Bellefonte, . Pa., December 16, 1927.
P. GRAY MEEK, Editer
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Members of D. A. R. Make Merry.
The eighty members present at the
December meeting of the Bellefonte
chapter D. A. R. enjoyed surpassing
hospitality as dinner guests at the
Brockerhoff house of Miss Elmira
Humes, Miss Helen E. C. Overton and
Miss Emily Parker. It was as early
as the first of the month, but the
menu savored strikingly of that typi-
cal of the twenty-fifth. Surely these
hostesses did excel them all! and their
fellow-members were glad this night
not only for brave Revolutionary an-
cestry and honored Republic-citizen-
ship, but also for the ample kindness
here set forth.
Even “business” had a holiday
lightsomeness—the report of the
budget committee, as given by Mrs.
W. S. Chambers, of State College,
held a laugh and a sparkle uncommon
to concerns of exchange—silver and
gold.
“Dull care” had no place; portray-
als of the awkwardness and general
hopelessness of first attempts at piano
playing, of the “Housekeeper’s La-
ment” that there was nothing in life
the way she would have it (for there
was “mud in March and slush in De-
cember,” there were “worms in the
cherries and ants in the sugar,” “vic-
tuals at eight and dishes at nine,”
“beauty would fade and riches take
wings,”) these and others as given
in costume, on instrument, in song,
and by reading, by Mrs. H. H. Hav-
ner, Mrs. J. R. Haswell, Mrs. H. E.
Hodgkiss, Mrs. J. H. Musser, Mrs.
H. A. Everett, and Mrs. S. W. Flet-
cher, all of State College, called forth
gales of laughter—and so ran the De-
cember, 1927, meeting of the Belle-
fonte chapter, D. A. R., a L’Allegro
in the series.
Bellefonte Charity and Church Work.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
average family of Bellefonte has
numerous calls on its purse strings a
generous liberality is invariably dis-
played toward worthy causes. The
Red Cross. membership drive ‘has so
far netted $1,004, and a little money
is still being sent in. Of course a cer-
tain per cent of the above amount
will go to the national organization,
but the school board has voted to pay
toward the support of the community
nurse the sum of $25 per month, and
the American Lime and Stone com-
pany $500 a year, so that the services
of the nurse are almost assured
for another year.
The drive will be continued with the
hope of raising the full amount
necessary.
The Episcopal church fair yielded
approximately $500 while the fair
and food sale held by the Presby-
terians, last Thursday, yielded about
$400.
Men’s all-rubber, 4 buckle arctics,
$1.98 at Nittany Shoe Store. 49-1t
Smullten Boy Wins Olympic Honors.
Richard Detwiler, of Smullton, Cen-
tre county, and a Freshman at Penn
State, carried off the honors in the
inter-collegiate cross-country run for
Freshmen, at Cortland Park, New
York, on November 21st. Lining up
with 200 runners from Princeton,
Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard, Cornell
and Penn he completed the three-mile
course sixty yards ahead of his near-
est competitor. Detwiler’s record at
State College for the three-mile course
is 14 minutes and 26 seconds,
The Smullton lad first attracted at-
tention as a runner in the county in-
ter-scholastic meets, when he was a
member of the Miles township High
school team. Then he went to State
College High school to finish his
studies and last fall entered State
College on a scholarship award. In
a dual meet with the University of
Pittsburgh Freshmen he came home
two hundred yards ahead of his near-
est opponent.
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—The Bellefonte Academy will
close today (Friday) for the Christ-
mas holiday vacation.
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Two Fawns Visit Pine Grove Mills.
Last Friday two fawns, probably
about six months old, were frightened
off Tussey mountain by hunters and
found their way into the town of Pine
Grove Mills.
School children discovered them on
Main street and made quite a frolic
of trying to catch them. The fawns
finally sought shelter in the yard at
the home of the Hon. J. W. Kepler.
However, one of them injured itself
so badly on the fence that it was
killed by game warden Reed and
brought to the hospital here. The
other finally made its way back to
the mountain.
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What Could be More Acceptable ?
Most everybody enjoys reading. What we regard
as good reading is not always enjoyed by everybody,
The kind that does not contain the human
Miss
leaves three sisters, Emma, wife of |
however.
interest appeal is all right
ple and places you know
or her the Watchman as a
nently located elsewhere
letter from home.
county frequently enough
memories of happy visits
It will cost only $1.50
Christmas cards.
What could be a more
than the Watchman?
lar consumption. Tincture it with the news of peo-
that is of interest to everybody all the time.
That is the kind of reading the Watchman at-
tempts to crowd its columns with.
And that is the reason we are sure some friend
of yours would be delighted if you were to send him
To the native-born who is temporarily or perma-
To those who have been only visitors in the
minder of many friends and incidents.
frequent reminder of your friendship at a trifling cost
at times, but not for regu-
and you have a newspaper
Christmas gift.
it would be like a weekly
to form ties of interest and
it would be a pleasant re-
and will be in reality fifty
acceptable present, a more
SWARTZ.—Elmer E. Swartz, for
many years one of the best known
and most successful farmers in Spring
township, passed away at his home in
Pleasant Gap, at 11 o’clock on Sunday
morning, following an illness of about
a year, having been confined to his
home the past three or four months.
He was a son of A. G. and Phoebe
Struble Swartz and was born on the
farm in Spring township on Decem-
ber 11th, 1861, hence died on the 66th
anniversary of his birth. His boyhood
days were spent in helping on his
father’s farm and in going to school,
hence it was only natural when he
arrived at man’s estate to engage in
farming for himself. His first venture
was on the Beuna Vista farm; mov-
ing from there to the black barn farm
which he occupied when the barn,
known as a famous landmark, was de-
stroyed by fire. He then purchased
his present farm and lived there un-
til his retirement some years ago,
when he bought his father’s old home
in Pleasant Gap and moved there.
He married Miss Emma Shearer, a
daughter of David Shearer, of Spring
township, and she survives with seven
children, Mrs. Harry Breon, of Pleas-
ant Gap; Mrs. Boyd Sampsell, of
Bellefonte; Harry Swartz, of Juniata;
Blaine and Roy, of Pleasant Gap;
Mrs. Paul Ross, of Aaronsburg, and
Margaret, at home. He also
Elmer Johnston, of Altoona; Mary,
wife of Christopher Musser, of State
College, and Margaret, wife of Robert
E. Kline, of Bellefonte.
Mr. Swartz was a member of the
Lutheran church at Pleasant Gap,
where the funeral services were held
at 2:30. o'clock on Wednesday after-
noon by Rev. W. J. Wagner, of Boals-
burg, burial being made in the ceme-
tery adjoining the church.
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LEE.—Miss Mary Isabel Lee died
on Tuesday night at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lee, at
Spring Mills, following an illness of
two months as the result of a tumor
on the brain.
She was born at Spring Mills on
January 3rd, 1904, hence was almost
twenty-four years old. She was a
graduate of the Gregg township High
school and the Bloomsburg Normal |
and for several years past had been
teaching school at Painted Post, N. Y.
Several months ago
and as a result almost completely lost
her eyesight. She was taken to the
University hospital, = Philadelphia,
where an operation was performed to
relieve the pressure on the brain, but
it did not prove a success, and event-
ually her entire left side became par-
alyzed. As nothing could be done to
relieve her she was removed to her
home at ‘Spring Mills. y
In addition to her parents, she is
survived by two brothers and three
sisters, Mrs. D. A. Wachstetter, of
Bethlehem; Robert, of Waterbury,
Conn.; Dorothy, a student nurse in
St. Luke’s hospital, Bethlehem, and
Eugene and Betty, at home. Funeral
services will be held tomorrow morn-
ing at 10 o’clock, by Rev. D. R. Keen-
er, burial to be made at Spring Mills.
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BRENNAN.—Robert Brennan died
at his home at State College, on Fri-
day of last week, following an illness
of six months with a complication of
diseases.
He was a son of Robert and Ellen
Clark Brennan and was born in Belle-
fonte on October 15th, 1863, hence
was 64 years, 1 month and 24 days
old. As a young man Mr. Brennan
engaged in farming in College town-
ship, an occupation he followed until
1919, when he retired from the farm
and located in State College. He is
survived by his wife and three chil-
dren, Mrs. Kyle Alexander, of Julian;
J. Harold Brennan, of Wilkes-Barre,
and Hilda, at home. He also leaves
one sister, Mrs. George Herkheimer,
of Bellefonte.
Funeral services were held at his
late home on 2:30 o'clock on Monday
afternoon by Rev.. A. E. Mackie,
burial being made in the Pine - Hall
cemetery.
she became ill
MEYER.—W. C. Meyer, a well
known resident of State College, died
ness of more than a year, the last
six weeks of his life having been con-
fined to his bed.
His full name was William Calvin,
a son of George and Anna Fox Meyer,
and he was born on a farm in Potter
township on September 16th, 1847,
hence had reached the age of 80
years, 2 months and 14 days. His
boyhood and early manhood were
spent on his father’s farm, but when
twenty-seven years old he went to
Ferguson township and embarked in
farming for himself. One year later
he moved to Patton township where
he spent sixteen years, then purchased
the Hartswick farm, on the Branch,
where he spent seventeen years. He
then retired from active life and lo-
cated in State College.
{ He was twice married, his first wife
having been Adeline Krumrine, who
died within two years, leaving one
| daughter, Mary. He later married
Mary Ann Smeltzer, who survives
| with three sons, George C. and Mar-
ion B., of State College, and J. Cur-
tis, on the farm on the Branch. The
| daughter, who married Harry Shaw-
ley, died last April.
Mr. Meyer was a member of the
| Reformed church and Rev. DeLong,
; of Philadelphia, had charge of the |
funeral services which were held on
' December 2nd, burial being made at
Boalsburg.
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WASSON.—Mary Jane Wasson
passed away, on Saturday, at the
Methodist home in Tyrone, where she
had been a guest for a number of
years, as the result of general debil-
ity. She was a daughter of John and
Eva Gray Chambers and was born
in Halfmoon valley, Centre county, on
May 2nd, 1846, hence was 81 years, 7
months and 8 days old. She married
Edward Wasson and all their married
life was spent in Buffalo Run valley.
Her only survivor is one son, Bruce
Wasson, of Wilkinsburg. Funeral
services were held at the Methodist
home on Monday morning after which
the remains were taken to Gray's
cemetery, in Halfmoon valley, for
burial.
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Ladies’ dress aretics $2.65 — at
Yeager’s.
—The office of justice of the peace
is not a very attractive one in various
sections of Centre county. Of the
thirty-five men elected to the office
on November 8th, only twenty-three
filed notice of acceptance with pro-
thonotary Roy Wilkinson. The names:
of the twenty-three willing justices
have been certified to the Secretary
of the Commonwealth and in due time
their commissions will be sent to the
Recorder of Centre county, who will
deliver them upon application and the
payment of the fee in connection
therewith. The office in those dis-
dricts where the men elected have
failed to file notice of acceptance will
have to be filled by appointment by
the Governor.
Information About the Bellefonte
Y. M. C. A. Library
—The barbers of Bellefonte are
having their own troubles just now.
They had been charging 50 cents a
hair-cut and 20 cents a shave. Some
of them thought they ought to have
more and put shaves up to 25 cents.
Others not only kept shaves at 20
cents but reduced haircuts to 40
cents, with the result that all came
down to that price on Saturday morn-
ing. One barber announced hair cuts
at 35 and it is reported that another
one declares he will get the business
if he has to come down to 25.
Living-room suites, 3 pieces, re-
verse cushions, guaranteed material
and construction, $112.—West Co.
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| —There is still some unhusked corn
in Centre county and considerable
| fodder standing in the fields.
on November 30th, following an ill- |
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“Dear Old Centre County.”
It seems that no matter where the
sons and daughters of “Old Centre
County” finally take up their abode
they always see the candle glimmer-
ing in the window of childhood’s
home.
Every week come letters that re-
veal what is in the hearts of those
who have once known the placid,
peaceful life midst our mountains and
valleys. We know something of it,
but not as they do, for while we have
been here always we own to much
day-dreaming and ever and anon
memory slips back to the care-free
days of youth when the little stream
seemed a mighty river, all the hills
were mountains and a gun and a new
pair of copper-toed boots thrilled us
more than a Rolls-Royce could to-
day.—Ed.
“Pittsburgh, Dec. 10, 1927.
“Just can’t get along without the
Watchman, as the interests are from,
I may say, the “Globe.”
- “May these few lines find one and
all in the best of health and looking
to a bigger and better 1928 than
1927, and there is no better place
than dear old Centre county.
“R. B. GARDNER.”
“New Brunswick, N. J., 12-11-27.
“To say that we enjoy the Watch-
man here would in no way adequately
express our feelings, for we live ’till
Saturday in order to read the news.
“I hope your campaign for funds
fully succeeds, else some of us might
suffer disappointment for no one is
economical who fails to pay the
Watchman subscription, for no mat-
ter what might be saved by such non-
payment it could never take the place
of the Watchman. Hence I am a
booster for everybody’s being paid
up to date every year.
“HENRY KELLER, JR.”
“Berkley Springs, W. Va., 12-10-27.
“It has been seven years since I
left Bellefonte, but I still find the
Watchman of much interest.
“Sincerely yours,
“H. B. DUNN.”
. The above few lines are peculiarly
interesting to us for the reason that
they reveal, in a manner, the general
interest of the Watchman. Rev. Dunn
is a former pastor of the Evangelical
church in this place. He was sta-
tioned here only a few years; not
long enough to have acquired ties as
broad and deep as these who know
Centre county as their native heath:
Relatively the local news of the
Watchman means less to Rev. Dunn
than it does to some others, so that
its general news value must contrib-
ute largely to making it “of much
interest” to him.—Ed. ;
Boys and girls basket ball shoes.
98c. at Nittany Shoe Store. 49-1t
—Early this week Miss Mary Der-
stine sold her “Last Resort” tea
room, in the Decker building on High
street, to William Richards, of Wil-
liamsport, who took charge on Wed-
nesday morning. The new proprietor
will put in a counter and convert it
into a quick lunch restaurant. Mrs,
Brown, who has been chief cook for
Miss Derstine, will continue in the
same capacity for the new proprietor.
Miss Derstine has been in the restau-
rant business for three years and hav-
ing disposed of her tea room is open
for any other engagement that may
come her way.
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—From all accounts residents of
Philipsburg will come to Bellefonte in
large numbers on the second of Jan-
uary to witness the induction into the
office of Judge of Centre county M.
Ward Fleming. It has been many
years since a resident from over the
mountain has been elected to such an
important office, and naturally the
people over there are all in a flurry
of excitement over it.
BOALSBURG. -
_ Our local merchants are displaying
a fine line of Christmas goods.
~ Mr. Henry Reitz had a new radio
installed in his home last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Felty, Mrs,
Paul Coxey, John Stover and Charles
Faxon were among the week-end visi-
tors from Altoona.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Corl, Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Meyer and Miss Rhoda
Harrison were among the visitors in
Bellefonte on Saturday.
- Candles, lamps, lanterns and flash-
lights were very much in evidence in
town Tuesday evening, owing to some
defect in the electric service.
The Reformed and Lutheran Sun-
day schools, as well as the pupils of
the public schools, are preparing
Christmas services and : entertain-
ments.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rockey, ac-
companied by Mr. and Mrs. William
Rockey, motored to Pittsburgh, last
Thursday, to visit the Willard Rockey
family. En route home, while at-
tempting to close the sedan door, Mrs.
Ralph Rockey was thrown from the
car and was seriously injured. A
nearby physician rendered aid and she
was brought to her home and has
since been confined to her bed.
Boys’ 14 inch shoes with knife—
FREE—only $3.85—at Yeager’s.
LEMONT. :
LeRoy. Walker, who Jas been lo-
cated in West Virginia the past year,
is home on his annual ea which
will include the Chrisimas holidays.
Santa Claus will be at Bohn’s store
tomorrow (Saturday) evening, and
the kiddies are invited to interview
him and make known their wants and
desires,
The home of George Bloom caught
fire, one day last week, but quick
work on the part of the fire company
extinguished the blaze before much
damage was done. On Sunday night
a small garage, near town, was al-
most completely destroyed by fire.
—Announcement was made last
week by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Evans
Norton, of Falcon Hill, Rosemont,
near Philadelphia, of the engagement
of their daughter, Miss Nancy Ev-
ans Norton, to George McG. Fryber-
ger, son of Mrs. John E. Fryberger,
of Philipsburg. The bride-to-be is a
graduate of Miss Porter’s school at
Farmington, Conn., while Mr. Fry-
berger is a senior at Princeton uni-
versity, where he will graduate next
June.
Three bed-room suites (close outs)
20 per cent off. Here are some real
bargains.—West Co. 49-1t
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RADI
SAYS
“erry Christmas!”
FSrauLsD, complete, for
less than one hundred
dollars.
onstration as we have a
limited supply we can in-
stall before Christmas.
Electric Supply Co.,
Call early for dem- |
CALL
BELL 439.
ON CHRISTMAS
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Come to see the wonderful
Christmas Display in our three
Greenhouses on Half Moon
Hill. Good new Road up to the
Greenhouses, turn to the right
in rear of U. B. Church at end ,
of West High Street. i
Telephone orders will receive :
prompt attention. : gE
We can telegraph Flowers
anywhere for delivery on
Christmas morning. ;
Early orders gladly
ciated. 3
Beautiful Cemetery Wreaths [lf
at Low Prices .
Funeral Work Our Specialty |
Half Moon Gardens
Bellefonte, Pa. 4
Day and Nite Phone ;
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H. WINTON
And what consumer, whether he
wants it for a present or for him-
self, won’t be glad to know that
I have a guaranteed A 1
Soft Coal at $4.75 per ton, delivered
Bellefonte, Pa
( Only $4.25 per ton at the Yard )
Yard at
Lamb St. Bridge
What family would not be very
well pleased to see a load of Coal
delivered to their home as a
Christmas offering. Useful to the
last lump, especially if it comes
from our bins.