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Bellefonte, Pa., March 8, 1929.
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PATIENTS TREATED
AT COUNTY HOSPITAL.
Isabell Inhoff, aged 2 years, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Inhoff, of
Bellefonte, became a medical patient
on Monday of last week and was dis-
charged the same day.
Orin Dubbs, Union Twp., a surgical
patient, was discharged on Monday
of last week.
Max S. Loy, of Rossiter, Pa., a stu-
dent at State Colege, a surgical pa-
tient, was discharged on Monday of
last week.
Miss Caroline Emel, of Bellefonte,
who had been a medical patient, was
discharged on Tuesday of last week.
Caleb Essington, of Milesburg, was
admitted on Saturday for medical
treatment.
Mrs. Lloyd Fry, of Bellefonte, a
medical patient for the past eight
weeks, was discharged on Saturday.
Thomas Morgan, a medical patient
for the past two weeks, was discharg-
ed on Saturday.
Mrs. Maude Knarr, of Snow Shoe,
a surgical patient for a week, was
discharged on Saturday.
Prof. Frederick E. Keffer, instruc-
tor at the Bellefonte Academy, was
admitted on Sunday for medical
treatment.
Mrs. Charles Tierney, of Bellefonte,
was admitted on Sunday for medical
treatment.
Mrs. George Rockey, of Coleville,
was admitted on Wednesday of last
week for surgical treatment.
Miss Alice Burkbolder, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Burkholder, of
Potter Twp., was admitted on Wed-
nesday of last week, as a surgical pa-
tient.
Mrs. Jennie Morgan, of State Col-
lege, who had been a surgical patient,
was discharged on Thursday of last
week.
Miss Rachael Parsons, daughter of
Mr, and Mrs. A. F. Parsons, of Penna.
Furnace, was admitted on Thursday
of last week for surgical treatment.
Eugene Buckwalter, aged 18, stu-
dent at the Bellefonte Academy,
whose home is in Altoona, was ad-
mitted on Monday of this week for
surgical treatment.
Philip Walker, of Blanchard, a sur-
gical patient, was admitted on Thurs-
day of last week.
Miss Eloise White, of State College,
was admitted on Thursday of last
week for surgical treatment, and was
discharged the following day.
Miss Rose Kislear, of Bellefonte,
was admitted on Friday as a surgical
patient.
"William Reed, an employee of the
Centre County Lime Co., was admit-
ted on Friday of last week to re-
ceive treatment for injuries.
. Miss Jennie Morris, of State Col-
lege, was admitted on Friday for
medical treatment.
Miss Edna Vonada, of Zion, was
admitted on Friday for surgical
treatment and was discharged the
following day.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sauers, of
State College, are being congratulat-
ed upon the birth of a daughter, on
Friday.
Paul Bitner, 5-year old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Oliver Bitner, of Spring
Twp., was admitted on Saturday as a
surgical patient.
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——The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege glee club which recently won the
Pennsylvania intercollegiate competi-
tive contest in Pittsburgh, will com-
pete in the national intercollegiate
glee club meet to be held in Carnegie
Hall, New York, tomorrow night, ‘t
is announced by Richard W. Grant,
director of music at Penn State. Per-
manent possession of the Pittsburgh
Press trophy was awarded to Penn
State for having won the State com-
petitive contest three consecutive
times. Penn State was awarded the
decision on a score of 231.2 points
out of a possible 300. Seven colleges
and universities were entered in the
local State competition.
——Forty-eight hothouse lambs,
fed at the Pennsylvania State Col-
lege agricultural .experiment station,
were recently sold at about $12 each.
They weighed 27 to 35 pounds alive
at about eight weeks of age. Hot-
house lambs are grown out of sea-
son and are placed on the market for
a specialized trade. This type of
meat is especially popular in the big
hotels of New York, Atlantic City,
and Philadelphia during the winter
and at Easter time. Production of
hothouse lambs is an extensive prac-
tice in southeastern Pennsylvania.
——A son and second child was
born, Monday, to Mr. and Mrs. John
Larimer, of Pleasant Gap.
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YOCUM.—Rev. Ezra H. Yocum, a
former beloved pastor of the Belle-
fonte Methodist church and who for
more than half a century was an
outstanding figure in the ranks of
the ministers in the Central Penn-
sylvania conference, passed to his
reward on Sunday, at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. C. W. Rice, in
Northumberland. He had been in
feeble health for some time and his
death was the result of general de-
bility.
Dr. Yocum was born at Colum ia,
Lancaster county, in 1843, hence was
about 86 years old. He studied for
the ministry at Dickinson Seminary,
and was admitted to the conference
in 1869. His first pastorate was at
Muhienburg, then Shickshinny, Haz-
leton and Newberry. In 1877-'78 he
was stationed at Tyrone, then moved
to Bloomsburg where he remained
until 1881 when he was chosen pre-
siding elder of the Williamsport dis-
trict. Later he served pastorates at
Berwick, Grace church, Harrisburg,
St. Paul's, Danville, and Carlisle, af-
ter which he was appointed presiding
elder of the Danville district and
later the Harrisburg district. In 1902
he was assigned to Lewistown, and
after serving there nine years was
transferred to Bellefonte in 1911. He
was pastor of the church here eight
years, thus establishing a‘ record for
long pastorates held by no other min-
ister in the conference. In 1919 he
was sent to the Woolrich church
where he was in active charge for
four years, being placed on the sup-
erannuated list at his own request in
1923. For several years thereafter
he continued to reside at Woolrich
but failing health compelled him to
listen to the persuasion of his daugh-
ter and go to Northumberland and
spend his last days with her.
Dr. Yocum was a product of the old
school of Methodism and his theology
was based on the teachings of Jesus
Christ and the doctrines of the Holy
Bible without the frills of any isms
or modern day fundamentalism.
While not the dean in years of the
many ministers in the Central Penn-
sylvania conference his general bear-
ing as a disciple of the Heavenly
Father, his able discourses in the pul-
pit and his every day work in the
Master's vineyard marked him as a
man who stood head and shoulders
above the average. Had it not been
for the unfortunate handicap of deaf-
ness he would probably have been
chosen a Bishop in the church, and
would have been an honor in the pre-
late ranks.
In 1870 he married Miss Laura
Shugerts who passed away at Wool-
rich on June 7th, 1920, but surviving
him are two sons and a daughter,
George C. Yocum Esq. living in
Florida; Dr. J. P. Yocum, of Phila-
delphia, and Mrs. C. W. Rice, of
Northumberland.
A small delegation of Bellefonte
friends attended the funeral services
which were held in the Northumber-
land Methodist church at two o'clock
on Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Dr. Mor-
ris E. Swartz, superintendent of the
Danville district, had charge of the
services and was assisted by other
ministers present of whom there were
thirty-four. Burial was made in the
Northumberland cemetery.
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REIFSNYDER. — Harper Reifsny-
der, a native of Millheim, died in the
Bellefonte lockup some time last
Thursday night. He came to Belle-
fonte on Thursday and that evening
asked chief of police Harry Dukeman
to give him lodging in the lockup for
the night, as he had a job to trim
grape vines in Bellefonte on Friday.
He was placed in the lockup, in a
cell by himself, and when policeman
Thomas Howley made his round of in-
spection about three o'clock Friday
morning, he found Reifsnyder dead.
Two other. men were in the lockup
that night but both were locked ix
separate cells. They said they had
heard nothing unusual at any time
during the night, aside from the fact
that they had tried to engage Reif-
snyder in conversation “but couldn't
get him to talk. For some years past
the man had been subject to epileptic
fits and coroner W. R. Heaton, who
was summoned and examined him
gave it as his opinion that it was
one of these fits that caused his
death.
He was a son of William and Sarah
Hoover Reifsnyder and was born in
Millheim on January 25th, = 1871,
hence was 58 years, 1 month and 3
days old. He never married but is
survived by two brothers and one
sister, J. W. Reifsnyder, of Linden
Hall; Evan, in Kansas, and Mrs. J.
W. Tressler, of Centre Hall. The re-
mains were taken to the home of
Joseph Reifsnyder, a cousin, at Mill-
heim, where funeral services were
held at 9:30 o'clock on Monday morn-
ing, burial being made in the Mill-
heim cemetery.
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RAY.—Mrs. Julia Ray. widow of
Frank Ray, died at her home at Mun-
son, last Saturday evening, follow-
ing an illness of two years with a
complication of diseases.
She was the eldest of a family
of eleven children of Jacob and Sarah
Ann Bottorf, and was born at Jack-
sonville, Centre county, on January
28th, 1838, making her age 91 years,
2 months and 1 day. She had been
a resident of Munson since 1886. Her
husband died four years ago but sur-
viving her are the following children:
Mrs. Sarah Kline, of Howard; Rob-
ert E., of Clearfield, and Mrs. George
T. Chapman, at home. Burial was
made in the Philipsburg cemetery on
Tuesday afternoon.
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FREEMAN. — George Freeman,
one of the oldest and best known of
Bellefonte’s colored population, died at
the borough home, about six o’clock
last Thursday evening, as the resuit
of general debility. He had been an
inmate at the home almost four years
and of late had grown quite feeble.
On Thursday evening shortly before
six o'clock he suffered a collapse and
expired before a doctor could be sum-
moned.
Very little is known of his antece-
dents or childhood life, but from what
information could be gathered he
was born in slavery in Loudon coun-
ty, Virginia, and was about 82 years
old. When about seventeen years
old his young masters decided to en-
list in the confederate army and they
gave George his freedom with the
result that he made his way north
and eventually fanded in Bellefonte.
Just what he did the first few years
of his life in Bellefonte is not defi-
nitely known but it is highly probable
that he became a porter at one of
the Bellefonte hotels. This is borne
out by the fact that early in 1870,
shortly after the hotel had been com-
pleted, he was established at the
Bush house where he was a fixture
for fifty-four years, or until early in
1925. Personally - he knew more
traveling men than any other man in
Bellefonte.
When a young man he married
Miss Catherine Graham, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Mesh Graham, who
died many years ago. Of their fam-
ily of children only two survive, Min-
nie, in Chicago, and Albert, in Jack-
sonville, Fla. Funeral services were
held in the A. M. E. church, of which
he was a member, at 2:30 o'clock on
Sunday afternoon, by Rev. L. E. Tay-
lor, pastor, burial being made in the
Union cemetery.
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ESSINGTON.—Caleb K. Essington,
a well known resident of Milesburg,
died at the Centre County hospital at
one o'clock on Sunday afternoon, fol-
lowing a brief illness. For some
years past he has lived alone in
Milesburg and on Saturday afternoon
a neighbor gentleman, dropping in for
a little chat, found Mr. Essington
quite sick and suffering intense pain.
A physician was summoned who pro-
nounced the illness a heart attack.
Growing steadily worse he was taken
to the hospital about nine o’clock on
Saturday evening, but sank away
gradually until the end.
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Caleb
Essington and was born at Milesburg,
at his death being 77 years, 1 month
and 18 days old. As a young man he
worked with his father in manufac-
turing the Essington axe, which in
those days was a close rival for the
famous Mann axe. When he quit the
axe manufacturing business he open-
ed a small store, in Milesburg, which
he conducted for some years. O
late, however, he had been jani
at the school house, in Milesburg.
As a young man he married Miss
Milly Adams, who survives and is
living in Philadelphia, with three chil-
dren, Harry Essington, Mrs. Clyde
Boggs and Mrs. Jacob Grey. He al-
so leaves one brother, Harry M. Es-
sington, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Funeral services were held in the
Baptist church, at Milesburg, at 2:30
o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, by
Rev. A. G. Herr, burial being made
in the Trecziyulny cemetery.
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WALKER.—Dr. Charles C. Walker
died at the Williamsport hospital, at
8:50 o'clock last Friday morning, fol-
lowing an operation he underwent
just a week previous.
He was a son of William and Eliz-
abeth Hartswick Walker and was
born at Port Matilda, Centre county,
74 years ago. He was a graduate
of the first class in dentistry at the
University of Pennsylvania and was
a member of Delta Sigma Delta, a
leading dental fraternity. Prior to en-
tering the University he studied den-
tistry for three years under the elder
Dr. Klump, in Williamsport. Follow-
ing his graduation he located in Wil-
liamsport where he practiced his pro-
fession for more than fifty years. He
was a member of the Mulberry Meth-
odist church, the Lycoming county
dental society and a past president of
State dental society.
Dr. Walker is survived by his wife
and one daughter, Mrs. Paul C.
Daugherty; also one sister, Miss Min-
nie Walker, all of Williamsport. Fun-
eral services were held at two o'clock
on Monday afternoon by Rev. George
F. Boggs, burial being made in Wild-
wood cemetery, Williamsport.
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MAYES.—John W. Mayes, a na-
tive of Harris township, died in the
Sacred Heart hospital, at Richwood,
W. Va., on February 22nd, following
a brief illness with pneumonia.
He was a son of William and Mary
Ann Huey Mayes and was born near
Boalsburg about fifty-eight years
ago. As a young man he left home
and went to Montana where he was
engaged in the lumbering business a
number of years. Centre county
friends heard from him at infrequent
intervals and the first news had of
him in fourteen years was when a
message was received by his sister,
Mrs. P. S. Ishler, of Boalsburg, an-
nouncing his serious illness in the
hospital at Richmond. Mrs. Ishler
promptly communicated with the hos-
pital by telephone only to be inform-
ed of his death.
Mr. Mayes was unmarried and his
only surviving relative is his sister,
Mrs. Ishler. The body was brought
to Centre county, last Friday, and
: taken to the Ishler home, at Boals-
‘W.. W. Moyer.
burg, where funeral services were
held on Saturday afternoon by Rev.
Burial was made in
the Boalsburg cemetery.
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Rav. Ces T. fay a native of
Centre county but who for the past
thirty years has conducted a bakery
in Mill Hall, died at his home in that
place at 4:30 o'clock on Sunday af-
ternoon, following an illness of some
months with a complication of dis-
seases.
He was a son of Robert and Eliza-
beth Ray and was born in College
township about 67 years ago. His
early life was spent ims that section
but thirty years ago he located in
Mill Hall where he had since lived.
His wife died last July and as he had
no children his only immediate sur-
vivors are two brothers, Ambrose S.
Ray, of Bellefonte, and C. T. Ray,
of Altoona. Burial was made in the
Cedar Hill cemetery on Wednesday
afternoon.
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HEYLMUN.—Harris Heylmun, a
native and former resident of Belle-
fonte, died early in February, at the
home of his father-in-law, Dr. Craw-
ford, a Presbyterian minister, resid-
ing in Connecticut. Less than twen-
ty-four hours later Dr. Crawford
died, and the remains of both were
buried at the same time. Mr. Heyl-
mun is survived by his wife and one
daughter.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
Miss Nannie McGinley announced
that she would open a select summer
school in Bellefonte about May 10th.
Tuition $1.50 per month.
Dr. Thomas Kirk, who had been out
in Ohio attending medical lectures,
returned to Bellefonte to continue his
work in" the drug store.
Many. people were leaving Centre
county for Kansas, Nebraska, and
other mid western States. Fifty years
ago on Tuesday the following from
Miles township started to make new
homes in strange lands: J. H. Young
to Cedron, Kansas; Jonathan Kream-
er, H A. Wolf and Geo. Reber, to
Valley Falls, Kansas; Henry Shearer
and family of five left Walker town-
ship for Peabody, Kansas. William
A. Marshall and family of three left
Benner township and headed for Vic-
toria, Kansas. Harry Hackenburg
and Samuel McClintock, of Potter,
were also among the pilgrims. They
went to Greenwood and Peabody, re-
spectively.
Jacob Baker was a Justice of the
Peace in Howard and had held the of-
fice continuously since 1840.
Dr. Cambridge, of Unionville, was
in Bellefonte last Friday and remark-
ed that it had been so cold up there
that when he woke up in the morn-
ing his mustache was frozen stiff.
Daniel Garman ‘left for Hot
Springs, Arkansas, for the benefit of
his health.
Wheat was .95 per bushel, shelled
corn .45, eggs .15 per doz. butter
.15, bacon .07, and chestnut coal $5.00
a ton at the yard.
mmr peers.
Business Changes and Movings.
The A. and P, Co. has leased the
room in the McClain block now oc-
cupied by the Bon Mot and will open
a down town store there some time
in April. Gilbert Morgan will vacate
the room the 1st of April and has
hopes of getting a location elsewhere.
The J. W. Bickett pool room will also
be moved out of the block on April
1st, but so far Mr. Bickett has not
secured a room to move into.
Edward Robb and family, who for
several years have occupied the old
McDermott home, on east Bishop
street, now owned by the heirs of the
late Thaddeus Hamilton, will move
from there to the Sim Baum proper-
ty, on Cuitin street.
Mr. and Mrs. William Smith will
move from the Kelly home, on north
Spring street, to the Cadillac apart-
ments.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Boyer will
move from the Mary C. Snyder
apartment to the Kalin house, on Lo-
gan street, to be vacated by the mus-
ser family, who will move to the Dr.
Coburn Rogers property, on Linn
street.
etter ep eters
——Mr. Armstrong, a representa-
tive of the West Penn Power company,
has been in Bellefonte this week en-
deavoring to locate the cause of so
much interference and unusual noise
in the radios of Bellefonte. So far he
believes he has located a number of
causes that might contribute to the
interference, but has not yet reached
the point in his investigations where
he can place his finger on any one
thing that could be eliminated in or-
der to improve conditions.
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——Some fifty or sixty farmers in
Centre county, who, during the past
year have been patronizing the co-
operative milk associations, have
made application to sell their milk
to the Sheffield Farms company after
the first of April
meee fp eerie
Marriage Licenses.
William Shimmel Jr. and Bessie
Catherine Myers, both of Clearfield.
Palmer C. Bierly, of Rebersburg,
and Neta I. Smith, of Smullton.
A. Chapman Ward, of Harrisburg,
and Emmy Lou Snyder, of Tyrone.
Warren T. Kopp, of Williamsport,
and Mildred Elizabeth Kuhn, of
Boalsburg.
ERIE COUNTY MURDERERS
PAY DEATH PENALTY.
It took just twenty-three minutes
to dispose of three negro murderers,
from Erie county, in the electric
chair at Rockview on Monday morn-
ing. The men were James and Ray-
mond Parker, brothers, and John H.
Wilson. They were taken to the
chair in the order named above and
starting at 7:02 o'clock it was just
7:25 when the last man was pro-
nounced dead by Dr. Asa Hickok.
The men were all of Catholic faith and
were accompanied to the chair by
Rev. Francis P. McCreesh, Catholic
chaplain at the penitentiary.
The three men were convicted in
February, 1928, of the murder of Pel-
ligrino Cocco, while they were in the
act of robbing his home. The men
had found thirty dollars in one room
but not satisfied went to Cocco’s bed-
room on the hunt of more. The lat-
ter was awakened by the noise made
by the robbers and when he made a
move to secure a revolver under his
pillow he was shot by Wilson, dying
almost instantly.
The men escaped and several
weeks later Raymond Parker and
Wilson were arrested on another
holdup charge when they confessed |
to the murder of Cocco, implicating
James Parker and Joseph Ware, a
fourteen year old boy. They were all
tried together at the February term
of court, the jury decreeing death
for three of them and life imprison-
ment for Ware, who was not in the
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EE ES AR ERS,
| house when the shot was fired which
I killed Cocco. Every effort possible
was made to save the lives of the
three men, but the Supreme court af-
firmed the verdict of the lower court
{and the board of pardons refused to
extend clemency.
On June 21st, 1921, four men from
{ Erie county were put to death at
Rockview at one time for murder fol-
| lowing a robbery, a case similar to
| the one for which the three men were
i electrocuted Monday morning. The
| bodies of the Parker brothers and
| Wilson were claimed by relatives and
| were shipped back to Erie county for
- burial.
| IN THE CHURCHES ON SUNDAY.
ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL.
| Saint John’s Episcopal church wilt
{ have the Rev. Samuel H. Sayre, rec-
tor of Saint Mary’s church, Williams-
i port, as a guest preacher at the 7:30
| service Friday evening.
{ On Sunday evening, at 7:30, there
"will be a hymn service with the rec-
tor in charge. Several well known
favorite hymns will be sung after the
story of the words or tunes has been
told. The sermon will be on the
theme of the hymn, “O Jesus, Thou
Art standing.”
| ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH
19:30 A. M. Bible School
[10:45 A.M. Morning Service; Ser-
mon: “Thirty Pieces of Silver.”
6:15 P. M. Catechetical Class
7:30 P. M. Vesper Service; Sermon:
“Redeemed Not With Silver and
Gold, But With Precious Blood.”
Clarence E. Arnold, Pastor.
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