“Bellefonte, Pa, March 11, 1927.
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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.
We are authorized to announce that
Claude Herr, of Bellefonte, will be a
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
S. 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, of Marion township, will
be a candidate for the nominaticn of Coun-
ty Commissioner, subject to the decision
of the Democratic voters as expressed at
the primaries to be held September 20, 1927.
«+; + Republican Ticket. -
PRESIDENT JUDGE
We are authorized to announce that M.
Ward Fleming, of Philipsburg, Pa., is a
candidate for nomination for President
Judge of the Courts of Centre county sub-
ject to tlie decision of the Republican
voters of the county as expressed at the
primary to be held September, 20, 1927.
Sutton-Abramsen Co., Banquets its
Stock Holders and Holds An-
nual Meeting.
With plant facilities greatly in-
creased and modernized and business
already contracted for that will re-
-+-quire night and day operation well in-
' to September the outlook for the Sut-
‘ton-Abramsen Engineering Company,
‘of this place, is very bright.
.. So bright are the prospects for the
¢ best year it has had since operations
“were begun that the Company tender-
“ed a’'banquet to its share holders at
the Bush house at noon on Monday.
The president of the Company, J.
~ Blair Sutton, had a slight motor ac-
cident while enroute from his office
in Pittsburgh and was unable to get
here in time for the affair, but Supt.
M. C. Hansen and director Robert F.
‘Hunter took charge, in his absence,
and. it was delightfully carried
through.
~ Just twenty-five local stock-holders
‘were seated and enjoyed the dinner
‘which was in five courses; palatably
prepared and deftly served.
With it finished the party visited
the plant to make an inspection of all
departments. We noted great changes
since our last visit there. ‘The office
building has been enlarged and more
fully equipped, the machine shop al-
most doubled in operating floor space
and a traveling crain installed so that
castings running up to eight tons in
weight can be carried from drill, to
lathe, to planer at a minimum ex-
penditure of time and labor.
In foundry and pattern shops the
same evidence of improvement in
facilities was apparent to the party
and the fifty skilled mechanics were
making every movement count toward
production on the ponderous straight-
ening machines which are the plant’s
major output.
After the inspection the annual
meeting of the Company was held.
The statement of last year’s business
was read and showed a very healthy
condition.
~ Officers were elected as follows:
J. Blair Sutton, Pittsburgh, presi-
dent; Geo. A. Wise, Pittsburgh, secre-
tary-treasurer. The directors are J.
Blair Sutton, W. I. Sutton, William
Wharton, J. I. Alderdice, Pittsburgh,
Robert F. Hunter, Geo. S. Hazel, and
W. J. Emerick, Bellefonte. Mr. Emer-
ick succeeds the late Geo. M. Gamble
on the board.
rr ——— pe terme.
——We are curious to know what
will happen to the members of that
“young people’s church,” when they
have reached the age limit.
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——Dr. Emerison, an eminent New
York physician, says “there are more
quacks to-day than ever and they are
more dangerous,”
“Bellefonte Blasts” from the Warner-
American News.
Under the heading of “Bellefonte
Blasts,” in the Warner-American
News, for February, are the follow-
ing interesting items:
After being laid up for some time
due to an injury received while sur-
veying in the mine, “Syd” Swindells
is again able to be at his desk in the
Engineering Department. “Syd” tum-
bled over a safety block which had
just been placed on the end of the
track near the shaft and not wanting
to injure the transit which he was
carrying, was unable to break his fall
and injured the sciatic nerve rather
seriously. He is now able to walk
without a cane and we are glad to
have him back on the job.
The Bellefonte plant can now boast
of a real mascot with the character-
istic “handle” of BMP (alias Home-
less Hector). BMP’s arrival was
noval. He was originally purchased
by a member of the office force as a
companion for his young son, but, un-
fortunately, did not fit into the rou-
tine of that household. The pup’s case
was then taken up by another fond
father who met with no better results
and within several hours was again
transferred—this time to Lynn Fromm
at the storeroom where BMP is now
at home to the friends he has made.
Members of the office force packed
a box with fruit and sweets to send to
Mark Constance, our cheery janitor,
who is again a patient in the Poly-
clinic Hospital in Philadelphia, where
he has undergone three operations on
his eyes. We miss him a lot and hope
this will be his last trip to the hospital.
Good luck Marko.
Mrs. George Porter Lyon, who, be-
fore her recent marriage, was Magda-
len Sunday, has resigned her position
in the cost department. We are sorry
to have Mrs. Lyon leave us and hope
that she will be very happy in her
domestic realm.
When the jar of pebble lime was
passed around at the dinner for in-
spection, Cal Gates opened the jar
thinking it was after-dinner mints and
put a piece of the lime in his mouth.
He remarked that the mint was ex-
cepticnally hard, and started to chew
it. It was a good thing that he did
not take a drink of water or there
might have been an explosion.
Young Man Arrested for Shooting
Electric Power Wires.
Clarence Weilacher, seventeen years
old, of Hallton, Elk county, was ar-
rested last week on the charge of
maliciously shooting off an insulator
from the Keystone Power corpora-
tion’s high voltage transmission line
near Hallton. He is now a prisoner
in the Elk county jail awaiting trial
at the April term of court.
For years the power companies have
been bothered with persons uninten-
tionally or maliciously shooting off
insulators on high voltage transmis-
sion lines, thereby greatly crippling
electric service to whole communities
and territories. During the hunting
season last fall the Keystone Power
corporation had many cases of service
interruptions caused by persons shoot-
ing insulators on their transmission
lines, one of them being over in the
Seven mountains, which cut off the
service to Bellefonte five hours or
longer. Two cases were serious
enough to interrupt the total systems
of the Keystone Power eorporation
thereby interrupting electric service
to many industries and resulting in
thousands of dollars of damage.
In order to curb this practice the
poyer company offered a substantial
reward for information leading to the
arrest and conviction of persons in-
tentionally shooting insulators . on
transmission lines. The reward in the
above case will be given to the proper
persons. «
With the active cooperation of the
county apthorities any future cases
of this kind will be severely prosecut-
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Scenic Attractions.
Next week’s program is, without
doubt, one of the greatest we have
ever offered to date. It contains such
Hughes, and Doris Kenyon, in a mar-
velous comedy, “Ladies at Play.”
Evelyn Brent and William Powell in
the great Liberty Magazine serial
story, “Love’s Greatest Mistake,” and
Norma Shearer, in a class by her
self, in “Upstage.”
Coming from the greatest producers
you could only expect to see a superior
program. These shows are being se-
lected for you with great difficulty, as
vou realize, and are in keeping with
our slogan, “where the better class of
photoplays are shown.” We enjoy
screening such shows and we know
you certainly enjoy seeing the last
word in screen entertainmnt. Don’t
follow the crowd, get in ahead of
it. 10-1t
Rev. Reed O. Steely Returned to Belle-
fonte by Conference.
The many friends of Rev. Reed O.
Steely, pastor of the United Evangel-
ical church, will be glad to know that
he has been returned to the Bellefonte
church in the annual appointments
made at the church conference which
closed at York, Pa., on Monday. Other
Centre county appointments are as
follows: . :
Howard, T. R. Husler; Nittany, W.
P. Grove; Centre Hall, W. E. Smith;
Millheim, H. C. Klepfel; Spring Mills,
M. W. Dayton. Members of quarterly
conference appointments included D.
Artel, of Spring Mills, and W. C.
Bierly, State College. :
great and famed stars as Lloyd
SPIGELMYER.—Mrs. Hannah Mary
Spigelmyer, wife of William M.
Spigelmyer, superintendent of schools
in Sandy township, Clearfield county,
died unexpectedly on Sunday evening
at her home in DuBois. She had been
a sufferer for several months with
phlebitis but was quite cheerful all
day on Sunday and early in the even-
ing she collapsed and died before a
physician could be summoned.
A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W.
Showalter she was born at State
College on May 2nd, 1880, hence was
not quite forty-seven years old. Her
childhood was spent at State College
but eventually her father purchased a
farm at Hartleton, Union county.
where she lived until her marriage to
Mr. Spigelmyer 1901. Her husband
was a school teacher but later was
elected county superintendent of
Union county after which they took
up their residence in Mifflinburg where
they lived until moving to DuBois a
little over four years ago. She was
a member of the Trinity Lutheran
church, of DuBois, the Amaranth
court, the Eastern Star, of Mifflinburg;
the Patriotic Order of Americans, of
Millmont, and the Protected Home
Circle.
Surviving her are her husband and
three children, John, a teacherin the |
Houtzdale High school; Margaret and
Herbert, at home. Her father died a
few years ago but she leaves her
mother, Mrs. Andreas, wife of Rev.
J. F. Andreas, a Methodist minister of
Hastings, and four brothers, Charles
W. Showalter, of Wilkinsburg; Daniel,
a mail carrier, of Bellefonte; John, of
Millmont, and Dr. William B. Show-
walter, of Oswego, N. Y.
Funeral services were held at her
late home in DuBois at 2:30 ¢’clock on
Tuesday afternoon, the remains being
taken to Mifflinburg for burial on
Wednesday.
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WILLIAMS — Mrs. Mary E. Wil-
liams, beloved wife of E. J. Wil-
liams, president of the Peoples’ Na-
tional Bank of State College, died at
her home on Burrowes Street in that
place, on Thursday, March 3rd, at 12
o’clock midnight.
She was born at Unionville on Au-
gust 17th, 1873, a daughter of Thomas
and Clara (Cox) Eckenroth. On Sep-
tember 2, 1897, she was united in mar-
riage to Edward J. Williams, who sur-
vives her with their two children, Mrs.
Mildred Kerns and Charles Edward
Williams, both of State College. She
is also survived by her mother, Mrs.
Clara Eckenroth, and the following
bothers and sisters: Harry E. Ecken-
roth, of Tyrone, Chas. R. Eckenroth,
of Unionville, William Eckenroth, cf
Spring Township; Mrs. A. M. Rishel,
of Bellefonte, and Mrs. Geo. A. Cal-
houn, of Gary, Indiana. Her father,
Thomas Eckenroth, died about four
years ago. She was a wonderful wife
and mother and those who knew: her
best loved her most.
Funeral services were held on Sun-
day at 2 o'clock p. m., by her pastor,
Rev. A. E. Mackie, of St. Paul’s M. E.
church, State College, of which she
had been a consistent member since
girlhood.
Bellefonte Academy Won Boxing Meet
from Bucknell.
A large crowd gathered in the
Moose theatre, last Friday evening, to
see the first annual boxing meet he-
tween Bellefonte Academy and Buck-
nell Freshmen. The Academy won
five bouts to two. The 115 and 135
pound houts were exceptionally close
and exciting. William Turish, ; of-
Penn State, refereed the meet while
the judges were Essic Kline and Ralph
Haag. The events and winners were
as follows:
115-pound class—Brehm. Bellefonte, won
from Hughes, Bucknell.
125-pound class—Marchisano,
defeated J. Adams, Bellefonte.
135-pounid eclass—R. Johnson, Bellefonte,
won from Guidotti, Bucknell. ?
145-pound class—Storas, Bucknell, .de-
feated Hedges, Bellefonte. Sie
160-peund class—Mutzel, .Bellefonte, won
over Lepore, Bucknell. : An :
175-pound class—Lucainis, Bellefonte, de-
feated Jones, Bucknell.
Dresher, of Bellefonte, won the heavy-
weight elass.
Bucknell,
——Next Monday one of the really
big public sales of the spring will be
held at the Frank Donovan farm, one
mile east of Axe Mann: It will be
especially intersting to cattle buyers
as Frank has forty-two head of good
ones to be sold that day. The sale
will start at 10 in the morning, with
L. F. Mayes, auctioneering.
——V. J. Bauer, who has been quite
seriously ill at his home on Bishop
street, was reported as being some-
what improved yesteday.
OAK HALL.
Paul Homan, a young son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Homan, underwent a
slight operation for a gland infection
last Tuesday.
Miss Ruth Martz, who is engaged
in nursing in Philadelphia, spent last
week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. B. Martz.
Mrs. John Lambert and family, of
Bellefonte, and Miss Mabel Grove, of
Williamsport, visited at the Luther
Dale home, Sunday.
Richard Mabus, of Bellefonte, spent
several days during the past week at
the Ross Lowder home as a guest of
Miss Kathryn Shaffer.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Alexander, of
Unionville, and Mr. and Mrs. James
Gilliland and children, of Boalsburg,
were visitors on Sunday at the home
of Mrs. Nannie Gilliland.
Olney Bank Bandits Pay Penalty in
Death Chair at Rockview.
The four Olney bank bandits from
Philadelphia paid the penalty for the
murder of patrolman Harry M. Cooper
in the death chair at Rockview, on
Monday morning, and the four men
marked the trail in exactly thirty-two
minutes. The first man to go was Jo-
selph Curry, 28 years old and mar-
ried. As the guards started with him
to the chair at seven o’clock he called
goodbye to his three comrades and
with unfaltering footsteps walked the
short distance from the cell room to
the death chamber. The current was
turned on at 7.02 and only one con-
tact was given, the man being pro-
nounced dead at 7.07 by Dr. C. J. New-
comb.
The second man was Harry Bentley,
25 years old and unmarried. He was
taken to the chair at 7.10 and was
pronounced dead at 7:14 by Dr. John
Priestess, of Pittsburgh.
William Juliana, 23 years old and
unmarried, was taken to the chair at
7:17. Two contacts were given him,
one at 7:19 and another at 7:22, and
it was 7:24 when he was pronounced
dead by Dr. Newcomb.
The last man to go was Frank
Doris, 23 years old and married. He
was taken to the chair at 7:26, the
electricity was turned on one minute
later and at 7:32 he was pronounced
dead by Dr. Priestess.
All the bodies were claimed by rela-
tives and after being prepared for
shipment by West and Co., local fun-
eral directors, were sent to Philadel-
phia for burial.
The crime for which the men went
to their death was the murder of Har-
ry M. Cooper, a Philadelphia police-
man, on the morning of May 4th, 1926,
during a holdup and attempted rob-
bery of Wiliam O. Miller, a messenger
of the Olney bank. The latter was
out making collections and had $100,-
417 in two bags. As he came out of
a branch institution of the Olney
bank a big blue closed car drove up
to the curb and stopped. Four men
sprang out while one of them stuck
to the steering wheel with the engine
running. Two of the men grabbed the
messenger while one of the others
snatched one of the bags containing
$83,000 and made for the big car. The
holdup attracted the police and shots
rang out thick and fast. One police-
man was badly wounded and shots
from a policeman’s gun cut the com-
mutator on the bandit’s car, rendering
it useless.
They then scattered in an effort to
escape, several of them commandeer-
ing a milk truck. Patrolman Harry
Cooper jumped on the running board
of another car and chased the men in
the milk truck and it was in the chase
that he was shot dead by one of the
bandits. Four of the men were round-
ed up within a short time but the:
fifth escaped and has never
tured. Sh
Speedy trials followed, Curry hav-
ing been convicted on May 13th, Bent-
ley on May 26th, Juliana on June 5th
and Doris on June 14th. Applications
for new trials were refused and the
cases were appealed to the Supreme
court. The appeal was refused on De-
cember 6th and the date for their elec-
trocution was set for January 31st.
After Governor Fisher was inaugurat-
ed the cases were carried to the board
of pardons and a stay was granted
been cap-
until. March 7th. The pardon board
refused the applications and the four
men were brought to the death house
last Wednesday. :
During the latter part of the week
the bandits’ attorney, C. Stuart Pat-
terson, made every effort possible to
secure another respite for the men but
Governor Fisher refused to interfere,
and the sentence of the law was car-
ried out on Monday morning.
The case had been so widely dis-
cussed in newspapers of the State
that staff newspapermen from Phila-.
delphia, New York and Pittsburgh |
were admitted as : witnesses. of the
electrocution, oi
: This was“ the-second time in the
history of the death chair that four
men were electrocuted at one time for
the commission of the same crime, the
other occasion being on June 20th,
1921, when four men from Erie paid
the penalty for murder.
From the day the bandits were
brought, to Rockview penitentiary,
Wednesday of last week, up until
Monday evening, following the elec-
trocution, approximately 35,000 words
of press matter was sent out from
the Western Union office in Bellefonte,
not counting long-distance telephone
messages. This was the largest
amount of “special” sent from Belle-
fonte at any one time since the tragic
death of Charles H. Ames, the intrepid
airmail pilot, who fell to his death on
Nittany mountain in October, 1925.
At that time 47,000 words were sent.
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——On Tuesday evening Mrs. Alice
Robb tipped over a rocking chair in
which she was sitting, at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. W. Harrison
Walker, fell heavily to the floor and
dislocated her right shoulder and
broke her right arm near the shoulder.
She was taken to the Centre county
hospital on Wednesday morning to
have the fracture reduced.
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Thaddeus R. Hamilton has been
critically ill during the past week, at
the home of his brother, Thomas B.
Hamilton, on north Allegheny street.
His condition was such that his
daughter, Mrs. Broderick, was called
from State Cellege a week ago and
has remained with him since that
time.
days.
tion during the sale.
| paid in advance.
each dollar sent and
Your Opportunity at the
Watchman Office
To keep step with the plan to
make next Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday real golden opportunity
days in Bellefonte this office will do its
bit and join with the local merchants in
their effort to make it worth while for
everyone to come to Bellefonte on those
We will give a golden opportunity
ticket with each dollar paid on subscrip-
back subscriptions, as well as to those
In case of remittances by mail,
which must be received by noon, Satur-
day March 19, we will fill in tickets for
others, so that a Walchman reader in
Altoona, for instance, can have the same
opportunity as one right here at home.
For every new subscription sent
or brought to this office we will give a
a golden opportunity ticket and a hand-
some, new Valet Auto-Strop Safety Razor.
The latter is put up in a velvet-lined
metal case, so compact and neat that it
is a very handy companion for either
man or woman at home or traveling.
This will apply to
place them with all
Judge Harry Keller's Funeral Large-
ly Attended on Saturday.
A large concourse of people attend-
ed the funeral of the late Judge Har-
ry Keller, on Saturday; men and wo-
men not drawn there through idle
curiosity but with heavy hearts and
bowed heads to pay their last homage
of respect to one they
ored.
Prior to the services at the home
of former Judge Ellis L. Orvis, a
meeting of the Centre county bar was
held in the court house where Judge
Keller was so ably presiding when
stricken with a fatal illness on Wed-
nesday morning. John Blanchard
Esq., presided and in a brief talk told
of the purpose of the meeting and
paid a loyal tribute to the late Judge
for his unswerving devotion to the in-
terests of his ‘clients, as an attorney,
and to his impartial honesty and
scrupulous conscientiousness as a
judge. :
N. B. Spangler, chairman of the
committee appointed to draft a min-
ute and resolution, read the report, a
detailed sketch of the life of Mr. Kel-
ler, with a resolution that the same be
inscribed upon the court records and
that a copy thereof be presented to
the bereaved wife and sons.
The meeting was then thrown open
for remarks and Harry T. Hall Esq.,
of Lock Haven, conveyed the expres-
sions of grief and regret from the
members of the Cilnton county bar as-
sociation. : :
The principal speaker of the mect-
ing was Hon. Albert W.“Johnson, of
Lewisburg, judge of the federal court
for the middle district of Pennsyl-
vania. He spoke at some length on
the life and character of Judge Kel-
ler and in closing expressed the hope
that when “we are called to answer
the final summons we may be as well
prepared to start on that silent: jour-
ney into the unknown hereafter as he
felt certain Judge Keller was.” . He
also paid a tribute to the four. sturdy:
sons left. to carry on the work of
doing something good and useful,
something worthwhile in the world,
which for so many years, through sev-
eral generations, has characterized the
Keller family. 3
Other brief speeches were made by
Judge Thomas W. Bailey, of Hunt-
ingdon; Judge A. R. Chase, of Clear-
field, and Col. H. S. Taylor, of Belle-
fonte, who spoke as a neighbor and
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loved and hon- |
tain of the
friend. At the conclusion of the re-
marks prothonotary Roy Wilkinson
read a resolution of regret received
from the Lycoming county bar asso-
ciation and a telegram of regret from:
the State Supreme court centained in
a telegram from Chief Justice Robert
von Moschzisker. -
From the court house the members
of the bar, court officials and county
officers marched in a body to the Orvis
home, on the corner of Allegheny and
Curtin streets, where funeral services:
were held at eleven o'clock. Rev.
Robert Thena, pastor of the Reform-
ed church, was in charge, and was as-
sisted by Rev. Dr. Ambrose M.
Schmidt, of Greenville, Pa., who had
been Judge Keller's pastor for about.
a quarter of a century. Private in-
tement was made’ inthe Union cem-
etery. - Honorary pall-bearers. includ-
ed "close “personal friends: of the late
Judge and members of the Centre
county bar and visiting judges and
attorreys. The floral offerings were
unusually elaborate and profuse.
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Bellefonte Y’s “Krax.”
The Bellefonte Y. M. C. A. had a
distinguished visitor on Monday even-
ing in the person of Philo C. Dix, the
new State secretary, who met with the
local board and gave a talk on the Y
throughout North America. Mr. Dix
succeeds Mr. J. B. Carruthers and
comes to Pennsylvania after twen’y-
three years experience in Kentucky.
In the junior girls game tournament
the Reds are leading the Blues 41 to
37. Miss Anna Mary Troupe is eap-
Reds and Miss Florence
Cohen the Blues.
Entries are now being taken for
the chess tournament which will begin
Monday, March 7th. All chess players
are invited to enter.
——Word from Harry Peters, one
of Bellefonte’s boys now with the U.
‘S. Navy, was recently received by the
Harry Clevenstine family, telling of
his promotion and transfer, from the
S .S. “Pittsburgh” to the S. S. “Pres-
ton,” which means that he is now on
his way to help protect American in-
terect in China. Harry had enlisted’
for four years, the time expiring in
September, but has now re-enlisted for:
two more years and will probably re-
main permanently with the U. S.
Navy.
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