Bema ican
Bellefonte, Pa., August 3, 1923.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
Don’t forget to get ready early
for the Business Men’s picnic on
Thursday, August 16th.
Last Friday night’s rain has
raised all the springs and streams in
Centre county. Spring creek had a
two foot flood while Buffalo run was
over the banks.
———The regular six weeks’ summer
course for teachers at State College
closed last week, although quite a
number remained to complete the
eight weeks’ course.
— Thomas William Talbert
Thompson, of Fayette county, sched-
uled for electrocution at Rockview
next Monday, has been granted a res-
pite until Monday, October 8th.
——Mr. and Mrs. George F. Reiter
entertained very delightfully, Friday
night, at their apartments in the Belle-
fonte Academy, their guests being the
entire staff of nurses at the hospital
and the Red Cross nurse.
Eight carloads of members of
the West Virginia Poultry associa-
tion took dinner in Bellefonte on Tues-
day, being on their annual tour to
Storrs, Conn., the great poultry rais-
ing section of the New England
States.
——The Central Pennsylvania Mil-
lers’ association was organized on
Monday at a meeting of millers from
Centre, Clinton and Lycoming coun-
ties. C.Y. Wagner, of Bellefonte,
was elected president, and A. K. Ulsh,
Bellefonte, secretary.
Miss Elizabeth Saylor, who has
held the position of book-keeper in the
Beezer meat market for eight years,
has resigned and will leave there the
middle of the month, Miss Helen Bee-
zer, the younger daughter of Philip
Beezer, wil ltake the position vacated
by Miss Saylor.
A picked team of Bellefonte
ball players went to Hecla park on
Sunday afternoon and played the Heec-
la nine, winning by the score of 8 to 0.
The game was played as a benefit for
Samuel Weaver, a regular player on
the Bellefonte league team, who is at
his home at Pleasant Gap recovering
from a broken leg, and the collection
taken up amounted to a little over one
hundred dollars.
——With a deadlock on between the
anthracite coal miners and operators
the outlook for a supply of hard coal
in Bellefonte this winter is not very
encouraging. And very few people in
Bellefonte have been able to lay in a
supply this summer because of the
fact that comparatively little hard
coal has been shipped into Bellefonte, |
although operators have promised
more liberal shipments during the
month of August.
——Some unknown individual on
Saturday or Sunday night threw
stones through two of the windows in- !
to the offices of the Bellefonte Central |
Railroad company, in the “Watchman” |
office building, breaking two large i
panes of glass. Inasmuch as the’
stones were evidently thrown from the :
east side of Spring creek it is a fore-
gone conclusion that it was not the
work of mischievous boys but the de-
liberate act of some one old enough to
know better.
Fred C. Buck and Harry
A. Thompson have been recommended
by the Civil Service Commission as
eligible to the appointment as post-
master at Tyrone to succeed Al. S.
Garman. Mr. Buck has been assist-
ant postmaster for some years while
Mr. Thompson is the editor and pub-
lisher of the Tyrone Times. Both are
good men but whichever one pulls
down the plum will have to step lively
to keep the office on the plane of effi-
ciency maintained by Mr. Garman.
There is an old saw that when
the wind blows through the oats stub-
bles look for cool nights. Of course
the time of year is almost here for
the cool nights but that will not af-
fect the motion pictures at the Scenic.
In fact it will give more people an op-
portunity to become regular patrons
and see all the good films. The picnic
and dance season will soon be over
‘but the Scenic is the old reliable place
‘of amusement in Bellefonte where
«everybody can always find a good
evening’s entertainment.
Bellefonte friends of Capt.
‘George P. Runkle will regret to learn
that his condition is now so grave that
his death may occur at any time. He
is a victim of bronchial tuberculosis,
with which he has suffered for some
time. In fact he made his last voyage
over six months ago and came to Cen-
tre county, spending some time at
Centre Hall, with the family of J. W.
Runkle. Failing to improve he went
to Camp Devitts, on the mountain
above Watsontown, in February, and
has remained there ever since, gradu-
ally growing weaker, and now his con-
dition is regarded as extremely ecrit-
ical.
Last week Rev. David R. Evans
announced that an effort would be
made at the church services on Sunday
morning to raise enough money to pay
off ithe debt on the Presbyterian
church property, which is in the
neighborhood of $3,400. To an out-
sider this looked like a pretty big un-
dertaking for one day, but pledges in
excess of $3,100 were made or. Sunday
morning and members who were not
present have been canvassed this week
in the hope of increasing that amount
to $4,000. The pledges are nayable
monthly during the ensuing year, but
about one-third of .the amount was
paid in time to deposit it in the bank
RIOT IN CENTRE COUNTY JAIL.
Attempted Jail Delivery Frustrated at
Noontime Yesterday.
Only the bravery of deputy sheriff
Marion Dukeman and her mother,
Mrs. Harry Dukeman, coupled with
the muscular strength of the sheriff
himself averted a daring jail delivery
at the Centre county jail yesterday
noon.
Just at twelve o’clock, in accordance
with the daily custom, Miss Dukeman,
Timpeco Capella and George Farbay,
the latter two trusties, started to take
in the dinner of the sixteen prisoners
incarcerated in the jhil. As Miss Duke-
man unlocked the door and allowed the
trusties to pass through with the food
a man bolted out of the bath-room
and grappled with her. He was able
to push her away from the door and
squirm through himself, although she
very bravely clung to his arm. The
prisoner was Clair Jamison, of New
Castle, one of the three men who es-
caped from the Rockview penitentiary
in June and refused to plead guilty.
In the meantime the other two es-
caped convicts made a rush for the
door when the trusties threw dishes at
them which detained them just long
enough to allow Mrs. Dukeman to lock
the door.
Still clinging to the prisoner who
had gotten out into the corridor Miss
Dukeman screamed for help and the
sheriff, who had just gotten home
from a trip up Bald Eagle valley, ar-
rived on the scene just as the prison-
er broke loose from his daughter. He
immediately turned his attention to
the sheriff and hit him on the head
and on the right hand with a small
iron bar he had evidently broken from
his bed. As he drew back to hit him
again Mrs. Dukeman grabbed the bar
and the sheriff promptly got in a blow
that felled the prisoner. When the
man tore loose from Miss Dukeman
she ran to the office and grabbed a re-
volver, returning to the scene of the
trouble. Her father and the prisoner
were on the floor and fearing for the
former’s safety she shot once through
the floor and then was frightened over
the possibility of having shot her
father. apg
But at that opportune moment the
sheriff had succeeded in thoroughly
subjugating the prisoner and getting
up, jerked him to his feet. In the
meantime the prisoners inside had at-
tacked the two trusties, hitting Ca-
pella three times on the head with an
iron bar, cutting three deep gashes.
By that time the sheriff had his man
back in jail and when he went inside
the riot subsided.
The three secaped convicts, Clair
Jamison, of New Castle, Edward Fid-
dell, of Cambria county, and Arthur
Price, of Philadelphia, were kept con-
‘fined in steel cells but an examination
showed that the locks on all the cells
were broken. As the job could not
have been done from the inside it is
| evident that some one of the prison-
I
ers who had the run of the corridor
was in-league with the other three to
the extent of breaking the locks.
It was well on to two o’clock when
order was ‘somewhat restored and the
prisoners all locked in their cells. Ca-
pella was sent to the Bellefonte hos-
pital for treatment; the sheriff had a
patch on his head and his right hand
bandaged and the corridor of the jail
looked like the eve of a battlefield.
Miss Dukeman stated after the riot
that the previous evening she had
been warned by J. J. Johnson, the man
under arrest for fighting in an Emer-
ich bus, and who was taken to Lock
Haven that night, to keep out of the
jail as the prisoners had an iron bar '
and were only waiting an opportunity |
to use it. As her father was away
she was unable to tell him and have
the jail searched. Miss Dukeman al-
so confessed that when she got the re-
volver she would have had no com-
punction in shooting the prisoner who
had attacked her had it not been for
the fear of hitting her father.
In conclusion it might be stated
that it is a safe guess that the three
desperate escaped convicts will be
watched pretty closely during the re-
mainder of the time they are Sheriff
Dukeman’s guests.
Leathers Brothers Arrested on Charge
from Missouri.
A. C. Leathers and T. J. Leathers,
real estate dealers, were arrested at
State College on Tuesday afternoon
by policeman Robert Mingle on advic-
es from St. Louis, Mo., that they are
wanted there for making false repre-
sentations and misleading statements.
Policeman Mingle brought the men to
Bellefonte with commitments to the
Centre county jail but at a late hour
that night they gave bail before jus-
tice of the peace J. M. Keichline in the
sum of one thousand dollars for a
hearing before Judge Quigley, though
the date of the hearing has not been
set.
An officer arrived in Bellefonte yes-
terday from Oklahoma, armed with
papers for the extradition of the two
men. He stated that they were charg-
ed with swindling an Oklahoma man
out of $35,000 and a Missouri man out
of $5,000.
On Sunday afternoon Crider
Rockey, of Bellefonte, on his way to
Lock Haven, collided with the car of
A. C. Kepler, of Pine Grove Mills, on
the state highway near Lamar. Mr.
Kepler was coming up the valley and
had two or more women and a num-
ber of children in his car. One of the
women was cut with flying glass from
the broken windshield but fortunately
no one was seriously hurt. Both cars
were badly damaged. Two cars collid-
ed on the state road near Snow Shoe
Intersection on Sunday but so far as
on Monday.
could be learned no one was injured.
——Chautauqua is over and the
next big event of the season will be
the Business Men’s picnic at Hecla, on
August 16th.
——C. W. Beese, assistant profes-
sor of industrial engineering, and A.
H. Forbes, assistant professor of elec-
trical engineering, at The Pennsylva-
nia State College, attended the sum-
mer course of lectures on electrical en-
! gineering subjects given in the East
Pittsburgh works of the Westinghouse
Electric Co., last week. Twenty-two
college professors from all parts of
the country were in attendance.
——Eighteen Girl Scouts left Belle-
fonte on Monday to join other Scouts
from Snow Shoe and Philipsburg for a
two week’s outing at Camp Philips,
Shawville, along the Susquehanna
river in Clearfield county, where they
will be under the leadership of Miss
Louise Hoffer and Miss Henrietta
Quigley. Included in the Bellefonte
party are Katherine Irwin, Mary Cur-
tin, Jean Blanchard, Sara Bullock,
Betty Musser and Margaret Monsell.
——Borough engineer H. B. Shat-
tuck, of State College, was in town
last Thursday giving the Decker Bros.
the street and pavement grades for the
new garage they are going to build on
Spring street, on the property recent-
ly purchased from the Garman estate.
In addition to the two stories they ex-
pect to erect above ground there will
also be a basement, with a driveway
opening onto High street between the
i present building and the Bush Arcade.
——School attendance officers of
Pennsylvania will gather at The Penn-
- sylvania State College next week for
a conference on the problems connect-
ed with their work, and alas for the
poor school-boy, his days for playing |
“hookey” are surely numbered. All
the latest and approved methods of
‘ corralling the young truant will be
discussed during the week’s gathering
rat State College. There are almost
| 2,000 attendance officers in the State
and a large gathering is anticipated.
———The friends and patrons of Mrs.
{ Jane Carson, nee Jane Crowley, will
be interested in knowing that she has
removed her office for the practice of
massage and chiropody from her tem-
porary location in the Fallon house,
Lock Haven, back to the building. on
Main street, she occupied in that
place, before the fire that burned it
last April. However, instead of being
on the first floor she is now occupying
the second and Bellefonte patrons can
make appointments by Bell phone
378-R.
——Altoona people are making
elaborate preparations for the open-
ing of their new automobile speedway
‘on September 3rd, Labor day. The
speedway, when completed, will be a
! mile and a quarter board oval, built
on the latest and most approved plans,
There will be two main grandstands
and ample parking place for hundreds
of cars. In fact it will have a capac-
ity ranging from 65,000 to 75,000 peo-
ple. The bowl will be completed in
time to permit of preliminary trials
the week before the big races are to
be pulled off. The abandonment of
the Uniontown auto track will leave
| the Blair county track the only one of
“its kind in Pennsylvania.
——The Bellefonte borough audit-
‘ors have completed the audit of the
school accounts for the year 1922-23.
The total expenditures for the year
were over $67,000. Almost twenty
thousand dollars were received from
the State on teachers’ salaries and vo-
cational appropriations, and a little
over eight thousand dollars from tui-
tion for non-resident pupils. Taxes
collected and turned over during the
year amounted to over thirty-eight
thousand dollars. The old bonded
debt of ten thousand dollars was paid
off from the sinking fund, leaving a
balance of over eleven thousand dol-
lars in that fund. All in all, the district
is in better shape financially than it
has been for years.
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——Almost every week stories
reach Bellefonte which indicate that
bears are becoming quite numerous in
Centre county. The latest is a report
from Port Matilda of a monster bear
| that evidently makes his habitat
among the rocks in the foothills of the
Alleghenies and frequently appears on
the mountain road to the consterna-
tion of automobilists. The animal ap-
parently has little fear of passing cars
and will sit on his haunches by the
roadside and watch them glide by. On
the other hand he has manifested no
disposition to molest any individual or
trespass upon the rights of man.
Sportsmen in that locality are endeav-
oring to discover his lair with an eye
to an early capture when the bear sea-
son opens.
sent J. O. Heverly a young ground hog
as a pet. The box in which his hog-
ship was kept was not very secure and
the little animal made its escape.
Thus endeth the first chapter. The
second chapter begins where James
Clark, who lives in the Montgomery
house, on Allegheny street, discovered
that something was working on his
garden at a ruinous rate and blamed
it on the sparrows and other birds.
Young beans, lettuce and cabbage
were destroyed and it was not until
the latter part of last week that Dr.
John Sebring made the discovery that
the despoiler of Mr. Clark’s garden
was not birds but a ground hog, un-
doubtedly the young animal sent Mr.
Heverly as a pet. The episode ended
at noon-time on Monday when Dr.
Sebring shot the ground hog.
——Several weeks ago some one
Harry Badger Had Narrow Escape
from Electrocution.
| Harry Badger, Mr. W. T. Twitmire’s
efficient assistant in his tinning busi-
ness, had a narrow and well-nigh
| miraculous escape from electrocution,
about 12:30 o’clock on Wednesday. He
{was fixing the roof on Clevenstine’s
! bakery and just how the accident hap-
pened is not exactly known as there
were no eye witnesses, but it is pre-
‘sumed he accidentally touched one of
! the live wires which are strung over
the roof and sustained a shock suffi-
cient to knock him down. In falling
he fell against a high tension wire,
carrying 2,200 voltage, but fortunate-
ly the weight of his body was suffi-
cient to break the wire thereby saving
his life. As it was he sustained a bad
burn on the left arm, considerable of
a shock and a severe cut on the head
by falling against the brick coping of
Mott’s drugstore building.
The breaking of the wire naturally
stopped the motors in Clevenstine’s
bakery and also cut off all the service
in that vicinity, and it was not until
the unconscious form of Mr. Badger
lying on the roof of the Clevenstine
| bakery was discovered by Basil Mott,
i and the broken high tension wires
| were seen dangling in the air, that the
I accident was ascertained. Help was
quickly summoned and Mr. Badger re-
moved from the roof. Though uncon-
scious he was alive and was taken to
his home on Bishop street after re-
gaining consciousness. A physician
rendered the necessary treatment and
while he will probably be off duty a
few days there is no likelihood of his
suffering any permanent ill effects as
the result of the accident.
Mr. Badger has been unable to ex-
plain how the accident happened. He
recalls the fact that he was in the act
of removing some old tin from the
| roof and whether in doing so he acci-
dentally got a piece of it against the
wire or whether he stumbled and fell
he does not recall. In fact he could
not remember of having been to his
dinner. His mind, he avers, was an
absolute blank so far as the accident
was concerned.
The wires at that place are .:ot over
four feet above the roof of the build-
ing and Mr. Badger had repeatedly
cautioned Mr. Twitmire to be careful
lest he get against one of them. To
avoid any such accident in the future
the Keystone Power corporation will
raise the wires at that place a suffi-
. cient distance to avoid any like acci-
dent in the future.
‘A Rattlesnake Bite Quickly Kills
! a Rat.
The black rattlesnake in the win-
dow of the Bush house cigar store,
which attracted considerable atten- |
| tion during the six days it remained
| there, was taken away on Tuesday
| morning by Arthur Wilson, the young
man who caught, it. During its im-
| prisonment the rattler did not eat
| anything. Snakes have long been
{ blamed for robbing hen’s nests of eggs
and an egg was put in the show case
with-the rattler but it refused to eat
the egg. Next a ten inch garter snake
| was put in as a tempting morsel but
| the rattler made no attempt to touch
it. Then a lizard and a young bird
{ were placed in the show case but
neither of these tempted his appetite.
On Monday evening a live rat was put
beady eyes fairly glittered and before
the rat had time to size up his where-
abouts the rattler struck him, just
once, and in five minutes the rat was
dead. The snake, however, refused to
eat it.
Chautauqua Guarantors Hard to Get.
Notwithstanding the fact that re-
peated efforts were made last week to
secure a sufficient number of guaran-
tors to assure the return of the Swarth-
more Chautauqua next year so few
were willing to put their name on the
paper that the outlook is not very op-
timistic. Miss Frances Maxwell, the
superintendent in charge, spent Fri-
day and Saturday in Bellefonte
in an effort to secure the desir-
ed number of guarantors, but the
best she could do, according to reports,
was seventeen names. One of the men
who was a leader in the Chautauqua
movement this year, declined to sign
up for next year, and stated that for
obvious reasons he believed it best to
drop out of the circuit for a year or
two. From the small number of peo-
ple who were willing to again sign up
as guarantors the sentiment express-
ed by the gentleman referred to above
must be pretty general.
What Will the Poor Farmer Do?
In his rulings on the making and
selling of cider, last week, federal pro-
hibition director Blair advised the far-
mers to use benzoate of soda to keep
the cider from fermenting. Now the
pure food authorities of Pennsylvania
have served notice on the farmers that
the use of benzoate of soda is a vio-
lation of the laws of Pennsylvania and
any one using it will be arrested. Un-
der these circumstances what will the
poor farmer do? He is literally be-
tween the devil and the deep sea. If
he makes cider he can’t sell it without
running a risk of being arrested, and
if he puts anything into it to keep it
he is also in danger of arrest. Verily
the greatest cause of the growing un-
rest among the great majority of peo-
ple today is too much government.
Stover-Meyer Reunion.
The Stover and Meyer families will
hold their annual reunions in Winkle-
blech’s grove, three miles east of
Aaronsburg, on Saturday, August
| 11th.
in with the rattler and it soon became !
evident that he did not like rats. His!
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs. Edward L. Gates and little son,
Edward Jr., arrived in Bellefonte on Sat-
urday for a visit with friends.
—Mrs. 8. W. Smith, of Centre Hall, and
her sister, Mrs. Ray Morgan, of Pittsburgh,
spent part of Tuesday in Bellefonte.
—Mrs. McCarty and her son, of McKees-
port, are visiting in Bellefonte guests of
Mrs. McCarty’s sister, Mrs. S. M. Nissley.
—Miss Winifred M. Gates and Miss Ella
A. Gates were in Williamsport Wednesday
and yesterday consulting Dr. Haskins and
doing a little shopping.
—Mrs. H. C. Valentine went down to
Williamsport Wednesday of last week, re-
maining there with her son and his wife
for an over Sunday visit.
—Mrs. Jared Harper has closed her home
on Thomas street for the present and ac-
companied her son John to Schenectady,
N. Y., where she will remain indefinitely.
—Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Lambert and Mr.
and Mrs. George Kern, of Johnstown, spent
a short time in Bellefonte on Monday on
their way home from a motor trip to
Gettysburg, Harrisburg and Mifflinburg.
—Mrs. Amanda Waite accompanied her
daughter, Mrs. Harry Rhoades, to Wilkins-
burg, Tuesday, expecting to be there for
an indefinite time. Mrs. Rhoades had been
in Bellefonte for the funeral of her broth-
er, the late George Waite.
—Mrs. E. B. Callaway was a guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Hart on the drive to Jer-
sey Shore, Monday, returning home Tues-
day, accompanied by Mrs. Sides, who is
now visiting with Mrs. Callaway at her
apartment in Bush Arcade.
—Miss Pauline Clements left Tuesday to
accept the position as supervisor of one of
the floors in the Altoona General hospital,
going there with Miss Marie Royer, who
is the hospital's head nurse. Both Miss
Royer and Miss Clements are graduates of
the Bellefonte hospital.
—A driving party, including Miss Han-
nah Newman, her sister, Mrs. William
Grauer and several members of Mrs. Grau-
er’s family, Mr. and Mrs. Feinberg, of
Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Sitnek and her two
children drove over from Altoona Friday,
for lunch here and a short visit with Mrs.
Martin Fauble and Mrs. Feinberg's and
Mrs. Sitnek’s uncle, Louis Grauer.
—Mr. and Mrs. Don Cooke, who have
been guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. Iid-
ward C. Cooke, drove here from Boston,
being on a motor trip through Pennsylva-
nia and its adjoining States. Mr. Cooke is
a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Cooke,
"and was born in Bellefonte, living his boy-
hood life here. Miss Jeannette Cooke ar-
i rived home during her uncle's visit and
will remain through the month of August.
—Mr. and Mrs. Yoder, of Unionville, and
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ludwig, of Reading,
| Spent Sunday and Sunday night in Belle-
fonte, visiting with friends of Mrs. Yoder
i and Mr. Ludwig, stopping over while on a
motor trip through this section of the
State. Mrs. Yoder, who before her mar-
riage was Miss Florence Ludwig, and her
brother, are children of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
| tm Ludwig, former residents of Belle-
i
fonte, and lived here while their father was
; associated with the Hicks Bros., one time
| hardware men of the town.
—Thomas M. Watkins, foreman of the
new forty-four K. V. construction line be-
| ing built by the Keystone Power company,
left last week with his family to drive to
| Alexandria, Va., with plans for continuing
| his work in Washington, D. C., where he
has accepted a more lucrative position.
Accompanying Mr. Watkins and his fam-
ily, were his mother and sister, who had
been visiting in Bellefonte.
{ the Bush House, Mr. and Mrs. Watkins had
{ occupied the H. C. Valentine home on west
Curtin street, which they vacated when
leaving Saturday.
—Mrs. Frank Derstine and her two sons
i arrived in Bellefonte Tuesday afternoon
| on their way home from a visit with Mrs.
i Derstine’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Donachy, at Milford, New Hampshire.
| When leaving Juniata they went to Kings-
i ton where they spent a short time with
Mrs. Derstine’s brother, Charles Donachy
|r. whose guests they were for the drive
on into New Hampshire. From here Mrs.
| Derstine returned to Juniata while the
' boys remained with their grandmother,
Mrs. William Derstine, and will go with
her to the country for a visit of several
weeks before going on home.
—Laura Lynn Williams, who came east
with her mother, from Chicago, for the
| funeral of her aunt, the late Mrs. M. F.
Meehan, held at Centre Hall several weeks
ago, with Martha Geiss, of Bellefonte, and
Ellen Burkholder, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Morris Burkholder, of Centre Hall,
left Wednesday for Phillipsburg, N. J.,
where they will be members of a house
party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ammon
Burkholder. From Phillipsburg the par-
ty will go to Trenton, for a week at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Person. Mar-
tha Geiss will then continue her visit in
Philadelphia, as a guest of her aunts, Miss
Elsie Geiss and Mrs. Miller, and with her
brother George, who is with the P. R. R.
at Broad street station.
—Mrs. J. E. Ward had as guests the
past week her two sons, Arthur C. and
Harold B. Ward. Arthur has just return-
ed from Havana, Cuba, where he has been
for the past two years representing the
Union Carbide company, but having com-
pleted his work there has been transferred
to New York city. He came to Bellefonte
last Friday and stayed with his mother
until Monday evening when he went to
New York on a business trip, expecting to
return for a longer visit home. Harold
motored to Bellefonte last Thursday from
his home in Morristown, N. J., with Miss
Catherine Barnhart, a sister of his wife,
who was returning to State College after
a brief visit at the Ward home. Harold
also remained until Monday evening.
—Among the out of town people who
were here for the funeral of the late
George H. Waite, last I'riday were: Mr.
and Mrs. George Waite, of Williamsport;
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waite, Lillian, Betty
and Frederick, of Trafford; John Waite, of
Johnstown; Mrs. Harry Rhoades, Wilkins-
burg; Mr. and Mrs. James Sharp and Ruth
Kramer, of Trafford; William Sharp, Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Waite, Clarence Waite,
Mrs. Caroline Merriman, Mrs. Lola Gilman,
Mrs. Clarence Zimmerman and son Bobby,
Mrs. Harry Mingle, Mrs. Clayton Stacht,
all of Tyrone; George Baker, of Birming-
ham; Mrs. Herman Waite, Mr. and Mrs.
John Waite, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. McMurray,
Mrs. Harold Slamp, Mr. and Mrs. Allen
Winner, Mrs. Frank Dawson, all of Al-
toona; Richard Winner, of Mt. Jewett; Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Waite, Vernon Waite, Mr.
and Mrs. Grant Waite, all of Juniata; Mr.
and Mrs. Torrence Hunter, William Hunt-
er, Grace Hunter, Mrs. Laura Stover, Mrs.
Gussie Palmer, of Mill Hall; Rev. Fred
Trafford, of Bethlehem.
After leaving,
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—Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Cherry are en-
tertaining their daughter and grand-
daughter.
—Mr. and Mrs. John Bullock and their
family are spending Mr. Bullock's vaca-
tion at the Grant Hoover farm camp, on
Dix Run.
—Rev. and Mrs. Wilson P. Ard will leave
Sunday afternoon for New Jersey, intend-
ing to spend Mr. Ard’s month's vacation
at Island Heights.
—John Blanchard Esq., returned yester-
day morning from his month’s sea voyage
to the Mediterranean, looking very much
better for the trip.
—Miss Molly Hoffer, of State College, has
been a guest this week of her cousins, Mrs.
A. C. Mingle and Miss Hoffer, at Mrs. Min-
gle’s home on High street.
—Miss Agnes Bayne, who had been
spending some time in Washington, D. ox,
with the Theodore Davis Boal family, has
returned to Boalsburg, and will be there
for the summer.
—Mrs. George Hazel returned home Sat-
urday with Mr. Hazel, from the Clearfield
hospital, very much improved in health,
and is now rapidly convalescing from her
recent operation and illness.
—The Misses Louise and Eleanor Barn-
hart, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. James XK.
Barnhart, of Linn street, departed on Sat-
urday, for a visit of a month with their
aunts in Punxsutawney and Seward.
—Mrs William A. Kirby and her son,
William Jr., arrived in Bellefonte Wednes-
day evening, to be here until September,
with Mrs. Kirby's mother and sister, Mrs.
Hammon Sechler and Miss Anna Sechler.
—Miss Marian Harm, of Snow Shoe, and
Miss Elizabeth Rice, of Northumberland,
returned to their homes on Wednesday
after visiting for several days with Misdes
Louise Taylor, Elizabeth Hunter and May
Crider.
—Dr. Joseph Brockerhoff and his neph-
ew, Henry Brockerhoff, with Harry Keller
and Robert F. Hunter as driving guests,
are on a ten day's drive through New
York State and in Canada, along the St.
Lawrence.
—Francis Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs.
F. H. Thomas, of Bellefonte, is just now
enjoying a delightful vacation, being on a
twenty day’s voyage through the Caspian
sea as the guest of Mr. John B. Stetson,
of Philadelphia.
—The Misses Nan and Mary Hoy, of
north Spring street, have been at Wyn-
burne for a week visiting the Sommer-
villes. It has been their custom for years
to spend three weeks of the summer with
their cousins in Clearfield county.
—DMr. and Mrs. A. J. Benson, with their
two children, and Mr. and Mrs. Cole and
their family, who have been house guests
for two weeks of Mr. and Mrs. Christ
Beezer, at their home along Spring creek,
left yesterday to return to Pittsburgh.
—Mrs. George N. VanDyke, of Wilkins-
burg, is making one of her occasional vis-
its home, being a guest of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Noll, both of whom are at
present in their normal health. Mr. and
Mrs. Noll have been semi-invalids for some
time.
—The Hollobaugh family, including Mr.
and Mrs. G. W. Hollobaugh, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Hollobaugh, Mr. and Mrs. George
Hollobaugh and their family, with Mr. and
Mrs. Stokes Engle, of Philadelphia, are oc-
cupying the Evergreen club at Wingate,
this week.
—Mrs. Hastings, with Miss Elizabeth
Morris and Miss Grace Cook, returned home
Wednesday night from Cape May, where
they had been occupying a cottage during
the month of July. Mrs. Fleming, of Har-
risburg, and her children, were also mem-
bers of the party.
—Martin A. Dreiblebis and his son
Bruce of State College, were among the
well known men frem over the county who
were business visitors to Bellefonte Fri-
day, having driven over to spend several
hours doing some buying, in addition to
transacting business.
—Miss Alice May Bible and her niece,
Miss Alice Bible, both of New Jersey, have
been visiting in Bellefonte, guests of the
Mr. and Mrs. George Bible family. Mr.
and Mrs. Guy Bible and their family, also
of New Jersey, are expected here tomorrow,
to occupy the Walker-Bible bungalow at
Hecla, for a part of the month of August.
—DMr. and Mrs. McGrew, of Thompson-
ville, Georgia, arrived in Bellefonte this
week for a visit with Mrs. McGrew’s moth-
er, Mrs. Rebecca Stickler, of Bishop street.
Mr. and Mrs. McGrew came north by water,
landing in Philadelphia on the 20th of Ju-
ly; the intervening time having been spent
with Mrs. McGrew’s sister, in Lycoming
county.
—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miller, with their
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Biggs, of Philadelphia, were among Mr.
and Mrs. W. Harry Miller's July guests,
stopping in Bellefonte on a motor trip
through Central Pennsylvania. Mr. and
Mrs. Miller were former residents of Lock
Haven, and spent some time there visiting
with friends.
—Among the relatives who were here
this week for the funeral of the late Mrs.
Louis Doll were, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Strosom, of Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Doll and their three children, of
Altoona, and Louis Doll, of Franklin coun-
ty. Mrs. Strosom is Mrs. Doll's sister
and motored here with her husband, leav-
ing yesterday for the return drive.
—The Misses Sara and Betty Stevenson,
of the Letterman General hospital, of San
Francisco, have been notified that they ar
to leave for the Philippines on the 20th of
September. The Misses Stevenson, who
are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George Ste-
venson, of Waddle, are graduate nurses of
the Bellefonte hospital and have been in
the service of the U. S. government since
the opening of the war, serving during that
time in all parts of the country.
—Mr. and Mrs. Irving Warner enter-
tained a party of their relatives at their
home, Burnham Place, over the week-end.
In the party were Mrs. Warner's father,
F. G. Tallman, vice president of the E. I.
DuPont de Nemours Co., and her sister,
Mrs. Thomas W. Miller, with her husband
and their son Thomas Lloyd Miller. Col.
Miller is the Alien Property Custodian,
having succeeded A. Mitchell Palmer in
that important position. The visitors mo-
tored here from Wilmington, Del, on Fri-
day and returned Sunday evening.
‘Addition] Personals on Page 4 Column 4.
Bellefonte Grain Market,
b
Corrected Weekly by C. ¥. Wagner & Co.
Wheat - = ire - $1.00
Corn - - - - - - 90
Rye - - - - - - 90
Oats - wim aw - - .50
Barley - - - - - = 60
Buckwheat - - - = w- a inT3