Demonia,
Bellefonte, Pa. January 11, 1929.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
— County auditors Robert D.
Musser, Samuel B. Holter and O. J.
Stover began work on auditing the
county accounts on Monday morning.
— Recent contributions bring the
fund for the purchase of the new
armory site to a total of $2185, which
is not far from the total of $2500
needed.
——Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Johnston-
baugh, of Axe Mann, have taken over
the Blackford restaurant, on Bishop
street, and will conduct same in the
future.
Carpenters have about com-
pleted repairs in the register’s office
in the court house and officials will
probably be able to occupy it some
day next week.
Bellefonte firemen were called
out twice, on Monday, by flue fires
on west High and north Thomas
streets. Fortunately no damage re-
sulted in either case.
Clearfield had a $75,000 fire
early Monday morning when several
stores in the heart of the town were
destroyed. Firemen from DuBois and
Curwensville assisted in extinguish-
ing the flames.
The condition of Fred B.
Healy, who recently underwent an
operation, at the Johns Hopkins hos-
pital, Baltimore, is gradually improv-
ing, and there is every indication of
a permanent recovery.
——Having reached the age limit
W. F. Minary, a well known passen-
ger conductor on the Tyrone division
of the Pennsylvania railroad, has been
retired from active service. He was
in the passenger service for forty
years.
Governor Fisher has re-ap-
pointed Mrs. W. F. Reynolds, of Belle-
fonte, and Mrs. Charles McGirk, of
Flilipsburg, as members of the moth-
er’s assistance board for Centre coun-
ty and Miss Mary Miles Blanchard a
member of the board of trustees of
the Huntingdon reformatory.
On January 4 the board of
health of Jersey Shore ordered the
picture shows, churches, schools and
Y. M. C. A. of that town closed until
the spread of influenza there can be
curbed. All fraternal organizations
and other societies were requested not
to have any general gathering of
members until the epidemic is check-
ed.
——Mr. and Mrs. Walter Shaw, of
Blue Ball, Clearfield county, are anx-
ious to know the whereabouts of their
daughter, Gladys Shaw, aged 15
years, who disappeared on December
8th. The girl who was a student in
the Philipsburg High school, left
home on December. 8th, on a shopping
trip to Philipsburg and never return-
ed. So far all efforts to trace
her whereabouts have been without
result.
Lyman L. Smith, Centre coun-
ty’s very efficient county treasurer,
is embarking in the stove business ia
Bellefonte. He has leased the room
in the old Ammerman building, on
Bishop street, formerly occupied by
Alex Morris, and is stocking it with
a full line of up-to-date stoves. One
of his leaders will be the Stewart
super-heater heatrola, that will warm
your house like a furnace.
also have the most modern gas stoves,
a combination of gas and coal, gas
heaters, coal cookstoves and ranges.
When in need of a stove give him a
call.
Ivan Walker, trustee in the
estate of Mary C. Harris, will this
week mail to the depositors of the de-
funct Centre County Banking com-
pany checks for a second dividend
amounting to ten per cent. The total
fund to be distributed is $36,000, and
this will make a total of 25 per cent.
to be paid the depositors on their
accounts in the bank when it closed
its doors on May 23rd, 1922. The pres-
ent receivers have ancther 15% in
hand which they would have distribu- :
ted long ago had it not been for un-
certainty as to their authority under
pending litigation,
~—-—Kdward Orwick, of Kylertown,
and Emory Fink, of Taylor township,
will probably have to stand trial at
the February term of court on the
charge of arson. Orwick owns a farm
in Taylor township the barn on which
was destroyed by fire last October.
Last week Fink, who is now serving
a term in the Centre county jail for
violation of the liquor laws, confess-
ed to the sheriff that he had been
paid $30 in cash and given a note for
$100 for the purpose of burning the
barn so Orwick could collect the in-
surance. Orwick was arrested and
posted $1200 bail for his appearance
at court.
Sheriff Harry E. Dunlap went
out to Pittsburgh, on Sunday, and
took into custody E. C. McFeaters,
as he was released from the western
penitentiary after serving a five
year’s sentence for embezzlement. The
arrest was made on an indictment
for cmbezzlement found against Me-
Featers by a Centre county grand
jury in 1922, when he swindled the
First National Bank of Spring Mills
out of $5000 worth of bonds. That
was the beginning of the now cele-
brated bank case which has been in
the Centre county court and the Su-
preme court, and will again be heard
before the higher court this month.
He will |
EA i ee a i ii a
NEW MILK ORDINANCE
READ FOR FIRST TIME.
Borough Council Hears Provisions for
Purer Lacteal Fluid Supply.
Just five members were present at
the regular meeting of borough coun-
cil on Monday evening, the absentees
being Messrs. Emerick, Reynolds,
Mignot and Kline.
Secretary Kelly read the minutes
approval Mr. Cunningham called at-
tention to the action of council at its
last meeting in voting to take out
compensation insurance for the year
1929 in the Pennsylvania Thresher-
men and Farmers’ Protective Mutual
Insurance association, of which Isaac
Underwood is the local agent. Mr.
Cunningham stated that he had been
prohibiting municipalities from tak-
ing out insurance in a mutual com-
pany of any kind. Mr. Cobb stated
that borough solicitor N. B. Spangler
also told him that the borough has
no legal right to insure in mutual
companies of any kind. Mr. Cunning-
ham further called the attention of
council to a court hearing in the west-
ern part of the State where two fire-
men were killed while fighting fire
outside the limits of the town in
which they lived and their families
were unable to recover anything be-
cause they were outside the jurisdic-
tion of their residence. Mr. Cunning-
ham stated that such a contingency
ought to be looked into before def-
initely placing compensation insur-
ance on firemen.
Burgess Harris was present and
called the attention of council to the
rubber “Stop and Go” signs, which,
he said, were being generally recog-
nized by auto drivers and were do-
ing more good than any signs put
up. These signs were secured on ap-
proval and eighteen of them placed
on the streets. The cost is to be
$7.50 per sign and he thinks they are
worth the price. Council agreed with
the burgess and the bill for same will
be paid when received.
Burgess Harris, in behalf of the
members of Troop B, asked council for
a contribution of $100 towards the
fund for the purchase of a new ar-
mory site. President Walker stated
that the matter of making a contri-
bution would have to be referred to
the borough solicitor as to council’s
right to do so.
Fire marshall John J. Bower turn-
ed over to the borough a check for
$10, being two-thirds of a contribu-
tion made to the Logan Fire company
by Clarence A. Garbrick for the com-
pany’s service at a fire which destroy-
ed his barn on May 27th, 1928. Mr.
Bower also submitted his annual re-
port as fire marshall for the year
1928, which is published in full in an-
other column.
The Street committee reported re-
pair work on various streets and the
collection of $32.00 from the Central
Pennsylvania Gas company for the
use of the road roller, brick, ete.
The Water committee reported
some minor repairs made and the col-
{lection of $1.50 for stone, $11.75 on
| the 1925 water duplicate, $125.29 on
{the 1926, $112.50 on the 1927 and
| $625.46 on the 1928, a total of $876.50.
| The Fire and Police committee
| recommended that the regular annual
| appropriations be given the two fire
| companies and a motion to that effect
| was passed.
The Special committee presented
| the completed draft of the new milk
{ordinance which provides for doing
| away with a local board of health and
. the appointment of a combined health
| officer and milk inspector at a salary
‘to be fixed by council. The only sug-
i gested addition to the ordinance after
{it was read for the first time was a
| clause placing the health officer un-
{der the jurisdiction of the Sanitary
| committee of council.
The matter of repairing the Undine
steamer so it could be used in an
emergency, as suggested by fire mar-
| shall John J. Bower in his annual re-
port, was referred to the Fire and
Police committee with power.
| pensation insurance Mr. Cunningham
! made a motion, which was seconded
by Mr, Cobb, that the resolution pass-
ied at last meeting of council be re-
! scinded, and the motion passed. An-
{ other motion was passed providing
that the insurance be placed in a
i stock company as heretofore.
{ Bills totaling $6567.61, which in-
i cluded the $2000 appropriation to the
sinking fund, were approved for pay-
| ment, after which council adjourned.
West Penn Meter Readers to be Uni-
formed.
In line with the practice of the
| most progressive power companies
throughout the country the meter
readers of the West Penn Power com-
pany are now attired in new uniforms.
With the meter readers in this dis-
tinctive uniform there is no question
as to their identity and appreciably
better service will be rendered the
customers.
The uniform consists of dark gray
whipeord coat and trousers, gray
flannel shirt, black leather puttees,
leather overcoat and a cap, matching
the coat and trousers, carrying the
company badge.
It is the hope of the company that
the people in this district will ap-
proach the meter readers with any
questions bearing on electrical ser-
vice. The reader will gladly furnish
or procure the desired information.
of the last meeting and before their’
informed that there is a State law
has been open.
Recurring to the matter of the com-
—
First National Bank of Bellefonte
Holds Annual Meeting.
The annual meeting of the share-
holders of the First National Bank
lof Bellefonte was held in the banking
"house on Tuesday, January 8th, 1929.
"All the old directors were re-elected
as follows: Charles M. McCurdy, W.
Fred Reynolds, Charles C. Shuey,
James C. Furst, Henry S. Linn,
Thomas B. Beaver, David Dale, L.
Frank Mayes.
The board organized by electing
Charles M. McCurdy, president; W.
Fred Reynolds, vice president; James
C. Furst, secretary, and reappointed
Mr. McCurdy as president of the
bank; James K. Barnhart, cashier; C.
E. Robb, assistant cashier; Charles
MacC. Scott, trust officer. Louis
Schad was also appointed an assist-
ant cashier.
In his report of the operations of
the year president McCurdy said that
it had proved to be one of the best
in the long history of the bank, both
in respect to earnings and new busi-
ness. During the period quarterly
dividends had been paid and a sub-
stantial sum carried to profit and loss,
increasing this fund to $79,120, in ad-
dition to the surplus fund of $250,-
000. The deposits showed a gain of
$158,196 during the year, while the
total resources were increased by
$188,000.
Trust business, said Mr. McCurdy,
is necessarily of slow growth, but
this department is expected to show
gradual and material improvement
during the coming years. More and
more thoughtful persons are naming
banks with large resources and ex-
perience their executors, feeling as-
surd that the important business of
settling an estate will better be per-
formed by such an institution than
by an individual.
FARMERS NATIONAL ELECTS OFii-
CERS,
The stock holders of the Farmers
National bank held their second an-
nual meeting in their bank building,
on Tuesday afternoon, at two o’clock.
There were a large number of the
stock holders present in person to
hear president Reed O. Steely’s state-
ment of the condition of the new
institution. And several of the stock-
holders, themeslves, spoke in com-
mendation of the management that
has brought the resources of the in-
stitution to such a gratifying condi-
tion in the short time that the bank
It will be recalled
that the Farmers opened its doors
just a little more than a year ago and
while it has undertaken no special
campaign for business, both in the
number of depositors and amcunt of
deposits it has had a sound and very
encouraging growth.
The election of directors for the
ensuing year resulted in the choice of
Reed O. Steely, W. C. Smeltzer, W.
M. Bottorf, Dr. S. M. Nissley, Dr.
S. S. McCormick, Wm. H. Brouse,
John P. Eckel, Edward F. Garman,
A. F. Hockman, Dr. F. K. White and
Jacob A. Weaver Jr.
At the meeting of the newly elect-
ed directors they organized by select-
ing the following officers: Reed O.
Steely, president; W. C. Smeltzer,
vice president; W. M. Bottorf, secre-
tary.
Pennsvalley Hoisery Corporation to
Open Plant at Milroy.
The Pennsvalley Hoisery Mills cor-
‘poration will put in operation a plant
at Milroy on or about February 1st.
According to report the company will
start with fifty employees with ex-
pectation of increasing that number
to one hundred, just as soon as an-
other unit can be completed and ma-
chinery installed.
The present plant was completed
about a year ago at a cost of a mil-
lion and a quarter of dollars, but has
remained idle owing to certain con-
ditions existing in the affairs of the
company. C. F. Hassinger, of Mill-'
heim, where the company has another
mill in operation, has been appointed
superintendent of the new mill at
Milroy.
The machines for manufacturing
full-fashioned hoisery cost approxi-
mately $10,000 each without instal-
lation and the building, officials said.
The new operation will be separate
and independent of the former cor-
poration, the plant at Millheim.
High Wind Blows Roof Off Ice Cream
Factory.
Bellefonte and Centre county were
struck by the blizzard which swept
in from the west on Sunday. While
there was no snow to amount to any-
thing there was more than enough
of high wind and cold on Sunday
and Monday. On Tuesday morning
thermometers were down close to the
zero mark, the coldest weather of the
winter.
Up at Snow Shoe Intersection, on
Monday, the wind was so terrific that
it blew the roof off of Lew Davidson’s
ice cream factory and tore out a por-
tion of one side of his barn. The de-
struction happened about nine o’clock
in the morning, and fortunately no
one was near at the time so that no
casualties resulted. Ordinarily school
children congregate outside the ice
crzam plant to wait for the bus which
hauls them to school but it so happen-
ed that none were there when the
roof was blown off, else it might have °
resulted in a tragic affair.
——The new plant of the Spring
Mills Dairymen’s League was formal-
ly opened for business last Saturday.
ROBERT H. HUNTER HONORED
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BY FELLOW TOWNSMEN.
The dining room of the Bush house
was crowded, on Tuesday evening,
with represenative men from every
profession and business in Bellefonte.
They were there to participate in a
testimonal dinner given for their fel-
low townsman, Robert F. Hunter.
It was a signal honor, for not of-
ten are such things done in Belle-
fonte. It was done years ago for
Daniel G. Bush, pioneer in the effort
to make this a bigger and better
town. It was done in appreciation of
the Collins brothers, Philip, Tom and
Peter, when they gave us the Belle-
fonte Central R. R., and the Belle-
fonte furnace. It was done again
when the town wakened up to realize
that the late J. Wesley Gephart had,
almost single handed, rekindled the
dying sparks under the stacks at the
Nittany Iron furnace and built a
railroad, the C. R. R. of Pa., from
Bellefonte to Mill Hall. We mention
these incidents following undeniably
epochal eras in the history of Belle-
fonte in order that our readers and
Mr. Hunter, himself, might fully real-
ize the significance of the honor that
was his Tuesday evening.
It was, as we have said, an “ap-
preciation dinner.” An expression of
the esteem in which men interested
and concerned about the welfare of
the town they call home, hold one of
their fellows. It was a tribute such
2s happens in the lives of few men
but, deservedly, always should in the
lives of those who mean as much to
their respective communities as Mr.
Hunter does to Bellefonte.
Because Robert F. Hunter had of
his own initiative and without seek-
ing any financial assistance from
Bellefonte promoted and completed
the installation of a gas plant to
serve Bellefonte, State College and
intermediate points Mr. Jas. H. Pot-
ter suggested the idea that some ex-
pression of public appreciation of Mr.
Hunter’s work in giving us such a
valuable public ulility, as well as for
his many other public services, should
be made. It was decided that an ap-
preciaticn dinner would prove the
best outlet.
Accordingly the dinner was held at
tiie Bush house and one hundred and
nineteen representative men of the
town were there. A splendid dinner
was served and there was much of the
fine spirit of unselfishness and en-
thusiasm that makes for the build-
ing of real towns—and real towns are
not measured nearly so much by the
amount of their population as by
what one gets out of living in them.
W. Harrison Walker Esq. was
toastmaster and reminiscently recall-
ed the things the guest of honor has
done for Bellefonte since he came to
make his home among us. They have
been many, but all are so prone to
forget that few realized that there
have been so many. During the post
prandial hours many rose to person-
ally express their appreciation of
Mr. Hunter, as a useful and public
spirited citizen, a friend and neigh-
bor. Among them were Chas. E. Do»-
worth, Secretary of Forests and Wa--
ters for Pennsylvania, Burgess Hard-
man P, Harris, Rev. Father Wm. BE.
Downes, Bent L. Weaver, Dr. Geo.
P. Bible, the Hon. M. Ward Fleming,
Geo. R. Meek, W. F. Reynolds, Maj.
H. Laird Curtin and Arthur H. Sloop.
The latter held the surprise of the
evening for in the name of the town
he presented Mr. Hunter with a beau-
tiful Hamilton watch appropriately
inscribed to commemorate the unusu-
al occasion.
The guest of honor was naturally
overwhelmed with the tribute but
responded with one of his character-
istic speeches and that ended another
memorable evening in Bellefonte.
U. S. Supreme Court Refuses to Re-
consider Centre County Bank
Case.
The United States Supreme court,
last week, refused to grant a certiorari
for a hearing and reconsideration of
the Centre County bank case on an
appeal from the federal court of ap-
peals taken by the three alleged part-
ners in the bank, George R. Meek,
Mrs. Florence F. Dale and Andrew G.
C. Breeze, and the three trustees ap-
pointed by the court of Centre county,
Rev. Reed O. Steely, John S. Dale and
John S. Ginter.
The appeal was merely one of
testing the right of the petitioners,
George A. Beezer, Gorge H. Yarnell
and Josephine Grenoble to take the
case out of the jurisdiction of the lo-
cal courts and place it in the federal
court.
The case was originally heard in
the federal court and was decided in
favor of the alleged partners by the
U. S. Supreme court. Action was then
started in the local courts but follow-
ing the appointment of the three
trustees above named another petition
was presented asking that the case
be again heard in the federal court.
Judge Albert W. Johnson, of the fed-
eral court, granted the petition, and
was sustained by the court of ap-
peals. And now the Supreme court
has declined to further review the
case at this time.
The alleged partners have a cer-
tain time limit in which to file any
answer they may see fit to make.
——The Centre county commission-
ers, at their meeting on Tuesday, fix-
ed the county millage for 1929 at 8
mills, the same as last year.
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL
—DMiss Maude Hale was over from Phil-
ipsburg, Saturday, having motored to
Bellefonte, to spend the day here with
friends and in the shops.
—Miss Mary Cooney has accepted a
position at the Hotel Chelsea, at Atlantic
City, and has gone there expecting to be
at the shore indefinitely.
—DMr. and Mrs. Millard Hartswick went i
over to Clearfield, Tuesday, Mrs. Harts-
wick entering the Clearfield hospital as a
surgical patient under Dr. Waterworth.
—Mrs. Norman Calvert and her son Nor- |
man Jr.,, came up from Williamsport, Fri-
day, visiting here until Sunday, with Mrs.
Calvert's mother, Mrs. Della Miller, of
enst Bishop street.
—Mrs. Jenks, who has been here from
Atlantic City during the past week, is
back home for a visit with her mother and
Gilbert |
sister, Mrs. George Lose and Mrs.
Boyer, dividing the time between them.
—Hugh N. Crider was up from Ventnor
a week ago, to spend a day in Bellefonte :
while looking after some business inter-
ests. During his stay Mr. Crider was a
guest of his sister, Mrs. Charles E. Dor-
worth.
—Miss Celina Moerschbacher arrived home
Monday night, from Pittsburgh, called
here by the sickness of her sister, Mrs.
Bertha M. Austin, who has been among
those very seriously ill in Bellefonte, dur-
ing the past week.
—Drs. William §8., and Nannie Glenn,
of State College, left yesterday for their
usual winter sojourn in Florida. They
had planned to depart last Thursday, but
both were stricken with influenza and all
reservations had to be cancelled.
—Mr. and Mrs. Harold Londo and their
small child, who had been in Bellefonte
spending the Holidays with Mrs. Londo’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Beezer, of |
Dishop street, left a week ago to return
to their home at Green Bay, Michigan.
—DMrs.
was in
Margaret McFarlane Lohr, who
Bellefonte, between trains last
I'riday, is located in Newark, N. J, where !
she is a registered nurse. Mrs. Lohr is
a daughter of Mrs. J. Kyle McFarlane, of
Lock Haven, and a native of Bellefonte.
—=S. A. Rishel, of Johnstown, for many
years the Hardman piano people's repre- |
sentative through this section of Pennsylva-
nia, spent this week in Nittany valley,
viriting relatives at Clintondale and
at Howard, being a native of the
place.
former
—Mrs. Edward Nolan is a patient in one
of the city hospitals, of Chicago, suffer-
ing from a broken hip, the result of a
fall in her room, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Levy Johnson. Mrs. Nolan
is well known to many here, being a na-
tive of the town and a resident all her
earlier life.
—Mrs. Fannie Baum Metz and. her son
Horace, who came to Bellefonte from
Princten, Ind, a year or more ago and
have been living at the Landsy annex,
left Bellefonte yesterday, Mrs. Metz to re-
tur to Princeton and Horace to Columbus,
Ohio, where he will locate while study-
ing law. Since being in Bellefonte Hor-
ace has been with the West Penn Power
Co,
—(Called to Pittsfield, by illness in her
son’s family, Mrs. J. K. Barnhart left
Bellefonte Wednesday, for Massachusetts,
where, she will take charge of the Philip S.
Rarnhar® home and her grandsoa, Philip
while Mrs. Barnhart is entered at ome
of the city hospitals to undergo an ap-
pendicitis operation. Mrs. Barnhart will
be away from Bellefonte for an indefinite
time.
Jr,
—Guy McEntyre, who for the past sev-
eral years has been located in St. Peters-
burg, Florida, where he has become as-
sociated with the business interests of that
city, stopped in Bellefonte Tuesday, while
north on a business trip. Mr. McEntyre
is a native of Bellefonte and through his
occasional visits back keeps in touch with
his boyhood associates and affairs about
town.
—Mrs. Saul Auerbech with her daugh-
ter, Lenore, and Carol Swartz, returned
to New York City, Monday, after having
spent the Holiday season in Bellefonte,
as house guests of Mrs. Auerbech’s par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cohen. Mrs.
Cohen entertained for her daughter, Jos-
ephine and Carol Swartz on New Year's
day, quite a number of the younger set
of Bellefonte being their guests.
—George Ertley, Luther Fisher and
Ildward Vonada, three of the leading resi-
dents of Jacksonville, drove to Bellefonte
in Mr. Vonada's car Tuesday, and spent a
"part of the day looking after some 1929
business. Mr. Ertley, a Watchman reader
for forty-nine years, is a native of Marion
township though has lived in different
parts of the county, his longest time away
from Jacksonville was spent at Scotia,
where he lived during all its booming per-
iod.
—Mr. Jacob Meyer and his son, of
Doalsburg, were in Bellefonte, Saturday,
and we were delighted when they dropped
in for a little call at this office. We hadn't
seen the elder gentleman for so long that
our surprise was great indeed at noticing
that the passing years have touched him
so lightly. His son is located up in New
York State, in the threshing and baling
business and was back home to Boals-
burg for a little visit, which explains why
the gentlemen happened here at the same
time.
—Samul M. Hess, of State College, was
in town on a little business on Wednes-
day. He brought the rather unpleasant
news that his father, Newton E. Hess, is
in the Geisinger hospital in Danville, for
observation. Up in Alaska last year, the
big game hunter got what athletes would
call 2 “Charlie horse” in one of his knees
and while it is not thought to be any-
thing physically serious those of you who
know the gentleman will understand that
he loves to go about and hunt far too
much to take any chances on having one
of his motors go back on him. We've
known three generations of the Hess fam-
ily and we seize this opportunity to re-
cord that among all of our many, many
acquaintainces we have never seen more
marked traits of heredity follow through.
As a young man we thought the now de-
parted Michael Hess one of the most
gracious and altogether likable men we
had ever known. We're not going to say
that Newton BE. is as fine as his father
was, nor arewe goingto puff Sam up by
saying he is as fine as his father is, but
we are going to sey that when you meet
a Hess you're coming mighty near meet-
ing up with “the salt of the earth.”
also |
no,
of Braddock, a
sister of the late Michael I. Cooney and
Joseph Cooney, of Carrollton, his son,
were both in Bellefonte last week, for Mr.
Cooney’s funeral.
—Miss Ella Wagner, of Milesburg, who
has been spending the week in Bellefonte,
returned Monday night from a two week’s
Christmas visit, with her niece, Mrs. Wil-
| liam Pollock, at Houtzdale.
—@Gilbert King, a son of William King,
of Valley View, was in town Saturday,
looking after some business for his fath-
er. A visit to the Watchman office, was
| —Mrs. William Dillon,
on the list of the business transactions
for 1929, of Mr. King.
{ —R. Cummings MecNitt, came north
from St. Petersburg, Fla. this week, to
attend the funeral of Miss Louise McMul-
‘len, Wednesday, and will remain here for
several days, as a gust of Lawrence Mc-
Mullen, ot his home at Hecla.
—Miss Janice Steimetz, of Harrisburg,
was a week-end guest at the N. E. Robb
home on Curtin street. Miss Steinmetz
is a friend of Miss Mary Robb, whose va-
| cation fromm Wilson coliege has been ex-
tended on account of the flu epidemic.
—Mrs. Wells L. Daggett left Wednesday
morning. for one of her frequent visits
with Mr: Maynard Munch Jr.,, in Cleve-
land. During her absence the Daggett
home on east Linn street, will be in charge
1 of her niece, Miss Georgie Daggett, who
has been here from New York, visiting
with her aunt.
HISTORIC KNITTING MILLS
CLOSED PERMANENTLY.
After ninety years of continuous
operation the Thompson Brothers
knitting mills at Milroy and Lewis-
town closed their doors for all time
on Tuesday of last week. Three gen-
erations of the Thompsons played an
important part in this old-time in-
dustry. Hosiery was the chief pro-
| duct manufactured, although at one
time they did include blankets and
: other woolen goods.
The original mill at Milroy was es-
| tablished in 1808 when the supplies,
.including the raw material, were gathl
ered up over a territory of hundreds
| of miles by wagons drawn by mules.
The last of the three generations,
four sons, who operated the plant,
Reed, George, Walter and Andrew,
died within a short period of time,
leaving the business without a rud-
der. The four sons had an agree-
ment that the surviving brother was
to automatically inherit the good-will
real estate and machinery in order to
perpetuate the business under the firm
name of Thompson Brothers. An-
drew M. Thompson, who died about
a year ago, willed the good-will, ma-
chinery and real estate to Albert
Thompson, a son of George Thompson,
and aged fourteen years; Mrs. Helen
McCartney, manager of the Milroy
mill, and T. C. Williamson, who mar-
ried a niece of the Thompson’s, but
failed to make provision for stocking
the mill other than to say that the
beneficiaries of the trust fund which
was left to nephews and nieces, may
loan $30,000 to cover the initial cost
of operations. Albert Thompson, the
14-year-old boy, was the only
beneficiary interested in the real es-
tate who was also interested in the
trust fund, the only one to profit in
the event of success or loss in the
event of failure. His guardian, the
Harrisburg Trust company, Harris-
burg, refused to enter into the part-
nership, and the courts sustained their
verdict.
Milroy was founded by the Thomp-
sons. About fifty men and women
were thrown out of employment by
the closing of the mill.
Former Centre Countain to Get New
Berth in Altoona.
Altoona is now completing legal
technicalities for the annexation of
Juniata and other outlying suburbs,
and when that is completed a number
of the present officials of Juniata will
be out of a job. But one man who is
slated for a new berth in Altoona is
Will H. Baird, for the past nineteen
years city clerk in Juniata.
Mr. Baird is a former Milesburg
boy. When only eight years old he
accompanied his father to the Miles-
burg freight depot. While the par-
ent was attending to matters of busi-
ness the lad found pastime in jump-
ing on cars that were being shifted
until a slip caused him to fall under
the wheels and lose his right leg. His
course in life thereafter was directed
to accounting and secretarial work
and in these lines he is in Juniata re-
garded as an efficient servant of the
people.
“Billy,” as he is familiarly called
by all his friends, went to Juniata
from Milesburg in July of 1906. For
three years he was a clerk in the
Juniata post office for W. N. Boyles,
then postmaster in the borough by
presidential appointment and now best
known as a justice of the peace. Un-
der the civil service rules Mr. Baird
was obliged to relinquish this position
when the office became a branch of
the Altoona postoffice in July of 1909
by reason of physical disability.
He was then appointed town clerk
and during his nineteen years tenure
of office he has instituted a number
of systems in keeping and filing ac-
counts which vastly simplify the
work of his office. In Altoona he is
to be given a berth in the office of the
city clerk.
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
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