Bellefonte, Pa., September 23, 1927.
AS SR
Executive Mansion Safe Through Re-
pairs.
Practically an entire new floor con-
taining eighteen rooms, will be found
by the President and Mrs. Coolidge
when they return to the White House
from their vacation in the West. Ex-
tensive repairs that were begun in
March have now been practically
completed at a cost of $400,000, not
only making the Executive Mansion
safe for the future but providing
room in the attic which, before the
roof was repaired, it was not wise to
use. Yet the original design of the
White House remains unchanged. On
the first and second floors there have
been no change, except for some re-
decorating.
The roof work was undertaken be-
cause the rotting wood beams had be-
come dangerous. They have been re-
placed by heavy steel beams. In the
original design of this three story
structure the ceiling of the second
floor was arranged suspended from
the trusses of the roof. A new ceiling
for the second floor rests on the walls.
The elevator service has been extend-
ed to the third floor.
In the old garret there have been
constructed eighteen rooms of large
size. Some on the end will be used
for servants’ quarters while some, in
the center, arranged in suites, will be
available for guests. A passageway
leads out to the roof of the south
portico which has been arranged for
a roof garden. The space over the
north portico will be used for storage.
New pipes for the plumbing system
have been installed through the man-
sion. ;
The furniture will be put in place
before the return of the President
and Mrs. Coolidge and the executive
offices, freshly cleaned and painted,
are now in readiness for the Chief
Executive.
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Infantile Paralysis Still on Increase.
An increase in the number of cases
of infantile paralysis has been noted
in Pennsylvania during the past week
according to reports received by the
state department of health.
The greatest number of cases re-
ported are in Lancaster and Pitts-
burgh, although Philadelphia and Al-
toona as well as other large places
and small towns are mildly affected.
Secretary of Health Appel said
that while the number of cases re-
ported are above normal, nothing like
an alarming epidemic exists. The
situation is viewed with sufficient con-
cern by the department to warrant the
adoption of measures for the obtain-
ing of immediate reports of all cases
from rural and urban health officers.
This will enable the department to
apply promptly available measures of
control.
The disease is reportable by at-
tending physicians and hospitals. A
quarantine of 21 days is required by
law. It is wise so far as possible to
prevent the promiscuous contact of
children with other children or with
adults. Children should be kept from
parks, picnics, and swimming pools
and other places of public gathering
in those communities where the dis-
.ease has appeared.
The posting of the opening of the
schools or their closing for a time is
a matter for individual boards of
health to decide, depending upon the
local situation.
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Penn’a Rotary Clubs to Visit Penn
State.
An all-Pennsylvania Rotary club
pilgrimage to the Pennsylvania State
College, expected to be the largest
convention of its kind ever held in
the State, will tak: place on Friday
and Saturday, October 7 and 8, ac-
cording to announcement this week
‘by Dr. Ralph D. Hetzel, president of
‘the college, and officials of the State
‘College Rotary club.
Preparations arz being made at
the college to accommedate more than
1000 Rotarians representing each of
‘the 150 clubs in the State. The pur-
pose of the pilgrimage is to get lead-
“ing business men of the State ac-
quainted with the State’s great pub-
‘lic college and to give the visitors a
“close-up” of college and student ac-
tivities and life.
Features of the program will in-
.clude attendance at a student football
mass meeting and a Rotarian smok-
er Friday night, a tour of the campus
and college buildings Saturday morn-
“ing, and the first State-wide distinct-
ly Rotary luncheon preceding a foot-
"ball game between Penn State and
Bucknell University.
Matter for Wonder
‘We often wonder why the man who
:is -always boasting of the splendid
«positions offered him continues to hold
down a small job.
Silence Seldom Hurts
‘It takes days to get over the worry
~that results from having talked too
:much., Only rarely does one regret
“teeping still,
‘Great Camera Lens
One of the largest camera lens used
‘to photograph stars is manufactured
‘in the United States and is six feet
long.
Pre-Civil War Mints
‘Previous to the Civil war United
+States mints were in operation in
Charlotte, N. C.,, and Dahlonega, Ga.
Political Bunk
‘Politics makes strange bedfellows.
“hut they soon get accustomed to the
.game bunk.—St. Paul Dispatch.
Think It Over
‘Know that the slender shrub which
«i8 seen to bend conquers when i!
vylelds to the storm.
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REFUSING TO VOTE,
WOMEN QUOTE BIBLE
They Nearly Stump Judge,
but Are Fined.
Brussels.—From the little town of
Zeist in Holland, not far from Doorn,
comes a story of forty women who
would not vote. Not only did they
neglect to vote, but they refused to
do so on conscientious grounds, and
the courtroom scene which followed
taxed the Scriptural knowledge of the
judge.
All forty were summoned to appear
before the local magistrate of Zeist to
explain their delinquency. But thirty-
eight of these wise women decided not
to lower their dignity, so they sent a
man delegate to present a written
pleading to the effect that their comb-
sciences would not permit them to ge
to the polls.
Excuse Astonishes Judge,
“True Puritan women cannot do un-
womanly things just because the pope
and the Socialist leaders would be
pleased at this,” wrote the nonvoting
thirty-eight. That in itself sufficiently
astonished the good judge. ‘Then, on
behalf of the women the delegate
quoted a verse from Proverbs: ‘Her
husband is known in the gates, when
he sitteth among the elders of the
land.” The women added that nothing
was said in the Bible about a woman
sitting in the gates. “It is not a fit
place for her and she has nothing to
debate with the elders of the land.”
The judge was searching his mem-
Jry for a suitable quotation from the
Scriptures which would show why
women. should sit with the elders
when a woman appeared before the
bench carrying a huge family Bible.
“This man has been pleading on be
half of thirty-eight of wus,” she de-
clared to the judge. “I will plead
myself for the two remaining women
who didn’t vote.”
She opened her Bible and began to
uote, first one verse from one book,
then another from a different book.
The judge tried to intervene, but the
woman who would not vote had no
trouble at all with her speaking facul-
ties. She repeatedly silenced the
judge and proceeded with the next
quotation. Unquestionably she had her
case well prepared.
“Let your women keep silence be
for the community,” she read from
Paul's first letter to the Corinthians.
“For it is not permitted unto them to
speak and if they will learn
anything let them ask their husbands
at home, for it is a shame for women
to speak before the community.”
Court Quotes Bible,
But the judge had now recovered te
parry quotation for quotation,
“You have quoted Pwoverbs 31:23,”
de stated with dignity. “Will you
allow me to quote Proverbs 31:26?”
The Dutch woman was still in the
middle of Corinthians and tried hur-
riedly to get relocated. But the judge
had already started.
“She openeth her mouth with wis
dom,” he read solemnly, “and her
tongue is the law of kindness.”
Quite uninfluenced by the judge's
come-back, the defendant picked a
verbal missile from Genesis. “And
thy desire shall be to thy husband and
he shall rule over thee,” she declared
emphatically, only to follow that up
with half a dozen quotations so rap-
idly that the judge found it impossi-
ble to speak a word,
But courts have ways of their own.
Seeing he couldn’t hope to outquote
his antagonist, especially since she be-
trayed no great aptitude for standing
by her plea that women should keep
silence before the community, the
judge finally found an opportunity to
announce he would deliver his verdict
by writing.
His decree stated that each of the
forty women who would not vote
should pay a fine to the state—fifteen
or twenty florins each. But the judge
included no Biblical quotations,
Blackbirds Enrage
New York Village
Olean, N. Y.—Four and plenty
olackbirds are making a most un-
palatable dish for the villagers of
Gowanda. No one can sleep since
thousands of the birds descended on
the hamlet in northwestern Cattara-
gus county. And now their chatter-
ing is being punctuated by the firing
of shotgun shells, especially devised
to make the most noise possible.
The exasperated villagers appealec
© the local officials who in turn ap
pealed to the bureau of biological
survey in Washington. The prescrip
tion it furnished was to this effect:
fake shotguns, load with shells
making loud reports, and open fire
when the birds first appear in the
evening, They are then most easily
frightened. Repeat dose every night
until the birds move on.
ihe onslaught is now on, with nc
one, it seems, objecting to the lack
of faith in the aim of the Gowanda
gunners, which the prescription shows
Killed Wrong Woman
okyo.—Intending to kill his wife
a 60-year-old resident of Otomachi
a village near Tokyo, sharpened up
his knife and waited at his gateway
for the woman to return home, A
neightor’s wife, who happened to drop
in, got the knife instead. The would
be wife slayer explained to the police
that he had simply made a mistake,
taking the other woman for hig wife,
but, according to the vernacular
press, “the police deemed this excuse
insufficient” and put the man under
arrest,
EXPLOSION OF SUN
SEEN AS POSSIBLE
Many Other Big Stars Have
Blown Up.
Chicago.—Should the sun explode,
which astronomers say may not hap-
pen in a million years, or might hap-
pen tomorrow, inhabitants of the earth
would know of it in eight minutes and
would have but 138 hours to live be-
fore they were destroyed by poisor
gases.
Astronomers at Yerkes observatory
admit such an explosion is possible
any minute, basing their assertion on
the fact that every star has gone, OF
will go through the explosive stage.
In the Spiral Andromeda alone more
than forty stars have exploded in the
last twenty-five years.
The last great star to explode was
Nova Pictoris, which expanded many
thousand diameters in 1925.
Prof. C. T. Elvey of Northwestern
university is preparing a thesis on thiz
subject. He says:
“It is quite true that stars do ex-
plode and there is no reason why the
sun should be an excepiion As yet
we do not know exactly what the
cause of this phenomenon can be, but
the explosions are caused by internal
eruptions, caused by the liberation or
atomic energy.
“The liberated energy travels from
the center of the star at explosive
speed. When it finally reaches the
outside the star is many times its
original size and its Intensity i»
creases many times.
“Nova Pictoris, the last big star to
explode, has increased in intensif”
more than 40,000 times.
“Should this happen to the sun, and
it is entirely possible, we would know
of the explosion in eight minutes and
we would have an outside limit of
138 hours to live. At that time the
burning gases would reach the earth
and we would be annihilated”
Gen. Percy May End
the Row In Albania
Jeutari, Albania.—The “Albanian
question” is now largely in the hands
of Gen. Sir Jocelyn Percy, a veteran
of the South African war, of several
Indian expeditions and of the great
war,
Jen. Percy came here to reorganize:
the gendarmery and was appointed by
Ahmed Bey Zogu to eommand the
military and civil administrations of
all Albania north of the Matir river.
He expects to pacify the turbulent
egion of the Malissore tribes and
thus put a stop to the continual agi-
tation along the frontier between Al-
bania and Jugo-Slavia.
Gen. Percy's policy is that of the
‘square deal.”
*The tribesmen of the region under
my command,” he says, “can come to
me and pour out their grievances with’ |’
confidence that they will be heard and
dealt with fairly.”
Gen. Percy, after leaving the Brit.
ish army as major general in 1919,
went to South Russia with a British
mission attached to Gen. Denikine's
army, He was later with Gen.
Wrangell in the Crimea. He enjoyed
three years of rest and quiet on a
»anch in British Columbia,
Planes Rout Locusts
Moscow.—A signal victory on the
“locusts front” is reported by the
aerial expedition In charge of ridding
soviet farms of the pest. A total area
of 324,000 acres is sald to have been
cleared of locusts by spraying from
airplanes.
Batik Hats for Men
Paris.—Men’s batik hats with batik
ribbon streamers are being introduced
to Paris by male mannequins. The
first of them appeared at the noon
hour at a cafe near the Theatre Fran-
eals. Frenchmen take the batik head-
gear calmly.
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% Outlaw Fishermen
: Surrender to Law
¥ St. Paul.—Outlaw fishermen
it of the wild north shore of Lake
X Superior, who have plied their
trade since the region was cap-
tured from the Indians a cen-
tury ago, have surrendered.
Hereafter they will fish as the
x law dictates.
. The poachers once believed
® that Lake Superior contained
% an inexhaustible supply of fish.
X¥ But the hauls have been lean 3
% in late years and finally the X
¥ fishers have determined to join
¢ the state in seeking to preserve
that which has been their live
lihood for years.
Now they themselves are war-
ring on illicit fishermen. State
officials were quick to accept
the co-operation, for enforce-
ment of laws against poaching
always had been difficult in the
wild country.
Until recently the fishers laid
their nets during the spawning
season, ignoring game laws, and
used smaller mesh nets than the
law allowed.
Operating over a 200-mile
stretch of isolated territory,
they easily eluded the small
staff of wardens and for years
did a lucrative business, supply-
ing catches of choice whitefish,
trout and herring to the itiner-
ant schooners that shipped their %
% cargoes to eastern markets. :
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SCATTER SEED BY AIR ROUTE.
Portland, Ore.—How far does the
wind carry the seed of trees? This
is a question that often has been
asked of and by foresters, but the an-
swer only recently has been given
through tests made urider the auspices
of the Pacific Northwest forest ex-
periment station, on the snow-clad
wheat fields of Wasco county, Oregon.
The tests were in charge of T. T.
Munger, director of the station, with
A. E. Pickford of the British Colum-
bia forest service co-operating. Thus
the experiments were of an interna-
tional character, and it is felt that
the results will be of value to lumber-
man and forest agencies wherever
trees grow.
The aim of the tests was to deter-
mine the distance tree seeds are car-
ried by winds of different veloci-
ties when released at the height of
the average forest tree. In order to
ascertain this fact, 500,000 Douglas
fir, western red cedar, western hem-
leck, noble fir, western white pine
ad western yellow pine seeds were
used.
In carrying on the work, a five-foot
wing box kite was used, and from it
was suspended a container for the
seeds. Wind measuring instruments
on the ground were attached to the
kite by heavy cords. The kite, which
was of powerful lifting capacity, was
the generally accepted theory is that Jont aloft at the end of 1,500 feet of
piano wire wound round a reel held
by a man.
The seed container was attached to
the kite by means of a fish line, and
from its cover was also a 225-foot
tripping line. When the kite was sent
into the air and had reached the de-
sired tree height, the container was
allowed to swing aloft with it, the
tripping string was pulled, and the
seeds released to make their flying
journey to the ground.
It was surprising how far some of
the seeds were carried. Althogh the
average width of the lane in which
the seeds fell was about 35 feet, the
greatest distance any seed was car-
ried was 4,000 feet. Released at an
altitude of 200 feet, in a 23-mile
wind, the maximum seed-fall, that
is, the largest number of seed, fell
within an area approximately 1,600
feet out from the point of release,
with the extreme distance for any
seed about 3,500 feet. In a six-mile
gale, the maximum seed-fall was 1,000
feet from the release point, with the
Phone 405
Decker Chevrolet Co.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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1923 Nash Touring - - - - - 150
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jorihest distance carried being 1,300
ee
The wing device on the seeds,
rather than the weight seemed to be
the determining factor in the distance
the seeds wre carried. The heavy
western white pine seed made almost
an equal fight with the lighter west-
ern hemlock. It was noted that there
was a great variation in the individ-
ual seeds. The seeds are not deposit-
ed in one spot, but distributed over
a sizable area. The cedar seeds show-
ed the smallest variation, while the
hemlock, the lightest in weight,
showed the greatest. In fact, it was
the hemlock seed which made the rec-
ord of 4,000 feet when released at an
altitude of 200 feet in a 12-mile gale.
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Move 10,000 Fish from Drained Lake
in Motor Trucks.
Ten thousand fish, little ones and
big ones, were moved from Beck’s
lake, near South bend, Ind., to chain
O’Lakes, a pond five miles away.
Beck’s Lake was to be drained for
a sewage disposal plant. And be-
cause the fish were not of the tree-
climbing variety or land-walking
species, some provision must be made
for them.
Seth Gordon, extension director of
the Isaac Walton League of America,
solved the difficulty—almost. He de-
clared that the fish must be trans-
ported.
Citizens of neighboring cities were
asked to furnish bath-tubs, crocks,
wash-pans and other containers as
limousines for the fishes’ five-mile
joyride.
“We must place ice in the contain-
ers,” Gordon explained. ‘Ordinary
lake water would be too warm for the
fish to live in by the time the trans-
fer has taken place.
“It would be an easy matter in
winter. We could freeze the fish,
which wouldn’t hurt them at all, and
carry them on slabs of ice, but in the
summer its different. We’ll have to
hire many trucks to carry the pans
and bath-tubs.”
The lake was drained by degrees
and the fish scooped up by nets.
Farmers and citizens of a village near
Beck’s Lake agreed to help the pro-
ject.
Special runways into the lake for
motor trucks were constructed to fa-
cilitate the transfer. Ice dealers
provided free ice for the fish on the
journey.
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
KLINE _ WOODRING.—Attorney-at
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices in
all courts. Office, room 18 Crider's
Exchange. 51-1y
KENNEDY JOHNSTON.—Attorney-at-
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt at-
tention given all legal business en-
trusteed to hiis care. Offices—No. 5, East
High street. 57-44
M. KEICHLINE. — Attorney-at-Law
and Justice of the Peace. All pro-
fessional business will receive
prompt attention. Offices on second floor
of Temple Court. 49-5-1y
3. RUNKLE. — Attorney-at-Law,
Consultation Foo Snglish and Ger-
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PHYSICIANS
R. R. L. CAPERS.
OSTEOPATH.
State College
Holmes Bldg.
Physician and
College, Centre
Office at resi-
Bellefonte
Crider’s Ex. 66-11
8. GLENN, M. D,
Surgeon, State
county, Pa.
dence.
D. CASEBEER, Optometrist.—Regis-
tered and licensed by the State.
Eys examined, glasses fitted. Sat-
isfaction guaranteed. Frames replaced
and lenses matched. Casebeer Bldg. High
St., Bellefonte, Pa. 71-22-tf
VA B. ROAN, Optometrist, Licensed by
the State Board. State College,
every day except Saturday,
Bellefonte, in the Garbrick building op-
posite the Court House, Wednesday after-
noons from 2 to 8 p. m. and Saturdays 9
a. m. to 4.30 p. m. Bell Phone 68-40
Feeds :
We keep a full line of all kinds of feeds
at the right price.
Wagner’s 22% Dairy Feed $49.00
Wagner's 32% Dairy Feed $52.00
Made of cotton seed meal, oil meal, glut-
en and bran.
Wagner's Scratch Grains per H. .. § 2.80
Wagner's Poultry Mash, per H.... 8.20
Wagner's Pig Meal, per H. ....... 2.80
We handle a full line of Wayne feeds.
Wayne 329% Dairy Feed, per ton. .. $54.00
Wayne 249% Dairy Feed, per ton. 50.00
Wayne ¥orse Feed per H. ...... 2.60
Wayne Pig Meal per H. .......... 2.80
Wayne Egg Mash per H. ......... 8.40
i Cotton Seed meal 439 per ton ..... $54.00
' | Oil Meal 34% per ton ............. 58.00
Gluten Feed 238% per ton ..... .. 48.00
Alfalfa Find Ground per tom ..... 45.00
Bran POF 10M . eee cove coe see oso 38400
Middlings per ton ... ... cc. coveee 48.00
Standard Chep per ten ... 48.00
Meat Meal 50% per H. ... ... ..... $425
Digester Tankage 60% per H. .... $4285
When you want good bread or pastry
Use “Our Best” Flour.
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66-11-1yr. BELLEFONTE, PA.
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cheapest “Dodger” to the finest
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that we can not do in the most sat-
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consistent with the class of work.
Call on or communicate with this
office
Employers
This Interests You
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Law went into effect Jan. 1,
1916. It makes insurance compul-
sory. We specialize in placing
such insurance. We ins
Plants and recommend Accident
Prevention Safe Guards which
Reduce Insurance rates.
It will be to your interest to
consult us before placing your
Insurance,
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