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Bellefonte, Pa., July 25, 1924.
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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET
For President,
JOHN W. DAVIS, of West Virginia,
For Vice President,
CHARLES W. BRYAN, of Nebraska.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
For Judge of the Superior Court,
MARGARET C. KLINGLESMITH,
of Philadelphia.
For State Treasurer,
HEBER ERMENTROUT, of Reading.
For Auditor General,
JOHN R. COLLINS, of Coudersport.
For Representative in Congress,
EDWARD M. BENSON, of McKean County
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
¥or Representative in General Assembly,
W. H. NGLL Jr, of Spring Township.
Permanent Camps for State Tourists.
Eleven class “A” and fifteen class
“B” camp grounds have been devel-
oped and equipped and are being
maintained by the Department of For-
est and Waters for the use of tourists
and others who carry their own camp-
ing outfits. The class “A” camp
grounds are equipped with a space for
tents, a fireplace, a water supply,
comfort stations, tables and benches.
The class “B” grounds located chiefly
on secondary roads, are provided with
an open front camp or lean-to, stone
fireplace, tables and benches and a
water supply. Campers are limited to
a two-day stay in the latter group,
unless they do not interfere with the
use of the site by others.
Camps within easy reach of Centre
countians are as follows:
Tea Spring camp, Bald Eagle for-
est on the White Deer-Logantown
turnpike, Clinton county.
Laurel Run Park camp, Penn forest,
on the state highway between Lewis-
town and Bellefonte, across Seven
mountains, Mifflin county.
Coleraine Forge camp, Logan for-
est, on the state road from Altoona
to State College by the way of Spruce
Creek, Huntingdon county, all Class
“A” camps.
In the class “B” are McCall’s Dam
camp, Bald Eagle forest, near the
head of the White Deer creek, Centre
county.
Sulphur Springs camp, Rothrock
forest, in Licking Creek valley, about
seven miles from Mount Union, Mif-
flin county.
Locust camp, Penn forest, on the
Lewistown-Bellefonte pike across the
Seven mountains, Centre county.
——Girls’ patent colt, sandals $2.98,
Yeager’s. 29-1t
——Remember the date of Business
Men’s picnic, August 14th. 29-1t
P. O. S. of A. Memorial.
It is truly proper that we should
honor our dead and revere their mem-
ory. This will be done by Washing-
ton Camp, No. 889, Centre Hall, on
Sunday, July 27th, with a fitting ex-
ercise at two points, Centre Hall and
Tusseyville.
The program is as follows: Meet
at the camp room in Centre Hall at
9:30 a. m. Proceed in body to ceme-
tery for the strewing of flowers and
placing of flags. Thence to Presby-
teiran church, where a service will be
conducted by Rev. Kirkpatrick, a mem-
ber of Centre Hall camp.
In the afternoon assemblage will
be made at Tusseyville at 1:45 o’clock
sharp. After the placing of flags and
strewing of flowers in three ceme-
teries at this point, the body will at-
tend a service conducted by Rev.
Keener, ;
Centre Hall camp urges all members
of the order, no matter where they be-
long, to attend. Even though this
organization is termed a kindergarten
by a few, who are not informed, it is
forging ahead very rapidly numeric
ally, financially and in personnel.
Centre Hall can be justly proud of its
splendid group of men for, taking
them as a whole, they can’t be sur-
passed. They number among their
large membership many of the best
men of the community, ministers,
teachers, High school principals, stu-
dents and business men in all walks
of life, who are thoroughly capable.
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snappy boxing bouts,
29-1t
~———Three
Business Men’s picnic.
——Tennis shoes, all sizes, 98ec.,
Yeager’s. 291t
For Sale.—QOak wardrobe in good
condition. Inquire of Olive B. Mitch-
ell, south Spring street, Bellefonte.
——Ladies’ vici oxfords $2.98, Yea-
ger’s. 29-1t
HOME MAIL A HAPPY EVENT.
(Continued from page 1, Col. 5.)
They thought they were very good.
We think our servants are pretty
nice even though they do take advan-
tage of us every chance they get. I
didn’t quite understand what Mr.
Dome meant when he talked about the
“squeeze” in China, but I do now. It
is something that is born in the race
and you can’t overcome it. They
think it is perfectly all right and you
just can’t do anything about it. You
give the cook the money to buy food,
and when you reckon accounts with
him you know he is charging you
more than he paid for the things, but
even then he charges you less than
you would have had to pay for the
same things if you bought them your-
self. We keep our coal, wood and oil,
‘and most of our food supplies under
lock and key and give out just so
much each day. If we didn’t do that,
they would use up a great deal more
than they do and would probably take
some and sell it on the street. That
seems to be a principle with them.
Even the little street urchins who at-
tend our Sunday school, go out from
Sunday school and try to sell the pic-
ture cards that have been given to
them. Poor little kiddies! Most of
them are so dreadfully poor that they
try to make a little money in any way
they can; and no matter how they
make it, just so they make it, it’s all
right.
This morning as I was going out to
the country I passed a coolie who was
carrying a load of charcoal. In be-
tween the sticks of charcoal he had
stuck a nice big bundle of leaf tobac-
co. While he was walking along a
ragged little urchin sneaked up be-
hind him and removed the bundle of
tobacco. Not one of the people who
saw it, not even I, did anything to
call the coolie’s attention to the theft.
Those of the natives who saw it just
smiled, and I would have remonstrat-
ed but had not sufficient command of
the language to do so, and also
thought I might get myself into a
peck of trouble if I did.
The customs out here are so
strange. I heard just the other night
that if I should accidentally knock a
child down in the street, I would not
dare to pick it up. The children have
been taught to believe that if they are
knocked down, it is an accident, but
if the person who knocks them down
attempts to pick them up, he intends
to do them harm. It seems like a cra-
zy idea to us, but when you stop to
think how many centuries they have
been taught to believe such things,
you realize how long it will take to
teach them to believe otherwise. One
day Mrs. Lewis, the wife of Dr. Lew-
is, the head of the Language school,
who has been in China forty-three
years, fell in the street and sprained
her ankle so that she could not get up.
There wasn’t a Chinese who passed
her who offered her any assistance. I
guess she would be lying there still,
if a foreigner hadn’t happened along.
Today has been a cloudy, disagree-
able day. I am teaching now in the
foreign Sunday school, have a class
of seven little girls and one boy,
about seven years of age. I have to
go out to the country each Sunday
morning at about 9:45. After making
the trip out to school every day, it is
not very much fun, but I like it after
I get there. This morning, though, I
felt like being a fair-weather chris-
tian. It was awfully bad walking.
The streets are always so dirty that
when there is a light rain (like a fine
drizzle) they just get slimy and you
have great difficulty keeping your
feet. I always take my coolie with
me to carry my bag and act as a sort
of body-guard. I don’t know if he'd
be much help of I should ever need
him, but I sort of feel safer when he
is along. Bill is always busy Sunday
mornings with a class of Chinese
boys who are learning English and to
whom he is trying to teach the Bible.
Our walk to the country each day
is through the South Gate of the city,
where all the bucket carriers take the
city sewerage each day. They take it
out to the garden plots in the coun-
try where it is used as fertilizer. We
have to watch our step pretty closely
to keep from bumping into or being
bumped into by the buckets. This
morning it seemed I was walking in
front of or behind a bucket carrier all
the way out to the country. The odor
is not particularly fragrant, and you
can imagine what it will be like in hot
weather.
SARAH.
Insane Convicts Shoot Two Deputies,
One of Whom Died.
Last Friday morning deputy sher-
iffs Meyer Van Lewen and H. B. Fur-
long, of Allegheny county, left Pitts-
burgh with two insane prisoners, Wal-
ter Clark and Andrew Jackson, who
were being conveyed to the hospital
for criminal insane at Fairview,
Wayne county. After passing Tyrone
one of the prisoners asked to be tak-
en to the lavatory. They were hand-
cuffed and shackled together and as
deputy Lewen unlocked the handcuffs
Clark dashed a handful of red pepper
in the officer's eyes. At the same in-
stant Jackson grabbed Van Lewen’s
gun and shot him in the abdomen.
Both prisoners then made a dash for
liberty. Furlong captured Jackson
but Clark hid in one of the cars until
the train reached Huntingdon when he
jumped off and made a dash for lib-
erty. He was captured several hours
later.
Deputy Van Lewen was removed to
the J. C. Blair hospital where he died
on Saturday. Other officers were sent
to Huntingdon who succeeded in land-
ing the two men in the Fairview asy-
lum. Van Lewen was a world war
veteran and married.
HARTER.—The very sudden death
of Mrs. T. H. Harter, at her home on
north Allegheny street, at 8 o’clock
last Friday evening was a decided
shock to her many friends. She suf-
fered an attack of acute indigestion
while sitting on the porch chatting
with friends during the afternoon and
the development of angina pectoris
caused her death.
Her maiden name was Mary Izora
Musser, a daughter of James and An-
na Albert Musser, and she was born
at Hartleton, Union county, on March
28th, 1857, making her age 67 years,
4 months and 29 days. She married
Thomas H. Harter, the present editor
of the Keystone Gazette, in Novem-
ber, 1876, and for the past thirty
years had been a resident of Belle-
fonte. She was a devoted member of
the Presbyterian church and a mem-
ber of the Eastern Star. She was es-
pecially devoted to her home and her
large circle of friends deeply deplore
her death.
She is survived by her husband and
the following brothers and sisters:
Mrs. Elmer Schoch, of Milton; Mrs.
W. R. Penny, of Enola; Albert Mus-
ser and Mrs. John Krone, of Harris-
burg; Mrs. W. G. Dale and Lowell A.
Musser, of Altoona, and Mrs. Charles
F. Mensch, of Bellefonte.
Rev. William C. Thompson, of the
Presbyterian church, had charge of
the funeral services which were held
at ten o'clock on Monday morning and
the same afternoon the remains were
taken to Aaronsburg for burial in the
family plot in the cemetery at that
place.
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GIBSON.—The distressingly sad
news was received in Bellefonte on
Tuesday morning of the sudden and
unexpected death of Mrs. Blanche
Cook Gibson, at her home in New Or-
leans, La., early that morning, as the
result of an attack of acute nephritis,
following only a few day’s illness.
Her maiden name was Mary Blanche
Cook, and she was a daughter of An-
drew J. and Sarah J. Boak Cook, hav-
ing been born in Bellefonte on De-
cember 6th, 1878. She was educated
at the Bellefonte Academy and finish-
ed at Miss Shipley’s school, near Phil-
adelphia.
All her life was spent in Bellefonte
until her marriage in 1906 to John H.
Gibson when they took up their resi-
dence near New York city. Later
they were transferred to Chicago and
four years ago to New Orleans. Mrs.
Gibson was a faithful member of the
Episcopal church and a woman of
many lovable and endearing qualities.
She is survived by her husband, her
parents, living in Bellefonte; one sis-
ter, Miss Margaret, at home, and a
brother, James B., in Colorado.
The body was brought to Bellefonte
on the 1:27 p. m. train yesterday and
taken to the Cook home, on west Linn
street, where funeral services will be
held at eleven o’clock this (Friday)
morning, by Rev. M. DePui Maynard,
assisted by Rev. W. C. Thompson,
after which interment will be made in
the Union cemetery.
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MEYERS.—William Wilson Mey-
ers, a native of Centre county, drop-
ped dead at his home at Northwood,
near Tyrone, last Thursday morning.
Meyers, who operated a truck garden,
had not been in the best of health for
some time but was able to look after
his garden and also act as caretaker
at Athletic park. It was while at
work at the latter place that he died.
A son of Michael and Leah Meyers
He was born in Buffalo Run valley in
1856, hence was 68 years old. In
1874 he was married in Bellefonte to
Miss Harriet Reed and most of their
married life had been spent in and
near Tyrone. He is survived by his
wife ‘and the following children:
Boyd, Michael, John and Howard Mey-
ers, all of Tyrone; Mrs. William
Switzer, of Bellefonte; Mrs. Louis
Drake, Mrs. Helen Brumbaugh and
Mrs. Raymond Rodgers, all of Ty-
rone. He also leaves two sisters, Mrs.
Ellis Way, of Unionville, and Mrs.
Nelson Lucas, of Washington, D. C.
He was a member of the Free
Methodist church, at Tyrone, and Rev.
G. B. Tingue had charge of the fun-
eral services which were held at 2:30
o’clock on Saturday afternoon, burial
being made in the Eastlawn cemetery
in Tyrone.
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SCHROCK.—John Schrock, a mem-
ber of one of the old-time families of
Bellefonte, died at his home in Altoo-
na at noon on Monday as the result of
an attack of pneumonia. He was a
son of Benjamin and Hannah Schrock
and was born in Bellefonte on Janu-
ary 19th, 1860, hence was in his six-
ty-fifth year. As a young man he
learned the trade of a blacksmith
with his father and going to Altoona
twenty or more years ago he worked
at his trade for the Pennsylvania
railroad company. He was a member
of the Methodist church, the I. O. O.
F. and the Mountain Commandery.
Surviving him are his wife and one
brother, Christ Schrock, of Beaver
Falls. The remains were brought to
Bellefonte on Thursday and burial
made in the Union cemetery.
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KREAMER.—Jared B. Kreamer, a
well known resident of Miles town-
ship, died at his home at Rebersburg
on Monday afternoon following an ill-
ness of several weeks. He was a son
of John and Salome Weaver Kreamer
and was almost 81 years old. A num-
ber of years ago Mr. Kreamer lived
for a brief period in Centre Hall,
while a member of the firm of Gettig
& Kreamer, butchers, in Bellefonte.
He married Joanna Meyer who sur-
vives with two daughters, Mrs. Solly,
wife of Rev. David Solly, of New Jer-
sey, and Mrs. Gertrude Frank, at
home. Burial was made in the Re-
bersburg cemetery yesterday morning.
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LYONS.—Samuel Lyons, an aged
Civil war veteran, died at his home at
Lyontown on Friday of last week fol-
lowing a prolonged illness with a com-
plication of diseases, having been con-
fined to his bed for a period of six-
teen weeks.
He was a son of Samuel and Han-
nah Reed Lyons and was born at Hec-
la on August 28th, 1845, hence had
reached the advanced age of 78 years,
10 months and 20 days. During the
Civil war he served as a member of
the Fifty-first regiment Pennsylvania
Volunteers. He was a laborer by oc-
cupation and a splendid citizen. A
type of the conscientious, upright
manhood that worked ever in the old-
en days to lay a firm foundation in
society, in business and in politics
for present generations.
On October 21st, 1874, he married
Miss Mary Lucas, who passed away
on the first of last November, but
surviving him are the following chil-
dren: Mrs. Nathan Bachman, of
Bellefonte; Mrs. Rebecca Bickel, of
Lock Haven; Miss Hannah, at home;
John Lyons, of Lyontown; Mrs. John
Walker, of Howard; Mrs. Sylvester
Summers, of Wingate; Mrs. Christ
Rhinedecker, of Lock Haven, and Mrs.
Clarence Gallagher, of Bellefonte.
Rev. Rishel had charge of the fun-
eral services which were held on Sun-
day afternoon, burial being made in
the Curtin cemetery.
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WILLIAMS.—Lawrence Williams, a
well known colored man of Bellefonte,
died last Friday following several
week’s illness with typhoid fever.
For some time previous to contracting
the disease he had worked for the
American Lime & Stone company and
he was a victim of the epidemic at
Coleville and vicinity as the result of
a polluted water supply.
He was a son of Benjamin and Celia
Williams and was born in Bellefonte
on October 7th, 1878, hence was 45
years, 9 months and 11 days old. He
married Miss Sallie Mosely, who sur-
vives with four sisters, Celia, Hattie,
Alice and Clara. Funeral services
were held at his late home between
Curtin and Beaver streets on Monday,
burial being made in the Union cem-
etery.
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LINGLE.—Mrs. Lida Lingle, widow
of Henry Lingle, of Georges valley,
died on Tuesday afternoon at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Jared
Ripka, as the result of hardening of
the arteries, aged 74 years. In addi-
tion to her daughter she is survived
by a brother and sister, Robert J.
Zerby, of West Brownsville, and Mrs.
Edward Ungard, of Lock Haven, as
well as a half-brother, R. H. Ungard,
of Potters Mills. Burial will be made
in the Georges valley cemetery to-
morrow.
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NEESE—Following an illness of
two weeks with lung trouble Emanuel
Neese died at his home at Spring
Mills on Monday afternoon. He was
83 years old ond is survived by his
wife and two sons, Samuel, on the
home farm, and Frank, of Spring
Mills. Burial was made in the Heck-
man cemetery yesterday afternoon.
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Escapes Electric Chair for Second
Time by Narrow Margin.
Joseph Valotta, an Italian of Alle-
gheny county, for the second time es-
caped death in the electric chair at the
Rockview penitentiary on Monday
morning. He was convicted in 1923
of killing policeman Edward Couch, in
Pittsburgh, and sentenced to electro-
cution. The original date set by the
Governor was April 14th and two days
previous Valotta was brought to the
death house by sheriff R. A. Wood-
side, of Allegheny county. But on
Sunday night, only a few hours be-
fore the electrocution was to have
taken place, the Governor granted a
respite to July 21st. Valotta’s case
was taken before the board of pardons
but they refused to interfere.
In the meantime many influential
citizens of Pittsburgh became inter-
ested in Valotta’s case, including
members of the Congress of Women’s
Clubs, and as a last resort an appeal
was made to the federal court on the
question of constitutional rights and
last Friday the Governor again grant-
ed Valotta a respite to an indetermin-
ate date.
+ Valotta, who is forty years old, has
a wife and five children and the en-
tire family came to Bellefonte last
Friday and spent two days at the pen-
itentiary visiting the husband and
father.
——G@Girls’ grey suede sandals $2.98,
Yeager’s. 29-1t
Speaking of Confiscation.
From the New York Commercial.
It may sometimes come to a few of
us that it is quite as painful to have
our property taken away by taxation
as it would be to lose it through out-
right confiscation. Perhaps it is more
painful, because we are robbed by
thieves but once, while the tax thieves
always come back to repeat over and
over again.
Ever increasing tax burdens mean
added heavy units to the load of the
average man’s daily expenditures.
The bigger the sum raised Ly taxation
the less the size of the funds that
would otherwise be on deposit in the
savings banks. Also, it mean- less
desirable things in the lives of every-
body who are not on the public pay-
roll.
As we said in the beginning, it is
as effective to rob a man by taking
his money through a useless tax levy
as it is to get it by the use of a blue-
barreled automatic pressed against
his stomach while going through his
pockets, : s
——Men’s work shoes reduced in
price at Yeager’s. '29-1t
Judge Quigley Lenient with Law
Transgressors.
At a special session of court, on
Monday morning, Emory Howe, of
Philipsburg, was brought before the
bar for illegally having in his posses-
sion moonshine whiskey. About a
year ago Mr. Howe was given a sus-
pended sentence after being arrested
for operating a moto * truck while in-
toxicated. He was brought into court
this time because he was found asleep
in his truck on the streets of Philips-
burg and a partly filled bottle of |d
moonshine in his possession led the
officers to suppose he might have been
intoxicated before he went to sleep,
although he showed no signs of being
drunk when arrested. Mr. Howe ad-
mitted being asleep but said it was
from fatigue as he had been working
almost day and night . The court
again suspended sentence upon the
promise of defendant to keep away
from the white mule, and gave him
three months in which to pay the
costs.
Harold Askey, the seventeen
year cold youth of Philipsburg, who
was before the court a week previous
on a serious charge preferred by
twelve year old Sarah Lupton, was
sent to Glenn Mills.
Boyd Bowers, who some months
ago was given a suspended sentence
following a hearing for desertion and
non-support on condition he pay his
wife $30 a month, was brought before
the court on a bench warrant because
he had failed to carry out the court’s
order. Mrs. Bowers was unable to be
in court but her father and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Herr, of Orvis-
ton, were present and told the court
that the defendant had not paid any-
thing to the support of his wife and
children, but admitted that he had
been laid off at the Orviston brick
works. They stated, however, that
they had nothing against the young
man personally and were willing to
have the court give him another
chance. Consequently the court de-
cided to suspend sentence on condition
that Bowers go to work and support
his wife and two children, and failing
to do so he will be brought back and
sent to jail. He also gave him a year
in which to pay the costs.
Leonard Hollobaugh was arrested
on July 12th for his failure to pay
thirty dollars a month to the support
of his wife on an order made by the
court six months ago. While he was
a prisoner in the county jail the sher-
iff of Clearfield county appeared with
a warrant for his arrest on the charge
of adultery. Inasmuch as his recent
arrest in Centre county was not made
according to law the court ordered it
stricken from the records and Hollo-
baugh turned over to the Clearfield
county authorities.
——Penn-Pat Dance orchestra, Bus-
iness Men’s picnic. 29-1t
Big reduction on shoes, at
Yeager’s. 29-1t
PINE GROVE MENTIONS.
George Goheen is steering a new
King car.
. The click of the harvester is heard
in every direction.
Miss M. W. Meek is recovering from
an attack of indigestion.
_ Charles Lauck is building an addi-
tion to the Hamill Glenn house.
S. M. Hess is building a new swine
pen to house his drove of porkers.
Our band gave a sacred concert in
the park near town on Sunday after-
noon.
Miss Mabel Goss, of Tyrone, is vis-
iting her uncle, A. F. Fry, at Fair-'
brook.
W. R. Port, wife and daughter
Florence are visiting friends in Lan-
caster.
W. E. McWilliams is spending a
week with his daughter, Mrs. Frank
Goodhart, at Centre Hall.
For the third time Dr. Stork visited
the A. C. Kepler home in the Glades,
leaving a sweet baby girl.
Mrs. Alice Magoffin, of Boalsburg,
is making her annual visit with her
brother, Dr. G. H. Woods.
Oscar Grazier and Paul Sunday, of
Gatesburg, were early callers at Rock
Springs on Monday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Markle Barto are re-
ceiving congratulations over the arri-
val last week of a chubby little boy.
Paul Corl, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al-
vin Corl, is nursing a broken arm sus-
tained in being thrown from a horse.
Morris Smith, of Altoona, and Mr.
and Mrs. Kyle Osman, of State Col-
lege, spent Sunday at the J. R. Smith
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Musser and
family came up from Bellefonte and
spent Sunday at the Musser parental
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hess came over
from Shingletown to spend Sunday at
the W. F. Thompson home on east |p
Main street. :
Elisha Shoemaker is having his
home on east Main street remodeled,
and when completed it will be one of
the cosiest in town.
The class of 1926 State College
High school held a festival at Pine
Hall last Saturday evening realizing
one hundred dollars.
Miss Carrie Murphy, of Ithaca, N.
Y., is a guest at the home of the Ward
sisters. Her girlhood days were spent
in Buffalo Run valley.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fenstemach-
er, of Bloomfield, N. J., with their
children, are guests at the A. J. Ly-
tle home at State College.
John B., Witmer spent the latter
end of the week with his brother Oli-
ver, in Bellefonte, who is suffering
with a stroke of paralysis.
Mrs. Sadie Everts has recovered
from her recent illness and is again
wielding the yard stick behind the
counter in the E. C. Martz store.
J. E. Reed and family and Sam Ev-
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erhart and family were entertained at
dinner on Sunday at the Martha John-
son home, at Graysville.
The annual harvest home picnic at
Pine Hall will be held on Saturday,
August 9th. A ball game in the after-
noon will be one of the attractions.
Mrs. Alfaretta Goss, with her two
grand-children, spent last week on the
G. A. Goss farm, near Charter Oak,
helping to look after the berry crop.
. After a pleasant three week’s out-
ing among friends at Rock Springs
Miss Adaline Smith returned to her
home in the Mountain city on Mon-
ay.
Charles Martin is housed up with
bruises and other injuries sustained in
a fall from a ladder. Farmer Ed
-Harpster is also laid up with a bad
knee.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Thomas
and little daughter Annie, of New
Castle, motored to Centre county this
week and will visit friends here, at
Milesburg and Bellefonte.
Mrs. William McWilliams, her son
Joseph and two sisters, Mrs. H. E.
Musser and Miss Nannie, motored to
Johnstown on Saturday and were Sun-
day visitors with relatives.
George Bell and wife, of Spruce
Creek, spent Sunday with Mr. Bell's
mother, Mrs. Sadie Bell, at State Col-
lege, it being her 71st anniversary.
Mrs. Bell is.not in the best of health.
Our baseball aggregation has been
reorganized by the election of A. C.
Kepler manager; G. H. Everts, secre-
tary, and H. M. Walker, treasurer.
Games have been scheduled for weeks
ahead.
Royal Kline and bride departed on
onday morning for Greensburg,
where they will take first lessons in
housekeeping. Royal has been engag-
ed as chauffeur by the Hon. Cyrus E.
Woods. The young couple have the
best wishes of a host of friends.
The Harpster Bros., of Gatesburg,
counted among the most successful
farmers of west Ferguson, sold a nice
bunch of sheep last week and while
delivering them to their destination
two bucks went a buttin’, one of them
dying as the result of a broken neck.
_A good bunch of rooters accompa-
nied our ball team to Petersburg on
Saturday and saw them put the
cleaner on the Peterburgians for the
fifth time by the score of 13 to 6. To-
morrow the “Coons,” of Mt. Union,
will be seen in action here on the Rob-
inson field.
While cutting grass near his home
a few days ago George Burwell killed
a rattlesnake that yielded ten rattles
and a button. Noticing a big lump in
the middle section of the snake he per-
formed an autopsy and uncovered a
good sized red squirrel that had been
swallowed whole, but the little animal
was dead from suffocation.
Mrs. I. O. Campbell is housed up
with an attack of sciatica, while
grandmother Fleming, Mrs. Margaret
Porter, Elmer Sunday and Cyrus B.
McWilliams have shown little im-
provement. J. H. McCracken, who an-
ticipated being discharged from the
Bellefonte hospital, has suffered a
slight relapse, but Mrs. Harry Sun-
day is convalescing. !
At a recent meeting the Ferguson
township school board reorganized by
electing Paul J. Wrigley, president;
C. L. Corl, vice president; H. S. Illing-
worth, secretary, and R. R. Randolph,
treasurer. Teachers for the ensuing
year were chosen as follows:
Krumrine—Miss Olie Way.
Pine Hall—Miss Helen Drapp.
Oak Grove—Mrs. Turner.
White Hall—Mrs. H. B. Connelly.
Branch—Miss Viola Burwell.
Pine Grove Grammar—A. L. Bow-
ersox.
Pine Grove Primary—Mary Bur-
well.
Glades—Mary Heninger.
Baileyville—Alton B. Corl.
Tadpole—Miss Hassinger.
Marengo—David Behrer.
Centre—Miss Golliver.
No effort will be made to reopen
the Kepler school.
Annual Auditors’ Report
. of the
School District of Ferguson Twp.
Centre County, Penna.
For the Year Ending July 7th, 1924
RECEIPTS.
Bal. on hand July 1st, 1923.......%
RAEN. LL ated. Sa Mer
Non-resident tuition.......
State appropriations
Other Receipts
secerrrennene
Total Receipts
EXPENDITURES.
(General Control, A)
Sedretary co.sanid iii a
Treasurer ...... 00
Tax Collector .
Auditors 6 00
Compulsory Edu. and Census..... 00
Other BXpOnSes: ..c..cc.nrvveinrnes 41 70
Rotaliina d $ 726 46
(Instruction, B)
Salaries of Teachers ............. $ 8960 00
Text: Books: iit dal. 50 i 0000s 382 87
Supplies L.... ci a. e.0.. 0. esas 260 47
Other BEXDENSER .........c0ccevives 2123 90
TTOLRY. . Ji i% so vis denies Sin $11726 84
Auxiliary Agencies, C) - 3
Transportationii.,.....Jicis. Vive $ 480 00
(Operation D,)
Wages of Janitors ................$ 68:00
MEL oe iiivirsesrrasrannrnssrsrsens 658 01
Janitor’s ‘Supplies’ ..ih...i...000. 0 31 20
Other "BXpenses ........... s.cese 6 00
RODAITE. « . siiispnpabso spans ness $ 51128
(Fixed Charges, F)
State Retirement Board ..........$ 263 10
INSUTANCE ..ovmprrrrvivisrevseossons 04 37
Other Expenses... iv... iveecesess 8 70
Total. casssesessiess.. $ 328 17
Total current expenses, the sum
of Items A, B,C, D, E and
FF avasernnnssnves onmetesosnsin R14552 86
(Debt Service, G)
Short Loans .i.......... {
Payment Short Loans... 1500 00— 1550 00
Total of all payments.......... $16102 86
Total Receipts «eeov..........$18837 19
Total Expenditures 16102 86
Bal. on hand July 7, 1924....$ 2734 33~
We hereby certify that we have exam-
ined the above accounts and find them cor-
rect and that the securities of the officers
of the Board are in accordance with law.
A. L. BOWERSOX,
J. C. GATES,
C. M. McCORMICK,
July 7, 1924—69-28-3t Auditors
sesensscas