wt ENE ES EE P——— = T——— | i Bellefonte, Pa., August 5, 1927. —— S— —— | P. GRAY MEEK, - Editor | ET a mm mes ee S—— | To Correspondents.—No communications | published unless accompanied by the real name of the writer. — Co ————————— Terms of Subseription.—Until further | potice at the following rates: Paid strictly in advance 31.50 | Paid before expiration of year 1.15 | Paid after expiration of year 2.00 | Published weekly, every Friday morn- ing. Entered at the postoffice, Bellefonte, | Pa., as second class matter | In ordering change of address always | give the old as well as the new address. | It is important that the publisher be no- | tified when a subscriber wishes the paper discontinued. In all such cases the sub-! scription must be paid up to date of can- | cellation. | A sample copy of the “Waatchman’ will | be sent without cost to applicants. | BIG BUILDING PROGRAM | FOR PENN STATE COLLEGE. of Board Approves Expenditure Almost Two Million Dollars. Approval of a building program in-! volving the expenditure of approxi- | mately $1,736,000 on seven projects | was made at a special meeting of the | Penna. State College board of trus-| tees held last week, according to the | announcement of President Ralph D. | Hetzel, secretary of the board. | Work on half of the program will | be started as soon as specifications from approved plans can be drawn up ! and contracts let. Structures expect- | ed to be under way within a few months are a main engineering school, unit to: cost $300,000, on thel site of the old building destroyed by | fire in 1918; a hospital on the east| campus to contain 31 beds and modern | infirmary equipment, costing $86,000, with funds provided by farmer potato | growers of the State; the first vt | in a proposed poultry plant, a sheep ! barn, and an addition to the milk| room at the dairy barn, costing $50,- | 000; and the first unit of an ath- letic recreation hall or gymnasium | seating 5,000 to cost $450,000, with | money from the emergency building | fund provided by alumni and friends of the college in a campaign held in 1922-23. The engineering and agri- cultural buildings will be provided from the $1,000,000 State appropria- tion voted by the last Legislature. The board gave its architectural and executive committees authority to proceed with plans for the erection | of the unit in a proposed biological | science group on the east campus, | adjacent to the agricultural group, | for relief of the departments of botany and biology in the school of | agriculture. It is to cost $150,000. | Simular approval was given to the | completion of the north wing of the Pond chemistry laboratory to cost $200,000, and for the remodeling of Old Main as a student union and | { 1 | colloge administration building cost- Methodist church Sunday afternoon. ing $500,000, half from State funds I i and half from the alumni building! PURDUE.—George M. Purdue, a fund. | since. ROAN.—Jeremiah B. Roan, one of : the best known residents of Buffalo Run valley, died suddenly on Wed- nesday morning as the result of a heart attack. He had been a sufferer with asthma for a year or more, which had affected his heart, and his physi- cian had cautioned him against undue exercise of any kind. On Wednesday morning he went to his lot of ground, near Hunters park to do a little work. When he failed to return at noontime Mrs. Roan sent a little girl to the lot to see what was wrong and found him lying on the ground with life extinct. | Mr. Roan was a son of Mr. and! Mrs. Jeremiah Roan and was born at i Muncy, on August 20th, 1839, hence was almost 88 years of age. When he was a boy his parents came to Cen- tre county and here he grew to man- hood. Over sixty years ago he mar- ried Miss Rosie Whippo, of Buffalo Run, and they located on a farm in that valley which Mr. Roan later pur- chased and where they lived ever He was a lifelong member of ! the Presbyterian church and an ex- | emplary citizen in every way. | In addition to his wife he is sur- | vived by the following children: Mrs. | Alice Kelly, of Buffalo Run; Robert | W. Roan, of Bellefonte; John, of | Philadelphia; William, on the old homestead, and Harry, at State Col-' lege. Funeral services will be held at his ! late home at ten o’clock tomorrow | (Saturday) morning, by Rev. Walter | K. Harnish, of Arch Springs, and in- | terment will be made in the Meyer | | cemetery. ll I GRIFFITH.—Samuel Harvey Grif- fith died shortly before noon yester- day. He had been suffering from a general decline for more than a year and death came not from any particu- lar disease. He was born near Axe Mann, this county, on September 1st, 1846, and would have been eighty two years old had he survived until the first of next month. His early life was spent in the vicinity in which he was born and in young manhood he became an ax maker at which trade he worked until the plant was closed. Since that time he has led a retired life. He was married twice, his first wife having been Annie Martin to whom the following surviving children were born: Alfred, of Bellefonte; Mrs. Markle and Orissa, of Philadelphia; Melvin, of Miami, Fla.; Samuel, of Somerset, Ky., and Mrs. Harry Smith, of Steubenville, O. His second marriage was to Mrs. Annie Dawson, of Philadelphia, who survives. Mr. Griffith had been an Odd Fellow for fifty-four years and a member of the Methodist church all of his life. He was an exceedingly genial gentlman and will be missed by many, many friends in Bellefonte. Funeral services will be held in the TPES EEA ISAS RTH SRE, demi Aided by Nothing but His Hands and Feet Daredevil Harry Human Fly Will Scale Crider’s Exchange Gardiner will Climb to Top of Town's Tallest Building Tomorrow Evening Without the aid of any mechanical device, whatsoever, Harry H. Gardi- ner, known all over the world as “The Human Fly,” will climb to the peak of the tower on Crider’s Exchange building, and back to the pavement, tomorrow night. This thrilling exhibition of dare- deviltry will be made under the au- spices of the Brooks-Doll Post, Amer- ican Legion, and will be for the bene- COMING FAIRS IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA | | The season for the county fairs is approaching and because we know many Watchman readers enjoy at- PINE GROVE MENTION. Miss Elizabeth Taylor is visiting friends in Clearfield. R. H. Brown left, on Friday, on a trip to New York city. a trip to Detroit, Mich. Luther Fye spent the latter end of the week in Clearfield. Ellwood Fry is spending a week with relatives in Altoona. Miss Jessie Zettle is spending a few days with friends at Milton. W. R. Wolford, of Newberry, is visiting friends in the valley. Mrs. Lee Krebs is visiting her sis- ter, in Wilkes-Barre, this week. Miss Sadie Mason departed, on Monday, on a trip to California. proved with a new coat of paint. Miss Anna Moffet of Pittsburgh, is a guest at the Will Murtorff home. Frank Bell, of Fargo, N. D, is | visiting his mother, Mrs. H. M. Bell. | Mrs. Mary Gregg is making an ex- | tended visit with friends in Miles- ! burg. | The threshermen have started on | their rounds hulling out the golden | grain. Mrs. James Keller and son, of | Johnstown, is visiting relatives in the valley. { Our nine will go to Mount Union, | tomorrow, and cross bats with the . Giants. ! Mr. and Mrs. James Kline motored to Coburn and spent Monday with i relatives. | E. H. Auman spent last week in {the Clearfield hospital, undergoing treatment. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Swartz spent last week at the S. C. Decker home at Montgomery. | | cided improvements to his home at | Rock Springs. T. Floyd Frank, of Graysville, was here on Monday looking after his in- surance business. Daniel Lenker, of Williamsburg, spent several days last week visiting friends in the valley. R. F. Saucerman and family, of Altoona, are spending their vacation with friends in the valley. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Garbrick, of Ty- rone, spent the early part of the week at the Elwood Peters home. Dr. R. M. Krebs has recovered suf- ficiently to be able to do some dental work for his many patrons. Ralph Thomas and George Dreible- bis underwent operations, at the Cen- tre County hospital, during the week. Mrs. Charles Ball and two children, | of East Lansing, Mich., is visiting at {the W. L. Foster home, at State Col- | lege. == | Will Farber, who has been confined [to his home for several months with !illness, is now on a fair way to re- covery. | Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gray and Mrs. Anna Gray visited the Earl Gray | family, in Williamsport, over the | week-end. Miss Alice Pennington, is away on Fred Fry is having his home im- | W. E. Williams is making some de- | tending these annual fall outings We | Miss Anna Kline, a nurse in train- give below the dates on which those | ing at the Centre County hospital, in which most Centre countians are spent her two weeks vacation at her "interested will be held. { home here. native of Centre county, died at his fit of the Bellefonte base ball team. 1.0eWISEOWR ..ia. re enseons eos Aug. 16 to 20 Rev. J. S. English and family are Reconstruction of Old Main cannot start until the new engineering build- ing is completed so that the latter building can temporarily care for classroom and office space now pro- vided by the big five story structure. The hospital and gymnasium will be the first structures to be built, the latter replacing the present inade- quate armory built after the style ' of the new Palestra at the University of Pennsylvania. These buildings will | be of red brick and the engineering | unit will be of cream brick. The college board of trustees also approved the tentative outline for the development of the Thompson Spring Park project for skating and a winter sports field as provided by memorial funds of all classes in college last spring. A dam and spillways are to! be constructed at once. Memorial campus gateways from the classes of 1925 and 1926 will be started as soon as campus development plans are, sufficiently advanced to show perma- | nent campus entrances. The board | authorized the appointment of a con- | sulting landscape architect, but has | not yet named an appointee. ; When the State Grange fund for a | new dormitory for girls reaches $100,- | 000 authority is given to start con- struction. About half of this amount! is now available towards a building | to cost $250,000. The board approved | a perspective drawing for this structure. | | Aged Lady Bitten by Copperhead | Snake. On Monday morning Mrs. Emma Knox, who lives with her sister, Mrs. | Elizabeth Shope, on the Knox home- stead along the mountain above Valley View, in Buffalo Run valley, went into the hay mow to get hay for the stock. As she rached down to get an armful of hay she was bitten on the hand by a copperhead snake which had evi- dently been hauled into the barn with the new mown crop. Miss Knox is 77 years old and her sister 91 and it was some time before they could get a | man to bring Miss Knox to the Centre County hospital, and when she arrived there her arm was badly swollen to the shoulder. By hard work physicians were able to retard the flow of poison through her system. Anent the above incident, berry pickers on the mountains report copperheads more plentiful this year than they have been for some years, while the much dreaded rattler is less in evidence. — The “Watchman” is the most ‘made in the Eastlawn cemetery, Ty- readable paper published. Try it. fruit farm, near Tyrone, last Thurs- day morning, following a brief illness. | He was seventy years old and was born at Stormstown. His wife has been dead for some years but surviv- | ing him are five children. Burial was rone, on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Joseph Undercoffer Badly In- | jured in Fall Down Stairs. In a fall down stairs, about two o'clock on Monday morning, Mrs. Joseph W. TUndercoffer, of Belle-: fonte, sustained a bad fracture of the bones in her left leg just above the ankle, and a fracture of the bones of her right leg below the knee. { Mrs. Undercoffer had gotten out of ! bed to go to the bath-roem and did | not turn on a light, evidently believ- | ing that she could make her way in the dark. In some way, however, she | stepped the wrong way and before she | realized it had tumbled down the | stairway. i Mr. Undercoffer was quick to go to her assistance and lost no time in get- | ting her to the Centre County hos- | pital where the fractures were re- | duced without loss of time. : Mr. Undercoffer, who had planned his summer vacation trip for this week and next, is now spending the time at home so he can be with his wife as much as possible. , Organization Meeting and Picnic of Centre County Motor Club. The Centre county Motor Club in- vites all motorists and their families to State College for a business and social meeting this (Friday) after- noon and evening. The College has very graciously granted the use of the grove for those wishing to go with their families for a picnic sup- per. The business meeting will be held at 7.45 in the chemistry annex build- ing, at which time the permanent board of directors will be elected and the constitution and by-laws adopted. All motorists are urged to interest themselves in this organization, which is fast becoming a valuable asset to every progressive community. ——Harry MacDonald’s flying or- chestra, of Wilkes-Barre, the only musical organization of its kind in the United States, made a brief stop at the Bellefonte aviation field, on Wed- nesday, enroute to Carroltown Roads, Cambria county, where a concert was given that evening. The orchestra traveled in four planes. ! Gardiner will start his perilous climb at 7:30 sharp. Remember the hour so you will not miss a minute of it. between the Diamond and Howard, to all traffic except pedestrians, from 7 until 8 o'clock, so that everyone can get near enough to see the hair-raiser. Prior to the exhibition American Legion boys will pass through the crowd distributing tickets on which you can mark any sum you care to contribute. The tickets will be num- bered and later there will be a draw- ing to see which holder a five dollar gold piece is to be presented to. The drawing will take place on the | carnival ground on east Bishop street, the same evening at 10 o’clock. The carnival will be in full blast to- morrow night and you should go there to soothe your nerves after seeing { “The Human Fly.” Mr. Gardiner has climbed nearly ev- ery high building in the United States. He has been an aeronaut and steeple- jack for thirty-two years. The Flat- iron building and the hotel McAlpin in New York were easy for him, but he is going to have some trouble on the metal tower of the Crider build- ing. The above picture shows Mr. Gard- iner climbing to the tower of the coun- ty court house at Canton, Ohio. Bellefonte will Play Exhibition Game with Altoona, Having no regular scheduled league game for tomorrow the Bellefonte team will play an exhibition game with Altoona on Hughes field. Game will be called at 3.30 o’clock and this will be an opportunity that should be taken advantagee of by all fans to see a good game. Altoona ball players have long been noted for their | skill on the diamond, and a game with | the Bellefonte team will undoubtedly prove interesting and exciting. Don’t | miss it. —Judge James C. Furst has order- ed that the grand jury for the Sep- | tember term of court be drawn to convene on Monday, September 12th, | two weeks before the opening of the term of court, so that they will com- plete their work and be at home for the primaries on September 20th. pci — The Catholic Daughters of America will hold a lawn fete and business meen’s lunch, Saturday Aug. 138, from 5 until 9 o'clock, on the lawn of the Brant house. Salad and rolls, or weiner and ham sandwiches, with coffee, ice cream and cake. Price 50 cents. Allegheny street will be closed, | i Sead Aug. 23 to 76 ..Aug. 27 to Sept. 2 Huntingdon Centre Hall, Grangers, Clearfield ...... 0. c. 0c ves, Sent. 13 to 16 l.ewistown ........ 0.000.000, Sept. 16 to 20 ANENLOWN ....ccivernnseerivs. Sept 20 to 24 i ToWiSDUTE s.cvc-cveecenrsens Sept. 27 to 30 Bedford... cei cen iiisiaiinn Sept. 27 to 30 XOTK ....crevrciesssrrncsscrrean Oct. 4 to 8 B10OMSDULE ..vevennvrnsnnarnns Oct. 3 to 8 Hughesville .........co000en Oct. 11 to 14 RUNVILLE Mary Shawly, of Yarnell, visited at the home of her brother John, over the week-end. The Misses Mary and Vera Wil- liams were visitors with Mrs. Dorothy Shirk over Sunday. W. H. Watson and children visited at the home of his daughter,Mrs. C. E. Reese, of Wingate. The Winner adult Bible class will hold a festival at this place Saturday, August 20th. Come and help this worthy cause. Miss Kathryn McGinley, of Miles- burg, and Miss Laura McGinley, of Johnstown, have returned home after a week’s visit at the home of Boyd Johnson. Rev. and Mrs. Orlidge and son Wally, of Altoona, and Rev. Orlidge’s sister and daughter, of Pittsburgh, were visitors at the home of E. S. . Bennett, on Monday. i Visitors at the home of John Lucas, on Saturday, were Mr. and Mrs. Chas. ' Nulton and son, of Tyrone; Mr. and Mrs. Ellery Lucas, of Snow Shoe; ' Mrs. Floyd Davis, Mrs. Lydie Hamp- | ton, of Bellefonte. | Those who visited at the home of | Rev. A. L. Barnett, over the week-end , were Rev. and Mrs. Charles Gwynn, , of Dunlo; Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Wilson, of Pitcairn; Rev. and Mrs. A. J. ! Orlidge and son, of Altoona, and Rev. | Orlidge’s sister and daughter, of | Pittsburgh. Real Estate Transfers. Heirs of Thomas Fulton to Jennie | Fulton, tract in Walker Twp.; $1. i J, Mack Stewart, et ux, to L. P. | Marlin, tract in State College; $10. John L. Holmes, et al, to Andrew | C. Longee; tract in State College; | $1750. J. M. McKee, et ux, to W. C. Cham- | bers, et ux, tract in State College; David W. Bradford, to Charles A. | Miller, et ux, tract in Centre Hall; $900. Annie Lekely, et al, to August | Lekely, et ux, tract in Rush Twp.; $400. | J. L. Winegardnere, et ux, to J. C. Hosterman, tract in Millheim; $1. | Lettie A. Goodhart, to Elmer C. | Hettinger, tract in Gregg Twp.; | $10,000. : SE | i spending their annual vacation on a | motor camping trip through New { England States. { Dr. J. B. Baumgardner purchased | a car load of cows in the valley, last | week, for shipment to the eastern i part of the State. ! Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Goheen and | Mr. Goheen’s mother are here from | Florida for a visit with relatives dur- ing the hot weather. { Miss Marcia Ella Dreiblebis, a | nurse in training at the Camden, N. { J., hospital, spent her vacation with | relatives in the valley. | Mrs. Milo Campbell has returned (from the University hospital, Phila- ! delphia, and is now convalescing at { her home at Fairbrook. | R. E. Rossman attended the mail | carriers’ convention, at Somerset, last week, Willis Weaver covering ‘his route during his absence. | C. M. Dale lost the head of his | Guernsey herd last Wednesday night, the animal having been found ‘dead in it’s stall on Thursday morn- ling. | During the electric storm, last | Thursday, a stroke of lightning killed two cows for James Peters. The animals had gone to shelter under a tree. Capt. Clarence Pillsbury, M. D., a nerve specialist at the Walter Reed hospital, in Washington, was here during the week looking up old family connections. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Thomas motored in from Johnstown and spent the early part of the week with Mrs. G. W. Ward and other friends in Cen- tre county. On Sunday afternoon Thomas A. Frank lost control of his car and crashed into the fence on the Joe Fleming farm. Nobody was injured but the car had to be hauled in for repairs. G. W. Ward, accompanied by three sisters, left on Monday on a motor trip to Watkins Glenn and other pop- ular mountain resorts in New York, expecting also to visit the Linn Mur- phy home at Ithaca. : BOALSBURG. James Reed is reported some bet- ter. Miss Alice Reitz has returned from a two week’s visit in New York State. Mrs. Wm. Rockey is entertaining her sister, Mrs. Collins, of Pittsburgh. Mrs. Wm. Stover is improving Holy, although yet confined to her bed. Mrs. Elizabeth Passmore, of Harris- burg, is visiting friends in this vi- cinity. Mrs. Maude Johnsonbaugh, of Al- toona, is visiting old acquaintances about town. | Mrs. Wm. Stuart spent Tuesday with her mother, Mrs. at ' Shingletown. ! Wm. Sweet, of Lock Haven Nor- mal, was a week-end visitor at his mother’s home. Rev. Moyer and wife went to Lan- caster, Monday, expecting to enjoy a ‘few week’s vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Coxey and children, of Altoona, spent Sunday with friends in town. Mrs. Caroline Geary, of Centre Hall, is spending some time with her sis- ter, Mrs. Wm. Meyer. John Ishler and Mrs. Katharine Saunders, of State College, spent Thursday with friends in town. Miss Majory Slagle returneed to Altoona, Monday, after a few week's visit with her grandfather, D. W. Meyer. Leech, | AARONSBURG. Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus S. Bower have ‘as their guest Mrs. Bower's niece, | Miss Anna Taylor, of State College, | Mr. and Mrs. Bright Bitner, of . Spring Mills, were brief callers at the home of Mrs. C. G. Bright and W. E. | Orwig, Sunday eve. | Mrs. A. J. Irey attended the fun- eral of Mrs. Thomas Motz, in Mill- heim on Saturday, remaining over | with friends for the Sabbath. { Mr. and Mrs. Fred Burd and their | son-in-law and daughter, of Akron, | Ohio, are guests of Mr. Burd’s broth- | er, Sumner Burd and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. John Durst and Mr. and Mrs. Stover Durst were brief callers at the home of Mrs. John | Durst’s brother, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. i Coburn. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Crouse, of Akron, Ohio, have returned to their home after a brief honeymoon spent i with Mr. Crouse’s father, J. H. { Crouse, on Main St. Mrs. F. S. Tomlinson, Mrs. F. J. Stover, Mrs. Harry Lane and son, Thomas, motored to Tyrone, Sunday, where they attended the corner stone laying of the M. E. church. Mrs. John C. Rote, her son Ed. and Mrs. Rote, of Axe Mann; Mrs. Rote’s grandson, Edward Meese Jr., of Pit- cairn, were brief callers at the home of their cousin, Thomas Hull. Mrs. Josiah Rossman has returned home after having spent the past month with her children in and near Bellefonte. Her son, Elmer Ross- man and wife, were her guests Sun- day. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. King entertained the following guests, Sunday: Mr. and Mrs. Horace Henry and three chil- dren, and Mr. and Mrs. Klinefelter, of Milton; Mrs. Witherite and Mr. and Mrs. Clair Tubbs and their three children, of Clearfield. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Stover enter- tained the following guests during the past week: Their son, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stover and daughter Elizabeth and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nikirk, of Dauphin, and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Reed and son, Clarence Jr., of Milroy. Mrs. Reed was formerly Miss Annie Beaver, a niece of Mr. Stover. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Boyer, of Bell- vue, and Chas. Boyer, of Akron; Mr. and Mrs. Fox, of State College; Mrs. Clinton Bunson, of near Milroy, and Newton Boyer, of near Rebersburg, were called home by the sudden death of their father, Samuel Boyer, who was found dead in bed Saturday morning. The children have lost a kind father and in the passing out of Mr. Boyer the town has lost a good citizen and the neighbors will long feel the loss of a good neighbor, one who when called upon for anything when in his power to do it always re- sponded. May his soul have found rest and peace in the better land. PLEASANT GAP. Mr. John D. Hayden, of Elwood City, spent several days at the J. F. Noll home. Henry T. Noll is at Slatington, Pa., and will go on to New York before returning home. The family of William Knoffsinger and daughter, Mrs. Claude Baum- gardner, spent Sunday in Harrisbug. Mr. and Mrs. Kline Cronoble and daughter, Mrs. Robert Sterrett and children, of Lock Haven, spent Sun- day with friends here. The Pleasant Gap Sunday school picnic, will be held at Hecla park Saturday, August 6th. Everyone is urged to go and make it a success. Levi Miller has gone from the Harry Acheson home, where he has boarded since the death of his wife, and taken up his residence at the Lee Sampsel home. Don’t forget the fireman’s festival to be held in Noll’s grove on August 13th. Good music, lots of amuse- ments and everything to eat and drink. Mrs. Edna Kirkwood, of New Cas- tle, has returned to her home after visiting for several weeks with her sister, Mrs. Jack Noll, and other friends. : W. Roscoe Treaster, of Beaver Falls, spent Saturday at the J. T. Noll home. Mr. Noll took him over the Seven mountains to visit with his parents at McClure, Snyder county. Jack and Dean Miller, who are spending their vacation at the J. T. Noll home, spent several days last week with their maternal grand- mother, Mrs. Rebecca Wolfe, at Aaronsburg. remem Marriage Licenses. Joseph Green and Hannah C. Sprankle, both of Milesburg. Edward W. Sellers, of Milesburg, and Margaret L. Hassinger, of Phil- ipsburg. John Mckivison, of Warriors-Mark, and Lyda M. Harshbarger, of Port Matilda. Byron S. Ripka and Dorothy P. Miller, both of Millheim. Stanley Zavada, Jr. and Anna Mos- ser, both of Osceola Mills. ——The Watchman publishes news | when it is news. Read it.