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Bellefonte, Pa., October 31, 1919.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
— “Broken Blossoms” can be seen
at the Pastime theatre, State College,
this evening. Don’t miss seeing it.
——The fifteen days “safety first”
campaign conducted by the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company will end to-
day.
——While sugar is still a scarce
commodity in Bellefonte all indica-
tions point to a better supply gener-
ally during the month of November.
——A Civil service examination
will be held at Coburn on November
22nd to ‘fill a vacancy in the fourth-
class postoffice at Woodward. The
compensation of the office for the past
fiscal year was $216. :
——Aviator M. P. Charlten, who
left Bellefonte at 12:40 yesterday
afternoon was killed at 2:30 o'clock
when his motor stopped and his ma-
chine went into a nose dive shortly
after he crossed the Jersey line.
———The room in the Brockerhoff
house block recently vacated by
Blair's jewelry store has been leased
by a firm from Milton who will open
a fancy cheese store therein. The
room is now being put in shape for
occupancy.
—1Is there a Republican, Demo-
crat or Prohibitionist who can go to
the polls on November 4th and vote
against a poor, crippled, hard-work-
ing man like James E. Solt for Over-
seer of the Poor?
64-43-1t—Political Adv.
© — At the public sale of the Em-
pire Lime. company, in the prothono-
tary’s toffice last Saturday morning,
John Mignot outbid his brother-in-
law, ‘Conrad Miller, and purchased
the one-half undivided interest of the
eompany for $18,600.
——David * Finklestine, * proprietor
of the Bush Arcade cigar store and
billiard! parlor, last week installed an
automatic peanut roaster and popcorn
machine ‘in the big show window of
his store and the same has attracted
considerable attention éver since.
+ ——Bellefonte hotels closed their
bar-réoms promptly at four o’clock
on Wednesday, the hour when war-
time prohibition became effective to
the extent of all liquors over one-half
of one per cent. of alcoholic content.
What the ‘next step will be is now
open te:conjecture.
——Two ‘weeks ago the “Watch-
man” ‘published a brief item to the
effect that Bellefonte can get a silk
mill if & suitable location for the
buildings can be secured. Since that
time one property holder has come
forward with an offer to donate the
land free of charge, and further de-
velopments' are ‘expected in the near
future.
—_The people’ of Bellefonte and
surrounding community are request-
ed to buy their Christmas presents at
the Episcopal bazaar which will be
held in the parish house on November
20th. There will be a full-line of at-
tractive, fancy and practical articles,
at reasonable prices. So
able for the children, young people
and mother ‘and father.
——The Curtin Milling company at
Curtin is now manufacturing a su-
perior ' grade of roller flour which
they have named their Excelsior
brand, and which is as good as any
flour on the market. So confident are
the millers of its good quality that
they have decided to put it on the
Bellefonte market. See advertise-
ment on page five as to where it can
be purchased. :
— This is the last day of Octo-
ber and today’s weather is supposed
to govern that of next month. The
political campaign is about aqver and
the battle of the ballots will be fought
to a finish next Tuesday. If the best
man don’t win it will be the fault of
the individual voter and he will have
no comeback. And just here we
might add that it is only fifty-six
days until Christmas and none too,
early to begin your shopping for that
time. #
—1It is the duty of every citizen
to vote next Tuesday. Don’t let any-
thing over which you may have con-
trol keep you away from the polls. It
is to your interest now, as never be-
fore, to vote, for with the cost of liv-
ing ever going higher and unrest
everywhere in the land we should
have good men in our local offices.
Men of high character, men of broad
judgment, men of influence and use-
fulness in the community and men
who know how to save money for all
of us. :
——The Scenic was crowded at
every show of “Daddy Long Legs”
last Friday and Saturday,
shows that the public appreciates
good pictures, and when the same are
properly advertised they will draw
good crowds. While every show can-
not be a “Daddy Long Legs” yet the
nightly offering at the Scenic is al-
ways good and worth seeing, and
many a splendid picture is missed by
those who stay away even an evening
now and then. To avoid this, be a
regular.
— Samuel Solt was arrested in
Williamsport last week on a charge
of fraud preferred by Henry Mott.
The latter claimed that some time
ago he sold an automobile to Solt for
$395, on which a balance of $185 is
still due. Solt later, it was claimed,
sold the car to a resident of Belle-
fonte for $150. The car in question
is doubtless the one wrecked when
Solt ran into the McQuistion house
on Thomas street some weeks ago.
Solt was held under $200 bail for a
hearing before a magistrate.
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GERMAN GUN ARRIVES.
Boche “77” Reached Bellefonte Last
Friday Evening.
i The Boche “77,” the German gun
‘presented to W. Harrison Walker
Esq., by the War Department in rec-
ognition of his valued services as
chairman of Group 8, Third Federal
district war savings division, and
! chairman of the war savings com-
‘mittee of Centre county, reached
Bellefonte last Friday evening from
Newark, N. J., after being on the road |
"since October 2nd. The gun was un-
| loaded. from the car after dinner on
Saturday and trailed by M. R. John-
son’s big truck up High street to the
: triangle in the Diamond where it now
stands, and where it has already been
viewed by hundreds of people.
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in the ordnance service in France the
gun is one of the German 1898 mod-
els and is slightly larger than the
French “75.” The only parts missing
I'are the breech block and range find-
er and these the Germans always
‘managed to remove and hide before
they surrendered the gun. According
to the inscription on the gun it was
‘captured by members of the First di-
vision on July 10th, 1918, at Sur In-
ver, and was one of a number of such
I'guns originally consigned by the gov-
ernment to the Aberdeen proving
' grounds, Maryland. One of the
wheels of the gun carriage still bears
the camouflage paint with which the
gun was masked while in action. Two
bullet holes are noticeable in one side
“of the nmietal guard and it is quite
likely they were made by bullets from
guns fired by American soldiers.
While the gun was presented to W.
Harrison Walker Esq., by the War
Department it is his purpose to give
it tp Bellefonte and a concrete base
will be erected en the spot in the Dia-
mond, where the gun now stands to
which it will be securely anchored. It
is hoped to have this work done so
that a public presentation and official
dedication of the gun may be made
on November 11th, Armistice day,
which” is to be duly celebrated
throughout the United States.
_ While the gun will be located in
Bellefonte as the county seat, it will
Ve a memento to all Centre county for
the 'part its citizens played in the
wai in general. And Mr. Walker de-
servd§ all the credit for getting the
gun, Alone and unaided he not only
made application for the same but
for six months resorted to every
means possible to secure one of the
three guns allotted to the Third Fed-
eral reserve district and finally was
successful. The gun is very much
weather-worn and shows the result of
hard campaigns, but for the present
it will be allowed to stand in the con-
dition in which it was received so that
it will show to everybody who sees it
just what young America went up
against when they went to France to
fight the Huns.
—Vote for Harry Meyer for Pro-
thenotary.
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Miraculous Escape of William E.
: Gettig.
Very few men live to tell the tale
after being run over by a locomotive,
tender and the fore-part of a gondola
car, but that was the experience on
Saturday of William E. Gettig, of Al- |
toona, brother of S. D. Gettig Esq.,
of Bellefonte. Mr. Gettig is gang
leader of a force of workmen in the
car shops yards at Altoona. While at
his work just before the noon hour on
Saturday he was struck and knocked
down by a shifting engine and fell be- |
tween the tracks right in fromt of the
moving engine. Workmen saw the
accident and called to the engineer to
stop while members of Gettig’s gang
‘ran to the spot expecting to find his
mangled body.
What was their consternation, how-
ever, to see him crawl out from under
the second car behind the engine al-
most as if nothing had happened.
When knocked down he fell between
the rails and ties in such a manner
that he escaped any serious injury,
though his clothes were considerably,
torn. In order to make sure that he
wasn’t badly hurt Mr. Gettig went
to the Altoona hospital for a thorough
examination and the only injuries
that could be found were a slight lac-
eration above the right eye, contu-
sions of the right chest and an abra-
sion of the right hip, none of which
are at all serious. Mr. Gettig met
with his accident when ke stepped
backward from a car right in front of
. a slow moving shifting engine.
t —Vote for “Dick” Taylor for
| Sheriff.
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Dentist D. K. Musser has now
located in Centre Hall and opened an
office in the Dr. Hosterman building.
‘According to ex-soldiers who were
Boche “77” Gun Secured by Mr. Walker for Bellefonte
———A new twelve inch sewer was
put in this week over Spring street at
its intersection with High street, the
old one being wracked to pieces by
the heavy traffic going over it.
“Dick”
!
| —Vote for
Sheriff.
One of the best pieces of mo-
tion picture work ever done by David
Wark Griffith is “Broken Blossoms,”
| which was shown at the Pastime thea-
| tre, State College, yesterday. Large
crowds witnessed the picture and the
| advance sale of seats for today’s ex-
i hibitions are already quite large. If
you failed to see this remarkable film
production yesterday don’t fail to at-
tend it today.
—Vote for Frank Smith for Regis-
ter. :
Taylor for
Bill Doak, the blind man, is
contemplating with a great deal of
satisfaction the mement when he will
be able to throw his “old pencil case
in the garbage can,” as he has tritely
put it, and leave Dellefonte . for a
school for the blind. Some weeks
ago the “Watchman” told of the com-
ing to Bellefonte of Miss Reichert, an
instructor of the blind, and of her in-
terest in Bill. She . procured pa-
pers. for him with raised letters, such
as the blind are taught to read, and
Bill proved such an apt pupil that he
has mastered the trick of reading
them and already is quite expert at
it. Miss Reichert is now interesting
herself in having him placed in a
school where he can learn basket and
broom making, carpet weaving, etc.,
and he is all excited over the prospect
and eager to go. With the aptitude
that he has shown in mastering read-
ing it is ‘possible that he can learn
some trade in six months or a year
and then he hopes to be able to get
along without selling pencils on the
street.’ : diag Td
"Vote for D. Wagn
Recorder.
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coe —
Herbert Beezer, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George A. Beezer, returned
home on Tuesday night of last week
after more than two year’s service in
the navy and has the distinction of
being one of the last of the Bellefonte
young men to return home. Herbert
enlisted in the navy in July, 1917, for
a term of four years and after he had
served a brief apprenticeship and got-
ten a fairly good pair of sea legs he
was assigned to the cruiser Denver
and saw consderable service with the
Atlantic fleet both off the coast and
in the southern seas. Then the Denver
went through the Panama Canal with
the Pacifie fleet and Herbert asked
for a discharge for the reason that he
would like to go to college. When
the fleet finally reached San Francis-
co he was given a provisional dis-
charge, but is carried on the naval
pay roll at the princely figure of one
dollar a month, and is subject to call
~ "at any time within the four years if
his services are badly needed. But he
I'does not anticipate such a call and
| has already gotten back into cits
and will soon become as accustomed
to civil life in Bellefonte as all the
other boys who spent a year or more
before the mast or following the flag.
—Vote for Fry and Harter for
Commissioners.
——On Monday afternoon Mrs.
Edward Zimmerman, of south Water
street, decided to go up town to a
jewelers and have a much-prized ring
made small enough to fit her finger. !
. The ring is an heirloom, hence is es-
teemed even beyond its intrinsic val-
ue. As she was walking along the
south Water street pavement between
Waite’s implement store and the falls
she was idly twirling the ring on her
finger when it slipped, fell to the
pavement and before she could recov-
er it, it relled into the creek. Con-
siderably chagrined at her own care-
lessness she went back to Waite’s
store and told of her misfortune. Mr.
| John Waite went with her to the spot
' where she claimed the ring had rolled
into the creek but not a sight of it
could be seen. Finally Mr. Waite put
on hip boots and securing a rake wad-
ed into the creek and pulled out a lot
of moss in an effort to find the ring,
but was finally compelled to give it
up. Mrs. Zimmerman then took the
rake and kneeling on the stone pave-
ment raked up a big basket of moss
but still the ring could not be found.
Finally some school children came
along en their way home and one lit-
tle boy suddenly spied the ring lying
between two bricks embedded in the
moss. Then Mr. Waite got a stiff
wire, bent one end of it into a hook
and finally landed the ring safe and
sound in Mrs. Zimmerman’s hands.
—Vote for James E. Harter for
Treasurer.
| Mail Pilot Had Thrilling Experience ,
-' When Plane Burned.
Mail pilot Bradford had a thrilling
| experience last Friday on his trip
| from New York to Bellefonte when
{ his mail plane caught fire and burn-
ed up and he was painfully burned
on the hands and face before he
could jump from the plane and es-
cape to a point of safety. Bradford
had reached a point over the Seven
Mile narrows, some distance this side
of Mifflinburg, and was flying as close
to earth as possible owing to the ex-
tremely low visibility. Suddenly his
motor stopped. Thinking his one
gasoline tank was empty he switched
over onto his auxiliary tank when in
an instant almost his plane burst into
flames. He was too low to set his
plane to glide down, and with the
flames flying higher and higher he
had little time to pick a landing spot,
with the result that he struck the top
of a pine tree and his plane literally
crashed to the ground.
Fortunately Bradford was not even
stunned and in an instant had his
straps loose and made a leap out of
the burning plane. He beat a hasty
retreat and got about a hundred feet
from the burning machine when the
gas tank exploded. A passing auto-
ist took Bradford to Laurelton where
a physician dressed his burns and in-
juries, which consisted of a slight cut
and bruises, when he reported the ac-
cident to the Bellefonte field and then
returned to his machine which by that
time was mostly in ashes with the ex-
ception of the motor. The pilot came
to Bellefonte on the evening train
and on Saturday all that was left of
the machine was brought to Belle-
fonte and shipped to the repair shops
at Bustleton, near Philadelphia.
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Roosevelt Memorial Meeting.
While the several hundred people
who gathered at the ‘ court house on
Monday evening, the occasion of the
Roosevelt memorial + meeting, were
somewhat disappointed at the failure
of the advertised orator of the even-
ing, Samuel B. Hare Esq., of Altoona,
to make his appearance, in his
absence they heard a very good talk
by Col. H. S. Taylor, who all his life
has been an ardent admirer of Roose-
velt. : !
The meeting was in charge of Har-
ry Keller Esq., who presided and told
the purpose of the gathering in a
neat and appropriate speech. He then
introduced Col. Taylor as the first
speaker. The Colonel, by the way,
was scheduled to talk until the ap-
pearance of Mr. Hare on the evening
train. A slight wreck at Unionville
held’ up the evening train so that it
did not: reach Bellefonte until nine
o’clock, and when it finally did arrive
the expected speaker did not appear.
It devolved upon Col. Taylor, there-
fore, to be the chief speaker of the
evening and he not only entertained
but at times thrilled his audience
with his eulogistic portrayal of what
hé’ charaéterized * as- dominant fea-
tures of Mr. Roosevelt's: life. b
In addition to the speaking there
was music by the Odd Fellows or-
chestra and singing by a selected
choir under the leadership of R. Rus-
sell Blair. “At the close of the even-
ing’s program chairman Keller stat-
ed that one purpose of the meeting
was to give all those who desired to
do so an opportunity to enroll as
members of the Roosevelt Memorial
association, which entailed the pay-
ment of the small fee of one dollar,
and a number of those present enroll-
ed as members. :
persed Mr. Hare made his appear-
ance, bit too late to make a talk.
—Vote for John J. Bower for Dis-
trict Attorney.
Three Men Sent to Death Chair.
A triple electrocution took place at
the western penitentiary at Rock-
view on Monday morning, the first
time since the electric chair became
the death penalty in Pennsylvania
that three men have been electrocuted
at the same time. The first of the
trio to be taken to the chair was Wil-
liam Evans, colored, of Dauphin
county, who on February 15th, 1918,
stabbed to death Rufus Gillam, anoth-
er colored man. He was placed in
the chair at 7:08 and after four con-
tacts was pronounced dead by Dr.
Robert J. Campbell at 7:09.
The second man to go was John
Sandoe, of Lancaster county, who
murdered four-year-old Anna Mary
Hershey. He went to the chair at
7:14, was given five contacts and pro-
nounced dead at 7:21.
The last man was Gregory Psaros,
of Lancaster, who murdered Peter
Mormous. He was placed in the chair
at 7:24, and following three contacts
was pronounced dead at 7:29.
Sandoe’s remains were claimed by
relatives while those of Evans and
Psaros were buried in the penitentia-
ry cemetery.
—Vote for ‘Condo and Stover for
Auditors. wa
Patriotic League Girls.
There will be a meeting next Tues-
day, November 4th, at 7:30 p. m., In
the High school building. Everybody
is urged to go to this meeting, as
there is special business to attend to.
If not a member go out and become
one.
The Penn State football team
defeated Ursinus on Beaver field last
Saturday by the score of 38 to 7. The
State team left the College on Wed-
nesday night for Philadelphia where
tomorrow they will play the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania on Franklin
field. Coach Bezdek has expressed
his belief that the State team has an
even chance of winning against Penn,
so watch for the result tomorrow.
After the crowd had mostly dis-
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Peter S. Keichline went down to Phil-
adelphia on Monday to consult a special-
ist. *
—Miss Adaline Olewine was a week-end
guest of Mrs. Ray Gilliland, at State Col-
lege.
—Judge Henry C. Quigley has been
holding court in Pittsburgh since the be- |
ginning of last week.
—Major and Mrs. H. Laird Curtin are in
Philadelphia, having gone down Wednes-
day fer a military inspection.
‘—Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Moyer, of Altoona, !
spent the week-end at the home of Mrs.
Minerva Alters, on Water street. :
—Miss Helen Bair, of Philadelphia. will
come to Bellefonte today for a visit with
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Garman.
—Mrs. Russell Blair is in Bradford, vis-
iting with her - aunt, Mrs. J. A. Riley.
Mrs. Blair left Bellefonte Tuesday.
-—Miss Daisy Smith, of Philadelphia, is
spending her vacation in Bellefonte, visit-
ing with her mether, Mrs. Fred Smith.
—Mr. and Mrs. George Smith have been
visiting in Bellefonte with Mrs. Smith's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Showers, of
east Bishop street.
—Mrs. Amanda Hunter has returned to .
her home in Pittsburgh after spending
several months at the home of Mrs. Kate
Kline, on Curtin street.
-—-M. A. Landsy returned to Bellefonte
on Monday evening after spending six
weeks at the home studio of Antrim &
Landsy, in Philadelphia.
—Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hamilton have
been in Bellefonte during the past week,
visiting with Mr. Hamilton's parents, Mr.
and Mrs, Thaddeus Hamilton.
—Dr. and Mrs. Hiram M. Hiller, of Ches-
ter, came to Bellefonte Wednesday for a
short visit, Dr. Hiller expecting to spend
much of his time in the woods.
| —Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Brimmeier and
their son Paul left Bellefonte Wednesday
for Pittsburgh, where they will spend Mr.
Brimmeier’s vacation with relatives..
~_Mrs. Wallace Gephart is arranging to
leave Bellefonte early in “November, ex-
pecting to jein Mr. Gephart in New York
city, where they will make their home.
— Richard J. Lane, of McKeesport, with
Mrs. Lane and their family, drove to
Bellefonte .Sunday to spend: the week with
Mr. Lane's mother, Mrs. James B. Lane.
—Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sheffer have been
entertaining Mr. and Mrs. Walter Price,
of Kingston, N. Y.. and their daughter,
Miss Mabel Price, Mrs. Sheffer and Mrs.
Price being sisters. : .
—Charles A. Morris, Basil A, Mett, Har-
ry Ruhl and Hassell Montgomery will be
ameng those from Bellefonte who will be
in Philadelphia to morrow for the Penn
State-University game.
— Mrs. Edmund 'P. Haye§ will leave next
week to join Mr. Hayes in Pittsburgh,
where he is now permanently located.
Mrs. Hayes has been in Bellefonte with
Mr. Hayes’ mother, Mrs. R.'G. H. Hayes,
since the 15th of June.
—Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brew, of Hazle-
ton, made one of their infrequent visits
to Bellefonte last week, coming here ¥ri-
day and remaining until Sunday, with Mr.
and Mrs. H. KE. Fenlon. Mrs. Fenlon is
Mr. Brew’s only sister.
Mrs. William A. Lyom returned to
Bellefonte the early part of the week, ex-
pecting to spend the early _winter_at her
home on east High street, Mrs: Lyon has
been for the greater part of the’ gummer
with her children in New Jersey and New
York. ; par
Miss Irene Pletcher, of Howard, who
is spending the winter at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Dale, on the Branch,
was among the out of town people to lake
advantage of the change in the weather
Wednesday, and spent the day in Belle-
fonte.
— Mrs. Edward Nolan and her daughter,
Mrs. Levi Johnson, will come here from
Chicago today, for a visit with Mrs. No-
lan’s friends in Bellefonte. During their
stay in Centre county they will be guests
of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Walker and Miss
Shortlidge. >
Mrs. Matthew McGinness came over
from Clearfield on Saturday for her first
visit in more than a year at the home of
her parents, Hon. and Mrs. James Scho-
field. She was accompanied home on Mon-
day by her mother, who will be her
daughter’s guest at the hotel Dimeling.
—Mrs. John C. Matthews, of Buffalo, N.
Y., and her son, have been guests since
the early part of last week of Mrs. Mat-
thews’ father and brother, H. M. Bidwell
and Morton Bidwell, at their home on
south Allegheny street. Mrs. Matthews
expects to return home early in Novem-
ber.
— Mrs. Joseph Strouse, of State College,
her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Strouse
and one of her children, motored to Belle-
fonte Saturday to spend the afternoon
looking after some business and shopping.
The car was driven by Mrs. Strouse’s
grandson, Joseph Glenn, who is at school
at State.
—Mr. B. F. Kister, of the Ridg-
way Record, was a “Watchman” office
visitor on Tuesday, having been over at
Millheim visiting old friends. Editor Kis-
ter is a native of Pennsvalley and learned
the printing trade in Millheim finally
striking out for himself with the result
that he has found a very pleasant and
profitable occupation in Ridgway.
Mrs. Lide Thomas Gibson returned to
Philadelphia Tuesday, after spending a
week here with her mother, Mrs. Isaac
Thomas, who has been in ill health for
some time. Mrs. Gibson is identified with
the business interests of the city, as a
member of the firm of the Ellsworth Nov-
elty Co. Elmer Sager accompanied Mrs.
Gibson to Bellefonte, spending the week
here as Mrs. Thomas’ guest.
— Mrs. George M. Glenn and her son
Randolph were in Bellefonte Wednesday.
doing some buying for the winter. Mr.
and Mrs. Randolph Glenn and their two
children came from Bradford Saturday, to
spend the winter with Mr. Glenn’s moth-
er on Mrs. Isaac Gray's farm, up Buffalo
Run. From there Mr. Glenn will go to
State College for a course in agriculture
in anticipation of taking charge of the
Glenn farm, at Brierly, in the spring.
—John L. Dunlap left for Illinois on
Tuesday afternoon in response to a tele-
gram conveying the sad intelligence that
his sister, Mrs. Joseph Houtz, is lying at
the point of death at her home in Kirk-
land. Mr. Dunlap had made his plans to
take a trip to Illinois this fall, intending
to leave next Tuesday and go to Galena
to see his brother William, whom he has
not seen in forty-four years, but the tele-
gram announcing the serious illmess of his
sister hastened his departure just one
week. In addition to the brother and sis-
ter above mentioned Mr. Dunlap has
another brother living in Kirkland.
—Miss Anne Keichline, accompanied by
James Shellenberger, drove here the fore-
part of the week from Philadelphia, where
she had been visiting at the Shellenber-
ger home, Mr. Shellenberger having come
this far with her on his way to Franklin.
—Mrs. C. A. Stewart, of Willoughby
Beach, Va., her two children and her sis-
ter, Mrs, Edgar C. Carpenter, are all guests
of Mrs. Stewart's and Mrs . Carpenter’s
| parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Eckenroth, of
! Howard street. Mr. Stewart and Mr. Car-
; penter will join the women here at the end
I*of their two week’s visit.
| —Mr. and Mrs. John Gephart Munson
j and their two children have been in Belle-
fonte for the past week with Mr. Munson’'s
mother, Mrs. L. T. Munson. Mr. Munson,
who is with the J. G. White Electrical
company, has been in the New York city
offices since coming north from Chatta-
nooga within the past year and is now on
his way to Michigan, where he will be one
of the firms representatives at Rogers.
Census Enumerators Wanted.
Sixty-two census enumerators will
be needed to take the 1920 census in
Centre county, one for every election
district. So far the number of appli-
cants are less than the number desir-
; ed and in order to give everybody de-
siring to engage in the work an op-
| portunity to file their application the
| date for acceptance of applications
i has been indefinitely extended by the
! supervisor of this district, Mr. Frank
E. Costello, of Bradford, Pa. Per-
sons desiring to become enumerators
in. their district should get their ap-
plications to Mr. Costello as quickly
as possible, as the time is drawing te
a close when all lists will have to be
made up and sent to Washington for
approval.
eco
—Vote for Harry Meyer for Pro-
thonotary.
~——-The Berks county weather
prophet asserts that we will have a
white Christmas but a comparatively
mild winter throughout with an early
spring. He claims to base his predic-
tions on the location of the planets
and stars. And “Waxey” Straub, the
Spring township farmer, agrees with
the Berks county pregnosticator as fo
the mild winter but he bases his pre-
diction on the hornet’s nests. He
avers that every nest the past sum-
mer was built low, not far from the
ground, and the walls of the nest are
only ‘of ordinary thickness, and he
says that is an infallible sign of a
mild winter. We accept with a feel-
ing of satisfaction these predictions
of a mild winter and are willing to
accept “Waxey’s” prediction as based
on the hornét’s nests, as we have no
particular ambition to investigate
them very closely on our own ac-
count.
—Vote for Condo and Stover for
Auditors.
The mayor of Williamsport has
already secured ten car loads of ar-
my and navy feod supplies from the
government for the people of that
city, in addition to'large quantities
purchased through the Williamspert
postoffice. ‘The supplies included
about everything in the way ‘of can-
ned goods, especially vegetables and
meats, as well as some sugar. Resi-
dents of Bellefonte and vicinity were
able to get a limited supply of the
army food through the postoffice
sales, but that was all.
—Vote for D. Wagner Geiss for
Recorder.
Fifteen days of the squirrel
and pheasant hunting season have
passed and so little of either kind of
game has so far been brought into
Bellefonte that the natural conclu-
sion is that both kinds must be very
scarce, notwithstanding the reports
to the contrary during the summer
and fall. Of course some game has
been killed in certain sections of the
county, but it is hard to get, especial-
ly pheasants. They seem to be un-
usually wild and it is only the really
good shots that have been successful
in bagging any birds.
—Vote for Condo and. Stover fer
Auditors. :
— Yesterday morning Charles
Brachbill was out in his father’s gar-
den doing a little work when he was
attracted to a particularly green
raspberry bush, and investigating he
discovered that the bush was bearing
a fall crop of berries. In proof of
this he brought a branch to this office
which © has in the ‘neighborhood of
thirty berries on it, some big and
ripe, others getting ripe and some in
various stages of growth.
ow
—Vote for Frank Smith for Regis-
ter.
Eyes Examined Free.
David B. Rubin of Rubin and Rubin,
Harrisburg’s leading eyesight special-
ists will be at the Mott drug store,
Bellefonte, on Wednesday and Thurs-
day, November 5th and 6th. He
makes no charge for examining your
eyes, and will not give you : glasses
unless you really need them. He
uses no drops in making the "exam-
ination. 42-2t
—Vote “for “Dick” Taylor for
Sheriff.
——
Buckwheat Flour.
Our pure Buckwheat flour is new
on the market. For sale at all gro-
ceries. Mail orders promptly filled.
CURTIN MILLING CO.,
43-1t Curtin, Pa.
ee + + me.
—Vote for Frank Smith for Regis-
ter.
——Tax payers of Spring township
can find Collector Miller at the Gar-
man hotel this coming Saturday—
from 9:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. Come.
43-1t L. A. MILLER, Col.
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—Vote for Harry Meyer for Pro-
thonotary.