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"Bellefonte, Pa., October 29, 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 Northampton 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
Public Ledger for Wilson.
Party prejudice or a mistaken no-.
tion of political obligation held the
Philadelphia Public Ledger to silence
on the question of electing William S.
Vare to the great office of Senator in
Congress for a long period of time.
Before the primary election in May
the Public Ledger denounced Mr. Vare
in strong terms, not because of the
manner of his nomination but for the
reason that he is mentally and mor-
ally unfit for the office. During the
five months that have elapsed since
the nomination, through the period in
which a Senatorial investigation was
revealing the criminal processes by
which the nomination was acquired,
our esteemed Philadelphia contempor-
ary made no sign of its purpose in the
campaign. r
Last week, however, the Public
Ledger revealed itself. It asserted
its self-respect. In its leading editor-
ial, after asserting its belief in the
principles of government enunciated
by President Coolidge and that the
continuance of Republican control of
Congress is necessary to the prosper-
ity of the people, it reiterated its
charge that William S. Vare “is a
representative of machine politics at
its worst” and that “from both a State
and a Republican standpoint it would
be a grave mistake to send him to
“am mad Andy
morals ‘but good politics. No
political party can endure that delib-
erately puts corrupt men in high
office and the election of Vare would
mean that.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
speaks for the better element of the
Republican party in that city and the
State. Its declaration against Vare
and for Wilson is significant because it
implies that the element for which it
speaks will vote against Vare and for
Wilson. But why dec they support
John S. Fisher for Governor? In the
matter of the slush fund three times
as much was spent for Fisher as for
Vare and the votes of the Pittsburgh
“strip” were manipulated after the
polls closed to secure his nomination.
It is gratifying to hope that William
B. Wilson will be elected Senator be-
cause of the civic spirit as expressed
by the Public Ledger, but the satis-
faction would be increased if Bonni-
well were elected.
Respite Granted to Man Who Killed
Penitentiary Guards.
Governor Pinchot on Saturday is-
sued a stay of execution in the case
of Paul Orlakowski from Monday of
this week until Monday, November
22nd. The respite was not granted
until after sheriff Robert H. Braun
and deputies had left Pittsburgh with
the condemned man on their way to
Rockview penitentiary. On being no-
tified of the granting of the respite
deputy warden W. J. McFarland drove
from Rockview to Tyrone where he
intercepted sheriff Braun and his
prisoner, who were on the Pennsyl-
vania-Lehigh train, and had the sher-
iff take Orlakowski back to Pitts-
burgh.
Orlakowski was convicted of the
killing of guards John A. Pieper and
John T. Coax, during the riot in the
western penitentiary at Pittsburgh on
Februrary 12th, 1924. Four prison-
ers were tried separately for the kill-
ing and Orlakowski was the only one
convicted of murder in the first de-
gree. Orlakowski was one of the four
men convicted of robbing the Imperial
bank of a large sum of money in 1921,
and was serving time for that offense
when he participated in the riot in the
BATEMAN.—Joseph Porter Bate-
man, native of Centre county and vet-
eran of the Civil war, died at his home
in Tyrone on Sunday afternoon, as the
result of general debility. He was a
son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bateman
and was born at Gatesburg, Centre
county, on March 11th, 1838, hence
was 88 years, 7 months and 13 days
old. When the Civil war broke out he
enlisted for service in Company E,
45th regiment Pennsylvania volun-
teers. He participated in the Battle
of the Wilderness, Autietam, Peters-
burg and Appomatox Court House.
He was wounded and spent six months
in Libby prison.
While home on a furlough in 1863
he married Miss Mary Jane Benn who
passed away some years ago, but
surviving him are seven sons and one
brother. Burial was made in Grand-
view cemetery, Tyrone, on Tuesday
afternoon.
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FREEMAN Rit Freeman,
colored, was found dead yesterday
morning in the hallway of the Belle-
fonte Trust company building by
night watchman Wallace Markle. He
had been around town as usual on
Wednesday evening and evidently had
gone into the hallway sometime dur-
ing the night, death evidently result-
ing from a heart attack. He was a
son of George and Katie Freeman and
was born in Bellefonte thirty-nine
years ago. His mother is dead but
surviving him are his father and sev-
eral brothers and sisters. The date
of the funeral has not yet been ar-
ranged.
BREON.-Miss May Boon, a na-
tive of Centre county, died last Wed-
nesday at the home of her brother,
Roy Breon, at Jersey Shore, following
an illness of four years. She is sur-
vived ‘by her mother, Mrs. Mary
Breon, of Aaronsburg; her brother
Roy, at Jersey Shore, and one sister,
Mrs. R. J. Lauderbach, also of Jer-
sey Shore. Funeral services were
held at her late home at one o’clock
on Friday afternoon by Rev. G. W.
Faus, of the Methodist church, after
which the remains were taken to Lo-
ganton for burial.
J
EARON Mss, Anna Maria Earon,
widow of G. E. Earon, died last Fri-
day morning at her home near Wool-
rich, Clinton county, following a ling-
ering illness. Her maiden name was
Miss Anna Johnson, and she was born
in Bald Eagle valley in Centre coun-
ty, 64 years ago. Her husband died
less than a year ago but surviving her
are three sisters and two brothers.
Burial was made at Pine Creek on
Monday.
li
PIPER.—Emory Pires a well
known resident of Tyrone and father
‘of Mis. Al S. Garmany died of 4 heart
‘attack last Friday morning, while en-
route from Altoona to Tyrone on a
trolley car. He was a native of Alex-
andria, Huntingdon county, and was
sixty years old. He is survived by his
wife, two sons, two daughters, a
brother and one sister. Burial was
made in Tyrone on Monday afternoon.
Student Board to be Court of First
Resort.
In the future, when Pennsylvania
State College students are found
guilty of dishonesty, gambling or un-
! Tat a board of fellow-
1
ethical cunuue-, :
students will recommend punisnmeny
for them to the president of the col-
lege. This is a new ruling at the col-
lege, arranged by the council of ad-
ministration at the request of the
student board, the highest court in the
student = government organization.
This board may go so far as to recom-
mend dismissal from the college for
offending students, but in all cases
the final authority for punishment will
rest with the president of the college.
The action has brought much favor-
able comment from students and
faculty members, for it is considered
to be a step in advance in the main-
tenance of the present high moral
standard among Penn State students.
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Pullman Porters Skeered of College
Professor’s Luggage.
Pullman porters steer clear of Pro-
fessor George R. Green, head of the
nature study department of the Penn-
sylvania State College. = They never
know when his luggage may contain a
fine collection of live snakes, lizards,
horned toads or other wild life speci-
mens. Each week Professor Green
' goes to Philadelphia and West Chester,
Wilkes-Barre and Scranton to conduct
his courses in nature study attended
by 350 public school teachers of those
cities. When he boards the train at
Philadelphia, he totes his own bag—-
for porters know his “sample case.”
A few days ago Professor Green,
who is president of the American
Nature Study Society, took ten varie-
ties of snakes, including a rattler and
a copperhead, in a suitcase to Cleve-
land to illustrate his lecture to the
Natural History Society of that city.
Needless to say he, “carried his own.”
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— Bellefonte people will miss the
big Hallow-een carnival this year
heretofore held by the Bellefonte
Lodge of Elks, but they were probably
justified in giving it up, as the inter-
est taken the past two years was flag-
ging. However, those who trip the
light fantastic will be able to enjoy
themselves at the masked dance to be
held in the armory next Monday even-
ing. Good music is assured.
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—~Subsecribe for the Watchman.
penitentiary in February, 1924.
day and help send a man to Harris-
burg who has no desire to “sit up
front” with such bosses as Vare and
Grundy.
Vote for William I. Betts next Tues- ;
Vote for A. Curtin Thompson next
Tuesday and help send a man to rep-
next General Assembly.
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—John Knox, the eldest son of the Rev.
and Mrs. Homer C. Knox, was here from
Harrisburg for one of his occasional over-
Sunday visits home.
—Dr. and Mrs. Fred R. Seidel were over
from Hazleton for the game on Saturday,
remaining until Sunday for a visit with
Mrs. Seidel’s parents Mr. and Mrs. J. Wil-
lard Barnhart.
—Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bible, of Philadel-
phia, were in Bellefonte for a week-end
visit with the Bible family here and dur-
ing their stay were house guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Blair.
—Mrs. W. A. Odenkirk and her daugh-
ter Helen were among the county visitors
to Bellefonte, Tuesday, having driven over
from Centre Hall to spend several hours
with the dentist and in the shops.
—Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Schaeffer and
their daughter LaRue, with Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Hess, of State College, as driving
guests, motored to Philadelphia a week
ago to spend several days at the Sesqui.
—Mr. and Mrs. W. Harrison Walker and
their two daughters are members of the
big party of Bellefonters who have taken
advantage of the children’s vacation week
to see the Sesqui together. The Walker
family drove down to Philadelphia on Sun-
day.
—Mr. and Mrs. Van Jodon are among
the motorists from Bellefonte who have
recently been in Philadelphia. Mr. and
Mrs. Jodon drove down last Wednesday to
spend the after part of the week at the
Sesqui and in looking after some railroad
business.
—While here attending institute this
week, Miss Louise Hoffer, has been a guest
of her aunt, Mrs. R. G. H. Hayes, at her
apartments in the Hayes building. Since
leaving Bellefonte two years ago,” Miss
Hoffer has taught in the schools of Phil-
ipsburg.
or -
—Miss M. Touise McClintic was over
from Lewistown, Sunday, for an over
night visit with her mother, Mrs. Keller-
man. Mrs. MecClintic’s daughter having
been married last week her entire time
now will be devoted to her work at the
Dr. Black sanitorium.
—Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Smith drove to !
Wilkinsburg to spend the week-end with
Mr. Smith's daughter, Miss Nellie, assist-
ant superintendent at Columbia hospital,
who is now convilescing from an opera-
tion for appendicitis. Miss Smith will
come to Bellefonte as soon as able to be
at home until resuming her work.
—Mrs. Thomas A. Shoemaker and Mrs.
Merriman will return to Bellefonte to-day,
after spending a part of the summer and
fall with Mrs. Merriman’s daughter, Mrs.
© oe et the summer home at Jamestown,
SYRACUSE DEFEATED PENN
STATE ON HOME COMING
DAY.
Before a crowd of fifteen thousand
people on Beaver field, State College,
on Saturday, the powerful Syracuse
eleven defeated the Penn State foot-
ball team 10 to 0. The visitors out-
weighed the Nittany lions and had the
best of the game all through, and the
only wonder is that the score was not
larger. State, however, put up a
plucky fight and thus averted an over-
whelming score.
While it was apparent to every one
of the spectators that Syracuse was
the stronger team it was gratifying to
the State rooters that when the blue
and white was pushed back to the
shadows of her goal posts she stiffened,
so that the big orange gridders crossed
the line only once, when their mid-
field offense indicated that they ought
to have done it at will. In fact, State
might have pulled a tie out of what at
first looked like it might become a
repetition of the Notre Dame disaster.
Syracuse’s only touchdown came after
State had an opportunity of kicking
the ball out of danger. And her field
goal in the closing moments of the
game was wholly the result of poor
generalship on the part of whoever
was calling her plays at the time.
With less than a minute to play and
her own goal in danger, instead of
again punting out of danger she re-
sorted to a play that gave Syracuse
the ball on her own fifteen yard line
and the goal from placement resulted.
State’s defense was surprising in-
side her own thirty yard line but seem-
ed weak onthe rest of the field. She
completed several beautiful forward
passes but her line and end plays were
quickly smeared by the visitors. In
every pile up it was noticeable that
the blue jerseys were on top of the
resent you and not the machine in the
this Section.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
By Rev. L. M. Colefelt, D. D.
At the Home Coming Service in Ox-
ford Presbyterian church, Philadel-
phia, November 23, 1924, at which I
preached the sermon in my 75th year,
which.was published in pamphlet form
and concerning which I received flat-
tering comments and appreciative let-
ters from Hon. George S. Graham,
Ex-Governor Stuart, Mayor Kendrick,
President Coolidge and many others;
Miss Janney, a teacher of great merit
‘|in Bryn Mawr, said to me, “You ought
to write your Biography.” The idea
never before entered my head and
now for better or worse, at Miss Jan-
ney’s suggestion, on this first day of
September, 1926, I proceed to trans-
mute the idea into reality, praying
that I may have the courage to re-
gor] my history in candor and exact
truth.
FORE-ELDERS.
i My ancestry was neither mean nor
grand but not unworthy. The re-
i mote grandfather of my mother was
| William Bates, mentioned by Samuel
| Pepys in his Diary as the “Silver-
| tongued” and distinguished minister
'of a London church and who figured
| conspicuously as one of the most
learned of the divines who composed
the Westminster Assembly and fram-
‘ed the Westminster-Confession. An-
| other fore-elder of my mother was a
captain under Sir Francis Drake and
with him, circumnavigated the globe.
He laid the bases of the fortunes of
the family in grants of lands in Amer-
ica for services rendered his country,
and in the silver received as his share
of prize money from booty taken
from Spanish galleons. My mother
even to her day remembered chests
{of silver in her home from which her
i father would take handfuls for house-
hold needs. Large grants of land
were made by the English Crown to
this naval ancestor in the Genessee
Valley, New York; on the site of Cin-
cinatti, Ohio; and in Mifflin County,
Pennsylvania. He chose to be one of
the oldest pioneer families in the
beautiful Kishacoquillas Valley of
Pennsylvania. The history of the
family in that region is replete with
stirring incidents associated with
that adventurous period. My mother
often told that her father in the early
days could not eat with the family but
sat at the door, rifle in hand and two
great English blood-hounds at his
side. Long visable in the home of my
childhood was a tomahawk thrown
by an Indian at my mother’s aunt
when in the garden. Running scream-
ing toward the house, the bloodhounds
responded te her cries and the Indian
hurled his tomahawk at her, but miss-
ed and as the hounds came baying
fiercely he did not tarry to recover the
weapon but leaped the fence and
bounded away into the mountains.
[An incident of those perilous times
for the pioneers related by my moth-
er sunk deep into my childhood recol-
lections. In an Indian foray, a band
swept down upon and ran amuck
through the small settlement. Pur-
sued by the whites, they beat a hasty
retreat, but an Indian, riding for life,
stooped from the saddle and plucked
orange which indicated that Syracuse
was charging and tackling low while
THE ACADEMY. |
Up at Syracuse, on Saturday after-
feated by the Bellefonte Academy i
eleven 21 to 0. Capt. Hood scored the !
first touchdown in the first quarter |
and shortly after was taken out of the
game on account of injuries. Wwil- |
Troe iwgvg
DEAT rams. om
R. I, and later at Yonkers, nN, a.
Merriman will be in Bellefonte with her
daughter, Mrs. John Blanchard, for the
winter.
—Miss Marion Seigfried an instructor
in the North Philpsburg schools, accomp-
anied by Miss Rosella James in charge of
the Point Lookout school and Miss Hilda
Spittler of the Southside Philipsburg
school were among the teachers who visit-
ed the Watchman office during the week.
Miss Seigfried has made this call at this
time for a number of years but told us
this would be her last Institute, although
she looked very conscious she would not
admit the exact reason. |
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“The Quarterback,” at Moose Theatre, |
as High School Benefit.
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“The Quarterback,” a corking col-
lege football comedy, will be shown |
on the screen at the Moose Temple
theatre next Thursday and Friday as ;
a benefit for the Bellefonte High
school athletic association. “The |
Quarterback,” featuring Richard Dix, |
is the first picture in which a serious
effort was made to reproduce football
as a reality. The football scenes were
directed by that nationally famous
coach, “Hurry Up” Yost, of Michigan,
while real football stars figure in the
lineup. Included in the number are
Williams, of Lafayette, Bomar, all-
American end; McBride, of Syracuse,
a former Bellefonte Academy star;
Carner, of the Navy, and others equal-
ly as well known, while Dix, himself,
was no slouch on the gridiron.
Pretty Esther Ralston adds her ar-
tistic touch in making the story in-
teresting as well as amusing. The
picture is a recent release and mana-
gers Brown and Toner display consid-
erable generosity in securing it as a
High school benefit.
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——A little daughter who has been
named Edith Harris, for its maternal
grandmother, was born Sunday to Mr.
and Mrs. Gail Chaney at Toledo,
Ohio. The little Miss is Mr. and Mrs.
Chaney’s only daughter but second
child.
—Type is important in the selection
la seventy yard run for a touchdown.
| In the second period Heverly also
liams and Kozicki were also taken out |
“*~ fret neriod because of injuries.
Ul WIS saan.
The weakened Academy team was un-
able to get under way again until the
fourth period when Schnupp recovered
a blocked punt and ran five yards for
a touchdown. A few minutes later
Gaudette ran forty-five yards for the
third and last touchdown.
BELLEFONTE HIGH ALSO WINS.
Out on Hughes field, on Friday af-
ternoon, the Bellefonte High school
football team defeated the Catholic
High, of Altoona, by the score of 46
to 0. Several weeks ago the High
school defeated Altoona High 27 to 0.
In Friday’s game the locals scored in
every period. In the first Katz made!
scored a touchdown after a seventy
yard run while in the third period
Katz made another touchdown after
a thirty yard run. In fact Bellefonte
outplayed their opponents at every
stage of the game.
Earthquake in Armenia Very Serious.
Miss Mary H. Linn, Centre county
chairman for the Near East relief, on
Tuesday received the following tele-
gram from G. E. Silloway, regional
director of Pennsylvania for the Near
East relief, depicting conditions in
Armenia as the result of the recent
earthquakes:
Miss Mary Linn, Bellefonte.
Earthquake in Armenia very ser-
ious. Alexandrapol, Karakala and vil-
i lages reported destroyed. Hundreds
killed. American Near East workers
rescuing injured from ruins. Several
thousand orphans alive because Amer-
icans evacuated buildings at first
warning. Children now out doors.
Within thirty days zero weather. Deep
snows expected. Children cannot
sleep in snow and live. Large sums
needed immediately for repair orphan-
age buildings and restoring orphan-
age child welfare program. Com-
munity chests many appropriate sums
out of emergency funds. Situation
very serious. Can Centre county do
anything to help this special emer-
gency ?
: G. BE. SILLOWAY.
of dairy cows, but it cannot take the
place of the milk scales and Babcock
test. :
Contributions to this worthy cause
should be sent without delay to
our boys were up in the air. !
SYRACUSE FRESHMEN DEFEATED BY in the far west. When the wars were |
horseback with saauicvags, os
from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia to |
the crazy quilts much affected
from the ground a lad, son of a neigh-
bor, McKnight, I think, by name. The
lad cried out, “Dad, they have got
me.” He was carried into captivity
ended and the rendition of the prison-
ers took place, this lad, grown to man- |
noon, the Syracuse Freshmen were de- | 100d, no longer could be recognized ' i :
{by his parents. But there was a horse Who survives with a son and daughter,
on the farm which had been given the |
child and when his eyes lighted on the |
animal he cried out his name and the :
indentification was assured. |
My grandmother’s brother was Dr.
McMillan, founder of Jefferson Col-
lege and my mother related how he !
frequently arrived at her home on |
De. ~n route !
~an
Synod. In such repute was he as a
preacher that the neighbors would ,
not suffer him to depart until he gave
them a sermon for which service the |
colonists were notified, even on a
weekday, and collected from far and |
wide. My mother was daintily
brought up by an aunt who left her
a fortune and would not permit her
to do housework until she was mar-
ried in her 26th year, though after-
ward she became a competent and
ideal housewife. She spent her girl-
hood doing fancy work, especially
in |
those times, a half dozen equisite
specimens surviving the usage of one :
hundred years. Her diversion was’
riding horseback and visiting friends
in Mifflin and adjoining counties.
granite type of the long ago who
built themselves four-square upon the
Bible and did not simply read the
Bible but “ate the Book.” She was
wise to an almost uncanny degree and
though I mingled with the world on
my active scale and was acquainted
with learning, history science poli-
tics and practical affairs, I never
visited her in later years in her re-
tired rural home without finding on
all occasions that while I might per-
sonify Knowledge, she personified
Wisdom. Withal she was so gentle
the young all loved her, so optimistic
that she never repined what time the
slugs and arrows of outrageous for-
tune betided, but met the most terri-
ble shocks of sorrow with a calm and
equal mind bottoming her soul upon
the Eternal Will. She never nagged
her children nor criticized faults, but
encouraged and praised the good.
Undemonstrative in affection nor
grief, I never saw her agitated or
excited in my life. She had a prodig-
ious memory and could repeat ver-
batim the 1600 questions of West-
minister Larger Catechism when 9
years old. When I was born she call-
ed me after her minister, Rev. Law-
rence and her doctor, Dr. McClay,
both of Milroy, Pa., and at no time of
my boyhood was I under any impres-
sion than that when I grew up I
would be a minister though my moth-
er never sought in anyway to guide
or influence my choice. On one occa-
sion when my mother was very ill
| Charles M. McCurdy, Bellefonte.
with pneumonia in her 62nd year at
When the Indians Infested
My mother was a Christian of that
her home near Winchester, Va., I
went home as I always did to nurse
her. At that time on account of a 4
years sickness from spinal trouble
from being thrown from a horse, I
was seriously thinking of demitting
the ministry and taking up a calling
less exacting upon the nervous sys-
tem. As I sat in her sick chamber in
a remote corner of the room, the light
turned low, I heard her speaking as
if quite unconscious of my presence.
Listening with acute attention, I heard
her praying, the first and only time
I ever heard the words of her suppli-
cations and they sounded like the
words of a prophetess of old. Among
other things, “Lord, you know that I
dedicated my son, Lawrence to thine
Altars in the womb and made a pre-
natal compact with Thee that he was
to be thine for sacred uses and that
Thou wast to uphold him with the
right hand of Thy power. Lord, I
demand of Thee to keep Thy bargain
now and not permit him to give up
the Ministry.” I satback there in the
gloaming of that sick room, from
which I feared my mother would not
emerge living, almost paralyzed with
the eeriness of it all and inexpress-
ibly moved by this late revelation of
my mothers’ predilections for me and
the secret influences that had govern-
ed all our relations as mother and
son. Henry Ward Beecher said his
mother had vowed all her sons to the
ministry. All chose the profession
but the youngest who, like Jonah,
took to the sea but by a path he knew
not he was brought back and at that
time some inward compulsion had
drawn the wanderer into the ministry.
I relate these sacred memories to en-
courage all mothers in the certainty
that “Prayer availeth much,” and I
have been thus prolix regarding my
mother for the purpose of recording
the solemn conviction that the might-
iest power in my life, inclining me to
good and restraining me from evil,
that indeed all that I have ever been
or will be, is owing to my mother, and
somehow to this hour I feel that the
goed gifts of life showered upon me,
all adversity from which I have been
so wonderfully delivered is not be-
cause of any desert of my own but be-
cause of the mediations of my mother
to the Throne of God.
Philipsburg Man Drowned in Cold
Stream.
Matthew Francis Gowland, a well
known resident of Philipsburg, was
accidentally drowned in Cold Stream,
between Philipsburg and Morrisdale
on Monday or Tuesday of last week.
His body was found in the stream late
on Tuesday afternoon. Gowland had
been seen on Monday evening and as
there was no evidence of foul play it
is believed that he was walking the
railroad from Philipsburg to Morris-
dale and accidentally fell from the
bridge into the stream. The water at
that place is quite deep and with no
help at hand he probably was unable
to save himself.
The unfortunate man was a son of
John and Alice Gowland and was born
in Philipsburg on December 4th, 1870,
hence was in his fifty-sixth year. His
father during his life was one of the
most prominent business men of Phil-
ipsburg, being the owner of a large
foundry and serving several terms as
; postmaster. When a young man Mat-
: thew Gowland learned the trade of a
; machinist an occupation he followed
"all his life.
He married Miss Bessie Radcliffe
John Gowland and Mrs. Wilbur Sny-
der, both of Philipsburg. He also
leaves his mother and one sister, Mrs.
Fred Siebert, both of Kansas City, Mo.
Funeral services were held on Fri-
day morning by Rev: F. T. Eastment,
burial being made in the Philipsburg
cemetery.
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Bog Doings in Berough of Moward
Tomorrow.
The borough of Howard is one town
in Centre county that will be in the
limelight tomorrow, Saturday. At ten
o’clock in the morning the county con=
ference of woman’s clubs will convene
in the new school building. The So-
cial club, the Civic club and the
Thimble club will be hostesses of the
gathering.
At three o'clock in the afternoon
there will be a football game between
the Howard and Avis High schools.
An exciting contest is anticipated, as
both teams have been playing a good
me.
But what is believed will be the
greatest feature of the day will be the
Hallow-een Mummer’s parade to be
‘held at 7.30 o'clock in the evening.
Seven prizes have been offered by the
' business men of the town for the best
costumes and floats. A five dollar chest.
of soap will be given for the best in-
, dividual feature in the parade. First
| and second prizes will be awarded for
| best floats, most original and comic
costumes. Prizes will also be awarded
to the tallest person in the parade,
the shortest, the thinnest, the fattest,
, the biggest bald-headed man, the poor-
est, and the largest family. Every-
body is eligible to enter the parade.
Competent judges will award the
prizes.
Following the parade a masked
party and box social will be held in
the old school building, which will
wind up the day’s festivities.
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| Shive—Rader.—Harry Wesley
' Shive, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ethan Al-
| len Shive, of Snow Shoe, and Miss
Leona Martha Rader, daughter of Mr.
'and Mrs. Michael Rader, of Drifting,
were married in St. Severin’s Catho-
| lic church, at Drifting, Wednesday
| morning of last week, by the pastor,
Rev. Father Charles A. Abt. The
young couple will reside at Snow Shoe
“where the bridegroom is employed as
an auto mechanic in a garage.