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Demortalic {al juan,
Bellefonte, Pa., April 8, 1921.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——Mr. Henry Taylor, of Spring
street, has beaten George Bush to the
straw hat this spring.
——Mrs. John Powers, who is ill at
her home on Spring street, has been
in a critical condition the past ten
days.
The Bellefonte Council, Knights
of Columbus, will celebrate the thir-
teenth anniversary of its institution
on Sunday, April 24th.
——J. Harris Hoy has changed his
business location from Philadelphia to
the home office of the Atlas Powder
company in Wilmington, Delaware.
——A house to house canvass of
Bellefonte will be made next week in
the drive for the uplift of our ceme-
tery. Have your contribution ready
when called upon.
——Several hundred Odd Fellows
in Centre county are planning to at-
tend the anniversary celebration of
the Central Pennsylvania organiza-
tion in Lock Haven on April 26th.
A generous voluntary gift of
money to the up-lift fund for the cem-
etery, will help put in condition the
most neglected place in Bellefonte.
The answer to this call for help is a
duty which no one should shirk.
With president John S. Walk-
er suffering with an attack of lumba-
go not enough borough councilmen
could be gotten together on Monday
evening to constitute a quorum, con-
sequently no meeting was held.
An old fashioned party will be
held at St. John’s Episcopal parish
house on Thursday evening, April
14th, at eight o’clock. Everybody is
invited. Refreshments will be served.
A silver collection will be taken at the
door.
— The sale of stock and imple-
ments at the farm of former sheriff
W. M. Cronister, on March 29th,
amounted to about $5000.00. The
sale of the land aggregated $16,500 so
that $21,500 for farm and stock in the
upper Bald Eagle valley isn’t so bad.
— Dead suckers were seen floating
down Spring creek on Sunday, and the
query naturally arose, why the dead
fish? So far as known, no acids of
any kind are emptied into Spring
creek which would kill the fish, and it
is hardly possible that they were vic-
tims of dynamite improperly placed.
Work was resumed on Monday
on the construction of the state high-
way from Snow Shoe Intersection to
Ruaville. It is also likely that work
will be resumed in a few days on the
state highway from Pleasant Gap to
the watering trough on Nittany moun-
tain. It will take the biggest part of
the summer to complete both jobs.
Burdine Butler, of Howard,
was a Bellefonte visitor on Wednes-
day and told us of a bit of hard luck
that befel Beezer Dotters, of Porter
township, Clinton county, one day last
week when one of his finest mares,
weighing 1800 pounds, slipped while
hauling a load on the state highway,
and literally dropped dead in her
tracks.
——A new feature of the Bellefonte
Academy minstrels this year will be
a bevy of Bellefonte young ladies who
will appear as a part of the chorus.
They will be specially staged in a
graceful circle and will no doubt prove
a great drawing card. Keep in mind
the dates of the minstrels, May 19th
and 20th, and make your plans to be
on hand.
—— Mrs. Martin Fauble celebrated
her seventy-fifth birthday anniversary
Thursday of last week with a home-
coming of all her children, the party
including Mrs. Schloss and A. Fauble,
of Bellefonte; Mr. and Mrs. Seel, of
Paxtang; Mrs. Noll, of Lansdowne;
Mrs. Tausig, of Harrisburg; Mrs.
Houseman, of Steelton, and Joseph
Fauble, of Columbus, Ohio.
——The trout fishing season will
open next week but you can only fish
in the daytime which will leave your
evenings free to go to the Scenic.
While manager Brown will not prom-
ise to show you trout pictures he will
give you tne best in the motion pic-
ture line that the market affords.
Good pictures always appeal to the
grcat majority of people and that is
the reason the Scenic is so popular
with the masses.
* Harry Troy, six year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Troy, of Half-
moon valley, was painfully injured at
noon last Thursday by being hit on
the face with a baseball bat. The boy
was watching a number of older lads
playing ball and unconsciously got too
close to the boy with the bat, so that
the affair was entirely accidental.
The lad was taken to the Altoona hos-
pital by his father where it was found
that his nose had been broken and
right eye badly bruised, but no really
serious injury.
— Some farmer of Bald Eagle
valley is shy a guinea hen and it is
quite possible that some other farmer
down the valley is wondering where
the guinea came from that is strut-
ting around among his flock of chick-
ens. Last Friday when the Pennsyl-
vania—Lehigh express passed through
Bellefonte perched on top of one of
the cars was a guinea hen. Just how
it got there is of course problematical,
but it is generally supposed that
somewhere up the valley the train ran
through a flock of fowls and the
guinea hen flew up and landed on top
of the car. How long it remained
there is not known, but it was still a
passenger when the train pulled out
of Bellefonte.
Clinton County Detective Held for
: Centre County Court.
| Sam Meyers, Clinton county’s offi-
cial detective, has been held for trial at
the next term of court in Centre coun- |
ty on the charge of fast and reckless
driving of an automobile and driving
a car while under the influence of
liquor; and according to the trail left
| by Meyer’s car on the Nittany valley
! state highway the hooch or whatever
{kind of intoxicating beverage they |
| have down in Lock Haven is not of the
| one-half of one per cent. brand, by a
long shot.
Detective Meyers, driving his own
Dodge car and accompanied by four
men left Lock Haven on Monday
afternoon on a trip up Nittany valley.
Just this side of Hublersburg they ran
into the rear end of Mrs. George F.
Harris’ car, damaging one rear wheel
and a fender. Just beyond Zion they
almost ran into another car, and
probably would have done so if the
driver hadn’t gotten off to the side of
the road, and near the Eby farm they
finally ran into the ditch.
The state police at Bellefonte were
notified and they made a hurried trip
down the valley, arriving at the scene
before the Meyers party got their car
out of the ditch and under way. De-
tective Meyers and M. C. Farwell, one
of the men with him, attempted to
bluff the state police but it wouldn’t
work and the entire party were
brought to Bellefonte. Three of the
men convinced the state police that
they were innocent of any misdoings
and were discharged, but detective
Meyers and Mr. Farwell were taken
to the Centre county jail where they
spent the night as guests of sheriff
Dukeman.
On Tuesday morning they were ar-
raigned before Squire S. Kline Wood-
ring, detective Meyers on the charge
of operating an automobile while in-
toxicated and Mr. Farwell on the
charge of disturbing the peace and
loud and boisterous language on the
public highway. The latter plead
guilty and was fined ten dollars and
costs, which were in the neighborhood
of eighteen dollars.
Detective Meyers waived a hearing
and plead guilty, offering to pay a
fine of one hundred dollars, the costs
and settle for the damage to Mrs.
Harris’ car, but ‘Squire Woodring in-
formed him that he was not empow-
ered to settle the case, but would have
to return it for trial at the next term
of court. Under the circumstances the
in Bellefonte as security for his ap-
pearance at the May term of court.
G. FRED MUSSER IN ACCIDENT.
On Sunday G. Fred Musser with his
wife and Mrs. James Seibert drove to
State College in the afternoon and as
they were starting home another au-
toist cut across the street right in
front of Mr. Musser’s car to go down
a side street with the result that the
cars collided. Both cars were dam-
aged some but not enough to put them
out of commission. Fortunately,
aside from a little shaking up nobody
was hurt.
Bellefonte Officers Found Whiskey
but Not the Owner.
For two hours or longer on Tuesday
evening from fifteen to twenty gal-
lons of good whiskey found an abid-
ing place in the Diamond of Belle-
fonte borough and no attempt was
made by any person to steal it. Of
course the whiskey was in two copper
containers which were in a Buick
roadster, but the one container had
sprung a leak at the seam and the
liquor had oozed out and run out onto
the runningboard of the automobile,
and the aroma therefrom is what led
to the detection of the whiskey.
Where the car came from or who it
belongs to is a mystery at this writ-
ing. The car was parked on the cor-
‘ner of the First National bank some
time between eight and half-past
eight o’clock. When policeman El-
mer Yerger went up town after the
8:10 train had gone out his attention
was attracted to some fifteen or twen-
ty boys and young men on the corner
at the First National bank and walk-
ing over that way he got a good whiff
of the whiskey. At the time he did
not examine the car but hung around
in that vicinity to see who the owner
or the driver might be, but nobody ap-
peared. In meantime the sheriff put
in an appearance and both officers
kept watch on the car. Finally, about
half-past ten o’clock district attorney
James C. Furst happened along, and
by that time quite a crowd had gath-
ered around the car.
All inquiries as to the ownership of
the machine proving futile the officers
had the car taken to Wion’s garage
where an examination revealed the
two copper containers hidden under
the seat. One of them was full and
the other one partly filled with what
the officers aver had every indication
of being high grade whiskey.
The license tag on the car is No.
217-211, Pennsylvania. It is just pos-
sible that the owner or driver was
frightened by the crowd about it when
he returned to get it after parking
Tuesday evening, and rather than re-
veal his identity deserted the car.
——1In the neighborhood of one hun-
dred and fifty men and women gath-
ered in front of the Electric Supply
company’s store on Saturday after-
noon, each one hoping that he or she
held the lucky card that would win the
electric sewing machine to be given
away. Of course all but one in the
crowd were disappointed and that one
was Lemuel Bierly, of Milesburg,
who was the lucky man. And when
that gentleman was apprised of the
fact that he got the machine he was
about as greatly surprised as the bal-
ance of the people were disappointed.
Clinton county detective left his car |
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Last Call.—Friday, April 15th, : Organizations in Bellefonte Carrying! NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. —Miss Grace Mallory, of Altoona, has
fishing begins. Get your fishing on Public Health Work. begh visitlag ia Delletonie, 2 guest of dur
boots here. Special prices, $5.75 and
$6.75 pair—COHEN & CO. 14-1t
the bettering of conditions of the
Union cemetery is now before the pub-
lic. Help make it a fit resting place
for those who made Bellefonte.
New Enterprise for Bellefonte,
The Keystone Auto Gas and Oil
Service company will in the near fu-
ture open and operate a modern filling
station in Bellefonte. The same com-
pany has a number of similar stations
. scattered throughout Pennsylvania
and Ohio. Their motto is quality and
service. Two grades of gas are used,
motor and high test. Every Keystone
station is equipped with rest rooms,
wash rooms and toilet for men and
women. The hours the stations are
open are from 6 a.m. to 12 p. m.,
i every day in the year. The location in
. Bellefonte has been decided upon and
will be announced in a few days. Bus-
iness men approached by a represen-
tative of the company have heartily
endorsed the proposed plans.
Shorten Penn State Commencement
Week.
One day has been clipped from the
annual commencement week program
at The Pennsylvania State College,
and the Alumni reunion day has been
moved up from Tuesday to Saturday,
according to a decision just reached
by the college officials.
has been contemplated for some time
following its introduction by promi-
nent alumni and its adoption meets
with general approval. The com-
mencement exercises will start with
alumni day and Saturday, June 11,
the week-end making it possible for
more graduates to return for class re-
unions. The graduates will have their
class day on the following Monday,
and commencement will be observed
on Tuesday, the 14th. In previous
years the graduates received their de-
‘grees on Wednesday, and the Junior
Prom. closed the celebration. Other
changes this year include, the moving
up of the Junior farewell reception to
i tonight, April 7th. This will make the
coming week-end at Penn State a busy
one, for many visitors will be there
' for the Prom., the biggest social event
of the year.
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Isaac Mitchell Retires from Bellefonte
| Trust Co.
Isaac Mitchell,
known men in banking circles in
Bellefonte, retired from his position
'as assistant secretary and treasurer
' of the Bellefonte Trust company on
! April 1st and thus wound up a long
career in the financial circles of Belle-
fonte. Mr. Mitchell is now in the
neighborhood of seventy-nine years
old and his decision to conserve his
health was what led to his retirement
at this time.
tainable Mr. Mitchell began his bank-
ing career in the banking house of W.
F. Reynolds & Co., about fifty-eight
years ago, when he was a young man
twenty years of age. He remained
with the company some years then re-
signed and accepted the position of
book-keeper in the McFarlane hard-
ware store. He filled that place a
number of years then returned to the
bank and has been there continuously
until his retirement last week.
Mr. Mitchell’s retirement now
leaves Charles F. Cook as dean of lo-
cal banking men, as he has been in
continuous service in Bellefonte banks
for almost fifty years.
Unconventional Musical
Coming.
Comedy
Except for the one fact of its theme
being of fairy tale extraction, “Some
Girl,” Le Compte and Flesher’s new
musical comedy success, coming to
the opera house Wednesday, April
13th, could lay claims to being the
first of the long awaited “something
new” in the sea of theatrical original-
ity. Fairy tales however, are not new
to the stage. Many of its greatest
successes have come therefrom and
the pretty fairy origin of “Some
Girl” has been deliciously preserved.
The action, chaotic to the extreme,
never once quite overcomes this fla-
vor, so artfully has Howard McKent
Barnes spun his yarn, and through-
out the prologue it is maintained and
to the end of the last big scene, the
finale, where, “they all live happy
ever after.” The delightful score con-
tains a number of alluring and linger-
ing airs and is sung by a splendid
cast and an ensemble of wondrously
charming girls.
“TWIN BEDS,” APRIL 21st.
Like all things which succeed, the ti-
tle, “Twin Beds” seems to be just the
exact name to fit Salisbury Field and
Margaret Mayo’s supremely funny
farce to be seen at the Garman thea-
tre on Thursday, April 21st, with
Zaina Curzon and the special cast in-
tact. Its rapidity of action and its
deft sureness of characterization,
liant wit, make it invariably mirth-
provoking to huge audiences. “Twin
Beds” is a rapidly moving exposition
of the difficulties that are encounter-
ed by three couples who live in fash-
ionable large apartment houses, who
find the enforced mneighborliness of
these places not at all to their liking,
and who, in their futile efforts to es-
cape it, only discover that their troub-
les are trailing them with a burn-
like persistency. An exceptional cast
of farceurs will again be seen in the
presentation of the laugh play.
This change |
one of the best |
——The first request for funds for
|
| Schloss,
While exact dates have not been ob- |
added to its surprising slang and bril-
STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT AP-
POINTEES.
Dr. J. L. Seibert, County Commissioner
of Health.
{ BOARD OF HEALTH OF BELLEFONTE.
John Blanchard, President
John Curtin, Secretary.
Dr. David Dale, James Furst, Dr. Melvin
Locke.
Elmer Yerger, Health Officer.
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS—BELLE-
FONTE BRANCH.
OFFICERS
Rev. M. DeP. Maynard, Chairman.
Rev. Wilson P. Ard, Vice Chairman.
Chas. MM. McCurdy, Treasurer.
Mrs. Max Gamble, Secretary.
COMMITTEES.
Nursing Activities—Mrs. Blanche Schloss
Home Service—S. Kline Woodring.
Auxiliaries—Mrs. J. M. Shugert.
Junior Organization—Miss Henrietta
Quigley.
Publicity—Rev. Wilson P. Ard.
Production—Mrs. J. D. Seibert.
Executive Committee.— Rev. DM. Del.
Maynard, Rev. Wilson P. Ard, Chas. M.
McCurdy, Miss Mary Blanchard, Mrs. R.
S. Brouse, Mrs. W. C. Coxey, Mrs. Max
Gamble, Mrs. Lew Gettig, Mrs. J. P. Ly-
on, Mrs. James Seibert, Mrs. Blanche
Mrs. John Shugert, Mrs. N. DB.
Spangler, Kline Woodring.
Committee and Council on Nursing Ac-
tivities.—Mrs. Blanche Schloss, Miss Mary
Blanchard, Mr. James Furst, Mr. Samuel
Gettig, Mrs. L. H. Gettig, Mrs. Max Gam-
ble, Mrs. Thomas Hazel, Mr. H. P. Harris,
Miss Mary Linn, Mrs. J. P. Lyon, Miss
Elizabeth Meek, George R. Meek, Edward
Owen, Frank Sasserman, Dr. J. L. Seibert.
Miss Henrietta Quigley, Jr. Red Cross.
Miss Mae Peterman, Visiting Nurse.
Tuberculosis Committee of Woman’s Club.
Miss Isabella Hill, President of Woman's
Club.
Miss Helen C. Overton, Chairman.
Miss Helene Williams, Treasurer.
Miss Katherine Hoover, Miss Daise
Keichline, Miss Mary Linn, Miss Elizabeth
Meek, Mrs. John Shugert, Mrs. Robert
Walker, Miss Eleanor Weston.
The work of the Red Cross is
financed by the annual membership
drive which was carried on last No-
vember under the direction of Mrs.
John Porter Lyon. As a result of this
drive, the Bellefonte Chapter, A. R.
C., was on the honor roll with 1226
members. The total money from
Bellefonte and the western peniten-
tiary was $1012.35; from the auxil-
iaries, $323. Of the total $1335, about
$600 went to State Headquarters, A.
R. C. The remainder is spent in the
community to support the Red Cross
nurse, Miss Mae Peterman, whose ex-
cellent work is well known.
The work of the tuberculosis com-
mittee of the Woman’s club is financ-
ed by the sale of Christmas seals, car-
ried on under the direction of Miss
Helen C. Overton.
Total seal sale for 1920 was $488.15
including auxiliaries. Out of this,
$85.42 went to the Tuberculosis socie-
ty of Pennsylvania for expenses of
the organization. There are no paid
workers in the local committee as all
the work has been a voluntary contri-
bution for the welfare of the commu-
nity.
Coxey—Rockey.—Eugene M. Coxey,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Coxey, and
Miss Maude A. Rockey, daughter of
Mrs. John Rockey, both of Bellefonte,
were married at the Reformed parson-
age on Spring street on Tuesday even-
ing by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Ambrose
M. Schmidt. The young couple were
attended by Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Olsen.
The bridegroom has been employed
by the Pennsylvania railroad compa-
ny in Bellefonte, but was this week
transferred to Clearfield and it is in
that town they will start their mar-
ried life. Both Mr. and Mrs. Coxey
have many friends in Bellefonte who
join in wishing them a long and happy
life together.
Shoemaker—Steele. — Carey Shoe-
maker, a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Shoe-
maker, of Ferguson township, and
Miss Violet Steele, a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jasper Steele, of Julian,
slipped quietly away to Atlantic City
last Thursday where they were united
in marriage. Spending a night in
Philadelphia they returned on Satur-
day and went direct to their newly
furnished home on the J. H. Miller
farm in the Glades where a delicious
wedding dinner awaited their coming.
The bride has for several years been
one of Centre county’s efficient school
teachers and is well qualified to take
charge of her own home.
Koch — Eckenroth. — Samuel T.
Koch, of Salem, Ohio, and Mrs. Grace
C. Eckenroth, of Pleasant Gap, were
married at the Reformed parsonage at
noon last Saturday by Dr. Ambrose
M. Schmidt. The happy couple left
the same day for their home in Salem,
Ohio.
A Discrepancy Somewhere,
When the 1920 census was taken in
Bellefonte a year ago it showed a pop-
ulation in the town of 3,996, against
a population of 4,145 in 1910 and
4,216 in 1900. While various reasons
were assigned at the time for the fall-
ing off in population there were a
number of doubting Thomases as to
the correctness of the census. Recent-
ly the Postoffice Department request-
ed all postmasters to compile a record
of the number of people within the
scope of their office and the count
made by the carriers of the Bellefonte
postoffice shows approximately five
thousand people in Bellefonte; that is
inside the borough limits. The dif-
ference between the regular census
and the postoffice count, it will be no-
ticed, is one thousand, which is con-
siderable of a discrepancy, and natur-
ally there is now just cause for won-
dering which one is right.
—Miss Anna DM. Miller spent Saturday
and Sunday with her parents in Salona.
—Ellis 0. Keller left Sunday to resume
his work, having entirely recovered from
his recent long illness.
—John Van Pelt, of Johnstown, made a
short visit with his friends in Bellefonte,
the after part of last week.
—O. J. Stover, of Blanchard, was a bus-
| iness visitor in Bellefonte on Monday and
found time to spend a few minutes in the
“Watchman” office.
—A Scott Harris, of the staff of the
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, has been visit-
ing his father, John P. Harris, in Belle-
fonte during the past week.
—Mrs. John G. Love and her daughter,
Miss Katherine, will return tomorrow
from Atlantic City, to open their house on
Linn street for the summer.
—Mr. and Mrs. T. Clayton Brown went
down to Philadelphia on Sunday to visit
friends and spend a few days taking in
the sights of the Quaker city.
—Mrs. S. H. Bennison is back in How-
ard, after spending the winter with her
daughter in Lansing, Michigan, and rela-
tives in other parts of the west.
—Mrs. D. G. Bush and Mrs. Callaway
are spending the month of March at the
Bush house, while making arrangements to
open their Spring street house the first of
May.
—Miss Helen Eberhart returned Tues-
day to her work in Washington, after a
ten day's visit here with her home folks,
Harry Eberhart and his family, on Penn
street.
—Miss Grace Smith and G. O. Benner, of
Centre Hall, were in Bellefonte Saturday
attending a meeting of the executive com-
mittee of the Christian Endeavor Union of
Centre county.
—obert Bradley has been spending the
i greater part of the past month with mem-
bers of the family in Bellefonte, his en-
forced vacation at this time being on ac-
count of ill health.
—Mrs. Ephriam Keller and her sister,
Mrs. William Keller, both of Pleasant
Gap, were guests last week of their broth-
er, Edward Meese, while visiting for sev-
eral days in Tyrone.
—Dr. Edith Schad accompanied a patient
to the Geissinger hospital at Danville,
Tuesday, going on from there to Northum-
berland, where she visited for several
days as a guest of Miss Kapp.
—Mrs. Hoopes, of West Chester, is
spending the week in Bellefonte, a guest of
her aunt and sister, Miss Powell and Miss
Josephine White, Mrs. Hoopes is well
known here as Miss Marie White.
—Mr. and Mrs. John Sommerville motor-
ed over from Robertsdale for the week-end
and were accompanied on their return
drive home Monday, by Miss Mary Linn,
who remained with them for a short visit.
—Mrs. S. A. Keefer has been in Wil-
liamsport for several days of the week,
representing the Methodist church of
Bellefonte at the annual meeting of the
Philadelphia branch of Foreign Mission-
ary society.
—Miss Mary Gross, of Axe Mann, return-
ed the latter part of the week from Evans-
ville, Ind., where she was summoned sev-
eral weeks ago on account of the critical
illness and subsequent death of her broth-
er, John Gross.
—Miss Minnie Musser, of Millheim, has
been a guest of her sister, Miss Mollie
Musser, for two weeks, coming to Belle-
fonte to help her sister move from the
Stickler property to the Jared Harper
house on west High street.
—Mrs. M. B. Garman and her brother,
Charles Lukenbach, returned Thursday of
last week from Detroit, Michigan, and have
opened Mrs. Garman’s house on Curtin
street, where Mr. Lukenbach will spend
the summer with his sister.
—Miss Anna Sechler spent last Friday
in Tyrone with Miss Morrow, who has becn
seriously ill at her home in that place, for
some time. Miss Morrow is well known to
many persons in Bellefonte, having taught
a private school here a number of years
ago.
—Miss Marie Hoy left Bellefonte a week
ago in charge of the three children of Rev.
and Mrs. W. B. Cooke, for their home in
Berwinsdale, where she will remain until
the children’s mother recovers from her
present illness. Mrs. Cooke is mow a pa-
tient in the Lock Haven hospital.
—Mrs. Ray Stauffer and her small
daughter accompanied by Miss Mary Coo-
ney, come over from Hazleton the early
part of last week for an indefinite stay in
Bellefonte. Mrs. Stauffer will be with her
sisters, the Misses Cooney, while convales-
cing from her recent serious illness.
—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Grossman came
up from Williamsport Tuesday to spend a
part of the day looking after some ceme-
tery business. Mrs. Grossman returned
home the same afternoon, while Mr. Gross-
man went to Pennsvalley for a day or two
with old friends and relatives and to look
after some business interests.
—Mrs. John Harrison and Mrs. Carl
Beck, who have been living in Canton,
Ohio, since last fall, will move to Pitts-
burgh as soon as they are able to secure a
house. Mr. Beck, whose work necessitated
their leaving Pittsburgh, returned there
some time ago. Mrs. Beck spent a week in
Bellefonte recently, looking after the sale
of some of her mother's household goods.
—Miss Agnes Shields arrived home from
Jackson, Miss.,, Monday, coming directly
north to Washington, where she spent a
week with her sister, Miss Theresa
Shields, who is a nurse in training at the
Georgetown University hospital. Miss
Shields went south with her brother and
his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shields,
directly after Christmas and has been their
guest in Jackson since that time.
—William Schmidt, son of Dr. and Mrs.
A. M. Schmidt, spent Wednesday of this
week with his parents while enroute to
Ithaca, N. Y., where he went as a delegate
to the national convention of the Eta Kap-
pa Nu fraternity, having been chosen by
the Western Pennsylvania association to
represent it at the gathering. William is
in the employ of the Westinghouse Elec-
tric company at East Pittsburgh.
—Prothonotary Roy Wilkinson spent
most of the past two weeks in Philipsburg
attending to some business matters and
taking the part of one of the end men in
the “Hoop La” minstrels given Monday
and Tuesday evenings for the benefit of the
Cottage State hospital. During his absence
A. A. Dale Esq., has been keeping open
house in the prothonotary’s office and vis-
itors at the court house on Monday were
vividly impressed with the handsome
boutonniere of trailing arbutus he sport-
ed on the lapel of his coat, and which he
picked himself in a jaunt over the moun-
| tains on Sunday.
sister, Mrs. Donald Gettig.
—Mrs. Thomas Beaver joined Mr. Bea-
ver in Harrisburg the early part of the
week, for a visit of several days.
—Miss Lucy Potter left last week to join
a friend for a week at Atlantic City, ex-
pecting to go from there for a visit in
Philadelphia.
—Miss Ada Kopplin, of Minneapolis,
Minn., a school friend of Miss Mabel Shef-
fer, is Miss Sheffer’'s guest at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sheffer.
—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wise, of Spring
Grove, York county, have been in Belle-
fonte this week, called here by the death
of Mrs. Wise's mother, Mrs. Lawrence
O'Leary.
—DMrs. Beach and Miss Blanchard left
Bellefonte a week ago for a ten day's stay
with their aunt, Mrs. Wistar Morris, at
Overbrook and to look after some interests
in Philadelphia.
—T. W. Romick, of Bishop street, drop-
ped in for a moment yesterday to advance
bis subscription another year because, as
he said, he always prefers to have some-
body owe him something rather than be
owing anything himself.
—Herbert Gray, who had spent a part
of the winter at Miami, Fla., has returned
to Bellefonte to be here with his sister,
Mrs. George Furey, for the summer.
George Young, who accompanied Mr.
Gray south, will remain in Florida.
—Richard Lane came in from McKees-
port, Friday of last week, driving here in a
Juick car, which he left for the use of his
mother, Mrs. James B. Lane, during the
summer. Richard was accompanied by his
son James and several of the boy's friends.
—DMiss Elizabeth Morris was in Phila-
delphia for a short visit the after part of
last week, as a house guest of Mrs. S.
Cameron Burnside. Miss Morris went
down Friday to attend a dance given at
the University of Pennsylvania Friday
night.
—Mrs. W. I. Fleming will return from
Harrisburg this week to open her house on
Spring street, which she will occupy for
the summer. Mr. Fleming will join her
here for the week-ends in Bellefonte, as
has been his custom ever since being in
Harrisburg.
—Irancis Thal, who has been in the ém-
ploy of the baggage department of the P.
R. R. Co, is off on an indefinite furlough,
coming here from Osceola Mills this week.
Francis had been transferred from Belle-
fonte to Osceola at the cut-down of em-
ployees some time ago.
—DMrs. Miller Stewart went to Wilkes-
Barre Tuesday to join her daughter, Miss
Margaret, for a visit with Dr. Walter Stew-
art, Miss Stewart having been with her
brother for several months. During the
absence of Mrs. Stewart, her elder daugh-
ter, Mrs. Miller, of Hagerstown, will have
charge of the house.
—Mrs. Edward D. Moeslein, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., is in Bellefonte on a visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Undercoffer.
Mrs. Moeslein came here Monday, expect-
ing to remain until after the middle of the
month, when she will be a motor guest on
the drive back east, of her cousins, Mr. and
Mrs. James McKeenan. Mr. and Mrs. Mec-
Keenan are coming up in their car from
Philadelphia for the opening of the fishing
season.
—Two well known gentlemen from Cen-
tre Hall, were in Bellefonte last Saturday
and both favored this office with a call.
Clyde Dutrow, who retired as a farmer
some time ago and bought the handsome
Dr. Hosterman home in that attracfive
town, was one of them. He and his family
had been quarantined nearly all winter for
scarlet fever, but they are out again and
doubly enjoying the release and this fine
weather. The other caller was Mr. Christ
Keller, who lives on the old homestead
farm below town and divides his time be-
tween chicken raising and overseeing the
farm.
Trout Fishing Season Will Open Next
Friday.
Before the next issue of the
“Watchman” reaches its readers all
the disciples of Izaak Walton will be
out trying their luck on the wily trout.
In fact the fish editor of this paper
has his rods all burnished, a new fly
book stocked to the bulging point, and
is lying awake half the night pictur-
ing the joys of a two day’s outing at
the opening of the season. Of course
he is only one of many who are prob-
ably in the same boat, and one and all
are doubtless hoping the streams will
be just right and trout plentiful
enough to furnish just the right kind
of sport.
Naturally many local fishermen will
put in their first morning on the local
streams, Spring creek and Logan's
branch, and it is quite probable that
they will meet with just as much luck
as those who visit distant streams.
From the indications in Spring creek,
especially within the limits of Belle-
fonte, the trout are quite plentiful. In
fact in a walk along that stream on
Sunday the writer saw several mag-
nificent specimens of the speckled
beauties jump for fly at a place in the
stream we had no idea the trout con-
gregated; and which would indicate
that the opening day, with favorable
weather, should afford some good
sport.
There is always a certain percent-
age of fishermen who hang their luck
on the mountain streams and Fishing
creek and these will likely make their
pilgrimages to their favorite pools
this year as they have in past years.
The past winter was a most favorable
one for trout in the mountain streams.
None of them were frozen dry and
the trout were able to survive the win-
ter without being driven down stream
into deeper waters. Of course much
will depend upon fishermen’s luck, but
it is not always the lucky fisherman
that can fell the biggest fish story.
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