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Bellefonte, Pa, May 27, 1927.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
~——The Academy baseball team
defeated the State College Freshmen,
on Saturday, by the score of 10 to 8.
——Twenty-five invitations have
been issued by Mrs. John A. Wood-
cock, for an afternoon luncheon to be
given to-day, at her home on Howard
street.
——The Bellefonte lodge, P. O. S.
of A, will worship in a body at the
Evangelical church on Sunday, June
6th. The pastor, Rev Reed O. Steely,
will preach a patriotic sermon to the
order,
——Edward Houser, who has been
in impaired health for some time,
accompanied by George M. Mallory,
drove over to Clearfield, on Tuesday,
to consult Dr. Waterworth regarding
his condition.
-——Rev. Reed O. Steely, pastor of
the Bellefonte Evangelical church, has
been engaged to deliver the com-
mencement address to the graduating
class of the Milesburg High school
this (Friday) evening.
Four big busses, carrying the
seventy-two students of the Senior
class of the Philipsburg High school.
passed through Bellefonte on Wed-
nesday morning enroute to Washing-
ton, D. C., on a four day’s sight see-
ing trip.
—Teachers and pupils of the
graduating class of the Walker town-
ship High school were in Bellefonte
on Wednesday, on a sight-seeing trip,
and at the Potter-Hoy hardware
store, one of the places visited, they
were all treated with ice cream.
——The condition of Benjamin
Shaffer, who is seriously ill at his
home on east High street, is unchang-
ed, while Al Landis, suffering with
several broken ribs and other in-
juries, the result of a fall Monday,
while at work at the Sutton-Abram-
sen Eng. Co., is slightly better.
—Only twenty-five tickets were
sold at the Bellefonte station for the
Pennsylvania railroad » €Xcursion to
Pittsburgh on Saturday night. The
train was scheduled to leave Belle-
fonte at 3:25 A. M,, but it was almost
four o’clock before it got away from
Bellefonte. Returning it reached
Bellefonte about 9:25 Sunday even-
ing.
——While cleaning a cupboard in
an upstairs room, Saturday morning,
Mrs. Thomas Caldwell stepped on a
ehair, which tilted, and she fell heav-
ily to the floor fracturing the bones
in her left leg. She was taken to the
€entre County hospital where the
fracture was reduced and while she
has suffered considerable pain she is
getting along as well as can be ex-
pected.
So few members of the Centre
Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends,
are now existant in Bellefonte that
steps are being taken to turn over the
meeting : house . and property on
Quaker hill; as’ well as the cemetery,
to the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of
the Society, according to the provi-
sions of the constitution under which
the Centre Monthly Meeting was con-
stituted ninety-three years ago.
Legal steps to this end have already
been taken, as can be seen by an ad-
vertisement published elsewhere in
this paper.
——The Warner-American News,
for May, tells of a salary allotment
plan of insurance which was put in
effect at the Bellefonte plant of the
American Lime and Stone company
and as proof that it appeals to the
employees is the fact that already
more than one hundred thousand dol-
ars of such insurance has been taken.
One good thing about it is that if an
employee wishes to leave the com-
pany and take a job elsewhere he does
not lose his insurance, as he holds
the policy himself and can make pay-
ment of the premium direct. »
——Max Kofman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Nathan Kofman, whose condi-
tion last week was reported quite ser-
fous, at the Centre County hospital,
where he was a patient, was taken to
New York to be under: treatment of
specialists at the Roosevelt hospital.
He was taken to New York in the F.
W. West funeral car and accompanied
by Mr. Widdowson, Mr. and Mrs.
Kofman and Miss Leitzell, the nurse
3m charge, The party left Bellefonte at
widnight, Thursday night, and land-
ed at the Roosevelt hospital at four
o'clock Friday afternoon. Blood
transfusions are being resorted to as
a possible means of saving the young
man’s life.
—— Centre county visitors during
the past week included Mr. and Mrs,
J. F. Lucas, of Minnesota, and the
newsy part of this item is the fact
that it is Mr. Lucas’ first trip east
since he went west 52 years ago. He
was born at Milesburg in 1855, a
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Foster Lucas.
His boyhood days were spent at
Milesburg and near Philipsburg. His
father was a veteran of the Civil war
znd in 1875 he went to Minnesota and
took advantage of the homestead
laws: to acquire a farm of 160 acres.
Later they added more land and de-
voted their energies principally to
raising cattle and hogs. After the
father died the son carried on the
work. He married a Minnesota young
lady and this, of eourse, is her first
trip east. While Mr. Lucas has found
eomparatively few of his relatives
and old associates living he has cov-
ered most of the places he knew as
3 boy and young man.
CONCLUSION OF CASES IN
QUARTER SESSIONS COURT.
James Harris, of State College, Ac-
quitted of Involuntary Man-
slaughter.
When the Watchman went to press
last week the case of the Common-
wealth vs. Benjamin Fink, was on
trial. This was another of the liquor
cases from upper Bald Eagle valley
and the principal witness’ for the
Commonwealth was Thomas A. Buck-
ley, of the state police. He swore
that he purchased ‘two gallons of
moonshine on March 24th, and Mr.
Fink, his wife and mother swore that
the state policeman was not at their
home on that day. The jury, how-
ever, returned a verdict of guilty as
indicted.
The second case against Marcella
Beals, in which she was charged with
possession of intoxicating liquor for
beverage purposes, on May 4th, was
the next case heard. This grew out
of the finding on her premises on the
day of the big raid of a bottle about
two-thirds full. Mrs. Beals testified
that she did not know the liquor was
in the woodhouse, and her husband
swore he had used the liquor as a rub
for his rheumatism and had put the
bottle in the woodhouse several weeks
previous. The jury returned a ver-
dict of guilty.
The last of the Bald Eagle valley
liquor cases was that against John
Smay. The testimony in this case
was furnished by Mr. Buckley, who
swore he purchased a gallon of whis-
key from the defendant on March
31st. Both Mr. Smay and his wife
swore that the officer was not at their
home on March 31st, and that they
never saw him until the arrest of Mr.
Smay. But the jury returned a ver-
dict of "guilty.
Motions for new trials were made
in all of the above cases. :
The last case on the calendar was
that of the Commonwealth vs. James
Harris, of State College, indicted for
involuntary manslaughter. This case
grew out of the automobile accident
near Rock Springs, on April 16th, in
which Steve Georgas was so badly in-
jured that he died within an hour.
According to the Commonwealth’s
testimony this defendant, with two of
his friends, Steve Georgas and Fortu-
ous Vayous, left State College at 2:30
in the afternoon of April 16th last,
and that they were seen returning
from Tyrone by way of Warrior's
Mark for State College, and that one
of the parties was seen shaking a bot-
tle at persons they passed. Also,
witnesses who swore that when the
defendant’s automobile passed through
the village of Rock Springs it was
going at a speed of between fifty and
sixty miles per hour. The car was
wrecked about one-half mile east of
Rock Springs, pulled out a telephone
pole and knocked out five fence posts
and was sitting in a field consider-
ably damaged. That there was a
strong odor of liquor about the point
of the accident, that two of the men
were hurt and when help got there
the one man ‘was :sitting up against
the fence and the other man lying
on the ground. That about fifteen
minutes after the erash the man who
had been found lying on the ground
was put on a small truck and taken
to State College, where he was pro-
nounced dead by Dr. Dale. The Com-
monwealth alleges that.the defendant
operated his car in a careless and
reckless manner and that he had been
drinking liquor.
The defendant went upen the stand,
described the trip from State College
to Pleasant Gap, Pleasant Gap to
Bellefonte, Bellefonte to Tyrone by
way of the Bald Eagle trail and re-
‘turning from Tyrone by way of War-
rior’s Mark and Seven Stars. That
he, the defendant. did not know that
there was any liquor in the car but
on ths way back from Tyrone, some-
where in the vicinity of Seven Stars,
Steve Georgas produced a bottle and
the other two men drank. It was of-
fered to him and he refused, stating
that he would not touch it until after
he got back to State College, as he
was operating the car and the road
was slippery. That when he got to
a point about one-half mile east of
Rock Springs his left front tire blew
out,’ which caused him to lose control
of his car, the same swerving to the
left, hitting the telephone pole and
the ‘fence, when the right front tire
went down.
He testified that he at no time ex-
ceeded thirty miles an hour, unless it
might have been on the Bald Eagle
trail, but returning from Bald Eagle
to State College he ran from twenty-
five to thirty miles an hour and at no
time exceeded thirty miles per hour.’
That he could not avoid the accident
and that after the aecident occurred
and, the small truck came there, Steve
Georgas, the seriously injured man,
was placed in the body of the truck
and the defendant sat on the edge of
the truck steadying the body and
holding the head of the injured man,
and that the other passenger, Mr.
Vayous, was sitting on the seat with
the driver of the truck. That it was
raining, and that they stopped at Pine
Grove Mills at the office of Dr. Woods,
but that the doctor advised them to
rush the man to the hospial. They
then proceeded to State College and
stopped at the office of Dr. Dale, who
examined the body and pronounced
the man dead. Some of Mr. Harris’
friends took him away from the
place when the man was pronounced
dead, as he was very much exercised,
and all swear that they found no odor
of liquor about him, having even
asked him to blow his breath in their
face and were positive that the de-
fendant had not been drinking. Ver-
dict at 7.30 Friday evening of not
guilty but the defendant to pay the
costs.
SECOND WEEK OF COURT.
When court convened on Monday
morning continuances generally were
announced in the cases of John Mento
vs. National Union Fire Insurance
company, and John Mento vs. the
United States branch of the London
Assurance corporation.
The first case called was that of
Charles S. Stoner, trustee under the
last will and testament of J. Henry
Stoner, vs. A. J. Cummings, admin-
istrator of the estate of Nora M.
Cummings, deceased, and A. J. Cum-
mings, individually, being a proceed-
ing to foreclose a mortage given by
the decendent and her husband, the
trustee above-named, the evidence
being that under the will of J. Henry
Stoner a certain sum of money was
placed in trust for the decendent in
her life-time and the principal thereof
payable to her children at her death.
This money was subsequently invest-
ed as a first mortgage on a farm pur-
chased by the decedent and her hus-
band, and there being no contest a
verdict was rendered in favor of the
plaintiff and against the defendants
for $11,230.67.
Gordon Brothers, Inc., a corpora-
tion, vs. M. D. Kelly and H. P. Kelly,
trading and doing business as Kelly
Brothers Coal company, being an
action in assumpsit. From the testi-
mony of the plaintiff it appears that a
contract was entered into between the
plaintiff and the defendant where-
by the defendants were to fur-
nish the coal required by the plain-
tiffs to run their plant in the
city of Philadelphia at a certain stip-
ulated price, which was done before
the United States entered into the
World war. That the defendants
failed in furnishing coal during the
entire period of the contract and this
suit was brought to recover the dif-
ference between the agreed price in
the agreement and what the plain-
tiffs were compelled to pay for coal in
the open market. This suit was
brought in 1917, and in 1918 there
was an agreement effected whereby
the defendants paid a certain amount
of money to the plaintiff and agreed
to furnish coal from a certain mine,
stipulating the number of tons. The
coal furnished by the defendants was
not satisfactory to the plaintiffs, and
as the record costs were never paid,
the plaintiffs pressed their suit to
trial. At the close of the plaintiff’s
testimony defendant moved the court
for compulsory non-suit -on the
ground that the agreement in 1918
was a novation of the original con-
tract, which non-suit was granted by
the court. !
Planning a Public Rest Room for
Bellefonte.
The committee of the Bellefonte Ww.
C. T. U., which has in charge the
business of = looking after Petrikin
hall, is planning a public rest room
as one of the features of the building
just as soon as they can see their way
clear to making ‘the necessary
changes and purchasing the equip-
ment for the same.
When the building was legally
turned over to the W. C. T. U., six
years ago, it was encumbered with a
six thousand dollar mortgage. This
mortgage was paid off some months
ago and a fund is now being accumu-
lated to make some needed repairs to
the second floor apartments. When
this has been done the question of the
rest room will be considered.
As tentatively planned the rooms
now occupied by Dr. Maloy will be
utilized for this purpose. Most of
the space will be thrown into one
large room, but there will also be
lavatories and toilets. The room will
be simply but substantially furnished
and will afford a place where stran-
gers and out of town people can go
and rest when wearied with shopping.
Diamend Thieves Loot
Jewelry Store.
Philipsburg
Two men, on Monday, stole thirty-
six diamond rings, valued at close to
$5,000, from the Thomas G. McCaus-
land jewelry = store, in Philipsburg,
and made a clean getaway. The
method used was the same as that at
Tyrone, last Thursday, when two
men, probably the same individuals,
got away with $2000 worth of dia-
mond rings from the Acklin Jewelry
store.
The men entered the McCausland
store at the noon hour, when Mr. Me-
causland was alone, and one of them
asked to see some tie clasps. Later
he wanted to inspect the stock of
alarm clocks, which was in the rear
of the store. While thus engaged his
confederate purloined a number of
rings from a show case and took
others from the show window. The
robbery was discovered ten minutes
after the men left but they had so
completely disappeared that no trace
of them could be obtained by Philips-
burg officers. The State police, of
Bellefonte, were notified and their aid
asked in running down the diamond
robbers.
——You may not be able to see
Capt. Lindbergh in flight at the
Scenic, but you can see the best mov-
ie pictures made by being a regular
patron of that popular place of
amusement. All releases are late and
up-to-date and the pictures cannot be
seen anywhere else in Bellefonte.
The combination of pictures and mu-
sic from that wonderful pipe organ
afford several hours of delightful en-
tertainment. :
{ JUDGE JOHNSON DIRECTS
TRUSTEE WALKER TO PAY.
Judge Albert C. Johnson, of the U.
S. court for the middle district of
Pennsylvania, handed down several
decrees in the Centre County bank
case last Friday.
While all of them are of interest to
the creditors of that institution the
one of immediate importance was his
order to Ivan Walker, trustee of the
late Mary C. Harris, to go ahead with
his” distribution of the: funds in his’
hands. It will be recalled that some
time ago Mr. Walker announced his
intention of distribting said funds
directly to the creditors of the Centre
County bank. Thereupon the re-
ceivers of the latter institution filed
objections to “his proposal on the
ground that the funds should be
turned over to them for distribution
with such other assets of the bank as
they have in hand. These objections
have been dismissed and Mr. Walker
is authorized to proceed as he had in-
tended.
The other matter of interest is
Judge Johnson’s ruling on the peti-
tion filed by the receivers of the
banking company, praying for the
dismissal of the petition of Geo. A.
Beezer, Geo. H. Yarnell and Cather-
ine Grenoble to have the whole mat-
ter taken out of the court of Centre
county and placed back in the Federal
court, where it started. This petition
is also dismissed and the receivers of
the banking company are given fif-
teen days in which to show cause why
the Federal courts should not step in
again and take jurisdiction.
This is a rather involved situation.
You will remember that when the U.
S. Supreme court ruled that the en-
tire proceeding had been without war-
rant of law and there seemed nowhere
else to go the Creditor’s Committee
petitioned the court of Centre county
to take charge. Judge Dale was on
the bench then and granted the peti-
tion, but he didn’t appoint receivers
who were pleasing to the Creditor’s
Committee,
In consequence the Beezer-Yarnell-
Grenoble petition to the Federal
court was prepared on the legal
theory that Judge Dale’s action in ap-
pointing receivers was a new act of
bankruptcy on the part of the Centre
County Banking Company and a new
act of bankruptcy would make it pos-
sible to drag the mess back into the
Federal court and have the old re-
ceivers replaced by others more ac-
ceptable to the Committee. This is
what the receivers appointed by Judge
Dale objected to and it is their obpec-
tions that Judge Johnson has dis-
missed.
We are not advised as to what they
intend doing. They can answer with-
in fifteen days showing cause why
the affairs should not be taken out of
their hands or they can let it go by
default. In the latter event Judge
{Johnson will likely grant the Beezer-
Yarnell-Grenoble petition and the
Centre County Bank case will again
go into the tortuous processes of the
Federal courts.
Londo—Beezer.—An early morning
wedding took place at St. John’s
Catholic church, at 5.45 o'clock last
Saturday, when Miss Della Regina
Beezer was united in marriage with
Harold Leo Francis Londo, Rev.
Father Downes performing the cere-
mony. The only guests present were
members of the bride’s family and
James H. Potter.
The bride is a daghter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph W. Beezer and at present
holds a clerical position in the Potter-
Hoy hardware store. The bridegroom
is a civil engineer and during the past
four years has held the position of
senior inspector of highways in the
Highway Department in Bellefonte.
Quite recently he received an offer to
become assistant city engineer at
Green Bay, Wis., at a nice increase in
salary, and it was because of this that
the wedding, which had been set for
later in the summer, took place on
Saturday. Mr. Londo left for Green
Bay on Saturday afternoon while
Mrs. Londo will remain in Bellefonte
until the first of September when she
will go west and be met in Chicago by
her husband, when they will take a
delayed wedding trip.
Hevner — Welch.—George Albert
Hevner, of Beech Creek, and Miss
Dora Ella Welch, of Romola, were
married on Wednesday of last week,
at the home of the bride’s father,
Jacob Welch, by justice of the peace
A. A. Pletcher, of Howard. The bride
is a daughter of one of Curtin town-
ship’s most progressive farmers while
the bridegroom is an employee of the
Pennsylvania railroad company and
is an industrious young man. Theit
many friends wish them many years
of happiness together.
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Aley—Herr.—Leon H. Aley, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Aley, of Nittany,
and Miss Gladys L. Herr, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Herr, of How-
ard, were married at 12:30 o’clock
last Saturday, at the Evangelical par-
sonage, by the pastor, Rev Reed O.
Steely.
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During the hard storm, late
Sunday afternoon, a 65000 volt trans-
former on the Keystone Power cor-
poration’s main service line near Cen-
tre Furnace burned out. Other trou-
ble on the Penn Central lines put the
enire service out temporarily but
Bellefonte had service within half an
hour, furnished by the steam plant
and John McCoy’s hydro-electric plant
at Milesburg. The Penn Central
trouble was overcome before eight
o'clock and full service restored.
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs. Oscar Wetzel returned, Sunday,
from a five weeks visit with her daughter,
Mrs. McCoy, at Ambridge, Pa.
—Mrs. Frank Montgomery, a sister of
Mrs. C. D. Casebeer, will arrive here from
Somerset, Monday, for a visit at the Case-
beer home on High street.
—Mrs. Joseph Ceader spent the week-
end in Bellefonte, as a guest of the
Cooney family, having come in from
Cleveland on a business trip.
—Miss Martha Beezer has been home
from Pittsburgh to attend the wedding: of
her sister Miss Della and Harold Londo,
which took place in the Catholic church,
Saturday morning, May 21.
—Mrs. Ollie Campbell, of Barnesboro,
who is a guest of her sister, Mrs, William
Lambert, on east High street, is here at
this time for a Memorial day visit. Mrs.
Campbell was a former resident of Belle-
fonte.
—Mr. and Mrs. Winslow and their small
child have been here from Patton this
week, visiting with Mrs. Winslow's moth-
er, Mrs. Charles Cruse and other relatives,
while Mr. Winslow has been attending
court.
—James H. Potter with Henry 8. Linn
as a driving guest, motored to Buffalo
Cross Roads Sunday, to attend the com-
munion service, one of the two vearly
meetings in the old historical Presbyter-
ian church of that place.
—Mrs. Fred Miller, of Philadelphia, Mrs.
Jack White, of State College and Clarence
Smith, of Johnstown, have all been in
Bellefonte during the week, called here
by the very critical illness of their father,
J. P. Smith, a patient in the Centre coun-
ty hospital.
—F. L. Richards, former manager of
the local Bell Telephone office, left Belle-
fonte Monday for his new work in Wil-
liamsport. Mrs. Richards and their son,
however, will remain here until the mid-
dle of June, or until after the school year
is finished, before joining him.
—Samuel M. Shallcross, general mana-
ger of the American Lime and Stone Co.,
and Mrs. Shallcross, arrived home Satur-
day night from a weeks stay at Hot
Springs, Virginia. Mr. Shallcross’ mother
was in charge of their two small sons and
the home, during their absence.
—Mr. and Mrs. George LI. Smith, of
Easton, came to Bellefonte on Monday
and will be guests over Memorial day at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. Paul Fort-
ney. Their trip at this time was made
owing to the serious illness of Mr. Jacob
Smith, a patient in the Centre County
hospital.
—Mr. and Mrs. Ebon Bower will have as
Memorial day guests, Mr. and Mrs. Clar-
ence E. Bodie, who will drive here from
Honesdale Saturday. Mr. Bodie and Mr.
Bower's friendship started at State Col-
lege, in the enlistment for war, was con-
tinued when transferred to Boston and on
to Newport News.
—Mrs. Beach, Mrs. Reynolds and Miss
Blanchard, will drive to Harrisburg to he
Memorial day guests of Miss Anne Mec-
Cormick and will be joined there by Miss
Mary H. Linn for the drive back to Belle-
fonte. Miss Linn has been Miss McCor-
mick’'s guest for several days, having
stopped in Harrisburg on her way home
from Washington. :
—Mrs. George Reed, of Pittsburgh, and
her son Mason, are expected among the
week-end motor guests at the Bush House.
Mrs. Reed, who was well known here as
Miss Helen Mason, was a frequent visitor
to Bellefonte in her girlhood days, and is
now returning to show her son “that
beautiful town of which she has had so
many pleasant memories.”
—Mrs. Harvey M. Wetzel left yesterday
for Shreveport, Louisiana, for a visit with
her son Harry and his family, their two
months old child, her first grand-child.
being the special attraction. Mrs. Wetzel
set no definite time for returning, as she
hopes to stop in West Virginia, enroute
home to stay some time with her daugh-
ter in Beech Fork, and her son Howard,
at Coal Fork.
—Mr. and Mrs. William McFarlane, ot
Philadelphia, and Mr. McFarlane's sister,
Miss Margaret, of Newark, N. J., were
here the early part of last week, stopping
in Bellefonte for a short visit with Mrs.
Frank McFarlane on their way to Lemont,
to see their aunt, Mrs. John Mitchell. They
had been in Lock Haven, called there by
the death of their mother’s sister, Miss
Mary Brown.
—Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Coates and their
small daughter, Eleanor Francis, drove to
Bellefonte from Parkesburg, Pa., Friday,
visiting here until Sunday with Mrs.
Coates’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Me-
Ginley. Their unexpected visit at this
time was made that they might spend
several days with Mrs. Coates’ sister, Mrs.
Karl Berberick, of Washington, who is at
present a guest at the McGinley home.
—Andrew Knisely, of Harrisburg, a
brother of the late George Knisely; his
sister, Mrs. Jacob Warner, of Reading,
and their niece, Mrs. J. G. Butterworth, of
Wilkinsburg, were all here last week for
the funeral of Mr. Knisely. Mrs. Butter-
worth remained in Bellefonte with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Knisely
until Sunday, motoring back with. Mr.
Butterworth, who had driven in for her.
—Mr. and Mrs. Bathgate, Mrs. Dyer
and Mrs. F. W. Topelt, all New York
people, drove here Friday, from Rochester,
where they had been attending a conven-
tion of the Eastern Star, to spend Sunday
in Bellefonte, with Mrs. Topelt’s mother,
Mrs. R. 8. Brouse, who is a patient in the
Centre County hospital. During their
stay they were house guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Brouse, at the Brouse home
on Thomas street.
—Mrs. William Derstine and Mrs. Nora
Ferguson returned Monday, from a week's
visit with Mrs. Derstine’s son, Frank M.
Derstine and his family, at Juniata. A
visit also was made with Miss Alice Tate,
at Tyrone, the two women having stopped
there for a part of a day on their way
home. Mrs. Derstine’s son Jesse, and his
daughter Betty, will come in from Am-
bridge to-morrow, expecting to spend
Memorial day in Bellefonte.
—W. I. Fleming and George T. Bush,
of Bellefonte, and M. S. McDowell, of
State College, attended the annual con-
clave of the Knights Templar, in Phila-
delphia, the forepart of the week, and saw
Boyd A. Musser, of Scranton, but former-
ly of Bellefonte, elevated to the position
of Grand Commander. Mr. Musser, was
presented with a chest of silver by the
members of his home Cemmandery, in
Scranton. It is also rumored that he will
appoint Mr. McDowell, of State College,
as a member of his official staff.
—Mrs. Reed O. Steely, who has been in
Williamsport and Camp Devitt for the
past six months, on account of ill health,
returned to her home in Bellefonte, this
week, very much improved in health.
—Joseph Parrish, now a third year
man at Jefferson Medical College, Phila-
delphia, is home on a short vacation, in-
tending to leave early in June for Carlisle,
to take a six weeks course in the emer-
gency training of the U. 8. Army.
—Mr. and Mrs. W. R. North and their
small son who are now in Suracuse, N. Y..
will attend the commencement exercises
at Dickinson Seminary on June 5th, and
come to Bellefonte the following day. The
North's landed in New York on Tuesday.
—Dr. and Mrs. Wallace Ebe drove in
from Pittsburgh Friday of last week, for
an overnight visit with Mrs. Ebe’s moth-
er, Mrs. T. A. Shoemaker, at her home on
west High street. Mrs. Shoemaker's
Memorial day vacation guests will include
her daughter Miss Augusta, Miss Grace
McDermot and Frank Ebe, a son of Dr.
and Mrs. Ebe.
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A Woman Aspirant for Member of
Board of Trustees of State.
The woman graduates of The Penn-
sylvania State College, feeling that it
is time they are represented on the
board of trustees of that instituion,
have united on Mary McKee Stitt,
only daughter of the late Dr. James
Y. McKee, many years vice president
of the college, as their choice for
membership on the board.
There are 655 women graduates
and 529 undergradates at the present
time. Up to 1910 there were never
more than three women in any one
graduating class. In 1926 there were
92 women who composed one-sixth of
the class. This year one-seventh of
the graduates will be women, who are
carrying off one-half of the honors.
The dormitory for women which
the State Grange has pledged itself
to build will be erected in the near
future. The State Federation of
Pennsylvania Women is ‘urging the
erection of a Home Economics build-
ing. With the support of such a
strong organization we hope that it
will soon be a reality. Because of
this rapid increase in the attendance
of the girls and the immediate pros-
pect of new buildings it is felt that a
woman graduate is needed on the
board of trustees.
The alumni association will meet
on Monday morning, June 13, for the
election of its contingent of trustees
and at that time the women gradu-
ates will probably be out in mass to
support Mrs. Stitt.
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American Legion will Have Charge
of Memorial Day Services.
The members of Brooks-Doll post
of the American Legion will have
charge of Memorial day services, next
Monday, as they have had the past
several years. Their program in-
cludes attending worship, on Sunday
morning, at St. John’s Catholic
church where Rev. Father Downes
will preach’ the sermon. On Sunday
afternoon a detail of the post will
hold services at Meyers cemetery.
The services in Bellefonte will be
held on Monday, as usual.. At eleven
o'clock in the morning the post will
go to the Catholic cemetery for the
purpose of decorating the graves of
deceased comrades. In the afternoon
services will be held in the Union
cemetery. The parade will form on
the Diamond at 1.30 and march to
the cemetery. The Odd Fellows band
will lead and Troop B will act as
escort. Automobiles will be furnished
for all G. A. R. veterans. The cus-
tomary contributions of flowers are
solicited for decorating the graves.
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Albert Smith Lands the Daddy Trout.
The daddy trout of all that has been
landed hereabout this season was
brought safely to bank, on Saturday
evening, by Albert Smith, twenty
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Smith, of Lamb street. It was a fine
specimen of the California variety,
was twenty-seven inches in length,
nine inches deep, fourteen inches
girth and weighed 9% pounds. The
monster was caught on a minnow be-
tween the silk mill foot bridge and
the lamb street bridge and in less
than half an hour from the time the
young fisherman left his home he was
back with his prize. The trout was
kept alive in a tank until Monday
morning when it was sent away to be
mounted.
A week or two ago young Smith
caught one which measured twenty-
three inches, while his total catch for
the season probably exceeds that of
any other Bellefonte fisherman.
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Mississippi Flood Contributions.
Previously Acknowledged ....... $1012.27
ARONYMOUR oi vii ol, oh 1.00
Mrs. Robert Morris .............. 10.00
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Massey ....... 2.00
GF Harm oC LE 50.00
$1975.27
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Geranium Sale.
The annual geranium sale for Me-
morial day is now being held at
George Miller’s hardware store. Pot-
ted plants of all kinds, vinca vines
and cut flowers will be on sale. 21-1
Umbrellas and Chairs Repaired.
Have your worn or broken umbrellas
recovered or repaired. Chairs recan-
ed and made like new by George
Glenn at his shop at the falls on Wa-
ter street. 17-4t
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & Co.
Wheat - - - - - 1.36
Rye - - - - - - 950
Oats - - - - - - 40
Corn - - - - - - 85
Barley - - - - - - 70
Buckwheat = - - - - 50