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Ethical Hymn.
Be good, and help your fellow man
The way of goodness to pursue;
Be this your constant aim and plan;
So shall you gain the grander view.
Be not content with duty done;
A brighter goal is still in sight;
Strive for the right from sun to sun,
So shall you ever live in light.
Reck not of pleasure nor of pain;
Surpass yourself and seek the best;
So shall you finally attain
The immortal vision of the blest.
Plinthourgos.
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Revoliintionary Soldiers and Real
Daiighters Graves to be Marked.
The graves of the following Revolu-
tionary soldiers and Real Daughters,
in Centre county, will be marked on
Memorial day with Betsy Ross flags,
furnished by the Bellefonte Chapter
D. A. R.
If any reader of this paper knows of
the location of other Revolutionary
soldiers’ graves in the county, not ap-
pearing in this list, proper attention
will be given the graves on future
Memorial days by communicating
with Mrs. P. H. Dale, State College.
or Mrs. H. C. Valentine, Bellefonte.
Union Cemetery, Bellefonte.—Col. James
Dunlop, James Harris, Hon. Andrew
Gregg, Capt. Joshua Williams, Eliza and
Harriet DeHass (real Daughters.)
Old Milesburg Cemetery.—Capt. Richard
Miles and wife, Col. John ‘Holt and. wife,
Capt. James Miles (Navy), Lieut. Robert
Fleming and wife, William Lee, Joseph
White (Dragoon), Samuel Howe. Monu-
ment. ¢
Rebersburg.—Henry Meyer, Philip Mey-
er, Jacob Kehl.
Wolf's Chapel.—Lower Fort Marker.
Gray’s Cemetery, Halfmeon.—David Wil-
liams, from Downingtown.
Pine Grove Mills,~Gen. John Patton,
John Goheen:- "hE
Old Fort—D. A. R. Monument, Monu-
ment Indian Lane.
Heckman Cemetery.— Wilhelm Long,
Christian Miller, Jobn Adams Sontag.
Centre Hill Cemetery.—George Woods,
Henry McEwen, John Wasson.
Keller Farm. —James Huston,
Rebersburg Cemetery. —Spangler Monu-
ment, George Xtian Spangler, George
Spangler,
Shydertown==Johh Biiyder,
Boalsburg wshd Siab Cabin Graveyard,
fhe Branch.=—Henry Dale, Jacob Keller,
Peter Shuey, Eleazer Evans, Major Andrew
Hunter, Michael Jack on Boal’s new farm.
New Curtin Cemetery.—Philip Barnhart
and wife, Lawrence Bathurst, Evan Rus-
sell (Old Cemetery).
Lick Run Cemetery, Jacksonville. —
Capt. William Swanzey, Capt. Thomas
Askey, Mathew Allison, David Lamb, Mrs.
Mary A. Rishel (Real Daughter).
William Vaughn, near Henderson's
School House or Mt. Pleasant Church.
ee reese.
Trial List for May Court.
Following is the trial list for the
May term of court:
Margaret Ellen Baumgardner vs. Cath-
erine Baumgardner (with notice to George
L. Baumgardner, John 8S. Baumgardner,
€. C. Baumgardner and Alice Herman,
terre tenants.) Sci fa sur judgment.
L. E. Kidder vs. George M. Raines.
assumpsit.
W. L. Hicks, executor of the last will
and testament of John W.Thomas,deceased,
vs. Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Tres-
pass.
W. L. Hicks in his own right, and W. L.
Hicks, executor, etc., of John W. Thomas,
deceased, vs. P. R. R. Trespass.
Mrs. Rosa Schlogel, surviving widow and
executor of Joseph Schlogel, deceased, vs.
P. R. R. Trespass.
H. L. Orr vs. Mrs. Julia Peters and Ed-
ward A. Peters, her husband. Ejectment.
Paul Kassob, Isaac Kassob and Casper
Kassob, trading as Kassob Bros., vs. H. A.
Mark, Laura B. Mark and John E. Mark,
trading as the H. A. Mark Motor Co. Tres-
pass.
William A. Carson vs. Hulda S. Meyer.
Assumpsit.
First National Bank of Osceola Mills, a
Corporation, vs. H. T. Pownall. Assump-
sit.
J. H. Rockefeller, Receiver and Trustee
of the Bird Coal and Iron Co. vs. David
Chambers. Assumpsit.
Anna M. Keichline vs. Thomas J. Deck-
er and Colonel G. Decker, trading and do-
ing business as Decker Bros. Assumpsit.
John C. Marks vs. Penn Mutual Fire In-
surance company, of Chester county. As-
sumpsit.
Clarence J. Speicher and Lloyd B. Shoop,
trading and doing business under the firm
name of Official Football Schedule Print-
ing Co. vs. Hugh B. Wagner. Assumpsit.
Andrew Thal and Bertha Thal, his wife,
vs. J. V. Foster. Trespass.
H. H. Fye vs. David Chambers.
sumpsit.
George E. Harper and Mary E. Harper
vs. G. D, Morrison and Myrtle Morrison,
Non
As-
his wife. Assumpsit.
Robert Meyers Walker by his next
friend, Robert Meyers, vs. Charles N.
Decker. Trespass. :
Robert Meyers vs. Charles N. Decker.
Trespass.
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—1If it’s readable, it is here.
Tornado Sweeps Across Pennsylvania.
Houses, Barns, Orchards and Other Property Wrecked by
Wind, Rain and Fire.
The Loss Will Run
Into Hundreds of Thousands.
CENTRE COUNTY HIT HARD.
Probably what will be recorded as
the worst storm of record swept
through Central Pennsylvania last
Sunday afternoon causing property
losses that will mount into millions of
dollars.
In fury approaching cyclonic pro-
portions the wind reached terriffic ve-
locity, rain fell in torrents and lurid
lightning struck terror to people in its
path who had never seen such a men-
acing natural phenomena before.
The storm seems to have come from
Southeastern Ohio, sweeping over the
Pittsburgh region, Scottdale, Johns-
town, Towanda, Altoona, Tyrone,
striking Centre county beyond Storms-
town and traveling in a southeasterly
direction across “the Barrens” to
State College and thence down Penns-
valley to Centre Hill where it went
over the Tussey mountain into the
Kishacoquillas valley.
While great damage was done all
along its course parts of Centre coun-
ty suffered as never before from a
storm. 3
At Altoona several buildings were
entirely demolished, many rooves
blown off, windows broken and trees
uprooted. Glunt’s garage was first
unroofed then the entire building
blown over,
Near Berwindale a farm barn was
lifted from its foundation and whirled
onto a nearby public road. A horse
that was in it at the time being pin-
ned under the wreckage.
At Bellwood a party of children
playing in the barn of Walter Sher-
wood had just left the structure when
it collapsed. It was one of the largest
barns in that section and was filled
with hay, straw and grain.
At Cresson the historic St. Aloys-
ius church was almost completely
wrecked. The entire rear end was
blown out and one of its spires car-
ried seventy-five feet to the William
Penn highway. Nearly one hundred
children were at Sunday school in the
building at the time, but not one was
injured.
At Tyrone the greatest damage was
done to the P. R. R. station. Most of
the roof on that building was ripped
off and a heavy motor baggage truck
picked up and hurtled onto the Main
line tracks.
Fully half a million dollars’ damage
was done ‘in“the ‘Kishiacoquillas allay
where the tornado swept over a path
of 300 yards in width and possibly ten
miles in length. Buildings were
wrecked, houses and barns unroofed,
orchards ruined and general desola-
tion left in the wake of the storm.
Perhaps the greatest damage was
done in the vicinity of Belleville where
the mills of the Belleville Flour Mills.
company were wrecked by the wind
and the wreckage burned. New ma-
chinery installed a couple of months
ago was completely ruined and 3,000
bushels of grain, 1,600 barrels of flour
and 300 tons of feed destroyed.
Messrs, Post and Kurtz say their loss
will easily reach $100,000.
The shops of the K. and V. railroad
were also blown down. Housed in the
shops were two locomotives, the total
motive power of the road. These were
buried in the wreckage and even if not | cut off between State College and the '
damaged the temporary loss of the lo- |
comotive automatically put the road
out of business.
Hertzler and Zook’s store, a build-
ing 30 by 50 feet being used as a fae-
tory was wrecked and the machinery
ruined. The home of Jacob Hostellet
suffered = severely, the front of the
house being blown in and the roof re-
moved:. Solomon Byler’s house and
barn were unroofed and the barn and
garage of Banks Sausman were total-
ly destroyed. The front of Sherman
Steel’s home was blown in, the furni-
ture being blown out of the second
story rooms.
A peculiar freak of the storm was
noticed. at the homes of Mrs. Eliza-
beth McClintock and James F. Wills.
The rooves of both houses were blown
off and the windows across blown in
while directly across the street the
home of Joseph Young was not even
scratched. Shade trees in front of the
home of W. B. McClay were uprooted,
his roof blown off and windows blown
in.
No favorites in families were play-
ed by the storm for John Carson and
his: brother George, who live on ad-
joining farms, suffered identically the
same damage, their homes and barns
being unroofed. The same was true
of Kady and I. Z. Hertzler whose
homes and barns were unroofed.
COURSE OF THE STORM THROUGH
CENTRE COUNTY.
First accounts of the storm reaching
this office having been to the effect
that its devastation was over a well
defined course two of the Watchman
writers determined to track it from
the point it struck the Centre county
line to that of its departure. Starting
up the Buffalo Run valley inquiry was
made at all points between Bellefonte
and Loveville, without finding that
anything more than a severe rain and
windstorm had passed over without
doing any noticeable damage.
At Marengo and Pennsylvania Fun-
nace information was to the effect
that the storm of wind and rain had
been very bad but there was no dam-
age done. At those places observers
were of the opinion that it had reach-
ed the peak of its fury while sweeping
eastward along the side of Tussey
mountain.
Finding no trace of damage clear
across the western end of the county
we started east toward Pine Grove,
then veered to the left, taking the
White Hall road down to the High-
way that leads to State College. At
no place could we see or hear of a
tree or fence down and almost we
were persuaded that the storm was a
myth until driving into State College
we noticed a large tree that had stood
in front of Dr. Wm. S. Glenn Jr. home
on west College Ave., was down, No
other evidence of an unusual storm in
the western end of that place was
noticed until we entered the campus
of the College. There there was all
the evidence in the world that an
unusual wind storm had suddenly
dropped out of the sky to show earth
what it could do. The havoc it played
with buildings and trees convinced us
that the storm was not a general
sweeping one, but rather one of the
kind that rose and fell at the whim of
the elements. : s
Stars to Warriors-Mark, which was
blocked until late Sunday evening
with fallen trees, silos and rooves of
small buildings, to the campus of the
Pennsylvania State Coliege, a distance
there had been an unusual blow. From
there east on a southerly course there
was every evidence that a tornado
had gone through until it struck the
end ot Nittany mountain back of Le-
mont,
laid waste a swath' 100 yards® wide,
still easterly and south, down over
the county toward Centre Hall and
thence into the Seven mountains
where it twisted over into the Kisha-
coquillas valley.
MILLBROOK HARD HIT.
At Millbrook, the new development
between Lemont and State College, it
seems to have reached the height of
its fury. There is where the Watkins
house was turned completely upside
down. Some stories are to the effect
that it rolled over three times but
they are not the fact. It might have
done so, but going over the roof
wedged in an old foundation holding
the structure fast with the roof in
what was once a cellar and the base
of the house in the air.
When we reached that place Lloyd
Houtz and his family were busy
salvaging the wreckage of his garage,
chicken house and other out-build-
ings. Boards, bits of roofing, hay,
corn, dead chickens and whatnot were
Houtz has a fine looking, well con-
structed home there so we inquired as
to whether he had noticed it sway or
creak. He was sure.the house stood
staunch against the gale although he
thought he had heard a crack. His
wife was certain that ‘the house had
not been damaged in the slightest.
Asked as to the appearance of the
storm, as to whether it appeared in
the form of a funnel shaped cloud he
replied that it became so dark .that he
couldn’t see even from his heuse to
the building that was demolished,
though it was less than 200 ft. away.
He said that it looked to him just
like a blinding sheet of snow and was
so dark that the only time he could
distinguish objects was when light-
ning flashed. It was his idea that the
time was near about 2 o'clock, yet at
storm they had was about 4 o’clock.
GAUGING THE WIDTH OF THE SWATH
At no place did we ‘have such a
perfect opportunity to gauge the
| width of the tornado as on top of the
Thompson homestead. The storm
seemed to have coursed through the
ravine, curling around over the new
Keller garage from which the roof was
lifted, missing entirely the sewage
i disposal plant, tearing the tops off all
| the willows in the Thompson meadow
and uprooting two-thirds of the trees
{in a long narrow orchard on the hill-
side to the south. Its line was clearly
"marked there for on the top of the
, hill above the orchard not a tree was
down. The entire width of the swath
there appeared to be not more than
200 yds.
Details of the destruction wrought
in the county follow:
| DETAILS OF THE DESTRUCTION. -
As stated above the first real trace
of the storm,
upon Centre county from the west,
was a fallen tree in front of the Dr.
. W. S. Glenn Jr., home in State Col-
ilege. On the college grounds a few
big limbs were blown from the old
trees on the front campus and in the
woods back of the experiment station
fifteen or more trees were uprooted
and blown down, with limbs torn from
a dozen or more other trees. About
one-fourth of the roof at the old
horse barn was torn off, the silo un-
roofed and partially collapsed. One
window was blown in at the green
house and a small portion of the roof
of the barn on the old Musser farm
carried away.
The force of the storm was next
manifest at the Penn State garage,
at the eastern end of the College,
where the roof on the entire building
collapsed. Down in the hollow below
the sewage disposal plant, on the old
Thompson farm, the college has an
orchard with upward of two hundred
trees. It is located on the side of the
hill and probably one half of the trees
were either up-rooted or were dam-
aged by broken limbs. To the north
of the old road is a line of willow trees
and while only a few of them were
blown down the tops and big limbs
were torn from most every tree. On
the higher ground not a tree or build-
ing was damaged.
Down at the Evergreens a number
of the big pine trees surrounding the
old Thompson home, now owned by
David Garver, were blown down and
about one quarter of the barn roof
ripped off. At Millbrook the frame
stable at the home of Fern Struble
was entirely wrecked and his car
was left standing in the open appar-
ently not damaged in the least. A
small portion of the roof of Mr.
Struble’s house was also torn away.
Earl Kline’s house was partially
unroofed and the orchards of John
Hoy and John Fishel, next in line,
were badly damaged. Quite a num-
ber of the largest trees were up-root-
From the road leading from Seven '
of fifteen miles there was no sign that
it, carromed off, dipped down
again in the vicinity of Oak Hall and’
scattered for a distance of 300 ft. Mr.
Penna. Furnace they told us the worst |
which swooped down
ed and big limbs torn from others. |!
A small garage belonging to a Mr.
Kustaborder was partially wrecked,
but not blown down. Po {
THE WATKINS HOUSE TURNED OVER.
Just north of the Kustaborder prop-
erty stood a small frame house occu-
pied by Edward Watkins and family.
Mrs. Watkins was away from home
at the time while Mr. Watkins and
his five children were sitting around
the stove. The force of the wind
struck the top of the house and turned
the building over so that the roof
stuck down in an old foundation
along-side of where it stood. The
house was not wrecked but every-
thing inside of it was naturally turn-
ed topsy-turvy. Four of the children
escaped injury but Mr. Watkins was
hurt by the stove falling against him
and one child hurt, though not ser-
iously. Mr. Watkins was brought to
the Centre County hospital where his
worst injury was found to be a four
inch laceration in the small of the
back, but his condition is not consid-
ered serious. The Watkins family
had only recently moved to Millbrook :
from Runville.
{Just east of the house occupied by
i Watkins stood the garage of Lloyd
dynamite couldn’t have wrecked
more completely than did Sunday’s
storm. It was completely demolished,
garage and .the only damage done it
was a, bent* fender and the tire carrier
blown off. ‘A’chicken house s
"to the garage and it was also demol-’
ished. Five chickens were killed: and
i the rest disappeared, and up to Mon-
| day afternoon Mr. Houtz had secured
, no trace of them.
| At the Ed Gross home all the out-
| buildings were blown down and the
‘ posts blown out from under his front
porch,
| Next in the path of the storm was
the Jesse Klinger home, formerly
the Michael Grove farm. A smail
strip of the barn roof was torn off
“and about a third of the roof sagged
(in.
hay probably saved it from further
damage. About one-third of the sheet
i roofing was torn from the house but
: nothing inside damaged.
A big elm tree in the yard of the L.
: F. Mayes home at Lemont was blown
down, and a few trees along Spring
creek uprooted, but no buildings
damaged. Along the point of Nittany
mountain two Small frame houses
were somewhat damaged.
Down at Oak Hall one end of the
barn on the Harry Wagner farm was
wrecked and the most of the roof car-
{ ried away.
On down the valley on the farm
owned by Clyde Dutrow and occupied
+by Raymond Walker. the roof was
{torn from the barn and the western
! end blown in.
| Next to suffer was the barn on the
‘farm recently purchased by Morris
i Burkholder from William Walker. It
{ was so badly wrecked that it will have
: to be rebuilt from the stables up.
i On the 'W. S. Brooks farms, occu-
pied. by George [Ralston and Guy,
, Brooks,:both barns were considerably
(20eged. “gate “a Ea
“badly” damaged from: the stables up
“that it may have to be rebuilt.
«The barn on the John Felding farm,
occupied by Wallace White, was also
badly wrecked and it is a question if
3 can be repaired without tearing it
own,
| COW KILLED IN PENNSVALLEY.
A portion of the roof was blown
from the barn on the Al Spayd farm,
tenanted by Morris Burkholder, and
one of the latter's cows killed and
another injured.
At Centre Hill the barn on the
Lloyd R. Smith farm was entirely
demolished, just as if it had been
grasped in the hand of a giant and
crushed like an egg shell. Right across
the road opposite the Smith barn
stands the James Goodhart barn from
which the entire roof was torn. This
ended the destruction in this district.
NEAR PANIC AT ROCKVIEW.
At the Rockview penitentiary the
wind ‘blew down a 125-foot smoke
stack at the boiler house next the
dormitory, causing about $1,000 dam-
age. Preaching services were being
held in the dormitory at the time and
the fall of the stack naturally created
great excitement among the prisoners.
It grew dark almost as night and as
the great stack went crashing down
on the one side of the building the 500
inmates made a wild scramble to the
other. Many were trampled, one be-
ing so seriously injured that he had
to be taken to the institution’s infirm-
ary. James H. Potter, of this place,
helping in the conduct of the service,
was struck by a tilting piano bench
and thought at first he had suffered
some fractured ribs, but later exam-
ination proved his injury to be noth-
ing more than a severe bruise.
In Bellefonte the storm did ro
damage but considerable rain fell
during its progress. The service of
the Keystone Power corporation was
interrupted in the outlying districts,
and up near Millbrook four poles of
the high tension line were blown
down. All lights were off almost an
hour in the evening while repairs were
being made but by eight o’clock every-
thing was in running order again.
.——The leceal branch of the I. B. S.
A. has secured the services of J. B.
Williams, of New York, to give a free
lecture in the Scenic theatre on Sun-
day, April 26th, at 3 p. m., on the sub-
ject, “Time of Deliverance—Millions
Now Living will Never Die.” The
| kingdom for which christians have so
! long prayed for is at the door. All
are invited to hear this message of
! comfort from the Bible standpoint.
er ere fp eseee—
——The hearing in the application
! of the Fullington Bus company for a
certificate of public convenience to op-
erate a bus line between Bellefonte
‘and Bald Eagle, which was to have
been held before the Public Service
Commission in Harrisburg yesterday,
has been continued until April 30th.
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Highway, Oil Truck Goes Through
Coburn Bridge.
A big oiling truck of the State
Highway Department crushed through
the bridge at Coburn, about 8 o’clock
on Wednesday morning, and landed
twelve feet below in the channel of
Penn’s creek. The truck was just
leaving Coburn for Millheim with a
load of oil for the state highway and
as the front part of it got onto the
bridge there was a crash of falling
timbers and the ponderous machine
turned nose downwards. The driver
and his assistant both jumped and es-
caped without injury but the momen-
tum of the truck carried it forward
far enough that it went down with a
crash.
Highway men from other sections
of the county were called into service
and on Wednesday evening the truck
was pulled out of the stream by a
tractor and another big oiling truck.
Fortunately the water is low enough
in the stream that improvised fords
can be used both above and below the
| crumpled bridge.
i
,Houtz. It was a frame structure and |
wn!
portions of it being carried 200 feet the latter was not damaged. The!
away. Mr. Houtz had his car in the!
The fact that the mow is full of !
“On the Henry Potter farm, tenanted i.
~ by Ira ‘Whiteman, .the. barn. was 80] + »
a “After a hectic
An examination of the structure
after the accident resulted in the be-
lief that the timbers on the bridge
slipped off the iron superstructure, as
bridge is one of the four between Co-
burn and Millheim belonging to the
turnpike company, and a force of men
were put to.work yesterddy repairing
the structure. -
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Former Bellefonte Boy Roots for
Home Team in New York.
Last week the Bellefonte Academy
baseball team took its first trip away
from home this season.
to Lancaster by motor for a Friday
game with Franklin and Marshall and
had the collegians in the hole 5 to 0
by the end of the second inning when
rain put an end to the contest.
From there they drove to Philadel-
phia where they took a train for New
York city to play the freshmen of
New York University on Saturday.
That game was more or less of a slug-
fest in the opening innings, but the
Academy boys tightened up after the
third and won by the score of 15 to 8.
A pleasant feature of the trip was
the courtesy with which a former
Bellefonte boy, now successful in bus-
iness in the metropolis, treated the
players wearing the colors of the old
school at his old home town. Having
noticed that they were to play in the
city he cancelled another engagement,
met them on the ball field and there
extended the key to his noted pleas-
ure resort “The Cinderella,” at 48th
and Broadway. We refer to “Manny”
Joseph, son of the late Emil Joseph,
of this place, who has grown big in
New York, but not too big to remem-
ber the folks,in the place of his birth,
Potter-Hoy-Wins Cup.
°
of excitement and pep, the PottersHoy
bowling: team came “from behind and
lowered the colors of the American
Lime and Stone team.
Getting off to a poor start the Pot-
ter-Hoy boys lost the first three
games. At the beginning of the fourth
game it was apparent that the steam
roller tactics of this team would snow
the opposition under. The final sum-
ming up of the totals left no doubt in
the minds of the crowd of spectators
as to which was the better team, Pot-
ter-Hoy winning by 267 pins.
The Potter-Hoy team is to be con-
gratulated on their well earned victo-
ry, and the American Lime team on
their splendid sportsmanship in defeat.
The teams were composed of the fol-
lowing:
American Lime and Stone—Miles
Barr, John Dunn, George Bingaman,
Harold Mabee.
Potter-Hoy— Dr. R. B. Tinsley, F.
H. Crawford, W. H. Kline, C. E. Wil-
liams. *
State Highway Oiling Schedule and
Detours.
Included ‘in the State highway oil-
ing schedule for the week ending May
2nd are the following highways:
Centre County—Millheim Union
county line. Rebersburg-Livonia,
Bellefonte-Huntingdon county line,
Spring Mills-Old Fort, Philipsburg-
and point .33 miles southeast, Philips-
burg-Morrisdale, Powelton-Sandy
Ridge.
Detours in Centre county have been
laid between Port Matilda and Snow
Shoe Intersection; Snow Shoe and
Gum Stump; Philipsburg and Snow
Shoe, and Port Matilda and Tyrone.
Word has been received in
Bellefonte of the death on April 2nd,
at the Hollenbeck home for the aged,
Los Angeles, Cal., of Miss Kate Mec-
Minn. She was a native of Centre
county, having been born 87 years
ago in Potter township, where she
spent the early part of her life. She
went to California about forty years
ago. A dozen or more years ago she
went to the home named above where
she rounded out her long life. Bur-
ial was made at Los Angeles on April
4th.
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—*“America,” the wonderful moving
| picture depicting the big periods in
American history, should be seen by
every one, both young and old. At
Moose Temple theatre Thursday, Fri-
day and Saturday, April 23, 24 and
25. 16-2t.
———Father’s day at Penn State will
be celebrated this year on May 1 and
2,
It journeyed
nine game series, full”
SMITH.—William J. Smith died
quite suddenly at the home of Mrs.
Flora O. Bairfoot, “in ~ Centre - Hall,
shortly after six o'clock on Monday
evening, as the result of a stroke of
apoplexy. He had gone out to mow
the lawn and gone across the yard
several times when he evidently be--
came ill and sat down on a box. A
minute or so later he fell over and
neighbors hurried to his side and as-
sisted in carrying him into the house:
but death ensued almost instantly.
He was a son of Peter and Mary
Lohr Smith and was born in Belle-
fonte on November 24th, 1872, hence.
had reached the age of 52 years, 4.
months and 27 deays.
His boyhood life was spent in Belle--
fonte and when thirteen years of age
he entered the stationery store of
Sydney Bairfoot, located in the Rey-
nolds bank building, as errand boy,
and a few years later when Mr. Bair--
foot’s health failed and he sold out
and moved to Centre Hall Willianx
was prevailed upon to go with him
for two weeks. At the expiration of
that time he was induced to stay and
when Mr. Bairfoot died he exacted a
promise from the young man to re-
main with Mrs. Bairfoot as long as:
; she might need him. The result was
he continued making his home there
until his death. :
His survivors include his mother
and the following brothers and sis-
ters: Mrs. Joseph Massey, of Belle-
fonte; Mrs. Witmer W." Smith, of
Milesburg; Charles, at home; Luther,
on the old Alexander farm; Thomas;
of Centre Hall; John, at home, and
Bee Joseph Ross, of Bellefonte, R..
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He was a member of the Lutheran
church at Centre Hall and the pastor
had charge of the funeral services,
which were held at two o'clock yester-
day afternoon, burial being made in
the Bairfoot lot in the Centre Hall
cemetery.
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SPANGLER.—James B. Spangler;.
a retired farmer of Potter township,
died last Thursday evening at the:
home of his daughter, Mrs. Myra Re--
becca Wolfe, at Juniata, Blair county,
where he had been making his home
for some time. His death was the re-
sult of one week’s illness with the.
grip. |
Deceased was a son of Jacob and’
Catherine Wagner Spangler and was
born at Tusseyville on April 4th, 1847,
hence was 78 years and 12 days old.
He followed farming practically all
his life until his retirement a few
years ago. A Democrat in politics he:
filled a number of township offices:
during his life. He was a member of ’
the Evangelical church and a good.
citizen in every way.
He married Miss Effemia Fortney,
of Tusseyville, who died in 1916, but
surviving him are a son and daugh-
ter,.John J. Spangler, of Chicago, iil, -
11and Mrs. Wolfe, of Juniata. . He also
“ {leaves seven grand-children and one
sister, Mrs. A. D. Rishel,” of “Arkan-
sas, Funeral services were held at
-the “Wolfe home on Monday morning
and’ the: same’ day the remains were:
taken by train to Centre Hall and:
from there direct to the Zion Hill
cemetery, near Tusseyville, for burial..
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BENNER.—Philip H. We the:
last of his generation of that well
known family, died at the home of his:
daughter, Mrs. Harvey Tiessler, on:
east Howard street, last Saturday, as:
the result of general debility.
He was a son of Henry and Sarah
Otto Benner and was born on the old:
family homestead at Rock Forge on.
May 4th, 1844, hence was almost.
eighty-one years old. The greater:
part of his life was spent in farming
but following the death of his wife a.
number of years ago he retired and.
had since been making his home.
among his children. He was a life-
long member of the Methodist church:
and a good citizen in every way.
His survivers include the following"
children: John W. Benner, of Belle-
fonte; Mrs. Hezekiah Hoy, of Shiloh;;
Mrs. Gray Hastings, of Avis; Mrs..
Harvey Tressler, of Bellefonte; Clar-
ence Benner, of Spring township, and:
Mrs. Ruth Saxion, of Apollo.
Rev. M. C. Piper had charge of the:
funeral services which were held at:
10 o’clock on Tuesday morning, burial
being made in the family plot in the:
Shiloh cemetery.
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MOORE.—W. Sherrid Moore, a
well known farmer and stock buyer, of
Mooresville, Huntingdon county, died’
last Thursday as the result of a:
heart attack. He was 61 years old
and well known throughout the west-
ern end of Centre county. His wife
died a month ago but surviving him
are two sons and one brother. Burial
was made at Mooresville on Sunday
mornir. + and ameng Ferguson town-
ship people who, attended the funeral
were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gilliland, Oscar
Gilliland, Mr. and Mrs. Jolin Quinn,
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. P. Irvin, Eugenn
Irvin, Mac and Brooks Fry.
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SNYDER.—William Taylor Sny er,
a veteran of the Civil war, died at the
Mercy hospital, Altoona, on Monday
morning, as the result of infection.
On April first he assisted in a moving’
at Rock Springs and ran a splinter in
his hand. Ten days later the wound
became infected and caused lis death.
He was a native of Huntingdon
county and was eighty years old. He
served during the Civil war as a mem-
beer of the 8rd artillery. His wife
died six weeks ago but he is survived
by eleven children. The remains were
taken to Huntingdon for burial.
——On Saturday morning, April
25th, the Catholic girls’ club will hold
a bake sale in the Mott drug store.