Bellefonte, Pa., May 2, 1919. NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. ——Join the crusade next week against everything unsightly or un- sanitary in Bellefonte. — The regular Friday night dance of the machine gun troop will not be held in the armory this week, owing to the Red Cross benefit dance to be given there tonight. — Miss Olive Mitchell has re- quested us to say that cemetery lot owners who want their lots cared for can see Mr. Beck at the cemetery any time during working hours, or call him on the Bell telephone at meal time or evening. — A dirty town reflects the habits of the inhabitants. If any part of your property pairing, you are habits are reflected. Show some per- sonal pride by making your home or business place look attractive. Mrs. Annie Whiteman, of Bellefonte, is one of the contestants in the Philadelphia North American contest for subscribers and as she is anxious to win one of the prizes of- fered she would like all her Bellefonte friends to give her a boost. She will gladly accept new subscriptions or re- newals, as both count in the contest. Shortly after the noon hour on Saturday a burning flue on the house occupied by Al Landis and family, on east Curtin street, called out the fire department but fortunately their services were not needed and no dam- age was done other than to burn a small hole in the roof. The house is owned by the estate of the late H. R. Curtin. ——Ear! Houser, with his mother, Mrs. W. S. Houser, her grandchild and a friend of Earl’s motored to Bellefonte from DuBois last week to afford the men an opportunity to do a little trout fishing, but the weather was so unsuitable for the sport that they had no luck the few times they made a try at it, and the result was they returned home on Monday. W. L. Daggett got a new six- cylinder Studebaker car through the George A. Beezer agency last week. On Saturday Frederick drove it out to Curtin street when the alarm of fire was sounded and being a little new in handling cars ran into a tele- phone pole and knocked it down and also broke down a small tree. The front of the car was vretty badly damaged. Donald A. Moore, of Munson, and Miss Margaret Woomer, of Mor- risdale, were married at the Metho- dist parsonage in this place on Sat- urday, April 19th, by the pastor, Rev. Alexander Scott. On Monday of this week Robert W. Weldon and Miss Dorothy B. Carrier came to Belle- fonte from Sommerville, Jefferson county, and were married at the Methodist parsonage by Rev. Scott. ~——Contractor R. B. Taylor is making good headway on his state road contract on Willowbank street and will soon finish the concrete work. The laying of the brick will not take over ten days or two weeks and if there is not too much rainy weather the road ought to be completed and open for travel early in June. Of course there will be some filling and grading to do along the side of the main roadway but that can be done after the road has been opened for traffic. That was a real touch of win- ter the weather man gave us last Fri- day and Saturday, with snow bliz- zards and freezing weather. In fact it was entirely too cold to suit most everybody. Considerable damage was done by the cold weather but just How much remains to be seen. There is great fear that the cherry and plum crop is ruined, and possibly the early apples, but it is hoped the late apple crop is not hurt. The high wind which prevailed during the cold spell probably helped some in protecting the fruit and garden truck, but at that the damage will be enough. Formal announcement of the engagement of Miss Mary Lyons Ganns, of Connellsville, and John Or- vis Keller, of Bellefonte, was made at a luncheon given by Miss Ganns’ aunt, Miss Katherine H. Frisbee, at the William Penn hotel, in Pittsburgh, on Saturday, April 19th. Miss Ganns, who is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Ganns, of Connellsville, is a member of the class of 1917, Penn State, and is now instructor in domes- tie science in the schools of Connells- ville. Mr. Keller is the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Keller and an in- structor at Penn State. The wedding has been arranged for June. : The Bellefonte Academy min- strels this year will be held on Thurs- day and Friday evenings, May 22nd and 23rd. These local fun makers al- ways draw a good crowd but this year they should be patronized more liber- ally than ever by the people of Belle- fonte and Centre county because they are giving their entertainment as a benefit for the Bellefonte hospital. Fifty students will take part in the minstrels and in addition to the line of new jokes and songs there will be the famous Tkey twins, a regular French cabaret and various other new features that have never before been attempted by the Academy blackface artists. Our Girls band of Milesburg has been selected to head the big street parade which will be held at five o’clock in the afternoon, while the music for the minstrels will be fur- nished by the Academy orchestra. Make your calculations now so as to reserve the above named dates for the minstrels. needs cleaning or re- | the inhabitant whose | Opening Week of Bellefonte’s “Clean- Provisional Guard May be Called to The Soldiers Welcome Home Should Up” Campaign to Begin Mon- day, May 5th. PROCLAMATION. Every person in Bellefonte is here- by urgently requested to join in the ‘annual “clean-up” | will start on Monday, May 5th, 1919. Let us firmly resolve to properly clean up our town. Let us beautify our town by cleaning up around our homes and business places. Let us make Bellefonte the healthiest and cleanest place on earth. Given under my hand at Bellefonte, Pa., this 23rd day of April, A. D. 1919. W. HARRISON WALKER, Burgess. PROCLAMATION. Having learned through reports from different sections of the town, of the unsanitary condition of many of the back-yards and adjacent open places, confirming the idea that con- ditions unseen are equally as bad: And in order to accomplish the greatest good in the shortest time for safety against future epidemics, I, as Bellefonte, do hereby notify all resi- dents to join next week in the con- certed movement for the health, clean- liness and beauty of the town, by cleaning from their attics, cellars, back-yard, or any part of their prem- ises, all accumulations of waste or rubbish, which could be considered either unsightly or unsanitary. BELLEFONTE BOARD OF HEALTH, John Blanchard, President. the “Opening Week” of the summer clean-up campaign for Bellefonte is as follows: Monday—Fire Prevention Day: Clean your basements and attics of rubbish. Tuesday—Front Yard Day: Cut lawns, plant flower beds, clean walks and gutters, salt cracks in side- walks, exterminate ants. Wednesday—Back Yard Day: and alleys, repair fences and sheds. Thursday—Weed Day: This day can be very profitably used by making a war on all weeds in your locality; there is no more important work than ridding Bellefonte of its weeds. Trim bushes in yard and gar- den. Friday—Paint and White-wash Day: Put it on every dingy spot about your house and yard, nothing im- proves the appearance of your home washed buildings and fences. The chairman of the committee in your section of the town will visit every property in that district, in or- above. roa _— Our Bankers Advise Buying Victory Bonds. Few men realize what the men in control of the financial institutions of the country have done toward financ- ing the war. Without their enthusi- astic, constructive help the govern- ment could never have gotten through with its tremendous bond flotations and, in all probability, business wrecks would have been scattered over the entire country. It takes a lot of unselfishness and the kind of patriotism that counts for men to urge others to take business away from them and yet that is ex- actly what the bankers of this and every other county have done when they have urged depositors to buy bonds. Every dollar withdrawn from de- posit in a bank reduces the earning power of that bank that much. It taxes the bank’s resources to help the business of the community it serves and especially if the money with- drawn is to be invested in 4% per cent: bonds it makes the bank’s own inter- est offering of three per cent. on mon- ies look very unattractive. The bankers all know this, but the public rarely stops to think of it. Nor does the public realize what a vast amount of trouble and expense the bond issues have already incurred and will continue to do for the banks. Think of the thousands and thousands of little 76c and $1.01 cent coupons that will be carried into the banks to be cashed and while the owner goes happily off with his money the bank looks pleasant, assembles the tiny slips and pays express on them in or- der to get its money back. These are only a few of the reasons why banks and bankers deserve more of the praise and gratitude than the public thinks of, yet these seem to us very practical reasons to impress up- on us the sincerity of the statements which all of the bankers of Centre county have made on a circular just published by the publicity department of the local Victory loan committee. We note on it that the cashiers of each of the twelve banking institu- tions in the county have given three reasons why all should buy Victory bonds. Any one of the thirty-six rea- sons is ample, but disregarding them all the best reason lies in the fact that men whose interest is probably most adversely affected, yet who are un- selfish enough in the face of it to tell us where our best interest lies, are urging us to buy bonds. 3 ee i ‘———The Postoffice Department has issued an order that all mail boxes on rural delivery routes must be placed on the right hand side of the road ac- cording to the direction of travel of rural carriers. This will obviate the necessity of carriers either driving across the road, which is contrary to all traffic rules, or being compelled to stop their car on the right hand side of the road and walk across to deliver the mail into boxes wrongly placed. campaign, which | president of the Board of Health of | Put in order back-yards, gardens | 50 much as newly painted or white- ! der to make her report to the bur- | gess and president of the Board of | Health, whose messages are printed | Suppress Bolshevism. come from different parts of the State of strong Bolshevistic movements ' among the foreign citizen element and local authorities are in some cases viewing the situation with more or less anxiety. In fact the condi- tions have been reported to the state authorities and preliminary steps have been taken to call out the provisional guard in case of necessity. This action on the part of the Ad- jutant General became manifest in Bellefonte on Wednesday afternoon when Major H. Laird Curtin, who was in Harrisburg, telephoned Lieut. Roy Grove, of the Bellefonte machine gun i troop, that two trucks had been or- dered to Bellefonte and as soon as they arrived he was to have machine guns mounted thereon and notify the members of the troep to hold them- selves in readiness for a call at any time. The trucks arrived in Belle- fonte on Wednesday evening and were driven to Beezer’s garage where the guns were mounted yesterday. Major Curtin intimated that the | most likely place of a disturbance at | the present time was in Indiana coun- : ty, and if the Bellefonte troop is call- led out that is where it will probably | be sent. Just how much foundation | there is for the fear that is being felt in official quarters over the danger of i a Bolshevik uprising is not definite- i ly known but the State authorities ev- ‘ idently do not intend to be caught i i . | For some time past stories have | | | napping and are making their plans The program as now arranged for | to be prepared for any emergency. Up | mittee a man in every community in | to the time this article was written i no order had been received for the | mobilization of the Bellefonte troop. ——The hospital management wish- ies to thank the Bellefonte public | schools for their splendid Easter do- i nation, consisting of forty-two dozen ly, twenty quarts of fruit, a generous apples, cereals | of eggs, seventy-eight glasses of jel- i i supply of potatoes, { and $4.40 in money. : aw 2 i Mr. Arthur James Waite, of Binghamton, N. Y., has announced the | marriage of his sister, Miss Helen i Margaret Waite, and Edward Wal- lace Bush, of Hartford, Conn. Mr. | Bush is a graduate of Penn State and | has frequently visited in Bellefonte i with his cousin, | and her family. | College, was the coldest weather for the time since 1886. The thermometer on Fri- was in 1892 when it fell to 24 above. In the list of Bellefonte busi- | ness men published in the “Watch- | man” last week in connection with | the Victory loan advertisement the i names of “Yeager’s Shoe Store” and | “Beezer’s Meat Market” were inad- | vertently omitted by the association i in furnishing the list. They are pub- lished this week, however, both busi- ness places are in this way given the credit they deserve in supporting the loan. Governor Sproul has signed the bill which makes it a Commonwealth offense for any person to give a check who has not the money in bank to meet it. For giving such a check to the amount of twenty dollars or less the punishmens is $100 fine or thirty days in jail. For amounts exceeding twenty dollars the punishment is $100 or two years in jail. This law wili necessitate people keeping close track on their bank account. If you are a lover of motion pictures patronize the Scenic. There you can see the best pictures shown in Bellefonte. They are high-class every night in the week, so that you can’t go wrong. Big features, inter- esting serials, amusing comedies and pictures of current weekly events make up the program, with special pictures put on by manager Brown whenever he can get what he kmows will interest and please his patrons. Therefore, patronize the Scenic. ———The Thespians of State College, who were compelled to postpone their date for Bellefonte last week, will ap- pear at Garmans on Friday night of next week, May 9th, in their annual production which this year is “The Magistrate,” a farce comedy. The Thespians have been making yearly pilgrimages to Bellefonte for so long a time that it is hardly necessary to comment upon them. The mere fact of the announcement that they will be here at that time should be suffi- cient to draw a full house, and we can assure our readers that their enter- tainment this year will be fully up to the standard of past performances. For further information consult the advertisement in this issue then re- solve to attend their play. ——On Sunday afternoon landlord Henry Kline and family started for a drive down the state road through Nittany valley with Orie Kline driv- ing the car. At the Clevenstine farm this side of Zion they met two cars coming this way and as the front car coming this way turned out to pass Klines going down the driver of the rear car, Mr. Turnbaugh, of Philips- burg, attempted to shoot around the car in front of him with the inevitable result that he crashed head-on into the Kline car. Both cars were badly wrecked but the only person injured was Orie Kline, who received a cut in the face from the flying glass of the broken windshield which required eight stitches to close. Both cars had to be hauled to Bellefonte for repairs. Mr. Turnbaugh admitted that the ac- cident was all his fault and immedi- ately volunteered to pay the costs of repair of Mr, Kline's car. Mrs. D. G. Bush | Dr. William Frear, of State is authority for the state-' { ment that the latter part of last week | of year experienced in these parts | day night fell to 17 degrees above ze- | ro while the next lowest temperature | Exceed Their Send Off. | While the executive committee hav- | ing in charge the arrangements for { the proposed big welcome home to | Centre county soldiers did not have a | meeting this week sentiment seems to | be crystalizing toward having the big | time during the latter part of June. | This has been caused no doubt from | the fact that the boys of the Twenty- i eighth division are now arriving home | almost every day and as the Seventy- | ninth division is booked for an early | return the bulk of the Centre county { boys should be home at that time. One fact the “Watchman” desires | to emphasize this week and that is | that the gathering is not to be confin- i ed to Bellefonte alone. It is intended ‘as a county movement. The welcome tis just as much for the boy who went | from Philipsburg or Wolf’s Store as i the boy who went from Bellefonte, re- | gardless of whether he went as an en- i listed man or as a member of the na- i tional army. They all did their duty ;and we should all rejoice that so { many of them are coming home and { join in the movement to welcome them in a proper manner. For this | reason every man and woman in Cen- | tre county will be given an opportu- | nity to contribute a little toward the | expense of the big time. Such atime | as has been planned will cost a lot of , money and not a single person should hold back when appealed to for a lit- | tle contribution. * J. Will Conley, of | Bellefonte, chairman of the Finance committee, has appointed on his com- i Centre county and if the man in your j community fails to see you hunt him {up and give him a sum of money ex- | pressive of how glad you are that the {boys are coming home again. The + full personnel of the Finance commit- tee is as follows: J. Will Conley, Chairman. Advisory Board.—Col. J. L. Spangler, A. G. Morris, F. W. Crider, W. Fred Rey- ; nolds, Dr. J. M. Broeckerhoff, Charles M. | McCurdy, John M. Shugert, Nelson BE. { Robb. | BELLEFONTE BOROUGH:— | North Ward.—William Burnside, Harry | C. Yeager, John Curtin, Fred Lane, Fred | Witmer, Claude Herr, H. E. Fenlon, Fred | Craft, John Bullock, James H. Herron, | Ives Harvey, William Bottorf, 8. Kline | Woodring, Walter Cohen, Robert Morris. | South Ward.—William H. Brown, O. A. Kline, Homer Barnes, C. Edward Robb, F. E. Naginey, Thomas S. Hazel, Robert Kline, Jacob Marks, Thomas Beaver, Ed- ward Gehret, Luther Smith. West Ward.—J. O. Brewer, William H. Brouse, C. Y. Wagner, Carl Weaver, J. C. | Jodon, Harry Gerberick, John L. Dunlap, Philipsburg.—No committee reported. Milesburg.—Frank Wetzler, Oscar E. | Miles. Howard.—Chester A. Moore. Jacksonville.—M. 8. Betz. Hublersburg.—John D. Miller, Nittany.—Joseph Emerick. Zion.—Joel Stover, Epley Gentzel. Pleasant Gap.—Boyd Spicher, W. H. Noll, C. K. Stitzer. Lemont.—L. Frank Mayes, John Mitch- ell. State College.—James Aikens, Chairman. Pine Grove Mills.—J. Will Kepler. Boalsburg.—Grant Charles. | Tusseyville.—Charles W. Swartz Potters Mills.—William Blauser. | Centre Hall.—Charles Bartholomew, | A. Auman. | Millheim.—Lloyd Stover, S. Ward Gram- ley. Coburn.—J. W. Kerstetter. Aaronsburg.—William Carson. Rebersburg.—S. LL. Gephart. Madisonburg.—B. E. Hazel. Unionville.—Howard E. Holzworth. Julian.—J. R. Turner, J. R. Williams. Port Matilda.—John Williams, Orlanda Nason. . Benore.—H. B. Lykens. Curtin.—Jere Glenn. Axemann.—G. W. O'Bryan, D. M. Kline. Stormstown.—Ira Burket. Oak Hall.—E. C. Radel. Linden Hall.—Mrs. J. W. Keller, Frank Ishler. V. ns ad Bellefonte Hospital Graduates Nnrses. The training school for nurses of the Bellefonte hospital held gradua- tion exercises in the court house last Friday evening and three young wom- en, who had completed the three year’s course of lectures and practic- al training were given their certifi- cates. They were Ann Katherine Gdoniec, of Mt. Carmel; Francis Ve- ronica Wydan, of Mt. Carmel, and Anna Elizabeth Polomske; of John- sonburg. The auditorium was comfortably filled when the processional entered. Judge Quigley, escorting the Hon. Singleton Bell, of Clearfield, the speaker of the evening, lead; followed by the board of trustees, the staff of physicians and surgeons, Supt., Miss M. E. Elder, her assistant Miss Ger- ginsky, and the corps of twelve nurses in uniform and representatives of the ladies auxiliary. Judge Quigley presided and after the invocation by Rev. Wilson P. Ard and music by the High school orches- tra, introduced Judge Bell. He spoke for half an hour and was followed by Geo. R. Meek, president of the board of trustees of the Hospital, who made a plea for a more general interest in the institution’s welfare and then de- livered the charge to the graduates. At its completion he presented the certificates and in the name of the la- dies auxiliary a handsome gold one. Immediately following the exercis- es a reception and dance was given in the town hall in honor of the gradu- ates. ——Bellefonte friends of J. Elmer Royer, of Centre Hall, will be glad to know that he is recovering from a serious illness as the result of a car- buncle. He has been afflicted for sev- eral weeks and last week his condi- tion was regarded as quite critical so that the assurance that he is now considerably improved is most wel- come news. “Bellefonte Hospital Traiaing School for Nurses” pin was presented each NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. —Mr. and Mrs. William Wallis of Pitts- burgh, will sail en May 11th, on the Mau- retania for London. —Miss Nell Gehret went to Altoona on Sunday, visiting there with friends for the early part of the week, —J. H. Landis, of Altocna, was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sechler, while spending Wednesday in Bellefonte. —Philip Beezer spent Thursday looking over some cattle near Petersburg, Hunt- ingdon county, in the interest of his bus- iness. —Miss Edna Kline and Miss Katherine Wian have been in Williamsport for a part of the week, both under the care of Dr. Haskins. —Mrs. John Ardell, of Binghamton, N. Y., is making her first visit in Bellefonte in five years, being a guest of her daugh- ter, Mrs. Harry Curtin, at Curtin. —Miss Ida Greene returned home Wed- nesday from Philipsburg, very much im- proved in health by her long rest. Miss Greene will resume her work at once. —Miss Anna Miller came to Bellefonte from Salona Saturday, to be here for the heme coming of John H. Hayes, Sunday, and for a visit of a week or two with Mrs. Hayes. —Mrs. Frank Clemson and Mrs. R. J. P. Gray, of Stormstown, spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Bellefonte, guests of Mrs. George Furey, who is a sister of Mrs. Clemson. —W. A. Ridge, with the Centre Brick and Clay Co., at Orviston, will move his family to Bellefonte, having leased the east side of the Cooke double house on Linn street. —Mrs. Samuel Briggs will return to Philadelphia late this week, after spend- ing several days in Bellefonte as a guest of Miss Nelle Flack, at her home on Rey- nolds avenue. —Miss Luella Shook, who has been spending her Easter vacation with her mother, Mrs. Sarah Shook, of south Alle- gheny street, will return to her work in Pittsburgh, Tuesday. —Miss Sue Garner has been with her sister, Mrs. William Dottorf, for a part of the week. Miss Garner accompanied a pa- tient to Indiana, stopping in Bellefonte on her way back to Philadelphia. —Mrs. James Noonan returned to Belle- fonte Tuesday night from a two month’s visit in New York, with her sister, Mrs. Seymour, and with her daughter, Miss Margaret Noonan, who as a stenographer, is now permanently located in that city. —Mrs. Samuel H. Gray and her two children have been at the Bush house for the past two weeks and expect to remain there until getting desirably located at Orviston, their new home. Mr, Gray spends the week-end with his family in Bellefonte. —Mrs. G. Fred Musser, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. M. R. Sample, returned from Philadelphia Saturday, afer spend- ing three months under the care of spe- cialists. Mrs. Sample visited for several days in Bellefonte before returning to her home in Philadelphia. —DMiss Anna Watts and Miss Anne Mc- Cormick. of Harrisburg, wil meet Miss Bertha Laurie and Miss Marion Watts in Boston upon their arrival in this country. Miss Laurie will go direct to Cape May for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Eldredge, before coming to Bellefonte. —Lieut. Walter B.. Furst was in Belle- fonte the after part of last week for a short visit with his mother, Mrs. A. O. Furst. Lieut. Furst, who has enlisted in the reguar army, has been assigned to the ordnance department and located in Wash- ington, D. C., where he had built a bunga- low just outside the city before leaving for overseas service. —J. 8. McCargar went down to Wil- liamsport yesterday morning and brought home Mrs. McCargar on the Lehigh-Penn- sylvania flyer in the afternoon. Mrs. Mec- Cargar has been in Williamsport a week or ten days under the care of a specialist and her friends will be glad to know that the physician in whose charge she was has given assurance of her permanent recov- ery. —Mr. and Mrs. John 8. Walker drove to Bryn Mawr this week, called there by the death of Mr. Walker's mother, Anna Phoebe Shortlidge Walker, who died Sun- day night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wilson Barnard. Mrs. Walker, who had been ill for several years, was eighty- five years old and had lived all her life in Chester county, where she will be buried in the burial ground at New Garden on Saturday. ’ —Carroll Twitmire, of Centralia, Ill, was an over Sunday guest of his grand- father, W. T. Twitmire, stopping here on his way home after a year of oversea serv- ice with the 78th Lightning division. Mr. Twitmire is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Twitmire, and had been visiting with members of his father’s family in Millers- burg, Lancaster and Sunbury, leaving here to go directly west to resume his work with the railroad company. —John H. McSuley, who with his fami- ly moved to Philadelphia less than a year ago, spent a part of the past week in Bellefonte. Mr. McSuley is employed at the navy yards as a hull painted, and be- ing laid off on account of illness came here to visit for several days with his sis- ter and some of his former friends. His daughter and two sons all have good po- sitions in Philadelphia, Miss McSuley be- ing a stenographer with the Baltimore and Ohio R. R. Co. —Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bassett, of Mon- terey, Mexico, spent the early part of the week with Mrs. Bassett’s father, Rev. James P. Hughes. Mr. and Mrs. Bassett are on their first visit to the States since leaving two years ago, coming north to spend a short time with their family and in the interest of Mr. Bassett’s work. Us- ing their two years in Mexico as a subject for a talk before the Woman’s club on Monday night Mr. Bassett gave his audi- ence much interesting information con- cerning conditions in that Republic. Bellefonte Odd Fellows Attend the Williamsport Celebration. One hundred and fifty Odd Fellows and Rebekahs of Bellefonte, with their band of almost thirty pieces, went to Williamsport on Tuesday for the an- nual Odd Fellows celebration. They left Bellefonte shortly after seven o’clock in the morning on a special train of three cars and at Milesburg and Howard good-sized delegations of the lodges at those places also joined the crowd. ——The spring rain that fell yes- terday will give the gardens and all kinds of growing crops a big boost. Vast Crowd Saw Victory Loan Train i in Bellefonte. One of the biggest crowds that has gathered in Bellefonte since Old : Home week was here on Wednesday . to see the Victory Liberty loan train i during the two hours it spent in | Bellefonte. As evidence of how big { the crowd was, notwithstanding the | fact that the people were rushed through the train in double file just ; as fast as it was possible to do, hun- i dreds were unable to get through in the two hours the train was here, and had to be content with what they could see from the outside. The train arrived in Bellefonte from Lock Haven just a few minutes after two o’clock and was greeted with music by Our Girls band of Milesburg and a vast concourse of people. Very little time was lost in preliminaries. The whippet tank was unloaded and manned by its crew was driven under escort of Our Girls band up Hight street to Spring and around the two blocks on Spring, Bishop, Al- legheny and Howard streets and back down to the depot. Enroute the gun crew fired a number of blank shots just to show the people how one ma- chine gun sounded in action and that gave but an indefinite idea of how terrific the noise must have been with thousands of them in use at one time. The armored car was not taken from the train, but was in plain view, as was also the captured German can- non and other guns. Included in the personnel of the train this week is W. Harrison Walk- er, Esq., who went to Williamsport on Sunday and joined it there. When the train arrived in Bellefonte he took charge of the speech-making part of the program and after a few intro- ductory remarks introduced the speakers in turn. These included sev- eral soldiers who had seen active serv- ice in France and one of whom exhib- ited a very badly wounded arm; rep- resentatives of the Y. M. C. A. and the Salvation Army and men whose efforts were concentrated entirely on the necessity of putting the Victory loan across without fail. The talks were all interesting and the big crowd was very attentive. The sole purpose of the train’s trip is to advertise the necessity of subscribing to the Victo- ry Liberty loan and there is no reason to doubt but that Centre county citi- zens will do their part in this loan as they have done in al previous loans. a ———Hardy Dickerson, of Dauphin county, was electrocuted at the new penitentiary on Monday morning, and, although it required five contacts be- fore he was pronounced dead by Dr. Felker the time was only five and a half minutes. Dickerson was a na- tive of Florida and came north sev- eral years ago when there was a rush of colored labor from the south to take the place of the boys who had gone into the service. Less than a year ago he quarreled with another colored man over the latter’s wife and the result was murder. Dickerson was convicted and on Monday paid the penalty of his crime. ee PP ere IF. (With Apologies to Kipling). If you can work all day ‘When your eyes are tired and sore, If you add a column of figures Two or three times, sometimes more; If you have to add them over, Knowing figures never lie; If Casebeer will help uncover And proves the trouble in your eye; If with glasses he would fit you That make labor seem like play; If the comfort they will give you Is worth ten times what you pay; If you doubt that this is true, The chance to prove it’s up to you. CASEBEER (registered Optometrist, Brockerhoff House block, Bellefonte. 17-1t A little daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence McClure, at Renovo, the latter part of last week, making two boys and one girl in their little family. For Sale.—Barred Plymouth Rock chicks. Miss G. M. DUBBS. Com- mercial phone. 17-4¢ ——The barbers of Bellefonte will hereafter close every Tuesday at noon, unless the week contains a le- gal holiday. 17-1t For Rent.—A four room house in Bush Addition. Inquire of Mrs. J. G. 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