Beworraic Watcan
Bellefonte, Pa., May 16, 1924.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——A reception will be held in the
Presbyterian chapel this (Friday)
evening for the church’s new pastor,
Rev. William C. Thompson, and his
family. All members are urged to at-
tend.
—The degree team of the Belle-
fonte camp Knights of the Golden Ea-
gle went over to Centre Hall, last
Thursday evening, to confer the third
degree upon a good sized class of no-
vitiates.
——The Senior class of the Howard
High school, consisting of eight mem-
bers, was in Bellefonte Tuesday hav-
ing their class picture and individual
pictures taken, preparing for their
commencement next month.
Hugh Quigley has leased the
house on east Linn street to be vacat-
ed the latter part of the month by
Rev. T. W. Young and wife, in antic-
ipation of his marriage next month to
Miss Reynolds, of Lancaster.
——Pity the many daddies in Belle-
fonte who will be dragged down to the
railroad on Sunday morning by their
little boys just to see the circus un-
load. And likely some of the mam-
mas will have to go along, too.
——The first testimony for the
abandonment of the Millheim turn-
pike was taken before the viewers ap-
pointed on the case last Saturday, ad-
journment being made until June 4th
and 5th to complete the work.
——Monday was the date set for
the taking of further testimony in
the condemnation proceedings brought
by the Bellefonte school board against
the old Bellefonte Gas and Steam
Heating company, but owing to the
fact that Hon. Ellis L. Orvis was
called out of town that day the hear-
ing was continued until a later date.
The advance agent for the Sam
Spencer shows was in Bellefonte this
week making arrangements for a
week’s stand here beginning next
Monday. The shows will be held on
the Witmer lot on east Bishop street,
adjoining Hughes field. It is also re-
ported that the Harry Copping shows
will be in Bellefonte in the near fu-
ture for a week’s stand.
A two days’ session of the
northern conference of the Central
Pennsylvania Synod of the United
Lutheran churches was held in Lock
Haven last week, Rev. J. F. English,
of Pine Grove Mills, being elected
president of the conference and Rev.
F. H. Daubenspeck, of Aaronsburg,
treasurer. Among the speakers were
Dr. C. T. Aikens, of Selinsgrove, and
Dr. W. M. Rearick, of Mifflinburg.
——The Johnstown Ledger, estab-
lished three years ago as a competi-
tive morning paper to Warren Worth
Bailey’s Johnstown Democrat, was
absorbed by the latter paper on Tues-
day of last week. During the past
year or more Edward L. Gates, a for-
mer Bellefonte newspaper man, had
been telegraph editor on the Ledger
“and two days after that paper ceased
to function he went to work in a sim-
ilar capacity for the Democrat.
——A very pitiable case in Belle-
fonte is that of eleven year old Mary
Bowersox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Bowersox, who has been housed
up the past two months with a most
severe attack of rheumatism. At first
her legs were so badly affected that
she could hardly walk and now it is
her hands that trouble her most. She
suffers considerable pain and can
hardly sleep at night, but her parents
hope that when the weather becomes
settled she will improve more rapidly.
——The arrival in Bellefonte early
in the week of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Shaughnessy Jr., of Philadelphia, was
the first intimation most of his friends
had that he had become a benedict,
though he is now almost in the class
of “an old married man,” as his wed-
ding dates back to the first of last
December. His bride prior to her
marriage was Miss Marion Wilt, of
Mill Hall, but who for several years
past has been teaching school in Phil-
adelphia, and it was this faét that led
the young couple to keep their mar-
riage a secret until quite recently.
——On Monday evening Jerry Ow-
ens motored in Pine street and just
as he turned the crest of the hill to
make the turn down Spring street he
discovered that he had lost his starter
crank. Stopping the car he jumped
out and ran back to hunt the crank.
While thus engaged the car started
down grade, and with nobody to steer
it, ran onto the James I. McClure
property, knocking down the fence,
breaking off a small horse chestnut
tree and wrecking a flower bed. Mr.
Owens secured the Chemical Lime
company bus to pull his car back onto
the street.
Bulletin No. 20 of Kerlin’s
Grand View poultry farm at Centre
Hall reached this office on Tuesday
morning, only a few hours after we
stood at the Pennsylvania railroad
depot and inspected a shipment of
thousands of young chicks having
been shipped from that place on Mon-
day morning, and we were constrain-
ed to look back to the days of our
childhood when chicken farms were
an unknown quantity and the only
kind of incubators in existence the
old clucking hen. Of course the little
brown hen still has certain duties to
perform which inventive genius has
not yet been able to take from her,
but when it comes to poultry farms
and their mission in furnishing eggs
and young chicks the Kerlin farm is
one of a number of good ones in Cen-
tre county.
BELLEFONTE PUBLIC SCHOOL
NEWS.
Teachers Elected for Ensuing Year.
Commencement Program.
At a recent meeting of the Belle-
fonte school board teachers for the
ensuing year were elected as follows:
High School.
Arthur H. Sloop, Supervising Principal.
Earl K. Stock, Principal and Mathemat-
ies.
Ellis Keller, History and Social Science.
John F. Gilston, Latin and Ancient His-
tory.
Harry C. Menold, Manual Training.
Wallace M. Ward, Science.
Mrs. Daisy B. Henderson, Commercial.
Alice B. Lewis, English.
Josephine Hollingsworth, French and
Biology.
Helen Mackey, Home Economics.
Verna Ardery, Home Economics
Commercial.
(Director of Athletics and Mathematics
not yet selected.)
Henrietta Sebring, English and Secre-
tary.
and
Bishop Street Building.
Ethel Crider, First Grade.
Annie McCaffrey, Second Grade.
Helen Harper, Third Grade.
Grace Johnson, Fourth Grade.
Edith Ashe, Sarah McGarvey, Genevieve
Ricker and Ella Levy, Departmental
Grades V-VIIL
Allegheny Street Building.
Esther Hafner, First Grade.
Mrs. Hilda Leathers, Second Grade.
Henrietta Quigley, Third Grade.
Mary Underwood, Fourth Grade.
Carrie Weaver, May Taylor and two
more to be elected in the Departmental
Grades V-VIII.
Mrs. Alberta Krader, Supervisor of Mu-
Sic.
The annual commencement will be
held June 1st to 4th inclusive, the bac-
calaureate sermon to be preached by
Rev. M. DePui Maynard in the Pres-
byterian church on Sunday evening,
June 1st, at 7:30 o’clock.
The Junior oratorical contest for
the Col. W. F. Reynolds prizes will be
held in the High school auditorium
Monday evening, June 2nd, at 8:15
o’clock. An admission of 15 cents
will be charged and the following con-
testants will participate: William
Harvey, Henry Stere, John Emel,
Clyde Smith, William Heinle, Mary
Shoemaker, Rose Carpeneto, Mary
Elizabeth Sloop, Betty Zerby, Gale
Mitchell. The High school orchestra
will furnish the music.
On Tuesday morning, June 3rd, the
Bishop street grade schools will give
a play in the High school auditorium,
and in the evening the pick of the
Dramatic and Glee clubs will give a
musical play in the Moose Temple
theatre entitled “Daddy Long Legs.”
On Wednesday morning, June 4th,
the Allegheny street grade pupils will
give a musical play in the High school
auditorium and the same evening the
annual commencement exercises will
be held in the auditorium. The com-
mencement address will be delivered
by Rev. Frazer Metzger, chaplain at
State College, and later the prizes
will be awarded and diplomas confer-
red by Dr. M. J. Locke, president of
the Bellefonte school board.
On Tuesday and Wednesday exhib-
its in industrial art, manual training
and home economics will be open to
the public at the High school building.
The graduating class this year to-
tals sixty young men and women, as
follows:
Louise Barnhart, Herbert Bilger, Helen
Brown, Mildred Brown, James Carpeneto,
Nelma Clevenstine, May Crider, Mildred
Deitrick, Ruth Deitrick, Mauvis Furey,
Martha Geiss, Thomas Gross, Edgar
Grove, Sara Haag, Elizabeth Hazel, Vir-
ginia Healy, Elizabeth Hunter, Russell
Jodon, Kathryn Johnston, Mary Katz,
Marion Kline, Dorothy Knisely, Margaret
Longwell, Jane Miller, William Nichols,
Philip Ray, Mahlon Robb, Eleanor Sheffer,
Thurston Smith, Louise Taylor, Anna
Wagner, William Waite, Margaret Way,
Nellie Wolfe, Jack Yeager and Regina
Yerger, all of Bellefonte.
Alice Bauder, Sarah Holt, Clair Parsons,
LeRoy Resides, of Fleming.
Herman Bennett, Samuel Harshbarger,
of Port Matilda.
Samuel Furl, Ralph Poorman, of Run-
ville.
Kelsey Harvey, of New Hope.
Vera Hile, Ray Ishler, Margaret Keller,
Miles Margarel, Beatrice Noll, Leonard
Peters, of Pleasant Gap.
Alice Leathers, Benjamin Sheets, of
Howard.
Willis McClellan, Verna Peters, of Miles
burg.
Edward Myers, Nell Williams, Orlando
Williams, Julian.
Myra Solt, Zion.
Gertrude Richards, Martha Furnace.
The Lewis and Connelly Stories In-
terested Her.
Writing generally of her apprecia-
tion of the “Watchman,” Mrs. J. B.
Smith, of Grand Island, Nebraska,
states that she was specially inter-
ested in the stories of “Lewis the Rob-
ber,” which the “Watchman” recently
published through the courtesy of
their author, Mr. Frederic Godcharles.
Mrs. Smith recalls having heard her
grandfather, who lived between Pleas-
ant Gap and Lauvertown, now called
Peru, tell of Lewis, and sometimes
Connelly, having come down out of
Nittany mountain to his home on fre-
quent occasions to have paper money
exchanged for gold. Her grandfather
did not know until some time after
their last trip to his home who his
strange visitors had been.
After he learned that they were the
notorious highwaymen of that period
he recalled that their actions had been
more or less suspicious, since they
always came and went through Mec-
Bride’s Gap and along the foot of the
mountain to his place and not over the
more traveled highway.
— Mrs. Nevin E. Cole wishes to
thank her many friends for the kind-
ness shown during her late bereave-
ment, and for the service rendered in
giving cars for the funeral.
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Centre County Bank Case Again Held
Up in the Supreme Court.
Much to the disappointment of all
concerned the Supreme Court of the
United States failed to hand down an
opinion or decree on Monday morning
that would loosen a few of the tan-
gles in the Centre County bank case.
As has been reported in the papers
previously, aside from a decision on
the main questions involved, there
was injected into the case an applica-
tion to have George H. Shugert, as
his administrator, substituted for his
father, the late John M. Shugert, for
the purpose of carrying on the pro-
ceedings.
Also three creditors, W. J. Emer-
ick, Howard Holzworth and Roy Wil-
kinson, petitioned the court for per-
mission to intervene in the proceed-
ings.
The expectation was that the Court
would act on these later petitions
without argument, both sides to the
controversy having expressed the de-
sire that it should. Evidently the
country’s highest tribunal looks upon
the matter in such a way that oppor-
tunity for argument should be afford-
ed. For, on Tuesday, without an opin-
ion filed, the order was issued that
George H. Shugert should be permit-
ted to substitute on the record as ad-
ministrator of his father, but that the
original petition could not be amended
so as to permit creditors to intervene.
While the attorneys on both sides
are more or less in doubt as to why
there should be another argument it
seems to be the consensus of opinion
that the opportunity of new argument
is offered for the purpose of discus-
sing the administrator's right to be
admitted and what rights invest in
him if he is admitted.
The date for this argument has
been set for next November 10th.
After it has been made the Court will
probably clear up the collateral ques-
tions involved and later render its
opinion on the main questions carried
to it and not yet touched upon, except
inferentially.
The following letter from the Pro-
thonotary of the Supreme Court may
give you a clearer idea of the status
of the proceeding than we have been
able to do above:
Washington, D. C., May 13, 1924.
Dear Sir:
I beg to inform you that the Court
announced an order on yesterday en-
tering the suggestion of death, and
granting the motion to substitute in
the cases of Meek, Dale and Breeze
v. Centre County Banking Corpora- |
tion, Nos. 590, 591 and 592, of the Oc-
tober Term, 1923, advancing the cases
for argument on Monday, November
10th next after the cases heretofore
assigned for that day, on the issues
including that of the right of the Ad-
ministrator to continue this proceed-
ing in bankruptcy.
———— ne Al em nine.
Hung Up on the Mileshurg Bridge.
About midnight, Tuesday, a Chev-
rolet coupe owned by B. L. Van Dine,
of State College, was badly wrecked
when it hit the girder on the north end
of the iron bridge spanning Bald Ea-
gle creek at Milesburg. The machine
hit the superstructure of the bridge
with such force as to bend the brace
irons considerable, totally demolish
the body of the car, and wreck the en-
gine and it recoiled in such a way as
to throw it crosswise on the driveway
of the bridge.
The driver ascribes the accident to
his effort to avoid hitting a woman pe-
destrian just as he was entering the
bridge. None of the four occupants
of the car were hurt, though it was a
miracle that they were not all im-
mersed in the swollen waters of the
creek.
The identity of the woman who was
walking on the highway at midnight
has not been revealed.
Get Your Seats for the Minstrels.
Secure your seats next Monday at
Mott’s drug store for the Academy
Minstrels. Their entertainment this
year promises a rare treat. The danc-
ing carnival in the second part will
surely be worth the price of admis-
sion. Little Huberta Bernhardt, of
Pittsburgh, will appear in three num-
bers. She is a wonder and will win
the admiration of every one in the au-
dience. Dances by young ladies and
students will illustrate many types of
attractive and amusing features.
Don’t forget the dates, Thursday and
Friday, May 22nd and 23rd. The
minstrel dance will take place in the
armory Friday night, May 23rd, 11
to 3 o'clock. The Challis Collegians
will furnish the music.
C. F. Tate Helps a Bit.
Possibly because he has raised a
family of ball players and possibly
because he is just a good fellow who
has always tried to do his part “Cor-
ny” Tate, the plumber, has built, at
his own expense, a batter’s net and
placed it on Hughes field for the use
of all ball players in Bellefonte.
A batter’s net is a moveable back-
stop for practice batting and now that
the amateur Babe Ruths have some-
thing that will save them the trouble
of running all over the big field for
passed balls there will probably be a
lot more local players working into
the King of Swat class.
—— A —.
——The Last Resort tea room open-
ed for patronage during the past week
in the old Garman dwelling house on
High street. It is now more attract-
ive than ever. With this permanent
location, its unique decorations and
furnishings and the excellent food al-
ways served by Miss Valentine should
make it the most popular tea room of
this section of the country, both for
visitors to the town and for the
townspeople themselves.
ONE DEATH FROM TYPHOID
FEVER EPIDEMIC.
Seven New Cases Under Treatment
in the Bellefonte Hospital.
The first death to occur as the re-
sult of the typhoid fever epidemic at
Coleville happened at one o’clock on
Wednesday morning when Miss Helen
Wolf, the twenty year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Wolf, and who
was the first to be stricken down with
the disease, passed away at the Belle-
fonte hospital, where another sister
is also a patient. Two others are
still in a very serious condition, Miss
Pearl Leathers and Clarence Young.
Since the publication of the list of
those ill in last week’s paper seven
additional cases have developed and
were taken to the hospital for treat-
ment. They are Clarence Young,
Thurman Davis, Charles Gettig,
Cooper Davis, Mrs. Mary Evoch, Mrs.
Anna Derstine and Nelson Grubb.
Katherine Rote was taken to the hos-
pital on Friday as a suspect but as
the disease did not develop she was
discharged on Sunday.
The additional cases developed dur-
ing the week must not be taken as ev-
idence that the source of the disease
has not been overcome. They are
simply the result of the infection be-
fore the magnitude of the epidemic
developed, and it is possible there
| may be more cases before the disease
is overcome.
Helen Wolf, the first victim, was a
daughter of Fletcher and Eva Ross-
‘man Wolf and was born at Coleville
‘on April 29th, 1904, hence was 20
| years and 15 days old. All her life
' was spent at the place of her birth.
In addition to her parents she is sur-
| vived by two brothers and one sister,
Creighton and Leslie Wolf and Mrs.
Anna Derstine. She also leaves one
half-brother, Edward Green. Rev.
Reed O. Steely will have charge of
the funeral services which will be held
tomorrow morning at ten o’clock,
burial to be made in the Bellefonte
i Union cemetery.
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Two Men Suffer Bad Injuries Last
Friday.
William Keen, an employee of the
i Pennsylvania Match company, lost
two fingers on his right hand, last
| Friday, as the result of getting
_caught in one of the machines at the
‘plant. He had just returned to work
from a visit to the company’s office
for the purpose of paying his monthly
contribution to the big hospital drive
when he inadvertently got his hand
caught in the machine and before it
could be stopped the third and fourth
fingers were so badly mutilated that
they had to be amputated above the
upper joint. In fact less than half an
hour from the time he paid his hos-
pital contribution he was taken to
that institution to have his fingers
amputated.
SAMUEL BURROWS VICTIM OF GUN
SHOT.
Samuel Burrows, who lives in the
tenant house on the Brockerhoff farm,
along the Jacksonville road, was also
admitted to the hospital on Friday as
the result of having his left hand
completely torn away as the effects of
a shot gun. Mr. Burrows was using
the gun to shoot blackbirds which are
proving an almost intolerable nui-
sance about the barn on the farm. He
was on the point of putting the gun
away when he saw a bird settle at one
end of the barn. Quietly crawling to
the corner of the building he attempt-
ed to get a shot but the bird was up
and away before he could fire. Re-
turning he was in the act of hanging
the gun up on a nail under the over-
shoot, out of the way of the chil-
dren, when the gun was discharged.
Mr. Burrows had his left hand over
the muzzle of the gun and the load of
shot literally tore his hand to shreds
and it was necessary to amputate it
above the wrist. Mr. Burrows is
married and has quite a family of
small children, so that his unfortu-
nate injury is a most deplorable cir-
cumstance.
Secretary of Labor Davis Visits
Bellefonte by Airplane.
Secretary of Labor James J. Davis,
of President Coolidge’s cabinet, spent
a half hour in Bellefonte on Saturday
while enroute from Chicago to Phila-
delphia, traveling from Cleveland,
Ohio, to the Quaker city by airplane.
Secretary Davis was the chief speak-
er at a meeting in Chicago on Friday
evening and was booked for a speech
in Philadelphia on Saturday evening.
It was impossible to get through by
train so he traveled by railroad to
Cleveland and made the balance of
the trip by airplane. :
The ship carrying the secretary
was piloted by Paul F. Collins, one of
the regular airmail pilots. It left
Cleveland at 9:20 o’clock in the morn-
ing and reached the Bellefonte avia-
tion field at 11:30. A stop of one-half
hour was made in Bellefonte during
which time Mr. Davis was brought
down town and shown the big trout
in Spring creek, got a sandwich and an
apple and was munching the latter
when his ship took flight for Philadel-
phia.
Of course this wasn’t the secretary’s
first flight through the air, as on a
former occasion he was a passenger
from San Francisco to Chicago, and
while in Bellefonte on Saturday he
told a “Watchman” reporter that he
preferred traveling in the air to on
the ground. He further stated that
of all the States he had flown across
there are none to equal old Pennsyl-
vania for beautiful, diversified scen-
ery. Mr. Davis lived for many years
in Sharon, Mercer county, but his
home is now in Pittsburgh.
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs. S. D. Burris, of Centre Hall, was
a guest last week of Daniel Eberhart and
daughter, Miss Mary.
—Judge Henry C. Quigley is holding
court in Pittsburgh this week, but expects
to return home today.
—Mrs. Harry Hazel and son Clarence,
_ of Pittsburgh, are in Bellefonte for a two
week's visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Lose, on east High street.
—Miss Mabel Detling, who for a number
of years has been assistant to A. C. Smith,
in his tailor shop, resigned her position
with Mr. Smith two weeks ago, to go with
Montgomery & Co.
—William Chambers went to West Ches-
ter Tuesday, to attend the funeral of his
niece, Mrs. Josiah Darlington, who before
her marriage last July, was Miss Helen
Staples Chambers.
—Miss Jessie Shaw, of New York city,
is visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Widdow-
son at their home on east Linn street.
Miss Shaw arrived in Bellefonte Monday
and will be here for several weeks.
—Harry Bowersox and family, with Miss
Mary Eberhart as a driving guest, motored
to Millheim last Saturday evening, where
Mr. Bowersox looked after some business
matters while the ladies visited with
friends.
—Mrs. C. H. Young and her two chil-
dren, Evalyn and Jean are making a two
week’s visit with Mrs. Young's parents,
Dr. and Mrs. M. A. Kirk. Mr. Young drove
over Saturday with his family but return-
ed home the same day.
—Miss Martha Conner, former assistant
librarian of the Penn State library and for
several years past a member of the staff
of Carnegie Tech library, Pittsburgh, was
a week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
B. Shattuck, at State College.
—Mrs. John Slack was discharged from
the Bellefonte hospital Friday, and taken
to her home in Centre Hall. Mrs. Slack
entered the hospital the day after Christ-
mas, being under treatment there since,
for a broken hip, and although not having
entirely recovered, Mrs. Slack’s condition
is considerably improved.
—Miss Vivian V. Lutz and her sister,
Mrs. Marion Coll, with the latter's daugh-
ter Virginia, were guests for the week-end
of friends in Williamsport, and during
their absence Mrs. Richard Lutz entertain-
ed a party of relatives from Altoona, which
included John Ferguson, his son Belva-
dean, and Mrs. Laura Holderman.
—Mrs. Edward Shields with her two
children and Mr. Shield’s sister, Miss The-
ressa Shields, arrived in Bellefonte yester-
day from Jackson, Miss. , where Miss
Shields had been with her brother's fam-
ily since October. Mrs. Shields and the
children will be here with the Galbraith
and Shields families for some time.
—August Glinz, who spent the past year
in Germany, returned to Bellefonte two
weeks ago and this week is out in New
Kensington looking after his property in-
terests there. He will return to Belle-
fonte, however, as he is making an effort
to sell his property here in anticipation of
going to Los Angeles, Cal, for an indefi-
nite sojourn. :
—Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bible are prepar-
ing for a public sale of their household
goods, to be held Saturday, May 31st. Im-
mediately following the sale they will leave
for Altoona, where they will make their
home, their present plans being for occu-
pying the apartment with Dr. and Mrs.
Bowes, the latter being Mr. and Mrs. Bi-
ble’s only child.
—Mr. and Mrs. G. Oscar Gray and their
younger son, Richard, went to Tyrone
Friday to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Gray’s cousin, Miss Judge. On Saturday
morning Mr. and Mrs. Gray drove to Ha-
zleton to spend several days helping Mrs.
E. J. Harrington in her preparations for
coming to Bellefonte the first of June, to
make her home with the Gray family.
—A family home-coming to celebrate
Mother's day with their mother was the
happiest of events for the Shaughnessy
family during the week. The party, in ad-
dition to those at home, was comprised of
Miss Helen, of Wilkes-Barre; Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Shaughnessy Jr.,, and Miss Anne,
of Philadelphia, and John, of Boalsburg.
Miss Helen remained home for a part of
the week, while those from Philadelphia
left Sunday evening, taking Mrs. Shaugh-
nessy back east with them, where she will
De their guest for several weeks.
—Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Miller,
liamsport, motored up to Bellefonte on
Saturday afternoon, to spend the night
with relatives and friends here. They were
the guests, until their return on Sunday,
of Mr. and Mrs. Win Love. Before her
marriage Mrs. Miller was Miss Pacini, a
daughter of the late John Pacini, so that
she has three sisters living here, Mrs.
Love, Mrs. Edward Robb and Mrs. Wil-
liam Cunningham and her short stay was
necessarily a very busy one seeing them
all as well as some of her many other
friends. Mr. Miller is in the employ of
the Hermance Machine company in Wil-
liamsport and as real machinists are al-
ways busy finds little time to get away,
except for week-ends.
of Wil-
—Harry Rine, who was born and spent
the early years of his life in Bellefonte,
was a visitor here over Monday night. He
now lives at Gary, Ind., and last week mo-
tored east to Kane, Pa., where he left his
wife and children while he took a run
over to Bellefonte just to see how the old
town is coming along. Harry left here in
1900 and the only time he has been back
since then was fourteen years ago when
he came here to attend the funeral of his
brother, Samuel Rine, for many years su-
perintendent of the town’s water system.
Naturally he sees many changes during
the almost quarter of a century he has
been away and he had no hesitation in
stating that the town is much improved
and also one of the cleanest and best kept
of any he saw on his trip east.
—George H. Musser, a sturdy, life-long
Democrat, who for many years has kept
East Boggs practically in the Democrat-
ic column, was in Bellefonte on Saturday
closing up his business affairs preliminary
to his and Mrs. Musser’s leaving early in the
week for Lewisburg, West Virginia, where
they will make their home with their son
Ralph and wife. Mr. Musser has not been
in good health for three years and conse-
quently. unable to look after his farm
work. Three weeks ago he suffered what
his physician diagnosed as a very slight
stroke and it was following that that he
decided to acquiesce in his son’s invita-
tion to go and make his home with him.
Consequently on Friday he made public
sale of all his farm stock and machinery,
as well as household goods and left for
his son’s home in the beginning of the
week, His farm in Boggs township is for
sale whenever the right purchaser can be
found.
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—Mrs. H. Laird Curtin is visiting with
her aunt, Miss Potter, at Ashbourne, Pa.
—John P. Sebring is entertaining his
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Woods Sebring, of
Philadelphia.
—Mrs. R. Wyyn Davis, of Washington,
Pa., arrived home Tuesday, called here to
be with her mother, Mrs. L. H. Gettig, who
is ill at her home on Thomas street.
—Mrs. David K. Hughes left for her
home in Wilkes-Barre, Sunday, following
a two week’s visit here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Klinger, who took
her as far as Williamsport in their car.
—Mrs. W. Miles Walker is east on a vis-
it with her two daughters. Going directly
to Trenton, N. J., the first part of her time
will be spent with Mrs. Albert Numbers,
expecting to stop in Philadelphia with her
daughter, Miss FEdrie on her way back
home.
—Miss Helen Bartholomew, of Centre
Hall, spent a good part of Monday in
Bellefonte visiting the shops and calling
on friends while waiting to have a new
Chalmers car recently purchased by her
and her brother, C. D. Bartholomey, prop-
erly adjusted and put in shape.
—Dr. R. M. Krebs, of Pine Grove Mills,
made one of his rare visits to Bellefonte
last Thursday afternoon. The Doctor has
nothing against our town. He is merely
s0 busy with his practice at home and so
contended with life there that he is con-
tent and contentment, after all, is the real
secret of a happy existence.
—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Case and their
two sons, who had been house guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Keichline since Sat«
urday, left Wednesday for the return drive
to their home in Kirkville, N. Y. Mrs.
Keichline had anticipated motoring back
with them, but was obliged to change her
plans at the last minute and accompanied
them only to Williamsport. Mr. and Mrs.
Case have made a yearly visit to Belle«
fonte for several years.
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Important Hospital Meeting Tonight.
While it will not be a public con-
ference all those specially interested
in the future of the hospital will be
welcomed at the meeting of the Board
that is scheduled for the arbitration
room in the court house tonight at 8
o’clock.
The Board was in session three
hours last Friday night planning, so
far as it seemed advisable, for the ap-
plication for a new charter, change of
name and drafting a skeleton form of
reorganization for submission to the
conference tonight.
Kiwanis will be represented at this
meeting and it has invited represen-
tatives from each division in which
the drive was made to be present for
counsel with the Board.
The form of government and aims
of the corporation must be stated in
the application for the charter and as
the shortest time that a new charter
can be legally granted will be ap-
proximately six weeks the present
Board must function in order to prop-
erly open the way for its successor to
come into being.
The meeting tonight will be for dis-
cussion of such preliminary steps as
are necessary to the reorganization
and in order that the old Board might
not appear as having exclusively made
plans that will bind any new one that
might be chosen those who have been
most active in the $100,000 drive
have been invited to offer such sug-
gestions as they may have to present.
Buffalo Run Road Under Improvement
Resurfacing and oiling of the high-
way through the Buffalo Run valley
has been under way for several weeks.
It is completed from Centre Line to
the Quaker church, and from Hunter's
Park to Briarly. The next step will
be the section from Bellefonte to
Hunter’s Park.
Don’t use the Buffalo Run road for
few days, if you can avoid it, for you
will certainly have a lot of tar to clean
off your car.
——A pure food sale will be held at
the Variety shop on Saturday morn-
ing, May 24th, starting at 10 o’clock.
The proceeds of this sale will go to-
ward wiping out the small debt still
against the community piano. This
being a community project contribu-
tions toward the sale will be grateful-
ly received. Any one unable to take
or send their contributions to the Va-
riety shop can call Mrs. Charles E.
Garbrick (Commercial phone) or Mrs.
Benjamin Bradley (Bell phone), and
arrangements will be made to call for
their contributions.
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——Main’s show will be here next
Monday but that will be entertain-
ment for one day only while the Scen-
ic offers amusement every evening in
the week, that’s one reason why you
should patronize it regularly. Anoth-
er reason is that no where in Belle-
fonte can you get the same quality of
entertainment for the price. Be a
regular and see all the good pictures.
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For Sale.—One solid oak—side icer,
porcelain-lined refrigerator, in per-
fect condition, and one white enameled
child’s crib. Inquire at this office.
20-tf
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——All kinds of household goods
will be sold at public sale at the home
of W. W. Bible, east Bishop street,
Saturday, May 81st, at one o'clock
p. m. 20-2¢
For Sale.~Dockash stove, refrig-
erator and sewing machine.—Rev. T.
W. Young. 20-1t*
——Fire and Lightning insurance
at a reduced rate.—J. M. Keichline.
69-7-12t*
Bellefonte Grain Market.
Corrected Weekly by C. ¥. Wagner & Co.
‘Wheat - - - - - $1.06
Shelled Corn = = = = = 90
ByS = w "= x ww 50
Osty eo = « u «= e005
Barley = - = - - - 60
Buckwheat = « « = = 80