"Bellefonte, Pa., January 30, 1920.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——Get your fishing tackle in shape
as it is only seventy-six days until
trout fishing season opens.
——Any person wishing to buy a
good flour and grist mill should read
the advertisement of one for sale in
this issue of the “Wathman.”
—Horatio S. Moore last week
closed the deal for the Dr. J. L. Sei-
bert property on Allegheny street now
occupied by Mrs. Frank Montgomery.
——The thimble bee of the ladies
of the Reformed church will be held
this (Friday) afternoon, at the home
of Mrs. D. R. Foreman, Spring street.
——W. Harrison Walker Esq., has
received one each of the navy and
marine blankets the government is
now offering for sale. The navy
blanket is grey in color and sells at
$8.25. The marine blanket is olive
drab and sells at $5.50. These blan-
kets can be seen at Mr. Warker’s of-
fice by any one interested in securing
some, and Mr. Walker will accept and
place orders for any number desired.
——On Thursday of last week rep-
resentatives of Ballinger & Perot and
William Steele’s Sons, architects, of
Pittsburgh, were in Bellefonte and in
company with John P. Kelley made a
thorough inspection of the Kelley &
Wion garage with a view of becoming
expert witnesses for Mr. Kelley in the
action brought against him by Anna
M. Keichline, architect, and which is
listed to be tried at the February
term of court.
i ———Announcement has been made
of the marriage in Philadelphia last
Saturday morning of Ogden B. Ma-
lin, of Bellefonte, and Miss Elizabeth
F. Meyers, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert S. Meyers, of Asbury
Park. The bridegroom holds the po-
sition of assistant instructor in min-
ing engineering at The Pennsylvania
State College, and for the present he
and his bride will reside at the Malin
home in this place.
——Five hundred people or more
wanted cvery evening to attend the
Scenic and get the benefit of the best
line of motion pictures being shown
anywhere. Every picture you miss
will be as much your loss as it will
the Scenic management, and that is
the reason of this invitation to attend.
The Scenic offers the only regular
amusement to be had in Bellefonte
and every cvening’s program is a good
one. Itis just the place to spend
these long winter evenings.
—Prof. J. S. F. Ruthrauff, of
Phifipsburg, who some time ago re-
signed as superintendent of the Phil-
ipsburg schools to become secretary
of the Philipsburg Chamber of Com-
merce, has just turned down an offer
from Jonas E. Wagner to become
+ principal of the High school at Bea-
ver, Pa., at a salary of $2,100 per an-
num, and now has an offer to become
housemaster at Girard College, Phila-
delphia. Though at last reports he
was hesitating over the coffer it is
generally believed that he will accept
and leave for Philadelphia so as to be-
gin his duties next week.
——Miss Sarah Packard, of the
Home Economics Extension Service
of The Pennsylvania State College,
will talk on “Diet for the School
Child,” Friday evening, February
sixth, at a quarter before eight in the
High school auditcrium. While Miss
Packard’s talk is primarily intended
to be helpful to mothers and others
who have charge of children, it will
contain information that will be prof-
itable for any one to know. It is giv-
en under the auspices of the society
for the prevention of tuberculosis as a
part of the Modern Health Crusade
movement. There will be no admission
and the public is cordially invited to
come and learn.
——Governor Sproul last week ap-
pointed Hon. A. G. Morris, of Belle-
fonfe, a member of the board of man-
agers of the Huntingdon reformatory
in place of George H. Stewart, of
Shippensburg, resigned. Mr. Morris
served on the board from May, 1896,
to May, 1916, when Governor Brum-
baugh failed to re-appoint him for
political reasons. During the last
three and a half years of his twenty
years’ service Mr. Morris was presi-
dent of the board and he always man-
ifested a great interest in the success
and .welfare of the institution. His
return to the board will be gladly wel-
comed by the other members as well
as the officials in charge of the re-
-formatory.
———Centre county friends of Miss
Laura Waite, a sister of Darius and J.
S. Waite, of Bellefonte, will surely
sympathize with her in the big loss
;she sustained in the destruction by fire
early in the week of one of the dor-
mitories of Piedmont College, at
Demorest, Ga., where she is an in-
structor in domestic science, The dor-
miter burned was one occupied by
tha teachers and a number of stu-
dents, and the fire spread so rapidly
that all of the occupants had little op-
portunity to save anything. One stu-
dent lost her life when she rushed in-
to the burning building in an effort to
gave some of her possessions. The
only things Miss Waite was able to
save were the clothes she wore and a
few small trinkets she managed to
get hold of in her hurried exit from
the burning building. Her entire ward-
robe except the clothes she wore,
books and personal belongings, val-
ued at almost one thousand dollars,
were reduced to ashes, and so far as
known she had no insurance on her
belongings.
Big Silk Mill Almost Sure for Bellefonte.
Option Taken on Crider Lumber Yard as Site for a Quarter of |
a Million Dollar Plant. Large Lot of Bonds Already
Taken and Only Question Now is Labor.
Residents of Bellefonte and vicini-
ty are now face to face with an op-
portunity of securing a big silk mill
for the town which will cost equipped
from $275,000 to $300,000 and give
steady, high-class, well paid employ-
ment to one hundred and twenty-five
young men and women. There are
only two little “ifs” in connection
therewith. One of them is “if” the
people in Bellefonte and vicinity will
take $75,000 worth of first mortgage,
six per cent. bonds as evidence of their
interest in the project, and the other
“if” the company back of the project
can be given assurance of securing
the labor they will require to operate
their plant. The first “if” is growing
smaller every day, as at the time this
article was written on Tuesday after-
noon $33,000 worth of the bonds had
already been subscribed with from
$8,000 to $10,000 ef prospects in
sight, so that the men who are hand-
ling this part of the project are very
confident of success. As to the second
“if” covering the labor question, that
is to be worked out by means of ap-
plication blanks to be published in the
Bellefonte papers.
The above are the facts in the case,
now as to details. A few weeks ago
the Bellefonte Trust company received
a communication from J. H. and C.
K. Eagle, Inc., owners and operators
of silk mills at Shamokin, Mechanics-
burg and Gettysburg. The Shamokin
plant is the parent factory and at the
present time employs about 2,700 op-
eratives. As to J. H. and C. K. Eagle,
Inc., they are rated in Bradstreet as
“Triple A,” which is exceptionally
high financially. In fact they are onc
of the three largest silk mill operat-
ors in this country.
Some days after receiving the com-
munication, Nelson E. Robb, treasur-
er of the Bellefonte Trust Co., turned
the same over to Robert F. Hunter, of
the Bellefonte Board of Trade, and he
in turn called a meeting of the newly
organized Bellefonte Business Men's
association and the matter was dis-
cussed from every angle with the re-
sult that it was considered worthy of
investigation. The result was the Ea-
gle corporation was invited to sub-
mit a proposition and on the strength
of that invitation W. U. Jury, con-
sulting and construction engineer of
the company came to Bellefonte and
at a meeting of members of the Board
of Trade and the Business Men's as-
sociation stated that what they re-
quired was a suitable site for the lo-
cation of a mill, and the ground would
have to be large enough on which to
erect a double unit plant; that the cit-
izens of the town and community take
$75,000 in first mortgage bonds most-
ly as evidence of their interest in the
project and that they work out so far
as possible the question of an ade-
quate labor supply.
The men interested in the proposi-
tion got busy at once and a thirty
day option was secured from G. M.
Gamble for the Crider lumber yard,
which is ample in size for a very ex-
tensive plant. When the option was
secured the company was notified and |
Messrs. Thomas B. Hill, John Van-
Orden, Joseph H. Jones and Robert
Marshall, of the board of managers, !
W. U. Jury came to;
Bellefonte and approved of the site |
and engineer
selected.
nesday when preliminary papers of
agreement were signed.
The company is not asking Belle-
fonte people to take any stock in the
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mili,
sale, And the $75,000 worth of bonds
are asked more as a matter of good
faith on the part of the people of this
community than because of the mon-
ey being needed by the company. As
evidence of this is the fact that they
estimate the cost of the location and
first building at $100,000. In this
building will be placed from $175,000
Mr. Lark, attorney for the |
company, was in Bellefonte on Wed- |
in fact there will not be any for |
, to $200,000 worth of machinery be-
: fore it is ready to operate. The com-
pany will install the machinery and
the bonds taken by the people of
Bellefonte will be secured by a first
mortgage on the entire plant. The
bonds will be dated May 1st, 1920,
and will bear interest at six per cent.,
payable semi-annually. The bonds
run for seventeen years but the com-
pany reserves the right to retire the
same yearly at the rate of one-seven-
teenth of the aggregate amount.
All plants are built in units and the
first unit of the Bellefonte plant will
be a building 137x168 feet, one story
high. It will be built of steel, con-
crete and brick and made as near fire-
proof as it is possible to build it, even
to the roof. It will be well lighted
with numerous large windows on
every side and by immense skylights
in the roof. Rest rooms, dressing
rooms and lavatories will be provided
ly sanitary. All the machinery will
be driven by electricity.
To operate the first unit of the
plant the labor of 125 to 130 young
men and women will be required,
preferably between the ages of six-
teen and thirty. One-third of the op-
eratives desired are women, which
would be from forty to * fifty. The
mill is operated continuously from
midnight Sunday until midnight Sat-
urday and young women are employ-
ed only on the day shift of eight
hours, which is from eight o’clock in
the morning until four in the after-
noon. Young men are employed on
the other shifts.
The minimum wages paid to begin-
ners are ten dollars a week to young
women and fifteen dollars a week to
young men. When operatives become
| skilled, however, the women are able
| to make from sixteen to eighteen dol-
{lars a week and the young men from
| twenty to twenty-five. And the com-
| pany much prefers paying for skilled
| help. In fact any young man or wom-
an who fails to take an interest in the
work and show progress in the hand-
ling of the machines is not the kind of
a person to find favor in the eyes of
the company. The company has al-
ways aimed to make their mills not
only a healthy and congenial place of
labor but insist on a high moral
standard. Swearing and obscene lan-
guage are not tolerated by either em-
ployee or foremen.
It is the desire of the company, if
‘ every proposition is satisfactorily met
"in Bellefonte, to begin work on “the
plant early in April so that it can'be
ready for operation by the first of Ju-
ly. And for this reason it is very im-
portant that the question of labor is
settled as early as possible. There-
fore, the Bellefonte men who have the
' matter in charge ask all young men
and women who would like a job in
the new plant to fill out the coupon
found in today’s and successive issues
of the “Watchman” and mail to the
address given thereon. In doing so
you in no way bind yourself to work
there unless you so desire and the
company needs you. It is only in this
way that the true situation of the
amount of labor in the neighborhecod
can be obtained.
Following is a list of the purchas-
ers of bonds up to yesterday noon,
over
| the aggregate amount being
$40,000:
| Olewine Estate
| William Bottorf
| State Centre Co.
{ H. P. Schaeffer
| Brouse Store
n. C.Brown
! John Gross
Cohen & Co.
{ Wm. Katz
i Charles Schlow
| Dr. Rogers
: S. Hazel
Robert Hunter
Mr. Thompson
Mallory Studio
C. D. Casebeer
Blair Store
Miss M. Snyder
T. W. Cairns
Robert Hale
Sallie Katz
W. R. Brachbill
J. T. Eckels
D. Finkelstine
D. 1. Willard Hazel & Co.
Bellefonte Trust Co. Montgomery & Co.
J. M. Bullock H. C. Yeager
Potter-Hoy Co.
P. B. Hartman
C. E. Royer S. S. McCloskey
7. H. Harter Elizabeth Cooney
Miss Caroline Harper First National Bank
entre Co. Banking Co.
Mr & Mrs. Moerschbacher
Mrs. Louisa Bush
Geo. A. Beezer
W. L. Daggett
C. C. Keichline
AAAS URINAL AAI SARA ARIANA IIIS IPP IPOS
APPLICATION COUPON:
Please enter my name on your
list of applicants for employment in
the Bellefonte plant of the J. H. & C. K. Eagle Inc. on or about July 1,
1920.
Send to Sec'y of Business Men's
Association of Bellefonte.
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Potter-Hoy Co. Adding Big Line of
China and Glassware.
The Potter-Hoy Hardware compa-
ny will in the near future add a most
complete line of china and glassware
to their already big stock of hard-
ware. Work is already under way
making the necessary changes in the
company’s big store room on High
street to accommodate the new line.
The heavier lines of hardware will be
moved from the store room into the
basement and the other lines consol-
idatedso as to make room for the chi-
na and glass department in the rear
of the main store room, next the of-
fices.
This department will be retail only,
as the company will not carry a stock
for wholesale. The stock has already
been selected and ordered and will be
here just as soon as the necessary
shelving and counters can be cleared
on which to display it properly. In-
| asmuch as the line to be carried will
i be quite extensive, both in china and
| glassware, the public will have ample
| opportunity to make pleasing selec-
tions when anything in these lines is
desired.
ose
——1In speaking of the cold weath-
| er last week “Waxey” Straub stated
that it was so cold at his place ap
along the mountain last week that it
froze the leg off of a wooden chair.
Any person who doubts this statement
can get full particulars by asking the
gentleman in question.
and the building throughout be entire- |
BIG MILK STATION.
A Good Probability for Bellefonte in
: the Near Future.
ed a meeting held in the grand jury
‘room in the court house on Wednes-
day afternoon in the interest of the
erection of a big milk station in
| Bellefonte. The meeting was called
by Mr. J. A. Collins, of New York
city, country manager of the Western
| Maryland Dairy, with head offices at
11117-1125 Linden Ave., Baltimore,
Md.
The purpose of the meeting was to
interest the farmers especially in the
| establishment of a station in Belle-
fonte. Mr. Collins, in an exhaustive
talk started by saying that his com-
pany had no stock to sell or anything
of that kind; that their main interest
at the present is to find out if the far-
{ mers will back them up in their pro-
| ject to the extent of increasing their
| dairy herds and consequently their
{ milk supply. If they will do so, Mr.
| Collins assured his audience, the com-
! pany he represents will back him up
| to the extent of making this county
i one of the leaders in the State for the
| shipment of sweet milk. He further
| stated that the Western Maryland
! Dairy will pay the price set by the
i Dairyman’s League.
Another good meeting was held at
I Julian on Wednesday evening, which
| was addressed by Mr. Collins and Mr.
J. H. Port, assistant milk agent of the
i Maryland Dairy for Pennsylvania.
{ In connection with the above project
{ it might be stated that an option has
been secured on a site for the con-
densary in Bellefonte but the question
of the plant being erected is in a good
! part up to the farmers. If they are
| interested to the extent of increasing
| their dairy herds in order to furnish
ta good supply of milk, the station
will be built without a question.
The lot on which the option has
been taken is on north Thomas street
directly in front of Gamble’s mill. It
is proposed to erect a large receiving
station there where dairy men can de-
liver milk. A car will leave Belle-
fonte each day. It will merely be a
receiving station, not a condensary
or butter or cheese plant. It is said
that it will improve rather than de-
crease the milk supply in Bellefonte
for the projectors have given assur-
ance that at all times they will be
ready to supply local milk men with
ample supplies to satisfy their cus-
tomers.
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| A Few of Those Whe are Ill.
i Mrs. Harriet T. Kurtz is again ser-
| ously ill in the Orange General hos-
| pital, at Orlando, Florida.
i Mrs. Jacob Bottorf, of Lemont, was
| taken to the Glenn sanitorium at State
! College, this week, suffering with an
acute attack of neuritis.
W. S. White, of Axe Mann, his son,
Curtis White, and the latter’s daugh-
ter, all of whom have been ill with
pneumonia are slowly recovering. Mr.
White’s condition was regarded as
critical within the week, but at the
present time he is showing some im-
provement.
The condition of Mrs. J. C. Meyer,
who is a surgical patient in the Joseph
Price hospital, in Philadelphia, con-
tinues to be very critical.
All of the family of Thomas Cald-
well are ill with grip.
Nittany Valley Farm Sold.
The farm of E. C. Strohm, located
a mile from Zion and which is one of
the most productive in Nittany valley,
has been sold through the Bellefonte
office of the McVey Real Estate com-
pany to George A. McClellan, of Al-
toona. Mr. McClellan spent a good
part of his life in Altoona but a few
years ago moved to Columbus, Ohio.
About four months ago he returned
to Altoona and went to work for the
Pennsylvania railroad company. It is
his intention to hold onto his job in
the Mountain city and put his son in
charge of the farm. As the sale in-
cluded the farm stock and implements
Mr. McClellan will have everything
in shape to go to work when the
transfer of the property is made in
the spring. The farm contains 110
acres, most of which is under culti-
vation.
Eleven Carloads of Cars Reached
Bellefente on Sunday.
Eleven carloads of Maxwell cars
and trucks came to Bellefonte over
the Pennsylvania railroad on Sunday,
being consigned to the Krader Motor
company, recently organized and
chartered with a capitalization of
$75,000. The consignment included
twenty-seven passenger cars and six
trucks, and were a small part of a
train load of seventy-six railroad cars
that came through from Michigan to
Johnstown, the central distributing
point for this district. Owing to the
unusual scarcity of box cars all kinds
of cars were used in the transporta-
tion of the automobiles, from the flat
car to the ordinary coal car. But all
the autos were protected from the el-
ements by tarpaulin covers.
$1,500 Named as Minimum Salary for
Instructors.
At the annual meeting of the board
of trustees of The Pennsylvania State
College, held at Harrisburg last
Thursday, it was decided to establish
$1,500 as the minimum salary to be
paid to all instructors at the College
who are married, and all salaries un-
der that figure will be promptly ad-
vanced. A committee was also named
to make a general survey of salary
conditions in various eastern colleges.
Judge H. Walton Mitchell, of Pitts-
burgh, was re-elected president of the
board.
Over one hundred farmers attend- |
—Miss Elsie Clayton, of Philadelphia, is |
in Bellefonte visitirig with her sister, Mrs.
i J. J. Kilpatrick.
—Miss Kate McGowan and Miss Martha |
Beezer spent Sunday in Lock Haven, as
guests of Sister Hildegarde.
—John H. Weaver, of Milesburg, was a
“Watchman” office caller on Saturday
while in Bellefonte on a business trip.
—John Love Jr., of Altoona, spent Sun-
day in Bellefonte with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Love, of Reynolds avenue.
—Walter Gherrity, recently discharged
from service in the navy, will leave Belle-
fonte this week to accept a position in |
Altoona.
—Miss Mary H. Linn went to Harris- |
burg Monday, to attend a state conference
of chairmen for the Near East relief as-
sociation. !
1
—David Locke, the youngest son of Dr.
M. J. Locke, will accompany his aunt, Miss
Adalaide Kipe, to Plainfield, N. J., to be
there until summer.
—Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brandman have been |
spending the week in Philadelphia, Mr. |
Brandman going down on business, while |
Mrs. Brandman is visiting with near rel-
atives.
—The Misses Anne and Caroline Valen-
tine left Friday morning to spend a part |
of the winter in Philadelphia and New
York as has been their custom for a num- |
ber of years.
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. |
|
--Miss Mary Barnets, who had been a |
patient in the Bellefonte hospital during
a part of the month of January, was dis-
charged Monday, returning to her home in
Milton Wednesday.
—Miss Bernardine Reifsnyder, of Mill-
heim, joined her aunt, Miss Jennie Reif-
snyder, in Bellefonte the after part of last
week, to spend the week-end as a guest of |
Mrs. J. S. McCargar.
—~Charles W. Thomas, of New Castle, a
son of the late William Thomas, of Miles- |
burg, came to Bellefonte Saturday to look
after some business relative to the final
settlement of the family estate, he being
the sole survivor.
—Joseph Lodge, chief engineer, and W.
H. Smith, auditor of the American Union
Telephone company, both of Lancaster,
Pa., have been in Bellefonte this week
looking after the books and service of the
company in this district.
—Mrs. Louis Cabasino, who had been
here for several weeks visiting with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Todsock,
left yesterday for Bethlehem, to spend a
few days with her sister, Mrs. Joseph
Black, before returning to her home at
Corona, L. I.
—Mrs. Philip Beezer, her daughter, Miss
Helen, and Miss Agnes Gherrity have been
in Ptiladelphia this week, having gone
down Saturday to spend several days in
the shops. During their stay they have
been guests of Mr. and Mrs. Daugherty,
at Manayunk.
—Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sherry, of Pitts-
burgh, stopped in Bellefonte over Sunday
with Mr. Sherry’s parents, Mr and Mrs.
George W. Sherry, on their way to New
York. Mr. Sherry is with the Nugent's
Department store and was going east to
do some buying for the firm. |
—Mr. and Mrs. John C. Larimer, of
Bryn Mawr, are here with Mr. Larimer’s
aunt, Mrs. John I. Curtin, who has been
ill at her home on Linn street for the past
two weeks. Mrs. Curtin’s condition is
very much improved. In fact so much so
that she is now able to walk about the
house and use her hand quite well.
—Mrs. Lohr, wife of Dr. Floyd Lohr, of |
Latrobe, spent the greater part of last
week in Bellefonte, as a guest of Miss
Fitzgerald. Mrs. Lohr, who is better
known here as Miss Margaret McFarlane,
came to Bellefonte from Lock Haven,
where she is spending some time with her
mother, Mrs. J. Kyle McFarlane, on ac-
count of Mrs. McFarlane’s ill health.
—Mrs. J. L. Spangler will go to Phila ;
delphia this week, to be with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Blackburn, for several days, and
to meet Mr. Spangler, who is now in
Washington, Mrs. M. L. Valentine joining
them there Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Spang-
ler and Mrs. Valentine expect to spend the
remainder of the winter and the month of
March at the Chalfonte, at Atlantic City.
—Mrs. John L. VanPelt and her daugh-
ter Rachel, who have been here with Mrs.
VanPelt’s mother, Mrs. Rachel Harris,
since the early winter, will leave next
week to join Mr. VanPelt in Johnstown.
The house they lived in having been sold
and no other one procurable, they were
waiting here until the new house they had
secured in Osburn was ready for occupan-
cy.
—Mrs. Frank Crosthwaite and her
daughter, Miss Isabelle Goheen, were in
Bellefonte last week, on their way to Bos-
ton, where Miss Goheen hopes to complete
her course at the Emerson school of ora-
tory, which was interrupted last year by
her serious illness with influenza. Mrs.
Crosthwaite has rented their home at State
College and will live with her daughter in
Boston.
—Mrs. Frederic Schad and her small
daughter, Beth Harris Schad, left yester-
day for Mrs. Schad’s former home in New
London, Conn., where they will visit be-
fore going to join Mr. Schad in Detroit,
Mich. The child’s grandmother, Dr. Edith
Schad, accompanied them as far as Ty-
rone, where they were joined by Mrs.
Schad’s aunt, who went with them to New
England. Mr. and Mrs. Schad had made
their home in Bellefonte for the past six
months.
—W. H. McIntire, of Knoxville, Tenn.
spent a short time in Bellefonte and State
College last week, coming to Centre coun-
ty from Philadelphia, where he had been
called by the illness of Mrs. MeclIntire's
mother, Mrs. J. C. Meyer. Mrs. Meyer
came north some time ago, for a visit with
her two brothers, Dr. William and Roy
McCalmont, in Philadelphia, and while
there became so ill that she was taken to
the Joseph Price hospital and operated on
last week. Mrs. Meyers’ condition has
been regarded as critical.
—Col. John A. Woodward, of Howard,
spic and span as one of the figures used
in a clothing advertisement in the monthly
magazines, paid his respects to the
“Watchman” office on Tuesday while on a
brief visit to Bellefonte. We never see the
Colonel without entertaining a thought
that there is somewhere a fountain of
perpetual youth and that he is drinking
his fill of its life-giving. waters, for aside
from the fact that his locks are silvered
and he has chalked up more than the
three-fourths of a century mark on his
milestone, his cheeks are as ruddy and
his step as springy as when the writer
first formed his acquaintance upwards of
forty years age.
. spending the month of January
i Washington,
—Mr. and Mrs. William Bottorf spent
Wednesday doing some buying in Altoona.
—Miss Agnes Shields spent the week-
end in Snow Shoe, a guest of Miss Eliza-
! beth Glenn.
—Miss Margaret Stewart is visiting with
her brother, Dr. Walter Stewart, in
Wilkes-Barre.
—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beatty and their
family have been visiting this week at
| their former home in Pittsburgh.
—Mrs. Betty Orvis Harvey is with her
sister, Mrs. Arnold, in New York, having
gone down last week on account of the
illness of Mrs. Arnold.
—Miss Maude Shontz joined her sister,
| Mrs. Robert Sechler, in Bellefonte, Wed-
' nesday night, and during her visit here
both she and Mrs. Sechler
guests of Mrs. C. T. Hennig.
—Mrs. L. D. Whiting, of Louisville,
Kentucky, is north for a month's visit
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Shu-
ey, and with Mr. Whiting’s parents, at
Beaver. Irs. Whiting arrived in Belle-
fonte the after part of last week.
—Mrs. John M. Dale arrived in Belle-
fonte Saturday, coming from Raleigh, N.
C., to look after the storing of her house-
hold goods. Mrs. Dale, who had been
have been
with her daughter, Mrs. H. Yerger, will
| remain in Bellefonte for the present.
—Miss Agnes McGowan, who has beem
resting,
at her home west of town, left Sunday for
D. C, to resume her work.
Miss McGowan has been a registered nurse
at the national capital for several years.
—Miss Ruth Bertram is home from Mia-
mi, Florida, where she had been with a
patient since her graduation from a nurs-
es training school several months ago.
As Miss Bertram has not located perma-
nently she will be in Bellefonte for an in-
definite time.
—Misses Sarah and Betty Stevenson,
| daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George Steven-
son, of Buffalo Run, who have both been
home on a thirty day’s furlough, left yes-
terday to resume their work with the gov-
ernment as professional nurses at Otean,
North Carolina.
—Mr. and Mrs. George S. Houser and
their two children were in Bellefonte be-
tween trains on Tuesday, on their way
home to Freeport, Ill. Mr. and Mrs.
Houser had been visiting with Mr. Hous-
er’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Houser,
of Lemont, since before Christmas.
—Walter Butts, well known to many
Bellefonte people, has been here for a part
of the week, visiting with his sister, Mrs.
Robert ¥. Hunter. Although having lived
all his boyhood life here and having many
friends in this locality, Mr. Butts has not
been in Bellefonte for fifteen years.
—Mr. W. T. Hubler, of Miles township,
was a business visitor in Bellefonte yes-
terday and found time to spend a few
minutes in the “Watchman” office. Miles
township has always produced exception-
ally good citizens and if Uncle Sam’s cen-
sus put a rating upon his citizens accord-
ing to their value to a community we feel
surc that Mr. Hubler's name would be in
the first row.
—Those from out of town who were here
last week for the funeral of the late Mrs.
F. Potts Green were, Capt. Edward Green,
M. D., of Fort Wright, Fisher's Island, N.
Y.; Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Lieb, of Centre
Hall; Mrs. Charles Dimm and James
Snodgrass, of Mifflinburg; Mrs. Frank
Geary and Mrs. Willard Brown, of Lock
Haven; Mrs. Anna Dinges Rossman and
Harry Dinges, of Centre Hall.
—Capt. “Dick” Taylor spent Sunday
with his family in this place and on Mon-
day left for Washington, D. C., to report
for assignment to his recent appointment
to a position in the Department of Justice.
Of course we don’t know anything about
what Capt “Dick” will be assigned to de
but we just happen to recall the fact that
the Department of Justice has jurisdiction
over some eighty-seven million gallons of
whiskey.
—Mrs. Robert Sechler arrived in Belle-
fonte Sunday, coming here from Altoona,
where she had been visiting for a part of
a week with Mr. and Mrs. Curt Wagner.
Before going there, Mrs. Sechler had spent
the time since coming from Kansas early
in December, with her sister in Johnstown,
and having accepted a position there, will
return late in February in anticipation of
making that place her home. Until that
time she will visit in Bellefonte and with
the family at her former home in Mifflin-
burg.
——The Bellefonte High school bas-
ket ball team now heads the Mountain
league, having won all of the six
games played. Last Friday evening
they defeated Mt. Union on the ar-
mory floor by a decisive score and
Saturday evening they went to Ty-
rone and won their game from the
Tyrone High school by the score of 21
to 20. Tyrone stands second in the
league with two games won and one
lost. The Bellefonte High school
girls however, lost to the Tyrone girls
the same evening by the score of 17 to
5.
Selling Out—We're going out of
business. Watch for the date of the
sale.—Workmen’s Bargain Store. 5-1t
——The training school for nurses
of the Bellefonte hospital, has now
four vacancies. Applicants must be
girls with a High school education
and over eighteen years of age. For
further information consult Miss E.
Eckert, superintendent of the hospital.
evap ll ee
Will sell a few shares in gas
well in best McKeesport territory.
Have map on hand showing location.
—J. M. Keichline. 2-tf
Will have a car load of Larro
feed in a few days.—J. S. Waite &
Co. 5-2
——DMerchandise at and below
COST at the Workmen’s Bargain
Store—Selling out sale. 5-1t
Public Sale.
Monday, March 8th, 1920,—At the residence
of Charles C. Mesmer, 2 miles northwest
of State College, on the Holmes farm.
Live stock and full line of farm imple-
ments. Sale at 10 a. m. L. F. Mayes,
auctioneer.
Grain Markets.
Corrected by Geo. M. Gamble.
Red Wheat, No 1 & 2.......... « $2. 2.40
White or Mixed No. 1 & 2...... . 2.25—2.30
OFIl vsssrescecssss dade nenns ns . 1.40
Oats ..vooi0e.. Titnsaaiseneseeavie JB
Barley ..cc.ccviaianinii sielrie bainie'y 1.05
RYE covvninssvessvirecssnsenss ‘es 1.40
Buckwheat ..i..cocceiitiinnnnnee 1.25
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