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Bellefonte, Pa., April 12, 1929.
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THE ROSE IS RED.
“The rose is red, the violet blue;
This iittle bill is overdue.
Please pay it now—don’t wait till when :
The rose and violet bloom again.
For if you do delay it thus,
No violet will bloom for us. ’
Unless you pay, the rose will rest
Upon our fair and manly chest.
The birds will sing, but what of that?
We shall not hear them
‘Where we're at.
So come across; we need the dough—
Not in the spring, but now, y’ know.
The rose is red, the violet blue;
Do we need cash? I'll say we do!
—Author Unknown.
PATIENTS TREATED
AT COUNTY HOSPITAL.
Philip Walker, of Blanchard, who
had been a medical patient, was dis-
charged on Monday of last week.
Harold Mentzer, a student at Penn
State, whose home is in Lancaster
county, was discharged on Monday of
last week, after having received sur-
gical treatment.
Mrs. John Heverly, of Curtin town-
ship, a surgical patient, was discharg-
ed on Tuesday of last week.
Miss Mary Hockman, of Walker
township, was discharged on Monday
of last week, after undergoing surgi-
cal treatment.
Mrs. Raymond Smoke, of Fleming,
was admitted on Wednesday of last
week, and on the following day 2
daughter was born to her. Both moth-
er and babe are doing fine.
Mrs. Levica Martin, of Bellefonte,
was admitted on Monday of last week
for surgical treatment.
Mrs. William Korman, of Spring
township, was admitted on Wednes-
day of last week for surgical treat-
ment.
F. Lloyd Wetzler, of State College,
was admitted on Friday for surgical
treatment.
Miss Elizabeth Brown, of Belle-
fonte, was admitted on Friday for
medical treatment.
Joseph Barnes, of Bellefonte, who
had been a surgical patient for the
past two weeks was discharged on
Friday.
Mrs. Anna Burns and child, of
Pleasant Gap, were discharged on
Friday.
Charles Kreamer, of Bellefonte,
was admitted on Saturday for medi-
cal treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. John Shaughnessy, of
Bellefonte, are receiving congratula-
tions over the birth, at the hospital
on Saturday of a little daughter. Both
mother and babe are fine.
Mrs. Thomas Way, of Stormstown,
was admitted on Saturday for medi-
cal treatment.
Miss Beatrice Tierney, daughter of
Charles Tierney, of, Bellefonte, was
admitted on Saturday as a surgical
patient.
Mrs. John Benner, of Bellefonte,
who had been a medical patient, was
discharged on Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Simco and infant, wife
and daughter of Andrew Simco, of
Bellefonte, was discharged on Sun-
day.
Mrs. A. Linn McGinley, of Belle-
fonte, who had been a surgical pa-
tient, was discharged on Sunday.
Miss Lydia Jackson, of Bellefonte,
a medical patient for the past two
weeks, was discharged on Sunday.
‘Miss Madeline Shirk, eleven-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Shirk, of Union township, who has
been a medical patient, was discharg-
ed on Saturday.
Mrs. George J. Bair, of State Col-
lege, a surgical patient for the past
four weeks, was discharged on Sat-
urday.
TROUT SEASON WILL OPEN
ON MONDAY MORNING.
There has been a pronounced ner-
vousness noticeable among a certain
class of men in Bellefonte, this week,
but the symptoms are nothing to
worry about. It is only a forerunner
of the opening of the trout fishing
season which will occur next Monday
morning, April 15th.
The unusually warm weather of
the past two weeks has put life into
the trout and every morning and
evening they have been quite active
rising to the early spring flies and
bugs on the waters. If the nice weath-
er continues the opening morning
should be exceptionally auspicious.
Of course the majority of Belle-
fonte fishermen will be found in
their favorite haunts on the opening
morning. This means that the same
old crowd will be found down on Fish-
ing creek, which is one of the most
attractive streams in this section of
the State. If he follows his custom
of a year ago Charles E. Dorworth,
secretary of forests and waters, will
have with him for the opening a
group of State officials, who will at
least enjoy the outing if they don’t
catch many trout.
Most of the Bellefonte fishermen,
however, will try their luck on either
Spring creek or Logan's branch, and
as both these streams appear to be
well stocked they will probably fare
better than those who make pilgrim-
ages to more distant waters.
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INSTALLS NINETEEN
NEW RADIO BEACONS
Air Navigation.
Washington.—Marked progress has
been made during the last year in
the establishment by the bureau of
lighthouses of additional radio bea-
cons. Nineteen new radio beacons
have been placed and installation was
begun on twelve more.
The radio beacon marks the great-
est advance in aids to navigation
since the invention of the mariners’
compass. Although the term beacon
is used, the radio beacon is in no
sense a light. Rather it is a signal
transmitted by radio.
For centuries there have been light-
houses, the first famous one having
been the Pharos at the harbor of
Alexandria in Egypt. But their beams
were useful only under favorable
weather conditions. A fog would ob-
scure them to such an extent that a
ship might plunge on the rocks al-
most at the foot of the lighthouse.
Later foghorns were invented and
bells employed. But here again weath-
er conditions limited their usefulness.
Not yet has science satisfactorily
solved some of the riddles connected
with the transmission of sound from
these warning agents.
Nullified by Wind.
A strong wind will carry the sound
of horn or bell a long distance down
the wind, but only a very short dis-
tance against it. A more curious eir-
cumstance arises from what are
called air pockets. Even in calm
weather the wail of the siren will be
plainly heard for a certain distance.
Beyond that there will be a complete
blank. Ships in that blank space will
not hear a sound. And then, perhaps
a mile farther on, the sound will be
clearly heard again. Investigations
have been made and theories pro-
pounded, but the matter remains a
mystery.
It is certain that the sound con-
tinues to travel or otherwise it would
not be again heard beyond the blank
space. But what becomes of it in the
meantime? It certainly does not
cease. There is a theory that hecause
of some unanalyzed atmospheric con-
dition it rises to a great height, per-
haps many thousands of feet, and
then, due to some new pressure, de-
scends again to the level of the water.
Another theory is that the sound dives
the bottom of the sea for a mile or so
and then emerges into the air. It is
a well-established physical fact that
water is a better conductor of sound
than air.
Has Code Signal.
The radio beacon does away with
this uncertainty. . The signals sent
out penetrate wind and fog and are
practically the same under all weath-
er conditions. The radio beacon con-
gists of a radio transmitter. Most of
the 55 now in use are operated only
in foggy weather, but a few operate
continuously.
The keeper of the light merely turns
ly sends out its signal until turned
off again. Of course, batteries have
to be replaced from time to time.
distinctive code signal. This is stead-
ily repeated over and over again.
The radius of these beacons is ob-
viously far greater than light, bell or
horn could possibly be under any con-
ditions. The signals carry for hun-
dreds of miles. No message is sent,
but only the code signal. From his
knowledge of the coast he is skirting
or from his code book, the master of
a ship at sea which is equipped with
radio can identify a signal heard as
that of a particular lighthouse or
lightship. Also he can calculate by.
radio his distance from the transmit-
ting station. This not only warns him
off a dangerous shoal or shore but
gives him his position.
The first radio beacons were In-
stalled outside New York harbor in
1921. They proved successful and
were extended to the very foggy wa-
ters off the Massachusetts and Rhode
Island coasts, where ship traffic is
especially heavy. Now there are 55
and installations are constantly go-
ing on.
Storm-Lashed Island
Crumbles Slowly Away
Helgoland.—This little German is-
iand, English North sea outpost until
1890, has lost 13,000 square meters,
swallowed up by mountainous waves
when recent fierce gales caused havoc
along the west European coasts as far
as Norway.
The damage done here and to the
aeighboring East Frisian island chain
‘has led the Prussian survey depart-
ment to appoint a commission to make
a scientific study of the whole coast
line to ascertain if there i8 any dan-
gerous acceleration in the gradual ggb-
sidence of the German North sea
shores. It is known that the whole
coast is sinking, but only at the rate
of about ten inches in the last 100
years. Coming investigations are ex-
pected to show whether the sinking
process calls for extra precautions.
They Got the Vacation
Glen Ridge, N. J.—Having kissed
successfully, four high school girls
are under quarantine. Another girl
thought she had the grip. The four
thought they could get a vacation by
exposing themselves to the disease
through osculation. They got the va-
| cation.’ Their friend had scarlet fever.
U. S. Makes Progress in
under the water and travels along
No labor is required.
on the instrument and it automatical-
Each lighthouse or lightship equipped:
with a radio beacon has its separate,
{ Man Far Outrumbered
by Lesser Creatures
It is probable that few persons save
paturalists ever consider the enor-
mous amognt of life other than hu-
man whicéll exists in any locality, civ-
ilized or not, densely peopled or thin-
ly settled. A plague of rats in Lon-
don within recent years prompted an
interview with a distinguished scien-
tist, who estimated that within the
area of Greater London there were 20,
000,000 rats, more than three times
as many rats as people.
Sparrows undoubtedly come next in
point of numbers among London's
warm-blooded population, but the
scientist preferred to make his esti-
mate cover all the birds in the United
Kingdom. He believed that the bird
population would average 800 to the
square mile. That would give a total
of nearly 97,000,000. Thus the bird
population outnumbers the human by
something like two to one.
As for the insect popuiation, that is |
quite beyond any statistician. But,
allowing that each bird eats only 50
insects a day, British birds would con-
sume more than a billion insects in a
year. Yet such an estimate seems
quite futile when we consider that the
insect population of a single cherry
tree infested with aphides was esti-
mated by a competent authority to be
12,000,000.
Law of Gravity Not
an Obstacle to Incas
The ancient Inca fortress of Sacsa-
huaman is located on a mountain sum-
mit 704 feet above the city of Cuzco,
Peru. which is itself 10,500 feet above |
sea level. It is made of huge massive
stones, some of which measure 30 by |
12 feet and are very thick. Though
irregular in outline, they are fitted
together so perfectly that a knife
blade cannot be inserted betweer
them.
Flow the seemingly impossible feat
of getting these stones to the sum-
mit was achieved is explained by the
mystics of India. The Egyptians who
built the Pyramids, so the legend
goes, and the ancient Incas,
both |
knew how to suspend the law of grav- :
ity, having learned it from the mys-
tics of the lost Atlantis.
Taken Down
The late Loie Fuller on her last |
American visit complained to a re-
porter about the conceit of movie
stars.
“The males. are the worst,” she
said. “A younf male star in a seal-
skin-lined overcoat, smoking a dollar
and a half cigar, swaggered into his
boss’ office one day and said:
“I'll tell you, boss, how I want
gou to feature me on the bills. I
want the names of the cast printed
in the usual way in rather small
type, and then in giant 'type’—he
raised his voice to a shout—‘MY
NAME under the word AND.’
% ‘Why not BUT? said the boss.”
Strange Indian Tribe
The Peel River Indians, a tribe liv-
ing in the Upper Yukon country are a
puzzle to ethnologists. These Indians
are as black as negroes, but have
long, straight hair and aquiline fea-
tures. They are proud of their blood
and permit no mixed marriages.
Whether they are an offshoot of the
Hindu race or descendants of a peo-
ple who came up the Mackenzie from
the Arctic has never yet been estab-
lished. Today the tribe numbers sev-
eral hundred and is in prosperous cir-
cumstances. Like the Seminoles of
Florida, however, they are vanishing
because of their antipathy toward in-
termarrying with other Indians.
Good Reason
Although as big and as strong as the
policeman who had arrested him, the
man with the close-cropped hair and
brutal face allowed himself to be
marched tcward the police station.
There had been the usual crowd in
anticipation of a scrap, but it had
drifted away when they saw there:
was nothing doing. Even the police-
man admitted it was the tamest ar-
rest he had made for many a day.
“It isn’t like you to go’ so quietly,”
ae remarked. “What's taken all the
ginger out of you?”
The prisoner sighed. “I've got my
best clothes on.”
Explains Fire-Walking
The late S. P. Langley of the Smith-
sonian institution witnessed the fire-
walking ceremony in Tahiti and de-
scribed it in Nature for August 22,
1921, He says that the stones used
in the ceremony were tésted and found
to be of vesicular basalt, whose most
distinctive features are its porosity:
and nonconductibility. He found that
these stones could be heated red-hot
at one end while the remaining part:
was comparatively cool. ‘He was of
the opinion that while the lower
stones of the pit were glowing, the
upper layer was fairly cool.
Dutch Mania for Work
You know the Dutch. They have
a mania for work. Theirs is a land
which had to be manufactured out
of inclosed bits of sea and remanu-
factured now and then by @ being
pumped dry. They scrub the streets
as if they were plates off which to
eat. And as if all this toil were but
a mere trifle, they have invented a
language the pronunciation of which
requires more labor to the syllable:
than any other language to the page!
—Salvador de Madariaga in fhe
Forum,
71-16-tt.
LUMBER?
Oh, Yes!
W.R. Shope Lumber Co.
Lumber, Sash, Doors, Millwork and Roofing
Call Bellefonte 432
css
——James Leitzell and family mov- !
ed to Bellefonte from Tyrone, last
week, and are located in one of the
Schad houses, on Reynolds avenue.
Mr. Leitzell formerly lived here and
at one time served for a brief period
as a town policeman.
Statement of Ownership.
In compliance with Section 443 of the
Postal Laws and Regulations the state-
ment is hereby publicly made that the
i daughters of Susan M. Meek, deceased, are
sole owners and publishers ‘of “The Dem-
ocratic Watchman,” a weekly paper pub-
, lished at Bellefonte, Pa., and that there
| are no bonds or stock on the property in
existence.
GEO. R. MEEK, |!
Acting Publisher. :
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3 Glasses Water
Help Constipation
One glass of water is not enough—
take three glasses one hour before
breakfast. Much better results are
obtained by adding a teaspoon of
simple glycerin, saline compound
(known as Adlerika) to each glass.
Adlerika acts on BOTH upper and
lower bowel and removes old waste
matter you never thought was in
your system. Stops gas and sour
FIRE INSURANCE
At a Reduced Rate, 20%
7336 J. M. KEICHLINE, Agent
a ES a]
Free siLk HOSE Free
——————
Mendel’'s Knit Silk Hose for Wo-
men, guaranteed to wear six
months without runners in leg or
holes in heels or toe. A mew pair
FREE if they fail. Price $1.00.
YEAGER’'S TINY BOOT SHOP.
~ Employers
This Interests You
The Workman’s Compensation
Law went into effect Jan. 1, 1916.
It makes insurance compulsory.
We specialize in Placing sud such Jn
surance. We ins
recommend Accident Plants 34
Safe Guards which Reduce Insur-
ance rates.
It will be to your interest to con-
sult us before placing your Insur-
ance.
stomach in TEN minutes! Relieves
constipation in two hours. Zeller’s JOHN F. GRAY & SON.
Drug Store. State College Bellefonte
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WATCHMAN OFFICE
Washington : There is ne style of work, from the
| cheapest ‘“Dedger” to the finest
BALTIMORE BOOK WORK
| Sunday, Apr. 21
Leave Saturday night Preceding
Excursion
Leave Port Matilda....9:15 P. M.
ulian......... 9.28 P. M.
i Unionville..........9.35 P. M.
#t Bellefonte........ 10.00 P. M.
1 Milesburg........ 10.10 P. M.
$ Howard........... 10.29 P. M.
RETURNING
Leave Washington--—--———-- 4.05 P
M
Baltimore (Penna. Sta.) ---5,10 **
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Baney’s Shoe Store
WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor
30 years in
the Business
BUSH ARCADE BLOCK
BELLEFONTE,
SERVICE OUR SPECIALTY
PA.
SPECIAL ORDERS SOLICITED
P. L. Beezer Estate... Meat Market
CHOICE CUTS OF MEATS
You cannot be other than satis-
fied when you come to our butch-
er shop for your meats because
we exercise both experience and
judgment in our buying and take
nothing but the juiciest and ten-
derest of meats to pass on to our
customers. Try one of our de-
licious roasts. We will give you
exact weight you want and dress
it for the oven.
Telephone 667
Market on the Diamond
Bellefonte, Penna..
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
KLINE WOODRING.—Attorney-at
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices
- all courts. Office, room 18 Crid
Exchange. ; Sly
KENNEDY JOHNSTON.—Attorney-at-
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt at-
tention given all legal business em~
trusteed to hiis care. Offices—No. 5, Hast
High street. 57.
M. KEICHLINE. — Attorney-at-Law
and Justice of the Peace. All pre=
fessional business receive
prompt attention. Offices on second fieer
of Temple Court. 49-5-1y
G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law, Com-
sultation in English and German.
Office in Crider’s Exchange, Belie-
fonte, Pa. 58-8
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~ PHYSICIANS
R. R. L. CAPERS.
OSTEOPATH.
Bellefonte State Coll
Crider's Ex. 66-11 Holmes Bldg
8. GLENN, M. D., Physician and
Surgeon, State College, Centre
county, Pa. Office at his residence.
35-41
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tered and licensed by the State.
Eyes examined, glasses fitted. Sat-
isfaction guaranteed. Frames replaced
and leases matched. Casebeer Bldg. High
St., Bellefonte, Pa.
VA B. ROAN, Optometrist, Licensed by
the State Board. State Colleges,
every day except Saturday,
Bellefonte, in the Garbrick building op-
posite the Court House, Wednesday after
noons from 2 to 8 p. m. and Saturdays 9
a. m. to 430 p. m. Bell Phone -40
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CASEBEER, Optometrist.—Regis-
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FEEDS!
We have taken on the line of
Purina Feeds
We also carry the line of
Wayne Feeds
Purina Cow Chow, 349, $3.30 per H.
Purina Cow Chow, 249, 3.00 per H.
Purina Calf Meal - 5.50 per H.
Wayne Dairy, 327, - 2.90 per H.
Wayne Dairy, 249, - 2.90 per H.
Wayne Egg Mash - 3.25perH
Wayne Calf Meal - 4.25 per H.
Wayne All mash starter 4.00 per H.
Wayne All mash grower 3.60 per H.
Wagner's Pig Meal - 2.80 per H.
Wagner's Egg mash - 2.80 per H.
Wagner’s egg mash with
buttermilk - 3.00 per H.
Wagner’s Dairy, 229% 2.50 per H.
Oil Meal - - - 3.30perH.
Cotton seed meal - - 2.80 per H.
Flax Meal - - 2.40 per H.
Gluten feed - - 2.70 per H.
Alfalfa - - - 2.25 per H.
Meat meal - - 4.00 per H.
Tankage, 60% - - 4.25 per H.
Fine Stock Salt - 1.20 per H.
We have a full line of poultry and
stock feeds on hand at all times at
the right prices.
Let us grind your corn and oats
and sell you the high protein feeds
and make up your own mixtures. We
charge nothing for mixing.
We deliver at a charge of $1.00 per
ton extra.
If You Want Good Bread or Pastry
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Plumbing
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Vapor....Steam
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Pipeless Furnaces ‘
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Full Line of Pipe and Fit-
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All Sizes of Terra Cotta
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