RE REL Dewioralif atc, Bellefonte, Pa., August 23, 1929. EE P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Editer Teo Correspondents.—No communications published unless accompanied by the real mame of the writer. Terms of Subscription.—Until further motice at the following rates: Paid strictly in advance - - $1.50 Paid before expiration of year - 1.75 Paid after expiration of year .- 2.00 Published weekly, every Friday morn- ing. Entered at the postoffice, Bellefonte, Pa., as second class matter. In ordering change of address always give the old as well as the new address. It is important that the publisher be no- tified when a subscriber wishes the paper discontinued. In all such cases the sub- scription must be paid up to date of can- cellation. A sample copy of the “Watchman” will be sent without cost to applicants. nm FIFTY YEARS AGO IN CENTRE COUNTY. Items taken from the Watchman issue of August 22, 1879. —The store of Mr. Robert Barnes, at Pleasant Gap, was entered by thieves, last Wednesday night and robbed. —Mr. Thomas Shaughensey, our market clerk and street commission- er, is an active and efficient official. We do not know that our streets have ever been kept in better order or the market been more systematic- ally conducted. Under his direction several excellent crossings have lately been laid in town and other pleasing street improvements have been made. —About three hundred tents have already been engaged for the Wayne Station camp meeting. —Wheat is $1.05 per bushel, shel- led corn 50 cts, oats 30 cts, potatoes 40 cts, butter 15 cts and eggs 10 cts per dozen. —We noticed a very handsome and elegantly trimmed casket in the un- dertaking establishment of Mr. Wil- liam Schroyer, in this place, on Tues- day. It was designed for the recep- tion of the body of Mr. McKean, of Zion, or near that place, who was buried on Wednesday. Mr. Schroyer exhibits decided taste and skill in trimming these caskets and usually makes the “dear departed” as com- fortable as possible under the cir- cumstances. —Mr. J. Henry Keller, who owns the picnic grounds on the top of the Nittany mountain, has erected an observatory there that is fifty- feet in height, from which a splen- did view of Penns Valley can be ob- tained. —Thomas McKean, of Zion, Walk- er township, died at his residence there on Tuesday, the 19th, of paral- ysis. He was born in Potter town- ship more than 77 years ago and was | a grandson of Thomas Mcean, who | was one of the signers of the Dea-{ laration of Independence and later | the second Governor of the State of | Pennsylvania. Mr. McKean was Justice .of the Peace for Walker | township from 1866 to 1876. Though | a Republican in politics he was a | good neighbor, friend and citizen. —Married by Henry Haupt Esq., August 17, 1879, John Deters and Miss Maria Craft, both of Boggs township. . —There will be no services -in . the Episcopal church on Sabbath because Rev. Hewitt is away. : : —The Grangers will hold their an- nual picnic on top of the mountain on September 25th. —The Centre Hall cornet band visited town on Friday last and gave the Watchman and Republican offices a serenade. The boys play very well and are a pretty good set of fellows. —ULizzie Bing, daughter of William Bing, living below the Sunny Side lime kilns, was thrown from a swing one day last week and seriously hurt. Some say her skull was frac- tured, but the doctor says she will recover. —George Weaver and William Brown were painting the rear of the | Bush house, last Saturdav, the 16th, | when the scaffold on which they : were working either tilted or gave | away and both young men fell thir-! ty or forty feet to the court below. Brown was badly bruised but got up and walked away and was able to be around town in the afternoon. George Weaver was unable to move and had to be carried home on a stretcher. While no bones were broken he is still in bed and is a badly done up young man. —While a separator was in opera- tion up Buffalo Run the other day Henry Reese attempted to jump from a stack of grain onto a board beneath the stack; but making a miscalculation he lit on the separa- tor and had a foot badly mangled. —Some of the newspapers are down on the velocipede and pitching into it like evreything. Mr. Daniel Garman, accompa- nied by his youngest daughter, Miss Rebe, will leave today for an extend- ed trip through the northern part of the State. A seraph was sick with the colic one day, And weeping leaned over the moon, The tears, as they fell, floated lightly away, On the gossamer pinions of June, But one, as it drifted along in the damp, Sank wearily down to the earth As trembling it lay ’'twas embraced by a cramp And the cucumber blushed into birth. ——A little daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Collins Shoemaker, at the Centre County hospital on Saturday night, has been named Sarah Ellen. Both mother and babe are getting along splendidly and Collins . thinks it is the only real baby in the world. ' leaves no immediate survivors. HOSTERMAN.—John Clayton Hos- terman, who for thirty years edited ed away at his home on Allegheny | and published the Millheim Journal, or until his retirement on July 1st of this year, died at his home in that place, at 4:30 o'clock on Wednesday morning, as the result of a malignant growth on his neck, which developed following an operation six weeks ago for the removal of a goitre. His ill- ness dates back more than two years, becoming quite serious six months ago. He was a son of William Charles and Rebecca Guisewite Hosterman and was born in Haines township May 1st, 1873, hence was in his 57th year. As a child he was a pupil at the Lloysville orphan’s home school, going from there to New Bloomfield to learn typesetting on the New Bloomfield Advocate. Later he went to work on the Johnstown Democrat and on January 1st, 1899, he and the late Dr. Frank Raine purchased the Millheim Journal from the heirs of the Bumiller estate. Within a few years Mr. Hosterman acquired Dr. Raine’s interest in the paper and was the sole owner until July 1st when he sold the plant to his associate edi- tor, Charles E. Musser. He was a member of the Lutheran church and the Millheim camp Modern Wood- men of America. An ardent Demo- crat he at different times was elected and served as a member of the bor- ough council and also school director, filling the office of president of both bodies. In February, 1904, Mr. Hosterman married Sara F. Hartman, who died two years ago, and of their four chil- dren two survive, Jean, at home, and Mrs. Duave Simons, of Reedsville. He also leaves one step-daughter, Mrs. C. E. Musser, of Millheim, and the following brothers and sisters: A. O. Hosterman, of Coburn; George C., of Milton; Mrs. William Korman, of Beaumont, Texas; Mrs. Minnie Cole, of Mansfield, Ohio, and Mrs. John Haines, of Aaronsburg. He al- so leaves a half-sister and half- brother, Mrs. O. H. Scholl, of Mill- heim, and G. R. Boob, of Centre Hall, as well as his step-father, Nathaniel Boob, of Millheim. Funeral services will be held at his late home at 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Rev. Louis Lesher will be in charge and will be assisted by Revs. Kleffel and Griesing, burial to be made in the Fairview cemetery, Millheim. 1 i ll BAIRFOOT.—Mrs. Flora O. Bair-. foot, one of the best known women in Centre Hall, died quite suddenly at her home in that place, at 4:30 o'clock last Thursday afternoon. She had not been in good health for a year and during the latter part of July was confined to bed two weeks. About the first of August she went to the Geisinger hospital, at Danville, and spent two weeks there under oh- servation. She was brought home, last Thursday afternoon by Thomas Smith, chatted a few minutes with friends as she got out of the automa- bile at her own home, went int) the house and upstairs to her room where she reclined on her bed for a brief rest, and died within a few minutes. She was a daughter of Dr. Peter D. and Sarah Motz Neff and was born in Centre Hall on February 2nd, 1855, hence had reached the ag: of 74 years, 6 months and 13 days. All her life was spent in Centre Hall with the exception of about a year when she lived in Bellefonte. In 1886 she married Sidney Bairfoot, who had been a clerk for county treasurer D. C. Keller, and shorly after their marriage they purchased the station- ery store of H. Y. Stitzer, in the Reynolds bank building, Bellefonts, and took up their residence here. In about a year Mr. Bairfoot’s health failed and they sold the store and moved back to Centre Hall wuere he died in 1888. at While living in Bellefonte they took in as one of the family William Smith, a brother of Luther Smith, who went with them when they re- turned to Centre Hall. He died sev- eral years ago and Mrs. Bairfoot Fun- eral services were held at her jate home at tem o'clock, on Monday morning, by Rev. S. F. Greenhoe, of the Lutheran church, of which she was a member, burial being made in the Centre Hall cemetery. Mrs. Bairfoot was possessed of con- siderable property and other financial holdings, and so far as can be ascer- tained left no will, so it isnot known how her estate will be disposed of. I Il RICHARDS.—Mrs. Kate E. Rich- ards, widow of Roland C. Richards, died on Wednesday of last week, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bes- sie Jones, at Ramey, Clearfield coun- ty, as the result of general debility. She was a daughter of William S. and Theressa Wolf and was born in Bellefonte on August 3rd, 1853, hence had reached the age of 76 years and 11 days. Her girlhood life was spent here but in 1871 she married Roland Richards, of Flat Rock, Worth town- | discovered LANE.—John Newton Lane pass- street, Bellefonte, at eleven o'clock Saturday night, following a prolong- ed illness. He had been a suff rer for almost fifty years with arthritis and had been confined to his bed eleven months. During the past two months he suffered considerable pain and for eight or ten days preceding his death was in a semi-conscious ' condition most of the time. He was a son of James B. and Martha J. Lane and was born at Lancaster on March 10th, 1852, hence had reached the age of 77 years, 5 months and 7 days. He was educated at the Yeatts Insti- tute, Lancaster, and the Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia. On complet- ing his course at the latter institu- “tion in 1868 he was given his choice of an appointment to West Point military academy or coming to Belle- fonte and he chose the latter, upon his arrival here entering the banking house of W. F. Reynolds & Co., (now the Bellefonte Trust Co.,) as a clerk, where he remained sixteen years. In 1894 he was a candidate for burgess of Bellefonte on the Democratic ticket but was defeated by William E. Gray. Mr. Lane, who was the last sur- vivor of a family of nine children, was a great grand-son of Col. Hub- ley, of Revolutionary fame; he was a great-nephew of James Buchanan. President of the United States from 1857 to 1861, and a nephew of Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, mistress of the White House during President Buchanan’s administration. As a young man Mr. Lane married Miss Louise Sands, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sands, of Bellefonte, who survives with four sons and one daughter, namely: James B. Lane, of Letonia, Ohio; Mrs. Robert H. Fay, of Riverside, Cal.,, but who has been east since June and helped care for her father during his final illness; John H. S. Lane, of Baltimore; Fred E., of Johnstown, and Elliott E., of Bellefonte. He also leaves one grand- child, Patty Lane Fay, of Riverside, Cal. Public funeral services were held at his late home at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, followed by pri- vate interment in the Bellefonte Union cemetery. |! FLICK. — Mrs. Blanche Flick, wife of William Flick, died on August 11th, at her home near Unionville, as heart attack. She was a daughter of Joseph and Lucy Davidson and was born at Plum Grove sixty-five: years ago. In ad- dition to her husband she is survived by three sons and Gerald, Plummer, Edward and Verna Flick, all at home. She also leaves one brother and four sisters, Willis Davidson, of Plum Grove; Mrs. George Reighard and Mrs. William Loy, of Altoona; Mrs. Sarah Estep, of Trafford City, and Mrs. Adaline Woodring, of Osceola Mills. Funeral services were held at her late home, at 10.o’clock last Wednes- day morning, by Rev. M. H. Craw- ford, assisted by Rev. M. C. Piper, burial being made in the Stover c¢m- etery. the result of a I I MILLER.—Mrs. Sarah Emma Mil- ler, wife of Clarence J. Miller, died at her home in Altoona, last Thursday morning, as the result of an acute heart attack. She was a daughter of William and Maria Swabb Yearick and was born at Howard, Centre county, on May 13th, 1875, hence was in her fifty- fifth year. she was a member of the First Meth- odist Episcopal church. She is sur- vived by her husband, two sons.and two daughters, Mrs. Rose Barton, | Clarence L. Bertha P. and Walter V. Miller, all of Altoona. She also leaves one brother, James Yearick, of Johnsonburg. Burial was made in the Rosehill cemetery, Altoona, on Sat- urday afternoon. PLEASANT GAP WOMAN RUN DOWN BY AUTO. Mrs. Jacob Confer, of Pleasant Gap, mother of eight children, is in the Centre County hospital with a broken collar bone and head injuries sustained, Wednesday morning, when . she was hit by an auto while cross- ing the State highway at Axe Mann. She had gone from Pleasant Gap to Axe Mann on the bus to visit her sister, Mrs. Wallace White. Alight- ing from the bus she walked around it to cross the road and stepped in front of an auto driven by Oscar , Lakner, of Mill Hall. The driver of ithe car stopped and rendered all as- | sistance he could. NIGHT MAILPLANE FLIERS SOUND FIRE ALARM. On Wednesday night of last week pilots of two night mail planes saw lan unusual light in the vicinity of i Romola and zooming low in the air it to be a barn on fire. ship, where the most of her married Circling low they were able to awak- life was spent. are two daughters and one son, Mrs. Bessie Jones, of Ramey; Mrs. Laura McFail and Charles G. Richards, of Pittsburgh. She also leaves one brother, George W. Wolf, of Altoona. Funeral services were held at the Jones home, at Ramey, on Saturday afternoon, burial being made in the cemetery at that place. ——— eerie , —Read the Watchman and get all] the news. Soh Mr. Richards died |en the owner, Paul Miller and fam- some years ago but surviving her | ily, in time for them to save the live- stock. But the barn was destroyed together with more than 300 bushels of wheat, 150 bushels of oats, 25 bush- els of buckwheat and all the farming implements. The loss is partially cov- ered by insurance. President Hoover's Virginia neighbors have given him a cordial welcome almost simultaneously with administering a sharp ..rebuke to Bishop Cannon. at Plum Grove, one daughter,’ Most of her married life . had been spent in Altoona where : 'BRUNGART KLANS | REUNE AT HECLA PARK. | The sixth reunion, the 177th an- ‘niversary of the Brungart family in America, descendants of Jacob Brun- gart, who arrived in 1752, was held at Hecla park, in Nittany valley, last Saturday and was favored by a beau- tiful day. With headquarters in the mam- moth pavilion, everything was organ- ized by 9 a. m., it being the point of interest to all the freundschafft, where kin met kin and everyone reg- istered their presence and where the genealogist and historian were in at- tendance throughout the day, adding to their records new facts and dis- seminating information to those de- siring it for personal and family sat- isfaction, besides which there was displayed published records of the family and manuscripts and works bearing on the same. Notably there was exhibited, for the first time, the recently completed genealogy of the Johan George Brungart line, a type- written volume compiled by the gen- ealogist, Jasper Royer Brungart, handsomely bound in black leather with title embossed in gold, which is to be deposited as a permanent rec- ord in Pennsylvania, Historical Com- mission’s Conrad Weiser Memorial Park Museum and Library at Wom- elsdorf, Pa. (the original Conrad Weiser home built by him in 1729, 200 years ago, and from whom this line of Brungarts are direct descend- ants.) By noon, almost 300 of the clan had registered, this rite continuing through all the day, many arriving as late as 5 p. m., when the total of signatures was 534. there was issued a beautiful silk rib- bon souvenir of the event. The noon hour found family units and groups in happy reunion at festive boards throughout the grounds, many vieing in claiming right to entertaining those from distant places. The Far. sommeling, in the afternoon, “call- ed,” as customary, by the familiar “O Yez! O Yez! O Yez-” of the secretary, assembled in the pavilion, was called to order by the president, Jasper Royer Brungart, of Rebers- burg, opened by the singing of Old Hundred, led by Mrs. Emma Moyer Marsteller, of Bloomsburg, at the piano. Invocation by Rev. Orvis Frank. Following, the president made the regretable announcement of the illness of two active members of the executive committee who could not be present—Vice Presidents W. Harrison Walker and J. C. Hoster- man. After the satisfactory report of the treasurer, there followed the interesting report of the historian, Vera Catherine Brungart, of Wash- ington, D. C., in which she made casual allusion to the discovery in America of a family of Brungarts of Russian origin and Greek Catholics, obviously of the same family root, presumably Huguenots, who wen: East from France, or the Palatinate, to escape the persecutions to which Protestants of the 16th and 17th cen- turies were subjected. Brungarts who eventually adopted the State re- ligion of their chosen land of refuge, Russia. The furtherance of a Centre County Historical Society, as recom- ‘mended and adopted by resolution at the Farsommeling in 1928 was again recommended. The genealogist re- ported 21 births, 14 marriages and 18 deaths in the freundschofft since last reunion. Rev. W. O. Ibach, of Salo- na, briefly addressed the kinsfolk and at the conclusion of the meeting pro- nounced the benediction. The place of meeting for the next reunion was left to the discretion of the executive committee. All officers were re- ‘elected. T. Mark Brungart, of Lock Haven, was elected vice president to take the place of Adam Heckman, de- | ceased. i The executive committee consists of the following officers: President and Genealogist—Jasper R. Brun- gart, Rebersburg; Historian—Miss Vera Catherine Brungart, Washing- ton, D. C.; Vice Presidents—W. Har- | rison Walker, Bellefonte; Dr. G. S. ‘Frank and J. C. Hosterman, Mill- | heim; John Wert, Centre Hall; Noah | Kreamer, Loganton; Luther M. Brun- ‘gart and Allison McKibben, Salona; | Wallace Brungart, Glen Rock; A. : Frank Hockman, Mingoville, and T. | Mark Brungard, Lock Haven; Treas- urer—C. M. Bierly, Rebersburg; Sec- retary—Dr. Fred E. Gutelius, Mill- heim. ——————teaneeeaee: WINGATE The new house of Mack Murray is well under way. Miss Grace Robison returned to her home in Philadelphia, last Thursday, after a pleasant visit with friends here. Mrs. Lydia Irwin has a nice crop of crab-apples which she is offering for sale at 25 cents a peck. Just the thing for jelly. Mr. and Mrs. John Irwin and son Burley motored in from Pittsburgh, on Monday, and will spend a week visiting Centre county friends. A family reunion was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Sum- mers, last Sunday, with all the chil- dren, grandchildren and a number of other relatives present. Shortly after five o'clock on Mon- day evening a heavy coach coming down the mountain road forced a big Willis-Knight off the main highway at the intersection with the Bald Eagle road, with the result that the latter car crashed into an electric light pole, doing considerable damage to the car. One woman sustained quite a cut on the head while all the oc- cupants of the car were badly shaken up. . This was the.second bad acci- dent at that place within two weeks. For all comers ! RE RAT RR REET IRR, TROPHY FOR WOMEN FLIERS TAKEN THROUGH BELLEFONTE. The eyes of aviators from all over the United States are centered on Cleveland, Ohio, this week, the ter- minus of a number of airplane derbys and where the national airplane races will be held next week. The chief derby of interest this week is that for women pilots from Santa Monica, California, to Cleveland. Eighteen starters left California on Sunday and they have until tomor- row night to check in at Cleveland. Among the starters were Amelia Earhart, Ruth Elder and Ruth Row- land Nichols, who last year made a non-stop flight from New York to handsome trophy will be given the winning women pilots. The trophy, 31; feet in height, is a bronze globe surmounted by the figure of a woman in silver, with gold trimmings. It was at the | Bellefonte aviation field all of last | Thursday night while enroute from | Providence, Rhode Island, to Cleve- ‘land. The trophy was conveyed in a Travel Air passenger plane piloted by E. W. Cleveland, of the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool company, who was i accompanied by Brice Bowman, Ray- | mond A. Porter and Miss Loretta M. Bollinger, who holds the record for Sustained flight in the air by a wo- Miami, Fla. Prizes of $8,000 and a! i man pilot. The air travelers spen Thursday night at the Brockerhoi , house, leaving early Friday mornin for Cleveland. | Mr. Cleveland, who had charge ¢ | the ship, is the oldest pilot in poin ‘of service in the United States, hav ing been flying for twenty-four year: i i If a cool, dry summer is a i indication of a warm winter the ap ! proaching season should be unusuall . mild. | — . NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. JOK WANTED.—Inquire at the Gar : man Hotel, Bellefonte. 74-33-t OR SALE.—Parlor furnace, cheap. In quire of Toner A. Hugg, Migioure 74-33-3 OTS FOR SALE in Bellefonte, inquir L of B. H. Shaffer, 117 east High St Bellefonte. 78-13-t: \T OTICE is hereby given that the fol lowing Accounts will be presente to Court on ednesday: Sept 11 1929 for Confirmation, and unless Jeep tions are filed on or before Sept 8, 1929, t! same will be approved. The First and Final Account of Moshan non National Bank for John Smutzinger The Account of Henry T. Norris Guard ian of Myrtle Lyons. The First Account of Sarah Thomas Guardian of Elizabeth Jacobs. The First Account of Sarah Thomas Guardian of John H. Jacobs. S. CLAUDE HERR, Prothonotary | 74-32-4t. smn stores cannot supply. & | Altoona Booster Merchants Say: Patronize your home merchants first, but shop in Altoona Booster Stores for the things your home When you drive to Altoona the Business District. rates at these Garages: It’s Easy To Park Your Car In Altoona! to shop in Booster Stores you will have no difficulty in finding convenient parking space in There is Free Parking on all Streets, while on 10th Avenue, running parallel with The Pennsylvania Railroad, within One Block of the Business District, there, are several Private Parking Spaces, one under control of the City of Altoona, in all of which You May Park Your Car All Day for 15 cents. If you prefer enclosed parking, where your car will be pro- tected from the weather, you will find satisfactory service The William F. Gable Company Garage Rear of Eleventh Avenue Building Fleck’s Penn Alto Garage 1409 Thirteenth Avenue Strangers will find Altoena City Traffic Officers efficient-and -& courtecus in the performance of their duties. 1 Friday, colleges. the task is complete. Parents who will depend on School Days ~ Will Soon Be Here Aug. IS OPENING DAY FOR School Needs In Altoona Booster Stores Getting the boys and girls ready for school is quite a prob- lem, regardless of whether they are being prepared for the home schools or for going away to preparatory schools or New clothing of all kinds will be necessary and there are a hundred and one other needs that must be provided before Altoona Booster Stores to supply the School Needs that their home stores cannot provide, will find the work very much simplified and that selections can be made with entire satisfaction. Booster Merchants have made special preparations for this important event and parents will find unlimited variety from which to select the needs for their boys and girls, regard- less of what the requirements may be. Every Wednesday Is Suburban Day In Altoona Booster Stores Where You Can Always Shop With Satisfaction ! DURING AUGUST Altoona Stores Close at 12 0’clock on Thursdays Store Hours on other days 8:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. Saturday Until 9 Altoona Booster Association STRAND THEATRE, Altoona, Pa. One Week Starting Saturday, August 24 Al Jolson in “SAY IT WITH SONGS” With Davey Lee Midnight Show, Friday Nite, August 23
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