Deora iat
Bellefonte, Pa., March 5, 1926.
PLEASANT GAP.
Mrs. Lohman spent last week at
Berwick.
Henry Evey, of Millbrook, visited
his numerous friends here the past
week.
Mark Anthony, coal broker of Pitts-
burgh, spent the week-end with Supt.
Ray Noll.
Miss Christine Weaver attended the
Academy dance, on Friday evening, at
Hecla park. :
Mr. and Mrs. William Kerstetter
visited their son, below Bellefonte, a
few days ago.
Miss Helen Noll attended the fra-
ternity dance held at State College on
Friday evening.
Mr. Heckman, of Spring Mills, was
a guest, on Monday last, of Henry
Noll and family.
Our new barber is electrifying his
entire shop, which when completed,
will eompare favorably with any shop
hereabouts.
Daniel Pritchard president of the
United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania,
spent the week-end with the family of
Raymond Melroy.
Ammon Kerstetter will leave for
Pittsburgh on Saturday to visit his
son, and will bring home with him
his wife, who preceded him to the
western part of the State.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Noll and son,
Mr. and Mrs. Ward Hile and Mr. and
Mrs. Wade Eby went to Lock Haven,
Sunday, to inspect the damage done
there during the recent rise of the
Susquehanna.
One of the teachers of our public
schools propounded the following
question to her school: “What is the
politics of the Governor of Pennsyl-
vania?” One of the larger boys put
up his hand and replied, “I give it up,”
when a little urchin cried out, “I guess
everybody else gives it up.”
Eloquence is a mighty power in
shaping the destinies of Nations, and
I believe that oratory will live as long
as the race exists. We had quite an
interesting experience here Saturday
night, when the venerable Daniel
Pritchard and Thomas Harter address-
ed our sportsmen in their hall. Both
acquitted themselves admirably well.
Of course Mr. Pritchard, as president
of the United Sportsmen of Pennsyl-
vania, has had quite an experience in
the speech making line, but Tom Har-
ter also did justice to the subject in
question, and was frequently applaud-
ed. His remarks were well received
and appreciated. Thomas says and
writes some good things that seldom
need explanation to vindicate their
truth and beauty. A good orator is a
mighty power, and usually for good.
His aims in the main have been high,
and his ideals pure.
RUNVILLE.
Rev. Barnett is holding revival ser-
vices at Yarnell.
Quite a few from here attended
church at Wingate on Sunday evening.
Miss Verda Lucas, of Milesburg, is
at present with her aunt, Mrs. Mary
Heaton.
Mr. and Mrs. Plummer Strunk and
family spent Sunday at Milesburg, at
Clyde Shutts.
Mrs. Spicer went to Philipsburg, on
Friday, to visit her daughter, Mrs.
Gorden Spotts.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Confer and two
children visied Albert Bierleys, at
Milesburg, on Sunday.
L. F. Shope returned home on Sat-
urday, after spending two weeks at
Curwensville visiting his sister.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Hancock, of Phil-
ipsburg, called on the former’s par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Elias Hancock, on
Sunday.
Mrs. W. A. Walker and daughter,
of Williamsport, is spending a few
days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James McClincy.
John Garman moved from William
Walker's house to Bellefonte. Clifford
Quick moved from Milesburg to Mus.
Alice Rodgers’ house in this place.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Johnson and
Helen Kauffman, Mrs. Alice Rodgers
and daughter, Edna, drove to Tyrone,
on Sunday, and spent the day at Carl
Garbricks.
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Poorman, Mr.
and Mrs. Newton Lauck and daughter,
Mrs. John Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Kauffman and family enjoyed a birth-
day dinner, on Sunday, at Claude
Poorraans, at Bellefonte.
Coffee’s “Discovery.”
There are many stories as to who
first discovered the food value of cof-
fee. In Europe this important discov-
ery is usually accredited to the in-
mates of an old monastery in Arabia
who had observed that their goats,
after browsing upon the coffee berries
were decidedly lively. They decided
to taste the berries to see if they, too,
would be similarly affected. First
they chewed the berries, but were dis-
appointed in the taste. Then they
boiled them, but without success.
Then they tried roasting them, and
found this gave a delightful flavor.
Later a monk brewed a stimulating
drink by pounding the roasting berries
in a mortar.—Exchange.
War Wih Japan?
It will probably not happen at least
for a generation.
In the first place Japan is to poor.
She is dependent for her existence
upon her foreign trade, and that is
mostly with the United States. :
She has not the taxing capacity
necessary for a great war. She has
no iron of her own and would have
to import it from Great Britain, Ger-
many or France.
Japan would like to make trouble
over our immigration restriction, but
on this the attitude of Great Britain’s
colonies in New Zealand, South Africa
and Australia is similar to our own.
But our leaders must never forget
that although Americans do not think
war or talk war and mostly detest
war, Japan believes in war.
She has been in the three great wars
in a generation and has profited by
all of them. And having defeated
Russia—then a great but corrupt
giant—she has unbounded confidence
in herself —New York American.
The Telephone is Fifty Years Old.
The fiftieth anniversary of the birth
of the telephone will be observed on
Wednesday, March 10, by some 332,-
000 men and women in the service of
the Bell system, as well as several
thousand in the employ of connect-
ing companies, each of whom will
wear on that date a button commem-
orative of the first telephone conver-
sation.
It was on March 10, 1876, that
Alexander Graham Bell, working in a
little attic of a house in Boston, spoke
to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson,
who was in another room on the same
floor. For months and months they
had been conducting experiments with
crude box-like instruments connected
by wire and almost a year previously
had been able to transmit mechanical
sounds but never before had the voice
been successfully transmitted.
As the United States was the birth-
place of the telephone, it has remain-
ed the leader in its development. To-
day there are nearly 17,000,000 tele-
phones in this country alone. Almost
all of these are connected to the sys-
tem of which Alexander Graham Bell
was the father and every person in
the Bell system, including those in tele-
phone companies which are indepen-
dently owned and connected to the toll
lines of the Bell will wear the 50th
anniversary button in honor of its
inventor and the golden anniversary
of his invention.
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell was
only 29 years old when he secured
what is commonly called the most
valuable patent ever issued, that for
the telephone. He predicted when
there were almost no telephones in
the country that the time would come
when all cities and towns would have
exchanges and that those exchanges
would be connected by toll wires so
that anyone in any part of the coun-
try could talk with anyone else in any
other part of the country. He lived
to see this come true for he did not
pass away until July 31, 1922. His as-
sistant, Dr. Thomas A. Watson, is still
living and is still hale and hearty.
Hunting Data for New Penn State
Hospital.
Preliminary to laying out plans for
the new hospital to be provided large-
ly by Pennsylvania potato growers for
the Pennsylvania State College, Dr. J.
P. Ritenour, the college physician, is
making inspection trips to other col-
leges and Pennsylvania cities col-
lecting data for use in the interior de-
sign of the proposed building. It is
planned to make the student infirmary
as up-to-date as possible so as to ren-
der the greatest service in preventing
and treating sickness among students.
Plans for the playing floor and am-
phitheatre of the proposed recreation
hall at Penn State are already under
way and hopes are entertained for an
early start on the construction of both
buildings. They will be erected with
money from the emergency building
fund raised by the college in 1923.
Lectures on Agricultural Law.
Upon petition of the student coun-
cil of the school of agriculture at the
Pennsylvania State College, a special
weekly series of lectures on agricul-
tural law will be offered seniors in
that school, under the direction of A.
R Warnock, dean of men at the col-
ege.
Dean Warnock will be assisted by
J. Laird Holmes, former burgess of
State College and Centre county’s
representative in the State Legisla-
ture; John T. Taylor, an insurance
representative and D. F. Kapp, a State
College banker. The experiment will
therefore give the Penn State senior
agriculturists a general view of farm
administration and its legal aspects.
Ecclesiastical Joke
A new version of an age-old re-
ligious joke is ascribed to the French
Abbe Wetterle who, in the course of
an argument with an antiecclesiast
deputy, was asked If he believed in
heaven and hell, and, if so, in which
of them he hoped to spend the here-
after. To this the abbe replied that a
straightforward answer was difficult
In the premises, because it was some-
times difficult to choose between cli-
mate and company.
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Not His Doing |
“Does yo’ take this woman for thy
lawfully wedded wife?” asked the
negro parson glancing at the diminu-
tive, watery-eyed, bow-legged bride-
groom, who stood beside 210 pounds
of feminine assurance. “Ah takes
nothin,” gloomily responded the
bridegroom. “Ah’s bein’ tooked.”—
Arkansas Thomas Cat.
Greenland Vast Territory
Greenland is still largely a country
of interest. Its size is continental. A
map of it imposed upon that of the
eastern United States would approxi-
mately cover all those states lying
between the Atlantic coast and the
Mississippl river. Its total length is
about 1,400 miles, and its greatest
width a little short of 700.
Save Carpenter’s Bill
Before sending for a carpenter when
8 door sticks, see if the screws of
the hinges are tight. Frequently that
is all that is the matter and a screw-
driver will quickly remedy the trouble.
Should the door refuse to hold up with
Just this tightening, try replacing the
screws with the next size larger,
FARM NOTES.
—The lazy, sleeping sow is not the
one to select for a breeder.
. —A breeding sow should be kept
just as long as she is good.
—Cheap horses always have sold
at low prices, and they always will.
At this time, however, good, young
mares and geldings cannot be said to
be cheap.
—It would be a blessing if all seed
corn were always good. A test in
time may save nine or more disap-
pointments; probably more. Know
your seed corn and what it will do
when put in the grouni.
—Richland, a new cat variety tried
in Pennsylvania for the past two
years, has demonstrated resistance to
black stem rust. It is especially rec-
ommended for those counties where
the disease inflicts severe losses.
—Locate the frozen places in the
winter wheat fields. These are prob-
ably due to surplus water. A repeti-
tion of this killing may be avoided by
relieving the wet spots through the
use of a tile drain properly installed.
—Birds are always our greatest
garden friends. Shrubs and trees
which attract them may be selected
for planting on the home grounds.
Bird houses and bird baths that will
be ornamental as well as useful can
be provided for them.
—Winter will soon be over and the
chance to put an ice supply will be
gone. It may even now be too late
to get the best. About two tons of
ice are necessary to cool the milk
from each cow during the warm sea-
son, say dairy specialists of the Penn-
sylvania State College.
— Include a variety of salads in the
garden this year. Order seeds of up-
land cress, corn salad, and lettuce for
spring use; heat-resistant varieties of
lettuce for summer; Witloof chicory
to seed June 1 for supplying forced
winter salads; and endive, Chinese
cabbage, and lettuce for fall use.
—For the most points in planting
trees and shrubs, say specialists of
the Pennsylvania State College, are:
(1) Have the location properly pre-
pared with good soil. (2) Do not
plant too deeply. (3) Pack the earth
around the roots, (4) Water well in
order to fill up the soil cavities.
—By this time perhaps the cabbage
and lettuce seed in the hotbed has
germinated. If so, it is important
that ventilation and watering be
watched carefully. Give the plants
some air, even on cold days. Lack of
fresh air results in weak, spindly
plants that readily “damp off.” Open
the frame sash on the leeward side.
. —Are you planning to grow a ton
litter this year? Cost accounts show
that the ton litter provides a profitable
pork producing machine. Any litter
farrowed between February 1 and
May 30 may be nominated for the
Keystone Ton Litter club. Even 7-
pig litters sometimes reach the ton
mark in 180 days. Chances are better
for purebreds but grades are eligible.
—Many poor hatches are the result
of failure to test the incubator ther-
mometer. The thermometers should
be tested every year before hatching
is started. It is a simple job and one
that pays a handsome revenue. The
thermometer should be immersed in
warm water and compared with a
good clinical thermometer. If the in-
cubator thermometer fails to agree
with the standard thermometer,
marks can be made on its surface to
indicate the desired change in read-
ing.
—Down on a Missouri river bot-
tom a big husky farmer was plowing
his wheat stubble one fall day. Wil-
liam H. Wood of Logan, Iowa, “W.
H.” as the folks around there call
him, runs a 700-acre farm just as oth-
er people run factories. His good val-
ley land is really a great chemical lab-
oratory on which he is continually ex-
perimenting with staple crops and
trying out new ones, a writer in Ev-
erybody’s Magazine reports.
But this particular patch of land
he was plowing that day had always
been a puzzle to him. Year after
year, without fertilization or change,
a good yield had been maintained.
And for seven years the parcel of land
had been planted to wheat which is
exceptionally hard on soil. He was the
particular man to stumble upon a dis-
covery which may revolutionize cer-
tain kinds of farming.
While stopping to clean the dirt
from a plow shovel he noticed tiny
knots on the roots of a weed which
grew in great profusion in this field.
Knowing that nodules on the roots of
alfalfa mean nitrogen deposits for the
soil and being of an inquiring nature
as well as a hard-headed business man
who keeps careful ledgers, Mr. Wood
heaved his 260 pounds off the groan-
ing plow seat and proceeded to gather
some sample plants. Going over the
field charts that night he discovered
that this field had always had a heavy
growth of the curious fern-like weed.
It was brought in, he believed, by the
Missouri river which used to overflow
the bottoms and cover his land before
the installation of the dikes that now
hold it in check. He also remembered
that the weed always came up after
the grain had been cut. Apparently
it did not injure the crops. On the
contrary a survey of his records show-
ed that the yield in this field was
greater than it had been seven years
previous. And don’t forget it had
been planted every year to wheat. He
went ahead and later furnished sam-
ples of the seed, a very hard tiny J
grain, shaped almost like a boxing
glove, to the experiment station at
Ames. Several acres were also plant-
ed to this Dalea along with his spring
grain.
Now another one of these so-called
obnoxious weeds has been added to
the farmer’s list of valuable plants as |
the much-talked-of Dalea clover. This
plant, practically unrecognized before
it was unearthed by the labor and ex-
periments of Mr. Wood, now promises
to become more popular than its fa-
mous predecessor alfalfa. Already it
is conceded to be superior in several
respects. It produces more seed per
acre, is cheaper to handle and it can
be grown on soils unfavorable to al-
falfa.
Real Estate Transfers.
Frank A. Miller, et ux, to Sarah E.
Miller, tract in State College; $1.
Harry Fogleman, et ux, to Annie E.
Mesmer, tract in Boggs Twp.; $1.
J. Mack Stewart, et ux, to I. F. Wil-
son, tract in State College; $5,450.
J. Gross Shook Exec., to George F.
Shook, tract in Gregg Twp.; $155.
William L. Foster, et ux, et al, to
Harry G. Ebbs, et ux, tract in State
College; $1.
George P. Bible, et ux, to Van S.
Jodon, tract in Bellefonte; $400.
MEDICAL.
Stop that Backache
Many Bellefonte Folks Have Found
the Way.
Is a dull, nerve-racking backache
wearing you out? Do you feel older
and slower than you should? Are
you tired, weak and nervous; find it
impossible to be happy, or enjoy the
good times around you? Then there’s
something wrong and likely it’s your
kidneys. Why not get at the cause?
Use Doan’s Pills—a stimulant diuretic
to the kidneys. Your neighbors rec-
ommend Doan’s. Read what this
Bellefonte resident says:
Clark Carson, taxi owner, 355 E.
Bishop St., says: “A steady misery
across my kidneys took away my com-
fort. The ache in the small of my
back was worse at night and I couldn’t
enjoy much rest. I had to get up
many times to pass the secretions be-
cause my kidneys were weak. I was
more tired mornings than when I went
to bed and I felt out of sorts all the
time. After using two boxes of
Doan’s Pills from Runkle’s Drug
Store, I was cured of the attack.”
60c. at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y, 70-46
EASTER SHOES |
You must wait---you cannot afford
to buy now.
SOrrYy.
TREE ESSE
for the Entire Family.
SSE TEES a
SASH
Styles---Reasonable Prices.
WATCH NEXT WEEK'S PAPERS
Wilbur Baney
Bush Arcade Building, West High Street....Bellefonte, Pa.
If you do you’ll be
Within a week
I will Open one of the Most.
Up-to-Date Shoe Stores
between Pittsburgh and Philadel-
phia, with a fine selection of Shoes
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ATTORNEY’S-AT-LAW.
KLINE WOODRING — Attorney-ats
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices im
Office, room 18 Cridas
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KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-
Law, Bellefonte, Pa Prompt ate
tention given all legal business em«
trusted to his care. Offices—No. 5 Hast
High street. 57-44
M. KEICHLINE — Attorney-at-Law
and Justice of the Peace. All pre-
fessional business will receive
brompt attention. Office on second floor of
Temple Court. 49-5-1y
G. RUNKLE — Attorney-at-Law.
Consultation in English and Ger-
man. Office in Crider’'s Exchan
Bellefonte, Pa. 58s
all courts.
Exchange.
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PHYSICIANS.
D R. R. L. CAPERS,
Bellefont OS TEOraY 8 C
nte tate Colle,
Crider’s Exch. 66-11 Holmes Enos
8. GLENN, M' D., Physician and
Surgeon, State College, Centre
county, Pa. Office at his resi.
35-41
dence.
VA B. ROAN, Optometrist. Licensed
by the State Board. State Colle;
every day except Saturday. Belle-
fonte, rooms 14 and 15 Tempie Cou
Wednesday afternoons and Ras
4. m, to 4:30 p. m. Both Phones. 68-40
Feeds
We Roop o Full Line
of Feeds in Stock
Try Our Dairy Mixtures
—22% protein; made of all
Clean, Pure Feeds—
$48.00 per Ton
We manufacture a Poultry
Mash good as any that you
can buy, $3.00 per hundred.
We handle Purina Cow Chow $54.00 per ton
0il Meal, 34% Protein......... 56.00: *¢
Cotton Seed, 43% Protein... 50.00 *
Gluten, 23% Protein. ..... .. 50.00 *
Alfalfa Meal, ....! . 50.00. °° ©
LE el a 36.00:
MIGANNES vovueiciinrivii, iii 40.00 ¢“
i=="These prices at the Mill—$2.00 pe
ton extra, delivered.
b. Y. Wagner & Go., Inc.
66-11-1yr BELLEFONTE, PA.
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There 1s no style of work, from the
cheapest “Dodger” to the finest
BOOK. WORK
that we can not do in the most sat-
isfactory manner, and at Prices
consistent with the class of werk.
a on or communicate with this
Employers,
This Interests You
The Workmans’ Compensation
Law went into effect Jan. 1,
1916. It makes Insurance Com-
pulsory. We specialize in plae-
ing such insurance. We inspect
Plants and recommend Accident
Prevention Safe Guards whick
Reduce Insurance rates.
It will be to your interest ts
consult us before placing your
Insurance.
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
Bellefonte 43-18-1y State Collsgn
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