Bellefonte, Pa., July 21, 1922.
EE AES.
AUTO DEATH RATE
INCREASING FAST.
As appalling as the numbers are
the total number of persons killed as
a result of automobile accidents. is
greater than has been shown. A
prominent insurafice company has
gone to the expense and labor of as-
certaining the real facts of the case
and the result of the investigation is
to show that the fatalities are far
greater than have been shown in the
figures. Established rules followed
by vital statistics officers require that
when an automobile is in collision
with another vehicle, and a considera-
ble number of persons who ride and
drive in automobiles are killed by col-
lisions with railroad engines and trol-
ley cars, both of which are classed as
heavier vehicles.
The figures gathered showed that
according to the preliminary state-
ments 1,642 policy holders’ deaths
were classified as due to automobile
accidents in 1921. In addition to this
number, however, it developed that 65
more were killed in collisions between
railroad trains and automobiles and
42 more killed as a result of collisions
between trolley cars and automobiles.
These 107 deaths added to the 1,642
officially classified as deaths in auto-
mobile accidents increase the total to
1,749 and increase the automobile
death rate from 11 to 12.7 per 100-,
000.
This amounts to an increase of 6%
per cent. of the total death rate inci-
dent to the operation of automo-
biles.—Ex.
GEOLOGIST BELIEVES
NEW OIL POOL SMALL.
Harrisburg.—The recently discover-
ed Tidioute oil pool in Warren coun-
ty, which continues to produce with
little sign of stopping, probably is not
a large one, in the opinion of M. E.
Johnson, oil and gas geologist of the
Bureau of Internal Affairs. Mr. John-
son recently inspected the field and
the department made public the result
of his observations. ’
The pool was discovered by Charles
Carnahan, whose first well showed the
so-called “queen” sand to be produc-
tive. This is an old sand that yields
gas in an old pool two or three miles
east. At that point the sand is near-
ly 100 feet thick with its top at a
depth of about 700 feet below the top
of the third (Venango group) sand.
The wells brought in so far are
gushers, producing a light-colored
greenish-yellow oil, similar to light-
bodied lubricating oil. They flow nat-
urally at intervals when the accumu-
lated pressure of gas becomes suffi-
cient to raise the oil column in the
hole.
Pay sand was found in the new pool
only after about sixty feet of “shells”
had been drilled through, the depth in
one well being 767 feet from the top
of the third sand, or 1100 feet below
the surface.
Minnesota Will Cut Timber for Win-
ter Fuel.
Governor Preus has opened a cam-
paign to furnish fuel for Minnesota
next winter after he had received re-
ports showing strikers had cut the
coal shipments to the head of the
lakes 90 per cent.
The Governor ordered a survey of
timber available for cutting. If coal
shipments do not increase the wood
will be shipped in cords as fast as it
can be turned out.
Only 4562 tons of hard coal had
been received at the head of the lakes
up to June 80, as compared with the
average shipment up to the same date
during five years of 445,000. Soft
coal received during the same time
totaled 284,174 tons, as compared with
an average shipment of 2,773,878 tons.
AARONSBURG.
Mrs. Fred Crouse and two daugh-
ters, of Pittsburgh, are guests of Mrs.
Crouse’s brother-in-law, H. E. Crouse.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Stettler and
son Charles, of Akron, Ohio, were
guests of Mr. Settler’s aunt, Mrs. An-
nie Stover.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stover, of Dun-
cannon, spent a short time Sunday
with Mr. Stover’s parents, ‘Squire and
Mrs. Stover.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Burd and son
Earl, of Wolf’s Store, spent Sunday
with Mr. Burd’s mother, Mrs. Mary
Burd, of north Second street.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Mingle and Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Hoffer, of Bellefonte,
were guests on Sunday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Mingle.
Fred Wolfe, of Akron, Ohio, is
spending his vacation with his father,
Charles Wolfe. Mrs. Almeda Miller,
of Rebersburg, and little grand-daugh-
ter, of near Pittsburgh, are also
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter, of near Mif-
flinburg, spent Sunday at the B. F.
Stover home. ' They were accompa-
nied home by their daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Harry Walter and son Nevin,
who will spend some time with the
Walter family.
Some time ago Fred Boyer came
east from Bellevue, Ohio, by automo-
bile and had since been with his fath-
er, Samuel Boyer. On Monday he re-
turned to Ohio, accompanied by his
father, who will spend a few weeks,
or until he becomes tired visiting,
when he will return home.
Mr. and Mrs. George Weaver have
as guests Rev. W. D. Donat and son
Nevin, of Strawberry Ridge, Pa. Rev.
Donat was pastor of the local Reform-
ed church for fourteen and one-half
years and two years ago went to the
above named place, where he is serv-
ing as pastor to the people of that de-
nomination. His former parishion-
ers and many friends are pleased to
welcome them back to this place.
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news while it is news.
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GRANDFATHER GREEN FROG
“Goodday, Mr. Bullfrog,” said Grand-
father Green Frog “Good day, and
how are you?”
“I'm well, I thank you kindly,” said
Mr. Bullfrog.
“I'm so glad you thank me kindly,”
grinned Grandfather Green Frog, as
he snapped up a bug. “I'm glad you
thank me kindly,” he repeated.
“It's strange,” said Mr. Bullfrog,
“that people get us so mixed up.”
“They don't get us mixed up ex-
actly,” said Grandfather Green Frog.
“No, but I mean to say they take
you for me and they take me for
you,” said Mr. Bullfrog. “They don’t
seem to be able to tell us apart.”
“It isn't so very astonishing that
they can’t,” said Grandfather Green
Frog. “For we have many ways
which are the same. For example
we always spend our time in the water
or on the bank nearby or on a stump
in the water.
“We look very much alike too.”
“But don’t people know that 1
haven't any folds of skin going from
my eyes to the back of my body as
you have? That is the way to tell
us apart, of course,” said Mr. Bull-
frog. :
“Qf course it is,” said Grandfather
Green Frog. “But all people do not
know that.”
“Strange,” said Mr. Bullfrog, “how
ignorant people can be and still be
happy.”
“Oh well,” said Grandfather Green
Frog, “after all even if people don’t
know all they might about frogs,
neither do we know all we might about
people.”
“Prue,” said Mr. Bullfrog, “but think
of the difference. Frogs and people!
Such a difference.”
“That is probably just what they
think about it,” said Grandfather
Green Frog. “I am quite sure that
they are aware of the fact that there
is a great difference between them-
selves and us. They doubtless think
that there is all the difference in the
world.
“But they are quite thankful to be
people. They don’t ever wish to be
“! Thank You Kindly.”
frogs that I know of. I've never heard
any one about this pond say that they
wished they were frogs instead of
people.
“They would rather be people and
learn the people’s ways than be frogs
and learn the frogs’ ways.”
“It is hard to understand,” said Mr.
Bullfrog. “Hard indeed to under-
stand. People are always people.
Frogs have not always been frogs.
They have been tadpoles. They have
had tails. And what is more frogs
change their skins and moult.
“ake the way you do, Grandfather
Green Frog. You change your skin
several times a year anyway. You
swallow your skin if you moult out
of water, but if you moult in water |
your skin comes off in patches and
you watch it float magnificently away.”
“Perhaps people wouldn't say my
skin floated magnificently away,” said
Grandfather Green Frog. “But 1 don’t
see how anyone can want to be any- |
thing else than a frog. {
“] can shout and chatter, goog-a-
room, goog-a-room, indeed I can!
“I can snap up delicious flies. Oh,
how I love flies. I don’t love them
for companions. I wouldn't go off for
an afternoon’s hop or fly with a fiy!
«But I like to have them land on
my nose and then I like to snap them
up.
Pure we're kept where it is warm all
winter we do not bother about sleep-
ing all the time and we can be coaxed,
and not coaxed very hard either, to
take a few dainty worms or so.
“The toads won't eat until the
springtime but we're not so fussy.
This past winter I had a good long
nap, a good long nap.
“And I feel very fine now, very fine
indeed.”
“So do I,” said Mr. Bullfrog. “Did
you know, Grandfather Green Frog,
“that I was a tadpole for two years
before I became a bullfrog?
“Was it as long as that?’ asked
Grandfather Green Frog politely.
“well, well, well, how time does fly!
Almost as quickly as flies fly them:
selves,” he said, as he caught one
right after the othér and ate them
down with a grin of pleasure.
wise Bobby.
Bobbie's mother had punished him
lightly for sauciness, and he had been
in a sullen pout ever since.
Presently she asked, “What are
you thinking about, Bobbie?”
With a sheepish look, he replied,
“0, I'm a thinkin’ alright, but I guess
Ill feel better if I keep it to myself.”
ATTRACTIVE ROOM FOR BOY | BLIND MAN ODDLY GIFTED
Youngster Will Appreciate Surround-
Ings That Are Comfortable and
of Good Appearance.
A boy's room needs to be practical,
indestructible, convenient and boyish,
says the Designer. The room should
be beautiful, but it should be founded
on masculinity from the start; there
ghould be no thin curtains, frills, or
any of the fragile colors; everything
must be simple of line, plain and un-
obtrusive; things must be arranged
go that every article may be kept in
its place easily; the furniture, wall
paper, rugs, must be designed for
wear. But surely, you say, these un-
interesting requirements cannot pos-
gibly result in the exciting spot that
is supposed to mold a boy’s charac-
ter and fire his imagination.
Put nothing in the room that is not
necessary; the bed, the desk, the
table, three comfortable chairs, the
shelves for books, the chiffonier. Of
course you have some brasswork, a
parchment-shaded lamp, some plain
but good-lookipg wall lights, a few pil-
lows covered in old yellow, blue and
gray.
You may furnish it very inexpen-
sively, or you may choose furniture
quite worth while enough to warrant
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its presence in your son’s own grown- |
up house some day.
If your boy is |
quite young, you may wish a more i
childish room than if he were fully
half-grown.
The walls of any boy’s room may
be papered in tan, or water-tinted in
pale cream or gray (an economical
finish that may be changed from year
to year with little labor); any boy’s
mother can dye some unbleached
heavy muslin a wonderful henna for
window drapes; and if a more expen-
sive tan-and-black Wilton rug cannot
be afforded, a taupe linen rug surely
can. A henna bedspread may spring
from the same dye pot that produced
the curtains, and a few copper orna-
ments are cheap to buy, easy to keep
brilliant, but oh! so decoratively ef-
fective!
RICH SUFFER FROM BOREDOM
Woman Novelist Sees Little to Envy
in Those in Possession of Great
Worldly Wealth.
“You have to be poor to enjoy the
flavor of life,” says Kathleen Norris
in explaining why the engaging hero-
ine in “The Beloved Woman” turned
down a millionaire almost-ambassador
cold for a poor suitor and why Ste-
phen Winship in “Lucretia Lombard”
did not weigh wealth and an assured
position against a great love.
“Poor people are never bored with
life. I had lunch today,” she contin-
' time and combination locks, burglar
ued, ‘in a restaurant filled with rich |
women.
‘Honestly, I don’t think the |
explosion of a bomb in the room would |
have stirged them — they were So
bored. A%hd I thought to myself, ‘You
poor, pathetic parasites, putting your
white-gloved hands into your gold
mesh bags to pay $7.50 for a single
lunch. What are you getting out of
life?”
“It was the daughter of one of these
women, a little girl of sixteen, whose
mother found that she and a boy
friend of nineteen had hired a flat to-
gether, in which—innocently enough, I
believe—the ‘two were entertaining
their young friends after the theater.
And when the mother asked the girl,
‘You have everything—why on earth
did you do such a thing as this? the
sixteen-year-old answered, wearily, ‘I
was so bored, mother!’ ”
Living on Easy Avenue.
A group of wealthy New York fami-
lies finding the servant and supply
problem of private houses annoying,
\ have built on Park avenue a great
| $13,000,000 apartment
house with
! finished, is discouraging.—John Free-
apartments that range from two rooms
in a bachelor apartment at $5,000 a
year to 22 rooms for a nominal rental
of $55,000 a year, and the tenants !
have all been hand-picked. As they
didn’t want to be bothered with em-
ploying servants they sent to France
for Louis Sherry, who used to run
New York’s swellest restaurant in
booze days, says Capper’s Weekly.
Now when a maid is wanted the ten-
ant has merely to press a button and
there's always one waiting to answer
as promptly as a fire engine. Cooks
likewise. A private household can
be equipped with every possible need
from a box of matches to a flunky to
light them in thirty minutes.
Big Ship Heavily Insured.
The greatest insurance ever writ-
ten in the American market for a
single ship has been taken by the
American Marine Insurance syndi-
cates. The syndicate, which was cre-
ated more than a year ago, to pro-
vide a market capable of carrying
$2,500,000 risk on a single American
vessel, announced that 77 members
have accepted an insurance of $2,000,
000 on the Leviathan on her trip from
New York to Newport News. The
giant liner also is insured for $2,500,-
000 while under repair at the south-
ern port. Additional insurance has
been written abroad. The lability
which the syndicate has assumed
would have been impossible without
the formation of syndicates.
Badger Girls Resolve.
Pledged to accomplish at least one
act of social service each semester,
thirteen woman students of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin have organized
a woman's sociology club, to be called
the Alpha Pi Epsilon. The impetus
for the creation of such a club—which
is encouraged by the faculty of the
sociology department—came from a
group otf senior women specializing
in sania
{ sonality if the man has no waistcoat?
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Gave Correct Answer in Forty-Five
Seconds to Problem Involving
Billions in Figures.
Some years ago the London Lancet
cited a remarkable case in which ex-
traordinary ability in arithmetic cel
culation was assoclated with general
mental inferiority, if not actual in-
ganity,
The patient was completely blind,
and was able to make elaborate cal-
culations, such as square root of
any number running into four fig-
ures, in an average of four seconds,
and the square root of any number
running into six figures in six sec-
onds.
These are mere trifles, however,
compared with the following:
He was asked how many grains of
corn there would be in any one of 64
boxes, with one in the first, two in
the second, four in the third, eight in
the fourth and so on in succession. He
gave the answers for the fourteenth
(8,192), for the eighteenth (131,072)
and the twenty-fourth (8,388,608) in-
stantaneously, and he gave the fig-
737,488,355,328) in six seconds.
Further on the request to give the
total in all the boxes up to and in-
cluding the sixty-fourth he furnished
the correct answer (18,446,744,073,
709,503,615) in 45 seconds.—Scientific
American.
SLIM CHANCE FOR BURGLARS
“Safe” in New York Banking House
Might Be Said to Be Gibraltar
of Vaults.
The building occupied by the bank-
ing house of Morgan, in New York, is
said to contain the strongest security
vault in the world, a vault that is
proof against fire, water, mobs and
burglars.
The vault is twenty-three feet wide,
twenty-seven feet deep, and thirty-
three feet high, outside measurement,
and divided into three stories. The
walls, which are two and a half feet
thick, are made up of Harveyized
nickel-steel armor plate, surrounded
with rock concrete, which is rein-
forced with double and treble sections
of 125-pound nickel-steel rails. The
main door of the vault is round, and
three feet thick, and when closed
makes an air-tight fit with the door
frame. Although the door, with its
bolt work and hinges, weighs fifty
tons, it can be swung with one hand.
The vault is equipped with the very
latest and most complete system of
alarms and electric lights. It is
guarded night and day by patrolmen,
whose work is made easier by pass-
ages round the four sides, underneath
the bottoin, and across the top, and
by mirrors so placed that they can
see around the corners,
Pithy Paragraphs.
If you don’t believe an Englishman
concentrates harder on his work while
he works or in his play when he plays,
just try to talk sport to him during
working hours or to talk business to
him while he is enjoying his after-
noon tea.—Dwight T. Farnham.
The trouble now with Ireland is
that sorrow has been her one luxury,
the theme of her poets, the melody in
her music, the eloquence of her ora-
tors; and to leave sorrow behind, to
withdraw the eye from Erin crucified,
and to substitute satiety, seems a sac-
rifice of Ireland’s essential individual-
ity—P. W. Wilson.
Let us learn to do everything as
well as we can. That turns life into
art. The least thing thoroughly well
done becomes artistic. Anything com-
plete, rounded, full, exact, gives pleas-
ure. Anything slovenly, slipshod, un-
man Clarke.
Buttons and Personality.
One of those business psychologists
—his specialty, we believe, is sales-
manship—says that a man can be cor-
rectly judged by the third button of
his waistcoat. If the button stands
out as boldly as the other buttons
he is the real thing; but if he caves
in at this particular spot and the but-
ton is covered by wrinkles in his vest
he is deficient in personality and pep
and dynamics and all the other latest
things that do be out.
We wonder if the psychologists are
not fooling themselves a great deal.
What becomes of this sure test of per-
We wonder whethe~ Lincoln’s third
button stood out manfully or was ob-
scured by the wrinkles which, if pie-
tures of him can be depended upon,
were a distinctive feature of his
dress.—New Bedford Standard.
Add Magnetic Influence.
A strange phenomenon, due, accord-
ing to scientific authorities, to still un-
explained magnetic influences, has for
a whole month been observed daily in
London. Watches and chronometers
have been stopping suddenly. It has
been useless to take them to the
watchmaker, who could not detect the
trouble, nor remedy it. After the
lapse of an hour or two, however, the
watches begin going again, and all
that is needed is to set them at the
right hour.
Lead in Telephones.
The three agricultural states of Iowa,
Nebraska and Kansas are the best de-
veloped three states in the country,
telephonieally speaking, though many
other states are not far behind. In
the three states named there are about
1,200,000 telephones, more than there
tre in the whole of Great Britain, in-
ciuding both Ulster and the Irish Free
State.
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Shoes.
RE A Re Ne eR Ae le eke
SILK HOSE |
Ladies’ $2.50 black and
tan Pure Silk Hose re- a
duced to
$1.50
Yeager’s Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building
58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
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Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co.
This month prices drop in all departments.
Dove Undermuslins
Crepe and Muslin Night Gowns the $1.75 quality
now $1.00.
Muslin Drawers as low as 65 cents.
Petticoats at 75c. to $1.00 that are worth double.
Children’s White Dresses as low as 50 cents.
One lot Ladies’ White Gauze Vests, Swiss Lisle
20 cents each. !
Ready-to-wear Reduced
Reductions on all Ready to Wear Garments.
One lot Children’s Coats, sizes from 3 to 8 years,
$1.00.
Bungalow Dresses now 98 cents.
Gingham Porch Dresses now $1.75, $2.50 and
$3.00. These are worth while seeing.
Skirts
Ladies’ fancy plaid and striped Skirts $5.00
quality, now .$3.00.
Ladies’ Coats, Suits and Dresses at cost. We
are going to clean up in this department. We invite
inspection. Prices are right for quick selling.
Shoes and Hosiery are in line for this reduction
sale. Men, women and children’s Shoes and Hose to
match at clean-up prices.
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