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Bellefonte, Pa., March 16, 1928
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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
DEMOCRATIC
CONGRESS.
We are authorized to announce that T.
BE. Costello, of Bradford, McKean county,
is a candidate for nomination for Congress
on the Democratic ticket, subject to the.
decision of the voters of the Twenty-third
Congressional district as recorded at the
primaries to be held April 24, 1928.
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
rimaries to be held on Tuesday, April
4, 1928,
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 coniests 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.
Many Daughters at Kiwanians Dine
on Tuesday.
Tuesday was daughter’s day at the
noon luncheon of the Bellefonte Ki-
wanis club, and fifty flowers of young
womanhood were guests of their fath-
ers on that occasion.
President W. Harrison Walker was
in the chair and kept things on the
move during the short time allotted
for ‘the meeting. There was no set
program and the time was taken up in
vocal solos by Florence Mary Barr,
Peggy Richelieu and Mrs. Alberta
Krader; toe dancing by Virginia Rich-
elieu, and an entertainment by Messrs.
Riggs and Frakutt, students at the
Academy. The prize winners were
Virginia Cliff, Louise Meyer, Betty
Casebeer, Louise Musser and Kiwan-
ian Ivan Walker.
Kiwanians Knox, Arnold and Thena
were named as a committee to draft
suitable resolutions on the departure
of Kiwanian Steely to another field
of labor.
President Walker was unanimously
elected the representative of the
Bellefonte Kiwanis club to the Inter-
national convention which will be held
at Seattle, Wash., between June 17th
and 21st, 1928. Bent L. Weaver was
elected as alternate representative.
Wm. P. Seig telegraphed from
Pittsfield, Mass., that he was in at-
tendance at the Kiwanis luncheon in
that city Tuesday.
The attendance contest for March
is still waxing strong and all but
four members were present at Tues-
day’s meeting.
Tue following daughters were pres-
ent:
Florence Mary Barr, Nancy Jane
Stein, Peggy Richelieu, Blanche Locke,
Aileen Kossman, Mary Catherine
Walker, Virginia Hughes Cliff, Jane
Beatty, Dorothy Runkle, Helen L.|
Mallory, Frances Hazel, Mabel Mus-
ser, Barbara Sloop, Irma Schlow, Is-
abel J odon, Mary Louise Walker, Vir-
ginia Richelieu, Irma Sloop, Wilma
Heineman, Clara Bingaman, Carolyn
Curtin, Virginia Beatty, Margaret
Hansen, Clare Beatty, Thelma Hazel
Kline, Eleanor Gettig, Sarah Bullock,
Alice A. Owens, Mrs. F. W. Tanner,
Mrs. H. J. Hartranft, Hazel W. John-
son, Margaret W. Widdowson, Anna
Eckel, Henrietta Hunter, Betty Case-
beer, Dorothy Rossman, Jennie Knox,
Eleanor Murtorff, Jane Curtin, Char-
lotte, Walker, Martha Morris, Doro-
thy Richelieu, Mary Louise Toner,
Eleanor Wion, Elizabeth Herr, Mar-
tha Johnston, Louise Musser, Louise
Meyer, Alberta Krader, Miss Marion
J. Harm, Miss Esther Hines.
Seven of the daughters were under
six years of age, 28 between 6 and
16 years, and 19 over 16 years.
—With a Presidential campaign
impending the big corporations are
humping themselves to improve in-
dustrial conditions and we all hope
they will achieve the improvement.
—When a candidate begins to de-
nounce the newspapers en masse, he
is preparing himself for the sliding
board. This is a tip to Senator Wil-
lis, of Ohio.
—See them in our window—Sat-
urday Specials—F., W. West Co.
BRUGGER.—John Peters Brugger,
a member of an old and well known
Centre county family, passed away
in a Philadelphia hospital, on March
1st, following a lingering illness of
three years.
He was a son of Samuel and Mar-
garet Brugger and was born at Un-
ionville on March 14th, 1865, hence
was not quite 63 years of age. He
was educated in the schools of Un-
ionville and as a young man embarked
in the life as a traveling salesman.
Later he located in Johnstown where
for more than twenty years he repre-
sented the H. J. Heinz Co. In 1927
he moved to Philadelphia but failing
health finally necessitated his enter-
ing a hospital for treatment, which
failed to save his life.
Mr. Brugger was a member of Lu-
men lodge No. 639, I. O. O. F., of
Unionville, and the United Commer-
cial Travelers of Johnstown. A num-
ber of years ago he was a member of
the Cymric Society chorus under the
direction of Iorwerth W. Prosser, of
Chicago, and was a charter member
of the Gwents, under the direction of
Joseph Harris. At different times he
was a member of mixed choruses in
Johnstown under the direction of the
late Thomas E. Morgan.
Mr. Brugger was twice married,
his first wife having been Miss Eva
Thompson, of Unionville, who passed
away a number of years ago. In
1923 he married Miss Alice Given, of
Philadelphia, who survives with the
following brother and sisters: Joseph
E. Brugger, of Unionville; Mrs. Car-
rie A. Rumberger, of DuBois, and
Mrs. Elizabeth James, of Lake Hel-
en, Fla.
The body, accompanied by Miss
Flora Brugger, a niece, and Mr. and
Mrs. Barnes, of Landsdowne, broth-
er-in-law and sister of Mrs. Brugger,
was brought to Centre county on
March 3rd and taken to Unionville
where funeral services were held in
the Methodist church at 10 o’clock
a. m., March 4th. The pastor, Rev.
R. R. Lehman was in charge. Mem-
bers of the Lumen lodge I. O. O. F.
conducted that organization’s ritual
service in the church and at the’
grave. Mu. and Mrs. Evan Jones, ac-
companied by Miss G. Mabel Davis,
sang three of the favorite hymns of
the deceased, “The Touch of His
Hand on Min2,” “Lead Me Gently
Home” and “Sweeter as the Years
Go By.” Interment was made in the
Oak Ridge cemetery near Unionville.
Mr. Brugger, during his residence
in Johnstown, was a member of the
‘Westmont Presbyterian church and
the following attended his funeral:
Mr. and Mrs. Evan D. Jones, Thomas
R. Jenkins and son, Emrys, J. Price
Davis, Miss G. Mabel Davis, and Mr.
and Mrs. Seward D. Davis. Friends
were also present from Philadelphia,
Cannonsburg, DuBois, Tyrone, State
College, Bellefonte and other places.
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.MEYER.—A . brief noticsin tast
week’s Watchman told of the death of
Mrs. Martha Jane Meyer, widow of
the late Prof. Henry Meyer, at her
home in Rebersburg on March 6th,
following an illness of some weeks.
She was a daughter of Thomas J. and
Sara Taylor and was born at Rock
Forge on April 25th, 1850, hence had
reached the age of 77 years, 10
months and 11 days.
Most of her girlhood life was spent
at Unionville and Milesburg, where
she was educated in the public schools
later taking a course in the Rebars-
burg Normal school, being one of the
few survivors of the students at that
institution. As a young woman she
taught school several terms and on
January 18th, 1872, married Henry
Meyer, of Rebersburg. They went to
housekeeping in the home at Rebers-
burg where she spent her entire mar-
ried life of almost fifty-four years.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Meyer assisted
materially in organizing the Evangel-
ical Sunday school, at Rebersburg in
1874, and both became members of
that church. Mrs. Meyer was repre-
sentative of the type of woman whose
main interests center around their
home, their children and their church.
She was a woman of simple tastes
but staunch and lasting friendships.
It was her kind that inspire confi-
dence in the integrity of the home and
the sanctity of Christian womanhood.
Her husband passed away over two
years ago but surviving her are the
following children: Mrs. S. M. Weber,
of Washington, D. C.; Henry T, of |.
Lewisburg; Mrs.. Mary Abbott, of Re-
bersburg; Mrs. William C. Kelly, of
State College; and Robert W., of Re-
bersburg. She also leaves six grand-
children, and two sisters and a broth-
er, Mrs. Elias Hancock, of Runville;
Mrs. Clara Leathers, of Unionville,
and G. W. Taylor, of Saxton, Pa.
Funeral services were held at Re-
bersburg at 10.30 o’clock on Satur-
day morning, burial being made in the
Evangelical church cemetery.
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THOMPSON.—Mrs. Betta Ellen
Thompson, wife of A. C. Thompson,
of Philipsburg, passed away, last Fri-
day morning, as the result of a com-
plication of diseases with which she
had suffered for several years.
She wa» a daughter of Joseph and
Eller Denning and was born at Ky-
lertown on January 15th, 1862, mak-
ing her age 66 years, 1 month and 23
days. When she was yet a child her
parents moved to Philipsburg and
there she was educated and grew to
womanhood. In August, 1899, she
married Mr. Thompson, who survives
with one son, Edward J. Thompson,
Esq., at home. She also leaves two
brothers, Harry M. Denning, of Phil-
ipsburg, and Edward G., of St. Louis,
Mo. Funeral services were held at
2.30 o'clock on Monday afternoon,
burial being made in the Philipsburg
cemetery.
" DORWORTH.—Mrs. Hannah Jen-
kins Dorworth, widow of the late
Dr. E. S. Dorworth, passed away at
her home on east Curtin street, Belle-
fonte, at nine o'clock on Tuesday
morning. She had been in feeble
health for some time and several
weeks ago her condition became such
that it was evident that the end was
near, so that her death was not un-
expected.
Mrs. Dorworth was a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William Reese Jenkins
and was born in Blania, South Wales,
on July 21st, 1845, hence was in her
83rd year. She came to this country
in 1852 with her father, an iron man-
ufacturer of his native country, who
located at Howard and was. engaged
in the iron manufacturing business
there until his death in 1886. It was
at Howard that Mrs. Dorworth was
educated in the public schools and
grew to womanhood. In the latter
sixties she married Dr. Dorworth, at
that time a practicing physician in
Bellefonte, and this had been her
home ever since. She was a member
of the Disciple church for many years
but later affiliated with the Presbyter-
ian church, of Bellefonte. She was
a woman who was assiduous in her
devotion to her home and her family.
Dr. Dorworth passed away a num-
her of years ago but surviving her
are four children, Mrs. Arthur H.
Sloop, of Bellefonte; Miss Alice, at
home; Charles E. Dorworth, of Belle-
fonte, and William J., of Phil-
adelphia. She was the last to pass
away of her father’s family.
Funeral services were held at her
late home, on east Curtin street, at
two o’clock yesterday afternoon, by
Rev. Homer C. Knox, of the Method-
ist church, burial being made in the
Union cemetery.
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RHINESMITH.—Daniel Rhine-
smith, a native of Centre county, died
at his home in Clearfield, on Wednes-
day morning of last week, following
several years ilness with heart trou-
ble.
He was a son of Daniel and Mary J
Rhinesmith and was born at Earlys-
town, near Centre Hall, seventy-three
years ago. When a boy his parents
moved from Pennsvalley and settled
on a farm in Benner township, south
of Bellefonte, where he grew to man-
hood. He lived near Bellefonte until
about thirty years ago when he went
to Clearfield county as manager of the
James Mitchell farm. Ten years ago
he retired from the farm and moved
into a home in Clearfield.
On March 7th, 1888, he married Miss
Carrie Musser, of near Bellefonte,
Mrs. Mary McCorkle, of Akron, Ohio,
and Miss Nancy, at home. He also
leaves one brother and a sister, Wil-
liam Rhinesmith, of Bellefonte, and
Miss Elizabeth, of Clearfield. Brief
funeral services were held at his late
ing, at 9 o’clock, after which the re-
mains were brought to Bellefonte by
motor hearse. Final seivices were
held at the William Rhinesmith ome,
on Saturday afternoon, after which
burial was made in the Union ceme-
tery.
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NOLAN.—Simon Nolan, a native
of Centre county, died at the home of
his daughter, at Woodland, Clearfield
county, on Sunday morning, following
an illness of some years as the re-
sult of a general breakdown. He was
born on Halfmoon Hill, near Belle-
fonte, on July 12th, 1855, hence was
in his 73rd year. In 1880 he located
at Philipsburg where he conducted a
dairy business for many years. Dis-
posing of that he went to Pittsburgh:
and worked for some time at the West-!
inghouse plant, eventually returning
to Philipsburg.
In 1879 he married Mrs. Jennie
Cowher, of Buffalo Run valley, who
survives with one son and three
daughters, Gray Nolan, at home; Mrs.
Harvey Bock, of Clearfield county;
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and Miss Sarah, at home. One son,
Edwin Nolan, died in service during
the World war. He also leaves one
brother, James Nolan, of Washington,
D. C.
Funeral services were held at one
o'clock on Tuesday afternoon by Rev.
S. B. Evans, burial being made in the
Philipsburg cemetery.
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CRONISTER.—Kenneth Cronister,
son of ex-sheriff and Mrs. W. M,
Cronister, of Llyswen, Blair county.
but former residents at Martha Furn-
ace, passed away on Monday of last
week, at the State sanitorium, at
South Mountain, following an illness
of some months. :
He was born at Martha Furnace on
March 13th, 1905, hence was almost
23 years old. Most of his life had
been spent in Centre county but of
late years the family had lived at
Llyswen, near Altoona. In addition
to his parents he is survived by two
brothers and two sisters, C. G. Cron-
ister, of Pittsburgh; Ray, of Cleve-
land; Mrs. J. H. Yoder, of Altoona,
and Mrs. L. A. Hutchinson, of Cleve-
land, Ohio. Funeral services were
held at his late home in Llyswen at
two o’clock last Wednesday afternoon,
after which burial was made in the
Alto Reste Jomeiey. in Alteons,
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GRIEST.—Mrs. May Griest, wife
of Dr. Andrew Griest, of Steelton,
died in a Harrisburg hospital, on
Tuesday morning, following a brief
illness. Dr. Griest is a son of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward M. Griest, of Phil-
ipsburg, but at one time residents of
Bellefonte. Mrs. Griest, before her
marriage, was Miss May Garman, of
Harrisburg. She leaves three small
children.
Mrs. W. C. Lansberry, of Woodland,
MELCHER.—Henry Melcher died
on Wednesday, at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Christian Reese, in
Philipsburg, following a lingering ill-
ness with myocarditis.
He was a son of John and Chris-
tine McMonigal Melcher and was born
at Centre Line, Centre county, on May
4th, 1844, hence was in his eightiy-
fourth year. He was a veteran of
the Civil war, having served in the
201st Pennsylvania volunteers. He
married Miss Nancy Jane Merriman
in 1922, but surviving him are the fol-
lowing children: Mrs. Christian Reese,
of Philipsburg; /E. B. Melcher, of
Altoona; Mrs. L. H. Albert, of Eliza-
beth; Mrs. C. W. Crain, Port Matil-
da, and Chester Melcher, of Tyrone.
He also leaves three sisters and a
brother, Mrs. G. W. Woodring, of
Savannah, Ga.; Mrs. Jennie Merri-
man, of Wilkinsburg; Mrs. Leah
Brown, of Akron, Ohio, and L. L.
Melcher, of Wilkinsburg.
The funeral will be held tomorrow,
burial to be made in the Mount Pleas-
ant cemetery in Taylor township.
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McCALEB.— Mrs. Rachel Brownlee
McCaleb, wife of S. R. McCaleb, a
lifelong resident of Nittany valley,
died on Monday evening, at her home
at Clintondale, following a lingering
illness. She was 74 years old and
lived at Nittany most of her life,
moving to Clintondale a year ago.
Burial was made in the Cedar Hill
cemetery yesterday afternoon.
A University Afloat.
Professor J. Ben Hill, of the Penn
State College, will be a member of
the faculty of the coming “Floating
University” which will leave New
York, October 6, 1928, for an eight
months’ trip around the world, re-
| turning to New York in June, 1929.
{There will be a faculty on board
the vessel of fifty, seiected from the
i prominent colleges of the United
States.
Applications are received from pre-
collegiate ptudents, under-graduates
and from those desiring to take the
post-graduate courses. Credits for
courses of study can be arranged for
at most of the American colleges. It
is open to men and women students,
and about one hundred older - people
will be taken.
Professor Hill is interested in de-
veloping a group of students from his
State.
Professor Hill will be accompanied
by Mrs. Hill who will act as chaperon
for the group of women students from
Pennsylvania.
| will not be like a tourist trip but will
be sponsored largely by the educa-
tional and governmental associations
in each of the countries so that the
' American students will have oppor-
tunities of meeting the students and
{home in Clearfield, on Saturday-mern- {Prominent educational people.
There has been selected one of the
modern vessels, oil-burning with all
the modern accommodations and con-
veniences. The itinerary provides for
extensive trips ashore in each of the
foreign countries and arrangements
have been made with representative
{educational men from the foreign
‘countries to come on board two weeks
in advance of the arrival at each
country in order to acquaint the stu-
dents with what they should see and
do. i 3
In organizing the project, great
cere has been taken on the subject
of health. There will be a staff of
seven in the medical division which
will cooperate closely with the phys-
ical education department which will
have a staff of six. The departments
of dramatics and social affairs are
among the prominent divisions. A
very comprehensive library will be on
board.
The “Floating University” must be
a complete social unit in which the
welfare life of the students must not
only be uppermost but also be one of
its greatest advantages besides being
a liberal education in itself. It should
lay the foundation for experiencing
co-operation and forming habits that
will enable young people to take their
place in the world as it is today.
It is an opportunity for the young
people to take a wonderful trip under
the safest conditions.
ears see.
‘| Academy Boxers Knock Out Syracuse
Freshmen,
Without the assistance of Captain
Ducanis, the Bellefonte Academy box-
ing team defeated the Syracuse Uni-
versity Freshmen, at the State thea-
tre last Friday night, five bouts to
two. The Academy mittmen dis-
played excellent form and skill and
very decidedly outboxed their antag-
onists. The summaries:
110-pound clas s—Buckley, Bellefonte,
won over Berstein, Syracuse, by a tech.
nical knockout.
135-pound clas s—Buckley,
won from Strauss, Syracuse,
nical knockout.
145-pound class—Weeks, Syracuse,
the decision over Adams, Bellefonte.
155-pound clas s—Hubbel, Bellefonte,
won the decision over Spitz, Syracuse.
165-pound class—Falvey, Syracuse, de-
feated Temple, Bellefonte.
175-pound class—Croissant,
defeated Thiel, Syracuse.
Heavyweight—Sample,
over Honberg,
knockout.
Referee—Diehl, Bucknell. Judges—Dr.
Leroy Locke and Essic Kline, Bellefonte.
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—Senator Willis is making it hard
for Hoover before the convention as
well ag after in the event of Hoover's
romination.
Bellefonte,
by a tech-
won
Bellefonte,
Bellefonte, won
Syracuse, by a technical
—When we say lamp special we
mean it. West Company.
who survives with two daughters, | The visits to the foreign countries !
Tallcedilor
This column is to be an open forum.
Everybody is invited to make use of it to
express whatever opinion they may have
on any subject. Nothing libelous will be
published, though we will give the public
the widest latitude in invective when the
subject is this paper or its editor. Con-
tributions will be signed or initialed, as
the contributor may desire.—ED.
God Bless the Saintly Old Friend.
Somerset, Pa., March 10.
“I enclose $1.50 for another year’s
‘Message from Home,’ for I feel that
at 76 I need it more than ever.
“I was so very happy to read Will
Truckenmiller’s poem and to know
that he is still among the living; for
I had not heard of him for some time.
I think him a wonderfully brave per-
son to go through what he has borne
and have the heart to write as hope-
fully as he does.
“With much love and good wishes,
I am,
MARY M. SWARTZ.
A Penn State Alumnus Talks Turkey.
March 12, 1928.
Editor, Democratic Watchman:
Sir:
In the current Watchman the sug-
gestion is thrown out that it is un-
wise for the local wiseacres of Penn
State village (which ought to be
called something else anyhow, Priest-
ley for instance after the discoverer
of oxygen) to stress their Republican
politics. Inevitably so at the cost of
annoyance to Penn State.
Brother, it seems like touching the
soft pedal at this distance. Do you
rememher the witty remark once
made by Rose Elizabeth Cleveland
when mistress of the White House
during her brother’s first administra-
tion? I treasured the remark at the
time, and it has stuck in memory
ever since.—“I wish that I could also
observe Washington life in its politic-
al phase from without; for I suppose
I'm too near the center to get an ac-
curate perspective on that. Those
who live on Mount Athos do not see
Mount Athos.”
My Gawd! The trouble has begun
already, and has already cost Penn
State dear, more, far, than those silly
people see. Among her own gradu-
ates there are those who never hes-
itate to say it, and it is said in the
State and outside it, that no red-
blooded or self-respecting man could
have done other than the Governor
named ‘Gifford Pinchot did. And there
will be more men like Pinchot; and if
there is the least suggestion of office
hunting and spoils and selfish smell
from that village, nearly close enough
to be a nuisance to Penn State, (don’t
mention it, a member of the faculty
said it) there will some day land at
Harrisburg, a really lowbrowed and
truculent Governor. And then Penn
State will get ‘hers’ for a while.
How about it brother? - Penn State
may pay yet another price for inflating,
beyond recognition ‘her fotal*Republic-
an philistines and dumheads and bal-
lyhoos. She’s in trouble with her own
alumni right now. Only the recent
serious illness of ex-Governor Sproul
has prevented him from hearing a
statement that would make some of
the local people sit up and think hard
| —if they ever are capable of think-
ing at all. Some of us doubt it.”
Very sincerely,
X.Y. 2
The Hon. Willis Bierly Says a Word
for Jim Reed.
York, Pa., March 9, "28
! My dear George:
“I have been watching to see just
one little peep from your able editor-
ial writer in favor of Jim Reed, a
real “honest to goodness” statesman
from the land of “must be shown,”
for President. :
I’m not quite ready to die just yet
and I'd like to see a real old Andy
Jackson type of President before I do.
“If we had such a type in the White
House you would never see him kow-
tow to the east end of the British
lion coming ‘west. If the British win
it will be Hoover, who, under the Wil-
son administration, starved the Unit-
ed States and finished the job Heinz
began by freezing us. Thank the
Lord and the Democratic farmers,
who knew how to raise rye and corn,
we still had rye bread and honey and
Hoover didn’t get it all. How soon
we forget.
W. R. BIERLY.
D. M. Kerlin Remembers John W.
Carlton.
In our issue of January 6 we pub-
lished a clipping from Girard’s “Seen
and Heard” column in the Philadel-
phia Inquirer. It told of the recent
finding of a Union soldier’s identifica-
tion tag on the Kelleyville battlefield.
On the tag was stamped “John W.
Carlton, Co. H. 148th, P. V.” With
the hope of restoring the tag to some
surviving relative of the soldier, Gir-
ard gave publicity to the incident.
Because that company was recruited
in Bellefonte and went out under
Capt. Geo. A. Bayard, the Watchman
published the item with the thought
that somebody in this county might
know of Carlton’s relatives. Three
days after this paper was issued, D.
M. Kerlin, of Rudd, Iowa, saw it and
wrote as follows: His letter got lost
in the litter on our desk and turned
up not more than ten minutes ago.
It follows: —Ed.
Rudd, Towa, Jan., ’28
Friend George:
“I see by your paper of January 6
that you are inquiring for informa-
tion as to one, John W. Carlton.
When, as a boy, I was living at
Roopsburg, John W. Carlton worked
on a farm up Buffalo Run; I think
for John Martin who then lived om
one of the Hastings’ farms, near the
Knox school house. He was a tall,
lanky young man and it was said that
he became color bearer for his regi-
ment. We boys all agreed he could
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surely keep the colors high in the
air.
I do not know any of his relatives,
nor where he hailed from, but I do
remember, very distinctly, when he:
left there to join the army. And I
remember of hearing of his having
been killed in battle, but just which
battle I cannot say.
I think some one in Buffalo Run
valley could remember him.”
Yours,
a D. M. KERLIN
The last paragraph of Mr. Kerlin’s
letter expresses a forlorn hope, we
fear. Buffalo Run valley has changed
during his absence. All of its old
folks have gone to bivouac with Carl-
ton. The older generations of the
Hasses, the Kerlins, the Shiverys,
the Rothrocks, the Groves, the Hast-
ings, the Knoxs, the Marshalls, the
Witmers, the Meyers, the Hunters,
the Kepharts, Sellers, Grays and Mat-
terns are gone and the posterity of
only a few of them remain in the
valley.—Ed. .
County Agent Blaney Predicts Lower
Priced Potatoes.
Fear is expressed by county agent
R. C. Blaney that potato production
will be overdone this year as a result
of favorable crops and prices during
the past few years. Since all agri-
cultural commodities move in price
cycles, with depressions following
peaks, it is reasonable to believe that:
a drop in potato prices is coming.
In one county, farmers who grew
potatoes last year are increasing their
acreage 37% per cent. When the acre-
age of beginning potato growers is
added, the total increase reaches
alarming proportions.
Extension farm crops specialists:
and rural economists of the Pennsyl-
vania State College are urging farm-
ers not to increase their acreage or to
go into potato growing unless condi-
tions permit a high yield per acre and’
a consequent low cost production per
bushel. Then if prices are low a prof-
it may still be obtained.
Good quality seed is scarce this
year so it is expected that many
farmers will be tempted to use poor
seed. This factor alone may cause
loss. :
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—It is not always fur and fun for
Centre county trappers according to a:
story published in the Centre Hall Re-
porter, last week. That paper says
that while Guyer Grove, of Centre
Hall, was up on Nittany mountain lift-
ing his traps he came across a hole in
a ledge of rocks which had all the ap-
pearance of being occupied. As the
hole was large he decided to investi-
gate. Lying down le began to crawr
in but had not gone far when there
was a whoof, whoof, and a rush and a:
good sized black bear squeezed out
past him and made off for a safer
retreat. Guyer got out of the hole
in time to see the bear disappear ov-
er the mountain top.
—We stated in last week’s issue
that the sulphur vapor baths that
Miss Virginia Robb conducts in the
Decker building would be open for
business last week. They were
rot reopened then. It was no fault
of hers or ours. They are open now,
however, Miss Robb has assured us,
| and she would be glad to have all of
her old patients as well as others who
might be benefitted by the treatment
te avail themselves of the baths.
—Robert Rote and Nelson Confer,
of Spring Mills, were arrested, om
Monday, by game protector Thomas
G. Mosier, for fishing in Penn’s creek
with dip nets. They settled by pay-
ing fines and costs totaling forty-five:
dollars.
er.
—The young’ lady who lost her
purse containing over fifty dollars, mr
St. John’s Catholic church, last Sun-
day evening, is lucky she dropped it
there, as it was found by an honest
woman who either has already or
will return it.
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—A St. Patrick’s day frolic, with a
big baked ham supper, will be held
in St. Mary's hall, Snow Shoe, to-
morrow evening.
Real Estate Transfers.
Welmont Schick, et al, to George
Berryhill, et ux, tract in Liberty twp.;
$125.
Charles L. Byron to Randall H.
Graham, et ux, tract in Philipsburg;
$1.
David Kunes, Sr., et ux, to Samuel
R. Kunes, tract in Liberty twp.; $50.
David Kunes, Sr, to Samuel R.
Kunes, tract in Liberty twp.; $100:
W.. F. Haines, et ux, to George F..
Long; tract in Howard, $625.
Jennie K. Reifsnyder, et al, to D.
K. and A. S. Musser, tract ir Haines:
twp.; $328.
Bellefonte Cemetery Association to
George T. Tibbens, tract in Belle-
fonte; $25.
J. D. Keller; et ux,.to I. M. Murphy,
tract iv State College; $1.
J. D. Keller; et. ux, to R. A. Lepley;
tract. in State College; $800.
W.. H.. Ertle, et ux,, to. A. E.. Bant-
ges, tract in Penn twp.; $1
A. E. Bartges, et ux, to W. H. Ert-
Fe, et. ux, tract in Penn twp.; $1. .
Jonathan Winborne White, et ux,
to John Theodore Taylor, tract im
State College; $1..
John T: Tayler, et ux, to Jonathan
Winborne WHite; et’ ux, tract in State
College; $1. ’
David E. Washburn, et ux, to
Charles W. Keller, tract in Bellefonte;
$760.
William B. Rupert, et al, to Wil-
liam Kessinger, tract.inr Liberty twp.;
20
Herbert Stein to J. W.. Stein, tract
in Philipsburg; $1.