrician,
moved his store yesterday from the
room he has occupied in the Bush Ar-
cade to the rooms on High street for-
merly occupied by the Centre county
branch of the Committee of National
Defense.
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NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
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| —Miss Emma Lucas is spending her two
| week's vacation with relatives near Cur-
| tin.
! —Jacob Marks was in New York city
: last week, called there by the death of his
sister, Mrs. Scatnik.
—DMrs. Jack Decker left Tuesday to join
Mr. Decker in Lancaster, where they will
be for an indefinite time.
—Mrs. Morris Furey is in Curwensville
for a visit of several weeks with her
daughter, Mrs. Kerstetter.
—Mrs. Rachel Noll, of Pleasant Gap,
spent Wednesday in Bellefonte with her
sister, Mrs. Hiram Fetterhoff.
—The Misses Anne and Caroline Valen-
tine will leave next week to spend the re-
mainder of the winter in the South.
—Mrs. Barnes has returned to Bellefonte
after a three week’s visit in Philadelphia
with her daughter, Mrs. Henderson.
—The Misses Fullington, of Clearfield,
were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Musser, at their home on Academy
Hill
—Mrs. James A. Noonan returned from
Pittsburgh Monday, where she had been
for the funeral of her nephew, James A.
Gleason Jr.
—D. A. Boozer with his daughter, Miss
Elizabeth Boozer, and his son Shannon,
of Centre Hall, were in Bellefonte on Mon-
day evening.
—Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Thompson
and their family will leave next week for
Florida, expecting to drive down in their
Franklin car.
—MTr. and Mrs. Herbert Sheffer, of Mil-
roy, spent Sunday in Bellefonte, coming
here for a day with their son Frazier, who
is a patient in the Bellefonte hospital.
—Mr. and Mrs. Scott Lambert are home
from a six week's visit with Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Guisewhite, of Cherrytree. Mrs.
Guisewhite is a daughter of Mr .and Mrs.
Lambert.
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—M. A. Landsy was a Bellefonte visitor
on Saturday, having been in Philadelphia
attending the funeral of a friend and stop-
ping here for a day while on his way
back to Franklin, Pa.
—Mrs. Willlam Stewart and daughter,
Emma Eliza, and Mrs. George D. Fortney,
of Boalsburg, were Bellefonte visitors on
Saturday, making the round of the shops
and calling on their various friends.
—Mrs. E. C. Tuten and two sons, Tirrell
and John, of Philipsburg, were guests
from Friday evening until Sunday sftar-
noon of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kirk, at
their country home south of Bellefonte.
—Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Levi were guests
of their parents in Bellefonte recently,
stopping here for a short visit on their
way back to New York from Chicago,
where Mr. Levi had been looking after
some business.
—Hassel Montgomery returned home on
Monday, having been discharged from the
ordnance storeskeeping service in Phila-
delphia. Other Bellefonte boys who have
been discharged and returned home are
Lieut. Orvis Keller and Earl Orr.
—John A. Lane Jr., of Philadelphia,
spent the week-end with his friends in
Bellefonte, coming here in the interest of
the Basket Shop, with which he has never
severed his business relations since leav-
ing Bellefonte.
close her house on Thomas street, in an-
ticipation of spending the late winter and
early spring in Philadelphia and at Atlan-
tic City. Miss Thomas will not return to
Bellefonte until some time in April.
—Mrs. James B. Lane has been in Me-
Keesport for the past ten days, visiting
with her son, Richard J. Lane and his
family. Having closed her house in Belle-
fonte, Mrs. Lane will go directly to Phila-
delphia from McKeesport, expecting to re-
main east until spring.
—H. A. Pearce, of Panama City, who
had been in the States since the death of
his wife in October, started for the Canal
Zone last week. While all Mr. Pearce's
business interests at present are in Pan-
ama, he is preparing to leave there to lo-
cate for a time in South America.
—Miss Louise Carpeneto left yesterday
morning for Mount St. Vincent on the
Hudson, where she will enter school for
the household arts course. Miss Carpene-
to had arranged to begin her work in the
fall but was obliged to remain in Belle-
fonte, owing to the sudden death of her
father.
—Mr. James Carner, of Hublersburg,
Saturday and a pleasant caller at this of-
fice. He avers that the wheat never look-
ed finer at this time of year than it does
now, and if it is not damaged by the sue-
cessive freezing and thawing there ought
to be a bumper crop this year.
—D. W. Eberhart and his daughter,
Miss Mary, went to Mifflinburg Tuesday
to attend the funeral Wednesday of Mr.
Eberhart’s younger brother, William, who
was found dead in bed, at his home in
that place, Saturday morning. The Eb-
erhart family located near Mifflinburg
many years ago, Mr. D. W. Eberhart com-
ing to Bellefonte from there shortly after
his marriage.
—Edward Shields was an arrival in
Bellefonte on Tuesday from overseas,
where he has been the past two years in
the service of the French government, look-
ing after their White automobiles. He
came over on the steamer Halifax and was
seventeen days making the trip owing to
the steamer being storm-bound. He left
yesterday for Cleveland, Ohio, but will
spend most of his month's leave of ab-
sence in Bellefonte, as he does not yet
know whether he will return to France or
not. Mr. Shields first went to France as
a representative of the White Automobile
company but later was engaged by the
French government.
“Watchman” office were Charles Haines
and his cousin, Corp. Foster R. Barry, of
McKeesport. Charlie was here on one of
his accustomed visits with his mother,
Mrs. David Haines, and brought his cous-
in along to show him the town, as the
young sodier had not been here since he
was four years old. As an employee of
the National Tube company Mr. Haines
did his bit during the war by helping to
turn out ammunition and such like to get
the “Hun and Corp. Barry was right on
the spot to see that his share of it went
where it would do the most good. Barry
enlisted at McKeesport and was sent over
in February, 1918, as a member of a re-
placement division, being assigned to
Company M, 166th regiment of the Rain-
bow division. He fought with that famous
division for several months finally being
wounded in the left shoulder while fight-
ing in the Lorraine sector. Being sent
home as a casualty he landed in this coun-
try just before Christmas, and is now
about as well as ever.
—Early Monday morning callers at the |
—Miss Mary S. Themas is arranging to |
was a business visitor in Bellefonte on |
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—Miss Anna Hoffer and her two nieces,
the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John Hof-
fer, came over from Philipsburg Saturday.
Miss Hoffer returned home Sunday while
the children remained with their grand-
mother, Mrs. C. U. Hoffer, who has been
spending the winter with her father, C. T.
Gerberich. ,
—William Stewart and his daughter,
Miss Margaret, will leave Bellefonte Mon-
day for their home in Seattle, Wash. Mr.
Stewart came east to spend Christmas
with his mother, Mrs. Miller Stewart, as
has been his custom for a number of years,
while Miss Margaret has been in Belle-
fonte for the greater part of the past year.
—Mrs. Rankin, her nephew, Walter I.
Lembkey, of Petersburg, Va.; Mrs. Hast-
ings and Mr. Rankin’s niece, Miss Bella
Kinsloe, accompanied the body of the late
John I. Rankin from Philadelphia for
burial here, Wednesday of last week. Im-
mediately following the interment they
drove directly to Boalsburg, where they
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mec-
Farlane during their stay in Centre coun-
iy.
Aviation Field Officially Taken Over
by Government.
Charles Fahey, of the second as-
sistant postmaster general’s depart-
ment, Washington, was in Bellefonte
on Tuesday and officially took over
the aviation field on the Beaver farm
for the government, as the landing
station on the New York-Chicago
aerial mail route. In doing this he
gave releases to contractors Gehret
and Lambert for the buildings erected
on the field and had no hesitation in
saying that the Bellefonte field was
the best of any on the line, and as
good as any in the country.
Mr. Fahey could give no set time
when the aerial mail service will be
established as the assembling and
testing out of the Handley-Page ma-
chines to be used is a slow process,
and inasmuch as the department does
not intend making another try of it
until they feel that everything is
right it may be a month or more yet
before the service is established.
—oee
$58,828.23 Raised in the United War
Work Drive in the County.
The final tabulation of all cash pay-
ments and pledges made in Centre
county for the United War Work
drive has just been completed by the
treasurer, A. Nevin Cole, and amounts
to the gratifying sum of $58,828.23.
The detailed report is as follows:
Cash subscriptions reported..... $30,207.16
Pledges reported.................. 28,621.18
$58,828.23
Cash collected; ........ouuivisiic,s $44,026.16
Payments in Liberty Bonds...... 1,150.00
$45,176.18
Outstanding and uncollected.....$18,652.07
Lillie — Swabb. — Carl Lillie and
Miss Grace Swabb were quietly mar-
ried in Baltimore on Thursday of last
week. The bride is a daughter of Mr.
rand Mrs. F. W. Swabb, of Pine Grove
| Mills, and is a splendid young wom-
an. After a brief wedding trip the
young couple will go to housekeeping
in Baltimore, the home of the bride-
groom, : :
——The law of Pennsylvania pro-
vides that all honorably discharged
soldiers and sailors may have their
discharges recorded in the office of
the recorder of Centre county, and in
order to provide against loss or de-
struction by fire all discharged sol-
diers should avail themselves of this
provision and have their discharges
recorded.
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——Bellefonte had a real desertion
case on Wednesday in which the wife
not only deserted her husband but
took along about everything she could
get away with. It now remains for
the future to tell the sequel.
For Sale Cheap.—Show cases, coun-
ters, shelving, tables—all sizes—large
strip of linoleum and watch sign, in
good condition.—C. D. Casebeer, Cen-
tre County Bank Bldg., Bellefonte,
Pa. 5-tf
——The annual inventory sale at
the Potter-Hoy Hardware Co. is now
on. Come in and get some of the bar-
gains. 5-1t
——Theda Bara in “Cleopatra” is
the most spectacular photo-drama.
Don’t miss it. Scenic theatre Feb.
3rd and 4th. 5-1t
——For high class job work come
to the “Watchman” office.
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