Bellefonte, Pa., February 18, 1921. NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. ——A little son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gettig the latter part of last week. ——Mrs. George P. Bible is quite ill with pneumonia at her home on east Curtin street. ——The Bellefonte Academy bas- ket ball team defeated the Altoona High five on Wednesday evening by the score of 61 to 32. ——The Ladies Aid society of the Lutheran church will hold a bake sale in Olewine’s hardware store this com- ing Saturday, and will continue each Saturday until Easter. ——1If that staid old ground-hog is frisking around very much these days he is likely to take a chill, because it is not just the kind of weather for any animal that has been housed up all winter snug and comfy to be out in. ——Willar P. Eckel, of Bellefonte, who deserted from the U. S. navy on Sept. 20th, 1920, was apprehended in Bellefonte the latter part of last week and on Sunday was taken to Philadel- phia and aurned over to the U. S. na- val authorities. ——The Penn State players will present The Devereux company in the auditorium at State College on Tues- day evening, February 22nd, at 8:15 o'clock, in that historically dramatic play, “Daniel Druce,” by W. S. Gil- bert. Seats 50, 75 cents and $1.00. ——Spring will be here officially in a little more than a month, but in the mean time, go to the Scenic in the evenings and see the motion pictures. All you need to do is follow the crowd any evening in the week and you will land at the best moving picture show in this vicinity. : “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” will be the attraction at the op- era house Thursday, February 24th. There are very few people who have not read Mr. Fox’s book of the above title and as dramatized by Eugene Walter it has resulted in a play that is both thrilling and fascinating. Don’t fail to see it. ——W. L. (Buck) Taylor, famous Indina scout and picturesque charac- ter of the early west who the past two years has tried his hand at farming in College township, will address the Lutheran. Brotherhood this (Friday) evening at eight o’clock. The meeting will be held at the home of H. P. ‘Schaeffer, on High street. ——The Susquehanna University concert five will appear in a splendid program of songs, readings, sketch- es and piano numbers in the High school auditorium Thursday evening, February 24th, at 8 o’clock p. m., un- der the auspices of the Lutheran Brotherhood. The public is urged to attend this splendid entertainment. ~——Last Friday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harter were on their way home to Shawville, Clearfield county, ‘after attending the funeral of Mus. Samuel Hoy, and at the Weaver rail- road rossing just west of the Miles- ‘burg station their car was hit by the Pennsylvania-Lehigh express east. Mr. Harter escaped with a few bruises but Mrs. Harter was thrown from the car and considerably bruised and shocked. She was brought to the ‘Bellefonte hospital and an examina- tion disclosed the fact that no bones ‘were broken. The car was badly dam- aged. . —On Saturday morning a spike buck came down off of the mountain at the Henry Shook farm about two miles beyond State College and after Jpasturing around in the field attempt- ed to jump a wire fence. His legs «caught on the wire and it was thrown ‘to the ground sustaining a broken back. On the advice of district attor- ney James C. Furst the animal was shot, taken to State College and sent to Bellefonte on one of the Emerick busses. The deer was skinned and dressed at Beezer’s meat market and Monday morning was delivered to the Bellefonte hospital. ——On Monday of last week Judge Maxwell, of Bradford county, sen- Zenced Floyd Smith to death by elec- -drocution for the murder of his child. “The next day the sheriff of that coun- ty brought Smith to Centre county for the purpose of delivering him over to the authorities at Rockview but they refused to receive him as no date for his electrocution had been mamed and they had no warrant to ac- «ept him. Consequently the sheriff ‘avas compelled to take him back home, and was obliged to spend the night in Williamsport, lodging his prisoner in the Lycoming county jail. ——In keeping with their usual cus- tom the Bellefonte Academy minstrels will give their entertainments this year for the benefit of the firemen of Bellefonte. The dates for the big show have been set as May 24th and 25th. Last year several other local organizations had entertainments very close to the date of the minstrels and while this did not detract from the quality of their performance it is just possible it may have infringed some- what on the receipts. Inasmuch as the benefit this year is to be for the fire- men of Bellefonte, it should be an ob- ject that will appeal to the general public, and for this reason, all organ- izations should give the minstrel date a wide berth. The firemen, of course, will have direct charge of the sale of tickets and also assist in advertising the minstrels, and anything you can do to help them along should be done willingly. SUSANNA MARY MEEK. Susanna Mary Meek, widow of P. Gray Meek, and daughter of George W. and Rachel Barron Meek, died at’ _ her home in this place at two-thirty Tuesday afternoon; having been ill only since noon of the day, preceding. She was born on May 20th, 1843, on the homestead farm in Ferguson township, where her grandparents, William and Elizabeth Meek had set- tled part of the tract that was grant- ed to Capt. George W. Meek, in 1790. She came of Scotch-Irish ancestry, both on the paternal and maternal sides and traced her lineage back to Robert Meek, who emigrated from Edinburgh, Scotland, and settled in Maryland long enough before the Revolutionary war for six of his sons to enlist in the struggle for independ- ence; her great grandfather, George Meek, having been a captain in the revolutionary army. All of her ear- ly life was spent on the farm and her secondary education was secured at the near-by Pine Grove Mills Academy which she attended until leaving for Harrisburg to enter the Pennsylvania Female College from which she grad- uated. In January, 1862, she married her cousin, P. Gray Meek, and shortly thereafter came to Bellefonte to make a home in the house now occupied by Mr. Thomas Hamilton, on north Alle- gheny street. The tragic days of her early married life were many because of the militant Democracy of her mate and the crisis, which came in March, 1865, when he was carried away to a federal prison on a charge that fell immediately it was preferred, could have been met by this young wife and mother only by the sustain- ing grace of God which filled her soul with ever increasing hope and love and self negation from her early girl- hood to the close of her glorious life. Though many of her forbears were Covenanters her branch of the family became Methodists and the old Meek church and cemetery that still stand near her birth place tell the story of the fruit their ‘work in the Vineyard of their Master bore. Indeed her earthly father’s home had many man- sions for it was the refuge of the sor- rowing and stricken always and the circuit riding ministers made it the abode of themselves and their families when there were no such things as parsonages for those who carried the gospel in the pioneer days. All of her life she was a Methodist and only re- linquished active work when it became apparent that stricken ones in her own ' home needed her ministrations more than her church. Her life ended just within a day of the second anniversary of the passing of her husband. Surviving are their children: Mary Gray, Elizabeth Breckenridge, George Reuben, Dr. Eloise, and Winifred Barron, wife of Thomas K. Morris. Rachel Luella, the eldest of the children, died in Sep- tember, 1909. Of her father’s family of six children three lived to ripened vears. Elizabeth Breckenridge, John Minor and Breckenridge died in their youth. William E., of Ferguson town- ship, and David George, of State Col- lege, preceded her only after passing their seventieth milestones. Services will be held at the home this afternoon at 2 o’clock. Dr. E. H. Yocum and Rev. Alexander Scott will officiate. Here let us pay brief tribute to a woman whose life has been a daily in- spiration for the “Watchman.” If it has rendered service to any man, if it has stood steadfastly back of any cause that might have brought pleas- ure and comfort to humanity, if it has tried to build and not destroy it has been the passion for love and the ten- derest concern for others welling out of the heart of this splendidly cour- ageous woman that has spoken through those whom her life has in- fluenced. All of its good works she has shared in and those only. If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother 0’ mine, O mother 0’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother 0’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother 0’ mine, O mother 0’ mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother 0’ mine, O mother 0’ mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother 0’ mine, O mother 0’ mine! —Kipling. Celebrated Ninetieth Anniversary. Last Friday Mrs. Jonathan Bilger, of Pleasant Gap, was ninety years old and celebrated the event with quitea gathering of her descendants and friends at her comfortable home in. that place that evening. In addition to a most delightful social evening de- licious refreshments were served. In fact the large table was so completely filled with cold viands, large cakes, ete., that it was a wonder to see. The guests present included Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Rees, Mrs. Abbie Rockey and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ottis Hile, Wil- Harry son Bilger and family, Mrs. Corl, Miss Annie Bilger, Virgie Bil- ger, Mr, and Mrs. Lloyd Smith, Mr. and Mrs, Frank Kanarr, Mr, and Mrs. Fremont Hile and family, Mr. and Mrs. James Bilger and family and Harry Bilger. Mrs. Bilger is a remarkable old woman. - She was born at Liverpool, Perry county, in 1831, but came to quite young and located in Pennsval- ley. After her marriage to Mr. Bil- ger, however, they took up their resi- dence at Pleasant Gap and that has been her home ever since. standing the fact that she is ninety years old Mrs. Bilger is a remarka- bly well preserved woman. She is as active as a woman of sixty or seven- ty, does her own housework and most of her gardening during the summer season. ———— ee —————————— Mrs. William Bottorf entertain- ed a number of her friends at a card party at her home on Spring street, on Tuesday evening, and the same similar manner. ———— ly ——————— . Wanted.—Waitresses for dining room and restaurant. Apply at Bush House office. B-tf | Centre county with her parents when Notwith-. evening Miss Mildred Emerick enter- tained some of the younger set in a NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. A Call to All Who are in Any Way In- terested in Dear Old Bellefonte. In our cemetery there are between 800 and 1000 lots. Of that number, about 450 are cared for. If you are a lot owner, and have not already done so, won't you make an effort to put your lot in perpetual care? Thereby insuring your loved ones a decent rest- ing place in the years to come when you, too, will no longer be here to see that the briars and weeds are cleared away, and the green grass is regular- ly cut and cared for, over their last resting place. We, too, are fast pass- ing away, and how can we expect fu- ture generations to carry on a work we ourselves have been too indifferent to perform? Perpetual care is $200 for a full lot, $100 for a half lot. If you cannot af- ford that now, arrange to pay the Cemetery Association $4.00 for full lots and $2.50 for half lots, for the cutting and weeding for the summer. Not forgetting your duty toward your dear ones this and every other sum- mer. We, the women of the town, whose dead sleep there, are asking through the columns of our county papers who have kindly printed these articles for us, that all who respond generously to our urgent call for $3000.00 to place in perpetual care all that historic part, over one hundred years old, where lie such noted men and women, the very cream of those early days, whose graves are fast disappearing through neglect. Then we ask for $3000.00 additional, to place in perpetual care those many other lots who have no one left to give them thought or attention. This fund of $6000.00 being prop- erly invested, will give the Associa- tion an income sufficient to hire the proper help and enable them to keep the cemetery clean year after year, so we need no longer be ashamed of our “God’s Acre.” Mrs. J. L. MONTGOMERY, Chairman, Mrs. J. S. WALKER, Vice-Chairman. Miss MARY GRAY MEEK, Secretary. Mr. JAMES B. COOK, Treasurer. been. Little Fay Teaman Injured in Auto Accident. Fay Teaman, the eight year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Teaman, was knocked down and run over by an automobile in the Diamond at noon on Monday and sustained a fracture of the left leg just above the knee. The accident happened so quickly that people passing at the time are unable to say just how it did occur. It was just at the noon hour when the school children were on their way home and a number of automo- biles were passing back and forth through the Diamond. One of the big busses drove up, stopped and was dis- charging its passengers when Mr. Krader came along in his machine. Just as he did, according to the most reliable stories, the little girl ran out from behind the bus right in front of the Krader machine. The driver of the latter was running very slow but | at that was unable to stop with the re- sult that the child was knocked down | and the machine passed over her left leg, fracturing the bone. Mr. Krader stopped within the length of his car but the child had already been picked up, was tenderly placed in another machine and rushed to the Bellefonte hospital, as it was not then known how seriously she was hurt. Fortu- nately, however, she suffered no in- ternal injuries. While the accident is to be deeply regretted it is unwise to place the blame on the driver of the car. He was not going in a reckless manner but at a speed even below that requir- ed by law. But it does emphasize the fact that all drivers of machines can- not exercise too great care when the streets are full of children. They are always liable to attempt to cross the street at any point and regardless of approaching automobiles, and we feel sure that any driver of a car would far rather stop his machine and wait for the children to pass than run the risk of hurting one of them, if he thought there was the least danger of doing So. rh ——See the Potter-Hoy Hardware Company before buying your fencing. They have the right fence and at the right price. : 7-1t Entertainment by Standard Bearer Society. Young ladies of the Bellefonte Methodist church, members of the Standard Bearer society, have been making elaborate preparations for the entertainment which they will give in the lecture room of the church this (Friday) evening at eight o’clock. The program will include “an after- noon in a Chinese hospital,” with na- tive costumes; a vocal selection by Mrs. Morris Krader and other musie- al numbers. The public is cordially invited to attend. An offering will be taken to help along the work of the society. Following is the program in full: : To Orchestra Song by Standard Bearer Girls Reading ........c 0... Thelma Williams Piano Solo. ..... 0. 0. ‘...Marian Morrison Yoel 8010.0... dn didineil Mrs. Krader Pantomime..... ovine “Oh, Zion Haste" Plano 8010. c.ccve. sav invninen Marjorie Hill VOeal SO010uns:eivvieiessinysiveives Mildred Zettle An Afternoon in a Chinese Hospital, Standard Bearer Girls Yocal 8010.....cs00.1 Tamazine Kerstetter Orchestra mm ——General sales exchange day at the Geiss livery stable, February 22nd. 6-2¢ Es NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. —Roy C. Witmer is in Baltimore this week on a business trip. —Mrs. F. H. Clemson has been in Allen- town this week visiting her son Frederick. —Frank Bradford, of Centre Hall, was in Bellefonte Wednesday, attending to some business. —Charles Haines, of McKeesport, is in Bellefonte visiting his mother, Mrs. David Haines. —~Col. Emanuel Noll is out in Detroit, Michigan, visiting his daughter, Mrs. Chauncey F. York. —Miss Russie Cole came home from Philadelphia last Saturday for a brief res- pite from her studies in vocal music. —Dr. Edith Schad expects to leave to- day for Pittsburgh to spend several days with her daughter, Mrs. Gail Chaney and husband. —Miss Elizabeth Cooney, of The Hat Shop, is in New York and Philadelphia, looking over the latest styles in spring headwear. —Manager Morris J. Kelly went down to Washington on Wednesday on business connected with the government aviation field in this place. —Mrs. Mitchell Stover, of Altoona, was an arrival in town Saturday evening. She came down for an over night visit with her sister, Mrs. Barclay, —Mrs. W. T. Twitmire went down t{o Williamsport on Monday to see the new grandson who recently arrived at the home of her son, Charles Brachbill. -—Miss Lulu Johnston returned to her home in Williamsport on Wednesday after a pleasant visit at the home of her brother, J. Kennedy Johnston Esq., and family. —Mr. Charles T. Homan, of State Col- lege, was in Bellefonte on Wednesday at- tending to some business matters that needed looking after before the spring work opens up. —Burgess W. Harrison - Walker, and John S. Walker and Hard P. Harris at- tended the annual convention of the State Association of Boroughs at the Penn-Har- ris hotel in Harrisburg on Tuesday and Wednesday. —Miss Lulu McMullen, who spent some time at Galen Hall, Atlantic City, for the benefit of her health and later visited her cousins at Lansdowne, returned to her home at Hecla last week “ery much ini- proved. —John G. Dauberman, of Centre Hall, was a business visitor in Bellefonte yes- terday. For a man who travels around as much as he does he makes few stops in Bellefonte, as this was the first time in over a year that he spent any time in the county seat. —DMrg. Elizabeth Callaway went down to College Point, N. Y., on Sunday, owing to the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Harry I. Garber, who is in a hospital as the result of a recent operation. Mrs. Callaway’s stay will be indefinite, depending entirely upon her daughter's recovery. -——Mr. and Mrs. Isaac O. Campbell, of I'airbrook, motored to Bellefonte Iriday afternoon. It was an exceedingly unpleas- ant day but hay baling at the Campbell farm was being held up by a broken press and bad roads notwithstanding Mr. Camp- bell had to come to town for the repairs necessary to get it working again. —John W. Miller, one of the younger generation of farmers in Ferguson town- ship, motored to Bellefonte on a business trip on Monday and found time to spend a few minutes in the “Watchman” office. Though classed among the younger farm- ers he might also be termed one of the most progressive and his farm home is one of the nicest in that section of the couniy. —W. Harrison Walker Esq., spent sev- eral days of the past week in Johnstown on professional business. When one takes into consideration his intensive work in the Thrift movement in Pennsylvania, his pre- liminary work as county chairman for the Central European relief drive, and his ex- tensive private practice he is kept on the jump most of the time, but at that, he looks as if he enjoys it. . —John G. Munson was an arrival in Bellefonte on Sunday, coming here to see his mother and make arrangements for her greater comfort in the future. Mr. Munson is now located at Rogers, Mich., with one of the affiliated companies of the J. G. White company, of New York city, and he is evidently kept pretty busy on his present job as it was a year last October since he visited his old home in this place. —Boyd S. Musser, of Berkeley, Califor- nia, arrived in Bellefonte on Sunday, be- ing on his way over to Woodward to at- tend the funeral of his father, the late William Musser, who died last week. It has been fourteen years since Boyd left home and in that time he has served in the world war and spent eleven years in ‘Cal- ifornia, and only three times in the eleven years has he seen snow flakes flying in the air. At the present time flowers arc in bloom in California and the wheat in the fields is from twelve to fifteen inches high. —William Gibson, or “Billy” as he was more familiarly known in the days that he used to roam around State College, was a Bellefonte visitor the early part of the week, his first trip into this section in twelve or fourteen years. After leaving Centre county Mr. Gibson went on the road as a traveling salesman for the Murphy Co., selling calendars and while traveling around he got an idea in his head that the life of a country printer was one of ease and comfort, so he secured a plant at Slippery Rock and went into the newspa- per business. But the war came along, prices of printing materials soared sky- ward and good help became scarce as the proverbial hen’s tooth, so Billy quit the newspaper, moved to Crafton and went back on the road selling calendars. While he has naturally grown older in the years he has been away from Centre county, time has not changed him to that extent that he was not easily recognized by his old friends hereabouts. Young Men Held for Trial. On Tuesday Alderman Anthony, of Lock Haven, rendered his decision in the case against C. Frederic Schad and Robert Bullock, arrested in Lock Haven almost two weeks ago on the charges of larceny and arson, in which he held the two young men in one thousand dollars bail for trial at the April term of court in Clinton county. A. E. Schad, of Bellefonte, went on the bond and the young men were released from jail. ——Subscribe for the “Watchman.” — . Telephone Company Annual Meeting. The annual stockholder’s meeting and election of the Nittany Valley Tel- ephone company was held at the of- fices in Bellefonte on February 11th. The secretary’s report showed a fair business during the past year, but owing to the unusually bjzh cost of labor, materials, etc., the resources barely sufficed to pay operating and other expenses; and at the prevailing rates it will not be possible to accu- mulate a reserve fund for future re- placement of lines and poles and oth- er improvements. Another year, how- ever, may bring a change in the sec- retary’s report. All the old members of the board of directors were re-elected, the board being constituted as follows: Ellis L. Orvis, T. R. Bridgens, Joseph H. Hayes, J. L. Rachau, J. H. Beck, Wil- liam Clevenstine and L. H. Swartz. The board elected the following offi- cers: President, Ellis L. Orvis; vice president, J. H. Beck; secretary and treasurer, J. F. McCormick, of Lock Haven. Mr. McCormick and W. W. Smith, of Bellefonte, were selected as managers for the ensuing year. Option Taken.on Nittany Inn, State College. Exclusive announcement was made in the “Watchman” in the issue of January 7th, that the Nittany Inn at State College was on the verge of changing hands. At that time, how- ever, no definite announcement could be made for the reason that those in charge of the Inn refused to either confirm or deny the story. It now develops that the “Watchman” story was correct even to the name of the purchasers, as is evidenced by an ad- vance notice now being sent out by Lee H. Hoffman, manager of the Hoff- man hotels, to the effect that “The men who own and operate the Hoffman hotel chain, now comprising hotels in Bedford, Gettysburg and Ligonier, have secured an option on Nittany Inn. Changes in the build- ing and equipment will be made, and new furnishings secured, resulting in an up-to-date plant, which, under our efficient management will supply a heretofore lacking necessity.” Green—Hoover.—L. Y. Green and Miss Sara Hoover, both of Port Ma- tilda, were married in Bellefonte on Tuesday of last week by Charles E. Driver, of the Methodist church at that place. Immediately following the ceremony the young couple departed on a brief honeymoon trip to the western part of the State and return- ing have already gone to housekeep- ing in their own new home at Port Matilda. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Hoover, of Port Matilda, and is a graduate of the Belle- fonte High school. Following her graduation she entered the services of the Pennsylvania railroad company but of late had been the efficient sten- ographer of the Superior Silica Brick company. Mr. Green is the very efficient superintendent of the company at Port: Matilda and the many friends of the young couple wish them a long and happy married life. Beaver Colony Thriving. The beaver colony established last year in the Penn State forest is thriv- ing this winter, according to a report sent to the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry by district forester Bart- schat, of Milroy. He said the lack of deep snow enabled the animals to ob- tain plenty of food. Visitors have been coming to the dam all winter, as they are able to drive their automo- biles to within half a mile of the col- ony. Forester Bartschat and forest rang- er Smith, of Coburn, attended a far- mers’ meeting at Spring Mills on Monday. To decide on the boundary line be- tween the Logan state forest and the Penn state forest, foresters Morton, of Petersburg, and Bartschat met at Greenwood Furnace Tuesday. Forest rangers Ross, Benson, Wirth and Monsell also attended the conference. Test Your Seed Corn. If you have not already tested your seed corn for germination now is a good time to start, says J. W. Robin- son, county farm agent. Corn that has come through to this time without injury will be safe for the remainder of the winter. It is estimated that 50% of Centre county’s farmers test their seed corn. Which 50% do you belong to? Every ear of corn plant- ed means from four to six dollars’ worth of corn next fall. Can you af- ford to plant many poorly germinated ears? It costs no more to produce a field of corn with a 100% stand than with a 60% stand. If you will send or bring a sample of your corn to the Farm Bureau office at Bellefonte Mr. Robinson will be glad to run a germin- ation test for you. ——See the Potter-Hoy: Hardware Company before buying your fencing. They have the right fence and at the right price. C T-1t ——When in doubt as to your pa- per take the “Watchman.” . ee———— a —— Sale Register. MARCH 10, 1921—At the residence of D, M. Kline on the Lewistown pike, just south of Axe Mann, a cléan-up sale of his full line of farm implements, horses, cattle and hogs. Sale starts at 9 a.m.” L Frank Mayes, Auctioneer. MARCH 19th—At the: residence of Jared Evey, on the T. BE, Jodon farm, near Axe Mann, 5 horses, 25 head of cattle, 55 hogs and farm implements. Sale’at 10 o'clock a. m. L. Frank Mayes, Auctioneer.