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Bellefonte, Pa., February 1, 1924.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
Ex-sheriff Henry Kline went
to work as a guard at the Rockview
penitentiary on Monday.
——The Woman’s Auxiliary of the
Y. M. C. A. will hold a food sale in
the Variety shop on Saturday, Febru-
ary 2nd, at 10 o’clock.
Wheat has advanced five cents
a bushel in the local market so that
the mills are now paying $1.10. Last
week $1.05 was offered.
Seven more crates of Kansas
cottontails reached here this week and
were distributed in good rabbit terri-
tory surrounding Bellefonte.
Guy Bonfatto received his first
consignment of southern strawberries
on Wednesday and while they looked
delicious all we took was “a look.”
The American Legion Auxilia-
ry will hold a meeting in the Legion
rooms next Tuesday, February 5th.
All members are urged to be present.
A congregational meeting will
be held in the Bellefonte Presbyterian
church on Sunday, February 10th, for
the purpose of selecting a permanent
pastor.
The Thimble Bee of the ladies
of the Reformed chur:h was held yes-
terday afternoon in the chapel of the
Reformed church. The society met as
the guests of Mrs. Harry Yeager and
Mrs. David R. Foreman.
The Centre county association
of Philadelphia will hold a birthday
party on Thursday, February 28th, at
the Bellevue-—Stratford, Philadelphia,
for which invitations will soon be is-
sued. On that day the association will
celebrate its twentieth anniversary.
At next week’s series of far-
mer’s meetings E. J. Walters will dis-
cuss legume crops, with special em-
phasis on alfalfa, sweet clover and
soy beans. The meetings will be held
at the relatively same time and place
as those designated in last week’s pa-
per.
The old Christ Sharer home-
stead at Hannah Furnace has again
changed hands, Homer Hess, the re-
cent owner, having sold it to C. M.
and E. J. Sharer. Mr. Hess quit
farming and lumbering to engage in
forestry work for the State and will
likely make Philipsburg, his old home,
his headquarters.
Mrs. G. Oscar Gray was hos-
tess for the card club of which she is
a member, a few of her friends not
members, being among the guests.
Mrs. Hassel Montgomery entertained
with bridge, at her home on east Linn
street, and Mrs. Schloss, at the Fauble
home on east High street, all enter-
taining last night.
Real winter weather is here at
last but motion picture fans need not
stay at home because of that fact, as
the Scenic is always comfortable.
Some remarkable pictures are being
shown every week at that popular
place of amusement, and all those who
miss them now will never have anoth-
er opportunity. That’s why it pays
to be a regular. Get the habit.
——Steve Starry, who has been
wanted in Philipsburg since March,
1923, was caught in Wilkes-Barre last
week and brought to Centre county
by a Philipsburg police officer. He
was charged with operating an auto-
mobile while intoxicated, and possess-
ing and transporting liquor. In de-
fault of $1000 bail he was brought to
the Centre county jail for trial at
court,
——The annual sessions of the Cen-
tral Pennsylvania Methodist Episco-
pal conference will be held in the Pine
street Methodist church, Williamsport,
beginning March 12th, and to contin-
ue over the following Sunday. Bish-
op William F. McDowell, of Washing-
ton, D. C., will be the presiding offi-
cer.. There are at present in the
neighborhood of 350 ministers in the
conference.
Mrs. Martha E. M. Keller, of
Philadelphia, oldest factory inspector
in the State, and who has reached the
age of seventy-two years, was placed
on the retired list under the State re-
tirement system last week. Mrs. Kel-
ler was the second wife of the late
Col. D. S. Keller, of Bellefonte, and
following her husband’s death moved
to Philadelphia. She was appointed
a factory inspector in 1897 by the late
Governor D. H. Hastings and has
served continuously ever since.
——Walter McCullough, who the
past year or two has been located at
Grand Rapids, Mich., where he held a
good position with the Oakland Auto
Co., has returned to Bellefonte as a
salesman for the Beatty Motor com-
‘pany, and for the present he and Mrs.
McCullough will be located at the
Bush house. Mr. McCullough is no
stranger in Bellefonte, as he spent
several years here, first with the State
Highway Department and later with
the Beatty Motor company so that
Ford owners are pretty well acquaint-
ed with him.
——On Wednesday of last week
Mrs. Belle Dewey and Mrs. H. C. Shu-
ey, of Tyrone, celebrated their 66th
birthday anniversary at the Dewey
home. Both ladies were born in
Pennsvalley on the same day; went to
school together and most of their
married life has been spent within
close touch of each other. A number
of years ago they began to celebrate
their birthday anniversary, the big
event being held one year at the home
of Mrs. Dewey and the next at the
home of Mrs. Shuey. This year thir-
ey-seven guests were present at the
gathering.
WARD KRAPE FAMILY BURNED
OUT.
Joel Struble Farm Home Destroyed
by Fire.
The large house on the well known
Joel Struble farm, on the back road
to Zion, lately the property of How-
ard Struble, was completely destroyed
by fire, last Friday night, together
with all the adjoining outbuildings.
During the past seven years: the
property has been occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. Ward Krape, who just re-
cently entered into an agreement with
Mr. Strubie to purchase the farm but
the legal transfer had not yet been
made owing to Mr. Struble’s dapart-
ure for Florida.
On Friday evening Mr. and Mrs.
Krape and their four children went to
the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Hock-
man, some two miles down the valley,
to attend a bible class meeting. They
returned home about 10:30 o’clock
and their eldest child, a little girl, ran
to the house, unlocked the door and
opened it. As she did so she was con-
fronted by a dense volume of smoke.
As no fire was visible Mrs. Krape
thought she had left the stove door
open too far but the smoke was so
dense that neither she nor her hus-
band could get in to investigate.
Mr. Krape then ran around the
house and discovered smoke curling
along a big chimney that led from a
fireplace in the kitchen. A further
examination revealed a small hole
burned in the weather-boarding at the
chimney. With no means of fighting
the fire Mrs. Krape ran to the home
of Lyman White nearby and called
Bellefonte, asking the help of a fire
company, but for some reason neither
of the companies responded. It was
fifteen or twenty minutes later when
the fire broke out, and a short time
later the entire house was in flames.
Neighbors and residents of Zion hur-
ried to the scene but there was little
they could do except help to save the
stuff stored in outbuildings. Every-
thing in the house was destroyed ex-
cept one rocking chair. The family
dog was in the house and she was
also a victim of the flames. The fire
evidently originated from a defect in
the old chimney.
The total loss is estimated at five
thousand dollars or more. Mr. Stru-
ble had $1500 insurance on the home
and Mr. Krape had only recently
placed another $1000 on it. He also
had $500 insurance on his furniture
and clothing. The house was built
seventy-four years ago and was one
of the largest and best in that sec-
tion. Of course it will be rebuilt but
plans for doing so have not yet been
made.
As soon as Bellefonte friends of the
Krape family learned of their unfor-
tunate plight they gathered up a good
supply of comfortable clothing which
was given to them, and for which they
wish the “Watchman” to thank the
donors. Mr. Krape at present is
staying at the Lyman White home
while Mrs. Krape and children are
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thom-
. as Heltman.
Escaped Prisoners Sentenced.
Frank Richie, Robert Morton and
Frank Campos, the three prisoners
who escaped from the Rockview peni-
tentiary on Wednesday night of last
week, were captured in the neighbor-
hood of Coburn at noon on Friday.
The men were seen and recognized by
D. M. Kerstetter who, with the assist-
ance of others, rounded them up then
telephoned the penitentiary officials.
The check for the reward for the
men’s capture will be sent to Mr. Ker-
stetter.
At a special session of court at
11:30 o’clock on Monday morning,
Morton and Richie plead guilty to
breaking and escaping while Campos
refused to plead. Morton, who was
sent up from Cambria county for
forgery, has a year and five months to
serve on his old sentence. He was
transferred to Rockview from Pitts-
burgh on December 10th, and when
called for sentence told Judge Quig-
ley that he escaped from the Rockview
institution because he preferred be-
ing in Pittsburgh. The court said he
would accommodate him and gave him
from a year and nine months to three
and a half years in addition to serving
out his old sentence.
Richie, who is from Westmoreland
‘county, was convicted of assault with
intent to kill in 1921, and sent up for
four years and eleven months to five
years, and had been at Rockview only a
little over two months. He is also
due for a much longer stay in Pitts-
burgh as the court gave him from
two and a half to five years for escap-
ing.
John Leonard, the eighteen year
old youth of Cloverdale, who recently
passed a number of forged checks at
State College and Bellefonte, plead
guilty to forgery and was sentenced
to the Huntingdon reformatory on one
indictment, sentence being suspended
on the other indictments.
Morton and Richie were taken to
Pittsburgh on Tuesday morning by
sheriff E. R. Taylor and John Garis.
Boal Bus Line Abandoned.
The Boal bus line that for a year or
more has run from State College to
Lewistown, by way of Boalsburg,
made its last trip over the route on
Tuesday.
Reasons for the suspension of serv-
ice are given as lack of business
enough to make it self-supporting.
——20% is a tremendously big dis-
count when you remember that it is
taken from our regular low marked
prices during W. R. Brachbill’s Feb-
ruary furniture sale. 5-2t
Orlo Breon Drowned in Elk Creek
Dam.
A tragic event in Millheim on Mon-
day morning was the death, either by
drowning or freezing, of Orlo Breon,
son of William H. and Jennie Breon,
of that place. The lad left home
shortly after eight o’clock to go to
school but for some reason or other
tock the opposite direction and at-
tempted to cross the ice on Elk creek
dam. For some weeks past he had
‘been trapping muskrats and it is just
possible he went to the dam to look
at his traps. .
In any event he never reached
school and when he failed to return
home for dinner a search was insti-
tuted. Inquiry elicited the fact that
he had not been at school and dozens
of people turned out to look for him.
Shortly after one o’clock his body was
found clinging to a rail that lay across
an open channel in the dam. The
body was only about half submerged
in water and when removed and ex-
amined by a physician very little wa-
ter was found in the lungs which led
to the supposition that the boy had
attempted to cross the dam, fell into
the open channel but was able to grab
the rail and thus keep from going un-
der the water and ice. But he was un-
able to crawl out and no person hap-
pening along to rescue him perished
with the cold. He was a bright and
winsome boy and his death is deeply
deplored by all who knew him.
In addition to his parents he is sur-
vived by one sister, Florence. Rev.
C. B. Snyder, of the Evangelical
church, will have charge of the fun-
eral services which will be held at ten
o’clock this morning, burial to be
made in the Millheim cemetery.
——Ladies’ silk and wool hose re-
duced Friday and Saturday. $3.00
hose at $1.95. All shades.—Sim, the
Clothier. 5-1t
Penn State Glee Club Here Next
Thursday.
Under the personal direction of
Prof. Richard W. Grant, the Penn
State glee club of fifty members will
appear in concert in the Garman op-
era house Thursday evening, Febru-
ary Tth, at 8:15. This musical organ-
ization is one of the best college glee
clubs in the eastern United States and
will give a great program, varied
enough to please all. The entire club
will sing, among other numbers, “The
Trumpet Calls Away,” by Dow; “Who
Killed Cock Robin,” “Morning
Hymn,” by Henschel; “Shadow
March,” by Prothero; “Bedouin Song,”
by Foot, and “Italian Street Song,”
by Herbert. Miss Betty Croll will
sing several soprano solos, and A. R.
Fink, violinist, will play “Hejre Ka-
ti,” from the Czarda, and “Spanish
Dance,” by Rehfeld.
The famous varsity quartette will
sing a number of fine selections. Sev-
eral of the numbers to be sung by the
club will be used the following week
in the inter-colegiate contest in New
York city, and this rendering in Belle-
fonte will be the first time the club
has produced the songs in public. The
entire program ranges from the
heavy, serious numbers to the light,
humorous selections and promises to
be a brilliant musical event.
Tickets on sale at 75 cents each.
Benefit of Lutheran Brotherhood.
——Annual February furniture
sale, Feb. 1st-Feb. 16th, 20% discount
from the original price tags, at W. R.
Brachbill’s. 5-2t
“Listen to Me” a Musical Hit.
Theatre goers who are alert to ap-
preciate merit in a musical score will
quickly realize why LeComte and
Flesher’s extravaganza, “Listen to
Me,” coming to the opera house on
Tuesday evening, February 5th, was
successful from the opening perform-
ance. Independent of the fact that
it carries an excellent cast, supported
by a youthful chorus that can dance
and sing, an exquisite display of scen-
ic splendor, marvelous novelties, gor-
geous costumes, and an absorbing
fantastic story beautifully unfurled,
is the reality that its score of music-
al gems is a theme of critical admira-
tion. “Listen to Me” has been lauded
by all who have seen it. Some have
adored its spectacular wonders, oth-
ers have admired the lavish array of
scenery and costumes, others highly
praising the cast and chorus, while
many have been thrown into ecstacy
over the beautiful fantastic story, but
all have appreciated the score of
etherial musical gems.
Tuesday Uulucky Day for Areo Mail.
A heavy fog and extremely low vis-
ibility in the Allegheny mountains
section played havoc with the areo
mail on Tuesday, both the westbound
and the eastbound planes being forced
down in the vicinity of DuBois. The
westbound plane was piloted by A. D.
Collins and in attempting to make a
landing in the fog he collided with the
top of a tree with the result that his
machine turned turtle and landed on
its bark. Fortunately the pilot was
uninjured but the plane was consider-
ably damaged.
The eastbound plane was piloted by
C. Eugene Johnson and he managed :
| bled into a deep ditch at the side of
to land without any perceptible dam-
age to his machine.
west mail was forwarded from the
DuBois postoffice.
Mechanicians and parts from the!
Bellefonte aviation field were sent to |
DuBois to get the ships in shape for
service.
—All shades of ladies’ silk and
wool hose reduced Friday and Satur-
day. $2.00 hose at $1.45.—Sim, the
Clothier. 5-1t
‘ nett, Spring Mills; C. Y. Wagner, J.
| B. Payne and J. N. Robinson, Belle-
Both east and |
Centre County Made Record at State |
Farm Products Show.
Quite a number of Centre county
farmers spent a very profitable and
instructive few days at Harrisburg
last week attending the State farm
products show. The best of Pennsyl-
vania’s farm products and finest live-
stock brought together at that time
was a real inspiration to any one in-
terested in any line of farming. It
demonstrated the height of perfec-
tion reached by our most progressive
farmers and encourages every one to
renewed effort in hope that some time
he may have the honor of producing
the winning exhibit in at least one of
the many hundred classes.
John Kline, of Boalsburg, one of
our local club boys, won first on his
potato exhibit in district 3, six county
clubs competing. This is a real hon-
or and a fitting climax for his sea-
son’s work in the Centre county pota-
to club.
Edwin Way, of State College, plac-
ed second in dairy cattle judging, fif-
ty-six boys from all sections of the
State competing.
Carl Beahm, of Aaronsburg, placed
seventh in potato judging.
Charles Campbell, of Pennsylvania
Furnace; Eugene Burkholder, of Cen-
tre Hall; Russell Heckman, of Hub-
lersburg, and Owen Smith, of Smull-
ton, were other boys representing the
county judging teams.
All state-wide farm organizations
held their meetings at that time, which
made it very interesting and conven-
ient to attend both the show and those
meetings on the same trip.
At the banquet and annual meeting
of the Pennsylvania Berkshire Breed-
er’s association, W. F. Rishel was
elected vice president.
Mayes and Confer, of Howard,
placed first in Central Pennsylvania
and fourth in the State on their exhib-
it of Class “A” milk, with a score of
97.565, the other three higher scores
being 98.80, 98.65, 98.45. Their sample
showed only 100 bacteria per cubic
centimeter, the best of any sample
exhibited. It will be appreciated how
small this is when you remember that
200,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter
is the legal limit.
A few of the Centre countians who
attended were John W. Miller, J. G.
Miller, Pine Grove Mills; Homer
Grubb, J. J. Markle, John Parsons and
Kenneth Thomas, State College; A. C.
Kepler and wife, Pine Grove Mills; J.
A. Wright, John Kline, James Bohn,
Boalsburg; Rodney McClellan and
Fred Ross, Linden Hall; Kenneth
Wert, Tusseyville; Fred Hayes, Hub-
lersburg; W. F. Rishel, Centre Hall;
J. Will Mayes, Howard; Frank Ben-
fonte.
——Twenty-five year guaranteed
coil bed spring, February sale price,
$6.40.—W. R. Brachbill. 5-2t
Why the Juice Failed to Operate.
Tuesday afternoon at 1:45 o’clock,
the electric current suddenly snapped
off, leaving Bellefonte and neighbor-
ing communities without light and
power. Immediate investigation re-
vealed the fact that the trouble was
on the Penn Central line and due to
some one at Warrior's Ridge having
chopped down a tree which fell across
one of the high tension lines, drag-
ging it to the ground.
Due to the icy condition of the road,
it was fifty minutes before a lineman
could complete his trip to the switch
at Corncrops Mills and relieve the
trouble. Under more favorable
weather conditions the trouble would
have been corrected with scarcely any
delay, since the line is so constructed
that in trouble cases of this kind it
is but a matter of pulling a switch on
the crippled section, thereby cutting it
off for repairs, while the rest of the
line goes on conveying light and pow-
er. The fact that this power line is
so constructed gives proof of the effi-
cient service that the Keystone Pow-
er Corporation is striving to give to
it’s consumers.
House Heating Plant Explodes.
The heating boiler in the home of
Andy J. Lytle, at State College, ex-
ploded last Sunday morning and is a
total wreck.
The accident occurred shortly after
Mrs. Lytle had gone to the cellar to
stir up the fire. The water pipes
were frozen during the night and
when she opened the fire box door the
furnace blew up covering her with
water and ashes, though she escaped
without injury except to her clothing.
Some ten years or more ago Mrs.
Lytle had a similar experience when
she attempted to stir up the fire in
the kitchen range. It was literally
blown to fragments and she was
thrown through a window onto a
porch roof suffering injuries from
which she did not recover for weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Harnish Hurt in Auto
Accident.
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Harnish, of
Boggs township, were both injured in
an auto accident at Cresson, last F'ri-
day, when their machine skidded on
the William Penn highway and tum-
the road. Mr. Harnish had several
ribs fractured and was cut and bruis-
ed, while Mrs. Harnish sustained nu-
merous body bruises. The top was
torn from the car and windshield
broken.
——The date for the annual foot-
ball dance of the Bellefonte Academy
has been changed to the evening of
February 29th, instead of the 22nd,
as originally announced. i
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs. J. McC. Davis, of Tyrone, was in
Bellefonte Wednesday for a short visit
home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gher-
rity.
—Editor and Mrs. Thomas H. Harter
went out to Franklin, on Tuesday, to at-
tend the funeral of the late W. Harry
Cox.
—Mr. and Mrs. A. Fauble will leave on
Sunday, for a sojourn of a few days in
New York city, while Mr. Fauble does
some spring buying.
—Mrs. R. D. Foreman closed her home
at Centre Hall this week, in anticipation
of spending the remainder of the winter
at the hotel at Millheim.
—Mrs. Gross Mingle, of Philadelphia, is
home this week on a visit with her father,
Capt. George M. Boal, and other members
of the family at Centre Hall.
—Mr and Mrs. Robert B. Taylor Jr. ar-
rived in Bellefonte Monday, for a visit
home with Mr. Taylor's father, R. B. Tay-
lor, at his home on Spring street.
—Thomas E. Mayes, of Johnstown, was
here early in the week to spend a short
time with his brothers at Howard and Le-
mont, and with friends in Bellefonte.
—Mrs. M. I. Gardner, of Clearfield, was
here for several days early in the week,
for one of her occasional visits home with
her mother, Mrs. Cyrus Strickland, at her
home on Bishop street.
—Miss Louise McMullen, of Hecla, is
contemplating going east next week, ex-
pecting to spend a part of the month of
February with her cousins, Mr. and Mrs.
James Johnson, at Narberth.
—Spencer Garman, who has been home
with his father, William Garman, and the
family for a month, left Monday for Clear-
field to resume his work on the engineer-
ing corps of the state highway.
—Mrs. A. Howard Tarbert, of York, was
an arrival in town on Wednesday; having
come up to be with her mother, Mrs. W.
C. Coxey, for a few days while the latter
is a surgical patient in the hospital.
—Dr. Joseph Taylor, of Pittsburgh, was
summoned home during the week on ac-
count of the illness of his mother, who
now makes her home with her daughter,
Mrs. William D. Zerby, on Linn street.
—NMiss Augusta Shoemaker was home
from Pittsburgh for a week-end vist with
her mother, Mrs. T. A. Shoemaker. Ac-
cording to her plans, Miss Shoemaker
will come to Bellefonte for a day or two
each month.
—After an enforced vacation of five
months, owing to ill health, John Garman
returned to Grampian yesterday, to go
back to his work with the P. R. R. Co.
John left feeling very much benefitted by
his winter visit home.
—~Our friend G. H. Fike dropped in for
a little chat on Wednesday afternoon and
we were grieved to learn that he has had
his carpentry tools laid away for some
months due to the after effects of a rather
severe attack of shingles.
—Mrs. William Lyon and her son Ed-
ward, of Providence, R. I., returned from
Danville, Wednesday, to remain in Belle-
fonte fer a short time while looking after
the settlement of the late Jacob Lyon es-
tate. Mrs. Lyon and her son Robert ar-
rived here from Buffalo, Monday.
—Miss Ida M. Bell, of State College,
made one of her rare visits to Bellefonte
on Tuesday. It seems that State College
holds so much of interest for its residents
that once they get rightly settled there
they become so content that their trips to
Bellefonte are few and far between.
—Among a number of relatives who have
been all day guests of Mrs. Nora Fergu-
son during the month of January, were
Mrs. Charles Lytle, her two daughters,
Mrs. Huey and Miss Luella, and Mrs. John
Lytle, and her daughter Sara, all of Ju-
niata, who came to Bellefonte with Mrs.
Ferguson.
—Miss Elizabeth Cooney will go to Phil-
adelphia tomorrow for her annual mid-
winter visit east, expecting before her re-
turn to do some advanced season buying
for the early spring trade. Mrs. Frederick
Daggett will join Mrs. Cooney next week
for a week with Mrs Frank Godshall, who
is well known here as Miss Florence Lamb.
—Trood D. Parker, a former Bellefonte
boy, now making good in Clearfield, was
back home a week ago for one of his be-
tween-train visits. Trood left here to go
to Clearfield about ten years ago, in that
time he has married, has three children, is
vard assembler for the P. R. R. Co., with
a job printing office on the side, and with
it all, looks the part of a happy, satisfied
man.
—Miss Florence Finnegan, so well known
in Bellefonte, her former home, has so far
recovered her health as to be able to re-
sume her work and is now connected with
the Settlement Music School, Southwark,
Philadelphia. It will be recalled that Miss
Finnegan spent several months here and at
State College, last fall, while recovering
from the breakdown caused by too close
application to her work.
—Miss Adaline Olewine went to Hunt-
ingdon Saturday, to be over Sunday with
Mrs. Ray C. Gilliland, of State College,
who has been spending much time there
since entering her son Robert in the J.
C. Blair memorial hospital. The lad is but
ten years of age and so serious is his ill-
ness that the specialists in charge of the
case have given the family only little en-
couragement as to his recovery.
—Miss Sarah Bayard was in Bellefonte
from Saturday until Wednesday, a house
guest of Miss Humes and the W. B. Ran-
kin family. Miss Bayard stopped here on
her way back east from a visit with her
sister, Mrs. Bowen in Canton, Ohio, and
upon leaving went to Williamsport to
spend a little time with another sister,
Miss Ursula Bayard, who has been a hos-
pital patient there for more than two
months. Following the visit in Williams-
port, Miss Bayard expects to return di-
rectly to her home in Atlantic City.
Ladies’ silk and wool hose re-
duced Friday and Saturday. $3.00
hose at $1.95. All shades.—Sim, the
Clothier. 5-1t
Miller—Lutz.—Torrence D. Miller,
of Beech Creek, and Miss May Isa-
bella Lutz, were married at the
Methodist parsonage on Howard
street, at eight o’clock on Monday
evening, by the pastor, Rev. E. E. Mc-
Kelvey.
Furniture for every room,
suites and individual prices, at an
even 20% discount from the regular
low marked prices during W. R.
Brachbill’s February sale. 5-2t
Among the Sick.
! On Sunday Miss Emma Kinne,
of Milesburg, slipped on some ice on
her porch, fell and sustained serious
injuries. She was brought to the
| Bellefonte hospital and an X-ray ex-
| amination revealed the fact that she
t had sustained a fractured hip bone.
It is a matter of very great re-
gret to this office, where he has been
so long esteemed as a real friend, to
learn that Abram Markle, of State
College, is in the hospital suffering
with a malady from which he may not
recover. Mr. Markle has been unwell
for some months, but only recently
way the gravity of his condition real-
ized.
Miss Ella A. Gates, of this
place, was found unconscious in her
apartment in Crider’s Exchange yes-
terday morning. She had been in her
usual health on Wednesday and there
was evidence that she must have been
stricken without any premonition of
illness. She had not regained con-
sciousness at the time of our going to
press, though there were symptoms
that give hope that her affliction,
whether it was apoplexy or paralysis,
was clearing up a bit.
Y Notes.
| The second series of games will be
closed on February 4th. A breathing
spell will be taken before the opening
of the third series. On Thursday even-
'ing, February 7th, the Tyrone Y. M.
C. A. team will roll against the local
team on the alleys here. The com-
mittee plans to make this another so-
cial event and have a supper served
and a meeting for the discussion of
bowling matters for the remainder of
the season. The local team defeated
the State College team by 24 pins on
the local alleys Thursday of last
week. A return match will be played
shortly.
The Hi-Y club will have their open
session and tea on Sunday, February
3rd. Chief Olmstead, of the State
College Y. M. C. A.,, and one of the
college athletes will speak to the
boys. Three units have been organ-
i ized, with leaders, for the various ac-
tivities of the club; one will have
charge of the supper arrangements
and serving.
The board of directors had their
regular monthly meeting last Friday
evening and received the reports of
the secretary and the treasurer and
discussed important matters relative
to the Y work. A joint meeting of
the directors and trustees will be held
shortly.
Facts.
The usual custom pursued by the
larger city stores in “February
Sales” is to mark up furniture thirty-
five to forty per cent. above the reg-
ular price and then advertise a fifty
per cent. reduction. The February
sales of W. R. Brachbill, Bellefonte,
always have been honest. Select the
furnishings desired and deduct twen-
ty cents on the dollar from the origi-
nal price tag gives this February sales
price; and no inferior goods made for
special sales purposes are on his floor.
This year the annual twenty per cent.
discount sale opens February first,
and positively closes February six-
teenth. There are no spectacular
methods used during this period, just
a plain 20% reduction from fairly
priced merchandise to stimulate buy-
ing during the fore part of February,
always a dull month in the furniture
business.
69-5-1t W. R. BRACHBILL, Bellefonte.
Whiterock Names Officers.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Whiterock Quarries company in the
Centre County bank building on Mon-
day evening the following officers
were named from the board of direc-
tors, which succeeded itself: Presi-
dent, W. F. Reynolds; vice president,
A. Fauble; treasurer, Ray Noll; sec-
retary, L. A. Schaeffer. A special
meeting was held last night for con-
sideration of persons for general man-
ager and assistant general manager
of the company to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Edward Rich-
ard, who was president and general
manager.
rennet po
——The marriage of Miss Henriet-
ta Hassel, of Columbus, Ohio, and
Jack Reubenstein, of Chicago, which
will take place Monday at the Desh-
ner hotel, in Columbus, will be of in-
terest to many persons in Bellefonte,
owing to the circle of friends here,
made while visiting with her mother’s
family, the Baums, of Bellefonte, and
State College. Miss Henrietta is the
elder daughter of Jacob Hassel and
his wife, the late Mrs. Rose Baum
Hassel.
——-Ladies’ silk and wool hose re-
duced Friday and Saturday only.
$2.00 hose at 95c. All shades.—Sim,
the Clothier. 5-1t
——Save twenty cents on the dol-
lar during W. R. Brachbill’s February
furniture sale. 5-2t
Sale Register.
Friday, March 21.—At residence of Lee R.
Markle, (old Colyer farm) one-half mile
east of Old Fort, horses, cattle, farm im-
Jiomenis general clean-up sale. Also
ot of household goods. Sale at 9 a. m.
L. Frank Mayes, Auc. *
Bellefonte Grain Market.
Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & Co.
Wheat - - - - - - $1.
Shelled Corn - - - -
Rye - - - - = -
Oats - - - - -
Barley
- - - - - -
.
2333835
Buckwheat - - - - -