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Bellefonte, Pa., August 13, 1926.
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DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
For United States Senator,
WILLIAM B. WILSON,
of Tioga County.
For Governor,
EUGENE C. BONNIWELL,
of Philadelphia.
For Lieutenaut Governor,
W. CLAYTON HACKET,
of Westmoreland County.
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
JOHN MURPHY,
of Allegheny County.
District
Ticket.
For Congress,
CLARENCE R. KRAMER,
of Clearfield.
For State Senator,
WILLIAM I. BETTS,
of Clearfield.
For Assemblyman,
ANDREW CURTIN THOMPSON,
of Philipsburg.
Democratic and County
Opportunity Day Made Big Business
in Bellefonte.
Every Bellefonte business man
whom we interviewed yesterday re-
ported that “Opportunity Day” had
proven a very gratifying success.
While Wednesday is ordinarily a good
business day in town it was evident
from the appearance of the streets
that there was more than the custom-
ary activity. Most of the interest was
centered in the awarding of the valu-
able prizes offered by the Associated
Business Men. The drawing was made
in the Diamond shortly after 9 o’clock.
Three strangers, guests at the Brock-
erhoff house that night and entirely
disinterested, were induced to do the
drawing. All 'of the “Opportunity”
tickets were sealed in a box and the:
men drew but thé prize winners as
follows:
1st prize, $150 dining room suite-—
Mrs. George Knisely, Bellefonte.
2nd prize, $100 radio set—S. S. By-
ers, Bellefonte, R. F. D. 4. .
3rd prize, $62.50 Vacuum cleaner—
Joe Fovuzza,” Bellefonte.
4th prize, $40 English china dinner
set—W. C. Smeltzer, Bellefonte.
bth prize, $17.50 mahogany clock—
W. J. Kitchen, State College.
6th prize, $17 bridge lamp—M. J.
Rothrock, Bellefonte. >
Tth prize, $16 Junior lamp—Mrs.
Herbert Auman, Bellefonte.
8th prize, $15 26-piece silver set—
Charles Cain, Bellefonte.
9th prize, $14.75 9x12 congoleum
rug—Mrs. Fred Pletcher, Howard.
10th prize, $10 tapestry mirror—
Cyrus Gehret, Bellefonte.
11th prize, $10 dozen cut glass sher-
berts—Mrs. J. O. Confer, Bellefonte.
12th prize, $10 dozen cut glass-gob-
lets—Carl Deitrich, Bellefonte.
13th prize, $8.50 silver bread tray—
Miss Sarah Holt, Unionville.
14th prize, $8 dozen all linen nap-
kins—Mrs. S. H. Poorman, Bellefonte.
15th prize, $7.50 three yards all lin-
en table cloth—Mrs. A. G. Morris,
Bellefonte.
16th prize, $7.50 framed pictureg—-
Mrs. Emma Smith, Milesburg.
17th prize, $6.50 console set—Al-
bert Osman, Bellefonte.
‘+ 18th prize, $6 framed picture—M.
J. Rothrock, Bellefonte.
19th prize, $5.50 carving set—Miss
Irene Gross, Bellefonte.
20th prize, $3.50 gallon vaccuum
jug—Mabel M. Morrison, Bellefonte.
Bellefonte Ball Team Wins Two More.
Lady luck was with the Bellefonte
ball team last week; in fact so much so
that it looks as of each of the players
is carrying a rabbit’s foot, the left
hind one caught in the dark of the
moon, in his pocket. Down at the
Undine picnic, at Heecla park on
Thursday, they almost obliterated the
Williamsport P. R. R. team, and on
Hughes field on Saturday they defeat-
ed the Renovo bunch, all of which
would indicate that the hoodoo has
been lifted and the Governors have
struck their stride.
They are now third in the league
standing, being topped by Jersey
Shore and Mill Hall, and having
beaten both teams since the opening
of the second period of the season
they may be able to do it again the
next time they meet. Here’s hoping.
The standing of the clubs to date is as
follows:
WwW L PC
Jersey Bore ....... 00 ovis 4 2 667
MIL Ea iii een 5 3 625
Bellefonte ........ i. 00. viia nen 4 3 513
Kew-Bees ......ouiviiiiivivis 3 3 500
Williamsport P. R.- R............. 2 4 333
REAOYO ~.ivivvvivividisivsvinrnvnsiive 1 4 200
——On complaint of his brother and
sister John Calvin Holmes, of Potter
township, was taken to the Danville
asylum by sheriff Taylor, on Monday.
THOMAS A. EDISON
VISITS BELLEFONTE.
The Electrical Wizard Spent Monday
Night Here. His Visit Recalls
Interesting Incident.
Thomas A. Edison, the electrical
wizard, with Mrs. Edison and the lat-
ter’s sister, Mrs. J. N. Miller, were
guests at the Brockerhoff house, Belle-
fonte, on Monday night. They had
been at Chautauqua, N. Y., and were
motoring to their home in Orange, N.
J., in a big Lincoln car manufactured
by Mr. Edison’s friend, Henry Ford.
During his brief stay in town burgess
Hard P. Harris took him out to see
Bellefonte’s renowned spring and he
was also shown the big fish in Spring
creek. About the only person in
Bellefonte who had an interview of
any length with “the Wizard” was the
bell boy at the hotel and Mr. Edison
did most of the talking. He told the
lad that he placed the first electric
lights in Bellefonte over forty years
ago then asked him what kind of in-
dustries we have here, etc. The dis-
tinguished party left early Tuesday
morning on their journey home.
" Anent the visit of Mr. Edison it
might be of interest to some of Belle-
fonte’s newer residents to know that
this was the second town in the Unit-
ed States to have municipal electric
lighting. Sunbury was the first. On
July 25th, 1883, a charter was grant-
ed to the Edison Electric Illuminat-
ing Company of Bellefonte. @W. D.
Rich, who was vice president of the
parent Edison Co., came here from
Sunbury after having installed the
first Edison plant in the country, and
interested enough™local gentlemen to
start an organization in Bellefonte.
They were George Valentine, presi-
dent; James Harris, secretary; James
Sommerville, W. R. Jenkins, Lawrence
L. Brown, John I. Olewine, W. R.
Teller, Geo. L. Potter, J. Howard Lin-
gle, Adam Hoy and Frank McCoy;
every one gone now.
On the night of February 4th, 1884,
the lights were turned on for the first
time and the event was celebrated
with a banquet at the Bush house,
then run by Col. Teller, who adver-
tised his hostelry as “the only second
class hotel, run by a first class fellow,
in the world.” It is interesting to
note that this paper, in its story of
the momentous event, reported that
“the great dining hall of the Bush
house was brilliantly illuminated with
thirteen ten candle power lights” and
that there was one on the table in
front of the president that could actu-
ally be moved around.
That night was a notable one in
Bellefonte. The business houses of A.
J. Cruse, tobacconist; Charley Rine’s
stand; which was a little place where
Robert Roan’s store is now located;
D. Garman and Son’s store, the F. C.
Richard jewelry, the Brockerhoff
house, the James Harris hardware
store, Doll and Mingle’s shoe store,
John Sourbeck, Blairs and the Bee
Hive “were all brilliantly lighted.”
It has been reported that the first
light actually flashed was in the law
office of Gen. Beaver and the second
in the windows of Blair's jewelry. Be
that as it may, the first actual sub-
scribers to the service were Harry
Hicks, who then ran a hardware store
where F. W. West and Co., are now
located; F. X. Lehman who ran the
Butts house, now the Brant; D. Gar-
man and Son; Isaac Guggenheimer,
the Brockerhoff house, John Anderson
and the Garman house.
The original company had a con-
tract with Mr. Edison that permitted
it to use his patents for a certain time
without charge. After that it was
required to pay his parent company a
royalty. When the time came to pay
the royalty the infant industry was
already nearing the rocks. The Belle-
fonte Gas Co. was functioning effi-
ciently under the management of
Robert McKnight and few people had
faith in the endurance of “this new
lighting contraption.” The company
struggled along but found the load
too heavy and then sold out to the
Bellefonte Electric Company and thus
ducked the royalties to Mr. Edison.
For some years it hung on by its
eyelashes when, suddenly, the com-
munity discovered that electric light
was a real and useful commodity and
not the machination of the devil. But
just before this turn some of the ean-
niest business men in the organization
sold their stock in disgust for what-
ever they could get for it and later
bit twenty-penny nails in two when
the “flop” turned to be a “wow” and
declared a one-hundred per cent stock
dividend on which it paid mighty
handsome interest up to the time it
was taken over by the present owners.
Penn State Students Reported Banned
in London.
A report has reached this country
that the Penn State orchestra is
stranded in Europe as the result of a
British ban on American musicians.
The report is alleged to have been re-
ceived by the family of Harold John-
son, of Pennsburg, a member of the
orchestra. When the orchestra arriv-
ed in London it proceeded to a theatre
to fill a supposed booked engagement,
but on arriving at the playhouse the
members were surprised and disap-
pointed to learn that they would be
unable to play as an English law pro-
hibits any American musicians play-
ing in that city. The orchestra plan-
ned to work its way to Belgium where
it was hoped to raise sufficient money
to defray expenses on the trip home.
| CAMPBELL.—Oliver C. Campbell,
a native of Bellefonte, died very sud-
denly at his room in Johnstown, last
Thursday afternoon. He was employed
in the Swank hardware store in
Johnstown and on Thursday morning
complained of not feeling very well.
At noontime he told some of the clerks
in the store that instead of going to
lunch he would go to his room and lie
down. Failing to return to the store
by four o’clock in the afternoon a mes-
senger was sent to his room to see if
anything was wrong. He found the
door locked and calling a policeman
the latter forced the door, and going
in found Mr. Campbell lying on the
bed cold in death. A physician was
summoned who, after an examination,
stated that a heart attack had caused
Mr. Campbell’s death and that he had
probably been dead two or three hours
before discovered.
Mr. Campbell was a son of Frank
C. and Enness Woomer Campbell and
was born in Bellefonte in November,
1872, hence was not quite 54 years old.
When a young man he went to work
for the Bell Telephone company of
Pennsylvania under the late Wilmer
L. Malin, and when the latter resign-
ed his position Mr. Campbell succeed-
ed him as manager, a position he held
a number of years. Upwards of twen-
ty years ago he quit the telephone
company here and moved to Barnes-
boro, where he was in the telephone
business for some years. Five or six
years ago he became a salesman for
the Swank Hardware company, of
Johnstown, traveling over four coun-
ties. A year ago he was placed at the
head of the heavy farm machinery de-
partment in the store, and it was be-
cause of this fact that he had taken a
room in town, spending Sundays with
his wife in Barnesboro.
In 1895 he married Miss Anna Tate,
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Potter
Tate, of Pleasant Gap, who survives
with one son, Lee R., of Spangler. He
also leaves the following brothers and
sisters: Mrs. John Rummell, of Port-
land, Oregon; Mrs. W. P. Nelson, of
Tulsa, Okla.; Arthur, in Philadelphia;
Edward, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Russell, in
California; Mrs. Esther Kirk, of East
Liberty, and Mrs. Berenice Miller, of
Pittsburgh.
Funeral services were held at his
late home at Barnesboro on Saturday
night and on Sunday the remains
were brought to Centre county and
buried in the Lutheran cemetery at
Pleasant Gap, Rev. C. C. Shuey offi-
ciating. Quite a number of Barnes-
boro people accompanied the remains,
the following acting as pallbearers:
Messrs. John R. Musser, James All-
port, J. D. Ritter, Harry Heuter, Lew-
is Luxenburg and Ross Sanner.
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STEWART.—Alfred Stewart, one
of the best known and most depend-
able of Bellefonte’s colored popula:
tion, died on Monday night at his home
on Ridge street and Decatur avenue,
following three weeks illness as the
result of a general breakdown.
He was a son of John Robinson and
Flora Stewart and was born in Prince
William county, Virginia, in April,
1845, hence was past eighty-one years
of age. His boyhood and young man-
hood were spent in slavery and he was
one of the great mass of negro popu-
lation set free by President Lincoln’s
emancipation proclamation. On De-
cember 7th, 1866, he married Miss
Lucinda Jones and the first score of
years of their married life were spent
in Lowden county, Virginia. In De-
cember, 1889, the family came to
Bellefonte and a month later Mr.
Stewart entered the employ of Dr. E.
W. Hale, remaining with him until
his death and ever since has worked
for Mr. and Mrs. G. Murray Andrews.
He was at all times industrious and
trustworthy and worked to the advan-
tage of his employer. He was a mem-
ber of the A. M. E. church, of Belle-
fonte, and a good citizen.
In addition to his wife he is sur-
vived by the following children: Wil-
liam Stewart, of East Orange, N. J.;
Robert, of Atlantic City; Miss Sarah,
of Montclair, N. J.; Harvey, of Belle-
fonte, and Charles, of Atlantic City.
He also leaves five grand-children and
six great grand-children.
Funeral services will be held at his
late home this afternoon by Rev. H.
J. Collins, after which burial will be
made in the Union cemetery.
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YOUNG.—Dr. Robert J. Young, for
the past thirty-seven years a practic-
ing physician in Snow Shoe, died’at
4.15 o’clock last Thursday morning as
the result of a stroke of apoplexy.
He was a son of Thomas and Isa-
bella Wood Young and was born in
England on January 15th, 1862, hence
was in his 65th year. At the age of
nineteen years he came to America
and settled in Irwin, Westmoreland
county, where for five years he worked
at coal mining or anything else he
could get to do. In 1886 he began
reading medicine with Dr. L. C.
Harmon, in Philipsburg, and later at-
tended the University of Maryland
and the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, at Baltimore, graduating
with the class of 1889. He at once
hung out his shingle in Snow Shoe
and had practiced his profession in
that place ever since. He was a mem-
ber of the Centre County Medical So-
ciety, the Knights of Pythias and the
Odd Fellows.
In 1891 Dr. Young married Miss
Minnie M. Yarnell, who died four
years later. His second wife was Miss
Isabel Graham, who survives with one
son, Robert J. Jr. Funeral services
were held at his late home on Sunday
by Rev. Oakwood, burial being made
at Snow Shoe. ;
FERGUSON:—On Sunday evening,
July 25th, Dr. George Ferguson,
(colored), landlord of the tavern at
Boalsburg, dropped dead of heart dis-
ease while on a trip to his chicken
house. The next day the widow gave
birth to 2 little laughter and on Sat-
urday evening she died of a heart at-
tack while sitting in a rocking chair
on the hotel porch. She and her
brother Arthur were on the porch
when Mrs. Ferguson complained about
feeling badly and asked her brother
to call the doctor. He did so but be-
fore the physician reached the hotel
Mrs. Ferguson had passed away.
She was a daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Chester Rux and was born
in Philipsburg twenty-nine years ago.
She is survived by three small chil-
dren, Eyima, Mary L. and the infant
daughte , Georgianna. She also
leaves two brothers, Arthur Rux, of
Boalsburg, and Edward, whose where-
abouts are unknown.
Brief funeral services were held at
Boalsburg on Tuesday morning, after
which the remains were taken to Phil-
ipsburg for burial.
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RISK.—Katharine, daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Risk,
former residents of Bellefonte, died
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Bertha
Shidaker, at Mishawaka, Indiana, on
Sunday morning. She had not been
well for two weeks, but her condition
was not regarded as alarming until
she was suddenly stricken with acute
indigestion.
Deceased was born in Bellefonte on
Dec. 14, 1904, and lived here until
after the death of her father, when
the mother took her family to Altoona
to live. She is survived by five sisters
and three brothers.
The body was brought east and in-
terment made in the Union cemetery
at 1 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon.
An Octogenarian Traveler.
Ordinarily a person, even of middle
age, would look with some misgiving
on a trip across the continent. It is
a long, long distance and in these
sweltering days terribly exhausting.
Mrs. Thomas F. Riley, of Boalsburg,
happy and hopeful in her eighty-sec-
ond year, was in Bellefonte, Saturday
morning, waiting for the train
that would start her on her jour-
ney to Los Angeles, Cal. With her
was her brother, George C. Sechler,
better known as “Cal,” and himself
seventy-six. He has lived in Califor-
nia for years and until two years ago
had not been east for forty years.
About the middle of June he returned
for another visit and while here per-
suaded his sister to return with him
and make her home on the Coast. At
first she thought the trip too hard,
but brother “Cal”. solved that prob-
lem by: trying her traveling strength
on a number of short trips with him
to visit relatives in various Pennsyl-
vania cities. She thrived on them and
felt so rejuvenated that she insisted
she wasn’t afraid “to undertake a trip
to the moon.”
It’s rarely been our privilege to
chat with such a remarkable woman.
She was so full of “pep” so happy
and expectant. And if we could have
one wish granted it would be that
every brother in the world might have
the courtly, tender consideration of
his sister that “Cal” Sechler unwit-
tingly revealed for his while in this
office.
Mrs. Riley is the widow of the late
Thomas F. Riley who was once asso-
ciate Judge of the courts of Centre
county.
Five Offenders Sentenced.
At a special session of court, on
Tuesday afternoon, Judge Keller sen-
tenced Clifford Guthrie, an escaped
convict, to serve out his original sen-
tence and an additional one of from
fifteen months to two years and a
half.
Harry C. Mills, a fifty-nine year
old resdent of Philipsburg, charged
with assault and battery and a serious
offence against a nine year old girl,
was given two to four years in the
penitentiary.
Daniel Gregg, of Pleasant Gap,
charged with stealing. from the Irvin
Smith home, was sentenced to one
year and six months to three years in
the penitentiary. His wife, who was
arrested at the same tme, was re-
leased.
Jack Morrison, charged with oper-
ating a motor car without a driver's
license, was sent to jail for 6 months.
Daniel Kittrell, charged with de-
board bill, was sentenced to serve two
months in jail.
A ———————— A r———————
A motor party of foreign born
people on their way to Bellefonte from
Carnegie ran into a freight train
standing on the Weaver crossing
above Milesburg on Saturday night,
with the result that two of the women
were hurt sufficiently to send to the
Centre County hospital. One was
Catherine Feskosko, who sustained
several cuts on the head but was able
to leave the hospital on Sunday. The
other was Mrs. Mary Corba, who sus-
tained an injured knee. The car, a
Chandler, was repaired and the party
left for home on Wednesday.
——Mrs. John Love of Reynolds
Ave. is perhaps the most successful
grower, of the present, very popular
dahlia in Centre county. Having year
by year added to her collection, she
has now one hundred and eighty
plants, which includes all the best
varieties recently developed by sci-
ence.
JOHN KLEPFNER KILLED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT.
Native Centre Countian Meets Death
on Way Back to Visit Cld Home.
Coming back to Bellefonfe from
his home in Philadelphia to visit the
scenes of his boyhood days in Belle-
fonte and Coleville John Klepfner was
the victim of a tragic automobile ac-
cident on the Nittany valley state
highway near Hecla park, about 5:30
o’clock last Thursday evening, being
so badly injured that he died within a
few minutes.
Mr. Klepfner, with his wife, his son-
in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Alexander B. Lotka, and their ten
month’s old son, John L., left Phila-
delphia on Thursday morning in a
Hudson coach to motor to Bellefonte.
They came by way of the Susquehan-
na valley and up through Nittany
valley. Mr. Lotka was at the wheel
and it just happened that Thursday
was the day of the Undine fire com-
pany’s picnic at Hecla park. On near-
ing the road leading from the highway
into the park Mr. Lotka’s attention
was attracted to a car driven by
Frank Hockman going from the park
out to the highway with the result
that his car veered to the side of the
road as he passed the Earl Harter
house and at the church just this side
of the Harter home he ran into the
bank on the north side of the road.
He threw on the brakes, and the high-
way being wet and slippery from a re-
cent hard shower, the rear end of the
car skidded around, fell over against
the bank then rebounded and toppled
over on its right side with the top to-
ward the highway.
The top was completely wrecked
and all the occupants were thrown out,
Mr. Klepfner being caught beneath
the fender and right front wheel and
the entire top of his head crushed.
Mrs. Klepfner suffered a broken right
arm, a cut on the head and various
body bruises. Mr. Lotkg sustained a
superficial cut on the left side of his
forehead while Mrs. Lotka escaped
with bruises and shock and the baby,
thrown to the middle of the roadway,
had only one tiny abrasion on its right
ear.
Earl Harter was sitting on the
porch at his home at the time of the
accident and ran over to the wrecked
car but was unable himself to release
Mr. Klepfner from beneath the car.
But it was only a few minutes until
people from the picnic flocked to the
scene and Mr. Klepfner was taken
from beneath the car. While he was
still living it was quickly apparent
that his injuries were fatal. All of
the injured were taken to the Harter
home while the Undine squad truck
was equipped as a temporary ambu-
lance. when Mr. Klepfner was placed in
it and brought to the Centre County
hospital but he died on the way. Mrs.
Klepfner was also brought to the hos-
pital where her injuries: were given
attention. Mr. Lotka accompanied
ADDITIONAL PERSONAL NEWS.
—Father Shay, of Shenandoah, has been
a guest at the Philip Beezer home, during
his recent visit to Bellefonte.
—Mrs. George D. Green, of Lock Haven,
speat Tuesday visiting friends and rela-
tives at her former home here.
—Mrs. Paul Keller and daughter, of
Philadelphia, are visiting at the home of
Mrs. Keller's father, William Noll, of
Pleasant Gap.
--Miss Annie Maurer, of Mackeyville, is
spending two weeks in Bellefonte, a guest
of Mrs. Edwin F. Garman, at her home on
east High street.
—After a visit of a week at the T. C.
Brown home on Spring street, Mr .and
Mrs. Thomas Moore, of Philadelphia, de-
parted on Saturday.
—Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Hunt wepe here
from Renovo, yesterday, for one of their
occasional visits back home. Mrs. Hunt
was formerly Miss Mabel Woodring.
—Dr. M. A. Kirk left yesterday for his
annual visit among relatives and friends
in Clearfield county, with headquarters at
the Dr. George Kirk home, in Kylertown.
—John VanPelt drove here from Johns-
town, last week, to join Mrs. VanPelt and
their daughter Rachel, both of whom had
been visiting with Mrs. VanPelt’s sister,
Mrs. John McCoy, on west Curtin street.
—Miss May Runkle, of Youngstown,
Ohio, who has been in Bellefonte since
last week, is a guest of Miss Bess Hart,
at the Hart apartment in the Baum home
on the corner of Allegheny and Curtin
streets.
—Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Bowersox, and
their daughter Helen, of State College,
spent Sunday at Mt. Union and Lewistown.
They went over so that Miss Helen might
have a brief visit with her uncle, Morrison
Ewing, before she leaves for Tennessee.
—Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. Gehrett, of
Sunbury, have been visiting Bellefonte
friends the past week. On leaving Belle-
fonte some years ago they located in Cor-
ry, but recently moved to Sunbury where
Mr. Gehrett now holds a good position as
clerk in a grocery store.
—Mrs. A. E. Blackburn will return to
her home in Philadelphia, Sunday, to pre-
pare to acompany her husband on their
annual summer trip to the White Moun-
tains. Mrs. Blackburn has been with her
mother, Mrs. J. L. Spangler and Col.
Spangler for a month or six weeks.
—Mrs .Walter Cohen returned to Belle-
fonte, Sunday, accompanied by her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Saul Auerbach ,and the new little
grand-daughter, Miss Eleanor Auerbach,
who is now about a month or six weeks
old. Mrs. Auerbach will be in Bellefonte
with the child until the weather becomes
cooler.
—Mrs. Mary Payne is here from Roan-
oke, to spend the remainder of the sum-
mer and fall with her sons, John and
Gideon and their families. Mrs. Payne
accompanied Mr. and Mrs. John Payne
home after they had been to Virginia for
a. visit with Mr. Payne's sister, Mrs. Paul
Seanor and her family.
—J. H. Gray, one of the traveling audi-
tors of the Pittsburgh district of the Bell
Telephone Co., and his family, spent Wed-
nesday in Bellefonte while on a drive
through Central Pennsylvania From here
Mr. Gray went to:the Woodward cave,
which is at present attracting tourists
from all over the country.
—Clarles E. Dorworth Jr. left for Man-
asquan, N.Y. on Tuesday for a few weeks
vacation atthe Shore. As driving guests
the Klepfners to the hospital and later
frauding James Matthews out of a’
secured a taxi and went-down to Har-
i ters and brought Mrs. Lotka and the
‘baby to Bellefonte.
Mr. Klepfner was a son of David
‘and Elizabeth Tobias Klepfner and |
was born at Centre Hall in November, |
1865, hence was in his sixty-first year.
When three years’ old the family
'moved to Bellefonte and located on
|east Howard street where they lived
| eight or ten years then moved to Cole-
ville. The father, by the way, was a!
carpenter and cabinet maker and 3
was he whe built the high steeple on
the Presbyterian church which was
blown down during a wind storm a
few years ago. When ‘yet a young
man John went to Philadelphia where
he made a study of electricity and for
some years was employed at the city
hall as an electrician. Of late years,
however, he had been an electrician at
Girard College. His tragic death re-
calls the fact that his brother David,
a carpenter, was killed in Philadelphia
when a heavy plank fell upen him, and
his brother Emanuel was killed by a
truck at Plainfield, N. J., less than
two years ago.
Mr. Klepfner married Miss Rachel
Young, of Jersey City, who survives
with one daughter, Mrs. A. B. Lotka.
He also leaves one sister and a broth-
er, Mrs. Herman Robb, of Harrisburg,
and Harry Klepfner, of Philadelphia.
The remains, accompanied by Mrs.
Klepfner, the son-in-law and daugh-
ter, were taken to Philadelphia on
Friday afternoon and were later bur-
ied at Plainfield, N. J.
The wrecked car, which was prac-
tically new, having been run only
about nine hundred miles, was towed
to Bellefonte and will be held pend-
ing instructions from the Hudson
agency in Philadelphia.
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Former Bellefonter Resigns Big
Allentown Job.
James R. Kinsloe, who spent part of
his boyhood in Bellefonte, has just re-
signed the position of secretary of the
Allentown Chamber of Commerce to
associate himself with the bond de-
partment of a New York firm of in-
vestment bankers. The position he has
given up paid $6,000 a year.
“Jimmy” is a nephew of Mrs. D. H.
Hastings, of this place, and a son of
the late R. A. Kinsloe, who founded
and published the “Wage Earner’s
Journal” in Philipsburg for a number
of years.
As a boy he learned telegraphy and
became one of the “speediest” opera-
tors in the country, so fast that he
was handling the Western Union's
heaviest wires when he gave up that
work to go into business exploitations. !
he was accompanied by Misses dna Kil-
patrick and Helen Cruse and Philip Rey-
nolds. The young ladies were enroute to
Philadelphia and Ocean City for a visit
of several weeks with relatives.
—Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Wetzel, of Buffa-
lo, have been in town since Monday vis-
iting with the former’s sisters, Mrs. Earl
Hoffer and Mrs. Millard Hartswick. They
will return tomorrow. On Wednesday
Mrs. Malcolm Pifer, another of Paul's sis-
ters, came up from her home in Howard
to spend the day with him at the Hoffer
home. ? :
-—Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shallcross re-
turned Sunday, from Wilmington, where
they bad been for the wedding of Mr.
Shallcross’ sister, Miss Jeannette, and S.
S. Swindells, of the engineering depart-
ment of the Bellefonte plant of the Ameri-
can Lime & Stone Co. Mr. and Mrs. Swin-
dells have leased the apartment in the Wm,
Chambers home, vacated by Mr. and Mrs.
Shallcross.
—Mr. and Mrs. Miles Wetzel, of Chicago,
Heights, are visiting their parents in this
place. They arrived here on Sunday. Mr.
Wetzel gave up his job in Chicago some
time ago to accept another with the Du-
quesue Light and Power Co. in Pitts-
burgh, and before taking his new work he
and Mrs. Wetzel took a trip to the Yel-
lowstone park. He will leave for Pitts-
burgh on Sunday, but Mrs. Wetzel will
remain here with her parents until he
secures an apartment in that city.
—Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Morris, with Mrs.
Morris’ sister, Miss Elizabeth Barnhart,
drove to Wyalusing a week ago to spend
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Harper
and their two boys and Dr. and Mrs. Fred
Seidel, who are ocupying two cottages
there for two weeks. Mrs. J. W. Barnhart
had been a guest of the party at Wyalu-
sing for a week, and returned to Bellefonte
with Mr. and Mrs. Morris. When leaving
there Dr. and Mrs. Seidel will go to their
home at Hazleton, while the Harper fam-
ily will come to Bellefonte for the remain-
der of Mr. Harper's vacation.
— —y A ron ———.
Mrs. Christ Decker had a nasty
fall down the cellar stairs, on Wed-
nesday of last week, and though she
was fortunate - in not breaking any
bones she was badly bruised and suf-
fered from shock. Neighbors took
good care of her until her son, John
Decker and wife, came in from De-
troit, Mich., and under their careful
ministrations she is recovering nicely.
Coburn’s Minstrels are booked
for the Moose theatre Monday night,
Aug. 23. This company hasn't visit-
ed Bellefonte since before the war and
then it was one of the few real good
ones on the road.
——The Undine fire company,
fifty-five strong, with their pumper
and squad truck and led by Wetzler’s
band, of Mileshurg, took part in the
big firemen’s parade at Tyrone yes-
terday.