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. IN FAR AWAY NIPPON LAND.
Strange Quirks of Japanese Earth-
quake as Related by Dr. North.
At sea between Yokohama and Kobe.
October 9, 1923.
As I did not get my letters on board
the S. S. President McKinley before
we sailed from Yokohama, I will con-
tinue by adding a postscript much
longer than the original—unless my
ambition gives out before that time.
We are crowded for room now; per-
haps I should say that the ship is
crowded, for it is hardly the truth to
say that I have been inconvenienced
by the crowd. Most of these passen-
gers are Japanese anxious to get to
Kobe, but not traveling by rail be-
cause of the almost inconceivable con-
gestion of all trains. First class pas-
sengers will be sleeping all over the
lounge room, the smoking room, and
the reading room. So many of them
are there, that it is necessary to have
two sittings at each meal. The Jap-
anese men have showed us the utmost
kindness. The Japanese children are
so bright and happy, and the Japan-
ese women are so charming that we
are all glad to have them with us. It
is hardly a stretching of the truth to
say that an American can have any-
thing he wants in Japan.
Let me cite a few examples of what
American generosity has done for as
through the desire of the Japanese to
reciprocate. When Havermale, Sarah,
and I went to Tokyo last Friday he
wished to find a friend of Mrs. Hav-
ermale. He had her address but did
not know where to look for her. In
the course of the railway trip I en-
gaged in conversation with a Japan-
ese man who could talk English. He
was looking for Mr. Rodeheaver and
Dr. Biederwolf. I asked him about
the address we had. A young Japan-
ese who overheard our conversation
and interrupted us offered his servic-
es as guide. He piloted Havermale to
the north side of the city, and spent
an hour or two helping us find our
destination. He not only refused to
accept a tip, but almost insisted on
paying our car fare, because, as he
said, America had done so much for
his people.
That same night, upon our return
to Yokohama, a Japanese student
from America who was traveling sec-
ond class on our steamer and who
knew we were on the same steamer,
attached himself to us, and proceeded
to escort us back to the steamer.
‘When two workmen attempted to fol-
low us—it was already dark—he got
a policeman to escort us part way and
then a watchman to take us the rest
of the way.
Yesterday when we were in Shiba
Park, in Tokyo, a young fellow in
workman’s uniform attached himself
to us, gave us some pictures of the
catastrophe which the venders are
prohibited from selling. He also vol-
unteered to be our guide to Zojoji
Temple, refusing to take any pay for
it. Such is the reaction to our aid.
The other side—the side of death
and destruction—is not so pleasant to
write about. There is plenty of in-
convenience and unpleasantness even
now, but real suffering has been re-
duced to a minimum. The earthquake
occurred thirty-nine days ago, but
even yet people are living in the rud-
est kind of shelters and lean-to’s, al-
though very many are in tents and
barracks. Large crowds are in Kobe
and nearby towns. I have heard
some first hand experiences that you
may be interested to hear about.
The story of Mrs. Lord is extremely
interesting. Her son and his wife
traveled on the Tenyo with us all the
way from San Francisco. He was in
Montreal when the catastrophe took
place, but had a radiogram to the ef-
fect that his mother and little daugh-
ter were safe. Mrs. Lord, the elder
lady, came on board after we reach-
ed Yokohama, and is going with her
daughter-in-law and grand-daughter
to Shanghai for a time. It seems
that Mr. Lord’s father was a German.
The old lady is Japanese. They lived
in a fine residence on the Bluff, where
most of the wealthy foreigners had
their homes. When the earthquake
occurred, at noon on September 1st,
Mrs. Lord and her grand-daughter
were in the house, not far apart. The
house came down, but they escaped
from the ruins. Their chauffeur, who
rushed out of the house when the
shock came, was struck down and kill-
ed in the yard. Their old servant led
them away from the city and the
flames which the typhoon was rapid-
ly spreading. The old lady and the lit-
tle girl trudged for twenty miles to a
. neighboring town, where they found |
refuge. There the old servant took
eare of them, and there her son found
her. She is still lame, but her bruises
are now healed.
The Lords were more fortunate
than many others. I heard the story
of one foreigner whose wife was pin-
ned under the wreckage, and who got
an answer from her when he called.
Before he could get help, however, to
extricate her, the flames came along
and killed her. Many more met a
similar fate. From what I have heard
and seen, I judge that more were kill-
ed by flame than by quake.
Miss Baucus and Miss Dickinson,
two American women, the former
from Dryden, N. Y., and the latter
from Fairport, N. Y., were living in
a fine old mansion on the Bluff, which
had been built by an Englishman for
his own home. They are self-support-
ing missionaries under the W. F. M.
S. Both were in the house when the
quake took place. Miss Baucus was
writing at a desk, with her back to an
outside wall. When the quake came
the wall behind her fell forward across
the desk, clearing her head by a few
inches. The desk was strong enough
to hold the wall up, and she found she
could step iight out of the ruins into
the open. Miss Dickinson was badly
penned in. When Miss Baucus tried
to get an answer from her she heard
nothing. Finally she got a policeman
to come in and call at the place where
she had been lying down. He got an
answer. Finally the policeman got
help and they pulled her out of a very
small hole. They told me that the
flames, the shouts, and the screams of
sufferers were all about them, but the
fire did not touch their property, ex-
cept to scorch the edges. I found
them living in a hastily constructed
hut which their old servant had built
them. When I went back there this
morning I found they had moved into
a newly constructed two-room house
which will be cozy, if not so palatial
as their former home. They are pe-
culiar old women, but they certainly
seem to have been objects of Divine
favor. Their case is a modern mira-
cle. One of the interesting features
of their story is that out of fourteen
parrots ten were saved, although one
of them was in the ruins for several
hours, calling, “Boisan.”
Only one missionary and two Y. W.
C. A. workers lost their lives in the
disaster. In Tokyo, it is reported, I
believe, that only one foreigner lost
his life.
When one sees the ruins of Yoko-
hama he thinks that nothing could be
worse. There is not a single build-
ing intact, with one exception, except
on the outskirts to the north. The
property damage, and I presume the
loss of life in Tokyo was greater,
though not so great in proportion.
The business section and the slums of
Tokyo are gone, except for a few of
the better built buildings, like the
railway station, the Maranouchi (7?)
building, the Imperial hotel, the Im-
perial Palace, and a few others. Re-
inforced concrete buildings seemed to
withstand the quake best, although
many of these crumbled. Small frame
buildings, of course, are best of all.
I took toffin, or lunch, with Dean Ber-
ry, of the theological department of
Aoyama Gakuin. His frame home
was unharmed except for the loosen-
ing of a little plaster. The Imperial
hotel is a peculiar building built by an
architect from Chicago, whose name
was Wright. Almost every one criti-
cised the architecture of the building
when it was finished, calling it a fire-
trap, an earthquake-trap, ete. It is
finished in rough brick, orange brown
in color, and is only two stories high.
Now every one is saying, “Wright
was right.”
Aoyama Gakuin, the Methodist col-
lege in Tokyo, is a wreck. Not a sin-
gle large building remains in usable
condition. The new 300,000-yen
building just finished is a wreck. Al-
though the walls are standing, they
are so unsafe that the city has con-
demned the building. Rapidly Dean
Berry is overseeing the construction
of temporary wooden barracks where
the students can be housed and where
classes can meet. So far as I have
been able to learn, most, if not all, of
the other Methodist work in the city
has lost its property. The safety of
the missionaries is due to the fact
that they had not returned from the
summer colony in the mountains.
This year the opening of their schools
was postponed to a later time than
usual. Consequently the students
were not in the city =2t the time.
At present the dynamiting of the
unsafe buildings goes on rapidly.
Most of these structures are razed.
The streets are rather well cleaned
up. Dead bodies are still being found
and burned, but the worst of these
have been cleaned up. While we were
at the pier in Yokohama the diver
was bringing up automobiles dumped
into the harbor when the quake oc-
curred, containing corpses. The fire
burned everything clean. Hardly a
blackened timber is to be seen. Now
and then one sees fire still burning
where coal or other slow-burning ma-
terial was stored. If you can picture
in your imagination a city like Buffa-
lo entirely destroyed except for piles
of brick and mortar, you can see Yo-
kohama as it is today. If you can
see the down-town section of Philadel-
phia, along with the south side of the
city, entirely gone, you can picture
pretty well what Tokyo looks like.
When we came into Yokohama har-
bor we found there four dread-
naughts, a cruiser, and fifteen de-
stroyers all ready to leave. They
steamed out in full battle array im-
mediately afterward. The sight was
beautiful. We also found an Amer-
ican gunboat or two and an Ameri-
can transport in the bay. One or two
British gunboats were also at anchor.
Our trip to Kobe began auspicious-
ly. Although somewhat cloudy and
misty, the sailing was pleasant. In
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the night, however, we have entered
a storm. This morning has been the
wettest we have experienced in our
entire trip. We hope to reach Kobe
by noon, but I am afraid the stiff
wind will delay us. We are all well
and happy.
SARAH and BILL.
Miss Sara Stevenson Writes of Nurs-
.es’ Life in Philippine Islands.
Camp Stotesenburg,
Pampanga, P. I.
November 21, 1923.
Dear Ones at Home: —
We have been isolated for the last
few days. A bad typhoon hit Manila
and vicinity, which brought us quite
a rain, but no other damage. No
train service, and everything flooded
from within about twenty miles of
here on down. One train was ma-
rooned in the flood for two days and
a night; our commanding officer's
wife was among the passengers and
has just been brought home, so have
not as yet heard of her experiences.
They say they never have known of
so severe a typhoon around here be-
fore and up until this time have not
heard what damage was done in Ma-
nila.
There is an epidemic of anthrax
here in Pampanga Province and sev-
eral thousand caribou, which are used
mainly for all heavy work, have died
already. I feel so sorry for these
people, for they seem to have so lit-
tle and the flood is just washing their
houses away by the hundreds. They
are little more than sheds but it is
all they have.
We sent the box today with the
Christmas things, did not have nice
boxes for the pearls, as it was hard to
get what we did have. You cannot
imagine under what difficulties one
gets things together here, though I
suppose, too, it is because we are not
settled. How much did you have to
pay on the box from Frisco? Was
worried about it for I never was so
rushed and could not attend to it sat-
isfactorily. Miss Fitzgerald said she
received the return receipt from Dad
for the things sent him. Had it sent
to her for I did not know where we
might be when it would come back.
This is the easiest place we have
ever struck and I am taking advan-
tage of every minute, will get built
up well, then will be better able for
next year in Manila. Betty is on
afternoon duty, so she and the chief
nurse are out riding—from six to
eight in the morning is the most de-
lightful time of the day to drive, as it
is cool then. There are many cars
here and much pleasure seeking. We
are to be members of a party of
twelve to be entertained Thursday
night by the commanding officer and
his wife, at dinner and at a dance lat-
er at the club, which means much
pleasure. The moonlight here is won-
derful. I thought Texas was great,
but you hear. .of the tropical moons
lights and they surely are beyond dé-
scription, almost as bright as day.
We have already begun to plan and
save for the trip to China and South-
ern Islands and Baguio, which we will
try to make before our return home.
It will be a month tomorrow since we
landed at Manila and two months
since we pulled into Yokohama har-
bor. I think that month will be count-
ed in our two years, at least we hope
so, for we don’t want to get back to
the States in the midst of winter after
practically living six years in a warm
climate.
The mail arrived yesterday from
the States, but it brought us nothing
from the Stevenson family, though
quite a bit from army friends and a
few others.
This is all for the present, and
write to us as often as you can.
‘Poalam Na Po (Filipino Goodby).
SARA.
Catholic Daughters Will Celebrate
* Anniversary.
The Catholic Daughters of Ameri-
ca will celebrate their fourth anni-
versary and installation of officers
Sunday, January 20th. In the morn-
ing the Court will receive communion
in a body at the eight o'clock Mass.
At two in the afternoon the installa-
tion of officers will take place in the
C. D. of A. rooms, followed by a buf-
fet supper. The out of town guests
will include Rev. Damain, from Saint
Francis college, Loretta; Rev. Looney,
of Tyrone; Rev. O’Hanlon, of State
College; Rev. Connelley, of Snow
Shoe, and State Regent, Miss Frances
Mahar, of Kane, who is also supreme
vice regent of the national order of
the Catholic Daughters of America.
The new officers to be installed are
as follows:
Grand Regent—Mrs. Mary Brouse.
Vice Regent—Miss Louise Carpen-
eto.
Financial
Kelley.
Treasurer—Mrs. Bertha Bauer.
Historian—Miss Margaret Haupt.
: Prophetess—Mrs. Stella Hogentog-
er.
Monitor—Mrs. Rose Pearl.
Sentinel—Miss Marian Bauer.
Organist—Mrs. Ethel Carpeneto.
Trustees—Mrs. Mary Brouse, Mrs.
Clair Heverly.
Secretary—Miss Abbie
——Mr. and Mrs. Gus Armor cele-
brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of
their wedding, on Saturday evening,
by entertaining many of their friends
at a sumptuous dinner at their home
on High street. Among the guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Lytle and two chil-
dren, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gar-
ber, of Tyrone; Mr. and Mrs. John-
stonbaugh and Miss Mayme Gross, of
Axe Mann. Mr. and Mrs. Armor re-
ceived a large number of valuable as
well as useful presents. !
MITCHELL.—Mr. Isaac Mitchell,
for more than three score years prom-
inently identified with the business
interests of Bellefonte, passed away
at 7:30 o’clock on Tuesday evening at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. John
Porter Lyon, on west Curtin street, as
the result of a severe stroke of paral-
ysis sustained on Sunday evening. Up
until that time he had enjoyed his
usual good health. In fact he was
down town on Saturday, just as alert
as a man of his age could expect to
be. And even on Sunday he made no
complaint of illness. That evening he
went to the bath-room and ‘making
such a prolonged stay his daughter,
Mrs. Lyon, went to see if he was sick.
She found the door locked and failing
to receive a reply to her calls she pro-
ceeded to investigate and found her
father lying on the floor unable to
move. Neighbors were summoned
and he was placed in his bed and the
physician who answered a hasty call
found him unconscious and so affected
by the stroke that he could hold out
no hope. During the two days he lin-
gered he was only partially conscious
on several occasions.
Mr. Mitchell was a son of Dr.
Charles and Catharine Mitchell and
was born in Philadelphia on Septem-
ber 28th, 1842, hence had attained the
age of 81 years, 3 months and 18
days. His parents dying when he was
but a boy he was admitted to Girard
College where he received his educa-
tion and completed his course in 1857,
though only fifteen years old.
Through the solicitation of well
known residents of Bellefonte he
came here shortly thereafter and for
several years filled responsible clerk-
ships in Bellefonte and at the old
Washington furnace, in Nittany val-
ley. His accuracy in detail and
close application to business attract-
ed the attention of Major W. F. Rey-
nolds and at his solicitation he ac-
cepted a clerkship in the banking
house of W. F. Reynolds & Co. Just
how long he remained there is not
definitely known but he finally resign-
ed to become a member in the Wilson
& McFarlane hardware Co. There he
worked for a number of years but
eventually returned to the banking
business as a teller for Geo. W. Jack-
son & Co., successors to F. F. Reynolds
& Co. He remained in the same po-
sition when the bank was changed to
Jackson, Crider & Hastings and again
when it was merged into the Belle-
fonte Trust company, finally retiring
on April 1st, 1921, after a banking ex-
perience that stretched over a period
of fifty-eight years.
For a long period of years he serv-
: ed as secretary of Bellefonte borough
council and his records show the same
: methodical care that characterized all
his work. While for a number of
+ years he assumed the burden of a
rramber of Oirel nines ni gresty bo the result of general
never allowed them to conflict With |y,g 5 daughter of John and Rachel
| his duties in the bank in which he had
‘become such an integral part.
| Possessed of a courteous and
| charming personality, as well as a
ismile and hearty hand-clasp for
revery one with whom he came in
contact, he won and held the esteem
of a large circle of acquaintances.
When he laid aside business cares for
the social side of life he proved a de-
lightful acquisition to any gathering.
Coming to Bellefonte as a youth he
had opportunity to study the town and
watch it grow and was always to be
: found among the ranks of those in-
terested in any movement that he be-
lieved would benefit the town or pub-
lic generally. He was just as
thoughtful in making the home life
for his family an ideal place as he
was in his business life. Few homes
in Bellefonte offered more open-heart-
ed hospitality than did that of the
. Mitchell family and the head of the
| household was always the graciaus
and entertaining host. His great love
for children was one of his remarka-
ble traits throughout his entire life.
He was a life-long member of the
Presbyterian church and during his
active life a regular attendant.
When a young man he married
Miss Deborah Thomas, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Thomas, of Belle-
fonte, who passed away many years
‘ago but surviving him are five chil-
‘dren, namely: J. Thomas Mitchell
Esq., of Greenwood, Miss.; Joseph D.,
of Burnham; Mrs. John Porter Lyon,
of Bellefonte; Miss Grace D. Mitchell,
of Princeton, N. J., and Malcolm A.,
of Greenwood, Miss. His only sister,
{ Mrs. Charles Heath, of Philadelphia,
! died some years ago.
Funeral services will be held at his
late home on Curtin street at three
o'clock this (Friday) afternoon by
Rev. Wilson P. Ard, after which the
remains will be laid to rest in the
Union cemetery.
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. MOWER.—Mrs. Catherine Mower,
widow of Jacob M. Mower, for many
years residents of Walker township,
died at her home at Axe Mann, last
Friday, as the result of arterio scle-
rosis and a fractured hip. She was a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mayes
and was born in Nittany valley on
November 23rd, 1833, hence was 90
years, 1 month and 18 days old. Her
funeral was held on Monday, burial
being made in the Huble sburg cem-
etery.
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BRYAN.—Kenneth Bryan, four
month’s old son of Frank and Mary
Goss Bryan, died on Wednesday
morning at the family home on west
Washington avenue, Tyrone, as the
result of an attack of pneumonia. In
addition to the grief stricken parents
one brother, Robert, survives. The
funeral will be held at two o’clock this
afternoon, burial to be made in the
Fairview cemetery, Tyrone.
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DEITRICK.—Grace Ida Deitrick,
‘ infant daughter of John L. and Ver-
na Sproul Deitrick, died last Satur-
day as the result of convulsions, aged
1 year and 2 days. Burial was made
in the cemetery at Zion o Monday.
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EWING.—James Ewing, a life-long
resident of Pennsylvania Furnace,
met an untimely death in the moun-
tains near Shirleysburg, Huntingdon
county, last Friday night. He had
been in feeble health for a year or
more and last fall was a patient in
the Bellefonte hospital. Following
his discharge he was taken to a home
at Shirleysburg. There he was given
considerable freedom and on Friday
started out for a walk. He evidently
went to the mountains and becoming
bewildered wandered around until he
became exhausted when he fell into a
small mountain stream and was
drowned. When he failed to return
to the home searching parties were
organized and he was eventually
found lying face downward in twelve
inches of water about five miles from
the home.
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Ewing and was born at Pennsylvania
Furnace seventy-six years ago.
his life was spent in that section,
where he was regarded as an exem-
plary citizen. He married Miss Jane
McCormick, of Graysville, who died
in 1901, but surviving him are two
sons and one daughter, John, Arthur,
and Dora, all of Chicago, Ill. Anoth-
er son, Frank, died in Alaska in 1918.
He was a life-long member of the
Graysville Presbyterian church and
Rev. H. D. Davis had sharge of the
funeral services which were held on
Wednesday afternoon, burial being
made in the Graysville cemetery.
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BROWN.—While attending evan-
gelistic services in a church at Junia-
ta, on Tuesday evening, Mrs. Minnie
B. Brown, wife of W. H. Brown, was
taken suddenly ill and died fifteen
minutes after being removed to her
home.
She was a daughter of John and
Angelina Kinch, and was born at
Franklinville almost sixty-three years
ago. Surviving her are her husband,
one son, J. B. Brown, of Juniata; two
daughters, Mrs. C. E. Mecllwain, of
Franklinville, and Mrs. L. P. Evans,
at home, and the following brothers
and sisters: Miss Ella Kinch, of
Franklinville; Mrs. F. P. Geist, of
Warriorsmark; D. C. Kinch, of Juni-
ata; Mrs. W. E. Parchey, of Mount
Union, and Mrs. G. P. Irwin, of Penn-
sylvania Furnace. Mrs. Brown was
a resident of Franklinville until the
family moved to Juniata seven years
ago and the remains will be taken to
that place for burial today.
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SAUERS.—Mrs. Malinda Sauers,
widow of the late Henry A. Sauers,
of State College, died last Friday as
debility. She
Sortman and was born in Mifflin coun-
ty almost seventy-nine years ago. In
1861 she became a resident of State
College and a year later married Hen-
ry A. Sauers, who died in 1919. Sur-
viving her, however, are the follow-
ing children: Mrs. Laura Stark, Mrs.
William Pritchard and George Sau-
ers, all of Philipsburg; W. E. Sauers,
Harry W., E. L., T. E. and Mrs. Har-
ry Edminston, all of State College,
and J. W. Sauers, of Altoona. Fun-
eral services were held on Monday by
Revs. A. E. Mackey and H. F. Bab-
cock, interment being made in the
Pine Hall cemetery.
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TOBIAS.—Miss Angeline Tobias,
for years a resident of Centre Hall,
died on Saturday at the State hospital
at Danville as the result of a sudden
attack of heart trouble, aged 79 years.
‘Her only survivor is one brother, who
lives in Minnesota. The remains were
taken to Centre Hall where burial was
made on Tuesday Bien
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WOODRING.—Mrs. Martha Wood-
ring, widow of the late Daniel Wood-
ring, died at her home at Flat Rock,
north of Port Matilda, on Tuesday
morning. Funeral services will be
held in the Black Oak church at 10
o’clock this (Friday) morning, bur-
ial to be made in the Black Oak cem-
etery. v
——A flower belonging to the lily
family and commonly known as a
snake lily, which is in the possession
of Miss Margaret Stewart, is at pres-
ent creating much interest among
Miss Stewart’s friends. So curious is
the flower, that she would like any
one interested on botany, to feel at
liberty to go to her home to see this
unusual flower. Coming from a bulb
the dark green stalk, thickly dotted
with white, grew at the rate of three
and a half inches a day until it at-
tained a height of four feet ér more,
then put forth a dark wine-colored
bloom of enormous size, somewhat in
the form of a calla, the pistle being a
foot and a half long, heavy and dark.
At times the flower exudes a most
disagreeable odor, and as the bloom
fades the ornamental foliage appears.
This Amorphophallus Riviere is most
curious and no doubt a native of the
tropics. Miss Stewart’s home is on
west Linn street where the rare flow-
er can be seen by any one interested.
Two large deeds are now being
entered for record in most of the
counties in central Pennsylvania, the
first deed being given by the United
Telephone and Telegraph company,
by receiver, to the United Telephone
and Telegraph company, by bondhold-
ers’ committee, the consideration be-
ing $180,100. By the second deed’
transfer is made from the United
company, through the bondholders’
committee, to the Penn State Tele-
phone company, the consideration
given in the deed heing $1.00.
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Score One for Hutch.
From the “Tyrone Division Spe-
cial,” the tidy little monthly that
Paul M. Goheen edits for the amuse-
ment, encouragement and edification
of employees of the P. R. R. in this
district, we take the following very
generous praise of the service render-
ed a distinguished traveler some time
ago by passenger agent H. L. Hutch-
inson, of this place.
The Hon. T. P. Trimble, president
judge of the Orphan’s courts of Alle-
gheny county, was taking his injured
son from the Bellefonte hospital to
his home in Pittsburgh. The young
man had been badly hurt in an auto-
mobile accident near Dale’s Summit
and was a patient in the hospital here.
When he had rallied enough to be tak-
en home his father came here to get
him and it was in making arrange-
ments for the trying trip to Pitts-
burgh that Mr. Hutchinson, as usual
when people are in real distress, came
with just the kind of help that
counts most.
Judge Trimble writes of it as fol-
lows:
“When I arrived in Bellefonte on
Thursday, I found all of my wants an-
ticipated. The station agent treated
me royally; he had arranged for the
drawing room and two seats, and also
in the event that I could not get my
son in the drawing room, to take him
on a cot in the baggage car. I was
never treated better and don’t ever
want to be. The conductor on the
train had been notified of our distress,
and was solicitous throughout the trip
from Bellefonte to Pittsburgh. This,
of course, meant that the porters had
been instructed to give us every at-
tention. I thank you very much and
will be glad to show you in some other
way than writing a letter how much
I appreciate it.”
When the time comes to start in-
tensive work on the hospital drive we
are going to spread broadcast the lei-
ter that Judge Trimble wrote that in-
stitution about its care of his son.
When the public reads that it will ap-
preciate all the more the peculiar
service of a small town hospital where
a tender personal interest is taken in
every patient.
Hunchback of Notre Dame.
The screen has not presented any-
thing more magnificent in an archi-
‘tectural sense than the production of
the Cathedral of Notre Dame, around
which the majority of the action of
the story of “The Hunchback of Notre
Dame” centres. The adaptation of the
famous Hugo novel with “Lon Cha-
ney” playing the title role is one of
the most artistic, most realistic of
screen efforts; and the scenes in Par-
is, in the reign of Louis XI, with the
rabble hungry for sensation and the
perpetration of cruelties, are atmos-
pherically correct. To this is adde! a
quality of intense tragedy, together
with the troubled romance which Hu-
go knew so well how to paint, and
types that fit the unique characters of
the story.
But, although everything in the pic-
ture is fashioned to enhance the dra-
matic quality of the story, and al-
though the excellent east of pla ou,
including Ernest Torience, Patsy
Ruth Miller, Tully Marshall, Nigel De
Brulier and many others noted as
screen artists, are clever in their ef-
forts to aid the picture’s realism, ihe
real achievement of the production is
the portrayal of the Hunchback Qun-
simodo by Lon Chaney. It is not easy
to forget, for instance, the expression
of love and gratitude with which
Quasimodo responds to the kindly act
of the girl Esmeraldo, in giving him
a drink of water as he lay bleeding
from the lashes of the professional
beater; or the scene of his death as
he tolls his own death knell.
It is a wonderful screen achieve-
ment and one that shotld stand as an
example of what can be accomplished
in the way of screen pantomime. The
“Hunchback of Notre Dame” will be
shown at the opera house, Bellefonte,
for three days next week, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, with matinees
daily. Matinees at 2 p. m. Night at
8 p. m. Special symphony orchestra
accompanies this picture.
The picture will be shown at the
Pastime theatre at State College on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the
21st, 22nd and 23rd, with a matinee
each day.
Legion Auxiliary Officers Installed.
The newly elected officers of the
Ladies Auxiliary of the American Le-
gion were installed on Tuesday even-
ing by Mrs. Odillie Mott, assisted by
Miss Lizzie Saylor, as follows: Pres-
ident, Mrs. Joseph Abt; first vice
president, Mrs. Edward Eckenroth;
second vice president, Mrs. Henry
Rider; recording secretary, Mrs. E. L.
Miller; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
John Garis; chaplain, Mrs. Edward
Klinger; sergeant at arms, Miss No-
ra Stover; historian, Mrs. Willard
Abt; treasurer, Mrs. L. H .Gettig; pi-
anist, Mrs. Mary Crawford.
The Auxiliary will hold a card par-
ty in the Legion rooms Tuesday even-
ing, January 22nd. Admission 25
cents, with refreshments. Everybody
invited. :
Cathcart—Reed.—William W. Cath-
cart and Miss Elsie Reed, both of
Coleville, were married at the parson-
age of the United Evangelical church,
on Tuesday evening, by the pastor,
Rev. Reed O. Steely.
——A regular quarterly meeting of
the Centre county Pomona Grange
will be held at Centre Hall on Satur-
day, January 26th. Installation of of-
ficers will take place. Forenoon and
afternoon sessions will be held. A
good attendance is desired and mem-
bers are requested to take lunch with
them.