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Bellefonte, Pa., May 4, 1928.
A ES Tn,
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
—Mrs. Ebon Bower has been ill at
her home on Howard street for sev-
eral weeks, her condition being such
that she has been able to see only
a very few of her friends.
—Leon L. Winslow, director of art
education in the public schools, at
Baltimore, Md., has been secured as
art instructor for the summer session
for teachers, at State College.
—The Seniors of the Bellefonte
High school have selected Rev. Rob-
ert Thena, of the Reformed church,
to preach the baccalaureate sermon
at the annual commencement exercis-
es.
—At a meeting of the Huntingdon
Presbytery, held in Juniata last week,
Rev. Howard G. Oakwood, of Miles-
burg, was elected a ministerial dele-
gate to the general assembly to be
held: at Tulsa, Oklahoma.
—Karl W. Bohren, a former Pitt
player, has signed up as coach for
the Bellefonte Academy football team
for the 1928 season. He is a former
Pitt half-back and was on Walter
Camps All American team.
—The Misses Hattie and Elizabeth
Hart moved from the Sim Baum
house on North Allegheny street, on
Monday, to the Burnside duplex on
Spring street. Mr. Burnside’s house
is now fast nearing. completion.
—The co-eds of State College have
elected Miss Elizabeth Hazel,” of
Bellefonte, as May Queen for the
Mother’s day festivities on May 12th.
Miss Anna Mellinger, of Lancaster,
has been chosen as her attendant.
—Don’t forget the Red and White
revue at the Episcopal parish house
next Tuesday evening. There will be
no admission at the door without tick-
ets, due to the limited seating capac-
ity. Tickets on sale at Montgomery's
and Blair’s.
—The public is cordially invited to
attend the hospital benefit card par-
ty, to be given under the auspices of
the Crystal Springs Rebekah Lodge,
auxiliary of the I. O. O. F., Friday,
May 11, in the lodge hall. Admis-
sion: 25 cents.
—One class of men who are busy
in : Bellefonte just now are the car-
penters, but it is mostly the usual
spring repair work, as there is not
much new building going on. And
the one thing in which they are most
interested is how long it is going to
last.
—Announcement was made, last
week, of the marriage of John F.
Tallhelm, of Julian, and Miss Kath-
ryn Hafer, of Milton. The young
couple will reside at Unionville where
Mr. Tallhelm is a telegraph operator
in the employ of the Pennsylvania
railroad company.
—Looking out of the Watchman
office to the muddy water in Spring
creek we are constrained to remark
that one good thing the big snow did
was conserve the trout. As high and
muddy as the waters are now it will
be ten days or two weeks before there
will be good fly fishing anywhere, and
in the meantime it might rain or
snow again.
—W. P. Seig was host to a party
of ‘thirty business friends from Pitts-
burgh, Cleveland and other places on
a trout fishing expedition at his camp
on Fishing creek over the week-end.
It was a poor time for fishing, espe-
cially after the hard storm of Friday
night, but with two cooks in camp and
an abundance of food they had a won-
derful experience.
—A rummage sale under the aus-
pices of the Woman's club of Pleasant
Gap, will be held in the Firemen’s
hall at that place, all day, Friday,
May 11. Worthwhile things for every
use and of every description, which
will be on sale, should attract buyers
from all over this section of the coun-
ty. The something someone else can-
not use, perhaps you can.
' —Weather permitting the Belle-
fonte Academy will play the Wyom-
ing Seminary baseball team, on
Hughes field, tomorrow afternoon at
2.30 o'clock. Wyoming Seminary is
located at Scranton, and it has
always had the reputation of putting
out a fast ball team. According to
report its team this year is no excep-
tion to the general rule, and because
of that fact tomorrow’s game will be
worth seeing.
—On Monday morning Solomon
Nieni, a Finlander aged 40 years, fell
eighty feet down the shaft at the
mine of the American Lime and Stone
company. By clutching at the ma-
chinery and sides of the shaft he
broke his fall and escaped being
crushed to death. As it was he was
badly cut and bruised. He was taken
to the Centre County hospital where
the full extent of his injuries has not
yet been determined.
—Since the beginning of the nest-
ing season for wild game birds, such
as wild turkeys and pheasants, game
protector Thomas G. Mosier and his
force of foresters in Centre county
have devoted a good part of their
time to putting out feed and protect-
ing so far as possible the mother birds
in their work of nesting and hatch-
ing out their young. The foresters
are able to identify pretty closely the
nesting places of both turkeys and
pheasants and an ample supply of
feed is scattered on the ground so
that the hatching hens will not be
obliged to leave their nests long
enough to cause the eggs to chill.
TERRIFIC SNOW STORM
CAUSED GREAT HAVOC
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
Telephone, Telegraph and Electric
Companies Biggest Sufferers. Many
Motorists Isolated on Snow-Blocked
Highways. Damages Only Partial-
ly Repaired to Date.
A record snow storm for the time
of year swept over Centre county
last Friday night and Saturday, leav-
ing in its wake a path of destruction
entailing damages of many thousands
of dollars. The Bell Telephone com-
pany of Pennsylvania was the heav-
iest sufferer as several hundred poles
on some of its main trunk lines were
blown to the ground, leaving a tangled
and broken mass of wire wreckage
as the only remains of its previous
complete system. Telegraph com-
munication with the outisde world
was also severed and Bellefonte was
as completely isolated as it was al-
most a century ago. The West Penn
Power company’s electric service was
cut off from the main source of sup-
ply but by firing up the auxiliary
plant at Milesburg they were able to
furnish current to Bellefonte, Rock-
view penitentiary and nearby places
by Saturday evening, though lower
Bald Eagle valley, Pennsvalley and
other sections of the county were
without electricity most of the week.
The storm, a regular sou’easter,
began with rain early Friday even-
ing, which later tuined to snow. It
snowed hard all of Friday night and
on Saturday it was a mixture of
snow and rain, a sticky, sodden mass
of slush which clung to trees and
poles and wires, and it was the enor-
mous weight of the water-soaked
snow that caused such great destruc-
tion.
Because of the fact that so much
of the snow melted as it fell it is al-
most impossible to calculate the en-
tire fall. In Bellefonte the total
depth at any one time did not exceed
ten or eleven inches. Up at Shiloh
it measured fourteen inches on the
level Saturday morning. At Pine
Grove Mills measurements showed
eighteen inches. Up on Nittany
mountain there were twenty-two inch-
es of actual snow, while other places
in the county reported better than two
feet. If none of the snow had melted
it is probable that the entire fall
would have been considerably over
two feet, a record never before
equalled at this time of year in Penn-
syivania. Fortunately the tempera-
ture was above the freezing point all
the time and it is not believed that the
unprecedented snow fall damaged
fruit or vegetation of any kind.
As stated in the beginning of this
article the telephone company was the
greatest sufferer. While no exact
count of the fallen poles has been
made officials gave as an approximate
estimate something in excess of two
hundred. The greatest destruction
was on the trunk line down Nittany
valley, on which most of the poles
were down between Bellefonte and
Zion, and the branch line out to the |
aviation field which was almost com-
pletely destroyed. From Axe Mann
to Pleasant Gap great havoc was
wrought on the trunk line which runs
to State College and over into Penns-
valley. This also carried the long
distance lines to Lewistown, Harris-
burg and eastern points.
On Sunday the editor of the Watch-
man drove to Pennsylvania Furnace
and betweeen Bellefonte and Pleasant
Gap counted 26 poles down. The
greatest damage was on the D. M.
Kline meadow and from the Peters
auto graveyard to Pleasant Gap sta-
tion. From the Ross farm to Pleas-
ant Gap every pole was down.
From Pleasant Gap to Lemont there
was little damage but in and on both
sides of Lemont some eight or ten
poles were down.
From State College to Pennsylva-
nia Furnace only a few poles were
down but in a number of places the
wires were badly crossed and dam-
aged with fallen trees and limbs. Ful-
ly ninety per cent of the poles down
were telephone poles, and the most
of them old ones and heavily laden
with wires. While the most of them
were broken off right at the ground
a few were snapped off several feet
up.
SHRUBBERY RUINED IN CEMETERY.
In the quaint and picturesque old
cemetery at Baileyville the storm left
in its wake a path of destruction that
cannot be replaced. This cemetery
has long been noted for its fine trees
and shrubbery, but now there is hard-
ly a whole tree standing. Tops and
limbs were broken off and the home
of the dead looks as if it had gone
through a bombardment by heavy
guns.
Naturally the many fallen poles
created a hazzard for motorists who
happened to be abroad on Friday
night. Over the Centre county line
in Huntingdon county a man driving
along in the car was brought to a
sudden stop. An examination revealed
an electric service wire wrapped
around a wheel of his car. Without
considering the possible danger the
man cut the wire with a hand axe he
had in his car. There was a shower
of sparks but he escaped without in-
jury.
On Friday evening Guy Coll start-
ed on a trip down Nittany valley and
out at the Triangle ran into some
wires from a sagging pole. He re-
ceived several cuts on the head and
damage to the top of his car. While
he was pulling himself together an-
other motorist came along and before
Coll could warn him. he, also drove
! into the wires. He badly damaged the
top of his car but escaped personal
injury. ;
28 years old, who works in the Cadil-
lac garage, started for his home in
three hills he drove into the low hang-
ing wires of a fallen telephone pole
with such force that he was unable to
extricate himself. It just happened
that the same evening Bent Weaver
entertained the board of directors of
the Kiwanis club at the Nittany Coun-
try club and they came along on their
way home shortly after Stover ran in-
to the wires. They extricated him and
found that he had been badly injured
on the head but was stil conscious. He
wanted to go on home but the men
refused to permit him to do so, bring-
ing him to the Centre County hospit-
al. An X-ray examination disclosed
the fact that in addition to several
severe cuts on the head he had suf-
fered a fracture of the skull. He has
been getting along so well, however,
that his physician now has hopes of
his recovery.
Many motorists were storm-bound
on all highways Friday night. On a
nile stretch between State College
and Pine Grove twenty-five machines
were stuck at one time on Saturday
morning. At Dale’s Summit, near
Peru, nine cars had to be pulled out
within two hours. The same condi-
tions prevailed on Nittany and the
Seven mountains.
The West Penn electric service
snapped off at eleven o’clock Friday
night, and the only juice on the wires
from that time until they got the
auxiliary plant in operation at one
¢’clock Saturday afternoon was that
furnished by John McCoy's water
wheel, and that was practically all
used by the American Lime and Stone
company to keep their rotary kilns in
operation. In the meantime the Belle-
‘fonte reservoir ran nearly dry and
the only supply of water Bellefonte
had was from the water wheel pumps
at the big spring and Phoenix station.
The electric pumps were started on
Saturday afternoon and it was not
long before the supply in the reser-
voir was restored. It was just two
o'clock Sunday morning when the
West Penn service was restored over
the new line down Bald Eagle valley.
When G. Kemp Fuller, of Ridgway,
general manager of the Keystone di-
vision of the West Penn, learned of
the ravages of the storm in Centre
county, he hoarded a train for Lock
Haven, hired a taxi and reached Belle-
-fonte at 5.40 o’clock Sunday morn-
ing. On learning of the extent of
the damage he personally cut all red
tape and authorized superintendent
E. C. Musser to go the limit in re-
establishing the service as rapidly as
possible.
BELL TELEPHONE REPAIRMEN ON
THE JOB PROMPTLY.
Three construction crews from the
eastern part of the State reached
Bellefonte on Sunday to assist in re-
habilitating the Bell Telephone com-
pany’s lines and on Monday seven
more reached here, so that ten crews
are now on the job assisting in
straightening out the service. At
that it will probably be a week or ten
days before every phone is again in
working order.
The snow went away almost as fast
as it fell and by Monday evening lit-
tle of it was left, but it raised the
waters in all the streams to almost
flood point. In fact. Spring creek was
within six inches of flooding the
Watchman office press room at 10
o’clock Monday night, when the water
began fo recede.
ALL HATCHED OUT AND
TO GO.
Just how far-reaching the results
of such a storm can be is illustrated
in the case of Frank Hockman, pro-
prietor of the Hecla chicken farm.
He has ten thousand or more chickens
coming out this week and because of
NO PLACE
ino telephone or telegraph service has
been unable to notify prospective cus-
tomers and he is in a dilemma as to
what to do with them.
—DMen, don’t miss the special sale
of $29.50 spring suits, with two pairs
of trousers, at $24.50, Saturday only,
at Sim the Clotheir’s. 18-1t.
Morning Train on Lewisburg Railroad
Not Taken Off.
Owing to the emphatic protests
filed by residents of Pennsvalley the
Pennsylvania Railroad company, last
j week, decided to continue the opera-
| tion of the morning train over the
Lewisburg railroad, for the present,
lat least, and ne change took place on
that line on Monday morning. The
| continuance of this train rendered
void the contract of Nathan Kofman
for carrying the mail twice a day be-
tween Bellefonte and State College,
so that the mail service by auto
truck between Tyrone and Bellefonte,
by way of State College, will remain
unchanged.
The Pennsylvania has under con-
sideration a change in the schedule of
both trains on the Lewisburg which
would do away with the overtime of
the train crews. That is to make the
Sunbury the layover for both trains.
One to be run to Bellefonte in the
morning and back again to Sunbury
and the other to make the tround trip
in the afternoon. Whether this will
eventually be done, however, remains
to be seen.
—Men’s new spring suits with two
pairs trousers. Regular price, $29.50.
Special price for Saturday only, $24.-
50.—Sim the Clothier’s. 18-1t.
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—Subscribe for the Watchman,
The same evening Russell Stover, |
Snydertown. Down at the foot of the |
STAGE ALL SET FOR
BIG HOSPITAL DRIVE.
| Week of May 12th to 19th the Time
for Contributions.
| The work of organizing committees
of solicitors, headed by a local cap-
tain in each of the country districts,
“has progressed wonderfully and is
about complete under the able lead-
ership and tireless energy of Mr.
John Sommerville, of Bellefonte, ex-
ecutive head of the second annual
contribution and membership drive
for the Centre County hospital.
Mr. Sommerville is highly pleased
with the very agreeable response, the
willingness he has found amongst
people in all districts of the county
visited to enter into the work of put-
ting over the drive. He finds a large
interest in the growing institution, an
appreciation of and pride in having
such a hospital near and available to
one and all.
All people of the county are sin-
cerely urged to support, by liberal
membership contribution, the local
hospital in this annual drive. It is
the only county institution of a char-
itable nature you are asked to or have
an opportunity to support. Surely old
Centre county will step forth as al-
- ways and keep its one public institu-
"tion in unexcelled condition.
We are informed that any ex-Cen-
i tre county friends of the hospital, or
| any person in the county who may be
overlooked by the solicitors, may send
their membership contribution to
Ralph Mallory, secretary of the board
of trustees, Bellefonte, Pa., and a
membership card acknowledgment
will be sent.
Telephone trouble prevented a com-
plete compilation of the organization
in every district in the county, but so
far as the list of solicitors could be
obtained it is as follows:
Bellefonte—Mary Miles Blanchard, cap-
tain. Lieutenants, North ward—Mrs. John
Porter Lyon, Mary Miles Blanchard. South
ward—Mrs. Charles R. Kurtz, Mrs.
Blanche Schloss. West ward—Mrs. Adolph
Fauble, Mary Miles Blanchard. Also fifty
women solicitors.
Centre Hall—F. V. Goodhart, captain.
College Township—Charles Thompson,
captain.
Curtin Township—Mrs. Al. Mann, cap-
tain; Mrs. Toner Mann, Mrs. C. B. Page.
Halfmoon Township—Mr. and Mrs.
Newton I. Wilson.
Harris Township—Dr. William R. Ham,
captain.
Howard Borough—Dr. W. J. Kurtz,
captain; L. H. Neff, 8. J. Wolf, W. C.
Thompson, T. A. Pletcher, Nellie Weber,
Anna Mufily, Emma Tice, Emma Pletcher,
Margaret Pletcher, Freda Confer, Hilda
Leathers, Charity Yearick, Elizabeth Gled-
hill.
Howard Township—W. H. Pletcher, cap-
tain; 8. J. McCartney, Albert Crider,
Katharine Schenck, Ruth Wensel, Hazel
Sathrie, Dorothy Glenn.
Liberty Township—Mrs. Frank Smith,
Mrs. Milton Kunes. At Monument, Mrs.
Alf. Strickland, Mrs. Stewart Williams.
Haines Township, West Precinct—H. D.
Krape, captain; D. S. Wert, J. W. Forster,
Martha Smith, Mae Bower, Lela Smith.
East Precinct—Carl Motz, captain.
Huston Township—J. T. Henry, captain;
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Alexander, W. 8.
Richards, L. G. Fink, J. H. Turner, J. B.
Mattern, N. R. Stiver, Mrs. Kyle Alexan-
der, Mrs. Dorsey Cronister, Mrs. J. T.
Henry, Mrs. R. G. Williams, Miss Edith
Wilson. :
Marion Township—M. 8S. Betz, captain.
ld Vonada and ethers.
Millhcim—Randolph Miller, captain.
Patton Township—George Stevenson,
captain; Miss Elizabeth Green, Mr. Huey.
Penn Township— C. L. Eyster, captain;
F. J. Malone, L. L.. Weaver, G. W. Frank-
enberger, W, G. Auman, Alfred Hoster-
man.
Port Matilda—Edgar Williams, captain.
Potter Township—Frank Carson,
tain.
Spring Mills Dist.—-J. C. Robinson, cap-
tain; Alma Zerby, Mrs. D. W. Sweetwood,
Mrs. Dolin Decker, Mrs. Guy Corman, Mrs.
John Decker, Rev. C. E. Hazen, Mrs. H.
W. Fetterolf, H. W. Fetterolf, Mrs. Wil-
linm Hettinger.
cap-
Spring Township—Rev. Metzger, captain.
State College—Eugene Lederer, captain.
Taylor Township—J. T. Beckwith, cap-
tain,
Unionville—Howard Holzworth, captain.
Walker Township—Howard Struble,
captain.
Seventeen Farmers Have Entered the
Beautifying Homes Contest.
Seventeen faimers in Harris, Fer-
guson and College townships have en-
rolled in the contest for beautifying
their homes inaugurated a few weeks
ago by the Centre county Agricultur-
al Extension association and the State
College Chamber of Commerce. The
list includes George Mothersbaugh, of
Boalsburg; Aaron C. Kepler and John
G. Miller, of Pine Grove Mills; J. F.
Musser, Albert Musser, J. C. Meyers,
E. P. Houser, C. T, Homan, Samuel
M. Hess, Merrill Homan, Samuel M.
Everhart, Samuel B. Wasson, Luther
Strouse, Charles Strouse, Roy
Strouse, John Stover, J. J. Markle and
the Pine Hall Grange, all of College
township.
The object is to improve the phys-
ical appearance of the farm buildings
and surroundings, increase their finan-
cial value and better living conditions
generally. The improvements extend
to the buildings, drives and walks and
the planting of trees, shrubbery, ete.
A demonstration planting was made
at the home of A. C. Kepler, last
week, when about two hundred dol-
lars worth of trees and shrubbery
were put out. Photographs have been
taken of all the homes and pictures
will be taken every year during the
life of the contest, which is to extend
over a period of five years.
, to Lewistown, Tuesday,
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs. Miles Walker left yesterday
morning, to spend a part of the month
of May with her daughters in Wilmington,
Del. and Trenton, N. J.
—Mr. and Mrs. Myron M. Cobb drove
to attend a so-
cial function of the Knights Templar, held
"in the lodge rooms in that place during
the evening.
—Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wilkinson returned,
Monday, from a short motor trip east,
which included a visit with Mr. Wilkin-
son’s mother, at Plainfield, N. J, and
several days at Atlantic City.
—E. M. Hogge, of Philipsburg, made one
of his frequent visits to Bellefonte, on
Tuesday. Mr. Hogge sells explosives and
as much of his product is used in the
quarries about here business is probably
the lure.
—Mrs. Edith Knoff drove to Erie alone,
Friday of last week, for an over Sunday
visit with her brother's family. Leaving
here at eleven o'clock, she reached Erie
at seven that evening, and on the return
trip made equally good time.
—Mrs. Henderson, district deputy ma-
tron of the Eastern Star, with Mrs. Au-
gustus Heverly, Mrs. N. B. Spangler, Mrs.
Maurice Runkle and Mrs. Ralph Mallory,
as motor guests, drove to Houtzdale, Tues-
day evening, where she presided at the
May meeting of the Houtzdale organiza-
tion.
—Mrs. Edward Widdowson and Miss
Katherine Franenheim arrived here from
Zelienople, Pa., Monday, to spend a part
of the week at Mrs. Widdowson’s home
on Curtin street, expecting then to re-
turn to Zelienople, where Mrs. Widdowson
will continue her visit with her sister, Mrs.
Pearce.
—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tressler and
their two children, are visiting in Belle-
fonte, guests of Mr. Tressler's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. William Tressler, on How-
ard street. The Robert Tresslers stopped
here enroute from Rochester, N. Y, to
Minneapolis, where they will make their
home in the future.
—State Senator Harry B. Scott and IR.
P. Dunsmore, coal operator, of Philips-
burg, were Bellefonte visitors on Tuesday
and had luncheon with Judge Fleming at
the Brockerhoff house. This was the Sen-
ator’s first visit to Bellefonte since the
primaries and he likely came over to find
out for himself how the rank and file of
the party reacted to the ticket nominated.
—Mr. and Mrs. William Carson, of
‘Woodward, with their daughter, Mrs. Bre-
on and the two sons, Kenneth and Dean,
were among the county visitors to Belle-
fonte, Tuesday, having motored over to
spend several hours in the shops and with
some of Mr. Carson’s family. Being
former residents of Bellefonte, Mr. and
Mrs. Carson have many friends here, as
well as relatives.
—Mr. and Mrs. William A. Corl and
their youngest child, Esther Marie, Mr.
Corl’s mother, Mrs. W. K. Corl and Miss
Marie Trostle, comprised a driving party
from Ferguson townshp here, Tuesday, to
spend a part of the day, Mr. Corl being
down to town after some business while
the women utilized their time in the shops.
The party made the drive in Mr. and
Mrs. Corl's car.
—M. I. Gradner was over from Clear-
field, on Tuesday, and according to his
report they must have had '& great deal
more fun out of the primary éontest over
there than we of Centre county had.
Mitchell’s own fat was in the fire to the
extent that a faction of the party was
after his job as county chairman, but they
didn’t get it, and he is feeling well sat-
isfied that they didn’t.
—Mrs. Harry H. Curtin and her son,
Harry Jr., are at Narragansett, R. I. visit-
ing with Mrs. Hazzard, the former Miss
Katherine Burnet. From Narragansett
they will go to Philadelphia to join Mrs.
Curtin’s mother, Mrs. John Ardell, who
has been spending some time with her sis-
ter, who before her marriage was Miss
Charlotte Crittenden. Mrs. Ardell will ac-
company her daughter and grandson back
to their home at Curtin, next week, in-
tending to be there for an indefinite time.
—Miss Janet Potter went to Laurelton,
Tuesday, for a month's work in the office
of the State's institution at that place, be-
fore leaving to accept a position with
Dr. Watkins, in charge of Pennsylvania's
home for delinquent children at Polk.
Miss Potter’s duties at Polk will be in
the field, where her work will include
fourteen counties. Her experience of two
years with the welfare organizations of
Centre county and her great love of the
work, assures her success in this bigger
opportunity at Polk.
—Mrs. George Waite, of Phoenix ave-
nue, and Mrs. Charles Garbrick, of Val-
entine street, have beeen spending the
week in Lewistown, representing the
Bellefonte chapter of the P. O. of A. at
their State convention in session there.
—Mrs. R. M. Beach went to Harrisburg,
Sunday, to join Mrs. Wilson A. Norris,
for a three days’ trip to Washington, D.
C. Mrs. Norris, who had been at the
Penn Harris for the winter, will return to
Harrisburg for a visit with Miss Anne
McCormick at “Rose Garden,” while Mrs.
Beach will go to Philadelphia to attend
the May Day fete at Bryn Mawr college,
intending to go from there to Reading to
spend Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. Nor-
man Sherer.
—Mr. and Mrs. Paul Plymire and Mrs.
Jacob Jury, of York, were week-end vis-
itors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William
J. Sager, of Thomas street. William and
Donald Sager had been visiting in York
s0 the Plymire’s and their grandmother,
Mrs. Jury, decided to bring them home
by motor. The party left York Friday
evening about seven o'clock. When they
reached the Centre-Mifflin county line,
near the top of Tussey mountain, at mid-
night, they ran out of gas. It was snow-
ing and blowing terrifically and as there
was no traffic on the road all they could do
was sit in the car until daylight, Then
someone came along and gave them
enough fuel to get them back to the fill-
ing station at Pleasant View this side of
Milroy. With a full tank they again
headed for Bellefonte, but when they got
back up to the place where they had roost-
ed all night they found eight cars ahead
of them and all stalled. It was still
storming frightfully and there seemed no
way out of the dilemma until someone
suggested that all turn in and push the
lead car. This they did. Breaking a road
for about twenty feet then all would run
back and move the other cars up that
distance. By this tiresome and tedious
manouever they worked their way up to
the top of the mountain and landed in
Bellefonte about 3.30 Saturday afternoon.
—Mrs. J. H. Finch was down from
Unionville yesterday, looking after some
business r elative to her work as tax col-
lector.
—Mrs. Louis Grauer, her son Edward,
of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Schloss, were
the relatives who went from here to Al-
toona a week ago, to attend the funeral
of -the late Mrs. William Grauer.
—Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Sager, of Phil-
adelphia, are in Florida with the Shrin-
ers, who have been holding their national
convention at Miami. Mrs. Sager is better
known here as Miss Lida Thomas.
—Mrs. Reginold and her son, John Jr.
are east for the boy’s health. After spend-
ing the month of May in Philadelphia
they will go to Wildwood, N. J., exepct-
ing to spend ‘the summer at the shore.
—Mrs. H. K. Allison was hostess on a
driving party to Williamsport a week
ago, her guests including, Mrs. Henry
Kline, Mrs. Philip Beezer and Mrs, A. M.
Rishel. The day was spent principally in
the shops.
Smith and Hoover Favorites at Cen-
tre County Primaries.
County commissioners Howard M.
Miles and Newton I. Wilson, with
Miss Rachel Lambert and Paul Fore-
man as clerks, made the official count
of the vote cast at the primaries last
week. While there was no candidate
for President on either ticket 195
Democrats wrote in the name of Al
Smith and 39 voted for Hoover.
On the Republican ticket the sen-
timent for Hoover was strong, as 903
voters took the trouble to write his
name in the blank space reserved for
that purpose while 148 voted for
Coolidge.
The official vote on the Democratic
ticket showed only minor changes
from the totals published with the
district returns in this paper last
week. .
On the Republican ticket the sen-
timent in favor of United States Sen-
ator David A. Reed was overwhelm-
ing, he receiving 3046 votes to 331
for Harper and 468 for Adams. No
change of any consequence occurred
on the balance of the ticket.
J. Orvis Heverly received the nomi-
nation on the Prohibition ticket for
the Legislature having received
26 votes to 8 for Andrew Curtin
‘Thompson. Mr. Heverly has not in-
dicated whether he will stand as the
nominee or decline, although the day
after the primaries he committed him-
self to the support of Mr. Holmes in
a public declaration made in the com-
missioner’s office at the court house.
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Bishop of Liberia Talks at Meeting of
Williamsport Archdeaconry.
The principal address at the spring
meeting of the Williamsport Arch-
deaconry which was held in St. John's
Episcopal church, Bellefonte, yester-
day afternoon, was made by the Right
Rev. Robert Erskine Campbell, Epis-
copal missionary Bishop of Liberia.
The Bishop only recently arrived in
this country on his first visit since his
election as a missionary Bishop in
1925.
The Episcopal church has forty
clergymen and 150 teachers in Liber-
la and maintains 62 schools and two
hospitals. As an idea of the hard-
ships the missionaries are up against
it might be mrntioned that Liberia
is a country without railroads or any
other roads of any kind, and all travel
i on trails leading through the jun-
gle.
The Firestone Plantations com -
pany has cleared and planted in rub-
ber 40,000 acres of land and the in-
come from this is acting as a stim-
ulus to small planters and landowners
to start rubber farms of their own.
Bishop Campbell confined his talk to
the missionary work being carried on
in that half-civilized country, most of
which has been accomplished in the
past twenty years.
—For a limited time only, Harter’s
Music Store will make a liberal al-
lowance on your old raido, piano or
phonograph in exchange for a new
radio. 73-18-2t
Dillon—Irvin.—Adam W. Dillon, of
Julian, and Miss Anna A. Irvin, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ir-
vin, of Vail, were married, last Thurs-
day, at the home of the bride’s grand-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Ir-
vin. at Vail, by Rev. John R. Watson,
of Tyrone. They were attended by
John L. and Miss Iva Marie Dillon.
A wedding dinner and reception fol-
lowed the ceremony. The young cou-
ple will live at Julian.
—W. J. Emerick went out to the
aviation field, Wednesday of last
week, to see one of the big Ford tri-
motored planes go through on a trip
west. While at the field the pilot
invited him to take a ride to Cleve-
land, Ohio, and Bill accepted. He got
along all right for an hour or so
and then became seasick and hunted
up the lavatory. He clung pretty
close to that compartment for half
an hour or more, then returned to his
seat and smoked a cigar in perfect
ease and comfort. Instead of landing
at Cleveland the pilot continued on to
Detroit. The ship left Bellefonte at
1.37 and landed in Detroit at 6.05.
Mr. Emerick returned home on Fri-
day but he was so attracted by the
the business activity of Detroit that
he left Bellefonte by train, on Tues-
day, for another visit to that city.
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
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