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Bellefonte, Pa.,, May 21, 1926.
Country Correspondence
PLEASANT GAP.
Miss Mary Hile was home over the
week-end, visiting her parents.
Harry Johnson and family spent
Sunday at the H. T. Noll home.
Mrs. Edgar Houser: and son May-
nard visited friends at Julian last
week.
The Lutheran congregation held
Mother’s day services on Sunday
evening.
The John Millward family, of Osce-
ola Mills, spent Sunday at the Frank
Millward home.
Miss Grace Mitchell, of Lock Haven
Normal, recently visited among her
friends at the Gap.
Gilbert Rimmey and family, of
Penn Hall, spent Sunday at the par-
ental Rimmey home.
While at work at the Whiterock
quarries, last week, Maurice Knoff-
singer had one of his fingers crushed.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clemens and
Mrs. J. T. Noll went to State College
on a shopping trip on Saturday morn-
ing. 2
Harry Grove and family, of Le-
mont, spent Sunday at Harry Bilgers,
Mrs. Grove and Mrs. Bilger being sis-
ters.
Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Corl and
daughter, Miss Hazel, motored to
Philipsburg in their new car on Sun-
ay.
Mr. and Mrs. Powell, of Harrisburg,
spent the week-end with Mrs. Powell's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Knoff-
singer. >
Willard Schreffler is now getting
along very nicely at the Centre
County hospital after an operation
for an infection on his left elbow. The
trouble came from a bruise which re-
sulted in an infection at the bone.
Our public schools closed last Fri-
day. In the afternoon Noll’s hall was
well filled with those anxious to wit-
ness the entertainment of Mrs. Ma-
gargle’s intermediate schools. Rev.
C. W. Rishell opened the exerdises
with prayer, which was followed with
a violin solo by Samuel Noll. Recita-
tions, music and a playlet by the little
girls made up the balance of the pro-
gram. Four prizes for progress were
awarded by the teacher, the happy
recipients being Samuel Noll Jr,
Paul Knoffsinger, Grace Ishler and
Margaret Baney. Special mention
was also made of the excellent work
of Kenneth Harris, Theodore Hoover,
Anna Rumberger and Gladys Samp-
sell, of the 5th grade, and Harold
Dock, Edgar Spicher, Freda Horney
and Harriet Showers, of the 4th
grade. Out of 38 pupils only one miss-
ed being promoted, and twelve did not
miss a day during the school year.
Good teachers may Jive a century of
years but they never grow old. I am
satisfied Mrs. Magargle’s pupils will
honor her memory through all time.
Her success is largely due to her skill
as an organizer, her- gbility as a dis-
ciplinarian, her firmness and integrity
in dealing with children, and her de-
sire at all times to give value re-
ceived for her services.
Old Bridge Renews Service to Pubilc.
Motorists from this section to
Harrisburg have viewed with inter-
est the dismantling of the old cover-
ed wooden bridge at Clark’s Ferry.
This old structure has a history few
have imagined as thqy drove over the
new concrete bridge beside it.
According to C. R. Anderson, ex-
tension forester of the Pennsylvania
State College, the wooden structure
was erected a century ago, in 1826-
28. Two million feet of lumber, saw-
ed at Lock Haven, went into the con-
struction.
After a century of usefulness the
material in the bridge is destined to
go on serving mankind. All of the
lumber in four new houses near the
Harrisburg Academy has been sawed
out of the old bridge timbers. A
quarter of million feet of lumber will
go into the widening of the Market
street bridge across the river at the
capital city.
Set Commencement Dates at Penn
State.
Commencement at the Pennsylvania
State College will take place begin-
ning Friday, June 11, to Tuesday,
June 15 when over 500 will receive
degrees. Many special events have
been arranged by the Senior class,
the college and the alumni.
Commencement week will be divid-
ed into two parts this year, the period
from Friday to Sunday being devoted
to undergraduate functions and alum-
ni reunions, and Monday and Tues-
day will have the formal academic
atmosphere throughout, with Monday
observed as Class Day for the grad-
uates and Alumni Day for the reun-
jon classes. A special invitation to
all parents of members of the gradu-
ating class has been extended by
Judge H. Walton Mitchell, president
of the board of trustees, to attend the
commé&ncement week events.
Sweet Pea an Importation.
The sweet pea is a native of the
island of Sicily and was first men-
tioned in 1695 by an Italian monk,
who sent seeds to England and Hol-
land. The seeds of sweet peas be-
came an article of commerce as early
as 1724. Sweet peas have grown for
more than a century in America, and
all of the varieties known in Europe
were grown here. There was a wave
of popularity for the sweet pea in
America between 1885 and 1900, while
thé tide, which received its great
impetus through the introduction of
the waved, or Spencer, type, was just
beginning to at the - sweet-péa
celebration in London in 1900.
Nation Saves by Using Radio.
Development of radio has limited
nearly all of the government's com-
munication activities from the tele-
graph wires into the air.
The maze of telegraph wires form-
erly used, largely has been supplant-
ed by a network of radio stations
manned by army and navy personnel
and transmitting messages not only
of the two military arms but of other
government departments as well.
About two million words in govern-
ment messages are broadcast month-
ly from Washington through the
army and navy radio and wireless
stations. Until recent years, about’
half of the government's messages
were dispatched over commercial lines
and army and navy officials pointed
out recently that more efficient use of
radio was saving the government
thousands of dollars annually.
Radio not only has expedited and
effected economy in communication,
but its wide use of government pur-
poses has served to train a large force
and erect a system that would be
highly valuable in event of war.
The navy sends and receives an
average of more than one million
words monthly by radio, its own leas-
ed land wires, and through commer-
cial companies. Of this, little more
than one-fifth is now transmitted by
private. concerns, with radio handling
the larger part, and the navy thus
has been enabled to dispense with a
vast network of leased land wires
used during the war.
Not anly does it dispatch messages
to its ships at sea and to distant
ports, but it sends many across the
seas for the army and other govern-
ment branches. The army likewise
handles many inland communications
for the navy.
Development during the last year
of experiments, with radio frequency,
or short wave length sending has con-
siderably increased the navy’s capa-
city for handling messages, the short
wave length having been found to
leap across silent “areas in the ether
and penetrate static readily.” When
the MacMillan arctic expedition was
ter when they returned as refugees
and exiles of seige and evacuation
after the razing of the city in the last
withdrawal of the Russian armies
from the fortress.
at its most northern point, the navy’s
Bellevue station was able to reach the
expedition during midday, when static
ordinarily is very intense, with mes-
sages sent on short wave, when the
longer waves carried only short dis-
tances. ’
The Bellevue station daily sends
dispatches to London, Paris, San
Francisco, San Diego, the Canal Zone
and to ships at sea, all on the short
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Above is one of the interesting attractions in the Christy Bros. big show
which will exhibit in Bellefonte on Fri day, May 28th.
wave length. When the battle fleet
was in the Antipodes recently two-
way communication was readily es-
tablished with Washington.
In place of its telegraph wires of
a few years ago, the War Department
has established a net of sixty radio
stations. One major station is locat-
ed in each of the nine army corps
areas, with two trans-continent relay
| stations at Fort Leavenworth, Kan,
and Fort Douglas, Utah, and another
major station in Washington. Each
corps area has its own system of sta-
tions connecting the distant posts
with headquarters, while 22 others
are established in Alaska alone.
The War Department undertook its
first great expansion of the use of
radio for departmental business at
the beginning of the fiscal year 1923,
and transmitted through its stations
that year less than 4,000,000 words.
In the fiscal year, 1925, ending last
July nearly 8,500,000 words were.
transmitted.—Reformatory Record.
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Elephant Has Most Brains.
The elephant is probably the shrewd-
est and most adaptable of living ani-
mals and has no enemies except man.
He eats anything that is green, and
seems equally at home on the plains
or in the forests and jungles of the
high mountain slopes or down in the
swampy lowlands. His trunk is one
of the most extraordinary organs of
nature. It contains the finest smell-
ing apparatus on earth, and when the
proximity of man is suspected the
trunk is raised in the air and care-
fully turned in all directions, “feel-
ing” for man-smell in the wind. Once
an elephant gets that smell he does
one of two things. He either re-
treats quietly and rapidly or charges.
Years of experience in matching his
wiles against those of man and his
high-powered rifle has taught the
elephant that it is safer to remain in
the dense forests. An elephant can
move through these forests with no
more noise than would be made by a
mouse, and the growth in these for-
ests is frequently so impenetrable the
hunter can make progress only by
following the winding elephant trail.
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MEDICAL.
Backache Is a Warning!
Bellefonte Folks are Learning How to
Heed It.
Are you miserable with an aching
back? Do you get up lame and stiff;
drag through the day feeling tired,
weak and depressed? Then you should
help your kidneys, Backache is often
the first sign of failing kidneys. Uri-
nary troubles quickly follow. Neglec-
ted, there’s danger of gravel, dropsy
or fatal Bright’s disease. Don’t wait
for serious kidney sickness. Use
Doan’s Pills, a stimulant diuretic to
the kidneys, before it is too late. This
Bellefonte resident tells an experi-
ence: t
Clyde G. Swartz, prop. of machine
shop, 242 E. Logan St., says: “Kid-
hey trouble caused many miserable
hours and backache was very annoy-
ing. It became so intense sometimes,
it was hard for me to straighten from
a stooped position. My kidneys were
sluggish, too and the secretions were
scanty. A languid feeling took away
my energy. Doan’s Pills, from Run-
kle’s Drug Store, straightened me up
in fine shape.”
60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
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Dairymen--- Notice
A special sale of Mayer's
Dairy Feed—a Ready-
Mixed Ration, 22% protein
$40.00 per Ton
Delivery Charge $2.00 per Load
Frank M. Mayer
BELLEFONTE, PA.
71-11-tf
A PRODUCT OF SCIENCE
Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone comprised a few simple materials,
such as wood, iron, and leadbeater’s skin.
The present instrument comprises a range of materials that runs from
Pennsylvania coal to Russian platinum, from Brazilian rubber to Irish linen.
The product of the mines, forests, and factories of every continent enter
into the modern telephone system, which guarantees to a town in the
Poconos or the Cumberland Valley the same dependable universal
service that Philadelphia and Pittsburgh enjoy.
But more to the product of the scientist and of the engineer is modern
telephone service attributable. Without the results of their research and
development, the sky would now be clouded with aerial wires, Scranton
would be shouting in vain to make itself heard in Harrisburg, and the
switchboard limitations would be such as to restrict the service to a mere
handful of users.
Further extension of the service, at its present rate of growth, puts in-
creasing premium on this scientific development. It is largely what has
made possible a million interconnecting telephones in Pennsylvania. It
is what guarantees the accomplishment of further expansion, and in such
a way as to insure always increasing facility in the use of this indispen-
sable agency of communication.
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ATTORNEY’S-AT-LAW.
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S KLINE WOODRING — Attorney-ate
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices im
all courts. Office, room 18 Crider's
Exchange. b51-1y
J KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-
Jaw, Bellefonte 1 Prompt ate
ention ven a e; u
trusted to his ast
High street.
M. KEICHLINE — Attorney-at-Law
and Justice of the Peace. All pre-
fessional business
rompt attention. Office on second floor of
mple Court. 49-5-1y
G. RUNKLE — Attorney-at-Law.
Consultation in English and Ger-
man. Office in Crider’s Exchan,
Bellefonte, Pa. 5%
PHYSICIANS.
R. R. L. CAPERS,
OSTEOPATH.
State College
66-11 Holmes Bldg.
care. Offices—No.' 6 Hast
br-44
Bellefonte
Crider’s Exch.
8. GLENN, M. D., Physician and
Surgeon, State College, Centre
den county, Pa. Office at his resi.
ce.
VA B. ROAN, Optometrist. Licensed
by the State Board. State College,
every day except Saturday.
fonte, rooms 14 and 15 Temple Court;
Wednesday afternoons and Saturdays
a. m. to 4:30 p. m. Both Phones.
Feeds
We Keep a Full Line
of Feeds in Stock
Try Our Dairy Mixtures
—22% protein; made of all
Clean, Pure Feeds—
$46.00 per Ton
We manufacture a Poultry
Mash good as any that you
can buy, $2.90 per hundred.
Purina Cow Chow .......... $52.00 per fem
Qil Meal, 34 per cent. protein, 54.00 *“ “
Cotten Seed, 43 pr. ct. prot. 50.00 * *
Gluten, 23 per cent. protein, 48.00 * ©
Alfalfa Meal .....co00veeveees 4500 “ “
BIBI 2 sectsnnesrestarsvossnes 8400 “ “
MidAlngs ...ccooveverorrnsas 86.00 “ “
(These Prices are at the Mill)
$2.00 per Ton Extra for Delivery.
G. 1. Wagner & Go., Ing
66-11-1yr BELLEFONTE, PA.
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Bellefonte, Pa.
Plumbing
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Pipeless Furnaces
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