Demooralic Wad, Bellefonte, Pa., January 2, 1925. NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY, — There will be communion serv- ices in the Bellefonte Presbyterian church Sunday morning. —— Mrs. Roberta Smith-Bucher has moved to Bellefonte from Lock Haven and will conduct a vapor bath on the second floor of the Decker Bros. build- ing. ——The Thimble Bee of the ladies of the Reformed church will meet to- morrow (Friday) afternoon, at the home of Mrs. Jacob Hoy, on Thomas street, as the guests of Mrs. Hoy and her daughters, Mrs. Eberhart and Mrs. Stevens. ——A burning flue at the Bush house, Wednesday afternoon of last week, called out the entire fire depart- ment, but aside from giving the crowds of Holiday shoppers on the streets an unexpected thrill, no dam- age was done. President John M. Thomas, of The Pennsylvania State College, was recently commisisoned a major in the O. R. C., by the War Department. Dr. ‘Thomas had held the rank of captain because of service as a chaplain dur- ing the Mexican border trouble. ——The First National bank of Howard is evidently thriving under its present management. At the last meeting of its directors they found the institution’s” earnings to be such as to warrant them in increasing the «dividend to 6 per cent. semi-annually. ——Christmas cards received in Bellefonte from Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Rumberger, of Williamsburg, was ‘the first intimation that friends of the bridegroom had of his marriage. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Rum- berger and spent most of his boyhood .days in Bellefonte. ——The new year is here and one way to start it right is to resolve to become a regular attendant at the Scenic and thus see all the motion pic- tures of quality sure to be shown at that popular movie house. If not an every evening patron now is the time to get the habit. ——Word has been received in Bellefonte by the friends of the Hen- ry Lowery family, that their two daughters, Miss Belle and Mrs. Ed- win Beers, both of Moundsville, W. Va., have been very ill with scarlet fever. Miss Lowery was taken to her home in McKeesport. Announcement was made last week of the engagement of Vance C. McCormick and Mrs. Gertrude How- ard Olmstead, widow of the late Con- gressman Marlin E. Olmsted, both of Harrisburg. Mr. McCormick is a member. of. the. board of trustees of The Pennsylvania State College, and is quite well known to many Centre county people. ——O0n Tuesday of last week one of the heavy trucks of the Centre Coun- ty Building and Supply company got away from the driver as he turned the corner from Bishop onto Spring street and running onto the pavement struck the Dr. Brockerhoff residence with sufficient force to dislodge some of the brick in the wall and badly damage a fireplace in the sitting room. A belated wedding announce- ment is that of Miss Ellen Ishler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ish- ler, of Linden Hall, and Philip Collins Shoemaker, eldest son of Mrs. Thom- as A. Shoemaker, which took place Tuesday, August 26th. Mr. Shoemak- er is one of the business men of Penns valley, being at the head of a general ANOTHER BIG FIRE AT STATE COLLEGE. A Number of Buildings Destroyed with Loss Estimated at from $100,000 to $125,000. Early Wednesday morning the third big fire in two months broke out at State College and for a while threat- ened destruction of an entire square lin the heart of the town. Starting in the Leitzel building, on College ave- nue, it ate its way west to the corner of Allen and thence south along the east side of Allen street, until it reach- ed the Metzger building where it was finally checked. , The general alarm was sounded at 2:30 in the morning. The indications then were that the fire had started in the back end of Leitzel’s second floor restaurant and dropped through into the rear of Kline’s shoe store. All of the buildings were frame except a por- tion of the Graham place on the cor- ner of College avenue and Allen streets. It was the old Joseph Mitch- ell home, with a brick front and frame addition, but there was so much frame construction in the path of the flames that they burned furiously and the firemen found it an almost hopeless undertaking to stop them. The firemen were also handicapped by the condition of the water plugs in the vicinity of the conflagration. One of them was either broken or frozen so that it could not be used and some de- lay was necessitated in stringing hose lines to more distant plugs. And the attempts to connect with plugs on the campus were fruitless, because the firemen did not know that they had ‘left hand valves and undertook to open them to the right, rendering them use- less. Both of the State College pumpers got in action promptly, but the Un- dines, who were called from this place and made a quick response, could not. get into service with their machine because of the plug condition. They rendered valuable assistance, however, by aiding the State firemen. Ten stores, a number of offices and apartments are ruined. Fronting on College avenue Wilbur Leitzel’s three-story building with drug store on the first floor, restaurant on the second and apartments on the third, is gone. Smith’s barber shop next to it is in ruins. The Graham stand on the corner is almost a total loss. His cigar and confection store Judge Dale Disposes of Six Pleas of ROAD SUPERVISORS HOLD Guilty. 7 i ANNUAL CONVENTION. {| At his first and brief session of Various Questions of Interest to Ru- court, at ten o’clock on Tuesday morn- ral Communities Discussed by ing, Judge Arthur C. Dale disposed | Interested Members. i of six offenders who entered pleas of | es guilty to the indictments againsti The fourteenth annual convention them, discharging a man who stole of the road supervisors and auditors sixty dollars of church money and of Centre county was held in the court sending another man to jail for sixty house last Friday. Milford F. Pletch- days for failure to pay a thirty-four er, Dresidesi of the association, in his dollar board bill. | opening address, outlined the need for The first victim to face the new improved byways as well as highways, court was Fred Lutz, who escaped and told of the various propositions from the Rockview penitentiary on the supervisors had to contend with, ‘August 16th and was later caught at one of the greatest being the lack of his home in Clearfield county. He sufficient money to put all township was given a duplicate of his original roads in good shape. As the farmer is ! sentence of eighteen months to three now taxed up to the limit it is impos- years. The second man was Charles Cain, | i who escaped from the penitentiary on the afternoon of December 19th, leav- ing behind a note that he “would be back after Christmas.” But he did not get an opportunity to go back as he was caught down near Coburn the following Tuesday and spent his Christmas in the Centre county jail. Cain was sent up from Allegheny county for one to two years for break- ing and entering and was given a new sentence of like duration. Both he and Lutz were taken back to the Pitts- burgh institution the same afternoon by sheriff E. R. Taylor. i Third on the list to come up for sentence was Thomas Williams, who gave his home as Reading, but admit- ted that he was tramping about the country “looking for work.” On a walking trip from Lock Haven to Bellefonte, on December 22nd, he stopped at the home of G. W. Smith, this side of Zion, to beg something to eat. None of the family being at ‘home he broke into the house and stole a bag of church money, about sixty dollars. He took several dollars from the bag and hid the balance un- der an old tie pile found along the | right-of-way of the old Central Rail- road of Pennsylvania. He was later arrested by policeman Harry Duke- | man and went with him and sheriff ; Taylor to the tie pile, dug up the mon- ley and surrendered it. The judge | suspended sentence on Smith on con- dition that he leave the county at once, and standing not upon ceremony he grabbed his hat and left the court room. John Carroll, of Hawk Run, plead guilty to assault and battery, Herbert I. Watson, of Philipsburg, being the is damaged more by water than the | prosecutor. He was given a fine of fire as when the flames swept around | fifteen dollars and costs and thirty the corner they seemed to swing above | days in jail. the first floor of his building. The| George Allen plead guilty to the dental offices of Dr. Fred Robinson, non-payment of a board bill of $34 to above Graham’s, were licked up, as ! Miss Martha McKnight, of Bellefonte. were also the apartments on the third He told the court that he had been floor. On Allen street the Cal Kline shoe store, Jim Morrell’s shoe-shine shop, Walter Hoy’s green grocery and the twb store rooms occupied by Mont- gomery and Co. are total losses. The total loss is variously estimated at from $100,000 to $125,000. While all of the buildings destroyed were either old structures remodeled or one- story frames of the cheapest construc- tion they were very profitable as to income because of their location and under the State College building code can never be replaced as they were. New and expensive structures are the only kind that will be permissible on the sites of the ruins. The losses, estimated, and insur- ance, are reported as follows: Wil- bur Leitzel on drug store and restau- rant above, from $20,000 to $30,000. Insurance in force $22,000. George Smith, barber shop fixtures and apartment furniture on third floor, loss $8,000, covered by insurance. store and coal yard at Linden Hall, where they are now living. ——Many people in Centre county ; will be interested in the announcement of the arrival of a little daughter in’ the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. Lloyd | Tyson, of Detroit, Mich., who has been ! «christened Virginia Lloyd Tyson. Mr. ! “Tyson is a son of W. E. Tyson, of Ty- rone, while Mrs. Tyson, prior to her marriage, was Miss Katherine Luk- enbach, daughter of Mr. Frank Luk- -enbach, of Tyrone, but formerly of Bellefonte. The Brockerhoff house dining roori has been thoroughly overhauled and fixed up and is now equal to that «of any hotel in the central part of the State. Landlord Landsy is also in- stalling a new range in the kitchen and some idea of its size and capac- ity may be had from the fact that one piece of it weighs over seven hundred pounds. When this is installed he will have no trouble in furnishing the ex- cellent meals for which his hotel is noted. We wonder what has become George Graham, tobacco and con- fections, loss principally through wa- ter damage, $12,000 to $14,000. In- surance in force $12,000. Jim Morrell, shoe-shine shop, loss $2,200. Probably covered. Cal. Kline, shoe repair shop, sever- al very expensive machines lately in- stalled, loss $2,000. No insurance. Walter Hoy, green grocery, one- story building owned by Smith the barber, loss $8,000 to $10,000. Insur- ance not known. H. N, Leitzel, owner of corner build- ings, loss $15,000 to $20,000. Covered by insurance. Montgomery and Co., one-story building. Loss total both as to build- ing and stock of clothing and furnish- ings. No estimate as to value of either, though both are covered by in- surance if fair adjustment is made. Dr. Fox, chiropractor, above Mor- rell’s shoe-shine shop, loss of X-ray machine and office equipment valued at $3,000. Covered by insurance. Dr. Fred Robinson, above the Gra- ham store, loss X-ray machine and modern dental equipment valued at =of the weather prophets who predict- ved a mild winter, because up to this time it has been about everything but mild. During the holiday season zero weather was reached several morn- ings, with from two to five below one morning, and not any decided rise in temperature during the day. The snow fall in this section of the State, however, has been away below normal, though considerable snow has been re- ported from other sections. ——The residence of the late Clem- ent Dale Esq. on north Alleghe- ny street sold at orphan’s court sale on December 20th, was purchased by the Bellefonte school board for $9,160. For the present it will be con- verted into a school building to ac- commodste the primary grades now housed .in the High school building, which will relieve the present conges- tion. The lot is large enough to per- mit the erection of a good-sized build- ing when necessity requires it. $4,000. Insurance $1.000. The fire came near resulting in a fa- “tality. Miss May Deppen, who leased ‘and ran the Leitzel restaurant, was asleep in her apartments above it and ' was rescued by the heroism of Walter ‘Buck, a life insurance agent, who ‘rushed up the burning stairway and { carried her unconscious to safety. r—————— pr —————— Total Eclipse of Sun on Saturday, January 24, 1925. For the first time in 120 years the northeastern section of the United | States will witness the total eclipse of the sun. The phenomenon which is attracting the attention of world | astronomers and scientists will occur January 24, 1925. It will not be seen again until 2024. The beginning of the partial phase will take place at 7:59 a. m., eastern standard time, the mid totality occur- ring at 9:07 a. mi The end of the partial phase comes at 10:22 a. m. employed at the Bellefonte silk mill ‘and when it closed down last fall he | was unable to get work here and went to Williamsport with the full knewl- edge of Miss McKnight. He adinitted | that he could have sent her the money but just didn’t do it. He was sentenc- ed to pay a fine of ten dollars and serve sixty days in the county jail. The last prisoner to face the court was Herman M. Guthrie, the young man who issued a number of worth- less checks at State College while pos- ing as a student at that institution. The young man has been wanted in Detroit, Mich., his home city, on sev- eral charges of forgery and chief of police W. C. Allen, of Detroit, being present with extradition papers the court agreed to suspend sentence up- on the payment of costs and instruct- ed the sheriff to turn the prisoner over to officer Allen to be taken back to Detroit. The Three Walker Brothers Purchase the Centre Democrat. A deal was closed yesterday morn- ing whereby Ivan, Milan and Cecil Walker purchased the Centre Demo- crat from Mrs. Charles R. Kurtz, con- sideration not made public. The new owners, who are sons of ex-sheriff W. Miles Walker, will not take charge until the first of April. The Centre Democrat has been in the Kurtz name since 1888 when the late Charles R. Kurtz came to Belle- fonte and took charge as manager of the paper. In 1895 he purchased the plant and was in personal charge of same until has death last May. Since that time the paper has been run by his widow. Her reasons for selling have not been divulged. Political significance is undoubtedly attached to the purchase of the plant by the Walker Bros. Ivan, a law part- ner of Newton B. Spangler, was only recently appointed district attorney by Judge Arthur C. Dale. Milan has for some years past held a position with the Beatty Motor company but prior to going there was local editor of the Democrat, and while no an- nouncement of the fact has yet been made, will probably take charge of the paper when it passes into their hands on April first. Cecil Walker, the younger of the brothers ,is employed by McCalmont & Co. Women’s Minstrel Show. Get set for the Green and White Re- vue. In it will appear eighty girls full of pep, the prettiest of home tal- ent, singing and dancing in the clev- erest production ever presented by amateurs on a Bellefonte stage. The tickets will be on sale next week and they can be exchanged for reserved seats at the Mott Drug Co, on the morning of the 14th. Remember, there will be only two nights of this dazzling show: Wed- nesday and Thursday, January 14-15. sible to assess more taxes for road work. A representative of the State Board of Agriculture was present and ex- plained the law covering damage done to sheep and other live stock by dogs, but his explanation did not appeal to the convention. His statement that the State ordinarily allows five dollars a head for sheep killed and twenty dollars for a cow did not create much enthusiasm. Several of the farmers present, who are also sheep owners, wanted to know how the State arrived at an equitable valuation of the ani- mals. If a man owned all blooded stock for which he had paid $20 a head, on what basis did the State fix the valuation at five dollars? The speaker said that the valuation was fixed according to the ruling price in the Pittsburgh markets for sheep for butchering purposes. Following the above discussion the roll was called by the secretary, John ! S. Condo, about fifty supervisors and : twenty-five auditors answering to their names. Committees on the nom- ination of officers for the ensuing year and on resolutions were appointed by the president, after which adjourn- ment was made for luncheon. At the opening of the afternoon ses- sion the committee on nominations re- ported as follows: For president, Milford F. Pletcher, of Howard; vice president, John S. Condo, of Nittany; secretary and treasurer, Harry E. Breon, of Bellefonte. For delegates to the State convention, M. F. Pletch- er, Charles H. Meyer and James Wea- ver, all of whom were elected by ac- clamation. The president appointed as alternates to the State convention J. S. Condo, J. J. Fisher and C. C. Bumgardner. The committee on resolutions re- ported as follows: Resolved, That the President Judge of the county, the County Commissioners and Representative to Harrisburg from our county be made honorary members of the association. Resolved, That the convention elect three members to attend the State con- vention, one for three years, one for two years and one for one year, effective 1925, and thereafter elect one delegate each year for a term of three years. Resolved, That we insist upon all del- egates to the State convention opposing all attempts at centralization of power, either at Harrisburg or in county affairs. All the resolutions were adopted without opposition. Mr. Brown, of the State Highway Department, made a brief talk and ex- plained the State-aid appropriations for township roads. Centre county’s share this year is a little over $12,000, but. the unfortunate part of this law is that it goes principally to those dis- tricts which have an ample fund to match the State allotment dollar for dollar, while the poorer districts reap no benefit therefrom. In the past the secretary and the treasurer of the township board of su- pervisors was not necessarily a mem- ber of the board, but the convention went on record as favoring their be- ing members. Among the other ques- tions discussed were the following: Should a township pay interest on a debt when the uncollected taxes would retire said debt? The general sentiment was against doing so, but no solution was offered as to how to collect the taxes. What course can be persued when the limit of available taxes have been spent and the roads are still in bad shape? No solution of this perplex- ing question was offered. Following a short talk by county commissioner Harry P. Austin certifi- cates of attendance were distributed and the convention adjourned. Music Notes. At her residence-studio on west Howard street, at three o’clock Tues- day afternoon, December 30th, Miss Rebecca Pugh Lyon held a music con- test in which the youngest pupils of her class took part, answering ques- tions and playing piano solos and du- ets. All performed excellently, To Ross Beatty, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beatty, of east Curtin street, was awarded the prize, a book enti- tled: “A Guide to Music,” by Daniel Gregory Mason. : Dr. Kurtz Home and Recovering. Dr. Walter Kurtz, of Howard, who underwent a very delicate and serious operation in the University hospital, Philadelphia, several weeks ago, ar- rived home Monday night, and is in splendid way of permanent recovery. His condition was so serious, with a tumor at the base of the brain, that little hope of coming through an op- eration was held out. He did it, how- ever, and if no new involvments ap- pear will be back in his practice in a very short time. Vi, J. Emerick has made appli- cation to the Public Service Commis- sion for a certificate of public conven- The proceeds will be given to the community nurse fund. ience to operate a motor bus line be- tween Harrishurg and Reading. NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. —Mr. and Mrs. William M. Schmidt, of Johnstown, were Christmas guests in the home of their parents, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. ‘A. M. Schmidt. —Virginia Cruse, who has been making her home here with her grandmother and aunt, Mrs. A. J. Cruse and Mrs. S. Kline | Woodring, spent the Christmas vacation ! with her father, T. G. Cruse, in Pitts- burgh. —The J. W. Gephart and F. H. Thomas families celebrated their Christmas togeth- er, the guests of honor being Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gephart, of Bronxville, N. Y., and their two children, and Francis H. Thomas. —Mrs. George P. Bible, of Bellefonte; Miss Mary Bradley and Mrs. J. A. Riley, of Bradford, will comprise a party sailing from Philadelphia, January 4th, for Flor- ida, with plans for spending two months at Miami. © —Mrs. John 8. Gray and her daughter, Miss Florence, both of Altoona, have been here during the Holidays, guests of Mrs. Gray’s son, G. Oscar Gray and his family. Miss Gray is an instructor in the schools of Altoona. —Drs. Nannie and William 8. Glenn will leave tomorrow to spend the remainder of the winter in Florida and Cuba, going this time by train with the intention of securing a car after reaching there, as the greater part of their time while south is spent in motoring. —Arthur and Anthony Brown, of New York city, were back home on Monday looking after some business relative to the Brown estate. They remained only a day but were so impressed with their old home that they expressed intention of returning oftener in the future. —Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Smith are prepar- ing to join the Centre county colony in I'lorida, going down with the view of mak- ing their home there should conditions prove auspicious. Their plans are for sell- ing a part of their household goods and giving up their home on Curtin street the first of February. —Miss Miriam Smith, whose plans for the winter had included an after Christmas : visit to Florida, has been compelled to abandon the trip owing to her physical condition, which requires her to be in bed again for a month. Miss Smith is recov- ering from a serious spinal operation, per- formed more than a year ago. —J. H. Heberling, of Warriorsmark, who ! has been making a mid-winter visit with his daughter, Mrs. Edgar T. Bechdel, at Eagleville, was in Bellefonte between trains, Monday, looking after some busi- ness. Mr. Heberling, who has been a read- er of the “Watchman” since the late fifties, spent a part of his time while here with us, a visit which was greatly appreciated. —Park Weaver, who will be remembered as having been a member of the firm of Weaver Bros., former grocers in this place, was a pre-Christmas visitor to Bellefonte. He arrived Tuesday night and left the day before Christmas. Mr. Weaver hadn't been i here since 1921. He is covering the New England States for an Ohio manufacturer of “premium” china, likes his job well, | and looks it. —William McFarlane, of Boston, who “had been home with his mother, Mrs. J. K. . McFarlane, of Lock Haven, for a Christ- , mas visit, was in Bellefonte Monday morn- ing for several hours, on his way back from a week-end visit With his aunt, Mrs. ! John Mitchell, at Lemont, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank McFarlane; at Boalsburg. Mr. Frank MecFarlane is again seriously ill, suffering from the effects of a stroke of paralysis. —Mr. and Mrs. George M. Sellers, of Williamsport, are anticipating spending the month of January in Florida, with Mrs. Sellers’ sister and her husband, Drs. Mary and O. H. Schaffer, who recently went south from Altoona to make their home in Florida. Mrs. Sellers, who is well known in Centre county as Miss Helen Thompson, has resigned her position as inspector for women and children of this district, in the Labor and Industry de- partment. —Among those here for the funeral of the late Mrs. J. A. Aikens were her daugh- ters, Miss Emma J. Aikens, of Cleveland; Mrs. George T. Johnson, of Beaver Falls, Mr. Johnson and their six children ehil- dren; Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Aikens, of Se- linsgrove; Mrs. W. F. Bradford, Mr. and Mrs. William Bradford and Miss Grace Smith, of Centre Hall, and Claude Aikens, of State College. Miss Aikens, who has been a guest at the John 8. Walker home since coming to Bellefonte, has been ill during the entire time, —One of the really delightful Christmas house parties in Bellefonte was that at the home of Mrs. David Haines and her grand- daughter, Miss Peggy, on north Water street. As usual, her son Charles eame in from McKeesport, bringing with him Mrs. Rose Newcomer and her son Duane. They were joined here by Charles Jr., who came up from Sunbury, and together they had a very happy party. The Newcomers are friends of Mr. Charles Haines, but he sings the charms of Bellefonte so continuously out in McKeesport, where he is located, that they have been coming in for visits for several years and are about convinced that there is reason for Charles’ praises of his old home town. —Charles Jordan, of State College, was in Bellefonte the Monday before Christmas and judged by the number of bundles he lugged with him to the afternoon bus they must have had a glorious time in the Jor- dan home Christmas morning. Charley was eold when we saw him, cold every- where but in his heart and that kept pump- ing Holiday cheer into his head so that he wouldn't stop anywhere long enough to get the rest of him warmed up; he was so busy getting ready for the big day. He doesn’t come to town often, even though he lived here some years age, when the Nittany and Bellefonte furnaces were in blast and he was regarded as one of the reliable employees about those gone iron industries. —Mrs. George M. Glenn and her sister, Miss Esther Gray, left the latter’s farm in Halfmoon valley, this week, expecting to spend several months with other members of the family. Miss Gray went direct to Princeton, N. J., to visit for the remainder of the winter with her son John and his family, Mr. Glenn being there doing post- graduate work. Miss Gray having gone to Kingston to be with her sister, Mrs. Hart- sock, for the grepter part of the time she will be absent from the farm. Mrs. Glenn and Miss Gray have been entertaining the former's daughter and son, Miss Esther and George Glenn, both of whom were home for the Christmas holiday week, and who upon leaving the county, went to Princeton for a visit of several days with their brother John. CE EE SEVERE TR OARS, —Judge and Mrs. Arthur Dale have been entertaining Mrs. Dale's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John O'Neil, of Johnstown. = —Creighton Way, son of Mrs. J. R. Dri- ver, was here from Reading for a Holiday visit with his mother and sister at their home on Lamb street. —Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Griffith have gone to Philadelphia to spend the remainder of the winter with Mrs. Griffith’s children, J. C. Dawson and Mrs. Greene. —Mr. and Mrs. Elliot, of Pittsburgh, were among the Holiday house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Beatty; Mrs. El- liot being Mr, Beatty’s mother. —Dr. Edith Schad came in from Pitts- burgh, Saturday, for a New Year's visit with her father, John P. Harris, expecting to be in Bellefonte for an indefinite time. —Mrs. William B. Wallis returned tc Pittsburgh, Monday morning, following a week's visit here with her mother and grandmother, Mrs. Conley and Mrs. Meese. —Harry Keller Esq, spent Tuesday night in Philipsburg, where he was thc guest of M. Ward Fleming Esq., at a ban- quet and meeting of the Rotary ciub of that place. —Mr, and Mrs. Gordon I. Montgomery, of Philadelphia, were week-end visitors at the Brockerhoff house during the Holidays, stopping off here several days on their way to Chicago. -—Mrs. Elsie Rankin Helliwell came up from Atlantic City last week, to be g Christmas guest of her father, William B. Rankin and the family, at their home on Curtin street, —Col. and Mrs. James A. McClain and their daughter Emily, of Spangler, and Miss Margaret Brisbin, of Philadelphia. were the Christmas guests of Col. and Mrs J. L. Spangler. —William Dorworth was among those back home last week, coming to Bellefonte to be with his mother, Mrs. E. 8. Dor- worth, and his two children, over the the Christmas day. —Mr. and Mrs. N. BE. Robb’s family house party last week included thei1 daughter, Miss Leila Robb, an instructor in the schools at Ardmore, and their two sons, Nevin and Mahlon. —Trood D. Parker came over from Clearfield on Christmas to visit his moth- er, Mrs Alice Parker, but owing to the train being late in arriving in Bellefonte had only a half hour to spend here. —Miss Helen Shellenberger, a college- mate at Cornell of Miss Anne W. Keich- line, who has been a house guest at the Keichline home for a part of the Holiday vacation, will return to her home in Phil- adelphia this week. —Sister Oliva and Mother Damascene. of Mt. Carmel, were arrivals in Bellefonte yesterday and will be guests until Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Mec- Gowan, Sister Oliva being a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. McGowan. —Mr. and Mrs. Henry Keller, of New Brunswick, N. J., were among those back home for the Holidays, spending their time while here with Mr. Keller's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Keller, and with the Schofield and Parker families. —After spending the month-of December in Bellefonte visiting with relatives and friends, Miss Mary Hill left just before Christmas to return to her home in Atlan: tic City. During her stay Miss Hill was a house guest at the Humes home, —Mrs. John Harter, a native of Centre county, but now of Bellevue, Pa., and Dal. las, Texas, went south this week, expect: ing to be in Texas until summer. Mrs Harter divides her time between her twc daughters, living in the above mentioned places. —Miss Anna M. Miller, who is now ai Emporium with her uncle and aunt, Mr and Mrs. J. J. Lingle, for an indefinit¢ stay, spent a short time in Bellefonte last week, coming up from Salona, where she had been for Christmas with her mothe: and sister. —Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hamilton eame from New York to join the Hamilton fam. ily at Mrs. Broderick‘s, at State College for a Christmas family party. Clarenes Hamilton, also of New Yerk, whe has beer with his sister for some time, is very muck improved in health. —James R. Hughes, accompanied by Miss Daisy Graham and Virginia Hughes daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hughes left Tuesday morning for Pittsburgh. Mr Hughes to look after some business rela. tive to the Academy, while Miss Graham anc her niece expected to spemd the time vis. iting and sight-seeing. —Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wrigley, of Penn. sylvania Furnace, with Mrs. Wrigley’s twc sisters, the Misses Maude and Mary Drei blebis, of State College, as motor guests drove to Bellefonte Tuesday. The womer while here devoted their time to afte: Christmas buying and te looking afte some business for 1925. —Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Stevens and Mr and Mrs. Vincent H. Stevens have been en tertaining Miss Maudleen Stevens, of Mc Connellsburg, who has been here with he: brothers since Saturday. The object © Miss Stevens’ visit at this time was to b with Dr. and Mrs, Stevens at the celebra tion of the seventh anniversary of thei wedding. —Miss Augusta Shoemaker, who ha been home from Pittsburgh for the pas ten days has prolonged her stay in Belle fonte, owing to the illness of her mother Mrs. T. A. Shoemaker. Although it wa feared Mrs. Shoemaker was critically il last week, her condition has been slowl improving since being taken to the hos pital Sunday. —Mr. Reginald Fiedler, of Seattle, Wash ington, special investigator U. S. Burea of Fisheries, spent Christmas with his un cle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. T. Clayto Brown. He is the youngest son of the lat James A. Fiedler, one time editor of th Keystone Gazette, a graduate of the Uni versity of Washington, and has been eas for the past six months working on som special problems regarding the disappeax ance of crabs from the Virginia and Mary land coasts. His recommendations hav been accepted by the Governors of bot States so, maybe, crab meat will soon nc be so scarce. Mr. Fiedler left Tuesday fo New York to continue his investigation there. Additional personal news on page 4, Col. | Bellefonte Grain Markets. Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & C Wheat = ~~ - a $1.7 Corn « « = « « =o eo 1: Rye « = = - « a ea 1: Oats - - - - - - £ Barley - - - - - - 1( Buckwheat - A ey 11
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