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“Bellefonte, Pa, March 7, 1924.
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Political Announcements.
FOR NATIONAL DELEGATE.
We are authorized to announce that John
F. Short is a candidate for Delegate to
the National Democratic Convention from
the 23rd Congressional District. Subject
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the upholding of the constitution of the
United States.
JAMES G. PAUL, Bradford, Pa.
WESTERN VOYAGERS LOSE ONE
DAY.
Another Tnteresting Letter by Mrs.
W. C. North.
Saturday, Sept. 19, 1923.
Dear Home Folks:
Here it is Saturday, when yester-
day was only Thursday! Now, isn’t
that strange? They just simply
wiped a whole day out of our lives
without saying a thing to us, but when
we come back again five years from
now, we'll pick it up again. We pass-
ed the 180th meridian last night at
8:15, so that’s why we lost a day. I
don’t understand it myself; I just take
their word for it.
This has been another busy week.
There is so much doing all the time
on ship that one doesn’t have time to
get homesick or lonesome. And the
weather for the most part has been
perfect. Two evenings this week it
rained and it looked as though we
might have a bad storm, but outside
of the boat rocking a little more than
usual, it wasn’t at all bad. I've got-
ten so accustomed now to the motion
of the boat, that it’s almost like being
on land; at least, the motion hasn’t
any effect whatsoever on my “tum-
my.” The other morning I lay in bed
with my knees propped up, just to see
how they swayed with the boat. First
they would go to one side almost lev-
el with the bed, and then to the other
side. It would make you sea-sick, I'm
sure, to see them, but not so your good
sealady sister.
We landed in Honolulu about eleven
o’clock Sunday night. We were in
sight of the city at about nine o’clock,
but it took us just two hours to land.
It seemed as though we were never
going to get ashore. The notice was
posted that we would leave at 8 in the
morning, so we knew we weren’t going
to see a great deal of the city. As we
went ashore we heard strains of that
weird Hawaiian music and discovered
a band of young native fellows play-
ing and singing. It certainly was ro-
mantic. Although it was Sunday, we
went to the cafe of a hotel and had
something cold to eat and bought
some candy. It was such an Ameri-
‘can looking place that we felt quite at
home. Then, too, we saw so many of
our own countrymen and women that
it was hard to realize we were five
days’ trip from our native America.
But when we got into a seven passen-
per Packard with a native driver and
took an hour’s ride through the streets
of the city, we realized we were in
romantic Honolulu. It was moonlight,
so everything had a much more ro-
mantic look, even, than by daylight.
We passed miles. upon miles of night
blooming cereus which grow there as
a hedge, and the flowers were beauti-
ful. The driver stopped the car so
that we could get out and pull some.
I thought of how many years mother
tended her plant so carefully in or-
der to have it bloom just one night.
We also saw fields of sugar cane, saw
bananas growing, the different kinds
of palm trees, but didn’t get out to the
valleys where the pineapples grow.
We did buy a pineapple the next
morning, though, and had it on the
boat two days later. It was delicious.
We ate it much as the negroes eat
watermelon. We have fresh pineap-
ple on the boat almost each evening
for dinner, but none of them have been
as good as the one we bought. We
drove out to Waikaiki Beach and saw
it by moonlight. That’s where the
surf bathing is so very fine. Bill and
Mr. Blanchard wanted to go in, but
didn’t have time.
It was after one o’clock when we
got back to the boat, and the next
morning we were up bright and early
to see the boat pull out. We left
promptly at eight o'clock, the whole
crew having been busy all night load-
ing. I'understand we are carrying a!
big cargo of relief supplies for Yoko-
hama.
There were two interesting sights
to observe as we pulled out of Hono-
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lulu. One is the native custom of
hanging strings of beads and wreaths
of flowers around the necks of friends
who are leaving on the ship. One old
man who said he had been in Honolu-
lu for nineteen years and is now going
back to his native Japan, had dozens
of strings of beads and wreaths
around his neck and hanging over his
arm. Bill went ashore and got a
wreath to hang round my neck, so
that I was decorated, too.
The other sight was the diving after
coins done by native swimmers. They
would climb away up to the top deck
of the ship and when a coin was
thrown into the water, dive down and
get it. Then the coin would be put
into the mouth for safe keeping, and
down they’d go for another one. They
swim under water just like fish and
follow the boat away out into the har-
bor, never seeming to get one bit
tired.
Dr. Beiderwolf and Homer Rode-
heaver with their party, got on at
Honolulu. Since then we have been
having some fine music. Dr. Bieder-
wolf is to have charge of the services
tomorrow morning.
We are scheduled to reach Yoko-
hama tomorrow afternoon, so I must
continue and finish this letter. We
have been running against a stiff
wind for the past twenty-four hours,
so haven’t been making very good
progress. In fact, we made only 335
miles yesterday and 356 the day be-
fore, when we had been averaging a
little over 375 a day. Right now it is
raining so it is not very pleasant out
on deck. This morning there was
quite a heavy spray which sometimes
came way up over B deck. As long as
you have on old clothes, it’s fh to be
out in it.
We saw, this morning, a huge fish
of some kind; some say it was a por-
poise, others a shark, I don’t know;
all I know is that it was the biggest
fish I've ever seen. I've been watch-
ing all day for another one, but have
not seen any.
I don’t know whether we're going
to be able to go ashore at Yokohama
or not. The wireless notices say that
on account of the condition of the
streets, people are wearing rubber
boots. As I have no rubber boots
with me, I reckon I'll have to stay on
the boat. I reaily don’t want to go
ashore very badly, but Bill, of course,
is quite anxious to see what the earth-
quake has done.
My next letter I will mail from
Shanghai. We ought to be there in
about ten days unless we are delayed
at Yokohama.
SARAH.
Dr. Glenn Pens Another Glowing
Letter About Palm Beach.
West Palm Beach, Florida.
February 20, 1924.
This is such a beautiful morning
and I feel so good, am writing to a
few whom I know like to get my let-
ters. It was 72 degrees when we got
up this morning and mocking birds
singing all around us. Where we live
there are trees and grass and every-
thing conducive to rest as well as
plenty of diversions.
We are just a block from West
Palm Beach depot, where every one
who travels thus far by train must
come and we see all the trains from
our porch; half a square south of us
is Dixie Highway where all who trav-
el by. automobile must travel—so we
think we are fortunate in location.
Since I last wrote you, we spent a
day in Miami, a wonderfully fast
growing city, but not nearly as pretty
as this place. We get the “Watch-
man” Tuesday of each week and no-
tice that the winter thus far, has been
very mild but here it is summer
everywhere. Useless for me to de-
scribe why we like it so much here!
Enclosed find a clipping from yester-
day’s paper that will tell you just why
this is an attractive place to come to;
also a clipping from this morning’s
Post, giving amount of fruits and
vegetables shipped by rail from this
State which, of course, does not in-
clude quantity sent north by boat.
The yacht, sailing boat, motor boat
and sea-plane races begin tomorrow
at noon on Lake Worth, within two
squares of where we are living and
continue all day Friday. Thursday
and Friday evenings there is a large
display of fireworks and the Semi-
nole Sun dance; so we will be busy
seeing the “doings” of the next two
days. Vessela’s band plays every
night in the park seven squares from
us and it is fine. Plays in Atlantic
City each season and has for years;
thus, you see, we do not lack enter-
tainment. Almost every day we go
over to the beach for a drive where
we see something new every time.
Was sorry to see of Mr. Rhoads’
death. He is another substantial
citizen who will be missed.
All in our party are well and think-
ing that time is flying entirely too
fast. We certainly wish you could
spend at least a few weeks here in
mid-winter.
W. S. GLENN.
Mrs. Tanner to Open Cut Rate Drug
Store.
Mrs. C. D. Tanner has leased the
small room constructed by C. F. Tate
on the east side of his plumbing estab-
lishment on High street, and in the
near future will open a cut rate drug
store. Her stock will include staple
proprietary medicines, talcum pow-
ders, toilet soaps and various house-
hold supplies, but no prescription de-
partment.
——Ned Rote, the youngest son of
the late John Rote, of Axe Mann, has
taken charge of the general store for-
merly owned by Bond White at that
place.
SHUGERT.—John McCoy Shugert
died very suddenly and unexpectedly
at his home on east Linn street, Belle-
fonte, about nine o’clock on Monday
morning of heart failure. Notwith-
standing the fact that he had been
ill for three years or more, a suf-
ferer with Addison’s disease, and had
been confined to his home the past
twenty-two months, none of the fam-
ily had any premonition that the end
was so near. In fact he was stand-
ing up talking to his wife when he
suddenly exclaimed: “I feel faint,”
sank into a chair and expired.
A son of John Dunlop and Mary S.
(McCoy) Shugert he was born in
Bellefonte on November 10th, 1870,
hence was 53 years and 4 months old.
He was educated at the Bellefonte
Academy and as a young man began
his business career as a clerk in the
Centre County Banking company, of
which his father was cashier. When
his father died in 1900 he was elect-
ed as his successor, a position he filled
until the death of the late Thomas A.
Shoemaker, president of the Banking
company, when he was elevated to the
office of president. He held that po-
sition at the time the banks doors
were closed on Saturday, May 13th,
the time, he went to his home on east
Linn street where he has remained
constantly ever since with the excep-
tion of a few brief motor trips into
the country. Mr. Shugert was a
member of one of the oldest families
in Bellefonte, his ancestry tracing
back to the original John Dunlop, one
of the founders of Bellefonte. He
was a member of St. John’s
Episcopal church, a member of the
Bellefonte club during the years of
its existence and the Nittany Country
club. He was also a member of the
Bellefonte Lodge of Masons and the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.
He married Miss Katherine Curtin
Harris, eldest daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. George F. Harris and a grand-
daughter of Pennsylvania’s war Gov-
ernor, the late Andrew G. Curtin,
who survives with two children,
George and Mary. He also leaves
two sisters, Mrs. David J. Kelly, of
Greer, W. Va, and Miss Kate Shu-
gert, of Bellefonte.
Funeral services were held at his
late home at two o’clock on Wednes-
day afternoon by Rev. Malcolm
DePui Maynard, after which burial
was made in the Shugert lot in the
Union cemetery. The Bellefonte
banks were closed during the funeral
hour out of respect to his memory.
BEALE.—Mrs. Mary Moore Beale,
widow of the Rev. Dr. David Beale,
died at her home, 4935 Cedar avenue,
Philadelphia, on Tuesday. She was
88 years old.
Mrs. Beale was born in Zion, Centre
county, Pa. She studied at ‘Pine
Grove Mills Academy, near “Farm
School,” (now State College), and at
the Moravian Seminary, = Bethlehem.
She taught school for a while and in
1865 married Dr. Beale, who died in
1900.
Mrs. Beale, who was an active
member of St. Paul’s Presbyterian
church, is survived by six children.
They are the Rev. Dr. Wilson T. M.
Beale, pastor of the Oak Lane Presby-
terian church; Dr. John C. Beale, Mrs.
William Foster, and Miss Jennie Rit-
ner Beale, all of Philadelphia, and Dr.
David J. Beale Jr., of East Liverpool,
Ohio, and Mrs. William D. Thomas,
of Baltimore. Interment was made at
Mifflintown, Pa.
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PFOUTZ.—Mrs. Alice F. Pfoutz,
wife of Samuel E. Pfoutz, died at her
home at Coalport, last Friday, follow-
ing several years’ illness with heart
trouble. She was a daughter of Da-
vid H. and Mary Ann Parker and was
born at Warriorsmark. She was twice
married, her first husband being Lake
Pownell and the second Mr. Pfoutz.
The greater part of her married life
was spent in Philipsburg. In addi-
tion to her husband she leaves two
children, one brother and three sis-
ters, one of the latter being Mrs.
Charles Campbell, of State College.
Burial was made in Philipsburg on
Tuesday afternoon.
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LUDWIG.—Mrs. Ellen M. Ludwig,
wife of Samuel D. Ludwig, died at her
home in Ebensburg last Thursday
night following an illness of several
years with a complication of diseases.
She was a daughter of Lemuel and
Harriet Scruders, and was born at
Baileyville, Centre county, seventy-
three years ago. Following her mar-
riage to Mr. Ludwig she moved to
Ebensburg where she had lived ever
since. Surviving her are her husband,
six children and a number of broth-
ers and sisters. Burial was made at
Ebensburg on Sunday afternoon.
SELLERS.—James C. Sellers, a
Civil war veteran, died at Delnorte,
Col., on February 23rd, as the result
of general debility, aged 77 years. He
was a son of William and Susan Sel-
lers, and was born in Centre county.
His surviving brothers and sisters in-
clude Edward Sellers, of State Col-
lege; Charles, of Downs, Kan.; Mrs.
Agnes Meyers, of Lock Haven, and
Mrs. Mary Weber, of Centre Hall
Burial was made at the soldiers’ home
at Monta Vista, Col.
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ULRICH.—George Ulrich, a Civil
war veteran, died at his home in Mill-
heim last Saturday of general debil-
ity. He was born in Millheim and
was 85 years, 1 month and 29 days
old. He was a saddler by occupation
and during the Civil war had a re-
markable record for gallant service on
the field of battle. His survivors in-
clude .seven children, one brother and
! two sisters. Burial was made in the
' Millheim cemetery on Tuesday morn-
ing.
1922, and, afflicted with ill health at |
| Marshall, of Buffalo; Frank M. Ders-
MARSHALL.—Mrs. Martha Jane
Marshall, widow of the late George L.
Marshall, died - in a Buffalo, N. Y.,
hospital on Saturday, following a brief
illness with pleuro-pneumonia.
She was a daughter of Jesse and
Polly Kocher Klinger and was born
in Buffalo Run valley on July 5th,
1843, hence was in her eighty-first
year. As a young woman she mar-
ried Mr. Marshall and practically all
her married life was spent in Belle-
fonte. In fact she lived here until
seven years ago when she went to
Buffalo and made her home with her
son William. She was a life-long
member of the Reformed church. Her
husband died in 1898 and her son
William three years ago, so that her
only immediate survivors are three
grand-children, Mrs. Collins, Mrs.
Seifert and George Marshall, of Buf-
falo, and two sisters, Mrs. Lucy Cox
and Mrs. Mary Derstine, both of
Bellefonte.
Funeral services were held at Buf-
falo, N. Y., on Sunday evening and on
Monday the remains, accompanied by
the grandsen, were brought to Belle-
fonte and taken direct to the Union
cemetery for burial, Rev. Dr. Schmidt
officiating. - Among out of town peo-
ple here for the funeral were George
tine, Mrs. Guy Davis and Mrs. Sam-
uel Kleftnen, of Altoona; Ephriam
Klinger and family and Jesse Klinger
and family, of Lemont; Mrs. Annie
Hartswick, Mrs. Edna Glenn, and
Mrs. Morris Klinger, of State College.
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BAUMGARDNER. — Mrs. Hannah
Jane Frazier Baumgardner, wife of
Collins C. Baumgardner, died at her
home at Pleasant Gap yesterday
morning as the result of a stroke of
paralysis.
She was a daughter of Isaac and
Barbara Reish and was born in Union
county on July 19th, 1863, hence was
in her sixty-first year. She married
Mr. Baumgardner on August 17th,
1890, and practically all their mar- |
ried life has been spent near Pleasant !
Gap. A member of the Reformed
church all her life she was a woman
of sterling worth and splendid chris-
tian character. Though her sun has
set, it sank amid the prophetic splen-
dor of eternal dawn. She will be
greatly missed by all who knew her
and mourned by the community in
general.
In addition to her husband she is
survived by the following children:
Mrs. Oscar Struble, of State College;
Mrs. Harry Brown, of Tyrone; I. R.
Baumgardner, of Bellefonte; Claude
A., of Pleasant Gap, and Charles Les-
ter, of Tyrone. Funeral services will
be held at her late home at ten o’clock
tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Rev.
Dr. Schmidt and Rev. Kepler will of-
ficiate and burial will be made in the
Pleasant Gap cemetery.
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CLARK.—George Clark died on
Tuesday at the home of his sisters, on |
Penn street, as the result of heart
failure and dropsy. He was a son of
James B. and Mary Louise Clark and |
was born in Bellefonte almost forty-
eight years ago. He was educated at
the Bellefonte Academy and St. Fran-
cis College, and for a number of years
was superintendent of the Southern
Prudential Insurance Co., of Chicago.
Owing to ill health he came to Belle-
fonte six months ago. He is surviv-
ed by the following brothers and sis-
ters: Mrs. J. C. Lambert, of Reis-
‘tertown, Md.; T. J. Clark, of Balti-
more; Sister M. Winifred, of Phila-
delphia; Dr. J. W. Clark, of Johns-
town; Marie Louise, S. Agnes and
Mary, of Bellefonte. Funeral serv-
ices will be held in the Catholic church
tomorrow morning, burial to be made
in the Catholic cemetery.
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SHAFFER.—George B. Shaffer, for
many years an employee of State Col-
lege, died very suddenly last Wednes-
day morning as the result of an at-
tack of heart failure. He was walk-
ing along Foster avenue when strick-
en and was assisted into the home of
James Fulton, but died before a phy-
sician could be summoned.
He was a son of Sebastian and An-
gelina Shaffer and was born in Penns-
valley on June 7th, 1862, hence was
not quite sixty-two years old. He is
survived by his wife and two sons,
Roland, of Johnstown, and Warren,
in Williamsport. Burial was made in
the Pine Hall cemetery on Saturday
morning.
Big Auto Show Next Week.
The big Centre county auto show
will be held in the armory next week,
beginning on Wednesday and closing
Saturday night. Every available
space has been taken and a few late
applicants had to be turned away be-
cause of the lack of show room. All
the new models of most of the stand-
ard cars will be shown, and any one
interested in cars should attend the
show. Free music and entertainment
will be given every day.
Little Nittany Valley Ghost Revived.
Several weeks ago sheriff Dick
Taylor and a small band of deputies
unearthed what they believed the se-
cret of a ghost story at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Miles Meclitley, near
Jacksonville, when they caught sev-
eral young men in the act of stoning
the Mechtley home. The young men
were brought before Judge Qui~'ey
and given a severe reprimand and it
was believed that would end the ghost
business.
time, but of late other depredations
have been committed and the; myster-
ious way in which they are gone: has
again revived the belief in ghosts.
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-——Ray White has taken over the
Zeller drug store and will continue it
under the name of J. Zeller & Son.
It apparently did for a;
at Philadelphia Banquet.
Imagining that your readers might
feel an interest in this brilliant social
gathering of former Centre countians,
their descendants and accretions mat-
rimonially, this is undertaken. If not
needed, you know what that waste re-
ceptacle is for, and in which many a
diatribe goes, as the poet says, “un-
wept, unhonored and unsung.” This
quotation used to be a favorite of the
late Hon. Nathan Atwood, educator,
orator and Democrat.
Well, they met, saw and were seen,
in the brilliant red room of the Belle-
vue-Stratford. Gen. Warren Under-
wood managed the affair splendidly.
Among the first your correspondent
met were the Underwoods, Dr. and
Mrs. Mattern, Edward Miller, Mr.
Mingle and Mr. Beale. It was a real
jolly party, in which a few with gray
caputes appeared. Juvanescence pre-
dominated and when that Adonis, Dr.
Becker, of Unionville precedence,
pranced to the front and led the jazz
| songs, presented by a local concern la-
belling itself “musical artists,” there
was much involuntary gyration, as
such musical art naturally creates.
The toasts were not of that sparkling,
ruby character that used to pervade
sociability at such memorable occa-
sions as Gen. Scott Rickard’s four
county magistrates and constable’s
! banquets, when the oratory of Sam
Vauclain moved the shouting enthu-
siasts to jump up on the board and ap-
plaud. It was only poison water, such
as Philadelphia’s water department
supplies from the Schuylkill and Del-
aware river sewers. But you know,
the Volstead Act.
The first course having sped, we
were treated to an admirably acted
parody on Juliet and Romeo by Miss
| Fredericks, a quite promising elocu-
tionist. The musical treats of the
evening, par excellence, were the
whistling solo of Miss Mildred C.
Grove, “A Kiss in the Dark,” and the
soprano solos of Mrs. Loda Goforth,
! a rising star in the musical firmament
of this city. She first sang “The
Song of the Soul,” from “The Cli-
max,” and the whetted emotions of
her auditors calling for more respond-
ed with “The Last Rose of Summer,”
“Oh, Promise Me,” and other selec-
tions of quality. Mrs. Goforth is a
daughter of Mrs. Stamm, formerly of
Millheim. Mrs. Stamm is a grand-
daughter of that pioneer, Dr. Isaac
Ziegler, of Rebersburg, her maiden
name having been Emily Ziegler.
The birthday cake of which all par-
took, was presented by Mrs. Beale.
The gathering was saddened, how-
‘ever, by the fact that Mrs. Beale was
seriously ill and the doctor was called
away to her bedside.
Among those in attendance were
| William A. and Boyd Magee, the lat-
ter being a retired army lieutenant
‘and an invalid. “Admiral Billy” went
into the U. S. government service
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veyor of the port in Philadelphia, and
has continued in the service with a
vastly enlarged field of operation. He
says he still uses his violin, betimes,
on the old music of the Rebersburg
string band of which his father, the
late Reuben M. Magee, was a member
before the days of the Civil war in
1861. That famous band had mem-
bers in Brush, Sugar and Penns val-
leys, and if it’s records had been pre-
served, some prominent names would
there appear.
W. R. B.
Unionville’s Community House to be
Dedicated.
Always Unionville has been a vil-
lage where culture, social and civic
endeavor has seemed out of all pro-
portion to its size. It has been
abreast of the times always. In ad-
vance of them often. It was the pio-
neer temperance community of Cen-
tre county and it is only in line with
this characteristic forwardness of the
people there that on Friday evening,
March 14th, they will dedicate to pub-
lic use a community house.
The old Union church, long in dis-
use, has been fixed up, made habita-
ble and attractive, so that it is to be
the centre of all community activities
in the future. The dedicatory exer-
cises will take the form of a general
gathering of the people of that sec-
tion, mass singing and an address by
Rev. Metzger, chaplain of The Penn-
sylvania State College, and every one
is invited to join with them on this
auspicious occasion.
“Billy” Will Feed ’em Corn-fed
Chickens.
From a Port Richey (Fla.,) paper
we learn that W. C. Rowe is making
good as manager of Chanucey F.
to his taking charge the hotel was
teen rooms and bath and a commo-
dious dining hall 33x75 feet in size.
The dining hall is what especially at-
tracts our attention because the pa-
per states that Billy is going to feed
his guests on corn-fed chickens direct
from the hotel pens, fresh vegetables
in season. It sounds good enough to
almost persuade us to take a trip to
Florida.
———Miss Jennie Morgan is prepar-
Fishop street, to the store room next
the corner, in the new Heverly build-
ifig on Allegheny street. Her present
plang are for doing chiropody, mani-
curing, special hair treatments and
general massage, and to continue her
line of yarns and fancy articles. She
will also occuny one of the third floor
| apartments in the same building.
Centre Countians Have Merry Time |
when the late P. Gray Meek was sur-
York’s hotel at that place. Just prior
from the York gardens and all fruits ;
ing to move from the Doll building on
Among the Sick.
Philip L. Beezer, who has been a
practically helpless invalid for some
months as the result of a stroke of
paralysis, suffered another stroke on
Tuesday night and his condition yes-
terday was regarded as extremely
critical, he being unable to speak or
take nourishment of any kind.
The condition of Capt. W. H. Fry,
who underwent an operation at the
Bellefonte hospital on Wednesday,
was reported yesterday as being very
satisfactory. For a man past eighty
years of age he stood the operation
really better than was expected, and
as no complications accompanied his
primary ailment there is hope for a
permanent recovery.
Miss Miriam Smith, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. Clyde Smith, of Belle-
fonte, underwent a painful and ser-
ious operation, at the Clearfield hos-
pital on Tuesday, in an effort to cor-
rect a curvature of the spine, with
which she has been afflicted for some
time. A strip of bone ten inches long
was removed from her shin and graft-
ed onto the spine at the seat of the
trouble, which is about the waist-line.
Bonegrowth was substituted where
the bone was removed and although
it is too early to say just what the
result will be her condition is reported
as being as satisfactory as possible,
though she naturally suffers consid-
erable pain.
The condition of Miss Ella A. Gates
continues rather baffling to her phy-
sician and friends. Miss Gates, it
will be recalled, was found uncon-
scious in her apartment in Crider’s
Exchange five weeks ago yesterday.
She was removed to the Bellefonte
hospital four weeks ago where every-
thing possible has been done for her,
but up to this time she has never re-
gained consciousness sufficiently to
tell what happened or even to recog-
nize her immediate friends and rela-
tives.
Clarence E. Williams, of the Pot-
ter-Hoy hardware firm, has been laid
up with an attack of grip for the past
week.
Major Adams Coming.
Major Lynn G. Adams, head of the
State constabulary of Pennsylvania,
will come to Bellefonte on Friday,
March 14th, to address a patriotic
mass-meeting to be held in the court
house that evening at 8 o’clock.
Major Adams’ record as chief of the
State police has accorded with that of
his noteworthy achievements as an
officer in the late world war and
marks him as “the man for his job,”
and merits for him the high praise he
has received in both positions.
His personality is commanding, firm
yet genial, and his ready wit, com-
bined with his strong, sound, vigor-
ous common sense, make him a speak-
er of unusual interest. The straight-
forward punch in his speeches drives
the truth home with vigor which his
striking personality magnifies.
The meeting will be free except for
a collection to defray expenses, and
is open to all. If you want tc hecu-
the truth, not “hearsay,” about the
State police and the duties of local
officials, mayors, constables and citi-
zens themselves go and listen to him
talk.
It is a privilege for a town the size
of Bellefonte to obtain Major Adams
as a speaker as his speeches are con-
fined chiefly to Philadelphia, Pitts-
burgh, and the larger cities. In fact
he only agreed to come to Bellefonte
on condition that he would have an
audience of five hundred.
Let the court house be packed to
the limit to hear him Friday even-
ing, March fourteenth. There is a
possibility of an additional attraction
in the persons of the celebrated War-
ings—singers, for that evening.
Watch the papers next week to see if
they will be there. :
Well Known Farmer Bids Farewell
to the Soil.
Last Friday night one hundred and
more of their friends and neighbors
accepted the invitation of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest W. Hess, of College
township, to gather at their farm
home. It was a farewell party in cel-
ebration of the end of thirty years of
toil in agriculture and the beginning
of a retired life on Easy street, in
Boalsburg.
A bountiful feast was served after
which John Jacobs provided the music
for dancing which the jolly party en-
joyed until well on into the morning.
The Hess home has been proverbial
for its hospitality, but that will not
be lost to the community because the
eldest son of the family, Edgar, and
his bride, who was Miss Anna Mary
Thompson, of Pine Grove Mills, will
| carry on at the old place, for they have
y y | taken over the farm and all its equip-
enlarged, the addition including six-
ment.
Gregg Curtin Going Into the Sand
Eusiness.
Gregg Curtin has resigned his posi-
tion as electrician for the American
Lime & Stone company, effective
March 15th, for the purpose of em-
barking in the sand business for him-
self. He will be succeeded by Fred-
erick Daggett, who has been his as-
sistant for some time past.
Mr. Curtin will develop the sand
mine on the old furnace farm this side
of Curtin, formerly the property of
John Curtin. It has long been known
that there was. a large deposit of sand
at.that: place;-in fact-it-has been op-
erated at different times on a small
scale, but Mr. Curtin expects to de-
velop the deposit on a much larger
basis and be in a position to ship his
preduct in any quantity desired.