and Pleasant Gap.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
Bellefonte, Pa., June 6, 1919. |
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—The Patriotic League will hold !
a business meeting at the High school
building this (Friday) evening at 7:30
o’clock. A full turnout of members
is requested.
——Bertie Franklin Moon, a miner
of Somerset county, was electrocuted
at the Rockview penitentiary on Mon-
day morning for the murder of a fel-
low workman early in 1918.
——Mrs. Wallace Gephart gave a
child’s party at six o’clock last even-
ing in honor of the fourth birthday
anniversary of her son, Thomas Gep-
hart. Four little friends helped to
make merry with him.
——Our Girls band of Milesburg
made a trip to Huntingdon last week
and furnished the music for a wel-
come home given the soldiers of that
town. Needless to say they were one
of the big features of the parade.
—Just 194 tickets were sold at
the Bellefonte station for the special
excursion to Washington, D. C., on
Saturday night. The train left at
10:30 o’clock as scheduled and return-
ing reached Bellefonte about four
o’clock Monday morning.
——1It was just twenty-six years
ago last Friday that the Walter L.
Main circus was wrecked on the Ty-
rone and Clearfield branch of the
Pennsylvania railroad near Gardner
station, and some of the people in that
section are seeing snakes even at this
late day.
. ——If you want amusement these
long evenings go to the Scenic. The
motion pictures shown there will keep
you occupied two hours every even-
ing and the interesting programs will
make the time pass very quickly. The
Scenic is comfortable at all times,
even if it is hot outside.
——M. D. Kelley, of Kelley Bros.,
coal operators of Snow Shoe, recently
sold 5,500 acres of coal land in Clear-
field county to Pittsburgh capitalists
for $250,000. The purchasers will
spend $150,000 in developing the prop-
erty and putting it in shape for an
output of from two to three thousand
tons daily.
——Every member of the executive
committee of Centre county’s wel-
come home association should attend
the meeting to be held in the court
house this evening. The big demon-
stration is now only three weeks
away and it is imperative that all ar-
rangements be completed so that
there will be no hitch in the program
at that time.
——1It is stated that the Gaylord
International Engineering and Con-
struction company will begin work
within the next week or ten days on
the state highway between Bellefonte
According to
present plans when they do begin the
road will be closed between Axe Mann
3 and Bellefonte and all travel will be
* routed over the hill at Axe Mann to
the old» Lewistown pike and into
Bellefonte by the brick school house.
Just what people living between
Bellefonte and Axe Mann will do is
not known.
——The Bellefonte Academy will
close its baseball season with two
good games this week. This (Friday)
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, the Altoo-
na High school will cross bats with
the Academy nine and Fleming and
Parhsall, the crack battery of the
Academy, will be in the game. Aft
ten o'clock tomorrow morning the Y.
M. C. A. team of Williamsnort, a star
organization of ball players, will be
the Academy’s opponents on Hughes
field. Smith, of Bellefonte, will pitch
this game. Admission at each game,
25 cents. Go out and boost the Acad-
emy in these final games.
——“A Dress Rehearsal” given by
the members of the Patriotic League
at the High school building last
Thursday evening not only drew a
crowded house but returned net pro-
ceeds to the League of $114.24. The
play was undertaken at the sugges-
tion of Miss Sallie Fitzgerald and
much of the credit for its success is
due to her indefatigable work in train-
ing the different characters. She al-
so played her part to perfection dur-
ing the performance. The entire cast
of about a dozen young ladies was so
evenly balanced that it would be un-
fair to particularize, as each one of
them carried her part in an admirable
manner. The cast was supported by
a chorus of ten or more and the mu-
sical hits were as pleasing as the clev-
er repartee in the play. The proceeds
will be devoted to post war work in
France.
——Literally speaking pedestrians
will hereafter have to walk the chalk
line when crossing the Diamond in
any direction and drivers of vehicles
of any kind will be obliged to regard
the rights of the foot passenger on
the chalk line. This is all because of
the fact that on Tuesday white-paint-
ed lines were drown outlining the
crossings in every direction as well
as the safety zone within the triangle
in the Diamond. While the law gives
pedestrians the right of way on all
crossings everybody is naturally sup-
© posed to exercise due caution and au-
tomobilists and drivers of other ve-
hicles are supposed to approach said
crossings with their machines or |
teams under perfect control. Time
was in Bellefonte when it would have
been a pretty difficult thing for some
people to walk the chalk lines, espe-
“cially if it was a little late in the
evening, but now there is not enough
of the zigzag in a barrel of beer to
even make a man’s head wiggle let
alone his legs play at criscross pur-
poses.
OUGH MANAGER.
Council Voted in Favor of Employing
Such an Official at a Regular
Meeting Monday Evening.
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well as orders for the payment of ac-
crued interest on same.
It was at this juncture that presi- |
dent Walker sprung the proposition !
for the election of a borough manag-
The members of Bellefonte borough ! er as recorded at the beginning of
council at a regular meeting on Mon-
day evening voted in favor of pass-
ing an ordinance providing for the
employment of a borough manager
to take charge of the active manage-
ment of all borough affairs. There
were present at the meeting president
John S. Walker and members Richard,
Flack, Fauble, Brouse, Cunningham
and Seibert, the only absentees being
Harris and Cherry. For some time
past the advisability of employing a
borough manager has been unofficial-
ly discussed by members of council
and the prevailing sentiment was al-
ways favorable thereto. Hence it was
no surprise on Monday evening when
president Walker asked the members
of council if they were ready to take
up the question of the election of a
borough manager. Mr. Fauble
promptly made a motion that the bor-
ough solicitor be instructed to prepare
at once an ordinance providing for
the election ‘of such an official and the
motion was quickly seconded by Mr.
Cunningham. There were no remarks
and the motion passed without a dis-
senting vote. President Walker sug-
gested that the chairmen of the var-
ious committees meet with the bor-
ough solicitor and confer in regard to
the duties that will be expected of the
borough manager, and the secretary
was instructed to notify the borough
solicitor to have the ordinance in
shape to present the same at the next
regular meeting of council.
When council convened on Monday
evening Burgess Walker called atten-
tion to the fact that the welcome
home banner had been repaired, re-
turned and again flung to the breeze
across Hight street. Mr. Walker
further stated that he had communi-
cated with Superintendent Russell, of
Williamsport, regarding extra police-
men during the Centre county wel-
come home in Bellefonte and that gen-
tleman has given assurance that four
railroad policemen will be furnished,
the only expense to the borough be-
ing their board and lodging while
here. Mr. Walker stated that in ad-
dition it will be necessary to employ
an additional force of men to act as
special policemen in directing traffic,
ete., and council decided that the bur-
gess had the authority to employ
whatever force he deemed necessary
to maintain peace and order.
A written communication was re-
ceived from James R. Hughes, super-
vising principal cf the Bellefonte
Academy, relative to council’s permis-
sion to the Academy authorities to
erect memorial pillars at the Bishop
street eatrance to the Academy
grounds. Mr. Hughes called atten-
tion to the fact that the fund contrib-
uted for that purpose by the class of
1018 was on deposit in a Bellefonte
bank, and that the class of 1919 was
considering the proposition of con-
tributing money for a memorial gate
at the Logan street entrance to the
grounds but they probably will not do
so if council withholds permission for
the erection of the same. In his com-
munication Mr. Hughes stated that
all objections to the erection of the
memorial pillars at the Bishop street
entrance have been withdrawn. Ow-
ing to the fact that no official notice
of the latter has been given council
president Walker decided that no defi-
nite action could be taken on Monday
evening, so referred the matter to the
Street committee for investigation
and report at next meeting.
Secretary Kelly read a petition
from residents of Bishop, south
Spring and Pine streets, asking that
the borough join with the state and
build a state highway from the inter-
section of Allegheny and Bishop
streets west to Spring, south on
Spring to Pine and out Pine to the
borough line, to intersect with the
state highway to be built from the
borough line to Pleasant Gap, and as
the petition was signed by over three-
fourths of the property owners along
the route of approximately 1600 feet,
the matter was referred to the bor-
ough solicitor and Street committee
to draw up the necessary petitions,
ordinance, etc.
The secretary also read the report
of the burgess calling attention to
various repairs badly needed on
streets, pavements and water system,
and the matters complained of were
referred to the various committees.
The Special committee reported
that a contract had been awarded to
H. S. Moore for the extra beams and
roadway for the Willowbank street
bridge at a cost of $1295. This does
not include the road surface, walk on
the side or repainting of the old su-
perstructure. The action of the com-
mittee was approved by council.
Mr. Seibert, of the Water commit-
tee, stated that something would have
to be done to put an end to the cus-
tom of some property owners of
Bellefonte adding extra water facili-
ties to their properties and failing to
report the same to council. He aver-
red that he has knowledge of several
cases where bath-rooms have been in-
stalled and water facilities greatly in-
creased and yet the owner is only
paying the low rate of five dollars 2
year water tax, simply because he and
the plumber who installed the addi-
tional facilities purposely avoided
making a report of same. Secretary
Kelly stated that there is an ordi-
nance imposing a fine for such fail-
ure but so far council has never en-
forced it. Mr. Cunningham advocated
the employment of a good man to
make a new water assessment and
after more or less discussion a motion
was passed empowering the Water
committee to employ a man and have
the assessment made at once.
The Finance committee asked for
this report.
J. S. McCargar came in a little late
to impress upon council the import-
ance of prompt action in the matter of
the state highway on Bishop, Spring |
and Pine streets and was informed
that council had already taken what
action it could.
William Steele also appeared at a
late hour and complained about the
surface water which drains down the
hill from the W. J. Musser home on
Lamb street, damaging his garden
north of Howard street, and the mat-
ter was referred to the Street com-
mittee.
Bills approximating $2150 were ap-
proved and council adjourned.
If it’s moving pictures, go to
the Lyric. They have the strongest
program on earth. 23-1t
Sheep and Dog Report.
The weekly press bulletin issued by
the State Department of Agriculture
under date of yesterday is confined to
a report on sheep and dogs of the
State. The statistics, so far as they
relate to Centre county, are as fol-
lows:
Number of sheep killed, 20; sheep
injured, 1; average price paid for
sheep killed, $15.50; average price
paid for sheep injured, $15.00; amount
paid for sheep killed and injured, in-
cluding costs, $462.25; number of
dogs licensed, 2,936; license fee lev-
ied, $1.00 for male and $2.00 for fe
male dog; license fees collected, $3,-
129; number of dogs killed by officers,
123; amount paid constables for kill-
ing dogs, $123.00; amount paid for
horses bitten by dogs, $8.60.
Watch for Mickey. 23-1t
Another Business Change to Take
Place in Bellefonte.
Feeling the weight of advancing
years and desiring to be relieved
in a measure of the responsibility of
conducting his drugstore W. S. Zeller
has entered into an agreement with
Maurice Runkle to come here from
Lancaster and take the active man-
agement of the business, although the
change will not take place until about
the first of August. This delay is ow-
ing to the fact that Mr. Runkle will
first. have to dispose of his store in
Lancaster, and although he has a pur-
chaser for the same the transfer will
not be made until July 15th. Mr.
Runkle is coming to Bellefonte, it is
stated, with the understanding that
whenever Mr. Zeller feels inclined to
dispose of his store he will be given
first chance to buy it.
Mrs. Runkle, who has been in Belle-
fonte the past month or more, return-
ed to Lancaster this week and will de-
vote her time to packing up and get-
ting their household furniture in
shape to move to Bellefonte on or be-
fore August first.
Watch for Mickey. . 23-1
Lewistown Man Badly Hurt in Auto
Accident.
Edward Verbeck, thirty-nine years
old, of Lewistown, is in a very serious
condition in the Bellefonte hospital as
the result of a collision between his’
side-car motorcycle and a Ford driven
by Herman Confer, of near Millheim,
which occurred on Sunday afternoon
on the Pennsvalley road about two
miles east of Old Fort. The true na-
ture of the accidént cannot be obtain-
ed for the reason that both parties
claim the other was on the wrong side
of the road and so far as known the
collision was not witnessed by any
disinterested party. That both auto-
mobile and motorcycle must have been
traveling at a very fair rate of speed
is evidenced from the fact that the
latter was completely wrecked while
the Ford car was considerably dam-
aged.
Verbeck, the owner and driver of
the motorcycle, was caught under the
wreck and sustained a compound frac-
ture of the left leg below the knee,
the break being so bad that the ends
of the broken bones protruded through
the flesh. The wrecked motorcycle
also caught fire and Verbeck was bad-
ly burned before he could be rescued.
With Verbeck was Ward Nearhood, of
Reedsville, and he was badly cut
about the head and body. Confer and
the occupants of his car rendered
what aid they could until the appear-
ance of another automobilist who
brought Verbeck to the Bellefonte
hospital. While the doctors there are
making every effort to save his leg
and his life. it is admitted that his
condition is regarded as very serious.
Nearhood’s condition was such that
he was sent home. :
Another bad accident happened last
Friday morning about 8:30 o’clock,
near Hublersburg, when the car of C.
Thomas Martin, of Williamsport, was
forced too far to the side of the road
by another car and ran into a tele-
graph pole. Mrs. Martin, who was in
the car with her husband, sustained
several bad cuts on the face from the
flying glass of the broken windshield
while Mr. Martin was thrown from
the car and fell in such a way that
one wheel passed over his shoulder.
Fortunately no bones were broken
but he was badly bruised. The car
was badly damaged. Mr. and Mrs.
Martin left Williamsport early in the
morning to go to Philipsburg and
were traveling along at a moderate
speed when they met another car
going in the opposite direction, the
driver of which hung to the middle of
the road and forced Mr. Martin too
far to the right. So far as known the
people in the other car were not rec-
ognized.
‘BELLEFONTE TO HAVE A BOR- the renewal of notes for $2000, $2000 POWDER MAGAZINE BLOWN UP.
land $1100, which was authorized, as
Bellefonte Soldiers Jarred Out of
| Sleep When 400 Tons of Powder
Let Loose in France.
About a month ago a big powder
magazine, loaded with 400 tons of
| powder, at the advanced ordnance de-
pot of the A. E. F., at Is-sur-tile,
| France, blew up at four o’clock in the
morning but fortunately there were
not any soldiers within a mile of it at
; the time so that nobody was killed or
{ injured, but the big explosion not on-
i ly wrecked everything near at hand
but played havoc with the buildings
a mile away. The cause of the explo-
sion has not been solved so far as
known. Located at Is-sur-tile are
three Bellefonte boys, W. Lester Mus-
ser, Frank Smith and William Rhine-
smith, and in a letter to his mother
under date of May 18th, private Mus-
ser tells of the explosion as follows:
As we are now over our excitement
of a few nights ago I will try and tell
{ you what happened. To begin with,
I was never frightened so much in my
life. About four o’clock the other
morning I was awakened by a flash
of fire followed by a terrific roar or
explosion. The windows of my room
were blown in and things tumbled out
i of the cupboard. I turned on the light
and for a minute or more could not
see for dust. I jumped out of bed but
hesitated a little about going out,
though I finally did so and found most
everybody running back and forth and
all trying to find out what had hap-
pened.
Finally we learned it was the pow-
der magazine, located a mile from the
town that had blown up. I went
down to the ware-houses about six
o'clock and it was some sight. Our
offices were knocked down, our kitch-
en was no more, as it was strewn all
over the ground; the big steel beams
in our warehouses facing the explo-
sion were all bent in and the sides of
the building were twisted and torn
off. Most of the quartermasters’
buildings were also blown in. The
lucky part of it was that nobody was
working there at the time hence no-
body killed or injured. But I don’t
care to be around anything of the
kind again. :
We have our stuff most all moved
out of here now and expect to get out
in June. But sixty men are to be left
here and I hope I won’t be one of
them, as I would like to get home.
And I also hope when I do start it
won’t take as long to get through as
it did that crowd “Bun” Walker was
with. Our main trouble here in clean-
ing up is to get the cars to ship our
stuff out.
I would like to go to Paris before
I leave here but I don’t know if I
will get the trip or not. Sam Rhine-
smith had been living here with me
but recently they moved him out to
one of the barracks and naturally I
miss his company. But he still keeps
his clothes here and spends as much
time with me as he can. “Bucky”
Smith went up to Dijon today on a
pass. I haven't been up there for
some time, as I don’t like the place. I
spend all my time in reading and hik-
ing around the country. In fact that
to get home by the time the roasting
ears are ready to eat, at least. Will
close now.
BILL.
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Among the Soidier Boys.
Corp. Hugh Taylor, eldest son of
Col. Hugh S. Taylor, who saw service
overseas, returned home on Tuesday.
Thomas Lamb, who while in France
was connected with the mobile ord-
nance repair division, returned home
on Tuesday with his discharge.
Charles Nighthart, who is now em-
ployed in Lock Haven, is seriously
considering the question of re-enlist-
ing in the veterinary corps of the reg-
ular army. The offer ‘is for $80 a
month and keeps, and a portion of his
time to be spent in a veterinary
school. The term of enlistment is for
four years.
who was among the first contingent
of national army men sent away by
the local board, in "September, 1917,
and who at the time was rather de-
pressed at the outlook ahead of him,
not only made a splendid soldier but
became so enamored with military
life that as soon as he received his
discharge he re-enlisted for a term of
seven years, and is now spending a
month’s vacation at his home at the
College.
-Lieut. Charles G. Cruse of the 107th
machine gun battalion arrived home
last Saturday morning.
Ensign Joseph Ceader has been
discharged from service and returned
home last Saturday, expecting to vis-
it two weeks with his mother and sis-
ter before leaving for Newark, N. J.,
to take up. his old position with the
Edison Lamp company.
Army Planes to Make Trans-Conti-
nental Flight.
An announcement from Washing-
ton on Monday says that the army
will not be outdone by the navy hence
has planned a non-stop trans-conti-
nental flight from New York to San
Francisco which will be attempted in
a few days, though the exact date has
not been given. A Martin bomber
will be used and the flight over Penn-
sylvania will be made virtually over
the Wilson air mail route. According
to the schedule given out the big
a. m.,, Milmont 5:41, Coburn 5:55,
Bellefonte 6:05, Philipsburg 6:19 and
Clearfield 6:36.
——DMr. William MeClellan is crit-
ically ill at his home on east Lamb
street and the attending physician
holds out little hope of his recovery.
is about all T have to do now. I hope
Jerome T. Ailman, of State College,
plane will pass over Sunbury at 5:27
‘NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs. Frank Bartley has been at Jack-
sonville for a part of the week, visiting .
! stay.
with her mother, Mrs. C. M. Harter.
—Mrs. Harvey Miller and sister,
Anna Noll, went down to Williamsport on
Tuesday to visit friends during the week.
—Miss Elizabeth Galbraith will leave
Miss
Tuesday for Memphis, Tenn., to visit until !
the first of August with her sister, Mrs.
Edward Shields.
—Mrs. J. A. Aikens left Bellefonte a
week ago for a visit with Dr. and Mrs. C.
T. Aikens, at Selinsgrove, returning home
on Wednesday evening.
—D. I. Willard left late last week for
Erie and Union City, expecting to spend
two weeks visiting through north-western
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
—Mr. and Mrs. Guy Lyons and Mr. Ly-
on’s brother Lee, spent Sunday at Mt. Car-
mel, going over for a visit with Frank
Lyons, an uncle of the two men.
—Mrs. G. Norman Good, who with her
‘son, V. Richard Good, had been visiting
for a week at their former home at Wind-
ber, returned to Bellefonte Monday.
—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Snyder, of Sun-
bury, were in Bellefonte for Memorial day
and over Sunday, guests of Mrs Snyder's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Deitrick.
—Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Thomas, accom-
panied by Mrs. Clevan Dinges, have ar-
ranged to leave Bellefonte Tuesday, to
spend ten days or two weeks at Atlantic
City.
—Mrs. Charles Kirby Rath, of Elizabeth,
N. J., and her three children, are visiting
with Mrs. Rath’s father, I". W. Crider.
Mrs. Rath’s sister-in-law, Miss Rath, is
also a guest of Mr. Crider.
—DMrs. G. Ross Parker will go to Cham-
bersburg tomorrow to attend the com-
mencement exercises of Wilson College,
her daughter, Miss Eleanor Parker, being
a member of the class of 1919.
—F. W. Topelt came here from Brook-
lyn for Memorial day, remaining in Belle-
fonte with Mrs. Topelt until Sunday. Mrs.
Topelt has been in Bellefonte for several
weeks with her mother, Mrs. Brouse.
—Miss Mary MecQuistion went to Centre
Hall Tuesday afternoon, where she attend-
ed the funeral of the late David Runkle,
whose body was brought from Pittsburgh
for burial in the Centre Hall cemetery.
—James A. McClure went to Philadelphia
Wednesday night to join Mrs. McClure,
who is visiting with their son and his
wife, Mr. and Mrs. Charles McClure, and
to return to Bellefonte with her next
week,
—Mrs. E. C. Tuten and two sons, Tirrell
and John, came over from Philipsburg last
Thursday evening for Memorial day and
spent the time while here with Mrs. Tu-
ten’s sister, Mrs. Harold Kirk, on the
farm.
—Ensign Walter H. Haines, of Pelham
Bay, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. John Black, Mrs.
Catherine Cherry and son Harold, of
Clearfield, spent the week-end with their
mother, Mrs. Martin Haines, of east Cur-
tin street.
—Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Hall, of
Unionville, and their two younger sons,
drove to Bellefonte Tuesday, the day be-
ing spent by Mr. Hall in doing some buy-
ing for his farm, while Mrs. Hall visited
with relatives.
—Mrs. Thomas Shults, of Pittsburgh,
and her daughter Blanche, spent the fore
part of the week in Bellefonte, visiting
with her aunt, Miss Joseépliine McDermott |
and her brother, at
Burnside street.
—Mrs. Ileckenour returned to her home
in Philipsburg, N. J., Friday of last week,
after spending a week in Bellefonte as a
guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. Paul Fortney.
Mrs. Heckenour is better known to Belle-
fonte people as Miss Amy Smith.
—Dr. Finley Bell, of Englewood, N. J.,
and his son, Dr. Loomis Bell, of New York
city, drove to Bellefonte Saturday, bring-
ing with them a nurse to take charge of
Dr. Finley Bell’s mother, Mrs. William
Bell, whose condition at present is slight-
ly improved.
—Mrs. J. Linn McGinley went to Wash-
ington, D. C., Saturday night with the ex-
cursion, expecting to remain for a month
as a guest of her daughter, Miss Margery
McGinley. Miss McGinley will take her
summer vacation during her mother's stay
at the capital.
—Among the very enthusiastic church-
men and Sunday school workers in Belle-
fonte for the county Sabbath school con-
vention on Tuesday and Wednesday was
A. C. Thompson, of Philipsburg, who
kindly favored this office with a call on
Wednesday morning.
—Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Kirk and their
small son, Norman Jr., who had been in
Bellefonte for two weeks with Mr, Kirk's
parents, Dr. and Mrs. M. A. Kirk, left
Monday for their new home at Lyons, N.
Y. Mr. Kirk will spend the summer there
doing soil survey work for the govern-
ment, returning south for the winter,
—Richard S. Brown, who has been with
the J. G. White Engineering Co., at Mata-
gorda, Texas, arrived in Bellefonte Tues-
day, visiting here with his father, Edward
Brown and the family, until today. Rich-
ard has been transferred to New York and
is now on his way there to take up his
new work with the company in that city.
—'Squire W. M. Grove, of Spring Mills
and Berwick, was a “Watchman” office
caller on Monday, having returned to Cen-
tre county for a few days from Riedsville,
N. C., where Mrs. Grove is lying seriously
ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M.
P. Cummings. In fact her condition is re-
garded as so critical that Mr. Grove left
for the south again on Monday.
—Mrs. Thaddeus Hamilton returned to
Bellefonte Saturday, from a month's visit
with her daughter, Mrs. E. M. Broderick,
at State College. Mrs. Hamilton was ac-
companied by her daughter and the two
grand-children, who were here for the
week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Hamiton are now
entertaining their son Clarence, of New
York, who is spending his vacation in
Bellefonte.
—Mr. and Mrs. J. Kennedy Johnston
spent last week with their daughter, Mrs.
Wayne D. Stitziiger and her husband, in
their new home at Bellevue, near Pitts-
burgh, where they have gone to house-
keeping after living since their marriage
with Mr. Stitzinger’s parents, at New Cas-
tle. Mrs. Gray Hartsock, of Altoona, had
charge of the Johnston household during
their absence.
—Mr, and Mrs. Charles Taylor, of Hunt-
ingdon, and their son Harold, were over
Sunday guests of Mr. Tayor’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Taylor, at their home on
Spring street, it being Harold's first visit
with his grandparents since his return
from Europe, where he had been with the
11th engineers who went over with the pi-
oneer division. On Tuesday morning
Reynolds Taylor surprised his parents by
arriving from overseas unannounced.
their bungalow on
—Wells L. Daggett will join Mrs. Dag-
gett at Atlantic City this week-end.
—Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Seibert are at
Craig Hall, Atlantic City, for a few week's
—Miss Lois Kirk and Miss Hazel Lentz
were members of Mr. and Mrs. George
Lentz’'s motor party to Harrisburg last
week.
—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beatty have had
as a guest Mrs. Beatty's mother, Mrs.
Oursler, who returned to her home in
Pittsburgh Monday.
—DMrs. Carl Weaver has been at her for-
mer home at Springfield, Mass., for the
past month, Mr. Weaver leaving Tuesday
night to join her for a two week's vaca-
tion.
—Mrs. Roland Miller, of Ford City, and
her two daughters, Sara and Julia! came
to Bellefonte for Memorial day, remaining
for a visit with their many friends in this
locality.
—Mrs. Robert Cole went to Philadelphia
a week ago. The serious condition of her
eyes from an ailment of long standing,
made it neccessary for her to be under the
care of specialists for several weeks.
—Mrs. W. F. Entriken, of Newark, N. J.,
arrived in Bellefonte on Monday for a
month's visit with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Forest Bullock. This will be her first
lengthy visit home since her marriage.
—Miss E. M. Thomas, who had spent the
winter with Mrs. Wistar Morris, at Over-
brook, came to Bellefonte the after part of
last week to spend the month of June with
Miss Grace Mitchell and other relatives.
—Miss Elvira Nealons accompanied Mr.
Morris and his daughter, Miss Lida to
Bellefonte on their return drive from
Pittsburgh Wednesday, expecting to’ re-
main in Bellefonte for the summer. Miss
Nealons is a cousin of the family.
—Miss Mary Kelley left Friday of last
week for a visit in Philadelphia with her
aunt, who had been a guest at the Kelley
home in Bellefonte for several months. A
well founded rumor had it that Miss Kel-
ley would be married while away, but as
vet the rumor has not been verified.
-—Dr. Thomas Morgan, accompanied by
Mrs. Morgan, arrived in Bellefonte Tues-
day, coming here for a visit with Dr.
Morgan’s mother and other relatives. Dr.
Morgan has but recently arrived from
oversea service, getting his discharge last
week, this being his first visit home since
his return from Europe.
—David Howard, who is making his
home with his son, Raymond Howard,
near Gardner station, spent Wednesday in
Bellefonte looking after some business ‘in-
terests. Mr. Howard will be at Gardner
during the summer but has arranged to
go to Virginia in October, to spend next
winter with his son George.
—William A. Carson, of Haines town-
ship, spent Tuesday and Wednesday even-
ings in Bellefonte. He brought his daugh-
ter, Miss Mary, up to attend the county
Sabbath school convention to which she
was a delegate and between sessions found
time to tell a few of his friends that he is
in the shrievalty race to win.
—Mrs. Fred Hollobaugh joined Mr. Hol-
lobaugh in Tyrone last week, returning to
Bellefonte for Memorial day. Going from
here to Grampian, where Mr. Hollobaugh
is located, Mrs. Hollobaugh visited there
for a short time, later going to spend sev-
eral days with her brother, Harry Irvin
and his family, in Clearfield. Mrs. Hol-
lobaugh returned to Bellefonte Tuesday.
— Clara’ Kimball Young in “The
Savage Woman,” at the Lyric Tues-
day. J . 23-1t
Bellefonte Merchants to Observe Half
Holiday.
We, the undersigned merchants of
Bellefonte, Pa., having learned that
various other towns and cities of cen-
tral Pennsylvania are closing their
places of business for one-half day
each week, and believing that this plan
would be beneficial to the merchants
and employees of Bellefonte, we here-
by agree to close our places of busi-
ness each Tuesday at 12 o’clock noon,
commencing June 10th, 1919, and con-
tinuing until September 1st, 1919:
The Potter-Hoy Hardware Co., Weaver
Bros., R. 8. Brouse’s Store, Sechler & Co.,
H. C. Yeager, A. Fauble, A. C. Mingle,
Hazel & Co., C. D. Casebeer, I. P. Blair &
Son, Cohen & Co. Olewine’s Hardware, F.
E. Naginey, Sim the Clothier, Montgom-
ery & Co., R. Brandman, Max Kalin, W.
S. Katz & Co., W. C. Coxey, J. W. Gross,
G. R. Danenhower & Son, Inec., Lauder-
bach-Zerby & Co., The John Meese Store,
Garman’s Store, J. G. McCrory Co., Herr
& Heverly, Thomas S. Hazel, D. I. Willard
& Son, J. C. Jodon, W. R. Brachbill. 23-1t
William ‘S. Hart, in his latest
Paramount-Artcraft picture at the
Lyric Wednesday. 0 23-1t
——Many farmers in Centre coun-
ty are harrowing their corn fields
since planting because the ground
has sun-baked so hard they fear the
corn will not come up. This condition
prevails generally throughout the
county, not only in the fields but also
in gardens, and it is so unusual that
many farmers are theorizing as to
the reason. So far, the only plausi-
ble explanation offered is the mild
winter. As everybody knows there
was comparatively little frost in the
ground last winter and no successive
freezing and thawing to loosen up the
earth, and this it is believed is the
cause of the hard, baked-like condi-
tion which prevails this spring.
——Watch for Mickey. 23-1t
You Cannot Run Away From
A Weakness. You Must
Fight It or Perish.
So said Robert Louis Stevenson. If
this is true, what an awful fight some
people have in trying to fight off the
use of spectacles and then lose out
and perish in the end. The proper
glasses will help you not to win the
fight but will make you stronger men-
tally, will not only help you to grasp
opportunities but to make them as
well. Better consult CASEBEER
(registered optometrist), Brockerhoff
House block. He’ll advise you how to
win the fight. Satisfaction guaran-
teed. 23-1t
For Sale.—Two 2-year old colts.
Inquire of Frank Dimeo, Bellefonte.
23-tf
——The coolest place in town is the
Lyric. Don’t take our word for it—
investigate. . 23-1t
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