Demorraiic lata
Bellefonte, Pa., September 30, 1921.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
The federal government has
sent thirty additional over-seas veter-
ans to State College for rehabilitation
training, making 175 men and one
woman disabled in war service who
are now receiving regular instruction
at Penn State.
Hugo Bezdek’s gridiron war-
riors won their first game of the sea-
son from Lebanon Valley, on Beaver
field at State College Saturday, by the
score of 53 to 0. In trying out his
squad Bezdek used practically three
complete teams.
Miss Alice Tate has been dis-
posing of her furniture at private sale
during the past ten days. A number
of pieces in good condition are yet to
be sold, making a look at them worth
while to any one contemplating buy-
ing at this time.
The apartments at the Bush
house which Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L.
Montgomery occupied immediately
after their marriage, are being pre-
pared for their son Gordon, who will
be married to Miss Anne Shaughnes-
sey next month.
——Over one hundred candidates
are on the list for the Penn State Ca-
det band, which is being entirely re-
organized because of the large num-
ber of members lost by graduation last
year. The band when filled will num-
ber fifty pieces.
The only change in the winter
schedule on the Pennsylvania railroad
which affects Bellefonte is in the Snow
Shoe train, which arrives here between
twelve and one o’clock and leaves on
the return trip at 12:55. This is over
an hour earlier than heretofore.
Don’t overlook the food sale to
be held at the Variety shop tomor-
row (Saturday) afternoon by the
women of the Presbyterian church.
Sale will begin at three o’clock and it
will be just the place to purchase the
good things for Sunday dinner.
- The Lutheran Synod of Cent:al
Pennsylvania will meet in St. Paul’s
church, Pine Grove Mills, October 3rd
to 6th. Tuesday evening is Brother-
hood night and the St. John’s Brother-
hood of Bellefonte, rank M. Craw-
ford, president, will attend in a body.
The men will meet and leave from the
Diamond at 6:30 Tuesday evening.
One of the biggest houses of
the season thronged Garman’s opera
“house on Wednesday night to see
“Margie,” the splendid musical come-
_dy which has been playing to crowded
houses ever since its opening night ox
Labor day. The general opinion of
those present was that it was a good
show and all the parts well taken.
Watch the programs published
every week in the ‘“Watchman” for
the best offerings at the Scenic. If
you are a movie picture fan the Scen-
ic is the place to go. Every picture
is new and up-to-date. T'wo hours en-
tertainment for a nominal admission
price. When in doubt as to your
evening’s amusement, select the Scen-
ic.
Miss Sallie Fitzgerald, {ormer-
ly of Bellefonte, and who during the
last school year held the position of
teacher of music in the public schools
of Williamsport, being in control in
two buildings, was recently elected
pianist in the school of religious edu-
cation in addition to teaching music
in the boy’s room. During the past
summer she held the position of story
teller at the various play grounds in
Williamsport.
——A number of women from the
Woman's club of Bellefonte will at-
tend the county conference of clubs to
be held in Lemont tomorrow. The
trip will be made in a special auto-bus,
which will leave from the station.at
9:15 a. m. Delegates from Philips-
burg, State College, Unionville, How-
ard and all parts of the county have
notified the hostesses of their inten-
tion to be present.
——The public sale of the real es-
tate and personal property of the late
Mrs. James Harris attracted a large
crowd on Saturday afternoon. The
home was purchased by George R.
Meek, his bid being $8,400. Mr. Meek
and family expect to move into their
new home from their present residence
just across Spring street as soon as
some necessary repairs are made.
*The household goods, sold after the
real estate, brought fair prices.
r
William Knight, a southern ne-
gro who early in the summer shot and
killed deputy constable William King,
of ‘Malvern, Chester county, as the
officer was in the act of reading a war-
rant to the negro for his arrest, was
electrocuted at the western peniten-
tiary Monday morning at 7:07 o’clock.
Six minutes from the time he was tak-
en to the chair he was pronounced
dead by Dr. Robert J. Campbell. The
remains being unclaimed were buried
in the penitentiary cemetery.
Jesse Patton, Percy Goodman,
John Beck, Jeremiah Deters and the
latter’s. son, Carnis Deters were ar-
rested by state police last week on
suspicion of being the parties who
have been starting the fires which de-
stroyed so much valuable property in
Warriorsmark valley during the past
month or so. All the men live in War-
riorsmark valley and when the officers
searched their premises they found
nineteen and a half sticks of dynamite,
several feet of hose, a can of black
powder and a set of harness stolen in
that valley seven years ago. The men
were all taken to the Huntingdon jail
to await trial.
BOOZE ROBBERS NOW IN TOILS
OF LAW.
Gang That Stole Whiskey from Post-
office Cellar Revealed by Auto
Accident.
R. B. Montgomery, John and Orin
Morrison, Joseph C. Garis and John
Showalter, with Charles Brown as a
government witness were taken
to Sunbury on Wednesday morning by
federal officers Rudisill and Smith to
answer before the federal court to the
charges of robbing the postoffice cel-
lar of whiskey and boot-legging. The
revelation came through an automo-
bile accident on the back road to
Roopsburg at an early hour on Satur-
day morning when Joe Hockenberry
and John Speece were run over by a
Ford car and injured sufficiently to be
taken to the Bellefonte hospital. For-
tunately neither ome is as badly hurt
as at first reported and both will like-
ly be around in a few days.
dent kept a tight mouth about the af-
fair but by Saturday evening. the
state police had secured sufficient ev-
idence to justify the arrest of John
and Orie Morrison and Joe Garis, who
were promptly placed in jail. On Sun-
day the three men made a confession
to state policeman David K. Hughes,
sheriff Harry Dukeman and James C.
Furst, which led to the arrest on Mon-
day of John Showalter and on Tues-
day of R. B. Montgomery and Charles
Brown. Relying mainly upon the
strength of the confession of the
three young men first taken into cus-
tody the six men were taken to Sun-
bury on Wednesday morning to an-
swei to the charges against them be-
before the federal court.
A communication from Sunbury
states that the two Morrisons, Garis
and Showalter plead guilty to the
charge of breaking into the postoffice
cellar and stealing liouer and in de-
fault of $1000 bail each were commit-
ted to the Northumberland county jail.
Montgomery waived a hearing be-
gle, at Sunbury, and gave bail for his
So far none of the men have told who
were the purchasers of the stolen
booze but there are various rumors of
further disclosures and the federal of-
ficers stated on Tuesday evening that
they intended pushing the case to the
limit.
The confession of the Morrisons and
Garis shows to what length the men
implicated went to get the booze and
we herewith publish it for what it is
worth. Dut in doing so it must be
stated that both the federal and local
| authorities place no confidence in the
that
| assertion in the confessions
| George Glenn had “been fixed” or had
any knowledge of what was going on.
In fact they absolve him absolutely
“rom all blame. The confession in full
follows:
Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 25, 1921.
free will, without any promise of len-
iency, but because we wish to tell the
truth and that only, in the presence of
police, and James C. Furst, district
attorney, it first being made known
to us that these men are officers and
that what we say will be used against
us in any trials growing out of the fol-
lowing statement, do make the follow-
ing declaration of facts:
“On Monday, September 19, 1921,
R. B. Montgomery, at the corner of
Bishop and Allegheny streets, in
Bellefonte, about 2 p. m., met Joseph
C. Garis and Orin Morrison and there
he told us he would get us a 15-gallon
keg, supply a Ford car and also jugs,
if he could find any, the keg was to be
placed under his porch and that the
boards were already off of the cellar
window of the Bellefonte postoffice;
he also furnished a funnel. He told
us to go in and take the liquor; he
agreed to have it all arranged with
George Glenn so that we would not be
disturbed on Tuesday night, Septem-
ber 20, 1921. We then talked it over
with John Morrison and he agreed to
go with us. John and Orin Morrison
went to R. B. Montgomery’s house
about 12 o’clock on Wednesday night;
the car was ready and the keg under
the porch, as agreed, and they left,
afterwards. The next morning he told
us all that he heard us leave. We
gave him a drink at that time.
“We saw George Glenn on Tuesday
night about town and were afraid to
try to do the job.
and 2 o’clock on Thursday a. m., we all
went to the back of the postoffice and
found the boards loose as Montgom-
ery said we would. John Morrison
and Garis went into the cellar and
opened the barrel of whiskey lying on
its side and poured the whiskey into
a bucket. :
the window and poured into the jugs
and keg by Orin Morrison, and we
then all carried the liquor to the alley
and put it into the Ford truck. There
was some person on the steps of the
that man made no move to interfere
with us.
which we found in the cellar. It was
a two-gallon glass wicker-covered jug
and we gave the one to R. B. Mont-
gomery about 9 a. m. on Thursday at
Nigh Bank. 3 :
“All of the liquor was immediately
taken to Nigh Bank and hid in a va-
cant barn, formerly used for horses
belonging to the ore mines. We re-
turned to R. B. Montgomery’s house,
bringing one-half pint along. He ask-
ed how we made out and we replied
‘All right” He asked for a drink and
we gave it to him; he also told us he
had it fixed with George Glenn and
asked if we had seen him. We told
him we had not. He told us we would
go out to the ore banks, empty the keg
and do the same thing again Thursday
night—that he had fixed it with
George Glenn. We went to the Brant
house and then home. We agreed to
meet at 9 o'clock Thursday a. m., and
all four of us go out to the ore banks
to get the keg and empty it. John and
Garis did not meet as planned but
All the men mixed up in the acci-
fore United States Commissioner En- !
appearance before the federal court.
“We, the undersigned, of our own '
sheriff Dukeman, D. K. Hughes, state |
“Wednesday night, between 1:30
This was then passed out |
Brockerhoff house all the time, but !
We had four jugs, one of |
‘Orin and Montgomery went out and
Montgomery got this two-gallon jug.
They came back with the jug, not hav-
ing done anything else. Garis met
Orin about 1 p. m., and they talked
with Montgomery and asked if we
could have the car to take a ride and
he said ‘Yes.’ We took the car and
we planned to go out to the ore mines
again. He, Montgomery, said he
would go get the car and meet us at
the top of Bishop street. We met as
planned and went to Nigh Bank. We
there saw Bob Long, Henry Montgom-
ery, Red (Thomas) Derstine and Ed-
ward Baney, but did not see them take
any liquor. We went to the barn and
found the liquor all gone. Montgom-
ery then blamed us for having remov-
ed the liquor when we had the car for
a ride. This we had not done. We
then accused him of telling his son
Henry and the other men where the
liquor had been put, and that they had
taken it away. R. B. Montgomery and
Orin came to town and Garis remain-
ed to watch the place. After about
one-half hour Garis found the keg in
a hole about 800 or 1000 feet away
{from the stable, and rolled the keg up
the bank and carried it to the washer
house. Later Henry Montgomery
came up and said he was looking for
gasoline. He then left. Orin return-
ed with the truck and Garis took it to
the woods west of Zion. Going out we
met Hen Montgomery coming with
gasoline. He said to Garis, ‘I thought
vou said Dad had taken that liquor
into town.” Garis replied as a bluff
that this was another one. The car
was stopped to find which way he
would come, but H. M. went out the
Jacksonville road. There the keg was
placed in the woods. We came into
town and told R. B. Montgomery that
we had found the keg; also told him
that we were going to empty it in or-
der to fill it again that night. He
said we would find the truck at the
same place that night. He said,
‘Boys, remember if you get caught be
sure to say that you stole the car and
that I did not give it to you.’
“About 8 o’clock Thursday night we
three went to the keg in the woods
and found a Ford touring car, a Max-
well roadster and Dodge following us.
! Finally, after we got away from these
| cars, we filled 28 quart bottles and the
two gallon jug which had been given
to R. B. Montgomery and emptied by
{ him, and a five-gallon jug that he had
put in the car. We hid our bottles in
‘ the bushes along the state road abecut
the top of the hill, south of the Fish-
| ing creek school house. Coming in
! with the five and two-gallon jugs,
when we reached the aviation field, we
met the Ford car. Garis recognized
Joe Dann. We then circled around the
new road and got away and went out
to Humes’ woods and hid the two jugs
in bushes along the road. We came in
to town. We hid eleven quarts at
Solt’s shop under the mixing trough,
which wag later stolen by Dorris Reed,
. Curt Tressler, George Baney and oth-
lers. We learned that they had tak-
en the liquor up Spring creek, and
about 1:30 Saturday a. m. we got the
car. We went to Axe Mann and re-
: turned, and then went to Roopsburg
mill and saw the seven fellows all
drunk. We kept on going, knowing
that three was no match for seven.
{Jack came into town, leaving Garis
“and Orin at the.turn at the borough
home to watch Dorris Reed and gang.
told him the whole story. The two
came out and we all talked it over.
| Garis and John came to town and got
i Arthur Brown, Willie Morrison and
Frank Dugan. We told them to take
a ride. They did not know anything
of the trouble. We then all got out
and left the car at the borough home.
i We then told Willie, Dugan and Brown
i that this other gang had stolen our
| liquor. We all walked up the road as
: far as the slaughter house and heard
| the Reed crowd at the old log house.
{ Orin and Showalter went back and got
| the car and we all got in. Brown, Du-
: gan and Willie sat in the back of the
car. John drove. We drove past the
Reed crowd. They hollered at us,
1 ‘Why don’t you stop?’ We turned
| near the mill and came back. We had
| not replied to their calls and they were
lying around drunk—some on both
! sides of the road. They got up and
| yelled, ‘Stop, you sons of b—!" We
i did not stop. We tried to avoid the
men on the right and consequently hit
| those on the left. We did not stop, but
' returned to town and went home.
i “We three are the men who took the
; liquor from the postoffice cellar on the
: morning of Tuesday, September 13th,
and took the liquor to the Bellefonte
steam heat plant. We used R. B.
! Montgomery's car this time. John
Showalter first told us how to get the
| liquor. He was to have gone with us
but we refused to take him. Show-
alter had planned with Pappy Nelson
to permit Showalter to take the liquor
“We desire to have this story told
just as it happened.
“We each of us swear before God
that the above statement is true and
i correct as herein stated.”
(Signed)
JOSEPH C. GARIS
JOHN MORRISON.
ORRIE MORRISON.
Witnesses:
DAVID K. HUGHES.
HARRY DUKEMAN.
JAMES C. FURST.
Parent-Teacher Association.
At a meeting of the Parent-Teacher
! association of Bellefonte held on Sep-
' tember 19th the following committees
were appointed:
Music or Entertainment—Mrs.
Charles F. Mensch, Mrs. Louis Hill,
| Mrs. G. Ross Parker.
Refreshments—Myrs. H. N. Meyer,
{ Mrs. H. C. Yeager, Mrs. Maurice Run-
! kle, Mrs. N. D. Hubbell, Mrs. Orian
Kline.
“Bullock, J. Kennedy Johnston, George
| R. Meek.
i The first meeting of the association
1
| will be held on Monday evening at 8
{ o’clock in the High school building.
i
|
——-The merchants of Bellefonte
i celebrated their last half holiday yes-
terday and hereafter the stores will be
open all day on Thursday.
Jack picked up John Showalter and.
from the cellar, so Showalter told us. !
{ Program—John Blanchard, John M. '
Midvale Steel Co. Exercises Options
on Pennsvalley Properties.
Officials of the Midvale Realty com-
pany, which is a subsidiary of the Mid-
vale Steel and Ordnance company and
the Cambria Steel company, were at
Millheim this week and exercised the
options taken in their behalf by Rob-
ert F. Hunter on nineteen distinct and
separate tracts of land totailing 1,000
acres, which is mostly underlaid with
limestone. The land on which options
have been secured starts at a point
south of Millheim borough and ex-
tends a distance of almost a mile in
the direction of Coburn, on both sides
of the state road, and east as far as
Aaronsburg, taking in some of the
town lots in the southern plan of that
town.
The purpose of the contemplated en-
terprise is to secure an ample supply
of fluxing stone for the fifteen fur-
naces operated by the Midvale and
Cambria Steel companies, and in due
course of time will supplant the pres-
ent operations conducted by these
companies at Milroy. The stone, how-
ever, is not the same quality as the
Bellefonte or Whiterock quarries and
! built up by these operations. All the
| properties on which options have been
taken will be purchased outright,
which will mean an expenditure of
approximately $118,000 for the land
alone.
i Before operations can be begun a |
branch railroad will have to be built
to the property from Coburn, and this
. will probably be done next spring. As
contemplated now quarries will like-
ly be opened some time next summer |
and once the operations get under full
swing it will mean the shipment of
from 4,000 to 5,000 tons daily of!
stone, which will mean the employ-
ment of hundreds of men and a won-
derful boom for Millheim and all low-
er Pennsvalley.
—
County Conference of Woman's Clubs.
The federation of Woman’s clubs
being non-sectarian and non-partisan
offers unusual opportunities to those
who desire to be active in the welfare,
uplift and progress of our county.
The interesting features of the
county conference to be held at Le- |
mont Saturday, October 1st, will be
the address of Miss Dibert,
president, on “Club Activities;” Col. !
Henry W. Shoemaker on “Pennsylva- |
nia Park Lands;” Dr. Lucretia Sim- |
made for a drive to Centre county in Oc- !
mons on “Civics,” and possibly Jonas
E. Wagner, whose subject will pertain |
to the public schools.
The three minute reports from the:
various organizations without doubt
will present old and new ideas that!
may be carried away for future ben-
fit.
The value of the Forum will depend
entirely upon the questions from the
audience—its object being to explain
and remove possible difficulties.
to be an additional source of pleasure.
Mrs. R. S. Brouse, of the transpor-
tation committee, will gladly give any
desired information. Her phone num-
ber is Bell 146-R.
A cordial invitation is extended to
the public. Box luncheon.
note that this is a county conference.
| HELEN E. CANFIELD OVERTON,
} County Chairman.
: Academy Football Schedule.
! The Bellefonte Academy football
schedule for the 1921 season has been
announced as follows:
October 1—Bucknell Reserves
October 8—State Freshmen
College.
October 15—Greensburg High
Greensburg.
October 22—Juniata College at home.
October 29—Carnegie Tech Reserves at
home,
November 12—Mansfield Normal at home.
November 19—Pitt Freshmen at Forbes
field, Pittsburgh.
November 24—Wyoming
Wilkes-Barre.
From the above it will be seen that
the opening game with the Bucknell
- Reserves will be played tomorrow
(Saturday) on Hughes field, in this
place. Game will be called promptly
at 2:30 o’clock and the price of ad-
mission will be 25 cents. From all re-
ports the Academy has some very
good material this year and tomot-
| TOW’S game will afford lovers of the
' game an opportunity to get a line on
the work of the various players. Go
out to Hughes field for the opening
{ game. The team needs your support,
! financially and morally.
at home.
at State
school at
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| Prisoner Escapes from Penitentiary.
' Francis Dash, an Erie county pris-
; oner, escaped from the western peni-
,tentiary on Sunday evening. Dash
: was employed as a fireman at the pow-
' er plant, his trick being from one to:
He was on duty at |
eight o’clock but shortly before nine |
‘nine o’clock p. m.
o’clock he fdiled to “ring in” and a
guard was promptly sent to the power
‘house. He found the fires banked and
Dash gone. Further investigation dis-
closed the fact that he had taken a
pair of pliers and cut through the wire
stockade and thus made his escape.
Dash, who was sent up for breaking
| and entering, is twenty years old, me- |
dium height, weight 166 pounds and
has chestnut hair.
——The music pupils of Mrs. G. F.
Reiter will give a recital in the Pres-
byterian chapel this (Friday) evening,
lat 8:30 o'clock. The recital will con-
| sist of solos, duets, trios and instru-
mental music. A dozen or more young
| people will take part and all who at-
tend are assured of a musical treat.
The publie is invited.
high grade open hearth stone of the |
will in no way conflict with the market |
state |
The |
musical part of the program promises |
Please |
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs. James A. Beaver is with her sis-
ter, Mrs. Thomas Hayes, in Atlantic City.
—Mrs. W. E. Hurley departed yesterday
morning on a shopping trip to Philadel-
phia.
—Jack Montgomery returned to Phila-
delphia yesterday, to resume his work at
Pierce Business college.
—Mrs. Joseph Ceader will leave this
week to join her son Joseph Jr. at New-
ark, N. J., for the winter.
—Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Kelly came here
from York Saturday, being guests for the
week-end of Mr. Kelly's brother, William
T. Kelly.
—C. D. Moore, of State College, spent a
part of Monday in Bellefonte, on his way
home from a week's visit with friends in
Williamsport.
—Miss Grace Mitchell has returned to
Princeton to resume her work as an in-
structor in mathematics, at Miss Fines’
school for girls.
—Miss Blanche Underwood is spending a
week of her vacation at Woodbury, N. J.,
with her father’s brother, William Under-
wood and his family.
—Mrs. John Kline is with her sister-in-
law, Mrs. John Olewine, making her first
| visit back home since moving to Philadel-
phia a year or more ago.
been visiting with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert ¥. Hunter. Mrs. Foye before
her marriage was Miss Nancy Hunter.
tel, Philipsburg, was among the many wit-
nesses from over the mountain who were
here to attend court the early part of the
week,
—DMiss Humes and Miss Sadie Caldwell
went to Atlantic City the after part of last
week, expecting to be guests at “The
| Strand”
| Shore.
—Miss Helen Gephart, bookkeeper for the
Beatty Motor company, returned to Belle-
fonie Monday from a two week's vacation
spent at her home, in the neighborhood of
Rebersburg.
—Dr. and Mrs. Seibert are arranging to
spend next week in Philadelphia, going
i east at this time that Dr. Seibert may at-
I tend the Medical Association, which will
| be in session there.
| Mrs. G. W. Kerstétter, of Harrisburg,
! made one of her occasional visits to Belle-
| fonte last week, coming up Friday to spend
{a short time with her sisters, Mrs. Yeager
and Mrs. Geissinger.
—Mr. and Mrs. Hudson W. Love, of
! Pittsburgh, are visiting in Centre county
, this week, guests of Mr. Love's sister, Mrs.
{ Elmer Campbell, of Linden Hall, and rel-
"atives at State College.
| —Mrs. Thomas O. Cowdrey and her two
children, who had been making their sec-
ond visit to Hecla this season, returned to
Pittsburgh Monday, with arrangements
tober.
—Mr. and Mrs. E. 8S. Stull and their
daughter, Miss Helen Stull, motored here
Monday from their summer home at Stod-
cdartville, and spent a part of the week at
, the Bush house, guests of Mr. and Mrs.
! Lewis Daggett.
' Mrs. H. M. Hiller left Saturday to ac-
| company her two datighitérs, Margaret and
Virginia to Bryn Mawr, where they are
| both at school. Mrs. Hiller will return to
Bellefonte to close her house, expecting to
spend the winter in Philadelphia.
i —Mrs. John A. Woodcock came here from
| Scranton this week, for a short visit with
Ler many friends in Bellefonte and to look
. after some business concerning the moving
| of some of her goods that have been stored |
! since she left Bellefonte early in the sum-
| mer.
—Mrs. James H. Potter, Miss Janet Pot-
ter, Miss Winifred M. Gates, Mrs. T. W.
Young, Miss Anna McCoy and Mrs. Ier-
guson attended a meeting of the Mission-
| ary societies of the Huntingdon Presby-
{ tery held at Huntingdon Wednesday and
yesterday.
—~Charles Osmer and daughter Elizabeth
left the latter part of the week to visit rel-
atives in Lincoln, Neb., the first trip of
any consequence either one of them has
taken in some years. They will also spend
some time with friends in Tewa and Ohio
before returning home.
—Mr. and Mrs, ¥. W. Topelt, with John
G. Murphy as a motor guest drove here
from Brooklyn, Sunday, for a two week’s
Brouse. Mr. and Mrs. Topelt
Murphy spent the fore part of the week at
the Nittany Country club.
—Mrs. Emma Lebkeicher, of Johnstown,
with a party of twelve, including her
daughter and son-in-law, and their four
sons, spent Saturday night at the Bush
house. The party had been on a drive
through Centre county, visiting the differ-
ent places with which Mrs. Lebkeicher's
earlier life was closely associated.
—Mr. and Mrs. James Marshall stopped
in Bellefonte for several days this week,
on the return drive to Niagara Falls, after
having taken their daughters east to
school; one being in Boston and the other
at Troy, N. Y. During their stay here, Mr.
and Mrs. Marshall were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Shivery, on Willowbank street.
—Dr. H, Magee Barnhart, of Los Ange-
les, Cal, stopped in Bellefonte last week
for a short visit with his uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. James K. Barnhart, on his
way to Philadelphia. Dr. Barnhart is a
graduate of and has been an instructor in
the University of Southern California, and
was going east to do graduate work at the
University of Pennsylvania.
—Mrs. L. H. Gettig was called to Wash-
ington, Pa., a week ago by the illness of
her daughter, Mrs. Wynn Davis, whose
condition has been considered serious since
| she was taken ill Thursday of last week.
{ Mrs. Davis had been with the Gettig family
| at the Mason's camp, leaving Thursday to
| return home, and although not well when
i here, the attack of appendicitis did not de-
| velop until after going to Washington; her
| condition then being such as not to per-
| mit of an operation.
—Mrs. Morgan Reynolds left Tuesday
| for a month's visit in Wilkes-Barre, going
over with Miss Reba Harrison, who had
spent September with Mrs. Reynolds and
other relatives in central Pennsylvania.
From there Mrs. Reynolds will go to I’hil-
adelphia for an indefinite stay with her
sister, Mrs. George Hunter, expecting later
to visit in Glasgow with Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
i liam Reynolds, who spent several days in
Bellefonte last week and at State College,
{ with Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Dale. Mrs. Rey-
Dale, and other relatives at State College.
for the greater part of the summer.
—Mrs. BE. D. Foye, of Bloomsburg, has |
—Joseph Dugan, of The Continental ho- |
during their two weeks at the |
visit with Mrs. Topelt’s mother, Mrs. R. 8S. |
and Mr. |
nolds had been with her daughter, Mrs. |
—Mrs. A. O. Furst is visiting with rela-
‘tives at her former home at Watsontown.
—Miss Eva Showers, of New York city,
is making a visit with her mother, Mrs. S.
E. Showers, of north Spring street.
—Mrs. John C. Matthews and her son,
of Buffalo, are visiting in Bellefonte with
Mrs. Matthews’ father, H. M. Bidwell.
—Thomas Lamb, an employee at the P.
RR. R. station, is off on his vacation, spend-
ing the time in the eastern cities and at
the Shore.
—Mrs. Bond, who had been with her sis-
ter, Miss Emily Valentine, for the greater
part of the summer, left Saturday to re-
turn to her home in Baltimore.
—Mrs. Frank Compani has returned to
Bellefonte after spending the greater part
of the summer with her brother Albert and
Miss Annie Bland, in Philadelphia.
—Miss Caroline Harper went east last
week for a two week's stay in Philadelphia
and Atlantic City; the trip being made at
this time hoping for relief from a violent
attack of hay fever.
—Chauncey F. York, of Detroit ,Mich.,
has been in Bellefonte within the past
week, a guest of Mrs. York's father, Col.
Emanuel Noll, who remains seriously ill
at his home on Allegheny street.
—Paul F. Willard, of Swissvale, with
Mrs. Willard and their small son Robert,
came to Bellefonte Wednesday to visit for
a week with Mr. Willard's parents, Mr. and
{ Mrs. D. I. Willard. Mr. and Mrs. Williard
{are also entertaining Mr. and Mrs. Roger
Willard, who were married in Newark, Sat-
urday.
—W. L. Antrim, who was in Williams-
port this week delivering a large oil paint
ing of James B. Krause, will come to
Bellefonte today to spend a day or two
with his former partner, M. A. Landsy, at
the Brockerhoff house. Mr. Landsy will
accompany him back to Philadelphia to
spend a week.
aint.
| —Mr. and Mrs. William Magee, Forrest
| and Boyd Magee, of Philadelphia; Mrs.
Ray, of Tyrone; Mr. Nolan, of Lewistown;
Mr. and Mrs. George Eemerick and their
daughter, Miss Verna, and Mr. and Mrs. E.
M. Huyett, of Centre Hall, were in Belle-
fonte a week ago, for the funeral of the
late Mrs. R. M. Magee.
—Mr. and Mrs. William Fredericks, of
Coon Rapids, Towa, came east last week,
arriving in Bellefonte Friday. Mr. and
Mrs. Fredericks will visit in Pennsylvania
until some time in November; the greater
part of the time they have planned to
spend with Mrs. Frederick's father, Joel
Johnson and the family, in Bellefonte.
—Mrs. Maurice Yeager, of Brooklyn, ar-
rived in Bellefonte early in the week,
bringing with her Mary Mott McMillan Jr.,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Mc-
Millan, both of them being guests of the
child’s grandmother, Mrs. Mott. Mrs. Mc-
Millan is arranging to go abroad, expect-
ing to join Mr. McMillan in London in No-
i vember.
| —Miss Mary Sterrett, who had been
spending a week with her cousin, Miss
{ Jane McCalmont, left yesterday for How-
i ard, intending to go from there to her
{ home in Washington. Another cousin of
| Miss MecCalmont, Miss Agnes MecCalmont,
has been in Bellefonte for a month, coming
here to spend an indefinite time in the
Walker family.
—After spending the past two months or
more in Bellefonte pending the finding of
a house in Johnstown Mrs. Kdward L.
Gates and daughter Betty will leave for
that city tomorrow, where Mr. Gates is
employed as assistant night editdr on the
Johnstown Ledger. They have finally se-
cured a house and their furniture was mov-
ed there from Philipsburg the fore part of
i the week.
—dJohn H. Beck of Nittany, was a busi-
| ness visitor in Bellefonte on Monday. Peo-
i ple from all over the county coming to
| Bellefonte that day to attend court Mr.
| Beck's friends very naturally might have
concluded that he was here for that rea-
| son but such was not the case. And if it
had been so, it would have been in the ca-
pacity of a juror, because the people as a
rule down Nittany valley are so law-abid-
ing that they never get into court.
Neidigh — Ralston. — On Tuesday
afternoon J. G. Neidigh and Miss Mar-
garet Ralston, both of State Coliege.
drove to Boalsburg where they were
united in marriage by Rev. S. C. Sto-
ver, at the parsonage of the Reformed
church. They were attended by Dr.
W. M. Neidigh and wife. The bride
is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
i liam Ralston and is a most charming
young lady. The bridegroom is a son
of Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Neidigh, and
the fifth of their children to be mar-
ried within a year. Mr. and Mrs. Nei-
digh are now on a brief wedding trip
and upon their return will locate at
State College where Mr. Neidigh is in
business.
Willard—Velbrecht.—Roger E. Wil-
lard, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. I. Wil-
lard, of Bellefonte, and Miss Lillian
0. Volbrecht were married at Newark,
N. J., last Saturday afternoon by Rev.
S. D. Chambers. Following a short
trip to Philadelphia and Washington,
| D. C., the young couple came to
| Bellefonte for a brief visit with Mr.
: Willard’s parents before settling down
to home life in Newark.
|
| Johnson—Craig.—Everett E. John-
. son, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph John-
i son, of Ferguson township, and Miss
| Caroline Craig, of Philadelphia, were
married in the latter city last Satur-
| day afternoon. The bridegroom is in
: the employ of the State Highway De-
partment with headquarters in Phila-
' delphia, and for the present the young
i couple will live with the bride's par-
| ents.
Matis—Forgach. — John Burges
Matis and Miss Elizabeth Forgach
were married on Tuesday evening at
{ the Lutheran parsonage on Linn street
. by the pastor, Rev. Wilson P. Ard.
——D. Wagner Geiss, of Bellefonte,
will reopen his sale and exchange next
| Tuesday, October 4th. If you have
{anything to sell take it to the ex-
change, and go there for bargains.
38-1t
—— Spring township tax payers can
meet collector Miller at the Garman
hotel Saturday, 9 a. m.’'to 3. p. m. 1t
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