* Bellefonte, Pa, December 2. 1927.
“COLD CONSOLATION.”
There was an old woman who lived in a
shoe !
Decided her old ice box never would do.
Installed a high polished and fancy affair
That cooled by the draft of a marvelous air
No more would her ice man come around
every day; |
No more would the bill be a bother to pay.
at all.
Said nothing of noise, mentioned nothing
of waste, : .
Would dry up the meat but improve on
its taste.
‘Was colder than ice by a dozen degrees
And plastered all over with gold guaran-
tees.
Her troubles were over, she surely was
glad, .
She knew it was true for so said the ad.
The thing was installed and it ran for a
while,
Calm was her soul and broad was her
smile.
1t looked awfully pretty, it certainly was
ce,
But the cute little pans wouldn't make
enough ice!
‘Whenever she wanted a cool lemonade
She waited ten hours till more ice was
made;
The thing wouldn’t run ’cause the parts
were not oiled,
Then the current went off and her vege-
tables spoiled.
The coils sprung a lead and the smell was
a fright,
Couldn’t get in the kitchen till late in the
night.
Awoke in the morning, the milk was all
sour,
Proned for some ice, it was there in an
our.
Greeted her ice man, a friend staunch and
true.
“I'll never again try to be without you.”
So list to this tale, tho the ad. stuff looks
nice,
Ro reliable service “DEPEND UPON
A DAM THAT WOULD
COVER SIX STATES
The Boulder Dam Project Almost as
Stupendous an Enterprise as
the Panama Canal.
What is Boulder Dam? Nine out
of every ten persons one meets east
of the Rocky Mountains are com-
pletely in the dark on the question.
The tenth has only a vague idea of
it being somebody’s unrealized eco-
nomic dream that has become a vio-
lent political issue.
However Boulder Dam, while non-
existent, is provided with a name
coined from its proposed location in
the Boulder Canyon, which in turn is
a deep gash in the earth’s crust due
to the accumulated results of erosion
—of the combined action of the run-
ning water of the Colorado River,
rain, wind and the various atmos-
pheric agencies that attack rocks and
soften a path through them.
Boulder Canyon is situated where
the Colorado River forms the bound-
ary between Arizona and Nevada,
1,150 miles from the source of the riv-
er .in the high mountains of Colorado
and Wyoming and approximately 600
miles above where the river empties
into the Gulf of California.
* AGRICULTURE DEPENDS ON IT.
The Colorado is one of the large
and interesting rivers of the arid
region of the great southwest. It is
the only one where the valleys are all
arid, and where permanent agricul-
ture depends on abiliity to use water
in irrigation.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover
says he can conceive the development '
of probably fifteen dams in the Colo- !
rado River, using the yellow muddy |
water over and over again in its dro
of 8,000 feet from source to sea oy
Two diversion dams are in the river
already: the Grand Valley Dam that
reclaims 25,500 acres of land annually
with 265,000 acre feet of water 500
miles above the Boulder Canyon, and
the Yuma Valley Dam that reclaims
56,410 acres of land annually with
650,000 acre feet of water taken out
of the river 400 miles below Boulder
Canyon. An acre foot is the amount
of water required to cover an acre
of land to a depth of one foot.
» BOTH LACK POWER PLANTS.
The Grand Valley Dam and the
Yuma Dam are strictly irrigation
projects. Neither has a power plant.
It is the power-plant feature of the
Boulder Dam project that threatens
to rock the coming Seventieth Con-
gress to its legislative foundations.
To build a dam in the Boulder Can-
yon engineers estimate will cost $40,-
000,000. This is disputed, many op-
ponents of the project insisting it will
cost considerably more. Likewise are
disputed the cost estimates of the ad-
juncts of the dam; $30,000,000 for an
all-American canal to be built from
the existing Yuma Valley or Laguna
Dam to the Imperial Valley, and $35,-
000,000 for a power plant to be erect-
ed just below the proposed Boulder
Dam.
Boulder Dam itself as projected is
to be twice as high as any dam ever
built. From its foundation to its crest
it will be more than 700 feet and it
will raise the water surface of the
river 550 feet, creating a reservoir
that will be 86 miles long and hold
enough water to cover 26,000,000
acres of land a foot deep.
WOULD COVER SIX STATES.
That is, the dam is to provide suf-
ficient water at a depth of one foot
to cover the States of New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Con-
necticut, New Jersey and the District
of Columbia.
The average flow of the Colorado
River a year is about 16,000,000 acre
feet.
Thus the man-made reservoir in
the Boulder Canyon or its associated
Black Canyon as proposed will be
capable of holding the entire dis-
charge of the river for a year and a
half, and the great floods which now
come down in the spring when the
snows are melting will be caught here
and held back, to be released later
when water is needed to irrigate
parched fields.
NO WATER OVER DAM.
No water will flow over this dam-
to-be| All that goes down the stream
| object to the building of Boulder Dam
is to be let out through regulating
o ——
gates which are to open into tunnels
that will pass around the end of the
dam and are to be cut through the
towering cliffs between which the dam
is proposed to be built.
It is a fine thing to contemplate,
this triumph of ineering , 8
great dam that promises to outdam
all the dams ever built, but its prac-
tical side is questioned. - Te project
has been mulling around through all
the presidencies from Roosevelt to
Coolidge, and the cost estimates
range from $125,000,000 to $500,-
000,000.
After all, it is an interstate, in-
New ‘Mexico, Utah and Wyoming of
the upper basin and Arizona, Cali-
fornia and Nevada of the lower basin
are involved; international because
the Colorado River flows a hundred
miles through Mexico before it dies,
and municipal because two lar
cities, Denver in the Rocky Mountain
area, and Los Angeles on the Pacific
Coast, must eventually go, if they
must grow, to Boulder Dam for such
additional water as they may need
for household and industrial uses.
TWO CITIES NEED SUPPLY.
Both of these cities are outside the
natural drainage of the Colorado, and
they are asking the Federal Govern-
ment to do for them what many mem-
bers of Congress hold they should do
for themselves.
As for the States, they appear to
be in conflict as to the division of
water collected in the monster dam.
Then Arizona contends that Boulder
Dam will be useless to irrigate many
Arizona lands which are suitable for
reclamation but are above the spread
of the waters of the proposed dam.
“Too far down the river to be of
any substantial benefit to us, either
for irrigation or for power develop-
ment,” is the objection of the Arizona
members of Congress.
ADD——a dam that would TV 123
They further say that the Boulder
Dam will assure water sufficient to
irrigate 1,000,000 acres in Mexico, a
foreign country, without any obliga-
tion on the part of the Mexicans to
pay for this huge benefit.
FIGHT GAIN FOR MEXICO.
The right to this water, contends
Arizona, will completely exhaust the
available water in the Colorado River,
so that a million acres of land which
could otherwise be irrigated in Ari-
zona must remain a desert forever.
The Arizona mind concludes:
“These Mexicans will become our
agricultural competitors. Why should
Uncle Sam pass over the arid district
of Arizona and give this great boon
to a foreign people? Put the dam
higher up in the river, so that it will
benefit Arizona, and we will favor it.
We are everlastingly against Bould-
er Dam.”
A most complex question indeed
has this Boulder Dam project become,
for to give it momentum in the years
that were slipping by has been added
the argument that it is vital to pro-
tect the lives and property of 60,000
people who live in the irrigated lands
of the Imperial Valley several hun-
dred Hileggiclow in California. The
Colorado River is” now kept out of
this basin by
its north bank. :
Once let the Colorado break through
these levees, as did the Missis-
sippi River last spring and the Im-
means of levees along
be Tuesday, November 6.
‘trict delegates and district alternates
perial Valley will be drowned like a
rat, say the Boulder Damites, who
point out that 15,000 carloads of let-
i tuce and an equal number of cars of sit at polling places on those days.
cantaloupes annually are being |
shipped out of that valley to eastern '
cities, also quantities of table grapes,
date palms and long-staple cotton for
the looms of the textile mills of the
North Atlantic seaboard.
ADVISE FOOD CONTROL.
Hard-boiled opponents of Boulder
Dam suggest that the wealthy bene- |
ficiaries of the fertile Imperial Val-
ley might dig into their own pockets
to provide the cash necessary for
flood control in the Colorado River,
rather than seek to dump the cost
upon American taxpayers. They also
in response to future water needs of
major and minor cities, including Los
Angeles and Denver. They point out
that to build Boulder Dam will van-
ish all prospects of substantial cuts
this year in Federal income taxes.
But the real fight in Congress over
Boulder Dam will range around the
power plant feature of the enter-
prise. Shall the Federal Government
go into the power business and be-
come a competitor of private enter-
prise already heavily invested in that
direction ?
Of course, there is a clause in the
last bill before Congress which
authorizes the Secretary of the In-
terior to lease the power privileges
of Boulder Dam to private companies
or municipalities who would erect
their own generating works. But the | $1
right is also delivered, in the bill de-
feated in the last Congress, for the
Secretary to build a power plant and
sell the electric energy at the switch-
board. The explanation for these al-
ternatives for dealing with the pow-
er is that it is necessary to enable
the Federal Government tc bargain
advantageously.
Hence Boulder Dam—something
that is not off the blue prints—has
become even a greater menace to
private capital invested in private
power companies than the Colorado
River itself is a menace to the lives
and property of the people in far
away Imperial Valley.
In order to hit back at the private
power companies for opposing Boul-
der Dam, the backers of the project
have pointed at the high electric
rates of some of the private power
companies as a substantial reason
why the dam should be built. On the
other hand, these private power
companies are all under the control
of utility commissions in the various
States clustering around Boulder Can-
yon, and it is within easy grasp of
the people of each State to bring
about the lowering of rates where
they are too high.
For an unrealized dream Boulder
Dam has worked wonders—wonders
in words spoken and written, and the
end is not yet.—Raymond Carroll in
the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
—
POLITICAL CALENDAR AS be
ANNOUNCED FOR 1928
The primary election in 1928 will be
held Tuesday, April 24.
date will
The general election and
At the prim
ly eT er
urer, auditor ral a judge o
superior court to take office in Jan-
uary, 1929, when the term of Presi-
dent Judge William D. Porter, Pitts-
burgh, expires.
Distriets within the State will also
nominate thirty-six members of Con-
gress, twenty-five state senators in
odd-numbered districts and 208 mem-
bers of the state house of representa-
tives from all districts. :
In addition, at the primary, politi-
cal parties will elect delegates-at-
large and alternates-at-large to the
national conventions of political par-
ties and district delegates and district
alternates to these conventions.
Members of the State committees
of the political parties and county
committees and officers, as party rules
provide, will also be elected next
April. :
he Republican and Democratic par-
ties will each elect seventy-two dis-
to their national conventions, but un-
less the national committees chan
apportionment the Republicans will
elect seven delegates-at-large and al-
ternates-at-large, and the Democrats
only four.
Nominating petitions for all of
these candidates, except for county
committee, must be filed with the Sec-
retary of the Commonwealth.
County committee candidates file
their petitions with county commis-
sioners.
At the general election, in addition
to electing officers for which nomina-
tions were made at the primary, the
State will elect Presidential electors.
and will vote on almost a dozen pro-
posed amendments to the State Con-
stitution.
The political calendar for 1928 is:
Wednesday, January 25, first day to
secure signatures to petitions for
nomination to be filed with the sec-
retary of the Coommonwealth.
Tuesday, February 9, first day to
secure signatures to petitions to be
filed with county commissioners.
. Monday, March 5, last day for fil-
ing petitions with the Secretary of the
Commonwealth for primary.
Monday, March 12, at 4 o’clock,
last hour at which candidates may
withdraw before the primary.
Tuesday, March 20, last day for
filing petitions with county commis-
sioners for party officers.
Wednesday, March 21, last day for
voters in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and
Scranton, who were not registered for
the election in November, 1927, to
register for the spring primary.
Tuesday, April 3, last day for vot-
ers in other cities to register for the
spring primary. .
_ “Reduction in Long-Distance Tele-
phone Rates.
A reduction in long distance tele-
sylvania. The reduced charges chief-
ly affect daytime rates,
est reductions, and will result in an
to long distance users.
These reductions in charges. be-
wires and to pass on to long distance
users the economies made possible by
recent scientific developments which
tion over long distances.
Under the porposed schedule, the
station-to-station day rate from Belle-
fonte to Chicago is reduced from $2.55
to $2.40; to Salt Lake City, from
$7.95 to $6.50; to San Francisco, from
$10.40 to $8.50; and to Miami, from
$4.75 to $4.25. As a matter of fact,
the most widely separated points in
€€ | the United States will be able to com-
municate by long distance telephone
day or night for $10.00 or less.
In order to avoid congestion during
the night hours, it is also announced
that the night rates now in use after
8.30 p. m. will be held at approxi-
mately their present levels, and the
evening rates applying ‘between 7 p.
m. and 8.30 p. m. will be about half
way between the night rates and the
new day rates.
Mountain League Basketball Schedule.
The moleskin warriors have had
their inning and will now give way
to their second cousins, the basket-
ball players. E. K. Stock, of the
Bellefonte High school; C. C. Smith,
of Mt. Union, and F. E. Ahrenfeld,
of Philipsburg, schedule committee of
the Mountain High School league,
composed of Bellefonte, Tyrone, Phil-
ipsburg, Houtzdale, Hollidaysburg,
Huntingdon, Mount Union and Lewis-
town, have completed the schedule
for the coming season, as follows:
Dec. 16.—Huntingdon at Philipsburg.
Hollidaysburg at Houtzdale.
Tyrone at Mount Union.
Lewistown at Bellefonte.
6.—Lewistown at Philipsburg.
7.—Lewistown at Houtzdale.
Tyrone at Hollidaysburg.
13.—Philipsburg at Houtzdale.
Hollidaysburg at Huntingdon.
Tyrone at Bellefonte.
Mount Union at Lewistown.
30.—Philipsburg at Tyrone.
Bellefonte at Houtzdale.
Lewistown at Hollidaysburg.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan,
Jan.
Saturday, April 14, last day for
registration and enrollment in bor-
oughs and townships.
Tuesday, April 24, spring primdry
election. ie
Wednesday, May 9, last day fo
candidates to file statement of éxi¥
penses for the primary, vox
Thursday, May 24, last day for
treasurers of political committees to
file statement of primary campaign |
expenditures.
Tuesday and Wednesday, Septem-
ber 4 and 5, last days to be assessed
for the November election. Assessors ,
Thursday, September 6, first day in
any city to be registered for Novem-
ber election. Registration is necessary
as previous registrations will be void.
Friday, September 7, last day for
filing nomination papers by independ- |
ent bodies of citizens for any office. |
Monday, September 17, last day
when candidates nominated at the
primary may withdraw from nomina-
tions.
Tuesday, September 18, second regis-
tration day. Ys |
Monday, October 1, last day to file
nominations to fill vacancies caused
by withdrawal of candidates nomi-
nated at the primary election.
Saturday, October 6, third and last
day for registration. Also, last day
to pay tax to qualify for November
election.
Tuesday, November 6, general elec-
tion.
Thursday, December 6, last day for
filing statements of expenses for the
November election by candidates and
treasurers of committees.
Real Estate Transfers.
Philipsburg Cemetery Association to
Edith M. Stock, tract in Rush Twp.;
$38.40.
William D. Grebe, et ux, to Row-
ena Grawshaw, tract in Philipsburg;
Rowena Grawshaw to William D.
Grebe, et ux, tract in Philipsburg; $1.
Abraham Weber's hiers to William
Weber, tract in Howard Twp.; $1.
Lindley H. Dennis, et al, to H. S.
Meyers, et al, tract in Gregg Twp.;
$1,350,
Leona Wert to Leresta Snyder,
tract in Millheim; $400.
Clifford V. Quick, et ux, to Elsie M.
Pifer, tract in Milesburg; $150.
Harry Harpster, et al, to George P.
Irvin, tract in Ferguson Twp.; $220.
Alvin Bush, et ux, to Thomas C.
Galbraith, tract in Philipsburg; $1.
H. S. Taylor, sheriff, to Rlizabeth
M. Mingle tract in Centre Hall; $250.
Mary C. Tressler to Viola C. Mus-
ser, tract in Centre Hall; $1.
M. R. Pifer, et ux, to William M,
Long, tract in Howard Twp.; $5,000.
Calvin W. Lingle, et ux, to Mary E.
Morgan, tract in Gregg Twp.; $2,800.
Samuel C. Bower, et ux, to Ella B.
Bower, et bar, tract in Howard; $1.
Calvin J. Weaver, et ux, to Walter
M. Weaver tract in Miles Twp.; $1.
Walter M. Weaver, et ux, to Calvin
J. Weaver, et ux, tract in Miles Twp.;
James H. Schreck, Exec., to W. H.
Potter et al, tract in Centre Hall;
Huntingdon at Mt. Union.
21.—Bellefonte at Philipsburg.
Tyrone at Lewistown.
27.—Hollidaysburg at Philipsburg.
Tyrone at Huniingdon.
Lewistown at Bellefonte.
_ Mount Union at Hollidaysburg.
Feb.” 3 _Philipsburg at Hollidaysburg.
Huntingdon at Houtzdale.
Lewistown at Tyrone.
Mount Union at Bellefonte.
10.—Houtzdale at Philipsburg.
Hollidaysburg at Lewistown.
Bellefonte at Tyrone.
Mount Union at Huntingdon.
17.—Philipsburg at Bellefonte.
Tyrone at Houtzdale,
Huntingdon at Hollidaysburg.
Lewistown at Mount Union.
24. —Tyrone at Philipsburg.
. Hollidaysburg at Houtzdale.
Bellefonte at Mount Union.
Lewistown at Huntingdon.
25.—Bellefonte at Huntingdon.
2.—Mount Union at Philipsburg.
Houtzdale at Bellefonte.
Hollidaysburg at Tyrone.
Lewistown at Huntingdon.
3.—Mount Union at Houtzdale.
9.—Philipsburg at Mount Union.
. Bellefonte at Hollidaysburg.
Huntingdon at Tyrone.
Houtzdale at Lewistown.
10.—Philipsburg at Lewistown.
Houtzdale at Huntingdon.
Mar. 16.—Bellefonte at Hollidaysburg.
Tyrone at Mount Union.
S—————— pps
The Tale of a Homesick Hog.
Out in the foothills of the Alle-
ghenies, beyond Yarnell, E. C. Mus-
ser, local superintendent of the West
Penn Power company, has a farm on
which he raises hogs. Last Friday he
had a public sale of porkers and to
make it more convenient for bidders
had the animals brought to the old
Titan Metal building at McCoy's. All
the pigs and hogs were sold but one
big mother and when they were all
removed she became quite homesick.
On Saturday morning Mr. McCoy
was working out near the plant when
he heard a “woof, woof,” almost at
his heels and with visions of a bear
floating through his brain he gave a
jump and landed ten feet away. When
he discovered that the “woof” came
from Musser’s hog his courage re-
turned and he drove the animal back
to the plant and put it in a box stall.
Some time later Mr. Musser stopped
there and John told him about the
hog, offering to show him how he had
secured the animal in a box stall.
Going into the building both men were
astounded when they discovered that
the hog had crawled over the board
partition and broken out again.
The men found it outside and again
nailed it up in the pen, but the same
afternoon the hog made its escape,
walked across the breast of the dam
and got down into Milesburg before it
was captured and returned. On Mon-
day the hog again broke out but was
discovered when walking over the
breast of the dam and driven back
to the pen and then nailed up so tight
that so far as known it has not been
able to break out since.
Jan.
Jan.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
———The County Commissioners
have cleaners and painters at work
renovating and repainting the offices
in the Court house; intending, also,
to have the main court room treated
$4,300.
in like manner.
es PINE GROVE MENTIONS.
with the |
greater distances enjoying the great-
| Rand
~ Thanksgiving
tween distant points are introduced OWI. .
to encourage even greater use of the i
Bell system’s nation-wide network of 12st
are chiefly applicable to communica-
—_—
| Mrs. Emma Bathgate is a guest of
her daughter, Dr. Eva Roan
phone rates between points separated ' Sheriff E. R. Taylor was a friendly
by 390 miles or more will be put into Visitor in town last Thursday.
effect on December 1st, according to _ Mrs. J. F. Harkins is recovering
an announcement by J. H. Caum, of from a recent attack of illness.
the Bell Telephone company of Penn- !
Miss Esther Neidigh is away on a
several weeks’ trip to Pittsburgh.
A. J. Lytle, who has been quite ill
for two months, is slowly improving.
i New electric lamps have been in-
estimated saving of about $1,500,000 stalled on Wall street, in our town.
Curley Randolph and wife spent
i ng with friends at Lewis-
Mrs. Mary Robb, of Howard, spent
week with her daughter, Mrs. W.
i R. Port. :
Lee Markle, of Altoona, was a bus-
{ iness visitor in town the latter end of
; the week.
Keep in mind the institution of the
new Rebekah lodge on Monday, De-
cember 5th. :
i John F. Markle, of Altoona; spent
several days last week at the J. A.
Fortney home.
Miss Edith Sankey spent the early
: part of the week on a business trip
to Centre Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Deal took in
ithe State-Pitt game, at Pittsburgh,
, on Thanksgiving.
Fred Corl, of Altoona, ate his
; Thanksgiving day dinner at his
parental home here.
Professor Ed. S. Erb and wife are
visiting their daughter, Mrs. Donald
Lenker, at Scranton.
Mr. and’ Mrs. John Corl, of Struble,
i are entertaining their daughter, Cath-
'erine, of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Mildred Campbell Black, of
Allentown, was a recent visitor with
friends in this section.
! Samuel H. Tate and wife, of Lew-
istown, spent the early part of the
week with friends here.
Miss Alice Thompson spent Thanks-
giving in Lansing, Mich., as a guest
of Capt. and Mrs. Stehl.
| The lantern slide entertainment at
{ Meek’s church, on Tuesday evening,
netted the Mission band $14.
Merchant G. R. Dunlap and wife
motored to Philipsburg for an over-
Sunday visit with old friends.
Mrs. Sara Grapp, of Pittsburgh,
spent last week with her mother, Mrs.
Charlotte Kepler, in the Glades.
C. M. Dale and son, Hugh, motored
to Mifflinburg and spent Thanksgiv-
ing with H. L. Dale and family.
The Misses Gertrude and Ada Ro-
mig and Charlotte Hoy are visiting
Rev. and Mrs. Romig, in Philadelphia.
‘Thanksgiving day was made the oc-
casion for a family gathering at the
{ John B. Witmer home, at White Hall.
John Calvin Gates, of Mill Creek,
spent last week looking over the
scenes of his youth in Ferguson town-
ship.
W. L. Foster, wife and daughter,
Miss Nancy, are visiting their daugh-
ter, Mrs, Charles Hall, in Lansing,
Mich, i 2
Dr. R.:M. Krebs and Wife and Hon.
J. Will Kepler spent several days, last
week, viewing the sights in Balti.-
more.
W. T. Rimmey and wife departed,
on Tuesday, for Muncy, where they
expect to remain until after the holi-
day season.
and Mrs. J. B. Krebs, of Northumber-
i land, is visiting relatives here and at
. Centre Line.
JA KSONVILLE. i
~J.-J.-Vonada and = Luther” Fisher
butchered last wee
George Ertley, who has been ill, is
able to be around again.
Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Hoy visited
at the John Corman home, at Cur-
tin, last week.
The shirt factory
closed down and the girls have se-
cured employment at Bellefonte and
other nearby towns.
Mrs. A. A. Garrett, who has been
very ill at the Centre County hos-
pital ,is not improving as fast as her
friends wish, but is some beter. ;
Mrs. Matilda Estley, who has been
suffering with rheumatism, is better.
The Thanksgiving chicken and waf-
fle supper held by the Ladies’ Aid
society cleared nearly $95.
_ Announcement has been made of
the engagement of Joseph Diehl and
Miss Nellie Bennison, of this place.
Both are well known and have a host
of friends who wish them happiness
and success.
Those who spent Thanksgiving at
the Harry Hoy home were Mrs.
Mabel Peck and son, Clifford Peck, of
Bellwood; John Hoy, of Howard; Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Neff and son, J oseph,
Jr.,, of Lemont, and George Neff, of
Shingletown.
at Howard has
BOALSBURG.
Dr. W. W. Woods is spending some
time in New York.
Miss Anna Sweeny is spendin,
of this week in Centre Hall. € part
Ray Lucas and wife, of Akron, O
visited their parents and friends
town over Thanksgiving.
Charles Fisher and son, Charles,
Jr., of Danville, Spent several days
last week at thé Fisher home.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Mayes and
daughter, of Milton, spent the week-
end among friends in this vicinity.
Mrs. John Jacobs, daughter and
son, of State College, were visitors
at the Leland Walker home on Sun-
day.
Mrs. James Fry, of Philadelphia,
and Samuel Kaup, of Altoona, were
guests of their mother, Mrs. Joanna
Kaup, recently,
Dr. and Mrs. George C. Hall expect
to close their house this week and re-
turn to Wilmington, Del, for the
winter months.
Miss Virginia Dale, of the Branch,
and her cousin, Miss Jane McGirk, of
Lakemont Terrace, were callers in
town Saturday.
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Suppose Your Car Were Stolen.
Could you identify your car if it
had been stolen and recovered by the
police? You could? But that is what
all owners say. And yet when they
see their bus—what they think is
their car—in the police garage, why
it is a ten-to-one bet that they can-
not identify it. The police prove it
time and time again.
As a matter of fact most car own-
ers depend for identification on some
scratch” on the body, some broken
screw ‘in the chassis or some other
equally uncertain factor. They do not.
stop to consider that our big manu-
facturers are turning out models in
10,000 lots that differ from each oth-
, gree.
has run a stolen car through his.
| Miss Mary Krebs, daughter of Dr. «service station” it would puzzle the
er innot the slightest discernible de-
By the time a successful thief
most careful owner on earth to iden-
tify his vehicle. : ;
The only safe method of placing
| Fred B. Goss and wife went out | identification marks on a car is to
to Pittsburgh the latter end of the | place them on all major parts of the
| week to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Goss’ mother.
Mrs. C. H. Seibert is confined to
bed with injuries sustained in a fall
while walking across her bedroom,
one day recently.
Squire E. H. Auman, with his son,
Edward, and wife, motored to Phila-
delphia and spent Thanksgiving with
the John Auman family.
A. Brooks Corl, who has spent the
summer in the south and west as a
traveling salesman, is now home to
remain until after the Christmas holi-
days.
Mrs. Mary Coombs took advantage
of the excursion from Philadelphia,
on Sunday, and came up for a few
hours with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Will Kepler.
The roads have been thronged this
week with automobiles loaded with
hunters and camp equipment enroute
to the hunting camps on Tussey
mountain and in the Barrens.
John H. Bailey flitted into his new
home, on Wall street, on Monday. It
is a buff brick structure and one of
the best looking houses in town. It
is also equipped with all the modern
conveniences.
Clarence Robb, of Howard, is a
guest at the Russell cafe for the first
three days of the hunting season. He
was recently elected a road super-
visor in his township and will be
sworn in on Monday.
J. W. Miller has pulled in his
threshing outfit for the winter. The
biggest crop threshed by him was
that of John Quinn, on the Major
Ross farm, 2,528 bushels of wheat
and oats. Charles T. Homan, on the
Branch, had 1,075 bushels of wheat
and William Gorman 1,160 bushels of
oats.
Negro Prisoner Escapes.
Oliver Statler, negro, made his es-
cape from Rockview penitentiary some
time Monday forenoon. He was work-
ing at the stone quarrying plant near
the railroad when he made a getaway.
Statler was sent up from Allegheny
county for two to four years for bur-
glary. He is 29 years old, 5 feet
9 inches tall and weighs 175 pounds.
His hands and face are covered with
scars from burns. - When he left he
was wearing blue cap, coat and ove
alls. -
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mechanism. Perhaps the most satis-
factory method of doing so is to
place punch marks on the various
units. All such marks should be put
in places where they will not be read-
ily discernible; for instance, on the
inside of the axles, on the gear-set
houseing.
After the marks have been made
they should be rubbed over with
grease until they are nearly indis-.
tinguishable as possible. The car
owner can have a prick punch made
with his initials on it in a very fine
type and with this it is possible to
put his mark on the various parts
that will generally escape notice and
yet remain permanently. :
Another clever idea is to bore a
few small holes a mere fraction of
an inch into the framework at a giv-
en place carefully measured from a
permanently located landmark. Then
fill these holes with lead and smear’
the spot well with grease. If there
comes a time when it is necessary to
identify the car it is a simple matter
to measure off the proper distance,
scrape a little lead off and prove own-
ership of the car. .
The individual owner can probably
find a dozen distinctive ways of
marking his car for possible identifi-
cation, but the point is that this:
should be done, because when a car
has been stolen the police demand
something more than a say-so on the
part of the owner before they return
it to him. -
Chicago Will Have Best Lighted Air-
plane Landing in World.
Chicago’s municipal airport is to
be the best lighted landing field in
the world, $75,000 having recently
been made available for improvement
of the landing field, reports the Penn-
sylvania Public Service Information
committee.
Four large-type beacon lights have
been ordered. They will be so placed
that by the use of these powerful
lights an aviator will be able to make
a landing under any condition of wind
without having to face any blinding
beams.
More than 2,000 of the nation’s
7,475 miles of air routes have been
marked out with electric lights for
the guidance of night fliers. Revolv-
ing searchlights of 2,000,000 candle-
power are placed at intervals of from
10 to 25 miles, with “blinkers” and
other small lamps between. This year
about 1,700 additional miles will be
added to the fast-growing network of
light lanes.