Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, June 29, 1928, Image 8

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Bellefonte, Pa., June 29, 1928.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
—Remember Snow Shoe’s reunion
on July 3 and 4.
—Troop B, of the 52nd machine
gun battalion, located in Bellefonte,
is drilling twice a week now in order
to get in shape for the annual en-
campment which will be held the lat-
ter part of July.
—Don’t forget the entertainment
fo be put on in the lecture room cf
the Methodist church this (Friday)
evening, by the members of the la-
dies volunteer Bible class. The pro-
gram will consist of plays, moto-
logues and music. The hour will be
8.15 and the admission, 25 and 50
cents. :
—The big fair and festival that the
women of Milesburg had planned to
hold on July 20th and 21st for the
benefit of Wetzler’s Junior band has
been postponed for one week, and will
not be held until the 27th and 28th.
‘The change in date was made neces-
sary because of an engagement made
for the band on July 20th.
—While working on the roof of
the old Thomas property, on north
Thomas street, last Friday morning,
Ellis White, an Axe Mann carpenter,
slipped and fell to the ground, a dis-
tance of twenty feet. He sustained a
number of bruises and shock but no
broken bones and is now able to be
up and around part of the time.
—The Bent L. Weaver household
goods were sent to Harrisburg this
week by moving van, and Judge M.
‘Ward Fleming is making preparation
to move his family here from Philips-
burg to occupy the house vacated by
the Weavers, which he recently pur-
chased. The house was formerly the
home of Judge Henry C. Quigley.
—The eighth annual meeting of the
mountain group, inter-county insti-
tute of the W. C. T. U., for the coun-
ties of Blair, Centre, Bedford, Fulton
and Huntingdon, was held in Grace
Lutheran church, State College, Wed-
nesday and yesterday. There was a
good attendance of delegates and in-
teresting addresses and discussions.
—Frank Hockman, proprietor of
the famous picnic grounds at Hecla
park, has a force of men at work this
week stringing a pole line from the
park out the road to the State high-
Ww.y for the purpose of illuminating
the road with electric light. It will
not only safeguard motorists in driv-
ing in to and out from the park at
night but will be a good advertise-
ment for the picnic resort.
—James ' Jackson, negro, escaped
from the Rockview Peniteniary on
Tuesday noon, and the same night a
«ar belonging to H. E. Smeltzer, of
State College, was stolen at Centre
Hall, and it is believed the escaped
Prisoner took it. Jackson was sent
up from Lawrence county for eigh-
‘teen months to three years for break-
ing and entering, and larceny. He
has not yet been recaptured.
—Mr. and Mrs. James Theodore
Gordon, of Short Hills, N. J., are re-
ceiving congratulations upon the ar-
rival of their third son, Joseph Mont-
gomery, born Thursday, June 14, at
the Orange memorial hospital. Mr.
Gordon is the son of the late Judge
Cyrus Gordon, of Clearfield. Mrs.
Gordon, before her marriage, was
Miss Charlotte Smith, eldest daugh-
ter of the late Judge Allison O. Smith,
of Clearfield. 2
—A big bus load of young men,
members of the Penn Centre chapter
Order of DeMolay, went to Philips-
burg yesterday afternoon to exempli-
fy in full the initiatory and DeMolay
degrees on a good sized class of can-
didates in the asylum of Moshannon
Commandery Knights Templar. Al-
though quite a number of Philipsburg
young men are members of the Penn
Centre chapter this was the first
meeting ever held in that place.
—Twenty-five members of the
Bellefonte chapter of Masons, includ-
ing a number from State College,
went to Troy, Pa., last Friday, in one
of the Johnston motor busses, to at-
tend an exemplification of three de-
grees of a good sized class in the
Troy chapter. A delegation from
Lock Haven was also present. The
work of exemplification was followed
by a banquet and it was 1.30 o’clock
Saturday morning when the Belle-
fonte contingent arrived home.
—The Bellefonte curb market, last
Saturday morning, was the biggest
of the season, eighteen cars and
trucks being lined up in front of the
court house. Early sweet cherries
made their first appearance and sold
at 20 cents a quart. The supply of
strawberries was unusually large, and
were priced at 20 and 25 cents. New
-onions, radishes, lettuce and rhubarb
formed a part of every load. All the
berries and a large portion of the
other produce was purchased and car-
ried away before nine o’clock.
—During the next week, which we
expect to take off from the grind of
producing a newspaper, we expect to
correct our mailing list. When your
paper of July 13 reaches you the
figures on your label should reflect
the exact time to which your sub-
scription is paid. Those who have re-
mitted within the last six weeks
should find proper credit for such re-
mittance. . If you are behind now and
would like to have your label look
different, remit so that we receive it
before Saturday, July 7, and you will
get the credit on the revised list also.
NIGHT RIDERS PREYING
: ON FERGUSON TOWNSHIP.
Posses Organized Everywhere to Cap-
ture the Plunderers. $4000 in Loot
is Said to be a Low Estimate of the
Plunder Thus Far Carried Off.
Residents. of Ferguson, College and
Harris townships are in a high state
of excitement, indignation and resent-
ment over the way they are being
plundered by. what appears to be a
perfectly organized band of night
riders.
They say that chickens, hogs and
other farm products to the value of
at least $4000 have already been car-
ried off and all their efforts to ap-
prehend the marauders have thus far
been unsuccessful.
Farmers are paying night watch-
men to follow suspicious cars and are,
themselves, sitting up nights with
shot guns on their laps, but the chick-
ens and hogs seem to go notwith-
standing their vigilance.
The entire upper end of Pennsval-
ley, from east of Boalsburg to the
Huntingdon county line, seems to be
the favorite plucking ground of the
plunderers and few escape.
That they must be experts is at-
tested by the fact that they SWoop
down on a hen house or piggery and
hundreds of chickens and a hog or so
are gone without even a squawk or a
squeal to apprise their owners of
their departure. Dogs that would eat
anybody else up quail at the sight of
the thieves and don’t get over their
fright for days afterward. The be-
lief is that the chickens are gassed on
the roosts and scooped into bags,
hogs are doped into a state of coma
and dogs are thrown meat covered
with something that renders them
barkless and cowardly.
The thievery has been going on for
months and has gotten on such a
wholesale basis that the whole coun-
try is aroused, under arms and hope-
lessly baffled.
MANY ARE THE VICTIMS,
At Lloyd Ripka’s, near Boalsburg,
the thieves had doped seven hogs but
were discovered before they could get
them loaded up. They gave the hogs
an overdose, however, as most of
them never woke up from the trance
they were in.
At the Sam Hess farm, on the
Branch, they took all the chickens
and did it while Sam and another man
whom he had engaged to help him
keep guard were making a shift in
the watch.
Dent Peterson’s hen coop at Rock
Springs was completely denuded of
its tenants.
Sam Colpetzer, of Fairbrook, lost
100 fine fowls.
John Quinn and Oscar Struble, near
Pine Grove, were completely cleaned
up.’ ;
‘Dice Thomas, on the Branch, lost
all his chickens.
Walter Dreiblebis, at White Hall,
suffered the loss of all his chickens
and a pig.
. They visited the Fred Fry place
and; gave his police dog something so
that it didn’t come to until the next
day and then was afraid of its own
shadow,
THE GUARDS CAN'T CATCH THEM.
It is a strange condition of affairs.
Farmers have been watching for
weeks, but the thieves always seem
to slip through their cordons. It is
said that some men up there haven't
actually been in bed for two weeks
at a stretch so keen are they to ap-
prehend the thieves, but it is all to
no avail.
Last Saturday night Ralph Judy is
said to have had them cornered in his
chicken coop, but as he couldn’t han-
dle them all by himself he let them
go.
On Thursday night of last week a
large posse of watchers chased them
into a lane that had no exit and “by
heck, they escaped again.” That night
two of the watchers came clear to
Bellefonte for official help, but they
couldn’t find anybody to go up and
make the arrests.
According to reports the thieves
travel in trucks and when they are
on business run entirely without
lights.
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Rev Arnold Officiated at Double Wed-
ding, Wednesday Morning.
The Lutheran parsonage, Belle-
fonte, was the scene of a double wed-
ding, on Wednesday morning, when
the pastor, Rev. Clarence E. Arnold,
was called upon to perform the cere-
mony for George L. Harner, of Som-
erset, and Miss Louise Rotter, of
Woodville; and Harry E. Swank, of
Johnstown, and Miss Mary E. Jones,
of Philipsburg. The young people
motored to Bellefonte and after se-
curing the necessary marriage licens-
es at the court house proceeded to the
Lutheran parsonage for the double
ceremony.
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Trained Agriculturists in Demand.
Trained agriculturists are as much
in demand today as men of efficiency
in all the trades or departments of
engineering. This has been exempli-
fied by the fact that all but ten of a
class of ninety-six which graduated
in the course in agriculture at State
College three weeks ago have been
placed in good positions, while every
one of the twenty-two graduates in
dairy husbandry had a job awaiting
him.
Farming today is not conducted in
the haphazard methods of twenty-
five years ago. And it is because of
this fact that specialists in agricul-
ture are just as much in demand as
are men in every line of endeavor.
No Paper Next Week.
The Watchman will continue to ad-
here to the old-time custom of giving
all employees a mid-summer holiday
during Fourth of July week, conse-
quently no paper will be issued from
this office next week. When you fail
to get your Watchman next Friday,
as usual, just remember that there
isn’t any, and don’t blame it on the
postman.
Centre Hall Woman Arrested : for
~ Forgery.
Miss Bertha Klinger, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Klinger, of Cen-
tre Hall, was arrested, last Friday, in
Bellefonte, by chief of police You-
gel, of State College, and chief of po-
lice Harry Dukeman, of Bellefonte, on
the charge of passing a forged check
at the First National bank of State
College. :
According to the evidence intro-
duced at a hearing before ‘Squire
J. S. Miller, of State College, the
young woman appeared at the bank
early last week and stated that she
wanted to start a savings fund. She
presented a check for $300, saying
she would take $200 in cash and start
the fund with $100. The check was
signed with the name of a well known
person in that locality and was aec-
cepted without question. The woman
was given the two hundred in cash
and a pass book filled out with a one
hundred dollar entry.
Of course the fraud was discovered
by the bank and the case placed in
the hands of chief of police Yougel.
He came to Bellefonte and with the
aid of chief Dukeman was able to
learn that a woman answering the
description of the high financier had
at one time worked in a Bellefonte
laundry. Thus they were able to
learn her name and it was then an
easy matter to trace her whereabouts
and effect her arrest.
When arrested the woman was
working as a domestic in a Belle-
fonte home. Yougel searched her
room and recovered about $170 of the
money she had secured at the State
College bank. He also found in her
room another check filled out for
$500, and a bank book of the First
National bank of Bellefonte.
She was taken to the Centre
county jail on Friday night where
she remained until late Tuesday af-
ternoon when she was released under
fifteen hundred dollars bail, her fa-
ther going on the bond.
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—Men’s work shoes, 2.85—Yeagers.
26-1t.
ial ppl
Wetzler’s Junior Band at Hecla Park
on Sunday.
If the weather is fair, Sunday af-
iternoon, a large crowd will dobytless
assemble at Hecla park to hea: the
sacred concert to be given by Wetz-
ler’s Junior band, of Milesburg. The
hour for the concert will be 2.30
o'clock which will give everybody
ample time to get there.
Wetzler’s Junior band is probably
the most unique musical organization
in the entire State. It is composed of
boys ranging in age from seven tu
sixteen years. On Memorial day,
when the band was in Bellefonte for
the day’s exercises, Mr. Wetzler had
a picture taken in front of the court
house. At that time there were
eighty members. In just two weeks
twenty-three additional members hai
been enrolled with several more ap-
plications pending. The band is now
over one hundred strong and gives
promise of still greater growth.
Of course all the boys in the band
are not residents of Milesburg and
that immediate vicinity. Many of
them are from Bellefonte. And it
really is surprising how they are
mastering the technique of manipu-
lation of the various instruments. Of
course their repertoire is limited to
the simpler pieces of band music but
they are already beginning to clamor
for something new and more difficult.
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—Sneakers all sizes, 95c.—Yeagers.
26-1t.
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Whose Baby Is it?
The town is more or less excited
over a mix up in babies that occurred
in a nursery a few days ago and in
consequence four mothers are terribly
distressed and telling it to the un-
happy woman in whose charge the in-
fants were left.
We haven’t heard whether there
was any hair pulling, but it must be
dangerously near that point because
the matron insists that a redhaired
baby is the cherub that really be-
longs to a woman who claims the
one with black hair.
The situation has become so tense
that all concerned want the public to
judge whose baby is whose and they
are going to fight it out in the lecture
room of the Methodist church tonight
at eight o’clock.
The quarrel has lasted several days
and has been so bitter that the moth-
ers haven’t had time to feed the ba-
bies so they are going to charge 35
and fifty cents to get in to see the
rumpus with the hope of raising
enough to pay the fines that S. P. C.
A., will surely impose on them after
it is found out who are the actual
mothers of the infants in dispute.
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—Boys’ oxfords, $2.85—Yeager’s.
—The Busy Bee restaurant has
added a .barbacue outfit, in which
hams, chicken, beef, etc., will be done
to a turn in plain view of the trav-
eling public on south Water street.
petitors Harry Davis,
Bucks County Student Won Gold
Medal in Ww. C. T. U. Contest.
From a field of six formidable com-
of Richboro,
Bucks county, emerged victorious in
the finals of the declamatory contest
sponsored by the young peoples’
branch of the Pennsylvania Women’s
Christian Temperance Union in their
annual convention at the Pennsylva-
nia State College this week. Three
Centre countians, Miss Beulah Har-
nish, of Bellefonte High school, Miss
Margaret Borland and Miss Gretchen
Marquardt, both of State College,
failed to place in the honor ranks.
Dr. Ella M. George, of Beaver
Falls, for twenty-two years State
president of the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union, presented Davis
with the gold medal in recognition
of his achievement. The winner is
now eligible to compete for the dia-
mond medal in the oratorical contest
which will be held by the State or-
ganization at Scranton in October.
Miss Clarice Cook, of Rome, the
single representative of Bradford
county, was considered by the judges
to be a close second in the contest.
Miss Myrtle Seeley, of DuBois, su-
pervised the competition while the
judges were Miss Lillian Trezise, of
DuBois, Mrs. Eleanor Burke, of Mt.
Washington, and Harold Caven, of
State College.
More than one hundred delegates,
representing thirty-seven counties, are
attending the convention which began
on Monday and which will continue
until Saturday. All of the visitors
are housed in the college dormitories.
Besides Doctor George other promi-
nent speakers at the convention are,
according to Mrs. W. A. Broyles, of
State College, who is chairman of
the Centre county section and a mem-
ber of the board of directors of the
State organization, Mrs. Lillian Trez-
ise, of DuBois, vice-president of the
State W. C. T. U.; Miss Winola Jew-
ell, of Chicago, general secretary of
the National Young Peoples’ Branch;
Miss Lena Dell Wiggins and F. A.
Dale, general secretary and State
president of the Young People’s
Branch, and D. Lloyd Claycomb, of
Altoona. Willard Kratz, of Chalfont,
is in charge of the instructional
course which aims to train the dele-
gates in citizenship and law observ-
ance. Prof. J. W. Yoder, of Juniata
college, is directing the musical ac-
tivities of the convention.
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New Schedule on Lewisburg Branch
Now in Effect.
The last trains on the old schedule
were run on the Lewisburg branch of
the Pennsylvania railroad on Satur-
lay. The train leaving Sunbury at
1.35 and arriving at 4.20 came in on
time, returning to Sunbury the same
evening. :
On Monday morning the train
leaving Sunbuxy at 6.30 and arriving
in Bellefonte at 9.10, left on the re.
turn trip a few minutes after ten
o'clock. In the afternoon the train
reaching Bellefonte at 4.20 left on
the return trip at 5.25 p. m.
Under the new schedule the mail
for: State College coming to Belle-
fonte on the 8.16 p. m. train, and
which heretofore had been sent up to
Lemont on the 6.30 a. m. train is now
held here and sent up at 10 o’clock,
while that coming in on the 1.20 Pp. m.
train does not go out of Bellefonte
until 5.25 for the College.
Of course all the trainmen who had
their layover in Bellefonte were ef-
fected by the change except John
Fisher, baggage master, who has been
transferred to the Tyrone division
with a run on the Bald Eagle Valley
road, and who will continue to make
his home in Bellefonte. His run ine
cludes three round trips a week be-
tween Tyrone and Lock Haven, which
will permit his spending considerable
of his time at his home in Bellefonte.
The one man who will benefit by
the change is Joseph Undercoffer, bag-
gage master. Heretofore it was nec-
essary for him to get to the depot
by 5.30 o'clock while now he doesn’t
have to get around until seven.
—Slippers for the baby, $1.25.—
Yeager’s. 26-1t.
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Centre Countians Injured in Auto
Accident.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Dale and two
sons, of Oak Hall, and Mrs. Blanche
Houser Ferguson, of Meadville, but
formerly of Bellefonte, were all more
or less injured in an auto accident,
near Reyoldsville, on Monday after-
noon of this week.
The Dale family were returning
from a visit with relatives at Mead-
ville and were accompanied by Mrs.
Ferguson, who was coming to Belle-
fonte on a visit. The accident was
the result of the steering gear on the
Studebaker sedan, in which they were
riding, becoming locked, with the re-
sult that the car ran into a concrete
bridge abutment. -
Mrs. Dale, who was riding in the
front seat, was thrown through the
windshield, and while she escaped
without sustaining any broken bones,
she suffered numerous cuts and bruis-
es. All in the party were more or
less cut and bruised, though it is
not believed the condition of any of
them is serious.
Mrs. Ferguson continued her trip
to Bellefonte as soon as possible, be-
cause of anxiety over the serious ill-
ness of her nephew, “Sonny” Houser,
at the Houser home on Pine street.
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—See Tommy Loughran, the light
heavyweight champion boxer of the
world, in an exhibition bout, Tuesday
evening, July 8, at the Snow Shoe
park,
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. !
—Leo Toner left Tuesday morning on a
drive to Philadelphia, where there is a
possibility of his locating permanently.
—Mrs. T. R. Hosterman has spent the
greater part of the past week in Toledo,
Ohio, having gone out. Thursday, for the
funeral of her cousin, Mrs, Mary Camp-
bell.
—Mrs. William Rees, who has been in
Bellefonte for more than a week, was
called here from her home in Erie, by the
illness of her mother, Mrs. William KE.
Hurley.
—Miss Margaret Brisbin has been a
member of the Spangler house party,
spending her two weeks’ vacation in Belle-
fonte, as has been her custom for a num-
ber of years.
—Mrs. John Ardell will leave today to
return to Binghamton, N. Y., following a
two months’ visit with her daughter, Mrs,
Harry Holter Curtin, at Curtin, and with
friends in Bellefonte.
—MTr. and Mrs. H. Laird Curtin drove to
Erie this week, taking with them their
two daughters, Mary and Eliza, who will
remain there for a two. weeks’ visit with
relatives of the family.
—Miss Maude Banks, whe has been with
Mrs. T. Clayton Brown for several months.
went out to Snow Shoe Tuesday, for an
over-night visit with her sister, with
whom she had made her home.
—I. J. Dreese and daughter, Miss Mir-
iam, of Lemont, will motor to Atlantic
City, tomorrow, where they expect to
spend the Fourth of July. They were ac-
companied by Mr. Dreese’s grand-daugh-
ter, Miss Helene Ard, of Hanover.
—Miss Agnes Kelley, of Snow Shoe, and
Miss Mary Raymond, of Bellefonte, teach-
ers in the Franklin borough schools,
Johnstown, are on a trip to St. Louis,
Mo., on a visit with Miss Kelley’s broth-
er, who is a student at an aviation school
in that city.
—B. Ralph Summer, a member of the
faculty of the Bellefonte Academy, with
Mrs. Summer and their small son Ken-
neth, have closed their apartment and
gone to Mr. Summer's home at Waynes-
boro, where they will spend a part of the
summer vacation.
—Mrs. John I. Rogers and her sister,
Miss Helen Henkels, of Overbrook, will
come to Bellefonte next week, to spend a
part of the month of June. Mrs. Rogers
will be a guest of Mrs. Hastings, while
Miss Henkels will spend the time with
Mrs. Frank McFarlane,
—Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Moore with Nev-
in Noll as a driving guest motored up
from Philadelphia Sunday, expecting to
return home today. Mr. and Mrs. Moore
Spent the time with the latter's sister,
Mrs. T. Clayton Brown, while Nevin vis-
ited at home with his mother, Mrs.
Charles Noll.
—Mrs. Edward H. Richard and Miss
Emma Montgomery left, Wednesday, for
Wells Beach, Ogunquit, Maine, where they
will join Mrs. Richard's niece, Mrs. Wynn,
who is there with her husband and chil-
dren, occupying a cottage. Mrs. Richard
and Miss Montgomery will not return be-
fore September.
—A motoring party composed of Mr. and
Mrs. Percy McClain, of Canton, Ohio;
Mrs. Ida Tonner Talbert, formerly of
Wisconsin, but now living in Canton. and
Mrs. Taggart, drove to Bellefonte last
Friday and spent the night here, the trip
being made especially as a little visit to
their cousin, burgess Hard P. Harris.
—Miss Overton will leave early in the
week for Atlantic City to resume her
work at the Seaside Home for Crippled
Children, with which she has had a sum-
mer connection for six years or more.
Miss Overton leaves with plans for not
returning to Bellefonte until the opening
of school at the Academy in the fall.
—Miss Mary H. Linn, Mrs. Robert M.
Beach and Miss Blanchard were week-end
guests of Miss Anne McCormick, at her
summer home, “Rose Garden,” near Har-
risburg, Miss McCormick having driven up
for them Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Som-
mervilie joimred them, Monday, for dins
and an over-night visit, Miss Linn, Mrs.
Beach and Miss Blanchard returning home
with them Tuesday.
—Col. Theodore Davis Boal, of Boals-
burg, was one of the guests at the din-
ner given at the executive mansion, in
Harrisburg, Monday evening, by Gover-
nor Fisher to members of the Public Serv-
ice Commission, the Workman's Compen-
sation Board and the Pennsylvania Secur-
ities Commission. At the dinner the
Governor announced the reappointment of
8. Ray Shelby as a mémber of the Public
Service Commission.
—Miss Betty Lockington will return to
Bellefonte the early part of next week
from Mauch Chunk, where she has been
teaching French and ‘English in the
schools of that place, for two years. Mr.
and Mrs. Lockington and their daughter
expect to leave very shortly after her ur-
rival home, for a month's trip through
West Virginia, their objective point being
Wheeling, where they will visit with Mrs.
Lockington’s sister, Mrs. Russell.
—George McNichol, who has been con-
nected with the commercial department of
the Bell Telephone Co., since his gradu-
ation from State last year, is home for his
vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James McNichol, of Lamb street. George
is one of the younger fishing sharks of
the town, but, like some of the older
ones, he has discovered during the ten
days he has been home, that the trout
are getting so educated that they seem to
be competing with one another in the
game of seeing which one can get nearest
an artificial fly without getting hooked.
—Among those who will leave shortly
to spend the summer in Burope, are Emily
Parker, a daughter of Mrs. George Ross
Parker and a student at Wilson college.
Emily sailed Saturday with a party from
Birmingham seminary; Mildred Wieland,
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank BE.
Weiland, of Linden Hall, and an instruc-
tor in the schools of Altoona, will sail
on the Regina from Montreal, Canada, June
30, with a party of teachers to spend their
vacation abroad in the interest of their
work; Louise Barnhart, a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. K. Barnhart, will sail
from New York, July Seventh, with a
party of twenty girls, to be gone two
months; Mrs. Wells L. Daggett went over
to New York yesterday to sail on the
Clark Mediterranean cruise to-morrow;
Mrs. R. 8. Brouse, her daughter, Mrs. To-
pelt, of Brooklyn, and Miss Eckert, super-
intendent of the Centre County hospital,
who are arranging to spend a part of
July and August in Central Eurepe, will
sail from Boston July 14th.
—Mr. and Mrs. William Tressler, who
are visiting in Pittsburgh with their son
Newton, and his family, left Bellefonte a
week ago.
—Miss Maude Johnston, a teacher in the
public schools at Homestead, spent from
Friday until Sunday in Bellefonte as a
guest of Miss Winifred M. Gates, at her
home on Spring street.
—Mrs. George B. Thompson went over
to New York, Tuesday, to be with her
mother, at the Garber home at Flushing,
L. I., until Mrs. Callaway sailed, Monday,
on the Clark two-month’s Mediterranean
cruise.
—Frank McGurgan, for thirty-two years
with the U. 8. mint in Philadelphia, is
here for a vacation visit with Mr. and
Mrs. G. Oscar Gray, at their home on
west High street, having come to Centre
county two weeks ago.
—Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Mallory, their son-
in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Bennett and the latter's small son, Bur-
ton, drove over from Altoona, Tuesday
evening, for a short time here with Mrs.
Mallory’s sister and brothers, Mrs. Coxey,
M. R. and Curtis Johnson.
—Dr. Josesp C. Helfrich, a former resi-
dent of Bellefonte, but now located in
Baltimore, was back for a visit last week,
being a guest while here of Mr. and Mrs.
James D. Seibert. A part of his vacation
time was spent with relatives at St.
Mary’s, going over from Bellefonte for the
visit.
—Mrs. James B. Lane returned home
yesterday from a two months’ vigit with
her sister, Mrs. Shaffner, at Summit, N.
J., and Mrs. C. DeLacey Evans, at Rye
Beach, New Hampshire. The trip from
New Jersey was made by motor, Mrs.
Lan’es brother, Clifford Thomas, of Lew-
istown, having gone east to bring her
home, an over-night stop in Lewistown
being made enroute to Bellefonte.
—Mr. and Mrs. Irwin O. Noll drove up
from Lansdowne, last Friday, and were
guests at the home of Mrs. Noll’'s moth-
er, Mrs. Martin Fauble, over the week-end,
returning home on Sunday. Mr. Noll, who
for a number of years past has spent
‘his summers as an instructor in a boys’
camp in the mountains of Vermont, will
remain at home this year and teach sum-
mer school in the West Philadelphia High
school.
—Mrs. Odille Mott went to Punxsutaw-
ney, Tuesday, Mrs. Philip Beezer, her
daughter, Miss Rose and Philip Whit--
craft joining her there Wednesday, all
having gone over for the Barrett-Beezer
wedding, which took Place, Wednesday,
at eleven o'clock, the ceremony being fol-
lowed by a breakfast, at which the Belle-
fonte people were all guests. The bride
is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J.
Beezer, former residents of Bellefonte.
—Superior court Judge William H. Kel-
ler, of Lancaster, was a Bellefonte visitor
from Saturday until Tuesday, being on his
way to Bedford Springs to attend the an-
nual meeting of the State Bar association.
Judge Keller stopped again in Bellefonte
on his way back home and was joined
here by his daughter, Mary, who had
come up with her father, but remained
here for a visit with her aunt, Mrs. Har-
ry Keller, before she vacated her house
for the summer.
,—Charles Meek, with the State forestry
department in Harrisburg, his sister, Miss
Josephine, their brother, Dr. Raymond
Meek, of New York city and the latter's
wife, who were motoring through Central
Pennsylvania visiting their father’s rel-
atives and family points of ' ‘interest,
stopped in Bellefonte, Wednesday, on the
way ‘back east from Ferguson township.
The men and Miss Josephine are chil-
dren of the late Mr. and Mrs. Walter Meek
and although born in Houtzdale have lived
the greater part of their life in Harris-
burg. ia
—Mrs. M. H. Seigfried with her son-in-
law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. R. K.
Braund, of DuBois, and their four chil-
dren, Ethel, Phyllis, Jean and Zenzie,
drove over from Philipsburg Wednesday,
and stopped in Bellefonte for a short time
while looking after some business inter-
ests of Mrs. Seigfried. The Braund fam-
ily are back home in Philipsburg, spend-
ing Mr. Braund’s vacation with the’ chil-
dren's grandmother, Mrs. Seigfried. Be-
fore her marriage Mrs. Braund was rec-
ognized as ome of Centre county’s most
efficient teachers and taught in the schools
of Philipsburg for many years.
—James Harris, manager of the men's
clothing department of the Knoll and
Kech department store in Reading, has
been in town this week on his usual sum-
mer visit to his brother, burgess Harris
and other relatives and friends in town.
Jim is looking fine and has been getting.
on so well that he’s actually talking about
the time he expects to retire to “Easy
Street” and cock up his heels for the rest
of his life. My, but that’s the kind of
news we like to hear. Friend or foe,
alike, we hope the day will never come
when we can’t get a real thrill out of the
knowledge that success has knocked at
someone's door.
—George Wolf Sr., his two sons George
Jr, and Harry, and Mr. 8. N. Sayford,
made up a quartet of Altoona gentlemen
who motored to Bellefonte last Friday to
spend the day “just lookin’ around.” When
we asked them where the ladies were they
very promptly informed us that it was
a stag party and Mr. Sayford whispered
the further information: “And we've had
a drink already.” As it was early in the
morning when we saw them we had some
concern as to what might happen in con-
sequence of such a start and were about
to open up on our pet temperance lecturs
when he amplified his rather suggestive
remark by saying: “Yes, we've just come
from your wonderful spring and, my, but
that's good water.” The Wolfs, father and
sons, were once important folks in the
business and social life of Bellefonte. They
moved to Altoona many years ago and,
happily, have gotten on splendidly there.
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Spring Chicken Roasters For Sale.
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—Misses Patent Pumps, $2.85.—
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