Bellefonte, Pa. January 14, 1927.
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Centre County Bank Case Has Excit-
ing Day in Court.
The court house was crowded with
spectators, Tuesday morning, when
the regular term of argument court
was opened.
It is unusual for more than the
attorneys interested to be present at a
session of argument court, so that the
spectator who followed the crowd into
the court room sensed some unexpect-
ed development. It came almost the
moment court opened for the regular
argument list, when Ivan Walker Ecq.
arose to present a petition to have
Judge Keller rescind a decree he had
made last Saturday.
As the lawyers would say, this is
the history of the case:
Ivan Walker Esq. is trustee in
bankruptcy for Mary C. Harris. He
has converted her assets into cash and
is ready to make distribution thereof.
He had notified M. Ward Fleming
Esq., of his desire to make such dis-
tribution directly to the creditors of
the bank and the latter had set Tues-
day, Jan. 11th, as the date when any
one objecting to Mr. Walker's con-
temptated procedure could present
such objections.
Rev. Reed O. Steely, John S. Ginter
and John S. Dale are the receivers of
the Centre County Banking Company.
Appointed by the Centre County Court
in consequence of a petition, which
Spangler and Walker favored, after
the federal courts had ruled that none
of the proceedings in this case up to
that time had a leg in law to stand on
and. some authority had to step in to
unravel the muddled situation. These
receivers are responsible to the Court
of Centre county and to the creditors
of the Centre County Banking Com-
pany for all of the assets of the de-
funct ' banking company.’ To safe-
guard themselves against this respon-
sibility two of them petitioned the
Court that had created them, and to
which they are responsible, for
“authority” to file exceptions in
the Federal court to Mr. Walker's
contemplated action. This
done Saturday and the local
Court’ (Judge Keller) granted that
authority. It might not have been
necessary at all. But whether it was
.or wasn't Judge Keller granted it.
Rev, Steely was not a party to the Lock
action.
Then Spangler and Walker pre-
pared a petition to the Centre County
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was '
the opportunity.
any action that might be brought
against them in consequence of a dis-
tribution made by Mr. Walker di-
rectly.
The hub-bub gained fury because of
the fact that there would be a duplica-
tion of charges for the distribution.
Mr. Walker is entitled to a certain
percent of the amount he has han-
dled as trustee for Mrs. Harris. If
he turns it over to the trustees of the
Banking Company they will be en-
titled to a certain per cent for distrib-
uting it. It does seem improper that
there should be two fees for doing
the same work, and whether the re-
ceivers for the Banking Company have
that thought in mind we are not pre-
pared to say. Just as we are not pre-
pared to say what Mr. Walker would
have done had he been the receiver of
the Banking Company, as was expect-
ed when the petition was presented to
Judge Dale in October, 1925, of which
he had knowledge. He was then the
trustee of Mrs. Harris, just as he is
today. Had he been appointed re-
ceiver, also, of the banking company
he would have been entitled, legally,
to fees for settling her account and
turning it over to himself as receiver
of the banking company and then
fees for distributing it among the
creditors of the bank as their re-
ceiver.
Inasmuch as the legal fees in this
phase of the case, so far revealed,
already amount to $10,911.84 it ap-
pears that one crowd is about as
eager to grab as it charges the other
with intentions of doing.
Local Broadcasting Arouses Much
Interest.
Station WKBG that has been broad-
casting from the stage of the Moose
theatre in this place all week has
aroused great interest, especially
among radio fans.
The wave length, 215, has been such
that most anyone could tune in and
the reception have been most satisfac-
tory.
Good programs are put on the air
each night from 8:30 to 9.15 and from
10 until all the volunteer talent has
had its turn before the “Mike.” Every
body who has anything by way of en-
tertainment to offer has been given
Music, voice and
instrumental, oratory, sermonets and
everything of interest has been gath-
ered to keep the air full of doings
during the scheduled program.
The theatre stage is connected with
telephone service and after each num-
ber those who have been listening in
call 505 to express their appreciation.
Really it is very interesting.
On Sunday night the church choirs
of the town sang. Revs. Thena,
Arnold and Knox gave outlines of
their eyening sermons and the pro-
gram had not been concluded when
Miss Esther Johnson, of Bellefonte,
who was out in Ohio at the time,
called 505 that they were receiving
and enjoying the program very much
out there.
Programs will go on tonight and to-
morrow night and there will also be
feature films between the broadcasting
periods.
It is entertainment worth seeing.
Hayen People Injured in Auto
‘Accident.
“Dead Man's Curve,” on the Nittany
court, praying that it rescind its action valley highway about midway between
of last Saturday and this petition is | Bellefonte and Lock Haven, was the
what caused all the hub-bub at Tues- | Scene of another automobile accident,
day morning’s argument court.
on Sunday night, in which four peo-
ple were injured, all residents of Lock
Taking up the story where we Haven, In the car were Dr. and Murs.
dropped it to state the history of the G. D. Mervine, Mr. and Mrs. R. J.
present case Mr. Walker opened the Moquin and Mrs Cecil Wright. They
argument on the petition to rescind.
He became quite vehement,
were on their way home from attend-
and ing a Kiwanis convention in Pitts-
aroused the applause of the audience. burgh. Ice on the windshield of the
He charged the receivers with laxity car and a heavy fog prevented the
for not having acted with more dis-'
patch in the involved affairs of the
banking company, of which they have
been in harried charge for only a
year, but that sounds like stones cast
by one living in a glass house for Mr.
Walker as trustee of a bankrupt whose
assets could have been converted into
cash in thirty days had taken several
vears for the job. He wound up by as-
serting that he was fighting for an
immediate distribution. That brought
applause from the gallery and the
positive declaration from the Court
that it would stand by its decree of
Saturday that gives the receivers—
whether they needed it or not—“au-
thority” to go before the Federal court
and question the right of Walker to
make distribution to creditors to whom
his responsibility is doubtful and
theii’s certain.
Then Mr. Fleming, representing
the Federal court as district referee
in bankruptcy, convened his court in
the law library of the court house
and directed that Mr. Walker go ahead
with his plans to distribute directly
and set tomorrow, Saturday, as the
date that Judge Dale, who represented
the receivers in the morning’s action,
should file their exceptions to his
ruling before the District Federal
court, Judge Albert W. Johnson pre-
siding.
The whole procedure seents to have
been a tempest in a tea pot. From
some source the story was ‘spread
that Judge Keller’s decree of Saturday
directed Mr. Walker to turn over the
funds he has in hand to the present
receivers. It did nothing of the sort.
As we have said before, it merely
gave the receivers “authority” to go
into the Federal court and ask why
they should not be turned over to
driver of the car from seeing the curve
in the road until too late to make the
turn with the result that the car ran
into the ditch and overturned. Mus.
Mervine sustained a broken arm, Mr.
and Mrs. Moquin cuts and bruises
and Mrs. Cecil Wright chest injuries.
Dr. Mervine escaped with a shaking
up. The injured were taken to the
Lock Haven hospital.
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Memorials to the Late John P., and
Mary Scott Harris.
At the regular meeting of the trus-
tees of. the Centre County hospital,
last Monday evening, it was revealed
that through the wills of the late
John P. Harris, the well known Belle-
fonte banker, and his wife, Mary Scott
Harris, a bequest of $500 has been
made the institution as a permanent
endowment fund for the W. C. T. U.
room in that institution. Mrs. Harris
was a pioneer in the temperance cause
and Peirikin hall is one of the monu-
ments that stand here ‘as memorials
to her devotion to it.
Among other bequests made by
Mr. and Mrs. Harris are $250 to the
aged ministers of the Presbyterian
church, $100 to the Temperance so-
ciety of the Presbyterian church and
$100 to the Bellefonte W. C. T. U.
——Word has been received at
Rockview penitentiary that John
Shultz, who made his escape last
July, has been located in prison at
Moundsville, W. Va., where he is
under sentence from two and a half
to five years for highway robbery.
Penitentiary officials will lodge a de-
tainer against him and when his time
is up there he will be brought back to
Centre county to answer to the charge
of breaking and escaping.
them for distribution. It also was!
their safeguard against liability for | years the leading merchant in Storms-.
BURKET.—Ira G. Burket, for many
town, died in the Blair county hospital
at noon, on Monday, as the result
of a general decline in health. He
had been ill for some months and
several weeks ago had been taken tc
Hollidaysburg for treatment.
He was a son of Porter W. and
Henrietta Gray Burket and was born
at Stormstown, being 64 years, 9
months and 3 days old. Practically
his entire life was spent at the place
of his birth where he owned and oper-
ated a general mercantile store. He
was a Republican in politics and in
1915 was the party candidate for pro-
thonotary but was defeated by D. R.
Foreman, the Democratic nominee. In
1923 he was again a candidate for the
nomination for prothonotary but was
defeated at the primaries by Roy
Wilkinson. He was a member of
Gray’s Methodist church, the Belle-
fonte lodge of Elks and the Bellefonte
Masonic fraternity.
He married Miss Ophelia Biddle
who survives with three children,
Harry, of Warriorsmark; Paul and
Mrs. Helen Grossman, of Cleveland,
Ohio. He also leaves two brothers,
Dr. F. S. and John I. Burket, both of
Cleveland
Funeral services were held yester-
day afternoon at the Harry Burket
home, at Warriorsmark, by Rev. H. F.
Babcock, of Lewisburg, and Rev.
Fasic, of Warriorsmark, after which
burial was made in Gray’s cemetery.
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GROVE.—Mrs. Clara Grove, wife
of Howard S. Grove, died at her home
at Centre Hall on Tuesday of last
week, following several year’s illness.
She was a daughter of John and
Christina Custard Kreamer and was
born near Pine Grove Mills on Oc-
tober 13th, 1860, making her age 66
years, 2 months and 21 days. On
Christmas day, 1884, she married Mr.
Grove and they began housekeeping
in Bellefonte. Fourteen years ago
Mr. Grove purchased the Rishel farm,
at the Stone mill, in Pennsvalley, and
the family lived there six years then
moved to Centre Hall. Mrs. Grove
had been a member of the Lutheran
church the past thirty years.
In addition to her husband she is
survived by the following children:
Herbert F. Grove, of Centre Hall;
Clarence, of Bellefonte; Earl J., of Al-
toona; Samuel, Chester W., Alfred
and Ruth, at home; Mrs. Irvin Me-
Clellan and Mrs. Paul Lingle, of Pot-
ters Mills. She also leaves these
brothers and sisters, B. F. Kreamer,
of Tusseyville; William, of Altoona,
Mrs. Mary Hoy, Mrs. David Tressler,
Mrs. Elsie Corl, Jacob, John A. and
Samuel Kreamer, of State College;
Franklin, of Tusseyville, and Mrs.
Frank Lohr, of Pleasant Gap.
Rev. S. F. Greenhoe had charge of
the funeral services which were held
on Friday afternoon, burial beilg
made in the Centre Hall cemetery.
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MILES.—Linden, son
and Blanche Eberts Miles, of Martha,
died in the hospital at Renovo on Wed-
nesday, January 5. :
The young man had been working
for the Miller Construction Co., which O'Hanlon, of State College;
has a highway contract in the vicinity | Father William Downes, of Bellefonte;
of John B.1
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HOSTERMAN.—Mrs. Nora Hoster-
man, widow of W. L. Hosterman, died
at her home at Coburn on Tuesday of
last week following several months
illness with diabetes. She was a
daughter of Emanuel and Catherine
Kerstetter and was born at Coburn
on February 12th, 1875, making her
age bl years, 10 months and 22 days.
Her husband died fourteen years ago
but surviving her are one son, C.
Stuart Hosterman, at home, and the
following brothers and sisters: Eliz-
abeth Kerstetter, Mrs. Reese Auman,
Mrs. L. L. Weaver and Mrs. Frank
Miller, all of near Millheim; Charles,
of Montgomery; Paul, of Sunbury;
Mrs. Paul Stover, of Dauphin; Mrs.
W. T. Corman and Mrs. J. M. Lynn,
of Coburn.
She was a member of the Coburn
Evangelical church and Rev H. C.
Klepfel had charge of the funeral
services which were held last Friday
morning, burial being made in the
Millheim cemetery.
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RUNKLE.— Mrs, Rosetta Runkie,
widow of James W. Runkle, died at
her home in Centre Hall on December
28 as the result of a stroke of apo-
| plexy. She was a daughter of Peter
‘and Catherine Grove Breon and was
born in Georges valley, being 76
years, 3 months and 29 days old. Her
husband died about six months ago
but surviving her is one daughter,
Miss Laura Runkle. Burial was made
'in the Centre Hall cemetery on De-
cember 31st.
Mrs. Runkle had been a member
of the Lutheran church from girl-
hood and was a woman of many kindly
impulses with an especial love and
thoughtfulness for children. Though
i she had been in delicate health for a
number of years she always mani-
fested great interest in the boys and
girls who came under her observation
and her going will be a distinct loss
ito the young generation of Centre
Hall.
Catholic Daughters of America will
Install Officers January 23rd.
The recently elected officers of
Patrick McArdle Court No. 448,
Catholic Daughters of America, will
be installed on Sunday afternoon,
January 23rd, at 8.30 o’clock, at which
time the seventh anniversary of the
Court will also be celebrated. Mrs. D.
E. Finnegan, of Altoona, district
deputy, will be the officer in charge
and the officers to be installed are as
follows:
Grand regent, Mrs. Odillie Mott;
vice grand regent, Mrs. Mary Waite;
prophetess, Mrs. Stella Hogentogler;
lecturer, Mrs. Mary Rogers; historian,
Miss Elizabeth Saylor; financial sec-
retary, Mrs. Marv Gray; treasurer,
Mrs. Ada Beezcr; monitor, Miss
Cecelia Moerschbacher; sentinel, Miss
Mary Cooney; organist, Mrs. Ethel
Carpeneto; trustees, Mrs. Margaret
Gross and Miss Abbie Kelly.
A program of vocal and instrumen-
tal music will be furnished during the
social hour, when refreshments will
be served. Among the guests who
will be present will be Rev. B. A.
Rev.
of Renovo, and having caught a bad Miss Frances Mahr, State regent, of
cold, was taken to the hospital, when ! rie; Miss Anna Fowler, district
pneumonia developed and his death ; 4€Puty, of Lock Haven, and also the
ensued.
He was born at Martha twenty-one
years ago and had spent practically
all of his life there. When his last
employers were building the Bald
Eagle Valley road he joined their
forces and worked with such fidelity
and intelligence that he was taken
with the organization when it was
moved to distant points.
He is survived by his parents and
two brothers: John W., and Morrell.
He was a member of the Baptist
church and Rev. Forgeus, of Hunting-
don, officiated at the funeral, which
was held at the parental home at
Martha last Sunday at 1.30 o’clock.
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SPROW.—Mrs. Louise Sprow, wid-
ow of Edward E. Sprow, died at her
home in Altoona on Saturday after-
noon following a brief illness with an
affection of the heart. Her maiden
name was Louise Heaton and she was
born at Howard, Centre county, on
September 14th, 1884, hence was 42
years, 3 months and 25 days old. Her
husband died seventeen years ago but
surviving her are four children, Ches-
ter, Margaret, Donald and Mrs. Wil-
liam A. McConnell, all of Altoona.
She also leaves the following brothers
and sisters: Enoch Heaton, of Renovo;
Hensyl Heaton, of Mt. Vernon, Va.;
William A., of Mago, Va.; Mrs. Ed-
ward Miles, of Tyrone, and Mrs. W.
E. Pearl, of Williamsport. The re-
mains were taken te Unionville, on
Tuesday, where funeral services were
held and burial made.
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CRAIN.—Abednego Crain, a native
of Bald Eagle valley and a veteran of
the Civil war, died last Wednesday
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wil-
liam Sankey, at Osceola Mills, as the
result of general infirmities, aged 87
years, 2 months and 26 days. His
boyhood life was spent in Bald Eagle
valley but after he grew to manhood
he moved to Clearfield county, near
Osceola Mills, where he engaged in
farming, an occupation he followed
the greater part of his life. On leav-
ing the farm he moved to Osceola
Mills. During the Civil war he
served in Company E, 149th regiment,
and was a brave and gallant soldier.
His wife died two years ago but sur-
viving him are six children. Burial
was made in the Umbria cemetery, at
Osceola Mills, last Friday.
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member of the Court will receive Holy '
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national vice regent.
At the eight o'clock mass every
Communion.
Fire on Saturday Damaged Lock Hay-
en Express Plant.
The plant of the Lock Haven Ex-
press was threatened with destruction
I by fire, on Saturday morning, when
a blaze originated in the mailing room
of the paper. Employees on the sec-
ond floor of the building were cut off
from the lower floor when the fire
‘made a chimney out of the stairway
but all got out safely by using the
freight elevator. Considerable stock
and job type in cases were stored in
the room. The type was all melted by
the heat and the stock badly damaged.
The fire, however, did not interfere
with the publication of the paper,
which came out on time. The loss is
estimated at two thousand dollars,
mostly covered by insurance.
Lucian McGinley, seventy-five
years old, of Milesburg, was run down
last Saturday evening by a car driven
by J. Thompson Henry, of Marthg.
Mr. McGinley was walking on the
road just north west of the Milesburg
bridge as Mr. Henry came along on
his way home from Milesburg. Owing
to the sharp curve in the road there
the latter did not see Mr. McGinley
until he was too close to avoid hitting
him. He was knocked down and
pushed along the road until the car
could be stopped. He sustained sev- i
eral fractured ribs but so far no in-
ternal injuries have developed.
It cost $189,276.34 to run Cen-
tre county during 1926. This is $14,-
663.05 in excess of the expenditures
for 1925. The increase was due to
unusual expenditures on bridges and
right of way necessary for the new
highway up Bald Eagle valley. In
addition to these the Commissioners
were compelled to take over two toll
roads in Brush valley and paid off
short term notes in excess of $5000.00.
Real winter weather has pre-
vailed during the past week, the ther-
mometer en Sunday morning going
down to ten degrees below zero. And
at no time during the day has it gone
up to the freezing point.
Bellefonte Quarry Expert Has Devel-
oped Big Plant in West Virginia.
Everybody in this community should
be interested in limestone because
next to the agricultural products of
our fertile valleys limestone is the
greatest present and future natural
wealth producing resource we have.
The iron ore deposits at Gatesburg,
Scotia, “Nigh,” Lamborne, Blair and
other banks in the county are all
worked out or so nearly exhausted as
to be unprofitable in competition with
the“Lake ores.” Coal, we have a
plenty if we consider the “A” seam,
but as it is ninety feet in the ground
and of inferior quality its value is
problematical, especially during the
time the Western Pennsylvania and
Virginia coals hold cut. Our forests
are denuded, so that we have no ap-
preciable lumber to market and all
that we have left of nature’s gifts are
productive soil and limestone enough
to keep all the furnaces in the land
in flux, all the concrete mixers mix-
ing and all the ballast rail-roads could
need for a hundred years and more.
Centre County isn’t the only place
where limestone formations are found,
however. It is the place where the
stone runs low in silica and high in
calcium. That quality makes its pro-
duct valuable as furnace flux, but its
lime while much sought in chemical
manufactures, and agricultural uses,
is rather handicapped in the building
trades in large cities because Centre
county lime is hot-slake, whereas in
most larger building enterprises “cold-
slake” lime is preferred.
We have before us a copy of the De-
cember issue of “The Explosive En-
gineer,” a magazine devoted to the
science of blasting of every sort, and
the use of explosives. In a very in-
teresting illustrated article C. J. Bur-
ton describes the blasting in quarries
by well-drill charges and “Coyote”
shots. For the purpose of his de-
scription he took the quarry of the
Greer Limestone Co., at Greer, W. Va.
It so happens that “Dave” Kelly, who
learned his stuff in the quarries of
the American Lime and Stone Co.,
here is in charge of the Greer oper-
ations and that fact added more to
our interest in Mr. Burton's story. In
it he refers to Mr. Kelley as follows:
“Later D. J. Kelley took charge
of the plant and quarry operations,
bringing the production up to 1000
tons a day by installing additional
modern equipment and improving
methods. He now has six Jack-
hammers, one tripod, one Denver
and one Sanderson well drill, a Sul-
livan compressor, two Osgood and
one Theu steam shovels, and four
Porter steam locomotives.”
One of the illustrations of the oper-
ation reveals Dave on the job. He
looks like a working man and he must
be one, else how could he have brought
that Greer plant to the point where
an important trade magazine should
use it as an illustration of a progres-
sive quarrying industry.
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an inning at the Kiwanis club lunch-
eon, at the Brockerhoft house on Tues-
,day. It was represented by coach
. Carl G. Snavely, captain J. F. Hood,
of the football team, and head-master
James R. Hughes. The latter was the
i principal speaker and he gave an out-
line of the foot-ball team’s holiday
{ trip to the Southwest for the edifica-
; tion of the large crowd of Kiwanians
and guests present. The new presi-
j dent, W. Harrison Walker, presided
{and gave an interesting resume of
{ What was done at the Kiwanis con-
! ference in Pittsburgh last week. The
attendance prize, an Ingersoll watch,
was won by Mine Host M. A. Landsy.
i The engagement of Mrs.
| Blesnor Louise Sheffer arid Wallace
{ Ray Jones, of Binghampton, N. Y.,
{ was announced last week at a bridge
luncheon given by Miss Sheffer’s
| mother, Mrs. Paul D. Sheffer, at her
home on east Linn street.” Mr. Jones
who spent the week-end in Bellefonte,
is now continuing his college work,
consequently no definite time has been
set for the wedding.
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———The Centre County Society of
Philadelphia will have its annual din-
ner dance at the Bellevue-Stratford
on Thursday night, January 27. Every
Centre countian who happens to be in
the city at the time will be welcome.
The committee in charge is Warren
Underwood, Wm. S. Furst Esq., Gor-
don W. Ardell, Wm. A. Magee, Dr. S.
Gray Mattern, the president, and John
C C. Beale.
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Watchman reaches its readers a new
Governor will be in the chair at Har-
risburg. Quite a number of people
in Centre county are drawing down
State pay checks and it is only nat-
ural that every one of them should
be wondering “where they are at.”
The family of the late Daniel
Eberhart, wish to express their appre-
ciation of the kindness shown them by
their neighbors and friends during the
five weeks illness and at the time of
the death of their father, Daniel W.
Eberhart.
Mrs. H. E. Fenlon, of North
Allegheny St., won the cedar chest
that was given away by the auxiliary
of che hospital on Wednesday after-
noon.
Marriage Licenses.
John Lloyd Watson, of Shawville,
and Ruth D. Skipper, of Clearfield.
William Aloah Morris and Helen
Hull, both of Bellefonte.
— —The Bellefonte Academy had!
James Fortney Killed by an Automo-
bile in Illinois.
James Fortney, a native of Centre
county and well known especially in
the vicinity of Boalsburg died at his
home in Amboy, Ill., last Thursday,
from the effects of an accident he suf-
fered while crossing a street in that
city the evening before.
He was knocked down by a passing
automobile, being rendered uncon-
scious when his head struck the pav-
ing a following car ran over his legs
before anyone had noticed his plight.
He died from a fracture at the base
of the skull.
Deceased was an engineer on the
night shifter in the Illinois Central
yards and his son was his fireman.
The father and son had left their
engine to get a lunch and the accident
happened when the former was cross-
ing the street to a restaurant.
He was born at Boalsburg, this
county, on May 18, 1868, and was the
youngest of the nine children of Mr.
and Mrs. George A. Fortney. About
thirty-three years ago he went to
Illinois and located at Davis where he
farmed for some time and later went
to railroading at Freeport. After a
few years there he moved to Amboy
and had resided there twenty-one
years. He was a thirty-second degree
Mason.
He is survived by his widow and
four children: Carrie Barlow, Myrtle
Bates, Ray and James, together with
eleven grand children and one sister,
Mrs. Annie Patterson, of Boalsburg.
He was a very popular and well
known man in Amboy. His body laid
in state in the Masonic building where
the funeral services were con-
ducted on Sunday, with eight hundred
sorrowing friends in attendance.
Those of his Pennsylvania relatives
who went out for the funeral were:
Mrs. Samuel Wasson, Mrs. Elsie
White, Bellefonte; Mrs. James Patter-
son and Miss Beulah Fortney, of"
Boalsburg, and Mr. and Mrs. George
Noll, of Winburne.
Bellefonte High Wins Second Game iin:
Mountain League Race.
On the Y. M. C. A. floor, last Fri;
day right, the Bellefonte High school’
basket ball team won their second’
game in the race for the Mountain
league pennant, defeating Hunting-
don by the score of 23 to 14. The
Huntingdon quintette proved to bea.
fast bunch of floor workers. In the
first half they led coach Riden’s team:
12 to 6. In the second half the Belle-
fonte tossers get into the game and
scored seventeen points to Hunting-
don’s two. Seven Bellefonte tossers
were tried out against the visitors.
Captain Fuery being the star. For
Huntingdon, Neff played an excellent
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Today, the - team will = journey to
Houtzdale where they will play: this:
evening and tomorrow evening will
play the Philipsburg High, at Philips
burg. These games will test the
strength of the Bellefonte boys as
both Houtzdale and Philipsburg have
mostly veteran teams.
“Beau Geste” Now in Third Big Week.
at Nixon at Pittsburgh.
Add one more title to the list of
truly great motien pictures:
With the appearance of Para-
mount’s “BEAU GESTE,” at the Cri-
terion Theatre in New York seven:
months ago, the enthusiastic advance
reports reaching Pittsburgh imme-
diately following that sensational’
event, it became necessary to enlarge
the roll of screen masterpieces.
Doubly welcome, therefore, is the an--
nouncement that “BEAU GESTE™
will begin the third big week of its:
engagement at the Nixon Theatre
Pittsburgh on Monday, January 17th,
playing twice daily at 2.30 and 8.30.
The magnificent broad sweep of this
‘drama of the French Foreign Legion:
has never been surpassed, - nor has
there been a finer theme more mas-
terly executed, than-that of the de-
votion of the three young brothers,
and their smiling, unflinching sacri--
fice for each ether.
The pounding, pulsing drama of
“BEAU GESTE” is brought to the:
audience with shocking force in the:
opening scenes. A detachment of the
Foreign Legion is shown on its way
across the African Desert to relieve
a fort which has been attacked by
Arabs. The commander of the reliev--
ing force on arriving finds no sign of
Arabs, and his glass reveals a soldier
standing at every embrasure in the
walls, ready to fire on an enemy.
A bugle call elicits no response.
Not a man stirs, and the gates re-
main closed. The Major goes to the:
walls and discovers the alert sentries
to be—all dead! This opens a mys-
tery which deepens and quickens as the
story progresses, reaching to England
and there involving three of the main
characters, the brothers, enacted by
Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton and
Ralph Forbes.
Coleman, giving the finest and most
romantic performance of his brilliant
career; and Noah Beery as Sergeant
LeJaune, “the cruelest beast and
bravest soldier” in the Legion, domi-
nate the action although Neil Hamil-
ton and Ralph Forbes are close rivals
for screen honors.
None of the many noted artists in:
“BEAU GESTE” give anything but
fine characterizations. William Pow-
ell, Alice Joyce, Mary Brian, Norman
Trevor, Victor McLauglen and the
others all add to their popularity.
There are a thousand thrills in
“BEAU GESTE”;—the sight of hun-
dreds of colorful Tourages sweeping
across the sand plains, the revolt
among the 40 Legionnaires, and their
dauntless defense against the desert
hordes, in addition to countless other
pulse leaping moments. “BEAU
GESTE” should not. be missed..