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"Bellefonte, Pa, April 11, 1924.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——The ladies auxiliary of the lo-
cal Y. M.C. A. will meet at the Y
next Monday evening at 7:30.
i The annual Easter flower sale
will open at Miller's hardware store
Thursday, April 17th. All kinds of
Easter flowers. Advance orders will
receive prompt attention. 15-2t
——Hugh N. Crider has purchased
a new home on Harvard avenue, Vent-
nor City, N. J., and expects to remain
at the Shore permanently. Ventnor
is in the Chelsea district and is really
the fine residential suburb of Atlan-
tie City.
——The Bellefonte Chapter 350, Or-
der of the Eastern Star, will give a
card party in the I. O. O. F. hall, on
Monday evening, April 21st, at 8:30,
for the benefit of the hospital. Every-
one is invited. Admission 25 cents.
This organization is serving Centre’s
sick.
—The male choir of St. Colum-
ba’s church of Johnstown will come
here on Sunday, April 27th, and that
evening will give a sacred concert in
St. John’s Catholic church. Contri-
butions of one dollar will be expected
of all who go to hear this splendid or-
ganization.
Have you ever met Mrs.
Wiggs? Meet her double, Mrs.
Tubbs, appearing in “Mrs. Tubbs, of
Shantytown,” whith will be presented
by members of Crystal Spring Rebe-
kah lodge, in I. O. O. F. hall, Wed-
nesday evening, April 30th, at 8:15
o'clock. Proceeds for the hospital
fund.
——Sheriff E. R. Taylor has ap-
pointed David R. Foreman a deputy
sheriff to take care of the clerical work
of the sheriff’s office. Following the
death of the late John L. Dunlap the
sheriff decided to do his own clerical
work but the volume of business is
too much for him to handle in connec-
tion with his other duties, hence the
appointment of Mr. Foreman.
A little son was born to Mrs.
N. F. Wagner, of Watsontown, in a
private hospital in Williamsport, on
Sunday morning. It has been named
Edmund Folmer Wagner. Prior to
her marriage Mrs. Wagner was Miss
Louise Brachbill, only daughter of W.
R. Brachbill, of Bellefonte, and her
many friends will be pleased to know
that both she and her little son are
getting along splendidly.
Supervisor C. E. Zortman, who
has charge of the section of right-
away on the Lewisburg and Tyrone
railroad between Coburn and Weikert,
has a force of men at work burning
the refuse along the track as a means
of preventing forest fires when the
dry season approaches. The men who
have charge of the work are Jacob
Smith, G. F. Zimmerman, C. L, Boob,
S. F. Shalter, H. J. Stover, Samuel
Rider, S. J. Kerstetter and J. W. Stei-
ger.
Christopher Singer, of Blanch-
ard, narrowly escaped asphyxiation at
the Moose home in Lock Haven, last
Friday, while in the act of taking a
bath. The Moose had just installed
a gas heater in the bath room and the
connections had not been fully made.
Singer went into the room, closed the
window, bolted the door and applied
a match to the heater. An officer in
the home smelled the gas, broke open
the bath room door and rescued
Singer.
The Bellefonte hospital drive
has been the all-important topic this
week but after you have eased your
conscience by giving all you can go to
the Scenic and enjoy the motion pic-
tures. The programs are all select-
ed with unusual care by manager T.
Clayton Brown and for the sole pur-
pose of pleasing the people of Belle-
fonte and vicinity. The pictures are
the best obtainable and in order not
to miss the best ones you should be a
regular attendant.
——At the 11 o’clock service Palm
Sunday morning at St. John’s Episco-
pal church, palm branches will be
blessed and distributed, after which
will take place the procession of the
palms, such as has been enacted in
churches for many centuries in com-
memoration of Christ’s triumphal en-
try into Jerusalem. Holy week could
not be more impressively nor appro-
priately ushered in than by these cer-
emonies sanctioned by the devotion of
ages. The public is cordially invited
to be present.
Fifty years ago Thomas Flem-
ing went to work as a shoemaker for
the late John Powers, who at that
time had a shoe store in the McClain
block, then owned by D. G. Bush Esq.
Some years later Mr. Powers moved
his store into the Bush Arcade and
Mr. Fleming naturally accompanied
nim. Eventually he moved his repair
shop into a room on the second floor
of the Arcade where he continued in
business until Monday of this week
when he moved across the railroad in-
to the Rine building on west High
street. During the fifty years he
worked under the roof of one owner-
ship he fixed up the soles of many
men and women of Bellefonte, and
drove many thousands of pegs. Most
of his work, however, was stitch work
and if he had a penny for every stitch
he made in his career as a shoemaker
he would have more than enough for
a dozen rainy days and would not have
to worry about the proverbial wolf
coming any ways near his door. But
fortunately he is still in good health
and will continue to look after the un-
derstanding of the people of Belle-
fonte at his new location.
LENGTHY SESSION OF BOROUGH |
COUNCIL.
Various Petitions, Reports, Etc., Pre-
sented at Monday Night's
~ Meeting.
Every member of council was pres-
ent at the regular meeting on Monday
evening, the only vacant chair being
that occupied at the last meeting by
the late councilman John L. Dunlap.
Charles Schad was present and
again asked council’s intentions re-
garding the opening of east Beaver
street. He stated that he had a
chance to sell some lots in that sec-
tion and also wanted to build some
houses but would like to know before
he did so if the street is to be opened.
Mr. Brouse, of the Street commit-
tee, stated that owing to the illness
of borough engineer H. B. Shattuck,
the committee had been unable to
have a survey of the street made,
hence were not in a position to make
a report. President Walker asked
Mr. Schad if he had any proposition
to make council in connection with
the opening of the street and he re-
plied that he had not; as he didn’t feel
as if he should donate the land for the
street. The matter was referred back
to the Street committee.
J. M. Showers and Harry Alters
complained about the condition of east
Beaver street, which they stated was
almost impassable. They also stated
that the water facilities in that part
of town are entirely inadequate. Both
complaints were referred to the prop-
er committees and the borough man-
ager.
A petition was presented from res-
idents of Burnside street requesting
council to open that thoroughfare to
traffic from Allegheny to Blanchard
street. The matter was referred to
the Street committee.
A communication was received from
the Firemen’s Relief association re-
questing their state apportionment
for the year 1923, amounting to $629.
07, and secretary W. T. Kelly stated
that he had the voucher filled out for
the payment and council so ordered.
The secretary presented a permit
granted by the State Highway De-
partment to Frank Sasserman for the
installation of an underground gaso-
line tank and the establishment of a
service station near his home on north
Water street, and the matter was re-
ferred to the Street committee and
borough manager to see that the in-
stallation is made according to the
borough rules and regulations.
Communications from the State
Highway department were presented
by the secretary setting forth the fact
that Bellefonte’s estimated share of
the cost of putting Allegheny and
Linn streets in repair for the year
1924 is $17.50 and for Bishop street
$15.00, and a motion was passed ac-
cepting liability for that expenditure.
A communication was received from
the State Healt ] stat
that April 14th to 19th inclusive has
been designated as “clean-up” week
and requesting council’s co-operation.
The matter was referred to the Sani-
tary committee.
The Street committee presented the
report of the borough manager show-
ing the work done during the past
three weeks. .
The Water committee reported var-
ious repairs made and the collection
of $20.00 insurance for recent dam-
age by fire at the Phoenix mill as well
as the collection of $51.00 on the 1922
water duplicate. Mr. Cunningham
also stated that he had received the
report from the expert who was in
Bellefonte making a survey of the
water system for the Keystone Power
corporation, and the gist of it is that
Bellefonte is wasting too much water.
According to the expert’s figures the
pump at the Phoenix station is throw-
ing an average of 40,000,000 gallons
of water a month; the water wheel
pump at the old pumping station 5,-
000,000 gallons while approximately
23,000,000 gallons are being pumped
by electricity, making a total of 68,-
000,000 gallons a month, or approxi-
mately two and a quarter million gal-
lons a day. Eliminating the amount
of water used for manufacturing pur-
poses, Mr. Cunningham reported this
vast amount showed a daily per capita
consumption of 467 gallons, which is
exceeded by only two other towns in
the State and almost twice as large as
the normal consumption should be.
Should this unnecessary waste be
eliminated it would almost wipe out
the use of the electric pump. Mr.
Cunningham therefore recommended
that a competent man be appointed to
make a house to house inspection for
the purpose of ascertaining where the
big leaks are, and also to compile a
new assessment on which to base the
water tax. Mr. Cunningham, how-
ever, wants it plainly understood that
it is not the purpose of the committee
to curtail the people of Bellefonte in
their legitimate use of water, but only
to correct all waste by leakage. If
the waste is not traced to the various
homes in town then an effort will be
made to locate same elsewhere. The
recommendation of the committee was
approved by council.
The Fire and Police committee pre-
sented a profile map of the town
showing all the water mains and the
location of every fire hydrant. Three
of these maps were made, one for
each fire company and one for the
council chamber. The committee pre-
sented the request of the Logan Fire
company that the bell on the company
building be connected up electrically
so that an alarm of fire can be sound-
ed from the telephone exchange in a
similar manner to the Undine’s bell.
Council authorized the comaittee to
have the work done. A check for
h Department stating |
$50.00 from the citizens of Millheim,
sent in appreciation of the firemen’s
response on the occasion of the recent
fire in that place, was reported to
council, two-thirds of which will be
placed in the general fund and one-
third turned over to the fire company.
The Sanitary committee reported:
that John McCoy has granted to the
borough the right to dump refuse in
the ore hole along the Nittany valley
highway 2 short distance east of fonte Presbyterian church last week,
Bellefonte; the dump to be free of
charge.
. The Finance committee reported
that they had approved the exonera-'
tions requested by former tax collec-
tor J. Kennedy Johnston for the years
1917, 1918 and 1919, but had not yet
passed on those requested for 1920
and 1921. The committee also pre-
sented the report of the auditors of
the Pruner orphanage as well as the
report of the borough auditors, the
latter being turned over to the “Dem-
ocratic Watchman” for printing and
distribution. Notes totalling $23,200
were presented for renewal, which
were authorized.
The police presented a request that
a “no parking” sign be placed at the
Bishop street school building.
A “Disorderly Conduct” ordinance
presented by burgess W. Harrison
Walker was read for the first time,
after which bills aggregating $2996.-
08 were approved for payment and
council adjourned.
Is Bellefonte Wasting Water?
For some time chairman J. M. Cun-
ningham, of the Water committee of
the local council, has been making a
study of the water problem of Belle-
fonte.
His investigations of the per capita
consumption in other towns in the
State have led him to the conviction
that Bellefonte is pumping twice as
much water into its mains as normal
use should require. This unusual con-
dition can be accounted for in only
one of two ways: Either the mains
are leaking badly or there is needless
waste through unrepaired leaks in the
homes and business places of the
town. Mr. Cunningham is reasonably
certain that it is not all in the mains
for with an expert he has gone over
most of them and examined the dow
of water at all main sewer outlets of
the town. While he is reasonably cer-
tain he is not positive that there are
no great leaks in the mains, but to
clear up the other possible cause has
asked council for the appointment of
an inspector who will examine the
plumbing in every building and lot
that has water service.
The inspector will be equipped to
personally repair such minor leaks as
gaskets for dripping spigots and clos-
ets. No charge will be made for this,
but should he find major leaks he will
serve the owner with notice to have
same repaired within a given time
and follow up to see if the order has
been complied with. In the event of
failure to comply the water will be
turned off until such repairs are made:
* Today, every man, woman and child
using Bellefonte water is being fur-
nished with 467 gallons every twenty-
four hours. It is inconceivable that
any one could use such a quantity,
yet the pumping records show that
amount going through the mains. In
Clearfield they use 175, Tyrone 111,
Osceola 134, Lewistown 200 and Hunt-
ingdon 112 so that it isn’t any won-
der that the Water committee is puz-
zled as to where Bellefonte water is
going.
Two Young Girls Jailed for Passing
Forged Checks.
Dora Shope, who gave her age as
nineteen years and her residence
Milesburg, and Verna Dubroski, a
seventeen-year-old Polish girl of Cun-
ningham, near Hazleton, are now in-
mates of the Centre county jail on the
charge of passing forged checks. The
girls had been working at State Col-
lege and evidently concocted the
scheme of getting some clothing on
easy money. Consequently they went
to the Schlow store in State College
and purchased a dress and a coat,
each priced at $12.00, tendering in
payment a check for $32.00, and re-
ceiving $8.00 in change.
On Monday morning they appeared
in Bellefonte and one of the girls en-
tered the store of H. C. Yeager and
bought a pair of shoes from Wilbur
Baney, the clerk. She offered in pay-
ment a check for $35.00 signed by
“Mr. R. C. Gencel.” Mr. Baney look-
ed upon the check with suspicion and.
took it to Mr. Yeager. Willis E. Wi-
on happened to be in the store at the
time and he stated that the check had
not been drawn by Gentzel.
Of course the shoes were not given
to the girl and she was told to go out
and bring her companion into the
store. It just happened that chief of
police Dukeman was standing in front
of the store and being told of the in-
cident followed the girls and took
them into custody. They were taken
to ’Squire Woodring’s office where
they implicated another girl, but she
had made her disappearance. One of
the girls arrested was wearing the
coat obtained at the Schlow store in
State College while the other one was
arrayed in the dress. When taken to
jail they did not seem at all cast down
over the situation they had gotten
themselves into.
Held for Trial in Federal Court.
Joseph and Golman Stewart, the
two Rush township brothers arrested
last week for attempting to extort
money from Mike Patrick by black-
hand methods, will have to answer to
the charge in the federal district
court. A United States marshall came
to Bellefonte last Friday and took the
two men from the Centre county jail
to Williamsport for a hearing before
the United States commissioner who
held them for trial before the federal
court.
MANY MISSION WORKERS IN
BELLEFONTE.
Interesting Exercises at Annual
Meeting Held Here Last Week.
The annual meeting of the Wom-
an’s Missionary society of the Hunt-
ingdon Presbytery, held in the Belle-
was attended by about one hundred
and seventy-five ' delegates, notwith-
standing the inclemency of the weath- |
er. A complirentary luncheon was ;
served the visitors in the chapel at
1:30 o’clock on Tuesday: afternoon by
the ladies of the Bellefonte church.
The first session was held at 2:30
o’clock on Tuesday afternoon with the
president, Mrs. Mary W. Newlin, in
the chair. The devotional services
were led by Mrs. Bion Williams, of
East McKeesport. The roll call
showed every branch of the society
represented. The address of welcome
was made by Mrs. James H. Potter,
and the response by Mrs. F. M. Emer-
ick, of Mifflintown. Brief talks were
made by Miss Gertrude Shultz, sec-
retary of the board of foreign mis-
sions, and Mrs. Homer Campbell, of
the home missions board, who told of
her work in Utah and Arizona. The
remainder of the afternoon session
was taken up in hearing reports of
the young people’s work, all of which
were most encouraging. Miss Shultz
and Mrs. Campbell were also the
speakers at the evening session.
The first thing taken up at the Wed-
nesday morning session was the pre-
sentation of reports from all depart-
ments. The treasurer for foreign
missions reported gifts totaling $18,-
000; the home mission” treasurer re-
ported $8,459. Overseas hospital sup-
plies for Miraj, India, value $1,160,
was also reported. Luncheon was
served the visitors at noon on Wed-
nesday by the Hi Y club at the Y. M.
C. A.
At the Wednesday afternoon session
Miss Catherine Wood, of Lewistown,
conducted a general conference at
which many questions of vital inter-
est to the work of the society
were discussed. Miss Eva Jane
Smith, of India, gave an inter-
esting address on her work in that
country, centering on the establish-
ment of a school at Lahore which has
grown into one of considerable influ-
ence. Mrs. Campbell made her clos-
ing talk on her work among the In-
dians at Tuscon, Arizona, and the
committee on time and place of meet-
ing reported in favor of Philipsburg,
in April, 1925.
‘ Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: President, Mrs.
Mary W. Newlin, Franklinville; asso-
ciate president, Mrs. Horace R. Smith,
Altoona; first vice president, Mrs. H.
H. Stiles, Altoona; second, Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Findley, Altoona; third, Mrs.
Samuel Martin, State College; fourth,
Mrs. John T. Scott, Philipsburg; fifth,
Mrs. O. H. Travis, Altoona; sixth,
Mrs. Samuel Barber, Bellwood; sev-
enth, Mrs. R. L. Piper, Tyrone; eighth,
Mrs. G. L. Russell, Lewistown. Each
vice president will be in charge of a
definite ‘branch .of the work of the so-
ciety. :
Recording secretary, Miss Elsie G.
Clifford, Altoona; correspending sec-
retary, Mrs. J. H. Fretz, Lewistown;
treasurer home missions, Mrs. E. E.
Sanford, Huntingdon; treasurer for-
eign missions, Mrs. Theodore C. Jack-
son, Philipsburg.
Secretaries of young people’s work
—DMiss Anna Fisher and Miss Marga-
retta Robb, Huntingdon; Miss N. Mar-
garet Gardner, Belleville; secretary
Westminster Guild, Miss Catharine
Wood, Academia; secretary for liter-
ature, Mrs. J. M. Laurie, Houtzdale;
secretary for missionary education,
Mrs. Bowers, Lewistown; secretary
for standard of excellence, Mrs. Gibbs,
Irvona.
* Presidents in charge of districts—-
First, Mrs. R. L. McClure, Altoona;
second, Miss Grace Woodcock, Bir-
mingham; third, Miss Bessie Sommer-
ville, Winburne; fourth, Miss Mary
Hunter Linn, Bellefonte; fifth, vacant;
sixth, Mrs. Mary Gifford, Mount Un-
ion; seventh, Mrs. J. M. Ewing Taw
istown; eighth, Mrs. Nellie Morrell,
Hollidaysburg; ninth, Mrs. Wolfe,
Tyrone; tenth, Mrs. George Reed,
Clearfield; eleventh, Miss Anna Mec-
Coy, Bellefonte; twelfth, Mrs. Joseph
Galbraith, Bedford; thirteenth, Mrs.
F. M. Emerick, Mifflintown.
The meeting adjourned at the close
of the Wednesday afternoon session.
Trout Fishing Season Due Next
Tuesday.
Trout fishing will be the big attrac-
tion next week, the opening day of the
season being Tuesday. Of course all
the enthusiastic fishermen are hoping
for nice weather on the opening day,
but whether nice or not the usual
number will likely be out bright and
early to try their luck. The recent
comment of fish commissioner Na-
than R. Buller to the effect that trout
fishing this year will not afford very
good sport is rather discouraging,
but then the fish commissioner may
not know it all. He bases his asser-
tion on the fact that the streams were
unusually low last summer, and up to
late in the fall, so that it was impossi-
ble to put out the usual number of
trout in the smaller streams. While
this may be true, the larger streams,
such as Spring creek, Logan’s branch
and Fishing creek, are doubtless har-
boring about the usual supply of trout,
and all that remains is for the fisher-
men to catch them. Every indication
now points to high and cloudy water
next Tuesday.
——The Catholic Daughters of
America will hold a bake sale at the
City Cash grocery April 12th. Sale
opens at 10 a. m.
{ - NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
| © —Mrs. R. L. Weston will return to Belle-
fonte this week from a visit of almost a
month with friends in Rochester, N. Y.
—Miss Rebecca N. Rhoads has been
| spending the past month in Washington
; and Indianapolis, in the interest of her
work.
| —M. Ward Fleming, Esq., of Philips-
burg, spent Wednesday in town visiting
: his parents and attending to a bit of legal
: business.
—Mrs. Paul Reish, who has been spend-
ing the winter with her sister-in-law, Mrs.
R. G. H. Hayes, visited with friends in
Williamsport several days the early part
of the week.
—Mrs. Daniel Hall returned a month ago
to her home in Unionville, much benefitted
in health by her winter visit with relatives
in Missouri and California. Mrs. Hall
went west in August.
—Rev. T. W. Young came in from Pitts-
burgh on Monday to look after some bus-
iness affairs here and to attend the meet-
ing of the Huntingdon Presbytery held in
Tyrone early this week.
—Editor Thomas H. Harter went down
to Harrisburg on Monday to be present at
the organization of the new board of fish
commissioners, to which he was recently
appointed by Governor Pinchot.
—Mr. and Mrs. John Porter Lyon are at
present occupying the bungalow of Miss
Grace Mitchell, this move being made to
vacate their Curtin street home while it is
being remodeled for housing two families.
—After having spent the fall and win-
ter at Long Beach, California, Miss Min-
nie C. Walker, who will be remembered by
many friends in Centre county, has re-
turned to her former home in Williams-
port.
—Mrs. Martin Hogan will return to
Unionville this week to open her house
for the summer. Mrs. Hogan has been
with relatives in Tyrone during the win-
ter, as has been her custom for a number
of years.
—The Misses Nevling, of Tyrone, both
stenographers in the office of the Ameri-
can Lime and Stone Co., have arranged for
rooms in the home of Miss Olive Mitchell,
expecting to go there from Mrs. Tanner's
apartments in Petrikin hall, the first of
May. :
—Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Topelt will come to
Bellefonte Friday of next week for an
Easter visit with Mrs. Topelt’s mother,
Mrs. R. 8S. Brouse. Mr. Topelt will return
to New York immediately after Easter,
while Mrs. Topelt will remain for several
weeks.
—Miss Martha Haines, one of the Amer-
ican Lime and Stone stenographers, spent
the week-end with friends in Allentown.
—W. Harrison Walker, with John L.
Knisely and Eben Bower as motor guests,
drove to Port Royal Tuesday on a busi-
ness trip.
—Mrs. F. H. Thomas went to New York
Tuesday for an Easter visit with Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Gephart, at Bronxville, where
Francis Thomas will join the family party
for his vacation. If business conditions
permit, F. H. Thomas will also go over to
be with the party for several days.
—Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hughes, Mr.
and Mrs. James Craig and Miss Mary Evey
drove to Pittsburgh this week to spend
the Easter vacation with friends. Mr. and
Mrs. Craig will visit with Mr. Craig's par-
ents, and Miss Evey will be a guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Van Camp, at Washington, Pa.
—Miss Edra Walker resigned her posi-
tion as stenographer in the law office of
Harry Keller Esq., some days ago and has
gone to Philadelphia where she has aec-
cepted another with a large manufactur-
ing concern. Miss Walker has heen suc-
ceeded in Mr. Keller's office by Miss Mau-
vis Furey.
—Mrs. Edwin F. Garman went to Lew-
isburg, on Wednesday, to attend the fun-
eral of Miss Anna B. Kelley, who was bur-
ied in that place that afternoon. Miss Kel-
ley died very suddenly in Philadelphia.
She will be remembered by many friends
here by reason of her frequent visits with
the Garman family.
—Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Fleisher, of Phila-
delphia, have been guests of Mrs. Fleish-
er’'s cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Mordecai Mil-
ler, just south of town, within the week.
Having come to Bellefente late last week,
Mr. Fleisher visited at the Miller home
over Sunday, Mrs. Fleishér continuing her
stay until Thursday.
—Mrs. Gregg Curtin and her small son
are in Philadelphia, having gone down
Monday, called there by the serious illness
of Mrs. Curtin’s mother, whose condition
had been alarming for several days. How-
ever, owing to the critical illness of Mr.
Curtin’s mother, it was impossible for her
to leave Bellefonte until after Mrs. John I.
Curtin’s death.
—Mrs. J. R. Driver, Mrs. William Wad-
dle, Mrs. Satterfield and P. D. Waddle, of
Bellefonte; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones, of
Milton, Del.; Mrs. Lilly Pettit, of Hicks-
ville, Ohio, and Mrs. Frank Kane, of Pitts-
burgh, were all in Tyrone Wednesday, for
the funeral of the late Mrs. Zane Gray.
Mrs. Driver, Mrs. Waddle, Mrs. Pettit and
Mrs. Kane are nieces of Mrs. Gray.
—E. A. Brown, who has been in the
west for some years, is in town packing
his household goods preparatory to mov-
ing to Baltimore, where he expects to
make his home permanently. Mr. Brown’s
property, at 102 east Logan street is for
sale or rent and possession will be given
on May 1st. Any person interested in buy-
ing a home cheap might do well to look
into this opportunity.
—H. C. Angell, who has been assessor in
Rush township for fourteen years, and Roy
Barnet, who has the job of collecting the
taxes on the assessments, were over here
Wednesday on business pertaining to their
offices. The gentlemen were not very eu-
thusiastic over the condition of the upper
Bald Eagle roads. They came over the
new concrete highway to “The Triangle”
and then started down the Valley all the
while finding the going worse and worse.
Finally they stuck completely and after
getting out of the slough had to turn
around and head for Bellefonte by way of
Tyrone and State College.
—Mrs. A. B. Cromer is at present a guest
at the home of her father, Homer Criss-
man. Mrs. Cromer came to Bellefonte on
Thursday of last week, from Sunbury,
where she had been for a few days with
her mother’s sisters, and following her vis-
it here of two weeks or more, will go di-
rectly to Cleveland to join Mr. Cromer, in-
tending to make that city their home. The
Cromers have just returned from Bermu-
da, where they had been for two years,
while Mr. Cromer was in charge of the
building of the big new hotel put up on
the Island, by the James Stewart & Co.
Ins., with whom he has been for a num-
ber of years.
i OTH a
RRS,
—G. E. Spotts, of Fleming, spent a few
minutes in the “Watchman” office yester-
day morning while in Bellefonte looking
after some business matters.
—Miss Olive B. Mitchell spent yester-
day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George
Mitchell, near Lemont, a guest of the fam-
ily birthday party given for Mr. Mitchell's
sister, Miss Maude Mitchell.
—Miss Margie Krape, a nurse at the
Bellefonte hospital, is taking a few days’
vacation which she is spending with her
parents at Coburn. During her absence
Miss Ingram is filling her place at the
hospital. ;
—Mrs. Birkhead Rouse, who has been in
the Maple Heights sanitorium at Sparks,
Maryland, since last October, has returned
to her apartments in the Regis in Balti-
more. Mrs. Rouse has not wholly recov-
ered her health but is hopeful that her
own home environment will effect the per-
manent cure. While in the sanitorium her
two little sons have been here with their
grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. Forest L.
Bullock.
—Amos Harper Rice and 8. H. Griffith,
two strudy Civil war veterans, were at
the Bellefonte hospital on Tuesday visit-
ing their old comrade, Capt. W. H. Fry.
Mr. Rice was a member of the 19th caval-
ry during the war and Mr. Griffith the
46th cavalry. The latter is making ar-
rangements to go to Cape May, N. J.,
where he has a cottage already Furnished
and where he will reside permanently. Of
course these two gentlemen made the most
of their visit with Capt. Fry, who, by the
way, has so far recovered that he is look-
ing forward to returning home in the
near future. During his period of con-
valescence in the hospital he has received
more visitors than any ten patients in that
institution, which is conclusive proof of
the interest his many friends feel in his
recovery.
Centre County Bank Case Not Dis-
posed of by Supreme Court.
The opinion of Justice Sanford
reached this office too late to get its
full text in type for this issue. It ap-
parently does not apply to any of the
questions originally raised in the con-
troversy and clearly conveys the im-
pression that a ruling on those ques-
tions will be reserved until complica-
tions arising out of the death of Mr.
Shugert have been cleared up.
The opinion concludes as follows:
“The question whether Shugert’s
right to maintain the petition in bank-
ruptey for the purpose of having the
partnership and the defendants ad-
judged bankrupt—if any he had—is
one which abated with his death, or
one which survives to his proper rep-
resentatives in the personality or re-
ality involved so that the bankruptcy
proceeding may be continued in their
names, is not, however, free from dif-
ficulty. It is, so far as we are advis-
ed, one of first impression. And it is
one which we think should not be de-
termined ex parte, if there are any
persons claiming to be proper repre-
sentatives of his interest in the pro-
ceeding who desire to be admitted as
parties for the purpose of continuing
it in his stead. E. ei
Under the circumstances we con-
clude that we should now deny the
motion to dismiss the proceeding;
with leave to any persons claiming to
be the proper representatives of Shu-
gert’s interest to appear in this court
within thirty days from this date, set-
ting forth the capacity in which they
so claim, and applying for leave to be
admitted as parties for the purpose of
continuing the proceeding. If this is
done the question whether the pro-
ceeding should be dismissed as to the
partnership and the defendants
or continued as to them by such
representatives, will then be deter-
mined. But if no one thus appears,
these cases will be remanded with in-
structions to dismiss the proceeding
in so far as the petition seeks to have
the partnership and the defendants
adjudged bankrupt; following, by
analogy, the practice established in
cases that have become moot.
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Carload of Easter Flowers.
The annual Easter flower show and
sale will be conducted this year by
the Y. W. C. A. girls at the Y. M. C.
A. The secretary has visited the
nurseries and placed the order for the
flowers, which will include a larger
variety than last year. There will be
nearly 1,000 pots of flowers, with
prices within the range of all. Fifty
pots of beautiful Easter lilies, with
two to five buds and blossoms to the
pot, having a good variety of the tall
and the short to suit either home or
church decorations. :
It is expected the car will arrive on
Wednesday afternoon and the flowers
will be on display Wednesday even-
ing or Thursday morning.
Carnations and roses will be on sale
same as last year. Those wishing to
secure special flowers for decorative
purposes and for sending away will
assist by placing their orders early.
This can be done by telephoning to
the Y. M. C. A.
mn
Nearby Fairs for 1924.
It is a little early to be thinking of
fall diversions, but there may be some
who want to plan for such things so
we append a list of the places and
dates of nearby fairs for 1924:
Altoona, Blair county, August 13 to
August 16.
Huntingdon, August 26 to August
29.
Centre Hall, Grangers, August 30
to September 6.
Sites, September 9 to September
12,
Clearfield, September 23 to Septem-
ber 26.
Lewisburg, September 30 to Octo-
ber 3.
Hughesville, October 14 to October
17.
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——Fire and Lightning insurance
at a reduced rate.—J. M. Keichline.
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