"Bellefonte, Pa., November 16, 1923.
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Wilson’s Armistice Day Speech.
No utterance of public official or
private citizen within a period of re-
cent years has so stirred the public
mind and conscience of the country as
the brief message delivered by for-
mer President Woodrow Wilson at his
home in Washington on Saturday
evening, in celebration of the anni-
versary of Armistice day. “The an-
niversary of Armistice day,” he said,
“should stir us to great exaltation of
spirit because of the proud recollec-
tion that it was our day—a day above
those early days of that never-to-be-
forgotten November which lifted the
world to the high level of vision and
achievement upcn which the great
war for democracy and right was
fought and won.” ”
But the radiant record of achieve-
ment was subsequently tarnished
when we “turned our backs upon our
asscciates and refused to bear any re-
sponsible part in the administration
of peace or the firm and permanent
establishment of the results of the
war, won at so terrible a cost of life
and treasure,” which, he characteriz-
ed “a sullen and selfish isolation which
is deeply ignoble because manifestly
cowardly and dishonorable.” It was
an expression of the malice which en-
vy had formed in the mind of Henry
Cabot Lodge and was adopted by par-
tisans in the Senate as an instrument
to promote sordid political interests.
It was a sacrifice of humanity and pa-
triotism to bigotry. vi
In “fighting President Wilson” by
preventing the ratification of the cov-
enant of the League of Nations these
partisans won a brief victory, which
is certain to turn into an enduring de-
feat. They have confused the poH-
tics, commerce and industry of the
civilized world and set back the tide
of progress for years. It was a vic-
tory that will cause tears te flow from
eyes of children yet unborn and as
time passes each recurring anniver-
sary of Armitstice day will bring it
fresh to mind and more severe con-
demnation. Woodrow Wilson has tru-
ly said it “must always be a subject
of deep mortification to us” which
*we shall inevitably be forced by the
moral obligations of freedom and hon-
or to retrieve.”
Pennsylvania Day at State College.
That golden tornado which swept
up from the South as the chief at-
traction at the Pennsylvania day ex-
ercises at State College last Saturday
did not prove to be even a stiff breeze
when it struck the gridiron on Bea-
ver field and after the struggle was
over the score read, State 7, Georgia
Tech 0. But the score did not tell
the tale by any means. The visitors
were outclassed by Bezdek’s band and
costly fumbling on the part of the
State players lost them two if not
three more touchdowns.
. The crowd was probably three-
fifths as large as that at the Navy
game three weeks previous, but
among the visitors were hundreds of
young ladies from all parts of the
State, guests at the numerous house
parties held over the week-end. The
day’s program also included a battal-
ion drill by the college cadets and a
soccer contest between the State and
Navy teams, State winning by the
score of 3 to 1.
Alleged Bank Swindler Caught.
Edgar C. McFeaters, of Pittsburgh,
but at one time a resident of Tyrone,
was arrested in Cumberland, Md., on
Tuesday of last week and taken to Al-
toona to answer a charge of unloading
a lot of worthless stock on the First
National bank, at Juniata. McFea-
ters, it is alleged, unloaded over one
hundred thousand dollars’ worth of
worthless stock on banks and private
investors in central Pennsylvania,
among his victims being two banks in
Centre county. He operated rather
extensively in this section some eigh-
teen months or two years ago then
‘suddenly disappeared and although
officers had been on his trail ever
since he was not apprehended until
last week.
County Institute for S. S. Y. P.
Workers.
On Monday afternoon and evening
the young peoples leaders and pastors
of the county will meet in the Meth-
odist church for instruction in Y. P.
work. Miss Esther I. Williams will
be in charge.
——Daniel Heim last week tender-
ed his resignation as superintendent
of the Bellefonte silk mill and has
been succeeded by Clarence Weitzel,
of Shamokin.
Public Meeting for the Hospital
Monday Night.
Come and Have Your Say as to the Future of the
Institution.
For a year or more the present condition and the future service
of the Bellefonte hospital have been discussed, privately, by those
most active in their interest in the institution and publicly in the
newspapers of the county.
Constructive criticism has been very general and all of it has
led the board of managers of the hospital to the conclusion that the
public is interested. Just to what extent the interest manifested will
go is the uncertain element in the matter.
On July 1st, 1902, the petition for a charter for the Bellefonte
hospital was presented to the court. The first meeting of the Board
was held August 5th, 1902. The hospital was then a small brick
building at the rear of the present home of Mrs. Amelia Holz, on
Spring street. It had been built by the late Dr. R. G. H. Hayes as a
sanitorium and after conducting it as a private venture for a short
time he offered it to the community with the result that it was taken
over. Miss Alberta Jones was employed as the first superintendent at
$40 per month, though a Miss Epley acted as temporary superintend-
ent for a short time before the arrival of Miss Jones,
The admission
f the first patient is recorded in a minute dated September 8, 1902,
and Le was an employee of the Amrican Lime and Stone (lo.
Almost at once the board discovered that the quarters of the hos-
pital were inadequate and that steps should be taken to secure a more
commodious building with ground sufficient to permit enlargement
should that be necessary.
In November, 1902, progress in this direc-
tion had been made to the point where two properties were under con-
sideration. One, the James McClain home, on the corner of Curtin and
Armor streets, and the other, the McKee property, the present loca-
tion of the hospital. Then the Cruse property on east Linn street was
offered and its purchase authorized by the board, a deed drawn and
the transfer about completed when the deal was rescinded and the Mc-
. Ke nroperty finally bought on January 1st, 1903.
ile hospital was conducted for two years wholly on funds solic-
ited locally. After that time it applied to the Legislature for aid and
was given a small maintenance allowance.
From that time to the
present it has continued to function, serving all parts of the county
and growing cach day in usefulness, yet lagging in the addition of
facilities with which to meet the growing demands on it.
' © With the loss of nearly half of its annual allowance from the
State has come a problem as to its continued maintenance as well as
a general conviction that material changes in its physical condition
should be made.
Inasmuch as it is a public institution and its board feels that it
should be guided as nearly as possible by the public impulse the ques-
tion of what is to be done in the present emergency is one that should
be taken up with the public.
Accordingly a meeting has been called for the court house in
Bellefonte on Monday night, November 19th. At that time it is hoped
there will be a representative gathering from all districts in the coun-
ty served by the hospital. Then the matter of a drive will be discussed
openly and frankly.
Nobody will be asked for subscriptions, but
everybody will be asked to express his or her opinion of the practica-
bility of a drive.
“In order that all may have a clear idea of what is under considera-
tion before thev come to the meeting we might add that several weeks
ago a special committee was appointed to make a survey of the hos-
pital as to its needs for increased efficiency and more economical op-
eration.
That committee secured the advice of a very high authority on
hospital operation, Mr. Henry C. Wright, of New York, who came here
and after a thorough examination of the institution made quite 2
lengthy report. This report was unanimously endorsed by the com-
mittee and sent to the board of managers with the recommendation
that it be adopted and acted upon at once.
The board approved the report in principle, but with the reserva-
tion that its approval be not final until the public had been fully taken
into its confidence and acquainted with the meaning of the whole
movement.
Will you come to the meeting Monday night? It is your hospital.
You should say what in your judgment is best to be done with it. You
should be as frank with your board as it is being with you.
Read Mr. Wright's report below and get your own ideas as to
what is under consideration.
nt a portion of Wednesday, Octo-
hg Yih, Joh, examining the existing
plant of the Bellefonte hospital, and there-
after made a verbal report to the Board of
Managers, which in substance is here in-
corporated :
lowing major defects:
1. Location of Administrative Office.
FINDINGS.—The hospital is administer-
ed with considerable difficulty and loss of
motion owing to the fact that the admin-
istrative office is on the ground floor, on
which there are no patients. The ambu-
lance entrance is on the first floor, on
which floor also is the operating room,
and patients are on the first, second and
third floors. . wy
A superintendent in na small hospital
must supervise practically everything, and
> : i f the superintendent :
the effort required o I | stretchers.
in going from her office on the lower floor
to the ambulance. entrance, operating
rooms, and patients on the various floors,
is very taxing.
RECOMMENDATIONS. The adminis-
trative office, particularly in a small hos-
pital, should be so located that the super-
intendent, without moving from the office.
can keep track on the major operations of
the hospital, such as the coniing of visit-
ors. the arrival of patients, whether walk-
ing or by ambulance, the preparation for
operations, the easy access to the various
services for patients, :
To fulfill these conditions, it would be
necessary in the Bellefonte hospital to lo-
cate the administrative office on the first
floor.” The operating room is located at
the rear of the hosnital, adiacent to the
one rear entrance. The public should not
be allowed to come in by this entrance,
nor should ambulance patients be brought
in there. It would not seem practicable to
relocate the operating room or the X-rav
room, and without a relocation it would
seem necessary to create a .new entrance
to the hospital on the first floor. I would
accordingly recommend that an adminis-
trative office be created in the space now
occupied by the drug and bath rooms. and
that an entrance proch he built in front
of this administrative office and adjoin-
ing the end of the male ward, and an en-
trance door be cut through from this porch
into what is now the male ward, and that
ward nwsed as f# waiting room. A door
could then be cut from the waiting room
into the administrative office, with clear
glass in the door for observation. Also,
put glass panels in the other two sides of
the ndministeative office. so that there
mav he observation on four sides of the
office. The office thus located would be
well centralized in a position to control
all entrances to the hospital. and the
movement to the operating room. I would
recommend closing the present front en-
trance. y .
2. Ambulance Entrance. 3
FINDINGS. At the present time, all
ambulance patients are brought into the
door ‘whieh i= at the rear of the corridor
adjacent to the operating room. Not fre-
quently there come with these ambulance
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The existing hospital plant has the fol- : movements that may take
patients, friends and relatives. The pa-
tient and those who may be with him,
thus come in adjacent to the operating
room, and may encounter the various
lace in and out
of the onerating room. his is very ob-
| jectionable.
RECOMMENDATIONS. No one not di-
rectly connected with the operating pro-
cedure should be allowed in the vicinity
of an operating room. To obviate this
difficulty, I recommend that the X-ray
room be removed from its present posi-
tion, and a door cut into the outer wall of
the space now occupied by the X-ray and
this space used ax an ambulance admit-
ting room: and that a doorway he ent
through into the hall in the rear which
will connect with the corridor in the hos-
pital, making free passage for wheel
This lack of entrance would
pass the rear of the administrative office.
3 X-Ray Laboratory.
FINDINGS. The X-ray
limited in size:
room is too
Plate work can be done
with a fair degree of ease, but fluoroscop-
ic and treatment work would be difficult
to carry on. Larger facilities are needed.
RECOMMENDATIONS. The X-ray lab-
oratory, removed from its present position,
I would recommend he placed in the room
now used as the administrative office, with
dark room facilities in a portion of the
room now occupied as a store room across
the corridor. the remaining portion of that
room to be used as an drug room in place
of the drug room which would be displac-
ed by the removal of the administrative
office.
4, Utility Facilities. :
FINDINGS. What is ordinarily termed
“ntilitv facilities” in a
facilities for sterilizing utensils, making
poultices. soaking out linen, washing
rloves, caring for solutions, ete., are very
inadenunte in this hospital. The lack of
such facilities makes the work much hard-
er for the nurses, and involves considera-
ble loss of time
RECOMMENDATIONS. The inadequate
utility service can be overcome by putting
a utility room in a new wing to be ree-
ommended, which will be of service on the
first floor. On the second floor, take one
of tho bath rooms and transform it into
a utility room by the installation of a
hospital, that is,
utensil sterilizer; replace the present lav-
atory with a sink, with ample drain-
hoards; install a two-hole gas plate, and
provide cupboard space for solutions and
supplies.
No recommendation js made for. the
third floor utility room en thé supposition
that patients will be removed from that
floo=.
Kitchen. Loi
FINDINGS. The kitchen’ facilities, and
the means for distributing food are very
inadequate, involving an undue amount of
labor withont the satisfactory result of
od condition. ; :
RECOMMENDATIONS. There is no ad-
getting .the food to. the patients 18.8 heat.
equate-space in the existing hospital for
a kitchen. It seems necessary to build a
new structure which will include a kiteh-
en on the ground floor, with services on
the other floors to ‘be referred to later.
In order to accommodate a sufficient
number of private rooms, it will be neces-
sary to make this wing 45 to 50 feet long,
and it would be advisable to have it ex-
tended to the northeast, or, on the oppo-
site end of the main building from the
present fire escape. On the ground floor of
this building, place a kitchen, diet kitch-
en, storage rooms for the kitchen, with
new dumbwaiter service by which the food
may be transported to the floors above.
6. Dining Room.
FINDINGS. The nurses at present dine
in the dining room of the wooden build-
ing adjoining the hospital. The dining
facilities are reasonably serviceable at the
present time, while the kitchen is in that
building. If the kitchen be re-located it
will be necessary to re-locate the dining
room.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
to operate but one kitchen. Nnrses should
be fed from this kitchen. For ease of” op-
eration, the dining room should adjoin this
kitchen. I would therefore recommend
that the room on the ground floor now
used as a waiting room be used as a nurs-
es’ dining room. When the new wing is
built, it will adjoin the kitchen. I would
further recommend that the room now
used as a diet kitchen be used as a super-
intendent’s and staff dining room. A door
can be cut through from this dining room
to the corridor, or through the outer wall
sto the kitchen.
9. Children’s Service.
FINDINGS. There is no children’s serv-
ice, and consequently it is necessary to
distribute children more or less among
adults, which is always unfortunate.
RECOMMENDATION. Children cannot
It is advisable
less they are grouped together. They
should not be in wards with adults, and
they need different utility, food and bath-
ing services than are needed by adults.
I would recommend that the first floor
of the new wing. above the ground floor,
be devoted to children (not less than six
beds), maternity (four to six beds) and a
nursery. This groups together classes of
patients which are more or less related
and can be handled as a unit.
8. Private Rooms.
FINDINGS. Conferences with the su-
perintendent, members of the medical
staff, and members of the Board of Man-
agers, seem to indicate that there is press-
ing need for additional private rooms.
RECOMMENDATIONS. To overcome
the shortage in private rooms, I would
recommend that the third or top floor of
the new wing be devoted to private rooms.
Forty-five to fifty feet should accommo-
date six or seven private rooms, depend-
ing upon the space reserved for utility
services and a stairway. This number of
rooms appears to be all that will probably
be needed.
9. Nurses’ Residence.
FINDINGS. The nurses are now housed
in two separate houses, one on the extreme
lower part of the ground, and the other
adjacent to and adjoining the hospital.
The: separation of the nurses into two
groups makes it difficult to properly su-
pervise chem, and’ is objectionable from
everv standpoint.’ Moreover, the wooden
building adjoining the hospital, owing
partly to the fact that it abuts a blank
wall in the hospital, has inadequate light
and ventilation for nurses, and several
nurses are sleeping in one room, with beds
closely crowded together.
RECOMMENDATION.
facilities for nurses
much needed.
Better residence
are obviously very
Nearly all modern nurses’
homes are built with single rooms for
nurses, with appropriate common rooms
which minister to the comfort and cheer
of the nurses. Such facilities cannot be
adequately provided except
building, especially designed. Owing to
lack of funds, it may not be feasible and
advisable for the Bellefonte Board to at-
tempt a new building for a nurses’ resi-
dence. Under these circumstances, it
would be advisable to move the present
building that adjoins the hospital to the
rear portion of the lot, and to reconstruct
it, making as many single rooms as feas-
ible. .
10. Heating Plant.
FINDINGS. The heating plant for the
hospital is so located that a large amount
of” dirt resulting from its operation gets
into the operating rooms and rooms ad-
jacent,
noise developed by the heating plant in
its present location cannot be overcome
as long as it remains where it is. Space
wus provided in the existing laundry and
power house for one or more heating boil-
ers. It would seem advisable to provide
heating facilities at this point as soon as
finances will warrant.
11. Balcony. rue 3
FINDINGS. The patients have no serv-
iceable sun airing balcony. Sueh a facili-
ty is very much needed for the welfare of
the patients.
RECOMMENDATIONS. I would recom-
mend that a balcony with abundant win-
dows that can be opened or closed, be
built on the end of the building now oc-
cupied by the fire escape.
ESTIMATED COST,
A new wing can be built for approxi-
smately $50,000. A new stairway, balcony,
and the various other reconstructions rec-
i ommended, including new furnishings,
., should be covered by an additional $25,000.
| If a new nurses’ home be not built, it
! seems probable that all of the reconstruc-
| tion and new construction I have recom-
! mended in this report would be covered
i by 875,000.
On motion, after full discussion, it
was unanimously resolved as follows:
1st. ~The report of the committee
rand the accompanying report of Mr.
! Henry C. Wright as to the findings
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and recommendations of Mr. Wright, lers and one sister, John W., Nora
: the financial needs for other purposes,
and the total amount of funds need-
ed, meet with the hearty approval of
the Board.
2nd. The President of the Board
is authorized and directed to arrange
with the local newspapers for the pub-
lication of the committee’s and Mr.
Wright’s reports and this resolution,
in the issues of these papers for next
week, and to arrange for and an-
nounce in the local newspapers of’
next week ‘the holding of a public
meeting of the citizens of Centre
county, at a time and place to be fixed
by the president, to consider and pass
upon these reports and, if approved at
this meeting, to consider the best
plans fo; oxzanization of an efficient
drive to raise the needed funds.
3. The final action of the Board
upon the committee’s recommenda-
tions as to the amount of the drive,
and upon the questions involved in
the organization of the drive, is post-
poned until after this public meeting.
Trial List for December Court.
Following is the trial list for the
December term of court as announced
by prothonotary Roy Wilkinson:
George M. Emerick vs. Use of H. S.
Branch Feigned issue, non assump-
sit.
W. F. Case & Sons Mig. Co. vs. H.
L. Flegal. Assumpsit.
Pickering Coal & Clay Co. v=. Cen-
tral Refractories Co. Assump-it.
+ George E. Homan vs. John MT hil-
ips. Replevin.
William P. Bell vs. R. D. Wilron.
Trespass.
I. J. Dreese vs. B. A. Severcool. Re-
plevin.
Thomas W.. Young vs. Samuel Se-
her. Trespass.
." Helen T. Wilson vs: A, T. Sellers.
Trespass.
James H. Cullen vs.
j Rowland. Trespass.
J. Irvin Wagner
"ers. Trespass.
Charles H.
vs. James Leath-
be adequately ‘and properly cared for un-.
in a. new |
$21. COMMENDATIONS. © The, Airt dnd;
DELIGE.—Mrs. Sadie Delige, who
held the record as a long-time patient
in the Bellefonte hospital, having
been taken there shortly after the in-
stitution was opened in 1903, and
been there continuously ever since,
died on Saturday night as the result
of chronic rheumatism, having been
almost helpless for some time past.
She was aged about sixty-five years
but little information could be obtain-
ed about her early life. She always
maintained that for .a number
of years during her young wom-
anhood she was a ring performer
in a well known circus but no data
could be obtained to confirm her story.
According to her story it was while
with the circus that she met and mar-
ried a colored man named Delige.
They had one son, George, who lives
in the west. She is also credited with
having two sisters living in different
portions of Centre county. During
all the time she was in the Bellefonte
hospital her bills were paid by the
county, and the total for her main-
tenance and treatment there ran into
thousands of dollars.
The remains were buried in the
Union cemetery on Tuesday afternoon
at two o’clock, the county commission-
ers officiating as pall-bearers.
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STAMM.—Mrs. Edna S. Stamm,
wife of Frederick Stamm, died at her
home at Millmont on Thursday of last
week following a brief illness. She
was a daughter of Andrew and Su-
san Harter and was born in Marion
township forty-two years ago. In ad-
dition to her husband she is survived
by the following children: John, Nev-
in, Anna, Belle, Robert, Hugh, James,
Philip and Franklin P., all at home.
She also leaves these brothers and
sisters: Mrs. Elias Breon and Mrs.
Lawrence Hile, of Axe Mann; Frank-
lin P., of Louiville, Ky.; Clementine,
of Marion township; Harry E., of
! Bellefonte; Albert, of Renovo, and
, George, of St. Louis, Mo., as well as
| one half-brother and three half-sis-
j ters, namely: Jacob Sharer, of Cen-
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tre Hall; Mrs. Susan Buck, of Nes-
| breth, Pa.; Mrs. Sadie Woomer, of,
| Chicago, and Mrs. Emma Dale, of
{ Lemont. Burial was made at Boals-
burg, on Sunday.
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STERE.—John Cyrus Stere, senior
member of the firm of J. C. & J. B.
Stere, merchants, of Unionville, died
{on Sunday morning as the result of a
stroke of apoplexy, following an ill-
'ness of several years. He was a son
i of John and Ann Eliza Stere and was
born in Clearfield county almost sev-
enty-three years ago. As a young
man, however, he located in Union-
ville and some years ago purchased
the A. J. Griest store which he and
; his son have conducted very success-
fully.
san Blair, at Milesburg, who survives
with the following children: Harry
M. and J. B. Stere, both 6f Unionville,
and Mrs. Victor L. Wagner, of Jersey:
Shore. He also leaves one sister and
two brothers, Mrs. Catherine Amme:r-
man and William Stere, of Union
township, and Philip, of Akron, Ohio.
Burial was made in the upper ceme-
{ tery, at Unionville, on Wednesday
. afternoon.
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SOLT.—Word was received in
! Bellefonte on Tuesday by the Mongan
‘family of the death in Altoona, at
two o'clock that morning, of Dennis
i L. Solt, a son of John L. and Anne
| Daley Solt. After going through a
i siege of typhoid fever double pneu-
| monia developed and his death fol-
‘lowed within a week. He was born
in Bellefonte on July 10th, 1907, hence
:was 16 years, 4 months and 3 days
old. When five years old the family
i moved to Altoona and that had been
his home ever since. For some time
: prior to becoming ill he had been em-
ployed in the transfer department of
j the P. R. R. shops. In addition to his
! parents he is survived by two broth-
"Jane and Ernest, all at home. Burial
i will be made in Altoona this (Friday)
i morning.
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| MARTZ.—George William Martz,
| the little son of Roy and Ada Martz,
‘died at their home at Lewistown last
Thursday morning, following four
day’s illness with diphtheria. He was
four and a half years old and in ad-
dition to his parents is survived by an
older sister. The Martz family, until
last spring lived in Potter township,
this county, and have many friends
there who sympathize with them in
their bereavement. The remains were
. brought to Centre county Friday
| morning and buried in the Zion Hill
: cemetery, near Tusseyville.
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{ NOLL.—The funeral of Mrs. Tra-
‘cy Noll, wife of Emanuel Noll, who
died at her home in Milesburg on
Wednesday of last week, following
i several week’s illness, was held on
. Saturday afternoon. Rev. Brown of-
ficiated and burial was made in the
Treziyulny cemetery.” Mrs. Noll was
38 years old and leaves her husband
and eight children, Nita, Eleanor,
Elizabeth, May, Frederick, Willard,
"Wayne and Caroline. She also leaves
her mother, three sisters and one
| brother.
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BIBLE.—Mrs. Nancy . W. Bible,
i wife of Jacob R. Bible, died at her
i home near Phoenixville on November
4th, as the result of an attack of
pleuro-pneumonia. She was a daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Decker,
and was born near Centre Hall sixty
vorrs ago. She married Mr. Bible
eig’/een years ago and he. survives
with no children. She leaves, how-
ever, onn sister and three brothers,
Mrs. ‘'W. O. Rearick, of Milroy; Frank
W. and James L. Decker, of near Cen-
i tre Hall, and Morris, of Williams-
port. Burial was made at Phoenix-
ville. }
In 1879 he married Miss Su- |
| club.
| A New Issue of Bell Telephone Stock.
An ‘issue of $20,000,000 cumulative
preferred stock was offered the pub-
lic by the Bell Telephone Company of
Pennsylvania on November 14, ac-
cording to an announcement made re-
cently. The price of the stock is $100
per share. It will draw an annual
dividend of 632%, payable quarterly.
The stock may be paid for in full,
or if desired it may be purchased on
the installment plan at the rate of
$10 per share per month. Interest
will be allowed on installment pay-
ments at the rate of 6% per annum.
This issue of stock will be prefer-
red both as to assets and dividends
over the $60,000,000 of the company’s
common stock all of which is held
either directly or indirectly by the
American Telephone & Telegraph
Company, the parent company of the
Bell system. The prospectus points
out that the company operates more
than 800,000 telephones in Pennsyl-
vania with a force of more than 21,-
500 employees. There are 433 cen-
tral offices and more than two and a
half million miles of wire in the sys-
tem of Pennsylvania.
The proceeds of this new stock is-
sue will be used to retire the -indebt-
edness incurred in the construction of
existing revenue-producing plant and
to build additional like plant.
The maximum number of shares
which may be applied for is twenty,
that limit being fixed because the
company desires as many as possible
of the telephone users of Pennsylva-
nia to become stockholders and thus
acquire a direct financial interest in
the company.
Under existing laws dividends on
this stock will be exempt from the
normal Federal income tax and the
stock will be exempt from the pres-
ent Pennsylvania State tax of four
mills.
Inquiries and applications may be
made at any of the exchanges of the
company.
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Little Child Killed by Train.
Eugene Hobart Barger; the ‘twen-
ty-one month’s old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Hobart Barger, who live near the
Penn’s Cave station, was instantly
killed by the passenger train west on
Tuesday evening. The child had wan-
dered away from home and going on-
to the railroad lay down right over
one rail. The train, with engineer
Harry Page at the throttle, was thun-
dering along at about forty miles an
hour and rounding a slight curve the
engineer was horrified to see the child
lying on the track just a short dis-
tance away. Notwithstanding the fact
that he closed the throttle and threw
on the air it was impossible to stop
the train or even make an attempt to
save the boy, whose life was literally
ground out beneath the ponderous
wheels of the locomotive and train.
In addition to the parents one brother
and one sister survive. Funeral serv-
ices were held yesterday morning,
burial being made in the Georges
Valley cemetery.
J
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On November 20th and 21st the
Centre county Farm Bureau, with the
assistance of H. D. Monroe, poultry
extension specialist, will hold poultry
meetings in different sections of the
county. Winter feeding, poultry dis-
eases and other management prob-
lems will be discussed. With eggs at
a very high price every poultryman
should be interested in learning how
to produce them most economically.
The schedule follows:
Tuesday, November 20, at Pp. ‘m,, at
farm of Frank Dashem, near Tusseyville,
Wednesday, November 21st, at 10 a. m.,
at farm of W. H. Weaver, west of Madi-
sonburg.
Wednesday, November 21st, at 2 p. m,, at
farm of L. G. Peters, near Meek's church.
Poultry Meetings.
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Deal—Hartsock.—Harold H. Deal,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Deal, of
State College, and Miss Hazel Hart-
sock, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Hartsock, of Stormstown, were
married on November 3rd, by Rev.
Carruthers, at his home at State Col-
lege. The young couple took a motor
wedding trip to the eastern part of
the State and are now arranging to
go to housekeeping at State College.
Bartley — Corman. — Charles L.
Bartley, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Bartley, and Miss Miriam J. Corman,
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Corman, both of near Bellefonte, were
married on Sunday evening at the
home of the bridegroom’s parents, the
ring ceremony being used.
——The Bellefonte Lodge of Elks,
at their Hallow-een carnival, cleared
exactly $1924.86, which will be turn-
ed over to the Bellefonte hospital.
1928 Methods Give Record Potato
Yield.
How many Centre county farmers
would like to harvest 518 bushels of
potatoes from a single acre.
This feat las been accomy..ished by
Alex Mitciell, of Luzerne county.
And lis entire patch rolled out the
“spuds” at praelicuily the same rate
as the measu.ed acie gave him the
record yield. Alex is now a m:nber
of the honorary 400 bushel notato
This, in brief, is how he did it.
Last year the field was in cauliflower
and this spring he gave it two heavy
applications of manure. Mitchell is a
firm believer in the use o’ manure
and he put it on se thick that in some
places it was necessary tl it in-
to the furrow ' when the field was
plowed. He also has great faith in
good, disease-free seed, which he se-
cured through his local county agent
from Michigan. Peaskv was the va-
riety he planted. T'e third factor in
his suecess, he says, ie spraying. The
spuds were sprayed nine times during
the growing season. '