Beworeaic Wald,
Bellefonte, Pa., I'ebruary 13, 1925.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——Property owners in State Col-
lege have completed plans for rebuild-
ing the block recently destroyed by
fire.
All women interested in the
work of the Y. M. C. A. are requested
to meet at the Y rooms Saturday
afternoon, at 2:30 o’clock.
-—The annual banquet of the ladies
of the Eastern Star was held at the
Bush house last evening, a number of
out of town guests being present.
Sylvester D. Ray, who suffered
a slight stroke of paralysis of the left
side, last week, is slowly recovering,
now being able to be about the house.
The Willing Workers of the
Bellefonte Lutheran Sunday school
“will be glad to fill orders for home-
salted nuts. Call 257 on Bell phone.
A card party will be held in the
Episcopal parish bouse on Tuesday
evening, February 17th, at eight
o’clock. Admission, 50 cents. Every-
body is invited.
“La Belle,” the annual of the
Senior class of the Bellefonte High
school, is to be much enlarged this
year. In fact the class has undertak-
en to issue quite a pretentious publi-
cation.
Assistant deputy warden C. C.
Rhoads, of the Rockview penitentiary,
tock a prisoner to the northwestern
part of the State, on Tuesday, to see
his mother, who was reported as criti-
cally ill.
The breaking off of the top of
one of the big transformers out at the
Keystone Power corporation’s station
on Willowbank street, put the electric
service out of business for an hour or
so, on Saturday afternoon, until the
big plant at Milesburg could be cut
in. The break was repaired on Sun-
day.
The country is dotted with mov-
ie shows but none of them are any bet-
ter than the Scenic, in Bellefonte.
Manager Brown devotes all his ener-
gies to securing the best and latest
motion pictures for exhibition there,
believing that nothing is too good for
his many patrons. If you are not a
regular attendant you are missing a
lot of good pictures.
——His mind temporarily unbal-
amced through religious fervency
James Krape was taken to Danville
by poor overseer Alex Morrison, last
Thursday night, and committed to the
asylum. While his condition had not
reached a stage of violence two phy-
sicians who examined him decided it a
matter of prudence to remove him to
the State hospital for treatment.
—-On Monday morning ‘as the big
delivery truck of the C. Y. Wagner
company was backing up to the curb
at the R. S. Brouse store it skidded on
the icy street, bumped into the elec-
tric light standard and breke it off at
the pavement. The top of the light
was pretty badly shattered last week
when Brouse’s delivery truck bumped
into it and broke the globe into frag-
ments. .
The lunar eclipse of the moon,
on Sunday evening, attracted very lit-
tle attention, coming so soon after
the solar eclipse of the sun, and the
result was few people in Centre coun-
ty knew anything about it. The
eclipse took place between 6:50 and
7:15 o’clock and about one-thirl of the
moon was in shadow but the entire
transition occupied such a brief per-
iod of time that it was hardly notice-
able.
——Jacch Cole, for years a well
known resident of Bellefonte but who
has been spending some time in Al-
toona, was struck and knocked down
by an automobile, on Sunday, driven
by P. J. Durbin, of Eldorada. He was
taken to the Mercy hospital in that
city where it was found that he had
sustained a puncture of the left leg
with a possible fracture of one of the
bones. Mr. Cole is seventy-eight
years old.
A W. C. T. U. tea will be given
to all members and their friends at
the home of the president, Miss
Rhoads, Friday afternoon, February
13th, from 2.30 to 5.30. Each member
is asked to invite a friend who does
not belong. All teachers of the public
schools, academy and Sunday schools
are extended a most cordial invita-
tion to be present. Special music
and a general good time will be the
. order of the day.
Bellefonters who like to trip
the light fantastic toe will have a
splendid opportunity to enjoy them-
selves this (Friday) evening at the
annual football dance of the Belle-
fonte Academy, which will be held in
the armory. The Challis Collegians,
who have appeared in Bellefonte on
former occasions, will furnish the mu-
sic, and this is assurance that it will
be the best there is. Tickets are $3.00
and the public is invited.
On Tuesday afternoon Mrs.
Harry C. Menold was sitting near the
window in her apartment in the Beat-
ty building when a bullet whizzed
through the window glass, struck the
frame of a door and dropped at her
side. Naturally she was considerably
frightened and visions of bloodthirsty
assasins kept running through her
head but the next day it developed
that Robert Osman, employed by the
Lauderbach—Griest Co., had been en-
gaged in shooting rats with a 22
calibre rifle on Tuesday afternoon, and
it is a twenty to one shot he missed
the rat. In the future, however, he
will be more careful of his aim.
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| BELLEFONTE BOYS BURGLARIZE
Potter-Hoy Hardware Co. and Ging-
ery’s Grocery Robbed by
Young Lawbreakers.
Five Bellefonte boys, ranging in
age from 12 to 19 years, pulled off
two robberies early this week that foi
daring and accomplishment might
i have been the work of professionals.
The boys in question are Chester
Rice, seventeen years old, son of Gam-
mill Rice; Walter Lucas, fourteen
years old, who makes his home with
Harry Rice; Roger Bell, also about
fourteen years of age, who lives with
his grandmother, Mrs. Breon, in
Bush’s Addition; Clarence Hoy, nine-
teen year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Hoy, and Joe Gingery, twelve
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Curt
Gingery.
Their first escapade was pulled off
about two o’clock on Monday morning
when they broke into the Potter-Hoy
Hardware company’s store by forcing
one of the basement doors on Water
street. Going to the main store room
on the first floor they loaded up with
revolvers and cartridges, pocket
knives, flashlights, gold watches, pen-
cils and other miscellaneous articles
such as appeal to a boy, to a total val-
nation of two hundred dollars or
more. Chief of police Harry Duke-
man passed the building while the
boys were at work inside but they all
ducked behind show cases so that he
failed to see them.
On Monday night three of the boys,
Rice, Lucas and Bell, broke into the
Gingery grocery store and stole a lot
of provisions while policeman Duke-
man was scouring the town on the
hunt of the young burglars. Several
of the boys have been mixed up with
robberies previous to this and when
the Potter-Hoy robbery was reported
to chief Dukeman, on Monday, he sus-
pected them and a little inquiry
developed the fact that they had not
been home the night of the robbery.
On Tuesday he rounded up all the
boys and recovered most of the stolen
loot, enough to fill a half bushel meas-
ure.
Some of it young Rice had taken
home; Joe Gingery had his share se-
creted at his home; some of the stuff
was found hidden under the barn at
Capt. Russell George’s residence while
the biggest cache was in a closet un-
der the steps leading to the second
floor apartments in the Cadillac build-
ing. This closet had been fixed up as
a regular rendezvous by the young
burglars. A flashlight tied to the
ceiling with a heavy string served as
a light, and most if not all the provis-
ions stolen from the Gingery grocery
were stored there. There were bread
and butter, cheese and crackers,
breakfast foods, coffee and other
things that would appeal to the appe-
tite of ‘a boy. - This was probably used
as their régular meeting place’ when
they planned a foray.
At a session of court yesterday
morning Chester Rice and Clarence
Hoy, the two oldest boys, were sen-
tenced to indeterminate terms in the
Huntingdon reformatory. Rice did
not appear at all perturbed over his
sentence but young Hoy was very
much broken up and his mother, who
was in court. cried when the sentence
was pronounced by Judge Dale and
was taken from the court room by her
husband. :
The cases against the other three
boys, Lucas, Bell and Gingery were
disposed of in juvenile court yester-
day afternoon after the “Watchman”
went to press.
OTHER CASES DISPOSED OF.
Joseph Firment, of Morrisdale,
plead guilty to possession and trans-
porting intoxicating liquor and was
sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and
imprisonment in the county jail for
six months to one year. The court
also directed that his car be sold and
the money received from same distrib-
uted pro rata amongst those having
legal claims against the same.
Clyde Blackford and W. W. Bick-
etts, of Bellefonte, and Ray Noll, of
Pleasant Gap, plead guilty to the pos-
session and operation of slot gambling
machines on their premises, and each
one was sentenced to pay a fine of fif-
ty dollars and undergo imprisonment
in the county jail for a period of five
days, the jail sentence in each case
being immediately suspended.
Thomas Smeal, of Philipsburg, was
brought before the court on an old
charge of statutory rape, but having
just completed a year’s sentence for
adultery he was given a five years’
suspended sentence but warned to
have nothing whatever to do with the
woman who had contributed to his
downfall.
Wincety Leatrizum, of Spike Island,
Philipsburg, was charged with a vio-
lation of the liquor laws. He plead
guilty to having had on his premises
an eight gallon still and coil, though
the officer who confiscated the same
said it was not in operation when he
found it and made confiscation.
Wincety denied that the still was his
or that he had made or sold any whis-
key. He said that while he was sup-
posed to be boss the wife had bought
the still and made the moonshine, but
only for herself, and didn’t sell any.
He said the wife was at home in bed
with a little baby but as soon as she
got well she would come over and ex-
plain it all to Mr. Judge. The court
evidently did not believe all his story
as he sentenced him to pay a fine of
$100 and three to six months in jail,
and as he pronounced the words Le-
atrizum said, “who, me, Judge?”
The last case called was that
against Jesse Dunlap, of Bellefonte,
charged with selling, manufacturing
and unlawful possession of intoxicat-
ing liquors. This case grew out of
CC EE RATT RSE Ss,
the raid on the Bellefonte Lodge of
Moose about a month ago when Mr.
Dunlap was in temporary charge as
steward. He plead guilty to the
charge and on the first, sentence was
suspended for a period of one year;
on the second, sentence was suspended
for a period of two years and on the
third, he was sentenced to pay a fine
of $100 and costs.
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Bellefonte Chapter D. A. R.
The February meeting of the Belle-
fonte Chapter D. A. R. was held at the
University club, State College, last
Thursday evening. Mrs. R. H. Bell,
Mrs. O. A. Knight, Mrs. W. C. Kelly
and Mrs. Norman C. Miller, all oi
State College, were hostesses; and in-
stead of the historical play scheduled
to have been given by the Strolling
Players, Dr. Wayland Fuller Duna-
way told of manners and customs in
old Philadelphia, picturing life there
Results of 1924 Tuberculosis Christ-
mas Seal Sale.
The tuberculosis committee of the
Woman's club reports the following |
sale of tuberculosis Christmas seals
for 1924:
TOTAL SEALS SOLD IN BELLEFONTE
DISTRICT.
Bellefonte - - - - 21,201
Snow Shoe, Miss Betsy Shank Ch. 1,925
{ Howard, Miss Emma Pletcher Ch. 1,600 :
{ Central City, Miss Ann Shroyer Ch. 1,019
: Orviston, Mrs. W. W. Ridge, Ch.
{ Unionville, Mrs. J. 8. Askins, Ch.
Pleasant Gap, Mrs. J. R. Barlett, Ch.
Milesburg, Miss Bessie Miles, Ch.
Hublersburg, Byron Blackford
Stormstown and Warriorsmark, Miss
Ruth Waite, Miss Frances Gross,
Miss Marian Oakwood - - 325
Coleville, Mrs. Scheeder - - 300
Twenty per cent. of this money re-
alized, or $59.34, goes to the Pennsyl-
vania Tuberculosis society in Phila-
, delphia, to help carry on its work;
“also, $13.10 for seals, posters and lit-
erature used in the seal sale, the re-
. maining eighty per cent. is spent in
925
$00
700
551
425
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Elliot Lyon Morris was here for
a short time this week, having been north
from Macon, Ga., on business.
—Mrs. Samuel Shallcross left Wednesday
to go to her former home at Wilmington,
Del, for a short visit with her mother.
—Mrs. David Washburn returned, Tues-
day, from a week-end visit wit hber par-
ents, at her former home in Madisonburg.
—Mrs. Preston Lytle and her little
daughter went to Pittsburgh, Wednesday,
for a visit of a week or ten days with
, friends.
—Mrs. Benjamin Bradley has been in
New York State since the early part of last
week, visiting with members of the family
at her former home at East Aurora.
| —Mrs. Fannie Packer returned to her
‘home in Williamsport, Wednesday after-
noon, following a week's visit in Belle-
fonte with her sister, Mrs. James Clark.
—Mrs. D. G. Whally is expected in Belle-
fonte shortly, for a visit with her mother,
| Mrs. D. I. Willard. Mrs. Whally is at
| present with Mr. Whally in Schenectady.
in the early days very vividly and en- | the community where the seals are |y vy,
gagingly.
“The Old Homestead” Coming.
A welcome relief from the present
day bedroom farces and sex plays,
will be the announcement of the com-
ing engagement of America’s great-
est play, Denman Thompson’s “The
Old Homestead”, a comedy-drama of
rural life in New England back in
the early eighties. This wonderful
play, called by eminent critics a
classic of the American stage, is now
on its thirty-eighth annual tour under
the direction of Miiler and Lewis and
comes to the Moose Temple theatre
Wednesday, February 18th, in identi-
cally the same manner as when Den-
man Thompson was alive, with all the
original features of past years—the
famous farm hands quartette, the
Swanzey band, the Salvation Army
and the choir from Grace church. Plan
now to renew the acquaintance of
Denman Thompson’s neighbors from
West Swanzey, New Hampshire. Get
your tickets early.
Fine Athletic Show Wednesday Night.
The boxing and wrestling tourna-
ment staged at the Moose Temple,
Wednesday night, by “Little Joe” De-
Cenzi, for the benefit of the American
Legion was not a great financial
success, but it was on the level and
provided good sport for a fair sized
house.
“Little Joe,” himself, and Eddie
Gutsafson, of Philipsburg, were the
principals in the wrestling match.
They went the limit of time and gain-
ed a draw.
Bob Moore, of Bellefonte, and
young Shultz, of Tyrone, went 20 min-
utes to a draw.
Dan Wieland, of Bellefonte, pinned
Buck Davidson, of Tyrone, in 8 min-
utes.
© Fred Meyers, of + Bellefonte, ‘and
Berne ‘Obérly, of Tyrone, went 10 min-
utes, to a draw.
There were three boxing bouts’ be-
tween Academy and State College
students. One knock-out having been
recorded.
Clinics Held at Red Cross Rooms.
The chest clinic conducted by the
State Department of Health in the
Red Cross room, Petrikin hall, is open
Tuesday, 2 to 4 o’clock, for the exami- |
nation of children who are under-
nourished or who have lowered resis-
tance to respiratory infection, for
adults and children who have been in
contact with tuberculous individuals,
also who are suspected of having
tuberculosis. Patients sent to clinic
by physicians for examination or ad-
mission to State sanatoria will be re-
ferred back for treatment and further
observation. This clinic is held week-
ly. Baby clinic every Wednesday, 2
to 4 o’clock. -
The State chest clinic is held
every Tuesday afternoon in the W. C.
T. U. room in Petrikin hall with Di.
David Dale in charge, assisted by Miss
Ethel Campbell, State Health Depart-
ment nurse. The clinic is free to any
one who may care to attend. During
the past year there have been 60 pa-
tients examined in the clinic, 40 under
observation, 10 cases sent to Cresson
and 7 active cases.
State Highway Bids for Work in
Centre County.
Among the state highway bids
opened at Harrisburg, last Friday,
were those for the construction of the
Bald Eagle Valley road from Snow
Shoe Intersection to Port Matilda, a
distance of 85,502 feet. The low bid
was by the Miller Construction com-
pany, of Punxsutawney, $841,598.96.
The low bid for the road from Port
Matilda to Bald Eagle, a distance of
46,214, was submitted by J. M. Hutch-
inson, of Altoona. It was $410,825.90.
On Saturday the bids were opened
for the construction of the state high-
way through Centre Hall and te the
top of Nittany mountain, a distance of
11,378 feet. Reitz Bros., of Sunbury,
were low bidders at $121,658.
While no awards have yet been
made, the contracts as a rule are giv-
en to the low bidders. Of course the
work will depend entirely on the pas-
sage of the fifty million dollar road
bond enabling act by the present Leg-
islature and the constitutionality of
the same. The bids for the three
pieces of highway aggregate $1,375,-
082.86, and if the bond bill is finally
legalized it will mean an abundance
of work in Centre county the coming
summer and a big demand for ground
limestone.
The State is also advertising for
bids for the construction of the road
over the Allegheny mountains, from
Runville to Snow Shoe.
: sold. In Bellefonte, the money to pay
—Mrs. C. H. Young and her two chil-
Public Dances May be Cut Out at the
: : Armory.
| Information has reached Bellefonte
| this week that the State armory board
-has approved the renting of the Belle-
fonte armory to the Bellefonte Acad-
{emy and all charitable organizations
. for the purpose of holding dances and
receptions, which would indicate that
the armory will not be given for the
‘holding of public dances, indiscrimin-
ately. It is understood that this de-
cision was made because of the use of
intoxicating liquors and a certain de-
i gree of rowdyism which has charac-
terized some of the public dances held
there in the past.
This ruling of the armory board
naturally will not affect the Academy -
football dance to be held in the ar-
mory tonight, and while it will be
open to any one who cares to go and
holds a ticket, every precaution will
| be taken against drinking and no mis-
eons will be permitted.
| rent ($100) and janitor service for the dren, who had been with Mrs. Young's The Fighting Parson’s Home Dyna-
i room in Petrikin hall where the State
' chest clinic is held Tuesday after-
noons and the well-baby clinic Wed-
nesday afternoons.
In Snow Shoe, the money was used
this year to pay salary and expenses
for dental hygienist in schools for two
weeks; in Howard for dental hygienist
for one week; in several places, where
the money was not sufficient to pay
the hygienist, toothbrushes have been
supplied to pupils unable to purchase
them and desired health literature |
supplied.
The salary of the dental hygienist
is $100.00 per month but as she ranks
with other teachers in the schools a
portion of this is paid by the State,
leaving only $57.50 to be paid by lo-
cal funds.
The Bellefonte board of education
employed Miss Helen MacDonald as
hygienist in our schools for half the
school year and hoped other schools
in the county would employ her for
the remainder of the year but this was
not done and she went to Sunbury the
beginning of this week to finish the
school year. During her stay in Cen-
tre county, Miss MacDonald cleaned
the teeth of 519 school children.
If school directors in the various
townships are slow to see the excel-
lence of dental hygiene work, it would
be a splendid thing for interested
women and men to sponsor, since it is
possible to secure the service of the
hygienist for a few days, week or
month, depending upon the number of
pupils in schools as her general av-
erage is to clean the teeth of eight pu-
pils a day and the cost $14.40 per
week. The value of this work is not
the mouth cavity since it is claimed
‘ninety per cent of contageous diseas-
‘ es are transmitted through the secre-
‘tions of nose and mouth.
“Man Arrested on Suspicion of Being
a Firebug.
1 —— —
Sheriff E. R. Taylor went over into
Pennsvalley on Saturday and took in-
to custody a man who gave as his
name Christian Hanson, bringing him
| to Bellefonte and locking him up in
| the Centre county jail on suspicion of
' being the man who has been starting
i the fires which destroyed four Centre
county barns within the past two
+ months.
The man is forty-five years old and
a native of Denmark. He appears to
have no regular abiding place and, in
fact, seems more or less demented.
Hz was in Centre Hall last Decem-
ber and his actions while there were
such that residents of the town ap-
pealed to the sheriff for protection
against him. The sheriff at the time
went to Centre Hall and saw Hanson
who agreed to leave the county in or-
der to avoid arrest and imprisonment.
But he evidently failed to do so as he
has been seen at various places in
Pennsvalley since that time. On Fri-
day residents of Woodward telephoned
the sheriff that he was there and mak-
ing threats about burning down the
town, but the official was unable to
go after him that day. On Saturday
he started for Woodward and found
Hanson lying alongside the road just
below Penn Hall and brought him
back to jail.
While there is no direct evidence
that the man is a firebug, or started
any or all of the fires which recently
have caused a property loss of about
fifty thousand dollars in barns burned
in Centre county, he is at least a de-
cided suspect. In fact he told the
sheriff on Sunday that he left Den-
mark because he was accused of burn-
ing a barn and after coming to this
country he had to leave Michigan be-
cause of a number of barn fires, al-
' though he did not admit that he was
. guilty of starting any of them.
The question having been
raised, a few days ago, as to what
the original color of the Bush house
was, we are in position to answer now
to the effect that from the time it was
built until 1874 it was natural brick.
| At that time it was kalsomined white
! and remained white until November,
1899, when it was scraped and painted
! red, with green trimmings. Last fall
the red was covered by the present
coat of buff.
At the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Potter-Hoy Hard-
ware company, held in the offices in
| Bellefonte on Tuesday afternoon, all
the old members of the board of di-
rectors were re-elected, as follows:
James H. Potter, Robert Sommerville,
Col, W. F. Reynolds, Frank M. Craw-
ford and Orin A. Kline. Mr. Potter
was re-elected president; Mr. Craw-
ford treasurer, and Mr. Kline secre-'’
tary.
alone to teach care of the teeth but of |
parents, Dr. and Mrs. M. A. Kirk, since
{ shortly after Christmas, left Sunday to re- :
! turn to Clearfield.
| —Mrs. Howard Gearhart, of Millville, N.
J., is a guest of the Fox family at their
‘home on Bishop street, having come to
Bellefonte a week ago, expecting to be here
for the greater part of the month.
! —Robert Sommerville, of Winburne, was
i in Bellefonte Tuesday, to attend the annu-
al meeting of the borad of directors of the
| Potter-Hoy Hardware Co., held in the of-
. fices of the company that afternoon.
—Mrs. Mary Harris is here from Phila-
{ delphia on one of her occasional visits
{ with her sister and brothers, Miss Joseph-
‘ine and James and John MecDermot, at
their bungalow on south Allegheny street.
; —NMrs. C. B. Williams, of Westfield, N.
'J,. was in Bellefonte for a short time last
| week, having come here with her son Ired-
1 erick, who has returned to the Academy to
continue his school work. Frederick has
been at the Academy for a year or more.
—Mrs. William H. Miller has been here
from Canton, Ohio, for the past ten days,
making a visit back home with the William
Miller family, on Logan street, and with
some of her relatives in this locality, Mrs.
Miller expects to return to Ohio within a
few days.
to see his father, John P. Harris, who is
critically ill at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Warfield. Mr. Harris’ condition has
become very alarming owing to his ex-
treme weakness.
—House guests whom Mr. and Mrs. J.
week included Mrs. Jamison, wife of the
Rev. M. I. Jamison, of Williamsport; the
Rev. Paul E. Keen and his mother, of Mey-
erstown, Pa., and the Rev. E. B. Dunn, of
Wheeling W. Va.
—Miss Hannah Newman, of Altoona, has
been visiting here this week, a guest of
her aunt, Mrs. Martin Fauble. Miss New-
man was a former business woman of
Bellefonte, having taken over the store of
the late Mrs. J. A. Aiken, which she later
sold to, Mr. Schlow. ; L ;
—Dorothy Odenkirk, a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Odenkirk, of Centre Hall,
was in Bellefonte Saturday afternoon and
while here looked after some business for
her father. Dorothy was a guest on the
drive over of Mr. and Mrs, Abner Alexan-
der and their daughter Margaret.
—Mr. and Mrs. Al. Woche had as week-
end guests at their apartment in the Wil-
lard home, on north Thomas street, Mr.
Woche's two sisters, Miss Clara Woche, of
Wilkinsburg, and Mrs. D. J. Mackenzie, of
Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Mackenzie makes
her home in Shidzeeoka, Japan, for several
months of the year, her husband being en-
gaged in business there, as a tez importer.
—Miss Agnes Shields left Friday after-
noon of last week for Jackson, Miss.
called there unexpectedly by the illness of
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Idward Shields,
who before her marriage, was Miss Sara
Galbraith. Mrs. Shields is now a hospital
patient and her condition is slightly im-
proved. Miss Shields will remain south
and her two children will be able to ac-
company her home.
—W. J. Emerick and Robert ¥. Hunter
left Bellefonte on Friday on a ten days
trip to Muscle Shoals, Ala. This does not
mean, however, that they have gone there
with a view of leasing the big nitrate
plants in opposition to Henry Ford. Their
trip is mostly one of pleasure, but they
will also look over the real estate possibil-
ities in that section, which will include an
inquiry in regard to the piece of property
deeded the Centre County hospital a year
county.
—Mrs. George VanDyke, who has been in
Bellefonte for the winter, with her mother
and sister, Mrs. John Noll and Miss Ro-
berta Noll, is arranging to leave shortly
to join Mr. VanDyke in Philadelphia. On
her way east she will stop at Harrisburg
for a visit with her cousin, Miss Marilla
Williams. Mrs. VanDyke was a guest of
friends at the banquet at the Bush House
Eastern Star, of which organization she
has been a prominent member for a num-
ber of years.
—Calvin T. Ray, of Altoona, was in
Bellefonte yesterday; having come down
for his third visit to his brother S. D. Ray
Esq., who is ill at his home on Curtin
street. Cal, as we called him when play-
mates here has been quite successful in
the dairy business in the Mountain city.
It seems but yesterday that they were liv-
ing on the Thomas farm that was located
about where the American Lime and Stone
Co’s office building now stands. In their
meadow was one of the pet swimmin’ holes
and we often think that the kindly old
father of the Ray boys must have had his
patience tried many times while trying to
save a crop of grass in the meadow from
being tramped down by his sons and their
hordes of friends, for we flocked there in
such numbers that there was scarcely
enough water in Buffalo run to cover us
all,
on
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——J. M. Keichline will deliver
lecture in the lodge room of the Pa-
triotic Sons of America, on Friday
evening, February 13th, at 8:30. Sub-
ject, life of Abraham Lincoln.
When you can’t find it in any
other paper look in the “Watchman,”
it’s sure to be there.
—John P. Harris Jr., of Newton Hamil- |
ton, was here the early part of the week .
Frank Smith entertained during the past
until May, expecting then that Mrs. Shields ,
ago by Mrs. Ella J. Mountz, of Clearfield
last night, given by the women of the |
mited Again.
i
Less than a year ago the home of
Rev. Elmer I. Williams, known as the
“Fighting Parson,” of Chicago, was
dynamited and while the family all
escaped injury the house was consid-
erably damaged. About two weeks
ago the house was again dyna-
mited. Fortunately no one was hurt
in this second outrageous attack but
it will cost a few hundred dollars to
repair the damage done.
Rev. Williams, who is a native of
Worth township, Centre county, is at
the head of the department of better
government in Chicago and with his
characteristic directness swings the
axe, let the chips fall where they may.
For more than a year he has been
waging a strenuous campaign to clean
up the city and it will take more than
a few dynamiting outrages to deter
him in his work.
The Broadway Limited Calendar.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has
just had printed for general distribu-
tion, an exceedingly interesting cal-
‘endar. Interesting from two view-
points: Its utility and its artistic
- significance.
i It is a reproduction of a painting by
Harold Brett, eminent American ar-
tist, from an actual photograph of the
: “Broadway Limited,” model train of
the Pennsylvania system, crossing the
Rockville bridge near Harrisburg.
Catching the world’s finest passenger
train on the world’s greatest railroad
bridge was not a coincidence. It was
a conception that has given historic
value to a very striking picture.
McMullen—Bachman.—Oscar Mec-
Mullen, of Coleville, and Mrs. Amelia
Lyons Bachman, of Bellefonte, were
married ‘at - St, John’s Episcopal
church, Bellefonte, on Thursday, Jan-
uary 29th, by Rev. M. DePui Maynard.
, The bride is the widow of the late Na-
than Bachman and a good part of her
life has been spent in Bellefonte and
{ vicinity. Mr. McMullen was a widow-
"er and is employed by the Chemical
. Lime and Stone company. Immediate-
ly following the marriage ceremony
they went to the bridegroom’s home
in Coleville.
Wagner — Iddings. — Earl Wagner,
son of Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Wagner, of
Unionville, Centre county, and Miss
Doris Iddings, of Altoona, were mar-
: ried at the First Methodist church, in
| that city, on Wednesday afternoon of
last week, by the pastor, Rev. J. E.
+ Skillington. They will reside in Al-
toona where the bridegroom is em-
ployed.
i
——Announcements were received
in Bellefonte this week of the mar-
i riage of Mrs. Lyda R. Thomas Gibson
and Elmer Ellsworth Sager, which
| took place Tuesday, January twenty-
seventh in the First Methodist church
of Media. Mr. Sager is well known in
‘Bellefonte through his frequent visits
here to see Mrs. Gibson when she was
“back home during the summer occu-
pying the home she maintains here,
adjoining that of her mother’s, Mrs.
Isaac Thomas, on Thomas street. Both
Mrs. Gibson and and Mr. Sager are
from Philadelphia, Mr. Sager holding
a position with the P. R. R. Co., at
Camden, N. J.
®
——Last Friday night Paul Miller,
son of Charles Miller, who operates a
line of taxi cars in Bellefonte, took
his father’s big Buick car and, accom-
‘ panied by James Morrison, took a run
to Milesburg. On the return trip the
| car skidded on the ice on the hill this
‘side of the McCoy & Linn furnace
plant and crashed into the guard
fence, smashing one wheel and doing
considerable other damage. The boys
| then walked to Milesburg, telephoned
Mr. Miller of the accident and disap-
peared temporarily, as they had not
returned home at the time this item
was written.
——Letters have been received in
Bellefonte from Rev. and Mrs. W. P.
Ard stating that they have arrived in
California and are wonderfully de-
lighted with that section of the Unit-
ed States. Roses and various kinds of
flowers are in bloom and the change
from Pennsylvania is so decided that
it will take them some time to become
acclimated.
Bellefonte Grain Markets,
Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & Co.
Wheat - - - - - = $1.80
Corn ee eo ww = - “= =» 120
Rye - = - - - - lw 151.20
Oaty> >» =. = - - i. 50
Barley - - - - - - 1.00
Buckwheat - - - - 1.10