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Bellefonte, Pa., July 30, 1926.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——Mrs. J. L. Spangler gave a
bridge luncheon, Wednesday, at her
home on Allegheny street, at which
six women from Lock Haven were the
honor guests.
Prof. J. A. Ferguson, head of
the forestry department at The Penn-
sylvania State College, has been
granted a year’s leave of absence
which he will spend at Yale Univer-
sity.
——The exterior of Davison’s candy
store, on High street, has been given
several coats of white paint and now
looks as clean and inviting as the in-
terior has been ever since the new
proprietor took charge.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Bossert DeHaas
of Bishop street, are receiving con-
gratulations on the birth of a son,
who was born Wednesday at the
Centre County hospital. The little lad
is Mr. and Mrs. DeHaas’ only child.
———On Saturday evening, July 31st,
members of the Weaver M. E. church
will hold a festival at the Oak Grove
school house. All the delectables of
the season will be served. A cordial
welcome will be extended to every-
body.
The associated business men of
Bellefonte are working out plans to
make Wednesday, August 11, an op-
portunity day in town. A number of
very valuable prizes are to be offered
and a grand drawing for them will be
held in the evening. :
——A little daughter, their first
child, was born Sunday, to Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh M. Quigley, of Linn street.
The little Miss has been named Ellen,
for an aunt of her mother, the late
Mrs. Nell Reynolds Harris, of Provi-
dence. Mrs. Quigley was, before her
marriage, Miss Nora Reynolds, of
Lancaster.
The Logan fire company have
secured the Kern bungalow, on Spring
creek, for a two week’s open camp
beginning August 6th. As quite a
number of the members have signified
their intention of spending at least
a portion of the two weeks in camp,
and the bungalow will probably not
be large enough to accommodate them
all, tents will also be erected.
—-Henry T. McWilliams, of West
Ferguson township, was certainly the
early bird on Monday morning and if
there had been any profitable worms
around he surely would have gathered
them in, When the writer reached
the Watchman office at a quarter of
seven o'clock Mr. McWilliams was
standing at. the door waiting to get
in, having driven down from his home
twenty miles away and landed here
about six o’clock. g
Harry Wingard, game keeper
down at Ingleby, in Penn township,
is going to try out the theory that
blacksnakes make good rat traps.
His home has been infested with
more than its share of rats during the
“early summer, and while out in the
: woods last week he came across a five
foot blacksnake. He captured it alive
and took it home and put it in the cel-
lar, and now he is waiting to see what
will happen to the rats.
——Centre county friends of the
Tom Budinger family, formerly of
Snow Shoe, will he pleased to know
that Mrs. Buddinger's health is im-
proving so that her uitimate and com-
plete recovery is looked for. She has
been desperately ill since last Febra-
ary, but recently was taken to Clifton
Springs where a change for the better
was almost immediate. Mr. Budinger
is in the tire business at Zelienople,
Pa., where the family reside.
Last week’s hot weather tried
out the temper of the movie fans but
all those who attended the Scenic
found it just as comfortable there as
any other place in Bellefonte. And
the interesting pictures shown were
in line with manager Brown’s policy
of always giving the best that money
can buy. Lovers of motion pictures
always choose the Scenic because
they know in advance that the pro-
grams will always be new and up-to-
date.
——Last Saturday evening State
highway patrolman G. C. Kelly, of
Bellefonte, was on his way to Tyrone
-on his motorcycle. About midway be-
. tween the Triangle and Tyrone he
came across a man in a Ford
-car who was violating
regulations and riding up along-
side the car he ordered the driver
to stop. Instead of doing so
he turned suddenly to the left and
crowded patrolman Kelly and his
motorcycle into the ditch, the latter
getting a nasty fall and receiving a
broken collar bone. The motorist then
made his escape before the patrolman
‘was able to get his tag number.
——George H. Musser, formerly a
well known farmer of Center county,
who has been living at Lewisburg,
‘West Virginia, for several years, ex-
pects to move further south in the
fall. His son, Ralph M. Musser, with
whom he went to West Virginia to
live and who was a county agent there
for sometime, has been engaged by
a party of sportsmen to supervise a
game refuge they have established in
Georgia. It covers an entire county
in that State and one in Florida. His
work is specially to study the habits
and best methods of caring for quail
and other game birds. - The new home
of the Mussers will be at Thomas-
ville, Ga.
highway,
LOCAL TROOP WILL GIVE
RIDING EXHIBITION.
Event to Take Place This Evening at
Field on Howard Street.
A big exhibition of fancy riding
will be given on the field adjoining the
Troop B stables this (Friday) even-
ing by members of the troop who have
been under drill the past two months
in anticipation of taking part in a big
rodeo to be held by the cavalry con-
tingent of the National Guard at the |
annual encampment at Mt. Gretna.
The local troopers have been trained
by Capt. John W. Weeks, the U. S.
army officer located here as instructor
for Troop B and Boal Troop, at Boals-
burg. “ Capt. Weeks is a graduate of
the cavalry riding school at Ft. Riley,
Kan., and has had ten years exper-
ience as a cavalry officer.
The squad of local troopers who
have entered the riding competition
numbers about twenty-five, and their
schedule includes trailing, Cossack
riding, jumping and all kinds of open
field horsemanship, as well as moun-
tain climbing, ditch hurdling, ete.
Three evenings during the week have
been spent in open field work on the
big field on east Howard street, the
other three evenings being devoted to
mountain climbing, etc., on the steep
hillsides of Bald Eagle mountain. This
training has resulted in the squad be-
coming quite proficient in all kinds
of horsemanship. This is especially
noticeable in the hurdles, the men and
horses being able to take them at a
height of four feet.
Last Saturday afternoon a local
photographer attended the drill and
took a large number of pictures of the
troopers in action which will be placed
on exhibition in the window of Mont-
gomery & Co’s store tomorrow.
In the meantime the public is in-
vited to attend the riding exhibition
at the Howard street field this even-
ing. It will be free to everybody.
During the exhibition the preliminary
events for the rodeo at the Mt. Gretna
camp will be held. The winners of
the events will represent the troop in
the rodeo. Prizes will be awarded
to the winners in each event this even-
ing and some thrilling feats of horse-
manship are promised the spectators.
Troop B, 52nd machine gun squad-
ron, commanded by Capt. Herbert S.
Miller; the headquarters detachment
commanded by Lieut. Russell Smith,
and the headquarters contingent of
the machine gun squardon commanded
by Lieut. Samuel D. Rhinesmith, will
leave Bellefonte Saturday, August
14th, for the two weeks of camp life
at Mt. Gretna. It is anticipated that
the camp this year will be one of
especial interest to every guardsman.
Combat problems will occupy most of
the time, which will give each soldier
plenty of riding, machine gun firing,
ete. Wooden mess halls have been
erected and a large concrete swim-
ming pool has been constructed for
the cavalry camp. ’
Troop B. needs about ten good
young men to fill its quota for camp.
Enlistments can be made by getting in
touch with Capt. Miller at the local
armory or by application in person at
the troon stables any night in the
week.
Last Thursday’s Storms Unroofed
Barns in Brush Valley.
The series of hard rain and wind
storms, last Thursday afternoon,
which materially affected the electric
service in Bellefonte, caused consid-
erable damage to farmers in the low-
er end of Brush valley, where the
wind was evidently much stronger
than it was in Bellefonte. Down at
Spring Bank the entire upper por-
tion of the barn on the farm of Ira
Shultz was carried away and the only
thing that saved the barn from total
destruction was the well filled hay
mow, which acted as ballast for the
partially demolished building.
The roof on the barn on the Alli-
son farm, which adjoins the Shultz
farm, was blown off and landed against
the partially demolished Shultz
barn. Big trees were uprooted on
both farms.
Down at Rebersburg the roof on the
barn on the Wentz farm was also
blown * off. Considerable wheat
was flattened to the ground and fruit |
trees badly damaged.
Trout Fishing Season will End To-
Morrow.
The trout fishing season for this
year will end tomorrow, much to the
regret of the enthusiastic disciple of
Izaak Walton, who seems to never
tire of patrolling the streams with his
rod and line, no matter how meagre
the returns. While the season’s catch
has been nothing to brag about the
persistent fishermen managed to land
a mess every now and then when
weather conditions were just right.
Very few of the big trout in Spring
creek were caught this year, fisher-
men generally observing the closed
stream edict in Bellefonte borough.
Charles K. McCafferty Has Big Fire
Loss.
The Scotch Run breaker of the
Scotch Coal company, located 18 miles
from Bradford, was entirely destroyed
by fire early last week.
The property was owned by Charles
K. McCafferty, formerly of this place,
but now with the McKean County
Trust Co., in Bradford. It was ope-
rated by a Pittsburgh concern. The
breaker was valued at $150,000 on
which Mr. McCafferty carried only
partial insurance.
Logan Fire Co. will not Attend Fire-
| men’s Convention.
| At a meeting of the Logan fire com-
i pany last week the question of attend-
Ph the district firemen’s convention
in Tyrone, on August 12th, was put to
a vote and only two members were in
favor of going. Hence the Logans
{will not attend and their pumper will
remain in Bellefonte. The Undine
‘company, however, will attend the
convention.
| New Potatoes Reported Selling at
$1.00 per Bushel.
1
, Home grown new potatoes are now
in market and a report reached this
office from the western end of Centre
"county that at Pine Grove Mills, on
Saturday, they were selling at $1.00
| per bushel, which is quite a contrast
, to the price paid for old tubers several
, weeks ago.
| On the Bellefonte curb market,
| Wednesday morning, potatoes sold at
| 40 cents a peck, turnips 15 cents a
| bunch, huckleberries 25 cents a quart
‘and blackberries 15 cents a quart.
| Peas, beans, beets, lettuce, ete., were
, offered in abundance, but the cherry
crop is evidently over as not a cherry
was to be seen.
Fresh Air Children Coming to Centre
County.
| Fifty-four fresh air children from
; the tenement districts of New York,
' beneficiaries of the New York Tribune
| fund will arrive in Centre county this
i morning, coming in over the Lewis-
burg division of the Pennsylvania
railroad. Fifteen of the children will
be distributed to homes in and near
Lemont while thirty-nine of them will
come through to Bellefonte. This
number is far short of the total enter-
| 1ained last year when over two hun-
dred came to Centre county. A large
number of those who took one or more
of the children last year failed to re-
spond to the invitation to entertain
one or more this year, and the result
is that most of the youngsters will go
into new homes.
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Undine Fire Co. to Picnic at Hecla
Park Next Thursday.
The Undine fire company, of Belle-
fonte, will hold their annual picnic
at Hecla park next Thursday, August
5th. They have secured the services
of Wetzler’s band, of Milesburg, to
furnish music during the day and
have arranged a good program of
sports, chief among which will be a
baseball game between Bellefonte and
the Williamsport P. R. R. teams of
the Susquehanna league. A good or-
chestra will be on hand to play for
the dance lovers afternoon and even-
ing. While next Thursday is not a
legal holiday all the stores in Bella:
fonte will be closed in the afternoon
for the regular half holiday and
everybody is urged to go to Hecla
and spend the afternoon and evening
with the fire laddies. They are de-
serving of your patronage.
Work for Pleasant Gap’s New School
Building Started Monday.
The school board of Spring town-
ship put a force of men to work on
Monday cutting down the trees which
it is necessary to remove from the lot
where the township’s new consolidated
school building will be erected. As
soon as the ground is cleared con-
tractor James O. Longwell, of State
, College, will begin work on the foun-
dation for the building.
- At a meeting of the school board
, last week the contract for the electric
i wiring of the building was awarded to
the Electric Supply company, of
Bellefonte, at their bid of $1495. W.
B. Hile, of Coalport, got the plumbing
contract at his bid of $6187. Mr.
Longwell’s bid for the erection of the
| building was $50,500, while that of
| the American Heating and Ventilat-
ing was $8,500, making the total for
j contracts so far awarded $66,682.
| This, of course, does not include the
furnishing of the new building.
Kustaborder Injured in Auto
Accident.
Jimmie Kustaborder, seven year
{ old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kus-
taborder, of Willowbank street, is in
the Centre County hospital with a
broken leg and other injuries as the
result of being run over by an auto-
mobile driven by Russell Jodon, son
of J. C. Jodon, about five o’clock last
Thursday evening. The driver of the
car, however, was not to blame for the
accident. He had just returned from
the Lutheran-Reformed Sunday school
picnic at Hecla park and had driven
up on Reynolds avenue to take home
Mrs. Houck.
Just as he was driving out of the
avenue onto Willowbank street Jim-
mie and his older brother Joe shot out
onto the crossing on their scooters.
Joe got across all right but unfortun-
ately when Jimmie saw the automo-
bile he stopped in the middle of the
crossing, right in front of the ma-
chine. Jodon threw on his brakes
but could not avoid knocking the boy
down and the front wheel passed over
his leg between the knee and hip,
fracturing the bone. Jodon was able
to stop the car before the rear wheel
touched the lad and jumping out he
picked him up and took him to the
hospital. There it was found that in
addition to the fractured leg he had
sustained a cut on the head and a cut
and bruised right ankle. Fortunately
he suffered no internal injuries and
is now getting along all right.
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| Jimmie
MURDERERS
PAY DEATH PENALTY.
No Electrocutions at Rockview Now
| in Sight.
FEWER
i
For the first time in some years
not a single electrocution is in sight
at Rockview penitentiary and no
death warrants are open on the books
! of record at that institution. Of course
there are still a number of convicted
murderers who will doubtless pay the
penalty of their crime in the electric
' chair, but the number is not very
great. This is not because fewer
! capital crimes have been committed
but for the reason that since the en-
{ actment of the Guerin bill into a law
1 by the Legislature of 1925 juries have
1 taken advantage of the power invest-
‘ed in them to name the penalty for
«murder and in the majority of cases
‘have placed the punishment at life
imprisonment.
Since the above law was passed
there have been two score or more
murder trials in Pennsylvania and only
seven men have been doomed to die in
the electric chair. All the others who
were convicted of first degree murder
were given life imprisonment sen-
tences. In the case of the seven men
above referred to no death warrants
have yet been issued for them and no
date of electrocution set. And it is
just possible that some of them may
escape the chair.
Records at the penitentiary show
that since the passage of the law mak-
'ing electrocution the means of inflict-
ing the death penalty, one out of
every four men eventually escapes
that fate. To be more explicit, since
1914, 233 death warrants have been
issued but only 167 men electrocuted.
| Fifty-eight were granted commuta-
tion to life imprisonment, four death
warrants were recalled and four con-
demned men died before the date of
, their execution.
The largest number of electrocu-
tions took place in 1922 when twenty-
seven men went to the electric chair
while the following year had the low-
est record of any, only four electrocu-
tions taking place. But that year
eleven commutations were granted.
Of the total number of death war-
rants issued two were for women,
Louisa Thomas and Mattie Jones, both
negroes, of Philadelphia. In the case
of the Thomas woman her sentence
was commuted to life imprisonment
while the death warrant of Mattie
Jones was recalled when the Supreme
court ordered a new trial of her case.
Rockview Prisoner Escaped from
Harvest Field Saturday Morning.
John Schultz, an eighteen year old
youth serving a sentence of two to
four years at the Rockview peniten-
tiary . for breaking and. entering, made
his escape last. Saturday morning. He
was riding a binder in the harvest
field which was pulled by a tractor
in the field most advantageous for his |
purpose he feigned a sudden attack
of illness and asked permission of the
guard in’ charge of the harvesting
crew to lie down for a few minutes
inthe shade along the fence. The
permission was granted, but when the
and when the machine reached a point i
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Benton D. Tate will leave to-morrow to
spend his two weeks vacation with his
brother, H. A. Tate and his family at
Roanoke, Va.
Miss Margaret Stewart has been spend-
ing several weeks with her brother, Dr.
Walter Stewart, at Wilkes-Barre, and with
. friends near there.
i —Miss Cathryn Guisewite, who had been
in Centre county visiting for a month,
with relatives, returned to her home at
Meadville Wednesday.
—Miss Bess McCafferty is here from Pitts-
) burgh; fer her annual Summer visit in
, Bellefonte and, during her stay, will oc-
cupy her own home, on east Lamb street.
—Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hollobaugh return-
ed early last week from a ten days trip east,
having spent Mr. Hollebaugh's vacation
in Philadelphia, seeing the Sesqui and at
Atlantic City.
—The Rev. Homer C. Knox and his family,
will leave Sunday afternoon to drive to
their cottage along the river near Harris-
burg, where they expect to spend the
month of August.
—Miss Celia Moerschbacher will leave
Tuesday, for her months vacation which
will be spent with a camping party at
Shenandoah and visiting with friends at
Hazleton and Philadelphia.
—Miss Helen Beezer, Miss Nell Flack,
Miss Irene Gross and Mrs. Atchinson; who
have been on a ten days motor trip
through Canada, in Miss Beezer's car, will
return to Bellefonte Sunday.
—Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Reynolds, have
been here from Lancaster, during the past
week, guests at the home of their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Hugh M. Quigley and Mr. Quig-
ley, at their home on east Linn street.
—Dr. and Mrs. W. K. McKinney, of
Westfield, N. J. are spending the month
of August on Lake Minnewaska, New
York. Dr. McKinney was formerly pastor
of the Presbyterian church in this place.
—Dick Bossart, a former Academy stu-
dent, was here from Mt. Pleasant for a
week-end visit with Miss Jean Knox, at
the home of her parents, the Rev. Homer
C. Knox and Mrs. Knox, at the parsonage.
—Mrs. Richard Brouse drove to Wil-
liamsport, Tuesday, with Mr. and Mrs. W.
W. Bickett and their daughter Mary, the
women spending the day in the shops,
while Mr. Bickett looked after some busi-
ness.
—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Godshall, who are
visiting with Mrs. Godshall’'s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Lamb, on North Allegheny street,
came here from Camden, N. J., Saturday,
to spend Mr. Godshall’s vacation in Belle-
fonte.
—Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Sager left Sunday
to return to their home in Philadelphia,
following their annual summer visit to
Bellefonte. During their stay, Mr. and
Mrs. Sager occupied their own home on
Thomas street, adjoining that of Mrs.
Sager’'s mother, Mrs. Isaac Thomas.
—Mrs. M. E. R. Keller, of Philadelphia,
and her daughter, Miss Lucy, are in Belle-
fonte, having arrived here Saturday, for
a visit with Judge and Mrs. Harry Keller
and their family. With them is Mrs. Kel-
ler's grandson, Benjamin Keller, son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. John Keller, of Phila+
delphia, weed Si Bagionl Fall
—Mr. and Mrs. George Cain, of Harris-
burg, are in town for a visit with the
former’s brothers, Edward and Peter Cain
of this place. It was thirty-five years ago
that George left Bellefonte to live in Har-
risburg and in that time he has raised a
family of four children, all of whom are
grown up and doing splendidly.
—Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Crosman, of Nor-
ristown, were at Lemont Friday, for the
‘funeral of Dr. Orr Heilman Shaffer, Mrs.
Crosman being Mrs. Shaffer's sister. Mrs.
harvesting machine was again put in-
to operation the guard discovered
that another inmate was riding the
binder and manipulating the levers.
A search for Schultz brought to light |
the fact that he had decamped. ¥
The young man, who is a native of
West Virginia, was sent up from |
Lawrence county and has served but
six months of his sentence. He is
about five feet four inches in height, |
with dark complexion. He walks with |
a decided limp, his right leg being two !
inches shorter than the left and he!
has a prominent mole on the right |
side of his face about two inches be- |
low his eye. ; |
On Monday penitentiary officials |
were informed that a strange man had
been seen in the vicinity of Penn Hall
and all available guards were sent
down to round him up, but Schultz
could not be found. On Tuesday word
was received from Juniata county that
the escaped prisoner had been seen
thers and officers motored to that lo-
cality and toward evening succeeded
in rounding up the “strange man”
near McAllisterville, but instead of
being the escaped prisoner it was
Chris Hanson, the homeless wanderer
arrested in Centre county about eigh-
teen months ago as a barn burner. He
was turned over to the Juniata county
authorities and it is probable an effort
will be made to deport him back to
his native land.
Move to Improve the Advent Cemetery
‘A general movement among those
interested is afoet to clean up and
beautify the Advent cemetery in
Boggs township. It is an historic old
burying ground and the plan to put it
in creditable condition is a worthy
one.
Tomorrow, Saturday, evening a big
festival will be held in the John Lucas
field, at Runville, for the benefit of
the fund. All the delicacies of the
season will be served, music by
Wetzler’s band of Milesburg, amuse-
ments of various sorts and an electric
lighting system will be on the grounds
for the pleasure and entertainment of
those who attend.
Appointments made by Gover-
nor Pinchot, last Friday, included
George N. Fisher, as a justice of the
peace in Boalsburg, and H. A. Calla-
han, of Philipsburg, as a member of
the board of trustees of the Philips-
Shaffer's present plans are for returning
to Rochester, Minn. for a time, and then
coming east to spend the winter in Phila-
delphia, where her son is a medical student
at the U. of P.
—Mr. and Mrs, Herbert Sheffer are en-
‘tertaining their two grandchildren, Char-
lotte Anne and Herbert Sheffer 2nd.,
children of Mr. and Mrs. I'razier Sheffer, of
Ardmore, who came here with their nurse
two weeks ago to avoid the extreme heat
of Philadelphia. The children will be at
the Forge house, with their grandparents,
for an indefinite time.
—Harry Flack has been spending the
week motoring through eastern Pennsyl-
vania and New York State, as a guest of
his son Lloyd, a prominent merchant of
Blairsville, Penna. The two men left here
early Tuesday morning for Philadelphia,
and from there expected to go to the Shore
then over to New York and up along the
Hudson river, stopping enroute at all
places of interest for a short visit.
—Among those from out of town who
were bere, Tuesday, for the funeral of the
late Mrs. L. H. Musser, were Mrs. Thomas,
of Alabama; Mrs. Paul Irvin, of Canton,
Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Dean Barnhart,
Pittsburgh and Miami, Florida; Lloyd
Barnhart, with bis daughter and son, and
Bruce Barnhart with his som, all of Pitts-
burgh; Mr. and Mrs. Lesh and the latter's
sister, and F. M. Musser, of Altoona.
—Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. McClure, of
Wayne, Pa., and their daughter, Ruth,
stopped in Bellefonte over Sunday, on a
drive to Dayton, Ohio, and from here
they were accompanied by Mr. MecClure's
father, James I. McClure. . The trip is to
combine business and pleasure and is
being made during Mr. McClure/s vacation,
which is for an indefinite time. At Dayton,
their objective point, they will visit with
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey McClure.
—Mr. and Mrs. John Sommerville and the
latter's two sisters, the Misses Marion and
Jessie Davis, of Milton, were here from
Philipsburg Wednesday, spending the day
with Miss Mary and Henry 8. Linn. Mr.
and Mrs. Sommerville expect to come to
Bellefonte sometime in November, to take
possession of the house on the Beaver farm
which they have leased for the winter.
The Misses Davis have been spending a
part of the summer in Philipsburg with
Mr. and Mrs. Sommerville.
—Mrs. E. B. Callaway will leave to-mor-
row for a visit with friends near Harris-
burg, intending then to spend the re-
mainder of the summer along the Atlantic
coast, According to her present plans,
she will not return to Bellefonte for
almost two years, as she will leave in
January on her fourth trip around the
world, and instead of returning to Ameri-
ca with the party, expects to join several
friends for a year in Europe. Mrs. Calla-
way has been in Bellefonte for a month
with her daughter, Mrg. George B. Thomp-
burg State hospital.
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—Miss Florence W. Love expects to
come to Bellefonte early in the week for
the month of August.
—Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Deitrick and their
daughter Ruth are on a motor trip through
Canada, having left Bellefonte the early
part of the week.
—Miss Margaret Miller, of the Presby-
terian Home at Hollidaysburg, has been
visiting at Briarly for several weeks, a
guest of Miss Elizabeth D. Green.
—Mrs. H. C. Breon and Mrs. A. L.
Holmes, of Williamsport, spent yesterday
in Bellefonte, guests of Mrs. T. W. Cairns,
at her apartment in the Decker building.
—Mr. H. 8. Moore and her daughter
Dorris, went over to Wilkes-Barre Monday,
where Mrs. Moore has been under the
treatment of eye specialists for the greater
part of the past year.
—Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Gray and
their two children are here from West
Chester, spending Mr, Gray's vacation with
his mother, Mrs. William Gray and with
Judge and Mrs. Ellis L. Orvis.
—Marcus Lipsky, of New York city, a
nephew of landlord M. A. Landsy, is
spending a month at the Brockerhoff house
in the hope that the change in climatic
conditions will improve his health.
—Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Willard will
leave Saturday on a motor trip, expecting
to spend the greater part of two weeks
visiting with Mr. Willard’s sister and
brothers in the vicinity of Pittsburgh.
—Miss Anne Shaughnessy has been a
guest this week of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Shaughnessy, on Howard St.,
having arrived home Sunday accompanied
by her sister, Mrs Mann, who had been
spending her vacation in Philadelphia.
—Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Wright drove to
Bellefonte Saturday for a week-end visit
with Mrs. A. Wilson Norris, at her apart-
ment in the Blanchard home on Linn St!
Dr. Wright returned to Harrisburg Mon-
day, while Mrs. Wright continued her visit
until yesterday.
—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Chubbuck will
drive here from Allentown next week, Mrs.
Chubbuck intending to remain for a part
of August as a guest of Mrs. Willian B.
Wallis, at the home of her mother, Mrs.
Conley. After a short visit in Bellefonte,
Mr. Chubbuck will return to Allentown.
—George C. Bingaman, of the American
Lime and Stone company, with Mr. and
Mrs. C. Edward Robb as driving guests,
will motor to Norristown to spend the
week-end there with Mrs. Bingaman and
the children, who are making a prolonged
visit at Mrs. Bingaman’s parental home.
—Miss Mary H. Linn will go to Haprris-
burg next week to join Miss Anne Me-
Cormick, whose guest she will be on a
motor trip to Nova Scotia, where they will
spend much of the month of August at
Chester. HKnroute they expect to stop at
Boston and several other places of inter-
est.
—Mrs. William B. Wallis left yesterday
to go to New York to meet Mr. Wallis
Saturday, upon his arrival home from a
two months business trip to Sweden. Mr.
Wallis will then accompany Mrs. Wallis
to Bellefente for a week-end visit with Mrs.
J. Will Conley, going on to Pittsburgh
early in the week, .
—Miss Rachel Marshall and her uiece,
Miss Klizabeth Longwell, are anticipating
making their permanent home in Wash-
ington, D. C., and in view of this are pre-
paring to sell their property on Spring
‘street along with much of their house
furnishings. Their plans are for leaving
Bellefonte in the early fall. :
—Mr. and Mrs. Robert I". Hunter and
their daughter Henrietta drove to Phila-
delphia, the latter part of last week, for a
visit there with their elder daughter
Martha, and with Mrs. Hunter's sisters,
the Misses Mary and Henrietta Butts. Mr.
and Mrs. Hunter have had as recent guests
their son Graham and his family.
—Mrs. William Hoopes and her daugh-
ter Charlotte, from West Chester, and
Miss Bradford, from New York City, will
come to Bellefonte on the 10th of August,
to be guests for two weeks or more of Miss
Charlotte Powell, at her home on Alle-
gheny street. Mrs. Hoopes is Miss
Powell's niece and, before her marriage,
was Miss Marie White.
Honey Crop Will be a Poor One This
Year.
Centre county beekeepers are de-
ploring the fact that the crop of hon-
ey this year will hardly be enough
to pay for the trouble of keeping the
bees. This is not because the busy lit-
tle bee is less industrious than usual
but for the reason that all flowers and
blossoms so far have been lacking in
their supply of the honey making
neetar.
A farmer in Bald Eagle valley who
has thirty-five colonies of bees has
not been able to take a pound from
them up to this time. Ordinarily a
colony will produce from fifteen to
twenty pounds during a seoson, but
up to this time, the farmer declared,
his entire thirty-five colonies have
not stored up over fifty pounds of
honey, and the season is almost over.
He ascribes the fact to the dry weath-
er which resulted in the flowers and
blossoms being deficient in their sup-
ply of nectar.
Of course there is still the sumac
and second crop of clover but they
cannot be counted on to produce any
great quantity of honey. There is
also the buckwheat, but buckwheat
honey is not considered a good mar-
ketable product, because it is too dark
and much stronger than clover honey]
August Furniture Sale.
Twenty per cent. (20%) cash dis-
count on all cash purchases of Furni-
ture, Rugs and Linoleums, except
Kitchen cabinets. No extra charge
for delivery. Phone 38-R-11.
71-30-4t 8. M. CAMPBELL,
Miilheim, Pa.
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected Weekly by C. ¥. Wagner & Co.
Wheat - - “ - - --1.35
Oats le Lt - = 35
Ryg = «= « - = 80
Corn we ew 80
Barley - - - - - - 70
Buckwheat - - - - - 70