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.Brief Meeting of Borough Council..
It was the Monday before Christ-
mas and only five councilmen turned
out for the regular meeting that even-
ing. Having heard of the improve-
ments at Bellefonte’s big spring M. J.
Barrick, engineer in charge of the
branch office of the State Department
of Health, at Williamsport, wrote a
letter to council demanding a revised
chart of the changes made in the wa-
ter system of the town. As no chang.
es in the system were made it is nat-
urally impossible to furnish a chart.
The Street committee reported the
completion of the sewer on north
Water street. Also the collection of
$567.25 from W. S. Williams and $21.-
50 for old material.
The Water committee reported col-
lections totaling $285.73. The com-
mittee also reported that the water
duplicate for 1925 had been completed !
and totaled $11,676.50, while the es-
timated total of the meter bills for the
year has been placed at $8,080.04, or
a total income for the department of
$19,756.54.
In connection with the improve-
ments at the big spring Mr. Cunning-
ham stated that as close as the com-
mittee has been able to figure it the
total cost to date is $21,510.75. Last
spring when the committee was con-
fronted with the question of repairing
the old pump house at the spring they
decided on completely remodeling it
and gave as an estimate of the cost
from $8,000 to $10,000. At the time,
however, they did not consider the re-
moval of the two big steam boilers
and the big brick stack in connection
therewith. And because of the tear-
ing out of the old steam pumps it be-
came necessary to install another elec-
tric pump. One improvement led to
another and additional ground was
purchased south of the spring to in-
sure a perpetual water supply, then
came the wall and fence enclosing the
property, grading and sodding of
grounds, etc. The total cost of the
building proper, was in the neighbor-
hood of $11,000, a little in excess of
the original estimate. The additional
ground cost $3,000, the new motor and
pump almost $4,000 and the other im-
provements accounts for the remain-
der of the expenditure. Mr. Cunning-
ham stated that when the new pump
is connected up the station’s pumping |
capacity will be almost three thousand !
gallons a minute, considerably larger
than ever before.
Mr. Cunningham also reported that
the one thing yet needed is furniture
for the new office and the question of
purchasing what is needed was refer-
red to the committee with power.
The Fire and Police committee re-
ported an explosion of the heating
boiler in the public building, on Sun-
day, and the installation of a new one
by Caldwell & Son. The committee
also reported that the new lockup had
already yielded $10.50 in fines from
prisoners picked up by the police.
Bills totaling $660.71 were approv-
ed for payment after which council
adjourned.
Bellefonte High Basketball Outlook.
Bellefonte has scheduled, to date,
eighteen games for the basketball
team. All except State College and
Altoona are Mountain League games.
Two menibers of last year’s league,
Lock Haven and Juniata, have drop-
ped out and will not be played.
A squad of about fifteen have been
working out every day at the Y.M.C.
A. Last June’s graduation took some |
valuable men, leaving a crippled team. :
However, several of the scrubbs have |
been coming along nicely and, with a
little experience, fill in quite efficient-
ly. The schedule as arranged thus
far is as follows:
December 22—State College High
State.
December 26—Alumni at Bellefonte.
January 6—State College at Bellefonte.
January 8—Mt. Union at Mt. Union.
January 9—Lewistown at Lewistown.
January 15—Hollidaysburg at Bellefonte.
January 22—Tyrone at Bellefonte.
January 29—Hollidaysburg at Hollidays-
burg.
January 30—Altoona at Altoona.
February 5—Mt. Union at Bellefonte.
February 12—Philipsburg at Philipsburg.
February 13—Houtzdale at Houtzdale.
February 19—Philipsburg at Bellefonte.
February 26—Tyrone at Tyrone.
February 27—Huntingdon at Hunting-
at
don.
March 5—Houtzdale at Bellefonte.
March 10—Lewistown at Bellefonte.
March 13—Huntingdon at Bellefonte.
RE
——Monday morning a Ford car
driven by one of the Beatty Motor
company’s salesmen collided with the
big Imperial Oil company’s truck,
driven by Capt. Herbert Miller, on
north Water street, near tke Beaver &
Hoy row. Neither of the drivers was
injured nor the oil truck damaged, but
the Ford had to be towed in for re-
pairs.
ISAAC MILLER,
MILLER.—The passing of Isaac
Miller, veteran contractor and em-
inently good citizen, marks another
broken link in the gradually shorten-
ing chain that binds the Bellefonte
of today to the Bellefonte of yester-
day year. Mr. Miller died in the Cen-
tre county hospital Saturday morning,
from heart trouble and dropsy, super-
induced by asthma, with which he had
suffered more or less for several
vears. He had been about as usual
up to the Wednesday preceding his
demise, but then became alarmingly
ill and was taken to the hospital at
once.
Deceased was a son of John Miller
and was born near Hartleton, in Union
county, January 4th, 1840, making his
age 8b years, 11 months and 13 days.
Having a common school education
which was more than most of the boys
at that day were vouchsafed he
came, at the age of twenty, to Centre
county and located on a farm in Ben-
ner township. His father having been
a lumberman, naturally he turned to
i carpentering for which he had a bent
and developed exceptional skill. With
a trade learned and confidence enough
in himself to feel that he could make
a success of it he married Amelia
: Straub, a daughter of George Straub,
of Benner township, and brought his
bride to make their home in Belle-
fonte. That was in 1865. Soon there-
after he formed a partnership with
the late John Wetzel and they became
one of the town’s most reliable con-
tracting and building firms. When
Mr. Wetzel retired the late Joseph
Fox joined Mr, Miller and they cai-
ried on the business with equal suc-
cess for a number of years. As would
be supposed many of Bellefonte’s pres-
ent buildings are monuments to his
ability as a conscientious, economical
contractor. Among the outstanding
of them are the Catholic church, the
Lutheran church, the Bush Arcade
and Temple court, all imposing struc-
tures to which the town points with
pride even today.
In 1915 he was elected a commis-
sioner of Centre county, along with
Wm. H. Noll Jr. and D. A. Grove, hav-
ing defeated the present commission-
er, Harry Austin, as the candidate of
the Republican party. He then retired
from the building business and gave
his time exclusively to his public
duties. It is interesting to note that
while in office Mr. Miller conceived the
idea of compelling able prisoners in
the county jail to earn their board and,
clothed with the proper authority, he
experimented with a gang of them as
road ‘builders. The idea was prac-
tical enough and Mr. Miller personal-
ly supervised the gang, but after
several days of persuasion he real-
ized the futility of trying to make a
convict do anything more that loaf
and eat in a comfortable county jail.
He served the county well for four
years and then retired.
With all his material needs provided
for the last years of his life were
spent without concern for the future
—for he was a christian man—or re-
gret for the past—for his dealings
with all men had been according to the
Golden Rule of do unto others as you
would have them do unto you.
He enjoyed everything in his quiet,
unobtrusive way. We have been
with him at a Sunday school picnic
and on the mid-way of a county fair
and we knew from the twinkle in his
eye that he was just as young at heart
at seventy as he could have been at
twenty. His one passion was hunt-
ing. Born in the days when game was
aplenty and of parents who knew and
loved the woods the lure hung to him
to the last, for regularly he took out
his license and went for deer every
fall and many of them fell at his un-
erring aim. We can think of no hap-
pier gathering about the camp fire in
the happy hunting grounds than that
when the spirit of Isaac Miller joins
those of George Weaver, James Alex-
ander, Joseph Devling and ‘Simeon
Haupt, all companions of the hunt of
years ago, and tales of the “Green
Woods” are recounted.
Mrs. Miller died in September, 1916,
and their son William died in infancy,
so that only four sons survive. They
are Edw. H., for years a trusted em-
ployer of the Phila. Rapid Transit
. Co., Harry S., Herbert and Morris E.,
of this place, all werthy sons of an
VETERAN CONTRA CTOR AND INTERESTING
CITIZEN.
honorable father. Also surviving him
is one brother, Jacob Miller, in Mis-
souri, and a sister in Danville.
Mr. Miller was a member of the
Lutheran church, the Odd Fellows,
the Encampment and Rebekahs. In
fact he was the oldest member of the
Bellefonte lodge. Funeral services
were held in the Lutheran church at
11 o’clock Tuesday morning, December
22, and interment made in the family
lot in the Union cemetery.
AN INTIMATE APPRAISEMENT.
The following from a friend who
knew Mr. Miller from boyhood will be
of interest as revealing the real char-
acter of the man.
“Since your last issue we have had
to part with a most highly prized
citizen in the person of Isaac Miller
who was known as a very philanth-
ropic, congenial and charitable gentle-
man. He will be missed beyond esti-
mate by all who knew him. I will
explain briefly why Isaac left Union
county and became a citizen of Centre.
Whea a mere boy he was continuously
playing with tools and had a desire to
become a carpenter. But apprentices
were not in demand at Hartleton, so
one morning he set out from home and
walked all the way to Pleasant Gap,
arriving there after 4 in the after-
noon, toot-sore, weary and very hun-
gry. The poor boy had but a silver
quarter and he demurred at parting
with it, as he told me later that to
him it looked large as a cartwheel.
Finally he decided to invest it for the
best, *as he -®aid, and" went into the"
Gap hotel and bought himself a meal
that he always referred to as the best
Le had ever eaten. - After the supper
; he inquired as to contracting carpen-
ters and was informed that the late
George Miller, who then resided near
where the penitentiary stands, might
take him on since he did all the work
for the thriving Valentine iron works
and farms. It happens that contrae-
tor Miller was my father and I was
present when the verbal contract was
concluded. Father asked me what,I
thought of the boy to which I re-
plied that I liked the way he talked.
IFather agreed that he seemed in ear-
nest and the customary three year
deal of apprenticeship was thereupon
concluded.
The new apprentice was very pro-
ficient and a most bidable young man.
In two years Isaac was as good a
carpenter as we had on the crew of
fifteen men. We had a contract to
remodel a Valentine home and stable
in Bellefonte and while working on it
Isaac’s ability attracted so much at-
tention that he was offered a contract
to build two houses. The faithful Ike,
as we called him, refused to entertain
any proposal of the sort because he
was still under agreement with father.
The matter came to father’s attention
and because his apprentice had been
so faithful and willing he forthwith
released him from his bargain, assur-
ing him that should he not be success-
ful there would always be a place for
him on the Miller force. Isaac never
returned, for he was successful, made
money and saved it. He was an un-
questionably reliable and a good man
and his ability brought him to the day
when a quarter didn’t “look big as a
cartwheel to him.”
L. A. M.
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SIMPSON.—Miss Mary C. Simpson,
a member of the well known Simpson
family of Lock Haven, died at her
home in that place on December 20th,
following an illness of six weeks with
an affection of the kidneys. She was
a daughter of William A. and Mary
A. Simpson and was born in the home
in which she spent her entire life and
finally passed away. She was a
woman of education and refinement
and during her active life took a lead-
ing part in the social affairs of her
home town. She was a member of
the church of the Immaculate Con-
ception, of Lock Haven, and Rev.
William S. Davies had charge of the
funeral services held last Wednesday
morning, the remains being brought
to Bellefonte for burial in the Cath-
olic cemetery.
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KLINE.—David B. Kline, aged 77
years, died at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. J. Craig Allen, in Dallas,
Texas, on Wednesday, December 23rd.
He was a resident of Los Angeles,
Cal., and had made the journey to
Texas to attend the wedding of a
grand-daughter, having been taken ill
just after the ceremony.
Deceased was well known in Centre
county and about Altoona, where he
has a number of relatives.
pital, Philadelphia, the day before
Christmas.
He was a native of England, where
he was born in 1852. When but nine
months old he was brought to this
country by his parents, C. B. and Ma-
ry Connelly Sanford and seventeen
years later the family located in Phil-
ipsburg. The elder Sanford became
principal of the schools of that place
and William became a clerk in the old
Perks bank. Later he went to Osce-
ola Mills and was there when that
town was almost wiped out by the fire
of 1876. When he returned to Phil-
ipsburg it was as cashier of the old
Moshannon Banking company, a posi-
i tion he filled until going to Patton
i about thirty years ago. At that place
i he organized the First National bank
of Patton, of which he was president
for many years. He also acquired ex-
tensive coal interests in Cambria coun-
ty.
While living in Philipsburg he mar-
ried Miss Ella Steiner, who died four
vears ago, and of their ten children
only three survive. He also leaves
one brother and five sisters. The re-
mains were taken to Philipsburg
where funeral services were held and
burial made on Monday afternoon.
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POORMAN.—John Gingery Poor-
war, died at his home at Coleville on
nine months, believed to be the result
soldier in France.
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Da-
vid Poorman and was born in Bald
Eagle valley thirty years ago. His
parents later moved to Coleville and
there he grew to manhood. He went
overseas as a member of Troop L and
saw much active service on the firing
line with the Keystone division. Sev-
vives with one daughter, Zelma. He
also leaves his father, two sisters and
one brother, Mrs. Alfa Keller, of Ak-
ron, Ohio; Mrs. Ada Fink, of Tyrone,
and Bruce Poorman, of New Philadel-
phia, Ohio.
Rev. J. A. Mills, of the United
Brethren church, had charge of the
funeral services which were held at
the church on Tuesday afternoon of
last week. Following the services the
remains were taken in charge by the
Brooks-Doll post of the American Le-
gion and a guard of honor from Troop
B, being conveyed to the Sunnyside
cemetery on a machine gun cassion.
The services at the cemetery were in
charge of his comrades in arms.
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McHUGH.—Mzrs. Catherine Eliza-
beth McHugh, wife of Charles J.
McHugh, died at her home in Pitts-
burgh last Thursday evening as the
result of a stroke following a siege of
pleurisy. During the past year or so
she had traveled considerably with her
son Fred, manager of Waring’s Pena-
sylvanians, an orchestra of national
reputation and only recently returned
from a trip to California. She landed
in Pittsburgh with a bad cold which
rapidly developed into pleurisy, and
this was followed by a stroke which
caused her death.
Mrs. McHugh was the eldest child
of W. W. and Catherine Lingle Mont-
gomery and was born in Bellefonte
about sixty years ago. Her early life
was spent at her home here but fol-
lowing her marriage to Mr. McHugh
they took up their residence in Pitts-
burg and that had been her home
ever since. She was a life-long mem-
ber of the Episcopal church and al-
ways took an active part in all
branches of church work. Surviving
her are her husband and three sons,
John, Joseph and Fred McHugh; one
sister, Miss Emma Montgomery, of
Bellefonte, and a brother, J. Fred
Montgomery, of Los. Angeles, Cal.
Burial was made in Pittsburgh on
Monday afternoon.
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MEESE.—Edward Charies Meese, a
native of Centre county, died on Sat-
urday at his home in Tyrone follow-
ing a brief illness. He was a son of
Martin and Catherine Gingher Meese
and was born in Bellefonte on Novem-
ber 9th, 1855, hence was a little past
seventy years of age. During his ear-
ly life he worked as an engineer but
later followed the vocation of a paint-
er and paper hanger. Before moving
to Tyrone eighteen years ago he lived
for a few years at Centre Hall.
Forty-five years ago he married
Miss Anna Tate, of Pleasant Gap, who
survives with four children, Walter,
F., of Rochester, N. Y.; Elliott C.,
Mrs. 8. J. Parson and Mrs. F. A.
| Smith, all of Tyrone He also leaves
two sisters, Mrs. Susan Keller and
{ Mrs. Margaret Keller, both of Belle-
| fonte. Funeral services were held at
' his late home in Tyrone on Tuesday
| evening and on Wednesday the re-
| mains were taken to Pleasant Gap
| where interment was made.
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| GARBRICK.—Mrs. Alice Garbrick,
widow of the late George Garbrick,
died at her home in Bellefonte on
| Thursday night, December 17th, fol-
! lowing an illness of a number of weeks
with a complication of diseases. She
was a daughter of Martin and Sarah
Wolford Brungard and was born at
Zion seventy-six years ago. A good
part of her life was spent in Walker
township. Her husband died eighteen
years ago but surviving her are two
children, Mrs. W. C. Smeltzer, of
Bellefonte, and Prof. Clarence Gar-
brick, of Philadelphia. Burial was
made at Zion on Monday afternoon of
last week.
SANFORD.—William H. Sanford, |
for many years a prominent resident !
of Philipsburg, but for a number of |
years past a citizen of Patton, Cam- | Wednesday evening
brie county, died at the Jefferson hos- | Rev. S. Charles Stover, pastor of the
! church, suffered a stroke of apoplexy
| Elizabeth Stover
| Farmer’s Mills on January 13th, 1866,
hence was almost sixty years old. He
i was educated in the public schools of
| Gregg township and at the Spring
| Mills academy.
man, an overseas veteran of the world ; Jot
i phia; one
December 19th, following an illness of | baugh, at home, and a sister, Mrs.
of poisonous gas he inhaled while a |
eral years after his return home he !
married Miss Jennie Miller who sur-
STOVER.—On his way home from |
a Christmas entertainment in the Re-
formed church at Berlin, Pa., on
of last week,
and died in the automobile, which was
being driven by his stepson, John
i Mothershaugh.
Rev. Stover was a son of John and
and was born at
He taught school
several years then entered Franklin
and Marshall college, at Lancaster,
to study for the ministry. He gradu-
ated in 1888 and was promptly
licensed to preach in the Reformed
church. His first station was in
Lancaster, where he remained seven
years then accepted a call to Meyers-
dale.
In 1910 he accepted a call to the |
Boalsburg charge, which included the
church at that place and the one at
Pine Grove Mills. Later Pine Hall
and Houserville were added to his
charge and in addition to his pastoral
i work he taught several years in the
Boalsburg High school. He resigned
his Centre county pastorate in 1924
to accept a call to Berlin, where he
had since been located.
He is survived by hi§ second wife,
who before her marriage to him was
Katherine Mothershaugh; two sons,
John and Ellwood, both of Philadel-
step-son, John Mothers-
Elizabeth Rote, of Centre county.
Funeral services were held in his
church at Berlin on Christmas day
and on Saturday the remains were
brought to Boalsburg by auto hearse
where final services were held by
Rev. E. B. Romig, of State College,
assisted by all the local ministers of
that vicinity. Burial was made in
the Boalsburg cemetery, his Masonic
brethren being in charge at the
grave,
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CRILEY.—Mrs. Effie Straub Criley
died at her home in New York City
on Tuesday, December 22nd, 1925,
after an illness of only three days
with pneumonia.
She was born in Bellefonte, having
been a daughter of Levi and Henrietta
Straub, and resided here until the
family removed to Altoona. They
lived there a number of years and
then went to Chicago where Mrs.
Criley studied medicine and practiced
her profession until locating in New
York City where she was married to
Edward N. Criley and retired from
active practice.
Mrs. Criley is well remembered here
by the older residents as the Straub
family was one of the most represen-
tative of the town and active especial-
ly in church work. RY
She is survived by her husband, her
aged mother and three sisters: Miss
Marie A. Straub, of New York City,
Mrs. H. B. Herbert and Mrs. H. M.
Curtis, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Interment was made in New York
on Saturday, Dec. 26.
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WATSON.—Mrs. Hannah Jane Wat-
son, wife of James Watson, died at
her home at Runville on December
20th following a brief illness with
pneumonia. She was a daughter of
James and Margaret McClincy, and
was born in Union township sixty-nine
years ago. In addition to her hus-
band she is survived by the following
children: William Watson, of Run-
ville; Mrs. H. W. Parsons, of Vander-
grift; E. W. and J. Harris, of Snow
Shoe; Howard M., of New Kensing-
ton; Mrs. George Wilson, of Tyrone;
Florence F., at home; Clarence, of
Unionville; Mrs. C.J. Packer, of
Milesburg; Mrs. Lloyd Walker, of
Runville, and Arthur, at home. She
also leaves four brothers, James Mec-
Cliney, of Unionville; Jacob, of Miles-
burg; Thomas, of Bellefonte, and
Lemuel, of Sharon. Funeral services
were held in the United Brethren
church, at Runville, last Wednesday
morning, burial being made in the Ad-
vent cemetery.
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DAVIDSON.—Rev. John Calvin Da-
vidson, a Free Methodist minister,
died at St. Petersburg, Florida, on De-
cember 16th, following an operation
for gall stones. He was a son of John
and Mary Davidson and was born at
Unionville fifty-one years ago. Be-
fore going to Florida he was located
in Tyrone where he established the
Free Methodist church. His health
breaking he went to Florida and en-
gaged in the real estate business.
Twenty-five years ago he married
Miss Minnie Spotts, of Unionville,
who survives with four children, El-
mer and Miss Iva, of Jamestown, N.
Y.; Ruth and Elva, at home. He also
leaves his mother, two sisters and a
brother, Mrs. Harriet Ingram, Mrs.
Howard W. Bricker and Atlee G. Da-
vidson, all of Tyrone. The body was
taken to Jamestown, N. Y., where bur-
ial was made on December 21st.
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BARNES.—Annie, wife of James
C. Barnes died on Sunday, December
20, at her home in Johnstown, after
| a long illness with an incurable mal-
ady.
Deceased was a daughter of James
and Lydia Grove and lived in Belle-
fonte until about twenty years ago
when the family moved to Johnstown
where she married Mr. Barnes and
made her home thereafter. Deceased
was fifty-nine years old, a member of
the United Brethren church and the
last of her family, her husband being
her only survivor.
Interment was made in Grandview
cemetery, Johnstown, on Tuesday the
' 22nd.
MITCHELL.—James J. Mitchell, a
member of one of the pioneer fami-
lies of College township, died at his
home at Lemont on Sunday afternoon
as the result of a stroke of paralysis.
He had not been in good health for
i several years and about a year ago
| suffered a stroke. He partially re-
| covered there-from but ten days ago
had a second stroke which resulted in
' his death.
He was a son of J. H. and Nancy
| Mitchell and was born on the old
| homestead farm on Slab Cabin creek
| seventy-four years ago last April.
| His boyhood life was spent on the
{farm and in attending the public
: schools but after he grew to manhood
he turned his attention to lumbering.
For a few years he was located in
| Bedford county but the lure of the
| virgin forests in West Virginia at-
{ tracted him and he went to that State
| where he followed the lumbering busi-
{ ness for about thirty years.
Some four or five years ago he dis-
i posed of his interests in that State
and returned to Lemont, and since
then has lived a retired life. He was
a life-long member of the Presbyter-
ian church and a man who had the re-
spect and esteem of all who knew him..
While in Bedford county he married
Miss Margaret Gates, of Hopewell,
who survives with no children. He
leaves, however, two brothers and two
sisters, George and John Mitchell,
Mrs. W. H. Thompson and Miss Maude:
Mitchell, all of Lemont.
Funeral services were held at his
late home at Lemont at 2.30 o'clock.
on Wednesday afternoon by Rev. J.
Max Kirkpatrick, and burial was
made in the Branch cemetery.
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GLENN.—Samuel Glenn, a retired
farmer of College township, died at
his home at Lemont on Sunday, De-
cember 20th, as the result of a stroke
of apoplexy. A son of James and Su-
sanna Glenn, he was born in College
township seventy-seven years ago. As
a young man he engaged in farming,
an occupation he followed all his life
until his retirement a few years ago.
His wife, who prior to her marriage
was Miss Priscilla Mothersbaugh, died
five years ago, but surviving him are
the following sons and daughters:
John and Mrs. Samuel Wasson, of Le-
mont; Rev. James Glenn, of Carlisle;
Edwin, on the homestead farm; Ella
and Margaret, at home. He also
leaves one brother and a sister, Wil-
liam Glenn, of Lemont, and Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Bailey, of Altoona.
Mr. Glenn was a life long member
of the Presbyterian church and an el-
der for thirty years. His pastor, Rev.
J. Max Kirkpatrick, had charge of the
funeral services which were held on
Tuesday afternoon of last week, bur-
ial being made in the Branch ceme-
tery.
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LITTLE.—Mrs. Sarah Jane Little,
widow of Samuel C. Little, died at her
home in Tyrone on December 19th as
the result of heart failure. She was a
daughter of Harbin and Sophia Cow-
her and was born at Port Matilda al-
most seventy years ago. The past
forty years of her life had been spent
in Tyrone where she was quite active
as a member of the Presbyterian
church and Sunday school as well as
the Mission band.
Her husband died in 1917 but sur-
viving her are the following children:
Mrs. May Dubbs, John A., Miss So-
phia, William C., P. Woodring, Sam-
uel I, and Miss Virginia, all of Ty-
rone. She also leaves these brothers
and sisters: A. L. Cowher, of Tyrone;
Peter and Miss Maria Cowher, of Port
Matilda. Burial was made in the
Grandview cemetery, Tyrone, on Wed-
nesday of last week.
Il
SCHAD.—Miss Julia Frederika
Schad died at Warren on Monday fol-
lowing a brief illness with pneumo-
nia. She was a daughter of Charles
and Julia F. Schad and was born in
Bellefonte on January 23rd, 1874. Her
entire life was spent here until going
to Warren about twelve years ago.
Her only survivors are two brothers,
Charles and Albert, both of Bellefonte.
She was a member of the Lutheran
church since girlhood. The remains
were brought to Bellefonte on Tues-
day and taken to the Albert Schad
home, on east Curtin street, where
funeral services were held at 10
o’clock yesterday morning, by Rev.
Arnold, and burial made in the Union
cemetery.
McCLOSKEY —Matthes W. DMec-
Closkey, an octogenarian who spent
most of his life on Marsh Creek, Cen-
tre county, died at the Lock Haven
hospital on December 20th, as the re-
sult of general infirmities. He was
eighty-two years of age and is sur-
vived by four children, Orrie McClos-
key, of Champaign, Ill.; Leroy, of
Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. John Packer,
of Flemington, and Mrs. Howard
Moore, of Blue Ball. He also leaves
three brothers, Jacob, of Bragadocia,
Mo.; Joseph, of Flemington, and
William, of Howard. Burial was
made at Romola, Centre county, on
Tuesday of last week.
THOMA. Morgan Thomas, who
during his life was among the old-
time iron workers at the Valentine
furnace, died at the Blair county
home, at Hollidaysburg, last Thurs-
day as the result of a stroke of apo-
plexy. He was past seventy-seven
years old and had been blind for some
years. A son and daughter survive.
The remains were brought to Belle-
fonte on the 1.20 p. m. train on Sun-
day and taken direct to the Union
cemetery for burial.
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