a * Deno Mit ecember 19, 1919. | ee ————— Bellefonte, Pa., rr No Paper Next Week. from this | No paper will be issued office next week, in accordance with the old-time custom of giving the employees a week’s holiday at Christ- mas time. The office, however, will be open to our friends as usual. The next issue of the “Watchman” will be on January 2nd. - NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. ——65 ct. brooms at Gross’ store. “My Wife’s Friend,” a big mu- sical show, will come to Garman’s on Tuesday night, December 30th. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Rumber- * ger, of Unionville, will celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary on De- cember 29th. — The tea given by Mrs. Lewis Daggett Saturday afternoon, was in compliment to Mur. Daggett’s cousin, Mrs. Maynard Murch Jr., of Cleve- land, Ohio, who is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Wells L. Daggett at the Bush house. — The Holiday week amusement attraction, at Garman’s, will be “My Wife’s Friend,” which will play here on Tuesday night, December 30th. It is a big show, with a strong cast of comedians and singers who are mak- ing a great hit on the road. —— The regular meeting of the Woman’s club will be held in the High school building Monday evening, De- cember 29th. From the program a very ‘interesting meeting is promised, so that all the members are asked to ' make a special effort to be present. A civil service examination will be held at the Bellefonte postoffice on | postmaster at Snow Shoe. The com- ation of the postmaster at Snow Shoe during the past fiscal year was | $999.00. + ——The Bellefonte public schools will close. today. for the holiday va- cation which will extend two weeks or until the fifth of January. The ‘Bellefonte Academy will give a three weeks “vacation | and The Penn- sylvania State College will close to- morrow for a vacation of two weeks.’ . ——Don’t overlook the fact that + fhe Scenic will be the onc place in "Bellefonte where you can get delight- - ful entertainment every evening dur- © ing the holiday! season.. Motion pic- tures appropriate to the season will be shown as well as many others “1, Which will interest and entertain you. : Fire~at the Alpha Delta Sig- ma fraternity at State College early last Friday morning caused about two thousand dollars damage, most of - whieh was covered-by insurance. The fire started in the stock room in the basement and the éntire food supply, valued at four hundred dollars, was , destroyed. .. . ——Under the new law members of the reorganized National Guard ! will be paid twenty-five per cent of the regular soldier’s pay, or $7.50 a month for privates, with proportion- ate pay for commissioned and non- commissioned officers. Efforts are ‘mow being made to reorganize old Troop L with as many of the old men in the ranks as possible. ——Frank H. Towers, who succeed- ed Mr. Blakesley as manager at the Bellefonte aviation field, has resigned from the service and on Wednesday morning left Bellefonte for Chicago, where he will spend the holiday sea- son with his family, going from there to Lincoln, Neb., about the first of the | year to take a position with the Lin- ‘eoln Aerial Navigation company. ——Commemcrating the onc hun- dred and twentieth anniversary of the death of George Washington, the ‘members of Washington camp No. 887, P. O. S. of A, of Bellefonte, held a special meeting on Sunday after- noon. Clement Dale Esq., was charge and appropriate addresses were made by Revs. M. DePue May- nard, E. J. Dunn and Wilson P. Ard. . ——A victory dance was given at the Bellefonte Academy on Saturday evening in honor of the football team and as a compliment to the members of the victorious State College team the members of that aggregation ‘were invited as honor guests. Twen- ty or more came down from the Col- lege, including Capt. Higgins, Cap*- glect Hess and a number of the other _ depding members of the team. The dames was held in the big assembl om at the Academy and Penn State and Academy colors were blended. in the decorations. Music was furnish- pd by the Academy orchestra, ! |" Quite naturally everybody would like to have turkey for Christ- mas, as it has always seemed , the most appropriate dish for the Christ- mas dinner. But there will probably pig “he. Lower turkeys served this year in Bellefonte than ever before, unless the price at whch they can be bought is right. Turkeys are not exactly searce ‘but the price some farmers ive been asking for them make them prohibitive to the average man, While any others will not pay more : if price for them. vere rsold in r Be lefonts at ng “ht'40 haniviic WY y.great number was ht tna he. Ot br ty ggpvers ho brought turkeys to townjabithat fime even offered them at 85 cents but found few anxious ‘buyers. ‘Just will be asked now, has not what price xed but it is highly yet ‘been learned, : i probable that there will be, . more chicken = dinners’ in! Bellefonte on Christmas than there are turkey. . January 9th to fill a contemplated va- | * cancy in the position of fourth class in | STINE DAMAGE CASE IN HANDS | OF JURY. : What was certainly the largest ac- 2 tual money damage suit that has been tried in the Centre county courts in many years was brought to a close yesterday, after a trial that extended for a week and two days when court charged the jury and it retired. It has been deliberating since 11:20 yesterday morning and up to 5 o’clock last evening had made no finding. : The case was that of S. B. Stine, founder and machinist, cf Osceola | Mills. versus the Pennsylvania Rail-' | road company and grew out of the de- | struction by fire of the complainants | shops on the afternoon of October | 25th, 1917. Mr. Stine’s plant was lo- | cated right at the railroad station at | Osceola Mills. He did a general foun- | dry and machine business, specializ- | ing in mine equipment and mine cars. | Being located immediately alongside | of the tracks of the defendant compa- | ny it was subject to the hazzard of | fire from locomotive sparks just as ail | other property located within range of locomotives with imperfect spark arresters. Both sides presented many witness- es and much time was consumed in detail so that the summing up of councel for both sides was not con- cluded until Wednesday. It was so | late when the plaintiff concluded that : the court decided not to charge the i jury until yesterday morning, feeling | that had it been done at the conclu- sion of Judge Reed’s address to the jury, Wednesday evening, the jury would have been in the box probably all night and as no time would have been saved and much inconvenience suffered thereby it was better for all to withhold the charge until yesterday morning and thus send the jury into daylight deliberation. The Judge spoke for an hour and ten minutes in delivering his charge. Primarily the case hinged on the | fact as to whether the plant. caught | fire on the inside or outside of the buildings and, if on the outside, was it from an engine spark and was the railroad comrpany negligent in any- thing that would have prevented the spark from falling on the roof of the defendants’ building. , All of Stine’s witnesses testified that when they first noticed the fire it was on the roof. All of the railroad company’s witnesses, who saw it at all, testified that before they saw any flames at all they saw smoke curling out from un- | der the eves as though the fire was on | the inside of the building. The next step in the development of the case was to establish the damages sustain- ed through the fire. This included the physical loss on the property and the loss of business during the period the plant was being removed to reserve buildings that Mr. Stine owned on another location near by. The plain- tiff presented witnesses to show a loss in plant and machinery of about $113,000. The defense met this with | expert testimony that did not vary i much from the valuations Mr. Stine | placed on his machinery but very ! greatly on other items. Of course all values were based on war time costs which made them much higher than they would have been in nominal times. Ww. Fleming, assisted by Judge Reed who was participating in his last case before taking his new position on the Public Service Commission, and attor- neys Boulton and Forsyth, of Clear- ficld. John Blanchard, resident coun- sel for the Pennsylvania Railroad company, defended the case alone. The jurors sitting on the case were C. H. Bierly and Ira Brungard, Miles township; A. XK. Corl, Ferguson town- ship;Lester R. Fink, Huston town- ship; Charles A. Houtz, Union town- ship; P. P. Leitzel, Millheim; Joseph Lutz, Centre Hall; W. S. Lucas, Gregg township; S. B. Miller, Belle- fonte; 0. P. McCord, Rush township; William Solt, Howard; S. H. Wigton, Philipsburg. Funk Bungalow Badly Damaged by Fire. The new bungalow of Edward Funk which was fast nearing comple- tion on east Curtin street was badly damaged by fire on Wednesday night, and from all appearances the origin is in doubt. Investigations prove almost conclusively that the fire start- ed on the rear porch and the flames had gained considerable headway when discovered shortly before mid- nigl.t. Both fire companies respond- ed promptly to the alarm but it nat- | urally took a little time to get to the | burning building, which is located on east Curtin street, but when the fire- men got there they did good work and saved the home from total destruc- tion,’ But the entire rear part of the building was badly burned and Mr. Funk estimates the damage of both fire and ~ water at from $3,000 to $8,500 dollars. A portion of the loss will be covered by insurance, but the most calamitous feature of the fire is that it will set back the completion of the! oT is not often that the opportunity to do some friend. In fact ciate greatly. while the cost of this year the recipient will creased its quality. two. gracious, things with one transaction pre- sents itself. “It is yours, however, if you act wpon our suggestion to let the “Watchman” be your Christmas message of good will to minders of your thoughtfulness. And at the same time you are ordering such an accepta- ble gift for some one who does not get the pa- per you will be adding another name to our subscription list; a matter that we will appre- Real, practical, useful gifts are the kind that people are most delighted to receive and there is nothing that is more necessary in the well regulated home than a good home news- paper and the “TV atchman” is all of that, even though it hasn't increased its price or de- NN it would be fifty re- paper is only $1.50 a value it far higher, jor Some of Those Who are Ill. Charles R. Beatty is ill with pneu- monia at his home on east Linn street, and for the reason that pneu monia is always serious, Mr. Beatty’s many friends are very much concern- ed with regard to his condition. Mrs. W.H. Wilkinson and C. I. Gerberich, both of whom have had se- vere attacks of acute indigestion with- in the past ten days, are slowly ve- covering. The many friends of Mrs. D. G. Bush will be sorry to hear of a fall she had last Sunday, which resulted der. The accident occurred at the home of Mrs. Sides, at Jersey Shore, where Mrs. Bush has been since leav- ing Bellefonte early in November. George E. Rhoads, head of the firm of Geo. E. Rhoads and Sons con- tractors of this place, had quite a ser- jous attack of acute indigestion on promptly, however, and was able to be up by Monday. John Steele, who has been ill with the grip at the home of his ‘sister, Mrs. Bower Holter, on Pine street, for three weeks, is about able to go ou again. John was severely gassed while overseas so that he is suscepti- ble to the slightest cold. Word was received in Bellefonte Wednesday of the serious illness of Frank M. Shugert, who had been tak- {en to the Clearfield hospital, suffer- ing from a blood clot on the brain. | Although paralyzed and in a critical { condition, Mr. Shugert’s recovery is The plaintiff was represented by M. | hoped for through the absorption of | the clot. Women’s $15.00 shoes, new goods, latest styles, reduced to $10.00 untl Christmas, at Yeager’s. 50-1t en WAN cre vn | Whitmer — Markley. — Samuel C. | Whitmer and Miss Lulu A. Markley, both of Bellefonte, went to Greens- burg on Tuesday of last week and were united in marriage at the United Brethren parsonage by the pastor, Rev. W. A. Knapp. They will reside on the bridegroom’s farm near Belle- fonte. The wedding of Mr. Whitmer and Miss Markley is the climax of a pretty little romance. The bride was an or- phan whom the Whitmer’s took into their home when only a child. She grew up and into the hearts of the family so completely that their rela- tions were always most happy and the union of the son and the estimable girl is a fitting denouement. Miller—Haney.—B. E. Miller, serv- ice man at the Beatty Motor compa- ny, and Miss Grace Haney, of St. Mary’s, Ohio, were married in the lat- ter place on Thanksgiving day. They will reside in Bellefonte. State Highway Bids. Bids were opened at the State Highway Department on Tuesday for the construction of 1720 feet of high- way in Bellefonte borough, being the section from Allegheny street along ‘Bishop, Spring and Pine to the bor- ough line, the lowest bidder for which bid was $38,783.98. struction of 5326 feet im State Collega borough. Leo E. Kelly, of B oklyn, ‘was lowest bidder, ue figure being $154,878.45. oid © i the house indefinitely. me - ——Sugar is sugar th so rwhen a certain grocery store in Bellefonte this week offered cake Su- gar, that was almost the color of choc- olate at 15 cents a, pound buyers took itt’ On Wednesday,: however, the, agent came to . Bellefonte and Mr. roceryman asked ‘him. what kind of shgar that was that he had palmed off him. The agent asked to see:it le sugar worth 35 cents'a pound. It ad been ‘shipped:to the grocer by 15 cents a pound. * buyers cannot afford to be particular, | d on being shown a cake discovered | t it was the real, simon pure ma- i istake and he was selling it out at} ese days and | $5.00 at Yeager's, unélf Christmas. AG | 501, | On Monday Bellefonte people were shiveringin the sudden ‘cold snap pilot Fraik ‘Ax Robinson §iN. J., to Belle- flew from Heller: fieldgN. . D's, silk hose and fonte wearing B. V. B ow shoes, and when got out of his plane at the _ t field eo) that ‘the only parts of In that felt the cold were his handsiand. his heels. No plane was sent west} that day o 'to the terrific blizzéird, in the neigh- 'borhood of Cievels jo. 14 4 in the dislocation of her right shoul- | Saturday. He responded to treatment was Frank Murphy, of Altoona, whose Bids were also opened for the con- Boy's $8.00 shoe: “reduced: to CORN AND POTATO SHOW. And. Several Meetings to be Held Tomorrow. County farm agent R. M. Olmstead announces that plans have been about completed for the big corn and potato show to be held in the court house, Bellefonte, tomorrow in connection with various meetings of especial in- terest to farmers. Quite a number of exhibits have already been placed and as only the very best has been brought in there is sure to be some ‘keen competiton and good natured ri- | valry on the various exhibits which | will bring out some interesting points |in the selection of corn and potatoes | for show purposes, as well as for : seed. One farmer who brought in an exhibit of corn could not enter all the _ ears he had with him because some of | them were too big, more than the . standard length of ten inches, and on others the rows were crooked. But it is such little niceties of exactness that will make the show a really worth- while one, because it will show the ' farmers the kind of corn to pick out ‘for seed purposes. Therefor, if you . have not yet placed an exhibit be sure to bring or send one in today or be- , fore the show opens tomorrow morn- ing. Good programs are promised for the various meetings which will be held. The sheep and wool associa- tion has arranged for some good dis- ! cussions on ram clubs, . co-operative selling of lambs and the continued pooling of wool. These discussions ‘will be led by W. B. Connell, the sheep specialist of the extension de- partment of State College. The Guernsey breeder’s association . will also have an interesting meeting _in the morning. Dr. I. D. Wilson will be present to discuss tuberculosis in | cattle, contagious abortion and other : diseases. Every stock breeder should attend this meeting, whether he is a | Guernsey breeder or not. Both the above meetings will be held in the court house at ten o'clock and will be | open to everybody. | The annual meeting of the farm bureau will be held at 1:30 p. m,, and | the business will consist of hearing reports, election of officers, discussion of the work for the coming year and short, snappy talks by some real good speakers. Plans are being made to have a wheat grader from Washing- ton, D. C.,, present, and if they are | successful he will be in the farm bu- reau office during the day to give demonstrations on the grading of wheat and to answer any and all questions asked him. With the above feast of good things offered for tomorrow no farmer can afford to miss these meetings. -—— Women’s $8.00 nurse shoes, rubber heels, cushion innersoles, re- duced to $6.00 at Yeager’s, until Christmas. 50-1t Tumbled Down His Elevator Shaft. | On Saturday aftrenoon Harry E. Clevenstine, proprietor. of the City bakery in this place, walked into the elevator shaft in his bakery and as the elevator was not at the floor he was on he fell a distance of about five feet. . 8 While the fall was not a great one Mr. Clevenstine was wholly unaware of his danger and was unable to ease considerably stoved up. .~ ' ity i La $y en 4 ——Women’s shoe: $3,00 tb $5.00 a pair at Yeager's. 50°1¢ i * Board’ of Trade Nominations. At a meeting of the board of trade, held at’ the Bellefonte club last ,Thurs- day evening, the following nomina- tions of officers were made for thelen- suing. year. ,These men will come up for election at the annual meeting in January:. _ President—Joseph L. Montgomery. Vice President—John M. Bullock. Tréasurer—Charlés' M. McCurdy. Secretary—W. T. Kelly. — Women’s $15.00 shoes reduced to $10.00 at Yeager’s. 50-1t SALAS LAATAAAAAAAA AANA SOPRANOS XONAIS INS SINISE Interesting Farmers’ | the shock with the result‘that he was. s. reduced, from NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. day from a two week's stay in Syracuse. " fonte for a vacation, visiting with his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. John N. Lane. . —Mrs. Charles A. Morris has returned "to Bellefonte after visiting for two weeks in Philadelphia and Washington, D. C. i —Col. and Mrs. W. F. Reynolds’ Christ- { mas guests will be their two sons, Fred- | in Philadelphia. __Mrs. D. R. Foreman and Mrs. Gotleib | gtrohmeier, of Centre Hall, were in Belle- Christmas shopping. __Mrs. W. Harrison Walker's mother and | | Walker's Christmas guests. __ Miss Henrietta Sebring, a Freshman at Smith College, will arrive in Bellefonte Monday, to spend her vacation with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. John Sebring. —Mrs. C.D. Tanner and her son For- rest will spend both Christmas and New Year's day in Hazleton, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh N. Boyle and their family. __Miss Henrietta Quigley, from Vassar, and Hugh M. Quigley, from Williams Col- lege, will both spend the Holidays here | with their parents, Judge and Mrs. H. C. | Quigley. | Miss Mabel Sheffer, from Miss Mason's | school at Tarrytown’ On-the-Hudson, and | Miss Mary Taylor, from Vassar, will come | to Bellefonte tomorrow for their Christ- mas vacation. | —Mrs. William Houser, of Meadville, Jann her two sons, will be in Bellefonte | Sunday, to celebrate Christmas with the | boys’ grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles | Moerschbacher. | | { | | | | ~The family Christmas party to be en- tertained by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Showers : | will include Mr. and. Mrs. George Smith, ! of Pittsburgh, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry | Showers, of Beaver Falls. | —Miss Dashiels, who left Bellefonte to take charge of the household arts depart- { ment in the schools of Beaver, Pa. cx- | pects to spend her vacation here as a guest of Miss Katherine Allison. Miss Bell Lowry returned to her home in McKeesport, Tuesday, after a three week's visit here, as a guest of Miss Anne Keichline, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Keichline. — Mrs. Sylvester A. Bixler, who has been a medical patient in the Bellefonte hos- pital for a month or more, will be dis- charged this week, and will return at once to her home in Lock Haven. —Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Butterworth, of Wilkinsburg, will be among those to re- turn home for the Christmas celebration, coming next week to be guests of Mrs. Butterworth’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Knisely. __ Migs Mildred Wagner, studying at the Broad Street Conservatory of music in Philadelphia, and Miss Della Beezer, at the Mary Wood College, at Scranton, will both be in Bellefonte tomorrow for the winter vacation. __Mrs. George Dallas Dixon, of Philadel- phia; Mrs. J. Gilbert McIlwaine, of Down- ingtown; Mrs. Strong and her brother, William Simpson, of Lock Haven, were in Bellefonte Saturday for the funeral . of Miss Julia Curtin. Having suspended. work on the state road for the winter, Mr. and Mrs. Michaels returned yesterday to their former home in Scranton, to remain there until the weather permits Mr. Michaels to resume work in Centre county. — Wallace FH. Gephart will arrive in Bellefonte a short time before Christmas, to spend the holiday with his family here and to make final arrangements for tak- ing Mrs. Gephart and the children to New York, where they will make their home. — Mrs. A. B. Cromer, who has been visit- ing with relatives in Sunbury since leav- ing New York two weeks ago, will spend Christmas here with her father, Homer Crissman and the family, Mr. Cromer coming to join her for the Holiday week. __Martin Cooney and his daughters will make merry at Christmas time for the only grand-daughter and niece they have, Mary Elizabeth Stauffer, whom they had never seen until this week. Mrs. Ray Stauffer brought her daughter to Bellefonte Mon- day. __W. Wilson Gephart, of New York city, with Mrs. Gephart and their daughter Elizabeth, are expected in Bellefonte next week, to be the Holiday week guests of Mr. Gephart’s mother and sister, Mrs. J. Wesley Gephart and Miss Elizabeth, at their home on Linn street. __Miss Grace Mitchell, instructor in the Westover school at Middlebury, Conn, and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Mitchell, of Burnham, will be members of the Mitchell family to celebrate Christmas here with their father, Isaac Mitchell, all to be guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Porter Lyon. __Miss Elizabeth Parker, who has been a guest of her brother and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. G. Ross Parker, since the first of October, will return to her home in Som- erset next week. Miss Eleanor Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Parker's daughter, is ex- pected in Bellefonte the day before Christ- mas. * 3% Mr. and Mrs. Silas Glasgow, their son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. William Glas- gow and their two children, who had lived in North Dakota until six weeks ago, are visiting with relatives in Centre coun- ty, Mrs. Glasgow's niece, Mrs. Thomas Hazel. The Glasgow family came east with thein- tention: of locating in central Pennsylva- mia, buts up: to’ this time have not definite- ly ‘decided where. £ids © _J.. Elmer Roybr, of Potter township, wis, n*“Watchmhn’ office caller on Friday fhile in ‘Bellefonte on