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Bellefonte, Pa., July 12, 1929.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
t- ——The Lord Construction com-
pany started work, on Wednesday,
on the 4% mile section of concrete
way from Milesburg to below
' ——Bellefonte Lutherans celebrat-
féd the 85th anniversary of the or-
ganization of the congregation on
Sunday, June 30th, with appropriate
gervices.
——Students in Centre county vo-
‘eational schools realized a total of
$4,791.48 from the projects they car-
ried on as part of their school work
last year.
——The West Branch medical so
ciety, at a recent meeting held at
Jersey Shore, elected Dr. Peter Hof-
fer Dale, of State College, president
for the ensuing year.
——The Kaus Carnival company,
Which held forth on the Witmer field
all of last week, pulled out on Sun
day morning for Altoona, where
they are showing this week.
——The grain fields are beginning
fo color and harvest time will soor
Pe here. The crop in Centre county
fis year is fair to good and will
Help make up for last year’s poor one
-~——Judge and Mrs. William H.
Keifer, of Lancaster, have announced
the marriage of their daughter,
Martha Eleanor, to Mr. Edmund
Rowland, on Saturday, June 29, at
Lancaster, Penna.
~——At the ' annual meeting of
the State Bar Association, at Bed:
rd Springs the last week in June,
ward J. Thompson Esq. of Philips-
burg, was elected a member of the
executive committee.
* During 1928 the total value of
all the livestock on the ' farms of
Pennsylvania increased seven million
dollars. On Jan. 1, 1929, the value of
Centre county’s part of the total was
Placed at $2,912.710.
———H. Reeder Jodon, of Pleasant
Gap, has purchased the Big Spring
garage from J. C. Houck. The lat-
tér has secured a building in the
rear of the Parrish drug store where
he will be located in the future.
Remember that you can heat
with gas, freeze with gas, and cook
with gas, quicker, better, and more
economically than by any other mod-
ern method known to science. Cen-
tral Pennsylvania Gas. Co. 27-1t
——The Misses Deitrick, of Nit-
tany valley, who grow and market
the nicest strawberries brought to
Bellefonte during the season, picked
and sold an even 2500 quarts this
year, not counting what they used
at home.
——Caught’' in the act of dyna-
miting Black Moshannon creek for
grotit, one day last week, Harold
Harper, of Philipsburg, was arrest-
ed and fined $100 and costs, a total
of $104.50. He was given four days
fn which to settle.
~——The fact that gasoline dealers,
under a law which went into effect
July 1st, must give bond in the sum
of $50 and up to assure the pay-
ment of the four cent tax, has
caused a number of small dealers in
Centre county to go out of business.
——The story to the effect that
the home of the late Dr. W. U. Ir-
win, on Allegheny street, has been
sold is wholly without foundation.
Mrs. Irwin has not considered the
matter at all and has had no offer
for it.
——Huckleberries are unusually
plentiful on the Allegheny moun-
tains, this year, and exceptionally
fine in quality, but according to
some of the pickers both copper-
heads and rattlesnakes are also
more plentiful than in former years,
80 that gathering the berries is not
devoid of danger.
——The Centre County jail has
meither gained nor lost in its stand-
ing as a “penal institution having
received a rating of 360 points out
of a possible 1000. at . the hands of
the State Welfare Department,
which is the same rating given it
last year. Next year, after the new
woman's department has been com-
pleted we ought to jump several
hundred points.
‘T. H. Harter Esq., editor of
the Gazette, has been quite ill dur-
ing the week. His condition was so
alarming at first that he had to be
faken to the hospital. Reports yes-
terday were to the effect that he is
wevovering. The trip which he and
His grand-nephew, Charles Mensch
Jr., were to have taken through the
north-west, with the National Editor-
fial Association, had to be cancelled
in consequence of Mr. Harter’s illness.
——Though there were sixty-seven
members in the 1929 graduating
class of the Bellefonte High school
only thirteen of the number have
signified their intention of continu-
ing study in higher institutions of
learning or taking a course for a
permanent vocation. They are Philip
Witcraft, Jacob Bottorf, John Smith,
Iva Dillon, Mildred Kalin and Warren
Wilson, who will enter State College;
Katherine Irwin, Wilson college;
Sheldon Evey and Mary Rogers, the
Philadelphia school of pharmacy;
Grace Millward and Margaret Irwin,
the graduate school of nursing at the
University of Pennsylvania, and
Mary Elizabeth Shuey and Sara Lind-
enmuth,. the Centre County hospital
school for nurses.
AB
FEDERAL OFFICERS MAKE
SIX ARRESTS IN COUNTY.
A Bellefonte Taxi Driver Among the
Number Taken.
Col. Wilbur F. Leitzell’'s enforce-
ment officers, of Lewisburg, invaded
Centre county, on Saturday evening,
and arrested six alleged violators of
the Volstead law, securing as evi-
dence two stills, a quantity of moon-
shine, wine and home brew.
The men arrested were Charles
Miller, taxi driver of Bellefonte, who
‘was arrested in his taxi, and three
pints of alleged whiskey found in the
machine confiscated.
John Koch, of State College, where
a quantity of home brew was found.
Ralph Snyder and Ralph Moyer,
living on the road from Waddle to
State College. ‘A gallon of whiskey
was found at Snyder’s place and a
quantity of home brew at Moyers.
Frank Tomaszek,
where a 25-gallon - still was found
and various products used in manu-
facturing moonshine. :
John Talvano, of Clarence, where
another still was found, with a quan-
tity of whiskey, mash and wine.
Miller was taken to Sunbury Sat-
urday night and bond for his release
in the sum of $2000 was furnished on
Monday by Arthur Thomas. The oth-
er men were taken to Sunbury on
Sunday and bail for Tomaszek was
furnished on Tuesday by Charles
Houser, of Fillmore. Up to this time
the others have failed to get bail.
As an aftermath of the above raid
Mrs. John Koch, of State College,
was placed under arrest, on Monday
afternoon, by county detective Leo
Boden and police chief Yougel, of
State College. At a hearing before
Squire I. J. Dreese bail for her re-
lease was fixed at $700. Being un-
able to furnish bond she was brought
to the Centre county jail.
STARTING TO RAZE
STATE’S “OLD MAIN.”
Work of razing and reconstructing
Old Main, the first college building
erected on the campus of the Penn-
sylvania State College over 70 years
ago, was started this week by the
Henry Baton Construction Company,
of Philadelphia. The new structure,
which according to the contract, is
20 be completed by August 1, 1930,
will be erected at a cost of approxi-
mately $750,000. It will be construct-
€d along the same general plans as
‘the old building and will be used for
Student activities and administrative
offices. The building will have a 150-
foot clock tower which will house a
complete set of chimes aswell as the
old bell and the original clock left as
a memorial by the class of 1904.
——Miss Sarah Benner, probably
the oldest native resident of Belle-
fonte, celebrated her 95th birthday
anniversary on Wednesday of last
week, and was kindly remembered by
scores of friends with gifts of flow-
ers, many more substantial offerings
and personal calls. Miss Benner was
a daughter of J. M. and Anne Harvey
Benner and a granddaughter of Gen-
eral Philip Benner, prominently con-
nected with the early history of
Centre county. She enjoys the un-
usual distinction of having been born
in the house in which she spent her
entire life and is livng today. Nine-
ty-five years, almost twenty four
presidential terms, and during that
time she has seen this country em-
broiled in four serious wars. She is
the last of her generation of the
Benner family. Aside from the loss
of her eye-sight several years ago she
enjoys good health.
The community daily vacation
Bible school, held for three weeks at
the High school building under the
auspices of the Bellefonte Ministe-
rium, closed on June 28th with ap
appropriate program of exercises.
One hundred and ninety-two boys
and girls, ranging in age from 4 to
14 years, were enrolled. Seventy:
eight of this number received certifi:
cates for perfect attendance. The
offering taken during the sessions
was given to the Children’s Aid so
ciety. Eight teachers, qualified by
training, were in charge, as follows:
Miss Verna Ardery, principal; Miss
Martha Geiss, Mrs. Eleanor Mec-
Dowell, Miss Eieanor Barnhart, Miss
Louise Meyer. Mrs. Marvin Rothrock,
Miss Mary Robb’ and Miss Mary
Woodring.
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While Mrs. Harry Regal, of
north Penn street, was out of the
house for a few minutes, on Tuesday
morning, her ten month's old daugh-
ter, Rebecca, got hold of the mother’s
pocketbook and opening it, chewed
several bichloride of mercury tablets
found therein. When the mother re-
turned the child was found writhing
on the floor. A physician, hastily
summoned, used a stomach pump and
the child is recovering.
——On July 15th Ira D. Garman
will open his new jewelry store at
1420 Chestnut street, Philadelphia,
“Burlington Arcade,” moving there
from his old location at 101 south
Eleventh street. With his fifty years
experience in the jewelry business Mr.
Garman’s stere has grown to be
among the leaders in that line in
Philadelphia.
Resolve today to rid yourself
of sweltering heat over a red hot
stove for another summer. A new
gas range is the answer. Central
Pennsylvania Gas Co. 27-1t
of Fillmore, |
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| Henderson—Crain.— Two hundred
invited guests were present in the
Methodist church, at Port Matilda,
at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
June 29th, to witness the marriage
of Miss Eunice Erma Crain, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Crain, of
that place, and Chalmer C. Hender-
son, a son of Mr. and Mrs. CO. M.
Henderson, of State College.
{ The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Gordon A. Williams, an uncle
| of the bride. assisted by Rev. J. F.
, Winkleblech. The bride, who was
given in marriage by her father,
was attended by Miss Agnes Crain,
. as maid of honor; Miss Ella Wil-
liams and Miss Lois Crain, brides-
maids. Samuel Harshbarger took
the part of best man while the ush-
‘ers were Harold Ebersole and Donald
1 V. McLean, both of Cortland, N. Y.,
: The ring ceremony was used. Mrs.
W. Scott Crain played the wedding
march and Mrs. Mabel Sherbert
sang “Oh. Promise Me.”
A wedding reception and dinner
at the bride’s home followed the
ceremony and later Mr. and Mrs.
Henderson left on a motor trip to
Colonial Beach, Va. The bride taught
the grade school, at Port Matilda,
last year and is an accomplished
young woman. The bridegroom is a
graduate of State College and now
holds the position of county club
agent under the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, at Cortland, N. Y.,
where they will make their future
home.
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Fridgen—Waite.— The marriage
of Miss Ruth Ann Waite, daugh-
ter of Mrs. George C. Waite, of
Bellefonte, and Edward N. Fridgen,
of L’Anse, Mich., was solemnized al
the parsonage of the Methodist
church in Lock Haven, at 8 o'clock
Saturday evening. June 29th. The
ceremony was performed by the
pastor, Rev. Merrill Williams and
the attendants were the bride’s sis
ter, Miss Emma Waite, of Bellefonte,
and brother, Gilbert Waite, of Jer-
sey Shore.
The bride is a graduate of the
Bellefonte High school, class of 1913
and for six years past has been em-
ployed in the State highway offices.
Mr. Fridgen is a radio operator and
spent eighteen months in Bellefonte
as one of the trick operators at the
aviation field. Mr. and Mrs. Fridger
remained in Bellefonte until Wednes-
day of last week when they left by
automobile for L’Anse, Mich.,, where
the bridegroom holds the position of
radio engineer for the Ford Motor
Co., and where they will make their
home.
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Hyslop— Shoemaker.— Coincident
with the announcement of the
birth of a little son, at the McGee
hospital, Pittsburgh. on Sunday
morning, June 30th, Dr. and Mrs.
William S. Hyslop also announted
they were married October 1st, 1928.
Mrs. Hyslop, prior to her marridge,
was Miss Augusta Shoemaker,
daughter of Mrs. Thomas A. Shoe-
maker, of Bellefonte. Dr. Hyslop is
a native of Pittsburgh, but for more
than a year has been official “dentist
at Rockview penitentiary and also
practiced his profession in Belle-
fonte, Mrs. Hyslop, with her baby,
will join her husband in Bellefonte
in the near future.
McAllister—Ralston.—J. A. McAl-
lister, of Pennsylvania Furnace. and
Miss Anna Ralston, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William Ralston, of Struble,
were married at the parsonage of the
Reformed church, at Boalsburg, by
the pastor, Rev. W. W. Moyer. The
young couple returned at once to
their own newly furnished home at
Pennsylvania Furnace.
—— A —————
refrigerator that is noiseless, has no
motor and no moving parts, and so
powerful that it continues to freeze
with the doors wide open? See it
operating in our show window now.
Central Penna Gas Co. 27-1t
DRUM CORPS AND BAND
The drum and bugle corps of the
Brooks-Doll post, American Legion,
and Wetzler’s Junior band, of Miles-
jourg and Bellefonte, will unite in
jolding a big carnival of music and
entertainment on the High school
grounds Bellefonte, July 18th, 19th
and 20th. Three big evenings of solid
enjoyment for both old and young.
It will be entirely a local affair
and members of the woman's auxil-
1aries of both the drum corps and
band will dispense ice cream, cake,
candy, etc. A circle of booths will
be on the ground to furnish laugh-
able entertainment. Both the band
each evening and take turns in fur-
nishing music. Don’t forget the dates
but be on hand to share in the pleas-
ures of the carnival.
i —Professor A. H. Espenshade,
head of the department of English
composition at the Pennsylvania
{State College and a member of the
college faculty for the past 31 years,
will sail early this month for a year’s
Yleave of absence to teach English
somposition at. the University of
dawaii.’ For many years, Professor
yspenshade was registrar at Penn
State, a position which he relinquish-
ed. to. supervise the college building
fund campaign in 1929. Later he
was made head of the department
of English composition. He is the
author of “Pennsylvania Place
Wames.”
——Would you like an automatic
TO HOLD BIG CARNIVAL.
and the drum corps will be on hand |
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Frances E. Thomas, who has been a
member of the faculty of the Montclair
Academy, Montclair, N. J., for several
‘years, is at the Penn Hall Hotel, Cham-
bersburg, for the month of July.
—Miss Elizabeth Gephart has returned
to Bellefonte after spending the winter |
and spring with her brother and his fam-
ily, at Bronxville, and with friends at
Germantown, Atlantic City and Williams-
‘port.
—Mr. and Mrs. G. Oscar Gray and
their two sons, Carl and Richard, motor-
ed to Philadelphia two weeks ago, to
spend Fourth of July week there and at
the Shore, returning home Thursday
i might.
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—The Misses Rachel and Ellen Witmer
thave been here from Philadelphia visit.
ling with their sister, Mrs. John G.Love
Jr., being honor guests at the dinner,
Mrs. Love gave at the Nittany country
vlub, Saturday night.
—Mrs. F. A, Fink returned to Altoona
late last week, following a two week's
visit in Centre county with friends at
State College, Pleasant Gap and Hublers-
burg. Mrs. Fink was a former resident
of Bellefonte for many years.
—Chandler Barnard and his nephew, Billy
Nelson, of Philadelphia, spent Sunday af-
wernoon and evening with Mr. Barnard’s
uncle, John S. Walker and the family,
(having come on here from Harrisburg,
where Mr. Barnard had been on business.
—Miss Helen E. C. Overton, went to
Atlantic City a week ago, for her tenth
successive summer at the Children’s
Seaside House, Miss Overton spends
July and August at the shore, returning
in time for the opening of school in
September.
—Mrs. Oscar Wetzel left Bellefonte, on
Wednesday, for Waterbury, Conn., where
she will join her son, Merle Wetzel and
wife, and the latter's mother, for a two
week's sojourn on the beach at Webster
Point, Madison, where Mr. Wetzel has a
cottage for the summer.
—Mrs Katherine Furey Hunter,
Pittsburgh,
Larimer family at Pleasant Gap for the
‘past two weeks, and was joined there
Wednesday by her daughter, Mrs. Antho-
ny, who came in to make the trip back
to Pittsburgh with her mother.
—Frank D, Lee, of Centre Hall, was
a business visitor in Bellefonte, on Tues-
day of last week, and made a pleasant
call at the Watchman office. According
to him there is nothing startlingly new
on the South Side, all the farmers being
busy with hay making at that time and
getting in shape for cutting grain.
—Mr. and Mrs. William Brouse, with
their three children and Mr. Brouse’'s
mother, Mrs. R. S. Brouse, drove to
Brooklyn, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Brouse
‘for a stay of only a few days, while the
children and their grandmother will join
Mr.and Mrs. F. W. Topelt at their cottage
‘on Long Island, expecting to be there for
‘the month of July.
—Miss Betty Gates and brother, Ed-
‘ward Lindley, came in from Johnstown,
‘on Saturday, for their annual summer
vacation with Bellefonte friends. Their
mother, Mrs. Edward L. Gates, and
younger daughter, Martha Marie, will
join them tomorrow while Mr. Gates will
come in later to spend a week and ac-
company them home.
—Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Fay and
their daughter, Patty Lane Fay Jr., ar-
rived in the east late in June, from
‘Riverside, California, expecting to be here
for an indefinite stay. Their time as
planned, will be spent in Bellefonte with
‘Mrs. .Fay's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
N. Lane and with Mr. Fay’s sister, at
‘their former home in Altoona.
—Miss Betty Lockington returned home
from Mauch Chunk, last week, expecting
to be in Bellefonte permanently, in as
much as she is now on the faculty of
the Bellefonte High. Miss Lockington
had expected to spend the summer
abroad but was compelled to abandon the
trip on account of her father’s illness
from injuries in an automobile accident
early in the spring.
—The Hoovers were in town, over the
week-end and Sunday, not the President
and family, but Augustus M. Hoover and
his son, Lawrence A., of Philadelphia,
of
‘here on a visit to old friends of bygone
years. The elder Hoover spent most of
his life here and his son the days of his
boyhood and young manhood, so that re-
turning to Bellefonte is like coming back
home. They left Philadelphia early ip
{ the week and struck Beech Creek July
3rd remained there over the Fourth and
came on here on Saturday.
—Fred Craft, a former resident of
Bellefonte, (will come here from Buffalo
‘this week, to join Mrs. Craft and their
two children and after a visit of several
days, will take his family back to New
York State. Mrs. Craft, her son Fred
-Jr., ‘and her niece, Mary Edith Otto, of
Johnstown, who had been visiting in Buf-
falo, came here two weeks ago, while Mr.
and Mrs. Craft's four year old daughter,
‘Mary Maxine, had been in Bellefonte witn
her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
T. Kerns for three months.
—A touring party composed of Mr. and
‘Mrs. Raymond G. Lutz and Mr, and Mrs.
George D. Rentschler, of Akron, Ohio,
enroute home from a trip to Washington,
D. C., were Bellefonte visitors on Friday
night and were brief callers at this of-
fice on Saturday morning. The ladies
are grand-daughters of the late .John
‘Ward, of Stormstown, but have spent all
their life in Akron and this was their
first visit to Centre county in eighteen
vears. They were on their way to
Stormstown and from there expected to
go to Gatesburg then on to Warriors-
mark to visit an aunt, Mrs. George W.
Fisher.
—Among the Watchman office visitors,
Wednesday of last week, was Walter
Gherrity, owner of the famous Gherrity
place in the Seven mountains. He has
quit farming his land and has turned his
place into a regular resort and his trip
to Bellefonte, last week, was to bring
nineteen young people, his guests from
Greensburg to Bellefonte to see the big
fish in Spring creek. Mr. Gherrity hag
one less attraction for his place this year
and that is the deer. Other years they
were as plentiful around there as sheep
in a pasture and used - his porch pillars
as rubbing posts, but since the slaughter
of does, last. fall, he avers, it is now &
rare sight to see one. And the few he has
seen this summer are so wild and
cautious it is hardly possible to get a
sight of them.
has been a guest of the
{ —The F. P. Hoag and the George I.
Purnell families are occupying the
Sycamore club, on the Bald Eagle creek
at Wingate, this week.
—Mr. and Mrs. George R. Meek re- |
| turned, Saturday night, from a week's mo-
| tor trip through eastern New York, New
England, and into Canada to Quebec.
j treatment at Camp Devitt, since early
spring, is home for one of his frequent
visits with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Brachbill.
—Mrs. Charles Kurtz, with her daugh-
ter and son, Lois and Fred, drove up to
{ Buffalo, for the Fourth, remaining there
law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Clark.
—Walter B. Rankin, of Camp Hill, with
Mrs. Rankin and their two sons, motored
to Bellefonte Saturday for an overnight
visit with the William B. Rankin fam-
ily, returning home Sunday afternoon.
—Mrs. Robert Thena and her three
children went out to Akron, Ohio, last
week, for a summer visit with Mrs.
Thena’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Koehnle,
Rev. Thena expecting to join them there
later.
who had been guests, both at The Mark-
land and the Nittany country club, are
now visiting with Mrs. Foster's niece,
Mrs. Ivan Walker and the family, on
east Linn street.
—M. A. Landsy and Philip Witcraft
motored to Philadelphia, Sunday, going
down to see Mrs. Landsy and Phil’s aunt,
Miss Helen Beezer, both of whom have
been Philadelphia hospital patients for
the past several weeks.
—Mr., and Mrs. Fred Baldi and their
son, of Philadelphia, have been in Belle-
fonte within the week, guests of Judge
and Mrs. M. Ward Fleming. Judge
| Fleming and Mr. Baldi have been friends
since their college days.
visit with relatives in and about Belle:
fonte, Maj. and Mrs. James Taylor, have
been house guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. D.
1 Zerby, of east Linn street. Mrs. Zerby
is a sister of Maj. Taylor.
J. M. Curtin, of Pittsburgh, spent the
Fourth here with his family, his first
| visit to Bellefonte since Mrs. Curtin and
their two children, Betty and Harry,
came in to occupy the Harry Keller
| home, on east Linn street. 7
i The William Houser family drove to
Osceola, Sunday, for an all day visit with
the Kurtz Housers, returning home with
them was Kurtz Jr.,, who will be in Belle-
fonte with his grandparents and aunts,
at the Houser home on Water street, for
a part of the month of July.
—Thomas M. Gates, of Altoona, was a
Bellefonte visitor on Saturday and a
brief caller at the Watchman office. Born
and raised at the foot of old Tussey
mountain he has a liking for the atmos-
phere of Centre county and is a fre-
quent visitor within its borders.
—The Misses Harriet and Elizabeth
Hart, of Spring street, with Mrs. James
McClain as their driving guest motored
to Ebensburg on Friday and spent the
week-end with Mrs. McClain at her home
there. She had been in Bellefonte for a
visit with her mother, Mrs. J. L. Spangler.
—Mrs. George B. Ely and her son
George Jr., arrived here from Arendtsville,
this week, to spend an indefinite time in
Centre county, visiting with her sisters
ani brothers, the Hezikah Hoy family.
At present. Mrs. Ely and her son are
guests of Mrs. Clayton Royer, of Water
Street.
—Miss Theresa Shields, who is now
superintendent of nurses at the Altoona
hospital spent her vacation with her
parents, Mr, and Mrs. Michael Shields
in Bellefonte, leaving the first of
July to begin work in the Altoona hos-
pital. Miss Shields was formerly with
the State hospital at Blossburg.
—Miss Helene Williams left yesterday
for Allentown, for an overnight visit with
Miss Anna McCauley, formerly a Red
Cross nurse of Bellefonte, who is north
spending her vacation with her brother.
From there, Miss Williams will drive to
Wyomissing, to be a guest of Mrs. Har-
riet Ray Smith for the remaining part of
the week she will be away.
—Mrs. William A. Lyon and her
daughter, Mrs. Clair Williams, both for-
mer residents of Bellefonte, drove up
from Westfield, N. J., Friday and spent
Sunday in Bellefonte, as house guests, of
L. A. Schaffer and his daughter, Miss
Helen, at their home on Curtin street.
The objevt of the visit at this time, was
to see Mr. Williams, who on account
of ill health, has been with his
aunt at Beech Creek for a number of
weeks.
—Dr. Calvin F. Smith, a native of
Centre county, but a practising physician
of Indianapolis, for the greater part of
his life, arrived in Bellefonte, Monday, on
his way for a visit with his half brother,
‘Harvey Musser, at Centre Hall. As a boy,
Dr. Smith lived on the homestead farm
which he now owns, at Centre Hill,
taught school and read medicine with
Dr. Hensyl, at Howard, later marrying
there and going to Indianapolis to locate.
Dr. Smith expects to be east for the
summer.
—Among the many visitors in Belle
fonte last week were Mrs. J. C. Meyer,
of Philadelphia, with her nephew, Jack
McEntyre, of Tennessee, and niece, Miss
Helen Hartswick, of Philadelphia. They
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. John M
stay in town, leaving for Philadelphia on
Monday. On Wednesday Mr. and Mrs
Hartswick’s daughter, Mrs. Glenn Suther-
land, of Leetsdale, Pa., with her two chil-
dren, Jean and Bobby, and a maid, ar-
rived in Bellefonte for her summer visit.
—Charles Thompson, of Lemont, was
in Bellefonte, Wednesday, looking after
some business matters and part of it
was to buy a box of candy for ‘Mrs.
Thompson. That, of course, wasn't an
unusual occurrence, but we told him that
he ought to buy her a whole candy store
after the way he treated here several
weeks ago. They were driving down from
Syracuse, where Charley has some busi-
ness interests, and all was going well un-
til they reached the vicinity of Bloss-
burg. Up to. that point their son James
was at the wheel. Then pater Thompson
decided he would drive and hadn't gone
two miles until he ran the car through a
guard rail and it turned cles = over while
rolling down the river bank. Miraculous
as it may seem not a person in the car
was scratched and while it was badly
battered up not a pane of glass broke.
William Brackbill, who has been under
for a visit with Mrs. Kurtz's brother-in- |
—The Robert Fosters, of Philadelphia, '
—While here from Pittsburgh for a
Hartswick, of Bishop street, during their’
Aeneas,
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| —Mrs. Robert A. Miller, of Tyrone,
spent part of yesterday here looking after
| a little business that required her personal
attention.
—Mrs. Saul Auerbach and her daughter,
Lenore, are here for their summer visit
with Mrs. Auerbach’s parents, Mr. and
| Mrs. Walter Cohen.
—Miss Julia Hale, of Philipsburg, and
Miss Roebe Hildebrand, of Osceola Mills,
spent yesterday visiting at the home of
| Miss Humes, on Allegheny street.
—Charles and Telford Fink Jr., of Ty-
; rone, have been in Bellefonte for the past
week, visiting with their grandfather,
Charles Osman, on Bishop street.
—Dr. W. K. McKinnie, of Westfield, N.
| 3. a former pastor of the Bellefonte
Presbyterian church, and Mrs. McKinnie,
, are abroad on a three month’s tour of the
. Orient.
—Miss Ella Goodhart is east from Chi-
cago, visiting with relatives in Centre
“county, and has been a guest this week,
of her aunt, Mrs. D. Wagner Geiss, at
!'the Geiss home on South Thomas street.
! —Mrs. Walter Gherrity and her three
children, Molly, Joe and Pat, went over
to Tyrone, Sunday, to spend several weeks
with Mrs. Gherrity’s father, Mr. Schneid-
ter, at the Schneider cabin, near Tyrone.
| —Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Williams,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Willard and Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph T. Smith, with Miss Ruth
Blueston and Charles Wilson, of Syracuse,
are occupying the Bertram cabin on Spring
creek, this week.
| —Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Yeager and
i Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sturn, will drive up
from Perth Amboy, N. J., Sunday, with
| plans for spending the remainder of July
, in Bellefonte, with Mr. Yeager’'s parents,
| Mr and Mrs. H. C. Yeager. .
{ —Miss Mary Norris who had been visit-
| ing Miss Caroline Valentine at “Burnham’
during the month of June, left for her
home in Bellaire, Md., yesterday. Miss
Valentine will go to Ogunquit, Maine, to-
day, for a stay of several weeks.
—Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Locke and their
three children, of Philadelphia, ware
among the Fourth of July visitors to
| Bellefonte, driving up to spend several
days with Mr, Locke's father, Dr. Melvin
Locke and the family, at their home on
‘Allegheny street.
| —Mrs. Lucy Hale Field and two nurses,
arrived here from Coatesville, Tuesday af-
ternoon, for a weeks visit with Miss
: Humes. A native of Bellefonte, - Mrs.
| Field has kept in touch with her friends
here by these annual summer visits at
i the Humes home.
—Miss Mary Saylor is arranging to go
i to Wheeling, W. Va., the first of August
where she will visit for the remainder of
the summer with her sister, Mrs. Bert-
schy. Miss Saylor has been spending
much of the time during the past two
! years in Wheeling.
—Mrs. William Malone has been here
from Huntingdon for the past week, a
guest of Mrs. J. R. Driver. Mr. Malone
drove over with his wife on Sunday and
will return to spend the coming week-end.
here. The Malones only recently left
Bellefonte to make their home in Hunt-
ingdon.
—Mrs. J. Will Conley, who is in Belle-
fonte for an indefinite stay, arrived here
two weeks ago from Atlantic City, with
her daughter, Mrs. Wallis. The latter,
after an over Sunday visit with friends
here went on to Pittsburgh to join Mr.
‘Wallis on a trip to Canada, to be guests
at a Fourth of July house party.
—Our old friend John Rich, of Tyrone,
dropped in yesterday morning for a lit-
tle chat and, for the first time, we were
struck with his growing likeness to his
distinguished father, the late Judge Ben-
jamin Rich, of Unionville. John said
that Tyrone has really been quite ser-
iously affected by the abandonment of
the railroad’ division point there and that
its effects’ will probably be felt for some
years to come.
| —Miss Mary Gross, of Axe Mann, was
in town Wednesday afternoon; having
come in to treat her two fine little neph-
ews, Philip and David Gross, to a
movie party. Recently we saw the lads
fishing in a hole near their home. It used
to be a great place for trout and it must
be yet, for Philip told us he had landed
twelve out of it this season—one of them
fifteen inches lang—and David owned to
having caught two. :
—Mrs. E. M. Broderick, of State Col-
lege, who has been with her uncle, Thom-
as Hamilton, for the past month, went
there from the Centre county hospital,
where she had been a patient for three
weeks expecting to remain in Belle-
fonte until entirely recovered from her re-
cent illness. Mrs. Broderick’s brother,
Thomas Hamilton II, of New York, and
his wife, will join her sister here next
‘week to be guests also at the Hamilton
home on north Allegheny street.
——At a baby show held in Phila-
delphia, last week, first prize for boy
babies was awarded to Thomas P.
Geary III, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thom-
as P. Geary. Prior to her marriage
Mrs. Geary was Miss Elizabeth Heck-
man, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clay-
ton H. Heckman. of Bellefonte.
Marriage Licenses.
Ralph Koch Rossman and Helen
Isobel Auman, both of Aaronsburg.
Alvin LeRoy Sellers and Violet
Cleon Palmer, both of State College.
Lincoln L. Hassenplug, of Laurel-
ton, and Dorothy E. Fryer, of Co-
burn.
Thomas Stuart Goyne, of Ashland,
and Lucille Sturgis Gramley, of Mill-
heim.
James Albert McAllister and
Anna E. Ralston, both of State Col-
lege.
Edward W. Taylor and Nellie Ade-
line Barner, both of Cumberland, Md.
C. Fred Young and Mae V. Mc-
Clellan, both of Centre Hall
William Alfred Hassinger and
Winifred Opal Shaw, both of Ply-
mouth Meeting.
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & Co.
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Corn 1.00
Oats B50
Rye “1.00
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