Bellefonte, Pa., May 31, 1929. ns—— o AS OTHERS SEE US. A Week-end Tour Over Fine High- ways, Into Historic Spots and Natural Grandeur. The following interesting story ap- peared in the “Men and Things” column of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin last Tuesday. We publish it because it is good reading for even those whose pride is not touched by the glorification of the environment in which they live. Readers who know nothing of the history, the topography or the beauty of the country traversed will be entertain- ed, but those who have spent their lives along these roads and never have seen what others see in them might be awakened to realization that probably no place in the world could just such a trip as is here described be duplicated. While the tour was made by the writer of “Men and Things” from Philadelphia to Centre county and back, it would be just as charming if turned around the other way. —Ed. Philadelphians who like to spend their week-ends on the road can lay a basis for more intelligent compre- hension of the resources and beauties of the great State of Pennsylvania by making a trip up to State College ov- er a grand circle of paved highways. A month might easily be spent with pleasure and profit along this route, but it can be covered between Satur- day noon and Sunday evening with comfort, and even the bird's eye view which such a swift passage affords can hardly fail to prove interesting and entertaining. The visit to State ‘College alone is worth the entire trip. Philadelphians quite generally fail to realize what a wonderful institution the Commonwealth has created up in Centre county. And no Pennsylva- nian can fairly claim to be acquainted with his State until he has stood be- side the great spring at Bellefonte and tossed a handful of hamburger to the giant trout that lie in the Spring Creek below. Presumably the Philadelphian knows his suburbs, and will find his way to Downingtown via the Lincoln Highway without a map. Just after passing the old paper mill and cross- ing the Brandywine East Branch, turn left onto the old Horseshoe Pike, Follow this along the Ridge through quaint Honeybrook and Sorrel Horse to Blue Ball, on into Ephrata on the Cocalico Creek, where Conrad Beis- sel’s followers built their Kedar ana Zion, Saron and Bathania, and the old cloisters are still to be seen. The road leads on to Cornwall, with its vast ore banks, three solid hills of the finest iron, which have been supply- ing this metal for more than 150 years, and the baronial estates of the old iron magnates, and their heirs and present owners of the famous banks. It runs into the Ridge Road at Hummelstown, eight miles from Harrisburg. The route lies over the new bridge straight through Harrisburg to the Susquehanna. Turn there to the right and drive the length of the city along the beautiful embankment, with the blue Susquenhanna at the left for fifteen miles to Clark’s Fer- ry. Then swing left across the beau- tiful new concrete bridge and take the left fork onto the new road that 1eads to Juniata Valley. You are now in Perry county, which lies between the Kittatinny and Tuscarora ranges, and at Millers- town will enjoy the spectacle of tow- ering Tuscarora Mountain, with the Juniata’s broad stream winding at its foot. The Juniata lies at your left hand all the way, with Mahoney’s Ridge and Dick’s Hill hemming the highway and the river close together. The ‘road leads into Mifflintown, the "capital of Juniata County in the beau- tiful Tuscarora Valley. It winds along the Juniata through the narrow pass between Long and Slade Mountain, a four-mile stretch where road and riv- er lie in close embrace to Lewistown, where Arthur Buchanan built the first cabin in 1755. Near where the Juniata bursts out through Jack’s Mountain from the - Kishacoquillas Valley into the Lewis- town Valley, was the original home of Logan, Mingo chief and orator, son of Shikellimus. “Mingo” was the Delaware name for the Iroquois, or Six Nations and Logan’s name is per- ' petuated in Logan’s Branch and other geographical designations. At Lewistown turn to the right and leave the Juniata for the Bellefonte Trail. Six miles or more from Lewis- town, at Reedsville, is Logan’s Spring, Potter Mills commemorates James Potter, one of Washington’s brigadiers, and one of the first set- tlers in lovely Penn’s valley. Penn's, Brush and the Nittany Valley merge into one at the southwest end of this county, which is Centre. Whniding down from Seven Moun- tains through the quiet settlement of Centre Hall the route approaches Nit- tany Mountain, over which it passes through Logan's Gap. At the sum- mit it will pay to draw aside and rest. There is no more majectic view in Pennsylvania, land of scenic splen- dors innumerable, than this incom- parable sweep Of miles of Penn's Valley encircled with mountains. . Little wonder that frontiersmen should have chosen the valley for their homes. This territory was ced- ed by the Six Nations Indians under the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, in 1768. All along the road lie State For- ests, and as the car coasts for miles down the Gap there are nurseries with millions of seedlings so small that one could carry hundreds in a market basket. It is Pennsylvania, , reforesting her mountains that have been denuded by axe and fire. At Pleasant Gap turn left for the nine-mile run to State College. En- route the feature of the valley is a — STR towering building of cut stone on a hillside to the right. From a dis- tance it looks like a castle, or a vast fortress. It is the new branch of the Western Penitentiary at Rockview, where all electrocutions are perform- ed and where George Allen, once lord of the Media hoosegow, is warden. It is only a short run to State Col- lege, and there the Philadelphian not already informed of this great State institution is due for a surprise. Four thousand young men and wo- men and more than 800 teachers. A modern town of 3,000 or 4,000 all year population. A great university plant, constantly growing—a splendid new gymnasium just finished—and schools of arts, science, engineering, agriculture, journalism, and all the departments of education. Here is the place to come for information about chemical problems, and the lat- est kinds of fertilizer. If you are on intimate terms, somebody may even take you to visit Jessie, the College Farm’s pet calf, who has a pane in her tummy. Kindly scientists have actually arranged a neat little win- dow through which they keep tabs on Jessie’s digestion, and occasion- ally extract samples of her meals at various stages of the process. There are a lot of people in Philadelphia who have no conception of what a splendid enterprise the State of Penn- sylvania is conducting up here ip Centre county. Back from State College to Pleas- ant Gap. It is only four miles far- ther north to Bellefonte, which has given the State three Governors, Cur- tin, Beaver and Hastings. Here is an old town, with an academy dating back to 1805. Its courthouse is a gem of colonial architecture. The big spring dwarfs the Lahaska spring, with something like 12,500,000 gal- lons a day. And in the Spring Creek below the big spring, you may see trout as long as your arm, rolling in the current and waiting for someone to toss them a handful of hamburger. Bellefonte doesn’t let anyone fish for them, and they are as tame as barn- yard chickens. The big fellows are the brown variety, but there are plen- ty of speckled beauties that would stretch a two foot rule to measure them. There is a State Trout hatch- ery on Logan's Branch between Pleasant Gap and Bellefonte. . Bellefonte is the place for Satur- day night, if one prefers hotels. But every hamlet offers plenty of beds for tourists. The trip back to Phil- adelphia can be varied to suit time and inclination. One can go on from Bellefonte to Lock Haven and Wii- liamsport, and take a choice of var- ious routes from there. Or, with the beauty of Penn’s Valley at evening lingering in the 1nind, perhaps it would be preferable to retrace the few miles to Pleasant Gap, turn the prow of the old boat up the winding defiles of Logan’s Gap, and roll oul on the summit of Old Nittany in time to catch the valley bathed in the sun- light of early morning. It is one of those sights that invites revisiting, not once but many times. A short run down into the valley through Centre Hall just after you cross the railroad, if you stop and look » carefully you will find on the right the remains of an old fort. It is locally known as Potter’s Fort. It was from his home here that Potter was driven by the Indians and join- ed Washington's Army to become a brigadier. A famous resort at this point was McCoy's tavern, stopping place of thousands of weary travelers on the Lewistown and Bellefonte road and the Northumberland and Penn’s Val- ley road, which intersect here. The home route lies to the left on the Ola Northumberland road, which leads to the Susquehanna West Branch al Lewisburg. The first survey of Penn's Valley was made by William Maclay in 1766, in the name of Henry Montour. About four years later Reuben Haines, of Philadelphia, owner of a large tract of land in Buffalo Valley, to the east of Penn's Valley, cut a road from the hollow just above the Northumberland bridge over the Sus- quehanna up along the Buffalo Val- ley, and through what is called the Narrows, into Penn’s Valley. It is along this old road, now nicely pav- ed, that the route lies, by way of Spring Mills, Millheim, and Hartla- ton. We drove through Mifflintown and Lewistown. Shortly after pass- ing through Hartleton one comes to Mifflinburg and in a few miles across the long bridge over the Susquehan- na into the borough of Lewisburg. At Northumberland is the confluence of the two branches of the Susque- hanna. It is only a short run down the riv- er to Sunbury, where Front Street leads along the embankment down to the middle of the city. Then, from the square, it is a straight run out to the road that leads to Shamokin, nineteen miles away. The Shamokin, Mahanoy, Line and Mahatango ridges furnish rugged scenery and the anthracite towns en- route with their mountains of culm, give the landscape a peculiar cast un- like anything else. The country east of the Susquehanna contrasts sharp- ly with the verdure of Penn’s Valley and the green hills of Centre county. Shamokin was a Six Nations strong- hold, and Governor Morris, of the Province of Pennsylvania, built Fort Augusta there in 1756. The road takes one through Shamokin, Kulp- mont, Mt. Carmel, Centralia, Ashland, Frackville, and into the thriving an- thracite center of Pottsville, capital of Schuylkill county. Nobody can travel it without getting some idea of the magnitude of the coal industry. There are tipples, and breakers and washeries everywhere. The moun- tains of culm are fairly as big as the mountains of rock. But there are some whopping mountains of rock, Locust Mountain at Ashland, for in- stance. William Scull’s map of 1770 shows coal at three places near Pottsville, and on the bank of Ma- hanoy Creek at Ashland. The Six Nations Indians didn't drive much of a bargain when they sold what is now Schuykill County and a lot of other land for $2,500 in 1749. If they had stuck to the land, they might have been richer than the Oklahoma Osages with their oil wells. From Pottsville, follow the Schuy- kill down, down down to Reading The descent is winding and in some places steep, Mt. Carbon is pictur- esquely coal-dust clad. Schuykill Hav- en reminds one of the palmy days of canal-boating. Here and there are bunches of rotting derelicts that once hauled coal down to Fairmount. Or- wigsburg takes the mind back to George Gottfried Orwig and his wife Ploria who planted their home on Sculp Hill in 1747. And by way of Orwigsburg. Hamburg and Leesport one comes down to the busy Berks metropolis of Reading. Straight down to Perkiomen street and to the left, to the Reading Pike, to Potts- town, through Trappe, past the old Muhlenberg church, through College- ville along the shady campus of Ursinus College, across the curious arched bridge over the Perkiomen, recently widened but its ancient French spans in nowise impaired or changed, and the Ridge Road leads to Norristown and Philadelphia. A round four hundred miles of Pennsyl- vania, and a wider knowledge of our State. Perhaps it is pertinent as we swing down Green Lane from Roxborough to Belmont avenue to remember that while the river we have followed from Pottsville to Phil- adelphia was christened Schuylkill by the Dutch, to the soft tongues of the Delawares and Iroguois it was al- ways the Man-ai-unk. HIGHWAY FORCES GETTING READY FOR TOURIST SEASON. Spring house cleaning along Penn- sylvania State Highways is under way. Maintenance Crews are busy brightening up guard fence posts, which are an aid to night driving and serve as guides in foggy weath- er. Enough guard fence lines Penn- sylvania Highways to encircle the entire State, along the borders, with enough left over to enclose the Wil- liam Penn and Lincoln Highways, both sides, for their entire length. Pavement markings have increas- ed in number and design so that maintenance crews have work throughout the season touching up and remarking. First of the pave- ment markings wa the white cen- ter line, which indicates approach to a danger point and forbids passing another vehicle. Such lines are found at curves, hillcrests, crossroads, and junctions and railroad crossings. At tne latter point the line is to remind drivers that two cars may not cross the tracks abreast each cther. A special design marks railroad crossings well in advance SO drivers have time to get the car under con- trol. The “RR” imposed on a rail- and-crossties design, leaves no doubt that a crossing is just beyond. To make doubly sure, metal signs and blinkers are erected at many points. The word “SLOW” in a frame on the pavement is used at many types of danger spots. As the marking gives no indication why the driver should reduce speed, it serves to caution many drivers who fail to cautious at a steep hill. Checkerbards on the highway and on perpendicular signboards have proved successful at many danger points, departments officials said. Often they mark an especially dang- erous curve, indicating that speed greater than 15 to 20 miles per hour is impossible with safety. Reckless driving charges await drivers who attempt to flatten such curves by taking a zig-zag course without re- gard to proper traffic lanes. Acci- dents at such points are most numer- ous late at night, when drivers take a chance in the belief that no other cars are approaching. Drivers at night often take chances which would terrify them in daylight, high- way patrclmen say: PHEASANT EGGS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED FREE. All persons desiring ringneck pheasant eggs from either of the two State game farms, recently ac- quired by the Board of Game Com- missioners, must make formal ap- plication on regular blanks supplied by the commission. These applica- tion blanks can be secured either at the offices of the board at Harris- burg or from the various county game protectors. Full instructions governing the hatching will be furnished with each shipment of eggs. THE POPPY. According to mythology, the poppy was created by Ceres in order that she might forget grief in the sleep it produced. The Romans regarded the flower as a symbol of death and dedicated it to Somnus, god of sleep. Superstition looks upon the poppies that bloom on battlefields as the blood of the slain soldiers. A strange fact about the flower is that it does not agree with other blooms, and if placed in a bouquet with thme will either wilt itself or cause them to wilt or both. MUST NOT OPEN LETTERS. Neither the postmaster nor any- one else except the person to whom the letter is addressed has the right to open a sealed letter. The division of dead letters is authorized to open letters which cannot be delivered, for lack of proper address. These letters when opened and the address of the sender is obtained are returned to the sender. If the address of the sender is on the envelope the letter sent to the dead letter office. “She speaks fluently,” remarked the girl to her companion at a movie- talkie. “Naturally,” replied her companion, “with so much “flw’ out there in Hol- lywood.” | —Subscribe for the Watchman. is returned to the sender and is not | slow down at a curve but - are more “ 71-16-tf LUMBER? Oh, Yes! Call Bellefonte 432 W.R. Shope Lumber Co. Lumber, Sash, Doors, Millwork and Roofing THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH During the recent general confer- ence of the United Brethren church, in session in Lancaster, Pa., a pil- grimage was made by the ministerial and lay delegates to the grave of Martin Boehm, the co-founder with Otterbein, of the United Brethren church. A monument was unveiled to his memory. Also, a journey was made to the Isaac Long barn and the birthplace of Christian Newcomer, the third bishop in the denomination. The United Brethren denomination was born in this barn at the Otter- bein—Boehm “Great Meeting,” in 1766, when Philip William Otterbein, a distinguished missionary of the German Reformed church to Amer- ica, and Martin Boehm, a zealous Mennonite minister, met for the first time. This meeting took place fol- lowing unique personal religious awakenings and experiences of these two Christian leaders when they clasped hands and Otterbein declar- ed, in the German language “Wir Sind Bruder.” (We are Brethren). This was the real beginning of the church of the United Brethren in Christ. The followers of Otterbein and Boehm, in order to conserve the re- | sults of these early evangelistic ef- forts, organized, through necessity and not design, the United Brethren denomination—the first church found- ed in the United States which is not an offshoot of another denomination: The first general conference was held in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, in 1815. Since then general conferences have been held at regular intervals. At this conference Rev. G. D. Bot- dorf, Ph. D., of Dayton, Ohio, and Rev. Ira D. Warner, D. D., of Day- ton, Ohio, were elevated to the posi- tions of bishop in the church. Bishop Bell, of Harrisburg, and Bishop Kep- there.” ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW NEEDY STUDENTS. EE == — 8 E 8 KLINE WOODRING.—Attorney ‘at Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices in all To assist the student in the United | aos, States confronted with the oppor- ana Offng, 001 15 Crider WE tunity to help himself or herself | To through college is the goal of the! Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt atten- Lincoln Scholarship Fund, Inc., stated tion given all legal business entrusted Nelson Merrill Brooks, Chairman of fo bis care. Offices—No. the Board of Directors of the Fund, | : a national membership organization J M. KEICHLINE.—Attorney-at-Law and | Justice of the Peace. All professional recently incorporated in this State. | business will receive Dr, attention. “gcores of endowment funds and Offices on second floor of Temple Court. individual college scholarships exist £9-51y throughout the country,” Mr. Brooks | RUNKLE.— Attorney-at-L a w, declared, “but there is no other loan | Consultation in English and Ger- fund available to any student at any : Beiletors pa’ Bes In Celder's Exchert college in the land regardless of sex, | race, color or social standing. That; is the purpose of the Lincoln Scholar- | ship Fund. 'p : S. GLENN, M. D., Physician and All the student must do is fur- | Surgeon, State College, Centre nish proof of his or her need and sin- county, Pa. Office at his residence. cerity of purpose. Loans will be $541 made without interest, to be repaid as soon after graduation as possible.” Offices of the new organization are | Bellefonte located at 155 East Forty-second | Crider’s Ex. 66-11 Holmes Bldg. street. Through special arrange- D. CASEBEER, Optometrist.—Regis- ment, the National City Bank will act | {ered and Aiconsed by ale State. av trustee and Gepository and custod: | ruin romined, glues fie). Sat, i of | isfaction guaranteed. Frames replaced ian of the Funds and Williams H. Ar- and lenses matched. Casebeer Bldg. High nold of the National City Bank will St. Bellefonte, Pa. 71-22% act as ome of the members of the VA B. ROAN, Optometrist, Licensed Scholarship Fund Trustee Advisory by the Brae Boar, Suse College, Committee. All officials of the or-' RL TE 3 : : . fonte, in the Garbrick building opposite ganization will serve without pay. the Court House, Wednesday 2 fternoons Directors of the Fund include Dr. from 2 to 8 p.m. and Saturdays 9 & ‘Edwin A. Old i ot win A. erman, president of the University of Virginia; Dwight Bra- to 4:30 p. m. Bell Phone. i oo tae —— ‘man, president Allied Patrotic As-! ° | sociation, Inc.; John E. 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