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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR SHERIFF.
We are authorized to announce that Harry ;
E. (Dep. Dunlap, of Bellefonte, will be a
candidate for the nomination on the Demo-
cratic ticket for the office Sheriff of Centre |
county, subject to the decision of the Cen- !
tre county voters as expressed at the pri- !
maries to be held on Tuesday, September
20, 1927.
FOR PROTHONOTARY.
are authorized to announce that |
of Bellefonte, will be a
We
Claude Herr,
candidate for the nomination on the Demo- |
cratic ticket for the office of Prothonotary !
of Centre county, subject to the decision of |
the Democratic voters as expressed at the
Primary tc be held Tuesday, September 20, |
1927.
FOR TREASURER.
We are authorized to announce that Ly-
man L. Smith, of Centre Hall, will be a
candidate for the nomination for County |
Treasurer subject to the decision of the |
Democratic voters of the county as ex- !
pressed at the primary to be held Septem-
ber 20, 1927.
FOR RECORDER.
‘We are authorized to announce that Sinie
H. Hoy, of Bellefonte, is a candidate for !
nomination on the Democratic ticket for
the office of Recorder of Centre county,
subject to the decision of the voters of the
county as expressed at the primary to be
held Tuesday, September 20, 1927.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
We are authorized to announce that John
8. Spearly will be a candidate for the
nomination for County Commissioner on
the Democratic ticket subject to the decis- |
ion of the voters of the party as expressed
at the primaries on September 20th, 1927.
We are authorized to announce that
John W. Yearick, ef Marion township, will
be a candidate for the nomination of Coun-
ty Commissioner, subject to the decision
of the Democratic voters as expressed at
the primaries to be held September 20, 1927.
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Over Four Million Dollars Asked for
State College.
HIS HONOR, JUDGE KELLER DIES he never
SUDDENLY.
Stricken with Angina Pectoris While
Presiding at Court.
Stricken with an attack of angina
pectoris while sitting on the bench in
open court, about eleven o'clock on
Wednesday morning, Judge Harry
Keller passed away at the Centre
County hospital at 12.15 o’clock. The
Judge had been presiding at the regu-
lar session of court all week and was
apparently in his usual health. Short-
ly before eleven o'clock he had de-
clared a fifteen minute recess to pei-
mit sheriff Taylor an opportunity to
bring a woman into court cn a bench
warrant. During the recess he went
to the smoking room where he sat and
‘talked with the attorneys and never
| uttered a complaint. At eleven o'clock
“he returned to the bench and a few
A bill providing for the appropria-
tion of State funds to the Pennsyi-
vania State College for its work and
new buildings was introduced on the
floor of the State Senate last week by
Senator Harry B. Scott, of the Cen-
tre-Clearfield district.
A total of $3,234,500 is asked for
the college maintenance, agricultural
research and extension work for the
next two years, a sum that is only a
quarter million more than was passed |
by the Legislatures for 1923 and 1924. |
In addition, 2 request for one million |
. dollars is made for new buildings and |
their equipment, an item sought anx- |
iously by the trustees and friends of
the college to help relieve congested
conditions for students and faculty
on the campus.
The general college maintenance re-
quest is $2,181,000, compared with $1,-
571,904 granted for the present bien-
nium ‘by Former Governor Pinchot.
An item of $403,500 is asked specific-
ally for agricultural research work.
No special provision was made for
this feature in the last appropriation
bill. The new bill would ailow $650,-
000 for agricultural research
against $600,000 set aside in 1925. |
Passage of the bill by the Legisla-
ture and its signing by Governor Fish-
er would mean the opening of a new
era of service by the College to the
people of the Commonwealth. Presi- i
dent Ralph D. Hetzel is firm in the |
belief that State funds for the main-
tenance and growth of State College
are not current expenditures but in-
vestments that will yield big future
returns to taxpayers. The bill is novs
in the hands of the Senate appropria-
tions committee.
Eh am
Will Observe
Music Week.
as
Bellefonte National
As was to have been expected in a
town where there are a number of ac-
complished musicians and many lovers
of their art Bellefonte will observe
national music week, the first week
in May, and Alberta M. Krader
is preparing to present the
sacred cantata “Queen Esther.” It
will be staged in one of the local
theatres and the leading roles will be
sung by local and out of town artists.
The first rehearsal has been called for
Thursday evening, March 10, at eight
o'clock in the High school auditorium
and all singers are invited to be
present to participate in it.
“Queen Esther” has been sung
several times in Bellefonte, but it is
such a beautiful cantata as to be in
the class of compositions that never
grow old.
Harry Jones Buyes Gettig Property.
Harry Jones, an employee of the
Pennsylvania railroad company who
moved to Bellefonte from Snow Shoe
during the Holidays and with his fam-
ily has been occupying an apartment
in Crider’s Exchange, has purchased
from the heirs the L. H. Gettig prop-
erty, on north Thomas street, and will
move his family there in the near fu-
ture.
minutes later prothonotary Roy Wil-
kinson followed. As the latter went to
his seat in front of the bar he noticed
-| that something was wrong with the
Judge and at once asked him if he was
sick. The latter replied that he was
suffering with an attack of nervous
indigestion—a very intense pain in
his left side. The prothonotary teld
the court erier to adjourn court at once
and Fred J. Healy, court messenger,
assisted the Judge from the court
room to his chambers. With assist-
jance the Judge was able to walk
down the stairs and out of the court
house to the car of ex-sheriff George
Yarnell, who took him to the office of
Dr. Rogers. By that time he lapsed
into ¢emi-consciousness but in a few
minutes recovered. From the physi-
cian’s office he was taken in the ambu-
lance to the Centre County hospital
and three physicians, Drs. Dale, Locke
and Rogers, did everything possible
to counteract the attack. He waz
conscious after his arrival at the hos-
pital and recognized and spoke to
Mrs. Keller, who had been hastily
summoned. But he again lapsed into
unconsciousness and passed away at
12.15:
While to the casual acquaintance the
Judge appeared in normal health it is
known that to intimate friends he had
camplained for some time past of not
feeling altogether fit and had been on
a diet. Last fall the Judge closed his
home on east Linn street and during
the winter he and Mrs. Keller had been
living at Mr. Landsy’s Annex, on
Spring street, and taking their meals
at the Brockerhoff house.
Judge Keller was a son of Col.
Daniel Schenck and Martha E. Heustis
Keller and was born in Washington, D.
C., on December 22nd, 1866, hence wus
60 years. 2 months and 8 days old.
His birth in Washington is accounted
for by the fact that his father, a vet-
eran of the Civil war, held a position
in the government pension bureau and
the family lived in the national capi-
tal. In 1873, however, the family re-
turned to Bellefonte and Harry was
educated in the public schools of the
town. He was a member of the first
graduating class of the High school in
June, 1884, the other members being
his brother, Superior Court Justice
William H. Keller, Rev. Morris E.
Swartz and Harvey M. Wetzel.
The following winter Harry taught
the Hoy school, in Benner township,
and boarded with the farmer who oec-
cupied the house which is now the
warden’s residence at Rockview. After
completing his term of school he en-
tered his father’s office as a law stu-
dent but following the election of
Gen. Beaver as Governor he accepted
a position as clerk in the Adjutant
General’s department under General
D. H. Hastings. He spent four years
in Harrisburg and on his return to
Bellefonte resumed his study of the
law, being admitted to practice at the
Centre county bar on April 16th, 1891.
Crime in all its phases was So antip-"
athetic to the nature of Mr. Keller that
took up criminal
but confined
casgs, specializing in orphan’s court
practice
his law work to civil
endeavors. His career as a member
of the Centre county bar was that: of
the average successful lawyer and
eventually led to aspirations to sit
upon the bench. He was spoken of as
a candidate on the Republican ticket
in 1915 but remained out of the field
owing to the fact that his brother-in-
law, Judge Ellis L. Orvis, was a can-
didate for re-election. Henry C.
Quigley became the Republican nomi-
nee and was elected, and his tra_ic
death in November, 1924, from the
same ailment that carried away Judge
Keller is still well remembered by
everybody in Centre county.
Following Judge Quigley’s death
Mr. Keller became an active candidate
for appointment as his successor and
had the support of most of the mem-
bers cf the bar, but Governor Pinchot
appointed Arthur C. Dale. Mr. Keller
promptly announced that he would be
a. candidate for the office in:1925. In’
a hard primary fight he won the Re-
publican nomination but Judge Dale
was nominated and ran on the Prohi-
bition ticket, which made a three-
cornered fight at the election, W. Hax-
rison Walker being the Democratic
nominee. Mr. Keller won by a decided
plurality and was duly sworn into
office on the first Monday of January,
1925. During his fourteen months on
the bench he gave every evidence
that no more dependable, conscientious
or impartial Judge has ever presided
over the Centre county courts. He
endeavored to interpret the law as
it is written in the statute books, bu*
when occasion warranted it, in his
judgment, his justice was always
tempered with mercy. He has never
sought to achieve a State-wide reputa-
tion but was content in presiding over
his own court. 3
Columns might be written on Judge
Keller's private life and then the story
would not be told. He was a member
of the Reformed church of Bellefonte.
has been the senior elder for a number
of years and for fifteen years was
teacher of the men’s Bible class. He
was a member of the various Masonic
fraternities in Bellefonte, the Nittany
Country club and had only recently
joined the Kiwanians. He loved to
mingle with his fellowmen in a social
way and was always a happy acquisi-
tion to any gathering. He was one of
the very few men of our acquaintance
of whom it can be said that he had
never tasted intoxicating liquor.
On May 7th, 1891, he married Miss
Anna Orvis, a daughter of former
Judge John Holden and Mrs. Orvis,
who survives with four sons, John
Orvis Keller, head of the Engineering
Extension department, at State Col-
lege; Henry Keller, a professor at Rut-
ger’s College, New Brunswick, N.J.,
Ellis Orvis Keller an assistant Pro?-
fessor and William Keller a senior at
State College. He also leaves one
brother, Superior Court Judge William
H. Keller, of Lancaster; his step-
mother, Mrs. M. E. R. Keller, and a
step-sister, Miss Lucy, both of Phila-
delphia.
Owing to the sudden death of Judge
Keller the balance of the February
term of court was promptly cancelled
by clerk Roy Wilkinson and the sheriff
instructed to notify all jurors and
litigants summoned for next week not
to appear. A preliminary meeting of
attorneys was held in the prothono-
tarys’ office yesterday morning and ar-
rangements made for a public meeting
of the bar in the court house at 9.30
o'clock on Saturday morning to take
suitable action on the death of the
Judge and arrange to attend the
funeral services which will be held at
the home of former Judge Ellis L.
Orvis at eleven o’clock tomorrow (Sat-
urday) morning. Rev. Robert Thena,
pastor of the Reformed church, will
have charge of the services and pri-
vate interment will be made in the
Keller lot in the Union cemetery
though the services will be public.
The death of Judge Keller naturally
creates a vacancy which will have to
be filled by appointment by Governor
Fisher, the first since he has been
sworn into office. The appointment,
however, will be good for this year
only, which will mean that Centre
county will have another judicial con-
test this year. When Governor Fisher
makes his appointment the new Judge
will be sworn into office by Recorder
Lloyd A. Stover, which will make the
third judge he will have administered
the oath to during kis four year’s
term.
—-Owing to the death of Judge
Harry Keller the March meeting of
the Brotherhood of the Reformed
church, which was to have been held
tonight, has been omitted.
All of the stores and other
business places in Bellefonte will close
tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock and
remain closed until after the funeral
of the late Judge Keller.
McCLOSKEY.—Mrs. Margaret Mc-
! Closkey, widow of David McCloskey,
one of the old time settlers on Marsh
Creek, died on Sunday evening, Feb-
ruary 20th, at the home of her daugh-
{ ter, Mrs. Mary Sayers, at Romola, as
the result of general infirmities, aged
86 years, 4 months and 10 days. Her
husband has been dead for a number
of years but ten of her thirteen chil-
dren survive, as follows: Mrs. Mary
Sayers, of Romola; Nathan McCloskey
and Mrs. Elizabeth Potorf, of Lock
Haven; Mrs. Rebecca Welsh, of Dan-
ville; Mrs. Martha Iddings, of Hok-
enville, N. J.; Mrs. Adaline Wood,
residing in the west; Jacob McCluskey,
of Jacksonville; Miss Elsie, of New
York, and Mrs. Ella Waker, of Orvis-
ton. She also leaves one brother and
five sisters, George Long, of Danville;
Mrs. Rosie McKissick and Mrs. John
Miller, of Marsh Creek; Mrs. Joseph
Croft and Mrs. Thomas Mann, of Lock
Haven, and Mrs. G. W. Emenhizer, of
Coleville.
Rev. L. F. Sheetz, of Howard, had
charge of the funeral services which
were held in the Romola Church of
Christ, on Wednesday morning of last
week, burial being made in the Ro-
mola cemetery.
WILSON — William Wilton, for al-
most half a century a resident of
Philipsburg, died at the McGirk san-
itorium in that place, last Friday
morning, following an illness of sev-
eral months.
He was born at Unionville on Jan-
uary 27th, 1855, hence was 72 years
and 22 days old. As a young man he
went to Philipsburg and for.a period
of years worked at the old. Philips-
burg tannery. Of late years, however,
he had been an employee at the Laud-
erbach-Griest wholesale grocery. He
was a member of the Presbyterian
church, of Philipsburg, for forty-nine
years.
In 1877 he married Miss Tabitha
Mitchell, of Unionville, who passed
away less than a year ago but surviv-
ing him are three children, Wilbur
Wilson, of Williamsport; Mrs. James
Lupton, of Philipsburg, and Samuel
L., of Bloomsburg. He also leaves
two sisters, Mrs. J. P. Smith and Mrs.
W. K. Raup, both of Bellefonte.
Funeral services were held at the
Lupton home, in Philipsburg, at two
o'clock on Monday afternoon, by Rev.
Ralph Illingworth, burial being made
in the Philipsburg cemetery.
HALL Mark Hall diodat his home
in Union township on February 19th,
following an illness of some weeks.
He was a son of George and Rebecca
Hall and was born in Union township
in 1859, his age being 67 years, 3
months and 6 days. He married Miss
Hannah Ammerman who survives
with the following children: Mrs. J.
B. Hall, Norman, LeRoy and Andrew,
all of Fleming; Howard, of Juniata;
Mrs. G. R. Young, of Port Matilda;
Clarence, of Warren, Ohio, and Her-
man, of State College. He also leaves
two brothers and two sisters, Mrs. J.
E. Miles, of Milesburg; C. T. Hall, of
Harrisburg; Mrs. D. R. Keatley, of
Fleming, and E. A. Hall, of Osceola
Mills. Funeral services were held at
his late home on Wednesday morning
of last week, by Revs. M. C. Piper and
R. R. Lehman, burial being made in
the Oak Ridge cemetery.
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McKAIG.—Charles Benton McKaig
died at his home at State College, on
Saturday morning, Feb. 26, after an
illness of several years with Bright’s
disease.
Deceased was the son of William
J., and Esther A. McKaig and was
born in Wilmington, Delaware, sixty-
one years age. He is survived by his
wife Elsie Sellers McKaig and the
following brothers and sisters: Win-
field F., and William U., of Wilming-
ton, Del.; Mrs. David Michener, of
Elsmere, Del.; and Mrs. Thomas
Quale, of Denver, Colorado.
He was a member of the Metho-
dist church and funeral services were
held at his late home at State College,
on Monday afternoon, the Rev. A. L.
Mackie having officiated. Intermuynt
was made in Gray’s cemetery.
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The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Sutton-Abramsen En-
gineering Co., will be held in the af-
fices of the company, in this place, at
1:45 p. m. Monday, March 7. A
luncheon will be served the stock hold-
ers at the Bush house at noon of that
day and immediately thereafter there
will be. an inspection of the plant.
Walker Township High School Holds |
Oratorical Contest.
A very interesting oratorical con-
test was held by the Walker town-
ship High school, at Hublershurg, last
Thursday evening. Notwithstanding
the fact that the roads were had a
very good crowd was in u.ttendance.
Eight students competed for the
prizes, the list and their subjects be-
ing as follows:
“Abraham Lincoln and the Constitution”
—Mae Guiser.
“Self-Educated”—Ethel Lee,
“Abraham Lincoln”—Vera G. Hoy.
“Humble, Yet Great’—Earl Vonada.
“Abraham Lincoln”—Esther Dunkle.
“Patriotism”’—Helen I. Stover.
“How Lincoln Rose to Fame”- Twila
Shuey. i
“American Contribution to Constitutional
Government”’—Dorothy Dietrich.
The judges were Miss Harnish,
Musser Gettig and I. Newton Taylor,
all of the Bellefonte Hizh school, and
they awarded the first prize of $5.00
to Miss Dietrich, second prize of $3.00
to Miss Lee, and third prize of $1.00
to Earl Vonada.
The High school this year is in
charge of Prof. Wilbur O. Snyder, who
presided at the contest. The school
this year has forty-one students and
efforts are being made to bring it up
from its present rating of grade 2 to a
grade 1 High school. Two of the re-
quirements have already been met and
Prof. Snyder has hopes of meeting sll
the other requirements before the year
is over.
Just now the students are at work
on compiling a year book, something
never before attempted, but from the
way they are going about it there ig
every reason to believe they will
bring out a creditable publication.
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Two Men Go to Death Chair Monday
Morning.
Two negroes from Delaware county,
Walter Francis Webb, alias Walter
Green, and Amos Wilson, alias Amos
Hughes, were electrocuted at Rock-
view penitentiary on Monday morning
for the murder of Walter “Bud” Har-
den, at Chester, on September 9th,
1926. The men were attended to the
chair by the new chaplain, Rev. P. M.
Osborne. Neither one made any state-
ment regarding the crime of which
they were convicted.
The murder was unprovoked and
deliberate. Harden, the victim, was
sitting in a parked car with another
young man and two girls when the
negroes approached and ordered the
men from the car. They refused and
the negroes made an attempt to eject
them. Harden resisted and was shot
twice dying instantly. The negroes
were arrested within a week. Webb
was tried and convicted and the next
day Wilson plead guilty and the pre-
siding judge fixed the crime as first
degree and the penalty, death. The |
men carried their case before the:
board of pardons two weeks ago but
the board refused them clemency.
The electrocution of the two men sets !
a record for swift justice in Penn-
sylvania, as they: were put to death
just five months and nineteen days
after commission of the crime.
Webb was 26 years old and leaves
a wife and two children. Wilson was
19 and leaves a wife but no children.
The bodies were claimed and were
shipped to Chester for burial. |
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Lewistown to Have Big Celebration
4th of July Week.
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The Logan Guard camp No. 90, |
American Legion, of Lewistown, is
early in the field with the announce- |
ment of a big celebration of Independ-
ence day, the affair to last an entire
week. They are planning for a bar-
bacue of several steers, a military
horse show which will include best
mounts from Tyrone, Bellefonte, Lock
Haven, Sunbury, Lewistown, Harris-
burg, Boalsburg. A large carnival
will also be a feature. The proceeds
will be devoted to the erection of a
new home for the Legion.
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Busy Month for Public Health Nurse.
The public health nursing service of
the Bellefonte chapter American Red
Cross reports for February a summary
of ninety-four visits. Three pre-natal
cases were visited and instructed. The
mothers of twenty-one babies were ad-
vised regarding proper health habits
and invited to the weekly well-baby
clinic held by the State Department.
The parents or guardians of thirty-
three school children were visited and
again informed of defects found by
the school medical examiner, urging
that such defects receive correction.
Visits to sick patients, 33. Eight visits
were made and four interviews held in
nurses’ office relating to cases.
Four well-baby clinics were held
for Miss Barnhart, of the State De-
partment, who has charge of clinie
work but who was out of town be-
cause of illness.
Twenty-nine hours were given to in-
dustrial nursing for the American
Lime and Stone company. A “better
baby contest” has been started at the
health centre of the Lime company,
which will end May 1st, national
health day. The mothers registering
their babies promise that during the
period the child will be brought at
regular intervals to the health centre
for check on weight and health habits,
and that the infant will sleep alone
with windows open. Judges will be
appointed to choose three babies from
the group showing greatest improve-
ment.
Seven dollars were turned over to-
the treasurer as fees from patients
and statements totalling $42.75 sent to
the Metropolitan Life Insurance com-
pany and the American Lime and
Stone company, all of which shows
that the public health nurse, Miss
Anna Fairfax McCauley, had a very
busy month.
American Legion Auxiliary Organize:
Tri-County Council.
In the neighborhood of thirty-five:
women, members of the American Le-
gion auxiliaries in Centre, Clinton and’
Potter counties, held a meeting at
the Legion home, in Bellefonte, last.
Thursday, and organized a Tri-County"
Council. Bellefonte, State College,
Millheim, Philipsburg, Beech Creek,.
Lock Haven and Galeton were repre-
sented and officers elected were as fol-
lows:
President, Mrs. W. P. Wilson, of"
Philipsburg; vice president, Mrs. H..
Dietrick, Bellefonte; secretary, Mrs..
H. L. Shaffer, Lock Haven; treasurer,.
Mrs. F. Krumrine, State College; his-
torian, Mrs. F. Batcheler, Beech Creek.
The meeting convened at eleven
o'clock in the morning and at one
o'clock the ladies. of the Bellefonte:
auxiliary served a luncheon. The next
meeting of the Council ‘will be held
in Lock Haven: on June 8th.
Annual Grange Banquet.
Members of Penn State Grange,.
State College, have arranged to hold
their annual banquet at the Centre:
Hills Country club on Saturday even-
ing, March 19th, at 6.30 o'clock. The-
banquet committee is arranging for a.
very palatable dinner. The speakers.
for the evening will be Mr. L. J. Taber,
master of the State Grange; R. G.
Bressler, deputy Secretary of Agricul-
ture, and Mrs Phillips. Following the-
banquet there will be music and dane-
ing.
George Kosut Given Jail Sentence.
At a special session of court, last
Friday, George Kosut, of Rush town-
ship, charged with the killing of
Peter Jeiz, during a drinking bout on
New Year’s day, plead guilty to in--
voluntary manslaughter and was sen--
tenced to pay a fine of five hundred
dollars and undergo imprisonment in:
the county jail for a period of not
less than one year nor more than
two.
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