Bellefonte, Pa., December 9, 1927.
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WRYE.—Joseph Blair Wrye, a re-
tired Pennsylvania railroad employee,
died at his heme in Altoona, last Fri-
day, as the result of an attack of
heart trouble, following a brief ill-
ness.
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac
Wrye and was born on the farm in
Halfmoon township, Centre county, on
January 29th, 1858, hence was almost
seventy years old. His early life
was spent on the farm but later he
went to Altoona and for many years
was employed in the boiler shops of
the P. R. R. He married Miss Edith
Hostler, who survives with five broth-
ers and three sisters, Walter, Frank
and Miles Wrye, of Warriorsmark;
Edward, of Tyrone; Budd and Mrs.
Belle Whippo, of Jersey Shore; Mrs.
Hattie Harpster, in California, and
Mrs. Blanche Gates, of Gatesburg.
Mr. Wrye was a member of the
Lutheran church and the Modern
Woodmen of America. Funeral serv-
ices were held at his late home on
Monday afternoon, burial being made
in the Oak Ridge cemetery, Altoona.
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MILLS. Mrs, Stella Mills, wife of
Roy B. Mills, died at her home at
Northwood, near Tyrone, last Thurs-
day, following an illness of two weeks
as the result of a heart attack. She
was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam McBath and was born at State
College on December 17th, 1892, hence
was not quite 35 years of age. In
addition te her husband she is sur-
vived by two sons, Raymond and
Thomas, both at home. She also leaves
her parents and two sisters, Mrs.
Charles Simpson, of Baileyville, and
Mrs. Edward Harris, of Homewood.
She was a member of the First
Lutheran church, of Tyrone, and her
pastor, Rev. E. M. Morgan, had
charge of the funeral services which
were held at 2.30 o’clock on Sunday
afternoon, burial being made in the
Eastlawn cemetery, Tyrone.
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SMITH.—Edward Smith, a former
employe’ of the ‘State ‘Highway de-
partment in Bellefonte, died on Mon-
day morning in the Germantown hos-
pital following an illness of three
weeks with pneumonia. Mr. Smith
was located in Bellefonte for about
eighteen months, but was transferred
“from here to Philadelphia almost two
years ago. During his stay here he
‘and his wife and little daughter
roomed in Petrikin hall. When trans-
ferred to Philadelphia he moved his
little family to Harrisburg. His wife,
prior to her marriage, was Miss Hel-
en Kephart, of Curwensville, and it
was to that place she took the re-
mains for burial yesterday.
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. BECHDEL.—Mrs. Matilda Snyder
Bechdel, widow of William A. Bech-
del, died at her home at Blanchard on
Sunday evening, of general debility,
aged 85 years. She is survived by
two sons and one daughter, Charles
. Bechdel, of Ouray, Col.; Edgar T., of
Blanchard, and Miss’ Anna, at home.
She also leaves one brother, Thomp-
son A. Snyder, of State College. She
was a member of the Baptist church
and Rev. J. Franklin Smith had
' charge of the fumeral services, which
were held at 2 o’clock on Wednesday
afternoon, burial being made in the
Baptist cemetery, at Blanchard,
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McEWEN.—Mrs. Catherine Mec-
Ewen, a native of Walker township,
died on Friday at her home in Lock
Haven, as the result of general de-
bility, aged 87 years. She is sur-
vived by one son, Jehn McEwen, of
Lock Haven, two brothers and one
sister, James and Morris Meyers, of
Avis, and Mrs. Samuel Neff, of Phila-
delphia. Funeral services were held
on Monday afternoon, burial being
made in the Hublersburg cemetery.
—A big boxing carnival is to be
held at Snow Shoe on Saturday, De-
cember 17th, to include five bouts.
RUNVILLE.
Miss Helen Kaufman gave a party
for a group of her friends recently.
Boyd Johnson’s home was the scene
of a large gathering last Saturday. It
was butchering day and forty-two
people turned out to help. Among
them were Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Marks and their two daughters, from
Huntingdon; Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Kaufman, their two daughters and
son from Newton Hamilton; Mr. and
Mrs. Nicholas Knight, with their two
daughters and Mrs. Carter from Wil-
liamsport and Mrs. Sara McKinley
and son, Aaron, of Dry Top. The
largest hog killed dressed 450 pounds.
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—Yeager’s Tiny Boot Shop sells
Shoes and Rubbers at prices less than
the mail order houses. 48-1t
—We beat the mail order house on
the price of shoes, Yeager’s Tiny Boot
Shop. 48-1t
Front Row, left to right—Montgomery, Heverly, Harnish, Confer, Mosey,
lor, Weaver, Derstine.
———— rt Bellefonte High School Football Squad for 1927 Season.
Temorvaic, atm, i Selon! Polit Sarr
Wasson, Gingher (Captain), Knisely, Crust, Tay-
Back Row—Thal, Gunsallus, Owens, Shope, Martin, Bicketts, Kofman, Malone, H yes, Bricker, Rothrock, Gillen Coach C.
C. Bream and Principal E. K. Stock.
BELLEFONTE HIGH LOSES
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
Mount Carmel Won by One Point, on
Beaver Field, State College,
Defeated but not dishonored the
Bellefonte High school football team
lost the State championship in the
Interscholastic Athletic Association to
Mount Carmel by one point, on Beav-
er fiield, at State College on Satur-
day. The visitors were able to take
advantage of Bellefonte’s unlucky
breaks in the first period to make
their score, which was the only time
they got within striking distance of
Bellefonte’s goal line.
It is not the intention to detract
one iota from the glory or prowess of |
the red tornado from Northumberland
county. They are a good team and
have been well coached; but aside
from the spurt in the first period
when they made their score they were
outplayed by the Bellefonte team.
This is borne out by the official
records of the game which showed
that in the first half Mount Carmel
made six first downs to Bellefonte’s
two, which included the visitors’
splurge when they made their touch-
down, while in the second half Mount
Carmel was able to score only one
first down to nine for Bellefonte.
Bellefonte’s touchdown in the third
quarter was made on a splendid ex-
hibition of straight football. Getting
possession of the ball on their own
fifty-two yard line Bellefonte carried
it by a spccession of line plunges and
end runs a distance of fifty-eight
yards, enabling Crust to plunge across
the goal line for’ the only score. It
was then that fate again showed up
unkindly for Bellefonte. Lining up
for a goal from touchdown Harnish’s
kick was blocked by Mt. Carmel, but
it probably wouldn’t have been if the
ball had raised high enough to go
over the goal bar. The kick was low
and likely would have missed the goal
had the ball not been blocked.
The weather was about as bad as |
it could be for a championship game
of football. Friday’s snowfall cov-
ered the field to a depth of four inches
and while space for the lines had been
cleaned off and the lines definitely
marked that did not do away with the
disadvantage of playing on a snowy
field. The afternoon was also ex-
tremely raw and cold and the wind
blew a gale over the field that deflect-
ed both punts and forward passes.
Mount Carmel had plenty of rooters
in the east stand, many of them, in-
cluding the school band, having mo-
tored to State College for the game.
Bellefonte occupied the west stand
and had the larger crowd of rooters,
including the Odd Fellows’ band and
American Legion drum corps.
The game was called promptly at
1:45 o’clock, Mount Carmel kicking to
Bellefonte, defending the south goal.
Moerschbacher received the ball and
after carrying it back twenty yards
lost it on a fumble when he was
tackled. Through forward passes and
line plunges Mount Carmel wormed
the ball down to a point where it
rested right against the goal line.
On the next play Wasson broke
through the Mount Carmel forwards
and nailed the latter’s back before he
could move from his tracks. On the
next play Mt. Carmel fumbled the ball
and Bodle recovered it for Bellefonte.
Heverly kicked but the ball only car-
ried to the 35-yard line and from
there Mt. Carmel again started a
march which did not end until Belle-
fonte’s goal line had been crossed. A
forward pass over the goal line added
the extra point which gave Mt. Car-
mel the winning point and the State
championship, as from that time to
the end of the game they never got
near enough to the Bellefonte goal
line to be dangerous.
The second period was mostly a see-
saw back and forth in the middle of
the field. When the teams lined up
for the second half grim determina-
tion was expressed on the faces of
every Bellefonte player and was also
manifest in their work on the snow-
covered field. The ball was worked
well down into Mount Carmel terri-
tory where it. was finally lost on a
fumble. Failing to gain through the
Bellefonte line Mount Carmel booted
and the ball stopped in the snow on
Bellefonte’s 52-yard line. It was then
that the Bellefonte backs proved their
mettle. Heverly, Confer and Crust
hit the Mt. Carmel line with terrific
impact, mostly through right tackle,
and by sheer strength carried the ball
up to within striking distance when
Crust was hurtled over for a touch-
down. Harnish missed the goal and
from that point to the end of the
game Mount Carmel played entirely
on the defensive. Bellefonte in the
| fourth period had the ball on Mt. Car-
mel’s 26-yard line, but again lost it
on a fumble, and that is as near as
she came to scoring again.
While the crowd at the game was
estimated at anywhree from 2,500 to
5,000, the gate receipts didn’t show
,it, as they totaled just $1,491, Mount
Carmel getting 50 per cent. of the
gross.
Between halves the Bellefonte High
school cheer leaders carried across the
field a large basket of yellow chrys-
anthemums and presented them to
Mount Carmel. !
The American Legion bugle and
drum corps went on parade between
halves and drew rounds of applause
from both stands.
Sthte College authorities were per-
fect hosts for the game. They not
only had the field properly marked
but operated the electric score board,
broadcast the game by plays and had
the usual telegraphic connection right
in the reporters’ box.
Between halves an unknown young
man had to be carried from the field
to a nearby house to thaw out. He
had gone to the game minus hat and
overcoat and was so thoroughly
chilled he could not walk.
During the season Bellefonte played
eight games, including the contest on
Saturday, which was the only one
they lost, although two games were
no-score ties. Their total of points
scored was 180 to 37 against them.
Seven members’ played their last
game on Saturday, Heverly, Crust and
Moerschbacher, in the backfield, and
Knisely, Harnish, Bodle and Captain
Gingher, on the line. But the squad
is large and there is ample material
from which to build a good team next
year.
As a preliminary to Saturday’s game
representatives of the State Athletic
Association were given a banquet at
the Brockerhoff house, Bellefonte, on
Friday evening. Thirty-five members
were present and E. K. Stock, prin-
cipal of the Bellefonte High school,
was elected president of the associa-
tion, and F. G. Roth, of the Penn Har-
ris High school, Harrisburg, secre-
tary.
AARONSBURG.
Rev. Louis W. Lesher, of Millheim
Lutheran church, made pastoral calls
in this section on Tuesday.
William Wilt, of Franklin, who was
here hunting with a Coburn party,
shot his deer and returned home.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Weaver and
children spent Saturday in Sunbury,
where they visited the shops, making
Christmas purchases.
Mrs. Fount Smoyer and small son,
Arthur, of Bellefonte, came down on
Friday to spend a week with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. King.
Butchering, hunting and Christmas
are the chief topics of conversation.
Up to this time only a few deer have
paon brought in by hunters from this
place.
The people in our village are glad
to once again hear the town clock
striking the time. It had been out
of service so long that its chiming
sound was greatly missed.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Stover and
children, of Tower City, are here for
a visit with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. M. O. Stover and Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Boob. Mr. Stover, of course, is
spending the most of his time hunt-
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Orwig have
been entertaining their son, Bright
Orwig, who came up from Allentown
for the hunting season. A good part
of this week has been spent with
his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Orwig, at Hartleton.
Rev. G. A. Fred Greising very ably
filled the pulpit in the Reformed
church at Rebersburg, on Friday eve-
ning, and on Monday evening at Ty-
lersville. Rev. W. A. McClellan, the
regular pastor at Rebersburg, has
been holding evangelistic services in
both churches.
—Parents who appreciate quality
can buy Buster Brown shoes for chil-
dren at Yeager’s Tiny Boot Shop at
prices about the same that poor qual-
ity are sold for. 48-1t
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“Ain’t He the Nice Man”
Writing from Philadelphia, under
date of December 2, a high official
of the Pennsylvania Railroad com-
pany pays the following very unusual
compliment to the Watchman:
“I hope that your ‘Proposal’ of De-
cember 2nd will meet with the hearty
response its importance suggests.
However, I seriously question the
statement made in the last sentence
of the third paragraph to the effect
that ‘you possibly could give your
readers a much better Watchman than
they have been getting.” This, to my
mind would be a rather difficult un-
dertaking because it already excels ;
any weekly publication of which I
have knowledge.”
With kind regards, I am,
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Col. McClain Provides a Turkey.
From Spangler, Pa., under date of
December 2nd, Col. James A. McClain
sends an enclosure with the sugges-
tion that “This should procure your |
Christmas turkey.”
The Colonel is a sound business |
man. Everybody knows that, else he
wouldn’t be sitting as pretty as he
is. His remittance pays his subscrip-
tion away in advance and what we
want to know from him is whether he
would advise our spending it for
turkey when we don’t know where the
money is to come from to pay for the
paper that we are morally bound to
send him for the next three or four
years. We're only an editor and edi-
tors are supposed to have as little,
if not less, business acumen as col-
lege professors and preachers, but
we've heard something to the effect
that one can’t eat his cake and have
it too.
Frank Hess Promises a Fish Story.
Frank Hess, former Centre coun-':
tian, now lounging on the Pacific
coast, writes to tell a bit of his sum-
mer at his new fishing camp on the .
Rogue river up in Oregon. He says:
“We had a wonderful summer. The
fishing is all that I have told you
before. One day we fished on Diamond
lake, fifty miles east of the camp and
caught eleven rainbows that weighed
30 pounds.
her mother being very ill at Osceola
Mills.
“Some day, if I can muster up
enough courage, I'm going to write
you a real story of the fishing in
southern Oregon.”
—Buster Brown shoes for children
at Yeager’s Tiny Boot Shop. 48-1t
Any little boy or girl who
writes to Santa Claus and ad-
dresses it to the Nittany Shoe
Store will receive an answer from
Santa himself.
Tell all your little friends and
write him right away, telling
what you want him to bring you
for Christmas.
Bush Arcade
Bellefonte, Pa.
.—Yeager’s Tiny “Boot Shop has
been increased in size but not in the
overhead expense. We have added
Buster Brown shoes for children that
will be sold at prices about what you
© —During the week the Bellefonte
Trust company mailed out approxi~
mately $35,000 to 475 Christmas sav~
ings fund depositors and the First
National bank sent out 218 checks for
will have to pay for cheap quality | $15,369.21. The First National bank, -
shoes. 48-1t | of State College, paid out $9,600.
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Hair Cutting, 40 Cts.
Under the J. O. Heverly Store
Corner of Allegheny and High Sts.
Razors Honed Here, 50c.
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Automatic Iron $7.75
: Turnover Toaster $6.00
Warming Pad $8.50
Curling Iron $2.50
i Boudoir Iron $5.00
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Cozy Glow Heaters $4.75
Table Stove $9.00
Automatic Electric Range $147.50
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1 X JHEN you pack your bag, don’t forget to put
¥ your Comfys where you can put your hand
right on them. You will be glad to slip into
them after a long day in stiff leather shoes.
You tire more easily when you are away from
home. Unusual sights and activities use up
your nervous force. All the more reason, then,
for the daily rest hour in soft, cosy Daniel
Green Comfys. You rest the entire body when
you rest the feet.
Have you seen our new stock of Daniel
Green Comfy Slippers? There are so
many styles and colors. You will want
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Proprietors.
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Your Comfys
to wear them just because they are
so charming, let alone their com-
fort. May we show them to you?
G. E. HOFFER.