Bellefonte, Pa., August 10, 1923.
Country Correspondence
ftems of Interest Dished Up for the
Delectation of “Watchman” Read-
ers by a Corps of Gifted
Correspondents.
PINE GROVE MENTION.
J. T. Mayes, of Medina, Ohio, is vis-
iting at the home of Charles Smith.
J. S. Miller and wife spent Satur-
day afternoon with friends in town.
Bear in mind the Harvest Home pic-
nic to be held at Pine Hall tomorrow.
James Kustaborder and wife visit-
ed some of the sick in town on Sun-
day. :
Mrs. Roy Gates, of Lewistown, is
now convalescing from a very serious
illness.
Elmer Barr, a surgical patient at
the eGisinger hospital, is slowly con-
valescing.
Mrs. W. H. Musser, of Bellefonte,
was a recent visitor at the Dr. G. H.
Woods home.
Mr. and Mrs. John Durner, of Boals-
burg, were recent visitors at the W. E.
Johnson home.
Verna Fleming, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Fleming, is ill with
throat trouble.
Owing to the wet weather of the
past two weeks considerable grain is
sprouting in the shock.
Mrs. Clark, of Oil City, is making a
week’s visit with her sister, Mrs. J. T.
Fleming, in the Glades.
J. P. Wilson, a well known business
man of Johnstown, spent Sunday at
the Hoh. J. Will Kepler home.
Mrs. Leah Dunlap Musser, of Phila-
delphia, is spending her annual vaca-
tion among her home folks here.
The Modern Woodmen band, of
State College, gave a sacred concert
in the Academy grove, on Sunday.
It is rumored among the soap box
orators that Luther Sunday and fam-
ily will soon move from State College
to our town.
Rev. John S. English, pastor of the
Lutheran church, with his family, is
spending his summer vacation at Wil-
liamsport, Md.
Mrs. Thomas G. Brett and daughter,
Miss Marjorie, were callers at the
Ward home on Monday en route to
State College.
Mrs. J. M. Kepler and daughter,
Mrs. Florence Mead, of Maryland,
were callers at the Charles Smith
home on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Krupp, of
Lancaster, Ohio, are spending a week
at the home of their son-in-law, Prof.
Krout, in thi splace.
E. C. Musser and wife and James I.
Reed and wife attended the William
C. Hoover funeral at Boalsburg on
Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Mary Brouse, who has been
laid up the past month as the result
of a fall, is slowly improving under
the careful nursing of Mrs. Condo.
Frank Armstrong, who twenty-five
years ago went to Oklahoma and is
now enrolled among the oil kings of
that section, greeted old friends here
on Sunday.
Rev. H. N. Walker, wife and son
Ralph, of Bellwood, spent Monday
with relatives in town and will spend
most of the pastor’s vacation among
their former parishioners at Milroy.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Waite and son,
of Halfmoon township, motored here
on Sunday and spent the day at the
J. E. McWilliams home. Mr. Waite
has been an invalid for several years.
On Thursday evening of last week
Mrs. John Keller gave a party in hon-
or of Pearl Bloom, twelve year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Bloom,
the guests including the members of
her Sunday school class.
J. H. McCracken and sister Mary;
J. Milo Campbell, wife and two
daughters; I. 0. Campbell, wife and
son Don; Miss Bertha Campbell and
Robert Koch composed an auto party
that left on Friday for a trip to Buf-
falo and Niagara Falls. :
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lytle and
daughter Neda motored up from Mif-
flinburg on Sunday and spent a short
time at the A. L. Bowersox home.
Miss Lytle is one of the efficient op-
erators in the Bell exchange at State
College and had spent her vacation at
home.
Mrs. G. W. Ward, of Pittsburgh, ac-
companied by her niece, Mrs. Anna
Bradford, of Perry, Kan., visited the
Ward sisters on Sunday. They left
on Monday for Ocean City, N. J., and
will also take in the sights of Phila-
delphia, Baltimore and Washington
before returning home.
The most interesting ball game of
the season was held on the Anderson
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Demoreaic atc
field, last Saturday afternoon when
the Petersburg nine crossed bats with
our local huskies. An unusually large
crowd was in attendance and the game
was clean cut and hard fought
throughout, but the visitors met their
first defeat in two years, the score be-
ing 3 to 2 in favor of our boys. Ac-
cording to all reports quite a sum of
long green changed hands as the re-
sult of the game. The visitors were
entertained at Bell’s Inn, in the grove
near town.
AARONSBURG.
Mrs. Josiah Rossman spent the past
week with her sister, near Penn’s
Cave.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stover, daughter
Flossie, and Marian Weaver, motored
to Lock Haven on Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Orwig, two
sons and small daughter, of Northum-
berland, have been guests of Mrs. Or-
wig’s parents during the week.
Sunday afternoon Mr. and Mrs.
George R. Stover and son, of Mifflin-
burg, and Mrs. Simon R. King and
daughter Vera, of Nanticoke, made a
brief call at the Thomas Hull home.
Wednesday of last week Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Eisenhauer, Mrs. Alice Ei-
senhauer, Mrs. Harry Homan and son
Stanley motored to Williamsport
where they spent the day with friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stover and
daughter Elizabeth, of Dauphin, and
Miss Marian C. Stover, of Harrisburg,
are spending their vacation with their
parents, ’Squire and Mrs. A. S. Sto-
ver.
Sunday afternoon J. P. Condo, Miss
Lucretia Cordo, Mrs. Mary E. Breon
and Miss Jennie Hull, as their guest,
motored to Centre Hall and made a
brief call at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Strohmeier.
Mr. and Mrs. George S. Cunning-
ham have had as a guest during the
week Mr. Cunningham’s cousin, Chas.
Miller, of Philadelphia. Miss Marga-
ret Cunningham, a student in the Cen-
tral State Normal school, Lock Haven,
spent the week-end with her parents.
During the past week J. C. Condo
entertained the following guests: His
two grand-children, John and Rachael
Bowersox, of Baltimore, Md.; his
brother, J. F. Condo and Rev. Kitch-
en, of Howard. Mrs. Perry Breon, of
Illinois, formerly of Centre Hall, was
the guest of Mrs. Breon, at the Con-
do home.
On Sunday, while on the way to
church, Mrs. Hattie Grenninger be-
came suddenly ill with convulsions.
Dr. C. S. Musser was quickly summon-
ed and was prompt in doing all pos-
sible for her relief. She is in a ser-
ious condition but her neighbors are
doing all possible for her and hope she
may soon recover.
Saturday, the 11th, the P. O. of:
A. will hold their annual festival in
this place. The ladies of the camp
hope for favorable weather and the
patronage of the public. On Satur-
day, the 18th, the Sunday schools of
Haines township will have their annu-
al picnic in H. S. Winkleblech’s woods,
east of town. Everybody is invited to
go and take their basket of dinner.
AXE MANN.
Mr. William Martin has been on the
sick list a few days this week.
The Axe Mann Sunday school mo-
tored to Crystal Spring park, last Sat-
urday, where they held their annual
picnic. All had a very enjoyable time.
Bond White, our enterprising mer-
chant, is progressing very rapidly
with the.filling and rest station heis
having erected opposite his home. It
will only be a short time until he will
be able to supply the public with the
best kind of oil and gasoline.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hughes, of
Yeagertown, were visitors at the home
of George Hughes and family a few
days last week. This week their
grand-son, Melvin Miller, with his
cousin, Harry Smith, of Lewistown,
are guests of Melvin’s grand-parents.
Mrs. E. L. Culver, of DuBois, is vis-
iting at the home of her sister, Mrs.
William Johnstonbaugh. Her husband
accompanied her here but has return-
ed home, while Mrs. Culver will re-
main for some time. Their sister,
Mrs. Frank Barron, left Tuesday for
her home in Altoona, after sepnding
almost three weeks at the hospitable
home of Mr. and Mrs. Johnstonbaugh,
their old homestead.
RUNVILLE.
Burtus Witherite, of Osceola Mills,
visited his parents last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Bennett spent
Monday afternoon at State College.
Charles Rodgers and Edward Lucas
spent Monday at Tyrone, at the home
.of Roy Rodgers.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Witherite, of
Connellsville, visited with Mrs. Alice
Rodgers, last week.
Miss ‘Byrl Walker, of Snow Shoe,
spent Sunday night with her aunt,
Mrs. Earl Kauffman.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Johnson and
Helen Kauffman spent Sunday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank McKin-
ley, at Milesburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence McComas
and little daughter Doris, of Balti-
more, autoed to this place on Monday
and spent the week with Rev. and Mrs.
G. A. Sparks.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Piper and fam-
ily, of Howard; Miss Viola Fahr and
Dr. Caldwell, of Pittsburgh; Mrs.
Charley Woolford and daughter, of
Tyrone, visited at E. S. Bennetts last
week.
Radium Center of the World.
Pittsburgh is the raidum center of
the world. More radium is turned out
in Pittsburgh laboratories than in all
the rest of the world combined. To
date Pittsburgh has a total output of
100 grams of radium element, as com-
pared with 170 grams produced in the
entire world, including the Pittsburgh
output.
The radium ore is treated in distill-
ed water in the hot saucer-shaped re-
ceptacles. This process is repeated
from 200 to 300 times before the ra-
dium is extracted in as pure a state
as possible.
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SOUGHT TO PRESERVE SOUL
Ancient Egyptians Had Firm Belief
That Another Life Followed “ae
Mortal Career.
When a person of importance dled
in ancient Egypt the embalming
process was soon started. An inci-
sion was made with a stone knife—
for some reason, metal knives were
never used—and the viscera was
drawn out. The brains, too, were re-
moved. The organs were preserved
in jars, which were inclosed in a box
and put into the tomb with the
mummy.
Strong embalming fluids were
poured into the body, which was then
steeped in natron and left for 70 days.
After this it was washed and bound
with strips of the finest flax, strong
gum being used to secure the wrap-
pings.
The mummy was first placed in a
wooden coffin. The later was de-
posited in another coffin, which in
turn was enclosed in a third, shaped
in the form of a human being.
The idea was that the soul was
free to wander through the abodes
. of the dead for a period of about 10,-
000 years, after which it was sup-
posed to return and look for its
earthly body. Transmigration was
‘imagined to have taken place if the
body decayed or was disturbed.
The elaborate precautions taken to
preserve the dead in those far-off days
arose from humble beginnings dating
back thousands of years, when the
dead were dried in the sun and placed
in a vault containing a few flint in-
struments and a pot or two of food
for sustenance of the departed’s soul
on Its journey.
LONG DISUSED, BUT NOT DEAD
Many Parts of the Human Frame
Remain, Though They Are No
Longer Called Upon.
Every person is a walking museum,
a living volume of the history of the
world.
Stand before a mirror and raise
the top lid of one eye. At its corner
you will see a little fold of skin, which
cannot possibly serve any useful pur-
pose. It did once, though, for it is
all that is left of a semi-transparent
third eyelid, such as birds and reptiles
possess, which could be lowered as a
protector when our remote ancestors
were passing through dense under-
growth.
And whilst you are at the mirror
look at. your ears. Just over the en-
trance of each is a little pointed flap,
which can be made to close the ear
if it is pressed backward with the
finger. This was once a regular ear-
shield, useful as a protector in sand
or dust storms, or when its owner
took to the water.
A few people can still move ‘their |
ears Each of us possesses the muscles |-
whose duty it was two thousand years
ago to turn them in the direction of
sounds, or to wag them when flies
were troublesome. Though shrunk to
tiny remnants through long disuse,
these muscles remain,
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Lake of Fire Ever Active.
The great spectacle of Halemaumau,
popularly known as the “Lake of Ever-
lasting Fire,” in Hawaii National park,
is again to be seen. In May, 1921, the
boiling lava rose slowly until within
40 feet of the rim of the crater. Then
earthquakes opened subterranean
vents and the surface subsided at the
rate of a foot an hour until the whole
lake disappeared, leaving a rumbling
smoking chasm 1,000 feet deep and
nearly 2,000 feet across. During this
sinking the walls of the pit, lacking
the support of the living lava, began
to collapse, During the subsidence the
old craters of Makapuhi and Napau
became active, but did not continue
long. They are now dried out again.
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No Spouts.
Bight-year-old Frances has
taught by her parents the art of keep-
ing a secret and it irritates her to be
suspected of telling anything she. is
asked not to tell. The other day she
was visiting Aunt Grace, who also
had a young lady visitor. Aunt Grace
had warned Frances not to tell the
conversation, so she began to talk of
things which were secrets when the
visitor looked at Frances and sald:
“Little pitchers sometimes have big
ears, my dear.”
Frances looked back at her. “Yes,”
she agreed lucidly, “but that doesn’t
hurt if they don’t have-any spouts.”
The Bride's Bacon.
“Here's a good one,” said the man,
as he opened his desk. “Just heard a
young bride telling a friend that her
first breakfast in her new home was
a failure, because she had put too
much lard in the bacon.” “That's not
so bad,” said the business woman.
“Friend of mine once told me that the ||
doctor's order that she eat more
breakfast meant that she would either
have to get up earlier in the morning
or fry the bacon the night before, as
she understood it took a long time to
cook pork.”—Detroit News.
Happy Condition,
There are elderly people who feel
that they have never quite grown up.
They are afflicted (oh, pleasant af-
fiction) with what may be termed the
malady of youth, Even so eminent a
person as James Russell Lowell ap-
parently felt this way about himself,
for one day while passing an institu
tion bearing the sign, “For Incurable
Children,” he remarked to his com-
panion, “There is where I belong.”
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BOALSBURG.
Mrs. William J. Wagner is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Ely, at Turbotsville.
E. T. Jamison, of Spring Mills, was
3 business caller in town on Wednes-
ay.
ar: and Mz be Johnson, of Dan-
ville, were week-end guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Fisher.
The Showers and Miller families, of
Madisonburg, spent Sunday at the
home of A. J. Hazel.
Mr. Samuel Glenn, of Slab Cabin,
spent Saturday night at the home of
Leonidas Mothersbaugh.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Charles _enjoy-
ed a motor trip to Reading on Friday,
returning Monday morning.
. Mrs. Ezra Breon and family arrived
in town Monday to visit Mrs. Breon’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lee.
"Squire and Mrs. J. F. Zechman and
son Cyril motored to Johnstown on
Friday to visit friends, returning on
Saturday evening.
The Sunday schools
of the town
were well represented at the 9th dis-
trict Sunday school picnic at Hecla
park on Thursday.
Mrs. Irvin Johnson, of Crafton, is
visiting her mother, Mrs.
Woods. Mrs. Lucretia Johnson and
daughter, Miss Mary, are also visitors
at the Woods home.
The funeral of Mr. William Hoover,
of Altoona, formerly a resident of
Shingletown, was largely attended by
relatives and friends. The services in
the Presbyterian church were conduct-
ed by Rev. Max Kirkpatrick, burial
being made in the Lutheran and Re-
formed cemetery.
While driving from Pine Grove
Mills to fill his appointment at Pine
Hall, on Sunday, Rev. S. C. Stover’s
car skidded on the state road and over-
turned, resulting in a severe shaking
up and some bruises for the minister,
and a badly damaged car. However,
the pastor was able to fill has appoint-
ment.
DEMAND FOR FARM
LABOR IN EXCESS.
Harrisburg.—In the acute shortage
of farm laborers which was forecast
as inevitable had developed, applica-
tion for workers to the State employ-
ment offices of the Department of La-
bor and Industry fail to indicate it.
With the exception of the Pittsburgh
office which forecasts an unusual
shortage and Philadelphia where some
farm workers are needed there is ap-
parently little demand for them.
The report of the Reading office in-
dicates that not only the demand but
the supply of such workers is very
corm
sent
light. Under “agriculture” that. office
reports:
“There have been no calls for farm
labor in the past two weeks. One man
aprlied as farm hand but did not re-
ma n in the city long enough to be
placed.”
The Pittsburgh office says the de-
mand for farm help of all kinds is
still in excess of the supply. The
Philadelphia office, however, attrib-
utes the small demand for farm work-
ers to the fact that the farmers real-
ize the hopelessness of obtaining com-
petent labor and are attempting to do
it themselves.
The farmerette movement which
proved so popular in Sunday supple-
ments during and shortly after the
war, apparently has died out entirely.
The Philadelphia office, which main-
tains a separate employment service
for women, reports under “agricul-
ture: Nothing for women at present,
even the demand for domestics on
farms is reported to be not so great
as formerly.
The common labor and clerical sit-
uation apparently is little changed
from that of two weeks ago. Some
sections of the western part of the
State still report a shortage of labor
but in the majority of cities there ap-
A. | parently is an ample supply because
of a general curtailment of building
and construction activities. All of the
offices report a surplus of electrical
workers and a constantly decreasing
demand.
Several cities report shortage of
workers in metal and machinery lines.
A majority of the workers needed at
such places are for positions requiring
experienced men.
Real Estate Transfers.
Linda D. Haines, et bar, to Laura
M. Vail, tract in Rush township; $500.
May Kennedy McCullough to Frank
Maxler, tract in Centre county.
Albert J. Fleckenstein, et ux, to
Flora A. Jones, tract in Philipsburg;
$525.
Mary Dunham, et al, to W. E. Rog-
ers, tract in Philipsburg; $3,000.
William F. Zeigler, et ux, to James
A. Wert, tract in Haines township;
$100.
David M. Ellis, et ux, to Thomas
Dugan, tract in Rush township; $1.
Stanley Mizko, et ux, to George
ik tract in Rush township;
N. W. Neidigh, et ux, to J. D. Nei-
digh, tract in Ferguson township;
$1,500.
Philipsburg Coal & Land Co., to
John D. Ceislar, tract in Rush town-
ship; $120.
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ATTORNEY’S-AT-LAW.
EKELINE WOODRING — Attorney-at-
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices in
Office, room 18 Cridery
Exchange.
B. SPANGLER — Attorney-at-Law.
Practices in all the courts. Con-
sultation in English or German.
Office in Crider’'s Exchange, Bellefonte,
Pa. 40-22
all courts.
KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt at-
tention given all legal business en-
trusted to his care. Offices—No. 5 East
High street. : 97-44
M. KEICHLINE — Attorney-at-Law
and Justice of the Peace. All pro-
fessional 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 Exchan
Bellefonte, Pa.
PHYSICIANS.
R. R. L. CAPERS,
OSTEOPATH.
Bellefonte
Crider’'s Exch. State College
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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Itis good for all your live
stock. Dobbin will work harder
on it, bossy will give more milk,
roosters crow about it in the
same way our little songster
sings over its “growing” quali-
ties. It costs no more than
another kind.
“Quality talks”
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1916. It makes Insurance Com-
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Prevention Safe Guards which
Reduce Insurance rates.
It will be to your interest to
consult us before placing your
Insurance.
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