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Bellefonte, Pa., March 13,
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Impressions of Florida.
West Palm Beach, Fla., 3-625
Dear Watchman:
The fine weather continues. A bit
cooler today but not cold enough ior |
fire and we can sit on the porch in
comfort. Yesterday we took the
ocean drive south running for thirty
miles right at the edge of the beach
and a superb road all the way. At
sea large ships were plowing south-
ward while just off shore were many
small fishing craft. We crossed over
to the Dixie highway at Deer Fields
and came back by way of Delray,
stopping there for dinner and long
enough to look the town over. It is
a pretty place of 3000 population and
growing fast. A little further north
we stopped at the Illinois fruit
farm. It is owned by two men from
Mahanoy City, Penna., and this season
they have a wonderful crop. In fact
as fine as any we have seen in all our
travels here. Some trees were just
in bloom, some bore grape fruit about
the size of a walnut while others were
very large. The bloom of the grape
fruit is as fragrant as that of the
orange tree.
Next we came to Lake Worth town.
It is where the national horse-shoe
pitching contest was held last week.
"They were still talking about it, so
that it must have been an interesting
event. There are bleachers all around
the field, large bulletin boards with
the names, home towns and scores of
the contestants just like a big foot
ball game is conducted at home. Sev-
eral men and two noted women, one
a well known writer of fiction, were
pitching while we were there. One
of the women was left handed, but,
as the baseball boys would say, the
south-paw seemed to be holding her
own.
Lake Worth is growing so rapidly
that soon it will be grown up to West
Palm Beach and then the two places
will probably merge to form one very
large city.
Last evening the State of Florida
ut on the entertainment for the
‘ourists Club. It was in the nature of
a vaudeville featuring several movie
stars, musicians and other artists of
high class. I mention this merely
to show the variety of entertainment
that is offered those who spend the
winter in this wonderland and it will
always be so because so many, many
wealthy people are selecting this
State for their winter home. They
are constantly beautifying the devel-
oping diversions that all who come
may enjoy with them. Money seems
no object anywhere and the masses
are as crazy about lots and houses as
they are about racing and lotteries in
Cuba.
Whenever you see two men talking
you can gamble that real-estate is the
subject of conversation and millions
of dollars in prospective values
change hands every week here. In
fact it is a disease, a very contagious
one and few are immune. No won-
der, for anyone who has bought real
estate along the East Coast within
the last eight years has made money
and, some of them, fabulous fortunes.
Cordially yours,
W. 8. GLENN.
This is the fourth of a series of letters
Dr. W. 8S. Glenn is writing for the “Watch-
man” while sojourning in Florida.
B. H. S. Wins Final Game.
Last Friday night, at the Y. M. C.
A., the Bellefonte High school closed
its basket ball season with a 31-18
victory over Juniata. The visitors,
with a greatly improved team, were in
the fray every moment of the game
but superior passing and excellent
guarding prevented them from get-
ting the necessary points. The local
team work was all that could be ex-
pected and their spirit was worthy of
praise, for they played the game hard
and clean, every thought on the ball.
Clark, at center, played a great
game for Bellefonte, following the
ball and doing some excellent under
the basket work. The line up:
B. H. S. Juniata
V. Emel Forward Beery
Best Forward Meghen
Clark Centre Oswalt
Waite Guard Edmundson
Furey Guard Glasgow
Watson Black
Martin
Field Goals—Clark 5; Best 4; Furey 2;
Waite 1; V. Emel 1; Martin 3; Deery 1;
Meghen 1.
Foul Goals—Best 3; Clark 2; Beery 4;
Oswalt 1; Martin 3,
Big Sale in Nittany Valley.
One of the big and real clean-up
sales of this season will be that of H.
J. McCann, on the S. D. Furst farm,
three miles east of Salona, on Friday,
March 20th.
Mr. McCann is quitting the farm to
accept a position at State College.
His stock includes six horses, nine
Holstein and Jersey cows, a large line
of implements and sundry farm uten-
sils. His sale will start at 10.30.
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subscription must be paid up te date ef Perry, of Bellwood; Mrs. Flick, in
| Sinking valley, and Mrs. Johnson, of
HARPSTER—Mrs. Rachael Harp-
ster, widow of the late Stewart Harp-
ster, died at her home at Pennsylvania
Furnace on Wednesday morning of
last week following an illness of some
weeks with a complication of diseases.
She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Hilliard and was born in Taylor
township, Centre county, on May 10th,
11865, hence was in her sixtieth year.
| When a young girl her parents moved
to Pennsylvania Furnace and all her
Tife was spent in that vicinity. She
| married Stewart Harpster who passed
175 | away some years ago but surviving
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| George Rudy, of Pennsylvania Fur-
her sre the following children: Mrs.
nace; Belle, of Tyrone; Gertie, of Al-
toona; Mildred, at home; Howard, of
| Guyes, and Harry, of Tyrone. She
{also leaves three brothers and two
sisters, Johm Hilliard, of Pennsylva-
nia Furnace; Harry, of Marengo;
Bellwood.
She was a zealous member of the
| Presbyterian church all her life and
Rev. H. D. Fleming had charge of the
| funeral services which were held at
10.30 o'clock on Saturday morning,
burial being made in the Graysville
cemetery.
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YEARICK.—Israel Yearick, one of
the old-time farmers of Nittany val-
ley, died at his home at Nittany on
Friday of last week as the result of
general debility.
He was a son of William and Mary
Shugert Yearick, and was born in Nit-
tany valley on March 20th, 1837, hence
had reached the age of 86 years, 11
months and 15 days. He followed
farming all his life until his retire-
ment a few years ago and was regard-
ed one of the most substantial citizens
of his home locality. His survivors
include the following children: Noah
Yearick, of Mackeyville; Margaret, at
home; Mrs. Emma Cramer, of Flem-
ington; Edward, of Nittany; Mrs.
Clara Delaney, of Centre Hall; Harry,
of Lock Haven, and Boyd E., of How-
ard. :
Funeral services were held on Sun-
day, buria! being made in St. Pauls
cemetery, at Nittany.
“Omnibus” Road Bill Holds Signifi-
cance for Bellefonte.
Under what is known in Harris-
burg as the “Omnibus Road Bill,” two
secondary highways in Centre county
would be included in the regular State
road development plan. The bill has
already passed the Senate and if it
should pass:.the House George Steven-
son, for one, will be a very happy
man. It will be recalled that he was
the pioneer advocate of some improve-
ment on the Buffalo Run road. Years
ago George started plugging and kept
at it until he aroused enough influen-
tial ‘support to have it designated and
improved as a secondary highway. If
the “Omnibus” bill goes through the
road from State College to Waddle and
from Stormstown over the mountain
to Port Matilda will eventually be
made regular state highways.
As a straw indicating whither the
tide is drifting Bellefonte’s Chamber
of Commerce might be able to see
something significant in this if it looks
deep enough. The decadence of the
various churches in the Buffalo Run
and Halfmoon valleys is already very
noticeable. The militant advance of
those at State College is a lure that
may eventually close most of the
country charges, for with good roads
and automobiles the valley folks can
get to service at the College, only six
miles off, almost as soon as they can
get to the ones they are attending
now. The same lure holds good as to
their marketing future.
A state road across “the Barrens”
isn’t coming for several years, but
when it does it will mean a lot to Buf-
falo Run valley, a lot to State College
and a lot to Bellefonte.
Postal Employees Get Raise in Wages
The postal employees salary bill
passed by Congress and signed by the
President, gives all clerks and carriers
in presidential offices a flat raise of
$300 a year. This also includes as-
sistant postmaster, but there is some
uncertainty as to it extending to the
postmaster, whose salary is based on
the amount of business done at the
office. It also includes parcel post
carriers where there is enough work
to keep him steadily employed, while
the salary of substitutes who have
been paid by the hour get an increase
from 60 to 80 cents per hour.
Rural carriers are also affected,
their increase being based on the miles
traveled. In their case the increase is
said to be four cents a mile, or equiv-
alent to about a dollar a day. Post-
master John L. Knisely figures that
the total increase in all salaries at the
Bellefonte postoffice will aggregate in
the neighborhood of $4,500 a year.
Fourth-class offices are not affected
by the raise, as the salaries of such
postmasters are based on the stamps
cancelled.
Marriage Licenses.
Foster E. Walker and Grace L.
Leitch, Howard.
Colin Bird Hagan, Alabama, and
Florence Spencer Bauer, New Jersey.
John W. Shawley, Yarnell, and Jen-
nie BE. Witherite, Runville.
Charles T. Musser and Grace Z.
Bower, Coburn.
Andrew George Hall and Hazel H.
Houtz, Fleming.
—— It's nice to be good but its
awful lonesome, at times, as the em-
ployees in the P. R. R. baggage room
are finding out since the “no loafing”
order went into effect.
Col. Jack Haverly First Big Minstrel
Manager.
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Writing on old-time minstrel man-
agers in the Saturday Evening Post,
last week, Marian Spitzer says:
Col. Jack Haverly, who organized
the first big minstrel troupe, one of
the best known in the world, and who
developed some of the greatest of all
minstrels, did not begin his minstrel
career until 1864. * * *
It is generally conceded that he did
more for modern minstrelsy than any
other man. Haverly was not a per-
former. He contented himself with
the managerial end of the game and
the development of stars. He was to
minstrels what Ziegfeld is to chorus
girls. Before beginning his career as
a minstrel magnate he was the owner
of a variety theatre in Toledo, Ohio.
Later he was associated with other
men in minstrel ventures but in the
end he always stood alone. He was a
man of great daring and imagination,
a plunger who won fortunes and lost
them and won them again. He was
characteristically generous and loved
by all who knew him.
When he organized Haverly’s Mas-
todons in Chicago in 1878 he coined a
slogan which swept like wild fire over
the country, a simple slogan but it
had a pumch. “Forty—Count ’em--
Forty,” it was, and it helped as much
as any other single element in making
the Mastodons the huge success they
became. It was the first time such a
large number of men had been used
in any single show.
While the above is interesting it
does not tell all about Col. Haverly.
In the first place his name was not
Haverly, but Heverly, and he was
born in Bellefonte. As a young man
he was apprenticed as a tailor and
worked in the same shop in Bellefonte
in which William McClellan was a cut-
ter. One day while the latter was at
dinner the other young men in the
shop tied a piece of crepe on McClel-
lan’s shears. This was almost a mor-
tal offense as it conveyed the meaning
that the cutter was “a dead one” in
his calling. When Mr. McClellan re-
turned and found the crepe on his
shears a fight ensued. In the mix-up
Heverly threw the shears at McClel-
lan and cut a deep gash in his cheek.
Believing he had inflicted a mortal
wound Heverly put on his coat, walk-
ed out of the shop and left the town.
He never returned until he came here
at the head of his first minstrel
troupe, which he called “Happy Hal
Wagner.” They showed in the old
Reynolds opera house, destroyed by
fire in the spring of 1885. Later Mr.
Heverly, who had changed his name
to Haverly, came here with his Mas-
todons. :
In the Heverly family were a num-
ber of boys and girls and after Col.
Jack was well on the road to success
in his minstrel career he sent for his
sister, Miss Rebecca Heverly, and she
traveled with him in his pilgrimages
back and forth across the country.
Arrayed in silks and satins, and Wear-
ing jewelry worth almost a king’s
ransom, she was as much of an adver-
tisement for the show as the flaming
posters on the billboards.
Col. Heverly has been dead these
many years, and the only one of his
immediate family left is his sister,
Miss Rebecca, who is now being cared
for at the borough home in Bellefonte.
She is about seventy-four years old,
and doubtless still has visions of the
days when she literally reigned as
queen in her travels with her brother
and his wonderful minstrels.
The Georgia Smart Set
Minstrels.
Famous
If you want to see and hear a bully
good show—and get ample measure
for your money—then see the famous
Georgia Smart Set minstrels which is
booked for Wednesday night, March
18th, at the Moose Temple theatre.
This group of negro minstrels are a
bona fide production of the South and
bring to Bellefonte one of the best
minstrel shows that has ever come
north of the Mason and Dixon line.
There are many headline acts in the.
olio and the ensemble is a treat that
you are sure to enjoy. ¥
The demand for clean shows is now
occupying the minds of the public and
most of the metropolitan dailies are
carrying front page display copy call-
ing your attention to this condition,
and bearing in mind this state of af-
fairs, Mr. L. B. Holtkamp, manager of
the Georgia Smart Set minstrels, has
put his attraction together with the
full purpose and intent to give the
theatre goer an entertainment which
is void of all semblance of smut, and
a show that can be seen and attended
by any person, young or old, a truly
good show and can be safely said to
be a treat for your mother, sister,
brother, uncle, aunt, and the whole
family can attend in a body. The
comedians are clever for their wit,
the dancers are all finished perform-
ers, the female contingent add much
to the evening’s enjoyment and help
to put a dash of color to its entirety.
This attraction comes with the
stamp of approval from every city it
has visited, and is coming to drive
dull care away with its big free street
parade at noon on the day of the show
and a concert in front of the theatre
before each performance. They are
booked for one day at the Moose Tem-
ple theatre. Don’t fail to get your
seats early. Price 50c, 75c, $1.00, plus
tax.
— Albert Landis has purchased the
old Daniel Heckman property, on east
Lamb street, and on Wednesday
moved his family there from the Mrs.
Harry Taylor property, on north Penn
street.
—1If you don’t see it in the “Watch-
» vou'll know it’s not worth read- |
aii "al activity along that line.
ing.
! got back to the hole.
JOHN RICH, COMPILER
Snow-Shoveling Hogs.
To those of you who don’t know
John Rich let us say that he is the
eldest son of the late Judge Benjamin
Rich, of Unionville. He was born and
raised in a Puritanical community.
We knew him as a young man and
have reason to know that then two of
his many outstanding characteristics
John has headquarters at Tyrone
while traveling over the country sell-
ing the wonderful products of the
last we heard of him he was in Rhine-
lander, Wisconsin, and from there he
sent us the following story of the big
snow in Iowa in 1866. We have never
heard the story before. We don’t
know whether it is the figment of
John’s brain or not, but, if it is, we
want to say right here he makes the
best liar ever employed on the
“Watchman’s” staff look more truth-
ful than the boy who cut the cherry
tree down.
During the winter of 1866, he goes
on to say, it was my misfortune to be
; living in the village of Frosty Point,
on the west bank of Lake Coldwater,
Iowa. Talk about early and cold win-
ters and deep snow, that place cer-
tainly had them.
The first snow storm in the year of
1866 blew in about corn cutting time
and this first- snow was so deep that
it covered the corn to the tassels, so
the farmers had to put snow shovels
on the snouts of their hogs so they
could shovel their way into the corn
fields to get their feed.
After the hogs got educated in
handling the shovels the farmers
stuck corn stalks in the middle of the
road, about four feet apart, and the
The market price of hogs for pork
was 3 cents per pound, but for snow
shoveling hogs the price went to a
dollar.
EVERY HOUSE SNOWED UNDER.
After the second and third snow-
house in the village several feet above
the stovepipes protruding through the
roofs. It being a prairie country we
had no sawlogs we could bore holes in
and use for extensions to our stove-
pipes. The only way we could do was
to put blasting powder in the stove-
pipes every morning and blow a hole
in the snow banks to let the smoke
out. All sorts of coal and fuel was
burned, so, when we wanted to visit
one of our neighbors we would pick
out the particular neighbor we wanted
to visit by the color of his smoke, dig
down to the nearest upstairs window
and crawl in.
when all this snow melted Iowa was
so wet the State Legislature had to
pass its first drastic prohibition law
to dry it up.
WORSE THAN POLAR REGION.
If Doe. Cook or Peary should have
drifted into this section of the coun-
try during the winter of 1866, they
would have found something worse
than the North Pole. How cold it re-
ally got we do not know, because
every thermometer in town froze sol-
id before Christmas and froze so hard
they never thawed out.
It was so cold that when we poured
boiling water out through the second
story window, an icicle froze from the
ground clear up into the kettle with
such firmness that the kettle had to be
chopped loose from the icicle.
The flame on the lampwicks froze
solid and could not be blowed out at
bedtime. The only way the lamps
could be put out was to clip the flame
with a pair of tin snips, or chop it off
with an ax.
One man was careless enough to
step out doors with a chew of tobacco
in his mouth; the tobacco froze fast
to his teeth and had to be chopped out
with a cold chisel before he could open
his mouth for the next meal.
HAIR AND WHISKERS FROZEN OFF.
The village barber wore out all his
razors and scissors cutting frozen
whiskers and hair, but in order to ac-
commodate his customers until the
cold snap was over, he broke off as
i much whiskers and hair as he could
with a pair of pliers and finished the
tonsorial act with a gasoline blow
torch.
Every groundhog that ventured out
on February 2 to see his shadow was
petrified by the cold at once and never
Frozen rattle-
snakes were commonly used for walk-
ing canes by inhabitants that had
rheumatism and other leg ailments.
The only way we could keep our cats
alive after their all night’s hunting
expeditions was to put a crook in their
tail and hang them on hooks over the
cook stove during the day.
Although a winter as cold as this
was of a disadvantage, it also had its
advantages. The ice harvest during
that winter was certainly great. The
lake froze to the bottom and heaved
up and looked like a huge mound.
Every fish in the lake was frozen into
the ice, the ice was cut into pillars as
long as the ice house and hauled in on
toboggans. Besides having ice every
family had frozen fish for two years
or more.
Five Railroad Trackmen Killed.
A railroad tragedy was enacted
near the town of Grazierville, between
Tyrone and Altoona, on Saturday
morning, when five members of the di-
vision track squad were run down and
instantly killed by a passenger train.
Seven men were in the gang but two
of them flung themselves to safety
just as the train thundered by and
killed their companions. The men
killed were Charles Troy, of Fouss’
Mills; Fred W. Bridgett, Russell R.
Lowery, Eli Morrick and Harold Mec-
Clellan, all of Tipton.
— Work has not yet been started
on the new government airmail field,
near Bellefonte, but if good weather
continues it is quite likely that the
next week or two will witness unusu-
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Rich woolen mills at Woolrich. The !
hogs kept the roads open all winter. '
storm the snow had buried every
There was so much snow we had’
perfect sledding for two years and
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| Some time ago one of our local bus-
iness men made a trip through an ad-
joining State. One of the points of
interest en route was a great manu-
facturing plant, the largest of its kind
in the world. Naturally he was inter-
ested and his astonishment at the sys-
tem with which everything was done
found expression in an interview that
the publicity department of the en-
terprise was able to get with him
afterwards.
The interview was published in the
Company’s literature and sent all over
the world. This is its conclusion:
“Speaking of community better-
ment, that is one thing too often for-
gotten by most businesses in their
mad rush for money. If either a bus-
iness or an individual forgets about
their fellowmen, fails to improve
themselves, their surroundings and
, their associates, I do not think suec-
cess will come as quickly and as sure-
ly as it should. That is one of the les-
sons we can learn from the N. C. R.,”
he said.
“He was optimistic when asked
about business conditions in Belle-
fonte. Although this may be called
the ‘slow’ season, in his opinion, con-
ditions are good and there is every
reason to look for a busy spring and
summer season in alllines of trade.
The future of Bellefonte looks good to
me. Surrounded by a wonderfully rich
agricultural district and containing a
great variety of progressive manufac-
turing plants, I believe that nothing
can stop the progress of our commu-
‘ nity.”
| Look at the picture again and you
will recognize Mark W. Williams, of
| the Bellefonte Hardware Co., as he
! looked when he visited the plant of
| the National Cash Register Co., at
. Dayton, Ohio, last fall.
Alleged Deserter Arrested.
Thomas P. Benson, whose home is
stated to be at Sandy Ridge, was ar-
' rested in Huntingdon, last Friday, by
chief of police Horace Corbin as an
alleged deserter from the U. S. army.
‘ Benson, it is said, left his company in
i Texas on December 2nd traveling
overland with the intention of return-
ing home. The young man is twenty-
two years of age and unmarried. He
i was turned over to an officer of the
Carlisle army post.
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A bill introduced in the Legis-
| lature provides for salaries for coun-
| ty coroners, and should it pass and be-
come a law that official in Centre
: county would be entitled to a salary of
1 $850 a year. The coroner at present
i receives no salary but is paid in fees
for inquests held and in 1923 just
$28.25 were paid for inquests. In
Blair county the salary of the coro-
ner, under the bill now in the Legis-
lature, would be $1800; Bedford,
Huntingdon and Mifflin counties, $850,
and Juniata county, $600.
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——At the auto show in the ar-
mory last week the Woman’s Aux-
iliary of the Centre County hospital
realized $152.51 from their booth for
the sale of candies, cigars and soft
drinks. Eating, however, was below
par, as the Y. M. C. A. auxiliary made
only $50 from their lunch tables.
Lewistown Making Great Plans for
Old Home Week.
Lewistown citizens are at work and
making definite progress toward com-
pletion of the elaborate program with
which they will entertain the thous-
ands of visitors from far and near
who are planning to attend the big-
gest event of 1925 in Pennsylvania,
Lewistown’s Old Home Week, June 28
to July 4 inclusive.
The finance committee is on the
job securing the $15,000 for the bud-
get which will put across, in char-
acteristic Lewistown style, the num-
erous features of the week which the
21 special committees are planning to
carry out for the entertainment of
Mifflin county’s former sons and
daughters who will be their guests
for the week.
The week will begin with special
service in all churches Sunday which
will be followed by opening day, Old
Home day, Industrial, mercantile and
civic day, fireman's day, fraternal day
and military day, with parades on the
last four mentioned days. The Stand-
ard steel works have offered the use
of their splendid band the entire week
and the executive committee will en-
gage several other bands to supply
the music during the week. The ad-
vertising committee is about to start
a campaign which will make Lewis-
town’s Old Home Week known over
the length and breadth of the old Key-
stone State by every method known
to the advertising art. :
A contract has been signed with
the John B. Rodgers company to di-
rect the monster out-door Listorical
pageant which will be given during
the week depicting the history of the
county from the middle of the eigh-
teenth century to 1925. The Kiwanis
club has placed at the disposal of the
Old Home Week committee its tourist
camp site which will accommodate
several hundred tourists with all nec-
essary conveniences to spend the week
out of doors.
EE TE ERE EI IRS FA A aay
Gordon Defends Proposed Changes in
the Game Laws.
Seth Gordon, secretary to the State
Game Commission, has the following
to say in answer to articles that re-
cently appeared in some papers of the
State opposing passage of bills that
the Commission has asked the present
Legislature to enact into law.
Several newspapers have carried
articles attempting to have the sports-
men believe that the present board of
Game Commissioners is trying to se-
cure an amendment to the law so that
they may collect pay for services ren-
dered, when in reality there is no
such intention. :
The bill attacked is House bill No.
231, introduced by Representative
Wells, of Potter county, and passed
by the House after careful considera-
tion by the Game committee. The in-
tent of this bill is simply to clarify
the purposes for which the Game
Commission may spend its funds, and
especially to make this portion of the
game code agree with the administra-
tive code and present practices, and
no new high-salaried positions are be-
ing created by this bill. Section 201
of the game code specifically says,
“The members of the Board shall re-
ceive no compensation for their serv-
ices,” and Section 209 of the adminis-
trative code specifically states, “The
members of the Board of Game Com-
missioners * * * ghall not receive
any compensation.” The Wells bilF
does not provide any compensation
for the members of the Board, but
does make it possible to pay traveling
and other expenses of the board,
which has been permitted under law
for a number of years.
The Wells bill, now in the hands of
the Senate, also covers the expendi-
ture of moneys from the game fund
for the purchase of fur-bearing ani-
mals for propagation purposes, prineci-
pally to cover the purchase of bea-
vers, which have been re-established
in certain localities by the board, as
well as the purchase of raccoons.
Since the trappers of the State pay a
license the same as other sportsmen,
there is no good reason why some of
the game fund should not be spent
for this purpose.
The Wells bill also provides the:
necessary appropriation to continue
paying for damages done by bears
and to assist land-owners in building
deer-proof fences, for which activities
two appropriations were made by sep-
arate acts of the Legislature in 1923.
This bill will make it possible to con--
tinue such payments from year to:
year from the game fund in limited
specific amounts annually without ad-
ditional legislative enactments, and
eliminates two of the special funds:
now held in the State Treasury.
Lock Haven Takes Chance of Cham-
pionship from Tyrone.
Playing off their tie im the Moun-
tain League basket ball association on
pthe Y. floor in this place, Wednesday
night, the Lock Haven High school
quintette eliminated the Tyrone drib-
blers to the tune of 39 to 18. Ty-
rone seemed out of form and was
greatly outclassed. The Lock Haven
team brought a lot of rooters, but the
Bellefonte contingent in the audience
remained neutral and devoted their
applause to good plays on either side.
Just before the championship affair
the local High Freshmen girls team
vanquished the Sophomores, in a stir-
ring game by the score of 32 to 25.
——A marriage license was grant-
ed in Hollidaysburg on Tuesday to
Arthur M. Wensel and Miss Gladys A.
Holter, both of Howard.
——Sheriff E. R. Taylor has twen-
ty-one regular boarders in the Centre
county jail.
CENTRE HALL.
Franklin Ruble spent a day with
his mother, Mrs. Sallie Ruble.
“Danny” Bohn moved onto the
Brockerhoff farm on Wednesday.
Rev. and Mrs. B. F. Bieber, of Mun-
cy, spent Tuesday night with friends
in town.
D. M. Bradford moved into his new
home, originally the John H. Krum-
bine home, on Thursday.
_The Juniors of the C. H. H. S. will
give a play this (Friday) evening, en-
titled “Engaged by Wednesday.”
Mr. and Mrs. Asher Stahl spent a
few days at the home of Mrs. James
Stahl, who made sale of some of her
goods.
The ladies of our burg are at pres-
ent in the quilting business. About
three days a week are devoted to this
pastime.
Rev. J. F. Bingman, of the Evan-
gelical church, is making preparations
to remove his family to New Kings-
ton, his new home.
Eva Bailey spent Sunday at her
home in this place, bringing with her
a school friend, Miss Miller, also a
Penn State student.
Harry E. Weaver and son James,
of Altoona, were in town on Saturday
and Sunday. They report the family
well and happily located.
Dr. Hugh Morrow, who succeeds
Dr. Longwell, is already on the field
looking after all patients who are not
taking special treatments.
Mrs. Baner, of Pittsburgh, spent a
week taking care of her uncle, Janes
Smetzler. Mr. Smetzler has improv-
ed enough to walk out a little.
A baby daughter was born to DMr.
and Mrs. James Searson, on Tuesday
morning. It is the first grand-child
and has made both parents and grand-
parents very happy.
Bruce Rowe, of Philadelphia, re-
cently spent a few days with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Rowe. Bruce
is on his way to Mexico, where a po-
sition is awaiting him.
Mr. and Mrs. Shelton, of Millheim,
and Mrs. Shelton’s mother, Mrs. Sue
Meyer, who lives near Penn Hall,
called at the Mrs. Margaret Smith
home on Sunday. Mrs. Smi‘h’s son
Witmer was also a guest there.
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