~ Bellefonte, Pa., January 16, 1925. P GEAY MEEK. Editor pm “4s Corsespondents—No communications published unless accompanied by the real mame of the writer. Terms of Subscription—Until further metice this paper will be furnished to sub- geribers at the following rates: Paid strictly in advance - Paid before expiration of year 1.75 Paid after expiration of year 2.00 Published weekly, every Friday meorn- tag. Entered at the postoffice, Bellefonte, Pa., as second class matter. In ordering change of address always give the old as well as the new address. It is important that the publisher be no- tified when a subscriber wishes the pa- per discontinued. It all such cases the subscription must be paid up to date of eancellation. A sample copy of the “Watchman” will be sent without cost to applicants. $1.50 MUNSON.—Mrs. Sarah E. Munson, widow of the late L. T. Munson, was found dead in bed at her home on north Allegheny street, on Sunday morning. She lived alone and failing to see any signs of life about the house neighbors entered and found her in her last sleep. A physician ex- pressed the opinion that she had been dead several hours but was unable to determine the cause of death. She was a daughter of John P. and Mary Swartz Gephart and was born at Millheim on June 14th, 1851, hence was in her seventy-fourth year. Her parents moved to Bellefonte when she was a girl and practically all her life was spent here. Forty years or more ago she married L. T. Munson, who died 2a number of years ago, but sui- | viving her is one son, John G. Mua- | son, of Rogers, Mich.; she also leaves | one sister, Mrs. W. B. Dix, of Dayton, Ohio. She was a life-long member of St. John’s Episcopal church and Rev. M. DePui Maynard had charge of the fun- eeral services which were held at ten o'clock yesterday morning, burial be- ing made in the Union cemetery. 7 i McGOVERN.—John J. McGovern, for years a well known resident of Bellefonte, died at the Centre County hospital at three o'clock on Wednes- day morning, as the result of an at- tack of pneumonia, following only two day’s illness. He was born in Ire- land but the exact date of his birth is unknown. He came to this country as a boy and located at Ebensburg where as a young .man. he went to work forthe Collins Bros., railroad contractors. It was through them that, he came to Bellefonte with his family ‘twenty-three years ago and this had been his heme ever since. He was a life-long member of the Catholic church. ~He married Miss Annie McLaugh- lin who died thirteen years ago but surviving him are the following chil- dren: Bernard, Miss Marjorie, Mrs. A. Fauble and John, all of Bellefonte, and William, of Lock Haven. Funeral mass will be held at the | Catholic church at ten o’clock tomor- row morning by Rev. Father Downes, after which burial will be made in the Catholic cemetery. i} it HOUSER.—Mrs. Mary Houser, wid- ow of Reuben Houser, many years residents of Pleasant Gap, died at the Centre County hospital on Sunday as the result of a long illness with drop- sy and other complications. ~ She was a daughter of Charles and Mary Frankenberger Shuey and was born in College township, being 69 years, 5 months and 27 days old. Practically her entire married life was spent in Benner township, but since last spring she had lived in Bellefonte. She was a member of the Reformed leaves two brothers and a sister, John and Miss Ellen Shuey, of Lemont, and D. W,, of Corry, Pa. Her survivors include the following children: Mrs. Charles Bilger, of Pleasant Gap; Jared D. Houser, of Bellefonte; Harry, of Milesburg; Ed- ward, of Pleasant Gap, and Mrs. Wil- liam Durkee, of Bellefonte. She also leaves one brother and a sister, John and Miss Ellen Shuey, of Lemont. Rev. E. E. McKelvey had charge of the funeral services which were held “at 2:30 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon, burial being made at Pleasant Gap. il nn McCOY.—Mrs. Clara McCoy, wife of John McCoy, died on Friday morn- ing at her home near Bald Eagle as “the result of an attack of indigestion. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Merryman, and was born in Halfmoon valley seventy-eight years ago. She is survived by her husband and one daughter, Mrs. Thomas Irvin. Burial was made at Bald Eagle on Monday afternoon. -——W. Harrison Walker Esq., ve- ceived notice this week from the president of the State Association of Boroughs that he has been appointed a member of the law committee of the association which will meet in Har- risburg two or three times a month during the sessions of the Legislature for the purpose of passing upon all legislation presented, or to be pre- sented, to the General Assembly per- taining to boroughs. The first meet- ing of the committee will be held to- day in the office of the Department of Internal affairs, at Harrisburg. ——Bellefonte friends of Mrs. J. Malcolm Laurie, of Houtzdale, will sympathize with her in the death, re- cently, of her father, Dr. P. C. New- baker, of Danville. SPANGLER.—Mrs. Susanna Bar- ger Spangler, widow of John Spang- ler, at one time sheriff of Centre county, and mother of Col. J. L. Spangler, of Bellefonte, passed away at her home in Centre Hall at two o'clock on Monday morning. Within a few years of being a centenarian her death was naturally the result of her advanced age, as she had been quite feeble the past six months. A daughter of Abraham and Cath- arine Boyer Barger, she was born in Snyder county on August 22nd, 1828, hence had reached the very unusual age of 96 years, 4 months and 21 days. She was probably the oldest woman in Centre county. On April 25th, 1848, she married John Spang- ler, a young blacksmith, of Adams- burg, Snyder county, where they went to housekeeping and made their home until April 1st, 1862, when they mov- ed to Centre county and located at Centre Hill. Two years later they moved to Centre Hall and engaged in the hotel business. Mr. Spangler was elected sheriff of Centre county in 1878 and during his three years in of- fice the family lived in Bellefonte. At the expiration of his term of office the family returned te Centre Hall and that had been her home ever since. Mrs. Spangler was a life-long mem- ber of the Lutheran church and a de- vout, christian woman. Her husband has been dead for 2 number of years but surviving her are three sons, Col. J. L. Spangler, of Bellefonte; Howard J., who made his home with his mother, and Reuben B., of Bellefonte. She was the last of a family of four children. Funeral services were held at her late home at ten o'clock on Wednes- day morning, burial being made in the Centre Hall cemetery. il fl GHEEN.—Charles Elmer Gheen, for over nine years a well known resi- dent of Bellefonte, died in the Allen- town general hospital at 10:45 o'clock on Monday evening, following one week’s illness with pleuro pneumonia. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Gheen and was born in Nippenose valley, Lycoming county, on July 20th, 1881, hence was 43 years, 5 months and 23 days old. The greater part of his life was spent near the place of his birth but ten years ago he came to Bellefonte and accepted a position in Gephart’s music store. Following the death of Mr. Gephart he took over the store and conducted it himself a number of years. Last spring he moved his family from Bellefonte to Pleasant Gap and on June first went to Allentown where he had been employed ever since. He was a member of the Lutheran church since a young man. On March 4th, 1904, he married Miss Ellie Grace Forney who survives with four children, George, Stella N., Royden A. and Charles E. Jr, all at home. He also leaves one sister and two brothers, Mrs. Fred Fitzgerald, of Gallipolis, Ohio; Clarence S., of Jer- sey Shore, and Guy B., of Sunbury. The remains were taken to Rauch- town, his old home, where burial will be made tomorrow afternoon. il n ZETTLE.—George W. Zettle, a na- tive of Centre county, died on Satur- day morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Clinton E. Swartz, in Tyrone, of general debility. He was a son of George and Rebec- ca Fry Zettle and was born at Centre Hall on December 5th, 1844, making his age 80 years, 1 month and 5 days. In March, 1889, he married Miss El- sie Waddle, at Milesburg, who died six years ago, but surviving him is one daughter, Mrs. Swartz, above named. He also leaves the following brothers and sisters: Samuel Zettle, of Pleasant Gap; Mrs. Sue Peters, of Pine Grove Mills; Mrs. Emanuel Shu- ey, of Dalton City, Ill.; Mrs. William H. Musser, of Bellefonte; Mrs. Wil- lian Grove, of Lemont, and Mus. Clyde Thomas, of State College. He was a member of the Columbia Avenue Methodist church and Rey. Gordon A. Williams had charge of the funeral services which were held zt his late home at ten o’clock on Tues- day morning, after which the remains were brought to Bellefonte and buried m the Union cemetery. if Il KRIDER.—Mrs. Mary R. Krider, widow of Rev. Samuel Krider, died on Saturday night at the home of her son, A. R. Krider, at Johnstown, fol- lowing an illness of some weeks wit} a complication of diseases. She was born in west Ferguson township, Cen- tre county, on September 15th, 1845, hence was in her eightieth year. Her husband died in Johnstown in 1913 but surviving her are two sons, S. A. Kri- der and A. R. Krider, both of Johns- town. She also leaves one brother, J. S. Boyer, of Altoona, two half-broth- ers and one half-sister, Frank Boyer, of Centre county; William, of Taylor, North Dakota, and Mrs. Harry Shirk, of Centre Hall. Burial was made in the Grandview cemetery, Johnstown, on Tuesday afternoon. I il SHOPE.—Mrs. Clara Shope, wife of F. L. Shope, died at her home at Run- ville on December 29th, following a five years’ illness as the result of a stroke of paralysis, aged 62 years. She was a daughter of Michael and Ellen Friel, both deceased. She was a member of the Methodist church, a faithful wife and a good neighbor. In addition to her husband she is sur- vived by three sisters, Mrs. John Walker, of Runville; Mrs. W. S. Flick, of Bellwood, and Mrs. W. H. Watson, of Bellefonte. Funeral services were held on the afternoon of January first by Rev. M. C. Piper, burial being made in the Advent cemetery. Green and Success. A packed house greeted Mrs. R. Russéll Blair's Green and White Re- and again last night. present this kind of entertainment. lies, and John Anderson with his Greenwich Village shows and Berlin and Short with their Music Box Re- vue and just this winter Charlot’s Re- vue was brought over from Lunnon to be compared with American pro- ductions. Metropolitan critics are quibbling now as to who has produced the best Revue up to the present, while we folks up in a one night stand town could settle the dispute at once. Mrs. Blair did it. From the rise of the curtain to the last drop the staging and action was so dainty, artistic and smooth as to carry one quite beyond the conscious- ness that it was wholly amateus. There wasn’t a falter. Not an instant when a sympathetic audience might have been in suspense lest a break | was pending. i The show opened on a minstrel set- ting. Really it was a picture with its forty-four women and girls effectively gowned in green and white, wearing | green Maude Muller hats with white | flowers, and the color scheme carried i into the scenic investiture. The open- ' ing chorus introduced the smudges on | the scene of beauty. They came per- sonified in Lily” Love, “Mandy” Hof- fer, “Daffodil” Straub, “Asperin” Badger, “Topsie” Wolfe, and “Mig- onette” Heverly. They were the only shady things in the show, but as end women they made all of the fun—and it was aplenty. Girls are handicapped a bit in doing end-man business because they are more refined than men and wouldn't think of cracking the risque jokes that usually get the galleries. They got them all, down stairs and up, how- ever with a line of very clever patter. strel chorus. Following ever was one.. “The Bakers” followed with their cute suggestive action that eventually you will buy their product | at a certain place so why not now. The “Mechanics,” Mauvis Furey and Gail Mitchell, did a ratlin’ good song ‘and dance. We use the word rattlin’ for two reasons. It was rattlin’ good | and they sang of the Ford. The i “Fashion Show,” with the solo ipart - ‘artistically sung by rs. { Harold Mabee, proved the medium i by which eleven of the town’s beauties i were given opportunity to show Lady | Duff Gordon how mannikins should { perform to best advantage. “Modern { Shieks” was the vehicle on which four - girl Valentinos rode to several merited encores. A “Pavlowa Gavotte,” fea- dancing in the last Revue. “Caddys,” ! song and dance, was well placed as the i concluding number because it was so clever and led into the finale, which introduced the dancing dolls “The Bellefonte Girls,” and the entire ‘clio- rus in the lilting musical conclusion of the show. : Crowded as we are for space and violating the rule of picking no stars where all shine with so much radiance | we can’t resist recording our admira- tion of the style and voice in which Mrs. J. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Walker and ; Miss Cecelia Moerschbacher sang in i the opening. “In the Garden of To- . morrow,” “April Showers” and “Love, ‘ Here is My Heart,” were beautiful. | There couldn’t have been better selec- tions for the voices of the soloists. And as the interlocutor Miss Moersch- bacher couldn’t have had better poise had she been “the middle man” with Thatcher-Primrose and West” all the years they were on the road. rifice in time and energy in conceiv- ing and training so many amateurs in the intricate dances they executed or how much was contributed to the suc- cess of the production by Mrs. Louis chestrations but led the orchestra in perfect support of the voices and dancing. seats in advance were unable to se- cure the seats for Wednesday or Thursday nights the Revue will be presented again tonight. Seats ave on sale at Motts. ——As the “Watchman” intimated last week the County Commissioners, at their meeting on Tuesday, voted to increase the county tax to eight mills. The present rate is six, but in antic- ipation of - being compelled by the State to build several new bridges the county must have funds with which to meet the additional expense. ———The Centre County hospital will ask the Legislature for $30,000 for maintenance over the next two-year period. Representative Holmes : has the bill ready and will present it ear- ly. The hospital will need every cent it is asking and let’s all pull to help get it. ~——When you see it in the “Watch- man” it's true. Schad, who not only made all the or- White Revue Scores Great IN THE MOUNTAINS ; vue at the opening Wednesday night : | George M. Cohan was the first to Then came Flo Ziegfeld with his Fol- . cow's milk has to be boiled. : . Sand River), where we made our tem- { with Margaret Taylor, leading in the . Few fully appreciate what must ried over, for no load is carried in this have been Mrs. Robert Walker's sac- | As many who bought checks for | ‘ural size. When they are cooked they The olio, which was really the Re- : have the flavor of almonds interming: vue, presented the “Bellefonte Girls,” | : the corps-de-ballet of the show, in a good peaches—not so good as home finished dance supported by the min- | peaches, but very good nevertheless. it came | When we first arrived we had wild “Pretty Pollys” with Betty Casebeer ' strawberries. doing the solo singing and dancing, white instead of red. They were a bit with eight little “Pollys” supporting . seedy, but anything with a strawberry her so gracefully that all shared in | taste was welcome to me. Up until the triumph their member made. Next | recently we have had apricots, but the were the “Hat Models,” led by Mrs. | season for them seems to be well past. Robert Walker, a striking act if there We have found the season for fruits ¢ | over ridges, and down, until finally we turing Mrs. Robert Walker and Nina | Lamb, added to the hit they made + OF CHINA LAND. | Chinese Summer . Resorts, Ancient Temples, Etc., Described by Dr. W. R. North. Kwanhsien, China, July 8, 1924. ! Deor Home Folks: We have been here in the mountains for sixteen days, and they have been days full of interest and adventure. The longer I stay here, the more at- | tached I become to the place. In many respects a vacation here is the equal of one in an American mountain resort, and in some particulars say: | passes a similar vacation at home. We have here, for instance, many strange trees, flowers, and plants. We constantly come upon peculiar cus-! toms and habits. The whole is one of | comparative strangeness, even those foreigners who have been here year ! after year not having begun to explore | all the nooks and crannies. Of course, ! we miss some things. We do not know what a drink of ice-cold water is, as all our water has to be boiled, and never becomes really cold. We never have fresh milk, for all our We don’t | use as much “milk as we would at heme. and couldn’t if we wanted to, for Chinese cows give about one-quar- ter to one-eighth the amount, I should say, that a real American-bred cow would. We don’t get ice cream or lemonade except the latter in rare in- | stances, when one of us is enterpris- ing enough to order the lemons from ! Shanghai, 1500 miles away, and await them with anxiety lest they rot before reaching us. We miss real honest-to- goodness apples. The only apples we | have here are what we would feed to the pigs at home—small and sour. But we do have some good things to eat, in spite of the formidable array of lacks. We have loquats—pi ba— the Chinese call them. They are like a delicious crab apple with seeds grown to eight or ten times the nat- led with an apple flavor. We have The Chinese variety is and vegetables here several weeks be- ices worth while. i perhaps. hind the season on the plain, for we | have becn repeating on fruits here that we had ceased to get in Chengtu, some time before we laft there to come here. ; So far my thoughts have been of the earth earthy. We do other things besides satisfying the desires of the . outer man. The scenery is wonderful. | Yesterday most of the foreign coin- munity went on an all-day hike and | picnic to the place called Fern Gorge. We started about 8:30 in the morning and reached home about 6:15 at night. Our path led along mountain trails for the whole distance, down into vai- leys and up again into mountzing, arrived at the Bei Sha River (which is to say, being translated, the White porary encampment. After a good swim in clear, cold mountain water, we ate a hearty meal of all sorts of good things. Then five of the most ambitious of us started on a hike up the river to the gorges which we heard were so marvelous. After an hour’s hard hiking in the hot sun we came into one of the most beautiful spots I have ever seen. The Bei Sha rushes down a very narrow—V-shap- ed valley that towers high on either side, clothed with trees to the very top, except where here and there some farmer ekes out a precarious existence on a cleared patch of land where our farmers at home would not think of growing anything. A geod footpath runs along the valley, somewhat above the river, which in one or two places is spanned with a suspension bridge built of bamboo cables covered with planks or boards—generally the latter. And there is no sign about the size of the load which can be car- country that is more than some 270 pounds in:weight. I am afraid, how- ever, that at home the officials would have numerous law suits on their hands brought by people who had broken their legs by trying to make the cracks. The cracks are as nu- merous as the boards, and almost as large. We hurried back to catch up with the rest of our party, who, we knew, would s“art on toward home ahead of us. We overtook them before we ' reached the place where we were to have tea—tea, you know, is an insti- tution among the foreigners out here, just as it is in England. After our refreshment, we started on again, reaching home a little weary, but feel- ing fit and happy. In several of my letters I have men- tioned the methods of carrying out here. I had an interesting light thrown on this subject when I reached here last night. On our way to the river in the morning we ho! passed a number of men carrying loads of coke on their backs. They were bound for our place, I afterward found out. After we had weighed up the coke on our return, I asked the man in charge how far they carried, and what the carriers get for carry- ing. He told me 10 cash a catty for the distance of thirty li. In other words, less than one-sixth of an American cent for one and one-third |g hit of | pounds over a distance of ten miles. TS ASI FERREIRA BOR SE SEER RRS RDS The grown men, carry perhaaps 150 catties, or nearly 200 pounds. Three small boys were carrying in this crowd. One, 13 years old, carried 85 catties, or over 100 pounds. Another, 12 years old, carried 74 catties, or about 90 pounds. A third, 13 years old, carried about the same weight. We grown men thought we had done well to carry the weight of our own bodies that distance. The endurance of the Chinese is little short of amaz- ing. During the coming week Miss Hutchinson, of the English Friends Mission, and Mrs. North and I expect to go to a temple about thirteen miles away to stay for two or three days. These hikes are most interesting, in- forming and healthful. I expect that | by the time I return to the city we shall be feeling more {it than in some time past. We celebrated the glorious Fourth by shooting off a few firecrackers and going out on the mountain side to eat our supper. We two are the only Yanks here. The rest are all Cana- dian and English. We expect soon to Le reinforced by the Starretts and three of the W. F. M. S. ladies from Chengtu, Suining and Tzechow. - Today we have: regular services here for the first. During the past weeks or so a number of people have augmented the ranks here, so that there are now enough to make serv- These will be held for both Chinese and for foreigners. As we are all of the Methodist per- | suasion except the two English fami- lies and Miss Hutchinson, we may ex- pect a sort of Methodist love-feast, Out here, fortunately, de- ! nominations are reduced to the lowest i degree of importance. We care little whether a man is Anglican, Methodist, or Friend. : Last Wednesday morning Mrs. North and I, along with Miss Huteh- ; inson, of the English Friends’ Mis- sion, started on a trip to Chin Chen Shan (Green City Mountain), a dis- tance of some 55 or 60 li (about 18 or 20 miles) from here, to visit a very famous temple known as Tien Si Dong (the Cave of the Heavenly Teacher). We left our temple here about half-past eight in the morning, with four man-loads and one of the school boys at Chengtu with whom Miss Hutchinson is acquainted. After descending the mountain, we passed around the city of Kwanhsien, crossed two bridges spanning two branches of the Min River, which issues from the mountains here, and is split into var- ious streams to irrigate the plain, and “came soon to the pagoda erected to + protect Kwanhsien. : teen-story pile rising from the plain and visible for a long distance on the This is a seven- mountain slopes. These pagodas, as I have remarked before, are supposed to placate the “feng shui,” or the spirits of wind and water. Irom here we passed through what seemed to me to be the most garden-like spot I have vet seen in China; irrigation channels bordered with overhanging trees, cax- rying water quietly but steadily to supply the surrounding rice paddies; rushing streams, tumbling and rush- ing over rocks, bordered by shady paths made picturesque by the fre- quent load-carriers wearing sun-hats as large as umbrellas, and clothed only from the waist to the knees, tan- ! : Brockerhofl' house, played Lost to the ned by the Orient sun until they are as dark as the American Indian. On either side of these streams rice pad- dies stretch away interminably, each one small in itself, but closely joined to others, a thin fringe of trees or a small path bordered with hills of beans alone separati it from the others. A thicket of bamboo, or a { small grove of more substantial trees, gives away the presence of a farm- stead, walled in by mud or bamboo to keep out bandits (Ban Keh, “club guests,” the Chinese call them) or other prowlers. Along the roadside every few miles one comes upon a wayside inn, dark, dirty, squat, with a low thatched roof and no windows only the open front of the building ad- mitting light and air. You would not think of stopping—unless you had been in China a few weeks; but as you have become suffieiently Oriental: ized, you stop and. have a bowl—no cups are used by the uncontaminated Chinese—of tea. And such a bowl; stained and dirty in appearance, if not in reality, full of cracks that have been mended as only a Chinese jour- neying mender can mend them! How thankful we are that hot water kills a multitude of germs! We drink tea, and call for more “kai sui”—hot wa- ter, “bubbling water,” literally. For the Chinese custom is to put the tea in the bowl, cover it with boiling water, and drink it—when it is cool enough. When the first potion is quafted, extra water is added, but the tea lasts throughout the ordeal—as Mrs. North thinks it. No sugar, no milk—none of those impedimenta of our complex Western civilization. We do this several times during tke day. Is it not expensive? Very. Each bowl of tea leaves, with all the boiling water you want costs 20 cash; that is, about two-thirds of a Chinese cent, or one-third of an American cent. We pass on to the town of Yu Tang Chang (Jade Hall Market). If this is your first journey on a Chinese high- way, you no doubt think this place must be a thing of beauty. If you have travelled it before, you expect what you find: A long, crooked street paved badly with cobble stones and a few slabs, bordered by shop fronts in various states of repair and disrepair —usually the latter—and full of pigs, chickens, dogs, beggars, and kids (the human variety). We reached Yu Tang Chang on market day. DILL. (Continued next week). Second Series of Bowling League Games. The second series of the bowling league games at the Y. M. C. A. open- ed on Tuesday and will continue until the middle of February with two games three nights a week. Twelve silver and bronze medals will be awarded this year to the winning teams and the high average and score men. These medals are now on dis- ‘play in the window of Montgomery & Co’s store and are sure to increase in- terest in the league. The cup is held by the student team but they have not entered the contest so far this season. Following is the schedule, games to be played Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri- days: ; January 16.—Students vs. American La- gion; Electrical Supply vs. American Lime. January 19.—Highway vs. Titan; Elec- tric Supply vs. Sycamore. January 21.—Grocers vs. American Ie- gion; Chemical Lime vs. Business Men. January 23.—