Bellefonte, Pa., April 2, 1920.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——Mrs. Bertram, of Reynolds ave-
nue, tripped on a cellar door on Mon-
day, fell and fractured her right arm.
—1It is just a few days’too early
to catch trout but you can go to the
opera house next Thursday evening
and “Katcha Koo.”
— No lover of music can afford to
miss the cantata to be given by the
choir at the Methodist church on Sun-
day evening at 7:30. Go early for a
good seat.
——A little daughter was born to
burgess and Mrs. W. Harrison Walk-
er, at the Bellefonte hospital, early
Tuesday morning; the third girl in the
burgess’ family.
— Between twenty-five and thirty
members of the Masonic fraternity of
Lock Haven motored to Bellefonte on |
Monday evening and attended a spe-
cial meeting of the Bellefonte Lodge.
The Reformed Sunday school of
Boalsburg will serve a chicken and
waffle supper in the Knights of Malta
hall in that place tomorrow (Satur-
day) evening. Price, 50 cents. The
public is invited.
—James Newton Hill, the par-
doned life-termer, was discharged
from the Rockview penitentiary on
Monday and left the same afternoon
for McKeesport, where he expects to
make his future home.
—— Milton Kerns, the barber, on
Monday vacated his shop in the Gar-
man house, loaded his equipment,
household goods, etc., on a car and
shipped the same to Miilheim where
he has bought a property and will
conduct a shop in the future.
——An exploding battery caused a
slight fire in the R. C. Witmer elec-
trical supply station on High street,
on Tuesday afternoon, but fortunately
the Maze was quickly smothered by
prompt use of chemical fire extin-
guishers and little damage was done.
——An appropriation of $1,415,000
for aerial mail service between New
York and San Francisco was written
into the postoffice appropriation bill
on Monday and passed by the Senate.
If the bill is passed by the House and
signed by the President it will assure
the life of the Bellefonte aviation field
for-another year or two, at least.
— Pennsylvania had in 1919, 3802
cases of typhoid and 623 deaths—all
preventable. Join the Health school
and help to prevent it. The lessons
come twice a month; every newspaper
in the State—that is where you will
find them. You join the school by
promising to read the articles and
answer the questions—no marking,
just grading. It isyourbusiness!
——Dr. E. S. Malloy received the
sad intelligence yesterday morning
that his mother had dropped dead of
heart disease at her home at Mifflin-
burg on Wednesday. The information
stated that an automobile accident
had taken place in front of the Malloy
home and some of the injured were
being carried into the house. The ex-
citement was too much for Mrs. Mal-
loy and she dropped dead.
—In the shake-up caused by Mrs.
Tanner closing the very popular
boarding house, which she has con-
ducted in Bellefonte for almost ten
years, Rev. Ard and Earl Orr went to
Mrs. Showers, on Spring street; Miss
Snyder, Francis Speer, Mr. and Mrs.
Weaver, Mr. Kinraudy and Mr. Hall
to the Brant house; Mr. Stock to Mrs.
Cole’s, and Miss Harper will take her
meals in her own apartment for the
present.
——Being obliged to vacate his
rooms in the old Curtin building on
the corner of Allegheny and Howard
streets, owing to the same having
been purchased by the Krader Motor
Co., John J. Stein has moved his vui-
canizing plant into the room in the
McClure building, on Bishop street,
formerly occupied by P. H. Me-
Garvey as an auto supply store, while
Mr. McGarvey has gone into the ad-
Joining room with J. Mac. Heinle.
——The Bellefonte High school bas-
ket ball team will play its last league
game on the armory floor this (F'ri-
day) evening at eight o’clock, with
the Houtzdale High school team.
There is hardly any question now but
that the High school will be the win-
ners in the Mountain league and as
such will take part in the interscho-
lastic contests to be held at State Col-
lege next Friday and Saturday. May
dhey meet with equal success there.
——Capt. Robert F. Hunter last
“week received a parcel post package
from Bloomsburg containing three
eggs, being what was left out of a
half dozen contained in the original
shipment. Inasmuch as there was no
evidence of broken eggs in the pack-
age he is rather perplexed as to what
became of the other three, but as the
shipment was somewhat overdue he
thinks they may have hatched out on
the way and the chickens got away
from the mail clerks enroute.
——On Wednesday of last week a
young man and woman came to Belle-
fonte and going to the Haag house
registered as Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Barrett, both securing employment at
the Pennsylvania Match factory. On
Monday information was received
from Danville that the parties were
Paul Fredericks and Mrs. Florence
Viola Keefer, of that place, both mar-
ried people. They were arrested and
jailed. The woman was discharged on
Tuesday and returned home while the
man wast taken back to Danville by
officers from that ‘place on Wednes-
day.
SIX INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE
ACCIDENT.
Four of the Victims in Serious Condi-
tion and One May Die.
One of the worst automobile acci-
dents that has happened in this vicin-
ity in several years occurred on the
Nittany valley state highway about
eleven o'clock on Sunday night when
| an automobile with six young people
from Lock Haven coming toward
Bellefonte collided with a big truck
loaded with lime, a short distance be-
low Hecla Park. The injured are:
Edward Johnston, son of Sheriff Tom
Johnston, compound fracture of the left
arm, compound fracture of the jaw, frac-
ture of the right knee cap and fracture
of the left leg above the knee; cuts about
head, right arm and body. Johnston is
the most seriously injured and may die.
Sylvia Winkleman, of Flemington, fracture
of the left leg above the knee.
Lorena Adams, Lock Haven,
broken above the knees.
Gladys Dougherty, Lock Haven, left leg
broken.
Ray Boblitt, Lock Haven, cut and bruised
about face and body.
William Quiggle, Lock Haven,
bruises.
It goes without saying that there is
both legs
cuts and
‘always a cause for every auto acci-
dent, and on this occasion it was run-
ning without proper lights. The big
truck was owned by the Bellefonte
Lime company, of Salona, and was
bound for Lock Haven with a load of
lime for the paper mill. It was driv-
en by a young man named Wise and it
is asserted that the only lights on his
machine were his two small side lights
and a lantern tied where the head-
light ought to have been. The auto-
mobile containing the Lock Haven
party was a big Reo car owned by !
Sheriff Johnston, of Clinton county,
bers of the party when they reached
Hublersburg they discovered that
their lights had gone bad. The bat-
tery evidently was almost exhausted,
as the lights became quite dim. As
they were nearer Bellefonte than Lock
Haven they decided to make the run
here to have the lights fixed. They
were coming along at a pretty fair
speed and when about opposite the
John Devinney place noticed right
ahead of them the oncoming truck,
which was also traveling pretty fast.
‘Johnston was driving the car and
he tried to turn out but failed to make
it and the left front wheel of the au-
tomobile locked with the left front
wheel of the truck with the result that
the heavily laden truck was swung
around and ploughed right through
the ‘car, crushing its occupants and
smashing the car to kindling wood.
Within a very few minutes after the
crash dn automobile happened along
containing two young men of Belle-
fohte dnd two nurses and they stop-
ped and rendered very efficient first
aid“ser¥vice. All the injured were car-
vied ‘into the home of Arthur Colyer,
nearby, and word was promptly tele-
phoned: to both Bellefonte and Lock
Haven for assistance. Dr. David Dale
went down from Bellefonte and also
had “the ambulance sent down. Dr.
David Thomas responded from Lock
Haven and also had the ambulance
brought up from there. All the ser-
iously injured were suffering great
pain but they were given such assist-
ance as it was possible to give at the
time, then placed in the two ambu-
lances and taken to the Lock Haven
hospital. © One of the less injured men
was taken to Lock Haven by Max
Hayes, who had hurriedly motored to
the scene of the accident in his car.
Boblitt and Quiggle, two of the young
men in the car, were able to be around
on Monday, but all the others are due
for a long siege in the hospital.
Another accident that happened a
little later at night was that of a big
Packard car from State College, driv-
en by a student and containing five or
six young men of Bellefonte, who
were returning from a trip to Lock
Haven. Coming along by the Christ
Decker farm the driver turned out to:
allow another car to pass, got too far
to the side of the road, ran off the end
of a shallow culvert, then into a deep
ditch, sideswiped a tree and ran into
the fence. None of the occupants
were hurt but the car was pretty bad-
ly damaged.
STATE STUDENTS IN ACCIDENT.
On Wednesday Andrew Garver
started with a truck load of fourteen:
State College students to take them
to Lewistown on their way home for
their Easter vacation. He got along
all right until going down the Seven
Mountains at a place called Cox’s Val-
ley View, when he lost control of the
truck and it started at high speed
down the mountain. Becoming
frightened some of the students
jumped from the truck, one receiving
a broken leg and several others cuts
and bruises. The driver, however,
stuck to the wheel and after a thril-
ling drive of over a half mile in which
he did everything possible to stop the
car, he finally managed to bring it to
a stand-still about half-way down the
mountain. The truck was not damag-
ed but the driver was so nervous over
his experience that he refused to con-
tinue the trip and passing cars took
the students to Lewistown while
another driver took the truck back to
the College.
——Henry Miller, of Somerset
county, escaped from the Rockview
penitentiary but was caught by Har-
ry Wingard and Frank Barker, near
Ingleby, on Monday afternoon. He
was sent up for burglary for from two
to four years and on Wednesday
Judge Quigley gave him a similar sen-
tence for breaking jail.
| others being located in Williamsport,
and driven by his son, Edward John- | Muncy, Hughesville and Montgomery.
ston, the young man so seriously in- | The stores in the above places have
jured. According to one of the mem- | been in operation a year or more while
| benefit for the Bellefonte hospital and
—The Rt. Rev. Bishop Darlington
will visit Bellefonte to administer the |
Sacrament of Confirmation Low Sun-
day afternoon, April 11th, at 2:30!
o'clock. The service will be held in |
St. John’s Episcopal church, and in
addition to confirming the Bishop will |
preach a sermon.
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——John Smith, a colored man of
Philipsburg, was brought to the Cen-
tre county jail on Wednesday on the
charge of larceny. Saturday evening
he went into the tailor shop of C. W.
Owens, in Philipsburg, threw red pep-
per into the tailor’s eyes, grabbed a
package containing several suits of
clothes and skipped. He was caught
before he could get out of the town
and being unable to give bail for his
appearance at court was remanded to
jail.
The will of the late James
Scarlet, Esq., of Danville, who died a
month or more ago, was probated in
the Montour county court last Thurs-
day. Although no inventory was filed
it is the general opinion that the es-
tate will figure up to $300,000. Three-
fourths of the income of the property
was left to Mrs. Scarlet during her
life and the other fourth to his son,
James Scarlet Jr., of Philadelphia.
On the death of Mrs. Scarlet the en-
tire income goes to the son, also the
power to distribute the principal at his
death. A Scranton Trust company is
the executor and trustee of the estate.
Keystone Store Closed by Sheriff.
The Keystone State grocery store
in the Brockerhoff house block was
closed by the sheriff last Friday. The
Bellefonte store was one of a chain of
stores operated by the Keystone State
Stores company, of Williamsport,
the Bellefonte store was opened some
six or eight months ago. Recently an
effort was made by the management
to float a stock issue in order to raise
finances to carry the stores along but
the effort was a failure. It is under-
stood that the appointment of a re-
ceiver in bankruptcy has been asked
for.
Anent that Bellefonte Milk Station.
Mr. J. A. Collins, New York repre-
sentative of the Western Maryland
Milk company was. in Bellefonte yes-
terday continuing negotiations for the
locating here of a milk station and
progressed to that stage where it
looks as if the station is absolutely
assured. While in Bellefonte Mr. Col-
lins received a telegram from a man
in Washington, D. C., asking if he
could furnish him one thousand gal-
lons of milk daily, and another tele-
gram from a milk dealer in Cantgn,
Pa., agreeing to furnish him one
thousand gallons daily on a previous
order. While in Bellefonte Mr. Col-
lins took an option on a small farm
south of town which he expects to fix
up and maintain as a summer home.
“Katcha Koo’ to be
Event.
Big Society
The presentation of the oriental
comedy, “Katcha Koo,” at the opera
house next Thursday and Friday
evenings, promises to be the first big
society event of the season. Practic-
ally all the leading amateur talent in
Bellefonte will take part in the play.
This will include in the neighborhood
of one hundred people and they are all
practicing every night in order to get
their respective parts letter-perfect.
The presentation will be given as a
the committee in charge is Mrs. M. H.
Brouse, chairman; Mrs. Odillie Mott,
Mrs. William Katz, Mrs. Harry Yea-
ger, Miss Mary Blanchard, Miss Mir-
iam Smith and Mrs. G. Ross Parker.
A professional director is in charge
and this is assurance that the various
characters will be skillfully assigned
and artistically costumed, with elabo-
rate and appropriate stage settings.
The chart for reserved seats will be
put up at Parrish’s drug store on
Tuesday morning, April 6th. If you
can’t get suitable reservations for the
first night book them for the second,
but in any event, be sure to see this
play.
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Annual Declamatory Contest.
The annual declamatory contest for
the W. S. Furst prizes took place at
the Bellefonte Academy on Tuesday
afternoon and proved to be one of the
closest and most interesting contests
ever held. The speakers and their
subjects were as follows:
“Lincoln at Gettysburg,”
Brown, of Salamanca, N. Y.
“Daniel Webster,” by H. Vilsack, of
Pittsburgh.
“Success,” by C. Mansure, Chicago.
“Dead on the Field of Honor,” by J.
Buchanan, Greensburg.
“Character,” by B. Walker, Detroit,
Mich.
“Americanism,” by L. Saul, Pitts-
burgh.
“Time,” by F. Theis, Wilkes-Barre.
“The Boy in Blue,” by R. Frauen-
heim, Pittsburgh.
“Citizenship,” by N. Runyan, El-
wood City.
The judges were Dr. W. K. McKin-
ney, Mr. F. H. Thomas and John M.
Bullock. They awarded first prize to
Fred Theis, second to Nelson Runyan
and a third prize divided between
Lewis Saul and Bradley Walker.
The piano selections by Mrs. Hess
and singing by Mr. Lilling were pleas-
ing features of the afternoon’s pro-
by W.
gram. Coach Lilling deserves great
credit for the splendid training evinc-
ed by all the contestants.
' NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
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—Mrs. Kerstetter, of Harrisburg, was
guest Sunday of her sister,
Yeager.
__ Mrs. Waterman, of Providence, R. L,
Mrs. H. C.
is visiting with her brother and his wife, |
Col. and Mrs. W. F. Reynolds. |
— Mrs. William Wolfe returned Wednes-
day from Altoona, after a week’s visit with
her daughter, Mrs. Frank Zeigler.
—LeRoy Fox, of Lock Haven, and his
son George will be Easter guests of the
child’s grandmother, Mrs. Henry Haupt,
of south Allegheny street.
—Mrs. M. L. Jack and her two children
left last week for Mrs. Jack’s former home
‘in Beaver county, where they anticipate
making their home in the future.
—Mr. and Mrs. R. J. P. Gray and Mr.
Gray's mother, Mrs. William Gray, have
returned to their home in Stormstown,
after spending the winter in Indiana, Pa.
—Mr. and Mrs. William §. Furst, of
Overbrook, and their three daughters, will
come to Bellefonte this week to spend Eas-
ter with Mr. Furst’s mother, Mrs. A. O.
Furst.
—Rev. E. Janvier, of Philadelphia, and
Mr. ‘and Mrs. E. P. Lingle and their son
Walter, of Pitcairn, will be Easter guests
of Mrs. Georgianna Dale, at her home near
Lemont. :
—Mrs. Robert Morris and her two sons
will spend next week with Mr. Morris at
the Ward House, in Tyrone, while A. G.
Morris and his daughter, Miss Lida move
to their other house.
—Mrs. Katherine Furey Hunter ,of Pitts-
burgh, has planned to come to Centre
county very shortly, and will be a guest
during her stay of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Mil-
ler, at Pleasant Gap.
— Miss Helen E. C. Overton is contem-
plating spending the summer at the Shore.
As soon as the Academy closes Miss Over-
ton will leave to accept a position at the
Children’s Seaside Home, at Atlantic City.
— Mrs. Joseph Ceader has arranged? to
come to Bellefonte early in May to open
her Spring street home for the summer.
Mrs. Ceader has been in Newark, N. J., for
the winter, with her son, Joseph Ceader
Ir. :
—Miss Elizabeth S. Thompson, of State
College, was in Bellefonte the early part
of the week, stopping between trains on
her way to Howard, expecting to spend
the Easter week with friends there and at
Clearfield.
—Miss Lillian Rankin spent the past
week in Harrisburg with her sister and
brother, Miss Mary and Walter Rankin;
Mrs. Preston Lytle, of State College, com-
ing to be with her father, W. B. Rankin,
during Miss Lillian’s absence.
—J. Harvey McClure was in Bellefonte
the early part of the week on a visit to
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James I. Mc-
Clure, before moving from Oil City to Li-
ma, Ohio, to take charge of that new posi-
tion he was recently promoted to.
—Having completed his work in Centre
county as agent of the Farm Bureau R. H.
Olmstead and family took their departure
for Susquehanna county on Wednesday
afternoon, and henceforth Joseph N. Rob-
inson will be in charge of the Bureau.
. —Miss Martha Haines and Miss Rebecca
Yerger, with Mrs. M. H. Haines as chaper-
on, will go to Clearfield Saturday for Eas-
ter and the Easter dance Monday night.
While there they will be guests of Mrs.
Haines’ elder daughter, Mrs. John Black.
, —Anthony Wasson, of Niagara Falls, ar-
rived home yesterday and will be joined
here today by his sister, Miss Tillie Was-
son, of Harrisburg, both being guests for
their Easter vacation of their parents, Mr.
1 and Mrs. Samuel Wasson, of south Alle-
gheny street.
—Mrs. ‘James B. Lane has returned to
Bellefonte from Atlantic City, where she
spent the late winter at “The Eastbourne.”
Mrs. Lane is living for the present at the
Bush house, expecting to remain there or
go to McKeesport, until opening her house
on Linn street.
—George Kauffman, of Altoona, while oft
on a sick leave of a month, came to Belle-
fonte Friday, for some good Centre coun-
ty produce. Mr. Kauffman was so unself-
ish with his good eats, that the quantity
of eggs he was carrying home were to be
divided with the Frank Williams family.
— Miss Ida Greene is expected in Belle-
fonte this week, coming here from Erie,
where she has been for the winter with
her brother Elmer and family. After
spending a day or two here, Miss Greene
will go to Philipsburg for aweek’s visit,
before opening her home on Water street.
—Mrs. Walters, who had been here with
her daughter, Mrs. C. D. Casebeer, for the
winter, returned yesterday to her home in
Somerset, accompanied by Miss Luella
Rhoades. Mrs. Casebeer and her daugh-
ter Betty will follow Mrs. Walters to Som-
erset tomorrow to be her guests over Eas-
ter.
—Rev. S. C. Stover, pastor of. the Re-
formed church at Boalsburg, was a pleas-
ant caller at the “Watchman” office on
Tuesday morning, being on his way to Al-
toona, where he filled the pulpit in the
Trinity Reformed church three evenings
this week at special services being held
there.
—Mrs. J. T. Garthoff returned Wednes-
day from a visit to her former home in
Rebersburg, going over a week ago to Co-
burn to attend a nephew's sale. Mr. and
Mrs. Garthoff are entertaining their two
grandsons, Jack and Clifford Blackford,
sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. Linn Blackford, of
Huntingdon.
—Mrs. Samuel Harris is again at Mill
Hall, going there from Harrisburg, to open
her house for the summer. Mrs. Harris
spent the winter in Shamokin, with her
daughter, Mrs. Hartsock, going with them
to their new home in Harrisburg. Rev.
Willis Hartsock was changed at the re-
cent conference.
—Miss Anna M. Miller, who has been
here for the past ten days, will return to
her home in Salona today to complete her
arrangements for coming next week to
make her home permanently in Bellefonte.
Having accepted a position with Dr. J. M.
Locke, Miss Miller will take charge of his
offices Thursday, making her home with
Mrs. R. G. H. Hayes.
—Among the younger set home from
school for their Easter vacation, is Miss
Mabel Sheffer, who has as a guest Miss
Ada Kopplin, of Minneapolis. Miss Shef-
fer and Miss Kopplin are schoolmates at
Miss Masons, at Tarrytown, On-the-Hud-
son. Miss Henrietta Quigley, from Vas-
sar; Miss Henrietta Sebring, from Smith;
Miss Margaret Mignot and Miss Della
Beezer, from the Mary Woods College at
Scranton. Miss Beezer was accompanied
by Miss Katherine McLaughlin, of Bed-
ford, who spent a part of the week in
Bellefonte,
Miss Lois Kirk went £6 Clearfield yes: : Escaped Convict Voluntarily Rétirns
terday, where she will be with friends un- |
| til-Sunday.
—Willis Ishler, of Pittsfield, Mass., was
i a week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
{ D Fortney.
—Miss Mabel Allison, of Spring Mills,
was in Bellefonte looking after some busi-
ness on Saturday.
—Mrs. Blair Riley, of Altoona, was a
guest for a part of the week of her sisters,
Mrs. Twitmire and Mrs. Shuey.
—Wahile spending Sunday in Bellefonte,
Miss Viola Harter and Miss Penny, of
State College, were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
W. W. Bible.
—Harry Fitzgerald, of Columbus, Ohio,
spent the after part of last week in Belle-
fonte with his father and sister, W. T.
and Miss Sallie Fitzgerald.
—H®dward Grauer arrived unexpectedly
in Bellefonte yesterday, coming from Phil-
adelphia to spend Easter with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Grauer.
—Mrs. Robert Miller, of Tyrone, was in
Bellefonte Friday between trains, on her
way home from a visit with her father, E.
T. Jamison, at Spring Mills.
—Martin J. Miller, of Valley View, and
his brother, Wilfred I. Miller, have been in
Pittsburgh this week, looking after some
of the Miller business interests.
—Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Meyer are enter-
taining Mr. Meyer's sister, Mrs. Harry
McManaway, of Indianapolis.
Manaway will be east for several months.
—The Misses Anne and Caroline Valen-
tine, who spent February and March with
friends in New York and Philadelphia, re-
turned to Bellefonte late last week, for the
summer.
—Mrs. Edward L. Gates and daughter
Betty came over from Philipsburg yester-
day to spend Easter with friends in Belle-
fonte, Mr. Gates expecting to join them
here on Saturday.
Miss Jennie K. Reifsnyder, of Mill-
heim, was a week-end and over Sunday
guest of Mr .and Mrs. J. S. McCargar, Mr.
and Mrs. McCargar taking her home on
Monday in their car.
—Mrs. Harry Wilkinson and her young-
est child are now at Spring Mills with Mrs.
Wilkinson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. McCool,
the twe older children being with Mr. Wli-
kinson’s parents at Potters Mills.
—J. Watt Miller, of Tyrone, was in
Bellefonte on Monday on business connect-
ed with the settlement of the estate of the
late Candace E. Miller, of Halfmoon town-
ship, of which he is the administrator.
—Mrs. Louis E. Freidman came here
from New York city a week ago, to be
with her mother, Mrs. Herman Holz, while
she was arranging her new home on
Spring street. Mrs. Freidman returned to
New York this week. :
— Mrs. B. P. Bell, of Pleasant Gap, was
shopping in town yesterday afternoon and
giving her little daughter, Nancy Virginia,
a few of the thrills the little folks exper-
ience while gazing at the Easter bunnies
and candy eggs in the store ‘windows.
— Mrs. M. M. Cobb, and her daughter,
Miss Doris, came here from Wilkes-Barre
Tuesday, to join Mr. Cobb, who is book-
keeper in the Potter-Hoy Hardware store.
Mr. Cobb and his family will be with Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. LaBarre for the present.
—Mrs. D. A. Boozer, of Centre Hall, and
her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Boozer, were
in Bellefonte Friday, Miss Boozer leaving
Saturday for Chicago, called there by ill-
ness in the family of her brother, Ralph
Boozer. Upon her return, Migs Boozer has
arranged to locate in Pittsburgh, where
she graduated a short time dgo from the
Allegheny General hospital.
__Miss Julia Donovan, of Pittsburgh,
has been spending the week in Centre
county with her sister, Mrs. P. J. Halleran,
on Spring creek. Miss Donovan is an in-
structor in the schools of Bellevue, and
came here for her Easter vacation, in the
hope that the change might be beneficial
to her health, which has suffered from the
strenuous work of the winter.
—Col. and Mrs. J. L. Spangler have
opened their house on Allegheny street,
after a two month’s stay at Atlantic City.
Returning to Bellefonte late last week,
Mrs. Spangler left again Tuesday after-
noon for Spangler, called there by the ill-
ness of her daughter, Mrs. James A. Mec-
Clain, and the Colonel went out to Chicago
to settle another labor dispute.
—Newton E. Hess, of State College, was
in Bellefonte on business on Wednesday
and brought us the first information that
we have had that farmers are already
plowing in some parts of the county. It
is indeed surprising how rapidly the
ground has dried, for it is scarcely more
than two weeks since hill and dale were
buried under a blanket of snow the like of
which our oldest residents have to think
hard to recall.
—Mrs. Paul Irwin Jr., has been spend-
ing the week in Bellefonte, as a guest of
her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. L. H.
" Musser, stopping here on her way home to
Massilon, after spending the winter at the
Irwin winter home at Southern Pines, N.
C. Mr. Irwin accompanied Mrs. Irwin as
far as Washington, and joined her here
Wednesday, expecting to leave together
for Ohio tomorrow. Mrs. Irwin will be re-
membered as Miss Alice Barnhart, Mr. Ir-
win being a student at the Academy at
the time of their marriage.
—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barnes and three
children were guests from Thursday of
last week until Sunday morning of Mr.
Barnes’ mother, Mrs. Howard Barnes and
family. Prior to the war Mr. Barnes was
located at Keokuk, Iowa, but when the
United States entered the great struggle he
came east with his family and went to
work for the New York Shipbuilding com-
pany, at Newark, N. J. Recently the com-
pany he had been with at Keokuk made
him such a good offer that he decided to
return there and he and his family stop-
ped off here for a visit on their trip west.
r— es
Socially.
Mrs. A. L. Sloop was hostess at a
tea Wednesday afternoon at which the
guests were the teachers from the
Bishop street school. Mr. and Mrs.
Sloop moved this week from Logan
street to the Wallace home on Curtin
street.
The kitchen shower given Wednes-
day night to Mr. and Mrs. Harry L.
Strouse ,at their home at Struble, was
one of the most successful social af-
fairs of the season,given in that lo-
cality. Their gifts included every-
thing that the most ambitious bride
could picture for a perfectly equipped
kitchen.
——Subseribe for the “Watchman.”
Mrs. Me- |
to Penitentiary.
On Tuesday a man walked up to the
gate of the western penitentiary at
| Pittsburgh and told the guard that he
. had escaped from the penitentiary at
Rockview and was there to give him-
i
self up and take his punishment. The
man gave the name of Walter A.
Dress. He was taken before warden
John C. Francies and on looking up
the records it was found that the
man’s story was correct.
Dress, who was an automobile me-
chanic, was sent up from Butler coun-
ty on February 9th, 1917, for from
two to three years for aggravated as-
: sault and battery, burglary and larce-
ny. He was transferred to the Rock-
view penitentiary several months
later and on August 3rd of the same
year he in company with Walter E.
West and Melvin Cannis, both of Bea-
ver county, made their escape. West
and Cannis were caught at Vail on
August 11th and they said that on
leaving Bellefonte they made their
way to Avis where Dress left them.
The other two went up the New York
Central and across the mountain to
Vail where they were captured.
According to the story told by
Dress to Warden Francies after he
parted company with the other two
men he made his way west and finally
landed in Oklahoma, where he worked
several months in lead and zinc mines
under the name of Dorn. Finally he
enlisted in the army was sent to Eng-
land and while in training there met
and married an English girl. He
finally served a few months in France
and later was sent home. His wife
came over several weeks later and
joined him and they then went to Ar-
| izona.
Recently he confessed to his wife
that he was an escaped convict and it
was at her persuasion that he came
east and gave himself up, she main-
taining that she would work and sup-
port herself until he got out of prison
and able to join her. When he reach-
ed Pittsburgh Dress had only thirteen
cents in his pockets. He was brought
to Bellefonte on Wednesday and tak-
en before Judge Quigley on the charge
of breaking and escaping.
Warden Francies interceded in be-
half of the young man and after list-
ening to his story Judge Quigley sus-
pended sentence, but remanded him
to the penitentiary to complete his
original sentence. And now, if his
conduct warrants it, it is just possible
that an effort may be made to secure
a pardon for him in order that he may
return to his English bride. Instead
of being taken back to Pittsburgh to
| complete his term he was taken direct
{ to Rockview on Wednesday afternoon.
Join a Class.
The Health School of the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Health opens
with its prospectus, which will be re-
leased to’ the press April 4th. This
defines what it is, what it means to do
and what the membership should be.
Every reading citizen of the State
should: be a member. The only obli-
gation implied is that of answering
the questions. The Governor of the
State is the first enrolled member; all
the heads of departments have joined
the class which he heads.
The lessons are less than one
thousand words; each carries a public
health truth; and to profit thereby
should be carefully read. The an-
swers to the questions are not marked
but simply graded. The address to
which these answers should be sent
will be given in each case. All coun-
ties of the State are organized, and
nearly all schools.
Join a class in which you will find
the Governor, the superintendent of
education, the iron worker, the car-
penter, the farmer, and the laborer.
——An effort will be made in the
near future to organize a troop of Boy
Scouts in Bellefonte, a real troop that
will mean something to the boys who
become members. Edward F. Rich-
ard, Harry Keller Esq., and Nelson E.
Robb have been selected as the troop
committee on organization and this
assures that whatever is done will be
done right. Lieut. Frederick Rey-
nolds Jr., Dan Clemson and George J.
Wolfe are the military men behind the
movement.
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