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Bellefonte, Pa., October 10, 1919.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
The fall election is only a lit-
tle over three weeks away.
The equinoctial rains this year
came about two weeks late.
Vogel’s big minstrels will be
the opera house attraction tonight.
A food sale will be held in the
Sourbeck store room, Saturday, Octo-
ber 11th. Cakes, pies, rolls and can-
dy will be on sale.
——George H. Eberhart, represent-
ing the Logan fire company, attend-
ed the state convention of volunteer
firemen held in Lancaster this week.
——When William Schmidt return-
ed to Cornell University last week he
was appointed assistant instructor in
the electrical engineering department
of the University.
The W. C. T. U. thimble bee
and get-together meeting will be held
at the Reformed parsonage this (F'ri-
day) afternoon, and be the guests of
Mrs. Ambrose M. Schmidt.
——The Knights of Columbus will
celebrate Columbus day next Monday,
October 13th, by holding a euchre in
their hall in the Reynolds building.
The public is invited to attend.
The property of the late Rob-
ert F. Sechler, on north Spring street,
was sold last Friday by the adminis-
trators of the estate to Miss Winifred
M. Gates, the price paid being $3,500.
——Any reader of the “Watchman”
who is the possessor of an old flint
lock gun, or knows of one, can find a
market for same by inquiring at this
office. Gun must be in good condition
in every way.
——At the recent session of the
Free Methodist church conference
held at Warren Rev. G. B. Tingue
was returned to the church at Flem-
ing and Rev. G. J. Kelley was contin-
ued as presiding elder of the DuBois
and Tyrone district.
——Cyrus Gearhart, who has been
living on the old Mayes place near
Houserville, will sell all his personal
effects on October 18th and on the
20th will leave with his wife and
daughter for Finley, Ill., where his
son, Wilbur Russell, is now located,
expecting to embark in farming next
spring.
——“The opening of the chestnut
burr” was helped along considerably
by the heavy frost of Wednesday
morning, the first real frost of the
season. As almost all garden truck
has been housed there was nothing of
any consequence to damage, while on
the other hand the frost will mature
the corn so that it can be husked and
housed.
——In their opening game on
Hughes field last Saturday the Belle-
fonte Academy football team defeat-
ed the strong All Scholastic team of
Altoona by the score of 13 to 0. The
game was especially interesting in
affording the people of Bellefonte an
opportunity to get a line-up on the
Academy players and from the way
they worked together on Saturday
leads to the belief that they will be
consistent winners during the entire
season.
——Ever since the days of Ruger
the Scenic has been the recognized
leader in motion picture theatres in
Bellefonte and this locality. In the
years that it has been under the man-
agement of T. Clayton Brown he has
always striven to give the best possi-
ble in motion pictures for the money.
That he has done so in a satisfying
way is proven by his large patronage
at all times. The result is if you
want to see good pictures, go to the
Scenic.
It will be two years next Mon-
day, October 13th, since John Eckel
opened up his present meat market
on High street. While that in itself
is a mere matter of business the in-
teresting fact in connection therewith
is that it was so cold at that time
that he didn’t need any ice for his
meat and never needed a particle of
ice from that day until the next
April. But he has been compelled to
use ice in his refrigerator ever since,
including last winter and from the
way the weather has been of late he
may have to use it for some weeks to
come.
——VWilliam Parker, of Philips-
burg, has leased the store room in the
Centre county bank building and will
immediately put it in condition for
use as a florist’s show room. He ex-
pects to carry a line of cut flowers,
potted plants, seeds and bulbs and
will specialize in funeral designs,
wedding and reception decorations.
Mr. Parker has been in the business
in Philipsburg for some years and has
had wide experience in handling
plants and flowers. He comes here
Hot as an entire stranger for he is a
son of Geo. E. Parker, who is very
well known in this place.
——The Presbyterian congregation
of Centre Hall, which has been with-
out the services of a regular pastor
since the resignation of Rev. Josiah
B. Still, last Sunday extended a unan-
imous call to Rev. L. V. Barber, of
the Lemont charge, to become their
pastor, preaching at that place every
two weeks. Rev. Barber’s original
charge included the churches at Le-
mont, Boalsburg, Pine Grove Mills
and Buffalo Run, but recently the lat-
ter church was attached to the Miles-
burg and Snow Shoe charge which
enables Rev. Barber to officiate at Cen-
tre Hall. He has accepted the call
extended by the Centre Hall congre-
gation and his action will be consid-
ered at a special meeting of Presby-
tery to be held in Tyrone in Decem-
ber.
WITH THE BOROUGH DADS.
Burgess Walker Makes Appeal for foundation for the new radio station
Better Fire Fighting Apparatus.
The six active councilmen were are now at work on the erection of
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——Contractors George Rhoads
and Son on Monday completed the
in connection with the Bellefonte avi-
ation field and Gehret and Lambert
present at Monday night’s regular the station building. As a good part
meeting, the first in five weeks. of the equipment is already here it
Jacob Marks,
George Eberhart were present repre-
senting the Logan fire company and
through burgess W. Harrison Walker
submitted to council a proposition to
turn over to that body a fund of
$1,500 which they received from the | college work of Miss Anna Shuey, less: ;
sale of the company’s Pierce Arrow
car on condition that council purchase
for the company a modern chemical
fire truck, of a design and capacity
that will meet with the approval of
the company. In presenting the prop-
osition burgess Walker took occasion
to point to the fact that Bellefonte’s
volunteer fire department is sadly
lacking in up-to-date fire fighting ap-
aratus, while neighboring towns are
spending thousands of dollars in pur-
chasing the best that money can buy.
The matter was referred to the Fire
and Police committee with the request
that they make a report on the same
at next meeting of council.
Burgess Walker also informed
council that the War Department is
sending to Bellefonte one of the cap-
tured German “77” guns, and natur-
ally a suitable place will have to be
selected for a permanent resting
place for the gun. Mr. Walker sug-
gested the triangle in the Diamond,
known as the “safety zone,” where a
concrete foundation can be erected
and the gun anchored permanently
with its muzzle pointing down High
street. The matter was referred to
the Street committee.
A communication was received
from tax collector J. Kennedy John-
ston requesting an increase in com-
missions allowed him from three to
five per cent. during the rebate per-
iod and an equitable increase after
the expiration of the rebate period,
and the matter was referred to the
Finance committee.
C. Y. Wagner submitted two prop-
ositions to borough council in connec-
tion with the Phoenix mill. One was
to purchase the plant at the price the
borough has been obligated to pay
and then lease the water power to the
borough at an annual rental of $600.
Proposition No. 2 was to lease the
plant, exclusive of the water power
at an equitable yearly rental with an
option to purchase the same, exclu-
sive of the water power, at the end
of four years for $15,000, or water
power included for $25,000. The
propositions were referred to the
Special committee.
A communication was received
from the State Department of Health
calling attention of council to the fact
that complaint had been made regard-
ing foul air issuing from the sewer at
the ientrance of Burrows alley. Inas-
much as no such complaint has ever
been made to council members of that
body rather resent ‘the complaint
made to the State Department of
Health over their heads and the sec-
retary was instructed to write the
Department for the name of the com-
plainant. In the meantime the mat-
ter was referred to the Street com-
mittee for investigation.
Residents of Bishop street sent to
council a petition requesting the oil-
ing of that thoroughfare as the in-
creased travel thereon on account of
it being a detour for the State High-
way Department has resulted in al-
most a continuous cloud of dust. In-
asmuch as the borough has the dust-
aline the matter of oiling the street
was referred to the Street committee.
The Street committee presented
the report of the borough manager
for the month of October showing a
total of $324.70 collected from various
sources and numerous repairs upon
the streets and alleys.
The Water committee presented
the borough manager’s report as it
affects the water department, includ-
ing a suggestion that a new spiral
water meter be purchased for use at
the water tank of the P. R. R. Co., as
the kind of meter now in use there is
not adapted to such high pressure
work and breaks frequently. The
new meter suggested will cost in the
neighborhood of $75.00 and council
authorized the purchase of one.
The Fire and Police committee re-
ported that there had been considera-
ble complaint about the police not do-
ing their duty and that the committee
and burgess had decided to put the
force under the direct control of the
borough manager. In making the
change it was decided to do away
with a “chief” and place both men on
the same level, and to equalize the
wages it was recommended that po-
liceman Yerger’s salary be increased
from $70.00 to $75.00 2 month. The
committee also reported that a six
week’s leave of absence had been
granted policeman Harry Dukeman
and that A. J. Robinson had been ap-
pointed to the force for that period of
time.
The Finance committee reported a
balance of forty dollars in the hands
of the treasurer on October first and
presented for renewal! notes aggre-
gating $11,800, which were authoriz-
ed. Bills to the amount of $3,900
were approved and council adjourned.
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It was Some Altercation.
The Marklesburg correspondent of
the Huntingdon Globe says:
“During an altercation between C.
H. Buckius, road engineer of the
State Highway Department, and Dan-
iel Brindle, last week, Mr. Brindle
suffered a double fracture of.the low-
er jaw. He was brought for treat-
ment to the office of Dr. Koshland
and later removed to the Blair Me-
morial hospital, Huntingdon, to have
an X-ray examination and a dental
splint applied.”
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M. R. Johnson and ought to be only a matter of a few
weeks until the station is completed
and planes can then get in commu-
nication with the Bellefonte field by
wireless.
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now Mrs. Whiting, through the col- '
jumns of the “Watchman” and noting |
her many prizes and honors while at |
Dickinson, it is scarcely necessary to
call the attention of our readers to
what they already know was an error .
in our comment upon her school work.
Mrs. Whiting, the third daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Shuey, was a mem-
ber of the class ‘of 1916 Dickinson
College, instead of the Seminary, as
we inadvertently put it.
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Penn State opened its football
season on new Beaver field last Sat-
urday by defeating Gettysburg by the |
score of 33 to 0. The visitors held
the State team without scoring in the
first half of the game but a shake-up
between halves put pep into the State
aggregation and during the third and
fourth quarters they gave a better
account of themselves with the result
that the pigskin was safely placed be-
hind the Gettysburg goal posts five
times. The game brought to light the
fact that State has good football ma-
terial and with proper development it
should make a winning team.
The United States Navy is
seeking enlistments of young men to
help man its ships. The life of a
sailor these days is very different
from what it was twenty or thirty
years ago. Then it was regarded as
almost a dog’s life, but today it has
been elevated to the plane of any oth-
er calling in life and has the advan-
tage of giving the young man who en-
lists an opportunity to acquire var-
ious trades as well as affording him
the chance of seeing much of the
world. Any young man who is at all
interested should read the advertise-
ment published on the 6th page of to-
day’s paper.
Mr. N. Clair Doyle, manager of
the Bellefonte office of The McVey
Co., real estate dealers, whose head
office is in Altoona with other branch
offices in Johnstown and Mt. Union,
was in Altoona last Friday attending
the first annual business meeting and
banquet of the company held at the
home of Mr. Charles McVey, the pres-
ident and general manager. Though
The McVey Co. has been doing busi-
ness the past four years this was the
first meeting of that character and as |
evidence of the success of the firm is
the fact that at its head office in Al-
toona and different branch offices it!
now gives employment to eleven’ peo-
ple, all of whom were present at the
meeting. The McVey Co. has already |
established a clientelle in Bellefonte
and Centre county and has bright
prospects for good business in the fu- |
ture.
Two more prisoners were fool-
ish enough to think they could get
away from the penitentiary and they
tried it on Sunday evening. They
were Homer Davis, sent up from
Lawrence county, and Alexander
Johnson, colored, of Allegheny coun-
ty. They had one night’s liberty un-
der the stars but were picked up by a |
guard early Monday morning as they
were walking down the railroad to-
ward Milesburg. Railroad trackmen
saw the two men go by but not know-
ing they were escaped prisoners did
not molest them and thus virtually
allowed one hundred dollars in re-
wards to slip through their fingers.
The prisoners were taken before
Judge Quigley on Monday, given the
customary sentence, which in their
cases runs from two to three years,
and on Tuesday morning they were
taken back to the old institution at
Pittsburgh. And thus ended their at-
tempt to gain freedom before their
time had legally arrived.
——1In the regular report of the
borugh council proceedings published
in another column will be found the
proposition of the Logan fire company
to turn over to Borough council the
sum of $1,500 if council will purchase
for the company a good chemical
truck. While at a casual reading the
real necessity for such a truck may
not be apparent, but when the fact is
considered that practically all of the
equipment the two fire companies
have are horse drawn, and hors-
es for such a purpose are next
to impossible to secure now, at
least as promptly as they are
needed in time of a fire, the
proposition is one that deserves the
most careful consideration. Another
fact to take into consideration is that
the big majority of fires could be ex-
tinguished in their incipiency could
the fire companies get there promptly
and with the proper kind of equip-
ment with which to fight it. And the
damage done by the small amount of
chemical compound used would be
very slight compared with the dam-
age always done with water. These
arc all incontestable facts and should |
be carefully considered. The only!
question that can be brought up!
against - the purchase is that of
finances, but other towns have laid a i
bonded debt for the purchase of up- |
to-date fire apparatus, and the ques- |
tion for the Bellefonte council to solve
is which way will display the great-
er wisdom: Go further in debt for
the purchase of proper equipment for |
the fire companies or run the risk of
getting along with the present equip-
ment and taking the chance on no |
fires occurring.
AMONG THE ARMENIANS,
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. |
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—Mrs. Scott Houser, her son Earl, and
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Houser and their
Bellefonte Young Woman Writes of —Miss Sallie Dunlap is spending this | child, motored here Wednesday from Du-
Her Work Among the Refugees. i
The following letter was received
by Mr. Charles F. Cook from his
daughter Elinor (now Mrs. Robert |
MacDowell), who is doing uplift work
among the Armenian refugees in!
' Kars, Russia, and it tells in a direct |
‘way of the conditions and needs of burg, spent Saturday and Sunday at his
, those people who have been driven
from their country and in addition to |
Kars, Russia, July 16 ’19. |
Well here I am at last! The ride
over from Joliloghli was beautiful. |
week with her sister, Mrs. Ramsey. |
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—DMiss Elizabeth Boeking, of Tyrone, |
has been a guest this week of Mrs. H. N.
Crider.
—DMrs. J. G. Butterworth left Saturday
to join Mr. Butterworth in Wilkinsburg, |
where they will make their home.
—Editor Edward L. Gates, of Philips- |
old home in this place.
—George P. Bible left Sunday for Kan- |
After so closely following the being homeless are almost friend- sas, from where he will start on his Chau-
tauqua work for the winter. !
—Miss Jane Miller is in Williamsport, |
having gone down Saturday for a visit of |
two weeks with her brother and family.
—Mrs. Fred Bryan and her
: er, relative to the Farmers’
children i
Bois, for a visit with relatives in Centre
| county.
—Miss Miriam Beck, of Nittany, was in
Bellefonte yesterday, and while here look-
ed after some business for her grandfath-
Mutual Fire
Insurance.
—Francis Thal was in Bellefonte the
latter part of last week for a short visit
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Thal. Francis is an employee of the P. R.
R. Co. at Osceola.
—Mrs. Whipple, of McAlevy’s Fort, and
Mrs. Irvin, of Sistersville, W. Va., who had
been visiting here with Mrs. T. W. Romig
and Mrs. A. C. Smith, left Bellefonte to re-
turn home Saturday.
—Morton Smith has been spending a
One winds around and around, up the spent the after part of last week here bart of the week in Washington, called
‘mountain side, almost to snow line, |
and coming from eighty feet below |
' sea level, and terribly hot weather, it
was some contrast. |
Kars is in the Caucasus mountains |
and our house is on a hill outside the |
city. It was a military city and few
civilians lived here—everything in
barracks, towers, etc., built by Rus-
“sians. Our house is an officer's billet
—forty rooms—fifteen of which we
use. The Russians surrendered, or
gave over the city to Armenians, who
were chased out by the Turks, who in |
turn were chased out by the English
in March, and they gave over the city ;
to the Armenians in May. i
My work for the present is helping |
in the office and taking charge of ma-
terial in stock, as well as arranging
some means of distribution, and it is
no easy job, I assure you.
Kars has been badly neglected, and
has almost nothing, compared to
other stations. I think it will be one
of the big orphanage centres, and as
soon as supplies, ete., arrive, I will
have plenty of orphanage work to do.
August 11, 19.
This week we are expecting five
hundred orphans from Erivan, next
week four hundred from Tiflis, as well
as one hundred others as soon as I
can take them.
I will have two barracks for or-
phanages, each holding six hundred
and fifty. Will put girls in one and
boys in one, and am so anxious to get
started.
My, these orphans are so different
from those in Baku, who have been
a long time in orphanages. These
thin, little tads just sit playing with
a string—no, not playing, just hold-
ing it.
I have the things I brought from
home for a starter to use in kinder-
garten work, and if the box you sent
arrives, as I sincerely hope it will, I
can use everything to advantage. Do
thank every one for me, wish I could
write each one a letter of thanks, but
that is out of the question.
Many refugees pass through Kars
every week on their way home to Ar-
menia. Things are still very unset-
tled in Central Turkey. The govern-
ment feeds the people. We confine
our work to the children. Flour and
bread is given daily. Each person is
now allowed three-fourths of a pound
of bread each day, and when one con-
siders that they live almost entirely
on bread, it is a small amount. But
even on those short rations the flour
may not hold out. The spirit of re-
volt has seized the people and they
are striking, both for us and for the
government, and we are hoping by
cutting off the bread allowance to
force them to go to work.
After five years’ wandering ~ they
naturally do not know their own
minds and follow any leader, and al-
most all the best type of Armenians
have been massacred. Then those
Russian Armenians are not the strong
type the Turkish Armenians are.
I do wish all the Americans and
English here could realize how dif-
ferent in environment, heritage, and
in every other way these Armenians
are from them, and maybe some
would love them more. They seem to
have expected to find people of the
average American type. Had we
Americans been refugees for five
years, living often upon grass and
roots as the very best and wealthiest
Armenians often had to do, I wonder
if we would not have become degen-
erate too—at least temporarily.
Why, little wizened, dried-up peo-
ple come here, and it is hard to tell
whether they are old men or children,
and they never laugh. Those Miss
Bond has had for three months are
brightening up and taking a new in-
terest in life. For some, it is their
first interest, for being born on the
march they know nothing but starva-
tion and dirt.
Now that cold weather is coming on
I hope we can take more in.
Gregory Bros. Sell “Candyland.”
The Gregory Bros., who have con-
ducted the Candyland store in the
McClain block, alongside of the
“Watchman” office ever since they
opened the same five years or more
ago, on Wednesday sold out to James
Caldwell and Edward Osmer, who will
conduct the same in the future. The
Gregory Bros. hereafter will devote
all their time to their store at State
College. The new proprietors are en-
terprising and courteous young busi-
ness men and the “Watchman” wish-
es them success in their new under-
taking.
Whose Letter Was It.
In Monday’s mail the “Watchman”
received an envelope addressed
“Watchman Office, Bellefonte, Pa.”
Upon opening it we found that it con-
tained not a thing and hoping that
some one in Pittsburgh, where it was
posted, might have intended to send
us something worth while we publish
this notice with the hope that if such
was the intention we want to inform
the sender that the supposed enclos-
ure didn’t get here.
with relatives,
Sunday.
—Mrs. J. J. Kilpatrick is at her former
home in Philadelphia, called there a week
ago by the serious illness of her mother,
Mrs. Clayton.
—Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brandman and
their family are contemplating moving to
Philadelphia, after being residents of
Bellefonte for fourteen years.
—Mrs. John Hinman Gibson, who hall
been visiting here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew J. Cook, returned to her
home in Chicago a week ago.
—Rev. Wilson Potter Ard, pastor of the
Bellefonte Lutheran church, has been at
New Berlin this week attending the Alle-
gheny Synod of the Lutheran church.
—James B. Krape, caretaker of the Rast-
ern Refractories company building, visit-
ed for the week-end in Johnstown, with
his brother, George Krape and his family.
—Mrs. John A. Woodcock will leave
Bellefonte this week to visit for an indefi-
nite time with her son, Rev. John R.
Woodcock and his family, in Syracuse,
N.Y,
—Mrs. H. 8S. Cooper has arranged to
returning to Philipsburg
, leave today for Memphis, Tenn., and after
spending a few days with friends there,
will go directly to her home in Dallas,
Texas.
—Mrs. George Robertson, of Hartford,
Conn., has been a guest this week of Miss
Adaline Olewine, coming here from Cen-
tre Hall, where she had been visiting with
her father, D. B. Brisbin.
—The Misses Elizabeth and Emily Par-
ker, of Somerset. came to Bellefonte Mon-
day. Miss Emily remained but a day,
while her sister will visit for a month or
more with her brother, G. Ross Parker,
and his family.
—County Commissioners D. H. Grove,
W. H. Noll Jr., and Isaac Miller went
down to Philadelphia on Sunday to at-
tend the annual state convention of coun-
ty commissioners held at the Bellevue-
Stratford the fore part of the week.
—DMelvin C. Frankhouse, of Mt. Union,
who served twenty months in France at
first with the engineers ‘and later with the
ordnance, spent Sunday in Bellefonte as
a guest of Charles E. Gates, with whom
he was billeted while stationed at Calais.
—Miss Gertrude Darden, at school at
the Birmingham Seminary, will spend
Sunday with Mrs. R. G. H. Hayes. Miss
Darden is the sister of Miss Martha Dar-
den, well known to the younger set of
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Bellefonte, through her frequent visits
here.
—A. G. Morris, his daughter, Miss Lida
Morris, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morris
left Wednesday of last week on a drive to
Vermont. The trip being a business one,
it was made in as short a time as possi-
ble, the party returning to Bellefonte Sun-
day. |
—Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Noye, who
were married in Ithaca, N. Y., on the 24th
of September, spent several days visiting
with relatives in Bellefonte last week. Mrs.
Noye before her marriage was Miss Caro-
line Murphy, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Linn Murphy, former residents of Belle-
fonte.
—George A. Houtz, of Toledo, Ohio, was
an arrival in Bellefonte on Monday on a
visit to his sister, Mrs. Edward Cunning- ,
ham, and on Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Cun-
ningham and their guest went over to Lin-
den Hall for a visit to the old Houtz home.
Mr. Houtz will spend two weeks or more
in Centre county.
—Mrs. Sara Brown will return to Belle-
fonte today, after spending the greater
part of the summer in Baltimore with her
daughter, Mrs. Robert Wray. Mrs. Samuel
Sheffer, who has been with Mrs. James
Harris during the greater part of Mrs.
Brown’s absence, will return to her apart-
ments in the Chambers home on Curtin
street.
—Miss Daise Keichline arrived home
Thursday from Battle Creek, Mich., after
spending the greater part of the summer
there as a guest of Dr. and Mrs. Eggle- |
ston. Miss Keichline will be in Bellefonte
until December, expecting to leave at that
time for Florida, with a patient, with
whom she will spend the winter in the
South.
—LeRoy Fox, of Lock Haven, was in
Bellefonte for Sunday, visiting with his
son Richard, who makes his home with
his grandmother, Mrs. Henry Haupt. The
Misses Helen McMann and Dorothy Weil-
der, of Lock Haven, were also guests at
the Haupt home for the week-end, visit-
ing there as friends of Miss Margaret
Haupt.
—A Bellefonte visitor last Friday was |
Alfred Martin, of Pittsburgh, a son of the
late Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, of Bellefonte.
He was born in Bellefonte and spent his
early life here, moving to Pittsburgh up-
wards of thirty-five years ago. At pres-
and he is looking a little thin, as he only
recently got out of the hospital after
spending six months in the institution
and undergoing a very serious operation.
—Rev. M. De P. Maynard, rector of St.
John's Episcopal church in this place, will
remain in Williamsport until December.
He is chairman for the Harrisburg Diocese
of the Nation-wide campaign of the
church’s mission and the work will not
be organized so that he can leave it in
other hands until that time. He has a
supply here but comes up for special serv-
ices. The Nation-wide mission is the
same movement in the Episcopal church
that other denominations already have un- :
der way.
—Mrs. Robert Sechler left yesterday
for her former home in Mifflinburg, to
spend a few days before going with her
mother, Mrs. Shontz, to Kansas. Having
planned to visit for a month with rela- |
tives of Mr. Sechler’s, at Hiawatha, Mrs. !
Sechler will return east near the middle of
November, then be with her sister in |
Johnstown until after Christmas. Upon
leaving Bellefonte, Miss Myra Sechler will
spend some time in Harrisburg with !
friends, before going to make her home |
with her sister, Mrs. Cox, in Franklin, Pa.
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there as a representative of the Bellefonte
postoffice, to attend a hearing before a
joint commission regarding postal salj-
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Who Sneaked Our Flivver? ]
It is a wonder that all of Bellefonte
and many parts of Centre county
were not kept awake most of Tues-
day night for some one, or more, took
possession of Geo. R. Meek’s rattlin’
old Ford and rode about six gallons
of gasoline away.
The flivver was left standing in
front of his house Tuesday night and
. when he emerged next morning it was
gone. The first impression of the
owner, of course, never conveyed an
. idea that anybody could have stolen
; such a thing so he made inquiry in
the neighborhood thinking it possible
that some kindly disposed person had
taken it in out of the cold. But no
such good fortune befel it. Then he
got to thinking that Henny’s child of
1215 was, on occasion, still fond of a
race and that it might have started
oT alone to give Mitch Cunningham,
another has-been runner, a trial of
speed. But it wasn’t down where
Mitch hangs out.
Later it was found in front of
Blackford’s restaurant on Bishop
street, with nothing gone but its
blanket.
| Mrs. Blackford said she had heard
a noise in front of the place between
four and five in the morning and up-
on looking out of the window had
seen two boys, both in their shirt-
"sleeves and hatless, wrestling with
the critter. Finally they gave up
‘trying to get it to move another inch
"and when one of them said: “Let’s
beat it,” they both ran up Bishop
| street.
Late Tuesday night assistant coun-
ty superintendent Milford Pletcher
parked his Ford in the Diamond and
when he went to start home in it
found that the switch key was miss-
ing. As Mr. Meek had removed the
switch key from his car it is quite
likely that the rascals took the one
from Mr. Pletcher’s in order to get
the other one going.
About three o’clock the same morn-
ing S. D. Ray saw two boys get into
Dr. Reed’s car hut before they could
get off with it he frightened them
out and they got away without iden-
tification.
Modern Health Crusade Work in Cen-
tre County.
| Elizabeth B. Meek, by invitation of
the Anti-Tuberculosis Society, went
to Philipsburg, Monday evening, to
give an illustrated talk on public
health and the Modern Health Cru-
sade work. Last year the Society for
Prevention of Tuberculosis, instead of
confining its work to the prevention
and cure of tuberculosis, launched in-
to a general educational campaign on
public health, called the Modern
Health Crusade, for children of school
age in grades one to eight. The scope
and result of the crusade in the
schools of Bellefonte, was published
in the “Watchman,” June 6th, and the
list of officers and pupils who had
earned the title of “Squire” in issue
of June 13. It is the purpose of the
Anti-Tuberculosis Society of Philips-
burg, of which Miss Laura Crissman
and Miss Carrie Hess are leaders, to
introduce the Crusade into the schools
of Philipsburg and this work will be
in charge of Miss Wynn, a graduate
of Goucher, who has volunteered her
services and who will have the aid of
several others interested in this im-
portant work. Systematic plans are
being made to extend the Crusade in-
to all the schools of Centre county
and thereby emphasize a few simple
health truths as an aid to teachers in
interesting pupils in health work. The
members of the Society ask the co-
operation of all teachers in this earn-
est endeavor to help make our county
the healthiest possible.
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Fall Movings.
In the Shoemaker flats, which Mrs.
Smith has decided to keep until Mrs.
Herman Holz and her son Harry take
possession in the spring, will be Mrs.
Frank Warfield, her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. James Craig;
Dr. and Mrs. Capers, and Mr. and
Mrs. Frederic Schad.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Cairns have
leased the south side of the Emerick
house on Spring street and are mov-
ing in this week.
Polar Beverages.—The best yet.
Ask your dealer. Ginger ale, root
beer, birch beer, Lemon soda, sarsa-
parilla.—A JIMON’S SONS. Distrub-
utors, Lock Haven Fa o7-4t
See the magnificent settings in
“Salome,” at the Lyric theatre today
and tomorrow (Saturday) matinee
and night. 40-1t
Sale Register.
Saturday, Oct. 25.—At the residence of
Cyrus Gearhart, one-half mile west of
Houserville school house, on Mayes
property, one mare, cow, 9 shoats, chick-
ens, 2 buckboards, and other farm im-
plements; also a full line of household
goods, including good organ. Sale at 1
p. m. sharp. L. Frank Mayes, auction.
eer.
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