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Bellefonte, Pa., January 15, 1926.
BARBERTON STORY OF THE
BENNER TRAGEDY.
One of the Akron, Ohio, papers
last week carried the following story
of the murder, in Barberton, of Wil-
liam Herbert Benner, of this place.
BARBERTON, Jan. 4.—William
Benner, 30, of 212 Diamond St., was
shot and fatally wounded by an un-
known assailant on S. Second St., near
the Diamond Match Co.s plant .af
9:30 Sunday evening. One man is
being held on suspicien in connection
with the shooting.
Benner stayed at home all Sunday
afternoon. leaving early in the eve-
ning for downtown. After he was
gone a few moments a man called at
the Brooks home where he had lodg-
ings and inquired if Benner was in.
When told he was not, the man seem-
ed not to believe Mrs. Brooks. He
said he wanted to see Benner on a
business matter.
Persons who found the body of
Benner told members of the Brooks
family that the shot was fired from
a passing touring car.
Barberton police were called at
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about 9:30 Sunday night and Offi- |
cers Zwick and Head responded to the
call. They found Benner lying in a
pool of blood in a dying condition.
Benner was unable to give police any
information.
Campfield-Hickman’s ambulance
was called and he was taken to Cit-
zen’s hospital but death resulted
from his wound, before the hospital
was reached. Only one shot took ef-
fect in Benner’s body and this enter-
ed just above his heart. A 32 cali-
ber revolver was used.
POLICE INVESTIGATE.
Police were not able to say defi-
nitely what: the motive for the mur-
der was but officers said they were
of the opinion that an enemy of Ben-
ner’s was responsible for the mur-
der. A watch was not taken from
the body and a pocketbook contain-
ing about 40 cents in change was also
found on the body.
It is said that Benner was sitting
in on a rhum game in a pool room
on Second St. for some time Sunday
afternoon and evening. He is said
to have borrowed money once dur-
ing the game but whether or not he
regained his losses and more was
not known.
If it is found that he won a con-
siderable sun in
entire motive of the robbery would
be changed, police said. If it is prov-
ed that he lost ali he had the only
motive left is the one which police
are now working on officers claim.
He was employed in the forge de-
partment of the B. & W. Co.’s fac-
tory.
He was known by many Barberton
residents and apparently had many
friends among local residents, say
officals.
SEEN AT POOLROOM,
Benner was seen leaving Charlie
Blinn’s poolroom at 9:15 o’clock.
Ralph Buskey told of having taken
a man to Benner’s home some time
before that hour, the man trying to
‘borrow $2 from Benner and being re-
fused. Police are questioning the man.
Benner was employed at the Bab-
cock-Wilcox plant as a laborer. He
was a member of the local United
Brethren church and had served with
ithe Rainbow Division overseas in the
‘World War.
He had made his home with his
aunt, Mrs. J. I". Brooks, since com-
ing to Barberton.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE CONFER-
ENCE SOCIAL WELFARE.
All the most important social work-
ers and trustees of welfare agencies
will be in attendance at the Eigh-
teenth Annual! Meeting of the Penn-
sylvania State Conference on Social
Welfare, which will be held in Pitts-
burg beginning Wednesday, February
3, and closing on Saturday, February
An unusually large number of the
members of the State Welfare De-
partment and State Institutions will
attend, inasmuch as the President of
the Conference is Miss Mary F.
Bogue, Harrisburg, State Super-
visor of the Mothers’ Assistance Fund.
None of the seventeen annual
meetings of the Conference held thus
far has had the number of distin-
guished speakers that will address
this Conference. Every branch of
social work, including those which
have made the greatest amount of
progress in our own country, will be
+ 'iscussed by authorities in their re-
: spective fields.
an “he entire program of our State
C onfen, e1CE meeting next month,” said
Presiden. Bogue, “is one that persons
interested , ‘0 Social work cannot afford
to miss. By ©rY social agency in the
State Is expec, bed to send one or more
delegates, and 1. 'e whole body will be
as complete a. rep. Tesentation of wel-
fare interests as it * Possible to make
it. Pittsburg has alw 2YS been noted
. for its hospitality, and “We feel grate-
‘Gal that the Conference Was invited
this year to meet in that generous
city.”
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Accidents End 2022 Lives in Penne
sylvania in a Year.
Harrisburg,—Industrial accidents
reported to the Workmen’s Compensa-
tion Bureau in 1925 totaled 176,392,
of which 2022 were fatal, the Bureau’s
annual report, made public today,
showed. In the ten years the com-
pensation act has been effective the
total number of accidents reported
was 1,836,681, of which 24,699 were
classed as fatal.
The fatalities last year showed a
decrease when compared with 2209 in
1924 and 2412 in 1923. The non-fatal
cases in 1924 were 175,380 and in 1923
198,028. y
In the year the Bureau authorized
the card game the |
i payment of compensation totaling
| $12,748,266 in 80,261 cases.
i January 1, 1916, the compensation al-
lowed in 692,863 cases totaled $108,-
690,486 and of this amount $75,645,
325 was awarded in fatal and per-
! manent disability cases.
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Soldiers Are You Holding on to Your
Insurance?
December 15, 1925 was the open-
ing date for an intensive drive to have
all ex-service men reinstate their Gov-
{ernment insurance. The following
| figures will show the necessity for a
drive of this kind.
At one time there was carried more
“than $39;000,000,000 worth of Gov-
ernment insurance by over 4,500,000
service men. On September 30,1923
there was in effect but $2,844,418,912
worth of insurance, carried by only
551,229 ex-service men.
The necessity and need for insur-
ance is well known. The low cost of
| Government insurance may not be so
| well known. The fact that all per-
| manent and. total disability claims as
well as death claims which are trac-
able to the hazards of the military or
naval service are borne by the United
States and do not affect the Govern-
ment life insurance fund is one of the
reasons for the low cost of Govern-
ment life insurance. An ex-service
man who is thirty years of age may
i carry an ordinary life policy for $1,-
000 for a monthly premium of $1.47.
If he is younger than thirty years of
| age, the monthly premium is corres-
pondingly less.
Another feature of the United
States Government life insurance is
that it is free from restrictions as to
residence, travel, occupation, military
or naval service. No additional prem-
ium is charged for the total and per-
manent disability provision nor is
there any limit as to the age at which
such disability may occur. The
amount of insurance plus dividend ac-
cumlation less any indebtedness, be-
comes payable in monthly install-
ments of $5.75 per thousand, payable
so long as the insured remains per-
manently and totally disabled even
though such disability may continue
for more than two hundred and forty
months. Payment of premiums is
waived for the period during which
total permanent disability install-
ments are paid.
After one of these policies has been
in effect for one year or more the cash
value, which is full reserve plus divi-
dend accumlations, less any indebted-
ness, will be paid upon written re-
quest of the insured and surrender of
the policy and all claims thereunder.
The insured may at any time after
the policy has been in force for one
year or more, obtain a loan at a rate
of interest not to exceed six per cent.
per annum for an amount not to ex-
ceed ninety-four per cent. of the re-
serve value plus dividend accumula-
tions and subject to deduction of any
existing indebtedness.
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A Quarter Million Trees Planted in
Centre County in 1925.
Harrisburg, Pa., January 5, 1926.
Figures compiled by the Department
of Forests and Waters show that a
total of 9,181,108 forest trees were
planted in Pennsylvania in 1925. This
is the largest number of trees that
have been set out during any year
since the Department began to plant
trees on the State Forests and dis-
tribute them to private planters
throughout the State. or
In Centre county, 47 tree planters
set out 240,714 forest trees, and in
Clearfield county, 58 owners of forest
land planted a total of 731,715 forest
trees. Clearfield county stands first
among the 67 counties of the State
with a total of 731,715 trees. Cambria
comes second with 537,300 trees, and
Indiana comes third with 435,745
trees. Berks conuty again leads in
the number of tree planters, for dur-
ing 1925 100 different tree planters
set out a total of 356,905 trees. Cam-
bria county is a close second with 96
landowners who planted forest trees.
A Word for the Vegetarian.
Donald B. MacMillan, the Arctic
explorer, says:
“Four years of eating whole wheat
bread, chocolate, dehydrated fruits
and vegetables, surely ought to con-
stitute a very thorough test of the
nutritive value of these foods. Just
such a prolonged test has convinced
me that I could live indefinitely even
in the Arctic upon such foods.”
Shackleton, in “The Heart of the
Antarctic,” says:
“During our entire trip from 1907
to 1909, we did not develop a single
case of sickness, relying almost ex-
clusively upon whole wheat biscuit,
dehydrated fruits and vegetables,
marrowfat peas, lentils, and kidney
beans. We carried with us dried
prunes, peaches, apricots, raisins, cur-
rants, apples, dehydrated potatoes,
carrots, cabbage, onions, Brussels
sprouts, cauliflower, celery, spinach,
parsley, mint, rhubarb, mushrooms,
and artichokes, to the extent of 3,800
pounds, with 2,240 pounds of whole
wheat biscuits.”
The Dromedary.
The Arabian Camel has but one
hump. The two-humped breed is slow
and of little use except as a beast of
burden. The one-humped camel is
the dromedary. It is the Greek word
for a camel that runs.
Although camels can go for long
periods without water, when they do
drink, they more than make up for
lost time. It takes a half hour to
water them, but each camel can ac-
commadate a nice little swallow of
twenty gallons. They usually live for
about twenty-five years. Over good
ground first-class Arabian drome-
daries can trot up to twenty-nine
miles an hour, canter up to twenty-
eight miles an hour, and gallop up to
thirty-two with their legs going like
huge pistons.
From “With Lawerence in Arabia.”
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HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this puzzle will
spell words both vertically and horizontally. The first letter in each word is
indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the puzzle.
Horizontal.
2—Constellation on the equator
7—Before (poet.)
9—To follow »
11—Bold and fearless
13—The cony of the Old Testament
15—Satisfied 17—Rosin
18—Native metals
19—Head covering
21—Coarse ribbed material
22—Middle-western state (abbr.)
23—A heading letter
26—Economics (abbr.)
27—To obstruct 28—The sun
29—Note of musical scale
30—Preparation of fruit and sirup
32—Horse-drawn vehicle
38—To make a mistake
84—Word meaning reason in Chi-
nese, and base of a Chinese
religion
36—Airplane (coll) 36—Hobo
38—Small automobile (slang)
40—Asunder
42—Quantity of yarn
43—To trap
46—Before (poet.) 46—Knotting
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How Clay Turns Into China.
Most of us sit down to a meal and
put our food into dishes that we don’t
stop to realize were once only com-
mon clay. If the dishes are of the fin-
est porcelam, they were made from
pure white French, German, or Austri-
an clay. Cheaper dishes are made
from gray or yellowish American clay.
When first dug out, the best clay,
which is found between layers of fine
sand has a soapy touch but after be-
ing exposed to the air it becomes hard.
The clay selected for making dishes
is then ground to a very fine powder,
mixed with exceedingly fine, white
sand and thoroughly kneaded by
machinery, after which it is ready for
the magic touch of the potter.
All of the best china is still made
on a potter’s wheel and requires the
skill of the human hand to give it the
desired shape. The cheaper grades
of china are formed in molds. The
modern potter’s wheel is somewhat
different from the old foot-power
forms, but the principle of handling
the clay is the same. After the pot-
ter has put a lump of kneaded clay on
the rapidly revolving wheel, he uses
his fingers to shape the clay into a
cup, saucer, plate, or any other dish
desired. Handles and other attach-
rents are made separately and put on
he dish forms while the clay is still
soft.
The shaped clay now goes into a
large gas furnace for the first rough
firing. While there, the dishes must
have an even heating and, of course,
should not be placed so that they will
adhere to each other. Men who have
spent a lifetime in the business are
usually the ones who stack the dishes
in the furnace, the largest of which
are forty feet in height and hold sev-
eral thousand dishes for a single fir-
ing. Pieces of burned clay called
“stilts” are placed between the flat
dishes. The actual firing process lasts
about three days, but three additional
days are required for the dishes to
cool. As this cooling must take place
very slowly, the gas jets are extin-
guished one by one in order to ac-
complish the desired result. If all the
jets were turned off at the same time
and the door of the furnace opened,
the entire lot of the dishes would
crack when cool air rushed in.
The dishes are now porous, and
known as “bisque ware.” The finish-
ing touch is given when they are dip-
ped into “glaze,” which fills in the
pores and gives each article a smooth,
glossy surface, after it is again bak-
ed in the furnace for a short time.
This glazed product is called “plain
white ware,” and is finished, unless
some decoration is desired.
Perhaps you may be surprised to
learn that practically all of the gold
designs are put on with a rubber
stamp. The cheaper dishes are
stamped with a solution known as
“liquid bright gold,” while the more
expensive ones are decorated with
pure gold that has been made into a
solution by being treated with various
acids. Color decorations are put on
by a more intricate process in which
art transfers are used. Hand-paint-
ed china is the most expensive variety,
but this method of decoration is sel-
dom used on any ware, except orna-
mental fruit and salad bowls, or cake
dishes.
After the designs are put on the
“plain white ware,” it must go into
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will
fill the white spaces up to the first klack square to the right, and a number
under “vertical” defines a word which will fill the white squares to the next
black one below. Neo letters go in the black spaces.
dictionary words, except proper names. Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical
terms and obsolete forms are indicated im the definitions.
All words used are
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 3.
(©, 1925, Western Newspaper Union.)
Vertical,
1-—Children
3—Note of musical scale
4—India (poet.)
5—Ridges
T—Sea eagle (pl.)
8—1'irsi woman, according to Bible
10—Artists’ standard
11—Kind of acid used to soothe the
eyes
12—Formed into a camp
14—To arrest during development
15—To cringe
16—To strike gently
20—Revolvers
23—Rotating piece on a shaft
24—Pedal digit
26—Rigidity
29—Loud whistle
30—Dice game
32—To compete again
33—Period of time
35—To avoid
37—To entreat
39—Nickname for Isaac
41—Prefix meaning “three”
6—Number
27—Sleeping
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44—Half an em
Solution will appear im next issue.
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Solution to Cross-word Puzzle No. 2.
the furnace for twelve hours so that
the decorations will mingle with the
china and actually become so much a
part of it that they will not wash off.
It is interesting to know that every-
thing used in the making of china
dishes must be of a mineral or non-
burning composition.
Real Estate Transfers.
Julia V. Bond to Mary N. Craig,
tract in Bellefonte; $6550.
« William T. Bailey, et ux, to Jacob
S. Williams, tract in Worth Twp.;
$600.
Robert S. Ross, et al, to Herman
Williams, tract in Worth Twp.; $200.
Bellefonte Trust Company, trustee,
et al, to Calvin M. Sharer, tract in
Rush Twp.; $310.
Walter E. Dreibelbis, et al, to Ann
S. Taylor, tract in Ferguson Twp.;
$1900.
J. D. Keller, et al, to John D. Mus-
ser, tract in State College; $1.
J. D. Keller, et ux, to Earl H.
Ishler, tract in State College; $1.
Henderson Tire & Rubber Co., to
T. A. Pletcher, tract in Howard; $250.
Greenbriar Hunting Club to Elmer
Hoover, tract in Penn Twp.; $185.
Florence Fox to C. M. Fox, tract
in Howard; $1.
J. Thompson Henry, et ux, to D.
Porter Woodring, tract in Worth
Twp.; $175. :
J. Kennedy Johnson, et ux, to Harry
cKean, tract in Howard Twp.;
G.
$950
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“ Better Than Pills For Liver lls”
Slaughtering of Sea Lions.
The following news item appeared
in the New York papers last fall:
“The Government of the Dominion
of Canada has authorized the des-
truction of sea lions preying upon
salmon and other edible fish in the
waters off Vancouver Island. The
Government patrol boat “Givenchy”
was assigned recently to this duty
and was instructed to proceed among
the productive salmon areas in the
vicinity of Virgin Rocks. The crew
used machine guns and rifles and kill-
ed 2,500 sea lions in the first two
weeks.”
The report has just been made that
this year’s hunt for sea lions netted
a larger number of individuals, the
total being 2,827 killed.
Scientific examination of the stom-
aches of sea lions has shown that they
feed chiefly on squid, cuttlefish and
octopus, and rarely touch salmon and
other “edible” fishes.”
Authorizing the wholesale destruc-
tion of these animals is not excusable
on the ground of ignorance, for it is
known that the British Columbia Gov-
ernment is well informed as to the
natural history of the sea lion and
that salmon are becoming scarce not
because of sea lions, but because of
canneries.—Exchange.
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