Bellefonte, Pa, May 27, 1927.
SE A A Nn,
“COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR
SHADOWS BEFORE.”
Jack Thornton paced impatiently
up and down the narrow platform of
the railroad station, anxiously await-
.ing the midnight express of the New
York Central, which was a bit late.
The train boys were still chanting,
“Magazines here and papers;” :
“Here, boy, let me have something
. good in short, crisp stories.”
“What’ll you have, sir? take your
choice.”
“The best you have to keep awake
until two in the morning,” said Jack.
“Take this’un,” said the boy, “and
you'll stay awake “ill six in the morn-
ing, and you won’t have the trouble
of going to bed, or gettin’ up either.”
Snatching the magazine from the
boy’s hand, he passed him some
change and made a bound for the
train, the conductor having already
called, “all aboard.” a
Expecting to reach his destination
in less than two hours, Jack did not
bother to take a sleeper, and his in-
tentions to keep awake were of the
best, but after reading for some time,
he became drowsy, and very shortly
was sound asleep, when, “bang,” the
cars were coupled at some junction,
and Jack’s heavy traveling bag was
thrown violently from the rack over-
head, landing on his ankle. Partially
awake, he muttered an expletive at the
railroad company, rubbed his ankle
for a second, and again fell asleep.
Very shortly the shrill voice of the
brakeman announced, “Olean! Olean!
all out for Olean!” Jack again awoke
with a start, grabbed his bag, and as
a veteran traveling salesman, made a
rush to get out, when, suddenly, he
‘was reminded that the fall of his bag
“on his ankle, had left him with a de-
cided limp. Carefully stepping from
the train, he jocularly remarked to
the conductor; “if this darned thing
gives me trouble, I'll sue you for
damages.”
“Crack ahead,” said the conductor,
bidding Jack good night.
The next morning, Jack awoke,
“sound as a dollar,” apparently, and
gave the incident of the traveling
bag no further thought. He went
about his business as usual, but in
‘less than a week, he found himself in
one of New York’s largest hostleries.
bedfast, with a fully developed case
of blood poisoning, as a result of the
bruise to his ankle.
The day for Jack’s wedding was set
at an early date. Realizing the help-
lessness of his condition, he immedi-
ately wired his sister. “Am ill. Come
at once. Bring Virginia.”
On their arrival, they found him
under the care of one of the best sur-
geons in the city, who awaited them
with the “danger signal,” the next
morning. He who had never been ill
a day in his life, and with a decided
boron for hospitals, was inclined to
rebel.
“You can take your choice,” said
Dr. Lambert, and turning to the girls
said, rather tersely, “I have made the
requisite examination, and it remains
for him to decide, and to decide quick-
ly;” he nervously and unconsciously
took out his watch, “he is taking a
chance in delaying even until morn- |
ing a chance between life and death,”
the Doctor went on, rubbing his hands
across his eyes.
Turning to Jack, he said, “Consider
yourself favored; few critical cases
such as yours, are sufficiently con-
siderate to give the patient a choice.
You have it, but it will not wait. Cel.
erity is your best medicine just now.”
“I can’t believe it possible,” Jack
objected with a deep sigh, for he was
a coward where pain was concerned,
“and I will not decide to-night.”
For some moments, Dr. Lambert
sat frowning darkly. Realizing the
seriousness of the case, he resumed
briskly: “Well, IT have made the ex-
amination, and I know what I am
talking about,” and with a smile, not;
altogether pleasant, he left the pa-
tient for the night. At the door, he
turned and said: “I live in the hotel;
I occupy room 448: cali me any time.
Realizing the gravity of your case, I
feel it my duty to emphasize that a
delay is a chance between life and
death. Good night.”
Jack Thornton loved his sister bet-
ter than any one else in the world.
Their mother had died many years be-
fore, and being a number ‘of years
older than Jack, she was both mother
and sister to him. That his fiancee
was second in his affections, could
easily be noticed in his crisis. After
considerable reasoning, his sister had
persuaded him to obey the Doctor's
orders and go to the hospital in the
morning. Going to the telephone, she
summoned Dr. Lambert, who came
immediately, with a bright gleam in
his sunny blue eyes, and an adorable
smile playing around his grim mouth.
He had triumphed. - He arranged to
convey Jack to the hospital at nine the
next morning, and at eleven he would
perform the operation.
Promptly at nine o’clock the next
morning, the taxi that conveyed Jack,
his sister, and his fiancee, drew up
before the city’s largest hospital. It’s
wide portals were thrown open, and
the attendants in white livery, wheel-
ed Jack, with the glistening diamonds
of sweat prickling out of his fore-
head for he was filled with great
trepidation—into the room Dr. Lam-
bert had engaged for him.
Directly, the nurse engaged for
Jack entered, bright-faced and eager,
with a cheer and a smile, and an
abundance of wit, in her Irish whole-
somenéss, that immediately captivat-
ed Jack. Walking up to him, she
proceeded to undo the bandage about
his foot, saying, “Sore foot, eh?”
locking up at Jack with a cheery
smile.
“Sore, hell, I should say so,” Jack
groaned petulantly. :
“Jack,” his sister reprimanded in
kindly voice,” “don’t be so rude.”
“We're accustomed to such re-
marks,” said the nurse. “Men have
little patience with suffering, you
know.”
A pang of pain wrenched Jack—a
of agony that distorted his fea-
ik Po and he took a long
breath.
“Pain, eh?” said the nurse. “That’s
a result of that naughty word you
just uttered,” again smiling up at
Jack.
“What you up to now ?” asked Jack.
“I'm not going to hurt you one
little bit. I'm only going to inject
this into your arm to quiet your:
nerves.” ;
“Not on your life. I draw the line
on any one injecting ‘dope’ into me,”
grumbléd Jack, but under that ador-
able, cheery smile, Jack relented, and
very shortly he became more quiet.
The clock in the distance chimed
the quarter past ten, and Jack waited
expectantly. The minutes passed
slowly, but at precisely eleven Dr.
Lambert entered the room. The quiet
opening of a door and a roll of rub-
ber wheels, combined with a sickish
whiff of ether, heralded the introduc-
tion of Jack into the bright glare of
the operating room. = A whispering
and shuffle as the orderly nurses laid
the patient on the table; instrument
tables were dragged into position, and
Dr. Lambert, in the cool way of the
‘surgeon, walked in to take his place.
+ With his voice even and low, his man-
ner serious and grave, he looked about
quizzically for a moment, and then,
with his deliberate skill, he made the
incision. The final dressing was giv-
en, and Jack was wheeled back to his
room, where he remained for one
month, under the faithful care of his
little Irish nurse, his sister and his
fiancee having departed for their
homes, after all danger had passed,
to prepare for the wedding, which
was to take place immediately or
Jack’s return to his customary health
and vigor.
His convalescence was rapid, and
before many days, he found himself
sicker at heart, than as the result of his
ankle, for he realized that he had
made a mistake. He realized that he
did not love the girl to whom he had
been devoted since childhood—that
girl to whom he had sacredly pledged
his love, his life—and that within a
few short weeks. He realized that he
loved his little Irish nurse, and that
he would be doing the girl to whom
he was betrothed, and himself, a great
injustice by making her his wife.
Possessed of a high sense of honor,
he was at a loss to know what to do.
He was not himself. He decided he
would expalin to his fiancee, but when
he tried to frame an explanation, he
could think of none except frankly to
tell her he did not love her, and the
wedding could not take place. She
would break down, probably; he would
break her heart; women could not
bear disappointment like men. It was
not a very comforting thought.
At about that time, the nurse en-
tered, almost as cruelly gay and hap-
py, as it appeared to Jack. Looking
down at him with that same adorable
smile, she remarked, “No sleep ?
What on earth is the matter? You
don’t look happy. No letter from
your fiancee to-day? I tell fortunes
at times, shall 1 tell yours?” she went
on lightly, realizing Jack was “in the
depths.”
“You are my fortune,” said Jack,
“but go ahead and tell me what you
know, it always does hold a peculiar
fascination for me, somehow.”
“How mystical and sarcastic you
are. I have a great mind not to tell
you what I do know.”
“Come, come,” Jack coaxed, look-
ing up at her eagerly.
“Well, you'll have a letter in the
morning,” went on the little Irish
nurse, “She’s busy getting ready for
your wedding thinking of you evely
minute. She loves you to adoration;
she—"
“Stop!” interrupted Jack, not want-
ing to hear any more from her lips.
“Allow me to tell your fortune now.
I'm a palmist, however, so you must
give me your hand.”
“What a joke you are. You are on
a fair way to recovery, I note,” said
she evasively, her blue eyes wonder-
ing.
Jack, somewhat impulsively, grip-
ped her slender, white hands, and held
them for a brief moment, not sure of
himself, but when she attempted
quietly: “I’m hard hit. Is my fate
to love you. I’ve loved you from the
first, Pve—"
“Hush!” interrupted the nurse,
with a nervous tremor in her voice.
“Don’t tell me you love another,”
Jack pleaded.
“I love and am loved by another,”
she explained. “I am promised to an-
other, and I am very, very happy, but
for one thing. My fiancee enlisted at
the beginning of the conflict, as a
private. He fought in the battle of
the Marne and was wounded in the
head while doing trench duty; he was
removed to rest trenches within the
fighting zone, his injury not being
sufficiently grave to justify his trans.
fer to one of the hospitals at Paris,
so I am often unhappy, but T am go-
ing to follow him to France,” she
went on, her blue eyes becoming ten-
der. “I want to be near him if he
needs me. I am going over with the
hospital corps in less than two weeks.
I try to keep cheery, it is my duty
here but at heart I am often oh, so
sad.”
Jack did not interrupt her. She
hesitated a moment, as though at a
loss, then continued: “I'm so sorry
for what has occurred. I tried my
best to be kind and cheerful to do ail
I could to make you comfortable, to
do my fullest duty. If in any way I
have been guilty of anything to have
misled you, I beg you to forgive me.
It was unintentional. I regarded you
as married, knowing you were going
to be wedded at an early date. Your
fiancee is adorable and she loves you
to the point of idolatry. I can mot
tell you how shocked and sorry I am
that you do not love her. I know you
do, for she told me you have been
lovers since childhood. What you
feel for me is merely infatuation,
through my being kind to you during
your illness, when you were not just
yourself. In the end, you would real-
ize that you had made a mistake,
therefore, I plead that you forget me;
I mean, think of me only as your
nurse, ac your friend always, if you
wish, but put any other thought of
me out of your life, and marry that
girl you have grown up with, that girl
I know you love, I know you will get
on well together and that your life,
will be happy together., Will you
promise me, not for my sake, but for
hers, for yours?” :
Jack took her hand tenderly, look-
ing up into her sunny blue eyes, he
said, “You truly are a rare jewel.”
His voice broke. ‘I will promise you,
for your sake, but oh, God, I can nev-
er forget you. "May your life be fill-
ed with much happiness. Forgive me
if I have pained you. You have done
only your duty. If you ever need a
friend, always remember, I am that
one!”
“Thank you,” said the nurse,
greatly affected, gently removing her
hand. “Now, you must get a nice
rest before dinner,” she went on pro-
fessionally, and turning to the table
near-by, poured a glass of water, dis-
solved a powder therein, handed it to
Jack, and quietly left the room.
Jack felt as though the life had
gone out of him. He tossed for a
time, but the powder the nurse had
given him was evidently a quieting
one, and very shortly he was sound
asleep.
On the identical day that Dr. Lam-
| bert dismissed Jack from the hospital,
the little Irish nurse took her depar-
ture for France. She bade him good-
| bye, wishing him a “happy ever af-
| ter,” with that same cheery smile, and
he, with a sad heart, wished her bon
voyage.
Almost immediately on his return
home, Jack was caught in the draft.
His wedding occurred two days prior
to his departure for a Southern ecan-
tonment, and six months thereafter
he had landed in France.
When the little Irish nurse reached
the war zone, she paced the deck of
the steamer in great expectancy; she
imagined those open arms that would
receive her, but alas! how different.
On arriving at the hospital where she
was to do duty, almost the first face
her eyes fell on, in the long row of
wounded, was that of her betrothed.
After recovering from his wounds
in the battle of the Marne, he was
caught in a bayonet charge, and for
days lay like one dead. On recogniz-
ing him, she paled, but listened brave-
ly to the duty assigned her, although
her nervousness was apparent. She
paced the floor with a visible effort
at self. control, not knowing whether
to try and rouse him or not, when,
suddenly, he opened his eyes. She
drew near and he recognized her. His
eyes shone with some splendid vision.
She bent over him and kissed him. A
deep serenity overtook him, and he
muttered faintly; “I don’t want to
die: Don’t let me die.”
She again bent over him and kiss-
ed him, saying calmly: “You will not
die. I will not let you die and we will
soon be happy together.”
He put up his arms as if to em-
brace her. His lips moved as if to
answer her, but just a smile, and his
spirit had fled.
His death was like a flaming sword,
and in a moment all was changed for
her. She felt that nothing mattered
now. The one world-together was
now obliterated. Irrevocable death
blocked the way. Fate wrenched him
from her. Despair seized her, but
with an ineffable calm about the poise
of ‘her graceful figure, she moved
about her duties, giving a cheer and
a smile with each bitter dose, but ever
vibrant with memories of the past, Ls
and no hope of the future.
In the midst of one of her reveries,
she was aroused by the gong of the
ambulance drawing up to the en-
trance of the hospital, and the wound-
ed were shortly brought in by the
score. Among the first, she recogniz- |
ed the face of her former patient,
Jack Thornton. He was semicon. |
scious after a severe gassing. His
thoughts immediately went to his lit- .
tle Irish nurse, and with a faint voice |
he gently pleaded, “Can I not be as-
signed an American nurse?”
nurse stood near, and stepped for-
ward, saying sweetly “I am an Amer-
ican nurse, and I'll take care of you.”
He looked up and immediately recog- !
nized her. To weak to speak, he ex-
tended his hand, and tears bedimmed
his eyes. She gently stroked his brow
in recognition, and a long silence fell
between them.
For weeks he lay hovering between
life and death. A cable from home
awaited him, and the little Irish nurse
was filled with great trepidation at
the thought of the news it might con-
tain, and the effect it might have on
her patient.
When Jack was pronounced suff- |
ciently strong to receive the news, it
fell to her to break it. With forced
gaiety she entered the ward, and with
her cheeriest smile said, “A cable-
gram from home awaits you,” hand-
ing it to him with assumed unconcern.
With a smile, he passed it back to
her, saying, “Won't you kindly open
it and break the news? Is it a son or
a daughter?”
The little nurse, exultant with joy
at his unexpected revelation, not
waiting to open the message, said,
“It's a son, and he shall be called
Jack, Jr.”
They laughed joyously, while she
opened the little envelope. Glancing
at it she read, “Virginia gave birth to
a fine son but sacrificed her life for
her son. Her last words were of you.
Mary.”
The message dropped to the floor,
and in her weakened condition, the
shock caused her to swoon. Jack
likewise was stunned, and neither
could speak, when the hospital sur-
geon entered. He revived both, but
Jack suffered a relapse, and another
week passed under the faithful care
of his little Irish nurse.
When he again grew stronger, to
comfort him, she related the details
of her crushing sorrow. Tears bedim-
med the eyes of both. Suddenly Jack
clasped her hands, as he had done on
that previous occasion, nearly a year
before. She did not withdraw them
as previously. Jack drew her nearer,
and sealed their fate with a kiss, say-
ing faintly, “Providence has given us
Sach paoiliey chance.”—By D. Blanche
mull.
~——Nobody ever worked so hard
that somebody wasn't willing that he
should work harder; nor loafed so
hard that a doting mother didn’t be-
lieve that he was overworked.
(ORTHODOX),
existing under
Maryland, for i
ing trustee of
ty and Burial
tre and State of P
other property and
In the Court of Common Pleas of Cen-
Pennsylvania. No. 195 May
To the HONORABLE JAMES C.
President Judge of the said Co
tition of BALTIMORE YEARLY
G OF FRIENDS (ORTHODOX),
respectfully represents:
First.— That it is a cor
corporated and existing
the State of Maryland
ed by Act of the Gener
State of Maryland, entit
incorporate the Baltimore Ye
of Friends (Orthodox),”
7, 1886, being Acts of 1
Assembly in its
reads as follows: i
Be it enacted by the Gener- |
al Assembly of Maryland, That Francis T. |
King, James Carey,
Joseph P. Elliott,
poration duly in-
under the laws of
and so incorporat-
Assembly of the
approved April
886, Chapter 327, :
James Carey Thomas, |
Francis. White, Jesse
W. Davis, Simon J. Marten- |
Jr., Joseph Edge, George
. Crenshaw, John Pret-
L. Scott, John B
low, Thomas McCoy and Zach
and all those persons now con-
Society known as
Meeting of Friends |
Shore of Maryland, Vir-
jacent parts of Pennsyl-
the Ancient Yearly
who now hold their
stituting the religious
the “Baltimore Yearly
for the Western
ginia and the ad
vania, in unity
Meeting of Friends,”
yearly Meeting on Kutaw Street in the
and all those persons
become menibers there-
to the rules and discipline of
or such rules
hereafter be adopted there-
y are hereby
rporate by the name of
ly Meeting of Friends
and by that name shall have
and be able and
City of Baltimore,
who may hereafter
said Society,
the Baltimore Year
perpetual succession,
capable to sue and be sued at law
all acts neces
ing into effect t
of the aforesai
hereby authori
ceive and hold by gift,
purchase, or otherwise,
al estate and other eff:
and the same to gr
mise or otherwise di
y and lawful for carry-
he objects and purposes
d Society, and they are
zed and empowered to re-
grant, devise,
real and person-
ects and property,
ant, mortgage, de-
spose of, the whole
part or parts thereof; provided,
r yearly incme from
erty of said Corporation shal
of twenty-five thousand
And be it enacted, That the
e Corporation hereby creat-
ption and carrying
discipline of the re-
ceed the sum
objects of th
are for the ado
out the rules and
ligious Society of Friends,
hold their Yearly Meeting on. Eutaw
, in the City of Baltimore, and for
e carrying out such religious, educa-
onal and charitable work as that in
d Society of Friends has
y hereafter be engaged.
And be it enacted, That the
rules and discipline of the said
of Friends. as laid down in its la
adopted by said Yearly
€ year eighteen hundred
and seventy-six, shall be the rules and
discipline of the
created, and the same may be
and changed in such manner as has been
be adopted by said
which the sai
of Discipline,
Meeting in th
or may hereafter
Yearly Meeting.
be it enacted.
this Act shall take effect from the date
of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1886.
Second.—That
years and in the y
for a great number of
ear 1834 and subsequent !
House property whereon was and
ed a Meeting House
hurch formerly of the sa
id Centre Month-
g of Friends, in the Borough of
e, in the County of Centre, and
of Pennsylvania, and
Centre Monthly
situate in the same
dated the twenty-sec-
ground of said
held under a deed
ond day of the te
known as the month of Oectob
year of our Lord one thous
dred and thirty four, record
ding of deeds, &c. in and for |
nty of Centre o
fourth day of October,
Book M. page, 432,
eorge Valentine and Mary,
Reuben B. Valentine and Sarah.
{ Abraham 8. Valentine and Clay
alentine and Ig4lia, his wife,
homas and Eliza, his
part, and Isaac Miller,
part, conveying to the
party of the second part,
according to the course |
of England and his as-
rtheless, as thereinafter
t forth, the said premises
d as follows, to wit:
that certain lot or piece of land
bounded on the
McGonigle, on the
LD. Harris Mill
a kriends Meeting house thereon
inning at a post on the line
I tract thence N
eighty eight and a half
hence South twenty-five
ghty eight feet to Mc-
4 post; thence South
est sixteen feet by the
m Bellefonte to Harris
to a post, thence
and eight hun-
ed in the office
for the recor
n the twenty-
A. D. 1839 in Deed
et seq., being a deed
| wife, Bond V;
As fate decreed, the little Irish '
wife, of the first
of the second
and to his heirs,
of the common law
signs in trust neve
{in said deed se
therein describe
in Bellefonte,
East by lot of Hugh
2
five degrees East
feet to a post, t
degrees East ei
Gonigle’s lot to
forty degrees W
road leadirg fro
Mill sixteen feet
twenty five degrees West twenty
a post thence south
seventy-two fee
said Mill tract
West one hundred & tw
of beginning; also a ce
land situate on the N
the Forge tract adjoin
Daniel Dobbins on t
closed by a stone wal
signed as a place of
nevertheless to and for the us
ge of the religious
called Quakers bel
y Meeting, held at Belle-
etual succession forever.”
.—That subsequent to
d Isaac Miller, on peti
able Court of Eliza M.
others, all the then members
tre Monthly Meeting of Frie
33 August Term, 1901, under
“In the matter
tion of the Members of Cen
Meeting of Friends, for the
of new trustees of the M
property and Burial Ground
and stead of Isaac Miller,
decree of your Honorable C
said proceeding Ma
le Court entered th
sixty degrees west
t to a postin the line of |
North twenty-five
0 feet to the place
rtain lot or piece of
orthern Border of
ing a lot of Doc,
he North and in-
1 occupied and de-
Centre Monthl
fonte in Perp
the following
eeting: House
, in the place
deceased; by
ourt dated and
y 1, 1901, your
e following de-
“And now May 1,
petition read and co
the Court does here]
does hereby appoi
Jr. Edmund Blan
hell, Trustees of the Cen-
eeting of Friends and of
ouse Property and Burial
1 the premises mentioned
in the aforementioned
he same to Issac Miller,
ber 22nd, A. D. 1834,
© office for the record-
&ec. in and for Cen
Pennsylvania, in Deed Rook
432 &c., the said Tru
appointed in the plac
said Isaac Miller, deceased,
powers and title,
originaly vested i
the said Isaac. M
said deed, and this a
made without requirin
said Trustees.
1901, the foregoing
nsidered, whereupon
Joseph D. Mite
tre Monthly M
the Meeting H
Ground and al
and described
deed conveying t
Trustee, dated O
and recorded in th
stees being hereby
duties and obligations
n and imposed upon
iller by virtue of the
ppointment being
£ any bond from
By the Court.”
their deed dated
recorded in the of-
ing of deeds, &c. in and
of Centre on February
ook 75, page 605 &c.,
nd Emily J. his wife,
Fourth.— That by
September 4, 1898, and
fice for the record
for the said Count
8, 1809 in Deed B
George Valentine a
or nl SETS,
Publication. of. Copy of Petition 42re=,$ Jain 04 xii. ve wi
and Decree of Court and Rule
Therein Contained, with Notice
to Persons Interested.
In the Matter of the Petition of BALTI-
MORE YEARLY MEETING OF F
a corporation created and
the laws of the State of
ts appointment as succeed-
the Meeting House Proper-
Ground, situate in the Bor-
ough of Bellefonte, in’ the County of Cen-
ennsylvania, and any
assets of what was
y the Centre Monthly Meeting of
N., his wife, Mary B. J. Valentine, Anna
J. Valentine, Caroline M. Valentine, De-
borah D. Valentine, George Valentine, Jr.,
Jacob D. Valentine, Jr., Louise M. Valen.
tine, Ellen D. Valentine, Robert Valentine,
Jr. and John P. Harris, Trustee, conveyed
to George Valentine, Jr. and Edmund
Blanchard, Jr., and to their successors
and assigns, the said premises therein de-
scribed as follows:
ALL that certain tract of ground sit-
uate in the Township of Spring, in the
County of Centre and State of Pennsyl-
vania aforesaid, bounded and described
as follows, to wit: Beginning at a post
north of an oak pointer, on the south-
ern line of the said Borough of Belle-
fonte at the northwestern corner of the
farm tract, other land of the said par-
ties of the first part, thence along said
Borough line south seventy seven and
one-fourth degrees west twenty two and
four-tenths perches to stones, thence by
land now or formerly of the Valentine
Iron Company south twelve and three-
fourths degrees east thirteen perches to
stones, north of dead pine pointer,
thence by same lands north eighty three
and one-fourth degrees east sixteen and
five tenths perches to post, the north-
western corner of what is known as the
Workmens Cemetery, thence by same
north seventy seven degrees east six and
two-tenths perches to the western line
of said farm tract, and thence by said
line north eleven and one-fourth degrees
west fourteen and six-tenths perches to
the beginning; containing one acre and
one hundred and forty perches more or
less, and also containing ga graveyard
on about forty five perches of ground
surrounded by a stone wall;” “in trust
nevertheless to and for the use and bene- |
fit and advantage of the religious society
of the people called ‘Quakers’ belonging
to the Centre Monthly Meeting held at
Bellefonte, in perpetual succession for-
ever, to be used as a place of burial un-
der the direction and control of the said
Centre Monthly Meeting.”
Fifth.— That in and by the last will and
testament of Mary V. Hale, late of the
Borough of Bellefonte, in the County of
Centre and State of Pennsylvania, deceas-
ed, dated November 12, 1900, and probated
before the Register of Wills for Centre
County, Pennsylvania, at Bellefonte, Pa.
and remaining on file in the office of the
said Register and therein recorded in Will
Book E, page 541, &c. the said testatrix
made a bequest as follows, to wit:
“I give and bequeath unto the Trustee
or Trustees of Centre Monthly Meeting of
Friends, Bellefonte, Penna. or to the per-
son, persons or body corporate, holding
the legal title to the Meeting House and
grave-yard properties of said Monthly
Meeting, at the time of my decease, or in
whom the legal title to said properties
may then or shall thereafter be vested,
his, her, or their successors, the sum of
One thousand dollars ($1,000) to be paid
by my executors, hereinafter named,
within three years after my decease, in-
terest on said sum of one thousand dol-
lars, to be likewise paid by my said exec-
utors from the date of my death until
the aforesaid payment of the said prin-
cipal sum, at the rate of five per cent,
per annum thereon, payable yearly, the
first payment of said interest to fall due
one year from and after my decease; in
trust nevertheless to invest the said sum
of one thousand dollars on good and
sufficient security to keep the same thus
invested from time to time to collect the
income and profits arising therefrom
and to appropriate said income and prof-
its from time to time together with the
interest to be received from my said ex-
ecutors prior to the payment of the said
principal sum as aforesaid, in manner
following, to wit: First, to the preser-
vation in good order and condition at all
times of the graves of my grandmother,
Ann Bond Valentine, my father, mother
and brothers, in the graveyard of the
said Centre Monthly Meeting; and sec-
ond, to use whatever remains of said in-
come and profits each year after paying
for the proper care of these graves, for
the care and maintenance of the Meet-
ing House property of the said Centre
Monthly Meeting in such manner as the
said Centre Monthly Meeting shall di-
rect; it being, however, a condition of
this trust that these graves shall at all
times thus be cared for out of the in-
come and profits from this fund as a
superior and primary charge thereon,
and that only so much of said income
and profits shall be appropriated each
year to the aforesaid uses of the Meet-
ing as remain after paying the expen-
ses and charges for such care of the said
graves: the said bheanest to terminate
and the entire fund to revert to my es-
tate in case of a failure at any time to
comnly faithfully with the terms of this
condition.”
Sixth.—That on or about April 4, 1902,
the above named George Valentine. Jr.
Edmund Blanchard and Joseph D. Mitch-
ell, Trustees of the Centre Monthly Meet-
ing of Friends, received payment of the
above mentioned legacy from Ellen Hale
Andrews. and George Murray Andrews,
Executors of the last will and testament
| of the said Mary V. Hale, deceased, since
i Which time the "principal amount of said
[fund viz. $1000., had been invested bv
said Trustees and the income derivable
therefrom collected and disposed of by
said Trustees,
Seventh.—That in later years, because of
face changes of residence and for other
reasons, the membership of the said
Monthly meeting became very small and
attendance of meetings for worship in said
meeting house and of business meetings
of the said Monthly Meeting became small-
er and smaller, until such meetings for
worship entirely ceased, and it became
impracticable for said Monthly meeting to
function as the local organization of the
said religious denomination ; whereupon
by appropriate action by the said
Yearly Meeting, the chief governing
ody, in accordance with the views
of the remaining members of said Month-
ly Meeting, and in accordance with the
rules and discipline of the said Yearly
Meeting, the said Centre Monthly Meeting
was formally “laid down” or discontinned
and thereby ceased to exist, on or about
May 5th 1919.
‘Eighth.—That for many years last past
the said Joseph D. Mitchell, one of the
Trustees above named has permanently
resided in Lewistown, Mifflin County,
Pennsylvania and, as your petitioner is in-
formed, has affiliated with the Protestant
Episcopal Church of America; and that
for a number of years past the said Ed-
mund Blanchard or Edmund Blanchard,
Jr., another of said Trustees, has been liv-
ing in the State of Texas, so that the said
George Valentine, Jr., is the only one of
said Trustees now residing in Bellefonte,
Centre (County, Pennsylvania, and the
only active Trustee.
Ninth.—That the said individual church,
board or agency of the said religious or-
ganization known as the Baltimore Yearly
Meeting of Friends (Orthodox), that is to
say, the said Centre Monthly Meeting of
Friends, has thus become extinct,
Tenth.—That for the reasons above set
forth, it has become impracticable for the
said ' Trustees to fulfill or comply with
the conditions of the bequest under the
said will of Mary V. Hale, deceased, as
set forth in the paragraph hereof number-
ed, Fifth, and that, therefore, it is the de-
sire of the remaining former members of
the said Centre Monthly Meeting of
-| Friends and of your petitioner and of the
said Trustees that the said Trustees be
authorized to declare the termination of
said trust and the reversion of the said
principal fund constituting the corpus of
said trust, to the estate of the said Mary
V. Hale, deceased, in accordance with the
terms of her will, and be authorized to
pay over or transfer to the executors of
the said Mary V. Hale, deceased, the said
principal fund, in termination of said
trust and satisfaction thereof, or that their
acts in doing so be ratified and confirmed,
and that thereupon the said Trustees shall
be released and discharged from all ob-
ligations arising relative to said trust
fund.
Eleventh.—That for the reasons above
set forth, it is also the desire of the said
remaining former members of the said Cen-
tre Monthly Meeting of Friends and of
your petitioner and of the said Trustees,
that upon their release and discharge from
the said trust fund referred to in the par-
agraph hereof numbered Fifth, the said
Trustees shall also be released and dis-
charged from all remaning trusts under
their trusteeship, and particularly from
the trusts relative to the Meeting House
property and Burial Ground, referred to
in the paragraph hereof numbered Seec-
ond, and the additional Burial Ground
bered : Fourth; and: that. thereupon your
petitioner shall’ be appointed by your
Honorable Court in the place and stead of
the said above mentioned Trustees, as
Trustee of said. individual church, board
or agency, that is to say, of the said Cen-
tre Monthly Meeting of Friends and of
all the said remaining trusts relative
thereto.
Twelfth.—That under the constitution
! and discipline governing the said Balti-
more Yearly Meeting of Friends (Ortho-
dox), among other things it is provided
that “when a meeting is discontinued the
propetty belonging to said Meeting shall
e vested in the Yearly Meeting, to be
held in trust for some specific purpose, or
to be used for the advancement of the
general work of the Yearly Meeting, as
that body may determine: and that “alk
funds held by such discontinued Meeting
shall be administered in accordance with
the directions of the original domors;”
and that the Yearly Meeting shall have a
Permanent Board (also called the Repre-
sentative Meeting) whose duty, among oth-
er things, is to “inspect and perfect, when
necessary, titles to land and other estates
belonging to any Meeting.”
Thirteenth.—That your petitioner, dur-
ing the entire existence of the ‘said Cen-
tre Monthly Meeting of Friends and of the
said meeting house or church and burial
grounds thereof, was and is the superior
Judicatory with which said church : has
been connected, and under its charter as
4 corporation is duly qualified to act as
Trustee as aforesaid.
Fourteenth.—That, as herein set forth
{and by reason thereof, the said Centre
| Monthly Meeting of Friends has become
| extinet, and its property is liable to .be
| ‘wasted or destroyed.
WHEREFORE, your petitioner respect-
fully prays as follow : .
| A. That the said George Valentine, g Ley
{ Edmund Blanchard or Edmund Blanchard,
i Jr. and Joseph D. Mitchell, as Trustees as
| aforesaid, be authorized to declare .the
| termination of the trust under the will of
1 Mary V. Hale, deceased, and be thereupon
authorized to complete the reversion and
payment over of the principal or corpus
of said trust fund, or that their acts in
doing so be ratified and confirmed, and
that said trust be thereupon declared
terminated, and that thereupon the said
trustees be released and discharged from
said trust and all obligations arising
thereunder, as set forth in the paragraph
of this petition numbered Tenth.
B. That upon their release and discharge
from the said trust fund last above men-
tioned the said three trustees shall also
be released and discharged from all re-
maining trusts under their trusteeship, as
set forth in the paragraph of this peti-
tion numbered Eleventh.
the place and sfead of the said above
mentioned three original trustees, as the
trustee of the said individual church,
board er agency, that is to say, of the said
Centre Monthly Meeting of Friends and of
all the then remaining trusts relative
thereto, and particularly of the trusts rel-
ative to the Meeting House property and
Burial Ground referred to in the para-
graph of this petition numbered Second,
and relative to the additional Burial
Ground, referred to in the paragraph of
this petition numbered Fourth, in aecord-
ance with the Act of Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania approved
the seventeenth day of May, A. D. 1921
(Pamphlet Laws, page 861, &c.) and in ac-
cordance with any other Act of Assembly
in such case made and provided.
AND your petitioner will ever pray, &ec.
BALTIMORE YEARLY MEETING OF
FRIENDS (ORTHODOX)
By Thomas W. Y. Clark
Clerk of the Permanent Board.
State of Maryland, City of Baltimore, SS:
On the 11th day of May A, D. 1927, be-
fore me, the subscriber, a Notary Public
in and for the said State, personally ap-
peared the above named Thomas W. Y.
Clark, who being duly affirmed according
to law says that he is Clerk of the Per-
manent Board of the Baltimore Yearly
Meeting of Friends (Orthodox), the above
named petitioner, that he makes this af-
fidavit for and on behalf of the said peti-
tioner, that he is well acquainted with the
facts set forth in the said petition, and
that the facts therein set forth are true,
to the best of his knowledge, information.
and belief. A : ’
Affirmed and subscribed to before me the
day’ and year above written,
THOMAS W. Y. CLARK.
Julia B. Robinson,
Notary Public.
My Commission expires May 6, 1929.
Notary’s Seal]
DECREE.
And now May 13th 1927, the foregoing.
petition presented and directed to be filed,
and the Court hereby grants a rule upon
all parties interested to show cause why
the prayers of the foregoing petition
should not be granted, which rule is made
returnable on Tuesday the twelfth day of
July A. D, 1927, at ‘the Court House in
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, at ten o’cleck
A. M, and it is hereby directed that a
copy of the foregoing petition and of this
decree (which decree contains said rule so
that a copy thereof includes a copy of
said rule), be published by the said peti-
tioner for four successive weeks in one
newspaper of “general circulation of the
said County of Centre, published in the
Borough of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and
that on the said return day of said rule
at said time and place a full hearing of
the said matter will be had by the said
Court to enable it to make such order in
the case as shall be most likely to pre-
serve the property of the said Centre
Monthly Meeting of Friends in the inter-
ests of the denomination, according to the
uses to which it was intended to be de-
voted, and to determine all other matters
involved in the prayers of the said peti-
tion, at which time and place all persons:
interested may be heard.
By the Court
JAMES C. FURST
PT.
2 Notice of the feregoing copy of pe-
tition, decree and rule, is hereby giv-
en to all persons interested who are
hereby notified that they may appear
and be heard hy the court at the time
and place named in the above men-
tioned decree.
BLANCHARD & BLANCHARD,
72.21-4¢ Attorneys for Petitioner..
County Agent Gives Timely Garden:
Hints.
Garden practices during the re-
mainder of May are concerned prin-
cipally with thinning, fertilizing and
cultivating, county agent R. C.
Blaney declares Carrots should be
thinned while they are very small so
that they stand several inches apart.
This spaceing contributes to proper
root development.
Beets should be ultimately thinned
to 4 to 5 inches apart, but the thin-
mng may be done at several times.
First thin to about two inches apart
when the plants are small, and thin
again when the leaves are about 6 to
8 inches tall. Use these thinnings for
greens. Lettuce is usually sown
thickly. When the plants are small
thin to 3 or 4 inches apart and trans-
plant the thinnings in another row
about ten inches apart. Later thin
the original row again and use the
thinnings for salad purposes.
Spinach is not usually thinned but
a better crop is secured if the plants
stand several inches apart.
Peas need not be thinned but a bet-
ter crop is found when they are an
inch apart.
Early radishes should be spaced
several inches apart.
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