Deworatic aidan
Bellefonte, Pa., February 14, 1919.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
From all reports if prohibition
really prohibits after July first there
will be several hotels in Bellefonte
for rent.
— The Ladies Aid society of the
Lugheran church will hold a food sale
at Hazel’s grocery, Saturday, Febru-
ary 15th, beginning at 10 o’clock a.
m. Your patronage is solicited.
— The regular monthly meeting
and thimble bee of the W. C. T. U.
will be held at the home of Mrs. A.
M. Schmidt, Friday afternoon, Febru-
ary 14th. All the members and their
friends are cordially invited.
Two miscellaneous showers at
which Miss Elizabeth Hart and Mrs.
Walter Armstrong were hostesses,
were given Miss Sarah Galbraith by
her very many friends in Bellefonte.
Miss Galbraith and Mr. Shields were
married early last week.
At the annual meeting of
Group 6, Bankers’ association of Cen-
tral Pennsylvania, held in Altoona on
Wednesday, cashier James K. Barn-
hart, of the First National bank of
Bellefonte, was appointed a member
of the auditing committee.
See General Pershing from the
cradle to date, wonderfully picturized
in the “Land of the Free,” which is a
story of his life and also contains
many fine battle scenes with which he
was in contact. At the Scenic Mon-
day, Feb. 17, matinee and night. 7-1t
At a congregational meeting of
the Bellefonte Presbyterian church on
Sunday morning John Curtin was
elected a member of the board of trus-
tees in place of Thomas E. Mayes, re-
moved from Bellefonte, and Thomas
Beaver was re-elected for another
term.
——Gregg Post, No. 95, will hold a
special meeting on the afternoon of
Washington’s birthday, February
22nd, at 2:30 o’clock, when there will
be speeches and exercises commemo-
rative of the Father of his country.
The meeting will be public and every-
body is invited to attend.
The Indiana Normal basket
ball team will be here this (Friday)
evening and play the Academy five in
the Y."M. C. A. gymnasium at 8:30
o'clock. The Indiana Normal and
Academy have always been bitter ri-
vals in all kinds of athletic sports and
the game tonight will surely be one
worth seeing. Admission price, only
25 cents. Don’t forget to go.
“My Irish Cinderella” will be
the attraction at the opera house next
Wednesday, February 19th. It tells
of the adventures of a little Irish girl
in this country and abroad. It is
pleasant. and humorous throughout
and. to .quote all the critics as one,
“My Irish Cinderella” will stand out
as one of the best plays seen this sea-
son and one you can’t afford to miss.
The play is clean-cut and full of
“pep.”
——Just to prove that the ground-
hog is not a flat failure the weather
man gave us a little touch of winter
during the past week, with a slight
fall of snow. Though it has been cold
all week the mercury reached its low-
est point on Tuesday morning when
it was down to within four degrees of
zero. Warmer weather, however, is
promised for next week and as this is
the middle of February the Fourth of
July will be here before we realize it.
— Mrs. Helen Malin Shugert
spent several days at State College
last week conducting a sale of chil-
dren’s dresses for The Basket Shop,
of Bellefonte, and met with very grat-
ifying success. The making of serv-
iceable dresses for children is a new
department which was added to The
Basket Shop late last fall, and the
success that has already been attain-
ed, and the demand for such garments,
leads to the conclusion that it was a
good move on the part of the man-
agement of The Shop.
——Private Bill” Startzell and the
Galbraith brothers gave a most inter-
esting entertainment at the High
school building on Monday evening to
a good sized audience. Private “Bill”
makes no pretense of being an ora-
tor but he told the story of his exper-
iences and observation in the Euro-
pean war in such a straightforward,
sincere manner as to make it very in-
teresting. And his assertion that
when the true history of the war is
written it cannot fail to give the
Pennsylvania troops the credit of
fighting the fiercest battle in the
whole war and winning a glorious
victory, brought forth hearty ap-
plause. The Galbraith brothers, with
their singing and wit and humor,
were a very pleasing feature of the
evening’s entertainment.
—— When Mrs. Rebecca Sparr, of
Harris township, passed away she left
a will disposing of the old homestead
farm near Boalsburg to her heirs with
the proviso that the farm was always
to be known as the Sparr farm. Some
time ago Dr. L. E. Kidder purchased
the farm for $12,600, paying $600 on
the deal. He declined, however, to
pay the balance of the purchase mon-
ey unless the proviso in the will stip-
ulating that the farm should always
be known as the Sparr farm be strick-
en out. Amicable proceedings were
brought in the Centre county court to
get a decision in the case and this
week Judge Quigley handed down a
decision in which he set aside the ob-
jectionable proviso of the will and
gave judgment against Dr. Kidder for
$12,000, the balance of the purchase
mony, and thus endeth the Sparr
name to the old homestead which had
been in that family for several gen-
> erations.
| $15,632.00 RAISED FOR Y. M. C. A.
Big Drive Closed Tuesday Evening
| and Association Work to Con-
| tinue in Bellefonte.
Sixteen thousand, six hundred and
thirty-two dollars was the amount of
money raised in the whirlwind cam-
paign of four days to put the Belle-
fonte Y. M. C. A. upon its feet and
infuse new life into the work connect-
ed with it. The only thing now re-
maining to do to start it in what is
hoped will prove an era of good work
is to complete the organization for
its management and select a compe-
tent man to place in charge as gener-
al secretary.
The “Watchman” has already told
of the effort to be made to rehabili-
tate the Y. M. C. A. The work was
in charge of C. H. Dreshman, of Har-
risburg, a field manin the Y. M. C. A.
work. He spent a month in Belle-
fonte preparing the preliminaries for
the campaign to raise the money, as
that was the vital issue in the work
of putting the Y. M. C. A. on its feet.
At a preliminary meeting of repre-
sentative citizens of Bellefonte Hon.
A. G. Morris was selected as chair-
man of the general committee in
charge of the work and he surround-
ed himself with an able staff of lieu-
tenants. A thorough canvas of the
business people and citizens of the
town was decided upon as the only
way of raising the necessary money,
and to do this thoroughly two bat-
talions of canvassers were organized.
Robert F. Hunter was selected as
major of one battalion and George R.
Meek major of the other one. Major
Hunter appointed as his captains John
Curtin, Fred Craft, John M. Bullock
and Thomas Hazel, while major Meek
appointed Thomas Beaver, Nelson E.
Robb, H. C. Yeager and Edmund
Blanchard as his captains.
As a start for the money raising
campaign a dinner was held at the
Bush house last Thursday evening
which was attended by about ninety
people. The tables in the dining
room had been specially arranged for
the occasion. At the head of the room
were seated General A. G. Morris and
staff, while along one side were seat-
ed Major Hunter and his corps. of
workers and along the other side ma-
jor Meek and his corps. Music for
the occasion was furnished by Grif-
ffith’s Jazz band of State College, and
as evidence of the enthusiasm mani-
fest the dinner started at eight
o'clock and it was after midnight
when the gathering broke up.
All the canvassers were on the job
bright and early Friday morning and
they kept at it almost day and night
until Tuesday evening, the end of the
campzign. The goal set at the start
was a minimum fund of $15,000 and
a maximum of $20,000, and when a
final summing up was made at the Y.
M. C. A. on Tuesday evening it was
found that contributions and pledges
had been secured totalling just $15,-
632.00. The amount of money raised
by the several teams is as follows:
General A. G. Morris and staff...$ 4.500.00
Major Geo. R. Meek,
Battalion Commander
By Capt. Thomas Beaver....... 1.805.00
By Capt. Nelson E. Robb....... 1.520.00
By Capt. H. C. Yeager......... 1,327.00
By Capt. Edmund Blanchard... 1,160.00
Major Robt. F. Hunter,
Battalion Commander
By Capt. John Curtin...........
By Capt. John M. Bullock......
By Capt. Fred Craft........ oh
By Capt. Thomas Hazel........
Grand Total............. $5,632.00
One of the most remarkable things
about the campaign is that this large
sum of money was raised among just
274 subscribers. Mr. Dreshman con-
sidered it the most wonderful cam-
paign that has ever come under his
observation. Ordinarily in raising
that amount of money it will be divid-
ed among from six to seven hundred
contributors, and that 274 men in
Bellefonte and vicinity contributed
over fifteen thousand dollars to put
the Y. M. C. A. on its feet and start
it on a new career in Bellefonte shows
that they not only have the welfare of
the town at heart but that they have
faith in the association and the good
it can be made to accomplish for the
whole community in the years to
come.
The money raised in this drive is to
be used in putting the Y. M. C. A. in
first-class shape and to help defray
the running expenses for a period of
two years. A board of directors has
already been chosen, but not yet or-
ganized, and the next step will be the
selection of the right kind of a man
for general secretary and a thorough,
business-like survey of the Y. M. C.
A. to see what is necessary to put it
in good condition and make it a place
to be sought by the young and older
men of the town alike. It is the pur-
pose of the new board of directors to
make of the association the kind of a
place that men will select to spend
their idle time, whether it be only a
few minutes or an entire evening. No
favoritism will be shown any individ-
ual, association or organization, but
everybody will be treated impartially.
To become a success, however, the
association will need the united sup-
port of everybody in Bellefonte, as
well as the surrounding community.
It will require membership to keep it
going, and the larger the membership
the greater interest will be created in
the work. Hence it is now up to the
people of Bellefonte to show that they
appreciate what has been done in the
past month by rallying to the support
of the association.
— The Pennsylvania conference of
social welfare which convened in Har-
risburg yesterday will continue
throuhout today and tomorrow. Im-
portant legislative problems will be
given due consideration. S. Kline
Woodring has been appointed chair-
man of the movement for Centre
county.
“Hearts of the World.”
“The sweetest love story ever told,”
is the description given to David
Wark Griffith’s latest spectacle,
“Hearts of the World,” to be seen at
| the Pastime theatre, State College,
February 19th and 20th, the only pre-
| sentation of it in this section of the
State this season.
When it is recalled that Mr. Griffith
is the man who gave playgoers “The
Birth of a Nation,” “Intolerance” and
other tremendous productions so far
unparalleled in the annals of the
screen, it is a matter of interest to
note that “Hearts of the World,” while
produced in France amid the din and
devastation of the recent war, is after
all not a war play but a wholesome
romance wherein war figures merely
as the background.
All of these facts are interesting to
Griffith enthusiasts for the reason
that any producer who could spend
eighteen months in France during the
very thickest of the fighting and bring
back to America a production not en-
gulfed by blood and horror proves
himself an artist, a genius big enough
not to yield to the temptation to re-
produce the war, but rather to tell a
simple story about the people to whom
war came.
A large symphony orchestra will
accompany the showing of “Hearts of
the World,” the music having been es-
pecially arranged to suit every scene
and action throughout the production.
Red Cross Notes.
It is the earnest desire of the ex-
ecutive committee of our Red Cross
Chapter that the district nurse, pro-
vided to this community for three
months’ trial, be made use of. The
nurse is at the disposal of the public,
and physicians are asked to send word
to the hospital when the nurse’s serv-
ices are needed. The district nurse is
intended chiefly for those who can-
not afford to pay for a nurse, but
those who can afford to pay, and want
an hour or so of her time, can pay at
the regular rates, or as much as they
feel able to pay. Money so received
will go into a Chapter fund for the
equipment and maintenance of the
nurse. .
On Tuesday of this week the fol-
lowing supplies were sent as gifts to
the hospital: 1700 yards of gauze,
650 pounds and four bales of cotton,
and 600 pounds of cellu-cotton.
A new allotment of work has been
received, morning blouses for women.
The work is going on splendidly but
there is still room for more workers.
A drive for junior membership is
being planned for the first week of
March, in all the schools within the
Chapter. Teachers may secure, free
of charge, copies of the fine manual
of junior activities, by calling at the
work rooms any afternoon except
Fridays and Saturdays.
The Bellefonte hospital has receiv-
ed from the State College chapter of
the Red Cross three large packing
cases of assorted .pads and strap
buckles.
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Spring Movings Continued from
Last Week.
Mrs. James Toner will move from
the Cole house on Water street to the
Bayard house on Spring street, now
owned by A. J. Cook, and vacated by
the Rosenhoover family.
Mrs. Julia Bodle will leave the J.
C. Wian house on Logan street to re-
turn to the Charles Norris farm up
Buffalo Run.
Harry Alters will move from Lo-
street vacated by Mrs. Alters’ par-
ents; Mr. Leitzell and his family go-
ing to Port Matilda.
Mrs. William Doll and her daugh-
ter, Miss Marie, will go from the
Strickland house on Bishop street to
the Kelley flats. Mr. Doll will join
Mrs. Doll and his daughter here next
month, returning from Altoona to re-
sume his work at the Doll ice plant.
Joseph Carpeneto will go from the
Crider house on Logan street to the
Kelley flats.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heverley will
go from the Gehret house on Pine
street, to the A. C. Mingle house on
Bishop street, vacated by Mrs. Denius.
Harry Hockman will leave Mrs.
Aiken’s flats to go into the Keichline
house on east Bishop street, recently
occupied by Irvin Lucas and his fam-
ily.
Lloyd C. Rogers will also leave the
Aiken’s flats, moving his family into
the Mrs. R. G. H. Hayes double house
on Curtin street.
Miss Grace Mitchell, who has been
spending the winter in Philadelphia,
has leased the west side of the Cooke
double house on Linn street, expecting
to occupy it by the middle of April;
Mr. and Mrs. Rachau vacating this
house.
Mr. From and his family, of Axe
Mann, will come to Bellefonte, taking
the house on Logan street Mrs. Mary
Connelly leaves.
William Shope will move from the
Furey farm to the house he formerly
owned, and vacated by John Keeler.
James Shuey will move from
Roopsburg to Coleville, into the house
George Robb is leaving, while Mr.
Robb and his family will go to the
Humes farm, vacated by Mr. Lee.
The Lee family will take the home in
Coleville which had been occupied by
Frank Smith, who has moved into the
apartments in the Edward Haupt
house vacated by Thomas Murphy.
Mr. Murphy and his family have gone
to DuBois.
— Now that the war is over and
the influenza has run its course alarm-
ists are predicting a plague of seven-
teen-year locusts this year.
gan street to the house on Beaver
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POSTOFFICE SITE SELECTED.
Will be Moved from Temple Court to
the Brockerhoff House.
On or about July first the Belle-
fonte postoffice will be moved from
its present location in Temple Court
across the street into the Brockerhoff
house block. It will occupy the
room where F. P. Blair & Son’s jew-
elry store is now located, the present
bar room of the hotel, and the two
rooms in the rear of the latter, the
middle drinking room and the cafe.
F. P. Blair & Son’s jewelry store will
be moved into the room now occupied
by the pool room conducted by Thom-
as Shaughnessy, while the latter has
not decided just where he will locate.
The lease on the old site will expire
on July 1st, 1919, and several months
ago the Postoffice Department insti-
tuted a search for a new location, as
the present location is too small for
the present demands of the office.
Postoffice inspectors came to Belle-
fonte and viewed every possible site
and the selection finally dwindled
down to between the site selected in
the Brockerhoff house and the rooms
at the west end of the Bush Arcade.
While the latter would probably have
afforded a little more room than the
Brockerhoff site yet in the site select-
ed there is almost two thousand
square feet of floor room. Dr. Brock-
erhoff returned from Washington on
Monday where the papers were all
signed for the new site.
As planned now the Blair store
room will be the main postoffice room.
The partitions will be removed be-
tween that room and the bar room
and between the bar room and the
rooms in the rear, throwing it all into
one. The present bar room door will
be used for the taking in and out of
mail matter. The rear room will be
used by the rural carriers while there
will be ample room near the distrib-
uting table for the desks of the town
carriers and the parcel post.
Landlord H. S. Ray will continue
in charge of the hotel in the future as
in the past. In the event that prohi-
bition does not become effective on
July first, just what arrangement he
will make for his bar is not known, as
the change in the postoffice is to be
made July first. At present there is
one or more additional changes in con-
templation in connection with that
block but they have not progressed
to a condition where they can be made
public.
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Harry Clevenstine Has Purchased the
Ceader’s Store.
The deal has been closed whereby
Harry Clevenstine, proprietor of the
City bakery has become the purchas-
er of Ceader’s store and will op-
erate the same in connection with his
bakery. The change will be made on
March 3rd. Mr. Clevenstine will take
the store that day, with the force of
clerks, etc., and Mrs. Ceader will re-
linquish her charge of the same.
“It was just two years ago on Feb-
ruary first that Shaffer and Cleven-
stine purchased the bakery from Mrs.
Ceader. At that time they wanted
the store but Mrs. Ceader did not feel
like relinquishing it at that time. The
condition of her health at this time,
however, was one of the causes that
induced her to sell. In the two years
Mr. Clevenstine has been in charge of
the bakery he has more than doubled
the capacity of the plant and has built
up a profitable business. That he will
conduct the store in the same success-
ful manner is not to be doubted.
The Ceader’s store, or bakery, as it
is best known, is probably one of the
oldest-established in central Pennsyl-
vania. It was conducted for years by
J. H. Sands for whom Joseph Ceader
began work when he was sixteen years
old, or about fifty-one years ago. For-
ty-two years ago last September Mr.
Ceader took charge of the bakery and
store and it was just forty-two years
last month that Mrs. Ceader went in-
to the store to assist her husband and
she has been very closely identified
with its management ever since, hav-
ing entire charge of it since the death
of her husband a number of years
ago.
Speaking of her many years of in-
timate business relations with the
people of Bellefonte and surrounding
community Mrs. Ceader said she had
only the most pleasant memories to
cherish. She will now retire to private
life and to the rest and ease she so
justly deserves.
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Big Festival at Pleasant Gap.
On Washington’s birthday, in Noll’s
hall, in the room formerly occupied by
the Steinberg Bros., Pleasant Gap,
the ladies of Lodge No. 229 P. O. S.
of A., will hold a big festival. Sup-
per from five o’clock on. Oysters in
all styles will be served, accompanied
by all the trimmings. Ice cream and
cake extra. Go, and take your pock-
etbook with you. Take your friends
along with their pocketbooks. Re-
member the day and date, Saturday,
February 22nd.
——The “Watchman” office was fa-
vored with a call last Saturday from
Mr. Walters, advance representative
of “Hearts of the World,” D. W. Grif-
fith’s latest masterpiece in motion pic-
tures, and he informed us that the
presentation of this wonderful picture
at the Pastime theatre, State College,
next Wednesday and Thursday would
be the only occasion to see it in this
section of the State this season; and
the “Watchman” advises everybody
who can do so to go see it next week.
——The Independent Girls basket
ball team of Bellefonte played the
Burnham High school girls on the Y.
M. C. A. floor Wednesday night and
won out by the score of 11 to 7. It
was one of the most exciting games
played in Bellefonte this season.
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
Mrs. John Hinman Gibson, of Chicago,
is a guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.
J. Cook.
—Judge Henry C. Quigley will go to |
Ebensburg to hold court the first half of |
next week. |
—Mrs. August Glinz is at Tarentum, Pa.,
called there by the illness of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. A. E. Day.
— Mrs. McGarvey is with her daughter,
Miss Blanche McGarvey, in Pittsburgh,
having gone out last week.
—Miss Elizabeth Morris left Monday
morning, for a two week's visit with Mrs.
Samuel Fleming in Harrisburg.
—Miss Mary Williams, of Axe Mann, has
been in Bellefonte for the greater part of
the week, a guest of Mrs. Satterfield.
—Dr. Grover C. Glenn, of State College,
was in town Wednesday for the meeting
of the Centre county Medical society.
—Miss Elizabeth Gamble returned to
Bellefonte the early part of the week,
from a two week’s visit with friends in
Pittsburgh.
—Miss Olive Steele returned to Pitts-
burgh the early part of the week, expect-
ing to be with her sister, Mrs. Cecil Craig,
indefinitely.
—Mrs. Katherine C. Burnet, of Syracuse,
N. Y., arrived in Bellefonte Wednesday
night for a visit with her sister, Mrs.
George F. Harris.
-—Miss Margaret Hockenberry, of State
College, is spending this week in Belle-
fonte with her sisters, Mrs. Earle Gehret
and Mrs. Andrew Thal.
—Arthur Ward is so rapidly recovering
from his recent serious illness, that he has
been discharged from the comp hospital
and is now in New York.
—Mrs. W. A. Lyon went to Bayonne, N.
J., on Sunday for an indefinite visit with
her daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. C.
B. Williams, and son Frederick.
—Robert Bradley, who had been in
Bellefonte since Christmas, visiting with
his mother, Mrs. Benjamin Bradley, has
returned to his home in Bradford.
—Ralph Johnson, one of the Pennsy's
efficient employees of Bellwood, took ad-
vantage of a two day’s vacation to visit
among relatives in and about Bellefonte.
—Miss Veda Wetzel will leave for Can-
ton, Ohio, tomorrow morning, to go on a
case, which will necessitate her being away
from Bellefonte until some time in March.
—Miss Mary Saylor is among those from
Bellefonte who are spending a part of the
late winter at Atlantic City. Miss Saylor
went down last week for a two week's
visit.
—The Bellefonte hardware stores are
being represented at the hardware con-
vention in Pittsburgh this week, by W.
M. Bottorf, Harvey Shaffer and Edward
Owens.
—Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Morris Jr. spent
Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
O. P. Bell, in Sunbury, going down to see
the little daughter who recently came to
the Bell home.
—Charles F. Cook, A. C. Mingle, James
K. Barnhart and Nelson Robb represented
the Trust Company and the First Nation-
al bank, of Bellefonte, at the bankers’
convention held in Altoona, Wednesday.
—Miss Jule Curtin accompanied by
Gregg Curtin, left Bellefonte Saturday
morning for Short Hills, N. J., called there
by the death of her nephew, Allen Shel-
den, who died at his home in that place a
week ago. ; { Be x
—Miss Agnes McGowan, who had been
with a patient in New Jersey for the past
six weeks, will return to Bellefonte Mon-
day. Before coming home Miss McGowan
is spending a short time in New York and
Philadelphia.
—Miss Mildred Wetzel, who has been in
Windsor, Canada, with her uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Wetzel, since last
fall, will return to Bellefonte at an early
date. Miss Wetzel is coming home to ac-
cept the position of book-keeper in the
William 8. Katz store.
—Mr. H. F. Rossman, of Pennsylvania
Furnace, with several other gentlemen,
motored to Bellefonte Wednesday to look
after some business needing their atten-
tion. They said the snow had not inter-
fered with the motoring other than to
make the highway just a bit slippery.
—T. W. Romick, who is with the Wolfe
company, Millwrights, of Chambersburg,
spent the week-end in Bellefonte with Mrs.
Romick. Mr. Romick, whose work necessi-
tates an absence of six weeks at a time,
came to Bellefonte a week ago, from Ben-
ton, Pa., leaving yesterday for Northamp-
ton.
—Philip D. Waddle, of Brownsville, has
been spending this week in Centre county,
coming here Saturday on account of the
illness of his father-in-law, Wilbur T.
Twitmire. In addition to visiting with his
brother here, Mr. Waddle spent several
days with his sister and brother, Mrs. PD,
I.. Meek and James Waddle, up Buffalo
Run.
—Mrs. T. R. Williams left Wednesday
to return to her home in Coshocton, Ohio,
after a two week’s visit in Bellefonte with
her father, D. W. Eberhart, and other
members of the family, it being Mrs. Wil-
liams’ first visit here in five years. On
her way home she had arranged to stop
for a short time in both Gallitzin and Pitts-
burgh.
—Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Runkle, of Lan-
caster, and their daughter Dorothy came
to Bellefonte Saturday, and have been
guests of Mrs. Runkle’s parents, Mr, and
Mrs. Adam Wagner. Mr. Runkle will leave
here today for a short visit in Shamokin
before returning to Lancaster, while Mrs.
Runkle and the child will remain here for
another week.
—Mrs. T. Hugh Winters, of Philadelphia,
wife of Lieut, Commander Winters, came
to Bellefonte Friday of last week to spend
two weeks with her uncle, James R.
Hughes, at the Academy. Mrs. Winters
was accompanied by Miss Hazel Close, of
Philadelphia. Lieut. Winters has recently
been sent to Annapolis, where he will be
permanently located as an instructor.
Miss Betty Stevenson, a graduate of
the Bellefonte hospital, who last year®en-
listed as a nurse in the government serv-
ice for a period of three years, is spend-
ing a ten day’s furlough at Waddle with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Steven-
son. Miss Stevenson is located at Kast
View, N. Y., and some idea of the size of
the U. S. hospital at that place can be
gained from the fact that it is exactly a
mile and a quarter around the outside of
the buildings.
——D. G. Meek, who has been cash-
jer of the First National bank of Ju-
niata the past seventeen years, re-
signed last week to accept the man-
agement of the M. & M. store in Ty-
rone.
An Old Landmark Chopped Down.
The old horse chestnut tree which
stood in the corner of the front yard
of W. S. Zeller was removed on Wed-
nesday by W. J. Musser, who cut it
down and hauled it home for the wood
there was in it. The tree was one of
the old landmarks of the town and
many people watched its removal
with very great regret. The ex-
act age of the tree is known within
a few years. It was planted either in
the year 1854 or 1856, hence is at least
sixty-two years old. But it had at-
tained a remarkable growth in that
time. It was at least thirty inches in
diameter at the stump and twenty
feet from the ground was divided
into forks, one growing toward the
north and the other southward. The
tree had wide-spreading branches and
was one of the most magnificent shade
trees in Bellefonte.
A few years ago while J. Linn Har-
ris was a member of the Forestry
Commission he condemned the tree as
unsafe but it was not this fact that
led to its removal. Mr. Zeller decid-
ed to have it taken down because of
the dirt it made on his lawn and
pavement, and he gave the tree to Mr.
Musser for its removal. Mr. Musser
removed the branches of the tree first
then the trunk.
Appropriations Recommended.
The State Board of Charities
has recommended an appropriation of
$20,000 for the Bellefonte hospital, as
against $15,000 received two years
ago. The appropriation recommended
for the western penitentiary is $665,-
068. Two years ago the penitentiary
got $956,562. The recommendation
for the Cottage State hospital, Phil-
ipsburg, is $54,000, as against $45,000
received two years ago.
It might be appropriate here to
state that the Bellefonte hospital is
known to the state board and the med-
ical profession throughout the State
as a “blue book” institution. This
means that it is recognized as having
a staff and management that have
met the severest requirements of the
state board and is in every way up to
the standard required. This will be
very gratifying news, we are sure, to
the people of Centre county because
when an institution attains such rank-
ing it has something to be proud of.
—oe
Friends Quarterly Meeting.
The Friends quarterly meeting will
be held at Unionville February 15th,
16th and 17th with the following pro-
gram:
Saturday at 1:30 p. m., Sunday
school conference, or “Round Table.”
Subject for discussion: “How to Con-
duct a Sunday School for Community
Benefit.” At 3 p. m. the church offi-
cers will meet in a business session.
Sunday at 10 a. m., regular morn-
ing service. 3 p. m., a conference up-
on the topic, “The Readjustment Per-
iod of the Christian Church.” All the
members and congregations of - the
neighborhood are invited and expect-
ed to take part.
Monday, 10 a. m., business meeting
of the church preceded by a devotion-
al half hour. Joel Borton, a promi-
nent minister from New Jersey, will
attend these meetings.
The public is especially invited to
the Sunday school convention and the
Sunday meetings.
Some Folks Know Everything.
Others Are Willing to Learn.
How About You?
Many people are seeking new ideas
and are willing to learn. Some
knowledge is gained and much money
saved by reading advertisements.
Take my advertisements. Every one
who reads them will need glasses
some time. If you follow the ads
closely you may get some valuable
ideas as to when you should wear
glasses, as well as how to take care of
your eyes. Honest advice and moder-
ate prices at CASEBEER’S, Centre
Co. Bank Bldg. 7-1t
— General Pershing’s life story is
wonderfully told in the big picture
called “The Land of the Free,” which
will be shown at the Scenic Monday,
Feb. 17, matinee and night. 7-1t
Lost.—Persian Lamb black muff.
Finder is requested to leave same at
home of Mrs. J. Thomas Mitchell. 6-1t
— Put your ad. mn the “Watch-
man.”
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more than ten thousand responsible peo-
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the following rate:
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Paid before oxpialioe of year 1.76
Paid after expiration of year. 2.00
Papers will not be sent out of Centre
county unless paid for in advance, nor will
subscriptions be discontinued until all ar-
rearages are settled, except at the option
of the publisher.
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