Bellefonte, Pa., July 25, 1924.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
— Plenty of good things to eat at
Business Men’s picnic. 29-1t
——The members of St. Mary's
church at Snow Shoe are planning for
a big reunion at Moravian park on
August 15th and 16th.
——Among recent State highway
appointments were Mary A. Kline, of
Bellefonte, stenographer, and Andrew
L. Runkle, Bellefonte, draftsman.
— The ladies bible class of the
United Brethren church will hold a
festival in front of their church this
(Friday) evening. The public is in-
vited.
uite a number of Lutherans
from Bellefonte and Centre county
attended the annual Lutheran day
services at Lakemont park, Altoona,
yesterday.
The Venture Inn is the name of
a new tea room which will be open on
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
evenings in the W. C. T. U. room in
Petrikin hall.
——Thomas Fleming has been ill
for the past month, his condition being
such as to compel him to abandon his
work for the present, in his shoe shop
on west High street.
Thirteen hundred dollars in
prizes will be given at the annual
convention of the Central Pennsylva-
nia Volunteer Firemen’s association
to be held at Patton August 20th to
22nd, inclusive.
Hunters this year will be
adorned with aluminum tags instead
of cloth, a contract having been given
to the Huntingdon reformatory for
the manufacture of five hundred
thousand tags.
After a busy week in Belle-
fonte the World at Home carnival
company pulled out of Bellefonte
about six o’clock on Sunday evening
for Shamokin, going over the Lewis-
burg and Tyrone railroad.
——William Krape, who originally
lived at Spring Mills, died at the sol-
diers home to which he went some
years ago, on Wednesday. His body
will be brought to Spring Mills today
and buried from the train, in the Un-
ion cemetery.
The men of the Sycamore club,
nine in number, were hosts at a camp
supper Tuesday evening, for which
twenty covers were laid. The H. C.
Yeager and G. Oscar Gray families
are now occupying the club house,
having gone into camp yesterday for
a two weeks’ stay.
In the list of names published
of the committees named in the board
of trustees of the Bellefonte hospital,
last week, a clerical error placed the
name of W. S. Shelton on the supplies
committee, whereas it should have
read, Edward Owens, David Cham-
bers, Ralph Mallory.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. -Shat-
tuck, of State College, were host and
hostess for thirteen tables of bridge,
at the Centre Hills Country club, Mon-
day evening. The party was arrang-
ed by Mrs. Shattuck as a surprise to
her husband, in celebration of their
wedding anniversary.
—On Monday officer Robert Mingle,
of State College, brought to the Cen-
tre county jail Raymond Rudy and
Jesse Dearing, whom he had placed
under arrest on the charge of manu-
facturing moonshine. As evidence
against them he brought along one
still and a quantity of mash.
Dr. Frederick G. Clemson has
opened an office in the Foster build-
ing on Allen street, at State College,
where he will practice his profession
as a chiropractor. Dr. Clemson re-
turned in May, from Davenport, Iowa,
where he had taken the regular course
in the Palmer school of Chiropractry.
A big Grange picnic will be
held on the Huntingdon fair grounds
on Thursday, July 31st, to which
members of the order in Bedford,
Blair, Centre, Fulton, Huntingdon
and Mifflin counties are invited.
Prominent speakers will be present
and meals can be obtained on the
grounds. Fe] at rd 4 7
~——While at Hecla park, on Sun-
day afternoon, James Caldwell, eight
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. James
Caldwell, of Bellefonte, climbed into
a tree the better to see a ball game in
progress there. During an exciting
play he missed his footing and fell
thirty feet to the ground landing on
his head and shoulder on a stone pile.
He was unconscious four hours but is
now recovering from his injuries.
+ ——The Loysville orphans’ home
band gave another of their delightful
concerts in Bellefonte on Monday
night and received as a free will of-
fering $157.00. The band played at
Salona on Saturday night and during
the concert one corner of the band
‘stand collapsed but fortunately the
fall was not great and none of the
young musicians were injured. The
stand was quickly raised and under-
pinned and the concert was finished
without any further mishap.
—__‘Abie’s Irish Rose,” the biggest
money-making musical comedy ever
produced, will be the attraction at the
Moose Temple theatre, Bellefonte,
‘next Monday and Tuesday evenings.
Two nights of the most delightful en-
tertainment ever offered the amuse-
ment loving public of Bellefonte and
Centre county. The two nights stand
will afford many people throughout
the county an opportunity to get up
motor theatre parties and come to
Bellefonte for one of the performanc-
es. See advertisement elsewhere in
this paper.
MURDERED SATURDAY
NIGHT.
‘His Nephew, Harry Musser, and
Herbert Heaton Now in Jail
i Charged with the Crime.
On Saturday, July 12th, Judge
| Henry C. Quigley did what he con-
. sidered "a kindly and justifiable act
when he paroled William Musser
from. the Centre county jail after he
had served seven months of a one to
two years’ sentence for bootlegging.
The prematurely aged man could
hardly realize his good fortune at be-
ing released from captivity, but far
better would it have been for him had
he been allowed to remain in jail, as
today he is cold in death, the victim
of a most brutal murder which took
place between the mountain ranges in
Little Sugar valley, one of the wild-
est spots in Centre county, and his
nephew, Harry Musser, and a young
man by the name of Herbert Heaton
are now locked in the Centre county
jail charged with having committed
the crime.
The murder was first discovered by
D. O. Dorman, of Nittany valley, who
on Sunday afternoon took a walk over
into Little Sugar valley and becoming
thirsty left the main road to go to a
hunter’s cabin some three hundred
yard’s distant, to a cool spring to get
a drink. An old road leads from the
main road to the cabin and about mid-
way between the road and cabin Mr.
Dorman suddenly came upon the body
of a man lying in the road, and par-
tially covered with an overcoat. A
pop bottle almost full of moonshine
whiskey stood alongside of his head.
A brief examination showed the man
to be dead as the result of a bullet
wound in the head. Leaving the body
undisturbed Mr. Dorman made his
way as quickly as possible to the near-
est house, which was several miles
distant, and told of his gruesome find,
then continued to a place where he
could get in communication with
Bellefonte and telephoned sheriff E.
R. Taylor. That official took with
him J. M. Keichiiiie, as acting coro-
ner, and motored to the scene of the
murder as quickly as possible.
Sheriff Taylor promptly recogniz-
ed the body as that of William Mus-
ser, who only a week previous had
been discharged from the Centre
county jail. ’Squire Keichline select-
ed from among the crowd of men who
had gathered there at that time D. O.
Dorman, Clem Rodgers, D. W. Diehl,
H. A. Long, W. R. Dunkle and E H.
Peck, as a coroner’s jury to view the
body and to inquire as to the cause of
the man’s death. They found that
Mr. Musser had been brutally beaten
over the back of the head and neck
and shot twice, one bullet entering
the right side of the head above the
ear and coursing downward came
out the left cheek just above the
mouth. The other bullet entered the
right side of the neck and came out
the left side just below the ribs. A
stout club lying nearby was mute ev-
idence of the weapon used in beating
the aged man but the ground failed
to disclose any indications of a strug-
gle. The jury returned a verdict of
murder at the hands of some party
or parties at that time unknown. At
the conclusion of the examination
Sheriff Taylor got into communica-
tion with the undertaker at Howard,
and had him remove the body and pre-
pare it for burial.
He then returned to Bellefonte and
instituted a line of inquiry which dis-
closed the fact that when William
Musser was discharged from jail he
went to the home of his nephew, Har-
ry Musser, who occupies a farm along
the Brush valley road a mile or so
northeast of Penn’s cave. There he
spent the week and assisted his neph-
ew in his hay making. The two men,
with Herbert Heaton, Harry Musser’s
hired man, worked in the hay field
most of Saturday, and late Saturday
afternoon the three of them left the
home in an automobile ostensibly on
the hunt of a team of horses. It is
alleged that they were seen on the
White Hall road above State College
and some time Saturday night they
came to Bellefonte. Shortly after
twelve o’clock William Musser went
into Blackford’s restaurant and
bought a paper bag of sandwiches
which he carried outside and got into
an automobile with two men, presum-
ably Harry Musser and Herbert Hea-
ton. They left town between 12:20
and 12:30 o'clock Sunday morning,
going down the Nittany valley road,
although a much nearer way to their
home would have been over the Nit-
tany mountain by way of Centre Hall.
Along about four o’clock on Sunday
morning two men in an automobile
were seen coming down the mountain
road which runs from Peck’s store in
Nittany valley across through Little
Sugar valley and over the mountain
to Madisonburg in Brush valley, and
it was between four and five o’clock
when Harry Musser and Herbert
Heaton returned home without the
former’s uncle, William Musser.
Acting upon this information Sher-
iff Taylor, accompanied by chief of
police Harry Dukeman and Col. H. 8.
Taylor, motored to the Harry Mus-
ser heme on Sunday night. The
house was in darkness but repeated
rappings brought Mr. Musser to a
window clad only in his night clothes.
He refused to open the door, claiming
he was undressed and had gone to bed
and didn’t know anything about the
murder. When informed that if he
didn’t open the door it would be brok-
en down he told the officers to wait
until he put on his trousers, but in-
stead of doing so sneaked to the rear
door, opened it quietly and clad only
in his night clothing dashed past one
of the watching officers and escaped
to the mountains. Heaton was found
j arrest and brought to the Centre
county jail. The officers then return-
ed to the Musser home and watched
until the break of day, but Mr. Mus-
ser failed to return. On Monday after-
noon Sheriff Taylor, accompanied by
‘ John Smith, went to the Musser home
and found him in the house. After
some parleying he came out and sur-
rendered, stoutly maintaining, how-
ever, that he knew nothing at all
about the murder of his uncle. He
up in jail. When arrested it was dis-
covered that Musser had a black eye,
a small cut on his lower lip and a
small scratch on his nose.
As figured out by local officers
when the three men left Bellefonte
they drove down Nittany valley to
Peck’s store then took the road across
to Brush valley. Reaching little Su-
gas valley the men evidently stopped
the car at the intersection of an old
road running west to the hunter’s cab-
in. As no car tracks showed on the
old road they must have walked along
it to a point about midway between
the main road and the cabin where the
murder was committed, as no evidence
was found to show that the body had
been taken there after the murder.
No money was found in the murdered
man's pockets but his gold watch was
undisturbed and ticking the time
away as usual. The placing of the
bottle of moonshine along side the
dead man’s head may have been done
with a thought of giving the impres-
sion of suicide, but the absence of a
gun precludes such a theory.
Now as to the motive: William
Musser was close to sixty years old
and was born and raised in Brush val-
ley. When not quite thirty years old
he went west and located in Iowa
where he spent twenty-eight years.
About three years ago he returned to
Centre county and took up his abode
on a small property he owned in
Brush valley, a fairly good house and
a few acres of ground, which adjoins
the farm of his nephew, Harry Mus-
ser. There he lived until arrested for
bootlegging last October by a squad
of State police. At the time of his
arrest five barrels of wine were found
on his premises and confiscated. Mr.
Musser gave bail for his appearance
at the December term of court and
later, fearing that his property might
be confiscated he made a deed trans-
ferring his home to his nephew. He
then sold all his personal belongings
and went to Canada. He was induced
to return, however, just a few days
before the opening session of Decem-
ber court, and that week entered a
plea of guilty and was sentenced to
pay a fine of $500 and undergo im-
prisonment in the county jail for not
less than one nor more than two
years.
During his incarceration in jail he
frequently told members of the sher-
ift’s family that he was not guilty of
bootlegging, declaring that he had
never sold any illegal stuff. Since his
discharge from jail it is alleged, he
wanted his nephew to return the deed
of transfer of his property and the
latter declined to do so. This may
have been a motive for the murder,
and then again it may have been be-
cause of bootlegging, which it is-also
alleged, did not stop in that section
when William Musser was arrested.
Harry Musser is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Musser, of Madisonburg,
is thirty-two years old and has a wife
and two children. Heaton is a young
man who has been living at the Mus-
ser home the past year or so, although
he at one time lived at Gilltown, near
Pleasant Gap. Musser has consulted
S. D. Gettig in regard to defending
his case.
William E. Musser, the murdered
man, was a son of Elias and Eliza-
beth W. Musser and was born in Cen-
tre county on July 30th, 1861, hence
was 62 years, 11 months and 19 days
old. He was a farmer by occupation.
He never married but is survived by
one brother and a sister, Jacob Mus-
ser, of Madisonburg, and Mrs. Jack-
son Kline, of Howard.
Undertaker L. H. Neff, of Howard,
who took charge of the body, took out
a permit to bury the remains in the
Heckman cemetery on Tuesday morn-
ing, intending to take the body to the
Harry Musser home for the funeral
services. But when he arrived there
on Tuesday morning Mrs. Musser
would not allow the body to be taken
into the house. The dead man’s
brother also refused to receive it and
inquiry developed the fact that no ar-
rangements had been made for the
funeral and no grave dug in Heck-
man’s cemetery for burial. Conse-
quently the undertaker was compelled
to take the body back to his establish-
ment in Howard and later made ar-
rangements for burial in the Schenck
cemetery at Howard, where the re-
mains were laid to rest on Wednesday
morning.
Three Prisoners Escape.
Edward Goss, of Venango county,
serving a term of from 4 to 8 years;
James Edward Bowser, of Lawrence
county, under sentence of 23% to 5
years, and Frank Hale, of Clinton
county, also serving from 2% to 5
years, escaped from the western peni-
tentiary at Rockview about seven
o'clock last Saturday evening by
climbing over the stockade. When
their absence was discovered guards
were sent scurrying ‘in every direc-
tion, especially along the road to Lock
Haven, but up to this writing (Tues-
day afternoon) not a trace of the
men has been secured. But it is prob-
ably only a question of time until all
will be apprehended as the percentage
of prisoners who have escaped in the
past and not been recaptured is ex-
ceedingly small,
r——— lp Ae ————
~—Get your job wark done here.
WILLIAM MUSSER BRUTALLY in the house and he was placed under !
was brought to Bellefonte and locked ;
Bellefonte Wins Two More.
The Bellefonte ball team’s steam
roller is still working and two more
games have been tallied up to their
credit. Last Thursday they defeated
Millheim by the score of 6 to 0 and on
Saturday downed the same team 9 to
3. Win Gramley, however, stopped
the slugging match after the Belle-
fonte boys had pounded out nine safe
blows off of Ray Miller in two in-
nings. The old fellow does two-
thirds of his pitching with his head.
Smith, Fisher and Deitrick provided
the heavy artillery in Saturday’s con-
test, with three hits each. Fisher's
home run was a sizzling liner to left
' field which buried itself in the tall
grass.
Weber gave a fine pitching exhibi-
tion for six innings. In the seventh
has arm suddenly went dead and he
gave way to Harshberger, who fan-
ned six Millheim batters in two and
two-thirds innings. Gingerich and
Fisher pulled the fielding features of
the day by fielding clean hits in rapid
fashion and nearly pegging their man
out at first base. While neither one
got their man they proved to the op-
posing players that it doesn’t pay to
loaf on a clean hit with such an out-
field on the job.
State and Centre Hall broke even
last week, State winning Thursday’s
game 8 to 7 while Centre Hall won
on Saturday 7 to 5. Following is the
standing of the clubs:
Ww. L. P.C.
Bellefonte .......... 13 3 813
Millheim i......5..... 9 7 563 !
Centre Hall ......s. 6 10 425
State College ...... 4 12 .250
Tomorrow’s game will be State at
Bellefonte and Millheim at Centre
Hall, while next Thursday Millheim
will play in Bellefonte and Centre
Hall at State College.
No charge for parking cars,
Business Men’s picnic. 29-1t
Prices on shoes reduced, Yea-
ger’s. 29-1t
Miss Valentine Exhibits Her Paintings
Caroline M. Valentine gave two ex-
hibitions of thirty of her paintings,
last week, in her studio at Burnham.
It was her work of the last
two years in Bermuda, Nantuck-
et, Olgunquit, Maine; Chester Springs
and Capri, Italy. The “Yellow
House” at Chester Springs had an in-
teresting write-up in a Paris art mag-
azine, by their art critic, Count Cha-
brier, who was in America visiting
art exhibitions. Of it he said:
“Yellow House” the work of Caro-
line Valentine, sent to the exhibition
of the Pennsylvania Academy, Phila-
delphia, gives a very attractive and
charming idea of the talent of this ar-
tist. I liked in it the sure and large
execution, the beautiful general ef-
fect, the warm vibrating colors. - The
work of Caroline Valentine merits the
most sincere encouragement. She has
received excellent instructions from
the celebrated painter, Charles H.
Woodbury, (of whom we have had the
honor of speaking in our recent Re-
vue). Also from Geo. Bridgeman,
equally well known. From these good
instructions this artist, honest and
conscientious has retained, one can
see, the best principles, joined to her
natural gifts. She likes to paint the
sea and rocks. Hoping that she will
bring back from Capri (where she is
now sojourning) some pictures; where
her beautiful talent will find means of
expression.”
Miss Valentine’s friends will be in-
terested in knowing that she sold her
“Nantucket Trees.”
——Children’s play oxfords reduc-
ed to $1.25, Yeager’s. 29-1t
Two good ball games, Business
Men’s picnic. 29-1t
Bellefonte Scouts at Camp Kline.
The following boys are at” Camp
Kline, the Williamsport Boy Scout
camp, along Pine creek, above Jersey
Shore: Charles Bullock, Walter
Clark, Carl Dubbs, Fred Fisher, Hugo
Frear, David Geiss, Ben Herr, Harold
Hoag, Daniel Holter, Graham Hughes,
Michael Hazel, Frederick Kurtz, Da-
vid Locke, Donald Mallory, Howard
Murphy, William Markley, Richard
Mabus, Philip Mignot, Robert McClel-
lan, Carl Moerschabacher, Joseph
Moerschbacher, George Ray, John
Shoemaker, Frederick Shope, Gilbert
Shope, Leslie Shultz, Richard Taylor,
Ralph Toner, Victor Watson, Philip
Wion, together with their scoutmas-
ter, Rev. Malcolm Maynard, and as-
sistant scoutmasters, Carl Gray and
Robert Raymond.
The boys are having a very nice
time and are passing many tests to
advance them in their scouting rank.
Weather conditions have been quite
favorable with the exception that the
air has been rather cool for swimming.
Many visitors were in camp on Sun-
day. A number of the boys went to
Jersey Shore to church and later in
the morning a service was held in the
camp. The Scouts expect to return
to their homes on Saturday of this
week.
Boating and swimming, Busi-
ness Men’s picnic. 29-1t
Ladies’ pumps and oxfords,
half price, Yeager’s. 29-1t
Wanted.—Position by efficient young
woman to do house work, for the first
two weeks of August. Inquire at this
office. 29-1t
——$6.00 pumps reduced to $2.98,
Yeager’s. 29-1t
~——Good band concert, Business
Men’s picnic. © 20-1t
NEWS PURELY. PERSONAL. |
—Charles F. Cook left on Sunday for
Cleveland, Ohio, for a few day’s visit with
his son Joseph. :
—John Van Pelt came in from Johns- |
town last Saturday to spend a portion of |
his summer vacation among Centre county
friends.
—Dr. and Mrs.’ 8. M. Nissley are enter-
taining Mrs, Nissley’s mother, Mrs. J. C.
Miller, of McKeesport, who came to Belle-
fonte Saturday.
—Jacob Bottorf, the elder son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Bottorf, returned home Sun-
day from a week’s visit with Mrs. L. L.
Lambert, at Johnstown.
—Mr. and Mrs. M. A. McGinniss, of the
Allen House, Allentown, were in Bellefonte
during the week, guests of Mrs. McGinniss’
parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Schofield.
—Miss Margaret Brockerhoff is expected
here from Philadelphia early in August,
for her summer visit with her uncle and
brother, Dr. Joseph and Henry Brocker-
hoff.
—Miss Evaline Troup and her sister,
Anna Mary, returned home Sunday from
Hanover, where they spent Evaline’s vaca-
tion of two weeks with their father’s rel-
atives.
—Mrs. Thompson, the eldest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. Linn McGinley, arrived in
Bellefonte Saturday with her three chil-
dren, for an indefinite stay with their
grand- parents.
—Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Derstine, of Am-
bridge, and their two daughters, Dorothy
and Betty, will be here Sunday to spend
Mr. Derstine’s vacation with his mother,
Mrs. William Derstine.
—Edward L. Gates, telegraph editor on
the Johnstown Democrat, is expected in
Bellefonte tomorrow to join his wife and
family for a week’s vacation, when he will
accompany them back to Johnstown.
—Mrs., Jared Harper left Wednesday
night for Schenectady, N. Y., where she
will be for the remainder of the summer,
a guest of her son and his wife, Mr. and
Mrs. John Harper, at Scotia, a suburb of
Schenectady.
—Miss Caroline M. Valentine anticipates
spending the first two weeks of August at
Ogunquit, Maine, working under Charles
H. Woodbury, the celebrated painter, who
will criticize the paintings that have been
on display at her studio for the past ten
days.
—Gordou Montgomery was here for a
short stay with his mother, while she was
making her preparations for going to Pe-
oria, Ill, to be with her sister, Mrs.
Hamm, for a month or more. Mrs. Mont-
gomery, accompanied by her son, left Wed-
nesday afternoon for Illinois.
—Mr. and Mrs. McMutrie passed through
Bellefonte Monday, returning home from a
short visit with Mr. MecMutrie’s cousin,
Miss Elizabeth Green, at Briarly. Mrs. Mec-
Mutrie is known to many here as Miss
Grace Furey, Mr. McMutrie being one of
the leading druggists of Altoona, though
an invalid for almost a year.
—Mrs. C. H. Young and her two daugh-
ters, who have been visiting here with
Mrs. Young's parents, Dr. and Mrs. M. A.
Kirk, went to Harrisburg Wednesday to
join Mr. Young. The Young family will
occupy a funrnished house there for sev-
eral months, when Mr. Young expects to
be transferred to Pittsburgh. SA
Miss Charlotte Powell is arranging to | of
entertain a motor party next week. Her
guests will include Mr, and Mrs. Gam, of
St. George, Del.; Mr. and Mrs. William
Hoopes and their daughter Charlotte, of
West Chester, and Mrs. E. D. Bradford, of
New York city. The party will drive to
Bellefonte in Mr. and Mrs. Gam's car.
—Mr. and Mrs. Johnston Hall and
daughter, Miss Marian, of Titusville, ar-
rived in Bellefonte on Sunday and
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W.
Harrison Walker and family until
Wednesday when they went to Phil-
adelphia expecting, however, to return to-
day and be at the Walker home until
Sunday.
—Mr. and Mrs. Girard Oswald, of Phil-
adelphia, who were married early in the
month at the home of Mrs. Oswald's sis-
ter, Mrs. Charles R. Wynn, at Sunbury,
arrived in Bellefonte Wednesday of last
week for a ten day’s visit with Mrs. Os-
wald’s father, Martin IL. Altenderfer. Mrs.
Oswald is well known here as Miss Elsie
Altenderfer.
—Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Morgan, who re-
cently moved to Bellefonte from Snow
Shoe, have been entertaining their niece,
Mrs. V. A. Blackstrom and her small
daughter, Phyllis, of Warren. Miss Vivian
Bitner, of Williamsport, another niece,
joined Mrs. Blackstrom here Monday, both
leaving for the former's home in Wil-
liamsport, yesterday.
—Mr. and Mrs. Albert Canfield, of Min-
neapolis, and their two children, who are
east on a visit with Mr. Canfield’s mother,
Mrs. Jennie Orvis Canfield, at Wyncote,
are expected in Bellefonte shortly. Mr.
and Mrs. Canfield will stop here on their
way west, and will be guests during their
stay of the former's sister, Mrs. Louis
Daggett, and other relatives.
—Mrs. Frank Warfield and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. James Craig, returned Tuesday
from a five day’s trip to Pittsburgh. Dur-
ing Mrs. Warfield’s absence Mrs. Mary
Weaver Childs, of Washington, D. C., was
with her grandfather, John P. Harris,
having come for a short visit back home
and to look after her boys, both of whom
are here with Mrs. Childs’ aunt.
—Miss Helen Stull, of Wyncote, with
Mrs. Bruce Burlingame and Jane Daggett
as driving guests, motored to Bellefonte
Monday. Miss Stull is visiting with Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Daggett, at the Bush
house, Mrs. Burlingame is with Miss Hel-
en Valentine, while Jane was returning
home from a month’s visit with her grand-
mother, Mrs. Canfield, at Wyncote.
—Mary Adaline Harris, the only daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs, James Harris, of Read-
ing, was in Bellefonte for a week with her
grandmother, Mrs. Charles Smith, leaving
here for Harrisburg yesterday, which will
terminate her summer vacation trip. Mary
Adaline came here from New York State,
spent a week in Bellefonte and will visit
for an equal length of time with her uncle
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur F. Harris.
—Trank H. Clemson and his daughter
Sara arrived home Wednesday and are
now with the family up Buffalo Run. Miss
Clemson, who has been teaching music at
Elgin, Ill, will return west the latter part
of August to resume her work, while Mr.
Clemson having completed his course in
chiropractry, at Davenport, Towa, will re-
main home. Dr. and Mrs. Frederick G.
Clemson and their small child came east
in May and will also be members of the
Clemson family on the farm in Buffalo
Run valley until Dr. Clemson is perma-
nently located at State College.
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—Mrs. Frank Mullen, a former resident
of Bellefonte, is here visiting at the home
of Dr. Joseph Brockerhoff,
—Mrs. Hiram Fetterhoff, of Pleasant
Gap, is with friends in Howard, where
she expects to spend three weeks.
—Mrs. James R. Hughes and Miss Mary
Wistar Green returned home Saturday
from Danville, where both had been pa-
tients in the Geisinger hospital.
—Mr. and Mrs. Francis Thal and their
small son drove over from Osceola Mills
early yesterday morning, to spend the
week's holiday with Mr. Thal's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thal.
—Mr. and Mrs. John Blanchard and
their two children will leave early in the
week on a two week’s summer trip, the
first week of which will be spent with Mrs.
Blanchard’s mother, at Yonkers, N. Y.
—Mrs. H. 8. Cooper left Dallas, Texas,
Wednesday morning and will arrive in
Bellefonte today, to be here for the re-
mainder of the summer and fall with her
aunts, the Misses Benner, on High street.
—Mrs. Harry Cox and Miss Myra Sech-
ler, both of Franklin, Pa., were at the
Harter home on north Allegheny street last
week, being visitors in the home at the
time of the sudden death of their aunt,
Friday evening.
—Messrs. Edward Robb and R. J. Green
returned last Thursday from a two week's
trip to Canada. During their absence Mrs.
Robb and son visited with the Shoemakers
at Linden Hall, and in Williamsport with
the L. A. Miller family.
—Mrs. W. 8S. Hornbacker left Bellefonte
this week to join Mr. Hornbacker, in Al-
toona, where they will make their home in
the future. Mr. and Mrs. Hernbacker have
occupied rooms in the home of Mrs. John
Meese for the past two years.
—Katherine Dawson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Dawson, of DuBois, will
come to Bellefonte next week for a two
week's visit, the first to be spent with her
aunt, Mrs. T. Clayton Brown, and the sec-
ond with her father’s aunt, Mrs. Satter-
field.
—Miss Mary Blanchard is spending two
weeks at Overbrook with the family of her
cousin, Mrs. Logan MacCoy, having gone
down a week ago. Mrs. MacCoy, who be-
fore her marriage was Miss Marguerite
Wood, has gone to Europe for the sum-
mer.
—Kugene Robb, the elder son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Robb, returned home Sun-
day from a ten day’s visit with his uncle,
James Pacini, in Johnstown. This being
Eugene's first time away from home alone,
it was, of course, the most wonderful trip
of his life.
—Mrs. Wynn and her two children and
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hill, all of Philadel
phia, are house guests of Mrs. E. H. Rich-
ard, Mrs. Wynn and Mr. Hill being Mrs.
Richard’s niece and nephew. Mr. Wynn
accompanied his family to Bellefonte but
returned home Sunday.
—Miss Sara Benner had as over night
guests Saturday of last week, her niece,
Mrs. Silas Biery and Miss Leilie Geary, of
Emaus, Pa.,, and Mrs. Biery’s son, Nathan
Biery, president of the Allentown Business
College. The party stopped here on a drive
to Greenville, Mercer county.
—Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fleming Jr.
came here Wednesday from Akron, Ohio,
8 g's father, Thom-
Mr. Fleming has been with ‘the Firestone
Rubber Co. for a number of years.
—Hayes Schreyer, of Wilmington, Del.,
was an arrival in town yesterday morning.
Mr. Schreyer motored to Chicago with Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Schreyer, on their return
from their recent eastern trip, and came
back by way of the Lakes. He will visit
his old home friends here until tomorrow.
—James Cook will arrive home from
Manitou this morning, the trip east being
made at this time on account of the sud«
den death of his sister, Blanche Cook Gib-~
son, whose body was brought to Belle
fonte yesterday, from her home in New Or«
leans. Mr. Cook has been in Colorado for
two years on account of ill health.
—James B. Krape, who was discharged
from the hespital a month ago and has
since been convalescing at the home of his
sister, Mrs. G. C. Keen, at Spring Mills,
spent Wednesday night in town calling on
friends. While Jim has been doing a bit
of work in the hay fields he does not feel
sufficiently recovered to return to his work
here.
—Mr. and Mrs. Stanley B. Valentine
with their little baby, left Bellefonte for
Lancaster, yesterday, where they expect to
make their home in the future. They had
been here with Mr. Valentine's mother for
a month while he was considering a new
position offered him in Lancaster and in
consequence of its acceptance have moved
from their former home in Williamsport.
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Marriage Licenses.
at Fleming, ‘who
; 3 for
Leo Leonard Foreman, Glenwood,
and Ella E. Crain, Sandy Ridge.
"George W. Lawver and Odessa M.
Sipe, Derry township, Mifflin county.
Leone G. Pichetti and Antonetta
Coraggio, Pleasant Gap. \
Melvin Keen and Sarah E. Bartley
Spring Mills.
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Real Estate Transfers.
John Smith to Elmer Laird, tract in
South Philipsburg; $2,000.
Isaac Miller to J. M. Keichline,
tract in Spring township; $300.
Philipsburg Realty Company to
George F. Coldren, tract in Philips-
burg; $1.
——Price boy’s oxfords reduced at
Yeager’s. 201t
ns em———— A ——————
——Members of the Gray family
held a delightful little reunion at the
home of Miss Jennie Potts, at Storms-
town, on Wednesday.
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For Sale.~—At the Brant House, a
trunk containing the personal effects
of Mrs. Mary Wolfe Hunt, held for
unpaid bills. 29-1t
~——$5.00 oxfords reduced to $2.98,
Yeager’s. 29-1%
Bellefonte Grain Market.
Corrected Weekly by C. X¥. Wagner & Co.
Wheat - - - - - $1.15
Shelled Corn -w a. «- = 1.10
Rye - - - - - 50
Oats - “ - «- =» - O55
Barley - - - - - Ki]
Buckwheat « = = - 20