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Bellefonte, Pa, March 6, 1925.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——Another snow yesterday looks
as if winter might linger in the lap of
spring.
——Robert Roan purchased the
VanIngen property, on the corner of
Allegheny and Curtin streets, at sher-
iff’s sale on Saturday.
——In the advertising columns of
today’s paper Robert Roan is offering
a liberal reward for the return of his
pocketbook, lost on Sunday evening.
——A chicken and waffle supper will
be served at the Lutheran church en
Thursday evening, March 12th, from
5 until 7 o’clock. Price, 75 cents. The
public is invited.
——An all day bake sale will be
held in the City Cash grocery store,
tomorrow (Saturday), the 7th, by the
Catholic Daughters. A great variety
of good things to eat is promised for
this sale.
——The Ladies Aid society of the
Reformed church met in the chapel,
yesterday afternoon, as guests of Mrs.
H. E. Clevenstine and Mrs. B. F.
Deitrich, and engaged in sewing for
the Bellefonte hospital.
——J. M. Keichline will deliver a
lecture in the lodge room of the Pa-
triotic Order Sons of America on Fri-
day evening, March 6th. Subject,
“Life of George Washington.” All
members of the order are requested
to be present.
——The Watchman was misinform-
ed last week as to David Hendershot,
of Bellefonte, being convicted of boot-
legging and sentenced to jail for
three months, He was convicted of
possession and transporting liquor
but was not sentenced because his at-
torney, John G. Love, filed a motion
for a new trial.
——Harry Kramer has purchased
Galaida’s fish market in the Bush Ar-
cade and is now in charge there.
Galaida proposes giving all of his
« time to his milk route and Kramer
- will carry on the fish market serving
the same high grade fish, oysters and
dressed poultry up to the standard
that this market maintained before
he took it over.
——The Bellefonte Academy bas-
ket ball team will close the season
with a game with the California Nor-
mol this (Friday) evening, at 8.45
o'clock, in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium.
This will be your last opportunity to
see the fast Academy team in action.
The California Normal five has been
playing good ball all season and to-
night’s game should be a most inter-
esting one.
——Harry Ulmer Tibbens, well
sani
FIREMEN PROTEST
COUNCIL RESOLUTION.
Hook and Ladder Boys Object to Trail-
ing Behind Other Apparatus.
Ogden B. Malin, representing the
Logan Fire company in general and
the hook and ladder squad in particu-
lar, appeared before council, at its
regular meeting Monday night and
requested - the borough law mak-
ors to rescind a resolution passed on
December 15th providing that the
hook and ladder truck shall not leave
the Logan building until after the
pumper has gone out in response to
alarms of fire. Mr. Malin, in explana-
tion, stated that the resolution was
undoubtedly passed under a misap-
prehension of facts. That the hook
and ladder truck is hauled by a Ford
motor and the company has half a
dozen or more men who can drive
it, and invariably there are one or
more of these men either at the com-
pany’s building or within easy reach
of it. That there are only four
drivers for the pumper and it is
generally from three to five minutes
before any one of them can reach
the building. He also detailed the
fact that on six or eight occasions
during the past year the hook and lad-
der squad were on the scene and able
to extinguish incipient fires with their
chemicals before the other apparatus
arrived. These cases ‘were mostly
flue fires. President Walker stated
that the resolution had been passed
at the suggestion of chief fire mar-
shall Robert Kline, not with any wish
or intention to curb the activities of
the hook and ladder squad but because
of the fact that the truck is a more
cumbersome vehicle than the pumpers
and has less speed, and in critical
emergencies might block the traffic
of the latter and cause disastrous re-
sults. He suggested, however, that
the chief of the Logans, the fire mar-
shall and the hook and ladder boys
get together and formulate rules
governing the situation and he felt
certain that council will be satisfied.
Secretary Kelly reported that the
new plates for the beaeon lights have
been received and installed, and the
oid plates will be returned to the
factory.
The Street committee reported re-
ceipt of $14.30 from the Highway
Department for repairs to the road
roller.
The Water committee reported re-
pairs on the water line and the col-
lection of $528.76 on 1923 water
taxes. The committee also reported
that the Sheffield Farms company is
considering the installation of a new
cooling system in their milk station
in Bellefonte and if they decide to
put it in it will require about double
the quantity of water they now use.
This will necessitate the putting down
of a larger supply pipe and the com-
pany has agreed te buy the pipe if the
known here, has given up his work at | borough installs it. The matter was
Johnstown, where he had been located | referred to the Water committee with
for some years, and gone to Roches- |
ter, N. Y. He has accepted the posi-
tion of advertising manager for Mc-
Curdy and Co., a large department
; store in that city. Harry is a special-
ist in department store advertising
and his successes in Wheeling, W. Va., |
and at Johnstown will doubtless be re-
peated in Rochester.
——Among the state highway bids
opened at Harrisburg, on Saturday,
were those for 44,000 feet in Boggs
and Snow Shoe townships, Centre
county, being the road over Snow
Shoe mountain from Runville to Snow
Shoe. The low bidder was the James
& Michelson company Inec., of Johns-
town, $458,762. If this piece of road
is awarded, in addition to the Bald
Eagle valley road and the road over
Nittany mountain, it will mean well
onto two million dollars of state road
construction in Centre county this
year.
— ‘Many people go to the Scenic
every evening, not merely to pass the
time but to see the motion pictures,
because they are always sure of sime-
thing worth while being shown upon
the screen. Manager T. Clayton
Brown devotes his entire time to his
motion picture business, keeps booked
up on the latest and best films pro-
duced, and when anything superla-
tively good is released he gets it. He
is a good judge of what Bellefonte
people appreciate and makes his se-
lections accordingly. That is why
Scenic programs always please.
——A card from Lake Worth, Flor-
ida, under date of February 24th, as-
sured us that Charles C. Keichline has
not forgotten his Bellefonte friends
since arriving in the land of perpetu-
al sunshine and flowers. Charley was
a bit facetious in his choice of a card.
A box of luscious looking oranges or-
naments the back of it and on them is
the announcement of fulfillment of his
promise to send his friends a box. It
says:
promised you from Florida.” Maybe,
his own he’ll play another joke on us
by sending the originals of the clever
picture.
——Frank J. Vierra has resigned as
leader of the well known Nypen band,
of Lock Haven, and will go to Hilo,
Hawaii, to become leader of the Hilo
band, a musical organization under
control of the territorial government
of Hawaii. Mr. and Mrs. Vierra will
leave within a fortnight for San Fran-
cisco. Mr. Vierra is a native of Hilo,
Hawaii, but was educated at the Uni-
versity of Illinois. He located in
Lock Haven early in 1917 and organ-
ized the Nypen band with seventeen
players. It has grown steadily in
numbers until now there are eighty-
five, and it is rated one of the best
bands in Central Pennsylvania.
“This is the box of oranges I |
power.
Mr. Cunningham, of the water
committee, presented tentative plans
and pencil drawings for repairing
the pumping station building at the
big spring, and Mr. Bradley, who
made the drawings, gave as the pro-
bable cost of same $8,000. Council-
men were advised to consider the pro-
position as it will be necessary to do
something with the building in the
near future, as it is liable to tumble
down.
The Finance committee presented
the report of the borough treasurer
which showed a balance on hand of
$10,215.16. The committee also asked
for the removal of notes for $1,000,
$7,000 and 18,000, but suggested that
one of the notes be reduced if the cash
in bank warrants it.
The Fire and Police committee re-
ported that in filling the chemical
tanks of the Undine pumper after
Saturday’s fire at the Bellefonte
Academy Charles Saxion had a new
overcoat and suit so badly burned
with the chemicals that they were
completely ruined and he was com-
_pelled to purchase new clothes, and
the committee recommended that the
borough pay for the clothing. A res-
olution was passed authorizing the
committee to get the bill and pre-
sent it at the next meeting of council
for payment.
Mr. Emerick called attention to the
fact that the magneto on the Undine
pumper had become demagnetized and
had been replaced with a new one,
and he also suggested that a hot shot
battery be installed on the pumper
to use in case of emergency. Council
authorized such installation.
President Walker reappointed
James C. Furst Esq., a member of the
Bellefonte board of health, Mrs. R.
S. Brouse a trustee of the Pruner
orphanage, and A. Miles Barr an
auditor for same.
The ordinance relative to licensing
theatres, motion picture shows, cir-
| cuses, carnivals, ete., was read for the
when he gets a big producing grove of I second time, but a number of : addi-
| tional changes being suggested it was
referred back to the Fire and Police
committee and borough solicitor.
Bills totalling approximately $3,800
were approved for payment after
which council adjourned.
— “Plans adopted by the Legisla-
ture of 1915 for a central penitentiary
at Rockview now are obsolete and un-
economical,” declared Dr. Ellen C.
Potter, secretary of public welfare, to
members of the Legislature in Harris-
burg, on Tuesday, at a public hearing
of the appropriations committee. The
committee was considering an apro-
priation for a new eastern penitentia-
ry and it is quite evident the welfare
secretary is rooting for that appro-
priation.
Escaped Prisoner and Moonshine
i Makers Sentenced.
Patsy Ponsall, one of the prisoners
who escaped from the western peni-
-tentiary at Rockview on Monday of
‘last week, will have to serve an ad-
ditional six to twelve years for three
days’ liberty. Ponsall was arrested at
Mansfield, Tioga county, on Thursday,
having been recognized by Joseph C.
Utter, of the State Highway Depart-
ment, as he applied for a job at the
Mansfield garage. The latter notified
the police and Ponsail was taken into
custody and the penitentiary authori-
| ties notified. Assistant deputy war-
! den C. C. Rhoads and guard Ferguson.
i went to Mansfield by automobile and
| Ponsall was landed in the Centre coun-
ty jail at an early hour on Friday
! morning.
On Saturday morning he entered a
plea of guilty to the charge of break-
ing and escaping and was sentenced
by Judge Dale to serve from six to
twelve years in the penitentiary in ad-
dition to completing his original term.
which was for six to twelve years.
His minimum sentence would have
i expired in 1927, but after breaking
"and escaping, prisoners are usually re-
quired to serve the maximum, and
i should such be the case in connection
| with Ponsall he has twenty years be-
hind prison bars ahead of him.
Samuel Meyers, one of the men ar-
rested by the state police in the raid
made in Philipsburg on February 21st,
entered a plea of guilty to manufac-
turing moonshine, although he main-
tained that he did not sell much of it
because there was little demand. The
little he did sell was at the price of
$2.00 a quart. This was Meyers’ sec-
ond offense, as he had served a term
in jail last summer under sentence of
Judge Quigley. Judge Dale sentenced
him to pay a fine of $200, costs and
not less than six months nor more
than a year.
Charles Williams, also one of the
men caught in the Philipsburg raid,
and likewise a second cffender, was
given a sentence same as Meyers.
The third moonshine maker called
was John Swartz, another man caught
in the Philipsburg raid. He stated
that he made moonshine only for his
own use, and made it but once a
month. He admitted, however, that
he had not worked for three months,
or since he rigged up his still. Swartz
has a wife and ten young children and
maintained that he had borrowed
money from relatives to support them
during the time he has not been at
work. He claimed this was his first
offense and Judge Dale sentenced him
to pay a fine of $500 and serve from
three to six months in the county jail.
Lamps and mirrors for unheard
of prices, at West Company, Friday
and Saturday, March 6th and 7th.
10-1t.
stroyed by Fire.
Fire at noontime on Saturday com-
pletely destroyed the Buick car of
coach Carl G. Snavely, of the Belle-
fonte Academy, and a second hand
Ford owned by L. D. Kimball, an in-
structor at the same institution, and
badly gutted the garage on the Acad-
emy grounds in which they were
stored. The garage was constructed
of steel sheeting and a fireproof roof
which kept the flames confined princi-
pally to the inside of the building.
The fire, which was discovered short-
ly after twelve o’clock, evidently orig-
inated from an overheated stove in the
building. #
Coach Snavely had gone to the ga-
rage to do a little work on his car and
made a wood fire in the stove to warm
the building. About the time he got
the fire started he received word that
Mrs. Snavely had been suddenly taken
ill and without a thought of fire he
hurried to his home. It was probably
a half hour later when the garage was
discovered to be on fire. Students
with hand extinguishers kept the
flames down until the arrival of the
fire companies, and thus the fire was
confined to the interior of the garage.
But the steel sheeting used in its
construction is badly warped and may
all have to be removed and straight-
ened.
The building was erected by coach
Snavely and Mr. Kimball and was
used by them only. During the week
previous Mr. Kimball sold his Dodge
runabout and purchased a Ford, and
he ran the car into the garage less
than an hour before the fire. His loss
is complete, as he had no insurance.
Coach Snavely had $800 insurance on
his car and estimates his loss thereon
at $400. He also lost a good over-
coat, a hat and a ten dollar pair of
gloves. The owners are also out of
pocket the loss on the building. A
garage owned by Charles Hughes and
Prof. George Reiter stands close to
the one damaged by fire but the fire-
men were able to keep the flames from
communicating to it.
Huntingdon Presbytery to Meet at
State College.
The spring meeting of the Hunting-
don Presbytery will be held at State
College on Monday and Tuesday, April
13th and 14th. Rev. Samuel Martin,
resident pastor at the College, is
chairman of the committee of ar-
rangements. Rev. J. Scott Butt, D.
D., is moderator of the Presbytery and
will preach the opening sermon. A
public meeting in the interest of home
and foreign missions will be held on
the evening of the 14th, at which time
one of the principal speakers will be
Rev. Frederick G. Coan, D. D., of Ta-
briz, Persia.
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imprisonment in the county jail for
Garage Gutted and Two Cars De-!
'Mr. and Mrs. John H. Neidigh Cele-
| brate 59th Wedding Anniversary.
Golden weddings these days are not
such an uncommon occurrence as to be
a novelty but the man and woman
, who live to celebrate their fifty-ninth
wedding anniversary, and are still in
such good health that they can enjoy
| the celebration thereof, are entitled ‘0
| just a little notoriety, and that is the
| reason why the children of Mr. and
Mrs. John H. Neidigh, of Pine Hali,
| summoned to their home on Sunday a
i host of friends and neighbors to felic-
| itate with their parents on such an
occasion.
Mr. Neidigh comes of a family who
were pioneers in the settlement and
development of upper Pennsvalley.
His parents were Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Neidigh, and he was born eighty years
ago. His wife, who is three years
younger, was a daughter of George and
Catharine Rhodes Kustaborder, anoth-
er family intimately connected with
the early history of that section. The
young people literally grew up to-
gether and in due course of time cu-
"pid took a hand in their destiny and
driving to Boalsburg they were mar-
ried at the parsonage of the Reform-
ed church by that old-time pastor,
Rev. W. H. Groh, on March 1st, 1866.
The young couple went to house-
| keeping on the farm now occupied by
iD. S. Peterson, at Baileyville, where
| they tilled the soil during the first few
{ years of their married life. They then
decided to go west and located in
Michigan, but after four years spent
(in that State returned to Pennsylva-
{nia and resumed farming in Ferguson
| township. In due time Mr. Neidigh
: bought the farm he lived on and made
of it one of the most fertile and pro-
ductive in that section. In 1907 they
quit the farm and retired to a cosy
home at Pine Hall.
Mr: and Mrs. Neidigh had nine chil-
dren, eight of whom are living and an
honor to their parents. They are
Newton C., Annie and Mary, of State
College; Mrs. John Lytle and J. Cal-
vin, of Altoona; Mrs. Blanche Hoy, of
Waddle; Mrs. Margaret Cronemiller,
of Patton, and J. D., on the home
farm. They also have twenty-four
grand-children and nine great grand-
children.
The anniversary falling on Sunday
naturally precluded any unusually de-
monstrative celebration, but it didn’t
interfere with the guests partaking of
the big dinner served. It was a mem-
orable occasion and will long be re-
membered by this estimable couple.
| Big Centre County Auto Show now in
Full Blast.
The big Centre county auto show
{is now in full blast in the Bellefonte
armory and at no time since the show
was inaugurated four years ago has
the armory been so densely packed
with cars. Every available space is
filled with the forty-one cars on exhi-
bition, which include such standard
{ makes as the Cadillac, Buick, Dodge,
Lincoln, Ford, Studebaker, Chevrolet,
Nash, Lafayette, Oakland, Chandler,
Cleveland, Chrysler, Chalmers, Max-
well, Hudson, Essex, Oldsmobile,
Franklin, Jordan, Overland, Flint, and
Willys-Knight. Practically every deal-
er on this side of the mountain is rep-
resented, including one at Snow Shoe.
The decorations at the armory are
in blue and gold and very tastefully
arranged. The orchestra platform
again occupies an elevated position at
the north side of the building so as
not to take up space required for the
exhibition of cars. The opening of
the show on Wednesday afternoon
was heralded with a concert by the
Odd Fellows band and in the evening
the Penn Centre Eight discoursed very
entertainingly. This orchestra also
furnished the music last evening and
will be the attraction this evening.
‘While it has been impossible to get
data as to the benefit derived by the
dealers through holding the show, it
was quite noticeable that a large num-
ber of people were especially inter-
ested in making a close examination
of the various makes of cars, and
while the direct sales made at the
show may not be up to expectations,
every dealer will make prospects that
may eventually result in a number of
sales. This is the main object of the
show. It gives prospective buyers an
opportunity to see the latest models
of all the standard cars and helps ma-
terially in reaching a decision as to
the exact car desired.
The show is being held under the
auspices of the Centre County Auto-
mobile Dealers’ association, of which
George A. Beezer, of Bellefonte, is
president; C. E. Snyder, State College,
vice president; Charles R. Beatty, of
Bellefonte, treasurer, and John P. Ly-
on, Bellefonte, secretary. Gideon
Payne has been the man in direct
charge of the show and to him goes
much of the credit for its success.
——The largest line of lamps and
mirrors ever shown in Centre county,
at West company, March 6th and 7th.
10-1t.
Death of Old Canal Boatman.
David Theodore McCloskey, proba-
bly the last of the old canal boatmen,
died recently at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Neal MacDonald, in
Lock Haven, aged 94 years. He was
a native of Clinton county and when
but a boy carried the mail on horse-
back between Lock Haven and Sinne-
mahoning. When he grew to man-
hood he engaged in canal boating and
when the old canals were put out of
service by the railroads he purchased
a farm and engaged in farming. His
survivors include four sons and two
daughters.
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs. Robert T. Willard, a recent sur-
gical case in the Geisinger hospital, re-
sumed her work at the First
bank, after a month’s absence.
—Miss Helen Cruse and Miss Dernice
Crouse spent the week-end in Williams-
port, visiting with Miss Cruse’s aunt, Mrs.
Maitland and members of her family.
—Miss Mary Parrish was a recent week-
end visitor at Carlisle, where she attended
a house party and dance at the Phi Kappa
Pi fraternity, at Dickinson College.
—Mrs. George A. Beezer spent the fore-
part of the week in Williamsport, visiting
with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sheffer, Mrs.
Sheffer being a cousin of Mrs. Beezer.
—W. T. Twitmire, I. A. Schaeffer and M.
R. Johnson will represent the Bellefonte
Methodist church at the coming session of
conference, to be held at Chambersburg.
—William Bordner, of Lancaster, chief
engineer of the Penn State telephone, has
some business in the interest of the com-
pany.
New York tomorrow to attend the funeral
of the late John Montgomery Ward, which
will be held from his home in Babylon, L.
I., Saturday.
—Miss Pearl Evey went out to Pitts-
burgh on Saturday for a short visit with
her sister, Mrs. Willard VanCamp, and to
see her little niece, who arrived at the
VanCamp home, Friday.
—M. Ward Ileming, of Philipsburg, is
among the lawyers here this week on the
Rowland coal case. During his stay he
has been a house guest of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. I. Fleming.
Sunbury this week, attending the Central
Pennsylvania conference of the Evangel-
ical church, over which Bishop Segar has
been the presiding Bishop.
—DMrs. Gordon Welshantz, of Jamestown,
here, between her two cousins, Miss Alice
Tate and Mrs. George A. Deezer.
—J. Harris Hoy, of Wilmington, Del,
arrived home Sunday to spend several
weeks here with his sisters, while conval-
escing from a tonsil operation, performed
by Dr. Haskins, in Williamsport, last week.
—Mrs. Richard Lutz, who has been con-
fined to her home on east Bishop street for
the greater part of the winter on account
of illness, was able to be down town on
Wednesday, looking after some accumulat-
ed business.
—-D. A. Boozer, of Centre Hall, passed
through Bellefonte Thursday of last week,
on his way to Pittsburgh, to aftend the
funeral of his brother-in-law, Peter F.
Keller, which was held from his late home
at Ingram, on Friday.
—Mrs. William Manning went to her for-
mer home in Danville, yesterday, for a. vis-
it with relatives, while Mr. Manning, who
has been ill for the greater part of the
winter, was able to resume his work, Sun-
day, as a conductor on the P. R. R.
—After a visit of several weeks here
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
Daley, Mrs. W. H. Fulton returned to her
home in Pittsburgh, Sunday. Mrs. Fulton
had come to Bellefonte on account of the
illness of her mother, whose condition is
now very much improved.
—Miss Mary W. Meek, of Pennsylvania
Furnace, with John Bressler, Clyde Price
‘and Paul Leidy drove to Bellefonte Wed-
nesday for the evening here. Miss Meek’s
time was spent visiting with relatives,
while the remainder of the party spent the
evening at the Mutt and Jeff show.
—Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Meek returned to
State College, Tuesday, from a month's
trip by automobile through Florida, on
which they traveled over the greater part
of the State. So enthusiastic are they over
this Southland, that they are antici-
pating haying a winter home there in the
future.
—Charles T. Homan, of College town-
ship, dropped into the “Watchman” office
on Wednesday, while in town on a busi-
ness trip and brought a regular breeze of
good cheer with him. He said some of the
farmers of his section started plowing last
week believing spring was here, but they
are all holed up this week and waiting un-
til the real thing comes.
Fred Rasmussen to be Secretary of
Ice Cream Association.
Frederick Rasmussen, a former in-
structor at State College, Secretary of
Agriculture under Governor Sproul
and later engaged in the banking bus-
iness, has been appointed secretary of
the national association of ice cream
manufacturers. He will occupy rela-
tively the same position to ice cream
that Judge Landis does to baseball
and Will Hays to moving pictures.
Mr. Rasmussen will have his head-
quarters in the Telegraph building,
Harrisburg, and we have visions of
him sitting at his desk on a hot day in
mid-summer surrounded by dishes of
ice cream sent him to sample by var-
ious manufacturers.
The national association of ice
cream manufacturers represents about
eighty per cent. of the total output in
the country. Thirty-three State asso-
ciations are affiliated with it. It’s in-
vestment is approximately $300,000,-
000 and the annual production of ice
cream is estimated at three hundred
million gallons. If secretary Rasmus-
sen is successful in eliminating the
gelatin and powdered milk and put-
ting a little more cream in the ice
cream he will have the appreciation
of the consumers, at least.
Our Hospital Listed for $13,000.
If present plans are carried out in
the Legislature the Centre County
hospital will receive $13,000 toward
maintenance for the next biennium.
All of the hospital bills have passed
and there remains only the reconcilia-
tion of the Governor, so that he will
not slash them, in the way of their be-
coming law.
In 1928 our institution was granted
$10,000 for the two year period, so
that this is an increase of $3,000, but
still about $5,000 under the amount it
ought to have from the State to in-
sure smooth going.
The hospital board had asked for
$30,000 for the biennium.
National ’
been in Bellefonte this week looking after | t
—W. I. Fleming is, arranging to go to |
—The Rev. Reed O. Steely has been at
Lycoming county, was in Bellefonte for an ,
over Sunday visit, dividing her time while !
sis command,
Farm Census in Centre County Near-
ing Completion.
The farm census being taken all
over the county for the use of the fed-
eral government is progressing sat-
isfactorily, according to a report of
{ Paul L. Koenig, government supervis-
. or for Pennsylvania, to the agricultur-
‘al extension bureau. Centre county
was divided into ten districts, with a
specially appointed enumerator in
i each district. The total number of
| farms in the county is given as 2287,
and up to Mr. Koenig’s report 1686
farms had been covered, leaving 601
to be enumerated. One district, that
iin which county commissioner John
| Spearly is enumerator, has been cov-
ered in full, while one district has re-
turned no reports. Following is the
| standing in each district in the coun-
y: :
| District 24, Benner and Spring
| townships, 183 farms, 183 reported.
District 25 and 25a, Boggs, Curtin
"and Howard townships, 251 farms,
119 reported.
| District 26, Burnside, Snow Shoe
‘and Union townships, 246 farms, 250
reported.
District 27, Harris and Potter town-
ships, 276 farms, 280 reported.
District 28, College and Ferguson
townships, 256 farms, 181 reported.
District 29, Gregg and Penn town-
ships, 245 farms, none reported.
District 30, Miles and Haines town-
ships, 233 farms, 228 reported.
District 31, Halfmoon, Huston, Pat-
ton, Rush, Taylor and Worth town-
ships, 339 farms, 262 reported.
District 32, Marion, Walker and
Liberty townships, 258 farms, 183 re-
ported.
i No Decision in the Bank Case.
| It was the hope of all sides to the
litigation that when the Supreme
court reconvened on Monday, after a
| thirty-day recess, among the decisions
' to be reported would be that of the
i Centre County Bank case. Nowhere
among the great number of cases dis-
' posed of was the one of local interest,
‘and the discouraging feature of the
| omission is that now there is no tell-
i ing when it will be handed down.
The court had recessed for the ex-
| press purpose of catching up with its
. work and the many opinions filed indi-
| cate that the days the Justices were
1 off the bench were well filled with the
i labor of clearing up as many as they
did. :
It is not known in what order the.
Supreme court disposes of cases be-
fore it, whether by its docket number,
its relative importance or by accident-
ally being near the top of the pile for
the day’s work. Neither is it known
' how many cases are waiting with the
bank’s to be disposed of. Likely there
are hundreds of them so that the time
that we may expect a decision is al-
together a matter of conjecture. One
might come next Monday and, again,
it might not come for months.
' Academy Students to Give Musical
Comedy This Year.
Instead of their customary minstrel
entertainment the Bellefonte Acad-
"emy students will this year give a
| musical comedy, “Sinbad the Sailor,”
{ under the personal direction of Mrs.
T. H. Winters, who is authority for the
statement that the play is unusually
i amusing and entertaining and exactly
i suited for portrayal by young men.
| All the female roles will be imperson-
| ated by Academy students, though
Mrs. Robert S. Walker has been se-
| cured to help out with the dancing.
{ Other town talent will be introduced
in some of the prominent characters,
and there is already every assurance
i that the cast will be evenly balanced
"and of excellent dramatic talent. The
dates for the entertainments have
been set at Thursday and Friday
evenings, May 21st and 22nd, with the
big annual dance the night of the
22nd. Keep these dates in mind and
make no other engagements for that
time.
——-12x20 genuiue plate glass mir-
ror, polychrome frame, from $2.80 up,
at West company, March 6th and 7th.
10-1t.
Big Boxing Show Scheduled for
St. Patrick’s Day.
A high class boxing show will be
held in the Moose Temple theatre on
the evening of St. Patrick’s day, un-
der the auspices of the recently or-
ganized Bellefonte Amusement com-
pany. This company is composed of
four energetic and well known busi-
ness men of Bellefonte, who have for
their object the bringing to Bellefonte
of superior entertainment of a diver-
sified character.
Their first attempt will be the box-
ing show which they will put on the
evening of St. Patrick’s day, March
17th. There will be four bouts, or
twenty-eight rounds, of fast and fur-
ious glove work. Local talent will ap-
pear in two of the bouts, but the final
will be between two well known box-
ers of State reputation. A glance at
the advertisement published on the
fifth page of today’s paper will give
more definite information in regard to
the boxing show.
——The days to buy lamps and
mirrors, March 6th and 7th, at West
company. 10-1t.
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & Co.
Wheat: = = =~ = = «= 8100
Cort: =» =qu= + = 1.20
Rye - - - - - - 1.20
Ofts >» To & . . . 53
Barley = ov = eve ue 1.00
Buckwheat =~ = = == 1.10