Dewan. Bellefonte, Pa., July 28, 1922. mm— NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. A civil service examination for clerk-carrier in the postoffice service will be held at the postoffice at State College on August 5th, at 9 o'clock a.m — Don’t forget the meeting of the Methodist Brotherhood at the home of Mr. L. A. Schaeffer, on east Curtin street, at 8 o'clock this (Friday) evening. William McCabe, one of the guards at the Academy swimming pool, lost his athletic emblem, a small gold football, and will be very grate- ful if the finder will return same to him at the Academy. —Miss Mary L. Dale, of Belle- fonte, has enrolled at Carnegie Insti- tute of Technology, Pittsburgh, for 1922-23, as a student in the Margaret Morrison College, and will take a course in household economics. Miss Dale is a graduate of the Bellefonte High school, class of 1922. Water Commissioner Charles E. Dorworth entertained a large party of gentlemen at his camp on Fishing creek Wednesday evening, in honor of Fish Commissioner N. R. Buller and Secretary of Agriculture Frederick Rasmussen, who will be his guests for the remainder of the week. The Cottage State hospital, at Philipsburg, is in need of funds and the management have secured Irwin’s orchestra for a big benefit dance at Fairview park, Osceola Mills, on Mon- day, July 81st. An admission of two dollars will be charged and the pro- ceeds will go to the building and bet- ferment fund. A convention of the Central Pennsylvania district W. C. T. U. composed of the counties of Cambria, Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon, Fulton and Centre, was held at Ebensburg on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Among the officers elected for the ensuing year was Mrs. Frank Gardner, of State College, correspond- ing secretary. — The State Department of Pub- lic Instruction has announced awards of eighty scholarships in the higher institutions of learning to High school graduates throughout the State, Wes- ley Stonebraker, of Philipsburg, being the fortunate young man in Centre county. The scholarships are worth one hundred dollars a year for a per- iod of four years. ——John A. McSparran, Democrat- ic candidate for Governor, and Gifford Pinchot, Republican candidate, will both be drawing cards at the Gran- ger’s picnic at Centre Hall on Thurs- day, September 7th. The presence of these two stellar attractions will likely mean a gathering of lesser political lights. The date for the picnic this year is September 2nd to 8th, inclu- sive. ! —— The Scenic is offering a splen- did program of pictures for next week, and you can’t find a more com- fortable place in Bellefonte for an evening’s entertainment than this pop- ular movie show. Manager Brown ca- ters to the taste of all his patrons by putting on programs of interest to everybody. Something good is shown every evening, so be a regular and see them all. — On Tuesday evening Paul Ri- der, a member of Wetzler’s band, drove to Milesburg in his Ford car for band practice. After an evening's session he attempted to crank his car to come home when the crank shaft kicked and broke his right wrist. The young man is employed at the Beatty Motor company garage and the injury will probably keep him from work for some time.’ — The burgess of Bellefonte and the members of the Fire and Police committee of borough council have de- .cided to enforce the traffic ordinance relative to vehicles of all kinds. This includes fast driving of automobiles, parking or stopping a car on the wrong side of the street, parking at fireplugs, etc. The above officials have . decided that enough warnings have been given owners and drivers of cars and other vehicles, and future infrac- tions of the ordinance will mean ar- rest and the imposition of a fine. — Walter Cohen has cut down the property on north Spring street. The big black ash tree in front of his tree was easily two feet in diameter and had doubtless stood there for at jeast four generations. But it was in on the pavement and the big roots had heaved up the pavement at sev- eral places and would have continued to damage any pavement that could be put down. Mr. Cohen not only in- tends putting down a new pavement and gutter but will remove the side porch from his house and construct a driveway leading into a new garage he is having erected in the rear of his home. — Washington Camp P. O. S. of A., of Centre Hall, extends a general invitation to the public to attend their basket picnic to be held at Grange park on Friday, August 18th. Rev. C. L. Hunter, of Philadelphia, state chaplain of the organization, will be present and deliver an address on fra- fernity and patriotism. Sixteen young ladies will give a patriotic drill under the direction of Mrs. J. William Brad- ford. Sports of various kinds will al- so be held. Ice cream, soft drinks, coffee and sandwiches will be on sale on the grounds. Rev. Hunter will also be at the camp meeting to be ‘held at Centre Hall August 17th. TROOPS SENT TO COAL FIELDS. Bellefonte Machine Gunners on Strike Duty in Western Pennsylvania. Bellefonte’s National Guard unit, Troop B, of the 52nd mounted ma- chine gun battalion, did not go to the annual encampment at Mt. Gretna, as announced in this paper last week, but instead were ordered to the west- ern part of the State where they are stationed in the coal fields on strike duty. Last Thursday morning, while the men were all preparing for their jaunt to Mt. Gretna, orders came to get the troop in shape for a cali for field service. Later orders came can- celling the encampment trip and late Thursday afternoon supplemental or- ders were received to entrain as early as possible Friday morning and pro- ceed to the western part of the State to guard the coal mines. Most of the troop’s equipment had been packed for the trip to camp and all of it had to be unpacked, as much of the stuff could not be taken along for service in the field. Cars were placed for the troop and equipment on Thursday evening and the boys work- ed most of the night loading their stuff. At five o'clock Friday morning their horses were loaded. Machine guns were unslung and put in shape for use and these with eight boxes of ammunition were carried by the troop- ers. Shortly before eight o'clock Friday morning Troop A, of Boalsburg, Capt. Charles E. Sohl in command, reached Bellefonte by special train. By 8:20 o'clock Capt. W. Frederick Reynolds had his troop aboard cars and Major H. Laird Curtin, who commands the battalion, had his headquarters troop on board, the two troops aggregating 115 men and thirty horses. It was just eight-thirty o’clock when the train of eleven cars pulled out of the Belle- fonte depot and sped westward. The original destination was given out as Washington county, but Troop B was detrained at Johnstown and sent to Woodvale, while Major Curtin and headquarters troop and Troop A went to Cokeburg, Washington county. This week’s Johnstown papers, how- ever, stated that Capt. Reynolds and Troop B are stationed at Jenners, Somerset county, while Capt. Sohl and Troop A are at Vintondale. Just how long the troops will be kept in the field will depend entirely on the set- tlement of the strike. The calling out of the National Guard owing to labor troubles is not at all unusual in the history of Penn- sylvania. Just forty-five years ago to the day, or on July 20th, 1877, the guardsmen were called out to quell riots in Altoona and Pittsburgh ow- ing to a strike of railroaders. In June, 1889, 38 officers and 420 men were sent to Johnstown on acount of the big flood. Other calls were as follows: July 10, 1892, Homestead steel strike, 490 officers, 7,000 men; September 11, 1897, Hazleton, coal and railroad dis- turbance, 199 officers, 2,150 men; Sep- tember 21, 1900, Shenandoah, coal trouble, 159 officers, 2,110 men; July 30, 1902, coal strike, 725 officers, 8,750 men; May 2, 1918, East Pittsburgh ri- ots, Westinghouse strike, 134 officers, 1,624 men. Headquarters Troop is at Cokeburg, Washington County. The following letter from trooper John J. Bower II, of the 52nd M. G. S. Q., will give the home-folks of the boys who are away on military duty an idea of how they are located and what they were doing up to July 25th, the date of its posting. Editor “Watchman”: After leaving Bellefonte last Friday morning, we reached Altoona about noon, and ‘after several hours’ delay continued our journey, arriving at Cokeburg early Saturday morning. Our outfit was on the second section of the Troop train, under the command of Major Curtin, and was the first train to pull into Cokeburg, just as the sun was rising. After unloading our equipment and supplies, we set up camp in a large field on a hill overlooking the town of Cokeburg, which has about 1500 in- habitants. The peculiar thing about this town is, that every house is built practically alike. Saturday and Sunday morning were spent in fixing up the camp and get- ting ourselves established for a pro- longed stay. Sunday evening we had avery fine talk by the Chaplain of the Regiment, during church services. ° There are between three and four hundred men here, and a horse for each one, and the view from the top of the hill upon which the camp is sit- uated, is a wonderful one. So far, everything has gone fine with our outfit, and no one seems to be the least bit homesick. None of the men are allowed outside of the boundaries of camp, except when on detail or pa- trol. The 104th Cavalry band plays every evening, and there is also a fine orchestra in camp, SO there is plenty of amusement to occupy our leisure time. The country around here is not much different from that at home, with the exception of a few culm dumps, and the numerous coal mines. There is one mine near camp which is over four hundred feet deep, and ex- tends about four and one-half miles under ground. There are large farms in the, neighborhood, which remind one very much of the foothills of the Alleghenies back of Unionville and Milesburg. The inhabitants of this part of the State are mostly of foreign origin. For three days officers and men lived in “Pup” tents, but the supply train reached us today and we are now quartered in the regular squad tent. Steel helmets have been issued and will be worn when on duty. Sincerely, JOHN J. BOWER II ———— — There will be no lack of enter- tainment in Bellefonte next week with the Chautauqua on the High school grounds and a big carnival on the old fair grounds. With these two ex- tremes of entertainment everybody will have a chance to pick their com- pany. Milesburg Baptist Church" Centenary. The one hundredth anniversary of the organization of the Milesburg Baptist church will be celebrated from the 16th to the 20th of August. Speakers from out of town will be present. The public is cordially in- vited. —————————— eee — Meeting of Democratic County Com- mittee. An important meeting of the Dem- ocratic county committee will be held in the grand jury room at the court house this (Friday) evening to for- mulate plans for he coming campaign. Candidates J. Frank Snyder, W. L Betts and Miss Zoe Meek will be pres- ent. A full attendance is desired. —————————————— Minor Auto Accidents. On Sunday evening as S. Patterson was on his way home to Lock Haven from a trip to Bellefonte and Max Ka- lin on his way back to Bellefonte from a trip down the valley, both drivers undertook to cross the narrow culvert at the Clevenstine property near Zion, with the result that a collision occur- red. Fortunately none of the occu- pants of either car were injured but Mr. Patterson’s Ford was damaged vo the extent of forty dollars or there- abouts. On Monday evening Gilbert M. Boy- er, a guard at the penitentiary ran off the road with his Ford runabout out beyond the Titan Metal company plant and considerably damaged his car, though he escaped injury. emma reese pee ee Bellefonte Chautauqua Next Week. Next Monday evening the big Chau- tauqua tent and equipment will arrive in Bellefonte and workmen will get busy at once and erect the same on the High school grounds so as to have it ready for the opening of the Chau- tauque. on Tuesday afternoon. A caretul reading of the program for Chautauqua week shows that all the | lectures and musical organizations are new to Bellefonte, but will come here highly recommended by the Chautau- qua management. HE Ticket sellers have been busy the past week, under the direction of the guarantors’ committee, selling the al- lotment of season tickets. Any per- son who has not yet secured a ticket can be accommodated by applying to any of the guarantors. The price of season tickets this year is $3.00. Sin- gle admissions, afternoons and even- ings, 75 cents, with the exception of “play night,” which will be $1.00. Glenn Sanitorium Sold for Frat House Although the sale was actually con- summated about a month ago the fact has just been made public that the Glenn sanitorium at State College has been sold to a Greek letter society at the College for use as a fraternity home. When the owners of the san- itorium decided to sell they offered the institution complete to the borough of State College for $16,000. The offer was taken under consideration by the Chamber of Commerce and question- naires were sent out requesting an ex- pression of sentiment from the resi- dents of the town. So few people re- sponded that the Chamber of Com- merce dropped the matter and the in- stitution was then sold to the frater- nity for $25,000, without the equip- ment. The sanitorium is located on west College avenue and was originally built by David F. Kapp as a residence. A few years ago he sold the building to the Glenns for $10,000 and they equipped it as a sanitorium. It has never been a paying institution which is probably the main reason for the sale. The fraternity will likely be given possession at the opening of College in September. PE— ed Reward Offered for Arrest and Con- viction of Murderer. “$500.00 reward will be paid for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murder of George M. Marks, of Taylor township, Centre county, which occurred on or about June 14th, 1921.” The above offer was authorized at a meeting of the Centre county com- missioners, Harry P. Austin, George H. Yarnell and George M. Harter, on Tuesday. Mr. Marks was found dead in his home near Hannah Furnace on the morning of June 14th, and indica- tions pointed to the fact that he had been dead a day or two. The general supposition at the time was that the old soldier was murdered for his pen- sion money, but up to this time no clue has been found as to the identity of his murderer. In fact some people have expressed the belief that Mr. Marks’ death was the result of a fall, but his friends and neighbors reject this explanation. As a means of solving the mystery of his death, if possible, the county commis- sioners have authorized the offer of the above reward, and stand ready to pay it upon the arrest and conviction of any one who committed the deed. BELLEFONTE SOLDIER DEAD. Corporal Albert Sager Killed and Six Injured in Truck Accident. Going forth to duty in the coal re- gions, last Friday morning, Corporal Albert Sager, of Troop B, 52nd mounted machine gun battalion, of Bellefonte, little realized that his life would be the forfeit of his faithful- ness. He was the unfortunate victim of an accident at 4:45 o’clock on Tues- day evening in which he suffered in- juries which resulted in his death at the Memorial hospital, Johnstown, at 7:45 o’clock the same evening. Six of his comrades were also injured, four of them being from Bellefonte. Sager sustained a crushed chest, broken back and internal injuries. The in- jured are as follows: Private Raymond Ammerman, aged 19, Bellefonte, fracture of the right arm and fracture of the left collar- bone. Condition reported as fair. Private Gilbert Carroll, aged 20, of Harrisburg. Injuries of the left leg. Condition reported as good. Private Richard Forker, age 24, of Bellefonte. Injuries of the hip, and lacerations of the forehead. Suffer- ing from shock. Condition fairly good. Private Robert Hillard, age 21, of Bellefonte. Injuries of the left knee. Condition fairly good. Private Oliver P. M. Smith, age 44, of Bellefonte. Bruises about the body, and to the right foot, as well as bad case of shock. Condition fairly good. Private William Haverling, aged 21, of Harrisburg. Suffering from shock and bruises about the body. Condition fairly good. Ammerman is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ammerman, of Thomas street, and has been working as a clerk in Montgomery & Co’s store. Mrs. Am- merman went to Johnstown Wednes- day morning to see her son. Forker is originally from Curtin but has beeen living in Bellefonte for some time and is employed at the Pennsylvania match factory. Hillard is from Coleville and is said to be a sober, industrious young man. Private Smith is better known in Bellefonte as Morton Smith, and is assistant postmaster in the Bellefonte postoffice. Little is known here about Carroll and Haverling, who are supposed to be from Harrisburg. From reliable sources it is learned that Troop B had been held at Cone- maugh from the time of its arrival in Cambria county on Friday evening until Tuesday when orders were is- sued for the troop to go to Jenners, Somerset county, about nineteen miles from Johnstown. Trucks from the motor truck company, of Shamokin, were detailed to transport the troops. Three truck loads made the trip, the first getting to the camp without mis- hap. The second truck was the one which figured in the accident. First lieutenant Roy H. Grove, of Troop B, told the following story of the acci- dent: “The road takes a sharp turn to the left into the gate of the camp site. The first truck, on which I was riding got through the gate all right. “The driver of the second truck, however, failed to get his steering wheel straightened out in time, and the machine went over the bank, mak- ing a drop of fourteen feet to the wa- ter below. He apparently lost his grip on the steering wheel and was unable to turn back on the road. The truck turned over in the water, prac- tically all of the fifteen men on it be- ing thrown clear. We found Corporal Sager doubled up, apparently in great suffering. The other six men had ap- parently jumped from the truck, and were not so badly hurt.” Word f the accident was telephon- ed to Beliefonte and Mr. and Mrs. Sa- ger and son George left in an automo- bile for Johnstown but being apprised of their son’s death when they reach-| ed Altoona they returned to Belle- fonte. The dead soldier, Albert Sager, was a son of Elmer and Mary Meese Sa- ger and was born in Spring township on February 21st, 1902; hence was 20 years, 5 months and 4 days old. His entire life was spent in Bellefonte and vicinity. For a number of years past he had been employed by the Penn- sylvania Match company, as a feeder of their box folding machine. He was serving his third year as a member of Troop B and just recently had been promoted from a private to a corpor- al. In addition to his parents he is sur- vived by the following brothers and sisters: William J. Sager, George H,, Henry E., who is second li.atenant of Troop B.; Anna, Elizabeth, Gilbert, Joseph and Ella. The remains, ac- companied by Lieut. Sager and private John Lucas, were brought to Belle- fonte on the Pennsylvania-Lehigh train Wednesday afternoon and taken to the Sager home on Halfmoon hill. Funeral services will be held in the United Evangelical church at 2:30 o'clock this (Friday) afternoon by Rev. Reed O. Seely, and burial in the Union cemetery will be made with the honors of war. —————————————————————— Big Time at Millheim Tomorrow. Members of the Keystone Post No. 444, Américan Legion of Millheim, will hold their annual field day to- morrow and have prepared for a full day’s program which will include an old-fashioned shooting match, a ball game between Millheim and the Epis- copal Sunday school team of Lewis- town, track and field events, music by three bands and a big festival in the i evening. The public is invited. NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. —Rev. Dr. A. M. Schmidt, who has been spending his summer vacation at Ocean Grove and Washington, will arrive home the latter part of the week. __Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Storch left on Wed- nesday on a motor drive to Towanda, Pa., to visit Mr. Storch’s parents and other relatives. They expect to be away four or five days. —A. G. Morris and his daughter, Miss Lida, left a week ago on a drive to Pitts- burgh, to consult the occulist under whose care Mr. Morris has been and for a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Morris. —Mrs. D. L. Goldie, of New York city, known to many persons in this locality through her frequent summer visits to Bellefonte, is spending the summer at “The Ambassador” hotel, in Atlantic City. __ Mr. and Mrs. Stanley B. Valentine mo- tored to Bellefonte from Syracuse, N. Y., last week and will spend Mr. Valentine's two week’s vacation with his mother, Mrs. H. C. Valentine and family, on west Cur- tin street. Mrs. D. I. Willard had as guests last week her brother and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hayes, of Union City, who stopped here for a week on their way to Canada for a visit with Mr. Hayes’ broth- ers in Toronto and Montreal. __ Miss Dorothy Harnish, who is a guest at the Dunlap home on south Thomas street, accompanied Miss Winifred Dunlap home from Altoona Sunday. Miss Dun- lap had beeen visiting for a month in Al- toona with her sister, Mrs. Ramsey. __Miss Helen Yeagle, a nurse in train- ing at the Williamsport hospital, who has been the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Steely at the United Evangelical parsonage during the past two weeks, returned Wednesday to Williamsport to resume her duties in the hospital. — Mrs. Mary E. Mills left Bellefonte Sat- urday for an indefinite stay with her daughter, Mrs. George i. Snyder, at Swanton, stopping enroute to spend Sat- urday in Johnstown. Mrs. Mills antici- pates dividing her time between her daugh- ter at Swanton, Pa., and her son, Lester 15. Mills, in Bellefonte. __Mrs. Katherine Hunter, of Pittsburgh, is again spending tlie summer at Oakmont, as assistant superintendent of the orph- ans school in that place. Mrs. Hunter is well known in this community, as a one time resident of Bellefonte, and through her occasional visits here and with Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Miller, at Pleasant Gap. — Mrs. John Hinman Gibson is here from New Orleans, having come north a week ago for a visit of several months. Mrs. Gibson came to Bellefonte at this time to be with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Cook, during Miss Margaret Cook's absence on her trip to Colorado. James Cook and Miss Margaret left yesterday for the west. _ Minot Willard and Herbert Emig two of Bellefonte's ambitious young men, left here on the second of July on a trip east with a view to securing permanent work. After spending some time in Brooklyn and other of the larger cities, the boys went south to Hampton Roads, where they en- tered the U. 8. navy, intending making it their life work. —Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Shuey and their two daughters, Miss Rachel and Mrs. W. IR. North, spent the first two weeks of July in Louisville, Ky., with Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Whiting. Leaving here on the Fourth, they drove to Altoona and from there went on to Louisville, where Miss Rachel re- mained with her sister, Mrs. Whiting for a month's visit. Miss Bertha Laurie is expected in Bellefonte the middle of next week, to spend her vacation of two weeks here with her many friends. Miss Laurie has been in New York since coming home from France, in charge of the home room of the civilian Y. M. C. A. The early part of Miss Laurie's visit will be spent as the house guest of Mrs. George R. Meek. __Mrs. Charles E. Dorworth and her two children, Rebecca and Charles Jr., with Mrs. John Curtin and her daughter Caro- line, will drive to Manasquan, N. J., on Monday where the party will be guests of Mrs. Dorworth's sister, Mrs. Rath. Mrs. Curtin will return home at the end of a week, leaving the rest of the party to con- tinue their visit for several weeks. __Mr. George Kirk, of Luthersburg, Clearfield county, has been in Bellefonte this week visiting his cousin, Dr. M. A. Kirk, and the latter has been showing him some of the interesting sights in the var- ious valleys contiguous to Bellefonte. Mr. Kirk is eighty-six years old but is still spry enough to do some work at his occu- pation as a surveyor and civil engineer. Miss Amanda Tomb and Mrs. Moulton, who are here with their sister, Mrs. Bush, drove to Bellefonte Tuesday from Jersey Shore, as guests of Mrs. Barnshoff, who, with her brother-in-law, Mr. Barnshoff, of Milton, and her two children, left the same day to motor to her home in Philadelphia. Miss Sides was also a member of the party on the drive from Jersey Shore, but re- turned home Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reed with their two children arrived here this week from Ames, Iowa, for their annual summer vis- it with Mrs. Reed’s mother, Mrs. Jacob Bottorf and her family, and other relatives through central Pennsylvania. As has been their custom much of the time will be spent at State College, where Mr. Reed will have charge of Rev. Samuel Martin's work during the latter's absence on his va- cation. _ Malcolm Fleming, a native of Potter township, was in Bellefonte a few hours on Saturday on his way to visit old friends at Centre Hall. Mr. Fleming left Centre county over twenty years ago and went west and is now located in Spokane, Wash., where he is a clothing manufac- turer. He was on his way to New York city on a business trip and to visit his brother Earl, and as it has been ten years since he made his last trip to Centre coun- ty he naturally made it suit to stop off a day or two. —Jsaac P. Miller, of Philadelphia, a son of the late Isaac Miller, who for many years was keeper of the toll gate south of Bellefonte, was a Bellefonte visitor on Monday while enroute west on a trip to the Yellowstone park and other places of interest. While in town he was a brief caller at the “Watchman” office and gave us the information that Major William Bn. Hastings was given his liberty several weeks ago and is located at 820 Wood street, Philadelphia, for the present. Friends are looking out for his future wel- fare and are endeavoring to locate him in a permanent home where he can live