Bellefonte, Pa., April 4, 1919.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
— You can always save money at
Weaver Bros., especially his week.
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____At the April meeting of the D.
A. R., Wednesday evening, the Belle-
fonte members were guests of the
State College members at a dinner
given at the University club, State
College; a business and social meet-
ing following the dinner.
— The contract for the building of
676 feet of state highway in the bor-
ough of Philipsburg was awarded by
the State Highway Department last
Friday to Gifford & Pritchard, of
Philipsburg, for $12,891.19. Work on
the road is to be begun at once-
The law firm of Orvis & Zerby
and the various brick companies hav-
ing their offices in Temple Court were
moved on Monday and Tuesday into
the building on High street, alongside
of the State-Centre company store,
recently purchased by the brick com-
pany interests.
——If you are a lover of the mo-
tion picture try the Lyric. It’s not
only up-to-date in every way but
showing exceptionally fine and inter-
esting pictures. The big programs
every evening are worth the price of
admission. In fact, anybody will en-
joy a visit to the Lyric.
Watch the bills for the “Fight-
ing Roosevelts,” at the Scenic. They
will be shown there soon and you
don’t want to miss them. And then
there are many other good pictures
which will be shown at the Scenic
every evening in the week and every-
one of them will be worth seeing. In
fact the Scenic originated the plan of
giving the best to be had, and it is
still a leader in this direction.
Announcement has been made
that the state tuberculosis dispensa-
ries in Bellefonte and at Lock Haven
will be closed on May first for the rea-
son that there have been so few ap-
plications for medical aid that it is
deemed useless to continue them.
This is something, at least, that we
have cause to be thankful for—the
gradual decline of that dread disease,
tuberculosis, in this section of the
State.
Rev. Alexander Smith, a Free
Methodist minister who has been lo-
cated at Unionville the past eight
years, has moved from that place to
Elk county where he will make his
home with one of his sons, who has a
good position as section foreman on
the railroad. David Alexander Smith,
one of Rev. Smith’s sons, was just re-
cently discharged from service and
has already secured a good job in Wil-
liamsport.
-——At noontime last Friday some
waste material in the basement of
Roy Witmer’s electrical store caught
fire, evidently as the result of sponta-
neous combustion, and caused more
or les: excitement. An alarm was
sounded and the Undine fire company
responded with the chemical truck of
the Hope Hose company, Lock Haven,
which they have here on trial, and the
flames were easily extinguished with-
out doing any damage “worth mention-
ing.
——%Ching” is dead.
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CALL FOR A MASS MEETING.
To Arrange for Proper Reception and
Welfare to Returning Soldiers.
To the People of Centre County:
The Local Board for Centre county
having closed its office March 31st, |
1919, takes this opportunity to thank
the people of the county for their as-
sistance and co-operation in our stren-
uous work in calling together and en-
training the army of soldiers who |
composed the different quotas in this
county.
We also take this opportunity to
call to the attention of the people of
Centre county that we still have fur-
ther duties and promises to fulfill.
The readjustment of our industries
from war work to peace work has in
itself seriously upset labor conditions
in many sections.
Now comes the returning men,
some of them with homes to go to,
and some with places waiting, but the
large portion without employment in
sight. We sent these men to camp
with every possible encouragement,
told them how much we thought of
them, the splendid mission they were
going on, that they were warriors of
civilization, crusaders ih a holy cause.
We showered everything upon them
in the way of praise, encouragement
and personal attention. Committees
were organized to look after them,
in short, we did everything to send
them away in the best possible condi-
tion.
We must now remember that these
soldiers have done the work they were
sent to do, and they have done it well.
The welcome back of these soldiers
must be no less sincere than was the
encouragement with which we sent
them away. We must carry out
through our local committees a
scheme for proper care of the soldier
with the same thoroughness with
which the government is attempting
to look after the physical and mental
restoration of the crippled and unbal-
anced.
There will be a meeting in the
grand jury room at the court house,
Bellefonte, Pa., on Tuesday, April
8th, 1919, at 8 o’clock p. m., to map
out a program of entertainment for
Centre county soldiers when they
have all or nearly all returned.
Every one is invited and urged to
attend this meeting.
GEO. H. YARNELL, Chairman.
Information Wanted from Soldier
Boys.
Every Centre county soldier boy is
hereby requested to send to W. Har-
risan Walker, Bellefonte, Pa., his
name, address, rank and also infor-
mation as to whether or not he was
in active service “over there.”
During the Victory Liberty loan
commencing April 21st, 1919, “our
boys” will be the guests of honor at
all public meetings to be held in the
county, and those who were engaged
in overseas service will be expected
to give brief talks concerning their,
various experiences. A schedule of
meetings is now being prepared, but
will not be completed until April 8th,
in order to give time to our boys to
send the information as herein re-
quested.
Communicate either by letter or tel-
ephone the above information at
once.
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To Welcome Returning Soldiers.
A large flag has been ordered and
do not mean Li Hung Ching, the one- ! : : :
: Aalont ie oh | when it arrives here will be floated
time celebated native of China, but | “41 treet near the Pennsylva-
Ching, Lew McQuistion’s sixteen |; ijr0ad depot, and this with a big
year-old dog. He was hit by Herr &
Heverly’s delivery truck on Wednes-
day afternoon and thus took the quick
route to dog heaven. Of course Lew
felt very badly about the loss of his
dog, because after an association of
sixteen years he was about as closely
attached to Ching as Ching was to
him.
——The Sheffer house at Philips-
burg, is to be razed to the ground and
a two-story brick business block will
be erected on the site of the present
hotel. The property was recently pur-
chased from the First National bank,
of Philipsburg, by Louis Finberg, who
will erect the new building. Plans
have already been prepared and the
estimated cost will be $60,000. With
the passing of the Sheffer house one
of the oldest hotels in Philipsburg will
cease to exist. It was built during the
Civil war and for many years was
known as the Lloyd house, being con-
ducted by John Lloyd.
The first minstrel show of the
season will appear at Garman’s to-
morrow (Saturday) evening when the
DeRue Bros. Ideal minstrels will pre-
sent a program which is characteriz-
ed as clean and classic. All new vau-
deville features. Not one stale or
worn-out act presented. The DeRue
Bros. claim to have gathered together
the most expensive array of minstrel
talent from American and European
agents ever assembled under one man-
agement. Don’t fail to see the big
street parade at noon tomorrow and
hear the solo band concert. Then buy
a. ticket and go to the show.
On Friday of last week Nathan
Ichkowitz left his horse and wagon
stand up near the Abramsen Engi-
neering company’s plant while he was
busy inside the buildings. The horse
evidently tired of standing in one
place and not only walked down to
Spring creek but right into the wa-
ter, wagon and all and across stream
to the other side. Now it just hap-
pened that the bank at that place was
too high and steep for the horse to
climb, so he stood there and nibbled
the green shoots of grass on the bank.
When Mr. Ichkowitz discovered where
his horse had gone he was in a quan-
dary as to how to get him out, but
finally waded into the creek, managed
to turn him around and drive back
the way he went in.
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| sign containing the word “Welcome,”
will be the outward manifestation of
Bellefonte and Centre county to the
returning soldiers that they have not
been forgotten. The expense of the
flag and sign will be borne jointly by
the borough and county.
But this is not all the home people
are planning to do. They are also fig-
uring on holding a two day jubilee
of some kind but the plans for this
gathering are as yet in the embryo
state. In fact the uncertainty of the
time of arrival home of Centre coun-
ty’ soldiers has so far precluded any
definite action along this line. While
the Twenty-eighth division is expect-
ed home in May only a small part of
the Centre county boys are connected
with it. Even the members of old
Troop L, who went out as a part of
the Twenty-eighth, have been scatter-
ed throughout other units, so that it
is quite possible some of them will
come home ahead of that organization
and others may be detained in France
until later.
The old Boal machine gun troop is
still an integral part of the Twenty-
eighth but even if these two organi-
zations came back as a whole at one
time, they would not represent twen-
ty per cent. of the Centre county boys
who have been in srvice. Therefore,
why not wait, say, until the Fourth of
July and have a real old-fashioned
celebration of that glorious day, with
the Centre county soldier boys as the
central figures. Make it a one, two
or three day’s celebration, for that
matter. The Fourth this year will
come on Friday and why not begin
the celebration on Thursday and keep
it up until Saturday night.
The “Watchman” makes this sug-
gestion and it wont cost a cent for the
patriotically inclined people of Centre
county to give it due consideration.
Thousands of people came to Belle-
fonte to see the boys go away to learn
to be soldiers and now that they have
performed their part with such gal-
lantry and valor we feel sure that the
public generally will welcome any op-
portunity to pay homage to them.
The person who lost a good
pair of eye glasses in front of the
Scenic last Friday evening can secure
same by calling at this office and pay-
| ing for this notice.
| Bros. big anniversary sale? April
! 1st to 5th, inclusive. 14-1t
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The ladies of the Reformed
| church will hold another of their fa-
' mous Easter markets on the Saturday
before Easter. The market this year
| will be an apron and bake sale.
Only a few people in Bellefonte
forgot to turn their clocks ahead on
: Sunday morning in accordance with
| the daylight saving law. But those
few made up for it during the day and
by Monday morning everybody was
at work on the new time and business
moved along just as if no change had
taken place. Most of the time since,
however, the weather has been such
that it has not been possible to enjoy
the long evenings.
cold to work the garden, utilize the
time in cleaning and white-washing
the cellar, in having the ash piles and
rubbish accumulation of the winter
taken away, and in removing all un-
from your back yards. Bellefonte’s
clean-up and paint-up campaign this
year will be more strenuous than ever
and each person has his or her bit to
do in fighting sickness through clean-
liness.
James Irvin Cheesman, a na-
tive of Curtin, this county, has reach-
ed the age of seventy years and on
Monday was retired from his position
as gang foreman in the brass foun-
dry of the P. R. R. machine shops in
Altoona. In order that he may now
enjoy the ease coming to him after a
strenuous life his fellow workmen
presented him with a substantial up-
holstered apd exceedingly comforta-
ble rocking chair. Mr. Cheesman
learned the foundry trade in the old
Curtin foundry at Curtin.
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Having fully recovered from
his long illness Pearl Thomas was
able to leave the Bellefonte hospital
on Wednesday and go to Howard to
the home of his mother, Mrs. Thomas
E. Thomas, where he will stay until
he completely recuperates before re-
turning to his work in Columbus,
Ohio. Mr. Thomas had quite a siege
of sickness. His wife died in Octo-
ber and he was taken sick while on
his way to Howard with the body and
was taken from the train when it
reached Bellefonte and rushed to the
Bellefonte hospital. There it was
found that he had developed a serious
monia. When the seriousness of his
condition became manifest the com-
pany with which he is employed
sent a trained nurse herve to help take
care of him, and most of the time he
has been in the hospital he has had
the undivided attention of a private
nurse. His final recovery is due to
the good attention he received at the
hospital and his many friends are nat-
urally gratified to know that at last
he is solidly on his feet again.
The hucksters of Bald Eagle
and Halfmoon valleys are threaten-
ing to take their produce to Tyrone
and Altoona instead of Philipsburg,
if the Philipsburg town council passes
the curb market ordinance now under
consideration by that august body.
The hucksters claim that as it is they
are making very little money at the
prices charged and if they are com-
pelled to give up their established
routes and go into an open curb mar-
ket they will lose money. The huck-
sters evidently haven’t considered the
fact that they, themselves, established
the high prices they pay for their
produce and naturally must get big
prices in order to make their business
pay. In fact the writer has in mind
an occasion last December, just a few
days before Christmas, when one of
the hucksters from up in that sec-
tion drove to Bellefonte and down Nit-
tany valley and voluntarily offered
three cents a pound more for chick-
ens than the market price in Belle-
fonte in order to get them to sell to
the people of Philipsburg. And it is
only natural that he would have to get
a very big price for them in that town
in order to pay him for his time and
expense.
— Unless automobilists exercise
more care and caution there is sure to
be an accident some of these days on
the crossing leading from the bridge
over to the Bush Arcade. The dan-
ger is not in motorists going out Wa-
ter street but with those coming in.
Owing to the dummy policeman on the
above crossing machines coming in
Water street naturally must keep
pretty close to the pavement at the
Bush Arcade, and a person coming
down High street cannot see an in-
coming auto very far away. And now
that Water street is a brick paved
thoroughfare many automobilists take
advantage of the condition to speed
up, and this would not be so bad if
they blew their horn within a reason-
able distance of the crossing as a
warning to pedestrians, but very few
of them do it. Of course, if there was
an accident it is quite likely the driv-
er of the car that figured in it would
maintain that he had honk-honked vo-
ciferously and would put all the blame
on the pedestrian for not heeding the
signal, when in fact the probability
would be that he hadn’t sounded any
warning. The writing of this article
was inspired by the fact that this
week the writer saw two persons who
just escaped an automobile by jump-
ing back onto the pavement, and just
through curiosity we took the trouble
to watch incoming automobiles and
see how many tooted the danger sig-
nal and there was only one in the ten
we watched pass, and yet the law and
the borough ordinance specifically re-
quires that automobilists give warning
at the approach to any and all cross-
ings.
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Did you hear about Weaver
Now that the weather is too!
sightly and unsanitary coops or pens |
attack of influenza and the dreaded |
result was a severe attack of pneu-
Comprehensive Plans Submitted for
Remodeling Y. M. C. A.
Architect Anna M. Keichline has
submitted to the building committee
very comprehensive plans for the re-
modeling of the Y. M. C. A. bulding
which provides for some radical
changes. Beginning with the outside
the steps and small porch now afford-
ing entrance to the building will be
removed and a window placed there.
Instead of the main entrance being
from the street two steps will lead
from the street into the open square
on the east side of the main building
where there will be two entrances.
One into the main building for men
or grown people and one leading into
the present billiard room for the boys.
The entire lower floor of the main
building will be thrown into one room
to be used as a lounging room for
men, while the present billiard room
will be fitted up as a room for the
boys. On the west side of the main
room will be built a large fire-place
for use on chilly days and in the
spring and fall when the boiler is not
in use. The secretary’s office will be
located at the northeast corner of the
main room and so situated that he can
at all times have oversight over the
men’s lounging room as well as the
boys.
The basement under the main build-
ing will be fitted up as a pool and bil-
liard room, while the bowling alley
will be put in good shape and equip-
is and in the basement there will be
lavatories for both men and women.
The open space between the gym-
nasium and the swimming pool will
be enclosed and a commodious kitch-
en and pantry erected there for the
accommodation of the association or
other societies in serving suppers. At
present no alterations have been plan-
ned for the second story of the build-
ing.
The building committee now have
the plans under consideration and
while estimates on the cost of the
work made necessary by the changes
outlined are somewhat in excess of
the proposed cost of remodeling the
building, an effort will be made to har-
monize the plans with the amount of
money to be devoted to that purpose
and it is quite possible the contract
will be let within the next ten days or
two weeks.
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New Lodge of Pocohanta
in Bellefonte.
The Moshannon Lodge of Pocohan-
tas has been organized in Bellefonte
in connection with the Bellefonte
Lodge of Red Men. The lodge was in-
| stituted on Tuesday night of last week
| with about forty charter members. A
| delegation of eighteen members from
the Pocohantas Lodge of Williams-
port was here to assist in the prelim-
inary work of organization, among
them being the Great Pocohantas,
| Margaret Lay, of that city. The
| Great Keeper of Records, Margaret
| Beauffree, of Philadelphia, was also
| present.
| On Tuesday night of this week a
| delegation of twenty-five members of
| the Pocohantas fraternity from Wil-
| liamsport, Altoona and Juniata were
| here to assist in the ceremonies of in-
stallation of the local officers and see
| that they got rightly started in the
{ work of the order. The officers of the
new lodge are as follows:
Pocohantas—Murs. Irvin Tate.
Prophet—Mrs. Sarah R. Poorman.
Winonah—Mrs. George Rhoads.
Pohawtan—James Pickle.
Keeper of Records—Mrs.
Kelley.
Collector of Wampum—DMrs. Wil-
| liam Sprankle.
Keeper of Wampum—Mrs. Edward
Eberhart.
| First Scout—James Kelley.
{ Second Scout—Mrs. George Robb.
First Runner—Mrs. Guy Housel.
Second Runner—Mrs. Snyder Sto-
ver.
First Warrior—Mrs. Edward Hull.
Second Warrior—Miss Ruth King.
Third Warrior—Mrs. Clayton Rote.
Fourth Warrior—Miss Ruth Spotts.
First Counsellor—Mrs. Mary Pick-
s Organized
James
le
Second Counsellor—Miss Helen
Pickle.
Guard of the Tepee—Hazel Emen-
hizer.
The Forester—Leonard Rhoads.
Trustees—James Kelley and Leon-
ard Rhoads.
The Lodge will meet every Tuesday
evening in the hall of the Red Men in
the Centre County bank building.
Baseball Meeting This
Evening.
(Friday)
All lovers of baseball are requested
to attend a meeting to be held in the
grand jury room at the court house
this (Friday) evening at 8:30 o’clock,
when the preliminary steps will be
taken to organize for the coming sea-
son. Last summer Bellefonte fans
had good sport out of the games play-
ed by the three teams in the Red
Cross league and there is no reason
why the attraction for the game
should not be as great this year as
lsat. Therefore, be sure to attend the
meeting this evening.
Lieutenant Claude Smith Now in the
Regular Army.
Immediately on his return from for-
eign service Lieut. Claude W. Smith,
formerly attached to Troop L, of the
old National Guard, made application
| for a commission in the regular army.
The commission having been issued
he is now attached to Motor Trans-
port Co., No. 665, which is in service
at Greenwich Point. This location en-
ables him to live in Philadelphia,
where he has taken a house on Whit-
by avenue.
ped with four alleys instead of two. | Ll
The shower bath will remain where it fonte Tuesday night,
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
Mrs. Carl 8S. Weaver returned within
the week, from a visit with Mrs. Hugh J.
Boyle, at Hazleton.
__M. A. Landsy returned to Bellefonte
last Saturday after spending several
months in Franklin, Pa.
Mrs. C. T. Hennig left last week for
Rochester, Minn., to consult the famous
specialists, the Mayo brothers.
— Mrs. T. H. Harter and Mrs. Charles
Mensch were at Hartleton Monday, going
over for the funeral of their sister, Mrs.
Blair.
— Mrs. Martin Hogan, who had been with
friends in Tyrone for the winter, has re-
turned to Unionville and opened her house
for the summer.
__ Miss Anne Fox, stenographer for
Banchard & Banchard, left last Wednes-
day to spend her vacation with friends in
Pittsburgh and vicinity.
— Mrs. Alvin C. McMillen and her daugh-
ter, of Harrisburg, will come to Bellefonte
this week for an extended visit with Mrs.
McMillen's mother, Mrs. Odillic Mott.
— Miss Emma Montgomery was in Belle-
fonte Tuesday, coming over from Tyrone
to look after some business concerning the
renting of her house on Allegheny street.
— Miss Mary Miles Blanchard is in Phil-
adelphia, preparing for the spring show-
ing for the children's dress department of
the Basket Shop. to be heid there next
week.
Miss Caroline Harper is in Philadel-
phia, going down Wednesday, with indefi-
nite plans for spending a week there, at
Atlantic City and in Brooklyn with her
niece, Mrs. Topelt.
—_ Mrs. J. Will Conley returned to Belle-
after spending the
month of March with her daughter, Mrs.
William Wallis, who has been ill at her
home in Pittsburgh.
—_ Mrs. Anna A. Young, a cousin of Mrs.
J. KX. Barnhart, stopped in Bellefonte this
week for a short visit with Mr. and Mrs.
Barnhart, on her way home to Punxsu-
tawney, from Washington.
—Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Fleming will re-
turn to Bellefonte today. to open their
house on spring street for the summer.
Mrs. Fleming has been with Mr. Fleming
in Harrisburg for the winter.
Mrs. S. H. Gray, of Orviston, her small
daughter, Anne Lyon Gray, and Mrs.
Gray’s sister, Miss Margery Lyon, spent
a part of the past week at the Bush house
with ex-Judge and Mrs. Ellis I. Orvis.
Miss Henrietta Quigley, a student at
Vassar College, and Miss Mary Quigley, at
school at Kent Place, Summit, N. J., have
been in Bellefonte this week with their
parents, Judge and Mrs. Henry C. Quig-
ley.
—Mpr. and Mrs. Harry Crissman and
their family will return this month to
their former home in Pittsburgh, where
Mr. Crissman has accepted a position as
traveling salesman for a barber supply
house.
— Mrs. William Cross and her son Oscar
returned home last week, after spending
the month of March with Mrs. Cross’
mother, Mrs. Etta Leathers, at Blanchard.
Mr .and Mss.
Axe Mann.
—Mrs. Edward L. Gates expects to come
over from Philipsburg tomorrow to spend
a week with Bellefonte friends, her little
daughter Betty having been with her
grandparents since coming to Bellefonte
last Saturday.
— Mrs. M. C. Hansen and her two chil-
dren are visiting with Mrs. Hansen's par-
ents at their home in New York city. DM.
C. Hansen is the general superintendent
of the Abremsen Engineering Co. Mrs.
Hansen will return today.
—Mr. C. R. Gearhart, who six years ago
purchased for himself a nice home at Hou-
serville where he now lives in comfort,
was in Bellefonte on a business trip on
Tuesday and enrolled his name as a sub-
seriber to the “Watchman.”
— Mrs. Payne is expected in Bellefonte
very shortly, coming from Richmond,
where she has been with relatives since
leaving here last fall. Mrs. Payne's
daughter, Mrs. Paul B. Seanor, of River-
side, Cal., will join her mother later in the
season, expecting to be east indefinitely.
—Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Stitzinger came
to Bellefonte last week with Mrs. Stitzin-
ger's two younger sisters, who had been
visiting with them at New Castle. Mr.
Stitzinger returned home Monday but Mrs.
Stitzinger will remain here with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Kennedy Johnston,
until next week, when she will leave to go
directly to their new home at Bellevue,
Pa.
— Mrs. Frank Crosthwaite, of State Col-
lege, and her daughter, Miss Isabelle Go-
heen, have returned to Pennsylvania from
Boston, and are now with Mrs. Crosth-
waite's sister at Indiana, Pa. Mrs.
Crosthwaite had been spending the winter
with her daughter, who was doing Senior
work in the Boston School of Oratory, but
Miss Goheen’s severe illness at the time of
the recent epidemic has compelled her to
abandon her work for the present.
—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Haines, of Clear-
field, were over Sunday visitors with
friends in Bellefonte. Mr. Haines, who is
a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Haines, has
a good position as window dresser for a
large department store in Clearfield. Mrs.
Haines will be remembered as Miss
Schreck, who at one time conducted the
Scenic theatre in this place. For some
time past her health has been somewhat
impaired and she left here for Colorado.
i where she will spend six months or so in
the hope that the change will prove bene-
ficial.
— Mrs. Paul Yocum, of Northumberland,
was called to Bellefonte this week, owing
to the illness of Dr. Yocum's mother, Mrs.
Ezra Yocum. Mrs. Yocum remained here
to help in packing the things at the par-
sonage, returning to Northumberland
Tuesday, accompanied by her daughter
Charlotte, who had been here with her
grand-parents. Dr. and Mrs. Ezra Yocum
will go to Northumberland today, where
Mrs. Yocum will be with her son and
daughter until fully recovered from her re-
cent illness; from there she will go to join
Dr. Yocum at Woolrich.
—Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Thompson
returned on Monday from their six week’s
sojourn in Florida, and got here just in
time for the April first blizzard. Mr.
Thompson not only enjoyed his sojourn
jn the Sunny South but he came home
chock full of good roads ideas and has
visions of new state highways that Centre
county ought to have and to which it is
entitled owing to its geographical location
and importance in the State. And while
at present Mr. Thompson’s visions are on-
ly ephemeral he is willing to take off his
coat and do his part with any committee
of Centre county citizens who will help to
make them a material fact.
Cross live on a farm near
| —Robert V. Lyon, of Buffalo, N.Y,
spent several days in Bellefonte with his
mother, Mrs. W. A. Lyon. :
—Lieut. Henry Keller is visiting in
Charleston, W. Va., a guest of his uncle
and aunt, Judge and Mrs. B. Frank Kel-
ler.
—Mrs. George Bible returned to Belle-
fonte Saturday. Mrs. Bible had been with
her husband on a lecture tour through the
west.
—Mrs. H. B. Shattuck and Mrs. Daugh-
erty, of State College, spent Thursday vis-
iting and doing some spring buying in
Bellefonte.
—Mrs. W. H. Mouer left Wednesday to
return to Detroit, Michigan. Mrs. Mouer
came east last week for her grand-daugh-
ter, Louise Rogers.
—Miss Julia Curtin, who has been spend-
ing several months in Philadelphia, with
Mr. and Mrs. John Bair and their family,
returned to Bellefonte Sunday.
—Miss Roxy Mingle and Miss Verna
Ardery represented the Reformed church
of Bellefonte at the missionary convention
held at Beaver Springs, this week.
— Mrs. Thomas Donachy returned fo
Bellefonte Wednesday, for the summer,
Mrs. Donachy spent the greater part of
the winter with Her niece at Barberton,
Ohio.
—William 8S. Furst, of Philadelphia, and
his daughter, Miss Elizabeth, have been in
Bellefonte for a part of the week, guests
of Mr. Furst’s mother, Mrs. Austin O.
Furst.
—It being the. first week of the month,
Dr. Joseph Helfrich has been spending it
in Bellefonte; the remaining three he de-
votes to his already large practice in
Wellsboro.
—Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kerk and their
small son returned to Bellefonte last week,
expecting to make their home here, Mr.
Kerk having accepted a position with the
Beatty Motor Co.
—Mrs. W. H. Peabody, of Tulsa, Oklaho-
ma, is spending a month in Bellefonte with
her aunt and sister, Miss Powell and Miss
Josephine White, at the home of Mrs. W.
H. Wilkinson, on Allegheny street.
— Mrs. Charles Moerschbacher and her
daughter, Miss Bertha Moerschbacher, left
Wednesday morning for Philadelphia,
where Miss Bertha will enter the hospital
to be under treatment of Dr. Clark.
—Miss Emily Valentine returned to
Bellefonte a week ago and has opened her
house on Curtin street for the summer.
Miss Valentine had been in Baltimore with
her sister, Mrs. Bond, for the winter.
—Mrs. Harry Pickle, of Millersville,
spent Sunday in Bellefonte with her fath-
er, W. T. Twitmire, coming up Saturday
from Sunbury where she was visiting with
her brother, Joseph Twitmire, and his
family.
—Lieut. W. 8. Campbell, of Punxsutaw-
ney, fleet surgeon on the U. 8. ship Sho-
shone, spent two days of a brief furlough
in Bellefonte the fore part of the week
visiting his sister, Mrs. James K. Barn-
hart and family.
—Miss Daise Keichline returned to
Chambersburg Tuesday after spending her
spring vacation with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John M. Keichline. Miss Keichline
is in charge of the infirmary at Wilson
College.
—Miss Grace Mitchell will come here
from Philadelphia early in the week, to
get her house on Linn street ready for oc-
cupancy. Miss Mitchell and her father,
Isaac Mitchell, have leased the west side
of the Cooke double house, where they will
live.
Mrs. James B. Lane and Miss Mary S.
Thomas will return to Bellefonte the mid-
dle of next week, opening their homes at
once. Mrs. Lane and Miss Thomas have
spent the after part of the winter with
their sister, Mrs. Shafner, in Philadelphia,
and at Atlantic City, coming directly home
from the latter place.
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Riding Boots or Reading Glasses.
A fellow purchased a pair of boots
at a bargain and after wearing them
a few days discovered the soles were
paper. He told the dealer he was
swindled AND WAS SURPRISED
TO HEAR, “MY DZAR SIR, THOSE
WERE RIDING BOOTS.” Reading
glasses properly fitted will serve any-
one for all purposes up to forty years
of age, so don’t be surprised when you
go for bargain glasses to hear, “My
dear sir, they are only reading glass-
es at that price. The kind you re-
quire cost more.” Why take chances
when there are so many legitimate
optometrists in town. CASEBEER
(registered optometrist) has had nine-
teen years’ experience. Consult him
at his store, Brockerhoff House block.
14-1t
Wanted.—A book-keeper and ste-
nographer with experience. Inquire
at this office. 14-1%
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