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Bellefonte, Pa., March 19, 1920.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
oT EE A SS A TE TE ET A WOR Sr VR,
DOINGS OF BOROUGH DADS.
Water was the Prominent Feature at
Monday Night’s Meeting of
Council.
Notwithstanding the fact that these
days of total prohibition too much
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i are
——The campaign in the interest of
the fund for Near East relief has
. finally been closed and, while a com-
| plete statement cannot be given be-
| fore next week, figures are at hand to
| justify the assertion that it has been
| an unqualified success. Centre coun-
ty’s quota all told was $8,000, and
— A meeting of the cast for |water in one way or another featur- the returns indicate that the cam-
“Katcha-Koo” will be held in the
High school auditorium Monday,
March 22nd, at 8 p. m. A full attend- |
ance is urged.
Reports are now current that
there are indications of a drop in the
price of shoes.
only the beginning of the end of high
prices for all the necessities of life.
— Another renewal of the option
on the site for that proposed silk mill
in Bellefonte would indicate that the
J. H. and C. K. Eagle company mean
business and that the mill will surely
be built. But what has become of
the proposed milk station?
Eric Stroheim’s wonderful pic-
ture, “Blind Husbands,” will be shown
at the Scenic next Monday and Tues-
day, March 22nd and 23rd. It is a
play of the Tyrolean Alps, a daring
theme beautifully handled, and should
be seen by all lovers of the screen.
The fellow who first said that
“life was just one d—n thing after
another” knew what he was talking
about. The snow and ice have about
disappeared from the streets of Belle-
fonte and the winter’s accumulation
of dirt and filth is fast turning into
dust which is already swirled about
to the disgust of the public generally.
A student fire company of fif-
ty members has been organized at
State College with A. S. Barnhart, of
Greensburg, a member of the Junior
class, as chief. The College has been
without the services of an organized
fire fighting body since the rush to the
colors in 1917 so disrupted the old or-
ganization that it was compelled to
disband.
With the “Rehab” minstrels
Saturday night of next week, the
Bellefonte hospital benefit play early
in April, the Odd Fellows minstrels,
the High school entertainment and the
Bellefonte Academy minstrels Belle-
fonters will have an abundance of
amateur dramatics this spring to mix
in with the closing numbers of the
regular theatrical season.
The first thunder storm of the
season occurred last Friday afternoon
shortly before three o’clock, and the
high wind which accompanied it blew
the top off a tree in front of the H.
C. Yeager home on north Spring
street and broke two large limbs from
one of the trees on Howard street
along the property of William P.
Humes. The storm was of short du-
ration.
The ninety acre farm of George
Musser, four miles from Bellefonte,
which he is now offering for sale, is
a great opportunity for the man who
wants a small farm. 1,000 feet of
white pine, 15 car loads of props, a
grove of young black walnut trees, fif-
ty of them bearing, two springs, and
good soil for grain and potatoes are
some of the reasons that it could be
made a paying investment.
The breakup in the cold weath-
er will now afford people living in the
country a chance to come to Belle-
fore and see the good pictures shown
at the Scenic every evening during the
week. Snowbound as many of them
have been for weeks they missed lots
of good pictures but there will be
plenty of others shown at the Scenic
in the future. In fact good pictures
are the only kind shown there, and all
who can should see them.
The Woman’s Foreign Mis-
sionary society of the Huntingdon
Presbytery will hold its forty-sixth
annual meeting in the Presbyterian
church at Mt. Union on Wednesday
and Thursday, March 24th and 25th.
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. C. A. R. Jan-
vier, of India, and Miss Findley, a
representative of the Philadelphia
Board of Foreign Missions, will be
present. The meeting promises to be
one of unusual interest and profit.
Hardly had last week’s “Watch-
man” gotten into the Bellefonte post-
office with the announcement that
Wiiliam S. Chambers had lost his new
fifty dollar watch when the missing
ticker was found on the floor under
the distributing table of the rural
service, where it was probably in hid-
ing keeping time on the carriers. The
watch had evidently dropped out of
Mr. Chambers’ pocket the Saturday:
previous and lay there all week. A
broken crystal was the only damage
noticed on the timepiece.
——The young people of Bellefonte
now have an unusual opportunity to
take up vocal music with a competent
instructor. Under the direction of
Mrs. Krader a class is being opened
in the Sunday school room of the
Methedist church on Saturdays, from
2 to 3 o'clock. Young people, ages 10
to 15 years, should avail themselves
of this privilege. A small fee of 15
cents per person will be charged.
Take note book and pencil. Sight
reading and voice placing taught.
After Easter a class will be opened
for adults.
The Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture has established a quar-
antine system over Centre, Cambria
and Clearfield counties to combat the
potato wart menace, it was announced
on Monday. An office will be estab-
lished in Ebensburg with R. E. Hart-
man and H. L. Roberts in charge,
whose duty it will be to visit every
potato grower in the three counties
and inspect the soil before planting.
Tt is also presumed that if you have
warts on your potatoes these learned
gentlemen will be able to classify
them and tell you just what kind of
warts they are.
Let us hope this is |
ed the proceedings of borough council
"at the regular meeting on Monday
evening. And also notwithstanding
the fact that council some months ago
placed upon the minutes a resolution
that no rebates would hereafter be
granted upon water tax assessed
against properties, owners in Belle-
fonte continue to come before council
and ask exonerations for various rea-
sons. And so it was at Monday
night’s meeting. Samuel Weaver, who
last July purchased two of the Wil-
liam L. Steele properties, on which
the water tax for 1919 had not been
paid, appeared before council and ask-
ed exoneration on the grounds that he
did not take possession until October
first.
Jacob Lyon appealed from the tax
assessed against the W. A. Lyon
properties which was increased from
| $13.00 to $17.50 on the grounds that
, the assessment included two horses
and an automobile, when he had only
one horse and no automobile, and that
| the hcuse had been vacant the past
| six months.
| Mrs. Resides, of east High street,
| asked exonerations because her house
| has been closed for a year.
| © Mrs. Lydia Gibson, of Philadelphia,
| protested against an assessment for
| four houses when she has only one.
Mrs. John G. Love wants exonera-
i tion because her house is closed, and
! John P. Harris protested against be-
| ing assessed for six tenants in the old
| penitentiary building when there are
| only two. All the above were refer-
i red to the Water committee for ad-
justment.
The secretary presented a certified
copy of the agreement with the State
Highway Department for the state
highway on Bishop, Spring and Pine
streets. .
The secretary also presented the
check of the United States Railroad
Administration in the sum of $454.34
to cover water tax assessed against
the P. R. R. from October 1st, 1918,
to July 1st, 1919.
Mr. Harris, of the Street commit-
tee, presented the borough manager’s
statement. of the amounts due the
borough from property owners along
south Water and Willowbank streets
on account of the building of the
state highway, said amounts being
figured upon the exact measurement
in feet of the various properties con-
tiguous to the highway. The state-
ment was referred to the Street com-
mittee and secretary of council to
check up and, if found correct, notic-
es requesting payment to be sent at
once to property owners.
The ‘Water committee reported that
the 1918 water duplicate and meter
bills, on’ which there -is still due
$1029.47, has been surrendered by the
State-Centre Electric company and
will be turned over to the borough
manager for collection. Unless these
bills are now paid promptly on de-
mand the water will be turned off.
The 1919 duplicate will be turned over
to the State-Centre company just as
soon as they file the required bond.
Chairman Cunningham, of the Water
committee, suggested that a date of
appeal for the 1920 duplicate be set
as soon as possible so that an effort
can be made to bring the collection of
water taxes up to date. Mr. Cun-
ningham also reported that a bill had
been rendered G. R. Danenhower &
Son, for $500 for rent of the Phoenix
mill to February 28th, 1920.
The Finance committee asked for
the renewal of notes aggregating
$10,300, and orders to pay accumulat-
od interets thercon.
Regarding the proposition to in-
stall water meters on all users in
Bellefonte borough manager J. D. Sei-
bert stated that the meter manufact-
ured by the Pittsburgh Meter compa-
ny, is, in his opinion, one of the best
on the market, and he introduced C.
R. Zeskey, representing that compa-
ny, who exhibited a sample of the me-
ter manufactured by his company and
which is designed for private resi-
dences, explaining in detail what he
characterized as its many good points
and advantages over other meters
manufactured. The Pittsburgh Meter
company only recently closed a con-
tract to place four thousand meters in
Altoona and have contracts at a num-
ber of other towns, all of which he
gave as reference if any member of
borough council sees fit to inquire
about their work. He also gave coun-
cil figures at which they will supply
the meters if the order is placed prior
to April first, but would not guaran-
tee to meet that price if the order is
delayed beyond that time. Inasmuch
as council is undetermined as to
whether they have the power to com-
pell users to pay for meters installed
action was necessarily deferred for
the present, the matter being referred
to the Water committee, borough man-
ager and borough solicitor for further
investigation and report.
Bills to the amount of approxi-
mately $3,900 were approved by coun-
cil for payment. These included
$1675 interest on borough bonds and
the second payment of $800 with $400
interest on the Phoenix mill pumping
station. There being no other busi-
ness council adjourned.
Pilot Robinson made a new rec-
ord from Bellefonte to New York on
Wednesday, flying the 215 miles or
thereabouts in one hour and fifteen
minutes. The best time made hereto-
fore was 1.19 by pilot Lewis. Pilot
Robinson’s flight was at the flat rate
of two and a half miles a minute.
paign has gone over the top without
| counting Philipsburg and vicinity.
Full reports have not yet been receiv-
ed from that section of the county so
that it is not known just how much
was contributed over there.
——Rev. Dr. Jonathan Rose Dimm,
former president of Susquehanna
University, died at his home at Selins-
grove on Sunday in his ninetieth year.
at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg.
On leaving college he located at
Aaronsburg, this county, where he
had charge of the old Aaronsburg
Academy while studying for the min-
istry. He spent two years there and
in 1859 was ordained as a minister in
the Lutheran church and for fifty-five
years was in active work, either
preaching the gospel or at the head of
some educational institution,
retiring six years ago.
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——The daylight saving ordinance
which was presented to council at a
regular meeting on March first was
allowed to die a natural death, not be-
ing called up for final action on Mon-
day cvening. Members of council
were probably influenced in their non-
action on the ordinance by the mes-
sage Mayor Moore, of Philadelphia,
recently sent to the councils of that
city requesting that the daylight sav-.
ings ordinance recently passed be re-
scinded because it conflicts with a
state law passed in 1887 which fixes
the standard time for Pennsylvania.
Other towns throughout the State
which were rather hasty in passing
daylight saving ordinances will like-
ly rescind the same, inasmuch as the
railroads are going to adhere to
standard time.
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——As a matter of record it might
be mentioned that last year at this
time many farmers in the county had
most of their corn ground ploughed
and early gardeners were already at
work. Robins and bluebirds were
here a-plenty and dandelions were be-
ginning to shoot through the ground.
But things are different this spring.
A few robins are here but so far not a
furrow has been turned nor a spade
stuck in the ground and it may be a
week or ten days yet before farmers
and gardeners can get to work. But
the groundhog’s reign ended on Mon-
day, Easter is only two weeks away
and let us all live in hopes that when
spring does come it will come to stay,
without any long drawn out spells of
cold. weather, to interfere with farm
work and early vegetation. .., ti
——A number of Academy students
were standing on High street bridge
last Friday afternoon watching. the
turbulent waters in Spring creek
which at the time were running about
a five foot flood. One of the stu-
dents wagered R. D. Brown, of Belle-
fonte, another student, five dollars that
he was afraid to jump into the stream
from the bridge. The wager was ac-
cepted, the money put up and peeling
off his coat Brown crawled over the
railing and jumped into the roaring
Though the current was swift he
managed to swim to the stone wall
alongside of the Bush house where he
was helped out of the stream by two
other young men. He promptly col-
lected the wager and started home to
change clothing, none the worse for
his foolish prank.
——Enthused over the success of
the Mountain High school basket ball
league a movement has already been
started to form a high school baseball
league to include four counties, Cen-
tre, Blair, Bedford and Huntingdon.
While the project has not yet reach-
ed the definite state of even a prelim-
inary organization there is every rea-
son to believe that such a league and
the rivalry it would naturally excite
between the towns where the differ-
ent teams may be located will create
a greater interest in the national
game than anything else can do.
While it is a little too early to get a
line on the baseball material in the
Bellefonte High school there is no
doubt but that the boys there will be
glad of the opportunity to get into the
league, and will play the best they
know how, win or lose.
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——Don’t fail to make your reser-
vations for the Rehabilitation min-
strels which will be given at the op-
era house on Saturday evening, March
27th, under the auspices of the
Brooks-Doll Post of the American
Legion. The “Rehabs,” as they are
termed for short, is composed of ex-
service men taking special training at
State College and enjoys the unique
distinction of being the only one-arm-
ed, one-legged, one-eyed and one-
lunged aggregation of fun makers in
existence. They are being drilled by
Mr. E. G. Moyer, who recently staged
a very successful minstrel at Atlanta,
Ga., and in addition to their regular
minstrel program will present the
one act comedy entitled, “On the
Morn of the Eleventh,” the scene be-
ing the office of the adjutant, head-
quarters of the famous Penn Sate di-
vision, in the ruined chateau of Vin
Blane, in the French village of Cogi-
nac. It will undoubtedly be worth the
money charged to see these soldiers
of the world war make merry. Men
who faced the Hun and his death-
dealing contrivances and came back
bearing the marks to prove it.:
He was born at Muncy and educated .
finally
“| after the interests of the boys arrest-
torrent just opposite the Bush house.’
BOYS ARRESTED ON A SERIOUS
CHARGE.
Charged with Contributing to the
Death of Jarvis Hall.
Melvin Rowan, Arthur and Charles
Markley and Charles Stark, four
Snow Shoe boys ranging in age from
eleven to fifteen years, were brought
to Bellefonte on Wednesday after-
noon and locked up in the Centre
county jail on the alleged serious
charge of causing or contributing to
the death of one Jarvis N. Hall, a ten
year old boy of Snow Shoe, whose
dead body was found in an old fish
pond about midway between Snow
Shoe and Clarence on August 17th,
1919. The boys were arrested by two
members of the state constabulary
from Philipsburg and when brought
' to Bellefonte were locked up without
‘a preliminary hearing before a jus-
i tice of the peace.
Aside from the fact that he gave
| the names of the boys and admitted
‘that they had been arrested on the
‘ charge of causing or contributing to
i the death of the Hall boy, district at-
| torney James C. Furst declined to
discuss the case. S. D. Gettig Esq.,
who was promptly retained to look
#ed, most emphatically refused to say
“a; word one way or the other, even re-
fusing to state the charge against
his clients, though at the jail when
they. were admitted the charge of
“homicide” was entered against
them.
The dead body of Jarvis Hall was
found in the fish pond referred to
above on August 17th and at the time
it was stated that he had been in
swimming with several companions,
had gotten into deep water and drown-
ed before he could be rescued. The
boy had been making his home with
his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam H. Hall, and at that time there
was some suspicion of foul play. Of-
ficers of the law made an investiga-
tion but could secure no evidence war-
ranting the arrest of any one. Since
then, however, state police have been
keeping close tab on the case with the
result that the four boys above named
have been arrested.
Some very ugly stories are rife in
connection with the case and the part
the boys had to do with it, but as they
are stories from an unauthorized
source the “Watchman” refrains from
publishing the same. But it has been
stated on authority that the case looks
bad for the boys. It is quite likely a
habeas corpus hearing will be given
the boys in the near future, on a date
to be set by Judge Quigley after his
return from Pittsburgh. At least two
of the boys are under fourteen years
| of age and they may not have to stand
trial if sufficient evidence is found
against the boys at the habeas corpus
hearing to warrant holding them.
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“Katcha-Koo.” :
A novel and brilliant musical pro-
ducion, entitled “Katcha-Koo,” will be
given under the auspices of the Hos-
pital Auxiliary, April 9th and 10th,
at the opera house, Bellefonte.
+ This Oriental-American Fantas-
tique carries the audience from one of
the private temples of the Maharajah
is laid, to New York, at the home of
Mrs. Chattie-Gaddin, a rich American
widow.
The leading dramatic talent in
roles and in the beautiful dances and
choruses. Among the principal char-
acters will be: Katcha-Koo, a fakir;
Maharajah of Hunga, on East Indian
Romeo; Dick Horton, a collector of
antiques; Harry Bradstone, a collect-
or of adventures; Mrs. Chattie-Gad-
din, a rich American widow; Dolly,
her daughter; Prudence, another
daughter; Solejah, widow of wizard;
Urbanah, High-Priestess of the Tem-
ple; Boodypah, a slave; Chin-Chin
Foo, Chinese wife of Maharajah; Bra-
zillitate, Brazillian wife of Mahara-
jah; Patsy Kildare, Irish wife of
Maharajah; La Belle Elysee, French
wife of Maharajah.
Others will assume the roles of Ori-
ental ladies, priests, slaves, attend-
ants, polo dancers, etc.
A patriotic and inspiring finale,
“Liberty Aflame,” in which America,
Joan of Are, England, France, Italy
and the allied nations appear, will be
one of the features of the production.
An experienced professional direc-
tor supplied by John B. Rogers pro-
ducing company will attend to the
correct staging of the play. Special
scenery and costumes will be supplied.
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At the opening of the Central
Pennsylvania Methodist Episcopal
conference in Harrisburg on Tuesday
eighty-one young men were examined
for the ministry. Twenty-four of the
above number were one and two year
probationers while the other fifty-sev-
en were recent graduates from theo-
logical seminaries. While it isn’t dif-
ficult to understand the position of
the twenty-four young men who have
been wearing the cloth as supplies for
one and two years, and with whom it
is not an easy matter to make a
change, we are forced to conclude that
the other fifty-seven must have heard
a special call for the work, else why
should they choose this high calling
with its meagre returns when they
could ge into any other line of work,
even with half the education they
must naturally have, and pick up
twice or three times the money they
will make as preachers?
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One of the twin sons born to Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Mallory on Tuesday of
last week died at the Bellefonte hos-
pital on Friday morning and was bur-
ied in the Union cemetery the same
{ afternoon.
of Hunga in India, where the first act
Bellefonte is to appear in the various |
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mr. and Mrs. John Rote, of Axe Mann,
| are visiting in Pitcairn, having gone out a
| week ago.
—Mrs. Wells L. Daggett is in Elmira,
having gone up Tuesday, called there by
the illness of an aunt.
—Miss Mary H. Linn left Monday for
Swarthmore, being a guest while there of
Dr. and Mrs. Hiram Hiller.
—Mrs. John A. Woodcock has been in
Williamsport since Tuesday, going down
to spend the week with her cousin, Mrs.
Miller.
represented the U. B. church at the Inter-
church conference held in Pittsburgh this
week.
—Mrs. Blanche Fauble Schloss was .all-
of her sister, Mrs. Irvin O. Noll, who was
suffering from an attack of acute appen-
dicitis.
—Mrs. McGinnis, of Clearfield, made one
of her infrequent visits to Bellefonte early
in the week, coming over to spend Sunday
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
Schofield.
—Logan Long was in Bellefonte Monday,
stopping here on his way to Port Matilda,
where he will be located during the spring
months. Mr. Long has only left Orviston
temporarily.
—Hugh M. Quigley has in contemplation
a position with an oil company which will
take him either to Colombia, South Amer-
ica, or to Oklahoma. Hugh will leave ear-
ly in April to begin his work.
—Mr. and Mrs. Morris Silver and their
two children left Monday to return to their
home in Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Sil-
ver had been here visiting with Mrs. Sil-
ver's sister, Mrs. Ray Brandman and the
family.
—Mrs. George Goodhart, of Centre Hall,
was a week-end guest of her niece, Mrs.
from Bellefonte, where she has been spend-
ing the winter with her daughter, Mrs. D.
Wagner Geiss.
—Mrs. E. J. Heinz, of Hazleton, has been
a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Gray. Mrs.
Heinz, who is an aunt of Mrs. Gray, went
to Philipsburg Monday, accompanied by
Mr. Gray, to attend the funeral of her
brother, Charles Smith.
—Lester Meek returned Monday from
Corry, to spend a week in Centre county,
during which time he will ship his house-
hold goods, and upon leaving here again
for Corry wiili be accompanied by Mrs.
Meek and their small son.
—Mrs. C. C. Shuey left Tuesday to go to
Kingston, Pa., called there by the illness
of the Donachy family. Miss Rachel Shu-
ey went over last week, but becoming ill
‘also, it was necessary for Mrs. Shuey to
go to take charge of the home until the
family recover. i
—Ferguson Parker came in from Pitts-
burgh last week for a visit of a few days
{ with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Ross
; Parker, but prolonged his stay on account
of not being well. Ferguson has been
with a telephone company since leaving
: Bellefonte some time ago.
! —Luther Lansberry, who with his fam-
, ily moved to Columbia county less than a
: year ago, to take charge of their big farm
| near Espy, spent a part of this week in
| Bellefonte, coming over ito attend several
of the public sales and for a short visit
{ with some of his many. Centre county
/ friends. ;
{ —Mrs. M. C. Delmonico left for her for-
| mer home in Hazleton yesterday, to look
after the shipping of her household goods
| to Bellefonte. Mrs. Delmonico has arrang-
| ed to move her Art Shop on the first of
! April, from the Garman building on
! Spring street, to the Bellefonte Hardware
| Co’s property on Allegheny street.
i —Hon. Harry B. Scott and jolly Josiah
Pritchard, of Philipsburg, spent Tuesday
night and Wednesday in Bellefonte, the
former looking up his chances to go as a
delegate from this congressional district
. to the National Republican convention,
while the latter just came along for com-
pany and to shake hands with his many
friends in Bellefonte.
—Mrs. D. G. Bush, who had been at Jer-
sey Shore since leaving here early in the
fall, went to Atlantic City Wednesday of
last week. Mrs. Bush was accompanied by
‘her niece, Mrs. Sides, and her daughter,
Miss Jennie Sides, to Philadelphia, where
Mrs. Callaway met her to go on to the
Shore. Arrangements had been® made sev-
eral times for Mrs. Bush's going east, but
her condition since her fall early in the
winter, would not permit her to make the
journey.
—DMisses Anna Lucas and Anna Powell,
two well known and attractive young la-
dies of Snow Shoe, departed for New York
on Monday where they will visit among
relatives until they both get located in
good positions. Previous to leaving for
New York they spent several weeks at
their parental homes, Miss Lucas at Pot-
tersdale and Miss Powell at Munson. Both
young ladies will be missed in their home
community but took with them the best
wishes of a host of friends for their fu-
ture welfare and success. :
—Orie H. Nason, of Juian, who has
charge of state highway work through
upper Bald Eagle valley and across the
mountain from Port Matilda to Philips-
burg, was a business visitor in Bellefonte
on Tuesday. He had an up-hill job of it
| keeping the roads in his territory open for
| travel during the winter but managed to
do it with probably less inconvenience to
the traveling public than could have been
done by most any other man. Among the
work he has planned out for the early
summer is top-dressing the mountain road
with cinder from Port Matilda to Philips-
burg. This work was started last fall but
the weather prevented its completion.
—James ¥. Hoover, of Snow Hill, Mary-
land, was a Bellefonte visitor on Wednes-
day morning. A year ago Mr. Hoover had
sale on the Mrs. Emma Meek farm, in Fer-
guson township and moved his family to
the Eastern Shore of Maryland where he
had previously purchased a farm of his
own. He says they have had very little
winter, such as we know it; the mercury
has not been below 8 above zero and prac-
tically no snow. They raise all of the
farm crops we grow, but trucking is a
specialty, with tomatoes and melons pre-
dominating. The tomato crop, however,
was a failure last season the yield having
been only a ton to the acre whereas a fair
crop runs from five to six. He says they
require very little care and are picked by
colored boys at three cents per bushel.
All in all the Hoovers like their new home
very much and may remain there perma-
nently unless land values boom to the
point where they can’t resist selling. It
has almost doubled in value in the year
they have been there.
—Rev. George E. Smith and C. D. Young |
ed to Philadelphia Sunday, by the illness .
Charles Thompson, at Lemont, going over |
—Rev. Alexander Scott, Mrs. Scott, Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Twitmire and C. C. Shuey
are all attending the Methodist conference
in session at Harrisburg this week.
—Miss Margaret Stewart, who had been
with her brother, Dr. Walter Stewart, in
Wilkes-Barre since shortly after Christ-
mas, 1eturned to Bellefonte yesterday.
—DMiss Janet Potter, of Philipsburg, was
in Bellefonte for the week-end, visiting
{ with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James H.
Potter. Miss Potter and her father left
here Monday morning on a business trip
to New York city.
{ —Mrs. Edward Shields, her small son,
and her sister, Miss Elizabeth Galbraith,
{ have arranged to come north, expecting to
i arrive in Bellefonte the after part of next
, week. Miss Galbraith has been with her
| sister in Jackson, Mississippi, since fall.
Ce a
“Watchman” Office Had to Take
Water.
The “Wachman” office had to take
| water last week, the first time in a
number of years, but it was not for
anything we had said or done, but be-
| cause of the brief spell of warm
: weather and the actions of Old Jupiter
Pluvius in being a little too liberal
with ‘his H20, all of which resulted in
i flooding Spring creek to the point
| where it overflowed into the “Watch-
man” press room to a depth of about
| eight inches. No particular damage
was done and the only inconvenience
caused was in cleaning the slimy,
sticky mud out of the room and off of
a machinery after the water subsid-
ed.
The water reached its highest point
at eleven o'clock on Friday night, then
receded slowly but surely and the cold
weather of Saturday and Sunday
i came just in time to allow the surplus
water time to drain off before the
warmer weather of this week. All the
streams in the county were filled to
overflowing last Friday, and Buffalo
Run overflowed its banks at various
places. The Bald Eagle creek was
also quite high and the water backed
up in the tail race of the State-Centre
Electric company’s plant at Milesburg
to such a height that they were una-
ble to operate their big turbine engine
and the result was the plant was clos-
ed down shortly after six o'clock on
Friday evening and practically all of
Bellefonte was in darkness the entire
night. In fact it was ten o’clock Sat-
urday morning before the plant was
again put in full operation. But the
ice has gone out of Bald Eagle creek
and the Susquehanna river and al-
though the water was dangerously
high along both streams no particu-
lar damage was done, and everybody
is hoping that all danger is now past
for this spring.
——The Potter-Hoy Hardware Co.
has secured the services of Myron M.
Cobb, of Wilkes-Barre, as head book-
keeper for the firm, and he is expect-
ed to come to Bellefonte on Monday
and begin work in his new position.
Orin Kline, ‘who has been looking
after the books lately, will take
charge of the retail sales department
as ‘successor to Harry Murtorff, re-
cently resigned. Mr. Cobb will move
his family to Bellefonte just as soon
as he can secure a house.
——Harold Lyon has been with the
Snow Shoe R. R. Co. since the first of
March, holding the position of bag-
gage master on the train between
Bellefonte and Snow Shoe. Mr. Ly-
on’s family will be with his parents,
at Lyontown, until they are able to
secure a home in Snow Shoe.
——See our bargains in remnants
of inlaid and printed linoleum at
the Potter-Hoy Hardware Co. 12-1t
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——The only kind of job work we
do is good job work.’
Sale Register.
Saturday, March 27.—At residence of E. E.
Straub, on Alexander farm, 14 mile north
of Bellefonte, lot of household goods in-
cluding walnut parlor suite, Apollo
range, beds, springs, chairs, dishes, etc.
‘Also churns, milk cans, guns, rifles and
iron kettles, as well as numerous other
articles. Sale at 1:30 p. m. sharp. S. H.
Hoy, auctioneer.
Cae
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White or Mixed No. 1 & 2....... 2.252.
Corn 1.40
Oats 5
Barley 1.056
ye 1.40
Buckwheat 1.25
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