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‘Bellefonte, Pa., December 11, 1925.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
— John Poorman, a world war
veteran, is critically ill at his home
at Coleville.
——The “Watchman” makes an in-
expensive though very acceptable
Christmas gift.
— The Philadelphia Inquirer, on
Sunday, published a four column cut
of the Bellefonte High school football
team.
— Martha Chambers was hostess
at a dinner Saturday night, given for
a number of her girl friends in Belle-
fonte.
——Send the “Watchman” to that
friend to whom you are at a loss to
know just what to give. It will be a
remembrance every week in the year.
——The bridge game between the
women of Bellefonte and Lock Haven,
played at the Brockerhoff house Fri-
day of last week, resulted in a final
score of 1300 in favor of Bellefonte.
——According to statistics filed by
the federal department of commerce
there were 313 marriages and 23 di-
vorces in Centre county in 1924
against 288 marriages and 28 divore-
es in 1923.
The Children’s Aid society has
a child four weeks old, for whom they
would like to get a good home. Any
one interested can get further infor-
mation from Mrs. Reed O. Steely, sec-
retary of the society.
— Rev. Homer W. Tope, superin-
tendent of the Pennsylvania Anti-Sa-
loon League, spoke in the Presbyter-
jan church at State College Sunday
morning and .in the Reformed church
in this place last Sunday evening.
— Judge Arthur C. Dale has filed
his account of expenses incurred dur-
ing the judgeship campaign, showing
an expenditure of $77.70; one unpaid
bill of $169.60 and two accounts for
which statements have not been re-
ceived.
—— Anne Orvis Keller is the name
that has been given the little daugh-
ter born to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Keller,
at the Centre County hospital, Thurs-
day of last week. The child is the
first girl born in the Keller family in
thirty-one years.
—To your friends away from
home what better Christmas remem-
brance could you send than a year’s
subscription to the “Democratic
Watchman ?” It will keep you in mind
every one of the fifty weeks in the
year. We are anxious to see who will
be the first person to act on this sug-
gestion.
Large shipments of trout are
being made most every day from the
Bellefonte fish hatchery, at Pleasant
Gap, to various trout streams in the
central counties of the State. These
trout are all from three to six inches
in length and most of them will be
able to take care of themselves in
most any stream in ‘which they are
placed.
The unusually good pictures be-
ing shown at the Scenic are attracting
good crowds every night in the week.
The latest and best productions of the
leading film manufacturers are the
only kind shown at this popular place
of amusement, and if you are a lover
of motion pictures get the habit of
being a regular at the Scenic and
don’t miss any of the good ones.
——William Schmidt, son of Rev.
Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Schmidt, of Belle-
fonte, who for several years past has
held a good position with the Penn
Public Service corporation, at Johns-
town, has tendered his resignation to
accept a much better position with the
Pennsylvania and Ohio Power & Light
company, with headquarters at
Youngstown, Ohio. : He will make the
change the first of the year.
The regular session of Decem-
ber term of court will commence next
Monday morning, with Judge Arthur
C. Dale presiding. While there is a
fair-sized list of quarter sessions cases
to be heard none of them are of a very
grave character. The common pleas
list is fairly large and will probably
take up most of the time. This will
be Judge Dale’s second and final ap-
pearance upon the bench at regular
court sessions.
The remains of Sergt. Raymond
P. Lingle arrived in Bellefonte Mon-
day morning from Brooklyn, N.Y.
after lying for seven years in a lost
grave in the forests of France, where
the young soldier met his death dur-
ing the world war. Funeral services
were held in St. John’s Episcopal
church at 2:30 o'clock on Tuesday
afternoon and burial with the honors
of war was made in the Lingle plot in
the Union cemetery.
——George Gardner, eleven year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gard-
ner, of Bush’s Addition, was hit by an
automobile driven by William Roan,
on Monday evening, knocked down
and badly injured. He was taken to
the Centre County hospital where it
was found that his injuries are con-
fined to his head. While there is no
bone fracture any head injury is al-
ways regarded as quite serious. The
boy had been sent out onto the road
to get his younger brother, who had
gone out of the house when he met
with the accident. The driver of the
car was said to have been on the
wrong side of the road and going for-
ty miles an hour. The boy was car-
ried on the running board a distance
of two hundred feet before the car
could be stopped. This is the second
child hit by Mr. Roan in that vicinity.
MANY HUNTERS COME
OUT OF THE WOODS.
Warm Weather of Saturday and Sun-
day Drives Deer Slayers Home.
The warm weather of last Saturday
and Sunday probably saved many a
buck’s life, as a large number of hunt-
ers from the western part of the State
became discouraged with the sultry
and foggy condition in the woods,
broke camp and left for their homes.
Upward of fifty hunters passed
through Bellefonte on Saturday on
their way westward, and only three
deer were in evidence as the result of
their five days in the mountains.
While reports received the first two
or three days of the hunting season
indicated a record kill this year, un-
less conditions change for the better
between now and the close of the sea-
son next Tuesday the kill this year
will be considerably below that of last
year.
The Pleasant Gap Rod and Gun
club came home from the Seven moun-
tains last Thursday evening with their
limit of six deer, and it was only the
second party to get the limit, the oth-
er being the Decker party.
The Bradford party, of Centre Hall,
hunted all of last week without get-
ting a hair, but on Monday of this
week were successful in bagging four
bucks.
The Union hunting club, located
near the old school house in the Seven
mountains, have four deer to their
credit.
Rev. Homer C. Knox, pastor of the
Methodist church of Bellefonte, spent
last week with the Roaring Run club,
across the mountain from Pine Grove
Mills, and was successful in shooting
a four pronged buck. The party got
two during the week.
The Hecla hunters located over in
Little Sugar valley, had two deer up
to Monday. One of them was a ten
pronged buck, but while it had a fine
spread of antlers it was the smallest
buck of the two killed.
The number of illegally killed deer
brought into Bellefonte was so large
that the Centre County hospital could
not absorb them all and on Friday
four were shipped to the Ashland
State hospital. On Saturday five of
the illegal kills were sent to the Rock-
view penitentiary on order of game
protector Thomas A. Mosier and the
result was the 677 inmates there
feasted on venison on Sunday.
CHARLES HOOVER KILLS DEER BE-
TWEEN TRAINS.
Charles Hoover, of Snow Shoe, kill-
ed his deer between trains on Monday.
While he lives in Snow Shoe he is at
present employed as fireman on the
shifter in the Bellefonte yards, night
turn. He spent Sunday at home and
on Monday morning he decided to take
a little hunt between trains. Leaving
Snow Shoe on the morning train he
came as far as Dry Hollow where he
got off. Within an hour a big buck
came within shooting range and he
plugged him through the neck. When
the noon train came along on its way
to Bellefonte Hoover was at the rail-
road with his deer, which proved to
be a six pointer. The carcass was sent
out to his home in Snow Shoe.
On Wednesday morning a party of
hunters from Mercer and Butler coun-
ties passed through Bellefonte in au-
tos with two nice bucks and a bear,
killed near the northern county line
of Clinton and Lycoming counties.
One of the bucks weighed 180 pounds
and the bear 130.
DEER KNOCKS SIDING OFF A HOUSE.
Our Boalsburg correspondent writes
that on Monday night Mr. and Mrs.
Dernar, who reside opposite the Luth-
eran church of that town, were awak-
ened by a crashing noise on their front
porch. Mr. Dernar jumped out of bed
and rushed to the window in time to
see a big and badly frightened deer
jump from the porch and run up the
street toward the mountain. The an-
imal just missed plunging into one of
the front windows but hit the house
with force enough to knock off a piece
of siding. How the deer came to be
frightened off the mountain in the
dead of night is a mystery.
FIFTEEN ILLEGAL DEER KILLED,
$1300 IN FINES COLLECTED.
Up to Wednesday evening of this
week game protector Thomas G. Mo-
sier had knowledge of fifteen illegal
deer killed. Of course there may have
been others that he has no knowledge
of. So far he has collected fines for
thirteen deer at one hundred per, or
$1300. Mr. Mosier has spent practic-
ally all of his time in the woods since
the opening of the hunting season, and
is “Johnny on the spot” when it comes
to collecting fines for illegal deer
killed. Out of the sixty-seven coun-
ties in the State there are probably
twenty, at least, in which deer abound
in sufficient numbers to make hunting
attractive and if every such county
yields anyways near the amount of
money collected in Centre county for
illegal kills it will mean a tidy reve-
nue to the Game Commission.
While Mr. Mosier was unable on
Wednesday evening to give even an
approximate estimate of the number
of deer killed so far this season he
feels confident that when the returns
have all been made the bag will be
close to that of last year. In some
portions of the county the number
kilied is below that of last year while
in other portions it is greater. Ow-
ing to the fact that no word has been
received from a number of the hunt-
ing parties since the opening of the
season it is impossible to give a de-
tailed account of their kill, but by next
week the hunters will all be home and
their game accounted for.
On Tuesday John L. Nighthart went
over in the Seven mountains to join a
Lewistown gang for the day’s hunt
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and was in at the kill of another nice
'buck. While making a drive through
the woods members of the party came
across a large buck that had been
‘wounded and died some days before,
| without being found. As the carcass
was past the eating stage it was lefl
lying where found.
A party of Lancasler hunters went
home from the Seven mountains on
Tuesday with four nice deer as the
result of their week’s hunt.
William Cross and William Fultz, of
Axe Mann, were members of a camp
that hunted near Milroy. They got
two deer, one a very large two point-
er and a four point deer that was little
be one of the deer imported from
Michigan some time ago, as it had a
tag in its ear. i
Not Nearly Enough.
Last week we made a halting
appeal for funds. We say halt-
ing, because if there is one thing
we dislike to do it is to ask peo-
ple for money.
We need it, however, and badly.
There are a lot of bills that must
be paid before January 1st and
January 1st will be on us before
we are ready, unless there is a
general response to this notice.
A number of readers have paid
up during the week, but not near-
ly enough. Won't you please look
at your label and see the date you
are paid to. If it is back of ’25
send us something. If it doesn’t
suit to send all send a part of it.
Five hundred readers sending
only $1.50 each would help out a
lot. But if you are paid up to the
middle of 1926 don’t send any.
What we want ‘is to have those
readers for whom we have gone
in debt for paper, ink and wages
to help us out of the hole.
State College Thespians to Open
Season in Bellefonte.
The Thespian club, of State College,
will open their season at the Riche-
lieu, in Bellefonte, on Monday even-
ing, December 21st, in “The Kid Him-
self,” a musical comedy under the di-
rection of Ned Weyburn. The play
and music were written by two col-
lege students, Josiah W. Etter, of
Fayetteville, and Richard B. Smith, of
Honesdale. From Bellefonte The
Thespians will go the next night to
Wilkes-Barre, thence to Philadelphia
and New York the night before
christmas. Christmas day will be
spent in Gotham and the next night
they will appear in Binghamton, N.
Y., and the following week in Scran-
ton, Pittsburgh, Erie, Meadville, But-
ler and Greensburg, a full two week’s
tour. Another trip will also be made
in February.
Fine quality brown mahagany
finished end tables, $3.85.—W. R.
Brachbill’s Furniture Store. 49-1t
Presbyterian Home, in Blair County,
to be Opened December 31st.
The new Presbyterian home for the
aged, near Hollidaysburg, Blair coun-
ty, is completed and was open for in-
spection yesterday. A meeting was
held in the afternoon at which Rev.
Dr. C. C. Hays, of Pittsburgh, but for-
merly of Johnstown, was the speaker.
One of the principal features of the
day were the donations of canned
goods, jellies, etc., from the various
churches in the Huntingdon Presby-
tery.
The home will be formally opened
for the reception of guests on Decem-
ber 31st, fifteen of whom are already
enrolled. New Year’s dinner will be
served in the home. Practically all of
the rooms have been furnished by in-
dividuals or church societies. All told
there will be room for sixty guests.
The trustees in charge of the home are
highly gratified with the spirit of co-
operation displayed as well as the ap-
pearance of the property now that all
the improvements have been com-
pleted.
——Childrens’ reed rockers, regu-
lar $5.50 value, X-mas special $3.90
at W. R. Brachbill’s Furniture Store.
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Sabbath School Association Institute
for Pastors, Superintendents, Etc.
A Centre county Sabbath school as-
sociation institute for pastors, super-
intendents and teachers of young peo-
ples’ classes will be held in the Meth-
odist church at Milesburg, on Thurs-
day, December 17th, at 4:30 p. m.
Rev. E. A, Bonsall, State superintend-
ent of the young peoples’ division,
will be the leader of the institute. All
adults interested in the young peoples’
division of Sabbath school work should
be present. Miss Mildred L. Wieland,
of Spring Mills, is the young peoples’
superintendent, and she has arranged
the following program for the insti-
tute:
4:30 p. m.—A study of worship program
building for Young Peoples’ Division.
5:15 p. m.—Supper.
5:45 p. m.—Denominational group meet-
ings.
6:30 p. m.—Presentation of the challenge
to train leaders.
7:15 p. m.—The State program of Young
peoples’ work for county units.
8:15 p. m.—Brief closing worship serv-
ices.
All delegates in attendance will be
supper guests of the combined Sab-
bath schools of Milesburg.
For the new Christmas books a
Globe Wernecke bookcase.—W. R.
Brachbill, licensed agency. | 49-1t
over half as large. * It turned out to
Judge Dale Hands Out Sentences on
i Tuesday.
At a special session of court, on
' Tuesday morning, the list of civil cas-
es down for trial at next week’s term
‘of court was gone over and assigned
| days for their hearing.
The court then heard pleas of guil-
ty and Ignatz McCluski, of Snow Shoe,
was the first man up. He plead guil-
moonshine liquor but protested that he
only made two quarts and that was
for his wife, who was sick and needed
the stimulant. In addition to his wife
he has seven children at home, and he
is the sole support of the family. He
was sentenced to pay a fine of one dol-
lar, costs and serve from thirty to six-
ty days in jail.
‘Edward Lutz, of Buffalo Run valley,
was charged with stealing oats and
corn from Jerry Roan and various
other thefts in that locality. The
young man, who is nineteen years of
age, denied that he stole the oats but
admitted that he had been along with
other men who stole wheat, auto tires
and other things. He gave three
names of men whom he alleged were
members of the gang. The court gave
him an indeterminate sentence in the
Huntingdon reformatory.
Harry Moyer, the young man who
about ten days ago stole considerable
stuff from the room of Joseph L. Gar-
field, a student at State College, then
attempted to make a get-away in a
car that he had stolen in New Jersey,
entered a plea of guilty. He is only
seventeen years of age and the court
told him he could go along with Lutz
to Huntingdon and keep him company
at the reformatory.
Wilbur Spicer, of State College,
plead guilty to having stolen a dry
cell battery from one of the labora-
tories at State College, giving as his
excuse that he needed one for his car
and had no money with which to buy
one. Sentence was suspended for a
period of three years and he was pa-
roled in the custody of C. L. Goodling,
the prosecutor.
Before adjournment the court an-
nounced that another session of court
will be held tomorrow (Saturday)
morning to receive pleas of guilty and
dispose of all other business that can
be gotten rid of before the regular
session of court next week.
Sealer of Weights and Measures a
Busy Man.
W. A. Bowes, of Blanchard, sealer
of weights and measures for Centre
county, was in Bellefonte on a busi-
ness mission, last Friday, and was
frank to admit that his work keeps
him on the jump all the time. This
is not to be wondered at when it is
considered that there are several hun-
dred stores in Centre county which
use scales, all of which must be duly
inspected and attested by the sealer of
weights and measures. In this con-
nection Mr. Bowes stated that he
found very few cases of willful viola-
tion of the law in the matter of short
weights or measures, and the few in-
stances he has run up against are
those of foreign merchants. Of
course the best of scales will get out
of order, even the high-priced com-
puting ones. He found one of the lat-
ter which was absolutely correct at
one or two pounds but an ounce short
at three, two ounces short at six and
three ounces short at nine pounds. It
was caused by a defect in the mechan-
ism, which was of course corrected.
Mr. Bowes’ biggest bugaboo is the
gas pump. There are now so many of
them in the country, and any or all
makes of them are liable to get out of
order at any time, that inspecting and
seeing that they are kept in order is
no small job. He is now making a
tour of the county inspecting such
pumes.
Beautiful Cantata to be Feature of
Christmas Week.
One hour of beautiful, inspiring mu-
sic is promised all those who will at-
tend the music service at the Reform-
ed church, at four o’clock on Sunday,
December 20th.
The cantata, “King of Kings and
Lord of All,” is by R. M. Stults, and
is a beautiful compesition abounding
in pleasing solos, quartettes, and
choruses.
The chorus is being trained by Mrs.
Krader, who feels confident, judging
from the faithfulness and excellent
talent of the group of selected voices
handling the cantata, that the rendi-
tion will not only be a very pleasing
one, but one of musical merit as well.
The solo work is being done by Mrs.
Krader, Cecil Walker, Millard Harts-
wick, and others in numbers that adapt
themselves beautifully to the voices
selected.
Don’t forget the date.
is invited.
Everybody
27x54 inch rag rugs at 79c., at
Brachbill’s Furniture Store. 49-1t
No County Farm Products Show Will
be Held This Year.
Centre county will not have a farm
products show this year, according to
R. C. Blaney, county farm agent. Lack
of funds and a pressure of other work
are the reasons given. For several
years past a county show has been
held under the auspices of the farm
bureau, and splendid exhibits were
shown of various grains, fruits and
vegetables. But nothing of the kind
will take place this year.
The annual meetings of the farm
bureau and the wool grower’s asso-
ciation will be held, however, on Fri-
day, December 18th.
ty to manufacturing and possession of |
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs. Nora Ferguson, of Bishop street,
returned Monday from a two week’s visit
| with relatives at Mifflinburg, and that lo-
cality.
{ —Miss Alice Tate, who is now a patient
; in the Centre County hospital, was taken
| there Tuesday afternoon, following a two
day’s illness.
—Oscar Sherry and his son were here
for an over Sunday visit with Mr. Sherry’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Sherry, re-
turning to Pittsburgh Monday.
—Mrs. Elliot, of Philadelphia, a close
friend of both Mr. and Mrs. G. Murray An-
drews, was their guest for the week-end,
at their home on Allegheny street.
—Mrs. David J. Meyer, who spent the
summer and fall at her home in Centre
Hall, has returned to Tyrone, to be with
her son, John D. Meyer, during the win-
ter.
—Miss Elizabeth Longwell returned to
Washington, D. C., Tuesday, after an over
night visit in Bellefonte, having come here
Monday, with the body of her brother, the
late 8S. Linn Longwell.
—Mrs. R. Wynn Davis came in from
Washington, Pa., the early part of last
week, expecting to remain in Bellefonte
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Get-
tig until after Christmas.
—Miss Margery McGovern, who was ill
for a week at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Adolph Fauble, following a tonsil opera-
tion, was able to resume her work with
Lyon & Co., last Friday.
i —Judge Donald McPherson, of Adams
county, was here over night, Thursday of
i last week, for a stop over visit with his
sister, Mrs. David Dale, on his way home
| to Gettysburg, from Uniontown, where he
had been holding court.
—Mrs. Annie Saucerman was over from
Altoona Saturday, a guest at the butcher-
ing day dinner at the J. L. Peters home,
at Pleasant Gap, and during the short
wait in Bellefonte utilized the time in
transacting some business.
—Mrs. C. U. Hoffer and her two daugh-
ters, the Misses Anne and Louise, drove
over from Philipsburg Sunday, to spend
a part of the day here with Mrs. Hoffer's
brother, Harry Gerberich, and some of
their many Bellefonte friends.
—Mrs. Joseph Grossman, a former resi-
dent of Bellefonte, was up from Williams-
port, Tuesday, for a days’ visit with her
friends on Reynolds avenue, being a house
guest during her stay of Mrs. Washington
Irvin. Mrs. Grossman and her daughter,
Miss Ida, are contemplating moving to
Flemington in the spring.
—Miss Sarah Benner and her niece, Mrs.
H. 8. Cooper, returned, Tuesday, from Wil-
liamsport, where they had been for sev-
eral weeks, while Miss Benner was recov-
ering from the effects of having a cataract
removed from one of her eyes. Although
not entirely restored to sight, Miss Ben-
ner’s vision is greatly improved.
—Minot Willard, youngest son of Mrs.
D. I. Willard, of Thomas street, came
home yesterday to spend his two week's
leave with his mother. He is in the na-
vy, being attached to the supply office of
the TU. 8S. 8. Cincinnati now stationed in
New York. Mr. Williard is accompa-
nied by ome of his fellow sailors, a Mr.
Conners.
—F. U. Bloom, of College township, was
in Bellefonte on Wednesday evening doing
a little publicity work for the big clean-
up sale of farm stock and machinery of
W. H. Bloom & Son, on the George Lutz
farm two miles west of State College, on
Wednesday afternoon of next week. The
scarcity of all kinds of farm help is the
principal reason why they are quitting the
farm at this time.
—Mrs. Benjamin Bradley is entertaining
her mother, Mrs. Eyre, of East Aurora, N.
Y., who has been in Bellefonte for two
months and who will accompany Mrs.
Bradley to St. Petersburg, Fla. the first
week in January. Mrs. Eyre's other daugh-
ter, Mrs. Peeks, also of Kast Aurora, will
spend Christmas here with her mother and
sister, coming for a farewell visit before
they leave for the south.
—Nr. and Mrs. Peter Haller and Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Donovan left yesterday
morning for Pittsburgh, called there by
the death of Mrs. Haller and Mr. Dono-
van's sister, Miss Julia Donovan, who died
there Tuesday night, after a week’s illness
with pneumonia. Miss Donovan was well
known here through her frequent visits
with her sister and brother in Benner
township, having spent a part of her sum-
mer vacation with them for a number of
years.
—Miss Cornelia Dale, of Lemont, was in
Bellefonte Tuesday, looking after some
business relative to the settlement of the
estate of her mother, the late Mrs. Geor-
giana Dale. Miss Dale is now at Benton,
Pa., with her brother-in-law and sister,
the Rev. L. V. Barber and Mrs. Barber,
who drove to Centre county Monday, re-
turning to Columbia county Wednesday,
with her as a guest. Before returning to
Lemont in the spring, Miss Dale will visit
with her cousin, Mrs. H. M. Crossman,
near Norristown.
—Guy L. McEntyre, one of Bellefonte's
boys who have made good in the Pitts-
burgh business life, was here Friday for a
short visit with some of his boyhood
friends before leaving to make his home
in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. McEntyre, with
their three month’s old daughter, Betsy,
and Mr. McEntyre's sister, Miss “Lou”
McEntyre, left Altoona Saturday in their
car, for the drive to St. Petersburg, Flor-
ida, where they will be permanently locat-
ed. Although, when leaving the north, no
definite plans had been made by Mr. Me-
Entyre as to what business he would be
chiefly interested in, he had several very
good propositions under consideration.
—A. M. Kerstetter, of Pleasant Gap,
with his sweet little grand-daughter, Lu-
cille Kerstetter, was an interesting and
welcome visitor at the “Watchman’’ office
on Wednesday evening and was feeling
pretty good over the fact that the Pleas-
ant Gap Rod and Gun club got their lim-
it of deer last week. The six deer were
killed in exactly nine hours and a half of
actual hunting time, and this is a most
remarkable record. Mr. Kerstetter, who is
one of the leading members of the club,
got his deer, a six point buck, and while
it was not of unusual weight it was a
short, chunky animal and unusually fat
and plump. In fact Mr, Kerstetter avers
that it was the nicest deer meat he ever
brought down, and he now has ten to his
credit. This is a pretty good record for
the present day hunter but he doesn’t con-
sider it much compared to that of his
father, the late Michael Kersteiter, who
killed sixty-six deer and quite a number
of bear during his life.
—The A. J. Cook family will leave to-
morrow for Manitou, Col, where they will
spend the winter at the Cliff House.
—Miss Louise Carpeneto was in Altoona
for Sunday, having gone over on business,
she remained for a visit with friends.
—Miss Nellie Smith was here from Wil-
kinsburg during the week, visiting with
her father, J. Frank Smith, and the fami-
ly. Miss Smith is assistant superintend-
ent at the Columbia hospital, Wilkinsburg.
—Mrs. James Noonan and her daughter,
Miss Geraldine, returned from New York
city, on Monday, where they had been vis-
iting for two weeks with Mrs. Noonan’'s
other daughter, Miss Margaret, and the
Seymour family.
—DMiss Eleanor Sheffer is visiting with
her brother, Paul D. Sheffer and his wife,
at Painesville, Ohio. Miss Sheffer went out
last week to stay until Christmas week,
when she, with Mr. and Mrs. Sheffer will
drive in to be here with the family for
Christmas day.
—Mrs. Barry, who came to Centre coun-
ty six weeks ago and is now with Mrs.
George Waite, on Phoenix avenue, expects
to return to her home in Philadelphia be-
fore Christmas. Mrs. Barry is a former
resident of Bellefonte and came here on ac-
count of ill health:
—Miss Emily Parker, Mrs. John Porter
Lyon, Mrs. J. B. Scott, Miss McCurdy and
Mrs. George Thompson drove over to Hol-
lidaysburg, yesterday, for the formal open-
ing of the Presbyterian home for women.
Miss Parker and Mrs. Lyon, as members
of the board, represented the Presbyterian
church of Bellefonte.
—Miss Stella Cooney, Miss May Toner
and Mrs. Jack Decker were among those
from Centre county who took advantage of
the excursion to New York. Leaving here
Saturday afternoon they joined the excur-
sionists at Tyrone, spent Sunday in New
York and returned home in time for busi-
ness Monday morning.
—Miss Mary Hill, who is a guest of Miss
Sarah Caldwell, at the home of Miss
Humes, came to Bellefonte a week ago, to
be with friends here during her two week's
vacation. Miss Hill spent all her girlhood
life in Bellefonte, leaving about ten years
ago to make her home at Atlantic City,
where she has been since that time.
—Former sheriff Cyrus Brungart, of
Centre Hall, was in Bellefonte, Tuesday,
calling on friends and looking after a lit-
tle business. The sheriff seems never to
grow old, either in spirit or appearance
and almost we were inclined to believe that
he has some recipe to make good his dec-
laration that he is going to live to be two
hundred.
—The Hon. John T. McCormick, of State
College, was in Bellefonte Wednesday
afternoon and because it was so near
Christmas dropped in here to look after
the seven subscriptions he carries on our
list. For years he has made a practice of
sending the “Watchman” as a Christmas
remembrance to relatives in various parts
of the county and elsewhere.
—Miss A. E. Eckert, superintendent of
the Centre County hospital, is entertaining
her cousin, Mrs. Harry Bower, who with
Mr. Bower drove here from Elmira, Sun-
day, Mr. Bower having spent the week
hunting, while Mrs. Bower visited. Sunday
they will leave for the return drive home,
accompanied by Miss Eckert’s mother, Mrs.
Lucinda Eckert, of Avis, Miss Eckert ex-
pecting to join them in Elmira for Christ-
mas.
Owens—Knisely.—Going to Pitts-
burgh for the State—Pitt game Ralph
Owen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edw
Owen, and Miss Louise Knisely, only
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
Knisely, both of Bellefonte, took a side
trip to Wheeling, W. Va., where they
were united in marriage. The bride
is a Senior in the Bellefonte High
school and contemplates completing
her course. The bridegroom is em-
ployed in the store of the Bellefonte
Hardware company, of which his fath-
er is manager. The young people kept
their marriage a secret until last week
when it was formally announced.
——January 14th next has been set
as the date for the final argument be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission on the proposals of the New
York, Pittsburgh and Chicago Rail-
road company to construct another
trunk line through Pennsylvania. This
is the much talked of line which, if
ever built, will run through the south-
ern side of Centre county, but the pos-
sibility of its ever being built looks
rather remote at this time.
——Thomas Shaughnessy has sold
his tobacco store and pool room in the
McClain block, on High street, to
James Bickett. The transfer was
made on Tuesday of last week.
——You will find gifts for all oc-
casions at “Ye Holly Art Shoppe,”
now open in the Flower Shop, Hever-
ly building, Bellefonte. Everything
hand decorated. 49-1t
Do Not Miss the Chance of Your Life,
We are going to sell, on Saturday,
December 12th, all our home-made
candies at 15¢. per pound. Included
in this sale will be all flavors of hard
candies, clear toys, ribbon candy, pea-
nut lrittle, peanut taffy, fancy mixed
chocolates. Do not miss this opportu-
nity of getting your Christmas can-
dies at a price not heard of in years.
We will also offer at this sale a lim-
ited amount of fancy 5 pound mixed
chocolates at $1.25 per box, and 2%
pounds at 80c. per box. The candies
offered at this sale will be made up
this week and will be 100 per cent.
pure.
At Sourbecks, No. 107 west High
street Bellefonte, Pa. 70-49-1%
————— i eeamemem—
——The gift she will cherish for-
ever, a Tennessee cedar chest, $13.50
to $48.00, at W. R. Brachbill’s. = 49-1t
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & Co.
Wheat - - - - - $1.50
Oats - - - - - - 35
Rye - - - - - = 90
Corn =- = - A 20
Barley - - - - = - 80
Buckwheat - - - - - .89