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Bellefonte, Pa., June 14, 1929. :
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——During 1928 Pennsylvania
growers shipped 9372 cars of fruits
and vegetables. During the same
period lead pencil manufacturers in
the State made 37,749,040 pencils.
—_ Swimming pool tickets good
for “six swims for a dollar” in the
big pool on Hughes field, and also
season tickets for the tennis courts
for $3.00, can be procured from Wil-
liam Waite, at Sim, the clothier’s.
— Another car load of prisoners
was transferred from Pittsburgh to
Rockview, on Friday of last week
They were brought to Bellefonte on
the Pennsylvania-Lehigh express and
taken to Rockview by the shifter
crew.
— The baccalaureate sermon at
State College, next Sunday at 11
o'clock, will be broadcast over W. P.
S.C. The Rev. Edward Alfred Stein-
er, of Grinnell College, Iowa, will be
the speaker and his subject will be
“Creative Personality.”
Almost two thousand dollars
will be awarded in prizes at the
thirty-seventh annual convention of
the Central Pennsylvania District
Volunteer Fireman's association to
‘be held in Ebensburg on Monday
and Tuesday, July 1st and 2nd.
— Clark Corman, of Bellefonte,
has bouught the Hickernell farm, aft
‘Hartleton, on which the emergency
landing field for airmail fliers is lo-
cated, and will move there July 1st
Mr. Hickernell will return to Tona-
pah, Nev.,, where he lived a number
of years.
——Mr. and Mrs. Edward Norris,
of Germantown, are receiving con-
gratulations on the birth of their first
child, a son who has been named
Richard C. Norris III. Mrs. Norris
is known here as Miss Virginia Hil-
ler, the younger daughter of Mrs.
Hiram M. Hiller.
——A consultation clinic featuring
diseases of the lungs and heart will
be held in the council chamber in this
place, from 10 a. m., to 4 p. m., Fri-
day, June 28. It will be conducted
by physicians who have had special
training for the work and all others
having patients who might be benefit-
ted through such a clinic are invited
to take them for the consultation.
— Centre county will be repre-
sented in the rural leadership school,
at State College the week of June
17th, by Ocean Yearick, of Hublers-
burg, and Beaver Rishel, of Spring
Mills. The Centre county Bankers’
Association will sponsor these two
delegates during their stay at this
training school, where they will re-
ceive instruction which will be a
valuable help to them in organizing
and conducting various community
activities.
— The June meeting of the
“Mother's Club” was held Monday
evening, June 10th, at the home of
Mrs. Charles Wagner, on Willowbank
street. The subject of the evening
was ‘‘Habit.” Interesting papers
were read by Mrs. Robert Thena,
Mrs. R. L. Stevens and Mrs. Earl
Musser. It was decided at this meet-
ing to hold a picnic for the mothers
and their children at Hecla Park,
next Tuesday afternoon, June 18th,
at three o'clock.
— Senator and Mrs. Richard S.
Quigley. of Lock Haven. will throw
open the home and garden of their
estate, “Orchard Hills” on Wednes-
day afternoon, June 19, at 3 o’clock
for the benefit of Memorial park,
Clinton county’s memorial to its serv-
ice men of the World War. Mrs.
Quigley will serve light refreshments
to all the guests. A charge of 50
cents will be made. All are invited
to attend. Parking will be avail-
able for motor cars.
——The summer Bible school to be
fostered by the various churches in
Bellefonte opened at the High school
building, on Monday morning, with
an attendance of 134 boys and girls.
On Tuesday the number increased to
167 and Miss Verna Ardery, who
has charge of the school, is anticipat-
ing a final attendance of close to 200,
which will exceed that of last year.
The school, which will continue for
three weeks, is in session only from
9 to 11:30 o'clock in the morning.
——All persons desirous of a good
dumping place for ashes and dirt will
be permitted to deposit same on the
northern section of the Hughes
athletic field. Mr. Hughes is planning
to level the field so that he can lay
out the football gridiron from North
to South. This will obviate the disad-
vantage of catching punts with the
sun facing the catcher. As this is
the field used for all football con-
tests all interested inthe game who
have ashes and dirt to haul away
should have them hauled to Hughes
field.
Kenneth Haines, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Haines, of Rebersburg,
has been elected instructor in history
and chemistry, as well as athletic
coach, at the Mill Hall High school
for 1929-30. Haines is a graduate
of State College and during three
years of his course was the star
pitcher on the 'Varsity baseball team.
During the past year he was assist-
ant coach of athletics at Susquehan-
na University, while this summer he
is a member of the pitching staff of
the Scranton baseball team in the
New York-Pennsylvania league.
LONG DRAWN OUT
LITIGATION ENDED.
In the United States court for the
Middle District of Pennsylvania, at
Williamsport, last Friday, the long-
drawn-out litigation that has arisen
in consequence of the closing of the
Centre County Banking Company’s
doors on May 13, 1922, came to a
probable end.
Two cases were on trial before
Judge Albert W. Johnson. One was
to determine whether George R.
Meek was a partner in the Company.
The other was to determine whether
the Company had committed an act
of bankruptcy when on Nov. 28, 1825,
Judge Arthur C. Dale appointed re:
ceivers to wind up its affairs, after
the Supreme Court of the United
States had ruled that the federal
courts in bankruptcy had no juris-
diction in the matter.
The plaintiffs in both cases were
George A. Beezer, Geo. H. Yarnell
and Josephine Grenoble, all creditors
of the bank.
Briefly the history of the case is
as follows: On June 30, 1922, pro-
ceedings were instituted in the Mid-
dle District Court, Judge Witmer,
presiding, at Sunbury, praying that
the Centre County Banking Co. be
adjudged insolvent and that all of
its partners be adjudicated bank-
rupts. At that time Geo. R. Meek
denied that he was a partner and in
order not to delay settlement of the
banking company’s affairs prayed
the court to adjudicate it bankrupt
at once so that receivers might be
appointed for that purpose. Said
receivers could later have instituted
proceedings against him to determine
whether he was a partner and what
his liability might be. This proposal
was opposed by counsel for the cred-
itors and then Mr. Meek raised the
question as to the jurisdiction of the
court.
The case dragged through the Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals and was the
then certioraried to. the Supreme
Court of the United States. On
April 7, 1924 Mr. Justice Sanford, of
the latter court, handed down a not-
able opinion on it. Notable because
in it he found that certain rules of
the Supreme Court, itself, were in
error. The decree has practically re-
vised ‘the entire practice in bank-
ruptcy proceedings in the United
States and the case is cited in the
text books of law schools today as
the basic one on which to start the
study of bankruptcy practice.
The effect of the opinion decreeing
that the federal courts had no jur-
isdiction was to leave everything up
in the air. Ivan Walker Esq., had
been appointed temporary receiver by
Judge Witmer and since he was
shorn of his position by the decree,
there was no one legally in charge.
Then the administrator of the late
John M. Shugert, et al. petition-
ed our local court, Judge Dele pre-
siding, that he declavz the Company
insolvent and apprint receivers.
Judge Dale, under date of November
28, 1925, made a decree of dissolution
and appointed Reed O. Steely, John
S. Dale and John S. Ginter, receivers.
These gentlemen were not the ones the
petitioning creditors had planned
to have appointed and, consequently,
there was disappointment in some
quarters.
The situation was a peculiar one.
As the lawyers say, all the creditors
who had been parties to th2 proceed-
ings up to that time, nad had their
day in court and could not institute
further processes in law. Accord-
ingly someone had to be found who
had not attended any creditors meet-
ing or participated in any of the
previous litigation. Only chrough
such persons was their hope of drag-
ing the case back into the federal
courts on the legal contention that
Judge Dale’s decree and appointment
of receivers was a new act of bank-
ruptcy and might prove effective in
starting all over again.
It was an anomalous situation be-
cause the very parties who had peti-
tioned the local court for relief were
instrumental in turning about ana
starting the attempt to take it out
of the local court’s juruisdiction ana
back to the federal Courts again.
Accordingly Mr. Beezer, former
sheriff Yarnell and Mrs. Grenoble,
who had actually not been parties to
any of the previous proceedings were
unwillingly drawn in as plaintiffs in
the new action that was begun. It
was started on February 2, 1926, and
concluded, finally, in Williamsport
last Friday, June 7, 1929.
As stated above the trial in Wil-
liamsport was to determine whether
George R. Meek was a partner at the
time the bank closed its doors. And
whether the company had committed
an act of bankruptcy when Judge
Dale appointed receivers for it.
The trial lasted two days. All of
Thursday and most of Friday morn-
ing was taken up with disputation
among the lawyers over the admis-
sion of the records and such techni-
calities as might later be taken ad-
vantage of by either side.
G. Ross Hull, of Harrisburg and J.
G. Love, of Bellefonte represented the
plaintiffs. Former Judge Arthur C.
Dale represented the receivers who
had been appointed by the local
court. Their interest in the case laid
in the fact that if the federal court
took it over again they would be au-
tomatically shorn of their receiver-
ship, just as Mr. Walker was in the
earlier proceeding. The Hon. Ellis
The Meek side of the case was one
of fact for the jury. The receiver’s
case hinged largely on legal inter-
pretations.
Only four of the many witnesses
present were called.
Prothonotary S. Claude Herr was
on tbe stand for several hours. His
testimony concerned only the records
in his office which were read in full.
John Curtin, who had charge of
balancing the bank's books after it
closed was called to identify those
records and also testified that Mr.
Shugert, president of the bank, had
told him that Meek had severed his
relations with the institution short-
ly after the first of April, 1921.
Ivan Walker Xsq.,, was called to
prove that he, as temporary receiver,
had turned over to Messrs. Steely,
Dale and Ginter, all of the moneys,
papers and accounts of the bank at
the time they qualified as his succes-
sors.
Geo. R. Meek was then called and
made a statement of when and how
he had severed relations with the
bank. At this juncture Reed O.
Steely was called upon to produce
the certificate, the evidence of Meek’s
ownership in the partnership. It had
been found in the bank’s safe after
the institution closed and had been
in the possession of the receivers from
that moment to the one at which it
was offered in court. It was marked
“Cancelled.”
The defense rested temporarily
then and Mr. Hull, of plaintiff's coun-
sel, addressed the court and jury stat-
ing that he had only slight evidence
to offer in rebuttal and that it was
purely of a technical character. The |
case came to an abrupt end without
calling any of the large number of
representative men of Centre county
who were there as witnesses for Meek.
Judge Johnson then charged the
jury. In his charge he referred to
an opinion he had just handed down
in which he has ruled in a case
almost identical to that of the case
at bar that the alleged partner was
not, in fact a partner, when the part-
nership became insolvent.
He asked the jury for answers on.
four stated points.
1st. Was Mr. Meek a partner af
the time the bank closed its doors?
2nd. Was the Centre County Bank-
ing Company insolvent when the
bank closed its doors?
3rd. Did the Centre County Bank-
ing Co., commit an act of bankruptcy
when receivers were appointed for
it by the Court of Centre county?
4th. Are the individual partners
insolvent ?
The jury retired, with a U. S. Mar-
shall in charge. It was absent from
the court room about ten minutes
when it returned. After being poll-
ed the foreman announced that they
had agreed and that their answer to
the first point was “NO.” To the
other three points their answer was
“YES.”
The result of it all is that Judge
Johnson will now take the banking
company’s affairs, as a Company, into
the federal courts where it will be
liquidated without further contention
He will appoint a new receiver or re-
ceivers and further litigation, except
such as might arise over accounts in
the bank, itself, is improbable.
In justice to the present receivers
it is only proper to say that when
this case reached the point where a
decision had to be made between
continuing the litigation further or
accepting a finding that would prob-
ably remove them from their posi-
tions as receivers they gladly chose
the latter course because thay
thought they would serve the cred-
itors better by so doing.
——Summer time is water heating
time. Buy a Monarch Automatic gas
heater. Central Pennsylvania Gas
Co. 24-1t.
GIVE HOME MERCHANTS
A SQUARE DEAL.
We are glad to note the fact that
home merchants are moving to meet
the drain that chain stores are mak-
ing on their business. The first or-
ganized attempt is through a com-
modity that everyone uses and nat-
urally affords a medium through
which the home merchants can prove
to the public that they can meet the
competition with a product equally
as good if not better, at a lower
price. They are starting with coffee
and it is known as “Nittany” blend.
The City Cash, Herr and Heverly,
Hazel’s,
store and H. E. Garbrick are all
handling it here. The Milesburg Store
Co., S. T. Wolf and H. A. Kline, at
Howard; J. D. Patterson. at Boals-
burg; Jess Shuey and George T.
Bohn, at Lemont, all handle “Nit-
tany.”
If you are using any of the brands
specialized in by the chain stores buy
a package of “Nittany” and compare
it with the other coffee. We are sure
you will find it quite as good and as
the price is only 37 cents a pound
certainly there is every reason, both
economically and from the standpoint
of home pride, for you to buy from
the merchants who are helping to pay
the taxes in your community, as well
as carrying their share of the other
burdens that fall on your town’s peo-
ple.
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——Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Sager, of
Thomas street, are the proud par-
ents of a twelve pound boy who was
L. Orvis and Mortimer C. Rhone, of born Monday morning. There are
Williamsport,
Meek.
represented Geo. R. now five girls and five boys in the
Sager family.
J. C. Jodon, R. S. Brouse !
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Joseph Ceader of Cleveland, Ohio, is
among the visiting guests, registered at
the Nittany country club, this week.
, —Dr. Dale went to Philadelphia, Tues-~
day, to attend the twenty-fifth reunion
of his class at the University of Penn-
sylvania.
—Mr. and Mrs. John Shaughnessy, of
Lewistown, have been guests within the
week, at the L. H. Wion home, on east
High street.
—Mrs.. J. Will Conley, of this place,
and Mrs. William B. Wallis, of Pitts-
burgh, are at the Colton Manor, Atlantic
City, for a stay of a month or more.
—Mr. and Mrs. C. Y. Wagner arrived
home, a week ago, from a three week's
trip to Arkansas where they had been
for a visit with their son-in--law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Lyon
Morris, at Searcy.
| —Miss Margaret Cook went east, Satur-
| day, expecting to be gone for a week.
Spending Sunday in Philadelphia she
was joined there by Mrs. John Blanchard
with whom she will be for a part of the
time she is away.
{ —Mr. and Mrs. Myron M. Cobb and
i their youngest son, Myron Jr., returned
the early part of last week from a visit
to Mr. and Mrs. Cobb’s former home at
Factoryville, Wyoming Co., where they
had been for Memorial day.
{ —Mrs. J. A. Crewitt, of Newton, Bucks
| county, has been a guest of Miss Mar-
Mrs. Crewitt is a native of Bellefonte,
{ having been born in the house where the
i Presbyterian chapel now stands.
| —Miss Margaret Brockerhoff came up
| from Philadelphia, the early part of last
week, with plans for spending the sum-
' mer with her uncle and brother, Dr. Jo-
soph and Henry Brockerhoff, at the
Brockerhoff home on Bishop street.
| —Miss Isabella Hill, a member of the
\ faculty of the Bellefonte Academy, left
, Monday night for her home at Norwich,
Conn., expecting to spend the remainder
of the month of June there and then to
go to Virginia, where she will be for July
and August. :
—J. M. Laurie, cashier of the National
| bank at Houtzdale, and Mrs. Laurie mo-
tored to Bellefonte, Sunday, were dinner |
then
guests at the Brockerhoff house,
| spent the day with
: friends with whom
touch since
{ years ago.
—Among the many recent guests en-
| tertained by Mr. and Mrs. Oscar McMul-
len, of Coleville,
son and daughter,
Mrs. Minnie Allen, of Lewistown. Mr.
McMullen was a guest of honor at a sur-
prise birthday party, given for him,
Tuesday night, by his daughter, Mrs. Fan-
nan.
—Mrs. John M. Shuguert went out to
Pittsburgh, Saturday, to be with her sis-
ter, Mrs. J. M. Curtin and her family,
for several weeks. Mrs, Curtin and her
two children anticipate coming to Belle-
fonte the first of July to occupy the home
of Mrs. Harry Keller, on east Linn
street, for July and August. Mr. Curtin
| will join them for the week-ends and for
his vacation.
—Harry H. Roan Jr., the only child of
H. H. Roan and Dr. Eva Roan, of State
College, was taken home this week after
being a patient in the Centre County hos-
pital for two months. The child was tak-
en ill with nervous intestinal flu which
was followed by pleuro pneumonia, this
developing a condition which caused his
parents considerable alarm for a time.
Miss Hoy, his nurse, accompanied Junior
home.
—Mrs. Maynard Murch Jr.,, with her
younger son Boynton Daggett Murch
and Mrs. G. McClure Gamble, will drive
in from Cleveland today; Mrs. Murch and
her son to visit the former's aunt, Mrs.
Wells L. Daggett and Mrs. Gamble for a
visit with the Cooney family and other
relatives in Bellefonte. During Mrs.
Murch’s stay she and Mrs. Daggett will
make their annual trip to Wellsboro and
Elmira, the homes of the Daggett ancC
Boynton families.
—J. M. Cunningham, Harry Flack, John
Mignot, Thomas Caldwell ‘and Andrew
Engle drove to Renovo, Sunday, to be in
attendance at the exemplication of the
third degree work in Renovo Council,
Knights of Columbus. It was the first
time it had ever been exemplified in Re-
novo and there was a large class of candi-
dates from Renovo and other nearby
cities. An elaborate program was carried
out, with state deputy L. G. Dana and
his staff in charge.
—Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Harper, their son
James and Mrs. Harper's sister, Mrs.
Violet Barnhart Morris,
and Monday in Bellefonte. The party had
driven from Brooklyn to Hazleton to see
J. W. Barnhart, who with Mrs.
‘hart is there for an indefinite stay, while
Mr. Barnhart is under treatment of spec-
jalist. Dr. and Mrs. Seidel joining them
there, they then motored to Bellefonte for
the two day visit with the Harper and
Barnhart families here.
some of the many
they have kept in
leaving here a number of
were Mrs. McMullen’s
—While here recently on a visit with
relatives in Bellefonte, Mrs. James Pacini
and her son Phil, of Johnstown, were
house guests of Mr. Pacini’'s sister, Mr.
{W. J. Love and her family on east High
street. Mrs. Love is now entertaining,
Miss Mary Callahan, of Buffalo, who since
coming to Bellefonte, Wednesday, has
been dividing her time between the Rog-
ers home, on north Allegheny street, and
,and the Love home on east High street.
| Mr. and Mrs. Callahan will join their
daughter here tomorrow, Miss Mary ac-.
| companying them home,
tuurn to Buffalo.
upon their re-
—Miles E. Osmer and three children,
| Nellie, Gilbert and Pat, motored in from
; their home in Oberlin, Ohio, on Sunday,
"and have been spending the week with
| Bellefonte friends, making their head-
i quarters at the Charles Osmer home, on
| Bishop street. The trip and visit is es-
| pecially interesting to the young people
| who have not been here since they were
small children and had no conception of
| the mountains and beautiful scenery of
Central Pennsylvania. And their father
is satisfying their delightful curiosity by
taking them on daily motor rides to var-
j lous places in the county. Mr. Osmer,
| by the way, has for the past eight years
been head painter and paper hanger at
Oberlin College, under the superintend-
fent of grounds and buildings and as the
college owns the greater part of the town
| of Oberlin he is never out of work.
garet McManus, during the past week. |
Harry Bachman and '
spent Sunday :
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The Rev. and Mrs. Robert Thena are
entertaining Mrs. Thena’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs .Fred Kohnle, of Dayton, Ohio.
—Miss Josephine White will come up o»
the excursion from Philadelphia, Sunday,
for a visit with her aunt, Miss Charlotte
Powell.
— Mr. and Mrs. William Emerick spen#
several days of last week in the western
part of the State, on a business trip te
Johnstown and Pittsburgh,
{ —Mrs. John Harding, of Pittsburgh,
' mother of Mrs. James Craddock, is a
house guest at present, at the Craddock
home, on east Howard street.
—Mr. and Mrs. F. W. West, who drove
to Zelienople a week ago, went out for
one of their frequent week-end visits with
their daughter, Mrs. Glenn Pearce and her
: family.
—Mrs. Winifred B. Meek-Morris and her
son King, will drive in from Pittsburgh
! tomorrow for an over-night stay, ex-
, becting to make the retwn drive Sunday
afternoon.
-—Mrs. Philip Beezer, Philip Witcrait
and Earl Heverly, drove to Philadelphia,
Mcenday, in the Beezer car, to spend seve
eral days with Mrs. Beezer's daughter,
. Miss Helen, who is a patient in the Pres-
| byterian hospital.
—J. P. O'Bryan, prominently known
among State College business men, wild
Mrs. O'Bryan and their son Roy, drove
| over to Bellefonte, Saturday, and spent
several hours here transacting business
and in the shops.
| —Dr. and Mrs. George C. Hall came
‘up from Wilmington, Del., a week ago,
to open their home at Boalsburg. Their
' summers for a nuumber of years without
"interruption, have been spent there at
' the Keller family home.
—Sunday motor guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Shull included, Mr
and Mrs. Hempfield, of Clearfield and Mr.
{and Mrs. Shirk and their small child, of
‘ State College. Mrs. Shull, Mrs. Hemp:
field and Mrs. Shirk, are sisters.
—Miss Ella Levy is closing her home
in Milesburg preparing to leave the early
part of the week, to spend the summer
. with her niece, Mrs. N. C. Townsend, at
Hartford City, Indiana. Tentative plans
have also been made for a trip farther '
, west.
—Miss Mary Cooney with her sister, Mrs,
Ray Stauffer of Pottstown and Ler
daughter “Betty,” drove to Bellefonte
Sunday, completing the Cooney family
partly, with the exception of Miss Mar-
| garet, who will join her sister later in
| the summer.
| —Mrs, William E. Seel, of Puxtang, is
| making her first visit nome with her
mother, Mrs. Martin Fauble, since return-
ing from abroad, where shz and Mr. Seel
spent six months traveling in the Orient.
Mrs. Fauble’s condition which is the re-
sult of a fall in her home several months
ago, ig little changed.
—Dr. and Mrs. George P. Rishel were
house guests, of L. A. Schaeffer on a re-
cent visit to Bellefonte, making daytime
visits from there with Dr. Rishel’s broth:
‘er and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Al Rishel
and other relatives and friends in the
vicinity. Dr. and Mrs. Rishel were in
Eellefonte from Friday until Tuesday.
Mis Mary Chambers, with the Edison
Electric company, of New York city, is
home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Wililam Chambers, for a five weeks visit,
having come to Bellefonte the first or
June. Since her arrival home, Miss
Chambers has undergone a tonsil opera-
tion, from which she has not yet entirely
recovered.
—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daly and thei:
four month old daughter Dolores, are ex-
pected to arrive nere from San Francisco,
the first of July, coming by the way of
the Canal. Mrs. Daly was formerly Miss
Janet Cook, and it is probable that she
and the family will be in Bellefonte until
deciding as to their permanent location
in the East.
—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Flack, their son-
in-law, George Carpeneto and his daugh-
ter Madaline, drove to Blairsville, Wed-
nesday, of last week, to attend the fun-
eral of Mrs. Lloyd Flack’s father, Mr.
Verner, who died suddenly while on a
visit in Pittsburgh. Lloyd Flack, is a
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Flack. The
party returned to Bellefonte the same
evening,
— Mr. and Mrs. Caaries ©. Dorwerth, of
Bellefonte, William Dorwortn, of Phila-
dzlphia, Charles E. Doswerth Jr., a stu-
dent at Lehigh Univacssity and Louise
Meyer, a student at Hoel College, were
among the friends of Rebecca Dorwoith,
who attended the exercises, Tuesday,- of
last week, at Miss Wrigits schaol, to see
har graduate, Rebecca being a inember
of the class of 29.
—Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Coxey, of easé
Eishop street, with their daughter, Miss
Dorothy, and Miss Marie Chandler as her
guest, are anticipating a prolonged motor
trip through the middle west. They wil}
leave here, Sunday morning, with Illinois
as their first stop of importance. There
they will visit family relations for a few
days and then motor on into Iowa, and
possibly, north into Wisconsin. Miss Dor
othy will drive her own car and as Miss
Chandler is also a licensed driver they
will both take turns at the wheel.
—Mrs. Grant Pifer came in from Wil-
kinsburg, Thursday of last week, to at-
tend the Pifer reunion, held at Lamar,
Saturday and while here, was a house
guest of her sister, Mrs. Clayton E.
Royer, at the Royer home on Water
street. Mrs. Pifer, who has for many
years been an ardent member of the
Eastern Star, returned home Tuesday,
to attend the State meeting of the or-
ganization, which has been in session in
Pittsburgh this week. In addition to Mrs.
Pifer, Mr. and Mrs. Royer’s guests dur-
ing the week, included Dr. and Mrs.
George P. Rishel, of Philadelphia, and
Samuel Moyer, of Hershey.
—Among the Sunday visitors in Belle-
fonte were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thomas
and their daughter. They had motored
over from their home in Johnstown to
spend the day greeting friends here and
in Milesburg. After working as a boy for
McCalmont and Co., in this place Charley
went to Lewistown in 1913 and from
there joined the forces of the National
Radiator Co. Since that connection was
mada he has been living both at New
Castle and Johnstown. While here they
spent some time at the H. F. Miller nome
on east High street. They were aczom-
puried home by Mrs, P. A. Ward, Mrs.
Thomas’ mother, who will visit with them
fcr a while.
| —Mr. and Mrs, Willis M. Bottorf and
three children, Jacob, Bob and Mary
Katherine, drove to Johnstown, Sunday,
"and spent the day there as guests of Mr.
‘and Mrs. L. L. Lambert.
—Mrs. Maurice B, Runkle, Miss Daisy
; Henderson, Mrs. Ebon Bower, Mrs. A. C
. Heverly, Mrs. W. E. Hurley, Mrs. Harvey
' Schaeffer and Mrs, John McCracken are
representing the Bellefonte chapter of the
Fastern Star, at the annual State con-
clave, being held in Pittsburgh this week,
The party went out Sunday morning, in-
tending to return today.
DON'T FAIL TO REGISTER
FOR KIDDIES PICNIC.
The registration for the annual pic-
nic to be given the kiddies at Hecla
park, Thursday, June 20th, by the
Bellefonte lodge of Elks, opened yes-
terday and G. Wash Rees, registra-
tion officer will be a busy man until
the registration closes tomorrow ev-
ening. Children should remember
that in order to be assured of trans-
portation and proper entertainment
and a lunch while at the picnic they
are required to register, so the com-
mittee in charge will be able to make
necessary preparations.
Last Friday morning Dr. R. L.
Stevens made an early trip down
Bald Eagle valley and when he re-
turned to Bellefonte the entire front
of his car, lamps, radiator, hood and
windshield were covered with thou-
sands of mosquitoes and mosquitoe
eggs. The insects were on the order
of the New Jersey variety over half
an inch in length, but fortunately
they were all dead so that the breed
will not molest Bellefonte residents.
But the doctor certainly reduced the
supply in Bald Eagle valley.
——Mail plane east, last Friday
, night, carried a 240 pound honey-
“moon cake sent by admiring Califor-
nians to New York city for Col.
Lindbergh and bride. The plane stop-
ped at the Bellefonte field and the
night man on duty avers the cake
filled the entire cockpit of the plane.
mre eee Apres
——The Bellefonte curb market
opened last Saturday with ten cars
lined up at the curb in front of the
court house. Home grown straw-
berries made their appearance, the
first of the season. Growers who
were at market stated that the crop
will be large.
——Wetzler’s Junior band will give
a concert on the green in front of the
Baptist church at Milesburg, Friday
evening, June 21st, at 8 o'clock. At
the same time the Philaphea class
will hold a festival at the same place.
——The 24th annual reunion of
‘the Eberhart clan will be held at
Lewisburg Wednesday, June 19th,
rain or shine.
teem renee —————
HOWARD.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Williams,
of Renovo, are visiting at the home
of E. G. Ekdahl.
Mrs. T. A. Pletcher, daughter An-
na and Mrs. Lauth, are spending the
week with friends in Erie.
Mr. and Mrs. Fleming James, of
Clarksburg, W. Va., are visiting at
the home of L. L. Williams.
The Howard band will go to Hecla
park, Sunday, to play the opening
concert of the summer season.
No more tickets on the railroad
will be sold in Howard on Sunday, as
the station will be closed all day.
M. E. Pletcher, Robert Yearick and
Samuel Holter motored to Williams-
port, Thursday, to see the Grays
play ball.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Berry and Mr.
and Mrs. Russel, of Lock Haven,
were Sunday visitors at the home of
Claude Moore.
The Methodists observed Children’s
day last Sunday evening. Children’s
day services at the Evangelical
church next Sunday.
The “Win One” class of the Re-
formed Sunday school held their
monthly business meeting at the
home of Geo. Painter.
Clarence Bechdol is home for a
visit after spending six months at
sea. On one trip he visited the east
coast of South America.
Mr. and Mrs. Goodfellow, Geo.
Goodfellow, Anna Goodfellow and
Miss Elsie Yingling, were Sunday vis-
'itors at the home of Rev. Yingling.
Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Schenk, of
Beech Creek, formerly of Howard,
announce the arrival of a baby
daughter, Gloria June, Saturday,
June 8th.
Howard journeyed to Orviston,
Saturday, and was beaten in a nice’
ball game 5 to 2. Orviston comes
to Howard Saturday, June 15th, for
a return game.
Miss Harriet Woodward is spend-
ing a few days with friends in How-
ard and then is going to Baltimore,
where her brother Charles is serious-
ly ill in Johns Hopkin’s hospita.
H. S. Schenck, D. B. Gardner, Jerry
Altenderfer, William Holter, W. C.
Thompson, G. H. Markle and son
William were in Williamsport, Satur-
day, to see the Grays play a double-
| header.
| Harry Gardner, of Williamsport,
was home for the week-end. His
mother, Mrs. Edward Gardner, and
her granddaughter Pauline, accom-
panied Harry back to Williamsport
for a week's visit.
| Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & Co.
{| VWREAL | cesneresiremsnsesseasresssnsnssssesssessssssssnsesasssmmen sess $1.10
| Corn 2 1.00
| Oats 50
Rye : 1.10
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