"Bellefonte, Pa., March 14. 1924.
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Political Announcements.
FOR NATIONAL DELEGATE.
We are authorized to announce that John
¥. Short is a candidate for Delegate to
the National Democratic Convention from
the 23rd Congressional District. Subject
to the primary election laws of Pennsylva-
nia and the Rules of the Democratic party
in the State and District.
To the Democratic Voters of the Twenty-
third Congressional District:
Your support and influence is respect-
fully solicited as a candidate for National
Delegate to the Democratic National Con-
vention to be held in New York, beginning
June 24th, 1924, in accordance with the
Primary Election Laws of Pennsylvania
and the rules of the Democratic party.
consider principle of greater importance
than the political fortune of any individu-
al candidate and if elected, I shall support
that candidate who seems best able to car-
ry to victory the great and progressive
principles of the Democratic party and
the upholding of the constitution of the
United States.
JAMES G. PAUL, Bradford, Pa.
NEARING EASTERN SHORES.
Mrs. North Writes Interestingly of
Voyage to China.
Wednesday, October 3rd, 1923.
Dearest Home Folks:
Bill has again done his duty with
the typewriter, but I want to add my
bit, too. Today I have been almost
seasick. It has been rougher than us-
ual and the weather has been very pe-
culiar. This morning it was stifling
hot, I thought I would smother; and
by noon, it had blown up so cold that
I had to get my coat in order to be
comfortable. I don’t know what kind
of weather we will find in Japan. I
hope it will be just medium.
Bill has told so much that I hardly
know what to write. I guess he has
not told about the Japanese dinner we
had Sunday night. This time things
were cooked and the dinner was serv-
ed out on A deck, the top deck. In
the center of the table was a stove
heated with charcoal and sitting on
the stove a pan in which was cooked
together pieces of beef, and several
kinds of vegetables, cabbage, onions,
and I don’t know what else. They
gave us a dish in which we whipped
up a raw egg, and into the egg we
put a serving of the ingredients of
the pan. It really tasted quite good,
though a little bit was enough for me.
In addition to that mixture we had a
bowl of soup, the thick part of which
we ate with our chop sticks and drank
the liquid. Then we had the bowl of
rice, of course, and some sort of cold
dish which I didn’t try. It didn’t look
good to me. For dessert, they gave
us fresh pineapple, and I thoroughly
enjoyed that. I think my Japanese
dinner didn’t agree with me very well,
for ever since my stomach has been
just a little bit off. I think that’s the
reason I mind the motion of the boat
today. I'm not quite up to par.
Sunday evening Bill and I had a
very interesting conversation with a
Mr. Cheetam, an Englishman. He's
very odd looking and typically Eng-
lish, but I thoroughly enjoyed talking
with him. That same evening we
went up on A deck where Mr. Rode-
heaver was singing for the Japanese
who were having services. It was in-
teresting to hear them sing, hymns
with familiar tunes but the words of
which were as Greek to us. When
one of the native preachers got up to
preach the sermon of the evening, we
left.
Thursday Morning, Oct. 4th, 1923.
We came in sight of land early this
morning, and it’s very hard to stay
indoors and write letters, but I do
want to get these letters off when we
dock at Yokohama. In the distance
we think we can see Mt. Fuji, the old
thing that caused all the trouble. But
we are not quite close enough to be
sure it is Fuji. We think we will try
to go over to Tokyo tomorrow. I'm
not sure that we will succeed. If we
do get ashore, we will probably have
many interesting things to write you
in our next letter. We do not plan to
do much writing from Japan, how-
ever. The postal rates are too high.
It costs ten cents in our money to
mail a letter from Japan, and only
five cents from China.
Last night Sir Theodore Chambers
gave a lecture on “City Planning.” I
wasn’t feeling very well, but I went
anyway and slept through most of it.
What I heard was very interesting.
I am feeling much better this morn-
ing, but I shall appreciate getting to
shore and having this boat stop its
continual motion.
It is cold this morning, cold enough
for me to want my heavy coat on. I
am afraid these sudden changes of
climate are not particularly health-
ful.
Before I close, I want to tell you
that there is one person on this ship
who knows where Bellefonte is. It is
Miss Hoy, of the Biederwolf party.
Her home is in Erie, Pa., and her
mother is related to the Curtins, at
Curtin. Isn’t it strange that we
should meet way out here in the mid-
dle of the ocean? It just proves
again how very small this old world
is. I expect we’ll find some of our
near relatives over in China. I
wouldn’t mind finding my family
there. I was just a trifle homesick
last night. I was feeling so misera-
ble and after I got in bed one of my
cock-roach friends started to climb
the wall at the head of my bunk, and
that made me wish I was in my own
clean bed at home. But I'm all right
this morning. These things don’t
bother me much when I'm feeling up
to par. I’m sure Rachael would have
eighteen fits if she were on this boat
and could see all the roaches. They
say they're on all ships, but Bill says
he never saw them on the transports.
I don’t believe I’ve told you the
name of our cabin boy. It is Wong
Long. He's Chinese, I guess, as many
of the cabin boys and other helpers on
the ship are. Just now he has his
neck tied up. He’s had a huge car-
buncle on the back of his neck for
over a week. I was a little bit afraid
it might be very serious, but he says
it is better now.
By the way, Bill has sent to his
folks the paper that we bought at
Honolulu, and asked them when they
are through reading it, to send it on
to you. It contains news of the peo-
ple on the “Tenyo Marie” that we
thought you might like to see. Will
you please save the paper for us when
you are finished with it? I also wish
you would keep my letters. They will
be a better diary than the little book
I have. I can’t write so much in de-
tail in it.
SARAH.
Dr. Glenn Tells of Agricultural Con-
ditions in Florida. Some Booster
He Is!
Vest Palm Beach, Florida,
February 20, 1924.
Yesterday, seven of us got into two
cars and started out the Ochechobe
road, driving on and on until we reach-
ed Bell Glade, two miles from the
lake. The road is rock-surfaced the
entire way, the first twenty miles oil-
ed and as good and smooth as any of
our state roads at home. Forty-two
miles out, twenty-five miles of this
right through the Everglades, a fine
farm here and there, one large dairy
with a large herd of Guernseys.
We crossed two canals that help
drain this country and keep the lake
from overflowing. They run from the
lake to the ocean—about forty-five
miles, are about. forty feet wide and
water from six to ten feet in depth.
Motor boats, tugs and barges are used
to transport people and produce. As
far as we could see, on either side of
the road, it was perfectly level with a
dense growth of grass, not a tree—
looked like prairie. Wherever they
were © cultivating the land, the soil
looked rich and black as coal; tractors
used everywhere, no stones, no
stumps.
At Bell Glade, we walked over a
farm, saw them raising Irish pota-
toes, which came out of the ground
clean as if washed. The owner said
he raised three crops a year of about
one hundred and fifty bushels each
crop. He had potatoes in all stages
coming on and could dig new ones any
time; also string beans, tomatoes, pep-
pers, cabbage, lettuce, onions ready
for market with others coming on so
that he could continuously supply the
markets; strawberries, fine as ever I
saw picked, of which we bought four
quarts, thirty-five cents each. There
were papaws, oranges, grape fruit
and corn ready for the table; banana
trees with large bunches ready to be
marketed. Although it had rained
most of the previous night, we walked
along between rows of truck and
found, to our surprise, when we came
out, our shoes were clean as when we
went and not a particle of muck
had stuck to them. The soil is eight
feet deep and so rich no fertilizer is
necessary and possibly never will be.
We found many large castor bean
stalks full of beans, some ripe, many
green, and gathered a liberal supply,
merely through curiosity. There are
thousand of acres of this black muck
land that has never been cultivated,
that will grow anything planted on it
and all the year around, without fer-
tilizer, and the good Lord sends plen-
ty of rain and sunshine. The finest
climate under the sun! It surely is
an ideal place for a truck gardener
who is willing to work and stick until
he has made a fortune. The attractive
feature is that all who come can be
accommodated.
When we get cheaper and better
shipping facilities, these Everglades
can supply all the eastern United
States and Canada with every kind of
vegetables and citrus fruits the entire
winter. There is simply no way to es-
timate the agricultural wealth of the
immense Everglades of Florida.
Hearing from home of the snows
and cold, makes one appreciate, more
and more, this balmy climate where
perpetual summer continues through
the winter season. Official thermome-
ter here yesterday and today 70 de-
grees.
Best wishes to my less fortunate
friends.
W. S. GLENN.
State College High School Juniors
Will Give Play.
The Junior class of the State Col-
lege High school will give their annu-
al play, “The Time of His Life,” in
the auditorium of the High school
building at that place this (Friday)
evening. The public is invited and an
evening of delightful entertainment
awaits all who may attend.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
WEAVER.—Mrs. Edna M. Weaver,
wife of Nerr Weaver, of Axe Mann,
died at the Bellefonte hospital last
Saturday, as the result of uraemic
poisoning, following an illness of four
days. She was a daughter of D. A.
and Carrie Dolan McDowell and was
born at Jacksonville on May 8th, 1896,
hence was 27 years and 10 months old.
She was twice married, her first hus-
band having been Earl Clark, by
whom she had one son, Robert Clark,
who survives. Following the death
of her first husband she married Nerr
Weaver, who survives with her par-
ents, one brother and. three sisters,
namely: William McDowell, at home;
Mrs. Ellis Young, of Cedar Springs;
Mrs. Miles Steele, of Bellefonte, and
Mrs. Paul Miller, at home.
Mrs. Weaver, it will be recalled,
was the kind hearted woman who took
the infant child found in the Clayton
Walters home at Axe Mann, a year or
so ago, and mothered it as if it had
been her own. She named the child
Jean Marie, and not knowing the ex-
act date of its birth gave it her own
as its legal birthday.
Funeral services were held in the
Union church at Axe Mann, on Mon-
day, by Rev. W. P. Ard, following
which burial was made in the Evan-
gelical church cemetery at Jackson-
ville.
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BEIGHTOL.—Thomas Beightol, a
native of Burnside township, died in
the Clearfield hospital on Tuesday
night of last week as the result of a
stroke of apoplexy. For some time
past he had been living at Jamestown,
N. Y., and was on his way back to vis-
it Centre county friends, being a pas-
senger on a Buffalo, Rochester and
Pittsburgh railroad train. He was
stricken just as the train pulled out of
Curwensville for Clearfield and at the
latter place he was removed to the
hospital but died the same night.
He was about sixty-five years old
and is survived by his wife and two
brothers, Charles Beightol, of Grass
Flat, and Albert, of Pine Glenn. The
remains were taken to the home of
the latter where funeral services
were held on Friday, burial being
made at Gillentown.
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BAIR.—Mrs. Laura Bair, wife of
Clyde Randall Bair, died at the Altoo-
na hospital last Wednesday, of ex-
haustion, following the third opera-
tion she had undergone within a year.
Her maiden name was Laura Reese,
and she was born in Taylor township,
Centre county, in 1896, hence was
about twenty-eight years of age. In
addition to her husband she leaves
three small children, her mother and
eleven brothers and sisters, among
the latter being Mrs. Dewey Cowher,
of Hannah Furnace. Burial was made
in the Rose Hill cemetery, Altoona,
on Saturday afternoon.
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MUSSER — William S. Musser, a
native of Centre county, but for some |
years past freight agent for the Penn-
sylvania Railroad company at Middle-
town, died suddenly last Saturday
evening of heart failure. He was a
son of M. M. and Kate Fisher Musser,
and was born at Spring Mills on July
20th, 1866. In 1890 he married Clara
S. Hettinger, at Centre Hall, who sur-
vives with one daughter, Mrs. R. J.
Boyles, of Huntingdon. He also leaves
one sister, Mrs. Mary Edwards, of
State College. Burial was made at
Middletown on Tuesday afternoon.
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HARPSTER. — Walter George
Harpster, infant son of Walter and
Goldie - Hampton Harpster, died on
Sunday morning at their apartments
in the Haag house following a brief
illness with laryngeal diphtheria. He
was born September 14th, 1923, hence
was aged 6 months and 24 days. In
addition to the parents two sisters
survive, Pear] and Helen Harpster.
Owing to the contagious nature of the
disease burial in the Union cemetery
was made at five o'clock on Sunday
afternoon.
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BOWER.—Mrs. Elizabeth Bower,
wife of F. P. Bower, died at her home
at Aaronsburg Tuesday afternoon, of
heart trouble, aged 71 years, 5 months
and 11 days. She is survived by her
husband and two sons, Cyrus and Har-
ry, both of Aaronsburg. She also
leaves seven brothers, John Corman,
of Coburn; David and Simon, of
Haines township; Adam, of Millheim;
Joseph, of Rebersburg; Lewis, of
Penn’s Cave, and William, in Texas.
Burial will be made tomorrow morn-
ing.
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KUNES.—Daniel B. Kunes, a life-
long resident of lower Bald Eagle val-
ley, died at his home at Blanchard,
last Saturday morning, aged almost
eighty-seven years. He was a sol-
dier of the Civil war and is survived
by one son and a daughter, Clarence
Kunes, of Lock Haven, and Mrs.
George Gardner, of Blanchard. Bur-
ial was made in the Disciple cemetery,
at Blanchard, on Monday morning.
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BROOKS.—William Brooks died on
Sunday night at the home of his sis-
ter, Mrs. Mary Schroyer, at Miles-
burg, following several week’s illness
with pleuro-pneumonia, aged seventy-
two years. He was unmarried and in
addition to Mrs. Schroyer . leaves
another sister, Mrs. John Pease, of
Milesburg. Burial was made in the
Curtin cemetery on Tuesday after-
noon.
Mrs. Mary Kane, former ma-
tron of the borough home, has moved
to her own home in Roopsburg, and is
putting it in first-class condition, pa-
pering and painting inside and out,
adding a sun porch and conveniences
necessary to carry out her plan for a
boarding home for children. The
home will not be open for occupancy
until April fifteenth.
THE PENN STATE GLEE CLUB.
“A Frost” and “A Packed House.”
The Penn State Glee club sang in
Pottstown on the night of February
28th, and the News, of that city, de-
votes a column and more to the
praise of the artistic triumph of the
organization. It says it was “the best
of the many concerts” that have been
given by male choruses in that place
and was greeted by a packed house.
The idea of “a packed house”
for a college glee club puts us in a
reminiscent mood. It was in the late
eighties that the first group of near
singers at State got together without
edge of music and called themselves
the College Glee club. There were
some musicians in the group, but for
the most part they were merely
“good fellows.”
We had a voice in those days. A
good one, if we do admit it at this late
date, but it wouldn’t do for the Glee
club so we were made press and ad-
vance agent for the outfit. Either our
publicity was no good or the club’s
reputation had been broadcasted by
moccasin telepathy after its opening
in Bellefonte for the next concert was
given in Altoona and we paraded the
streets of that city in a driving rain
trying in vain to give choice seats
away so that the fellows wouldn’t be
discouraged by the presence of only
fifty people who had ventured to give
up real money to hear them sing.
We never got over the “frost” in
Altoona, so it is little wonder that we
are surprised with “the packed
house” in Pottstown.
ree eter “semen
Double Fatality at Sandy Ridge.
During the height of Tuesday morn-
ing’s snow storm Tony Spado, of San-
rone and Clearfield branch of the
Pennsylvania railroad, was struck by
a passenger train and instantly killed.
William Friday, section boss, who was
looking after some work a mile away
from where Spado was killed, when
had not covered half the distance
when he collapsed and died in a few
minutes from heart failure.
Spado was forty-eight years old
and is survived by a wife and two
another daughter in Italy. He had
crew for several years past and a
faithful workman.
Mr. Friday was a native of Tyrone
and was almost fifty-nine years old.
He lived at Osceola Mills and had been
foreman of the section crew for more
than twenty years. He is survived by
his wife, three sons and one daughter,
i Boyd and Oscar, of Tyrone; Dr. Ern-
i est Friday and Miss Mary Jane, at
i home. He also leaves one brother,
{ Conrad Friday, of Philipsburg.
He was a member of the Methodist
i church, the Knights of Golden Eagle
‘and various railroad organizations.
Card Parties Help Hospital.
The success of the benefit card
playing in Bellefonte within the past
month, was due to the enthusiasm of
both hostesses and guests to help a
bit the hospital cause which is now
occupying the public mind. Both
! charity and so much pleasure entering
| into it, might be sufficient reason for
making this round of cards an annual
benefit. The hostesses and the amount
turned in to Mrs. Fenlon, and which
she in turn has given to the treasurer
of the Woman’s auxiliary of the hos-
pital is as follows:
Mrs. Daisy Henderson - - $12.50
Mrs. Benjamin Bradley - - 10.50
Mrs. N. E. Robb - - - 4.00
Mrs. Ogden Malin and Mrs. R. L.
Capers - - - - - 7.00
Mrs. A. M. Barr - - - - $5.00
Mrs. W. Fred Reynolds - - 6.00
Mrs. John Curtin - - - 4.00
Mrs. James Clark - - - 5.00
Mrs. Fred Witmer - - - 4.00
Mrs. George Bingaman - - 6.00
Mrs. Gregg Curtin - - - 4.00
Mrs. Charles Schlow - - - 5.00
Mrs. Charles Kurtz - - - 6.00
Mrs. Charles Casebeer - - - 4.00
Mrs. H. E. Fenlon - - - 8.00
Miss Blanche Underwood - - 2.00
Contribution - - - - 1.00
Total - - - - $94.00
Mrs. J. T. Storch and Miss Hazel
Hurley’s contribution from their par-
ty last week, was not included in Mrs.
Fenlon’s check, as it had been sent di-
rectly to the treasurer. Their $10.00
taking the amount of the fund over
the $100.00 mark.
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Hygienist Leaves
County.
Miss Cora Mitchell, dental hygien-
ist, who has been working in the coun-
ty since last September, left Monday
afternoon for Springfield, Ohio, where
she has accepted a position. During
her stay in Centre county, Miss Mitch-
ell worked in the schools of Belle-
fonte, State College, Lemont, Oak
Hall, Boalsburg, Centre Hall, Spring
Mills, Howard and Milesburg, and
gave talks on the care of the teeth in
every grade of these schools. She
also talked to the Woman’s club, Par-
ent-Teachers and boards of education
in the hope of arousing interest in
this important subject and co-orera-
tion in the furtherance of the plan to
establish a county service with the
hygienist employed for stated times
in the rural schools as well as in thosc
of Bellefonte and State College.
Dental Centre
——Negotiations are now pending
which in the near future may devel-
op into the establishment of a large
candy manufacturing establishment
in Bellefonte, which will certainly be
a sweet thing if it matures.
regard to quality of voice or knowl- |
Mail Pilot Pearson Killed Near
| Grampian, Clearfield County.
Brooks Hyde Pearson, one of the
best pilots on the government air-
‘mail route between New York and
{ Chicago, met death in a terrific snow
storm near Grampian, Clearfield
county, last Friday afternoon, and the
| remains of his burned plane and par-
| tially charred body were not found
{until 4:30 o’clock on Saturday after-
noon.
| Pearson flew between Cleveland and
| Bellefonte and last Friday made his
regular flight east. The New York
plane failing to reach Bellefonte on
time Pearson left the aviation field
here at 2:30 for the return flight to
Cleveland, carrying only the one
pouch of mail from the Bellefonte
postoffice. When he left here the
weather was clear with no indication
| of an approaching storm. But over
in Clearfield county he ran into a
blinding snow storm. No knowledge
of this fact, however, reached the avi-
ation field here until late Friday
evening, when it was impossible to
start a search for the missing pilot.
It just happened that district su-
perintendent J. E. Wiltbeck and as-
sistant superintendent H. B. Shaver
came to Bellefonte on Friday and
when pilot Pearson was reported
missing they promptly made an-
rangements for a diligent search on
Saturday. Consequently that
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Borough Manager Seibert Answers
His Critics.
To the Editor Democratic Watchman.
Dear Sir:
The “Democratic Watchman” is the
only Bellefonte newspaper that ever
publishes the proceedings of council
as they really are. Some years ago I
entered a Bellefonte business place to
learn to solve mechanical problems;
the editor of the Bellefonte Republi-
can went into the office of the same
shops to learn book-keeping problems.
Today things seem to be reversed, for
he is trying to solve mechanical prob-
lems by book-keeping and I am trying
to solve book-keeping problems by me-
chanical ideas. Most people in Belle-
fonte can count, if they know what te
count, and as I have been censured
many times for doing certain things
that they thought were wrong because
they did not know the true situation
I feel that I should, as Borough Man-
ager, explain the true facts so that
the people of Bellefonte can under-
stand why I strongly advocated the
purchase of the mill property and
asked Council to buy it at once and
not let the opportunity pass, which I
knew would pass in a few days and it
has gone as I expected it to.
Council has been censured by some
of the newspapers for holding secret
sessions in working out the proposi-
tion. As a rule no business man takes
the public into his confidence until he
has closed the agreement, for it often
| happens, as my friend Bert Taylor
said, when he was trying to get an
morn- | agreement with the State Highway
ing five scouting planes were sent out ; Department, “I had it all right ’tiil
on a search, while telephone messages ' you know what turned it the other
were sent in all directions asking aid | Way.
of forest rangers and others, but it
was not until late Saturday after-
{noon when word was received that
| connection with it.
| It then developed that the plane council bought the Phoenix.
|
A property owner said to me some
days ago: “I hear you are going to
load another lemon on the borough.”
| I said where is the lemon you speak
| the missing plane had been found, as ' of? H
| well as information of the tragedy in station.”
e said: “The Phoenix pumping
Now let us see if it is a
| lemon. A few years ago the borough
Having
“was found on the M. C. Porter farm ' no money to lay down fer it they were
that about four o’clock on Friday
, afternoon he heard the plane as the
pilot was evidently flying around in
, the storm, evidently in an attempt to
‘get his bearings.
crash but because of the storm was
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dy Ridge, a section hand on the Ty-' pea; Grampian. Mr. Porter claims compelled to buy it out of the run-
ning expense. Now they are paying
$2,000 a year for the property and
pumping at present 1,000,000 gallons
| per day while we are only pumping
800,000 with the $5,000 that we pay to
Then he heard a the Keystone Power Corporation.
Messrs. Ulsh.& Bashoar agreed to
notified of the accident started on a ypaple to locate the direction. He and give the Borough possession of the
run for the scene of the tragedy bul another man searched until dark with- mill at once for pumping water if the
out locating the plane, and on Satur- | Borough would give them $5,000 a
day morning started out again but did
not find the plane until 4:30 o’clock
.in the afternoon, when they located it
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year, the first payment to start in
1925, for a period of ten years and the
interest which would be $16,500 in ten
years. The rentals offered at present
iin a small ravine in a strip of wood- | for the part of the property which
daughters living at Sandy Ridge and |1and. From all indications the pilot |
i had been killed in the fall.
destroyed the machine.
Pearson, whose home was on Long
lof age and unmarried. He had been
flying for about ten years, having
|
! Island, was about twenty-nine years
joined the Canadian flying forces
shortly after the outbreak of the
jworld war, and later served in the
‘English army. His only known rela-
tive is an invalid mother. Superin-
tendent Wiltbeck, assistant superin-
| tendent Shaver, F. J. Gelhaus, man- |
{ager of the Bellefonte field, and pilot
{ Collins went to Grampian on Sunday
| to arrange for the unfortunate pi-
| lot’s funeral.
This is the first fatal accident to
occur on the Allegheny mountain sec-
five years, or to be exact, since July,
1919, when Charles Lamborn plunged
mountains above Unionville.
Veteran School Teacher Celebrated
Birthday.
Elias Hancock, a veteran retired
school teacher, celebrated his eighty-
third birthday anniversary at his
home at Runville, last Thursday.
While there was no family gathering,
or anything of the kind, the aged ped-
agogue was remembered with a show-
er of one hundred and twenty-nine
postcards and a number of useful
presents.
Mr. Hancock is a native of Elk
county, and at the age of sixteen years
was a member of a lumbering crew.
One day while at work he stumbled
and fell, his right arm falling beneath
the bit of a fellow-workman’s sharp
axe. His hand was severed and that
ended his job as a lumberman. Sixty
years ago he came to Centre county
and located at Runville, where he has
lived ever since. Shortly after com-
ing to Centre county he began his ca-
reer as a school teacher, a vocation
he followed for forty-four years.
sued to him in 1876.
Mr. Hancock is the last of a family
of twelve children. His wife is living
and in good health and they have two
children, E. R. Hancock, of Philips-
burg, and Mrs. John Furl, at home.
Beginning the first of April, or
the merchants. and business men of
Bellefonte will inaugurate the Thurs-
day half holiday system, closing every
Thursday afternoon for six months.
only three weeks off.
Mr. S. S. Aplin, secretary of
the Y. M. C. A,, is slowly recovering
from his recent illness. On sunny
days he is able to get a little fresh air
and hopes within the course of a week
or so to be back on the job as usual.
There were fifteen babies at the
Well Baby clinic Wednesday after-
noon. What will happen these if the
nursing service is discontinued?
Fire and Lightning insurance
at a reduced rate.—J. M. Keichline.
69-7-12t*
Congressman Vare could give a
better reason for the withdrawal of
Mayor Kendrick if he were even half
candid.
He
is the holder of a State certificate is- |
more correctly speaking on April 3rd, |
would not interfere with the pumping
A 3 Only his | of water would be $2,800 per year or
been a member of the railroad section legs had been burned in the fire which | $28,000 for ten years. With that in-
come it would not be a very hard job
to pay $16,500 interest and $10,500
for insurance and up-keep.
The amount of power at the mill is
from 150 to 175 horse power. The
amount required to pump the water
and light the streets as they are at
present is 115 horse power. This
could have been used entirely at night
so that the mill and power could have
been rented for day service for a gieat
many years. After the ten vears vere
up the property would have been
paid for and all it would cost outside
of the running expense of today would
be the installation for pumping wo-
ter. The installation for ligh‘ing tie
' streets could have gone for ten years
yet. The cheapest pumping outfit
| would cost about $5,000, the best «~~
tion of the airmail route in almost | Very low maintenance charges vould
cost about $12,000.
Now these being the facets in the
case who is to blame for it? If our
to his death in the foothills of the Republican friend knew nothing ahcut
the situation he should have found cut
before scattering his poison.
Very truly yours,
J. D. SEIBERT, Borough Mgr.
Dominick Delfino Electrocuted.
Dominick Delfino, of Lackawanna
county, who evaded the electric chair
for more than five years as the result
of a sensational escape from the
county jail at Scranton, on Monday
morning paid the penalty for a mur-
der committed over six years ago, by
electrocution at the Rockview peni-
tentiary.
It was back in the fall of 1917
when Delfino killed Demetrio Moro-
bito, at Archbald, near Scranton. He
was tried for murder at the next term
of court, convicted and sentenced to
electrocution. On February 4th, 1918,
fortified with a revolver that had ev-
idently been furnished him by friends
he beat one guard senseless, held two
others at bay with the gun and shot a
fourth guard in the leg, effecting a
sensational escape from the jail.
Hiding during the day and traveling
at night he finally made his way into
Canada and working westward land-
ed in British Columbia. There he re-
mained for five years, but all the time
he lived in terror of the palice. Dur-
ing his residence there he made the
acquaintance of a fellow countryman
named Joe, and one day in a burst of
confidence told him his right name
and what he had done. Finally, last
October, an inquisitive Canadian offi-
cial asked Dominick how he got into
Canada and being unable to produce
| the necessary papers he was arrested
Bear this fact in mind as the time is and sent to jail.
Then he appealed
to “Joe” to help him out, but instead
of doing so he told the authorities
that Dominick was a convicted mur-
derer who had escaped from jail in
Scranton and the authorities thee
were promptly notified. Delfino ‘as
taken back and during the past four
months made a fight for his life be-
fore the Supreme court and the board
of pardons, but without avail.
He was brought to Rockview under
heavy guard last Saturday and on
Monday morning paid the penalty of
his crime. Witnesses of the electro-
cution included Harold Meyers, E. J.
Hart, Chris Rose and Henry Roth,
four newspaper men from: Seranton,
while Rev. Father Cavalotti, of Jes-
sup, attended Delfino to the chair.
The remains were taken to Jessup for
burial.
—Get your job work done here.