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Bellefonte, Pa., January 21, 1921.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
— The kind of weather we have
had this week makes both the coal
men and the ice men smile, but there
is no grin on the face of Mr. Public.
The Ladies Aid society of the
Lutheran church will hold a sale in
the basement of the church Friday
afternoon and evening, January 28th.
— Thomas Murray, section boss at
the Snow Shoe Intersection, is serious-
ly ill at his home at that place, having
suffered a stroke of paralysis Tues-
day.
— The music for the dance this
(Friday) night in the Bush Arcade
hall will be by the famous Hall’s col-
ored jazz orchestra of Columbus,
Ohio.
— The annual inspection of the
machine gun company at Boalsburg
will be held on February 5th and the
inspection of Troop L, of Bellefonte,
on February 7th.
— For the benefit of the public
health work now being conducted in
Bellefonte a card party will be held
in the Elk’s home Tuesday evening,
February 8th. Admission 50 cents.
———Owen Johnson, novelist and for-
mer husband of the late Mlle Cecille
de Lagarde, is about to embark upon
his fourth matrimonial venture. The
prospective bride is Miss Catherine
Sayre Burton, of New York.
— A regular meeting of Centre
county Pomono Grange will be held in
the hall of the Spring Mills grange on
Saturday, January 22nd. The usual
forenoon and afternoon sessions will
be held. All Grangers are invited to
be present and take lunch with them.
—_A “community party” under the
auspices of the Woman’s Guild of St.
John’s Episcopal church, will be held
in the public building on Howard
street Wednesday evening, February
2nd, from eight to ten o'clock. Dan-
cing and cards. Refreshments will be
served. Academy orchestra will fur-
nish the music. Admission, 75c.
____A verdict for $26,729.30 in fa-
vor of the Bader Coal company, of
Boston, was rendered in the federal
court for the middle district of Penn-
sylvania, sitting in Harrisburg last
Thursday, against the H. B. Scott
company, operating in Clearfield coun-
ty. Failure to fill contracts for coal
was the basis of the suit which was
brought for $75,000.
— This (Friday) evening the local
High school team will play the strong
Mount Union High school team. The
game will be played in the armory
and will be called at 8 o'clock. Dur-
ing the past week victories have been
registered over Philipsburg, Lock Ha-
ven and the local Anierican Legion
teams, so the local boys will be count-
ed upon to put up a strong fight.
— Clarence Dauberman, of Lew-
isburg, who on August 21st, 1920, shot
sheriff Renner, of Union county, and
parole officer J. T. Twagmyer, of the
western penitentiary, because they re-
fused to pay eight dollars for a bottle
of whiskey the sheriff took from Dau-
berman, was sentenced last week by
Judge Johnson to serve not less than
six years nor more than eight years
in the eastern penitentiary.
— Lock Haven will entertain the
annual meeting and reunion of the
Odd Fellows association of central
Pennsylvania this year, which will be
held on April 27th. At last year's
gathering at Milton the association
accepted the invitation of Renovo Odd
Fellows to hold the meeting there this
year, but for various reasons it has
been decided not to go there this year
but to accept an invitation to hold the
gathering in Lock Haven.
——The high quality motion pic
tures now being shown by manager
T. Clayton Brown at the Scenic and
opera house are drawing large crowds
nightly to both these places of amuse-
ment. The people of Bellefonte and
surrounding community realize that
manager Brown is giving the very
best in movieland and only the regular
attendant gets the benefit of all of
them. Therefore, be a regular.
} —=The friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Albert C. Hoy, of New York, will be
interested in knowing that a second
daughter, who is to be called Louise
Harris Hoy, was born to them on Jan-
uary 6th. They are at Chester, the
home of Mrs. Hoy’s parents, for the
present but expect to go to Atlantic
City for a month or so later. Nan-
nette, their eldest child, is here visit-
ing her aunts, the Misses Nan and
Mary Hoy, of north Spring street.
—— The speedy basket ball team of
the Bellefonte Academy will have as
their opponents on the armory floor
this (Friday) evening at 8:45 o'clock,
the Wyoming Seminary five of Kings-
ton, the fastest quintette in the entire
Wilkes-Barre section. An exciting
contest is assured all who attend and
inasmuch as it will be one of the best
games of the season a large crowd
should be present. The regular ad-
mission price of 25 cents will be
charged.
— The wedding of James Alexan-
der Straub, of Cleveland, Ohio, and
Miss Dorothy Cump, of Buffalo, N.
Y., will take place in the German
Evangelical church of Buffalo, Wed-
nesday, January 26th, at 2:30 o'clock.
Mr. Straub, who is chemist for the
Glidden Varnish company, of Cleve-
land, is the only son of Elmer Straub,
of Bellefonte, having left here two
years ago to go with the General Elec-
tric company, of Erie, immediately
after his graduation from Penn State.
COUNCIL PASSED ORDINANCE.
Providing for Licensing of All Vehi- :
cles for Hire in Bellefonte.
Borough council on Monday even- |
ing passed the much discussed ordi-
nance providing for the licensing of
all horse drawn and motor vehicles
used on the streets of Bellefonte for
hire, either in hauling freight, ex-
press or passengers. The complete
text of the ordinance with its provis-
ions and fees for the various classes
of conveyances will be found in anoth-
er column of this paper. Seven mem-
bers of council were present when the
vote on the ordinance was taken and
all voted in favor of its passage.
Contractor Snyder and superintend-
ent Henry A. Reed, of the Bellefonte
silk mill, appeared before council and
requested permission to construct a
foot bridge eight feet in width across
Spring creek, from north Water street
to the silk mill, for use of the em-
ployees of the plant in going to and
returning from work. The gentlemen
presented a blue print of the proposed
bridge which will be sixteen inches
higher than the concrete walk on
Water street and will be constructed
without the aid of any abutments or
any other obstacle in the water course
of the creek. Council granted permis-
sion providing no objections were
raised by the State Water Commis-
sion.
Secretary Kelly read a communica-
tion from the conferees of the Logan
and Undine fire companies relating to
the election of John J. Bower, as chief
fire marshall; Louis A. Hill, first as-
sistant, and Harry Haag, second as-
sistant, and the same were approved
by vote of council. :
The secretary also read a notice
that the state association of boroughs
will hold a coavention at the Penn-
Harris hotel, Harrisburg, on Febru-
ary 15th and 16th, with a request that
Bellefonte send representatives. No
action was taken.
The Street committee presented the
report of the borough manager which
included the statement that during
the year he had collected and turned
over to the borough treasurer the sum
of $855.32 for use in the street de-
partment.
The Water committee reported that
during 1920 the borough manager had
collected and turned over to the water
department the sum of $865.60. The
committee also presented receipts for
$22.05 collected since last meeting.
The Finance committee presented
the borough treasurer’s request for
the renewal of notes for $1,500, $2,-
000, $2,500, $7,000 and $3,400, and a
new note for $3,000 to meet a deficit
of $713 and pay current bills, all of
which were authorized.
Mr. Cunninghom called the atten-
tion of the president of council to the
fact that a date should be set for the
hearing of appeals for the 1920 water
taxes, and Monday evening, January
24th, was named as the time.
The question of the proper adjust-
ment of the bills of the State-Centre
Electric company for pumping water
was discussed at some length but no
satisfactory solution being reached the
matter was referred back to the Water
committee and borough solicitor.
It was at this juncture of the pro-
ceedings that the ordinance for the 1i-
censing of vehicles was taken up and
passed finally.
Burgess Walker called attention of
| council to the fact that one street in
the borough should be set aside for
coasting between the hours of four
and nine o'clock in the evening and
that a policeman be on guard during
those hours as a safeguard against
accidents. Council decided to leave
the matter up to the burgess and he
promptly designated Howard street
as the best coasting thoroughfare.
Bills to the amount of approximate-
ly $8,500 were approved after which
council adjourned.
Toot Passengers Debarred from Rail-
road Bridge.
Now that the new iron bridge has
been completed on the line of the Lew-
isburg railroad over Spring creek, just
south of the passenger depot in this
place the Pennsylvania railroad com-
pany has placed a ban on all foot traf-
fic across the bridge. A railroad po-
liceman was in Bellefonte on Monday
morning warning all persons erossing,
or attempting to cross the bridge that
they must desist in the future under
penalty of arrest for trespassing on
railroad property. When the Lewis-
burg railroad was built in 1885 a walk
was laid alongside, fully protected by
a railing, which has been used by pe-
destrians ever since. The walk has
always been maintained by the rail-
road company and while on ene or two
occasions efforts have heen made by
the railroad company to suppress
travel across the walk, the matter was
never enforced and the bridge was
used to a great extent by persons liv-
ing in the southwestern part of town
and by the employees of the Pennsyl-
vania Match company going to and
from work. The new order will ne-
cessitate all persons walking around
on south Water street, unless the
match company or the borough con-
struct a footbridge across Spring
creek in that immediate vicinity.
Accidents in Centre County During
1920.
Centre county industrial workers
were victims of thirteen fatal acci-
dents during 1920, according to fig-
ures issued by Dr. Clifford B. Connel-
ley, Commissioner of the Pennsylva-
nia Department of Labor and Indus-
try. Of that number four were killed
in manufacturing plants, two in pub-
| Thomas, of Heceta, Oregon, says:
— In the “Watchman”
fonte last week it was stated that John
M. Bullock had been elected president
for the ensuing year. This was a
mistake. George Hazel was elected
president and Mr. Bullock vice presi-
dent.
——Quite a number of people have
remarked on the up-to-date way in
which Nathan Ichkowitz is fixing up
his coal yard. Not content with con-
structing a roof and large shed he is
now enclosing it on all sides with
large, double doors in front of each
bin. But these improvements are not
being made just for the looks, but be-
cause Nathan believes that somebody
is stealing his coal and he is boarding
up his bins as a means of protection.
— Inaugurated on Monday morn-
ing calisthenics will hereafter be ‘a
part of the daily routine of the office
force on all the eastern lines of the
Pennsylvania railroad company, in
accordance with an order issued last
week by General Atterbury. Five
minute exercises will be given both
morning and afternoon, at ten and
three o'clock, during which time win-
dows and doors will be opened and the
entire force take a course in gymnas-
tics.
eso tteree flon oma dtr
— The stockholders of the Belle-
fonte Trust company had their annual
meeting on Tuesday and later, with
the members of the Bellefonte bar as
their guests, partook of a luncheon at
the Bush house. The Trust company,
by the way has in contemplation the
remodeling of its building this spring.
The plans and drawings are nearing
completion and when they are finally
submitted to the board of directors
definite action will be taken as to
when work will be started.
eget lee eet
—_At the annual congregational
meeting held in St. John’s Reformed
church, Bellefonte, last Friday even-
ing officers were elected and the re-
ports of the several treasurers read.
The receipts for the year amounted to
nearly $4,500.00. This does not in-
clude $2,225.00 paid during the past
nine months on the Forward move-
ment pledges. A new heater was in-
stalled. All bills paid and a balance
in the treasury. The communion of-
ferings last Sunday for benevolence,
amounted to $137.00.
—The State institution for wom-
en at Muncy has offered the position
of musical instructor to Miss Sallie
Fitzgerald, of Williamsport, but for-
merly of Bellefonte. She goes to the
home one evening a week to play the
piano and violin and sing to the girls,
and to teach them to sing. The prop-
osition came to Miss Fitzgerald unso-
licited and unheralded and there is no
doubt about her filling the place most
acceptably. She already holds an en-
viable position in the musical life of
the public schools of Williamsport. .
— Mrs. William Dawson has de-
cided to make a division of her prop-
erty on Spring street by giving the
vacant piece of ground between the
present residence of Mr. and Mrs. T.
Clayton Brown and the W. R. Brach-
bill property to Mrs. Brown, while the
rear half of the property will be giv-
en to Mrs. Thomas Moore, of Phila-
delphia. The latter is already con-
templating the tearing down of the
old stable on the property and the
erection of a comfortable bungalow
facing the Snyder property, which
would be a wonderful improvement to
that locality.
— Jn remitting for her subscrip-
tion to the “Watchman” Miss M. V. |
«With the roar of the old Pacific in my
ears every day it is good to get the
weekly visitor from the quiet, pro-
tected heme land.” Miss Thomas is
eriginally from Milesburg, this eoun-
ty; where: she taught: school before
guing west a number of years: ago,
and has lest none of her love for the
home: land of her girlhood. At var-
fous times she has cemtributed to the
columns af the “Watchman” and her
i sult of an accident on the Bellefonte
Brakeman John Davis Dead as Result
of Accident.
John Davis Jr., of Coleville, died at
the Bellefonte hospital at three
o'clock on Tuesday morning as the re-
Central railroad at nine o’clock on
Monday morning. Davis, who had
been in the employ of the company
for eight years and had worked as
fireman and extra brakeman, went out
on the train Monday morning as
brakeman. Conductor G. Ross Par-
ker was in charge of the train with
Edward Nolan as engineer. The oth-
er brakeman was Frank Downing.
Both Downing and Davis rode the en-
gine up the valley until the train
neared the plant of the Chemical Lime
company when it slowed down to shift
a car of coal onto the Chemical plant
siding. Downing jumped off to cut
the car out and Davis ran back over
the tender for the purpose of getting
on the car to set the brakes. While
no one saw the accident it is evident
that in attempting to jump from the
tender to the car he slipped and fell
between the two. He caught hold of
of the running board of the tender
with his right hand and one of his legs
caught over the coupling but his head
went down and evidently struck the
track as he had quite a gash on the
left side of his head while his left arm
was run over and almost severed from
the body. First aid was promptly ad-
ministered and he was hurried to the
Bellefonte hospital where everything
possible was done for him but he pass-
ed away at three o’clock on Tuesday
morning.
The unfortunate man was a son of
John and Anna Eliza Davis and was
born at Coleville thirty-nine years
ago, having lived there most all his
life. He was married to Miss Jennie
Campbell, of Newport, who survives
with eight small children, the oldest
less than thirteen years; as follows:
Gertrude, Donald, Clifford, Lester,
Richard, Herman, Eliza and Merrill.
He also leaves his father and the fol-
lowing brothers and sisters: Clyde, of
Osceola Mills; Floyd, of Tyrone;
Joseph, of Johnstown; Mrs. C. R. Min-
nemyer and Thurman, of Coleville;
Oscar and Eleanor, at home.
The funeral will be held at two
o’clock this (Friday) afternoon, bur-
ial to be made in the Union cemetery,
Bellefonte.
Preparing for the Motor Show.
Work has been well under way for
a week or more in preparing for the
first of the annual motor shows that
is to be held in the armory in Belle-
fonte during the week of January
29th to February 5th.
Major E. H. Lederer, of State Col-
lege, who is the director of the show,
was in town last week with the floor
plans and all of the exhibitors have
drawn lots for the space.
The department of landscape gar-
dening at the College is preparing the
decorative plans so_that as soon as the
booths are ready a general scheme of
decoration will be begun with a view
to making the show a miniature of
what may be seen in the big eity ex-
hibitions.
An orchestra will be engaged for
the entire week and all the plans are
being made with a view to lifting the
show to a plane far above the usual
small town undertaking.
Few people fully realize the enor-
mity of the automobile industry. Last
year approximately 8,500,000 auto-
mobiles were registered in the United
States and of this total 7,600,000 were
passenger cars. As the population of
this country taken at the last cemsus
was 105,708,771 persons, this means
that one person out of every thirteen
OWNS a passenger car.
The automobile showed the best
progress om the farm. More than 60'
per cent. of last year’s productior in
both cars and trucks were purchased
in rural districts. The farmers own
and operate 2,500,000 motor vehicles.
The outstanding feature of the motor-
truck on the farm is that it annually
saves the farmer $150 in labor and
$240" in transport charges.
It is very important to note that
with the great manufacture of cars
effusions in both prose and poetry
were always gems werth reading:
— Longer C. Wibn, madager of
the Bellefonte statian of the Atlantic
Refining company, received 3 notice
last week that a life insurange policy
for one thousand dollars had been
taken ont for him: by the company.
Several years ago the company inau- |
gurated the policy of insuring, its ena-
ployees for an amount commensurate
with the years of service rendered,
the maximum pdicy being for $1900
for these employees wha have heen
with the company twenty years or
more. Inasmuch as Mr. Wion has
been with the company over twenty
years he is now in the one thousand
dollar class. :
— The Gazette last week announc-
ed that Miss Verna Chambers had re-
turned to Bellefonte for the purpese
of assisting with the audit of the
county accounts. As a matter of fact
Miss Chambers has returned to ac-
Frank Mayes, county treasurer. A.
Clyde Smith, who had occupied the
position, has resigned to resume his
tailoring business, and Miss Cham-
bers, because of her experience in con-
ducting the office under her father’s
administration and her acknowledged
capacity for the work, was appointed
to succeed him. She would have as-
sumed her duties a week earlier but
cept the position of assistant to L.|
and’ trucks last year, the fuel to keep
these vehicles in operation also in-
! creased. The 1920 output of gasoline
was increased 19 per cent. over the
1919 production.
Among other features for the show
will be the Penn State quartette that
is just returmed from a tour of the
Canal Zone. It will probably appear
on what is to be called Bellefonte
night. The State College exhibitors
will bring the State College band and
in all probability the engineering de-
partment of the College will make a
practical exhibit of the fundamental
operation of gas engines. This latter
will be especially for farmers, since
the gas engine has come into such
general utility on the farm.
—In connection with the State-
wide tuberculosis conference held at
the Adelphia hotel in Philadelphia
this week, a health play was produced
yesterday afternoon by health fairies
connected with the Philadelphia
health council and tuberculosis com-
mittee, aided by “San Tan,” (Miss
Eleanor Weston,) Bellefonte’s health
clown, which was her first appearance
in Philadelphia.
On Sunday afternoon the Odd
Fellows band, accompanied by a num-
ber of members of the order, journey-
ed to the western penitentiary at
Rockview and gave a sacred concert
for the benefit of the inmates of that
institution. It is hardly necessary to
had not sufficiently recovered from a
lic service work, and seven in mines.
slight throat operation.
say that the concert was greatly en-
joyed by all.
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NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
__ Mrs. David A. Barlet spent Tuesday
in Harrisburg doing a little shopping and
visiting friends.
Willis Wion is among those who have
been in Philadelphia this week, going down
to attend the automobile show.
— Miss Emily Wythe, of Philipsburg,
was an over Sunday guest of prothonotary
and Mrs. Roy Wilkinson and family.
—_ Mrs. C. U. Hoffer came over from Phil-
ipsburg, Tuesday, and while in Bellefonte
will be a guest of her father, C. T. Gerber-
ich.
—Mr. and Mrs. George A. Beezer have
been spending this week at The Adelphia,
going down to attend the Philadelphia au-
tomobile show.
— Miss Katherine H. Hoover is in Phila-
delphia, having gone down Monday to
spend the week with her father, and to
look after some business that required her
attention.
—F. W. Crider is slowly convalescing
from his recent serious illness and as soon
as able will leave for Atlantic City, accom-
panied by his daughter, Mrs. Charles E.
Dorworth.
—Mrs. G. Ross Parker went to Pitts-
burgh Tuesday, called there by the illness
of her son Ferguson, who is in one of the
city’s hospitals, suffering from an attack
of scarlet fever,
—Col. H. S. Taylor was one of the prin-
cipal speakers at the first monthly get-to-
gether meeting of the Charles R. Rowan
Post of the American Legion, of Altoona,
on Tuesday evening.
Miss Lucy Miller, in the government
telephone service at Washington, D. C,,
was in Bellefonte for a short visit with her
mother, Mrs. Della Miller, leaving Wed-
nesday to resume her work.
— Mrs. P. A. Sellers and her two daugh-
ters closed their house on the farm in Buf-
falo Run valley this week, and went fo
Johnstown to spend the remainder of the
winter with Mrs. Seller's two sons.
Mrs. Harry Keller will return to Belle
fonte this week, after a two week's visit
to Atlantic City, Philadelphia and Lancas-
ter. Ellis, who accompanied his mother
east, remained there for medical treatment.
— Prothonotary Roy Wilkinson has been
spending the week in Philipsburg looking
after some business matters and during
bis absence A. A. Dale Esq. has had
charge of affairs in the prothonotary’s of-
fice,
—Mrs. Louisa V. Harris, who spent the
fore part of the winter at Evanston, Ill.
with her daughter, Mrs. DeGolyer, return-
ed to Bellefonte shortly after Christmas
and has opened her house on Allegheny
street.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Seel, of Paxtang,
sailed last week from New York for a Med-
iterranean cruise, expecting to spend some
time in Egypt and Algiers. Mrs. Seel fre-
quently visits in Bellefonte, coming here
to see her mother, Mrs. Fauble, and the
family.
Mrs. J. H. Herman, of Pleasant €ap,
was a “Watchman” office caller on Wed-
nesday and stated that she had sold her
property in that place, and could have sold
one or two more, as the demand for homes
in that place is about as great as it is in
Bellefonte.
— Dr. W. KK. MelKinney has been in Bell-
wood this week assisting - Rev. Samuel
Barber in his evangelistic services in the
Presbyterian church of that place. He will
return, however, in time to hold regular
services in the Bellefonte Presbyterian
chureh on Sunday. :
.—Mrs. W. C. Snyder, of Snow Shoe, was
in town for the lecture of Lady Anne Az-
gapetian Wednesday night. Mrs. Snyder
has always been a leader in public welfare
work in her eommunity and expects to or-
ganize for the Near East campaign which
will open next month.
__Mrs. Frank Warfield, with her daugh-
ter and grand-sen, Mrs. James Craig and
James Jr., went to Pitisburgh a week ago
to comsult specialists with regard to the
child's health. Mrs. Warfield and Mrs.
Craig have been guests of Mr. Craig's par-
ents while in Pittsburgh.
Mp. and Mrs. S. H. Griffith, who have
been visiting with Mrs. Griffith's relatives
in Philadelphia since before Thanksgiving,
returned to Bellefonte Tuesday. No ar-
rangements having been made to open
their hause, Mr. and Mrs. Griffith have
been guests of Mrs. Satterfield for the
week.
— Robert Bloom, the Tord enthusiast, of
Centre Hall, drove to Bellefonte yesterday
afterneon in a half hour, transacted a iot
of business at the same speed, and left,
expecting to return heme in the same
length of time. Mr. Bloom says the Ford
is the best car on the market and has nev-
er gone back on him.
—Chaplain T. W. Young left this week
for his former home in Pittsburgh, where
he will visit until the first of February
with his daughter, Mrs. Eppley, expecting
then to leave for a month's stay in Cali-
fornia. Not being im his normal health,
Chaplain Young decided to join Mrs.
Young, who is spending the winter with
their son, Dr. T. W. Young, in Los Ange-
les, hoping through the change of climate
to. recover from his. present indisposition.
—Among the “Watchman” office callers
on Saturday was Miss Maude E. Miller, of
Ferguson township, who motored down
with her brother-im-law, Clarence T. Lem-
om. Miss Miller, who is one of Fergusom
township's most efficient school teachers,
is a daughter of the late John H. Miller
and some of her business in town was in
looking after affairs relative to her fath-
er’s estate, whieh includes two nice farms,
both of which will be for rent this spring.
— Elizabeth B. Meek went to Phikadel-
phia, Tuesday, to attend the annual coen-
ference of the State Tuberculosis society
held Wednesday and Thursday at the
Adelphia hotel. Dr. Finegan, Commission-
er of Education; Dr. Edward Martin, Com-
missioner of Health; Dr. Thomas D. Wood,
Columbia University, were among the
speakers ealled to this conferemce to dis-
cuss ‘“Pennsylvania’s Tuberculosis Preb-
lem.” Miss Eleanor Weston attended by
request and as the guest of the State or-
ganization.
—A. G. Morris, his daughter, Miss Lida,
and his grand-daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Morris, will go to Philadelphia the middle
of next week, leaving from there for the
south. A stop will be made in North Car-
olina, where they will visit with friends
at their former home in Columbia, going
from there on to Florida, where they ex-
pect to be until spring. During their ab-
sence the Morris home on Linn street will
be closed, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morris
and their son Elliott having moved to the
Bush house the early part of the week.
! Mr. and Mrs. Wells L. Daggett are vis-
! iting in Cleveland with their niece, Mrs.
Maynard Murch Jr., and her family.
—Mrs. Thomas McCafferty went to Lock
Haven early in the week, for an indefinite
stay with her niece, Mrs. Edward Swiler.
—Mrs. Mann, who is in Bellefonte much
of the time, with her sister and mother
Mrs. John Sebring and Mrs. Woltjen, left
Tuesday for Pottsville.
—Edward Grauer, of Philadelphia, was
a week-end visitor in Bellefonte, spending
his time while here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Grauer.
—Mr. and Mrs. Claude Jones, of Tyrone,
both of whom are well known in Belle-
fonte, are spending the after part of the
winter in California, having gone west last
week.
Students Charged With Robbery.
Harold Bowman, a fourth year stu-
dent at State College, is now a prison-
er in the Centre county jail on a
charge of committing a series of rob-
beries at the college, while officers of
the law are searching for J.B. Spar-
rowhawk, another student, whom
Bowman implicates as an accessory in
the various thefts.
During the latter part of the year
various tools were missed from the
engineering building and several of
the laboratories and suspicion point-
ed to the two students mentioned
above. Consequently a watch was set
upon the young men and they were
detected in removing tools. They
were taken before members of the stu-
dent council and after being charged
with the theft, confessed, it is alleg-
ed, and restored the tools. The col-
lege authorities decided not to prose-
cute and Sparrowhawk left the col-
lege. :
In the meantime two or more stores
had been robbed at the college and
Bowman was charged as being impli-
cated. It is also alleged that he con-
fessed to the charge and implicated
Sparrowhawk. Bowman was arrest-
ed and jailed while Sparrowhawk has
disappeared. More than the ordinary
interest attaches to the case because
of the fact that Bowman, whose home
is in Clarion, Pa., was recently mar-
ried to a Bellefonte young lady.
Boxing Exhibition.
~The armory athletic association will
hold a boxing exhibition in the ar
mory of Troop L next Tuesday even-
ing, January 25th, for the benefit of
the troop, which promises to be a
great fistic treat. The exhibition will
consist of two preliminaries, one be-
tween Jack McCulley and John Ders-
tine, two local 140 pound mixers, and
the other between Mack Lynch and
Dempsey Miller, 115 pounders. The
semi-final will be a six round bout be-
tween Lefty Bailey, of Williamsport,
and Kid Crouser, of Sunbury, weight
122 pounds. The final wind-up will be
between Willie Ritchie, of Wilkes-Bar-
re, and Kid Bowers, of Williamsport,
a six round bout in the 133 Ib. class.
Jess Gilbert, of Williamsport, will
referee the bouts. The armory doors
will open at seven o’clock and the first
bout put on at 7:45. Admission, $1.00;
reservations, $1.50. Seats now on sale
at Carpeneto’s cigar store, Finkle-
stines, Ruhls cigar store and Black-
fords cafe, Bellefonte, and Montgom-
ery & Co., State College.
Hard on the Horse Shoes.
Every day we find out something
new. On Tuesday a young Spring
township farmer, who lives along the
newly laid highway to Pleasant Gap,
informed us that the road surface
there seems to have an unusually bad
wearing effeet on horse shoes. He
stated after having had his team shod
with winter calks he made two trips
to Bellefonte for coal and though the
round trip is only six miles he was
compelled to put new calks in his
team’s shoes before he could make the
third trip in safety.
We have never heard any one dis-
cuss the wearing effect of brick, eon-
crete or macadam-asphalt road sur-
faces on horse shoes, but if the ealks
that this farmer was using were not
unusually soft the new bitu road to
Pleasant Gap must be exceptionally
hard on them.
— Fred Hendershot and Richard
Packer were given a hearing before
"Squire Woedring on Tuesday even-
ing on the charge of assaultimg- Don-
ald Snyder, a driver of one of the Em-
erick busses on Saturday evening,
found guilty and each one fined. Hen-
dershot was also required to pay Sny-
der the sum of $25.00. The assault
was committed shortly after the bus
left Pleasant Gap on its way to State
College.
Week after next should be a big
time in Bellefonte, when the Centre
county auto show will hold forth in
the armory. Owners of cars and
prospective purchasers should make it
a point to attend.
——The House committees were
announced Tuesday night but we have
been unable to ascertain just what as-
signments have been given the Centre
county Member, Hon. Thomas Beaver.
— The Bellefonte High school bas-
ket ball team won a league game from
Philipsburg on the armory floor last
Friday night by the score of 30 to 22.
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For Sale—Team bridles, breech-
ings, breast straps, check lines, hame-
straps, halters and hitch-straps.—
James I. McClure, corner Spring and
Logan Sts., Bellefonte. 3-1t*
For Sale—Full line of household
goods at home of James Moddrell, 16
S. Penn St., Bellefonte, February 5,
at 1 p. m. S. H. Hoy, Auc. 1-4t*