Bellefonte, Pa., June 7, 1929.
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CLEARFIELD PLANNING
A ROUSING FOURTH.
John Lewis Shade Post American
"Legion, of Clearfield, will stage their
ninth annual Fourth of July celebra-
tion this year. The Legionnaires
have been busy for the past six
months, planning and arranging the
details of this gigantic undertoking,
and this year’s celebration will be by
far the most spectacular, the most
thrilling and entertaining that has
ever been attempted by the Legion-
naires, and will be the premier In-
dependence Day attraction.
As usual, the day will start with
a mammoth military and industrial
parade. The parade committee has
already received many entries from
the ever-loyal business enterprises.
MORE MUSIC THAN EVER.
Five bands and twelve trumpet
corps have already been contracted
for the day.
John Lewis Shade Post band, the
prize band of the Pennsylvania |
Legionnaires and the official band of
the Department of Pennsylvania in |
the great national organization, will
present a special concert program
during the day. This band, under the
direction of Prof. Oscar W. Schaeffer,
bas been working untiringly in prep-
aration for this great event.
RACES TO BE FEATURED.
Horsemen all over the country have
learned of this great celebration, get- |
ing their information from sportsmen
who have participated in the races in i
former years and who have been so
favorably impressed with the fairness
of the Clearfield Fourth of July races, |
and already several stables of horses
have arrived at the Clearfield driving
park to prepare for the annual meet.
Entries have been received from
some of the best stables of Ohio, New
Jersey, New York, Maryland, and
Pennsylvania.
CARNIVAL EXTRAORDINARY.
John Lewis Shade Post was e€x- |
ceptionally fortunate this year in
booking Stone Brothers, high class
carnival organization, for their
Fourth of July celebration, this being |
the initial appearance of Stone
Brothers in Central Pennsylvania.
The contract with Stone Brothers
was negotiated at their winter quar-
ters in Richmond, Va., and although
this organization has confined its
bookings along the Atlantic seaboard,
an exception was made, routing them |
into Clearfield for Pennsylvania's
greatest celebration.
“COMMANDER” TO BE GIVEN AWAY.
In order to underwrite the expenses
of this gigantic undertaking from
year to year, John Lewis Shade Post
has perfected a plan whereby the sale
of patron coupons makes this great
celebration possible. This year a
beautiful new Studebaker Command-
er automobile will be presented by the
Legion Post to some patron or pa- |
troness of the celebration as a token
of appreciation tc the many persons
who by the purchase of patron cou-.
pons, guarantee the expenses of the:
day. Patron coupons are now on sale
and may be secured from any Legion
member, or at the Legion home.
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COUNTY CALF CLUB WILL
MAKE TOUR TOMORROW.
An automobile tour will be made
tomorrow by members of all the 4H
Calf Clubs in Centre county, under
the direction of county agent R. C.
Blaney. The tour will be through
Union county for the purpose of in-
specting the calf club work in that
section.
The start will be made from Pleas-
ant Gap at 8:45 o'clock tomorrow
morning, with Mr. Blaney in charge.
At Hartleton the tour will be met
by L. W. Craumer, county agent in
Union county, who will personally
conduct the Centre county visitors
through his territory. Special fea-
tures have been arranged for at two
of the places to be visited. One will
be a contest to give the members a
demonstration and instruction in fit-
ting their heifers for show purposes,
and another will be a judging con-
test, at which the three highest point
scorers will be selected as the team
to represent Centre county in the
State-wide dairy judging contest at
State College on June 19th. The
winning team in the latter contest
will represent Pennsylvania at the
National dairy show.
As it looks now in the neighborhood
of fifty people will make the tour to-
morrow, which will include calf club
members, the parents of some of
them, and the club sponsors.
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ANNUAL MEETING OF
HOLSTEIN CALF CLUB.
The annual meeting of the Holstein
Calf Club, of Logan Grange, was
held in the court house, Bellefonte,
on Monday of last week. The club
decided to hold its annual round-up
at the Grange encampment and fair,
at Centre Hall, the first week in Sep-
tember. It was also decided to join
in the county calf club tour tomor-
row.
Officers elected for the ensuing
year included the following: Presi-
jent, Charles Tibbens, Pleasant Gap;
vice president, Louise Corman, Belle-
‘onte; secretary-treasurer, James
Biddle, Bellefonte.
C. R. Gearhart, of the dairy exten-
sion department, State College, gave
‘he boys a very interesting talk on
are and fitting of their heifers for
show. He advised the members to
teep feeding their heifers during the
jummer, especially when the pasture
rets dry and does not have much feed-
ng value in it.
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in high school together . . .
CHANGES HIS
MIND
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UGH MUNSON was a bachelor.
He was most emphatic in his
statements that he would re-
main a bachelor to the last.
And that he had reached the age
of forty-three without marrying and
would travel through the rest of his
days unmarried. He wanted to be
free. . . . to explore hitherto
unexplored lands . . . to come and
go as his fancy willed. Who would
want a better home than a hotel?
Who would want more comforts than
the service obtained in such places?
He scorned the tidy little houses of
his friends . . . gingerly patted
the heads of their offsprings and then
put a definite distance between him-
self and their sticky hands. He didn’t
want a house to be responsible for
. . electric light bills . .
furnace cleaners . . . faulty plumb-
ing . .. maids. . . . whooping
cough . . . insurance policies . .
decorators.
. . and that’s final,” he had
declared decisively from the depths of
a big chair in his sister's living room
on the first evening of his return from
a two years’ trip to Africa. *“I—shall
—never—marry. The next six months
1 will spend here writing up my last
trip for my publishers and then I'm
off again . . free as the wind
. . .” He turned to his nephew, Rob-
ert Beveridge, who occupied another
big chair near by. “You will be my
that is,
if you will get this notion out of your
head about going in business instead
of taking up law as your mothers
wants you to do.”
His nephew smiled as he crushed 8
cigarette butt against the ash tray.
“You're a fine one to talk, Unk.
Grandfather wanted you to be a min-
ister—mother told me so—and besides,
he was in favor of marriage and look
at you—just a vagabond of the wind-
ing road, except that you have enough
money to buy railroad and steamer
tickets. 1 don’t want to be.-a lawyer,
but I'll compromise with you, you old
fossil! Ill make a wager with you
that before six months are up—you
will be asking some girl to marry
you . . . to share your name and
fortune. A new roadster against my
pledge that 1 will go to college this
fall and study law that within the next
six months you'll fall in love and fall
hard! You have been out of touch
with civilization so long you don’t
know what white women look like, but
just you—wait. That's fair, isn't it
wother?”
Hugh Munson’s sister smiled indul-
gently, and nodded. The traveler
laughed. “All right, shake on it! A
new roadster—any color—any make,
against your promise to be a lawyer—
but I’ve won before we start. Love—
marriage—bah! Responsibilities? Not
for me!”
A maid came to the door, followed
by a short, smiling faced little won-
an whose open coat displayed a white
linen uniform.
“Hello, folks, I'm on a case down
in the next block—typhoid, and was
out for a breath of air so thought I'd
run in. Oh why, Hugh Munson, you
old tramp! I haven’t seen you since
. let me see, when we three were
how
wie
many years ago . .
“And if it isn’t Cara Smedley . . ..
or what is the name, now, Cara? 1
recall Marion telling me a long time
ago of your marriage . . . .”
“Listen, Hugh. Wesley died last
year, you know. And I'm working
again: ive
“And supporting the loveliest fam-
ily of four children you ever saw.
How is Billie, and Junie, and baby
and Albert, Cara? My goodness, but
Albert is getting so tall and manly.”
“All fine,” answered the family’s
smiling mother. “Billie fell off the
porch yesterday and bumped his’ nose
and Junie looks like chicken pox and
baby cries for an hour straight every
time I leave her and Albert spends all
his nickels at the candy store, but
outside of that, they are just beauti
ful, every one of them!”
Robert Beveridge looked across the
table at his mother one morning and
his eyes were troubled.
“Well, mother, guess the odds are
against me. You'll have a lawyer son
after all, 1 guess. That old Beau
Brummel brother of yours! He is a
knockout in evening clothes and all
the girls are crazy about him. Kay
says she has tried all her wiles on
him—nothing doing! Marjorie tells me
he calls her ‘child and patronizes
her! Kay says he is the hardest man
in New York to flirt with although he
dances with her all the time and tells
her she is pretty and would like to
kidnap her and all that bosh that mid-
dle-aged men hand out to pretty girls.
Kay is getting tired of the conspiracy,
1 guess, We didn’t think he would
be so hard to win over. We are going
to have Estelle Taton out to Mar-
jorie’s house party next week and
Bstelle will bowl him over. . . She's
a stunner, and just begged for an in-
troduction the other night at the club.
Says Unk is her idea of handsome, dis-
tinguished . . . and all that stuff!”
Estelle’s charms proved all in vain.
Hugh Munson played golf with her,
rode horseback with Marjorie Norris,
sang with Delicia Evans, danced with
Kay Vandergrift and talked China
with Mary Manning. They all vied for
his favor. The house party broke up
sooner than was expected, because he
announced his intention: of driving
back to New York at noon instead of
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Marjorie were in; the seat with him,
"Delicia ‘and Mary. were in ‘the
When he left Kay and
rumble seat.
The confirmed bachelor-explorer
donned evening clothes three nights
a week and accompanied his nephew
and members of Robert’s set into the
gay whirl of New York's night life.
He seemed to thoroughly enjoy him-
self. He continued to write in an
effort to appease the demands of an
anxious publisher, and at the end of
the fifth month, Robert wrote to the
university for their curriculum.
Kay was again wearing his frat pin.
Marjorie was hinting of her engage
ment to Alex Treadgold, long and ar-
dent suitor; Delicia had decided to go
on the stage, and always generous.
Hugh Munson had offered to back her.
She had refused with tear-filled eyes.
Estelle Tanton was planning a win-
ter in Europe and had hinted that she
would expect Hugh to stop and see
her when he was on the continent, al-
though he had not mentioned his im-
pending journey.
Robert was sitting before the -fire-
place reading the recently arrived lit-
erature from college. His mother was
reading close by. Hugh Munson came
in, and with his hands deep in his
pockets, he stood before the fireplace
and faced his sister apd nephew.
“What's the booklet, Bobbie,
1ad?” he asked.
“Qh, you win, you old woman-hat-
ing antique! I never did think you
would hold out with all those girl—
but you win! I'm going to college—
and study law! Mother benefits any-
way through our bet. And she has
promised me the car that you were
going to buy me, after you proposed
to one of the girs.”
“That car,” spoke Hugh Munson
slowly, “will be delivered early in the
morning, Bobbie, and you might drive
your mother down to the station to see
Cara and me off on our wedding trip.
We will be gone only a week, on ac-
count of the babies! Can’t leave them
alone with a maid very long. You
knew, Marion, that Junie is a smart
little tike and baby-—why, she just
yells when 1 come in the door and
stretches out her hands to me. Wish
you would look in on them while we
are away; we'll feel better if we know
you are keeping an eye on our family
—and if you hear of a good nurse, tell
her to come up and see me when we
get back. Cara is to have an easier
time from now on. And Albert says
he is going to own a garage when he
finishes school. Can you beat that?
And say, Marion, if you know of a
good plumber, tell him to go and look
at the bathroom on the third floor,
there is something wrong and I didn’t
have time to attend to it.”
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Motorist Says Fox Can
Run 30 Miles an Hour
Further light on. the speed with
which animals’ can run is found in the
experience of a Washington motorist
over a side road of the Eastern shore.
This motorist is ready to state:-that a
fox can run at least 80 miles an
hour.
It came about when the motorist,
driving along leisurely, saw something
running in a field to the right of the
road and sped up a bit to see what
it might be.
Just as he came to the end of &
nedge along the road, the fox jumped
out into the middle of the road, in-
tent on reaching a cornfield on the
other side. Seeing the car and per-
haps, even more startling to him, hear-
ing it, for it was well equipped with
rattles and squeaks, he made 8 hur-
ried break for the cornfield, but found
a barbed wire fence blocking his way.
Turning in a panic, it sped down the
middle of the road, its body almost
touching the ground as it stretched
out in a swift run. »
Accelerating, the motorist came
within a few feet of the fox and then
maintained the gap separating them.
The speed increased until the: car was
making 30 miles an hour, with the
fox just a few jumps abead.
Whether the fox could have “stepped
on it” a bit more is not known for
the motorist allowed the fox to set the
pace. Perhaps if the animal had been
pressed, it might have stretched the
speed up a few miles an hour. The
race continued for perhaps a quarter
of a mile, when the fox seeing a gap
in the fence, went through it in two
or three quick jumps,
then slowed
down to a sort of high-bouncing run,
and was soon lost in the corn.
Famous London Bridges
Old London bridge, begun about
1170, was completed in 1209. It car-
ried a row of timber houses, which
were frequently burned down, but the
main structure existed until the begin-
ning of the Nineteenth century. The
old bridge was the center for book-
sellers and other tradesmen. On it
stood the chapel of St. Thomas of
Canterbury and a tower on which the
heads of traitors were exposed to
view. The present London bridge was
begun in 1824, and completed in 1831.
It is borne on five granite arches, is
928 feet long, 65 feet wide, and 56
feet above the river.
Lemming an Odd Creature
The head of a scientific expedition
into the Arctic region reports that
they were unable to obtain many of
the small land mammals, as trapping
is impracticable during the brief stops
and under the midnight sun. The
past year or two has been notable for
a shortage of all smaller mammals,
particularly Arctic hares and lem-
mings. The lemmings occur at times
in countless millions, forming abun-
dant food for foxes, and thelr recur
ring periods of scarcity and abun-
dance are reflected in the fur returns
| of the Arctic regions,
| Fealty to Her “Folks”
Unswerving fealty to her “white
f0lks” was an outstanding character-
istic of the old-time “mammy.” The
instances are many where even after
her emancipation she remained with
the family to which she had belonged
to succeeding generations. She not
only waited on “Old Miss” during life
and closed her eyes when she fell
asleep in death, but she was present
at the birth of all the children and
helped to rear them, and mayhap to
perform the same office for the grand-
children and great-grandchildren.
When “Young Miss” was married
“mammy” usually exercised her pre-
rogative of being the first to kiss the
bride and “mammy’s” osculatory evi-
dence not only was sincere and genu-
ine, but it was regarded as good luck.
Often “mammy’s” own “white folks”
became tinancially embarrassed and
lost everything, but “mammy” did not
desert them. On the other hand, she
invariably stuck to them through
thick and thin and was willing to
share any reverses to which they
might be subjected. Hers was a de
votion that was strong and lasting.
Her “white folks” might forgive an
enemy, but “mammy” never forgot or
forgave one who wronged any of her
people. Often she took the family
name with which she was so long
identified and in death many of the
old-time “black mammies” sleep in
the family burial plot in a grave re-
served for them. In many graveyards
the epitaph on her tombstone bears
witness to the fidelity of some negro
“mammy.” — Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
Differ Over Beginning
of First Civilization
There are two independent theories
as to the origin of civilization. The
older theory is that the human mind
is such that, given an opportunity, it
will produce a civilization. But this
does not account for the similarity of
customs found in all civilizations, and
so there exists the alternate theory
that civilization started from a defi-
nite center, from which it spread.
In his book, “In the Beginning: The
Origin of Civilization,” Elliot Smith,
the chief exponent of the latter theory,
sets this center in upper Egypt, on
the banks of the Nile, and the time
about 4000 B. C. The determining
cause he believes to have been an
abundant crop of wild barley, which
caused man to give up his roaming life
tor a favorable climate and an as-
sured food supply. Lean periods led
to the invention of methods of storage,
and this taught the greatest thing ever
discovered by man—the function of
the seed in plant growth. Having
reached this stage, the further growth
of civilization is’ not difficult to vis-
valize.
No Perpetual Motion
Perpetual motion has never been
successfully demonstrated. The views
of the Patent office are in accord with
those of the scientists who have in-
vestigated the subject, and are to the
effect that mechanical perpetual mo-
tion is a physical impossibility. These
views can be rebutted only by the ex-
hibition of a working model. Many
persons have filed applications for
patents on perpetual motion, but such
applications have been rejected as in-
operative and opposed to well-known
physical laws, and in no instance has
the requirement of the Patent office
for a working model ever been com-
plied with.
Shaking Dice
It's rather discouraging that so
many bad habits should be so old.
One would think we would have out-
grown many things that are almost
as old as history and which we show
no signs of outgrowing. It is said
dice throwing was so popular in [ndia
centuries ago that two kings, who had
unpronounceable names, staked and
lost their kingdoms on the spotted
cubes.
As far back as history goes there
nas been too much of something or
other of which there is still too much.
All of which calls for a sense of
humor and much patience.—Grove
Patterson, in the Mobile Register.
Farther Still
An Irishman and a Scot found
themselves seated side by side at a
certain Christmas club dinner and
each tried to impress the other with
the distance he had traveled.
After much discussion the Irishmar
admitted that he had sailed the Seven
seas amongst other trifles, and that
he had been to the end of the world.
“An’ what did ye see there?” asked
the Scot.
“Sure, and there was a great big
wall reaching to the sky, me boy,”
replied the other.
“Ah, weel,” said the Scot, “it's a
peety ye. didna look owre yon ‘wall,
for I wag behind it fishin’, ye ken.”
Skyscrapers’ Value
The Greeks probably were the first
to build roofed structures of exten-
sive area, for they are credited witb
the first use of wooden beams. The
Romans made the erection of build:
ings with even greater area possible
by use of the arch and dome. The de-
velopment of the steel I-beam made
really high buildings possible. Our
present-day builders have developed
skyscraper construction to a degree
where valuable ground space can be
completely utilized by the erection of
a tall building of extensive floor space.
© Old “Mam".y’s” Passion
New Currency
Samples of the new
currency — reduced size,
may be seen at the First
National Bank.
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Special Sale!
OF
Walkover Shoes
Exactly 258 pairs of Walkover
Shoes, regular $7.50 and $3
Shoes, all sizes, all new up-to-
date styles and priced for quick
selling — at one price
$4.85
Every pair guaranteed. Here is
an opportunity for real money
saving.
Sale starts Saturday, June 8 and
will last just one week.
It’s at
Fauble’s
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