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Bellefonte, Pa., January 13, 1922.
¥. GRAY MEEK, - -
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IN THE WILDS OF ALASKA.
Graphic Description by Dr. Meek of
Her Trip Overland by Dog Sled.
Cripple, Alaska
Ia route from Ruby to Flat,
October 31st, 1921.
My dear Home Folk:
I started out bravely enough to keep
a daily record of my doings thinking
that in this way I could best help you
to visualize Alaska, at least the parts
I have been living in, but frozen ink
and a “bum” pen made such a very
bad combination that, added to my
natural desire te just move on, I sure-
ly put all my letter writing in that big
batch of things we do “tomorrow.”
But I'll try to do just a little better
today.
Last Thursday, after many and var-
ious delays, we left Ruby with the
mail-carriers. Oh! that you could
have seen that get-away and the “lay-
outs” as these men call them!
The dogs are hitched two by
two with one well-trained, intelligent
dog in the lead. The harness attach-
ed to the collar is held by a strap pass-
ing around the body. First came Sig-
hard Wiig, a Norwegian by birth but
a resident here for twenty years, a
rather quiet sort, very nice to travel
with—in short a gentleman. He had
seventeen dogs in his team with three
running loose and seven pups about
five months of age. Then came our
team (these mail-carriers had loaned
us these dogs), eleven dogs in harness
with two loose ones behind. The
loose dogs had been kept in a summer
camp on the Yukon and were now be-
ing returned to their owners. The
dogs are fed once a day on dried fish
with a side dish of beef suet. The
third team was held for a day longer
to bring along the mail that was re-
together and, after the first day, I house and is a good cook. We had
saw the reason for this pliable con- | fried grouse, mashed potatoes, car-
veyance. Such trails! good gracious! | rots, peas, tomato aspie, pudding,
I hadn’t much use for the dogs except | cake and coffee. We played cards un-
what a lover of dogs might have but, | til two o’clock, then went to bed right
1 now have great respect for them. | there, leaving this morning at ten-
There is a formation or growth of | thirty. By the way, one of the inter-
grass up here called “nigger-heads,” | estifig things there is the little green
tufts of coarse grass grown up on : house where, carly in the spring, they
each other each season until, in some ! plant tomatoes, cucumbers and pep-
places, they are two or three feet high
with a space between that, in spring,
contains water. At this time, these
spaces should be full of snow but,
since the snow is scarce, the sled slid
along on one tuft just to slide off the
next. It takes skill to balance these
sleds with a thousand pounds of bag-
gage on them and you know in how
narrow a space two dogs could run,
so the sled follows a trail scarcely
wider than this paper is long (about
eight inches). Truly, a deep-sea ves-
sel rides almost as smoothly. The
weather was not cold, just clear and
crisp, and the trip was broken often
enough to be not tiresome.
day was only a fourteen mile run
and to see the charming little cabin, |
with smoke pouring cut of the chim-
ney, that greeted my eyes that first
evening made an unforgettable pic-
ture. The remainder of the nine days
we had longer runs—twenty-eight to
thirty-two miles. As it was the first
trip, the dogs became quite weary on
the third day and their feet began to
bleed but moccasins of heavy drill
were put on the bleeding feet and on
we went. By the sixth day, the dogs
seemed to come back and, as we stop- |
ped for an entire day at Ophir, the
The first |
| pers. It is like a doli’s house and yet
i they have all the fresh tomatoes they
want and can use.
ELOISE.
November 28th, 1921.
Business Men’s Association Elects
Officers for Ensuing Year.
At the annual meeting of the Belle-
fonte Business Men’s association on
January 4th officers for the ensuing
year were elected as follows: Pres-
ident, Harry C. Yeager; vice presi-
dent, Frank M. Crawford; secretary,
G. Oscar Gray; treasurer, John M.
Buliock.
{ Among the various discussions car-
ried on during the evening was one
pertaining to some method of finanec-
ing the building of new homes, owing
to the woeful shortage of desirable
homes in Bellefonte, but no definite
conclusion was reached.
i A resume of what the association
has been a leading factor in accom-
plishing for Bellefonte since its or-
| ganization was given, but in doing so
i the association did not assume to take
‘all the credit nor belittie the efforts
of other organizations or individuals.
Included in the list was the bringing
DR. WILLIAM FREAR.
Some two months or more ago Dr.
William Frear, of State College, while
discussing with a friend a recent ill-
ness he had experienced remarked that
he had never worried as to the out-
come. That his affairs were as much
in order as it was possible to have |
them and as to death, he viewed that
merely as a transition from this life
to life immortal. That the overpow-
ering dread of death that character-
izes the feelings of the great mass of
humanity is because of the fear con-
nected with it, but that he had no fear
and was ready to go whenever God in
his wisdom saw fit to terminate this
life. What a blessing to his family
and friends that his life hag, been
such that he had no apprehension as
to when the call might come, because
it came very suddenly last Friday
night. Of late he had been in com-
paratively good health and had not
missed a day from his office and regu-
lar duties, until Friday, when he re-
mained at home because he was not
feeling up to capacity for work. Be-
{ween midnight and Saturday morn-
ing he suffered a stroke of apoplexy
and passed away before a physician
could reach his bedisde.
Di. Trear was one of the best ag-
ricultural research men in the coun-
try. He was born at Reading, Pa., on
March 24th, 1860, hence was only in
his sixty-second year. His parents
were Rev. George and Malvina Row-
land F'rear, his father being a Baptist
minister. He was educated at the
public schools in his home city then
Those who knew him loved him be-
cause of his many virtues and the
simplicity and genuineness of his
character.”
Dr. Frear’s death is a serious loss
to the College, and marks the passing
away within twenty months of three
of th¢ leading men of that institution,
Dr. G. G. Pond, who died in May,
1920; Dr. H. P. Armsby, who passed
away in October and now Dr. Frear,
the latter the dean of faculty mem-
bers.
Funeral services were held at his
late home at the College on Monday
afternoon by Dr. Samuel Martin and
on Tuesday morning the remains were
taken to Wilkes-Barre where final
services were held that afternoon and
where the interment was made.
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BRADFORD.—George W. Brad-
ford, a life-long resident of Centre
Hall, died on Tuesday at the home of
his son Albert, at Phoenixville, as the
result of a stroke of paralysis sus-
| tained the same day.
i Deceased was a son of William and
| Catherine Bradford and was born
| near Bealshurg sixty-six years ago.
| For many years he lived on a farm
i between Centre Hall and Potters
| Mills. He was a member of the Re-
| formed church, the I. O. O. F. and the
|K. G. E. He married Miss Mary
| Bohn who survives with the following
| children: Albert, William and Mrs.
Jerome Auman, all of Phoenixville;
| Daniel, of Willard, Ohio; Mrs. John
{ Marks, D. M. and Paul, of Centre
| Hail. He also leaves the following
: brothers and sisters; W. Frank Brad-
finish was nearly as good as the start. | to Bellefonte of the Eagle company
The road-houszs ranged in variety silk mill which, when in full opera-
from a cabin, with two bough-filled j tion, employs approximately one hun-
bunks and a prospector to give one dred women and seventy-five men,
their food, to a very nice place about i with an annual pay roll of $120,000.
on a par with the hotel at Centre Hall. | The reorganization of the Abremsen
But there was no difference in price | Engineering company by the intro-
as it was one dollar for a bed either a duction of local capital which enabled
bunk, with a dirty cotton comfort and | them to purchase the plant outright
a hard pillow, or an iron one with |and become established on a more per-
woven-wire springs, sheets and warm manent basis under the S¥m name of
comforts; one-doliar and a half for the Sutton-Abremsen’ Engineering
breakfast and the sane for the late | company. The placing of signs on the
dinner that we always had as soon as main highways
we landed. The food was excellent | fonte, the dollar day campaign, guar-
and any bed seemed ood after a day | anteeing of the Chautauqua for next
in the open and (hc exercise from |year; the guaranteeing of Building
those rocking sleds. | and Loan association shares to an
I wish I could describe the country | amount approximating $10,000, and
through which we passed but if you | which has been an important item in
remember the drive to Snow Shoe i the erection of several new homes;
where all the big timber has been tak- | the weekly band concerts during the
en off leaving only scrub pine you summer and the big business men’s
will have a good idea of what I saw. ! picnic at Hecla park.
Mountains on all sides and small] After reading the above there can
streams but all so barren and infer- | be but one conclusion, and that is that
leading into Belle-
took a course at Bucknell University, | ford, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, W. S.
Lewisburg, where he graduated in !and D. W. Bradford, Mrs. Frank Ish-
1881. He took a post-graduate course i ler and C. E. Bradford, of Centre
at Harvard and also Illinois Wesleyan | Hall; Mrs. Sarah Bohn, of Coburn; C.
University, receiving the degree of | H., of Pittsburgh, and P. C. Bradford,
Ph. D., in 1883. From the time of his | of Lemont.
graduation at Bucknell in 1881 until | Funeral services will be held in the
hs i pion in tions at Reformed Fuel 5 Bolgnz omer
Sucknell and in e was made an | Yow morning by Rev. 5S. C. Stover,
, assistant chemist of the United States burial to be made at that place.
Department of Agriculture. In 1885 | 4 uy
he became professor of agricultural KERSTETTER—Mrs. Nannie Ker-
chemistry at The Pennsylvania State | stetter, widow of Harry Kerstetter,
Coll dt as | died at the home of her brother, Frank
ollege an WO ears later was: died at the nome © er brotner, rran
ant director as chemist of the | Seibert, at Point Lookout, near Phil-
agricultural experiment station, posi- | ipsburg, on Sunday morning, follow-
‘tions he held until his death. His en- | ing a lingering illness with sarcoma
, tire life was devoted to research work | of the breast. :
in connection with agriculture and his! She was a daughter of James and
abilities in this line attracted more Annie Seibert and was born in Belle-
than State-wide attention. In 1905 he | Yonse on March 24th, 3h hones was
was made chemist for the State De- | 67 years, 9 months and 15 days old.
partment of Agriculture and some Yer i who was a blacksmith at
years ago he was prominently men- | the Huntingdon reformatory, died
tioned as successor to Dr. Hugh Wiley | twenty-six years ago but surviving
tile that, with the few people we saw
or met, one feels this is, indeed, a big
country and I wonder why it seems to
belong so to the past. Yes, I know
miners are not home-makers, but take
and move on. These camps are di-
| minishing, the gold has been dredged
ported to have been sent down the riv-
er but had not arrived when we left.
This man was a young Scotchman but, !
also, an old resident of Alaska and an
old hand with dogs. He drove nine-
teen dogs with two or three “dog-
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boarders” running loose and caught ry,n the streams, the wood burned :
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up with us on the second day. The |g. nid tur ord |
: yo | for we paid twenty-one dollars a cord |
sleds to which the dogs are hitched | today for wood to burn to keep us
are long, strong, well-built affairs. The | warm. Gardens can be made, pota-
big ones are fifteen foot long and six- | toes, turnips and cabbage raised but
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teen to eighteen inches wide (dia-| pose! miners preferred to have them
gram), an upturned, curved bow at | shipped into the towns. So a little
the front that, striking trees, enables | cabin without yard or garden and the
the sled to glance off, or, nosing into | ;ountry poorer than when they came
the bank, the dogs can more readily | js what remains when they leave. Of
pull the sled to the top of the bank |. ype I have not been on the other
and, since there are many small!
IE ore a b | is much better land, agriculture has
hy YO 00 & Ip 18 vob 1d and lation is i S-
The sled with which we started was Fe ton ord ahd populeiion Is fnercs
only a foot shorter than the big sleds; | he ix
: : > { I had hoped to get on my way this
Thsrae was exactly like them. The | ov week, since Flat is only half way
river stands at the back on the ex- |i, Ayxiak, where is located the govern-
tended runners, holding onto handles | ment hospital that I have promised to
at each side and uses a heavy brake | ,,1 after this next year. Whether I
(diagram) to help control the teams. | ij stay longer than this winter re-
He calls “Haw” or “Gee” for left or | aing for the future to tell. It is a
right and the leader understands, So { ative hospital, not 1a 1
off one goes with a whizz. Yater on, inive Yuspinl now So yor) lange an
i is, indeed, at the “jumping-off” place
when the snow is deep (we have had | B 4 S a4
only a few inches thus far), the driver | ona Ln wondering howl dhl Mee le
sits on the front of the sled and guides | jg me that the trails are too soft and
jt withalils, * = # 5 = =»
v | the river not frozen for travel and I
Flat, Alaska, November 9, 1921. | must wait until “sharper weather” ere
Again I start and will try to finish I can hope to move. Can you believe
by tomorrow since the mail will start that here in Alaska, November twen- |
back Friday morning. One mail a | ty-sighth, this state of things could
week and that brought in by dogs. I °° i
am beginning to think that I must! The day before Thanksgiving, a
have some dogs for, in a country man, originally from Ohio, but twen-
where we must either travel by dog- ty-two years a resident here, came in-
sled or on foot, one surely feels cut off | to our cabin and asked where we were
But I won’ | going to eat our Thanksgiving din-
| ner.
when not owning dogs.
stop to talk dog just now.
The “get-away” from Ruby was |IoO plans, he suggested that he buy the :
spectacular since, as usual, most of | chickens, (raised here at five dollars
the people were down to see us off and | apiece but, of course, we are not sup-
wish us “safe-journey.” The dogs posed to know the price) and we could
were excited and barking madly and, | cook the meal. We agreed and then
just here, let me tell you that pande- | another “forlorn” man came along
monium is the one word applicable | and offered to cook it if he could join
about the stable when dogs are being | us. We had stewed chicken with ex-
harnessed for the trail. The ones that | cellent dumplings, cream gravy, mash-
go are joyous, so proclaim their joy | ed potatoes, peas, hot biscuit and but-
loudly; the ones that stay seem to be | ter, celery, fruit salad of oranges,
! side of the mountains; that, I am told,
A wireless came today inform- |
When we told him we had made |
‘the Bellefonte Business Men's asso-
“ciation is proving a factor in the bus-
iness life of Bellefonte and every bus-
iness man should belong to it.
BE ——.—.
, “Gorgeous” Only Way to Describe
“Queen of Sheba.”
In keeping with all the accounts
and traditions of splendor and mag-
nificence attending the arrival of the
Queen of Sheba at the court of King
Solomon, more than three thousand
years ago, is the spectacular photo-
drama “Queen of Sheba,” which will
be shown at the Pastime theatre,
tate College, Monday and Tuesday,
January 16th and 17th. The sensa-
tional success of this remarkable Wil-
liam Fox super-special in its open-
ing run on Broadway, New York, is
"easily understood by all who see the
the picture.
Scene after scene of extraordinary
power and splendor keeps the audi-
ence gasping with surprise and admi-
ration.
Betty Blythe was a regally beauti-
ful Sheba, Fritz Lieber an effective
and convincing King Solomon, Nell
Craig a dashing and fascinating Prin-
cess Vashti, and other members of the
notable cast gave excellent portray-
als.
i As a stupendous spectacle, “Queen
of Sheba” is unsurpassed. As a pho-
.toplay presenting a great love story
with the utmost power of appeal, it
is a dramatic triumph of the screen.
“Queen of Sheba” will be remember- |
30 Tong Gey 1ahS) OF the Scroon She United States, president of the So-:
_cials of the season are forgotten.
eee cel eee eet.
Thieves Busy at Pleasant Gap.
Residents of Pleasant Gap have
as pure food chemist in the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Among the research projects to
| which Dr. Frear devoted considerable
‘time was the development of tobac-
"co culture, and his efforts in this di-
rection resulted to the great financial
advantage of ail tobacco growers in
Pennsylvania. Just recently he had
been at work on the development of a ;
new strain of tobacco which also
promises marked improvement in the
crop. In addition to numerous bulle-
tins issued in connection with his
work Dr. Frear’s writings have been |
confined to scientific reports of his
various researches and work done at
the experimental station at State Col- ,
lege. From 1892 to 1894 he was ed-
itor and proprietor of Agricultural ;
Science, a journal devoted to the ex-
ploitation of research work and later
he had been a contributor to scientific
journals and agricultural reports.
While his life work was naturally
in connection with the important po-
sition he held at State College he still
found time to take considerable inter-
est in civic affairs and local business
interests at the College. During the
days of the old University Inn he was
secretary and treasurer of the compa-
ny; he also held similar positions in
, the State College Water company,
' treasurer of the Westmont Coal com- |
pany and president of the Hillside Ice
company. He was an ex-president of
the Association of American Agricul-
tural Colleges and Experiment Sta-
tions, president of the Association of
Official Agricultural Chemists of the
! ciety for the Promotion of Agricul-
i tural Science, member of the Amer-
| ican Chemical Society and Deutche
' Chemiche Gesellschaft, and chairman
been pestered for some time past by of the executive committee of the Na-
considerable petty thieving which has tional Pure Food and Drug Congress.
become almost as prevalent as an ep- | Following in the footsteps of his
dren, and one of the last depredations tist faith. He was a Republican in
day night when some one broke into preferment. He was a member of the
the pool room of Ray Noll and stole a | Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and pres-
idemic of measles among school chil- father Dr. Frear adhered to the Bap-
of this character took place on Satur- | politics but never aspired to political
wailing in a minor key about their |
disappointments, but it all goes to- |
gether.
The mail comes down the Yukon on |
boats while the river is open but, |!
when it closes, dog teams are the only
means available. Since the passage !
from Seattle to Seward is always
open, mail is sent there, thence up the |
railroad to Tanana and then down the
Yukon. When the river is frozen over
it makes a smooth highway for dog-
teams. As the river was full of float-
ing ice so that no boats could move
and offered no footing for dogs, the
mail was held at Tanana and we wait-
ed for that “water” to stop moving
but, after six days, one mail-carrier
was ordered off. The second one,
George Clark, a Scotchman so “Scot-
ty” for short, was held a day in the
hope that the last mail, which had
been brought down the river on the
other side, could be brought across be-
fore he left on the two-hundred-and-
fifty mile trail to the two, Iditarod
and Flat, and other lonely hamlets of
the interior.
The parts of the sleds are all lashed
pineapple, apples, celery and nuts, but
he made a boiled dressing and it was
none too good, coffee and chocolate.
Although we had prepared plum pud-
ding with hard sauce, they all decided
they had enough without it.
A bad accident occurred last week
when a man was feeding wood into a
circular saw, slipped and his arm
went in taking it off about three inch-
es above the wrist. Of course they
ran for me and I had to go to work
and sew the stump up. It has not
been behaving nicely since but I am
hoping that the end will be a better
stump than it now gives promise of.
For some reason he bled very little.
I have “doctored” men with bad
hearts, ba backs, bad stomachs, arms,
babies with any and all complaints,
pulled a tooth the other night and I
am wondering what will come next.
Last night we were invited in to
Iditarod, eight miles, for dinner; so
two men came along with their dog
teams and, tucking us in, off we went.
Our hostess, Mrs. Buttons, is a very
vivacious, young woman of perhaps
twenty-eight, with a pretty little
small glass show case containing
about $150 worth of merchandise.
Mr. Noll closed his room about eleven
o’clock and went home. About a half
hour later an alarm was spread broad-
cast that the pool room was being rob-
i bed. Men hurried to the building only
to find that the robbers had made
good and gotten away. The case car-
ried off contained two gold watches,
ten gold rings, an automatic revolver,
fountain pens, pearl necklace, and oth-
er articles amounting in value to
about $150. The next morning the
case was found in some brush about
one hundred feet from the pool room.
The necklace and several fountain
pens were all that remained of the
contents, about fifteen dollar’s worth
all told. The same night or night pre-
vious H. S. Thompson, an employee
of the penitentiary who makes his
home at the Gap, claims that some
one stole a quarter of beef from his
larder. There is a pretty well grounded
suspicion who some of the thieves are
but so far no arrests have been made.
——The Central Pennsylvania Odd
Fellows association will hold its regu-
lar anniversary meeting in Tyrone this
year, on Friday, April 28th.
ident of the State College Chapter of
the honor fraternity, Phi Kappa Phi.
He was a member of Washington
Grange Patrons of Husbandry, the
Odd Fellows and very prominent in
Masonic circles, being a past master
of Bellefonte Lodge No. 268 F. and A.
M., a past high priest of Bellefonte
Chapter No. 241 Royal Arch Masons,
a past eminent commander of Con-
stans Commandery No. 33, Knights
Templar, as well as a member of the
fa Temple Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
of Altoona.
In 1900 Dr. Frear was married to
Miss Julia Reno, at Greenville, Ky.,
who survives with four children,
George Lewis, a junior in the College;
Mary Reno, a Sophomore; Elizabeth,
a junior in the High school, and Wil-
liam, in the grade school.
Commenting upon his life work the
Altoona Tribune says: “In the per-
formance of his duties in connection
with the enforcement of the food laws
of the State he was prompt, exact,
conscientious and accurate. He con-
cerned himself chiefly about the spe-
cial business toward which education
and inclination directed his energies.
He was a loyal American always.
Williamsport Consistory and the Jaf-
‘her are the following brothers and
: sisters: Mrs. Carrie Kirk, of Ham-
"mond, Ind.; Mrs. E. C. Newlin, of
Pittsburgh; James D. Seibert, of
Bellefonte; Harry, of Barneshoro; Al-
fred and Frank, of Philipsburg.
Funeral services were held at her
late home at 7:30 o’clock on Monday
evening by Rev. C. F. Kulp, of the
Baptist church, and on Tuesday after-
noon the remains were brought to
Bellefonte and taken direct to the
Union cemetery for burial.
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PORT.—G. W. Port, a well known
home on east Howard street on Tues-
day afternoon of last week as the re-
| sult of a stroke of paralysis sustained
‘the Friday previous. He was 73
years, 3 months and 11 days old and
was born near Clarion, Pa. He came
to Bellefonte twenty-eight years ago
and for some time thereafter was em-
ployed as a teamster. Later he was
chosen caretaker at the Union ceme-
tery a position he filled for eighteen
years. He was a member of the Pres-
byterian church and a good citizen.
His wife died seven years ago but sur-
viving him is one son, Blaine Port.
He also leaves a brother and four sis-
ters. Burial was made in the Union
cemetery on Friday afternoon.
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STICKLER.—Henry Stickler, a
well known resident of Bellefonte,
died on Saturday night after a linger-
ing illness. He was born in Belle-
fonte seventy-six years ago. He was
married to Miss Emma Rebecca Sym-
monds who survives with the follow-
ing children: James, of Bellefonte;
Mrs. Vera A. Welsh, of Williamsport;
Mrs. Margaret Auman, of Lykens,
‘and Mrs. Pearl McGrew, of Thomas-
“ville. He also leaves one brother and
two sisters, Edward, of Champaign,
I1l.; Mrs. Joseph Getford, in Missouri,
and Mrs. Strait, in Ohio. Burial was
made in the Union cemetery on Tues-
day afternoon.
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BUZZELL—Mrs. Alveretta Feister
! Buzzell died in Philipsburg Wednes-
day morning after an illness of sev-
eral days. Mrs. Buzzell was born in
Winterset, Ohio, in June, 1851, but has
lived in Philipsburg since the early
seventies, being among the well-known
older residents of that place. She is
survived by her husband, two daugh-
ters and a son, Mrs. Harriet Merrill,
of Ben Avon; Miss Fannie, at home,
and Dr. Edgar Buzzell, a dentist of
Philipsburg; and one sister, Mrs. Em-
ma B. Smith, living in Kansas. Fun-
eral services will be held Saturday
. afternoon, burial to be made in Phil-
| ipsburg.
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! VALLANCE.—William T. Vallance,
for many years a resident of Belle-
fonte, died at his home in Winburne
on Wednesday of last week, aged 78
| years. He will be remembered by the
| older residents of Bellefonte as the
faithful watchman at the old Ardell
Lumber company during his residence
in Bellefonte. He left here some fif-
‘teen or more years ago and moved to
' Winburne. His wife is dead and two
"of his children, Sarah and Harry, are
iin Rochester, N. Y.; Margaret is at
“home, while the whereabouts of the
‘ others could not be learned. Burial
was made at Winburne last Friday.
resident of Bellefonte, died at his!
eS Sy
BOWERSOX. — The venerable
Franklin Bowersox, for many years a
resident of Ferguson township, died
‘at the Glenn sanitorium at State Col-
lege at eight o’clock on Wednesday
evening of diseases incident to his ad-
; vanced age.
He was born at Middleburg, Sny-
. der county on March 11th, 1838, hence
i had reached the age of 83 years and
"10 months. His boyhood days were
spent at Middleburg and when not
: quite twenty years of age, or on Jan-
uary 12th, 1858, he was united in
, marriage to Miss Catherine Ocker
rand two months later the young
couple came to Centre county and set-
tled on a farm near Millheim. Forty-
rone years ago they moved to Fergu-
{ son township where they lived on a
{ farm until fourteen years ago when
| they retired to a cosy home in Pine
Grove Mills. Mr. Bowersox was
among the most thrifty and progres-
sive farmers of the county and in the
years that he tilled the soil acquired
a substantial competence that ena-
bled him and his wife to pass their de-
clining years in comfort. They also
reared a large family of children,
fourteen in all, and the eleven still
living are substantially situated and
an honor to their deceased parents
and upbringing. Mr. Bowersox was
a life-long member of the Methodist
church and a ruling elder for many
years.
His wife passed away on June 19th,
1921, but surviving him are the fol-
lowing children: Mus. John B. Rock-
ey, of State College; Mrs. Charles
Weaver, of Millmont; Mrs. T. D. Gray,
of State College; Edgar O., of Phila-
delphia; Oscar, of State College; Mrs.
Gordon Harper, of Fairbrook; Dr.
Frank Bowersox, of Millheim; Elmer,
in Fort Worth, Texas; John, of Penn-
sylvania Furnace; Mrs. John Dry,
of Millmont, and Prof. A. L. Bower-
sox, of Pine Grove Mills. He also
leaves twenty-eight grandchildren and
twenty-three great grand children, as
well as two brothers and three sisters,
namely: Mrs. Tessie Huminell, in
Kansas; Curtis, Adam Sarah
Bowersox od Mrs. Mary Reddinger,
all of Middi~burg. iin
anda
Seavey
The remains were taken tv his home
at Pine Grove Mills where funeral
services will be held on Saturday
moining, burial to be made in the
cemetery at that place.
Hi ii
SUNDAY.—The many friends of
Mrs. Sarah Sunday, wife of Elmer
Sunday, of Tadpole, were shocked to
learn of her unexpected death in the
Clearfield hospital on
morning. She recently submitted to
an operation for the removal of a tu-
mor and was getting along so well
that it was thought she would be able
to be taken home in a few days.
Tuesday night, however, she suffered
a collapse and her death followed in
a few hours.
Mrs. Sunday was a daughter of
David H. and Elizabeth Kustaborder
and was born in Ferguson township
about fifty years ago. All her life
had been spent within a few miles of
the place of her birth. She was a
member of the Lutheran church and
an excellent woman in every way.
Surviving her are her husband and
one son, William Sunday, as well as
four grandchildren. She also leaves
three sisters, Mrs. John Harpster,
Mrs. John Barto and Mrs. George
Barto, all of Ferguson township. The
remains were taken to her old home
at Tadpole yesterday where funeral
services will be held at ten o’clock to-
morrow morning, burial to be made
at Gatesburg.
Wednesday
——Weather statistics show that in
a normal season the snow fall during
the winter season amounts to a cer-
tain number of inches, and it would
seem as if we got our full allotment
on Wednesday. Snow began falling
about five o’clock in the morning and
the snow god must have been using a
coarse sieve, as it drifted down in
clouds all day and up to six o’clock in
the evening. Fairly accurate meas-
urements where the snow had not
drifted showed a strong twenty inch-
es. It is the deepest snowfall this
section of the country has experienced
at one time in many years, and while
traffic was greatly impeded on the
state highways and public rcads, and
trains were somewhat late, the wind
fell after the snow was all down and
it did not drift as bad as anticipated.
A report from Ferguson township
states that the fall up there measured
twenty-eight inches on the level and
practically blocked all the roads. Sev-
eral auto parties were caught in the
deep snow and had to be rescued,
none the worse for their adventure,
however.
Early Movings.
Mr. and Mrs. Hassel Montgomery
have reserved apartments at the Bush
house, which they will take possession
of next week.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Craft, who are
now occupying the second floor apart-
ment in the Schlow building, have
leased the house on Spring street va-
cated by Geo. R. Meek and his family,
and will move there before the first of
April.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Musser, now
living in the McQuistion house on
Thomas street, have leased the house
on Lamb street to be vacated by Geo.
Harpster; the IMarpster family will
go to the William McClellan property,
while Mr. and Mrs. Sunday, who are
now occupying it, will move to Pleas-
ant Gap. Mrs. McClellan will make
her home with her children for the
present.
——The borough auditors are now
at work auditing the borough ac-
{ counts.