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Bellefonte, Pa., April 23, 1920.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
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AVIATOR BADLY INJURED IN
: FALL OF PLANE.
! Miraculously Saved from Burning to
i Death by Heroic Work of
i Boyd Sampsel.
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Aviator Krader Falls at Gordon.
| Bellefonte to Cleveland mail pilot
'H. M. Krader cracked up at Gordon,
five miles from Snow Shoe, yesterday
| shortly before noon and was quite
i painfully though not seriously hurt.
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LEAGUE OF WOMEN CITIZENS. | NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
{ —0. J. Stover, of Blanchard, was a bus-
Centre County Women Preparing 0 j,i visitor in Bellefonte on Monday.
Exercise Right of Franchise | —Mrs. Payne left Saturday for her for-
' mer home in Norfolk, for a visit with her
Intellig ently. { daughter, Mrs. Paul D. Seanor, who re-
That U. 8. mail pilot J. T. Murphy | ycjock for his regular flight to Cleve-
He left the Bellefonte field at eleven
The Centre county Suffrage party |
was disbanded and its records and |
| sides there.
—Judge Henry C. Quigley is out in
the Whiterock quarries at Pleasant | tained when his plane fell in a tail
Gap last week.
— The thimble bee of the Ladies
Aid society of the Reformed church
was held at the home of Mrs. Harry
Clevenstine Thursday afternoon.
Mary Pickford in “Heart O’ the
Hills,” from the famous novel by John |
Fox Jr., at the Scenic theatre, Friday
and Saturday, matinee and night.
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— Clarence Ziegler, who has not
been well for several weeks, was com-
pelled to take his bed last Friday and
has since developed a severe attack of
typhoid fever.
By special request Mrs. Kra-
der will sing, “Open the Gates of the
Temple,” at the Methodist church, on
Sunday evening at 7:30. Lovers of
music will appreciate this opportuni-
ty.
— The ladies of the Lutheran
church will hold a birthday social in
the basement of the church Friday
evening, April 23rd. The admission
will be one cent for each year you are
old.
The Brotherhood of the Lutheran
church of Bellefonte will serve a
chicken and waffle supper on Thursday
evening, April 29th, in the basement
of the church, to which everybody is
invited. Supper 75 cents. Cake and
ice cream extra.
— Sixteen six week’s old Chester
White pigs attracted considerable at-
tention in Bellefonte on Tuesday
morning. The pigs were a prominent
part of some farmer’s possessions who
was moving through Bellefonte. They
had been purchased of Thomas Tress-
ler who, by the way, has twenty-three
more just like them.
— Announcements of the mar-
riage of Miss Jane Frances Crowley,
of Lock Haven, and John Joseph Car-
son, of Philadelphia, were received in
Bellefonte yesterday; the wedding
having taken place in Lock Haven
Wednesday, April twenty-first. Mr.
and Mrs. Carson will be at home at
5514 Chew street, Germantown, after
June first.
— People who patronize motion
pictures do so for the entertainment
and education to be derived therefrom
and naturally they are prejudiced in
favor of the place that shows the best
pictures. This is the principal reason
for the good attendance at the Scenic
every evening during the week. The
pictures there are always good and
patrons know that they will find
something worth seeing.
— According to Secretary of Ag-
riculture Frederick Rasmussen Cen-
tre county farmers last year paid out
for male help the sum of $652,000.
The average amount spent by farmers
employing help was $260 for the year
and twenty-two farmers were without
help and unable to get any. While
the total sum spent appears to be
quite large when the average is con-
sidered it is not so big, at that.
——The parishioners of the Altoo-
na diocese of the Catholic church con-
tributed $32,526.37 during the year
1919 to the support of St. John’s and
St. Mary’s orphanages at Cresson.
St. John’s church of Bellefonte gave
$275.00; St. Peter and Paul’s church
of Philipsburg, $420.00; St. Mary’s
church of Snow Shoe, $365.50, and
Our Lady of Victory chapel, State
College, $50.00, a total from Centre
county of $1110.50.
— “The Love Kiss” will be the at-
traction at the Garman opera house
on Thursday evening, April 29th. If
the show is anything like its name it
ought to be rippin’ good. And per-
haps it is, as it is described as the
gayest musical hit of the decade with
the smartest and greatest dancing
chorus on the road. “The Love Kiss”
is a musical comedy and produces a
laugh a minute between the rise and
fall of the curtain. Don’t miss it.
——FEarl Lauver, of Denver, Col,
the man charged with having robbed
a mail car of $200,000, and after his
arrest claimed Centre county as the
home of his nativity, has been dis-
charged from custody by the Colorada.
authorities, as it has been developed
that he was not the train robber he
was accused of being. The money was
stolen by mail agents and a trap set
to implicate Lauver. The latter’s re-
lease came after the guilty parties
were apprehended.
J, A.. Collins, of New York
city, has exercised his option on the
John Yearick farm home south of
Bellefonte, better known as the Furey
home. Mr. Collins, who represents
the Western Maryland dairy, has
made several trips to Bellefonte re-
cently in the interest of a new milk
supply station here and on his last
trip took an option on the Yearick
farm as a summer home. The fact
that he has exercised the option looks
as if the Bellefonte milk station is an
assured enterprise.
——Next Wednesday evening, April
28th, the Women’s Missionary society
of West Susquehanna Classis will
meet in St. John’s Reformed church,
Bellefonte. Sessions will continue all
day and evening on Thursday. Miss
Carrie Kerschner, who has been work-
ing among the Japanese on the Pacif-
ic coast, will speak Wednesday even-
ing. Mrs. E. M. Beck, a returned
missionary from China, will tell of the
condition and needs of that nation, at
the Thursday evening meeting. All
sessions are open to the public and
visitors are cordially invited.
| spin out on Humes’ farm on Sunday
| morning is entirely due to the bravery
and prompt action of Boyd Sampsel.
Had it not been for him the pilot
| would have been burned to death, and
| the very fact that Mr. Sampsel took
his own life in his hands when he
| saved pilot Murphy not only places
him in the ranks of heroes but surely
entitles him to recognition at the
hands of the Carnegie Hero Commis-
sion.
Pilot Murphy is a new man in
Bellefonte, having come here from
Cleveland last Thursday to trail one
of the older pilots to Cleveland in or-
der to learn the route. The bad
weather of Friday and Saturday pre-
cluded any attempt to make the trip
on those days. With the fair weather
trail pilot Ellis to Cleveland, flying
light. Immediately after the arrival
western fliers made preparations for
their trip. Pilot Ellis took off first
from the Bellefonte field and circled
around awaiting pilot Murphy. The
latter took off and after one low cir-
cle his machine went into a tail spin
at a height of from three to four hun-
dred feet and fell to the ground on the
Humes farm southeast of the radio
station.
When the employees at the aviation
field saw the plane go into a tailspin
they started on the run for Humes’
field but they had covered but a short
distance of the space when the plane
fell and almost instantly it was envel-
oped in flames. A few seconds later
the big gas tank exploded shooting
the flames in all directions, but fortu-
nately the pilot had been saved from
the wreck, and that is where Boyd
Sampsel got in his work.
It seems that Mr. Sampsel had got-
ten out his car to come to Bellefonte
but for some inexplicable reason de-
watch the planes. He put the car in
the barn, went over toward the avia-
tion field and sat down on a stone
fence, taking out his knife and whit-
tling a stick. He had not been on that
felt like going there Sunday morning.
He saw the New York plane come in,
phy. Watched the latter particularly
and when he went into a tail spin and
crashed to the ground he fell just fif-
ty-five feet from where Sampsel had
been sitting. We say “had been,’ be-
cause as soon as he saw the plane was
doomed he jumped and ran for the
spot but before he could reach it it
was already enveloped in flames.
He never hesitated but ran and
jumped tdpon the plane grabbing hold
of the pilot’s seat. He took hold of
Murphy by the coat collar and one
arm and tried to jerk him out but
found he was strapped in. He still
had his open knife in his left hand and
reaching down in the pit he felt the
straps and with one slash of his knife
severed both straps but in doing so
burned his hand so badly that the
knife dropped from his fingers. He
of Sunday Murphy was scheduled to |
of the mail plane from New York the |
cided not to do so but go over and |
part of the farm in a year but just]
watched Ellis take off and also Mur- |
gemmen ig alive today with good chances of | rily bef ching Gordon
from the south reported for work at yecovering from serious injuries sus- ljand. Shortly hofore reaching
his plane developed trouble either be-
cause of a loose connecting rod or for
the reason that the engine was loose
on the frame and being in the moun-
tain district he decided to make the
first landing possible in order to in-
vestigate the cause of his trouble. A
little clearing near Gordon attracted
him and he dropped for it, but as it
was surrounded with trees he couldn’t
see that it was also filled with stumps
and they caused the accident in land-
ing
mile distant so that it was some time
before any one got to the scene and
when they did arrive they found Kra-
der unconscious beside a tree some
distance from his wrecked plane.
When he came too he said that he had
| struck and was getting away from the
| danger of a possible fire when he was
overcome.
His injuries are principally bruises
and cuts about the face, wrist and
shins.
Tom Redding, of Snow Shoe, heard
of the accident and motored to Gor-
to the Mountain House, where he was
given attention and sent to this place
in the afternoon by motor.
Mr. and Mrs. John N. Lane,
having decided to occupy the entire
| house in which they are now living,
{ Mrs. Rachael Harris will vacate the
part she has been occupying by the
| first of May. Mrs. Harris at present
{is undecided as to what she will do,
‘owing to her inability to procure a
| house.
| Stewart Hampton can really be
| placed in a class of his own in Belle-
fonte. Another little son was born in
: the family on April 9th which weigh-
ed ten pounds and has been named
Jack Pershing Hampton. But what
: gives class to Mr. Hampton is the fact
! that this is the seventeenth child in
the family, and all living.
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What a delightful change in
the weather yesterday. For the first
time this spring it cleared up nice and
warm and at last there is hope (as
i Dr. Munyon used to say) of the
weather settling into a condition
where the farmers can get to work
| with some feeling of assurance that
they will get their spring crops in.
|
——The annual rummage sale will
be held in the Harter building to the
left of the court house on High street,
in the rooms formerly occupied by: the
i dispensary. The sale will open gn
| Saturday, May 1st, at 2 o’clock p. m.
i The public is asked for contributions
of clothing, furniture, bric-a-brae, ete.
| Proceeds will be for the Bellefonte
| hospital.
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i A recruiting party from the ar-
my station at Williamsport will be in
| Bellefonte the balance of the week
| with headquarters at the postoffice.
{ They will issue victory buttons and
| French souvenir pamphlets to any A.
‘ achievements turned into history at 2
| Pittsburgh this week holding court, and
The nearest habitation was half a
gotten out of the pit as soon as he
don for Krader whom he brought back ,
i : » ! may be detained there through the most
meeting of women held at the High | y Week 2 gh the
school building last Saturday—morn- | —Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kase, of Sun-
Ing and afternoon—but phoenix-like | bury, were in Bellefonte for a week-end
there arose from the ashes of the dis- | visit with Mrs. Kase’s parents, Mr. and
banded organization the League of | Mrs. Spigelmyer.
Women Citizens, and if the women _ figs Mary H. Linn returned to Belle-
are able to carry out all their good in- | fonte early in the week, after spending a
tentions—and they generally manage | month with relatives at Swarthmore, Haxr-
to get by with most of them—the old- ; risburg and Lewisburg.
time politicians will have to revise — Josiah T. Zeigler, who went to Juniata
their schedule when the women are several weeks ago has returned to his
finally granted the right of franchise. | home in Bellefonte, evidently concluding
| At the opening of the morning ses- that this place is good enough for him.
sion Mrs. Robert Mills Beach, chair- | —Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Boozer, of Centre
| man of the Suffrage party, told of the | Hall, spent. Friday in Bellefonte, Mr.
organization of that association in | oozer looking after some business mat-
1915, and the work it had since done, an Me iid visiang na Biot
: : : —George D. Fortney, one o e enter-
a he Paton » pt | prising young farmers of Harris township,
Ya | was a business visitor in Bellefonte on Sat-
horted the women to stick together ! urday and a caller at the “Watchman” of-
when they finally get the ballot, as fice.
only in that way can they become a | —Mrs. Jacob Bottorf, of Lemont, is a
power in politics and be instrumental ' guest of her daughter, Mrs. John I. Ole-
in accomplishing any good. | wine, it being Mrs. Bottorf’s first visit to
Following the chairman’s brief re- ! Bellefonte since her illness several months
port a motion was passed disbanding ago.
the Suffrage party and another mo-| —Dr. H. M. Hiller, of Swarthmore, was
tion to organize a Centre county | among those from over the State who were
branch of the League of Women Cit- | in Centre county during the past week; at-
izens was carried unanimously. The “°°
‘organization was perfected by the i) Lory Donel Seinte. of Washis
: : 2 —Miss Mary Belle uble, o ashing-
A al ton, D.C. is with her brother at State
+ . College, having come to Centre county to
Bellefonte; vice chairman, Mrs. John | spend a part of the month of April, while
M. Shugert, Bellefonte; secretary,
| resting after a winter of very strenuous
Mrs. Joseph Massey, Bellefonte; | work.
treasurer, Miss Mary Gray Meek, | — Mrs. John G. Love and her daughter,
Bellefonte; directors, Mrs. S. W.! Miss Katherine, are in Bellefonte, return-
Gramley, , Millheim; Mrs. Frank | ing the early part of last week to open
Gardner, State College; Miss Blanche their home for the summer. Mrs. Love and
Budinger, Snow Shoe; Mrs. H E.; Miss Love had spent the winter in Atlan-
Holzworth, Fleming; Mrs. James ‘ic City:
Leathers, Howard; Mrs. Ww. Ww. Kerlin, | — Leo Levi was called to New York on
Centre Hall, and Mrs. Ella Wagner, Tuesday by the critical illness of his fatn-
tracted here by the opening of the fishing |
Milesburg.
The object of the League was set
forth as working to secure an increase
of the mothers’ assistance fund, in-
crease in the salaries of school teach-
ers and the passing of a mandatory
law requiring the election of women
‘directors on every school board in
{ Pennsylvania. At the present time
| there are twelve hundred school di-
! rectors in the State, only eighty-two
! of whom are women. Other questions
to be considered are citizenship, child
welfare, food supply, social hygiene,
women in industry, election laws, ete.,
unification of law, and research.
Speaking in behalf of the mothers’
assistance fund Miss Mary Bogue,
state supervisor, said that the child
_ can be the greatest asset or the great-
est liability. Nine years ago Missouri
was the first State to adopt mothers’
assistance and since that time thirty-
nine States have fallen in line. In
Pennsylvania 1835 families are being
cared for. Owing to an appropriation
of only $600,000 five hundred women
had to be dropped and there are now
four thousand families on the waiting
list, half of whom are influenza wid-
' ows, largely young mothers with chil-
“dren.
Mrs. G. G. Pond, of State College, a
member of the board of directors for
the distribution of the fund in Centre
county, stated that Pennsylvania
stands high in the rating of allow-
ances, the maximum being twenty dol-
i eh Moses Levi, who is a patient in one of
{ the New York hospitals. Mr. Levi's con-
| dition is such that no hope is felt for his
‘recovery.
—D. E. Snyder, one of the push-ahead
i farmers of Harris township, was in Belle-
fonte on Monday and his big complaint
now is the kind of weather we have had
pal through April, the result being that
! farmers are away behind with their work.
—Dr. and Mrs. Coolidge, of Palo Alto,
California, are expected in Bellefonte ear-
ly next month, coming east to spend the
summer with relatives and friends
| Pennsylvania. Mrs. Coolidge is a sister of
Mrs. Schaeffer, Mrs. Ray, John and A. L.!
McGinley.
| Mr. and Mrs. George E. Lentz, of Har-
risburg, and their daughter, Miss Mildred,
were in Bellefonte Sunday and Monday, as
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Shaffer.
Mr. and Mrs. Lentz came here from Jersey
| Shore, where they had been for a short
visit with Mr. Lentz’s mother.
—Samuel Robinson, for many years one
of the most reliable workmen of Belle-
fonte, has accepted a position in the Ga-
= department store of Altoona, and will
leave Sunday to begin work at once. His
family will remain in Bellefonte for the
present, expecting to join him later.
i _Mrs. Maurice Runkle and her daugh-
| ter, Dorothy, were guests for several days
: the after part of the week of Mrs. Runkle’s
| cousin, Mrs. Edward Miller, in Altoona.
| Mrs. Runkle went over Friday, Mr. Runkle
| joining her there Sunday, returning to-
| gether to Bellefonte Sunday evening.
— Mrs. Jacob Levi and her three-year-old
| daughier, Beatrice, left a week ago to re-
turn to their home in New York city, after
in |
then grabbed Murphy by the arm and | E. F. men desiring same. Their pri-
coat collar, pulled him out of the pit | mary object is the enlistment of re-
and threw him backward out of the | cruits for the Twenty-ninth infantry
flames at the same time jumping from ; of the regular army, a purely Penn-
3 a five week’s visit here with Mrs. Levi's
lars per month for each child. In! parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Cherry.
Centre county assistance is being giV- | Mrs. Levi's visit was made in Bellefonte
‘ en to eleven mothers and thirty-six { while convalescing from a severe attack of
children at a monthly expenditure of | influenza and pneumonia.
the burning plane. He then took
Murphy by the shoulders to pull him
away from the plane but had gone
less than two rods when the gas tank
exploded throwing gasoline over both
men.
The clothing of both Sampsel and
Murphy was on fire and Sampsel
took a few seconds to extinguish his
own clothing then gave his attention
to Murphy who had called to him
“for God’s sake don’t let me burn.”
his coat but unable to get his clothing
loosened turned him on his back and
putting his foot on his chest tore the
clothing away from him. By this
time Mr. Sampsel’s brother Charles
had arrived but both men were out of
all further danger. Murphy was able
to get up and walk a short distance
but soon collapsed.
When the men from the aviation
field arrived they picked him up and
carried him to the radio station and
from there sent him to the Bellefonte
hospital. At the hospital it was
found that his worst injury was the
fracture of several ribs over the heart
and possible internal punctures. He
also had a bad cut across his forehead
and was burned on the face and hands
and hips.
considered rather critical at first
there is reason to believe at this writ-
ing that he will recover.
Sampsel got a bad burn on the left
side of the face, on his left hand and
on his back from his burning sweat-
er, but he has been around every day
since and will be none the worse for
his experience.
Just what caused the plane to goin
a tailspin is not definitely known. To
the men on the field it looked as if
Murphy had not gotten up sufficient
speed to carry him along, while he
avers that his machine took fire in the
air which caused him to lose control
of it. The machine, of course, which
was No. 91, was totally destroyed. It
might also be added that this is the
first serious accident.to happen near
the Bellefonte field. Murphy, who is
twenty-nine years old, is from Cata-
raugus, N. Y., but had been working
in Cleveland for some weeks past.
[ ——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
With his hat he managed to extin-
guish the flames on the fur collar of i
While his condition was |
!sylvania oragnization stationed at
; Camp Benning, Ga. Enlistments are
also open to High school graduates in
the balloon and airship divisions.
i ——On Sunday afternoon Fred M.
Mayer, the new lessee of the Brocker-
{hoff mill at Roopsburg, was driving
| out Willowbank street and just after
passing the United Evangelical church
he reached back in the tonneau of the
car for something with the result that
he lost control of the steering wheel
and the car ran off of the paved high-
way into the deep gutter at the side
just at the intersection of Reynolds
avenue. The left front wheel hit a
tree standing there and the car was
pretty badly banged up. Fortunately
none of the passengers in the car were
injured, aside from a good shaking
up.
——Bellefonte fans will have an
opportunity to witness a good game
of baseball on Hughes field this (Fri-
day) afternoon, at 3:30 o’clock, when
the Susquehanna University nine will
cross bats with the Bellefonte Acade-
my team in the opening game of the
season. The Academy has an unusu-
ally strong team this year and will
give the college lads a good contest.
The Academy defeated Susquehanna
| by the score of 2 to 1 on the occasion
of their last meeting. The price of ad-
mission will be only 25 cents and the
time of the game should appeal to all
business men. A large crowd ought
to swoop down on Hughes field and
help to boost the home team.
cles!
streets of Bellefonte yesterday morn-
the Bellefonte hotels, either. It has
been such a long, long time since such
ed considerable excitement. Every-
body stopped to look, doubtless be-
cause it was a reminder of the times
that used to be and which we had all
supposed had been wiped out forever.
But evidently there is still something
around that will give a man a jag if he
drinks enough of it, and the man pull-
ed in yesterday morning evidently
had his share as he had a beaut on.
—Shades of the prohibition ora- |
A man was arrested on the’
ing and put in the lockup for being
drunk. And he didn’t get it at any of
an arrest has been made that it creat- |
$210, on an appropriation of $2750.
At the afternoon session Miss An-
na Hoy spoke on the necessity of an
“increase in teachers salaries and Mrs.
| Beach in speaking on the objects of
the League of Women Citizens stated
. that primarily it was to educate the
, women to vote intelligently, and to
this end she urged study classes.
Mrs. Lucretia V. P. Simmons, of
State College, in a very interesting
| talk to the women, stated that the
| League should not be considered in
connection with any political party.
. Its work should be for the welfare of
the community in general. Twenty
| million women are sure to be given
the right of franchise ere long and
they should stand for principles above
party politics or their influence will
not change present conditions. De-
mand to know a candidates principles
‘before giving him support. Mrs.
Simmons strongly advocated women
on school boards. She stated that
. $4,200,000 had been appropriated to
| animal husbandry in 1919 and only
| $280,000 for child welfare. She also
advocated a national budget and a
more systematized expenditure of
public moneys generally.
Mrs. Edward E. Kiernan, of Somer-
| set, stated that the object of the
| League was to remove the ignorant
| voter through a systematic course of
education. She expressed her idea of
the League as a clearing house be-
tween politicians and public office,
| and urged those present to make it a
point to see that every woman was in-
formed on the soundness of the ballot.
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——A big freight wreck occurred
on the Bald Eagle Valley railroad,
this side of Blanchard, early Wednes-
day evening when sixteen cars of coal
were piled up. The track was com-
pletely blocked and it was necessary
to transfer the passengers on the
night train east. The regular train
| returned to Bellefonte, was held here
for the night and sent down yesterday
morning with provision for the work-
men engaged in clearing up the wreck
and to transfer the passengers on the
morning train west. Fortunately no
person was injured in the wreck but
it was quite destructive in property
valuation.
| Mrs. R. L. Capers went out to Pitts-
burgh last week for a little visit with her
husband’s relatives and on Tuesday she
| was brought home across country by Rev.
Stacey Capers who, with his wife and four
children, motored to Bellefonte from Pitts-
burgh. They spent two days in Bellefonte
and returned home yesterday.
—Miss Mary Struble, of Zion, and Mr.
and Mrs. James Holmes, of State College,
are contemplating
coast. Plans
leaving very soon on account of the health
of Miss Struble, who will go directly to San
Francisco, where she will be for an indefi-
nite time with her brother, Jacob Struble.
—Mrs. John Kline returned to Bellefonte
Monday, accompanied by her daughter,
Miss Mary, who had gone to Philadelphia
er.
tient and under treatment in one of the
city hospitals for two months, but is now
partly on the way to a permanent recov-
ery.
Frank and Edward Jr., who had spent the
winter here and at Jacksonville, with Mrs.
Houser’s sister and mother, Mrs. Fraok
Bartley and Mrs. Harter, returned to their
home in Meadville, Saturday. Mrs. M. LE.
Renner was also a guest of Mrs. Bartley
last week, leaving with Mrs. Houser to re-
turn to her home in Altoona.
—W. L. Malin came home from the Cres-
son sanitorium last Saturday evening,
benefit of his health. During his stay at
the sanitorium he gained twenty-two
pounds in weight, but recently he devel-
oped an attack of sciatica which pulled
him down a few pounds and he came home
on the advice of the physicians at the san-
itorium in the belief that the change would
be beneficial.
—A very great stranger in Bellefonte
yesterday was Fenton Conroy, of Philadel-
phia, who was in town just for the day,
looking after some business concerning his
mother’s property near Coleville. It has
been more than twenty years since he has
been in the old home town. The Conroys
were a well known family here when Mr.
Conroy was one of the foremost of the op-
eratives of the Bellefonte glass works. Mrs.
Conroy, before her marriage, was Miss
Jennings and they lived in what was
known as the fair ground gate house.
There the family lived until Mr. Conroy
died and later they moved to Philadelphia.
Fenton is now head of a department in
Gimbel's store in Philadelphia and as he
left here when only eleven years old was
unable to find many of his boyhood chums.
a trip to the Pacific
have been made for their '
Saturday to make the trip with her moth- |
Mrs. Kline had been a surgical pa-!
—Mrs. Edward Houser and her two sons, |
where he has been the past year for the!
JERR,
. —Joseph Nolan, of Pitcairn, spent Sun-
; day with his family in Bellefonte.
—Jacob Gross, who has been seriously
ill for the greater part of the past year,
{ was seen at his place of business on Mon-
! day.
! Miss Janet Potter was discharged
: from the Philipsburg hospital several days
| ago, after being a patient #here for one
i week.
| —Mrs. D. R. Foreman spent a day dur-
ing the past week in Tyrone, going over to
see her mother, Mrs. Smith, who is ill at
the home of her son, Fred Smith.
—@G. Fred Musser spent Sunday with
Mrs. Musser, who is under treatment at a
sanitorium at York. Mr. Musser went
from there on a business trip to Philadel-
phia.
—Frank McClain was in Bellefonte the
after part of last week, stopping here over
night on his way to Phoenixville, where
he has accepted a position, beginning work
Monday.
—While visiting in Bellefonte the after
part of last week, Mrs. George W. Klump
and her sister, Miss Carrie Swartz, of Wil-
liamsport, were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
William Seig.
—Mrs. E. E. Sparks, of State College,
: state regent of the D. A. R., and Mrs. D.
© H. Hastings, of Harrisburg, are the two
" members from the Bellefonfe Chapter at-
tending the National congress in session
, at Washington this week.
| —Mrs. Wallace H. Gephatt, of Bronx-
ville, N. Y., is with her parents, Mr. and
! Mrs. F.H. Thomas, having come to Belle-
fonte Sunday for a week’s visit. During
Mrs. Gephart’s absence her house and
| children have been in charge of Mrs. Jen-
nie Parsons.
—Miss Nancy Hunter, accompanied by
| her cousin, Miss Miriam Reber, will come
| to Bellefonte this week for a week-end vis-
1 it with Miss Hunter’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Hunter. Miss Hunter is a
| regional director of vocational training,
! at Bloomsburg.
—Mrs. C. U. Hoffer and her daughter-in-
! law, Mrs. Richard Hoffer, and her two
| daughters, will leave California for the
| east, Sunday. Going directly to Washing-
, ton, D. C., to join Mr. Hoffer, who is in
: the government aviation service, Mrs. Hof-
fer and the children will remain there,
{ while Mrs. C. U. Hoffer will return at once
' to Centre county.
Red Cross Nurse Now Here.
Miss Mae Peterman, of German-
' town, has arrived in Bellefonte and
| has started upon her duties as com-
munity nurse, working under the di-
i rection of the local Red Cross. At
| present Miss Peterman is examining
all school children, and it is her pur-
pose to go to the parents and bring
| directly to their attention whatever
, defects she may have discovered.
After this piece of work is complet-
i ed she will act in the capacity of vis-
iting nurse in this community, and
| will be subject to call through local
| physicians, the Red Cross, or by indi-
: viduals themselves. Miss Peterman’s
! office will be located in the W. C. T. U.
. rooms, in Petrikin hall.
Wanted—Girls to Train for Nursing.
The Bellefonte Hospital Training
School for Nurses has four vacancies
‘ for which young ladies with common
. school education will be accepted at
once. Write to Miss A. E. Eckert,
Supt. of Bellefonte hospital, Belle-
fonte, for application blanks if you
: have any desire to equip yourself for
. professional nursing.
| ——An unusual opportunity, the
historic Elizabethan May Day Fete,
‘at Bryn Mawr, on May 7th and 8th,
is offered those who might find the
opportunity to attend. It is an inter-
' esting, educational event and quite
"worth the trip to see. Tickets can be
“had at this office.
—Oh, boy! What a shame it was
for the police to lock up that drunk
, yesterday. It surely was a “beaut”
i and such things are rare and beauti-
ful as orchids these days and it’s a
crime to hide them away.
; Rubin and Rubin Coming.
Rubin and Rubin, Harrisburg’s lead-
ing eyesight specialists will be at the
' Mott drug store, Bellefonte, on Mon-
| day and Tuesday, May 3rd and 4th.
! As usual, there will be no charge for
examining your eyes, neither will any
drops be used in the examination.
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