Bellefonte, Pa., March 12, 1920.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
— According to the calendar win-
ter should be over in nine days and
spring ushered in, but will it.
— Centre county got the tail end
of that western blizzard but thank
fortune we were not drowned out be-
forehand.
— The Woman’s Foreign Mission-
ary society of the Huntingdon Pres-
bytery will hold its forty-fifth annu-
al meeting at Mount Union, Wednes- |
day and Thursday, March 24th and
25th.
— After working at the plumbing |
trade for an even quarter of a centu-
ry Thomas Caldwell quit his job with
Archibald Allison last week and on |
Monday took charge of the Bush
house cigar store.
— Industrial workers in Centre
county suffered two fatalities during
Fepruary, according to a report issued
on Tuesday by Clifford B. Connelley,
commissioner of the Pennsylvania De-
partment of Labor and Industry.
— Carl Steele, a son of the late -
William L. Steele, of Bellefonte, was
seriously injured in the steel works at
Tarentum on February 28th, when he
was struck by an electric crane he was
operating and sustained a broken pel-
vic bone.
— The old Lyric theatre building
is rapidly being put in shape for the
store of the new Bellefonte Hardware |
company, although it will probably
be a week or so yet before it is in
shape for the new firm to begin in-
stalling their stock.
—Mr. and Mrs. Ira D. Garman, of
Philadelphia, have announced the en-
gagement of their youngest daugh-
ter, Miss Mae Snow Garman, to Dr.
Willard S. Broomell, a young dentist
of Germantown, the wedding to take
place in the early summer.
— The Willing Workers class of
the Lutheran Sunday school will hold
a St. Patrick’s social Tuesday even-
ing, March 16th, in the basement of
the church. Admission 25 cents. Re-
freshments free. Go and take a
friend and enjoy a social evening.
Home-made candy for sale.
—Clarence Ziegler, one of the
clerks to the old board of county com- |
missioners and who has been with the
new board since the first Monday in
January, terminated his service in the
court house last Saturday, and hence-
forth clerks H. R. Irwin and H. C.
Valentine will hold the fort alone.
— Sunday will close the work of
the year in the Methodist Episcopal
church. The Bellefonte church has
had a very successful year. The serv-
ices on Sunday will be of unusual in-
terest and very large audierices aré
anticipated. » Special musical numbers
will be a feature. The pastor will
leave for conference on Tuesday after-
noon.
The rooms over the Centre
County bank at one time occupied by
the Salvation Army are being put in
shape as the new home for the Belle-
fonte club, which will move there
from the Reynolds building occupied
for many years on Spring street, some
time between this and the first of
April. The new location will make a
nice home for the club.
— Just because T. Clayton Brown
has leased the Garman opera house
and is now conducting the same it
must not be thought that he is going
to slight the Scenic. This old-time
motion picture show will be kept right
up to date and continue to show the
very best and latest pictures obtaina-
ble. It will be open every evening in
the week except Sunday and you'll al-
ways find a warm welcome therc.
A note of warning has been
sent out by the Near East relief com-
mittee telling of an Armenian by the
name of M. P. Kirkorian, who is vis-
iting different sections soliciting
funds. He is operating without any
knowledge of the use he makes of the
funds. Ask him for his certificate
from the State Board of Charities.
Better contribute through the Relief
committee and make sure your gift
goes where you want it to go.
1. E. Foutz, publicity secretary
of the 1919 Christmas seals sale, has
just made public his detailed report
of the sales in Pennsylvania, which
were more than three times greater
than those of 1917. The total sales in
Centre county in 1917 were $328.38,
while for 1919 they were $1264.77.
The sales reported by Bellefonte for
last December amounted to $253.83;
Philipsburg, $604.80, and State Col-
lege, $406.14.
— The State Highway Depart-
ment has announced on early divis-
jon of the $1,000,000 appropriated by
the last Legislature for distribution
among the second class townships of
the State for work done on township
roads. The distribution will be made
on the basis of $13.35 a mile and Cen-
tre county being credited with 974
miles will receive $13,008.34, to be di-
vided among those townships which
have complied with the state-aid laws.
— In preparation for their cus-
tomary big spring trade the interior
of Lyon & Co’s store has been entire-
ly done over. Many improvements
have been made which simplifies the
showing of goods and will greatly fa-
cilitate the labor of the clerks while
waiting on customers. This olu-estab-
lished firm is now receiving and
placing their spring showings and it
will be worth the time of anyone in
need of dry goods and clothing to
make a visit to their store before
purchasing elsewhere.
A CENTRE COUNTY HERO.
Tn ——
Went Without His Dinner to Give to
Armenians.
Relief”
the issue of March 5th, appeared the
following:
AN IRRESISTIBLE APPEAL.
, to the man with a heart is proven in
the following message received
| this office from a Centre county man
accompanied by a five dollar bill:
“IT work and have five children. I
have a hard time to get along but I
am making a pledge of five dollars a
month and enclose five dollars. I did
not know how I could spare this mon-
| ey but I went without dinner yester-
day and am going to do the same
to
make up five dollars to send for the
! Armenians. Only by going hungry
! myself can I know anyway what those
| poor children suffer. This is the only
way I can give.”
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| thing often enough each month
| That letter tells of a sacrifice—a
self denial for the greatest cause be-
| fore the American people. How many
| there must be who can duplicate the
| man’s splendid gift without the ne-
| cessity of his physical ‘discomfort.
{ Where are the people with hearts?
| NEED GREATER THAN ORIGINAL ES-
| TIMATE.
Major General Harboard, U. S. A.
| Chief of the President’s mission to the
Near East, says in a story of the New ,
i York Times:
“The total cost of the various forms
of relief so necessary if the citizens
of the Near East are not to perish, is
between sixty and seventy million
dollars. In view of the exceptional
recuperative power of the Armenians,
it is possible that a somewhat less
sum—say $50,000,000 if at once avail-
able and wisely expended would re-
lieve the most acute distress and go
far to putting the remnant of this
people in their ruined homes and in a
position to attempt self-support.”
In view of this statement from one
in authority, those of us in this cam-
paign cannot afford to be apathetic.
We are calling your attention to the
fact that the city of Pittsburgh has
voluntarily increased its quota from
$800,000 to $1,250,000.
Centre county will reach its quota,
but in face of the fact of the reduc-
tion of Armenia’s borrowing power
from the United States and the un-
settled. condition in Armenia, as well
as the advanced prices, can’t Centre
county, which has at least one citizen
like the above writer, go beyond its
quota and help raise the national fund
from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000?
How a Former Bellefonte Woman
Feels About Armenia.
Writing from Erivan under date of
December 29th, Mrs. Elinor Cook
McDonald, daughter of Charles F.
Cook, of Bellefonte, says:
“We surely find much to do down
here and now that cold weather is on
there are, of course, more people to
look after. Owing to lack of food, ex-
posure, etc., from 180 to 200 deaths
occur daily in the refugee camps.
There are also many deaths from ty-
phus fever, which is now raging.
Every day I am obliged to turn away
eight or ten children from Kaniku, as
the orphanages are full. Some of the
children are fat and ragged, others
very, thin, and I do hate to turn them
away.
“At. noon on Christmas about
eighty-five youngsters marched the
three or four versts from Kaniku
through the mud—and no mud of
Flanders could be worse—to sing
Christmas carols to me. They sang
in Armenian, but it sounded very
nice.”
Under date of January 8th Mrs.
McDonald wrote: “There is quite a
bad epidemic of influenza here. On
Sunday fifteen men died in one de-
partment. These people live so close
together, and owing to short rations,
their vitality is away below par, so
disease hits them very hard. We are
so sorry the United States does not
seem inclined to accept the mandatory
over Armenia. All the thinking men
in the army over here feel that she
should.”
Mail Aviator Killed.
Clayton Stover, an aviator on the
mail route between Cleveland and
Chicago was intantly killed on Wed-
nesday when his plane fell out of con-
trol at New Paris, Indiana, while
on a flight from Chicago io
Cleveland with a cargo of mail.
Stover came to Bellefonte by
train last week and on Sunday
flew his plane light from here to
Cleveland. A new motor had been in-
stalled in the plane while it was at
the Bellefonte field and pilot Stover
had made several successful flights
this week between Chicago and Cleve-
land. After falling to the ground the
plane caught fire and was totally de-
stroyed. The mail was saved.
Miss Rhoads Will Speak at Thimble
Bee.
The regular meeting and thimble
bee of the W. C. T. U. will be held at
the home if Miss Rebecca N. Rhoads,
on Linn street this (Friday) after-
noon at 2:30 o’clock.
Miss Rhoads, who is the national
chairman of welfare work in the W.
C. T. U., will give an account of her
work in the west and along the Mex-
ican border, where she has been sta-
tioned the past four months, which
should prove very interesting. You
are invited to attend, whether a mem-
ber of the W. C. T. U. or not.
— Thomas W. Cairns, who has
been housed up since the middle of
last week with quite a serious attack
of influenza, is now very much im-
proved but still confined to bed.
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— Dr. R. L. Stevens and his fam- Dr. Sparks Will Retire as Official
ily will move early in the week from .
the Kelley. flats to one of the Shope
houses on Thomas street. Mr. and,
Mrs. Carl Weaver, who are vacating |
From the “Bulletin of Near East i
: 3 St the house, will go to the apartment
published at Harrisburg, in 4}. Stevens are Dar
The children of David Hall, of
Head of State College.
Announcement was made on Tues-
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day that Dr. Edwin Erle Sparks, for
the past twelve years president of
The Pennsylvania State College; PY0- sor the past week.
posed to retire from active work and
| assume an emeritus position at the
Unionville, are contemplating taking college, in which he would have op-
in Philadelphia, this week. Mr. Hall, ! ship with the students.
by | who has been a patient in the Belle- | he Jost as the executive of the college,
That Near East relief has an appeal | their father to the Jefferson hospital, |
portunity for more intimate relation-
While he will
fonte hospital for three weeks, is in | his retention in the service of the in-
such a condition as to need the atten- |
tion of surgical specialists. ;
— After spending three years or
more in Tyrone, William Nighthart :
has sold his home and barber shop in
that place and returned to Bellefonte
to go into partnership with his fath-
er, John L. Nighthart, and hereafter .
that well known barber shop on the
corner of the Diamond will be con-
ducted by J. L. Nighthart & Son.
' — The “Watchman” has received
from W. Draper Lewis, secretary of
the constitutional revision commis-
sion, a tentative draft of the propos-
ed revisions and amendments to the
constitution. In order that the peo-
ple of this great Commonwealth may
express approval or disapproval of
the proposed changes public hearings
on the same will be held before the
commission in Harrisburg beginning
Tuesday, April 6th. Any person in-
terested can exercise the right of at-
tending these hearings. ;
—C. Y. Wagner has begun work
on the erection of his new flour mill
at the junction of the two roads just
south of Mallory’s blacksmith shop.
The mill will be of reinforced concrete
and having purchased the old Wag-
ner mill at Milesburg from Col. H. S.
Taylor, the woodwork in that struct-
ure will be used as far as possible
for the interior work in the new mill.
The mill will be built that approach
to it will be right off of the new state
highway, so that it will be easy of ac-
cess to farmers in delivering grain or
hauling away flour, feed, etc.
— The round table conference of
the superintendents and principals of
Central Pennsylvania will be held at
the Central State Normal school, Lock
Haven, on Friday and Saturday,
March 19th and 20th. Friday after-
noon Dr. George Earle Raigurel will
deliver a lecture on “China—a Nation
Awakening,” and other prominent ed-
ucators who will be present are Dr.
Lee L. Driver, director of the bureau
of rural education; Dr. W. Grant
Chambers, of the University of Pitts-
burgh, and Dr. George Gailey Cham-
bers, of the University of Pennsylva-
nia. Sail
— Franklin Bowersex, one of the
best known residents of Ferguson
township, was eighty-three years old
yesterday and was kept quite busy. at
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the
‘He returned to the colle,
stitution, a step unanimously agreed
upon by the trustees, brings much
satisfaction to his many friends who
expect to reap further benefits
through his association with the man-
agement.
In 1917 Dr. Sparks offered his res-
ignation as president, but owing to
greatly unsettled conditions
brought about by the early days of
war which were certain to affect the
college, his resignation was not ac-
cepted. Now that war conditions
have passed and the college is faced
by the necessity of providing larger
funds and equipment to meet the de-
mands of the rapidly increasing stu-
dent body, he feels that a younger
man should assume the burden.
Accordingly, the trustees at a re-
cent meeting consented to his retire-
ment, and accepted his resignation.
He was asked to continue his services
as president of the college until the
end of the present collegiate year.
So far there has been no mention of
a probable successor to Dr. Sparks,
and Penn State is now added to the
long list of colleges and universities
throughout the country that are seek-
ing new heads.
Dr. Sparks became president of
Penn State in May, 1908, when there
were few more than 900 students en-
rolled. Largely through his never-
tiring efforts, the attendance was in-
creased year by year until now al-
most 4500 men and women, including
the summer session for school teach-
ers, are enrolled in the college. Dur-
ing his administration a number of
new buildings were erected on the
college campus to care for the ever
increasing attendance, including the
agricultural group, liberal arts and
mining buildings, chemistry labora-
tory and an engineering group.
When Dr. Sparks took charge
twelve years ago there were 119 mem-
bers of the faculty, and today there
are more than 500. More than 900
acres have been added to the college
farms in that time.
Dr. Sparks suffered a general
breakdown more than a year ago, and
after receiving treatment at the Uni-
versity hospital in Philadelphia, spent
last summer resting at Ephriam,
Wis. He had taken no vacations for
several years, and the strain of war
conditions at the college, and the ad-
ditional duties piled on his shoulders
were responsible for his breakdown.
e about the
his home in Pine Groye Mills inher rst of ‘of the year and only a short time
ceiving the congratulations of his
many friends. Though born in Sny-
der county Mr. Bowesox has.been a
resident of Centre county for over
forty years and before his retirement
was classed among the most success-
ful and progressive farmers in the
valley. Mrs. Bowersox is just two
months younger than her husband
and both are still enjoying remarka-
bly good health.
——Adjutant General Frank D.
Beary has sent out a call to the com-
manders of the various units of the
new National Guard to make a stren-
uous effort to fill up their commands
within the next few weeks. The new
guard will be known as the Twenty-
eighth, or Keystone division, and is
to be organized and equipped in com-
bat shape. Capt. Frederick Reynolds,
who has been appointed commander
of Troop L, the cavalry organization
to be located in Bellefonte, has now
twenty-eight men on his roll, but it
will require a good many more if the
organization is to be placed here.
Every effort has been made by Capt.
Reynolds to induce young men to en-
list, but recruiting is very slow work.
Most of the available young men in
and near Bellefonte served in the
world war and just at present they are
not hankerin’ after any more soldier-
ing. But there are enough other
able bodied young men to easily fill up
the troop if they would only step for-
ward and enlist, and now is the time
to do it, if they want to keep Belle-
fonte in the limelight with being the
home of a military organization,
something the town has been noted
for almost since its organization.
— Bellefonte borough council will
likely take up for final action at next
Monday evening’s meeting the day-
light savings ordinance. There is no
argument but that daylight saving so
far as it applies to stores and various
industrial establishments is a good
thing. But there is lots of room for
argument as to its being a good thing
for the farmers. Whether it will be
a good thing for Bellefonte or not de-
pends entirely upon whether the rail-
roads adopt it, and inasmuch as they
have made no move to do so yet, it
does not look as if they were even
considering the matter. If they don’t
adopt it, then what good will it do to
adopt it in Bellefonte? There will be
no way of compelling any individual
or firm to move their clocks ahead an
hour, unless they chose to do so, and
if the railroads cling to standard time
the probabilities are nine-tenths of
the people of Bellefonte will, ordi-
nance or no ordinance. When the law
was general all over the country there
was no trouble in putting the daylight
saving into effect, but with some por-
tions of the country favoring it and
others not, it will make such a mix-up
in the time that we're afraid the
chickens won’t know when to go to
lost a league game.
boys lead the league by a wide margin
and although they still have three
games to play before the close of the
court of Centre county.
roost.
‘ago resumed duty. ©
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{Interscholastic Basket Ball.
Plans are now being matured at
State College for the holding of a se-
ries of basket ball games at that place
between the leading High school
teams of the State to decide the cham-
pionship of Pennsylvania. The prob-
able dates will be April 9th and 10th.
The winning teams from each division
of the State have been invited to par-
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ticipate and acceptances have already
been received from the Allegheny
valley district, the Mountain district,
and the Central Pennsylvania district.
The Pittsburgh city league and the
Hazleton High school also have been
invited, the latter because it has won
fourteen straight games.
Bellefonte will be especially inter-
ested in the above series because of
the fact that the Bellefonte High
school team
is a member of the
Mountain league and so far has not
The Bellefonte
season they bid fair to come out easy
winners. On Friday evening they
easily defeated the strong Tyrone
team by a very decisive score and
their three games yet to play are with
Huntingdon,
Houtzdale, all home games.
Bellefonte beats the Hazleton High
and
In fact
Hollidaysburg
school record, as they have won six-
teen straight games, the only game
lost during the season being their first
game last fall with the Williamsport
High school.
In fact old basket ball
authorities aver that the Bellefonte
team is one of the fastest quintettes
they ever saw, and with such a stride
they will welcome the opportunity to
enter a contest for the championship
of the State.
A swe
Judge Quigley Reversed by the Su-
perior Court.
In a decision handed down on Mon-
day in the case of the Rothfus Gar-
age Co. vs. J. H. Diehl the Superior
court reversed the decision of the
Early in
1919 the Rothfus Garage Co., of Wil-
liamsport, brought an action before
justice of the peace S. Kline Wood-
ring, of Bellefonte, against J. Hi
Diehl, of Howard, to recover an al-
leged debt. The squire gave judg-
ment in the sum of $115.44. The de-
fendant’s attorneys appealed the
case to court and requested that the
judgment be stricken from the record.
‘After hearing the evidence in the
case Judge Quigley sustained the mo-
tion of the defendant and ordered the
judgment stricken off. The case was
appealed to the Superior court and
the decision handed down by that tri-
bunal on Monday sustains the judg-
ment as originally entered on the
docket.
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Yerger are enter-
taining Mr. Yerger’'s sister, Mrs. William
— Mrs. W.:H. Wilkinson is entertaining | Neff, of Niagara Falls.
her niece, Mrs. MecNiel, of Haddonfield,
N. J. ’
—Mr. and Mrs. Walter Eberhart, of Ak.
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ron, Ohio, have been visiting in Bellefonte
—Mrs. Grant Pifer, of Wilkinsburg, ar- ;
rived in Bellefonte yesterday afternoon for
a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.
K. Hoy.
—Mrs. M. L. Valentine returned yester-
day to the Bush house, after spending the
month of February at “The Chalfont,” in
Atlantic City.
—Miss Marie Hoy, one of the recent
graduates from the Bellefonte hospital,
returned yesterday morning from a trip
to Philadelphia.
—Capt. Harry Simler, of Hyde City, has
been in Bellefonte for a week, on one of
his regular visits with his daughter, Mrs.
Forrest Bullock and family.
—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Whittaker have
had as guests for the past two weeks, their
daughter, Mrs. Edward Russell, of New
Haven, Conn., and her children.
—Mrs. J. O. Canfield, of Wyncote, is
with her daughter, Mrs. Lewis Daggett,
on Linn street. Mrs. Daggett has been ill
with influenza for several weeks.
Edward Justice, of Pittsburgh, left
here Monday for the oil fields of Texas,
after spending a few days with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Lowery Justice.
—Jack Houtz, of Ardmore, returned
home Saturday, after spending several
weeks in Bellefonte. Mr. Houtz was called
here by the death of his father, John
Houtz.
— Harry C. Yeager went down to Harris-
burg on Sunday to attend the annual con-
vention of the Retail Shoe Dealers’ asso-
ciation in session there on Monday and
Tuesday.
—A. C. Mingle and August Heverley at-
tended the Pennsylvania Shoe Retailer's
convention at Harrisburg, Monday and
Tuesday, returning home Wednesday
afternoon.
—Miss Mary Van Dyke came in from
Clarksville for the football dance at the
armory last week, remaining for a week-
end visit with her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Noll.
Miss Irene Gross left Monday to re-
turn to Philadelphia, after spending a
month here with her father, Jacob Gross,
who has been seriously ill again at his
home on Bishop street.
—Register Frank Sasserman went over
to Philipsburg on Tuesday to probate the
will of the late George E. Lamb and also
issue letters of administration on the es-
tate of the late Samuel Sankey.
—Mrs. J. M. Curtin, of Pittsburgh, vis-
ited for several days the early part of the
week with her mother, Mrs. George F.
Harris. Coming to Bellefonte Sunday,
Mrs. Curtin returned home Tuesday after-
noon.
—Judge Henry C. Quigley went out to
Pittsburgh on Sunday where he will be
engaged in holding court for two weeks;
all of which would indicate that the Cen-
tre county court seems to be very much in
demand in the Smoky city.’
—Mr. O. J. Stover, one of the represen-
tative citizens of Blanchard, spent yester-
day in Bellefonte. He came up on a little
business trip but the schedule of trains on
the Bald Eagle at the present time neces-
sitated his making a day of it.”
—Mrs. Adolph Loeb, of Chicago, arrived
in Bellefonte a week ago, for a visit with
her brother, Louis Grauer, and other rela-
tives. Being for so many years a resident
of the town, Mrs. Loeb has many friends
here, with whom she will divide her time.
—Mrs. Willis Sellers, who had been at
the Presbyterian hospital in Philadelphia
for six months, was taken tc her home in
Altoona Sunday. Mrs. Sellers has had
rheumatism for several years, but it is
thought that her condition is so much im-
proved that her recovery will be only a
matter of time.
— Mrs. James Curtis Johnson and Miss
Martha Johnson spent the week-end at
Hecla, as guests of Mr. Johnson's cousins,
Miss McMullen and her brother Lawrence.
Mrs. Johnson and Miss Martha were on
their way from Altoona to their new home
at Lansdowne, to join Mr. Johnson, who
was recently appointed general manager
of transportation of the P. R. R.
—Mr. H. E. Homan, of Centre Hall, was
a “Watchman” office visitor on Tuesday,
having come over to see that his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Chester Homan, of State College,
got comfortably installed in the Bellefonte
hospital as a medical patient. Mrs. Ho-
man was the victim of an attack of the
flu a month or more ago and while she re-
covered sufficiently to be up and around at
times, her temperature is very irregular
and she was brought to the hospital for
treatment.
—Mr. W. 'W. Rupert, of Zion, was a bus-
iness visitor in Bellefonte on Tuesday and
a pleasant caller at the “Watchman” of-
fice. He told us that down Nittany valley
where the snow has not yet felt the ef-
fects of the sun it is just forty inches
deep. Let us all hope it goes away grad-
ually because such a covering of snow on
the mountains and valleys if melted hur-
riedly will mean such torrents of water
turned into the streams that high floods
and great destruction to property would
be the inevitable result.
—The Hon. John T. McCormick, of State
College, was in town on Wednesday look-
ing not at all like a man just recovering
from a five week’s illness. We were going
to say that the appearance of the veteran
farmer, Legislator, telephone manager,
banker and gentleman was due to the fact
that he is so tough but then we were fear-
ful that some readers might put the wrong
construction on the word tough. How-
ever, lest our meaning be missed let us
say that Mr. McCormick's is the kind of
tough vigor that comes to men in mellow-
ing years who have lived right in their
earlier ones.
—Miss Rebecca N. Rhoads returned I'ri-
day from a four month's trip through the
west and south. Leaving here on the 10th
of November and with short stops in
Pittsburgh and St. Louis, Miss Rhoads
went to Seattle to look after some busi-
ness interests, later accepting the position
with the National W. C. T. U. of welfare
worker for soldiers and sailors. In the in-
terest of her new work she visited all the
camps and naval stations along the coast
and border to El Paso, leaving there to
come north to Des Moines, Iowa, where
ghe visited for two weeks before return-
ing home. Miss Rhoads will be home un-
til the latter part of the month, expecting
then to leave for London, to attend the
world’s convention of the W. C. T. 0. her
present plans bringing her again to Belle:
fonte sometime early in June.
—Miss Mary McGarvey went to Phila.
delphia Wednesday in the interest of her
work and to spend a few days
friends.
—Miss Hannah Newman came over from
Altoona the early part of the week, spend-
ing several days here as a guest of Mrs.
Fauble. >
—Miss Pearl Evey, who had been the
stenographer at the farm bureau office in
the court house, has accepted a similar po-
sition with the Krader Motor Co.
—Dr. R. L. Capers went east last Satur-
day, accompanied by four patients, whom
he was taking to the osteopathic hospital
at York, Pa. Two of the patients were
from Bellefonte and two from State Col-
lege.
—DMiss M. C. Snyder will return to Belle-
fonte tomorrow, after spending a month
visiting with her sister, Mrs. Edward
Cooke and the family, in Baltimore, and in
New York doing her buying for the com-
ing season.
—NMiss Adaline Olewine returned to
Bellefonte on Wednesday. Miss Olewine
left here early in the year for Hartford,
Conn.,, and from there went to Philadel-
phia, her time being divided between these
two places.
—Mrs. Thomas Mallory, of Altoona, was
a visitor in Bellefonte between trains on
Wednesday. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mallory
were among the sick of the winter, Mr.
Mallory only now convalescing from both
whooping cough and grip.
—Dr. W. K. McKinney went to Newark,
N. J., Wednesday, to spend several days
visiting with Mrs. McKinney's parents,
Dr. and Mrs. Graham, both of whom are
ill. Mrs. McKinney will accompany Dr.
McKinney to Bellefonte, if the condition
of her father is such that she can leave
him.
-—The “Watchman” office was favored
by a call on Monday from Joseph N. Rob-
inson, the new farm agent of Centre coui-
ty who will succeed F. H. Olmstead. Mr.
Robinson, who came here from Mercer
county, graduated at State College in the
department of animal husbandry with the
class of 1918, and since that time has been
doing practical work on the farm with his
brother in Mercer county. He is a clean
cut, gentlemanly young man and will fol-
low out the lines of work already mapped
out for the present year by Mr. Olmstead.
“Lost Valuables.
William Chambers is shy a new
fifty dollar gold watch which he first
missed last Saturday and has no more
idea where it has gone to than the
“man in the moon.” He only recent-
ly purchased the watch and the last
positive recollection he has of the new
time piece was last Friday evening
when he returned home from attend-
ing the High school basket ball games.
He distinctly remembers taking the
watch out of his pocket and laying it
on the bureau when he went to bed,
but that is as far as he can go. It is
just possible he dropped it in an out-
going mail sack on Saturday and in-
quiry is being made among railroad
postoffice employees.
A week or two ago Mrs. Sarah J.
Gibbs, of Milesburg, came to Belle-
fonte to make some purchases and
had at least thirty-five dollars in her
pocketbook. But when she came to
get her pocketbook to pay for her
purchases it was gone, money and all,
and up to Wednesday she had secured
no trace of it.
Dr. W. U. Irwin is also looking for
a valuable Masonic charm he lost sev-
eral weeks ago, but so far has looked
in vain.
Rogers—Donachy.—A wedding of
interest to the people of Bellefonte
took place in Philadelphia last Friday
when Miss Sue R. Donachy, young-
est daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
A. Donachy, of New Hampshire but
formerly of Bellefonte, was united in
marriage to Hulburt Rogers, a son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rogers, of Phila-
delphia. The ceremony took place in
West Hope Presbyterian chapel and
was performed by the pastor, Rev.
Charles E. Bronson. Mr. Rogers is
an ex-soldier and is now employed as
advertising manager for the Diamond
Plate Fibre Co., of Bridgeport, Pa.
Walker — Murray. — Edward W.
Walker, and Mrs. Anne Murray, two
Salvation Army enthusiasts of Mor-
risdale, came to Bellefonte on Mon-
day and after securing the requisite
license from Register Frank Sasser-
man went to the office of justice of
the peace S. Kline Woodring where
they were united in marriage. Mr.
and Mrs. Walker left Bellefonte on
the night train.
— Looking into the waters of
Spring creek the other day the
“Watchman” editor was forcibly re-
minded of the fact that the opening
of trout fishing season is only thirty-
four days away by seeing the trout
feeding in the stream. And there
were quite a lot of them. Trout rang-
ing in size from six inches to two feet,
and they all looked as if they had
come through the long, hard winter in
fine shape. Several of the real big
fellows that were such an attraction
during the spawning season last fall
were in evidence, showing that the
trout are already leaving the deep
waters down the stream and working
up to shallower waters and better
feeding grounds.
— The first public showing of
spring millinery will be made by Miss
Elizabeth Cooney, at The Hat Shop,
today and tomorrow. Miss Cooney’s
display will include hats for every oc-
casion, and suitable for all ages,
among them being copies of some of
the most recent importations. Every-
one is invited to this spring opening
at The Hat Shop. 65--1-1t
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Grain Markets.
Corrected by Geo. M. Gamble.
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White or Mixed No. 1 & 2...... .'2.25-2.30
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Oats ..eevevnnne 0
Barley 1.06
Rye ...eee 1.40
Buckwheat ... 1.25
with