Bellefonte, Pa., March 26, 1920. |
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TOOK FOXES IN NEAT TRAP
Probably Only Instance on Record
Where Youngsters Were Caught
in a Horse Blanket.
How four foxes were caught in a
dorse blanket is a quaint tale told by
R. A. Hutmacher in the Hunter-Trader-
Trapper of Columbus, O.
“I happened to be driving south of
Rapatee, Ill, with the implement deal-
er of that town, making business calls
on several farmers of that section.
when, to my surprise, I saw on a very
steep hill in the distance several young
foxes playing about as if no human
was near,” says Mr. Hutmacher. “My
partner and I decided to try our luck
at catching them, so driving on a little
farther, we tied our horses and set
out across the field after them.
“When we reached the hole, they
were all up over the hill chasing each
other, so telling my companion to g0
around the hill and chase them my
way I threw a horse blanket over their
hole and waited. As they came rush-
ing for the hole I raised one end of
the blanket just enough to hide myself
and at the same time form a trap of it
for them to run into.
“They all got to the hole about the
same time, when I threw one end of
the blanket over them, the other end
being over the hole. In the excite-
ment I succeded in catching all four
in the folds of the blanket.
“We went back to the buggy and
drove to town, my companion taking
two of the foxes and I two. Possibly
the explanation of our good luck is the
fact that the foxes were not much
more than six weeks old when cap-
tured.”
WHERE THEY FOUND THE HAT
Joe’s Use of Brother Agent's Head-
gear, to Say the Least, Had.
Not Improved It.
Attorney General Palmer instructed
the New York branch of the depart-
ment of justice recently to gather all
the German propaganda evidence it
had accumulated to prosecute enemy
aliens during the war and forward it
to Washington, where it could be
stored in the state department vaults.
The books, papers and documents were
placed in a wooden case five feet high,
four feet wide and two feet deep.
which was put in a special baggage
car accompanied by two special agents
of the department.
One of the agents became tired of
sitting watching the case and said he
would take a nap on it. He turned
the case over on its side and laid down
on it, using his handbag as a pillow,
while the other laid on the floor of
the car alongside the big box. In the
morning Special Agent Joe, who slept
on the box, awoke and found Agent
Bill searching all through the car for
something. He asked what he had
lost and Bill said that he certainly had
a hat when he entered the car but it
was missing. They could not find the
hat and finally turned the case right
end up and there lay Agent Bill's new
fall derby under it mashed perfectly
flat. Tableau.
Regulating Immigration,
Until 1882 congress did not make
any law restricting foreign immigra-
tion. On the other hand, everything
was done to encourage immigration
without regard to its character or qual-
ity. In 1882 a law was made exclud-
ing escaped conyicts, idiots and per-
sons likely to become a public charge.
Since then laws have been passed ex-
cluding persons afflicted with any dan-
gerous contagious diseases, persons
guilty of serious crime in their native
country, anarchists, paupers and pro-
fessional beggars. Foreigners deterred
by law are sent back to the country
from which they came. During 1916
the report of the commissioner of im-
migration shows 5,256 aliens, morally,
mentally or physically below the
standard were returned, 4,257 of whom
were debarred from entering, the re-
mainder having been arrested and ex-
pelled.
To Breed Rabbits for Their Fur.
An organization known as the Be-
veren club has been formed in Lon-
Gon, England, to breed rabbits for
their fur. The scheme is being run on
co-operative lines.
The blue Beveren and the Havana
rabbiis are the strain which the club
intends to rear. The fur of the blue
Beveren is of lavender blue and is
long, lustrous, fine and silky. That
of ihe Havana is of a rich chocolate
color and is thick, fairly long and
fine.
It is hoped to produce from these
rabbiis natural furs the color of which
will not fade.
Women Build Roads.
Five hundred Armenian women em-
ployed by the American Red Cross
have built 100 miles of stone roads
and reconstructed several steel
bridges in this section within the last
four months, an Associated Press dis-
patch from Marash, Mesopotamia,
says. The roads were rebuilt in order
to facilitate transportation of Red
Cross supplies. There were no male
laborers to be employed, so Capt. Ed-
ward Bickel of Seattle, who had charge
of the engineering work, engaged the
women, who were glad to have em-
ployment of any kind. !
You'll find all the news in the
“Watchman,” and it’s all really true,
too.
AARONSBURG.
Harry Walter, of Millmont, spent
Saturday with his wife in this place.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hain, of Sunbury,
were guests of Mrs. Hain’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Crouse.
Mr. Johnson, of Mineral Ridge,
Ohio, spent Sunday at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. John Grenoble.
Mrs. Thomas Meyer, of Coburn,
spent several days with her sisters,
Mrs. George Weaver and Mrs. John
Grenoble.
Mrs. George E. Stover went over to
Lock Haven, where she will spend sev-
eral days with her daughter, Mrs.
Electa Haugh.
The condition of A. D. Kunes has
not improved any, and there is not
much hope for a recovery. While
suffering intensely he is very patient.
Mrs. W. H. Phillips, after having
spent several weeks with Mr. and
Mrs. George McKay, in Philadelphia,
has returned to her home in our vil-
lage.
Mrs. Koch, her daughter, Mrs.
Mothersbaugh, and son Daniel, have
returned home and expect to move
from their present residence to that of
Miss Mary Stahl.
Mrs. A. M. Bower and daughter
Ethel returned to their home here
after spending several months with
her daughter, Mrs. Horace Stover, in
Youngstown, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bailey left on
Monday morning for their home in
Kaneville, Ill. Just one week ago they
brought the body of their daughter
here for burial. Their many friends
deeply sympathize with them in their
grief and loneliness.
CENTRE HALL No. 1.
Have you heard the robins? We
are all glad to know that summer may
soon come.
The W. C. T. U. met at the home of
Mrs. D. A. Boozer last Saturday even-
ing. The attendance might have been
greater.
J. F. Lutz returned to his home here
on Monday. He had spent several
days in the vicinity of Bellefonte,
where he attended the funeral of his
cousin, Jerry Lutz.
Joseph Ruble, of Cleveland, Ohio,
on his return from a business trip to
Philadelphia, made a short stop in our
town with his sister-in-law, the wid- |
of of the late J. B. Ruble.
Robert Neff, teacher of the interme-
diate grade, has been out of school for |
over a week, on account of sickness. |
He is greatly improved at this writ-
ing and hopes to be able to resume his
duties in the school room next Mon-
day.
Miss Elizabeth Boozer, who gradu-
ated as a trained nurse at the Alle-
gheny General hospital, Pittsburgh,
came to the home of her father, D. A.
Boozer, last Thursday, to remain un-
til April first. At that time she will |
return to the hospital as a nurse. i
Rev. W. R. Picken, a retired Meth-
odist minister who resides in this
place, attended the Central Penna.
conference of the Methodist church,
which was held in Harrisburg. He re-
turned to his home on Monday of this |
week. Robert Smith, of Centre Hill,
was also in attendance at the confer- !
ence as a lay delegate.
College Correspondence Courses are
Popular.
The popularity of the correspond-
ence courses offered at a very low cost
by the engineering extension division
of The Pennsylvania State College,
has been growing by leaps and bounds
during the past few months.
Throughout the State there are now
approximately 1200 shop and mill
workers who are taking advantage of
this instruction by mail, that they
might advance to better jobs. i
More than seven hundred enroll-
ments in the shop engineering mail
instruction work were received by the
department last week. Six hundred
are employees of a Williamsport man-
ufacturing company. The company
is paying for this instruction for its |
men, realizing the benefit that come
to both men and the plant. A plant
in Carbondale has adopted the same |
method, and there 125 men are work-
ing on their first lesson in shop arith-
metic, drawing, operation and man-
agement. !
“We find that shopmen are begin-
ning to realize the value of these cor-
respondence courses,” says a repre- |
sentative of the department. “We do
not ask payment on a full and elabo- |
rate course, but just as they are fin- |
ished and the student is ready to con-
tinue with further study. He makes
no big investment and pays for the in-
expensive service as he goes.”
Extension school classes are flour-
ishing in forty-eight centres through-
out the State, and there are now about
6300 shopmen enrolled in these popu- |
lar night instruction classes. During |
the coming week Ensign C. G. Gaum, |
formerly attached to this college de- |
partment will receive his discharge
from the Navy and will be the east-
ern Pennsylvania representative. He
will supervise the work conducted |
with classes in and about Philadel- |
phia, where upwards of 1000 men are |
enrolled.
Canada’s Veterans to Get Big Area of
Land.
Canadian soldier farmers will soon |
be able to settle in a large area of |
Western Reserve land which has been !
thrown open through cancellation by
the crown, according to announcement |
by the Soldier Settlement Board. Ac- |
tion has been taken to dispose of 75,- !
000 of Hudson’s Bay reserve lands |
situated in the provinces of Saskatch- |
ewan and Alberta and 10,400 acres
Doukhorbor reserve lands near Kam- |
sock, Saskatchewan. |
A portion of the land will be sold |
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CASTORIA
Bears the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher.
In use for over thirty years, and
The Kind You Have Always Dougi!.
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Illness Costs U. S. Wage Earners.
Billion Dollars Every 12 Months |
The annual sick bill of 30,000,-
000 American wage earners is
$1,000,000,000.
The time clock of the nation
shows that each worker, through
sickness, loses an average of nine
days. This means that the work-
ing time of the nation is decreased
by more than 850,000 years.
Half of the billion-dollar sick
bill represents wages lost—sub-
tracted from the total of earnings
expected to finance the budgets of
millions of families. The other
half represents the bill for doc-
tors, nurses and medicines. And
the total is twice the amount
given annually in the United
States for all philanthropic pur-
poses, in normal times.
This is the problem of illness
as it is presented by the survey
now being made by the Inter-
church World Movement.
The survey has formulated a
program as a proposal for the co-
operative effort of the evangelical
churches. An increase in the effi-
ciency and capacity of existing
denominational hospitals is the
first provision of this program.
Construction of 31 new hospitals
is the second. These hospitals in-
clude 12 general hospitals for
white people; twelve for negroes;
one tuberculosis sanitarium for
Arizona; four hospitals for incur-
ables and two children’s hospitals.
April 15 and the proceeds given to a
reserve fund to offset settlement loss-
es and to aid returned men physically
disabled whose condition and circum-
stances necessitate their being settled
on land. The remainder of the area
will be thrown open about April 30
for soldier grant entry. Assistance
in the form of farm loans for stock
equipment will be given to those men
whose knowledge of farming will en-
able them to proceed with the devel-
Splen and operation of their lands.
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AS CONCERNS THIS FIRM
We could never see the advisability of cheap
glasses excepting, possibly, for emergency cases.
We DO advise the best glasses one can possibly
buy. You owe it to yourself and to your sight.
Qur methods, with
our newest and most up-
to-date appliances, assure an absolute correction
of your eye troubles at a very moderate cosi, con-
sidering quality.
We have glasses at all prices
BUT WE DO NOT ADVISE CHEAP GLASSES.
We are the oldest optical house in this county,
with the widest experience.
F. P. Blair & Son,
Jewelers and Optometrists
Bellefonte, Pa.
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solid leather and are less in price
than the very cheapest shoddy
shoe on the market today.
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your work shoes now and lay
them away until you need them.
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Easter Opening
We have just remodeled and improved our
store-room, which gives better light, better
facilities for showing merchandise, and are
just in time for a big Easter opening.
Coats and Suits
We can truthfully say, without boasting,
our Ready-to-Wear Department never was
more complete ; and in addition to the large
assortment, the prices are phenomenally low. We
are showing the new Spring Suits in all colors—
Navy Blue, Copenhagen, Reindeer, Pekin ; in
Serges—Poiret Twill, Tricotine, Silvertone.
Jersey
Cloth Suits are very popular in the heather mix-
tures in blue and green colors. We have sizes to
fit the small lady, the medium sizes and extra sizes.
Our price we can guarantee from 25 to 3o per cent.
less than any other store.
Coats—We are showing a big line of Spring
Coats, all colors ; styles with narrow leather belts
or narrow self belts ; sport length or full length.
Dress Goods—See our new assortment of fig-
ured Georgettes. All the new combinations in dif-
ferent colors for the new over-blouses ; satins and
taffetas to match. White Silk Kumsi Kumsa and
Silk Jersey for the new sport skirts or suits.
Easter Accessories—Neckwear, Kid and Fab-
ric Gloves, Silk Hose, Corsets, Bags and Pocket
Books—everything the woman of good taste needs
to brighten up her Easter outfit.
Rugs Carpets Lineoliums—This Department
is worth your while seeing. You will save money
by looking at our stock before buying.
Spring Shoes—New Spring Styles in Men’s,
Women’s and Children’s high and low cut Shoes.
Lyon & Co.
& Co.
* Lyon & Co.