Dewar Yada,
Bellefonte, Pa., February 2, 1923.
Country Correspondence |
{tems of Interest Dished Up for the
Delectation of “Watchman” Read-
ers by a Corps of Gifted
Correspondents.
PLEASANT GAP.
The loyal workers of the Lutheran
church were entertained last Thurs-
day afternoon by Mrs. John T. Noll.
All were highly delighted with the
program throughout.
Hector Griffith, who has been ser-
iously ill for several weeks, has suf-
ficiently recovered to enable him to
continue business at the old stand—
the store rooms of the Rockview pen-
itentiary.
How natural it is for the populace
to howl and shout its hearty approval
when a “masher” gets thrashed for
insulting a woman; and public sympa-
thy goes out to a woman who has been
abused by a brute of a man.
On Tuesday of last week Mrs. John
T. Noll entertained a jolly bunch of
five hundred players, four tables be-
ing in play. The following guests
participated: Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Jo-
don, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mil-
ward, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bilger, Miss
Anna Rimmey, Earl and Paul Lego,
and the Misses Marion and Helen Get-
tig. A sumptuous lunch was served.
after which all repaired to their
homes delighted with their pleasant
night’s experience.
On Wednesday evening of last week
Mr. and Mrs. Gauth entertained a five
hundred party. The guests present
were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bilger, Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Noll, Prfessor Treister,
Earl Lego, Billy Harter. A very
pleasant evening was the result. The
caterer for the occasion was highly
complimented for his efficiency in
serving a most delicious fried oyster
lunch, with innumerable side-dishes in
evidence, All went away delighted
with their pleasant experience of the
evening.
There was a party of unusual inter-
est at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Rimmey, on Saturday evening last.
The guests present were the Misses
Anna and Bertha Rimmey, Marion
Gettig, Joseph Wagner, of Oak Hall;
Fred Rouse, of Altoona, and Will
Tressler, of Linden Hall. The enter-
tainment was one of the leading so-
cial events of the season and was
highly appreciated by all present.
The out of town visitors call here fre-
quently, on account of their agreeable
associations.
Last Thursday night the wives of
our Sportsmen’s club held a five hun-
dred card party in the club’s hall.
Three tables were in evidence. The
eats on the occasion were appropriate
and elaborate, to the enjoyment of all
present. The wives, mothers and sis-
ters of the members are cordially in-
vited to be present at these agreea-
ble entertainments, which as a rule,
are a permanent fixture, occurring
monthly on the last Thursday night
of each month. Special invitations
are not necessary.
The McNitt Lumbering company is
busily engaged in shipping chemical
wood, having added a number of new
men for the occasion. Apparently,
they are having a good demand for
this product; quite a number of our
teamsters are engaged in hauling the
wood to the station for shipment. The
excellent sledding adds materially to
the removal of the finished product to
the railroad. Mr. McNitt’s happy
combination of tact and push enables
him to proceed in business with una-
bated energy, while others content
themselves in folding their hands, lay-
ing off their employees and encourag-
ing idleness. Mr. McNitt’s success is
due in the main to his success as an
organizer, his fairness and integrity
in dealing with his subordinates, and
his unbending force of will power.
Were the laws against robbery sus-
pended for a time, what a lot of
thieves we would have! This world
is made up of a peculiar class of peo-
ple, some of whom have been posing
for years as honest citizens, and no
one would for a moment accuse them
with having a propensity to despoil
others of their rights or their proper-
ty. A little pilfering is at times en-
gaged in by people who may not know
that they are thieves and robbers, and
if an opportunity is not afforded for de-
veloping the latent disposition they
may never know it and die honest and
respected. In some the disposition to
take undue advantage, and to get that
which belongs to another without an
equivalent, is so strong that it crops
out in their business transactions. If
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{forms of petty thievery.
Copyright 1921 MrClurs Mananacs Jyundirate
caught at it they are sometimes de-
nounced as rascals, but more often,
pointed out as shrewd, sharp business
men. This is one of the fashionable
The thief
who depends on pilfering for a liveli-
hood is only kept from stealing every-
thing he sees through fear of being
caught. RS
In slavery times it was fully dem-
onstrated that slaves made the hard-
est masters. The common field hand,
who had writhed and smarted under
the lash of a cruel driver, when raised
to the position of overseer, plied the
whip with a heavier hand, and increas-
ed the task with less mercy than the
boss of whom he complained so bit-
terly while yet a common hand. The
same is true in nearly all classes of
laborers. It is not every one who will
be thus, but the spirit is there, and it
remains through all ranks. In some
it is much stronger than in others.
The under dog in the fight howls and
whines, and begs for quarter until he
gets on top, then he growls and chews,
and tears with vengeance, never once
thinking, much less caring for the
pain and injury it is inflicting on the
other dog. The spirit of petty tyran-
ny is often shown in those who are
both master and servant. They are
all gentleness and humility toward
those above them, and all austerity
and dignity to those below them. They
bend the knee and bow the head to
those in authority, yet crack the whip
and turn a deaf ear to those below
them. As a rule, the more servile
they are to the one, the more exact-
ing and ‘unfeeling they are towards
the other.
BOALSBURG.
George Homan purchased a Ford
runabout last week.
Miss Cox went to Ohio last week to
spend some time with an aged aunt,
who is ill.
John Hess, of Altoona, was a guest
at the Fortney home from Saturday
until Monday.
Theodore Segner has secured em-
ployment with Van Zandt, the butcher
at State College.
Misses Nelle and Anne Holter, of
Howard, are visiting at the home of
Charles Mothersbaugh.
D. W. Meyer is spending some time
with his daughter, Mrs. Harry Lone-
barger, at State College.
Mrs. George Homan and daughter
Marjorie spent several days last week
visiting friends in Tyrone.
Mrs. J. R. Harter and son Robert
went to Altoona, Saturday, for a few
week’s visit with friends.
Miss Ellen Sayner, of State College,
spent several days last week as the
guest of Mrs. George E. Meyer.
Mrs. Dorsey Struble and son, of
State College, were visitors at the
home of Willis Houtz on Tuesday.
Mrs. William Goheen went to Arch
Springs last Wednesday to visit her
flonghter, Mrs. E. R. Tussey and fam-
ily.
‘Mrs. M. A. Woods and son William
returned home Monday, after spend-
ing several weeks among friends in
the western part of the State.
Owing to the illness of three of the
characters the home talent play from
Centre Hall was not presented in the
Boal hall on Saturday evening, as was
announced.
The ladies bible class of the Re-
formed Sunday school spent Tuesday
at the home of Elmer Rossman, west
of town, quilting comforts for the or-
phans’ home.
AARONSBURG.
Abraham King came over from Sa-
lona and has been visiting his son, A.
S. King and family, in this place.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hull had as
supper guests, Saturday evening, Rev.
and Mrs. ©. B. Snyder, of Millheim.
Harvey Tressler shipped his house-
hold goods to Renovo, on Saturday, as
his employment is there he will locate
there.
Walter Orwig and son David, sf
Northumberland, came up Friday to
attend the funeral of Mrs. Orwig’s
a Mrs. William Bitner, of Spring
ills.
Mrs. C. E. Musser arrived home
from Williamsport, where she had
spent a week with her mother, Mrs.
Robert Hackenberg, at the home of
guother daughter, Mrs. George Mil-
er.
Rev. and Mrs. Hollenbach returned
home, Friday evening, after having
spent a few days with their parents,
and Rev. Hollenbach attending a
meeting of the P. O. S. of A., in West
Milton.
Evangelistic services conducted by
Rev. C. B. Snyder, in the Evangelical
church, closed Sunday evening without
any visible results. However, such
services and sermons could not do oth-
er than awaken new zeal and faith in
christians; therefore, the faithful pas-
tor’s efforts have not been in vain.
Tuesday evening, January 23rd,
Mrs. John A. Bower entertained thir-
ty-two of her friends at her cozy
home on Front street. A few games
were indulged in after which a deli-
cious luncheon was served and Mrs.
Brown, following that, gave a Larkin
neighborhood party demonstration. A
fine line of Larkin products were
shown and sold. Those not present
should give Mrs. Brown a call, as, the
products are good and prices reason-
able. All present enjoyed the evening
and went to their homes feeling that
an evening thus spent cannot but cre-
ate a more neighborly attitude.
RUNVILLE.
Charles Smoyer, who has been sick
for several months, has not improved
any at this writing.
W. T. Kunes spent last Sunday at
Mill Hall, at the home of his sister,
Mrs. Addie Swisher.
Rev. G. A. Sparks is conducting a
revival meeting in the United Breth-
ren church at this place.
The Ladies Aid society held their
regular monthly business meeting at
the home of Mrs. D. F. Poorman, on
Thunin-.
IN HONOR OF BUCHANAN.
The recent bequest by a public-
spirited citizen of Lancaster of $25,-
000 for the erection of a proper me-
morial there to James Buchanan, long
a resident of that city, promises to
give some belated recognition to a
much-maligned and misunderstood
American statesman. Buchanan was
not one of our great Presidents, and
it was his misfortune that he was fol-
lowed by Lincoln, who was truly great,
but he was by no means such a weak-
ling as he is often pictured.
It is one of the curiosities of our
politics that the policy adopted by
Buchanan toward the southern States
which threatened secession was taken
up by Lincoln and followed closely for
the first forty days of his administra-
tion, when he was forced to more vig-
orous action by the attack upon Fort
Sumter. Yet Buchanan has been most
harshly censured because he did not
nip secession in the bud, while Lincoln,
who allowed it to grow in strength
and military efficiency for nearly six
weeks under his very eyes, is hailed as
the perfect embodiment of American
statesmanship. The truth, of course,
is that both men were thoroughly pa-
triotic, and that they acted from pure-
ly disinterested motives. They held
divergent views upon public questions,
but when it came to the preservation
of the Union they pursued absolutely
identical policies.
Through the loving piety of his de-
voted niece, Harriet Lane Johnson, a
statue of Buchanan is to be erected in
Washington, despite the bigoted op-
position of Henry Cabot Lodge, and it
is a good thing that similar honors
are to be paid to him in his home
town. Inasmuch as he was Pennsyl-
vania’s only President it would be well
also to have a suitable monument to
him in the Capitol grounds at Harris-
burg, where visitors are now compeil-
ed to look upon a bronze effigy of that
perfect flower of Republican machine
politics, Matthew Stanley Quay. The
Lancaster man is a thousand times
more deserving of such a memorial.
In a tribute to Buchanan under the
heading, “A Gracious Bachelor,” the
Louisville Courier-Journal refers to
him as “at once one of the strongest
and yet one of the weakest of men,”
and adds these words of praise:
Whether as Senator or as Minister
to England, Mr. Buchanan served his
country intelligently and effectively.
From 1830 till 1856, he was no mean
figure in what is the most dynamic
period of American politics. In any
company of men of that time, his ed-
ucation, character, happy temper, gra-
cious manner and ingratiating speech
won for him high rank.
Though he brought to the White
House experience gained at the Court
of St. James and in what in his day
was known as “the American House of
Lords,” Mr. Buchanan signally failed
as President. He failed as President
because he imagined that things could
be done at the White House by means
that are effective at diplomatic courts
or in some legislative assembly, be-
cause he lacked hard-headed common
sense and driving courage.
Promoted from the Senate to the
Presidency, Mr. Buchanan’s adminis-
tration showed that the Senate is none
too good a training school for the
fashioning of Presidents.
It has recently been pointed out in
extenuation of Mr, Harding’s short-
comings as President that the public
should not forget that for years he
was “exposed to the debilitating in-
fluence of the United States Senate.”
This point is not lacking in pithiness.
It is probable that the man from Lan-
caster would have made a better Pres-
ident than he was had he not been
handicapped by Senatorial tradition
and viewpoint.
Asperities growing out of political
controversy in Buchanan’s day have
now happily passed away. Pennsylva-
nia’s only son to become President
was in more ways than one an admira-
ble figure. Like Van Buren, he was a
bachelor, and had not a little of the
bachelor’s distinctive charm. Consid-
erateness that is often drained by de-
mands of the domestic circle was pro-
fusely expended by each of these two
men upon those met by the way as he
passed through life.
A memorial worthy of James Bu-
chanan’s gracious spirit . might well
long ago have been erected in his hon-
or.—Exchange.
OAK HALL.
Glenn Zong purchased a new Ford
car last week.
Mrs. W. E. Homan was a visitor in
Tyrone several days last week.
Miss Margaret Ferree, who had been
on the sick list last week, is improv-
ing at this writing.
Merchant and Mrs. R. J. Lowder
are receiving congratulations on tht
birth of a daughter.
Mrs. Forest Evey and Mrs. George
Bohn, of Lemont, visited in this viein-
ity one day last week.
Mrs. E. C. Rodle visited several
days last week with her daughter and
parents in Millersburg.
William Raymond, our local coal
and grain dealer, went to Osceola
Mills last week in search of coal.
Miss Sarah Gilliland returned home
recently, after spending several
weeks with relatives in Punxsutaw-
ney.
Mr. and Mrs. George Lohr and fam-
ily and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Frazier,
of Linden Hall, were visitors at the
Zong home in this place, on Sunday.
Elwood D. Zong, who has been laid
off from his work at the Lime and
Stone company for over three months
with a broken ankle, is slowly improv-
ing, and hopes to resume his work in
the near future.
Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
CASTORIA
Bears the signature of Chas, H.Fletcher.
In use for over thirty years, and
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
THE CHILD AND THE BOOK.
Last night, a warm clear summer
evening, I took a stroll up a queer
street in Philadelphia, in an odd tan-
gle of forlorn brick alleys that lie off
one of the oldest squares in the city.
In the hush of the after-supper hour,
with the blue dusk filtering up the
channels of streets, and a burning fe-
ver of color still in the sky far over-
head, I came upon a quiet, clean nar-
row by-way of two-story houses. They
were very neat with woodwork paint-
ed white and tiny white marble steps
on a little causeway of brick pave-
ment. It was quite literally an alley
—a place for walking, no thorough-
fare for vehicles, as the space between
the houses was not over ten feet wide.
There was something about that tiny
street that caught at my heart. Its
humility and its pathetic cleanliness,
its honest simplicity, the muslin cur-
tains at the small windows, still show-
ing the folds of the ironing; the box
of geraniums at one doorway; the lit-
tle green pump in the middle of the
alley where some urchins were play-
ing in the overflow of water.
On the doorstep of one of these
houses I found a little girl reading.
She was, I guess, about nine years old.
All round her, children were playing
noisy games, but she was bent over
her book, absorbed and carried away.
Like any honest bibliophag—or
shall I say librovore—I can never see
any one reading a book without a pas-
sion to find out, by means foul or fair,
what it is. So I stopped and said,
“Well, Sister, what are you reading ?”
“A story,” she said, looking up with
a clear, natural smile, not in the least
frightened or abashed.
“What story ?” I said.
She showed me the book. It was
“Fifty Old Stories Retold.” I didn’t
see the name of the reteller, but the
title of the story in which her small
mind was swimming was “The Three
Other Wise Men of Gotham.” I knew
there had been three Wise Men of
Gotham but these Other Three were
new to me.
I was intensely eager to sit down
beside her and read with her, but I
wah half afraid some one would come
out of the house and think I was a
kidnapper; and also my cursed shy-
ness intervened. ( I am always at a
loss with children, unless I know them
well). So I went on my way, with the
regretful feeling that I was missing a
chance to look into the clear spring of
a child’s mind, and see reflected in
that pure mirror the enchanting out-
lines of wonder and delight.
In the soiled little book she had
shown me was the label of a Public
Library, and I thought that nothing
could ever repay the people who
founded and conducted that library for
the service they were rendering. Here,
in this poor little street, lost in the
heat and strident clamor of a great
city, a child had escaped from the
cage, into the free and wind-clean
open spaces, into fairy land.
Is there anything on earth more
touching than a child reading? The
innocence and completeness with
which the child’s spirit is rendered up
~~ MEDICAL.
Some Good Advice
Strengthened by Bellefonte Exper-
iences.
Kidney disease is too dangerous to
neglect. At the first sign of backache,
headache, dizziness or urinary disor-
ders, you should give the weakened
kidneys prompt attention. Eat little
meat, take things easier and use a re-
liable kidney tonic. There's no other
kidney medicine so well recommended
as Doan’s Kidney Pills. Bellefonte
people rely on them. Here’s one of
the many statements from Bellefonte
people.
Mrs. Boyd Vonada, E. Bishop St.,
says: “Some time ago my kidneys
were In a weak condition. I could
hardly rest at night and during the
day when I was on my feet doing my
housework my back gave out and
ached so I often had to stop and rest.
I frequently had dizzy, nervous head-
aches and my kidneys acted too often.
I used Doan’s Kidney Pills purchasad
at the Mott Drug Co., and they just
suited my case. They rid me of the
backaches, headaches and dizziness.
My kidneys were regulated and I felt
fine.”
60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. 68-5
to the book, its utter absorption and |
forgetfulness, make this a sight that!
always moves me strangely. A child |
does not read to criticize or compare, |
but just in the unsullier joy of finding |
itself in a new world. To see a!
youngster reading in the slums is to
me the most subtly heart-searching
experience I know. And behind every
such child is the heart and brain of
some teacher or librarian that made
the book possible and put it into his
hand. That is one thing that libra-
rians do, and it is the greatest thing
I know.—Christopher Morley.
Toboggans and Skiis are Popular at
Penn State.
With snow and ice constantly on
the ground since early in December,
Penn State students, both men and
women, have become enthusiastic sup-
porters of skiing and tobogganing as
winter sports par excellence. Numer-
ous ski jumps and glides have been
developed and hills surrounding the
college are usually dotted with the
students. That all are not yet pro-
fessionals is attested to by the
scratches, bruises and limps that are
very much in evidence as the students
go to and from classes.
er is
Oldest Living Thing.
The oldest living thing in the wozld
is the cypress in the churchyard of
Santa Maria de Tule, a few miles from
Mexico City. Its age is between five
and six thousand years. It is said to
have been a stripling two hundred
years old when Cheops built the Great
Pyramid. In 1903 the tree was 126
feet in circumference.
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——DMore oxygen is to be found in
the first six feet of the earth’s crust
than in all the atmesphere above.
HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA.
The Economy of
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Appeals to every family in these
days. From no other medicine can you
get so much real medicinal effect as
from this. It is a highly concentrated
extract of several valuable medicinal
ingredients, pure and wholesome. The
dose is small, only a teaspoonful three
times a day.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a wonderful
tonic medicine for the blood, stom-
ach, liver and kidneys, prompt in giv-
ing relief. It is pleasant to take,
agreeable to the stomach, gives a
thrill of new life. Why not try . 2 5
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cheapest “Dodger” to the finest
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that we can not do in the most sat-
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consistent with the class of work.
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office.
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are offering
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4 dozen Clothes Pins, 10c.
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Great Mid-Winter
Clearance Sale
Extraordinary Values mark the Closing
Days of our Great January Sale.
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“Air-Way” Electric Cleaner
Regular Price $50.....at $38.00
Who will be the Lucky Buyer ?
Vacuum Sweeper, regular price $7.50—now, $3.79
Carpet Sweeper, regular price 3.50—now, 2.25
6 quart Aluminum Berlin Kettle, regular price $2.00—now, $1.33
5 quart Aluminum Tea Kettle, regular price $3.00—now, $1.69
1} quart Sauce Pan (Aluminum) regular price 70c.—now, 49c.
10 quart Wooden Pail, regular price $1.00—now, 43c.
1 bottle Furniture Polish, regular price 50c—now, 33c.
One Lot of No. 01047 Wire Fencing (slightly damaged)
Must Go at Any Price
The Potter-Hoy Hardware Co.
! trusted to his care.
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ATTORNEY’S-AT-LAW.
ELINE WOODRING — Attorney-at-
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices in
all courts. Office, room 18 Crider’s
Exchange, 51-1y
N B. SPANGLER — Attorney-at-Law.
Practices in all the courts. Con-
Office in Crider’s Exchange, Bellefonte,
a. 40-22
sultation in English or German.
P:
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KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt at-
tention given all legal business en-
Offices—No. 5 East
High street. o7-44
M. KEICHLINE — Attorney-at-Law
and Justice of the Peace. All pro-
business will receive
prompt attention. Office on second floor of
Temple Court. 49-5-1y
G. RUNKLE — Attorney-at-Law.
Consultation in English and Ger-
man. Office in Crider’s Exchange,
Bellefonte, Pa. 98-5
fessional
PHYSICIANS.
R. R. L. CAPERS,
OSTEOPATH.
State College
Bellefonte
Crider’s Exch. 66-11 Holmes Bldg.
S. GLENN, M. D. Physician and
Surgeon, State College, Centre
county, Pa.
Office at his resi-
dence. 35-41
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1916. It makes Insurance Com-
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Reduce Insurance rates.
It will be to your interest to
consult us before placing your
Insurance.
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neem
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Get the Best Meats
You save nothing by buying poor
thin or gristly meats. I use only the
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
and supply my customers with the
freshest, choicest, best blood and mus-
cle making Steaks and Roasts. My
prices are no higher than the poorer
meats are elsewhere.
I always have
—DRESSED POULTRY—
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
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High Street, 34-04-1y Bellefonte, Pa,