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Church Services Next -Sunday
BOALSBURG LUTHERAN CHARGE.
Services for Sunday, June 7:
Boalsburg—Sunday school 9 a. m.;
Preaching services 10.30 a. m. No
Christian Endeavor.
Shiloh—Sunday school 9.30 a. m.
Pleasant Gap—Sunday school 9.30
a.m,
W. J. Wagner, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Sunday school at 9:45; morning
worship at 10:45, topic, “The Marks
of a Christian.” Evening worship at
7:30, topic “The Son of Consolation.”
William C. Thompson, Pastor.
ST. JOHN'S REFORMED CHURCH.
Services next Sunday morning at
10:45, sermon, “The Holy Trinity.”
Evening service at 7:30. Sunday
school at 9:30 a. m.
Ambrose M. Schmidt, D. D. Pastor.
BOALSBURG REFORMED.
Boalsburg, church school 9:15 a. m.
Catechetical class, Saturday at 7 p. m.
Pine Grove Mills, public worship at
10:30 a. m.
Pine Hall, church school 9:30 a. m.
Children’s day service 7:30 p. m.
Rev. W. W. Moyer, Pastor.
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W. S. Williams Awarded Contract to
Build New Richelieu Theatre.
On Wednesday W. S. Williams was
awarded the contract for the erection
of the new Richelieu theatre on the
site of the old Wilson property, on
High street, and work on razing the
old brick house was begun yesterday.
The new theatre will be erected by
Charles H. Richelieu and Howard J.
Thompson, and both gentlemen stated
to a “Watchman” representative on
Wednesday that it will be a $100,000
play house. It will face sixty feet on
High street and extend back to the
present garage on the alley. The
building will be of fireproof construc-
tion and finished and equipped
throughout on a plane with all up-to-
date theatres. Construction of the
building will be pushed as rapidly as
possible so as to have the theatre in
shape for the opening of the fall sea-
son of shows.
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The Rev. Charles Homer Knox
landed a 22% inch trout, on Tuesday
morning, that weighed 41 lbs. He
caught the beauty on minnow in the
lime-kiln dam, just below town.
——The High school alumni dance
in the armory will-be held this (Fri-
day) evening. The Banjo-Saxophone |
orchestra, of Harrisburg, will furnish
the music.
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Next Week the Great Races.
Four of the world’s fastest automo-
biles, piloted by drivers of interna-
tional renown, have just been added
to the entry list of the June 13 classic
here at the Altoona speedway by Fred
Duesenberg, widely known sportsman
and automotive engineer.
Three drivers of the four-car team
have been already named. These are
Peter DePaolo, the illustrious nephew
of the famous Ralph DePalma; Phil
Shaffer, one of the most sensational
drivers of the roaring road, and Pete
Kries, whose rapid climb to the
heights of renown in racing has been
one of the remarkable events of the
year.
With these three premier pilots
selected and announced by the famous
sportsman owner of the cars, keen in-
terest has been aroused in racing
circles over the man who will be chosen
for the fourth car. The wheels of one
of these super-speed mounts is one of
the most coveted in motordom as the
late Joe Boyer won last year’s India-
napolis contest with one of these ma-
chines.
All of the fast entries will pass the
qualifying lap tests, conducted by
Fred J. Wagner, internationally
known starter, at a speed predicted
around 130 miles an hour, with the
average for the long, 250-mile grind
forecast at above 120 miles an hour.
Every inch of the huge mile-and-a
quarter board oval has been rigidly
inspected and the special crews of
steel workers are rushing the comple-
tion of the heavy steel band at the
outer rim, required by the A. A. A.
contest board as a further precaution
to keep wrecked cars from dashing
over the top of the steep curves to
crash to the ground, forty feet below.
Real Estate Transfers.
Jennie S. Keichline, et bar, to Hen-
ry Tibbens, tract in Bellefonte; $55.
Charles Smith to William R. Smith,
et al, tract in Haines township; $1.
John I. Thompson, et al, to William
A. Baumgardner, tract in Ferguson
township; $200.
S. B. Stine, et ux, to S. B. Stine,
Inc., tract in Rush Twp.; $1.
Robert N. Markle, et ux, to Cyrus
R. Gearhart, tract in Bellefonte;
$2400.
Ada J. Beezer to Lloyd F. White,
tract in Spring Twp.; $4,000.
L. C. Thompson, et al, to H. Chester
Thompson, tract in Taylor Twp.;
$725.
Sarah H. Fareons, et bar, to Archie
Rodes, tract in Philipsburg; $1500.
Orlanda W. Houtz, et ux, to Charles
W. Heverly, et ux, tract in State Col-
lege; $10,000.
I. G. Gordon Foster to Peter P.
dame et ux, tract in State College;
1.
J. Arthur Fortney, et al, to William
H. Fry, tract in Ferguson Twp.;
$3200.
Amos H. Copenhaver, et al, lo
Rzlph A. Smith, tract in Taylor Twp.;
$1.
H. P. Kelley, et ux, to Cora B. Rice,
tract in Bellefonte; $1.
Hannah Walker to N. G. Pletcher,
et al, overseers, tract in Howard
Twp.; $1.
E. R. Taylor, Sheriff, to Charles F.
Cook, tract in Spring Twp.; $284:41.
Dr. North Writes of the Farms, For-
ests and Home Life in China.
Szechwan, China, Oct. 1, ’24.
Dear Home Folks:
This part of Szechwan, like every
other part that I have yet seen, is
most interesting. Perhaps you may
be interested in some of the products
of the region and some details of the
life of the people. It is difficult to tell
about these things in such a way that
you can vizualize them, for Chinese
life is so totally different from life at
home, although the Chinese people are,
as I have remarked in some of the let-
ters that I have written to America,
“folks.” It is in the outward appear-
ances that they differ.
Just now corn is the principal crop
about here. When we reached the
mountains about four weeks ago, it
was a sickly looking crop, but it has
grown so rapidly that now it is higher
than my head where the soil is good
and the land well situated. Every-
where on these mountain slopes one
sees corn. If the fields were only
larger and level, one might almost im-
agine himself in the great middle
western corn belt. I have yet to see
what the size and quality of the crop
is, but I expect to find it far below
that of home. And the Chinese know
something of modern agricultural
ideas, even though they arrived at
their knowledge by some other than
the scientific road. Between the hills
of corn are planted beans. And I had
thought that these nitrogen-bearing
plants were a discovery of us Yanks!
In many places, especially along the
borders of the corn fields, are plant-
ed hemp and indigo. These are still
small.
The difference in seasons between
the mountains is shown by the fact
that when we came up here a month
ago they were harvesting the hemp on
the plain. Other crops are grown up
here, but some of them are as yet un-
known to us. Oné is some sort of po-
tato that I have not identified. So far
as I have observed the corn is used
only for feeding animals, although I
cannot understand what reason there
is for so large a crop of it, for ani-
mals in Szechwan are scarce. Cows
are used hardly at all, and horses are
rare. Probably the enormous number
of hogs, the only exception to the rule
on animals, is the explanation. The
Chinese eat much pork, but beef is
little used except by the Mohamme-
dans, who do not eat pork. In this
region the Mohammedans make up a
comparatively small percentage of the
population.
Occasionally near the foot of the
mountains, where the mountain
streams can be dammed, there are a
few small rice fields, but these are ap-
parently only to supply the families
raising the rice. It is little less than
amazing to see to what heights and on
what slopes these people raise crops.
, Some of these mountains rise at least
‘ carious existence.
2,000 feet above the plain, and their
steep slopes are cultivated almost to
the very top. In amengst the rocks
one finds corn and hemp and indigo,
along with beans, maintaining a pre-
It is a sight to re-
veal the poverty of the Chinese and
their dogged determination to wrest
a living from Mother Earth.
Fruits are also grown.
first arrived we were eating lequats —
pi bas the Chinese call them—a sort
of small apple with thin, peelable skin,
and huge seeds. They are delicicus,
although it takes a number of them
to make a meal. These were followed
by peaches, not so large as the ones at
home, but still very good. Wild straw-
berries were had when we first arriv-
ed, but they were very seedy. Now we
i are getting red and yellow plums, ap-
: ples and blackberries, all inferior to
the home varieties, but still good eat-
ing. What China needs in this partic-
{ular is not more fruits, but the devel-
opment of what she already has.
There are two principal varieties of
the apple. One is a crab, and the oth-
er is a small apple about like what we
are accustomed to call “pie apples” at
home.
Much of the forested region is found
along the ridges and the steepest
slopes of the mountains. There is a
‘large variety of trees, most of them
unfamiliar to me, though I recognize
some of them as relatives of the
American varieties. The growth is
largely small, the large tree general-
ly making an impression on the land-
scape by its relative size. There are
several kinds of evergreen about here.
One is cedar, another some kind of fir,
and a third a sort of spruce, as nearly
as I can determine. Then there is
the “chi” tree, from which is obtain-
ed the very hard varnish wihch the
Chinese use on their furniture. It is
also exported and is used, I am told,
as the basis for such home products
as “Chi-namel.” It is practically in-
destructible, being impervious to wa-
ter. One can always distinguish
these trees by the scars on their bark,
where they have been slit to get the
sap.
Much of this land that ought to be
growing large forests is covered with
scrubby growth, like some of the cut-
over and burnt-over land in Pennsyl-
vania. Little real work has yet been
done in the matter of reforestation,
although just below us on this slope
is the beginning of a nursery belong-
ing to the Chengtu Agricultural Col-
lege. The wood that we buy here is
most of it not more than two or three
inches in diameter, an explanation of
the lack of real forests. Most of the
trees that have attained a considera-
ble growth are tall and spindling, be-
cause of the custom of cutting off all
lower branches for fire wood. I am
often reminded by these trees of the
trees in France, tall and slender for
the same reason. In fact, the wood
used here is like the fire wood I used
to see in France.
But probably the greatest wealth of
these mountains is their coal. On al-
most any slope about here one or more
mines can be seen. They are found
at almost any height, and run back,
apparently for some distance into the
hill. Yesterday I asked one miner
how far the mine extended, and if I
understood him correctly, he said
eight li, or between two and three
miles. The coal is a fine bituminous,
sometimes almost a charcoal, where
the pressure seems to have been less.
It is very hard to transport, and there-
fore is transformed generally into |
coke. Charcoal is also produced here,
When we
but I have not yet happened upen any
of their ovens.
The people themselves are general-
ly warm-hearted and good-natured.
They live in houses with mud walls
and thatched roof, many of them with
only two or three rooms for the whole
family. The whole family works. I
have seen an old woman hoeing corn
by moonlight. They begin early in
the morning and continue until late
at night. In general the farmers are
better dressed than the coolies, part-
ly because they make a little better
living, perhaps, and partly because
they are as a class not so addicted to
opium as are the coolies. The wom-
en have bound feet, usually, but they
are much more loosely bound than
those of city women. Some of them
are quite as natural as the feet of
American women, and usually much
larger when they have a chance. As
a whole they appear to be a healthy
lot of folks, although hard work and
exposure to the elements, coupled
with ignorance break down their
health too early, in many cases.
Out here it is not uncommon to see
the pigtail, although it has disappear-
ed in the cities and the country near
them. It is an interesting sight to see
the old men and women—the young-
er ones too, for that matter—sitting
down along side the field for their
smoke. When one first sees it it
seems perhaps a bit shocking, unless
one has frequented the Great White
Way or Greenwich Village; but one
soon comes to take it as a matter of
course. The old women can stand
just as black tobacco as can the men.
I have even seen girls not more than
fifteen years old smoking leaf tobac-
co that I know would have made me
turn green and sickly. One day I
found a six year old girl smoking her
mother’s water pipe. These last two
instances were not, however, among
the mountain farmers. And so I
could go on, but I must stop.
BILL.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
\ TOCKHOLDER’S MEETING.—The an-
nual meeting of the stockholders
of the Centre Building and Ioan
association for the purpose of electing of-
ficers and directors and the transaction of
such other business as may come before
them, will be held in the arbritation room
at the Court House on Friday evening,
June 12th, 1925, at 8 o'clock.
70-22-3t CHAS. F. COOK, Sec'y.
——1If it’s readable, it is here.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
ARMS AND PROPERTY—Wanted
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Everywhere. 3% Commission.
Write for Blank. Smith Farm
Agency, 1407 W. York St, Philadelephia,
Pa. 70-11-1 yr.
XECUTOR’S NOTICE.—Letters testa-
mentary having been granted to
the undersigned upon the estate of
Susy C. Taylor, late of Unionville borough,
deceased, all persons knowing thmselves
indebted to said estate are requested to
make prompt payment, and those having
claims against the same must present
them, duly authenticated, for settlement.
CLARA B. LEATHERS,
Executor,
!'S. D. Gettig, Fleming, Pa.
) Attorney. 70-18-6t*
OTICE.—Estate of William T. Fetzer,
Jofe of Boggs township, deceas-
In the Orphans’ Court of Centre County,
Penna.
Notice is hereby given that Alice C.
Fetzer, widow of the said decedent, has
filed in the said court her petition claim-
ing her exemption to the value of $500.00
as provided by Section 12 of the Fiducai-
ries Act of 1917, out of that certain lot or
piece of land situate in the township of
Boggs, county of Centre, and State of
FSiasyivants, bounded and described as
ollows :
Beginning at a white oak, it being the
corner of A. and A. Fetzer and James
(Cokely, thence by land of said Cokely
South 35 degrees Kast 60 perches to
stones; thence by land of R. A. Poorman
perches to stones; thence by land of
and Stanley Watson North 55 degrees
East 40 perches to stones; thence by land
of S. Watson North 35 degrees West 60
Claude Cook South degrees West 40
perches to the place of beginning. Con-
taining 15 acres. Having erected there-
on a two story frame dwelling house, a
stable and other outbuildings and being
the same premises which Mary Butler
by her deed dated July 16th, 1903, and
recorded in Centre county, in Deed Book
91 page 129, conveyed unto William T.
Fetzer the decedent. And also W. T.
Stanley by deed dated July 16th, 1903,
and recorded in Centre county in Deed
Book 89 page 197, conveyed to W. T.
Fetzer, the decedent.
And that the same may be approved by
the Court on Friday, July 3rd, 1925, un-
less exceptions thereto be filed before that
time,
WM. GROH RUNKLE,
Attorney for Petitioner.
IRA D. GARMAN
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SATURDAY, JUNE 6:
All Star Cast in “PHE ADVENTURER,” with Tom Moore, Pauline Stark,
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MONDAY, JUNE 8:
Jeery and Raymond Hatton.
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Murray do gocd work. A picture
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sunshine Comedy,
THURSDAY, JUNE 11:
VIOLA DANA in “THE NECESSARY EVIL,”
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FRIDAY, JUNE 12:
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JACQUELINE in “SKY RAIDERS,” is a good melodrama of the air in
which Capt. Nungesser, the French
Walton and Walter Miller.
Thrills,
Also, iast episode of the serial, “IDAHO.”
aviator, features, together with Gladys
buman interest and a good show.
MOOSE TEMPLE THEATRE.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JUNE 5 AND 6:
ANITA STEWART in “BAREE, SON OF KAZAN,” a fine story by James
Gliver Curwood, with the famous dog actor.
Comedy, and the third episode of the Benny Leonard Series.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JUNE 12 AND 13:
DOUGLAS McLEAN in “NEVER SAY DIE,” is an exceliert farce comedy,
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