Beworrali atc ‘Bellefonte, Pa., March 28, 1919. P. GRAY MEEK, . . "To Correspondents.—No communications published unless accompanied by the real name of the writer. Editor Terms of Subscription.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to sub- scribers at the following rates: Paid strictly in advance - = Paid before expiration of year - Paid after expiration of year - $1.50 175 2.00 A LETTER OF APPRECIATION. Miss Bertha Laurie Tells What Belle- fonte Money Does in France. Bellefonters generally are not only interested in every Centre county boy in service in France but they appreci- ate every little kindness extended them in every way. So much so, in fact that ever since Miss Bertha Lau- rie has been in France a regular com- mittee has had charge of raising mon- ey here for her work and a certain sum has been sent her every month. The money, of course, is for canteen work, and more of it is needed now than during the war activities, and for this reason the public is asked to give liberally when approached by any member of the committee. To show how much the money is appre- ciated and how it is used we publish the following letter received in Belle- fonte a few days ago from Miss Lau- rie: Bolandseck, Germany. 1 wish to thank you and through you the missionary society and many other people in Bellefonte who have contributed to the funds which have helped us so much in our work. It has meant a lot to me that all my dear friends were back of me and as inter- ested in the work as I am. In Bar-le-Duc, the last place we were stationed before coming to Ger- many, we were ableto give daily the greatest amount of happiness in a personal way to the men by inviting them to meals in our small mess in the home of a little qld Alsatian wom- an, who was an excellent cook. She was so sweet and interested in all the |. ‘boys we brought, however rough and dirty they were; and they couldn’t help that, poor boys, for often we’d pick them up on the streets, right off the trucks that had brought them back from the front, and you know many of them didn’t get a chance to wash their faces for two weeks, and had to use their coffee for shaving water. But she would wait on them and urge them to eat, and in every way help us to make them laugh, and then § before they left would quietly slip ap- ples into their pockets. I could tell you of the happiness those ‘simple meals gave to hundreds and hundreds of boys. .You. see there were no troops stationed there, just thousands moving through every day. During the meal they would look | around the cheerful, little kitchen and say: “This is the most homelike place I've seen in France,” or “this is the first dinner table I've sat at over here,” or “this is the best meal I've had since I left home.” ; When they would leave they would just cling to our hands and say, “I'll never forget this.” 3 3 We paid board for three extra peo- ple so we felt free to have anyone! who happensd to be in town whom we | knew. Frederick Reynolds, for in- stance; and a Wallace boy, whose brother had a cigar store under the bank; and young Hughie Taylor, and dozens of boys we had known in Is- sur-tile. the “family.” knew in our other camps took their leave in coming to see us and staying in Bar-le-Duc their whole time. Isn’t it pathetic how they crave the home feeling and some one who belongs to them. It is the most satisfying work; al- though I can’t call it work, for we are just loving every minute what we are doing, no matter if it is scrubbing ta- | bles, or building fires, or sewing on buttons or service stripes or rainbows. I'm awfully afraid this is not a satis- factory letter but I did want you to | know how much I appreciate’ your kindness and generosity. BERTHA A. LAURIE, 166th Infty, 42nd Div. Oe mn Interesting News of the Soldier Boys. Lieut. Elliott Lyon (Budd) Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morris, arrived in Bellefonte on Tuesddy morning, having reached New York from France last Friday. Lieut. Mor- ris was the first Bellefonte boy to go to France where he went as an avia- tor. After due training he won his commissicic and had some thrilling experiences until he met with a slight mishap which kept him confined in the hospital for some time. He came home, however, looking none the worse for the work he did over there. In writing from Washington, D. C., where he is now located, Walter I. Lembkey, an old Bellefonte boy, says: “My daughter’s affianced was Kkill- ed in action in the Belleau woods, France, last June and his body never recovered. He fell while leading his platoon, although he was only a cor- poral. He belonged to the 6th ma- rines, but the young men who died in France will live forever in the results they died to achieve.” Lieut. Philip C. Shoemaker, of Company A, 107th machine gun bat- talion, formerly the Boal mounted machine gun troop of Boalsburg, sur- prised his many Bellefonte friends by ‘a home visitor over Sunday. wish I} It is pathetic the way they ; come back to us, just as if we were} Some of the boys ‘we } and Syrian relief committee. his arrival in town on Sunday even- ing to see his mother, Mrs. Thomas ANOTHER SIDE OF CALIFORNIA. A. Shoemaker, who is at present vis- iting at the Brockerhoff home. Lieut. Shoemaker has a ten day’s leave of absence from Camp Dix, N. J., which he will spend here and with the rest of the family at Wilkinsburg, when he will return to Camp Dix for furth- er treatment. As is generally known the young lieutenant received his bap- tism of fire in the world war at Cha- teau Thierry where he was wounded in both hands and the back of the neck. The latter wound was only su- perficial but his hands were both en- tirely useless for months. Now, how- ever, he has recovered the use of both hands and aside from one or two fingers which are yet a little stiff and a perceptible scar on the back of one hand, they are almost as good as ever and the army surgeons have hopes] that in due time every vestige of the terrible wounds he received will have disappeared. Aside from his hands Lieut. Shoemaker looks the picture of health and fitness. Clement Sager, son of Isaac Sager, returned home last week with an hon- orable discharge. He is the first Bellefonte soldier returned as a disa- bility. Private Sager served with a machine gun company and in the bat- tle of the Argonne he was wounded with a machine gun bullet in the right side. The bullet not only. so mangled three ribs that portions of them had to be removed, but passed through him and came out at his left side. He has been granted a disability allow- ‘ance of about $37.50 a month. : Lieut. Ogden B. Malin, who is now stationed at Fort Hancock, N. Y., was At the present time he has had no intimation as to when he will be discharged, but he likes the work and is satisfied to await Uncle Sam’s pleasure. Howard S. Gordon, of Bellefonte, enlisted for service in the U. S. ma- rines this week and was sent to Pitts- burgh, expecting to eventually land on Paris Island, S. C. Robert Taylor, son of R. B. Taylor, ‘who saw eighteen month’s service on a U.S. mine sweeper, arrived home on Monday, having been given an honorable discharge. i Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Crawford, of Centre Hall, have received word that their son Alfred has arrived in New York on his return from France. In- asmuch as he is afflicted with a sore foot and will probably be sent to a hospital for treatment the date for ‘his return home is rather indefinite, Eat House Pets, Horses, Camels, to Keep Alive. From Associated Press News Service. New York, March 23.—Thous- ands of men, women and ‘children are starving to death in the Cau- casus, according to the first .re- port from Dr. James L. Barton, chairman of the commission re- cently sent to that region by the American committee for relief in the Near East, received here re- cently. : “There is no bread anywhere,” said the report. “The govern- ment has not a pound. There are 45,000 people in Erivan wholly withot bread, and the orphanages and troops all through Erivan are in terrible condition. “There is not a cat, dog, horse, camel or any living thing in all the Igdir region. We saw refu- gee women stripping the flesh from a dead horse with their bare hands. wT) “For heaven’s sake hurry—we have enough food at Baku and Batum to keep the people there alive for a time.” : The food at Batum referredto in the report is part of the cargo of 5,000 tons of flour shipped from Seattle on the Western Belle. ; This is not a story for sympathy but fact with an appeal for help— ‘help for the starving and dying. A few months ago these people had the same happy home as your own; they have held to the same christian prin- ‘ciples as yourself; they have fought for the same liberty and freedom; they were your allies in the late war. Now will you answer their cry? Think! Reflect! Give until you can conscientiously feel you have | done all you can. Dr. James L. Barton, named in the above story, is the chairman of the Armenian committee for relief in the Near East, formerly the Armenian His words ring forth from the field of suffering. Centre county has not yet reached half its quota of $7,720 for the $30,- 000,000 fund absolutely needed to keep these people alive and give them a chance to rebuild their homes. The help of everyone is needed. Any money sent to Miss M. H. Linn, chairman, Bellefonte, Pa., will be forwarded at once to New York, or checks can be sent directly to Cleve- land H. Dodge, 1 Madison Ave, New York city. A Meeting of Threshermen. A special meeting of the Centre county threshermen and farmers’ pro- tective association will be held at the court house in Bellefonte on Saturday, March 29th, at 10 a. m. This will probably be the last meeting before the threshing season opens and it is the desire that every thresherman and sawmill man in the county be present. The state committee will re- port upon the threshermen’s mutual insurance company while other mat- ters of interest to threshermen and farmers will be considered. ——1J. Mac Heinle is completing ar- rangements to open an-exide distrib- uting plant in the room in the Rey- nold’s block on Bishop street next ‘door to McGarvey’s auto supply store: | i 1 | i i | has not been called for but once ‘in but since the all | ‘building was ‘stopped there, work was | Mr. Wolf Tells How Sand Storms Ruin Crops and Leave Desolation in Their Wake. Lost Hills, Cal., Dec. 24, 1918. My Dear Aunt:— Your letter of several days ago was a welcome visitor and I hardly need tell you how glad I was to hear from you and about all the rest of the folks in the old town of Hublersburg. As I read your letter I thought of the customs, habits and ways of living back there and how different they are here. You asked how far it was from On- tario to the gold fields and to Ante- lope plains, where I am now. Out here distance don’t seem to count. Why we think no more of starting on a hundred or two hundred mile trip on Wednesday following a long ill- here than I used to think of going to | Bellefonte from Hublersburg. From | Ontario to Grass Valley where the | gold fields are located is about 500 | miles and from Ontario to Lost Hills | about 250 miles. San Bernardino | county, in which I am now located, | is most as large as all of Pennsylva- nia, being 210 miles long and 180 | miles wide; and there are thousands | and thousands of acres of land in it | that a white man has never seen, in fact that is entirely unknown. It is a great open plain, without water and | almost without vegetation. Only a few cactus and the yucca plant, which grows without water, are to be found there. In summer time tornadoes will sweep over the plains and when they reach the coast valleys where the set- tlements are the air is so full of sand ' it looks like a big yellow cloud, and the heat is something that will be re- membered for days. ture at the coast goes up to 110 to 120 degrees while on the plains it rises to 130 to 185 degrees. The sand : cuts the crops like a scythe. I have seen orange trees in Ontario as brown as a haystack after one of these storms. Oranges, peaches, and all kinds of fruit, for that matter, are literally cooked on the trees. The storms last from one to three days and all a person can do is to stay in the house and let it blow. When itis over you can write your name in the dust and sand in any part of the house. And Ontario is across a mountain from the desert some forty miles away and from 6,000 to 10,000 feet above sea level. These storms usually come right with the full of the moon, and there is something wonderfully fascinating with the first one you see, but after two or three of them they lose all novelty. and you want no more of them. Where I am The tempera- EE ————————————————————————— | FULTON.—William Thompson Ful- ‘here. Our cabins have good roofs { and floors but most of the walls are | canvas. It is just like living in a ' tent. Will close for this time. A. C. WOLF. ——At the W. C. Witmer sale at i Buffalo Run last week over three | thousand dollars of the total proceeds { were paid in cash. Late that evening four suspicious looking men were seen | loitering in that vicinity and fearing they might be planning to rob Mr. | Witmer several men decided to find ! out their motive, but when the stran- ; gers saw the farmers approaching | they made a get-away. ——— eee —-- | BLOOM.—Mrs. Sallie Bloom, wid- ,ow of the late William Harrison { Bloom, died at her heme on west Col- i lege avenue, State College, at noon ness with asthma and heart trouble. She was a daughter of Green and | Rebecca Carter and was born near State College sixty-nine years ago. | After her marriage to Mr. Bloom | they engaged in farming at Blooms- | dorf where they lived until the death | of Mr. Bloom thirteen years ago. Al few years later Mrs. Bloom purchas- | ed a home in State College and has | lived there ever since. Surviving her are the following children: Mrs. Emma Heckman, of Minnesota; Mrs. E. E. Royer, of Bloomsdorf; Lizzie, Bessie and Mar- ‘ garet, at home. She also leaves one . brother and a sister, Fred Carter and | . Mrs. Hattie Mowery, both of Centre Hall, as well as twenty-five grand- children and two great grand-chil- ' dren. She was a life-long member of the Lutheran church and Rev. | Harkins will have charge of the fun- eral which will be held at two o’clock on Saturday afternoon, burial to be made in the Pine Hall cemetery. Il i ZETTLE.—Mrs. Elsie Waddle Zet- | tle, wife of G. William Zettle, of | Boggs township, died at the Mus. | Geissinger hospital in Danville at | 8:30 o’clock last Saturday morning of exhaustion due to organic heart trou- ble. Mrs. Zettle went to the hospital three weeks previous to undergo an operation for the removal of a goitre but her general condition was such that the surgeon in charge considered an operation at that time too critical and her death was due to causes en- tirely foreign to her affliction with goitre. Her maiden name was Waddle and she was born in Bellefonte sixty-five years ago. She was married to Mr. Zettle about thirty years ago and he survives with one daughter, Miss El- la, at home. The body was brought now they are not so bad as in south- ern California. ; I have a vy little home in Ontario | eginning of the war all | scarce and wages low so. I got out. of there. hour day running gas engines, and if | an engine or pump breaks down and | I have to repair it after my time is up | I get 75 cents an hour. I make twice | as much here as I did in Ontario. = | This is a healthy locality. We have | not had a case of flu here yet, but out in civilization, as we call it, it has been bad. We have a nice little cabin fixed up here for a hospital and a trained nurse near enough to be had within fifteen minutes, but it is thirty miles to the nearest doctor. I have been here since June and the nurse that time. There is no more danger in this work than there is on a farm ¢ of Buffalo Run; Orvilla, James and if you are careful. A careless person is liable to get hurt anywhere. “I don’t think much of the Hot Springs as a rheumatic cure. You get it boiled out of you one winter and the next -winter you have the same thing to do over again: I think honey is much better for sciatic rheu- matism and much cheaper. You don’t have to leave home or quit work, if you are able to do any work at all. . I have worked for years in the water, came out of the mines in the winter wet as if I had been in the creek, and know what rheumatism is. I took the honey cure three years ago and have not been troubled with it since. Another bad thing for rheumatism is filling up on beef and pork and hav- ing everything you eat literally swim- ming in lard, then washing it down with a pot of hot coffee or tea. Then the men hit an old pipe or take a big cud of tobacco and wonder why they are sick. The only wonder is that they are alive. I do not suppose I have eaten five pounds of pork since I was in the army and that much beef would do me a year. I have often thought of the good things that went to waste and very likely do yet. In fact they are much healthier and eas- ier to get than meat. I have refer- ence to the big crops of walnuts, hickory nuts, chestnuts, berries and fruits that grew wild up at Grass val- ley. I saw chestnuts sell at 20 cents a pound right off the trees. All these nuts are used in cooking and baking here and bring a good price. Many of them are also eaten raw. It looked something like Christmas here this morning. We had a big, white frost with the thermometer down to within thirty degrees of ze- ro. There are two men and their wives here from Pennsylvania. One is from Aaronsburg and the other Du- Bois. They are from 65 to 70 years old. They came here about ten years ago, stayed two years, did not like it and went back. One of them stayed in Pennsylvania but three months when he returned here and the other one came back at the end of a year. We have a few deer here but not many. Elk and antelope are- more plentiful. = Deer .and bear, however, are quite plentiful up in the moun- tains where I was last winter. ! vania train on Saturday afternoon and taken to her home near Miles- : 4 : { Here 1 get $4,25 for an eight | Bellefonte: Union cemetery. | an illness of some weeks. Her maid- | en name was Sarah Stone and she from Danville on the Lehigh-Pennsyl- burg where funeral services were held ! at ten o’clock on Wednesday morning. Revs. W. A. Lepley and M. C. Piper officiated and burial was made in the i V il H } STOVER.—Mrs. . Sarah E. Stover, widow of Martin H. Stover, died at her home at Prossertown at 11:20 o'clock on Sunday morning, following was born at Pleasant Gap on October 22nd, 1858, hence was in her sixty- first year. Her husband died five years ago but surviving her are eight children, namely: John, of Pleasant Gap; Mrs. Myrtle Fike and Uriah Stover, of Bellefonte; Mrs. David Kel- ler, of Rockview; Mrs. Jerry Owens, Joseph at home. She also leaves one sister, Mrs. Myra Ziegler, of Belle- fonte, and a number of half-brothers and sisters. She was a member of the Methodist church and Revs. M. C. Piper and E. J. Dunn had charge of the funeral services which were held at one o’clock yesterday afternoon in the Methodist church at Axe Mann, after which burial was made in the Pleasant Gap cemetery. Il Il “ BIBLE.—John C. Bible, who occu- pied the old Michael Strohm home at Centre Hill, died on Friday night of an ailment diagnosed as smoker’s cancer. He was a son of John and Mary Bible and was born in Potter township about sixty-nine years ago. He followed farming the greater part of his life and was an industrious and highly esteemed citizen. ¥ He was united in marriage to Miss Isabella Toner, of Potter township, who survives with two children, Mrs. D. C. Rossman, of Centre Hill and J. Frank Bible, of Centre Hall. He also leaves three brothers, W. W. Bible, of Bellefonte; D. E. Bible, of Pottsville, and J. R., of Phoenixville. The fun- eral was held on Tuesday afternoon. Rev. W. H. Williams, of the Metho- dist church, had charge of the serv- ices and burial was made in the Sprucetown cemetery. I I BEEZER.—Mrs. Mary E. Beezer, wife of Edward C. Beezer, of Philips- burg, died very unexpectedely at the Hotel McAlpin, New York, about six o'clock on Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Beezer were in New York on a business and pleasure trip and when they left home Mrs. Beezer was in her usual health. Heart trouble was given as the cause of her death. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Boor, of McVeytown. She was married to Mr. Beezer about nine years ago and had since been a resi- dent of Philipsburg. The remains were taken to that place from New York last evening, but at this writing no arrangements for the funeral have been male, " . SWEENEY.—Enoch W. Sweeney, a life-long resident of Harris township, died at his home near Boalshurg on Wednesday noon. Full particulars “We ‘practically live ‘out of doors will be given next week.” | ton, manager of the Milesburg Store company and one of the most promi- | nent citizens of Milesburg, died very | unexpectedly on Monday night. For : some time past he had suffered to | some extent with kidney and heart ! trouble, but was able to be around and attend to business as usual. Late Sunday afternoon he was seized with a fit of vomiting and a severe pain at the base of his brain and from that time he grew rapidly worse until death relieved his sufferings on Mon- day night. { Mr. Fulton was born at Centre Fur- | nace on August Tth, 1855, hence was 63 years, 7 months and 17 days old. When but twelve years of age he went to Milesburg and got a job at the old McCoy & Linn iron works. He was unusually steady for a boy of his years and did his work with such a devotion to his employer’s interest that he eventually attracted their at- tention and at the age of eighteen he was given a position as clerk in the McCoy & Linn store. He developed an amazing aptitude for the mercan- tile business and it was not long un- til he was made one of the chief clerks in the store. When the Milesburg Store company was organized in 1903 ager and so faithfully and successful- i ' DROWNED IN SPRING CREEK. James Reed Found Dead at the Falls Above This Office, Sunday. James Reed, son of Henry and Josephine Lockard Reed, was drown- ed in Spring creek some time on Sat- urday night, but under what circum- stances no one knows and very likely never will know. The first knowledge that such a tragedy had occurred within the limits of Bellefonte was ac- quired at one o’clock on Sunday after- noon when Edward Gross, while pass- ing along south Water street, saw an object lodged on the breakwater sheeting close to the concrete wall in the rear of the Palace garage. Anoth- er man happening along at the time the two of them took a look at the ob- ject but were uncertain what it was. Finally their attention was attracted by a glistening russet shoe and they decided to make an investigation. They came in Water street and went around to the rear of the Palace ga- rage and at once discovered that the object they had been gazing at was the dead body of a man. Assistance was secured and the body was remov- ed from the water when the discovery was made that the dead man was ; i Reed. “Mr. Fulton was selected as its man- |! James Reed In the absence of coroner John Se- bring, who was out of town, justice | ly did he perform the work in connec- | of the peace S. Klin Ww ot tion with this position that he held it ON heue he ed ne { until his death. { everything that tended to the welfare i and success of his home town and { faithfully filled various offices to | which he was elected by the people of | the town, In politics he was a Repub- | lican of the most dyed-in-the-wool | type, and only recently he made the | statement that the only Democrat he | ever voted for was the late editor of | the “Watchman” when he was elected | State Senator from this district. Mr. Fulton had been a member of the Milesburg Lodge I. O. O. F. for forty-one years and was also a mem- ber of the Bellefonte Lodge of Ma- sons. In 1898 he became a member of the Milesburg Methodist church un- der the pastorate of Rev. G. E. King and ever since he had taken a very active interest in all kinds of church work, having served on the official board a number of years. ‘On January 30th, 1876, he was unit- ed in marriage to Miss Sarah C. Har- dy who survives with one daughter, Albina. He also leaves four grand- children, three of whom he had given a home since the death of their fath- er, his son Claude. Funeral services will be held at his late home at two o'clock this (Friday) afternoon by Revs. W. A. Lepley and M. C. Piper, after which burial will be made in the Treziyulny cemetery. il il HILLARD.—Guy Hillard, for many years a resident of Centre county, died at noontime . Saturday at .the {home of his son Perry, of Bellwood, | i following a brief illness with heart! disease, aged almost 85 years. He was born and raised in Ferguson township and spent all of his life there until last October when he went to Bellwood to make his home with his son. For a period of forty-two years he resided at Hostler and was track foreman on the Lewisburg and | Tyrone railroad. He was a faithful member of the Lutheran church at Gatesburg for many years and was a citizen of the strictest integrity. Surviving him are six children, namely: John and Mrs. Rachael Harpster, of Pennsylvania Furnace; James, of Bellefonte; Perry, of Bell- wood; Mrs. Susan Fleck, of Cone- | maugh, and Mrs. Margaret Johnson, of Dungarvin. He also leaves one brother and two sisters, Stephen Hil- lard, of Fostoria; Mrs. Adaline Gra- zier, of Bellwood, and Mrs. Caroline Ball, of Clearfield. The remains were taken to Gatesburg on Tuesday morn- ing where services were held in the Lutheran church at 10:30 o’clock, bur- ial being made in the cemetery ad- joining the church. i DeWITT.—Mrs. Ida DeWitt, wife of Grover C. DeWitt, died at her home in Juniata last Thursday night after an illness of three mouths with blood poisoning, the result of a decayed tooth. She was a daughter of James and Laura Sliker and was born at Miles- burg, this county, on November 10th, 1885, hence was 33 years, 4 months and 10 days old. Surviving her are her husband and four children, Lu- cille, Laura, Zoe and Grover Jr. She also leaves her parents and the fol- lowing brothers and sisters: Mrs. H. W. Aiken, of Juniata; Mrs. Rodney Lane, of Detroit, Mich.; Miss Pearl Sliker, at home; Taylor, of Rochester, N. Y.; J. D,, of Juniata; Blair, Charles and James, of Niagara Falls, and Cy- ril, at home. She was a member of the Church of the Brethren, of Junia- ta, and a good, christian woman. The remains were brought from Al- toona to Milesburg on the Pennsylva- nia-Lehigh train on Saturday after- noon and taken to the home of her parents where funeral services were held on Sunday afternoon, burial be- ing made in the Mien cemetery. FRANK.—Mrs. Philip F. Frank died at her home at Potters Mills at five o’clock last Friday morning after an illness of many weeks with sarco- ma. She was a daughter of John and Sarah Haugh and was born near Mad- isonburg in January, 1849. She is survived by her husband and the fol- lowing children: Mrs. W. E. Lee, at home; Mrs. C. E. Wert, of Tussey- ville, and Mrs. C. C. Duck, of Lewis- town. She also leaves four brothers and a sister, Israel Haugh, of Smull- ton; Harvey, John and Mrs. Sarah Vonada, of Madisonburg, and Henry, of Spring Mills. Burial was made at Tusseyville on Tuesday morning. He was always vitally interested in He promptly empanelled a jury to view the body then permitted the re- moval of the remains. While taking the body from the creek one of the men took a pint bottle about half full of whiskey from Reed’s pocket. At the inquest on Monday morning it developed that Reed had been drink- ing on Saturday night and the police had started him home about ten o’clock. The young man lived with his mother out in Brown Row and the last the police saw of him was when he turned the corner at the Lauder- bach-Barber company store in the di- rection of his home. This is the last authentic information of the man un- til his body was discovered on Sunday afternoon. When taken from the water there was a slight abrasion ‘on his right temple and another one on his cheek but they were not sufficient to give any suspicion of foul play, In fact both the physician who examined the body and the undertaker who took charge of it unhesitatingly gave it as their belief that death was due to drowning. Just where and how the man came to fall into the creek is of course unknown. It is possible the accident occurred along the creek somewhere between the railroad and his home and that the body had been washed down to where it was discov- ered by Mr. Gross, as it hardly seems possible that the body could have lain there all through Sunday forenoon, with hundreds of people passing back and forth on Water street, without having been discovered until after dinner. / : Though it is possible that he might have fallen in from the concrete re- taining wall just where the body was found. It is a question whether ‘the water was high enough Saturday night or Sunday morning to carry a tL ody over the breast of the dam above. : The unfortunate young man was a son of William and Josephine Reed, and was born in Bellefonte thirty-five years ago. He was unmarried and had lived at home all his life. Last fall he was one of the bricklayers for R. B. Taylor on his state road con- tract and during the winter he has been working in the lime quarries, thus being the main support of his mother. In addition to his parents he is survived by the following broth- ers and sisters: William, of Valley View; Mrs. Harry Mills, of Tyrone; Mrs. John Barner, of Altoona; John and George, of Bellefonte, and Neda, at home. One brother, Boyd, died on the 6th of December after a short ill- ness with the flu. Burial was made in the Union cemetery at 2:30 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon. Ralph Heaton Killed by Train. Ralph Heaton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heaton, who occupy the old Hayes Lyman farm between Miles- burg and Curtin, was the victim of a train accident at Milesburg at 8:18 o'clock last Saturday evening. Ac- cording to residents near the Miles- burg station the young man had jumped a freight train west and rid- den to the upper switch where he jumped off right in front of a pass- ing locomotive. He was struck and injured so badly that he died in a few minutes. : The young man was nineteen years old on the 20th of last October and in addition to his parents is survived by two brothers and a sister, namely: Milford, Rilda and Delmar. Funeral services were held at the Heaton home at 1:30 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon by Rev. Foss, after which burial was made in the Advent ceme- tery. ———The only place you can see a real, up-to-date moving picture show is at the Lyric. 13-1t ——The many friends of George Waite, the handy man of affairs at the Bellefonte Fuel & Supply compa- ny, will be glad to know that he is re- covering from a rather painful illness. Mr. Waite has been with the Belle- fonte Fuel & Supply company twen- ty-nine years and this is the second time he has been compelled to lay off on account of illness. The home of Mrs. Joseph Swisher, near Julian, was entirely de- stroyed by fire on Sunday morning, which started under the roof of the house while Mrs. Swisher was prepar- ing the family breakfast. Very few of the contents were saved and only mem A met emai a small insurance was carried. <p A
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