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Bellefonte, . Pa.,, December 2, 1927,
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BELLEFONTE HIGH SCHOOL
GIVEN CONFERENCE HONORS
Will Play Mount Carmel, at State
College Tomorrow.
At a meeting of representatives of
the western conference Pennsylvania
Interscholastic Athletic Association,
held at the Penn Alto hotel, Altoona,
on Monday night, the Bellefonte High
school football team was awarded the
honors of the conference and select-
ed to play Mount Carmel for the State
championship, on Beaver field, at
State College, tomorrow (Saturday)
afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Regarding
the meeting in Altoona the Altoona
Tribune says:
Bellefonte High school’s football
team was declared champion of the
Western Pennsylvania - Inter-scholas-
tic athletic conference at a warm pes-
sion of representatives of nine mem-
ber schools in the Penn Alto last
night.
3 sSeicction of the Centre county
gleven {s expecied to surprise local
ootball followers who hag looked
upon either Altoona or Lock Haven
High as probable winners: Bellefonta
carry the wéstéril €on-
Terence standard in a post-season
game with Mount Carmel, eastern
winner, when faculty managers com-
promised aftr a lengthy debate in
which the relative qualities of con-
tending teams were forgotten or ig-
nored. ” :
i For some time Lock Haven and Al-
toona held thé spotlight. Johnstown,
Bellefonte; Lock Haven and Jersey
Shore delegates favored. k Haven,
akiig the and agains ren R
Ban eld, Hollidayshu¥g an Al
toona, who favo the Maroon and
White.
Emerging from this muddle, rep-
resentatives were slightly at a loss
on the proper procedure. Tyrone’s
delegate furnished a loophole by with-
drawing from the session. A sugges-
tion to appoint a committee to name
the championship team found favor.
iOn the first ballot taken by com-
mitteemen Lock Haven received three
votes, Bellefonte two and Altoona one.
Another ballot brought in a verdict
of one vote each for Bellefonte and
Altoona. Pitted against Altoona in
a new balloting, Bellefonte enjoyed
a three to four margin which held
against Lock Haven also.
Elevation of Bellefonte to the top
of the heap is even more surprising
in view of the fact that the Centre
county eleven won only a single con-
ference game and was tied twice. A
27-6 victory over Altoona High and
scoreless deadlocks with Lock Haven
and Tyrone comprised the team’s ac-
complishments in the conference field.
Another unexpected turn of affairs
that occurred was Bellefonte’s re-
seinding of a suggestion to decide the
championship on points,
At a meeting of delegates, Septem-
ber 19, Mr. Puderbaugh, principal of
Lock Haven High, suggested that Rob-
ert L. Thompson, secretary, write for
plans suitable to determine the title
winners on points. Bellefonte sug-
gested the point system used by the
W. P. I. A. A. This was the only
suggestion received. A vote by mail
resulted in five of the nine members,
including Bellefonte, voting for the
new method. Lock Haven dissented.
Three schools failed to vote.
Last night the minutes of the meet-
ing of September 19, when read by
Mr. Thompson, were approved as cor-
rect by representatives present.
A short address by Nelson Benson,
superintendent . of Lock Haven schools,
in which the speaker brought forth
many arguments against the adopt-
ed system, lead to a vote for recon-
sideration of the point system adopt-
ed through the mail vote.
State College, Lewistown and Port-
age High schools were admitted to
the conference during the meeting
last night. Election of officers for
the coming year will be made at a
banquet in Bellefonte Friday to which
two delegates from each member
school are invited.
Bellefonte and Lock Haven Play a
No-Score Game.
From twelve to fifteen hundred Belle-
fonters, including the American Le-
gion bugle and drum corps and the
Odd Fellows band, motored to Lock
Haven on Thanksgiving day for the
Bellefonte High school football game
with Lock Haven High; and this not-~
withstanding the fact that the day
was about as rainy and miserable as
could be, but fortunately not cold. It
is estimated that 4,000 people gath-
ered on Hansen field to witness the
game, which it was conceded would be
the deciding contest for the honors
of the western Pennsylvania confer-
ence.
But what a field to play on. The
rain had turned it into a slippery,
slimy quagmire of mud and water,
and while it was just as fair for Belle-
fonte as it was for Lock Haven, it
is a pity that the town hasn't a bet-
ter field for athletic sports.
In the first period of the game the
y and white and at one time same near
scoring. But the Bellefonte line
third quarter Bellefonte got the ball
down to within eight yards of the
by Harnish was blocked.
the game as they made eleven first
downs to seven by Bellefonte, but
with that they were unable to score.
Bellefonte was penalized three times
sport goes the game was clean
throughout. rin a
Between halves the Bellefonte and
Lock Haven musical organizations
kept the large crowd well entertained,
and following the game Bellefonte
people, headed by their band
bugle and drum corps gave a parade
through the principal streets of the
town, the bugle corps receiving much
applause from the crowd on the
“streets. 3
Bellefonte Man Dies from Wounds
Self-inflicted.
Despondent over a prolonged spell of
illness Fred Chandler cut his throat
and then shot himself twice, at his
home on Pike alley, early Sunday
morning, inflicting wounds that re-
sulted in his death at the Centre
County hospital on Monday after-
noon,
Mr. Chandler had been in poor
health for more than a year but was
able to be up and around. On Sunday
morning he went down into the cellar
of his home and made an attempt to
cut his throat, the one slash reaching
from his left ear almost to the right.
Failing to reach a vital spot he shot
himself twice in the left side of the
abdomen, about six inches below fhe
heart, using a 22-calibre gun. His
wife heard the reports in the cellar
and rushing down found her husband,
badly wounded but still conscious.
Sumi ning assistance he was taken
to the hospital wne.o he lingered un-
til Monday afternoon.
Alfred Henry Chandler was a
son of Thomas and Eliza Chandler
and was born at New Castle, Bng-
land, on February 26th, 1854, hence
had reached the age of 73 years, 9
months and 2 days. He came to this
country fifty-two years ago and had
been a resident of Bellefonte Ever
since. He was a laborer by occupa-
tion and a good citizen.
A8 a young man he married Miss
Harriet Symmonds, who died in 1921:
In February, 1927, he married ri
Esther Symmonds, who survived With
three children by his first Rak¥ifige,
namely: Mrs. Emanuel Shope, of
Milesburg; Mrs. Arthur Bickel and
Charles Chandler, both of Bellefonte.
He also leaves one sister, Mrs. Grace
Young, at New Castle, England.
Funeral services were held at 2:30
o’clock yesterday afternoon, burial be-
ing made in the Union cemetery.
Annual Christmas Seal Sale Starts
Tomorrow.
Once again the Christmas seal has
appeared, offering to every person the
opportunity to help in the great drive
against tuberculosis.
Appropriately, the seal is a cheer-
ful little sticker, symbolic not only of
the Christmas spirit but also of the
spirit of the movement that it helps
to finance. For the fight against tu-
berculosis is slowly moving to a glo-
rious victory and the seal is the tri-
umphant banner of the conquerors.
Every person who enlists under that
banner can feel that he is helping to
spread the tidings of hope and good
cheer into thousands of homes where
the white plague has entered, and to
preserve the happiness of thousands
of others which the disease threatens.
The cost of the seals—1 cent apiece
—is so slight that it is within the
power of everyone to help in the bat-
tie to win in this great cause.
The annual sale of tuberculosis
Christmas seals will start in Centre
county tomorrow, Dec. 3. In this sec-
tion the following women will have
charge of it:
Mrs. Charles R. Kurtz, chairman;
Mrs. James K. Barnhart, Mrs. Eben
B. Bower, Mrs. Jacob Hoy, Mrs.
Charles S. Hughes, Mrs. Harry C.
Menold, Mrs. Samuel Shallcross, Mrs.
E. O. Struble, Miss Helene A. Will-
iams and Mrs. Roy Wilkinson. :
State College Stock Exhibits Win
Many Prizes.
Livestock exhibits of the Pennsyl-
vania State College won many prizes
in the judging contests in the annual
livestock show, at Chicago, on Mon-
day, the awards for that day being
as follows:
Fat cattle division—Aberdeen, An-
gus steers, class 193; second, Gray
Boy, Pennsylvania State College.
Fat sheep division—Garden and
cross-bred sheep, class 46, wether, one
year, and under two. First, Penn-
sylvania State College; class 148,
champion wether, first, Pennsylvania;
Barrow, 200 and under 250 pounds,
third and fourth, Pennsylvania State
College; class 178, Barrow, 250 and
under 350 pounds, third, Pennsylvania
State College; class 181, pen of three
Barrows, 260 and under 350 pounds,
first, Pennsylvania State College;
class 183, five Barrows (any weight
stipulated), get by one sire, first,
Pennsylvania State College; class 184,
ten Barrows, 200 to 250 pounds, first,
Pennsylvania State College; class 186,
champion pen of Barrows, first, Penn-
sylvania State College.
Fat swine division, Duroc Jerseys:
Class 201, pen of three Barrows, 350
pounds or over, first, Pennsylvania
State College; class 203, five Barrows
(any weight stipulated above), third,
stiffened and saved the day. In the|
goal line but on two tries could not |
advance, and a trial for a field goal |
Lock Haven had a little the best of |
and Lock Haven twice. So far as the |
and |
Lock Haven team outplayed the red
Pennsylvania State College.
A Proposal:
This is the second day of
cipient is paid up to 1928.
_Will You
Help?
December. A new year will
dawn before we realize that it is here. Before it comes, how-
ever, we would like to have the label on every copy of the
Watchman that we mail, showing that the subscription of its
We would like to have this done for three reasons:
1st. All of what should be the working capital of this
paper is tied up in its subscribers.
We have the utmost con-
fidence in their intention to pay and trust them to the limit,
but our confidence in them isn’
t acceptable collateral to put
up at the bank in order to borrow money with which to pay
paper bills and meet the weekly payroll.
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2nd. The United States postal authorities are likely, any
minute, to throw out of the mails all papers that are not paid
up to within the year.
some years ago.
We had trouble with the Department
At that time we told the powers that be that
if we wanted to trust our subscribers that was our business.
The reply was that the law takes no cognizance of our faith
in you—if you are a delinquent—and that it is its business to
see that no papers are sent through the mails to persons who
do not pay promptly for them.
Inasmuch as there is actually
no way for us to evade this ruling of the Postal Department
we hope you will see the dilemma we are in and remit a por-
tion or all of your arrearage before December 31.
3rd. If all of our readers
were paid up we would have
no problem of financing the Watchman from week to week. If
the spectre of meeting the Saturday pay-roll check were not
hovering over the desk all week possibly we could give you a
much better Watchman than you have been getting.
There are not many who owe much. There are a lot who
owe a little—a year or two, let's
say. This seems only a trifling
sum to you, because $1.50, $3.00 or $4.50 isn’t a sum that the
average person worries much about.
consider what anyone of those
But when you come to
amounts would total if multi-
nlied by five or six hundred you will better appreciate how
serious it is to us,
The most of the Watchmian’s resources are tied up in just
such trifling little accounts, We have so much confidence in
our readers that we believe that everyone of them is honest
and will pay some day. Our trouble, however, is keeping the
paper going until that “some day” arrives.
And it troubles us
so much that we fear it is handicapping us in the work we
are trying to do.
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It would be such a happy Christmas, such a hopeful New
Year if our list was all paid up
and enough money in the bank
td end this unnecessary worry lest our checks might not be
good.
If the figures after your name on the label of this paper
do not indicate some month in
a remittance’ You can figure
’28 won’t you please send us
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dicate that your subscription
pired in the given month in
1925, and you would owe us $4.50 since it would be just three
years from ’25 to ’28.
As we have said before the sums seem trifling and it is
very distasteful to us to call attention to them, but their aggre-
gate means so much that we are compelled to do it.
We trust you will accept
this proposal in the friendly
spirit in which it is made and respond at once.
Sincerely yours,
GEORGE R. MEEK,
for The Democratic Watchman.
Prominent Lewistown Man Parboiled
in Bathtub.
Andrew McFarlane Thompson, a
prominent resident of Lewistown, and
a relative of the Thompsons in Col-
lege township, was literally parboiled
in the bathtub in his apartment in
the Coleman hotel at that place, last
Thursday night.
Thompson, who, was 67 years old,
went to his room early Thanksgiving
evening. About 1 o'clock on Friday
morning the night clerk, John Pear-
son, heard the water running in
Thompson’s bathroom. He tried the
door but it was locked. He then called
Mr. Thompson’s room on the House '
phone but received no response. Sum-
moning assistance he went to the!
room and forced the door, and was |
horrified to find the gentleman, clad .
only in his pajamas, lying on his |
back in the tub and immersed in a'
foot of scalding water. ;
It is presumed that Thompson had
fallen backward into the tub and in |
doing so probably struck the hot'
water spigot, turning it on, and being ! c
dazed by the fall was unable to help '
himself. He was removed from the
water as quickly as possible, but died
while being taken to the Lewistown
hospital.
He was a son ‘of Mr. and Mrs. Al-
bert Thompson and was the last of
the Thompson brothers who for more
than half a century operated the knit-
ting mills at Lewistown and Milroy.
His three brothers, Reed, George and
Walter Thompson, all died within the
past four years.
Word from the Decker party, |
now in Los Angeles, who are on a
three months’ motor trip to the coast,
is to the effect that they are so de-
lighted with California that it would
not be surprising if they decided to
eventually make it their home. The
drive out was made in eight days,
with not a drop of rain after leaving
Pennsylvania.
——The Knights of Columbus will
hold a food sale and bazaar in their
Injured Near Lemont.
“Ike” Garner, who works on the
J. W. Klinger dairy farm, narrowly
escaped death, on Sunday evening,
when a passing automobile struck and
knocked him down, bruising and cut-
ting him painfully. The driver stopped
and rendered assistance by taking
him to a doctor and having his in-
juries dressed. Mr. Garner is recov-
ering as rapidly as could be expected.
—A Christmas bazaar will be held
at the parish house of St. John’s
Episcopal church on Tuesday, Decem-
ber 6th, beginning at 12 o’clock noon.
There will be for sale a full line of
Christmas gifts, fancywork, aprons,
children’s dresses, candies, cakes and
food. A light lunch will be served
during the afternoon. Everybody in-
vited.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
HERIFF'S SALE.—By virtue of a
writ of Levari Facias issued out
of the Court of Common Pleas of
entre County, to me directed, will be ex-
exposed to public sale at The Court House
in the Borough of Bellefcnte on
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1927.
the following property:
All ‘that certain messuage, tenement and
tract of land situate and being in the
Township of Spring, County of Centre and
State of Pennsylvania, bounded and de-
scribed as follows :—
BEGINNING at a corner of land now
or formerly of John Hoy’s Estate, on the
line of land of Rowland C. Irvin; thence
along line of land of Rowland C. Irvin
and land of A. O. Furst North 67 degrees
20” East 211 and 76-100 rods to a post;
thence along land now or formerly D.
Grove South 23 degrees Kast 202 perches
to stones; thence along land or formerly
of Reuben Valentine's estate and George
Valentine South 62 degrees West 425
perches to stones; thence along land now
or late of P, and W. Barnhart North 29
degrees west 100 perches to stones; thence
along land of John Hoy’s estate the fol-
lowing courses and distances:— North 64%
degrees Hast 122 perches to a post; thence
North 2214 degrees West 14 perches to a
post; thence North 64 and one-half de-
grees East 105 perches to a corner; thence
North 25% degrees west 113 perches to the
: place of beginning.
Containing 413 acres and 124 perches net
measure.
Seized, taken in execution and to be sold
as the property of Allen Sheldon defend-
ant and W. G. Runkle, terre tenant.
Sale to commence at 1:30 o'clock P. M.
rooms, over the Bellefoni¢ Trust com-
pany, on Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings, December 6th and 7th, 1927.
The public is cordially invited.
! November 15th, 1927.
of said day.
E. R. TAYLOR, Skerifr,
Sheriff’s office, Bellefonte, Pa.,
72-45-3t
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XECUTRIX'S NOTICE.—Letters testa- |
Hen been ted
T. Clayton Brown, deceased, all persons |
knowing themselves indebted to same are |
requested ‘to make prompt 2 ent, and | Bellefonte.
those having claims against said estate
must present them, duly authenticated, for
settlement. - —_—
R' SALE—Red Star Oil Range, 4
Excellent condition. I
quire this office or BE. N. Suni
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tary having gran to} : ;
ersigned upon the estate of | TN OR SALE.—A water power Washer,
like new. Price $10.00 Inquire of J.
M. Fulton, at the Mayne
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store,
-45-t8,
MRS. MARGARET H. BROWN,
X Executrix, Bellefonte, Pa. f
J. Kennedy Jehnsten, Atty. 72-46-6t R
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Elaborate creations, as well as the
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our assortment complete as toyland
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