Demorwic, Watch
"Bellefonte, Pa., May 27, 1921.
THE DAY OF MEMORY.
Bring the flowers, fair and sweet;
Follow close the marching feet
Of the veterans who go,
‘With their loyal hearts aglow
‘With the love of men for men,
To their comrades’ grave again.
Bring the blossoms, sweet and fair;
Lay them down with love and care
Where the little banners wave
O’er each soldier’s sacred grave;
Say a word of grace and prayer
For the hero buried there.
Listen while the chaplain reads
Office for the dead and deeds
Are recounted once again
Of the war stormed hill and plain;
Listen while is called the roll—
Death has taken heavy toll.
Bring the little ones to see
And to listen eagerly;
Dirge and volley, prayer and speech,
Deep into their hearts will reach;
They the rites must carry on
‘When the veterans all are gone.
—Emma A. Lente, in Farm Journal.
FIRST MEMORIAL DAY.
It Was Observed in May, 1866, in
Charleston, S. C.
A description of the first Memorial
day was found among the reminiscen- | oq
ces of the founder of the day, Mrs.
Mary Cotton Redpath, who died in
1914, at her home in Malden, Mass., at
the age of ninety. Mrs. Redpath was
in Charleston, S. C., at the time with
her husband, who was on General
Sherman’s staff. She was troubled by
the lack of attention given to the de-
cent burial of Union soldiers.
“Our men,” she wrote, “had been
buried as they died from exposure or
disease in the very troughs they had
burrowed for themselves in the ground
as protection against the weather. The
majority of these graves were un-
marked and the field was uninclosed.
My husband and myself and our
friends formed a committee for con-
sideration of the matter, and a me-
morial addressed to the loyal people
of South Carolina was issued, calling
upon every one in the State to aid in
the erection of a monument and a
suitable fence to protect it and to sur-
round the place for burial. Response
was promptly and generously made by
freedmen and others, and in May,
1865, a great memorial service was
held in Zion’s church.
“At the close, escorted by a detach-
ment of the regiment which under
General Hatch occupied the citadel of |
Charleston and accompanied by a
handful of whites and a large host of
negroes, we proceeded to the race’
course. On the previous day the col-
ored people had gathered great quan- |
tities of spring flowers, which they
carried to decorate the graves. Mr.
Redpath and I rode in an open car- |
riage with General Hatch and another
member of the committee. The en- |
thusiasm was intense. When the pro- |
cession formed freedmen renioved the |
horses from the carriage and dragged !
it out to the cemetery. The people!
surged around us, waving their flow-
ers and chanting the weird, stirring!
songs of their race. When we reached !
_ the burial ground the graves of the
sodiers were heaped with myrtle, the |
small yellow rose called cloth of gold |
and other southern blossoms. Our re-
turn was made at night, by moonlight,
under avenues of cypress trees hung |
with gray moss, the negroes as they |
marched still singing their poignantly |
sad or strangely exulting hymns.” |
Mrs. Redpath was closely connected
with the Civil war, and her home in
Malden was one of the northern sta- |
~ tions of the “underground railway” by
which slaves were sent to Canada and
freedom.
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“JUST FOR MEMORIES.” |
BILL FOR LONGER SCHOOL
TERMS.
Next to the teachers’ salary meas-
ure the most important measure from
State Superintendent Finegan’s view
is the bill which increases the school
terms. The bill provides that, begin-
ning next fall, all schools in first, sec-
ond and third-class districts shall be
open for at least 180 school days
which is equivalent to a nine-month
term. In fourth-class districts the
schools must be kept open at least 150
days beginning next fall, and for the
term starting in September, 1922, the
term must be extended to at least 160
days.
The increased terms make the most
changes in the fourth class districts,
where investigations by Dr. Finegan
and the State school officials showed
that the attendance had been very lax
and the terms entirely too short.
Among the things that impressed Dr.
Finegan with the Pennsylvania school
system were the short terms permit-
ted in the rural schools, and it is his
determination that every change for
a liberal education shall be extended
to the youth in the country districts.
The compulsory attendance laws
have been considerably stengthened
by amendments. Regular attendance
now is required of pupils between 14
and 16 years of age unless they have
completed a course of study equiva-
lent to six yearly grades in the public
schools. Under existing law, boys
and girls were permitted to leave
schools and seek employment when 14
years old, without any limit of the
amount of schooling they had receiv-
It also is provided that permits for
farm service or domestic service in
private homes that have been issued
by the school board of the district in
which the pupil resides must be grant-
ed in accordance with regulations pre-
scribed by the Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction. It is not Dr. Fine-
gan’s desire to stop the practice of
permitting older pupils to help their
parents on farms in the busy seasons,
but he wants to break up a practice
that has been abused in many rural
sections and see that the boys and
girls manage to get a maximum
amount of the schooling prescribed
for each year.
Several measures that will help the
school districts to meet the additional |
expense exacted by the teachers’ sal-
ary increases of the 1919 session and
the past one were enacted. One in-
creases the borrowing capacity for
temporary school purposes in first and
second-class districts from two-tenths
to four-tenths of one per cent. of the
assessed valuation of the district, and
in third and fourth-class districts from
one-half to one per cent. of the assess-
ed valuation.
Another measure authorizes school
| districts with outstanding indebted-
ness for operating purposes to make
refunds and spread the indebtedness
over a period of ten years. The pro-
fessional ratings for occupation tax
purposes are repealed in another
measure and a uniform per capita oc-
cupation tax on both male and female
residents of not less than $1 nor more
than $5 is now provided.
Baby Teeth Important.
Not until very recently has it come
to be realized that at least four-fifths
of all troubles people have with their
teeth during their lifetime are due to
neglect of the first set.
Parents generally have a notion that
it is not worthwhile to concern them-
selves much about a child’s first teeth,
inasmuch as they are merely tempor-
ary and must in the nature cof things
be replaced by new ones later on.
This, it appears, is a very grave!
mistake, because the wearing quality
and proper development of the second
set depend largely upon the welfare of
the first teeth. If they are allowed to
decay the subesequent and permanent
teeth are bound to suffer. Even the
regularity of the arrangement of the
latter in the mouth is liable to be im- |
portantly affected.
Nature does not seem to make the
‘first teeth of such good material as is
Nation Pauses on Memorial Day to provided for those that follow.
Think of Dead and Living Heroes, | 18 indicated by the fact that a first
: | tooth will often suffer in a couple of
“Five minutes for memories” on months as much decay as its success-
Memorial day is observed more and or would be likely to do in two years.
more generally in the United States, The process of deterioration is far |
- especially by the members of the G. more rapid.
A. R. and similar organizations! Nowadays far more attention is be-
throughout the entire country. For 'ing given to the health of the mouth
This |.
five minutes those who love the mem-
ories of the men who fought for their
\ coquery stand uncovered and pay trib-
ute.
As the custom has been for several
years, ‘when the tribute to the dead
was paid, so will it be this year. All!
the flags on public and many private
buildings will be lowered to half mast,
- bells will toll each thirty seconds dur-
ing this time, and those who honor the
memories of the men whe died that
the Union might be saved will, as in
the past, stand uncovered.
A specimen order of the commander
in chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, issued in connection with this
custom, reads thus:
“At 12 noon on Memorial day the
figp wil be lowered to half mast and
so kept until 12:05. During these five
minutes all comrades will stand un-
covered as a mark of respect to the
memories of those who have died.”
Bits of Sentiment for Memorial Day.
t
A veteran of the war is dearer and
nearer even than the flag. He is a
living flag starred and scarred.—
O’Reilly.
Let the national flag float over every
schoolhouse in the country and the ex:
ercises be such as shall impress upon
our youth the patriotic duties of
American citizens.—Benjamin Harri-
son.
Death never comes too soon, if nec-
essary, in defense of the liberties of
our country.—Story.
I only regret that I have but one
fe to give for my country.—Nathan
ale.
The nation’s holy of holies is about
the resting place of her soldier dead.
—Green.
Flatbush—“Do you think a man
profits by his mistakes?” Benson-
hurst—*No, if he marries the wrong
woman he doesn’t.”—Yonkers States-
man,
than ever before and the newest idea,
which many dentists are taking up, is
to make a regular contract to keep a
child’s mouth in good order at a flat
price yearly, beginning when the
youngster is only three or four years
old. The child is fetched every two or
three months for treatment, which is
usually trifling on each occasion, and,
as a result, the prospect of good and
sound teeth through life is greatly en-
hanced.
Crippled Child May Soon Walk.
James McClenahan, a little crippled
boy from Centre Hall, was taken to a
surgeon in Harrisburg last week by
the State College Red Cross. Miss
Shipps, the secretary, and Miss Hil-
da Thompson, drove down in the Red
Cross car with the youngster in or-
der to take him to Dr. George B.
Stull, who has been doing some splen-
did work in orthopaedic cases. James
stayed in the Harrisburg hospital a
couple of days while a very thorough
examination was made and he was
measured for braces; in three or four
weeks he will be walking around in
his new braces and, as he is now ten
years old and has never been able to
walk at all, that will be quite an event
for him. James is a plucky little
chap and readily made friends in the
hospital; he is delighted with the
prospect of being able to walk so soon.
The Chapter is making arrange-
ments for Dr. Stull to go to State Col-
lege some time next month, and with
the co-operation of Drs, William and
Grover Glenn, he will hold an ortho-
paedic clinic at the hospital. Miss
Shipps is making the preliminary ar-
rangements with the prospective pa-
tients and says there will probably be
fifteen or twenty children who are
crippled one way or another to take
advantage of the opportunity to have
the services of a specialist.
THE DECADENT BACK YARD.
" Many of the folks who are fairly
particular about their front lawns are
utterly regardless about the rear of
their places. They are much like the
man who shaves regularly but never
blacks his boots.
The arrays of litter that will gath-
erin a back yard are depressing.
There will be tumble down chicken
coops, loose ends of boards, piles of
ashes, heaps of tin cans, discarded
metal, and all the waste and refuse of
an active home. It is regarded as a
kind of universal dump and catch-all.
People think all this mess of stuff
is not visible, but it is. Almost every
back yard can be seen from the
streets. An ill kept one helps make a
town look frowsy and decadent. It
gives the whole neighborhood a dis-
couraged air. If one man keeps his
yard poorly, others with an inclina-
tion to untidiness feel that they can
do the same. Those who would like
to clean up, feel it is not much use as
thers is so much disorder around
em.
In that way a neighborhood soon
degenerates. It may not be particu-
larly congested, but it has all the dis-
order of a metropolitan slum. Land-
lords feel that tenants will not co-
operate to keep the property up, and
they delay about painting and other
repairs. Every piece of property on
the street will run down hill.
- If you could take a neighborhood of
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badly kept back yards, and clean
them all up so that the whole thing
looked just neat, even without effort
at beautification, you would add ten
per cent. to the selling value of the
real estate on that street. Then if you
could go in and plant shrubs and flow-
ers and develop good grass, you
‘would add another ten per cent. It is
the easiest known way to acquire more
property value.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
Every Dollar you Spend in Bellefonte will ‘COME
The Watchman’s Buy-at-Home Campaign
They may present something you hadn't thought of before.
They are your neighbors and will treat you right.
ads appear here.
culation in Bellefonte.
Everything in Furniture.
Phonographs and Records.
NAGINEY’S
Send Us Your
Grocery Order Today
It Will Pay You.
CITY CASH GROCERY
Allegheny St.
The Latest
in Dry Goods and Ladies’ and
Misses Ready to Wear.
HAZEL & CO.
The Headquarters for Athletic
Goods in Bellefonte. Smoker Sup-
plies. Barber Shop in Connection.
RUHL’S
Under First Nat. Bank.
Our Grocery
Line is always complete
and we invite your pa-
tronage.
BROUSE’S
High St.
Willard
is the Storage Battery of Serv-
ice. Any make battery repair-
ed and recharged.
WITMER’S
‘Studebaker
Expert Repairing on
All Makes of Cars.
BEEZER’S GARAGE.
The House
of Service when it
Comes to Hardware
THE POTTER-HOY Co.
Our Meats
are always fresh
and wholesome
Phone Your Order.
ECKEL’S MARKET
We Do Not Recommend
Ford parts that are not genu-
ine. Make our garage your
headquarters, Ford owners.
BEATTY MOTOR CO.
This Week
A Special on Belle Meade Sweets,
Milliard’s and Lonis Sherry Can-
dies.
THE MOTT DRUG Co.
Gross Bros.
Good Broom........... were 680
5 pounds Coffee......... es 98c
BD SOD ss ess isersiseninens 23¢
3 Jersey Flake..... ~iriiaies 25¢
1 Large can Peaches........ 28¢
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Read these articles with care.
LOCAL MARKETS
ARE ESSENTIAL
Equal Responsibility for Their
Support Rests Upon the
Farmers and Merchants.
MUST ASSIST EACH OTHER
Prosperity of Community Depends
Upon Each of These Two Classes
Buying Products and Goods
of Each Other.
(Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.)
The first essential in the develop-
ment of any business is the possession
of a market. The manufacturer must
have a market for his products or he
cannot succeed, no matter how valu-
able those products may be or how
efficiently his plant may be operated.
The wholesale merchant and the re-
tail merchant may have the choicest
stocks of goods, but they may as well
go out of business if they have not a
market where they can dispose of their
stocks. The farmer may produce
bumper crops, but they will rot upon
the ground if he cannot find a market
for them. The wage earner’s skill and
muscle bring him no returns unless
there is a market for his labor.
The question of markets is the big
one in every line of business and in
every community the question is a
vital one. In each community, which
must be taken to include not only all
the people who live in the town but |
the farmers who live in the surround-
ing country as well, there are two
sides to the market question. The busi-
ness men of the town must have a
market for the things which they have
to sell. Otherwise they cannot con-
tinue in business.
the farmers must have a market for
the things which they raise or they
may as well go out of business.
When Either Fails Both Suffer.
The merchants of the town can pro-
vide a market for the products of the
farmers and the farmers can provide
a market for the goods which the mer-
chants have to sell. As long as each
class of citizens provides a market for
the other class all is well and the goose
hangs high, but when either class fails
to provide a market for the other the.
goose is cooked, not only for the class
which is deprived of the market but
for the other as well. :
The farmer has a right to expect the
town which is his natural trading point
to provide a market for his’ products,
and the town is not performing its
proper function as the trading center
of its community if it does not see
At the same time |’
HOME TO BOOST”
Patronize the people whose
The money you spend with them stays in cir-
that such a market is provided. The
responsibility of looking after the ful-
fillment of this obligation rests largely
upon the merchants of the town. The
farmer is a producer and he must dis-
pose of his products before he can be-
come a consumer. It is, therefore, not
only right but necessary from a busi-
ness standpoint that the merchants
should aid the farmer in turning his
products into money. Otherwise the
farmer naturally will have no money
‘to spend in the stores of the town.
Obligation on Farmers.
On the other hand, the merchants of
the town have a right to expect the
farmers to provide a market for the
merchandise which they have to sell,
' and the farmers are not doing their
duty to their community if they do not
provide such a market. In this case,
| also, it is not only right but it is nec-
essary to the prosperity of the farmers
' that they should aid the merchants in
turning their merchandise into cash.
Otherwise it is obvious that the mer-
chants will have no money with which
. to buy the products of the farmers.
This is a double-barreled proposition
. and the obligation rests equally upon
| both the merchants and the farmers to
maintain the markets which are essen-
tial to both classes of citizens. Any
town which would import from points
hundreds of miles distant the farm
products which it could buy at home
would be pursuing a very short-sighted
policy, for it would be making it im-
possible for the farmers in its terri-
tory to buy the goods of its mer-
chants. As a matter of fact no town
does this unless it is forced by unusual
conditions to do so. A town may be
located in a community which is not
i productive enough to meet the local
“demands, and in that case it is forced
to import farm products but the town
which is compelled to do this is at
a disadvantage from a commercial
standpoint unless it is essentially a
manufacturing town, in which case its
products are sold to other communi-
ties and bring in enough cash to offset
| that which is sent away to purchase
farm products.
Must Have Outside Business.
In the average community, however,
the town is dependent for its pros-
perity upon the money received from
the farmers in the ordinary channels
of trade, rather than upon that ob-
tained from the sale of its own prod-
ucts. In the average town the mer-
chants cannot make money and con-
tinue in business if they are depend-
ent solely upon the people of the town
for their business.
No business can last long with “ev-
erything going out and nothing coming
in,” and it is equally true that no busi-
ness can be operated on the principle
of “everything coming in and noth-
ing going out.” To maintain the bal-
ance which is necessary to the mainte-
nance of prosperity in a community
there must be an even trade between
the business men of the town.
Books, Stationery and Post
Cards.
The Index Book Store
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Special This Week
50 lb. Cotton Mattress, $10.75
50 1b. Cotton felt Mattress $13.75
BRACHBILL’S.
Everything in Electric Sup-
plies.
THE ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO.
LAUDERBACH-ZERBY CO.
Wholesale Grocers
YOUR HOME OPTOMETRIST
Fitting glasses for 15 years.
Satisfaction guaranted.
CASEBEER’S
Registered Optometrist.
The First National Bank
invites your patronage.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF BELLEFONTE.
Firestone, Gates’ super tread and
Mohawk Tires.
Atlantic, Mobiloil, Sonoco and Wa-
verly oils.
Mobiloil tractor oil a specialty.
BELLEFONTE STEAM VULC. CO.
: NEW GROCERY
A full line of groceries at reduced prices.
A full line of foreign and domestic fruits
in season. Klink’s bacon and ham, fresh
from the market. Cream cheese a specialty.
With every 50c. purchase we give free a
coupon for Rogers silverware. Ask for
them.
ALTERS & STOVER
High St., opposite P. R. R. Station.
cessors to Sechler & Co.
Sue-
The Variety Store
SPIGELMYER & CO.
When You Want
Hardware of any description
call and see us. . We invite
your patronage.
BELLEFONTE HARDWARE CO.
Everything in Hardware
for Farm, Dairy and Home.
GLENWOOD RANGES,
SCHAEFFER'S
This Market is now under New Manage-
ment and we Solicit Your Patronage
FRESH MEATS DAILY
KLINE’S
Formerly Lyon’s Market
If You Buy Out, of Town and I Buy Out, of Town, What, will Become of Our Town ?
AANA
Shoes for the entire family
at right prices
YEAGER’S
The Rexall Store
and that means quality.
Special attention given to
prescriptions.
Runkle’s Drug Store
The Home of the famous
Butter Krust Bread.
Confectionery and Baked
Goods.
The City Bakery
Everything in Lumber,
Sashes, Doors and Blinds.
The Bellefonte Lumber Co.
The Home of Hart, Schaff-
ner and Marx Clothing for
Men. Also a complete line of
Men’s and Boy’s furnishings.
MONTGOMERY & CO.
The Edison
is the peer of Phonographs.
Come in and ‘hear one today.
Records, Pianos, Player-
Pianos. -
GHEEN’S MUSIC STORE.
We Are Still
in the Hardware business
at the old Stand. Every-
thing complete always.
OLEWINE’S
Wholesale and Retail fruits and
produce.
A complete line of imported Ol-
ive Oil.
CARPENETO & CO.
When In Town
See the best in Motion *
Pictures at the Scenic.
SCENIC THEATRE
Weaver, Grocers
Bellefonte, Pa.
The Best
in Dry Goods and
Ladies Ready to
Wear.
SCHLOW’S
The Bellefonte Trust Co.
Courtesy. Safety. Service.
The Bellefonte Trust Co.
Quality at the lowest prices is our
Motto. Satisfaction guaranteed on
every purchase at
The Mens’ Shop
WILLARD & SON
HABERDASHERS.
The Grocery Store of
Wholesome Goods and
Prompt Service
HAZEL’S
Clothing of the Best
for men who are careful of ap-
pearances. A full line of
Men’s and Boy’s furnishings.
SIM THE CLOTHIER
COHEN’S
The Complete Department-
Store. Everything for
the family.
COHEN’S
A Special
Sale of all Sizes of Tires
for this Week.
WION GARAGE
W. S. Katz
DRY GOODS
Ladies Ready to Wear
The Watchman
has always advised buying at
home, and it
buys at home itself.
Queen Quality Shoes for
Women
Regal Shoes for men
We fit the Youngsters, too,
MINGLE’S SHOE STORE.