Bellefonte, Pa., March 9, 1928
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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
DEMOCRATIC
LEGISLATURE
We are authorized to announce that
Andrew Curtin Thompson, of Philipsburg,
Pa., is a candidate for nomination on the
Democratic ticket for Representative in
the General Assembly at Harrisburg.
Subject to the decision of the Democratic
voters of the county as expressed at the
Dfimsanice to be held on Tuesday, April
FOR NATIONAL DELEGATE TO DEMO-
CRATIC CONVENTION.
I hereby announce my candidacy for
delegate to the Democratic National Con-
vention from the Twenty-third Congres-
sional District, subject to the decision of
the Democratic voters at the primaries, to
be held on April 24, 1928.
JAMES KERR, Clearfield, Pa.
REPUBLICAN.
COUNTY CHAIRMAN
To All Centre County Republicans:
I have been urged by Republicans rep-
resentative of all elements in our party in
recent contests in Centre county, to be-
come a candidate for Chairman_of the
Republican County committee. In the
hope and belief that I will be able to ac-
complish much toward re-uniting the par-
ty, I have agreed to the use of my name
for County Chairman on the ballot at the
primaries. on April 24th, 1928. My policy
will be a square deal to all Republicans,
irrespective of past differences among
them, and my one aim will be to achieve
Republican victory in the county. Upon
this basis, I respectfully ask the support
of all Republican voters.
PHILIP D. FOSTER
State College, Pa. 1
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County and District Candidates All
Set for the Spring Primary.
The last day for filing papers for
State offices was last Monday.
The field is not as full of runners
as early political gossip seemed to
forecast, yet there are quite enough
to insure an interesting primary
fight.
The contests will all be among the
Republican aspirants, however.. The
Democrats being in peace and har-
mony have no contests for nomination
for any of the places to be filled.
Factions in the Republican party
are contesting for the office of coun-
ty chairman. One is*behind Wilson
I. Fleming Esq., the present chair-
man, and the other is boosting form-
er treasurer, Phil D. Foster, of State
College, for the position. This con-
test is likely to wax warm ere the
24th of April..
The retirement of Rev. Reed O.
Steely from the race for legislative
honors looked as though it would
leave that fight between the two h’s,
Holmes and Heverly, but another h in
the person of W. R. Ham, of Boals-
burg and State College, has been trot-
ted out and there is likely to be three
times as much h— in that fight as
was thought of last week.
The final line-up is as follows:
i DEMOCRATIC
Congress: —J, H. Costello, of Mec-
Kean county.
Legislature:— Andrew
Thompson, of Philipsburg.
County chairman:—John J. Bower,
of Bellefonte.
. State’ Committeeman:
District delegates to national con-
vention at Houston, Texas, James
Kerr, of Clearfield, Charles Swabb,
McKean county.
For Delegate-at-large to national
convention—Robert M. Foster.
REPUBLICAN
Congress: J. Mitchell Chase, Clear-
field. .
Legislature:—J. Laird Holmes,
State College; J. O. Heverly, Belle-
fonte; W. R. Ham, Boalsburg.
County chairman: —Wilson I. Flem-
ing, Bellefonte; Phil D. Foster, State
College.
State committeeman:
District delegates to national con-
vention at Kansas City, Mo.: P. F.
Davis, Clearfield; James A. Connelly,
McKean county.
Curtin
Farm House Burned on Sunday Near
Hublersburg.
The ‘Logan fire company, of Belle-
fonte, responded to a call from Hub-
lersburg, on Sunday afternoon, and
responding, found the fire to be the
farm house of William Hoy, on what
is best known as the Jim Gramley
farm. The fire started on the roof
and evidently originated from an ov-
erheated flue or a spark on the roof.
The Mill Hall company also respond-
ed but by the time the companies
reached. the farm the house was so
completely enveloped in flames that
it was impossible to save it, and the
firemen devoted their efforts to saving
the barn and other farm buildings.
William Hoy and family were away
from home at the time of the fire and
the only people in the house at the
time .yere his parents. As both are
quite: well along in years they were
unablé to save anything of conse-
quenge. from the burning building, so
that ithe ‘house and contents went up
in stoke: "The éstimated loss is $3,-
000, on which there is some insurance.
WARD.—Martha Grey Ward, a
student in the Bellefonte High school,
passed away last Thursday afternoon,
at the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Ward, on east Bishop
street, following only one week’s ill-
ness. She went home from school the
Friday previous quite ill and with a
high fever. Her condition for several
days indicated pleurisy but later com-
plications developed which her phy-
sician was unable to successfully com-
bat and her death followed.
She was born in Newberry, S. Ce:
on April 2nd, 1913, hence was not
quite fifteen years old. The Ward
family came to Bellefonte three years
and a half ago and during their resi-
dence here Martha had made a host
of young friends. She was especiai-
ly bright and stood well in her class
in the High shool. She was a mem-
ber of the girls’ basketball team at
the Y. M. C. A., playing the position
of forward. She was a member of
the Methodist church and Sunday
school and always a regular attend-
ant.
She is survived by her parents and
the following brothers and sisters:
W. J., Miss Julia, at home, Mrs. Rus-
sell Hill, of Bellefonte, and Miss
Mary, a twin sister of Martha, at
home. Funeral services were
held at the Ward home, at 2 o’clock
on Sunday afternoon, by Rev. Homer
C. Knox, burial being made in the
Union cemetery.
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LYNN —¥. Hammond Lynn.
widow of the late Austin Lynn, died
at her home, at Sandy Ridge, on Fri-
day evening, following a brief illness
with an attack of pneumonia.
She was born in Sligo, Ireland, on
June 27th, 1838, hence had reached
the age of 89 years, 8 months and 4
days. She came to this country when
twenty years old and went with her
parents to Bolivar, Pa. There she
married Austin Lynn in February,
1860. Shortly thereafter they located
at Sandy Ridge, and that had been
her home ever since. Mr. Lynn died
in 1900 and of their ten children four
survive, Robert Lynn, of Clearfield.
Mrs. Annie Garland and Mrs. Sylves-
ter Bair, of Sandy Ridge, and Wil-
liam, at home.
Mrs. Lynn was a member of the
United Brethren church and her pas-
tor, Rev. J. P. Rauch, had charge of
the funeral services, which were held
at 2:30 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon,
burial being made at the Umbria
cemetery, at Osceola Mills.
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MUSSER.—Mrs. Margaret Musser,
widow of the late John Musser, of
Loganton, died at the Lock Haven
hospital, on Wednesday morning of
last week, as the result of an attack
of peritonitis, following an illness of
four weeks.
Her maiden name was Margaret
Homan and she was born in Penns-
valley, Centre county, seventy-one
years ago. Most of her married life,
however, had been spent in Sugar val-
ley. Her husband has been dead some
years but surviving her is one daugh-
ter, Mrs.. H. T. Bierly, of Loganton.
She also leaves one brother and a sis-
ter, William Homan, of State College,
and Mrs. Emma Fiedler, of Aarsons-
burg: wy Li, ‘
The - body, was taken to her .late
home in Loganton where funeral serv-
ices were held at two o’clock on Sun-
day afternoon, in St. Paul’s Lutheran
church, of which she was a member,
by Rev. C. H. Stein, of Lock Haven.
burial being made in the Loganten
cemetery. :
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CONDO. rs, Sarah J. Condo,
wife of Daniel T. Condo, died at her
home near Lock Haven, last Friday,
following an illness of some weeks,
aged about 70 years. Prior to mov-
ing to Clinton county twenty-three
years ago the family lived at Rebers-
burg, where Mrs. Condo was born.
In addition to her husband she is sur-
vived by two sons and three daugh-
ters, William J., John B. and Mrs.
Mary Ellen Watson, all of Allison
township, Clinton county; Misses Em-
ma R. and Annie P., at home. Fun-
eral services were held at two o'clock
on Monday afternoon by Rev. W. E.
Harr, burial being made in the Fair-
view cemetery, Lock Haven.
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KANOUR.—John Kanour died at
his home at Chester Hill, near Phil-
ipsburg, last Thursday morning, fol-
lowing a yea’s illness with a compli-
cation of dis ases. He was a son of
Mr. and Mr. John Kanour and was
born in Warriorsmark valley on April
9th, 1859, hence was 68 years, 10
months and 21 days old. He followed
farming during his earlier life but for
some years past devoted his time to
coal mining interests.
He married Miss Bertha Johnston,
of Warriorsmark, who survives with
twelve children. He also leaves one
brother and a sister. Burial was
made in the Philipsburg cemetery on
Saturday afternoon.
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MEYER.—Mrs. Martha Taylor
‘Meyer, widow of the late Hon. Henry
Meyer died at her home in Rebers-
burg, Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
She had been in failing health for
some time, but it was not until five
weeks ago that her condition became
serious.
Funeral services will be held in
Rebersburg tomorrow, Saturday
morning, and interment made in the
cemetery at that place.
An obituary of Mrs. Meyer will be
published next week.
-—Miss Genevieve Budinger, of
Snow Shoe, was one of a class of ten
young women received into the com-
munity of the Sisters of Mercy at a
consecration service at Mount Aloys-
ius - Academy, “at” Cresson, on Satur-
day.
Big Bellefonte Motion Picture Now in
the Making.
Without a doubt there are many
girls in Bellefonte and vicinity who
have frequently imagined that if they
only had a chance they could fade %o
the woods some of the movie flappers
at Hollywood, and now the opportun-
ity is to be brought virtually to the
door of their own home to show what
they can do.
Salvador Cudie, an experienced di-
rector fresh from Hollywood, has
joined with John P. Fretz, lessee of
the State theatre, for the purpose of
creating a local picture that it is
hoped will prove of surpassing inter-
est. A number of outdoor scenes
have already been taken to be woven
in as the picture progresses. As Mr.
Cudie is a stranger in Bellefonte, he
is also anxious to give anyone having
an ambition to become a scenario writ-
er a chance to prove his or her metal.
Write out a story in brief and sub-
mit it to Mr. Cudie or Mr. Fretz.
The story should delineate some un-
usual occurrence in the history of
Bellefonte and Centre county—some-
thing of appeal to it. All the stories
will be read and the author of the one
selected will be given a season pass
to the State theatre.
The tryout for actors and actresses
will take place on the stage of the
State theatre on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings, March 19,
20 and 21. Those accepted will be
leaders in the cast. During the mak-
ing of the picture outdoor scenes
will be taken on the streets of Belle-
fonte and in this work large num-
bers of people will be used. It is al-
so quite likely that visits to other
towns in the county will be made so
as to give the picture as wide a local
interest as possible.
Mr. Cudie has completed pictures at
both Lewistown and Huntingdon
which were pronounced big successes.
He is now at work on a picture in
Lock Haven as well as the one in
Bellefonte. As this is to be a bona-
fide five real movie Bellefonte girls
are urged to preen their feathers and
make a try for it.
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A Surprise Kitchen Shower.
At the surprise kitchen shower giv-
en by Mr. and Mrs. William Stine, of
north Thomas street last week, for
their son-in-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Lem Warner, on the night
of their arrival home from a month's |
wedding trip to Altoona and Pitts-
burgh, the guests included Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Poorman, Mr. and Mrs.
W. J. Sager, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Stine, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Stine, Mr.
and Mrs. L. S. Warner, Mrs. Harry
Williams, Mrs. Louise Hassinger,
Mrs. L. E. Zimmerman, Mrs. H. R. |
Zimmerman, Velda, Verna, Grace and
Helen Poorman; Dorothy, Pearl, Anna
Mary, Alberta and Gertrude Sager;
Frances and Clara Warner,
Bloom, Sara Spicer, Julia Kellerman,
Pauline Jodon, Violet Williams, Lila
and Florence Flick, Nellie Custer,
Madaline and Marjorie Stine, Virgin-
ia Markley, Vivian Miles, Albert Sa-
ger, Clair and Buddie Flick, Roy and
Foster Spotts, Wierman Warner, Ray-
mond Young, Leroy, Adrian, Milford,
Vorie, Eugene and Jonas Stine; Hugh
Malone, Edward Markley, Clair Poor-
man, Clair and Blair Carver, Dan
Holt and Andrew Homan. .
Mr. and Mrs. Warner will go to
housekeeping on the Luther Smith
tenant farm at Sunnyside.
Many Jobless Men On the Trail for
Something to Do.
Three able-bodied men were given
lodging in the Bellefonte police sta-
tion, on Sunday night. They were
not tramps, in the vernacular of the
road, but men on the hunt of work
and reduced in finances to the point
where they were compelled to appeal
to the police for lodging. Almost
every day men tramp into Bellefonte
on the hunt for work and finding
none, leave for the next town, dis-
couraged almost to the point of reck-
lessness, but still with a faint hope
that they will fare better at the next
stopping place.
But these nomads of the road are
not the only idle ones. There are
quite a number of men in Bellefonte
who are seeking jobs—any kind of
a job just so it’s work, but without
success.
While practically all the industries
in and around Bellefonte are in opera-
tion none of them are working to
anyways near capacity. This condi-
tion has prevailed all winter and
whether the demand for labor will
improve when spring comes remains
to be seen.
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Why Did the Parsonage Burn?
The Lock Haven correspondent of
the Harrisburg Telegraph, had this
item in the Saturday issue of that
paper:
“The Evangelical parsonage at Lo-
ganton, was burned yesterday morn-
ing when the shingle roof caught fire
from sparks from an overheated flue.
A bucket brigade was formed of the
men of the village and the flames
were held in check until the arrival of
the Lock Haven and Mill Hall fire
conipanies.”
Now what we would like to know
is, if the bucket brigade was able to
keep the flames in check until the ar-
rival of the fire companies, why did
the parsonage burn?
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—Farmers of Centre county es-
pecially are invited to the farm ma-
chinery school to be held at State Col-
lege from Tuesday until Saturday of
next week. Farm machinery of ev-
ery description will be on display and
‘its mse demonstrated by .college ex-
perts.
A SO a
3 tion incident in Texas.
Emma 1
ago procured several horned toads
Syracuse Frosh Will Box Academy
Mittmen Tonight. :
The final boxing bout of the season
for the Bellefonte Academy mittmen
will be held on the stage of the State
theatre tonight, beginning at nine
o'clock, when the Syracuse Freshmen
will be the contenders. Ringside seats
will be $1.00 and general admission to
all other parts of the house will be 50
cents. Anybody who follows sports
knows that Syracuse University has
a reputation for turning out athletes
of all kinds. The men are trained
from the time they enter the insti-
tution and because of that fact the
Freshmen boxers have established a
reputation of being quite cxpert with
the gloves. Naturally they will come
to Bellefonte to win and it is a safe
guess that the bout this evening will
be a lively scrap.
The Academy boxers have demon-
strated their ability to handle their
fists in every bout they have been in
this year, a fact especially empha-
sized at the State theatre, last Friday
night, whan they defeated the team
from Cook Academy, Monroe Falls,
N. Y., four to three. According to
those who saw the bout the Academy
had the best of the visitors more de-
cisively than the score shows. In the
160-pound class Temple, of Bellefonte,
had the best of the argument in the
first round and was leading in the
second until Camprone, his opponent,
managed to land a stinger on the
point of his chin. Temple dropped to
his knees and as he was getting up
Camprone drove another smart one
under the chin which sent him to the
ropes for the count. This was the
only knockout of the bout, all the
other points being won on decisions.
The summaries are as follows:
115-pound class—Won by Laver, Belle-
fonte, over Whelan, Cook Academy.
125-pound class—Won by Ribaldi, Cook
Academy, over L. Adams, Bellefonte.
135-pound class—Won by Haiko, Cook
Academy, over Layer, Bellefonte.
145-pound class—Won by Hubbel, Belle.
fonte,’ over Robinson, Cook Academy.
160-pound class—Won by Comprone,
Cook Academy, over Temple, Bellefonte.
175-pound class—Won by Duecanis, Belle-
fonte, over Namisnack, Cook Academy.
‘Unlimited class—Won by Sample,
Bellefonte, over Procino, Cook Academy.
Referee—Walter Diehl, Bucknell. Judges
—Col. H. 8. Taylor and Essic Kline. An-
nouncer—James R. Hughes.
Penn State Horned Toad Attracts
Students.
The well worn stairways to the
fourth floor of Old Main have re-
ceived added punishment in the past
week as students and others climb to
the nature study department museum
of the Pennsylvania State College to
see the college members of the horned
toad family that stepped into promin-
ence through the cornerstone hiberna-
The nature division several years
from Texas, but in the local environ-
ment they lived less than two years.
One of them was stuffed and stands
proudly beside “Radio Kelly” the first
rattlesnake to. broadcast by radio, al-
so stuffed and mounted under a glass
dome.
Professor George R. Green, head of |
the department of nature education,
like other nature specialists lacking
convincing evidence that the Texas
horned toad actually lived 31 years in
a cornerstone declines to comment on |
the situation. He instructs extension
classes of nature teachers in various |
eastern Pennsylvania cities, and had
scores of requests for information
from these students during his visits
to: classes last week. He has known
members of the lizard family to have
been dug alive out of hard packed
sand at great depths, and says that
snakes, too, have ability to live for
long periods without food, but not
with total lack of air.
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State College High Came Down in
Style.
The State College High school bas-
ketball team played Bellefonte High,
cn the local ‘floor, on Tuesday night
and while they went down to defeat
by the score of 25 to 16 they lost
manfully and only after a good, stiff
battle.
The boys from State came with
their school band and were the pep-
piest crowd of rooters who have fol-
lowed a team here in years. In fact,
their spirit became infectious and!
Bellefonte caught some of the old
“come-back-at-em” side-line stuff that
it has been so sadly minus of most |
of the season.
Before the game the College High
band played a short time concert on
the Diamond and made things ring
with their music in the armory. They
have quite a musical organization and
were not a bit stingy with it either.
—Up to yesterday the Department
of Public Instruction had not named
a successor to John B. Payne, as vo-
cational director in Centre county.
W. F. Jeffries, of Fayette county, was
originally booked for the place but
two applicants from Centre county—
J. D. Beck, of Hublersburg, and Ed-
win Dale, of Lemont—have probably
caused complications that have held
up the appointment.
—The young ladies of the Union-
ville Methodist church will come to
Bellefonte, next Friday night, to pre-
sent their laugh-provoking comedy,
«The Beantown Choir.” It will be giv-
en in the lecture room of the Meth-
odist church. The show ought to be
good because the members of the cast
have been giving it at many places in
the county during the winter. '
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State’s Glee Club in Intercollegiate
Contest in New York City,
Tomorrow Night.
Glee clubs of the Pennsylvania
State College and Lafayette College
will represent Pennsylvania in the
twelfth annual Intercollegiate Glee
Club contest to be held next Satur-
day night in Carnegie Hall, New York
city.
Penn State won the central and
western Pennsylvania college glee
club championship at a recent contest
in Pittsburgh, and Lafayette won a
contest for eastern colleges at Easton.
They will compete for national honors
with thirteen other colleges and uni-
versities at New York. It is possible
that the big event will be broadcast
again by one of the large New York
radio stations, beginning at 8:15 Sat-
urday evening.
The Penn State club, directed by
Richard W. Grant, head of the college
department of music, on Tuesday
broadcast a special program from the
college station, and is in fine condition
for the rendition of its three selec-
tions in the contest. Thirty men wil
make the trip and in the contest will
be led by Nelson Gotwalt, a Senior
from Harrisburg. They left State
College yesterday and that night gave
a concert in Lebanon and this evening
will appear for the third consecutive
year in Coatesville.
Other colleges in the national con-
test include Connecticut, Weslyan,
winner last year; Dartmouth, Yale,
Princeton, Columbia, Fordham, New
York University and winners of the
New York State, New England, Ohio
EVERY WEDNESDAY
State, Missouri valley, mid-western
States and the Southern Association
contests.
Famous Frenchman to Join Penn
State Summer Institute.
President Ralph D. Hetzel, on Tues-
day, announced the appointment of
Dr. Leon Rosenthal, famous French
author and educator, as the visiting
professor from France for the annual
session of the Institute of French Ed-
ucation at the Pennsylvania State
College, July 3 to August, 10.
A Chevalier of the Legion of Hon-
or, Dr. Rosenthal is director of the
museums of Lyons and a professor of
the Academy of Fine Arts at Lyons,
France. He has also been professor
of history of modern arts on the fac-
ulty of arts and letters at the Univer-
sity of Lyons, also laureate of the
French Academy and of the Academy
of Sciences.
At Penn State this summer each
Wednesday evening will be reserved
for him at the Institute of French
Education, when he will give intim-
ate glimpses of French history and
customs. The institute here now
holds a national reputation, students
coming from all parts of the country
to join the little community on the
campus that represents in itself a bit
of France. There is a rule that stu-
dents speak no English during the en-
tire six weeks of the session.
pp rman
—Only one more week of ground-
hog weather remains and only twelve
days until the beginning of the spring
season.
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IS SUBURBAN DAY
Altoona Booster Stores always have something
unusual to offer Suburban Day Patrons.
Thousands of people plan to shop in Booster
Stores Every Wednesday! Do You?
You are Invited to Attend
: THE
Spring Style Show
Altoona Booster Stores
THURSDAY - FRIDAY - SATURDAY
MARCH 15, 16, 17.
Windows will be unveiled
‘14 at 6 o'clock.
Wednesday Evening March
| The Altoona High School Band will parade through the’
Business District, at 7:30 Wednesday Evening.
Come and see the new goods displayed in the windows:
and hear these entertaining High School Musicians.
NEWEST SPRING STYLES
In Waring Apparel for men, women and children and
the newest effects in Furniture, Carpets, Draperies, and
all other Furnishings for the
Home, will be displayed dur-
ling Spring Style Show Days.
Everything on Sale in Altoona Booster Stores is of de-
pendable quality as well as
in good style and Booster
Stores’ prices are always fair.
Depend on Booster Stores for the needs your Home
Merchants Cannot Supply.
Arrange to Spend the Entire Day
Inspecting the New Goods
Booster Restaurants supply good, well cooked food at
reasonable prices.
Lunch at a Booster Restaurant and visit the Strand
Theatre for Entertainment
pleted.
after the shopping is com-
Plenty of
Parking Space
Near the Business District.
Roads Lead to Altoona From Alk
Sections.
Altoona Booster
Association
Strand Theatre
ALTOONA
Starting Saturday, March 10
“Tell It to Sweeney”
Cheaters”
Paramount News
Fail 10 Piece Orchestra
Altoona’s Favorite Theatre
“Cheating