. West Penn Power
Bellefonte, Pa., February 15, 1929.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
m—
Mrs. D. I. Willard is reniodel-
ing her double brick house on north
Thomas street, into one of six apart-
ments.
St. Mary’s guild of the Episco-
pal church, will hold a food sale in
the Variety shop, Saturday afternoon,
February 16, opening at two o'clock.
members of the
club held their
monthly meeting at the Pete Coldren
resort, on the top of Nittany mouns
tain, on Monday evening.
Mrs. Benjamin Bradley Jr,
was hostess at a card party Monday
night, given at her home on west
High street, as a surprise to Mr.
Thirty-five
- Bradley, in celebration of his birth-
day anniversary. Three tables of
five hundred were in play.
——=The West Penn Power com-
pany has made an offer of $180,000
for the purchase of the Emporium
electric light and power plant, and
the offer is being favorably consider-
_ ed by the owners, though nothing def-
inite regarding a sale has yet been
done.
——The Bellefonte Academy bask-
et ball team will play.the St. Fran-
cis college junior varsity quintette,
on the Y. M. C. A. floor, tomorrow
(Saturday) evening, at eight o'clock.
As the season is drawing tc a close
all lovers of the game should be on
hand early.
——The only two Centre countians
who will go to President Hoover's in-
auguration as members of Governor
Fisher's official party will be Charles
E. Dorworth, Secretary of Forests
and Waters, and Col. Theodore Davis
Boal, of Boalsburg, who has been ap-
pointed a military aide to the Gover-
nor.
——Samuel M. Hess, of Ferguson
township, was one of the committee
on resolutions at the annual meeting
of the State road supervisor’s associa-
tion, in Altoona this week. Sam evi-
dently made himself heard in the
convention to win appointment
among the several hundred men pres-
ent.
——In addition to the three appli-
cations for parole which will be heard
before Judge Fleming, in open court
tomorrow, three men now under bond
on the charge of operating gambling
devices will appear and enter pleas
of guilty and accept sentence. They
are J. H. Bickett, David Finklestine
and Joe Compani.
Two school teachers at Snow
Shoe, Misses Velda Etters and Leotta
Caldwell, were painfully injured, last
Thursday, while coasting. Miss Cald-
well sustained a broken nose, had
several teeth knocked out and did not
regain consciousness until early the
next morning. The sled on which the
young people were cosating ran into
a tree.
——We omitted to mention the
fact, last week, that Joseph Parrish,
son of Dr. C. M. Parrish, of Belle-
.fonte, a graduate of Jefferson Me li-
cal college, has been appointed an n-
‘ terne in the Philadelphia General hos-
‘pital. It is a commendable appoint-
ment and the many friends of Dr.
Parrish Jr., are gratified to know
that his abilities are thus recognized.
° ——Miss Edward Rine has arrang-
ed to sell her home in Coleville to
Fred Billet, of the same place, and
_ will move to Bellefonte the first of
“April, into the east side of the Mrs.
Thomas Rishel property, to be vacat-
ed by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shivery.
Mrs. Rishel and Mrs. Rine are sis-
ters, and Mrs. Rine is now leaving
the property owned for many years
by their parents, the late Mr. and
‘Mrs. Joseph Gessner, and where the
family was raised.
—On Monday evening school chil-
dren on West High and Thomas
“ streets discovered a baby pig running
at large with no apparent owner in
sight. The boys cornered the pig and
captured it, and unable to find the
owned turned it over to Nathan Kof-
man for safe keeping until the owner
could be found. But he was not long
in making his appearance, as Tues-
day morning Jimmy Matthews turn-
‘ed up and claimed the pig, which had
. escaped from his pen.
——Persistent rumors on the street
‘to the effect that Montgomery-Ward
& Co., the Chicago mail order house,
is looking for a location in Bellefonte,
are not without some foundation.
They did make an offer to lease the
‘Hazel & Co., building on Allegheny
St., for a period of five years, with a
_ five year renewal clause, but it in-
volved such extensive repairs and
changes to the building that the own-
. ers were not persuaded to give it ser-
jous consideration. The story to the
: effect that they had offered J. O.
Heverly $100,000 for his corner is not
true. Mr. Heverly informed the writ-
er that he has never been approach-
ed on the question of either purchase
or rental of his building. The Lyon
and Co., building, now occupied by
the B. and B., and the Brant house
corner. are two other locations said
to be under consideration by the Chi-
cago concern. We have been lead to
believe, however, that should they de-
cide to locate a branch here they
would prefer to have it on Allegheny
street, north of High, and have a lo-
cation in that business section in
mind.
: perfection and
DRY RAIDERS INVADE
BELLEFONTE ON FRIDAY.
‘Seven Places Visited and Big Dent
| Made in Local Supply of
Wet Goods.
County detective Leo Boden pulled
{his biggest coup, last Friday, when a
‘force of eleven State and local offi-
| cers imported from other places raid-
‘ed seven places in Bellefonte and vi-
| cinity and coniiscated enough wet
| goods to make a big dent in the lo-
cal supply of contraband fire water.
| According to information the county
detective had his layout planned to
in order that there
| might not be any chance of a “leak”
{awaited the arrival of the raiding
rants at the office of Squire S. Kline
of white moonshine,
jugs, 2 quart bottles, and 2 bottles of
home brew, 20 bottles of the latter
being destroyed. Piskey was placed
under arrest and brought to the
’Squire’s office. He displayed consid-
erable bravado, at first, and offered to
settle right then and there, but Mr.
Woodring informed him that he
couldn't settle there; he had to give
bail in the sum of one thous. nd dollars
for his appearance at court or else go
to jail. The ’Squire asked him why
he started making moonshine and he
said that he had been thrown out of
work because they all said he was too
old, and he had to live so he started
making moonshine. He finally gave
bail for his appearance at court.
Others raided included Joe Crush-
ett, whose home yielded a 10 gallon
still, one 50 gallon barrel of masi,
one 10 gallon keg, 1 gallon of moon-
shine, 1 quart of prune whiskey, one
half-pint of white moonshine, and 21
bottles of beer.
The next man was Andy Capots,
where 40 gallons of heer mash, 25
gallons plum mash, 5 gallons moon-
shine mash and 25 bottles of beer
were seized. ;
At Lee Cowher’s home, down near
the old nail works, four bottles of
home brew were seized and 75 bottles
destroyed.
When the raiding officers visited
the home of Mike Shay, in Pike alley,
Bellefonte, the only person found in
force before securing search war- |
. Former State Policeman Under Ar-
rest for Murder.
|
| Readers of the Watchman will
. probably recall the circumstance of
{the arrest of Cleveland Packer, of
'Holt’s Hollow, on March 14th, 1925,
by three State policemen, on the
charge of illegal possession and
“transportation of liquor; and the fur-
‘ther fact that Mr. Packer was badly
beaten up in the face by one of the
| policemen, W. J. Lyster, at that time
i stationed in Bellefonte.
Packer had. Lyster arrested for
| aggravated asault and the officers
| retaliated by having Packer arrested
on the charges of assault and resist-
ing an officer. Judge Arthur C. Dale
jas on the bench at the time and at
the May term of court the grand jury
‘ignored the bills in both cases. Lys-
Woodring. The squad, divided up, ter was soon after transferred to
started work right after the noon ; Johnstown and was implicated there
hour and the first haul was brought |
into Squire Woodring’s office at two Was tried in court, at Ebensburg, and
oclock, and it was well onto five be- | Was acquitted.
fore the last raid had been completed. |
The first man to be brought in was ! peared from the roster of the state
Ambrose Piskey, who lives out near |
“Burnham,” the home of Miss Valen- | ber of the coal and iron police of the
tine. When Corp. Walter Powell and ! Pittsburgh Coal
constable J. J. McDonald visited the | Sunday he and two other policemen
Piskey home they found sitting at a [beat up a foreigner, John Bercoves-
table a well known Bellefonte man |
with a bottle and glass in front of
him. These were collected together |
with one 10-gallon still, 8 gallon jugs |
3 half-gallon |
i Governor Fisher has requested par-
in severely beating up a man. He
Shortly after that his name disap-
police. He later enrolled as a mem-
company, and on
kie, so brutally that he died. It is
said that Lyster used a sttve poker
over the man’s head.
The brutal affair is being wie
exploited by Pittsburgh papers anc
ticulars, intimating that if the facts
are as published the licenses of the
policemen will be promptly revoked.
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High Lights On Proposed New Motor
Code.
Principal changes in the new State
motor code from the present laws
are:
Abolition of the thirty-five-mile
speed limit for passenger automobiles
and increasing from thirty to forty
miles per hour the maximum speed
for pneumatic-tired busses.
Raising the operators’ license and
learners’ permit fee by $1 and the
registration fees for all trucks and
motor busses. :
Increasing from 20 to 50 per cent.
of normal vision the sight require-
ment for driving automobiles.
Making “hitch-hiking” so far as it
concerns solicitation for rides from
the highways an offense punishable
by a fine of $5. :
Prohibiting use of license plates
not legible at a distance of fifty feet
in daylight.
Making inspection of motor ve-
hicles compulsory upon official “safe-
ty” proclamation of the Governor.
Eliminating the yellow light in
traffic signals between “stop” and
“go.”
Compelling all motorists to file ac-
cident reports with the Bureau of
Motor Vehicles and garage owners to
report abandoned cars left in thei
the house was the same man discov-
ered at the Ambrose Piskey home
when it was raided. ,None of the
Shay family was at home and a:
thorough search failed to disclose any |
illicit drinkables. ’ i
A deputation of the raiders visited
the John Smay home, above Snow
Shoe Intersection, but a thorough :
search failed to reveal anything, '
though the raiders claimed the house
moonshine.
The last place visited was the home
of Joe Carparella, at Coleville, known
among the thirsties as “the beer gar- :
den.” It yielded the biggest haul of
any—8 barrels of grape wine, 3 kegs,
one of which was full and the other
two partially empty, one-half barrel
and 18 quarts, all wine. Also a quan-
tity of home brew, 7 boxes of raisins,
and a small amount of moonshine.
Caparella could not be found when
the raid was made but bail for his
appearance at court was arranged by
his attorney. All the others also gave
bail in the sum of one thousand dol-
lars.
The raiding party consisted of
Corporal Ed Strohman and troopers
Huntez Kennedy, Nerone and L. H.
Nichowdon, of Harrisburg; Corp Wal-
ter Powell, trooper John F. Frank and
constable Probst, of Lock Haven;
constable Ed Gustafson, of Philips-
burg; chief of police A. E. Yougel, of
State College, and constable J. J.
McDonald, of Spring township.
As stated above the amount of wet
goods confiscated made a big dent in
the local supply but it evidently
didn’t dry it up by any means, as was
evident by the number of men on the
streets Saturday night who were per-
ceptibly “under the influence,” as well
as the display of discarded pint bot-
ing. :
On Saturday the raiding squad vis-
ited Philipsburg and raided five
places, confiscating a good sized car-
go of beer, home brew and moonshine.
Five arrests were made, namely:
Charles Irvin, Mrs. Minnie Craw-
shaw, Albert Courson, John Hart
and James Farthingham. All gave
bail for their appearance at court
except Hart and Courson, who were
unable to obtain bond, and they were
brought to the Centre county jail.
rere fp Apeee—
W. Cordes Snyder, former su-
perintendent for the Lehigh Valley
Coal company, at Snow Shoe, but
superintendent of mines for the Con-
solidation Coal company, at Frost-
burg, Maryland, has accepted a more
desirable situation in the anthracite
region, effective February 15th. Itis
understood that Mrs. Snyder and
daughter Marjorie will not go to
Scranton until sometime in April.
reeked with fumes of newly-made
tles in the gutters on Sunday morn-'
who the past several years has been
garages after fifteen days. :
ema tenppe
Bankers Hold Group Meeting in Al-
toona. :
The thirty-fourth annual: meeting
of group six, Pennsylvania Bankers’
association, was held in Altoona, on
Tuesday, Lincoln’s birthday, with al-
most five hundred members in attend-
ance, though the number from Cen-
tre county was not as large as usual.
At the business meeting in the
‘morning Theodore C. Jackson, cash-
ier of the Moshannon National bank, |:
Philipsburg, was elected president
for the ensuing year, and John D.
‘Meyer, president of the First Na-
tional bank of Tyrone, was re-elected
secretary-treasurer for his fifteenth
consecutive year.
A resolution was passed protesting
against the passage by Congress of
an amendment to section 5219, U. S.
revised statutes, which would permit
the levy of an increase in taxes on
banks according ‘to the amount of
business transacted.
County High School Students Eligible
for Oratorical Contest.
The ‘Altoona Tribune has been se-
lected as sponsor for the internation-
al oratorical contest for High school
students in the counties of Centre,
Clearfield, Bedford and Blair and has
specified that students in the follow-
ing High schools in Ceiitre county
are eligible to compete: Bellefonte,
Centre Hall Gregg township, Haines
township, Harris township, Howard
township, Liberty township, Miles
township, Millheim borough, Phil-
ipsburg, Snow Shoe, Gregg township,
State College, Walker township and
Worth township.
A free trip to South America, prize
awards and oratorical honors will be
the reward for all who take part.
Selections of school champions should
be made by March 8th.
Centre County Cows Show Good Test.
In his report for the month of Jan-
uary Ira Whiteman, tester for the
Centre county cow testing associa-
tion No. 1, states that 27 herds were
tested with 334 cows in milk and 68
cows dry. 75 cows produced over 40
. pounds of butterfat and 31 cows over
50 pounds. 113 cows produced 1000
pounds of milk and 63 cows over 1200
pounds. The rating of the ten high-
est cows was as follows:
Pounds Fat Butter
Milk Fat
| Peters Bros... 2018 3.9 78.7
i Allen Harter .. .1680 4.4 73.9
Hartle Bros ........ 1962 3.6 70.0
Earl Armstrong - 4.2 69.3
Peters Bros ....... 934 3.5 67.6
Western Pen 3.6 64.56
Edwin Way 7.0 62.0
Hartle Bros 3.4 61.1
Allen Harter 3.6 60.8
Earl Armstrong 4.3 58.4
Be .
ELECTRIC LOAD BUILDERS
RECEIVE BONUS CHECKS.
At Annual Banquet of Keystone Pow-
er Club, at Ridgway
Last Evening.
Bellefonte and Centre county of-
ficials and employees of the West
Penn Power company, when they re-
turn from Ridgway this morning,
where they attended the annual ban-
quet of the Keystone Power Club
last evening, will bring home the ba-
con in the shape of numerous checks
for their share of the bonus awarded
in the annual. load-building contest
held by the West Penn company.
Two hundred and twenty-seven of-
ficials, employees and guests attend-
ed the banquet, those from the Belle-
fonte division being E. C. Musser, dis-
trict manager; D. L. Currier, assist-
ant manager; Paul Immel, Fred Mil-
ler, Carl Dubbs, Victor Watson, J.
Harris Holmes, John Porter Lyon,
John E. Winklosky, Kenneth Jones
and Richard R. Herman, of Belle-
fonte. Francis A. Miller, superin-
tendent; Vincent Stevens, Fred Clev-
enstine and Frank L. Holmes, of
State College. The banquet is said to
have eclipsed any and all similar af-
fairs. :
At the banquet awards were made
to the winners of the 1928 em-
ployees’ load building contest. The
contest held during 1927 in the Key-
stone division alone was SO success-
ful that West Penn officials decided
to extend the contest during 1928
hroughout their entire territory,
comprising six divisions. At the close
of the 1928 contest the Keystone di-
vision, consisting of Bellefonte, State
College, Ridgway, St. Marys, Couders-
port, Kane and Mt. Jewett and John-
sonburg, carried off the first prize of
$1300.00.
The six divisions of the West Penn
territory are sub-divided into forty-
three districts, of which Bellefonte
and State College is known as Dis-
trict “E.” This district had the hon-
or of standing in fifth place at the
close of the contest.
The individual awards for Belle-
fonte and State College were as fol-
lows:
E. C. Musser, his share as one of
the district managers in the winning
division, $30.80; and for having his
district standing in fifth place at the
close of the contest, $50.00.
J. Harris Holmes, as appliance sup-
ervisor, $25.00.
The other employees winning
prizes according to the points earned
by them, are as follows: :
Prize
Name Total
Points Awards
Vincent Stevens. 23139 $54.72
Paul Immel........ 13414 31.72
Winifred M. Gates 12899 30.51
Virginia C. Healy. 11146 26.36
Crace Carson... 10467 24.75
Doretha A. Bierly.. 9952 .54
L. J. Elder.......... 9503 22.48
Anne M. Straub. 8062 19.07
. Horace Metz............ 2393 5.66
Charles Fogleman 2365 5.59
Richard Herman... 2055 4.86
I. R. Baumgardner. 1540 3.64
R. N. Brooks........ 1351 3.19
Harry Miller... 1179 2.79
Leroy Scull. 976 2.31
Carl Dubbs... 910 2.15
Joseph Herman. 895 2.12
Linn .Love........ 720 1.70
G. S. Morgan 584 1.38
John Winklos 580 1.87
Mary A. Kline... 474 1.12
Charles Smith... 356 84
W. W. Tate...... 280 66
Allan Cruse 279 66
YP. 1 Holt... 240 57
Claude Showers 240 57
Fred Latz... 200 47
Roy Bryan 200 47
John Hoy... 197 47
Victor Wats 167 .39
Dave Newcomer. 160 38
Paul Miller.......... 130 81
Wilbur Weller... 85 .20
Jesse Sowers 80 19
Escaped Prisoner Brought Back
From West Virginia.
John Schultz, who escaped from
Rockview penitentiary on July 24th,
1926, was brought back from West
Virginia, on Tuesday of last week,
and on Saturday was sentenced by
Judge Fleming for breaking and es-
caping from the Centre county insti-
tution.
Schultz was sent up from Law-
rence county in April, 1926, for
breaking and entering and larceny.
having been given a term of two to
four years. He was later transferred
to Rockview from Pittsburgh and on
July 24th, while at work in the har-
vest field, he decided to leave and
made good his escape. Going to West
Virginia he indulged his propensity
for stealing with the result that he
was caught, tried and convicted of
larceny and given three years in the
penitentiary at Moundsville. While
serving his term there he was identi-
fied as, the man who escaped from
Rockview.
i
A detainer was promptly lodged
against him by prison authorities and
when released at Moundsville officers
were on hand to bring him back to
Centre county. Judge Fleming gave
him an additional two to four years
in the western penitentiary, and he
was taken to that institution on Sat-
urday.
ms ————— tet
———The funeral of the late Mrs.
Elizabeth Bilger, held at her late
home at Pleasant Gap, on Monday
afternoon, was very largely attend-
ed, hundreds of persons going to pay
homage to a woman who lived al-
most a century of years. Rev. W. J.
Wagner had charge of the services
and burial was made in the Pleasant
Gap cemetery.
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~—The Interdenominational Un-
jon of Bellefonte will observe the day
of prayer for missions on Friday,
February 15th, 7:30 p. m, in the
Methodist church. Everybody wel-
come.
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
i
| Fink—Entler.—A belated wedding
announcement is that of Car: Fink
a ———
—Mrs. J. R. Driver spent Wednesday "and Miss Dorothy Margaret Entler
afternoon with friends in Lock Haven.
—Mrs. Robert Morris is among the col-
ony of Bellefonte people, at Atlantic City.
at present, having left to go east yester-
day.
Miss Haupt and Miss Sara Love,
represented the Bellefonte telephone ex-
change, at the traffic meeting held in Al-
toona last week.
—Mrs. James B. Lane will go out to
expecting to be
McKeesport, oMnday,
there for several weeks with her son Rich-
ard and his family.
—David Bathurst, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bert Bathurst, left, Monday, to locate
in Detroit, where he has secured work in
an automobile manufactory.
—Minot Willard came in from Pitts-
burgh, Sunday, expecting to spend sev-
eral weeks here with his mother, Mrs. D.
, I. Willard, of Thomas street.
—After spending several weeks at the
' Chalfonte, in Atlantic City, Mr. and Mrs.
Horatio S. Moore, have returned to their
home on north Allegheny St., Bellefonte.
i —Mrs. W. F. Reynolds went east yes-
. terday, for a visit with Mrs. Hiram M.
| Hiller, at Germantown, where Mrs. Hiller
i and her daughters are now making their
: home.
—The Lester Mussers are anticipating re-
turning to Bellefonte to live, after spend-
ing a year in Linesville, Pa., where Mr.
1 Musser has been in charge of a picture
house.
| —DMrs. Blaine Mabus went out to Pitts-
{ burgh, Tuesday, returning to St. John’s
| hospital to continue the treatment of
! specialists, under whose care she had been
i
several years ago.
—Mrs. R. S. Brouse and her son Rich-
ard, returned Wednesday night, from a
week’s visit with Mrs. Brouse’s daughter,
Mrs. F. W. Topelt and Mr. Topelt at
their home in Brooklyn.
—Mrs. Charles H. McClellan returned to
Bellefonte a week ago, following a second
period of treatment at the Kelly private
hospital in Baltimore. Mrs. McClellan's
condition is very much improved.
—Mrs. J. R. Patton was here from
Hollidaysburg this week, for one of her
frequent overnight visits with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Hayes Mattern Jr., at the Mat-
tern apartment, in the Hart home, on
Spring street.
—Mr. and Mrs. William Katz are ar-
ranging to leave Bellefonte the first of
March expecting to make their home in
Atlantic City for a year, at the end of
which time, they will decide definitely as
to a permanent location.
—Mrs. John Garthoff is a surgical pa-
tient in the Clearfield hospital. She and
Mr. Garthoff, with Mr. and Mrs. Willard
Hartswick as driving guests, motored ov-
er a week ago, both women entering the
hospital as patients, at that time.
—Donald Best is home from Drexel on a
sick leave. Having come up to Lewistown
{from Philadelphia, Sunday, his father
brought him from there to Bellefonte,
that he might be with his grandmother,
Mrs. Cox, until able to return to his school
work.
—TUpon being discharged from the Cen-
tre county hospital Sunday, John C, Bair
left that afternoon, accompanied by His
son Montgomery Bair, for Philadelphia,
where he will be with members of the
family, while convalescing from his recent
illness.
home at Linden Hall, having been dis-
charged from the Centre County hospital
last week, without - an operation. Her
trouble yielded to treatment so satisfac-
torily that the operation was deemed un-
necessary at this time.
—Mr, and Mrs. M. A. Landsy drove to
Lewistown, yesterday, to look after some
business, expecting to go from there to
New York, to select some of the furnish-
ings for the Landsy annex, which they
are planning to have ready for the pub-
lic by the first of April.
{ —Mrs. Willis Weaver, who had been
‘ spending a week at State College, with
her son and with her sister, Mrs. Ertley,
came to Bellefonte Thursday of last week,
, visted here overnight with her brother
‘and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, of
west High street, and returned to Johns-
town Friday.
—@Gideon Payne resigned his position at
State College three weeks ago, to accept
a more lucrative one at Niagara Falls,
where he has been since that time. Mrs.
Payne and their daughter, however, will
remain in Bellefonte with the former's
mother, Mrs. Louis Grauer, not contem-
plating any change.
—Mrs. Edmund Blanchard has been with
Mr. Blanchard’s sisters, Mrs. R. M. Beach
and Migs Mary Blanchard, during the past
week, having stopped in Bellefonte on her
way back to Breckenridge, Texas, from a
visit to her former home in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Blanchard had been called north by
the death of her mother, Mrs. Donnelly.
—A pleasant caller at the Watchman of-
fice, Saturday, was Harry Johnston, Boggs
township farmer. Mr, Johnston is among
the fortunates. While farmers in many
parte of the county have been hauling wa-
ter nearly all winter he has suffered no
such inconvenience, for he has water pipel
from a nearby spring, which has never
failed, even in prolonged drouths.
—Sylvester .S. Saul was a recent guest
of the Misses Anna and Mary Hoy, at
their home on north Spring street, with
whom he lived when they were residents
of Rock View. Since leaving Bellefonte,
Sylvester has been in the U. S. Navy and
being off duty on a ten day furlough, made
the visit here enroute to California, to re-
port for duty for another four year period,
expecting to leave at. once for China,
i where he had already spent much of his
‘ time since entering in the Navy. His ex-
perience in the rescue of Americans during
the recent uprising, was extremely in-
teresting, the one feature which seemed to
impress him greatly, was when his vessel
had been sent to Nanking, with orders to
take all Americans to Shanghai and safety.
Many of the men with big business in-
terests, after being brought aboard, re-
turned, refusing to abandon their posses-
sions.
ied
— The grand jury will meet in
session on Monday to consider the
bills of indictment to be presented by
district attorney John G. Love. For-
ty bills will be presented for their
' consideration, eighteen of which are
for the violation of liquor laws.
—DMrs. Frank E. Wieland is again at her’
| both of Johnstown, who were married
| at St. John’s Catholic church, Belie--
: fonte, on Saturday, January 16, by
{ Rev. W. E. Downes. The young peo-
i ple, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
' Mason Bowman, motored to Belle-
| fonte, that day, and after securing
the necessary license, went to the
Catholic church and were married.
They returned home the same day.
intending to keep their wedding a
secret for a year, but it just couldn’t
be done and a public announcement
was made last Friday evening.
Stewart—Harter.—DMliles J. Stew-
art, of Jersey Shore, and Miss Caro-
line C. Harter, of Bellefonte, were
married at the Mulberry street Meth-
odist church parsonage, Williamsport,
on February 5th, by the pastor, Rev.
Joseph V. Adams. They will reside
at Jersey Shore.
Schroyer—Emenhizer. — William
H. Schroyer and Miss Kathryn Em-
enhizer, both of Milesburg, were mar-
ried, on Saturday morning, by justice
of the peace Isaac M. Irwin, at his
office in Hollidaysburg. The young
couple will reside in Milesburg.
Stray Dogs Killed Ten Chickens at
W. J. Musser’s Home.
Last Friday afternoon while W. J.
Musser, of east Lamb street, was
away from home stray dogs got into
his chicken yard and killed ten of his
chickens. The wolesale massacre
was over when Mr. Musser re-
turned home. As he did not see the
dogs do the killing he is not definitely
certain who the owners are, but avers
that a number of unlicensed dogs are
running around loose in that section
of the town, which should either be
licenesd or killed by the proper offi-
cials. Mr. Musser, it is understood,
will apply to the State Department
of Agriculture for pay for his chick-
ens.
——James C. Waddle, but who will
probably be better remembered as
“Uncle Jimmy” in the days when he
conducted the local freight up and
down Bald Eagle valley on the rail-
road, celebrated his 94th birthday an-
niversary, on Monday, at his home in
Lock Haven. A native of Centre
county he is by far the oldest mem-
ber of a family prominently identified
with the early history of Spring
creek and its environments. He was
one of the men who went to work at
an early age for the Pennsylvania
Railroad company and worked until
his retirement at the age of seventy,
twenty-six years ago. During his
many years of service with the com-
pany he became known by hundreds
living along the Bald Eagle Valley
railroad, and always had a smile and
a friendly wave of the hand for évery
one. Physically he is still in remark-
able health, considering his unusual
age, his only defect being his eyesight
which to him is quite serious, as he
laments the fact that he ‘‘cannot
read printing.” But he makes up the
loss, in fact, by having some one else
read to him.
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——Milk dealers in Bellefonte aver
that there is considerable stealing of
milk, cream, milk tickets and money
put out for milk being done at the
present time in Bellefonte, and so far
no one has been caught in the act. At
a certain home on east High street
the woman of the house is in the hab-
it of putting out money when she
wants an extra supply of milk, and
every time she has done so the pen-
nies have been stolen. A few days
ago she decided to watch for the
thief. The money was put out with
the bottles and the woman took up a
position at a place of vantage where
she could see, and as she thought not
be seen. She waited and watched for
an hour and nothing happened. With
nobody in sight she went to the
kitchen on an errand and avers she
wasn't gone two minutes but when
she returned the money was gone.
How any one, boy, girl or grown per-
son, could have gone there, taken the
money and gotten away with it in the
short time she was out of sight, is be-
yond her conception.
——1In view of leaving Bellefonte
to make their home in Atlantic City,
Mr. and Mrs. William S. Katz are
now offering at private sale, all their
household goods, reserving nothing.
Prospective buyers or any one inter-
ested, will be shown everything on
sale, by Mrs. Katz between the hours
of 9 and 11 a. m. and 1 and 4 p. m.
at their apartments in the Heverly
building, corner High and Allegheny
Sts. T4-7-1t.
——Tonight both the Cathaum
and Nittany theatres at State Col-
lege will show great pictures, Ron-
ald Coleman and Lily Demiti will ap-
pear in “The Rescue” at the Nittany
and Nancy Carroll, Josephine Dunn
and Lawrence Gray will be featured
in “The Sin Sister” at the Cathaum
both Friday and Saturday nights.
——e iD
——Hear the new Majectic, Kol-
ster and Crosley radios at Harter’s
music ‘store. 6-2t
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Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & Co.
Wheat .... $1.40
Corn ... .90
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Rye 1.10
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