Bellefonte, Pa., October 14, 1927.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
+ ——The Woman’s Auxiliary of the
Centre County hospital will hold a
rummage sale, in the room formerly
occupied by Runkle’s drug store, on
the afternoons of October 19th and
20th.
——Go to the Scenic when you wish
to see the best and latest in motion
pictures, as it has an established rep-
utation for showing productions that
cannot be seen anywhere else in Belle-
fonte.
——The rain, on Wednesday, was
sufficient to dampen all of the dry
places in the county and do away with
the water wagon in those sections
where farmers were hauling water
for their stock.
——The borough of Howard is
planning for a big Hallow-een carni-
val on Saturday evening, October
29th. Up to this time no move has
been made for a celebration of any
kind in Bellefonte.
——Mrs. Homer McKinley, of Rey-
nolds avenue, gave a children’s party,
last Friday evening, in honor of the
fifth birthday anniversary of her
daughter Jean. Two dozen little
guests were invited and all were pres-
ent.
——Some unknown individual stole
a spare rim and tire off of Frank
Davis’ Dodge car as it was parked in
front of his house, on Bishop street,
shortly after eight o’clock on Satur-
day evening. Mr. Davis was in the
house only a few minutes und when
he came out the rim and tire were
gone. yt
——One hundred people took ad-
vantage of the cheap excursion from
Bellefonte to New York, on Satur-
day night, but they had a dismal trip
of it, as it rained all day. Some of
the excursionists never left the N. Y.
station but those equipped for rainy
weather made the most possible of
their trip. Returning the special train
reached Bellefonte at 1:30 o’clock
‘Monday morning.
——Philipshurg had a big Mascnic
gathering, on Thursday night of last
week, when members of the crder
gave a testimonial dinner at the
Hotel Philips to Thomas J. Lee, who
was recently elevated to the thirty-
third degree in Free Masonry. Over
130 guests were present, the gather-
ing including six thirty-third degree
Masons, one of the number being 'v..
Harrison Walker, of Bellefonte.
——-Included among a car load of
prisoners transferred from: Pittsburgh
to Rockview, last Friday, was Jack
- Morrison, of Bellefonte, sent to the
penitentiary from Centre county on
Agust 15th, for two and a half to five
years for breaking into the pool room
of W. W. Bickett on the night of May
25th and tapping the till of $65, then
stealing the Charles Fromm automo-
bile and escaping to Erie, where he
was captured two days later.
On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Scott
‘Stover, with their twin sons, Luther
and Clair, seven years old, drove to
Oak Hall to visit Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Williams. After they had eaten their
dinner the boys went out to play and
strolled to the breast of the mill dam.
Luther lost his balance and fell in, but
Clair had enough presence of mind to
grab him by the arm and hold his
head above water until help arrived.
“Aside from. getting wet the boy was
none the worse for his experience.
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The Sheffield Farms Co. has
- formally taken over the old plant of
the Continental Condensed Milk com-
pany, at Mill Hall, which has been
closed for several years, and are put-
ting it in shape to open as a milk
shipping station by November 15th.
New refrigeration and other neces-
sary eqgipment is being installed and
when completed the plant will have a
capacity of 2500 gallons a day, all of
which the company hopes to get from
the farmers of that section.
——1It is not generally known but
it is the fact, nevertheless, that twen-
ty-five per cent of the fliers who
checked in at the Bellefonte field, dur-
ing the recent trans-continental air
derby, called for just the ordinary
“Texaco gas. Pilot Myers, who won
first place in Class B, used nothing
else in his entire flight. Certainly
the Texaco gas must have “pep” and
Texaco oils excellent lubricating qual-
ities or an air man who was after a
- great prize wouldn't have depended
-on them to carry him through to viec-
tory. i
——At a meeting of Bellefonte
business men at the Y. M. C. A., on
"Tuesday evening, plans were perfect-
ed for raising the amount of money
necessary to maintain the Y as it
:should be during the coming year and
also make it more of an attraction
generally: To do this it was decided
to fix up the swimming pool at an
expenditure of $3,000. For this pur-
pose Bent L. Weaver, Samuel H.
Shallcross and F. W. West pledged
$500 each; James R. Hughes $450 and
8. Claude Herr $50, making $2,000 of
the sum needed. To maintain the Y
for a year $5,000 will be necessary
and of this amount $3,000 has already
been provided for. It was then decid-
ed to put on a three day campaign to
raise the balance of the money need-
ed, $2,000 for maintenance and $1,000
for the swimming pool fund, the cam-
paign to close this evening, The var-
ious committees are confident of. suc-
cess.
GENERAL CLEAN-UP OF
SEPTEMBER COURT.
Cases Tried, Continued and Many
Sentences Imposed.
The last cases in last week’s issue,
those of the Vice-Consul of the
Czecho-Slovak Republic against two
insurance companies, ‘were disposed
of on Wednesday morning, as follows:
In the case against The National
Union Fire Insurance company, of
Pittsburgh, a verdict was rendered in
favor of the plaintiff for $1055.56.
In the case against The United
States Branch, The London Assurance
corporation of London, England, a
verdict was rendered on Wednesday
morning for $844.44 in favor of the
plaintiff.
First National Bank of Spring
Mills vs S. G. Walker, defendant, and
W. A. Stover and Farmers’ National
Bank & Trust Company, terre-ten-
ants, being a scire facias sur judg-
ment. This case came to trial Wed-
nesday morning and grows out of a
judgment entered by the bank against
the defendant in June, 1922, upon
which an application was made to
open and was so proceeded in that
judgment was entered in the lower
court in favor of the defendant, but
on appeal to the Supreme court, last
winter, that court reversed the lower
court and discharged the rule, and
this proceeding was brought to revive
the judgment against the defendant.
The defendant, having conveyed his
real estate to W. A. Stover, who sub-
sequently gave a mortgage to the
other named terre-tenant, the terre-
tenants were included in the action for
the revival of the judgment. Verdict
on Wednesday afternoon in favor of
the plaintiff for $7257.25 against the
defendant and against the terre-ten-
ants for the property as conveyed to
them by the defendant.
McCalmont & Co., use of Burdine
Butler, vs D. R. Thomas, being a
scire facias sur judgment.
A. M. Butler and Frank Butler,
executors of Thomas Butler, deceased,
for the use of Burdine Butler, vs. D.
R. Thomas. Being a scire facias sur
judgment.
These two cases were tried before
the same jury and went to trial Wed-
nesday afternoon and a verdict ren-
dered Thursday forenoon in favor of
the plaintiff and against the defend-
ant; in the first case for $460.60, and
in the second case for $637.35.
Other cases during the first week of
court were disposed of as follows:
Commonwealth vs. Richard O. Cor-
man. Prosecutor, Carl R. Eisenhauer,
Bill ignored.
Commonwealth vs. Raymond Sny-
der. Prosecutor, Glenn A. Amend,
State highway patrolman. Charge,
reckless driving. Nol prossed and
county to pay costs.
Commonwealth vs. Same. Prosecu-
tor, Glenn A. Amend, State highway
patrolman. Charge involuntary man-
slaughter. Nol prossed and county
to pay the costs.
Commonwealth vs. Jackson Frye.
Prosecutor, W. H. Smucker, State
highway patrolman. Charge, operat-
ing motor vehicle while under influ-
ence of liquor. A true bill.
Commonwealth vs. James E.
Fromm. Prosecutor, Frank Carson.
Charge, larceny.
district attorney
Commonwealth vs. Edwin Ryan.
Prosecutor, W. J. Graham. Charge
larceny. The defendant plead guilty
and was sentenced to pay the costs
and undergo a term of imprisonment
in the Pennsylvania industrial re-
formatory under the rules and regu-
lations of said institution.
Commonwealth vs. Peter Lese.
Prosecutor, John W. Sweigart. Charge,
larceny. True bill. Continued on
account of the illness of the defend-
ant.
Commonwealth vs. Oscar Horner.
Prosecutor, Mary Venerick. Charge,
larceny. Bill ignored.
Commonwealth vs. Clair Stickler.
Prosecutor, W. A. Homan. Charge,
forgery. Sentence suspended.
Commonwealth vs. Glenn A. Amend.
Prosecutor, R. B. Taylor. Charge,
aggravated assault and battery. True
bill Case temporarily continued for
further action.
Commonwealth vs. Harvey Walker.
Prosecutor, W. H. Smucker, State
highway patrolman. Charge, operat-
ing motor vehicle while under influ-
ence of liquor. True bill. Case con-
tinued, the defendant having been
sentenced to the penitentiary in a
prior case.
Commonwealth vs. Walter Bathurst.
Prosecutor, W. J. Graham, State high-
way patrolman... Charge, larceny. The
defendant plead guilty, sentenced to
pay costs of prosection, $1.00 fine and
not less than one year and six months
nor more than three years in the
western penitentiary.
MANY SENTENCES METED OUT.
A special session of court was held
on Tuesday of this week to hear pleas
of guilty and pass sentences, and as
a preliminary the court heard testi-
mony on the petition of Mrs. Lida
Sager for the appointment of a trus-
tee to look after the financial affairs
of her sister, Mrs. Lulu Thomas How-
ard. The court appointed the First
National bank and fixed the bond at
$7000.
Frank Hall, of Hublersburg, was
given a hearing on the charge of mak-
ing threats against Dr. S. S. McCor-
mick and T. A. Orr. Mr. Hall has
been in jail since July 23rd and the
court sentenced him to pay a fine of
one dollar, costs of prosecution and
| imprisonment in the county jail for a
Nol prossed by the
period of three months dating from
the request.
July 23rd. He also gave him three Annual Meeting of Centre County
months in which to pay the costs and
advised him to go away from Hub-
lersburg and get a job.
Chester Squires, of Philipsburg,
plead guilty to two drunk and disor-
derly charges and the court was some-
what puzzled what to do with him. !
He is only 39 years old and has a wife |
and eight children; also owns his own
home and is a good workman. The
court finally sentenced him to pay the
costs, giving him three months in
which to do it, and six months in the
county jail, suspending the latter sen-
tence upon condition that he report
once a month to the probation officer
and refrain from drinking.
John Knoffsinger, of Spring town-
ship, entered a plea of guilty to oper-
ating an automobile while under the
influence of liquor. He is only 21
years old and helps to support his
parents. The court sentenced him to
pay the costs of prosecution, $100 fine
at the rate of $10 per month and three
months in the county jail, the latter
sentence to be held in suspense as long
as he makes his payments regularly
and reports monthly to the probation
officer.
Howard Evey, of State College, also
plead guilty to operating a motor ve-
hicle while under the influence of liquor
and colliding with another car over at
Boalsburg. He was sentenced to pay
the costs of prosecution, a fine of
$150 and six months in the county
jail. ;
Alice Beck, alias Knoff, plead guilty
to abandoning her fourteen months
old infant. The young woman is only
eighteen years old and expressed a
wish to get a home some place where
she can support herself and her child.
On the promise of the probation of-
ficer to endeavor to find a home for
her the court suspended sentence and
put the costs on the county, Alice
being remanded to the care of the
sheriff until a place can be found for
her.
Oliver Brungard, Alice, his wife,
and Bond, their son, of State College,
Hospital Corporation.
Just eighteen people attended the
annual meeting of the Centre County
hospital corporation, held in the court
house on Monday evening.
Mrs. W. J. Emerick submitted the
report of the Woman’s Auxiliary for
the year of June 1st, 1926, to May
31st, 1927, which showed that the
Auxiliary had supplied all the bed
linens, table linens and gowns used in
the institution. The women also re-
furnished several rooms in the nurses
home, finished and furnished the
meeting room in the new wing of the
hospital and did other things for which
they deserve universal commendation.
The treasurer’s report showed a
very satisfactory condition of the
finances of the institution.
The report of manager W. H.
Brown showed that during the year
705 patients were treated at the hos-
pital for a total of 9152 hospital days.
The receipts included $27,368.93 from
patients, $6,250 State appropriation
and $2,137.40 in donations, a total of
$35,756.38. The expenses were $39,-
032.22, leaving a deficit at the end of
the fiscal year of $3,275.84.
connection it can be stated that while
the income last year was increased 30
per cent. the expenses increased only
25 per cent. Members of the board of
trustees believe that the time will !
come when the institution can be put
,on a basis of self-support, with the
usual appropriation allowed by the
State.
The report of the building committee
showed that all the changes and im-
provements in the old building will be
completed in about a month and the
community will then have an institu-
tion that will rank with the best in the
State for its size. By that time the
new X-ray laboratory will be fully
equipped, and this it is claimed, will
be more up-to-date and superior in
every way to similar laboratories in
most hospitals.
The terms of trustees Frank A.
In this
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Dr. H. A. Blair was over from Cur-
wensville last week, on one of his short
and frequent visits with his father, Frank
P. Blair.
—Mrs. Harvey Griffith is expected in
; Bellefonte this week coming up from Phil-
! adelphia for a visit with her niece, Mrs. T.
| Clayton Brown.
—Miss Ida Green will go to Huntingdon
to-day for a week’s visit with cousins,
with whom she always spends some time
at this season of the year. :
—Mr. and Mrs. William 8. Furst were
here from Overbrook within the week,
‘with a party of friends whom they enter-
tained at the Nittany country club.
| —Mrs. Wells L. Daggett is in Cleveland
with her niece, Mrs. Maynard Murch Jr.,
and as has been her custom when making
these visits, left with no definite plans as
to when she will return.
—Mrs. Jared Harper went to Philadel-
‘phia Wednesday, intending to spend a
month with Mrs. Ambrose M. Schmidt,
, While Dr. Schmidt is absent from the
| city on a month’s business trip.
—F. W. Weber, of Boalsburg, was
among the week-end visitors to Bellefonte,
having come over to spend Sunday with
his son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. John
Weber, of South Allegheny street.
—I. J. Dreese and daughter, Miss Mir-
‘iam, of Lemont, motored down to York.
, Pa, on Wednesday, to attend the Sesqui-
: centennial of the city which began yester-
‘day and will continue through tomorrow.
—W. Harrison Walker went out to
Titusville, on Wednesday, to attend the
funeral of a lifelong friend, Mr. Johnston
"Hall, who died quite suddenly on Tues-
day as the result of a stroke of apoplexy.
| —Mrs. Harry Yeager took advantage of
‘the excursion Saturday evening, to go east
for a visit with her son and his wife, Mr.
land Mrs. Malcolm, Yeager, at Perth Am-
boy, N. J. Mrs. Yeager’'s plans are for re-
turning to Bellefonte, late in October.
—Mrs. Harry Turner and her son
“Hughie” returned home last week from a
visit in Buffalo, being guests on the trip
of Mrs. Turner's daughter. “Hughie” never
having been further from home than
Unionville, the trip to New York State
was the event of his life.
| —Mrs. H. J. Hartranft has been enter-
taining her mother, Mrs. Johuson, of
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plead guilty to illegal possession of Carson, in district No. 8; William S, Montgomery, for several weeks and a
liquor. The three were arrested by
chief of police Yougel, of State Col-
lege, who, on searching the house, A. Pletcher, in district No. 6, and |
found 24 gallons of home brew and
two gallons and a half of moonshine. |
He also stated that the: Brungard
home was much frequented by to- |
dents. Mrs. Brungard did all the
Shelton, in district No. 4; J. Thomp-
son Henry, in district No. 5; Thomas
David Chambers, in district No. 7, all
having expired, the five men were re-
elected for a full three year term.
At a reorganization of the board,
on Tuesday evening, John Blanchard
| school friend, Mrs. Dieffenbacher, of Wil-
i liamsport, since Saturday of last week.
Mrs. Wieland, of State College, joined the
party Wednesday, for an all day visit.
—Mr. and Mrs. John Kocher motored
to Bellefonte Wednesday from Fairbrook
i and spent the day here with Mrs. Kocher’s
‘uncle, Edward Decker and his family.
+ The visit was made partly on account of
talking for the family and stoutly | Was re-elected president; J. Thompson A Mrs. Kocher’s health, which has not been
denied having sold any of the stuff, Henry, vice president; Ralph Mallory, | good since the death of her sister, Nellie
saying they kept it simply for them- |Secretary, and Edward R. Owen, Feters.
selves and to entertain their friends.
The court sentenced them each to pay
a fine of $1.00 and three months in:
the county jail, suspending the latter
sentence on Mrs. Brungard and son |
pending their good behavior, but the
father of the family had to go te jail; |
Clayton Krebs and Lawrence!
Woomer, two young married men of |
near State College, plead guilty to the :
charge of adultery and enticing a
minor female for immoral purposes |
and both were sentenced to pay the |
costs of prosecution, one hundred dol- |
lars fine and eighteen months to three '
years:in the western penitentiary.
Krebs and Woomer were taken to
the penitentiary’ on Wednesday and
Mrs. Mabel Craig was taken to the
Allegheny county work house to serve
her sentence of two to four years im-
vosed two weeks ago.
At another session of court, on
Wednesday morning, district attorney
John G. Love asked that the case
against Bert Parks, charged with
larceny, be nol prossed because the
prosecutor, Arthur B. Hannon, re- |
fused to appear against him. The nol |
pros was granted. ; i
~The district attorney also asked !
that a bench warrant be issued for !
Harry S. Horner, of Potter township, |
who had failed. in the payments of sup- |
port to his wife. The court granted
Samuel Gordon, of Bellefonte, ar-
rested a month ago on a bench warrant
because he failed to make the $25 a
month payments to his wife, was
brought into court and in his own be-
half told Judge Furst that he had
offered to provide a home for his wife
but she refused to live with him, and
he could not live with * her people.
The court discharged Mr. Gordon
from the custody of the sheriff after
making an order that he was to pay
$20 a month to the probation officer,
$15 of which were to go to the wife
and five dollars to be applied to the
payment of the court costs.
Centre County Conference of Women’s
Club.
The Centre county conference of
women’s clubs will meet at Philips-
burg on October 22nd, at ten o’clock
a. m., in the parish house of the Epis-
copal church on Fourth street beyond
Presqueisle street.
The tentative program evidences
more or less interest for all who will
be in attendance. Talent from State
College and from the State Depart-
ment of Public Health will be highly
enjoyable and beneficial, a profit for
those fortunate enough to hear it.
Reports from all organizations will
be a feature of the sessions. Time will
be given to present and discuss club
problems.
This annal conference invites every
organization of women in the county
(regardless of creed or sect) to par-
ticipate in the program. Non-mem-
bers will receive a warm welcome.
Box luncheon.
The beautiful mountain ride at this
season of the year is an additional at-
traction. Don’t miss it.
HELEN E. C. OVERTON
| of way width of from 80 to 100 feet
President County Conference
treasurer.
State Highway from Bellefonte to
Pleasant Gap to be Widened.
In connection with the campaign of
the State Highway Department to in-
crease the width of all main arteries
of travel throughout the State the
Department, on Tuesday, announced
plans for the widening of the first
stretches of highway in the State. In
the plans is one piece of roadway in
Centrs county, namely:
Legislative route No. 27, for 4.41
miles, to start at the intersection of
routes 56 and 27 in the village of
Pleasant’ Gap and extend northerly
through Spring township to the in-
tersection of "routes 27 and 107 in
Bellefonte borough, an ultimate right
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with the exception that through the
borough of Bellefonte no wider road-
way has been declared. This road
forms a link of traffic on route 44
trail.
Public Health Nursing Service.
The regular monthly meeting of the
public health nursing service was held
in the Red Cross office on Monday. A
summary of the nursing work for
September, as submitted by Miss
Anna Fairfax McCauley, public health
nurse, included six visits to prenatal
cases, 27 to babies under one year,
10 to pre-school children, 11 to school
children, and 30 to sick patients.
Twenty-eight hours were given to the
American Lime & Stone Co. in behalf
of the health education program
which they are offering to their em-
ployees. One well baby clinic was
held in the company health centre
with Dr. Dale as examining physi-
cian. Fees received from patients,
$8.25. Statements to the American
Lime and Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance company, $36.25. As donations a
box of clothes was received from Mrs.
Emerick.
Two Auto Accidents.
On Saturday night as William
Yearick, of Centre Hall, was going
down the mountain, the rear axle of
his Ford car broke and the machine
gained considerable momentum going
down the paved roadway. Mr. Year-
ick steered the car into the side of
the mountain, and while it was some-
what damaged he escaped without in-
jury.
On the same night Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Kurtz and Mr. and Mrs. Tucker,
of Lewisburg, were going down the
mountain on their way home from the
football game at State College. A
front tire blew out and the machine
turned over, breaking all the glass in
the windows of the car. Mr. Kurtz
sustained a cut on his face and a
broken rib. Mrs. Kurtz was badly
bruised and shocked while Mr. and
Mrs. Tucker escaped injury.
——The choir of St. John’s Re-
formed church, Boalsburg, will hold a
food sale in Hazel’s general store Sat-
urday, October 15th, from 2 to 8
, o'clock.
—Among those who went over on the
excursion Saturday night to spend Sun-
, day in New York, were Mr. and Mrs. D. R.
{ Foreman, Mrs. William H. Brouse, Mrs.
; Richard S. Brouse, Mrs. Luther Smith,
!Mrs. W. W. Bickett, Edgar Burnside, Wil-
{liam Garman, Peter Gray Meek, Jacob
{ Bottorf, William H. Noll Jr, and James
| Kerstetter, of Pleasant Gap.
| —Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Decker, with their
, daughter Miss Erie, left yesterday on a
{| motor trip to California They expect to
| be gone about three months If the weath-
! er permits they will visit Yellowstone Park
jon the way out, but will return by the
‘ southern route. During their absence Mr
‘McCullough will be in charge of the Deck-
er-Chevrolet business here.
—The Misses Ann and Caroline Valen-
tine have had as house guests this week.
a motor party from Harrisburg, which
included, Mrs. Wright, Miss Cameron, Miss
Seiler and Miss McCormick. The party
; drove to Bellefonte, Wednesday, remaining
j here until Friday. The Misses Valentine
: have also been entertaining Mrs. Josiah
Collins, of Seattle, Washington who de-
parted on Wednesday.
| —Mr. and Mrs. G. Oscar Gray, their two
sons, Carl and Richard, and Mrs. Gray's
| aunt, Mrs. Harrington, drove to Philadel-
| phia yesterday, expecting to be there until
| atter the Penn State and U. P. game to-
I morrow. Carl is a member of State's band,
| Mrs. Harrington went down to spend the
time with a friend in the city, while the
| remainder of the party were on a shop-
: ping and sight seeing trip.
—-Mrs. E. W. Mauck drove over from
! Millheim, Saturday, bringing with her,
Miss Bessie Etlinger, who left from here
for her home at Monessen after a two
| weeks visit in Miliheim. The FEtlinger
name has for many years been one of
, prominence due to the manufacturing of
| the coverlets which to-day bring such
fabulous prices from the collectors. Mrs.
Mauck is proprietor of the candy shop at
Millheim, where it is said the best ice
cream in the county is served.
—Miss Geraldine. Noonan went over
with the excursionists to New York Sat-
urday night, expecting to be there for the
remainder of October, with her sister, Miss
Margaret Noonan. Her visit at. this time
was made principally that she might at-
tend the wedding of her cousin, Miss
Louise Seymour and George Rhoads Casey,
which took place in New York Wednesday
of this week. Miss Seymour is well known
in Bellefonte, through her many visits
with the Noonan family in Bellefonte.
—H. J. Holtz left for New York, Tues-
day evening. The purpose of the trip was
to accompany the bodies of all his family
relatives who have been buried in the
Jewish cemetery here to Temple Irael
cemetery, Mt. Hope, N. J. His mother,
the late Mrs. Herman Holz is buried there
and beside her all the others will be laid
to rest. They are his grandmother, Mrs.
Babetta Joseph, his aunt, Josephine Jo-
seph, his uncles, Seigmund and Emil Jo-
seph, and his father, Herman Holz. He
had the tomb stones removed from the
graves last week and shipped ahead of the
bodies by freight.
—Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Sheffer and
their daughter, Miss Lillian, are arrang-
ing to leave Bellefonte next month, mov-
ing from the Old Forge House to Jersey
Shore, from where Mr. Sheffer has been
commuting for more than a year. Upon
coming to Bellefonte several years ago, the
Sheffer family lived first at the Bush
House, going from there to their present
home at the Forge. It has been through
Miss Lillian that much of the present in-
terest is due to the collecting and con-
i serving of antiques in Centre county, she
having been among the professional col-
lectors for the past two years.
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—Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Barnes who spent
most of the summer in Bellefonte at Hecla
park, returned to their home in Phila-
delphia on Wednesday.
—Miss Mauvis Furey went out to Wind
ber yesterday, to be the guest of Thomas
Lochrie until Sunday, at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lochrie.
- —Edward Miller left Sunday to enter
the Mayo Brothers Clinic at Rochester,
Minn., as a surgical patient, hoping to be
permanently relieved of recent trouble he
has had with the ankle injured in a foot-
ball skirmish six years ago.
—Miss Anne Badger and Mr. and Mrs.
Evy, will drive to Punxsutawney to meet
Mrs. Badger and Mrs. Abt, who have been
visiting for ten days with their sister,
Mrs. Williams at Coshocton, Ohio. The
party expects to arrive home Sunday.
—Miss Louise Carpeneto, who arrived
in Bellefonte Wednesday of last week,
landed in New York the Sunday before,
having made the trip to America on the
“Roma.” Miss Carpeneto had been abroad
since February, visiting with friends in
Italy.
—Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Miller and Mrs.
Miller's sister, Miss Annie Noll, arrived
home Monday night from their two
month’s visit in the west, which included
stops with relatives and friends in Col-
orado, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wiscon-
sin, Ohio and short visits in Pittsburgh
and Altoona after entering Pennsylvania.
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The Workman Family Now Sitting
Pretty at Mingoville.
It is a rare occurrence, indeed,
where husband and wife, or to be
more exact in this instance, wife and
husband, hold appointments under the
United States government and both
able to stay at home and fill them,
but this is the situation at Mingoville
(Hecla Park) where Mrs. Charles C.
Workman is postmistress at a salary
of $1900 and her husband is her as-
sistant at a salary of $720 a year, and
that is the reason why both are sit-
ting pretty in their snug home at
Hecla Park, and chickens did it.
There was a time, only about five
years ago, when the Mingoville post-
office hardly paid enough to bother
with. But Mr. Workman kept a little
store at the park and as an accommo-
dation he kept the postoffice in his
store. Then the Hockman brothers
started their chicken farm and hatch-
ery. At first they hauled the young
chicks to Bellefonte and maiied them
out to purchasers at the Bellefonte
office. In due time the chicken hatch-
ery became a big industry and Mr.
Workman went after the business
which the Hockmans were willing to
give him.
The result was the receipts at the
postoffice grew by leaps and bounds
and Postoffice Department officials
thought they smelled a rat. An in-
spector was sent here to investigate
but the first man failing to find any
thing wrong others were sent along
until all told four inspectors had done
a little investigating, and they all
found that the phenomenal growth in
receipts at the Mingoville office was
entirely due to chickens.
In the meantime Mr. Workman’s
term as postmaster was about to ex-
pire and the department announced
a civil service examination for ecan-
didates desiring the appointment. Of
course the salary was stated and this
brought out quite a number of will-
ing pickers for the Mingoville plum.
Just what might have happened is
hard to tell had not Frank Hockman
taken a hand which resulted in cut-
ting the list of applicants down to
three. When the civil service exam-
nation was over it was found that
Mrs. Workman had scored highest
and she was appointed postmistress,
and her husband being next was made
her assistant, and now their living
happily ever after will depend on
Frank Hockman and his chicken farm.
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County Dairymen to Receive Awards.
Centre county dairymen who have
herds which averaged 300 pounds of
butterfat per cow during the past
vear in the cow testing association
work will receive certificates at the
national dairy exposition, October
15th. Those who attend will get their
awards at the show while others will
receive their certificates at county
agent R. C. Blaney’s office several
months later. The men having herds
making 300 pounds butterfat and over
in Centre county are
A. C. Harter and Bro., Ward Krape
and Boone Bros., of Bellefonte; Allen
Burwell, Millheim; N. I. Wilson, War-
riorsmark; J. Victor Brungart, Re-
bersburg; Peters Bros., Port Matilda.
Ex-Convict Wanted for Assaults.
Police authorities of Centre, Hunt-
ingdon and Blair counties are looking
for Daniel LeRoy Snavely, an ex-
convict of the Huntingdon reforma-
tory, who is charged with having
committed a number of dastardly as-
saults on victims in the three coun«
ties above named. Several weeks ago
Snavely, who is 23 years old, appeared
at the home of James Auman, in Penn
township, Centre county, and asked
to be kept over night. The farmer
granted the request and the next day
the young man enticed a small daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Auman into the
orchard where he attempted to com-
mit assault, then fled the county.
Mr. Auman went before ’Squire
W. S. Shelton and swore out a warrant
for the arrest of Snavely but he has
not yet been caught. :
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected Weekly by C. ¥. Wagner & Co.
Wheat “=e a a a oa -. = $1.25
Rye - - - - - - 1.00
Corn - - - - - 1.00
Oate - - - - - - - 45
Barley - - - - - - = 80
Buckwheat - - - . « 90