- how that compares with home prices
Jnade, for I am sure you will want to
day school, for it was the last Sunday
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HOMEY ITEMS FROM CHINA.
Mrs. W. R. North Writes Inter-
* estingly of Her Home Life in
the Orient.
Chengtu, China, June 1, 1924.
Dear Home Folks:
We are getting ready to go away
for the summer. I spent about three
hours on the street yesterday looking
for some cheap dishes to use when we
go to the mountains. You see we
brought none of our dishes up here
with us so we are rather handicapped.
I finally selected some cheap Chinese
dishes (you can get foreign dishes on
the street but they are too expensive)
and purchased a half-dozen glasses
for 50c Mex. a piece, the kind we get
at the 5 and 10c, store for 10c a piece,
so 50c. Mex. is really not so terribly
expensive. I also bought some very
pretty cretonne, for draperies for
about 25¢c. gold a yard. I don’t know
for I don’t remember having bought
cretonne recently. Everything out
here is bought by the foot. A Chinese
foot has ten inches, but is longer than
an American foot.
I am going to tell you now about
some of the furniture we have had
know what our house is going to be
filled with. We have not all of it, by
any means, for it is a slow process out
here, but we have almost all of our
bed-room furniture now. You know,
of course, that we brought our-springs 1
for our bed with us from Shanghai.
Well, we had a very pretty Louis XVI |
bed made, with the foot-board round-
ed at the ends and lovely carving on
it. It cost us just $16.00 Mex. We
have a chifforobe of the same design,
a bedside table, and a dressing table.
The chifforobe cost us $12.00, the
dressing ‘table (without the mirror);
$12.00, and the small bedside table
$2.80. We also had a costumer made,
and two folding screens, but I forget
just what they cost, and haven’t the
price list here. We have had all of
this furniture painted white, for I
think white looks cleaner than any-
thing else.
We have not begun on our living-
room furniture yet, except for a few
pieces of wicker. We want to have a
library table made, a davenport, and
perhaps a couple of chairs, but most
of our living-room furniture I plan to
have wicker. A
I will be so glad to get to Chung-
king and get my house fixed up. We,
have had word that our freight has
arrived, so it will be there for us to
unpack when we reach there.
hope everything has come through in
good condition. 5 =
It looks now as though Bill and I!
will be keeping house alone here next |
year. Mrs. Oster is to go down to
Tzechow after the summer vacation to
help with the new hospital there. We:
have not much here to keep house with
but can get along for six months with’
what we have. It will keep me pretty
busy spending the day at school and
running a house, but I think I can do
it. The cook that I am to have this
summer is here helping us now, and |
I am doing the housekeeping—plan-
ning the meals, settling accounts, etc.
I wouldn't care if Bill and I were
alone, but I hate to plan the meals
when Miss Oster has to eat them. She!
knows so much more about cooking
than I do. |
Today has been a‘lazy day for me.
There was no foreign church service,
and I didn’t go out to the foreign Sun-
before vacation and the classes didn’t
meet. I let my woman servant haye
Sunday off, so I did my own bedroom
work. We try to have as little as pos-
sible for the servants to do on Sun-
day. Last night I told the coolie to
get up early this morning and wipe
up the floors and get his work finish-
ed early. When I came down to
breakfast at 8:30 everything was in
fine shape. I went into the dining-
room and Bill was in his study, the’
room next to the dining room. All of
a sudden I heard a dreadful crash. I
rushed into Bill’s study, and such a
mess! About a fifth of the ceiling
had come down. Fortunately Bill was
not under the place where it came
down. We ate our breakfast and then
the two coolies and I cleaned up the
mess. The poor coolie who had got-
ten up early to do his cleaning said,
“I got up early this morning and did
my work and thought I could rest a
while. Now, I have to do it all over
again.” I told him that’s the way
things happen sometimes. In a short
time we had everything ship-shape
again. The ceilings are always com-
ing down in this house. The one in
the dining room has come down twice
Idojp
since we've been here, and a piece of
the ceiling in the guest bed-room
came down during the last hard rain
that we had. This house is so old that
they don’t like to spend much money
on it for repairs, and yet they don’t
tear it down and they keep on having
‘ families live in it. It certainly is a
nice old place. I like it better than
almost any of the other M. E. M.
houses, in spite of its dilapidated con-
dition. And our compound is also the
loveliest, with its big old trees. We
.and the Freemans had our supper out
under the trees tonight. We often
have our suppers out of doors, and it
is lovely until the mosquitoes come
around. The mosquitoes are awful
here now. We have our nets up, so
that we aren’t bothered when we are
sleeping, but they do their real work
before you get to bed. Our house is
not screened at all, except the kitch-
en. The mission won’t spend any
more money for screens for this old
place. But screens aren’t much good
so far as mosquitoes are concerned.
They are such little things that they
can work their way right through the
screens. We also have fleas out here
to pester us. I never see them, but I
reckon they’re around just the same.
A very common street scene, is that
of Chinese coolies and people of the
It doesn’t make any difference where
they are, if they feel something bit- |
ing them, they commence looking
through their clothes for it. The Chi-
nese mode of dress is very modest,
but when they commence looking for
insects, we don’t consider them spe-
cially modest people.
Tuesday Evening, June 3, 1923.
As you see, I didn’t get my letter
finished Sunday night, but I am going
to finish it tonight.
I have finished swanning (reckon-
ing accounts) with the cook for the
day, and this is the list of his pui-
chases. It will give you some idea of
what we buy and how much it costs
us:
Lamb chops, 340 cash (about 5c.
gold)—enough meat for three people.
Apricots (8 gin, lbs.) 1200 cash
(about 20c. gold)—we canned about
five quarts.
Green string beans, 90 cash (about
13c. gold)—enough for three people. |
Cucumbers, 70 cash (about 1c gold)
—enough for two people.
Sen Gwa (Chinese vegetables), 50
cash (about lc. gold)—enough for 3
people.
Puffed rice, 220 cash, (about 33c.
gold)—enough for breakfast for a
week.
~ 2 native ‘brooms, 320 cash, (about
5c. gold).
Total, 2,290 cash, (about 31c. gold).
Now Ic. is worth about 33 cash, or
3,300 cash to a Chinese $1.00, or 50c.
of our money. - -
Now I am going to tell you what we
had for supper: Lamb chops, mashed" restful vacations free from w
potatoes, buttered beets,
cucumbers
and onions, green string beans, and
the Chinese vegetable, Sen Gwa. For
dessert we had sliced apricots (su-
gared) and cookies. It is apricot sea-
son now and we are having them in
some form almost every meal. They
are simply delicious. I don’t believe
I ever ate raw apricots before coming
out here. Peaches are coming into
the market now. We had some sliced
last Saturday night for supper, but
they are really not quite ripe enough
yet to be good.
Last night we had quite an interest-
ing experierice. Mrs. Freeman teach-
es music at one of the government
schools, a Normal school, and we were
invited to attend a program presented
by some of the pupils. The program
was to begin at six o'clock, so we left
oe about twenty minutes of six, and
I told the cook before leaving that we
would be back for supper at seven
o’clock.
o'clock, and some of the students who
speak English escorted us through the
grounds. There are acres and acres
of land (I don’t know how many)
walled in, over two hundred years
ago. It was the site of what is known
as the Imperial city. The grounds are
very lovely, and rather well-kept, ac-
cording to Chinese ideas. These Chi-
nese students served us with tea, after
which we went to the recreation hall
to see the performance of the even-
ing. It was then about 6:45, and I
began to dispair of reaching home for
seven o'clock supper.
The program was similar to a play
given by school children at home, and,
although we couldn’t understand much
of the Chinese, we could see that it
was really very funny and well done. |
GIVE THEM HEALTH.
We are told that three wise men
followed the Star and journeyed to
Bethlehem that first Christmas night,
carrying gorgeous gifts—gold, frank-
incense and myrrh.
And so the beautiful custom of
Christmas gift-giving began. But, as
time went on, many people made
drudgery of this lovely practice.
Making up Christmas: lists became al-
' most as perfunctory as making laun-
‘dry lists. Tom, Dick and Harry re-
“1 poorer class looking for lice and fleas. ceived the usual neckties, handker-
chiefs and socks. Betty was put on
Mary’s list, and Mary on Betty’s, be-
| cause both hesitated to break a so-
| cial custom. Would it not be a sen-
{sible thing this Christmas to give
"more as our hearts may prompt ?
Twenty-one years ago, on Christ-
mas eve, a young man stood at his
I in a postoffice in far away Den-
| mark. Thousands of Christmas let-
| ters were pouring through his hands.
{And as he worked he thought how
wonderful it would be if all the happy
people who were sending glad Yule-
tide messages would add a special
Christmas stamp to their letters ana
cards. That extra money would build
a hospital in his town for the children
sick with tuberculosis! The young
man took his big idea to the King ana
Queen of Denmark. His plan was en-
thusiastically greeted. The first
Christmas seals appeared in Denmark
in 1904—and the little children got
i their hospital.
From this simple beginning grew
the widespread custom of selling
| Christmas seals to ‘fight the great
white plague.
Tuberculosis can be cured—can be
prevented, and eventually wiped from
| the face of the earth. But the great
battle against it cannot be left solely
to those who support our welfare in-
stitutions.
Vast amounts of money are needed
to bring back to health those who have
been stricken with this most cruel of
all diseases. Money for open-air
camps out in the woods or on sunny
mountain slopes—money for ; long,
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money for proper food and care. Still
more money .is needed for the great
work of prevention. And this money
will be raised through the sale of the
little Christmas seals.
Plaintive voices are calling to you
for help. Will you help them? ' Let's
all get together to help rid the ‘world
of this dread disease that shows no
~miérey Tor rich or poor.
Buy Christmas seals as you never
bought before. Buy till it makes you
happy. Place a voluntary “health
tax” on all your cheerful Yuletide let-
ters, and thus brighten your gift
packages with these gay little sym-
bols of hope. The Christmas candles
in your heart will burn more brightly
because you have helped to smooth
away some of the troubles bof the
world. This Christmas give the great-
est gift of all—the gift of health!
BIRTHS.
“We reached the school about six’ Williams—On "October 31, tn Mr.
and Mrs. Willis Seymour Williams, of
Bellefonte, a son, Garnet Seymour.
Delaney—On November 5, to Mr.
and Mrs. Edward LeRoy Delaney, of
Bellefonte, a daughter, Shirley Lou.
| Hennigh—On November 7, to Mr.
and Mrs. Franklin C. Hennigh, of
Centre Hall, a son, Edgar LeRoy.
| McKinley—On November 8, to Mr.
‘and Mrs. Homer G. McKinley, of
Bellefonte, a son.
Hockenberry—On November: 6, to
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar H. Hockenberry,
_ of Bellefonte, a son, Edgar Harry Jr.
“Ream—On November 11, to Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Ream, of Lyontown, 2
. daughter, Ruby May.
Hoy—On November 14, to Mr. and
Mrs. Ray H. Hoy, of Bellefonte, a
daughter, Louise Loraine. i 4
Glossner—On November 8, to Mr.
The Chinese students love to aét, and and Mrs. John Glossner, of Marion
-
are very clever. : Boa
At about 8:45 we decided we. could’
not stay a minute longer, so, although
the entertainment was only half fin-
ished we excused ourselves. But we
were not allowed to go home yet. We
must stay and have some supper
which they had especially prepared
for us. So we went to the room
where we: had. been served with tea
and had a dish of some kind of rice
concoction. I had never tasted it be-
fore but it was very good.
When we reached home, our supper
was waiting for us, and although it
was after nine, we sat down and ate
and enjoyed a meal of soup and green
beans and potatoes cooked with ba-
con (cured by our cook), and sugared
apricots and cookies for dessert. It
was eleven o'clock before I got to bed
and I was pretty well tired out.
SARAH.
——The Bellefonte High school
football team closed a successful sea-
son with their Thanksgiving day
game yesterday afternoon on Hughes
field, when the Juniata High school
eleven were their opponents.
AEN
township, a son, John Edward.
Hendershot—On November 14, to
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hendershot,
of Spring township, a son, Austin
John.
Torsel—On November 21, to Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Torsel, of Bellefonte, a
‘ daughter, Jean Catherine.
Rhoads—On November 22, to Mr.
and Mrs. George W. Rhoads, of Belle-
fonte, a daughter.
Raymond—On November 19, to Mr.
and Mrs. Harry W. Raymond, of Belle-
fonte, a son, Frederick Jerome.
rschbacher—On November 16,
a a Cyril Moerschbacher,
of Belléfonte, a son.
Crafts.—On November 13, to Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Crafts, of Bellefonte, a
daughter, Mary Maxine.
——Last Friday evening an auto-
mobile from Lock Haven driven by
John Rine and carrying in addition to
the driver Helen and Daisy Greth and
Mildred Minecer, crashed into a tele-
phone pole near Hublersburg and was
badly wrecked. Miss Helen Greth
sustained a broken leg and the other
occupants of the car were all more or
less injured, but not seriously.
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UNDERWOOD. — Mrs. Martha
Thompson: Underwood, wife. of Isaac
Underwood, passed away at her home
on north: Spring street, Bellefonte, at
seven o'clock last Friday morning,
following less than three day’s illness
as the result of cerebral hemorrhage.
She was a daughter of John and
Hannah Thompson Rowan and was
born in Halfmoon valley on May 18th,
1840, hence had reached the age of
84 years, 6 months and 3 days. Her
girlhood life was spent at the place of
her birth and on December 24th, 1868,
she was married at Unionville to Isaac
Underwood. The first few years of
their married life were spent at that
place but later they moved to Spring
Mills, where they lived a number of
years. Upwards of forty years ago
they moved to Bellefonte and this had
been her home ever since. Mrs. Un-
derwood, like her husband, was a
member of the Society of Friends and
for many years was a regular attend-
ant at the church at Unionville. She
was one of those unassuming, gentle,
kindly characters whose entire life
was devoted to her home and family.
She derived special enjoyment in look-
ing after her home work, considering
it more in the light of pleasure than
duty; and up .until her last illness
reigned supreme in her own home.
Her survivors include her husband,
one son and two daughters, J. Irvin
Underwood, of Erie; Misses H. Mary
and A. Blanche, at home. She also
leaves three grand-children and one
brother, Andrew T. Rowan, of Union-
ville.
Brief funeral services were held at
her late home in Bellefonte at 10
o’clock on Monday morning by Dr. O.
E. Janney, a minister of the Society
of Friends, of Baltimore, assisted by
Rev. William C. Thompson, of the
Presbyterian church, after which the
remains were taken to Unionville for
interment.
Out of town people here for the fu-
neral were Mr. and Mrs. J. Irvin Un-
derwood and daughter Martha, of
Erie; Warner Underwood, of Wood-
bury, N. J., and Mrs. Mary U. Way,
a: sister of Mr. Underwood, who will
remain with the family indefinitely.
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SAYLOR.—Mrs. Annie Flack Say-
lor, widow of -the late Harland Say-
lor, passed away at her home on Val-
entine street at 8:15 o’clock on Mon-
day morning. Though past four score
years of age she had been around as
usual, doing most of her own house-
work until Wednesday of last week
when she became ill and died at the
time above stated.
She was a daughter of Thomas and
Catharine Flack and was born at
Howard on February 8th, 1842, hence
had reached the age of 82 years, 9
months and 17 days. Practically all
her married life was spent in Belle-
fonte. She was a member of the
Catholic church and a regular attend-
ant during the active years of her life.
but surviving her are the following
children: Charles Saylor, of Elmira,
N. Y.; Mrs. Minnie Wilson and Miles
Saylor, of Altoona; Mrs. A. J. Hever-
ly and Harry, of Bellefonte. She was
one of a family of thirteen children,
of whom three brothers and one sis-
ter survive, namely: Harry, George,
William and Miss Kate Flack, all of
Bellefonte.
Funeral mass was held in the Cath-
olic church at ten o’clock yesterday
morning by Rev. Father Downes,
after which burial was made in the
Catholic cemetery.
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HEYLMUN.—Jacob Graffius Heyl-
mun, for many years a resident of
Bellefonte, died in a Williamsport
hospital, last Saturday, following an
illness of some months. He was
about eighty-three years old and a na-
tive of Lycoming county. He came to
Bellefonte upwards of fifty years ago
to take a position in the old nail
works store where he remained until
the works were closed down, and dur-
ing the other years of his residence
here he clerked in other stores. While
living here his wife and only daugh-
ter, Catherine, died, and shortly there-
after he returned to Lycoming coun-
ty, living at Trout Run and clerking
in Williamsport until failing health
compelled him to give up his labors.
His only survivor is one son, Harris
Heylmun, of Mulford, Conn. The re-
mains were brought to Bellefonte by
auto hearse and buried in the Union
cemetery at three o’clock on Tuesday
afternoon.
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HEATON.—Green Heaton, for some
years past a resident of Benner town-
ship, died at the Centre County hos-
pital on Sunday evening, where he
had been undergoing treatment for a
complication of diseases.
He was a son of Andrew and Eliza-
beth Heaton and was born on Marsh
Creek seventy-eight years ago. He .
was twice married and is survived by
his second wife and the following '
children: William and Zess Heaton,
of Ebenborn, Fayette county; Mrs.
Carroll Croft, of Clearfield, and Mrs. |.
William Emel, of Pleasant Gap. He.
also leaves these brothers.and sisters,
George Heaton, of Altoona; Jack, of
Runville; Miles and Mrs. Margaret
Coakley, of Runville. ;
Funeral services were le'd at the
Lutheran church at Pleasant Gap yes-
terday afternoon, and burial made in
the Lutheran cemetery.
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CROWLEY.—Mrs. Mary Tone v
Crowley was found dead in bed at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. E. N. Sul-
livan, at State College, last Thursday
morning. In addition to Mrs. Sulli-
van she is survived by two other
daughters, Mrs. Paul Neff, of Tyrone,
and Mrs. Fred Oeste, of Philadelphia.
The remains were taken to:Lock Ha--
ven where requiem mass was held in
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the Church of the Immaculate Concep-
tion at 9 o’clock on Saturday morning
by Father William 8. Davies, burial
being made in St. Mary’s cemetery.
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HOUSER — John Houser, a well
known and highly respected citizen of
College township, died at 1:30 o’clock
on Saturday of diseases due to ad-
vanced age. He was a son of Daniel
and Mary Houser, early settlers of
Houserville, where he was born on
March 7th, 1839, hence was 85 years,
8 months and 15 days old. He follow-
ed farming all his life until his retire-
ment some years ago. He was a
member of the Reformed church and
a consistent christian gentleman.
In 18656 he married Miss Mary Hoy,
of near Bellefonte, who died in 1912,
but surviving him are the following
children: Henry Houser, of Linden
Hall; Mrs. William Neff and Mrs.
Raymond, of Centre Hall and Mrs.
Miller, of Lock Haven. He was one
of a family of thirteen children and
the last to pass away. Rev. J. F.
Bingman had charge of the funeral
services which were held at 10 o'clock
j on Monday morning, burial being
made in the Houserville cemetery.
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LUTZ. —Mrs. Sarah Anna Lutz,
wife of John Lutz, passed away at the
family home on the Jacksonville road
on Tuesday of last week as the result
of a stroke of apoplexy, following an
illness of almost five weeks.
She was a daughter of William and
Mary Garman Martin and was born in
Buffalo Run valley on August 26th,
1858, making her age 66 years, 2
months and 22 days. In addition to
her husband she is survived by four
daughters, Mrs. William Sortman, of
Jacksonville; Mrs. Miles Mechley, of
Buffalo Run; Mrs. Harry Werrman,
of Trenton, N.J., and Mrs. Eliza
Nearhoof, of Tyrone. She also leaves
two sisters, Mrs. Willam Crust, of
Centre Hall, and Mrs. Elizabeth Guy-
er, of Port Matilda.
She was a member of the Reformed
church and the funeral services, at
one o'clock last Friday afternoon,
were in charge of Rev. Gass, assisted
by Rev. Rishel, burial being made in
the Meyer's cemetery.
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STUTSMAN.—Jesse Orila Stuts-
man 1I died last Saturday at the home
of his grandparents, warden and Mrs,
J. O. Stutsman, at the Rockview peni-
tentiary, following an illness of some
weeks with acute nephritis and pul-
monary edema. He was a son of Paul
W. and Maude Crandall Stutsman and
was born in Detroit, Mich., on Decem-
ber 22nd, 1923, hence was just eleven
months old. Burial was made in the
Union cemetery on Monday afternoon.
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LAFFERTY.—Several weeks ago
Mrs. Sara Lafferty, widow of George
Lafferty, of Altoona, went to Spring
Mills to visit her daughter, Mrs.
Sherman, wife of Rev. H. H. Sherman,
a Ob C . 1€ .{ and. while there. beeama;ill ? diet .
Her husband died in November, 1 122, | Tu S18: beeeialll and died on
esday morning. . She was Seventy-
five years old and is survived by five
children and one sister. The remains
were taken to Altoona on Wednesday
and burial made yesterday afternoon.
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LOW.—William H. Low, a well
known resident of Spruce Creek val-
ley, died-en-Tuesday: following a long’
illness with cancer, aged 84 years.
He is survived by his wife and two
children, as well as many friends in
the western end of Centre county.
Burial will be made at Water Street
this (Friday) morning.
Thespians May Invade New York.
For the first time in its twenty-
eight years the Penn State Thespian
club is likely to stage their annual
musical comedy show in New York
city, This year’s show has been writ-
ten by two students at The Pennsyl-
vania State College and has been
named “Wooden Shoes.” It is a show
in which men students impersonate
female roles.
The college show will go on the road
during the Christmas vacation period,
appearing in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre,
Harrisburg, Lancaster, Philadelphia
and possibly New York. The same
show will be staged during the Easter
recess in Johnstown, Greensburg, Un-
iontown, Indiana, Pittsburgh and
Morgantown, W. Va. - The student au-
thors are R. B. Voskamp, of Pitts-
burgh, and J.D. McLean, of New
York.
Marriage Licenses.
Evan N. Smith and Margaret H.
Emery, Centre Hall.
Paul Takach, Brisbin, and Helen
Colby, Philipsburg.
Daniel C. Craig and Mabel M. Emel,
Bellefonte.
Abram D. Jackson and Guinevere
W. Watson, Bellefonte.
John William Nilson and Mary
Elizabeth Herman, Philipsburg.
Frank A. Nead and Maude A. Gu-
lich, Hyde, Pa.
Wallace R. Nuttycombe, Snow Shoe,
and Dorothy J. Gill, Osceola Mills.
Edward : Mulbarger and Lola L.
Stover, Bellefonte.” - We
* Frank: A, Read and Maude A. Gu-
lich, Hyde. : :
Thomas Wyne, Philipsburg, and
Aletta Phoenix, Winburne.
Ernest R. Shultz, New Castle, and
Helen A. Lemon, State College.
Frank Lincenfelter, Altoona, and
Marie M. Barkau, Munson.
Edward R. Houtz, Lemont, and
Pearl M. Martz, State College.
Melvin Jaye and Ella Torich, Snow
Shoe.
———The Thimble Bee of the ladies
of the Reformed church will be enter-
tained by Mrs. Harry Keller and Mrs.
D. E. Washburn, at the home of Mrs.
Keller, next Thursday afternoon, De-
cember 4th.
> Hallow-een in , Bellefonte
Seventy
Years Ago.
{ "Hallow-een, in Seotland a term des-
ignating the eve of Hallowmas, or All-
Saints’ day. All Saints’ day, or All
Hallows, a Catholic festival celebrated
on the first of November. This feast
established by Boniface IV, in 611, for
the commemoration of all the mar-
tyrs, was extended into the festival
of All Saints by Gregory IV, in 830.
My earliest remembrance of Hal-
low-een extends back to about 1850, 1
then living in Bellefonte. During the
latter part of October of that year the
merchants of Bellefonte had laid in
; their winter supplies of goods and had
apparently looked for a prosperous
season ahead, judging by the quanti-
ty of packages brought in and dis-
played on the morning of November
1st, for during the night before the
boys of the town had fully revealed
their mischievous dispositions by
building a barricade across Allegheny
street half way between Bishop and
the Diamond. To make it effective
everything in movable shape had been
gathered from far and near, boxes,
crates, gates, buggies, old and new,
in fact every movable thing compris-
ed the barrier. This piece of mischief
well represented the capacity of Belle-
font’s growing manhood composed as
it was, of a mixture of various na-
tionalities brought to that section by
the need of workers.
Nor was this barricade all. A man
by name of Turner owned a good
property on Allegheny street adjoin-
ing the alley on the west side, if my
memory serves me right as to points
of compass. On the rear end of his
lot he had built a good barn. During
the night the boys obtained a large
wagon and hoisted it to the roof and
it stood there in the morning, com-
plete in every feature. No matter
what labor it cost the Bellefonte
B-hoy was ever ready to do it.
| A calf was caught and a goose tied
on its back and driven about the
streets, the goose squaking and the
calf bellowing making a never before
medley that beat the band.
D. W. STARKEY,
Starke, Florida.
| PINE GROVE MENTIONS.
i
{ A good tracking snow fell in this
; section on Sunday night.
Miss Emma Kinne, of Milesburg, is
i visiting friends in the valley.
Farmer John F. Kimport is nursing
“a colony of Job’s comforters.
| The Ladies Aid society cleared $170
at their bazaar on Saturday evening.
~ Ferd Strunk, of State College, is
attending the stock show at Chicago.
, James Kustaborder will quit the
farm next spring and move to Le-
mont.
+ Mr. and Mrs. I. O. Campbell were
at State College on Monday on a shop-
ping tour. :
G. B. and Hay Fry motored to Ty-
rone on’'Saturddy afte:noon on a bus-
iness trip. AT an ne
Communion services will be held in
the Presbyterian church at 10:30
o’clock Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kustaborder at-
tended the John Houser funeral, at
Houserville, on Monday morning.
« Mr.-and, Mrs. J. W. Houser spent
several days last week visiting rela-
tives at Peru, their former home.
Dr. Stork made his third visit to the
Grover C. Corl home on Monday
morning, leaving a little daughter.
| Roy Eyer wounded a big bear on
{ Tussey mountain on Tuesday but fail-
‘ed to get it. But he did get an 18
pound wild turkey.
Willis Weaver has purchased the
Rossman place at Baileyville where he
and his bride will take their first les-
sons in housekeeping.
The Walter Weaver steam thresher
is broken down & the Al Witmer
barn, and will lik8ly be out of com-
mission for some time.
Elmer Barr, who had hs right leg
amputated at the Centre County hos-
pital, last week, is getting along as
well as can be expected.
Rev. W. J. McAlarney, of Hollidays-
burg, a former pastor here, will fill
the pulpit at Megk’s church at 10:30
o'clock on Sunday morning.
A baby girl aftived at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Aikens, at State
College, on Wednesday morning. It
is their first-born and the parents are
naturally quite jubilant.
The Shoemaker club spent four
days last week hunting. for bear in
Potter county and their bag averaged
one a day. While their game was
hanging up in camp some person stole
half of one of the animals. The par-
ty returned home on Friday night.
The lucky shots were Bert Lyle, Joe
Shoemaker and J. B. Long, of this
place, and H. C. Gearhart, of Hunt-
ingdon. .
Well, Calvin, you've been elected
President of the Republicans and the
Democrats; the Protestants and the
Catholics, the*Jews and the Negroes,
the Ku Klux lan and all other clans.
Whatever you do you cannot please
everybody. But here’s hoping that
your fellow citizens will give you a
fair chance. Be true to yourself and
trust in God and do the best you can,
no human being can do more. But
‘when all is said and done we’d rather
scribble for the newspapers than have
your job.
On Tuesday evening of last week A.
Stine Walker celebrated his 76th birth-
day anniversary by entertaining his
relatives to a sumptuous feast at his
cosy home in this place. Mr. Walker,
by the way, was born in Huntingdon
but with the exception of a few years
spent in Blacklog valley has been a
resident of Centre county since he was
fifteen years of age. He followed farm-
ing all ‘his life untit"his retirement
three years ‘ago.. His children are
Rev. H. N. Walker, of Bellwood; Mrs.
Bessie Miller, of Johnstown; Homer
'M., of Pine Grove Mills; Mrs. W. 8.
Markle, of the Glades, and Ralph, on
the Branch.