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‘Bellefonte, Pa., March 28, 1919.
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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:
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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-
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| 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.
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| 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.
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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-
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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
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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.
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“ 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.
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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