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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
dry writ of Fieri Facias issued out
of the Court of Common Pleas of
Centre County, to me directed, wili be ex-
posed to public sale at the Court House
jn the Borough of Bellefonte on
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10th, 1927.
The following property:
Beginning at the Turnpike (now State
Highway and corner of lot No. 3 in the
plan of said Borough of Milesburg; thence
along said lot 100 feet; thence across lot
on line parallel with said Turnpike or
State Highway to lot now or late of S. M.
Huff; thence along said 8. M. Huff lot 100
feet to Turnpike or State highway; thence
along said Turnpike or State Highway 46%
feet to the place of beginning.
Reserving thereout and therefrom a Ten-
foot Alley or Driveway to be opened along
the South side thereof.
Seized ,taken in execution and to be sold
as the property of H. T. Mann, who sur-
vives Maude B. Mann co-obligor.
Sale to commence at 1.30 o'clock p. m. of
said day.
S HERIFF'S SALE.—By virtue of Sun-
E. R. TAYLOR, Sheriff.
Sheriff’s Office, Bellefonte,
Pa., August 9th 1927. 72-32-3t
© FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Summary of the Annual Statement of
the School District of Bellefonte Borough
for the year ending July 4th, 1927:
Assessed Valuation ............ $1865750 00
For School Purposes, 21 mills.. 39180 75
Per Capita Tax ..........ee.ee 6120 00
45300 75
Total Amount of Taxes...... $
Account of Charles F. Cook, Treasurer.
RECEIPTS—CENERAL FUND.
38 th ena tale een $ 34757
Rec'd from General Property
PAX J saeesscesssiasse scone 42262 91
Tuition, non-resident pupils ... 16362 40
General Appropriation ........ 18873 00
Vocational Appropriation ...... 1327 50
Refunds, sale of books, etc..... 485 70
Bent ...cceenciveirienrsrirecers, 25 00
Max THeN8 ...orcccvessinsaranees 291 15
Sinking Funds ............co0e. 4971 58
Interest ..c...ccvcorireniicnenne 150 00
Total ...o.0cenicn anaes 185096 81
EXPENDITURES.
Expense of Administration:
General Control ...... $2550 96
Educational ......... 18 23
Compulsory Ed ........ 118 47—$ 2687 66
Expense of Instruction........ 52701 48
Expense of Operation.......... 6618 21
Expense of Maintenance....... 3108 86
Expense of Fixed Charges..... 2026 98
Expense of Debt Service...... 13090 50
Expense of Capital Outlay..... 2635 56
Expense of Auxiliary Agencies. 838 48
Total Expenditures $83707 73
By Bal in Centre County
Bank July 4, 1927—§89 14
By Bal. in Bellefonte Trust
Co., July 4, 1927 1299.94— 1389 08
otal ..cesrisereesennss $ 85096 81
SINKING FUND ACCOUNT.
Receipts :—
To Amt. in Treasurer's hands
July, Oth, 1926....8 10478 56
To Amt. Received as Interest.. 493 02
Total ,.ceccrcenssnsenes $10971 58
Expenditures :—
By Amt. paid for Steam Heat
Property’ '.......cn2 e000, $ 6000 00
By Amt. Transferred to
General Fund ....c.se...... 4971 58
matal ... ies, $ 1097158
CASH ACCT. OF A. H. SLOOP, Principal.
Receipts :—
To Amt. rec’d. from School
Board .....i..c.ciiiviideen $ 257 17
Expenditures:
By Amt. paid for postage,
express, ete..........s.00s. 257 77
BALANCE ‘SHEET OF
Assets:
SCHOOL DIST.
Amt. in Banks July 4, 1927....% 1389 08
Amt. Due from Herbert Au-
man, Collector:
1924 Duplicate. .$ 601 73
1925 Duplicate. 138081
1926 Duplicate. ..4505 456—$ 6487 99
Amt. Due from Tuition........ 2231 92
Amt. Due from Tax Lieus..... 3182 68
Rafal, ..,..eccerereensess $ 1329167
Liabilities: —
New Bonded Debt..... La.eea...8 | 6500000
Note of Mrs. M. E. Brouse.... 3000 00
Total Liabilities. ..........5 68000 60
Total AssetS................ 13291 67
Net Indebtedness...............$ 5470833
D. A. BARLETT,
C. L. GATES,
M. T. EISENHAUER.
Borough Auditors.
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Bellefonte, Pa.
July 29 1927
—Subscribe for the Watchman.
OR SALE.— Walnut bureau, 1 Wal-
nut wardrobe, 2 walnut tables, 1
double white iron bed. Inquire of
Mrs. J. M. Curtin, at the home of the late
Mrs. Geo. F. Harris, on east Linn St. 32-tf
OR SALE OR RENT.—Residence and
garage at 203 east Linn St. Belle-
fonte. Inquire of
HUGH N. CRIDER,
112 So. Harvard Ave.
72-32-tf Ventnor, N. J.
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Sealed Proposals for Spring Twp.
School, Centre County, Pa.
Sealed proposals will be received by the
Spring Toownship _ School Dist, Centre
County, Pa., John H. Barnhart, Secretary,
Bellefonte, Pa., until Aug. 27th, 2.30 p. m,
1927.
1. For the erection of a ome story, four
room brick sehool building.
2. For a system of heating and venti-
lating.
3. For a system of plumbing.
4. For a system of Electric Wiring.
A certified check will be required with
each bid for the following amounts:
General work, $400.00; heating and venti-
lating, $250.00; plumbing, $150.00: electric
wiring, $50.00 Each check will be made
payable to the Treasurer of the School
District and shall be forfeited in case the
bidder awarded the contract fails to exe-
cute said contract and furnish satisfactory
bond.
Plans and specifications may be secured
from the office of Hersh and Shollar,
Architects, Altoona, Pa., on receipt of a
deposit check of $15.00. Check to be
forfeited in case contractor fails to place
a bona fide bid.
The Board of Directors reserve the right
to reject any or all bids.
By Order of the Board,
JOHN H. BARNHART. Secy.,
Hersh & Shollar, Bellefonte, Pa.
Registered Architects,
Altoona, Penna. 72-31-3t
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Notice to Satisfy Mortgage.
To Thomas Dale and Evan Williams, Exe-
cutors of the Last Will and Testament
of William Williams, Deceased.
Please take notice, and you are hereby
notified, that a petition has ben pre-
sented to the Court of Common Pleas of
Centre County, Pa. to No. 203 September
Term, 1927, by Russell O. Shirk, setting
forth that the premises hereinafter de-
scribed is encumbered by a certain mort-
gage dated May 23rd, 1871, and recorded in
the Recorder's Office of Centre county, in
Mortgage Book “G”, page 400, for $1500.00,
given by Robert Corl, Evan Williams,
Thomas Williams, Nelson Williams and
James Williams to Thomas Dale and
ivan Williams, Executors of William Wil-
liams, deceased, and that said Mortgage is
a lien upon all that certain messuage, tene-
ment and tract of land situate and being in
the Township of College, County of Cen-
tre and State of Pennsylvania, bounded
and described as follows, to-wit:
BEGINNING at an Elm corner of
lands of William Lytle and Moses
Thompson, thence by land of the latter,
South 84 deg. East 140.8 perches to Black
Walnut stump; thence by the same
lands South 891% deg. East 54,6 perches
to Hickory; thence by same lands
North 1514 deg. East 92 perches to
stones; thence by land of John Wasson
North 491% deg. West 43.3 perches to
stone; thence by lands of John Shuey
and Halderman’s heirs South 82 deg.
West 168.8 perches to stones; thence by
land of John Williams South 134 deg.
West 12 perches. thence by same lands
South 82 deg. West 13.3 perches: thence
by land of heirs of William Williams,
decd. South 19 deg. West 11 perches;
thence South 26 deg. West 16 perches;
thence South 3 deg. East 10 perches;
thence South 39 deg. East 14 perches;
thence South 61% deg. West 10 perches;
thence South 46 deg. East 2.8 perches;
thence South 61% deg. West 10 perches;
thence South 45 deg. Bast 6 perches to
Elm, the place of beginning.
Containing 129 acres and 11 perches
neat measure.
Said petition further sets forth that the
presumption of payment has arisen of said
mortgage and that upon proof thereof
said Court will be requested, upon pay-
ment of costs due, to make a decree au-
thorizing and directing the Recorder of
deeds of Centre County to enter satisfac-
tion upon the margin of the above stated
mortgage of which proceedings the under-
signed by the decree of said Court dated
August Sth, 1927, was directed to give
notice by advertisement of the facts set
forth in the petition once a week for four
successive weeks after the presentation of
this petition in a newspaper of general
circulation published in the Boro. of Belle-
fonte Pa., commanding said persons to
appear before said Court Monday, Septem-
ber 5th, 1927, at 10 o'clock A. M., to show
cause why the proper decree should not
be granted and satisfaction of the said
Mortgage should not be entered on the
record thereof by the Recorder of Deeds in
and for the County of Centre.
72-31-4t EB. R. TAYLOR, Sheriff.
54th ANNUAL
Encampment and Fair
of the Patrons of Husbandry of Central Pennsylvania
Grange Park, Centre Hall, Pa.
August 27 to
Sept. 2, 1927
Encampment Opens August 27th
the Exhibition Opens August 29th
The largest and best fair in Central Pennsylvania ; by farmers and
for farmers.
Shade and pure water.
Grounds increased to seventy acres.
Electric light.
Beautifully located.
Telephones.
A large display of Farm Stock and Poultry, Farm Implements,
Fruits, Cereals, and every product of farm and garden.
LIBERAL PREMIUMS
Free Attractions
and Amusements
COME AND HAVE ONE BIG TIME!
Admission (For Entire Week) 50 Cents
Fifty cents will be charged for parking automobiles.
ALI, TRAINS STOP AT GRANGE PARK.
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JACOB SHARER, Chairman.
BUILD 60,334
MILES OF ROAD
Ten-Year Record Shows
Federal Aid Speeds Up
Whole Country.
Washingten.—Ten years of federal
participation in highway building un-
der the provisions of the 1916 federal
aid act ended on June 30, last, and in
that period about two-thirds of the
federal aid system of 171,687 miles
were hard surfaced, macadamized,
graveled or otherwise improved. An-
other decade, if the states continue to
follow their policy of accepting fed-
eral funds and general supervision,
will see the system completed.
The vast importance of the system,
embracing, as it does, practically all
interstate highways, is evidenced by
the fact that its arteries reach every
city of more than 5,000 inhabitants in
the country and if a zone of ten miles
were marked off on each side of the
roads in the system, that zone would
include the homes of 90 per cent of
the country’s population.
60,594 Miles Built.
On May 31, 1927, the country’s in-
vestment in highways of the federal
aid system, built with government co-
operation, reached a total of $1,145,
403,031, of which $505,960,673, or about
44 per cent, was contributed by the
federal government. Te date 60,594
miles of roads in the system have been
built jointly by the states and the
federal government. Meanwhile, many
of the states have gone forward on
building programs without waiting
for help from the government, and the
result is that two-thirds of the sys-
tem eriginally contemplated is now
completed.
In 1916, when the federal aid act
was passed, only 287,047 miles of
3.001.825 miles of road in the ccun-
try were surfaced. Today the sur-
faced mileage slightly exceeds 521,915
miles and the construction problem
grows increasingly important because
the unprecedented increase in the
number of motor vehicles, the de-
velopment of suburbs, and the partici-
pation of motor trucks in industry
necessitate further extension of roads
in width as well as length,
For Mail Service.
Originally, the purpose of congress
in establishing the federal aid system
of highway construction was to im-
prove highways for the prometion of
the rural mail service, but the policy
wis subsequently expanded to author-
jze the secretary of agriculture to
show preference to projects to ‘‘ex-
pedite the completion of an adequate
and connected system of highways, in-
terstate in character.”
The experience during the war in
the endeavor to move munitions and
materials by highways as well as by
the railroad systems brought out
forcefully the fact that there had
been little unity or system in the work
of road building beyond that exer-
cised by private organizations, such
as the Linceln Highway association,
the Dixie Highway association, and
similar groups.
Discord Arises.
States and counties were responsi-
ple for such roads as were built. and
discord arose in various communities
as to routes—smaller cities and vil-
Jages in various sections exerting
their efforts to have road improve-
ments touch their own localities. The
result was that at the beginning of
the war few of the principal cities of
the country were entirely connected
by good roads, passable in all kinds
of weather.
Under the 1916 federal aid road act
the old office of read inquiry, created
in 1893 to study highway conditions,
was converted into the bureau of pub-
lic roads, and was given the task of
supervising federal aid road building.
The act authorized the secretary of
agriculture to help states with their
programs of improving post roads up
to 50 per cent of the cost of the im-
provement, providing that the cost
did not exceed $10,000 a mile, exclu-
sive of bridges more than 20 feet long.
Ten States Get More.
In states such as Arizona, Califor-
nia, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Ne-
vada. New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and
Wyoming, containing large areas of
public domain, including national
parks and Indian reservations, the
government's percentage of the cost
of improvement was fixed at a rate
averaging 62,9 per cent for the ten
states,
When the act was passed there were
still six states which had no highway
departments and others whose depart-
ments had only nominal authority.
The act of 1916 provided that to re-
ceive federal aid a state would have
to create a highway department hav-
ing sufficient authority to co-operate
with the government, thus providing
a stimulus to state control.
The act was amended in 1921 to au:
thorize the designation of a system of
main interstate and intercounty high-
ways limited in each state to 7 per
cent of the total mileage existing
when the act was passed, and many
states which had net already done so
quickly adopted definite construction
programs. Another amendment to the
act in 1921 provided that if a state
did not maintain roads when built, the
federal government would, and the
maintenance cost would be deducted
from the state’s quota.
Table of Authorizations,
Federal aid to the states in building
coads will continue until 1930 at least,
inasmuch as congress has appropriat-
ed or authorized appropriations for
op] Vr te Pn
‘im ‘turn, are the offspring of tempera-
he purpose. The following table
shows the amount of money author-
ized by congress from 1917 through
the fiscal year 1929:
184 ...$ 5,000,000 1924 ...$65,000,000
1918 ,.. 10,000,000 1925 ... 75,000,000
1919 ,,. 65,000,000 1926 ... 75,000,000
1920 ... 95,000,000 1927 ... 75,000,000
1921 ,,.100,000,000 1928 ... 75,000,000
1922 ,.. 75,000,000 1929 ... 75,000,000
1923 ... 50,000,000
In some years more money was
spent for federal aid roads than
shown for those years in the above
table. This apparent discrepancy is
explained by the fact that the road-
building program meved slowly for
the first three years after the passage
of the act. Moneys appropriated were
held over and the unexpended bal-
ances were added to the funds avail-
able in later years and were drawpr
upon as required.
Coolidge Favorable.
The policy of the Coolidge adminis-
tration has been favorable te carry-
ing out the program authorized, al-
though President Coolidge has indi-
cated in messages to congress that
subsidies to the states in general do
not have his approval,
The principal federal subsidy to
states is that of assistance in road
building. In 1924 more than 76 per
cent of the total funds turned over to
the states from federal revenues were
devoted to highway construction.
This percentage has increased since
1924, with the decrease of federal
aid in certain other directions and
the increases in highway expenditures.
The chief arguments in opposition
to the federal road aid work has been
made by the populous eastern states,
which object to being taxed by the
federal government for the purpose of
building roads or supporting other fed-
eral aid activities in the less popu-
lous states.
{f Things Are Going
Wrong, Blame Weather
Fort Worth, Texas.—When things
£0 awry, blame it on the weather, says
D. 8. Landis, poet, philosopher and for
25 years weather observer here for
the United States weather bureau.
Temperature and humidity affect
¢he human nervous system, and fluctu-
ations creating nervous activity are re-
flected in the actions of people over a
large area, he believes.
A bright day cheers, raising the
spirits of the people, making everyone
more congenial and reducing likeli-
hood of friction.
A cloudy day, on the other hand,
while a sedative for people of a phleg-
matic type, is an irritant to persens
of more vital nature and causes un-
rest and brittleness of temper, accord-
ing to Landis. He says that police
records show that crime, especially
suicides, increases on gloomy days.
Periods of drunkenness, brawls, as-
saults, murders, arson and the like
will be found segregated under ab-
normal barometric pressures, which,
ture and absolute humidity, Landis
believes.
Although hot weather generally
causes crossness and irritation where
humidity is great, there are sections
in the Southwest where the mercury
reaches 120 degrees, and the dry heat
becomes actually exhilarating. in Lan-
dis’ opinion.
“A mean temperature of 70 degrees
is the best for normal living condi-
tions with an average amount of mois-
ture,” Landis said. ‘Fluctuations
from this cause nervous activity.
“It's not always intuition thar
causes us to do the things we do.
Often it’s the weather working on
our neutral make-up.”
Bone Placed in Spine,
Girl Cripple Can Walk
Chicago.—For the first time in three
.nonths nine-year-old Colletta Beck
of 601 North Leamington street, is
now able to walk.
During all that period she had lain
all but motionless, in bed. A plaster
cast, extending from her hips to her
neck, had held her body rigid while
a bit of bone that a surgeon had taken
from her left leg knitted itself firmly
into her spinal column.
About a year ago Colletta’s spine
was injured by a fall while roller
skating and tuberculosis developed in
the injured vertebrae.
Late in April Colletta was taken tc
the Norwegian-American hospital. Dr.
Fred Mueller cut out the diseased
bone, replaced it with a carefully
fitted piece of her left tibia and in
cased her in the plaster cast.
The Value of an |
Insurance Trust
here is no longer any debate about the
value of Life Insurance for men in
every walk of life.
The value of an Insurance Trust where-
so plain.
Why not talk it over with us.
by the beneficiary is spared the risk and
trouble of investing an insurance fund, is al-
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This Dixie Baby Has
25 Toes, 18 Fingers
Charlotte, N. C.—Twenty-five
toes and eighteen fingers were
in possession of a three-year-
old colored baby who was reg-
istered at the orthopedic clinic
at the city health department.
The child, Betty Burton,
daughter of G. M. Burton of
Cornelius, was brought to the
clinic by her mother, who was
informed by the attending sur-
geon that the superabundance
of fingers and toes could easily
be removed and the child made
normal.
The hands and feet of the lit-
tle pickaninny were fearfully
cluttered with the extra pro-
tuberances, The legs were
small and weak, and the mother
said the child could not walk
alone.
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13.00 Suits now 8.85
10.00 Suits now 6.85
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