ada, sm z Bellefonte, Pa., August 17, 1928, } NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. ——The A. M. E. Sunday school picnic was held at Hecla park on Mon- day. : ——Of the 278 new school build- ings erected in Pennsylvania during the last yeur two are in Centre coun-. ty. ——Centre county’s rebate for gas- oline tax paid to the State during the first six months of 1928 amounts to $10,891.18. The Fahr-Bennett family re- union will be held at the Locust grove, near Runville, Saturday, August 25th. ‘The public will be welcome. Wetzler’s Junior band will give an open air concert on the lawn at ‘the Baptist church, in Milesburg, next Tuesday evening. The public is invit- ed. The Middle division P. R. R. shop band, of Altoona, almost one hundred strong, will be the concert attraction at Hecla park on Sunday afternoon. Richards’ motorized circus pass- ed through Bellefonte, Wednesday morning, on its way to Stormstown, where it was booked to exhibit that afternoon. ——The new ambulance for the Centre County hospital arrived on Tuesday and was used for the first ime on Wednesday afternoon when Mrs. Margaret Daley was taken to £he hospital for treatment. The Sanitary committee nf borough council had a force of m=n clean; the moss and other water growth out of the dam above the falls, this week, which considerably improves the appearance of the stream. Lee Reed, of Bellefonte, was arrested on the Snow Shoe highway, last Saturday night, by members of the highway patrol who, it is alleged, fourd a five gallon keg of moonshine in his car. His car was confiscated and he has been held under one thous- and dollars bail for trial at court. While Mr. and Mrs. Hassel Montgomery were driving up from the Country club, Wednesday after- noon about 5:30, a motorist from New- berry collided with their car, wreck- ing it completely. Mrs. Montgomery suffered slight bruises. The accident occurred on the back road leading into the club. Frank L. Wetzler, of Miles- burg, did a very gracious act, on Sun- day, when he took his Junior band out to the lawn at the Centre Coun- ty hospital and gave a concert for the benefit of the patients now undergo- ing treatment in that institution, as well as residents living in that neigh- borhosd. ——Elias Gentzel, of Snydertown, received a number of cuts on the face and head and sustained a frae- fared skull when his car crashed into the Achenbach: truck, of Lock Haven, at a cross roads intersection with the Nittany valley highway, near his home, on Saturday. His condition is regarded as serious. ~——Centre county people who were wp and around between two and three o'clock, on Sunday morning, witnessed a magnificent meteoric display which is said to have rivaled the splendors of the periodical aurora-borealis. The display was the result of the earth passing through the orbit of the shattered comet Perseids. ——The six weeks summer course for teachers ending at State College, last Friday, the Johnston Motor Bus company took five bus loads home on Saturday. Two bus loads were taken Zo Pittsburgh, one to Philadelphia, one to Scranton. and one to Harris- burg. During their stay at the Col- lege more teachers took sight-seeing trips this year than ever before. William J. Kitchen, who has been secretary of the Y. M. C. A, at State College, since 1924, has resign- ed to go to Boston, Mass., as super- visor of the New England district of student Y. M. C. A. branches. Dur- ing Mr. Kitchen’s term of service at the College the Andy Lytle cabin was built in the Seven mountains as a place where students can go to spend a week-end. ——County detective Leo Boden is credited with visiting four homes in Bald Eagle valley, on Tuesday even- ing, on the hunt of moonshine liquor. The places visited, according to re- ports, were Harold Fisher, at Union- ville, T. W. Fisher, at Wingate; Chas. Reese, Runville, and Mike Furl, on the Snow Shoe mountain. A quantity of home brew is alleged to have been found at the T. W. Fisher home, but nothing at any of the other places. ——Running across the street in front of her home, on Reynolds ave- nue, about five o'clock last Friday evening, Joyce Marie J ones, five year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Law- rence Jones, had a miraculous escape ‘when she was hit and knocked down by a big Studebaker car driven hy Miss Anne Eckel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Eckel. Fortunately she Teel between the wheels which saved her from being crushed. Miss Eckel ‘stopped the car within a few feet and the child was pulled from beneath the machine by a Teaman boy. She suffered contusions on the right side of her face and both legs and a number of bruises on her body, but no serious injuries, GRANGE ACTIVITIES NOW IN PROGRESS. Leadership Conference Being Held at Grange Park This Week. Grange Park this week presents a scene of varied activities as several hundred delegates and visitors com- ing from different sections of the State, are camping on the grounds and attending the sessions of the Grange leadership conference now in progress. And a force of men are at work completing arrangements for the 55th annual Encampment and Fair which officially opens Saturday, Au- gust 25th. The camp, a unique feature of the fair, grows larger each year and ev- ery effort will be made to locate peo- ple comfortably and pleasantly. Tents are floored and one bunk, one table and one bench furnished each tent. Removal of furniture from unoc- cupied tents is forbidden. Campers are advised to bring light bulbs for attachment in tent. A lim- ited number of bulbs will be for sale at headquarters. Campers are advised oil stoves will be necessary. Oil can be purchased on the grounds morning and evening. Admission tickets will be on sale at. the gates at 50 cents each, good for the week, and no admission without ticket. Automobile tickets, same price, and good for the week. It will be absolutely necessary for anyone a passout check at the gate, which will entitle him to re-enter. Camper, on entering Grange Park, most convenient to the location of his or her tent. No driving permitted on center of ground. Cards giving this privilege must be secured at head- quarters—one to each tent—and must be displayed on entering the gates in order that traffic may be properly di- rected. Exhibits and concessions will be on a larger scale and of better quality than ever before, and superintendents of the departments are promising big things. R. C. Blaney, county agent, with his assistants in the live-stock department, F. P. Keller and Elmer Hosband, have the assurance barns will be filled with stock from the best herds in Centre county, and a show superior to past events of this kind given. Jacob Sharer, in charge of the automobile and tractor show, informs us it will be full and complete as us- ual, and occupy the big tent as for several years where will be made a splendid display of the standavd makes of cars. J. Victor Brungart, with all the en- thusiasm of an expert is working on a machinery display which will eclipse anything attempted in past years in this line, and promises to be one of the busiest and most places on the grounds. The poultry department, under C. H. Eungard, will be up to the stand- ard of last year, filling to capacity the limited space, which it is hoped by another year will reach modern requirements. Assistant in the hortienltnral de- partment, R. L. Watts, superintend- ent, N. I. Wilson, notwithstanding | the unfavorable season, assures us | this big part of the fair will be up to the standard of past years, and a full display of products of farm, garden and orchard will be found. Grange exhibits and home econom- ics, under the able management of T. 1. Mairs, will be given more space and from the beginnings of last year, and we have the assurance of a splendid exhibit in this important division. Plays, games, music, and the pro- gram as arranged, will be carried out. Speakers as announced have accepted invitations and will be on hand. Ev- ery feature as mentioned will be car- ried out. A bigger camp and a better fair each year is the aim of the committee in charge. Nittany Country Club Players in Big ‘Golf Tournament. The following players of the Nit- tany Country club are taking part in Reynolds, W. H. Brouse, Robert Mor- ris, Hugh M. Quigley, Elliott Lane, B. J. Beezer. . Players from the Centre Hills club, at State College, include L. K. Metz- ger, J. Richard Smith, R. H. Smith, W. B. Keeler, F. A. Robinson, C. W. Taylor, Dr. J. P. Ritenour, Dr. W. 8S. Glenn, W. Charles Morrill, Dr. Grover Glenn, P. Thomas Zeigler, C. W. Stod- dart, C. K. Aikens, Neil Fleming and A. R. Warnock. Gas Company to Demonstrate New Gas Stoves, The Central Pennsylvania Gas com- pany will begin to demonstrate its new gas stoves, at its show room on the northwest corner of the Diamond, within a few days. This does not mean that the company is already making gas, because they are not. The demonstrations will be made b using bottled gas, the identical kixd that will be made at the new plant near Axe Mann. Bellefonte house- wives are cordially invited to attend the demonstrations which will be con- a chance to see them. * interesting opportunity for further development the big golf tournament being held | at Huntingdon yesterday and today: Charles R. Beatty, W. Frederick | S. Rand Miller, Dr. Roy E. Black and , | passing out from the grounds and da- siring to re-enter same day to secure will be permitted to drive to the rear ! Williams, of Fleming, was unable to of tents, each one selecting for car | Pe Present on account of illness. parking that portion of the ground | | | i | | | ! i 1 i tinued long enough to give every one : Lime Companies File Big Claims for ILLEGAL DEER HUNTERS Reparation. The Chemical Lime and the Centre County Lime companies have filed | with the Public Service Commission a claim against the Pennsylvania Rail- | road company for reparation to the amount of $83,299 for alleged exces- | sive rates charged by the railroad for transportation of lime products be- | lieved due them from April 4th, 1925, : to February, 1928. Several years ago the companies appealed to the Public Service Commission and the Inter- state Commerce Commission for a, more equitable adjustment of freight | rates. The case was not decided un- | til last February, when a reduction in | rates was ordered. The companies are now asking for retroactive repa- ration in consequence of the granting of their petition for lower rates. W. C. T. U. Convention Date Named. The annual convention of the Cen- tre county Woman’s Christian Tem- perance Union will be held at Blanch- ard on the 13th of September, was the announcement made following a meeting of the central committee at the Brockerhoff hotel last week. The organization has been unusual- ly active all year, employing three state workers to visit unorganized places in the interests of temperance instruction. One new local and three new young peoples’ branches have been organized. Those attending the committee meeting were Mrs. W. A. Broyles, Mrs. Frank Knoll, Mrs. J. E. McCord and Mrs. V. C. Ridge. Mrs. Nannie Attention, Veterans! The 54th annual reunion of the Centre County Veteran Club will be held at Grange park, Centre Hall, in connection with the Grange encamp- ment and fair, on Wednesday, August 29th, at 10:30 o’clock a. m. Come and share the pleasures of the day meet- ing and greeting old comrades of long ago. Veterans of all wars are cor- dially invited to join the shattered ranks of the boys who wore the blue from 1861 to ’65. Prominent speak- ers will address the meeting. All veterans who wear the bronze button will be admitted free to the grounds. Music will be furnished by a good band. Ww. 7. H. BARTHOLOMEW, H, President. TI ¥, See'y, Inspectors Looking for Corn Borers in Centre County. Two State inspectors are now at : work in Centre county giving corn fields the once over to see if there js any evidence of the spread of t corn borer to this section of .the State. It will be recalled that two years ago supposed traces of the borer were found in Potter township but prompt measures were taken to prevent its spread. Last summer no evidence was found anywhere in the county of che presence of the borer, and the inspec- tion being made now is being done entirly as a precautionary measure. ——The Hollidaysburg correspond- ent of the Altoona Tribune says that Miss Caroline Rankin, one of the guests at the Presbyterian Home, formerly of Bellefonte, has a very at- tractive and handsomely appointed flower garden at the home, which she personally supervises. She planted this garden of beautiful flowers and cares for them excusively, taking a great pride in her work. This artis- tic garden contains a large assortment of old-fashioned flowers, including dahlias, zenias, larkspur, sweet Wil- liam, phlox and other sweet-scented flowers of brilliant colorings, which are nicely grouped. Miss Rankin’s garden is one of the beauty spots of the Home and is greatly admired by visitors. ——Musser Coldren, of Centre Hall, who for some months has been operating an eating stand on Nittany mountain, recently purchased three of the old trolley cars of the abandoned Centre and Clearfield Railway com- pany, at Philipsburg, had them trans- ported to the top of the mountain and fixed them up, spic and span, as eat- ing houses. But unfortunately he lo- cated them on the only available parking grounds for automobilists, and now without adequate parking facilities fewer parties stop there. ——Tomorrow afternoon the an- nual speedway classic will be held in the great bowl near Tipton. There are nineteen of the greatest racing drivers of the world entered and nine of the new front wheel drive speed- sters will be in the race. To the mo- tor fan this ought to prove the most thrilling event ever held at the Al- toona speedway, not alone because of the fame of the drivers themselves but because it will be their first op- portunity to see the new freak rac- ing cars in action. ——The restaurant in the Decker building was sold at constable’s sale, on a landlord’s warrant, last Friday afternoon. For some time past the place had been operated by Mr. and Mrs. B. F Richards, who came here from Williamsport. It is said they were fairly successful at first then bought an automobile on the intall- ment plan. In paying for the ma- chine they got behind in their rent. The place was bought in for the Deck- er Bros. ARRESTED AND FINED. Four Men Settle and Five Must Serve Terms in Jail. Game protectors bagged nine ille- gal deer hunters in Centre county during the week, four of whom paid fines and costs at a hearing before a justice of the peace while the other five, unable or unwilling to settle, were sent to the Centre county jail where they will have to serve one day for every dollar of fine and costs im- posed. On Monday afternoon, while game protector Thomas G. Mosier, of Belle- fonte, was scouting around in the mountains back of Potters Mills he came across a party of five men who were on the trail of deer. All of them carried guns and one or more of them had shot at a deer but failed to bring it to earth. He placed them all under arrest on the charge of illegal hunting and attempting to kill deer and brought them to the Centre coun- ty jail. At a hearing before ’Squire S. Kline Woodring, on Tuesday morning, the men gave their names as A. W. Brown, J. R. Wagner, W. H. Peters, C. E. Confer and W. J. McClellan, and their residences over near Milroy. After hearing the evidence against them ’Squire Woodring imposed the usual fine of one hundred dollars and costs. Mr. Wagner was the only one to settle, and the other four men were committed to the Centre county jail for 102 days each. Last Saturday game protectors (3. H. Gustin and John B. Ross and fish warden G. H. Sperring, of Lock Hav- en, arrested Lee E. Ernest C., and Rudolph Emert, three brothers who operate a garage and filling station near Mill Hall, on the charge of ille- gal hunting and killing deer out of season. They were arrested last Sat- urday, in little Sugar valley, in Cen- tre county. The men were brought to Bellefonte on Monday and given a hearing before justice of the peace J. M. Keichline, and at first stoutly denied the accusation that they were hunting when apprehended. But after considerable questioning Lee Emert confessed that he had shot two small deer at a lick, lugged them NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. —Mrs. O. M. Bowersox, of State College, left, on Sunday for New Brunswick, N. J, where she is visiting her sister, Mrs. F. T. Cole. —The Rev. and Mrs. Homer C. Knox will attend the Knox family reunion, to be held at the Evergreen park, near State College, tomorrow. k —Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Yeager, of Perth Amboy, will come to. Bellefonte this week, to spend Mr. Yeager’s vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Yeager and the family, at their home on Spring street. * —Bond Valentine, of Philadelphia, has been here within the past week, making his annual summer visit back home with ! his aunts, Miss Mary and Mrs. Harry Valentine, and the boyhood friends who are left in Bellefonte. —J. C. Barnes, among the well known residents and business men, of Peasant Gap, with his daughter, Esther, spent Tues- day morning in Bellefonte, looking after some of Mr. Barnes’ business affairs and seeing some of his friends. —Edward L. Gates, telegraph editor on the Johnstown Tribune, came to Bellefonte last Saturday evening on a week’s vaca- tion. When he returns home, on Sunday, he will be accompanied by his wife and | three children, who have been in Belle- fonte for a month, —Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Beck and two daughters, Edna and Dorothy, of Day- ton, Ohio, while on a motor trip through Pennsylvania, spent a night recently as guests of Mrs. Oscar Wetzel. Mr. Beck spent his early life in Bellefonte and, na:- urally, the place seemed liké home to him. —After a two month’s motor trip which took them through twenty-two States and a portion of Mexico, and lasted for almost two months, Mr. and Mrs. Arbor Everett returne’ home on Monday evening, and on Tuesday morning Mr. Everett was back on his job as a mail carrier in Bellefonte. —Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garman’s guests at Edgefonte this week, have included Betty and Anna Harlan, of Coatesville, Mrs. Short, of Altoona, with her son and ‘ daughter, who stopped here enroute home down the mountain and hid them un- der an old log, intending to go after the meat at night. While Rudolph and Ernest Emert had nothing to do with the acutal killing of the deer they had gone out with their brother and would undoubtedly have shared in the veni- son had they not been caught. Lee was also charged with hunting with- out a license. He was fined $220 and costs and paid up. Ernest and Ru- dolph Emert were each fined $200 and costs, and being unable to settle were committed to the Centre county jail. Game protector Gustin also arrest- ed, on Saturday, Edwin Jessup and William K. Albright, of Benner town- ship, on the charge of hunting deer illegally and at a hearing before "Squire Keichline, on Monday, the game protector failed to establish the charge that they were hunting deer but as neither of the men had a hunt- ers’ license they were fined $20 and costs, which they paid. Centre County will Get 13,160 Doe Licenses. Centre county will get the largest number of special doe licenses of any county in the State, a total of 13,160, and if every one is lifted and every hunter gets his doe the deer popula- tion on Centre county mountains will be pretty well reduced if not wiped out entirely, because with so many does slaughtered the bucks will seek female companionship in other mountainous sections. The ratings on the distribution of doe licenses is calculated on the num- ber of bucks killed during the 1927 hunting season, eight doe licenses for each buck killed. Centre county is credited with 1645 bucks bagged last year, while Clearfield is next in line with 1612. Only two bucks were kill- ed in Allegheny county, and only 16 doe licenses will go there. The fee for a doe license is $2.00, and the hunter must also take out the regular hunters’ license in addition. Free doe licenses will be issued to farmers for hunting on their own land. Licenses will be good only in the county of is- sue. Doe licenses will be on sale at the county treasurer’s offices while the free licenses for farmers will be dis- tributed by game protector Thomas G. Mosier, of Bellefonte. from the funeral of Mrs. Short’s mother in New Jersey, and Mrs. Pifer and her son, of Tyrone. —All of Mrs. D. I. Willard’s children usually arrange for a visit home with their mother, sometime during the sum- mer, at present she is entertaining Mr. and Mrs. Roger Willard, of East Orange, N. J., expecting that Mr. and Mrs. Milton Willard and their child, will motor in from Indiana, to join them here Satur- day. —Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Garman spent last week motoring in the eastern part of the State and visiting friends in Philadelphia, Coatesville and Harrisburg. Mrs. Allen Cruse and her two children, accompanied them as far as Harrisburg, where she visited during the time they spent on their trip, then joined them for the return drive home. ——Miss Bertha Laurie has divided her vacation time with her sister, Mrs. Sam’l Eldridge, at Cape May, and her girlhood friends in Bellefonte, ever since leaving here more than ten years ago. Conse- quently she will arrive here from Cape May tomorrow for a week which will be spent with Mrs. Geo. R. Meek and Mrs. J. M. Curtin. hy : —Mrs. Wallace Bbe and her two boys, Wallace Jr. and Frank, are with Mrs. Ebe’s brother and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Collins Shoemaker on the Parsons farm at Martha. Dr. Ebe brought his family in from Pittsburgh a week ago, and will re- turn to spend a few days with them in the country, before taking them home: at the end of the month. —A party of five Bellefonte men, includ- ing F. W. West, A. H. Sloop, Homer C. Knox, H. C. Yeager and Edward R. Owens, left Sunday morning in the West and Owens cars for a five day’s drive through Virginia, West Virginia ard southern Pennsylvania. There being no objective point, stops were to have been made just as interest and pleasure might suggest. —~George Valentine with George R. Meek Jr, as a traveling guest, went to Down- ingtown, Saturday, to visit for a part of the week with relatives. According to their plans, the trip would include a day in Philadelphia and a drive home, on Tuesday, as guests of Mr. Thomas Down- ing, of Downington. Mr. Downing re- mained in Bellefonte for a visit of a few days with his niece and nephews. —Mrs. George P. Bible and her elder grandson, “Bobby’’ Walker, have been at Ocean Beach, having gone down with Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schad, to spend Mr. Schad’s vacation at the shore. During their absence the Bible home on Curtin street, has been in charge of Miss Alice May Bible, of Westfield, N. J., who will leave to return home tomorrow, after a two months visit with relatives in Bellefonte. —Miss Maude Hoy, of State College, will leave August 24th, to go to Newark, N. J., and from there to Hoboken, N. Y., for a visit at both places, before going to South- ern Pines, where she expects to spend the winter. According to her present plans, she will not return to State College before next May. Miss Hoy and her niece, Mrs. B. H. Hoy, were in Bellefonte, Saturday, doing some shopping and looking after some business affairs, in preparation for . Miss Hoy’s long absence from home. Motor Clubs Picnic a Great Success. Estimates running from six to eight thousand were made as to the size of the crowd at the picnic of the motor clubs of Centre county and Lock Haven, at Hecla park, on Wed- nesday. Everything passed off as planned, the day was ideal and many new members joined the clubs. The ball game was the big amuse- ment feature and created much inter- est. The Philipsburg team represent- ed Centre county and defeated the Lock Haven players by the score of 9 to 3. ——0Officials of the Central Penn- sylvania Gas company are discover- ing the fact that Bellefonte is built on a solid foundation. Many places where they anticipated driving sup- ply pipes under pavements into che cellars of houses they have encoun- tered solid rock and were compelled to dig their way through. —Edward T. Hall, tax collector, of Un- ion township, was a motor guest of A. Y. Williams, on a drive to Bellefonte, Tues- day morning. Mr. Hall was making his first visit here since his recent serious illness at the Centre county hospital, where he had been a patient for four weeks following an appendicitis opera- tion. Mr. Hall’s condition was alarming for a time and now, while slowly improv- ing, the convalescence to a complete re- covery is expected to cover a period of several months. —Dr. B. F. Bowersox, one of Millheim’s best known business men, took a half day off last Friday, to entertain three of the fourteen fresh air children from New York, who have been guests of Millheim, for a part of the month of August. The party spent an hour or more here then expected to drive to State College and from there home. Dr. Bowersox with Dr. and Mrs. Robert Miller, of State College, and Dr. G. 8. Hurst, of Danville, motored to Boston recently where they all attend- ed the National Rexall convention in ses- sion there for a week. Five thousand American druggists were registered at the convention and were entertained as guests of the Rexall company. EE TERS GSES, —Mrs. R. 8. Brouse, her daughter, Mrs. F. W. Topelt and Miss Eckert, who have been traveling in Europe for five weeks, will land in Montreal, Sunday. —Mrs. Morris Hazel was over from Al- toona, Tuesday, on one of her occasional visits back home with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. William Chambers. —Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Hoy and their daughter, Madaline, motored in from Wil- kinsburg a week ago, to spend two weeks with Mr. Hoy’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. 8. H. Hoy. —Miss Hazel M. Hurley is home from White Plains, N. J.,, on a month’s vaca- tion which she will spend with her pare ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Hurley, at their home on Howard street. —Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hartsock are en- tertaining Miss Minnie Murphy, a daugh- ter of J. Linn Murphy, of Ithaca, who ! with Mrs. Murphy, drove to Bellefonte, Sunday, to bring Miss Murphy here for the visit. —Mr. and Mrs. Charles Young and their four children, will drive here from , Meadville on the 26th, for a week’s visit | with Mrs. Young’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. 'M. A. Kirk and with Mr. Young's mother ‘in Clearfield. —Mrs. H. 8. Cooper is expected here from Galveston, Texas, tomorrow for her annual fall visit with her aunt, Miss Sarah Bennér. It has been Mrs. Coop- er’'s custom for several years to remain in Bellefonte until Christmas time. —Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wiliknson, with their two daughters and two younger sons, are on a motor trip to Crystal Lake, Canada, where they have been guests for more than a week, of Mrs. Charles R. Kurtz, at her summer home on the Lake. —C. B. Nicholson, a representative of the American Lime & Stone Co., in Pitts- burgh, but a former resident of Belle- fonte, spent the after part of last week here, having come in Friday to have sev- eral days golf at the Nittany Country club. —Mrs. Wells L. Daggett will land in New York, Monday, returning home from the Clark’s six weeks Mediterranean cruise, on which she was a guest of her niece, Mrs. Maynard Murch Jr., of Cleveland. Mrs. Daggett, it is expected, will come directly to Bellefonte. —Miss Marie Hoy is arranging to leave tomorrow to spend the remainder of the month at Atlantic City. Miss Hoy, who has been taking care of Miss Emily Park- er since she entered the hospital, will re- turn to accompany Miss Parker to Phila- delphia early in September. —Miss Ida Greene will go to Hunting- den county today to join the Greene fam- ily in their reunion, at Alfaretta park to- morrow. Ordinarily one hundred repre- sentatives of this family from Centre, Huntingdon, Blair and Cambria counties, are present at there annual get-together meetings. —Miss Margaret Brisbin accompanied Dr. Blackburn on the drive here from Philadelphia, Sunday, for the funeral of Mr. McClain and went back to Spangler with Mrs. McClain upon her return home Monday afternoon. Miss Brisbin remain- ed in Spangler until Wednesday, return- ing from there to Philadelphia. —V. J. Bauer, who is over from Somer- set for a several week’s stay with friends in Bellefonte, is very much improved in health, and is now so rapidly convalescing from his recent serious illness that a permanent. recovery to his former vigor- our health is looked forward to by both Mr. Bauer and his many friends. —Mrs Harriet Ray Smith and her daughter, Dorothy, arrived here Tuesday evening from Wyoming, for a week's visit in Bellefonte, having driven over from Altoona, where they had been with Mrs. Smith’s uncle, C. L. Ray, for several days. Mrs. Smith and her daughter have been at the Willard Dale home on east Curtin street, since coming to Bellefonte. —Mrs. Austin O. Furst, her son-in-law John Curtin and a part of his family, motored to Overbrook, Wednesday, where Mrs. Furst and the children will visit, with the Walter and John Furst families until Monday. The party went down for Mrs. John Curtin, who has been motoring in New England with Mr. and Mrs. John Furt, and who will return home with them the beginning of the week. —Mr. and Mrs. Nelson E. Robb’s Au- gust guests included, their son, Philip and his wife, of New Brunswick, who motored to Bellefonte for a visit of several days and took with them on their return to New Jersey, Phiiip's mother, who is spending a week there. At present Miss Francis Broadbent, of Washington, D. C, a school mate of Miss Mary Robb’s at Wilson College, is a guest at the Robb home. —Mrs. E. J. Harrington will be among those from Bellefonte who will take ad- vantage of the excursion Saturday night, intending to go east for a visit with friends in Philadelphia, where she ex-~ pects to be for an indefinite time. Mrs. Harrington has been a resident of Belle- fonte since coming here from Hazelton several years ago, to make her home with her niece, Mrs. G. Oscar Gray and fhe family. —Dr. Tom Kirk arrived in Bellefonte, Sunday evening, from Portland, Texas, for his first visit back to Pennsylvania in over thirty years. On Monday, Drs. Tom and his brother, Miles A. Kirk, left for Clearfield county to attend the Coal Hill school reunion, where they both went to school as boys, and will remain in the vicinity of Luthersburg and Kylertown, until they have visited all their relatives and childhood friends. Dr. Kirk came north with no definite plans for returning to Texas. —Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Wetzel, of Toledo, Ohio, motored here from Akron, Thurs- day of last week, for a week's visit with Mr. Wetzel’s relatives, leaving Wednesday of this week, for the return trip home. A get together meeting of the Wetzel fam- ily was held Tuesday evening at the Clyde Wetzel home, on the old Wetzel farm south west of Bellefonte, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Wetzel, the guest including the members of all the families in this vicinity; Mrs. Jared Harper, Charles, Clyde and Louis C. representing the John Wetzel family. Additional personal news on page 4, Col5 Bellefonte Grain Markets. Qerrected Weekly by O. Y. Wagner & Oe. Wheat tenvessees 31.35 COPR useierrsssssnisivisvrsnsnasssecees 210 s80sssssecssessensns ORES 5. veeveinvitnavey shire via ee PAPI | BYE vevestssserisisseeaiorsenssirsess 130 BAMEY i iriver innit SO Buck Wheat ...scessarssnsrrransesnsans BO
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