Bemorvalic Wad,
Bellefonte, Pa., June 6, 1924.
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COUNCIL RAISES MILLAGE.
“Disorderly Conduct”
Also Passes
Ordinance. Other Business
Transacted.
Bellefonte borough council held its
first meeting in two months on Mou-
day evening and celebrated the event
by increasing the borough millage.
Every member was present and not a
dissenting voice was raised when
Chairman Emerick, of the Finance
committee, recommended the increase.
In the approval of the minutes of
the last meeting of council a minute
was inserted on the death of council-
man John L. Dunlap, which occurred
on March 19th, a copy of which was
ordered sent to the bereaved family.
George Hazel was present and stat-
ed that the Kiwanis club would like to
place circular flower boxes on all the
light standards on Allegheny street
from Bishop to Howard and on High
street from the Diamond to the rail-
road station. They have secured per-
mission from the Keystone Power cor-
poration and asked permission of
council. The Kiwanis will bear all the
expense and the Boy Scouts have
agreed to take care of the flowers.
The matter was referred to the Street
committee with power.
A communication was received from
the Public Service Commission stat-
ing that 2a permit had been granted
W. B. Port for the installation of two
gasoline service tanks on his property
on east Howard street, and the mat-
ter was referred to the Street com-
mittee.
The correspondence with the secre-
tary of the State Sanitary Board rel-
ative to laying a pipe in Spring creek
to convey the sewage from below the
falls down stream to a point under the
High street bridge was read. Coun-
cilmen were of the opinion that if the
point of disposal of the sewage were
removed from where it now empties
into the creek the trout will follow it.
The matter was referred to the Street
committee and borough solicitor.
Arthur C. Dale appeared in behalf
of Albert Schad, who recently sold his
property on east Linn street to D. M.
Kline. In order to give title to the
property Mr. Schad was obliged to
clean up a number of tax liens against
it, and his appeal was for the remis-
sion of interest on the liens, which, he
alleged, had been granted by the
school board and poor department.
The matter was referred to the Fi-
nance committee and borough solic-
itor to ascertain council’s rights in
the matter.
The Street committee reported a
lot of temporary repairs to streets
and alleys during the past two months
but no work of a permanent character
started. Money turned over to the
borough treasurer amounted to $36.50.
The Water committee reported
usual repairs to service and the col-
lection of $98.00 on the 1922 dupli-
cate and $8.00 from the Walter L.
Main show. The committee reported
212 meters in use in Bellefonte and
that the meter bills for the quarter
ending April first amounted to $1422.-
19. Chairman Cunningham, of the
committee, submitted a resolution re-
scinding a resolution passed at the
last meeting of council providing that
hopper water closets and cooling
troughs be paid for at meter rates,
substituting therefore a resolution
making the assessment for such util-
ities $20 per year. Both resolutions
were adopted.
The Atlantic Refining company is
building a garage near their station
on south Potter street and asked that
the water be extended there, a dis-
tance of approximately 300 feet. The
company agrees to pay for the pipe.
Residents of Logan street also asked
for a 300 foot extension and both re-
quests were referred to the Water
committee with power.
The Finance committee asked for
the renewal of five notes totalling
$7,000, after which chairman Emer-
ick recommended that the millage for
the year 1924 be fixed at 10 mills for
borough purposes, 10 for street and 5
for interest. This is an increase of 5
mills for borough purposes. Council
approved the recommendation.
The Fire and Police committee pre-
sented the burgess’ check for $103.70
for fines and licenses collected, and
a check for $50 from Millheim coun-
cil and one for $10 from Milesburg
for the services of Bellefonte firemen.
Chairman Flack reported that the Un-
dine company’s old squad wagon has
become antiquated and they have pur-
chased a new chassis for $600, and
would like council to pay half the cost,
or $300. The committee so recom-
mended and the recommendation was
approved.
Burgess Walker was present and at
this juncture in the proceedings he
took occasion to urge upon council the
passage of the “Disorderly Conduct”
ordinance read for the first time at a
regular meeting of council on April
7th. He stated that the boroughs of
Muncy and Hanover had passed ordi-
nances almost identical in character
and many other boroughs in the State
are taking steps to enact such legis-
lation. He then read the ordinance 2s
submitted and stated that the bor-
ough solicitor had approved same.
President Walker stated that in his
judgment the ordinance is needed but
he did not like the title of disorderly
conduct. Mr. Cunningham objected
to passing the ordinance without its
approval in person by the borough so-
licitor and because he believes exist-
ing ordinances sufficient if they are
properly enforced. After some dis-
cussion Mr. Emerick made a motion
that the ordinance be approved and
the same was seconded by Mr. Hazel.
On roll call Messrs. Badger, Bradley,
Brouse, Emerick and Hazel voted for
its adoption and Cunningham and
Flack against it. When the president
declared the ordinance adopted Mr.
Cunningham called his attention to
the fact that the action was not in ac-
cordance with parliamentary usage,
because the clerk had not read the or-
dinance the second time. To avert
any question of legality the clerk was
instructed to read the ordinance, after ;
which another roll call was made and
the vote was the same. Mr. Cun-
ningham stated that now that the or-
dinance had been passed he would like
to know if it would stop bootlegging
in Bellefonte, gambling and crap
shooting on the streets.
The secretary stated that the Asso-
ciation of Boroughs will meet in an-
nual convention at New Kensington,
June 9th, 10th and 11th, and Belle-
fonte is entitled to be represented by
two councilmen, the burgess and bor-
ough solicitor. Mr. Brouse made a
motion that the president appoint the
representatives, but not a single
councilman seemed disposed to go.
Burgess Walker called attention to
the fact that residents on Linn street
were much annoyed by strange mo-
torists stopping to inquire how to get
out of town and asked what had been
done toward placing signs at the in-
tersection of Allegheny and Linn and
Spring and Linn streets. Borough
manager Seibert stated that the High-
way Department is having signs
made and expects them here in the
near future when they will be erected.
Borough manager Seibert also call-
ed attention to the fact that Nathan
Kofman is erecting a new set of plat-
form scales at his place of business
and intends filling up the street some
two feet or more, and council should
make some arrangement to take care
of the surface water that drains down
the alley from Thomas street. Mr.
Kofman has a culvert from his coal
vard under the railroad to the creek
and he will ‘permit council to connect
a sewer with it. The matter was re-
ferred to the Street committee.
Chairman Brouse, of the Street
committee called attention of council
to the persistence of some people in
dumping their ashes on the streets
and alleys, and was informed that
there is an ordinance providing a fine
for so doing and he had the power to
enforce it.
After being in session for two hours
council approved bills totalling thous-
ands of dollars then adjourned.
The Academy Has Closed.
The Bellefonte Academy closed
another very successful year yester-
day afternoon with the graduation of
about thirty young men, many of
whom have already matriculated for
courses in the various colleges and
universities of the country.
The prize winners during the year
were:
Oratorical, 1st prize—Gilbert Welch, of
Parkersburg, W. Va. Second prize, Wil-
liam Manchester, Birmingham, Mich.
Latin Prize—Valen O'Neill, Pittsburgh,
Pra,
Prize Essay on Temperance offered by
the W. C. T. U.—Leon Kutz, LeMoyne, Pa.
Mathematical Prize—James Hammond,
Bolivar, Pa.
Historical Prizes—Joseph Barbeson,
Binghamton, N. Y.; Andrew Cutler, Fred-
ericktown, Pa.
Rensselaer Prize—Jack Bleecker, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Letters were awarded to the follow-
ing athletes:
Basket Ball—Blackburn, Coffey, Cutler,
Guarino, Householder, Lewis, Shiveley,
Soisson, F. White, J. White, E. Williams,
Manager Myers.
Baseball—Blackburn, Buyny, Cutler, Di-
Meolo, Grimm, Guarino, Kutz, O'Neil,
Rugh, Shiveley, Walsh, E. Williams, Witt-
man, 8. Wilson, Manager.
Track—Gwinn, Welch.
——Word has been received in
Bellefonte of the death of the seven
month’s old child of Mr. and Mrs. Sta-
cy Hay, of DuBois. Mrs. Hay, before
her marriage, was Miss Marion Lin-
gle, a daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. J. Howard Lingle. The parents
were unable to bring the body to
Bellefonte for burial because both are
confined to their home with illness.
Just at present DuBois is in the throes
of an epidemic that was at first
thought to be grip or influenza, but
which the doctors now believe to be
meningitis, and several hundred peo-
ple are afflicted.
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——The registration of children for
the kiddies day picnic at Hecla park,
Saturday of next week, under the au-
spices of the Bellefonte Lodge of
Elks, is now in order at the Elks
home, where G. W. Rees is doing the
work. The first day one hundred and
fifty kiddies registered and each day
brings its quota. The Elks, however,
would like to have all children regis-
ter as early as possible so they can
make definite arrangements for their
accommodation at the pic ic.
BURKET.—Mrs. Kate Reese Bur-
ket passed away last Saturday morn-
ing at the home of her sister, Mrs. A.
H. Hoover, in Patton township, as the
result of bronchial trouble.
She was a daughter of Christian
and Elizabeth Reese and was born on
the old Reese homestead on Muncy
mountain, where she spent her past
few years, on April 11th, 1833, hence
had reached the age of 91 years, 1
month and 20 days. As a young wom-
an she engaged in teaching school, a
profession she followed for more than
forty years, the most of her work be-
ing in Centre county, though she also
taught in Franklin and Venango
counties. She taught in Centre coun-
ty when Mr. Gibson was chosen as the
first superintendent of public schools,
and was a teacher under superintend-
ents Burrell, Hollihan and the late
Reuben A. Magee.
In 1866 she married David H. Bur-
ket who died twenty-eight years ago.
Folowing his death she made her
home with her mother, Mrs. Eliza-
beth Reese, until the latter passed
away some years ago. She then lived
alone until her home was destroyed
by fire in 1920 when she went back to
the old homestead to make her home
with her sister. She was a member of
the United Brethren church for many
years and a devout christian woman.
She never was blessed with any chil-
dren but is survived by two brothers
and one sister, A. W. Reese, of Port
Matilda; Joseph E. Reese, of Mary-
ville, Mo., and Mrs. A. H. Hoover, on
the old homestead.
Funeral services were held at her
late home on Monday afternoon by
Rev. C. C. Shuey, burial being made
in the Meyers’ cemetery. I
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WILCOX.—Dr. Thomas 8. Wilcox,
a former pastor of the Bellefonte
Methodist church, died at his home in
Williamsport last Thursday, follow-
ing an illness of several months, aged
75 years. Rev. Wilcox entered the
ministry in the Baltimore conference
in 1869 and several years later took a
course at Dickinson College after
which he entered the Central Penn-
sylvania conference and soon took
high rank as a minister of the gospel.
During his almost fifty years of ac-
tive ministerial work he filled many
of the important appointments in the
conference and for several years was
superintendent of the Williamsport
district. For a number of years he
edited the Conference News and had
charge of the Methodist board room
in Harrisburg. Several years ago he
was placed upon the superannuated
list by the annual conference. He is
survived by his wife, two sons and
one daughter, Frysinger Wilcox, of
Oakland, Cal.; Dr. T. S. Wilcox, of
Mt. Union, and Miss Elizabeth, at
home. Burial was made in Williams-
port.
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WRIGHT.—Walter G. Wright, of
Unionville, rural mail carrier from the
Fleming postoffice, died very unex-
pectedly on Monday night as the re-
sult of an affection of the heart. He
had not been feeling well for some
time and was compelled to quit work
on Wednesday of last week, though
his condition at no time had been con-
sidered serious until a few hours be-
fore his death.
He was thirty-two years old and
came to Unionville from Conemaugh
ten years ago to go into the lumber
business with his uncle, William
Wright. Eight years ago he married
Miss Mary E. Griest, a daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Griest,
who survives with twin children about
five years of age. He also leaves one
half-brother. He was a member of
the Presbyterian church and a man
who had the confidence and esteem of
all who knew him.
Funeral services were held at his
late home at two o’clock yesterday
afternoon, burial being made in the
cemetery at Unionville.
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STAHL.—Mrs. Bessie Sherlock
Stahl, wife of Claude K. Stahl, died
at the Jefferson hospital, Philadel-
phia, last Friday, of pneumonia, fol-
lowing an illness of almost six months
as the result of an attack of the grip.
She was a daughter of Rev. Thomas
and Catherine Sherlock and was born
in Altoona forty-two years ago. She
married Claude Stahl, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Stahl, of Centre Hall, and
he survives with no children. She
leaves, however, two brothers and two
sisters. The remains were brought
to Bellefonte on Sunday morning and
taken to Centre Hall where burial
was made in the cemetery at that
place on Sunday afternoon.
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STINE.—Luther Budd Stine, son of
Mr. and Mrs. James Stine, of Worth
township, died on Tuesday morning of
last week at the home of his grand-
father, in Port Matilda. Though he
had been in failing health for some
time he was up and around until the
day before his death. He was 19
years, 11 months and 27 days old and
in addition to his parents is survived
by the following brothers and sisters:
Elmer, of Port Matilda; Blair and
Merril, at home; Mrs. Charles Rey-
nolds, of Tyrone, and Mrs. Wilbur
Williams, of Philipsburg. Burial was
made in the Black Oak cemetery last
Thursday afternoon.
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CLARK.—John Milton Clark died
last Thursday at the home of his par-
ents at Waddle following an illness of
six months with sarcoma. He was 12
years, 7 months and 7 days old and in
addition to his parents, John W. and
Annie Jones Clark, is survived by the
following brothers and sisters: Nor-
wood, Eugene, May, Clara and Bea-
trice. Burial was made in the Myers
cemetery on Sunday afternoon.
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—Get your job work done here.
BIG WEEK FOR P. 0. S. OF A.
Rounding Up One Thousand Noviti-
ates for Initiation June 14th.
The coming week will be a history-
making epoch in the P. O. S. of A. or-
ganization in Centre county. J. W.
Yeisley, of Sunbury, State organiza-
tion manager, will be in Bellefonte
tomorrow and conduct an organiza-
tion school in the P. O. S. of A. hall.
A large number of men who have just
closed their schools will come to Belle-
fonte to receive detailed instruction
before starting out into their various
fields to assist in building up the or-
der. Once a month Mr. Yeisley meets
these men for the purpose of instruct-
ing them in their work. Quite a num-
ber will come to town today and at-
tend the regular meeting of Belle-
fonte Camp this evening. Next week
they will be scattered throughout
Centre county seeing all those who
have been recommended for member-
ship preliminary to the big initiation
to be held in the Bellefonte armory on
Saturday evening, June 14th.
At that time a class of upwards of
one thousand novitiates will be in-
itiated into the mysteries and sacred
precincts of the order, which will be
the beginning of a movement to get
every eligible American born citizen
into the organization. This will be
the largest class of men ever taken
into one order simultaneously in Cen-
tre county, and reflects great credit
on the patriotic spirit of the citizens.
The Huntingdon degree team will be
present to do the work.
Among the speakers will be Hon.
Charles A. Snyder, State Treasurer;
J. W. Yeisley, State organizer; Hon.
Albert W. Johnson, of Lewisburg, for-
mer judge of Union and Snyder coun-
ties, and Hon. Gabriel H. Moyer, head
of the Pennsylvania workmen’s fund
and president of the national P. O. S.
of A.
Previous to the meeting in the ar-
mory a big parade will be held which
will include representatives from
every Camp in the county, the one
thousand novitiates and several bands
of music. The marshalls selected for
the parade are Niles E. Davis, Guy
Lyons and Capt Miller.
The Reception committee is com-
posed of Charles A. Fromm, Charles
Harrison, Edward R. Owens, John G.
Payne, John Fisher, John G. Love,
John F. Garthoff, Edward Peters,
Hard P. Harris, Hon. Thomas Beaver,
H. A. Rossman and Edwin Williams.
The committee on music and bands,
Edward Markley, John Fisher, James
Harter and Elijah Kellerman, while
Ira Wright is chairman of the com-
mittee on decorations.
Time for the Great Races at Altoona
is Approaching.
All eyes of the motoring world have
swung to the scene of the next great
classic on June 14th at the fast Al-
toona speedway now that the annual
500-mile endurance grind at Indianap-
olis has passed into history for anoth-
er year. The cars of the eighteen
leading drivers of the world will be
shipped to the noted Pennsylvania
bowl as rapidly as the remainder of
the entry list is chosen by the Altoo-
na officials.
With the new speed records of In-
dianapolis as a proof of the higher
marks possible for the small one-man
cars, officials of the track in this place
who have arrived home declare that
even the 125-mile high point predict-
ed some weeks ago for the June 14th
classic will be passed following the
108-miles-an-hour laps made by
Hartz and others at the rough Hoosier
oval.
Every one of the speed craft will
be completely rebuilt at Altoona im-
mediately upon the arrival of the spe-
cial express cars chartered to bring
them east. Gearing, springs, carbu-
ration and lubrication systems will be
torn down and reconstructed because
of the difference in conditions on the
Altoona speedway, the smooth mile-
and-a-quarter board oval, and the two-
and-a-half mile brick course at In-
dianapolis.
Seat sales in the reserved sections
of the huge grandstands have been
heavier than ever before in the his-
tory of board track racing. To cope
with the demand, the speedway asso-
ciation has a corps of workmen now
constructing large additions to the
track.
Near East Relief Bundle Day.
Send cast-off clothing in all sizes
and descriptions to the Evangelical
Sunday school room, the Episcopal
parish house, or Petrikin hall, on
Thursday, June 12th.
The result will be sent to New York
and baled by machine for shipping.
It will finally go to the refugee camps
in Syria, now sheltering thousands;
to the Russian Caucasus, gradually
emerging from results of seven years
of war, massacre and famine; to
Greece where a million refugees, in-
cluding 95,000 fatherless children are
trying to find a place, and to the Near
East relief orphanages. The refugees
in Greece are in three classes; those
in industry under the l.eague of Na-
tions plan; women in need of work;
old and sick men, women and children.
Near East relief has equipped sta-
tions where old clothes are cleaned,
sorted and mended by the second
class, sold to refugees of the fist
class at very low prices, just enov~h
to cover transportation, labor and dis-
tribution to third class. A man may
go into an American old clothes sta-
tion in the rags of the refugee camps
and come out clothed in respectabili-
ty and a fairly good-looking suit for
a sum averaging seventy cents.
——Frank McFarlane is again very
ill at his home near Boalsburg.
next Wednesday evening the Odd
Felows band will give the first of their
series of summer concerts.
——Mrs. James B. Lane entertain-
ed with a bridge dinner of sixteen
covers, Monday, at which Mrs. Rich-
ard Lane, of McKeesport, was the
honor guest.
——The thimble bee of the ladies
of the Reformed church will be enter-
tained by Mrs. Richard Taylor and
Mrs. Shutt, this (Friday) afternoon,
at their home on east High street.
——The Peters family reunion will
this year be held on the school
grounds at Unionville on Saturday,
June 21st. Everybody is invited to at-
tend, take a basket and have a good,
social time.
——The missionary tea of the
Women’s Missionary society of the
Reformed church will be held next
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30, at the
home of Mrs. Calvin H. Troupe, on
Thomas street.
———The Pleasant Gap baseball team
will hold a big festival in Noll’s grove
next Saturday evening, June 14th, for
the benefit of the team. Ice cream,
cake, ete., will be served and the Odd
Fellows band will furnish music.
——Rev. Wilson P. Ard has been
elected by th eSusquehanna Synod of
Central Pennsylvania as one of the
delegates to the convention of the
United Lutheran church in America,
to be held in Chicago next October.
——The swimming pool on the
Hughes athletic field is now open to
the public. The great out-of-door
concrete tank was scrubbed and filled
with fresh water and the supply is
constantly changing so that the water
is as pure, if not more so, than that
of any of the adjacent streams.
——John Williams, colored, who
the past fifteen years had been a jan-
itor at a fraternity house at State
College, died on Monday night as the
alleged result of drinking poison booze.
He was fifty-nine years old and a na-
tive of Lock Haven. Burial was made
in the Pine Hall cemetery on Wednes-
day afternoon.
——The trustees of the Mother's as-
sistance fund of Centre county, held
their regular meeting, Wednesday
morning at ten o’clock, in the offices
of the Chemical Lime Co. Those
present were Mrs. McGirk, of Phil-
ipsburg; Mrs. Frank, of Millheim;
Mrs. Frank Gardner, of State College,
and Mrs. John S. Walker, Mrs. Rey-
nolds and Miss Linn, of Bellefonte.
——Instead of holding their meet-
ing at the noon luncheon hour on
Tuesday Kiwanis met at dinner in the
evening at the Brockerhoff house. A
good sized crowd was present and the
speakers of the evening were editor
John E. Pierson, of the Williamsport
Sun, and Charles Burke, Kiwanis dis-
trict trustee. John B. Payne, George
C. Bingaman, Dr. E. F. Tinsley and
Leo Toner composed a quartet which
helped entertain the gathering with
some catchy minstrel songs. All in
all, it was a very interesting meeting.
——Over one hundred members of
the Norris family held an annual re-
union at Lakemont park, Altoona, on
Saturday, among the guests being Mr.
and Mrs. Kyle Alexander and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brenner, Mrs.
Hazel Rishel Weaver, Mr. and Mrs.
William Kennedy, Jay Kennedy and
Miss Hilda Brenner, of State College;
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rishel and Miss
Mary Rishel, of Lemont; Mr. and Mrs.
Norris Martz and Miss Dorothy Ish-
ler, of Linden Hall. The Norris fami-
ly in this country dates back to 1828
when William Bimson Norris came to
this country from England, landing at
Norfolk, Va. Later he came to Cen-
tral Pennsylvania and married Miss
Mary Wilson, of Pennsylvania Fur-
nace. They had thirteen children and
the younger generations are scattered
over Centre, Blair and Huntingdon
counties. D. B. Norris, of Juniata,
aged seventy-four years, is now the
dean of the family.
Grove Family Reunion.
The sixteenth annual reunion of the
Grove family will be held at Grange
park, Centre Hall, Thursday, June
19th. Each year this reunion is be-
coming more popular with the family
and their friends who come from near-
by counties for the gathering. The
president of the reunion association
for this year is William E. Grove, of
Lemont, who is a descendant of the
earliest Grove settlers in the county.
and who came here from Lancaster
county more than one hundred years
ago. One of the features of the re-
union will be the wonderful dinner,
and everybody is invited to attend and
take their baskets.
Marriage Licenses.
Maxwell Smetzer, Altoona, and Em-
ma Walk, Philipsburg. i
A. F. Woodring and Margaret E.
Turner, Port Matilda.
Guy E. Moyer, Bellefonte, and Sa-
rah Smith, Centre Hall. i
Harvey W. Stover and Florence
Armstrong, State College.
Frank E. Macintire Jr., Brackney,
and Moranda Bohn, Boalsburg,
Lewis J. Hefright, Lock Haven,
and Willetta A. Hahn, Pine Glenn.
Michael Stover and Ruth Wells,
Philipsburg.
August Smith, Homer City, and Ma-
ry Duritzo, Hawk Run.
Calvin P. Grenoble, Centre Hall,
and Carrie L. Hough, Rebersburg.
The weather being favorable | A Letter to Creditors of the Centre
County Bank.
By One of Them.
It is now going on three years since
the catastrophe, and we have been
wallowing round in a welter of pon-
derous, high court, semi-annual de-
cisions for all this time, and gotten
nowhere.
With all these decisions it looks to
me to be no nearer a settlement than
at first.
Now, would it not be well for us to
pause and take stock (as it were) of
our position.
I am going to suggest an idea of
my own. Why not resurrect or reor-
ganize the old bank? There is cer-
tainly a fine opening in Bellefonte for
a third bank; and I have vanity
enough to think there is plenty of
ability and honesty among us to prop-
erly operate one of our own. We
might as well use the capital we have
already collected and probably raise
some more and put it to work. I think
this would be far better than to sit
supinely by and wait on other semi-
annual, ponderous, high court decis-
ions that when they do come round
they tell us ordinary people nothing.
Quite likely the lawyers will again
say it is all unlawful for us to re-open
the Old Bank. I will admit a lot of
lawyers can even pick holes in the
Ten Commandments, but I don’t think
this should deter us.
Now this is my idea; I would be
much pleased to hear from others. I
would suggest that we wake up, de-
bate this plan. I would suggest we
do it through the county papers. Quite
likely all of them are creditors and
would be liberal with their help in the
matter.
Won't some live wire among us
wake up and start the agitation? I
think if well started it will go like a
house-a-fire. Of course I am open
for any other good looking plan. I
would like to hear from others, pref-
erably through the local papers. Of
course I have no criticism for our
committee’s work; but they are like
the man who got into the right church
but the wrong pew. Will some one
start out, either endorsing my plan or
suggesting another plan. I can as-
sure you I will get busy with it if oth-
er live wires will.
A. W. REESE.
Port Matilda. Pa.,
May 19th, 1924.
Merely by way of information to
any of the creditors who might be in-
terested in Mr. Reese’s suggestion we
offer these facts:
Mr. Reese is one of the larger cred-
itors of the bank, of whom there are
supposed to be 1381, but as a matter
of fact there arc not nearly so many.
1381 represent every separate open
account and certificate of deposit im
the bank. That is to say if the same
person had three or four accounts
open and six different certificates of
deposit he or she has been counted
nine times in making up the total of
1381 depositors that are generally be-
lieved to be interested in the institu-
tion.
In this 1381 there are 443 accounts
that represent a total of less than
$3365.00 as follows:
140 at or under $ 1.00
159 at or under 5.00
45 at or under 10.00
99 at or under 20.00
Aside from legal fees, the cost of
temporary receivership and incident-
als that have accrued since, net liabil-
ities of the bank at the time it closed
were $496,541.05. This taken frem
the statement filed in court.
As to the assets: They depend en-
tirely on the value of the securities,
the notes, the overdrafts, ete., that
the bank held when it closed.
——While riches do not bring us
happiness they do bring us coal.
CENTRE HALL.
Dr. H. H. Longwell is sporting a
dandy new car.
Miss Elizabeth Royer is at home
for the summer.
Rev. J. H. Keller is among his
friends in the valley again.
The Y. P. B. met at the home of T.
L. Moore, on Monday evening.
Robert Meyer was in Centre Hall
between trains on Memorial day.
J. T. Moore came home on Tuesday
evening for his summer vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Domer Emerick vis-
ited at the home of M. L. Emerick.
E. L. Bartholomew, of Altoona,
spent several days in Centre Hall.
The Ministerium met at the home
of Rev. H. H. Sherman, at Spring
Mills, on Monday evening.
Miss Mollie Hoffer, of State College,
spent a few days in Centre Hall over
the Memorial day vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Brungart en-
tertained their two daughters and
families over Memorial day.
Mrs. “Doc” Kline, of Pittsburgh,
spent a week at the home of her fath-
er, .D. A. Boozer and family.
The Bradford hunting camp was oc-
cupied over Sunday by several fami-
lies—Frank Bradford’s, C. A. Spyker’s
and John Kanarr’s.
The Memorial day address by Rev.
‘ Keener showed much thought in the
| preparation, and was well received by
‘a large congregation of people.
Harold Breon and “best girl,” of
Reading, visited Harold’s grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Laura Lee, at the Brisbin
home. They also spent some time at
the home of Witmer Lee, at Potters
Mills.
Mr. and Mrs. Gelin, of Greensburg,
spent several davs at the home of
Mrs. Gelin’s father, Ham Shrecken-
gast. The calithumpians entertained
them on Thursday evening. They
have the best wishes of their many
fTiends for a long and happy married
ife.