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Bellefonte, Pa., January 21, 1927.
Life, with Miss Laurie is One Continu-
ous Tea Party.
Many people in this section have
been interested in the work Miss
Bertha A. Laurie has been doing in
the West Side Y. M. C. A. since she
returned from service overseas with
the A. E. F. :
It will be recalled that Miss Laurie
is a daughter of the late Dr. Wm.
Laurie, so many years the revered
pastor of the Bellefonte Presbyterian
church and that she had been employ-
ed in the First National bank of this
place for several years before the out-
break of the war. Soon after the out-
break she voluntered for service as a Y
worker and went abroad in 1918.
Upon her return she was asked to
inaugurate an idea in Y. M. C. A.
work engendered by the service of
that organization. in the fields. In
other words it was felt that a. wo-
man’s touch in the Association might
give it a bit of home atmosphere that
it had always been lacking and seemed
very desirable. Accordingly a “home
room” was opened in the largest Y
in the city of New York and Miss
Laurie and her co-worker abroad,
Miss Ann Watt, of Harrisburg, were
asked to try the experiment. She has
been there ever since and an idea of
what she has accomplished and how
she does it can be had from the fol-
lowing very interesting story, which
we have taken from the New York
Sun of recent date.
It was tea hour at the West Side
Y. M. C. A, 318 West Fifty-seventh
street. Every evening from 5 to 6:3C
tea is served in the home room, and if
you think men are not quite as fond
of their five o’clock tea as women you
should be there on the stroke of 6:30
when there’s a rush of late comers
fearful lest they miss the cup that
cheers.
Miss Bertha Laurie sat on a sofa
surrounded by a flock of young men,
each wanting help, for it was a few
days to Christmas, and the young
men at the “Y” are many miles from
home as a rule, without feminine judg-
ment to guide them in choice of gifts.
“Evenin’, Miss Laurie. Going shop-
pin’ to-morrow ? I want to send a gift
home to mother. Thought maybe
you'd like to pick out something for
me.” The boy spoke with a Southern
accent. He was from Georgia.
“Qh, Miss Laurie,” exclaimed a
blushing youth, “do you know where
I can get an engagement ring where
they won’t gyp me? Sure—I'm going
to give it to the girl for Christmas.
She’s a wonder, Miss Laurie—great
big blue eyes, hair like gold, and”—-
“Miss Laurie, Jack up in 321 has
the grip. Wants to know if you'll
come up and see him.” 5 Bra
They kept Miss Laurie busy jotting
down things to be remembered in a
little note book, while on the other
side of the room was her assistant,
Mrs. Frank Baldwin, apparently just
as busy. There were 150 men in the
room, drinking tea, serving, chatting,
playing chess or reading. It looked
like a big family reunion, entirely
masculine save for Miss Laurie and
Mrs. Baldwin.
Miss Laurie, officially known as
hostess, has been big sister to the boys
in this home room of the West Side
Branch for the past seven years.
After the war was over and men be-
gan to return it became apparent that
they needed a woman as hostess.
The West Side “Y” then hit on the
plan of getting one of the women who
had seen service in the “Y” huts dur-
ing the war. Miss Laurie was asked
to take the post. She had seen ser-
vice in Bar le Duc, Is sur Tille and in
Germany with the army of occupa-
tion. “We must get some one with ex-
perience,” said the directors. They
wanted to try the experiment to see if
the feminine influence would work as
well in civies as it did in war New
York was the best place in the country
to try it out, because to New York
come all nationalities and all classes,
passing through the West Side Branch
of the. “Y” at the rate of 600 a day. ;
That the plan has been successful is
evidenced by the fact that during her
services as “Y” hostess Miss Laurie
has served tea to 50,000 young men u
year from all parts of the world.
License Applications Sent
Out.
The Department of Highways an-
nounces that 1,700,000 application
forms for renewal of operator’s li-
censes have just been mailed to per-
sons who held 1926 operators’ licenses.
All drivers’ licenses expire at mid-
night February 28th, W. H. Connell,
engineering executive and acting sec-
retary of highways, said. Motor ve-
hicle operators are urged to mail back
the filled out form and the license fee
at once. It is important that opera-
tors send checks, money orders, or
drafts and not cash.
Licensed operators for the year
1926, who have changed their address
since obtaining a 1926 operator’s li-
cense, should inform the bureau of
motor vehicles of the change in their
address, since the 1927 applications
probably will not be forwarded from
the old address. In writing to the
bureau concerning a change of ad-
dress, use form 1122, obtainable at all
offices of the Department of High-
ways, or give the name, old and new
address and the record number, which
is shown on the left of every 1926
operator's license, immediately above
the name and address of the driver.
A licensed operator who has not
changed his address and does not re-
ceive the renewal form by January
8th should write to the bureau of mo-
tor vehicles before January 16th.
Anyone who held a 1925 operator’s
license and who has not yet applied
for operator’s license for 1926, and
who will desire operator’s license for
1927, should make application for the
1926 operator’s license at once; other-
wise, he will be unable to obtain oper-
ator’s license for 1927 without obtain-
ing certificate of learner’s permit and
suceessfully undergoing examination.
Drivers’
FARM NOTES.
—Get home-grown clover seed if |
you possibly can this year.
—When spring plowing is done, be
sure it is done early, just as early as
possible in the spring.
—Some farmers still follow the
practice of piling manure in the fields,
which is certainly bad.
—The disk plow is particularly
adapted for nearly all types of deep
plowing, that is, from 8 to 18 inches.
—Crop rotation is nearly as effec
tive in increasing soil productivity as
the use of manure and commercial fer-
tilizers.
—During 1925 farm wages were the
hightest since 1920, and three times
what they were at the close of the
Civil war.
—Too much water is as bad as too
little in the fields. Plants are like
people—they need a drink occasional-
ly, but they can be drowned.
—Sudan grass makes a hay of about
the same analysis as timothy, and
hence greatly inferior to the legume
hays for feeding to cattle or sheep.
—Winter is the best time to apply
lime to the soil. This is particularly
true when lime is to be applied to pas-
ture lands or wherever there is an
established stand of a grass crop.
—Now is the time to plan any
change in flower borders and shrub
plantings. These can all be worked
out on paper and ordered now so thut
the work will not be delayed in the
spring.
—Get the county agricultural agent
to help plan the drainage system for
the wet spots in that otherwise goed
field. He can help make up a bill of
tile, too. Do not buy tile until you
know the sizes needed.
—A splendid indoor plant box may
be developed by planting ordinary
Wandering Jew and, as it grows long,
cutting off the shoots and sticking
them in soil to root; say Pennsylvania
State College landscape specialists.
—Send to the Agricultural Publi-
cations Office at State College, Pa.,
for a list of available bulletins and cir-
culars that you can read during the
winter evenings in preparation for a
more efficient year on the farm.
—There are about four thousand
feet of 4-inch tile, or the mixed equiv-
alent, in a car. Get your neighbors
to help fill out the car if necessary.
Get the Y-branch connections in the
car. Use mostly 4-inch tile for
branches.
—A reliable local nurseryman is the
best source of nursery stock. The
first cost of good trees is comparative-
ly slight; the final cost of poor trees
is bankrupting. But only No. 1. trees
one or two years old—never. three,
and in case of peach never two years
old.
—1In the bearing apple tree remem-
her that it is the plump, well-nourished
bud which produces blossoms and
fruit. Secure such buds for next year
by a careful thinning out of the ends
of the branches which will insure plen-
ty of sunlight and plant food reach-
ing the buds on the remaining twigs.
—Next week the eleventh annual
State Farm Products Show will be
held in Harrisburg. This is the show
window of Pennsylvania agriculture.
Probably the largest show of its kind,
it will bring together in the capital
city the choicest products of field,
flock, and farm factory to be reviewed
by thousands of progressive Pennsyl-
vanians.
—Whether artificial lights should
be used on breeding stock is an impor-
tant question, since the condition of
the breeding stock determines the con-
tinued success or failure of a poul-
try plant. As far as lights are con-
cerned, it seems safe to use them for
a period not longer than 30 days be-
fore the eggs are used for hatching on
breeders that have had a good rest.
—The need of the Mexican army for
horses has stimulated a demand for
medium-weight animals of from 950 to
1,200 pounds that are straight of coler
and preferably broken to halter and
saddle. According to John H. Huff,
representative of the packers and
stock yards administration of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, many green horses are being
bought up by dealers and speculators
at Fort Worth, Texas, and are being
“halterbroke,” since the requirement
to lead is a big factor in selling the
animals.
Animals that are only “halterbroke”
will command a premium over the ab-
solutely green kinds, and the dealers
are getting paid for what the producer
might have done with much less risk
and with greater ease. Most of these
horses are strong and fat and are
bound to put up a pretty good fight
before being broken to lead. The op-
eration requires considerable time and
energy on the part of the dealers and
rarely fails to skin up the animal.
“The point is,” says Mr. Huff, “that
if the young colt in first hands was
‘halterbroke’ at weaning time or as
soon thereafter as possible, the ani-
mal, even though never handled again
before reaching maturity, would never
forget its lesson. A desirable fea-
ture of halterbreaking the colt or
yearling is that they are lighter in
weight than they ever will be again
and therefore more easily handled.
They are less likely to injure them-
selves when young. Another good fea-
ture is that when the colt reaches the
age to be broken for saddle or work
a good half of the job is done, due to
the early halter training.
“The day of hapnazard horse pro-
duction is past, and there is no reason
why the horse raiser of today cannot
receive firsthand mighty close to real
horse values through a little prepara-
tion of the colt.”
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this puzszie will
spell words both vertically and horizontally,
The first letter in each word is
fndicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the puzzle.
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” definés a word which will
fill the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number
under “vertical” defines a word which
black ome below. No letters go in the
tlomary words, except proper names.
will fill the white squares to the next
black spaces. All words used are dic-
Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical
terms and obsolete forms are indicated Im the definitions.
CROSS-WGRD PUZZLE No. 2.
ECENTLY Judge Elbert H. Gary, head of
the United States Steel Corporation,
transferred the site of his Fifth Avenue
Home, in New York City, to a National Bank
with trust powers in trust for his family.
This is a “Voluntary Trust” operation at once.
It insures an income to his family under all cir-
cumstances.
This act of Judge Gary, who personifies the
soundest business methods, should convince men
and women, who wish to conserve their Estates
while living, that it can best be done through a
Strong and Properly Managed Bank.
We are prepared for such duties.
The First National Bank
Bellefonte, Penna.
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9—Devoured 11—Exist
13—An insect 15—Dried grass
16—A note in the major diatonic
scale 17—Unwell
19—A deep sea fish 22—A marsh
23—Regulated nourishment
26—Goes about aimlessly
26—Eager 27—To pour
29—A decade 30—Inclination
31—A masculine pronoun
82—Fresh 38—Pointed missiles
39—An exclamation 41—Evil
43—An African antelope
44—Nickname of popular governor
45—A snake-like fish
47—What we are all trying to com-
bat (abbr.)
49--A long cut 51—Motive
52—Open-leaved cabbage (pl.)
54—To stake
56—A unit of superficial measure
57—Hires
59—0Of no account 60—Exists
81—Wrath 62—To be indisposed
83—Company (abbr.) 64—Put down
66—A craft 67—Meager
68—A unit of electrical resistance
69-—KEscape
1—Bitterly bigoted
2—To grant temporary use of
3—Neuter pronoun
4—Mother
5—Head over a body of men
6—To bring into line
8—A minute particle
10—Not that
12—A select circle of people
14—Higher 16—Dirtien
18—Sediment 20—A great deal
21—A female fowl
22—Balance (abbr.)
24—Capable of being held
26—A pipe or reed
28—Table lands
30—Cautions
33—A little tight mass
34—An ugly female
36—A greasy substance
40—Perceives by the ear
42—Brilliancy
44—The top story of a house
46—To Increase laboriously
47—A witch 48—A support
50—A hotel 51—Navigates
52—A joint of the leg 53—Wither
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65—A preposition
66—Part of the verb “be”
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SINGING WOMEN.
(Continued from page 2, Col. 6.)
make no difference, Vinie, what a wo-
man sings so long as she sings.”
Standing alone, Tilly Rudd waved
her apron at the handkerchief fluttei-
ing from her husband’s new car—her
stingy, sung-over, tractable husband’s |
new car.
“Pa,” said Elvina when she no long-
er could see her stepmother, “let’s
sing, like she wants us to. What ¢'n
you sing?”
“Me, Vinie?
tune.”
“How's it go?”
“I ain’t sung it in years, Vinie, but
it goes like this. Le’s see, now.” He
cleared his throat mightily. “Like
this:
“ ‘Ninety-nine bottles a-hangin’ on
the wall,
Ninety-nine bottles a-hangin’ on the
wall! .
If one o’these bottles a-hangin’
should fall,
There’d be ninety-eight bottles a-
hangin’ on the wall!
“ ‘Ninety-eight bottles a-hangin’ on
the wall,—"
“Ninety-eight bottles a-hangin’ on
the wall!” chimed in Elvina bravely.
For she was just a little girl, going
away from home, and she really want-
ed to cry. But she sang, bless her life,
she sang!
And so did Cephas Rudd, however
it may have sounded to the birds.
Singing women put songs in the
hearts of all who know them.—By
Dorothy Miller.
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Dry Air Kills House Plants.
Is the potted plant which friend
husband or Mrs. Jones gave you for
Christmas slowly dying in spite of all
your care?
Most of them do, according to John
P. Habermehl, Philadelphia authority
on flower culture. He said yesterday
that few Christmas plants survive the
winter. .
Dry air, not neglect, usually is the
cause of the unnecessary and prema-
ture deaths. The remedy is simple
—see that some of the water you have
been wasting on the plant roots is
converted into room moisture.
“A plant feeds as much from the
leaf as its does from the root,” Mr.
Habermehl explained. “I have seen
some plants that were almost swim-
ming at the root, but the air was so
dry the leaf could get no nourishment
from the atmosphere. The root was
not able to generate the water and
send it to the leaf quickly enough to
keep it alive.
“An example is the orchid. This
flower is a parasite, the small seeds
attaching themselves to the bark of
trees. They get all the moisture they
need from surrounding air, and thrive
on it.
“Plants have pores just as a per-
son has, When dust and dirt settles
on them, and are not removed, they
can’t get water. They are clogged to
the state where they slowly but sure-
ly starve to death. A very good ex-
ample of this fact is the hydrangea.
At the seashore one sees them burst-
ing into bloom and flowering beauti-
fully. They have huge balls of blos-
som. If they were placed in a dry
spot, a city such as Philadelphia, they
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stage of perfection.”
“The arid breath of the house sucks
every bit of loose water from the
leaves of the plants. The roots do
their best to provide more water from
the soil, but cannot. The plant does
not have the good fortune to possess
an internal mechanism regulating its
{ amount of perspiration, and the out-
; side air will have only a small amount
{of the moisture that cold air will
, maintain as a vapor.
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‘flowers is just as bad as too much food
{ for humans. Summer is much better
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{ summer we leave our houses open for
i the outside air to get in; we do not
‘ heat it to such a temperature that all
the water is taken out of it, and plants
can get as much nourishment as they
need. A plant will also grow better
In a pot instead of a tub, because
dirt is kept sweet. If it is continually
watered, without drainage, the soil
will get sour.” !
Real Estate Transfers.
Clarence E. Musser, et ux, to Frank
E. Boyer, tract in Haines Twp.; $400.
Herbert Showers to Ward M. Show-
ers, et ux, tract in Spring Twp.; $1.
William A. Neese, et ux, to E. H.
Smeltzer, tract in Gregg Twp.; $1.
E. H. Smeltzer, et ux, to William A.
Neese, et ux, tract in Gregg Twp.; $1.
David C. Grove, et ux, to Tobias
Plozner, et ux, tract in Benner Twp.;
$5,000.
Lillian J. Kenneley to Alfred A.
Barger, tract in Gregg Twp.; $1.
Ivan Walker, trustee, to D. A.
Grove. et ux, tract in Bellefonte; $5,-
James M. Stere, et ux, to James M.
Stere, et ux, tract in Union Twp.; 31.
_ Austin L. Johnson, et ux, to Chris-
tina Rishel, tract in State College;
$10,000.
R. H. Zettle, et ux, to John H.
Wagner, tract in Potter Twp.; $175.
John H. Wagner, et ux, to Ira Au-
man, tract in Potter Twp.; $1,975.
Michael F. Hazel, et ux, to Ella
i Haller, et bar, tract in Spring Twp.;
$1,150.
- Sarah E. Bloom, et al, Exec, to
John H. Strouse, tract in Ferguson
Twp.; $500.
Augustina Hindle, et bar, to E.
Steele Stonebraker, tract in Rush
Twp. $175.
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AFTER INVENTORY
(Clearance Sale
Every article in our store priced
with utter disregard of cost.
The rar= bargains we are offering in this sale
are too wonderful to be missed.
Our rummage tab'e and racks speak for
themselves. :
Drastic reductions in all ladies’ and children’s
Coats and Dresses. Every Coat must go during
this clearance sale.
50% discount on all Shoes, men’s, ladies’
and children’s high and low Shoes.
Special low prices on all Blankets and Com-
fortables.
One lot of Men’s Gloves, value 75c. to $1.00,
sale price 39c.
One rack of Ladies’ and Children’s Coats
at $4.75
This Table is loaded with Rare Bargains you
can’t afford to miss. After inventory all short
lengths in piece goods, all the odds in curtains
and underwear, every department adds some-
thing to this table and the prices are so low
that you must come early to get the choice.
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