Bellefonte, Pa., February 12, 1926.
EB ES HS mn.
.NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——Charles R. Diehl was last week
appointed postmaster at Cato, suc-
ceeding Charles E. Diehl, resigned.
— Judging from the weather we
have had since February 2nd that tar-
nation creature, the groundhog, must
have seen his shadow.
In Centre county 547 farms
have running water, 211 farm houses
have bath rooms and 168 of them have
general heating systems.
——How many of the present
residents remember that snow fell in
Philipsburg on Tuesday, June 24,
1902. It sleeted here that day.
William Musser, of Lamb St.,
has rallied so rapidly from a recent
operation in the hospital that he was
able to return to his home this week.
——The capitalization of the
Peoples’ National bank at State Col-
lege has been increased to $120,000.
The new issue of stock was over sub-
scribed within several days of its
offering
Anyone having second hand
clothes of any kind, for girls or boys
between the ages of two and fourteen,
are asked to send them to Mrs. W. J.
Emerick or telephone her, and she
will send for them.
Miss Katharine Johnston has
taken the position in Dr. David Dale’s
office made vacant by the resignation
of Miss Dorothy Coxey, who is going
to enter a: business college in York
for a course in commerce.
——John McCoy is now getting
things in readiness to install the ma-
chinery for his new hydro-electric
plant on his property near Milesburg.
He has secured the most modern ma-
.chinery obtainable and the plant, when
completed, will be as up-to-date as it
is possible to make it.
——Mrs. Mary K. Bowers has been
transferred from the Ridgway office
of the Keystone Power corporation to
the Bellefonte office to take the place
of Harold Edmiston, who will be sent
to Ridgway. Mrs. Bowers arrived in
Bellefonte on Sunday and Mr. Edmis-
ton will probably leave for Ridgway
early in the week.
——Friends of Mrs. S. S. Aplin
will regret to learn of the death of
her mother, Mrs. W. H. Bone, which
occurred at Ottawa, Canada, an Sat-
urday, January 2. Mrs. Bone visited
her daughter while the Aplins were
residents of this place, two years ago.
Rev. Aplin and his family are now
living at Barnesboro.
——Word was received in Belle-
fonte this week, of the marriage of
Miss Bertha Laurie Eldridge, third
child of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Eld-
ridge, of Cape May, and Donald Lear,
of West Chester, which took place in
Philadelphia February second. Mr.
Lear is a promising young nursery
man‘and ét present is in charge of a
big nursery farm near West Chester,
where Mr. and Mrs. Lear will make
their home.
According to reports gathered
by the State Game Commission just
291 foxes were trapped in Centre
county during the months of Decem-
ber and: January. Of this number
169 were gray foxes and 122 red. Red
fox pelts are worth on an average
$10 and gray ones $4. The bounty on
foxes is $2, hence the entire revenue
accruing to Centre county trappers
from foxes alone for the two months
was almost $2,500.
Our trout editor is already
counting the days until the opening
of the trout fishing season, and while
many other disciples of Izaak Walton
are likely doing the same it need not
interfere with their regular attend-
ance at the Scenic. The pictures be-
ing shown there are of such a high
standard that they cannot help but
appeal to trout fishermen as well as
men and women in every walk of life.
In order to see all the good ones you
should be a regular patron as the
best pictures are shown six nights a
week.
The head of the department of
music at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, Morrison C. Boyd, A. M., Mus.
Bac. (Oxford), will give a piano re-
cital in the Presbyterian chapel the
afternoon of Saturday, February 20th.
The program will include compositions
of both the modern period and the
-sclassic, and its numbers will give a
variety in both heavier and lighter
‘themes. Among other selections Mr.
Boyd will play the final chorus from
the Christmas oratorio by Bach, Bal-
lade in G. minor by Brahms, Humor-
- eske by Chaikovsky. On this ocea-
sion the audience will also be favored
- by Mrs. Schad as solo-violinist and
- Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Clark in duets.
——Last Wednesday evening Mr.
8. M. Shallcross drove home from the
office of the American Lime and Stone
company and parked his car in the
alley between the residences of W. C.
Chambers and Judge Ellis L. Orvis,
Along about nine o’clock people pass.
ing along Curtin street saw a man
working about the car but as it was
snowing terrifically at the time pay-
ed little attention to him. It later
developed that the man was a strang-
er who drove there in a car, backed
his own machine up alongside of Mr.
Shallcross’, siphoned all the gas from
the latter's car into his own, confiscat-
ed a spare tire and the robes from the
Shallcross car, then drove off as un-
concernedly as could be.
JUDGE KELLER IS LENIENT
WITH LAW TRANSGRESSORS.
Four Out of Seven Draw Suspended
Sentences on Monday.
Four young men got off with sus-
pended sentences, on Monday, at the
hands of Judge Harry Keller, after
they had pleaded guilty to offences |
which might have resulted in their
being sent to the penitentiary. All of
them were first offenders and the court
made it plain that he was willing to
give them one chance but if they
failed to tread the straight and narrow
path of good citizenship he would have
them brought in and impose sentence
commensurate with the offense they
had committed.
The first man to appear before the
court was Charles Baney, of Belle-
fonte, who plead guilty to passing two
forged checks on State College mer-
chants on January 7th, one for $9.50
and one for $22.00. District attorney
John G. Love stated to the court that
Mr. Baney had been before the court
on previous occasions, in March, 1922,
for stealing money from R. Russell
Blair and about a year later when he
was mixed up with the theft of some
liquor.
sented Baney and he told the court
that the man had promised to go
straight in the future and he believed
he meant it. The court, however, evi-
dently had some doubts about
Baney’s promises as he sentenced him
to pay a fine of one dollar, costs and
spent six months in the county jail.
The next man up was John Hazel,
thirty-eight years old, charged with
robbing a Philipsburg store in May,
1925, carrying off goods to an approx-
imate value of twenty-five dollars.
Hazel told the court that he was ac-
companied by another man when the
robbery was committed and that they
were both intoxicated. In fact he ad-
mitted that he was so drunk he did not
know what he was doing.
told the court that if he would leave
him go this time he would never
go wrong again. Judge Keller, how-
ever, sentenced him to pay the costs,
one dollar fine and spend one year in
the county jail.
Maynard and Howard Hazel, broth-
ers of the above Hazel, plead
guilty to receiving stolen goods, the
same being some of those stolen by
John when he robbed the Philipsburg
store, but they maintained that they
were entirely ignorant of the fact that
the goods had been stolen. Maynard
is 22 years old and married and How-
ard 29 and single. Sentence was sus-
pended and the young men given three
months in which to pay the costs in
the case.
Albert Natterer, of Philipsburg,
plead guilty to the charge of stealing
a small sum of money from his father,
Carl Natterer. The young man stated
that he stole the money because his
father chased him away from home.
He was sent to the Huntingdon re-
formatory.
Millard Nearhood, 23 years old, of
Philipsburg, plead guilty to writing
six forged checks for $19 each, four
of which were passed on Philipsburg
merchants. Nearhood was represent-
ed by W. G. Runkle, who told the
court that his client wrote the checks
at the solicitation of a fellow work-
man, George Langer, and it was Lang-
er who passed the forged paper then
made good his escape. The court was
also informed that Nearhood’s father
and father-in-law had placed in the
hands of ‘Squire Hancock, of Philips-
burg, a sufficient sum of money to
reimburse the merchants for their loss
in cashing the forged checks and also
pay the costs in the case. The court
suspended sentence with the under-
standing that the costs be paid
promptly.
The last man up was Norman Tay-
lor, 19 years old, of State College,
charged with the theft of 144 pints of
liquor from the Ray Gilliland drug
store. The prosecutor was chief of
police Yougel, of State College. The
district attorney explained to the court
that all of the liquor with the excep-
tion of three or four pints had been
returned, and Mr. Gilliland was not
anxious to push the case. As it was
the boy’s first offense sentence was
suspended upon the payment of costs.
Ferguson Township Boy Injured in
Auto Accident.
Frank Dean, ten year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dean, who occupy
the J. W. Kepler farm in the Glades,
was painfully injured in an automobile
accident last Friday evening. He was
engaged in coasting down a path shov-
eled through the snow from the house
to the state highway, and when lying
down on his sled was unable to see
up or down the road, and likewise
could not be seen by any person driv-
ing along the road. The result was
that he coasted out onto the roadway
right in front of an automobile being
driven by a resident of Punxsutawney.
It was impossible for the driver to
stop and he almest overturned his car
in his efforts to avoid hitting the boy
but the distance was too short.
While the car did not run over the
lad he was struck and knocked to one
side, sustaining a gash on his head
and a broken collar bone. He was
brought to the Centre County hospital
where a thorough examination dis-
closed the fact that his injuries, while
painful, were not of a critical nature,
and he is now on the road to recovery.
The driver of the car was exonerated
of all blame for the accident.
——QGerald Little, who makes his
home with Mrs. David Miller, on Wil-
lowbank St. is recovering rapidly
from his recent operation for appen-
dicitis. His condition was. quite seri-
ous for a few days.
J. Kennedy Johnston repre-
He also !
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Bush Addition School Closed by Epi-
{ demic of Scarlet Rash.
| An epidemic of scarlet rash has
broken out in the Bush Addition
| neighborhood and while it has not be-
come general the two schools out
there were closed Tuesday morning as
a precautionary measure.
The Fred Haupt, Frank Gardner,
William Corman and Smith families
are all under quarantine and it is
hoped that careful observance of the
regulations will confine the epidemic
to that section and prevent its spread-
ing through the entire community.
| What it Costs to Electrocute a Man.
The State Welfare Department, at
Harrisburg, has figured up the aver-
age expense of electrocuting condemn-
. ed murderers at Rockview as follows:
Attendants and electricians, $104.25;
legal papers and postage, $2.10; casket
.and burial, $14.30; meals, $2.10; uni-
form, $3.50; electricity, $3.50; tele-
phone tolls, $4.60; incidentals, 98
cents, a total of $135.33. Since the
death house at Rockview has been in
‘service just 153 electrocutions have
| taken place, and assuming the above
figures to be correct they have cost
the State exactly $20,705.49. At that
it is cheaper than shuffling off this
| mortal coil in the ordinary way.
| Prof. J. Orvis Keller Will Broaden
Scope of His Department.
Prof. J. Orvis Keller, who last week
took up his new duties as head of the
| engineering extension department at
i the Pennsylvania State College, is
i formulating plans to further increase
the employee training service to the
industries of the State. While the
general policies of the department
will not be changed it is the hope of
i broaden the scope of the work now
being accomplished for the benefit of
thousands of industrial employees
through night classes, home study and
eorrespondence instruction.
Prof. Keller, who is the eldest son
of Judge and Mrs. Harry Keller, of
Bellefonte, was formerly head of the
industrial engineering department at
Penn State, being succeeded there by
| Prof. C. W. Beese.
Fishing Creek Cottages Robbed.
Four or more of the cot-
tages lining the banks of Fishing
creek, in Clinton county, were broken
into and robbed some time during the
past few weeks. And all those robbed
are owned by Lock Haven people.
Silverware, dishes, blankets, lamps,
etc, to a value of several hundred
dollars, were carried off. Several
years ago a number of the cottages
were, robbed but at the. time, the
looters did not show discrimination
in regard to ownership, as several
Bellefonte residents were among the
losers. Two men were later arrested
and convicted of the robbery in the
Clinton county courts. So far the
owners of the cottages just recently
looted have no trace of the guilty
parties but a reward of one hundred
dollars has been offered for their
apprehension. .
Track Walker Injured in Peculiar
Manner.
Arthur Bathurst, track walker on
the Bald Eagle Valley railroad be-
tween Mt. Eagle and Milesburg, was
injured in a peculiar manner one day
last week. He lives at Mt. Eagle and
was on his way to Milesburg when he
met a freight train. He promptly
stepped over onto the other track,
which ordinarily would have placed
him out of danger, but a tie rod had
come loose on one of the cars and
stuck out just far enough to hit Mr.
Bathurst a glancing blow on the head.
He was dazed for a few minutes but
instead of seeking help at the nearest
house continued his walk to Milesburg.
He was almost exhausted when he
reached the station at the latter place
and the agent promptly summoned a
physician who dressed the injury on
Bathurst’s head. He was sent home
on the next train.
Boy’s Life Saved by Dog.
LeRoy Bechdel, young son of Mr.
and Mrs, Fred Bechdel, who occupy a
farm between Howard and Blanchard,
was probably saved from being tram-
pled to death by an infuriated bull,
one day last week, by the family dog.
The boy was engaged in driving the
cattle into the barnyard when the bull
charged him and tossed him some
fifteen feet or more against the fence.
Mr. Bechdel and several neighbors
were in the barn baling hay but failed
to hear the boy’s cries for help because
of the noise made by the machinery.
But the dog heard him and was quick
to respond, holding the bull at bay
until the lad crawled out of danger.
The boy sustained lacerations of the
head, neck and back, and various body
bruises, but no really serious injuries.
The bull which had never before shown
a disposition to be cross, was turned
into beef the day following the at-
tack.
——Lois Wilson plays opposite
Thomas Meighan in his latest screen
success, “Irish Luck.” Why of course
it’s at the Scenic next Monday and
Tuesday. 7-1t
——A little daughter was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Snoke, of Un-
ionville, at the Centre County hospital,
on Sunday. It has been named Frances
Harriet.
Prof. Keller and his assistants to
MOONSHINE RAID
ON HALFMOON HILL.
Yields a Gallon Jug, Four Pints but
No Still.
A moonshine raid on Halfmoon hill,
about midnight Wednesday night, '
yielded a gallon jug and four pints of |
liquor and three additional boarders
for sheriff Taylor in the persons of
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Parks and Mis.
Parks’ mother, Mrs. Ann Keeler.
" The Keeler home had been under
suspicion for months. In fact people
who live in that locality aver that it
was not only wide open but that some.
of the inmates peddled the booze
around with daring impunity. The
house is located in Spring township
and, according to report, the moon-
shine would be carried to the Belle-
fonte borough line and passed across
to the regular patrons.
Acting on complaints preferred on
various occasions chief of police Har-
ry Dukeman on Wednesday secured a
search warrant and accompanied by
sheriff Taylor and the latter’s deputy,
Leo Orr, went to the Keeler home
about twelve o’clock on Wednesday
night and demanding admittance made
a search of the premises. Their trip
was fruitful in finding a gallon and a
half of moonshine but no still. Mrs.
Keeler, Bert Parks and his wife were
placed under arrest and conveyed to
the countey jail.
AUTO ACCESSORIES THIEF
ED YESTERDAY.
Just before noon yesterday chief of
police Dukeman arrested Charles Lu-
cas, and thus has cleared up some, if
not all, of the petty thieving of auto-
mobile tires, ete. that has been going
on in Bellefonte for some time past.
The particular thefts for which Lucas
was arrested were the stealing of
tires from Newton Hockman, of Belle-
fonte, Charles Bohn, of Zion, and the
robbing of the car of S. M. Shallcross,
on Wednesday night of last week of
gas, a spare tire, chains and robes.
Lucas confessed to policeman Duke-
man of being guilty as above charged
and is now in the county jail to await
the action of the court. Lucas, ac-
cording to reports, has been implicat-
ed in robberies in Bellefonte on one or
more previous occasions which led to
suspicion being directed to him at this
time.
ARREST-
Part of Hospital Nearing Completion.
The second and third floor of the
new wing of the Centre county hos-
pital are so near finished as to give
the visitor an idea of how fine the ad-
dition will be when finally completed.
The plastering is all done, most of
the wood work is finished, the plumb-
ing and fixtures are set and little more
is to be done than putting down the
composition flooring, which is now in
progress.
Certainly it looks nice and when the
furniture, which is to be of a standard
design in all rooms, is in place we can
imagine nothing more to be desired
in the way of well lighted, well ven-
tilated ‘and . comfortably furnished
hospital accommodation. The wood-
work is’ of cypress, which will be fin-
ished in mahogany.
When the wing is completed for oc-
cupation it can be used as a separate
unit and will provide rooms for the
normal number of patients so that
the work of remodeling the old por-
tion can be carried on with little in-
convenience either to the patients or
the operating force.
Money is essential. The board has
done so well under the handicap of
limited funds that those who are de-
linquent in their pledges should remit
at once and help make it easier to
complete the work yet to be done.
A meeting of the hospital board
was held on Tuesday evening and it
was officially reported that the eleva-
tor is now in use, the doors all hung,
the plastering completed and the
equipment for the rooms purchased.
Work on laying the floors was started
on Wednesday, and the board is out of
money. Inquiry developed the fact
that just about $60,000 of the $92,-
000 pledged in the Serve Centre Sick
drive has been paid in and as all pay-
ments are now several months over
due the board will appreciate it if
those in arrears will please pay up as
soon as possible. The money is neces-
sary if the hospital is to be completed.
—Irish Luck,” Tom Meighan’s
latest picture, was actually taken in
Ireland. See it at the Scenic next
Monday and Tuesday. 7-1t.
Program for Children’s Division In-
stitute for Centre County.
Miss Elsie J. Rodgers, of Philadel-
phia, State superintendent of the chil-
dren's Sunday school division, will be
the chief instructor at the division in-
stitute to be held in the Methodist
church, Bellefonte, Tuesday, February
16th. All persons interested in the
religious education of children should
hear Miss Rodgers. Following is the
program:
4 p. m.—Worship, Rev. Homer C. Knox.
4.15—The worship service in the Chil-
dren’s division, Miss Elsie J. Rodgers.
5.15—Choice of lesser material. A discus-
sion of the purpose and plan of graded
lessons.
5.45—Recess.
6.00—Supper, stories, games.
7.00—The children’s division program,
Miss Elsie J. Rodgers.
7.45—Expressional activities. A discus-
sion of the pupils’ response to the pro-
gram.
8.30—Training 2 leadership. Speaker to be
announced .
9.00—Closing worship.
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Jacob Meyer Esq., was down from
Boalsburg, on Saturday, on one of his oc-
casional business trips in town.
—Mrs. Hugh M. Quigley, of Linn St.
for a short visit at her former home in
that city. :
—Miss Geraldine Noonan and Miss Irene
Gross, went east on the excursion Satur-
day night, to spend Sunday with friends
in New York. .
—Mrs. A. B. Sutherland came over from
Huntingdon yesterday and will spend a
few days in Bellefonte as a guest of Miss
Winifred M. Gates.
—Miss Charles R., Kurtz and her son
Frederick are spending several days in
Philadelphia, where the boy is under the
care of eye specialists. i
—Mrs. Howard Gearhart is here from
Millville, N. J., for a mid-winter visit with
her sisters, Misses Anne and Alice Fox, at
their home on Bishop street.
—Miss Anna M. Miller, who had been
with her mother and sister at Salona, has
gone to Emporium, where she will be with
relatives for an indefinite time.
—Mrs. Frank C. Williams, of Altoona,
wos in town between trains yesterday;
having come down for a few short calls
on friends at her former home here.
—-Mr. and Mrs. Robert Evey have as
guests, their daughter, Mrs. Willard Van-
Camp, of Pittsburgh, and her small daugh-
ter, who came to Bellefonte Sunday.
—Mrs. J. M. Curtin came in from Pitts-
burgh Saturday, remaining for the greater
part of the week, with her mother, Mrs.
i George Harris, at her home on Linn street.
—-I'rances Bottorf, a Sophomore at I’enn
State, spent the week-end in Bellefonte, a
guest of Doris Cobb at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Myron M. Cobb, of
west High street.
—Miss Mary Linn and her brother,
Henry 8. Linn, will go to Lewisburg to-
day, to attend the funeral of Mrs. J. Mer-
rill Linn, who died Tuesday, at the Geis-
inger hospital in Danville.
—Jerome Harper was here Sunday from
the western part of the State, for one of
his frequent visits with Mrs. Harper, at
the home of her mother, Mrs. Charles
Smith, on east Bishop street.
—Charles F. Cook, of the Bellefonte
school board, Lloyd Stover, John Barn-
hart, Clayton Royer and Merrill Weaver,
were all in Harrisburg this week, attend-
ing the annual convention of school di-
rectors.
—DMiss Miriam Smith, so long an invalid
at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
A. C. Smith, of east Bishop street, has im-
proved in health so much recently, that
she is now ‘able to be down stairs and
about the house.
—Mrs. Frank McFarlane, who is now at
Boalsburg arranging for her sale, is plan-
ning to come to Bellefonte to live, having
leased the apartment in Mrs. Louise V.
Harris’ home, recently vacated by Mr. and
Mrs. ¥. H. Thomas.
—Mrs. George Lose went over to Altoona
Sunday, called there by the serious illness’
of her son, Joseph Lose, who was taken
that day to Baltimore, where he was
operated for a tumor on the brain. Mrs.
Lose returned to Bellefonte Sunday night.
—Mr, and Mrs. A. Lester Sheffer and
their son Samuel, drove over from Milroy
Sunday, for a days visit with Mrs. Samuel
Sheffer and other members of the family,
‘and with Mrs. Lester Sheffer’'s mother, Mrs.
Strickland, at her home on Bishop street.
—Mrs. Howard Tarbet, who had been
here for a visit with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Coxey, returned to her home
in York yesterday afternoon. She was ac-
companied by her sister, Miss Dorothy
Coxey, who expects to enter college in
York.
Mrs. D. I. Willard left Saturday after-
noon for Rowes Run, to spend some time
with her daughter, Mrs. R. E. Kirk, ex-
pecting to go from there to Wilkinsburg,
to continue her visit with another daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ludwig and a son, Paul Willard
and his family.
-—Mrs. John A. Woodcock is now at her
girlhood home in Chambersburg, called
there from Scranton, by the critical ill-
ness of her sister, Miss Mary Forbes, who
is suffering from an attack of angina
pectoris. From Chambersburg, Mrs. Wood-
cock will return to Bellefonte.
—Mrs. Nathan Kofman returned home
Monday night, following a weeks visit
with relatives in Harrisburg. Max, Mr.
and Mrs. Kofman's second son, who has
been employed in New York city for some
time, returned to Bellefonte two weeks
ago, expecting to be at home for the pres-
ent.
. —Mrs., Louis Carpeneto went over to
Clearfield Wednesday, to spend several
days with her daughter, Miss Louise, who
is a surgical patient in the Clearfield hos-
pital, under the care of Dr. Waterworth.
Miss Helen Schaeffer and Miss Rose Car-
peneto will spend the day with Miss Car-
peneto in Clearfield tomorrow.
—The First National bank of Bellefonte
will be represented at the annual meeting
of Group 6, Pennsylvania Bankers’ Asso-
ciation, being held in Altoona today, by
cashier James K. Barnhart, Albert W.
Gummo and Walter W. Yearick. All the
officials and employees of the Bellefonte
Trust company will be in attendance, while
every bank in Centre county will have one
or more representatives at the meeting.
—Out of town people here for the fun-
eral of Lloyd Allen Stover, last Thursday,
were Harry Stover and wife, of Altoona;
Guy Stover and wife, of Cleveland, Ohio;
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Brooks, of Lake
Worth, Fla.; Blair Mattern, of Pitcairn;
Charles Hartsock and family and Stewart
Snyder and family, of Williamsport;
Misses Ruth Eckert and Ruth Shellenberg-
er, of Tyrone; Miss Maude Poorman, of
Roulette, and Mrs. John Garner, of Centre
Hall.
—@G. H. Fike dropped in for a little call
on Monday and we were desperately hard
up for news. Like so many of our visitors
he was sure he didn’t know anything
worth-while that would help us out and
then we started talking about the ground
hog and the weather, One thing led to
another and before he left we got nearly
half a column of good live stuff from him.
Its funny how diffident people are about
telling news gatherers what they know in
the way of community happenings. And
what wonderful papers we'd all publish
if everyone would realize that an item that |
seems trifling to him or her is often the
making of a very good news item.
i
—Miss Emily Crider is entertaining Miss
Thelma Corts, of Cleveland, at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Burns Crider
on Linn street. e
—=Solomon Poorman has sold his house
i in Bush Addition and is now staying with
went down to Lancaster on Wednesday °
his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Wion. Mr. Poorman fell on the ice
three weeks ago and is carrying a badly
swollen wrist and hand as a result of the
accident. As soon as he has fully recov-
ered he expects to go out to Ambridge for
a visit with his son.
—A party of Ferguson township people
who were in town, Wednesday, doing some
shopping was made up of Mr. and Mrs.
John O. Stover, Mrs. Alice S. Miller and
her son John W. Miller. They motored
down and reported having found the high-
way in very fair condition for traveling,
though they couldn't say so much for the
by roads. Mr. Miller is not farming any
more. He is in the threshing and baling
business and because of that is very much
interested in the by roads for he has a lot
of baling to do and it is utterly impossi-
ble to transport his machinery to the barns
of many of his customers.
——This is the day for the big gath-
{ering of Knight Templars in Belle-
fonte. They will come from Lewis-
town, Huntingdon and Philipsburg and
be guests of Constans Commandery
in the annual winter meet. Grand
Commander Thomas Shipley, of York,
with members of his staff, will come
here from Pittsburgh where they have
been engaged in delivering degree
work during the fore part of the week.
The meeting today will convene in
Masonic hall at three o’clock this
afternoon and will be continued to-
night until the degree work is com-
pleted. A banquet will be a feature
of the gathering.
Fruit specialists are now send-
ing forth the glad tidings that the
peach crop has not been hurt in the
least, notwithstanding the fact that
we have had considerable: freezing
weather during the winter. But this
is nothing to gloat over. There is
still plenty of time for the fruit
killer to get in his work. The writer
has a delicious plum tree in his garden
and every year it apparently escapes
the rigors of winter and comes out
strong in blossoms, when along comes
old Jack Frost in the month of May
and blooey goes the plums.
Mrs. J. A. Dunkle, who is
spending the winter at the Bellefonte
Academy and is now advertising for a
limited number of musical pupils, is
unusually well equipped for this work.
A musician by inheritance, the talent
was developed under the best of in-
structors, her childhood and much of
her late life being developed to its
study. Any child placed under her
care, will at «U! times receive the best
of instruction.
In these days when there seems
to be no limit to the rents asked by
the average landlord it is refreshing
to hear that there is one householder
in Bellefonte, at least, who has not
raised his rents in ten years. His ten-
ants are still paying the same monthly
rental paid for the properties at the
‘beginning of the world war.
——Word has been received from
Philadelphia that Mrs. Louis. Schad is
to be soloist Saturday, tomorrow
night, at a banquet at the Bellevue-
Stratford and will be broadcasted from
Strawbridge and Clothier, Station W.
F. I. The banquet will be at 7.30 and
Mrs. Schad will play four numbers be-
tween speeches.
——Mrs. Russel Blair, after having
had the matter under consideration for
some time, has decided to give another
musical comedy. No further informa-
tion has been vouchsafed but we all
know an evening of great pleasure
may be anticipated when Mrs. Blair
decides to be a producer.
——W. H. Garman is authority for
the statement that robins have made
their appearance at Runville, where
they were thrilling their spring lay
during Sunday’s sunshine.
——Rumor has it that the “Big
Spring” cafe is to move into the rooms
in the Kurtz building, on High street,
soon to be vacated by Mrs. Craig.
I mm———— A ime
——The Bellefonte Academy bas-
ket ball team will play California Nor-
mal in the Y-gym this evening au 8.45.
A thrilling game is expected.
Notice to Delinquent Tax-Payers.
Notice is hereby given to all delin-
quent tax-payers of Bellefonte who
have not responded with all taxes in
the last four years, both men and
women, that they had better make ar-
rangements to pay same. After March
15, 1926, legal proceedings will be
taken to clean up all unpaid taxes.
No excuses will be accepted.
71-2t HERBERT AUMAN, Collector.
Baked Ham Supper.
The Susanna Wesley society of the
Milesburg Methodist church will have
a baked ham supper in the fireman’s
hall, in that place, Friday evening:
February 19th. Price, 35 and 50 cents.
Ice cream and candy will also be on
sale. Everybody welcome.
See Thomas Meighan as a
traffice cop in “Irish Luck,” at the
Scenic next Monday and Tuesday.
Usual admission, 10 and 25 cents. 7-1t
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & Co.
Wheat - - = - - $1.75
Oats = « « « «a = 35
Rye = = w wiiimeiite 90
Corn a8
Barley «= « « a =i» 80
Buckwheat - - « = 80