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Bellefonte, Pa., January 31, 1930.
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rIFTY YEARS AGO :
: IN CENTRE COUNTY
Items taken from the Watchman issue of
January 30, 1880.
—Ira D Garman, of Coatesville,
Chester county, third son of Mr.
Daniel Garman, of this place, who
has been . visiting his parents here
for several weeks, left for his
place of business on Monday last.
Ira is learning the trade of jeweler,
for which he has quite a talent.
—Geo. A. Baney & Co., have re-
fitted and refurnished the Bishop
street bakery so that now it is one
of the handsomest business places in
the town,
—Mr. Sam Rine, the new engi-
neer at the water works, is getting
‘along splendidly and is now work-
ing the steam pump less that it
has ever been worked before, Sam
tells us that it was necessary to
run the steam pump only five hours
during the past week.
—From Reading, the town to
which Phillippi, our balloonist, mov-
ed last fall, we hear that he has
made a balloon that will carry four
people and expects to make an as-
cension in it soon if he can find
three people to ascend with him,
Died—On the 22nd inst, in Marion
township, Anna Mary Vonada, wife
of Samuel Vonada, died at the age
of 51 years, 10 months and eigh-
teen days.
Married—In the baptist church
at Milesburg Pa. December 3lst,
Mr. George M. Noll, of Pleasant
Gap, and Miss Ida Hall, of Miles-
burg.
— On January 13, J. H. Bauland
and J. Newman Jr, formed a co-
partnership to continue the busi-
of the Bee Hive store and - the
gents furnishing store connected
with it.
—Eggs are 20c the dozen.
— Little Davie Harris, an inter-
esting, intelligent and active little
son of Mr. John and Mrs, Rachel
Harris, of Linn street, died on Fri-
day morning last of aggravated
croup He had been to school the
day before and the attack was
terribly sudden and severe.
—Judge Linn, of Williamsport,
formerly of Bellefonte, has been
nominated for Mayor by the Green-
back party of that city.
__Miss Ohnmacht, assisted by a
chorus of not less than twenty of
the finest voices in town, and also
by the Bellefonte orchestra, will give
a grand musical entertainment in
Humes hall on the night of Febru-
ary 26.
__Business is brisk in Philipsburg.
Captain Harry Simler told us on
Monday that he didn’t know of a
vacant house in the whole town.
Some eight new dwellings have been
put up during the winter and a
number of others will be startedin
the spring.
— The Pleasant Gap band, one of
the best musical organizations in this
part of the State, will give a con-
cert in Howard tomorrow night.
— There is a terrible scandal and
considerable alarm among our
colored citizens, A festive Mr.
Brady has been having an amour
with a Mrs. Spiller and Mr. Spiller
got after him with a shot gun to
the terror of everyone who saw
the gun and the nervous finger on
. the trigger of it.
When Samuel Durst and his
bride of a few minutes emerged
from the scene of their wedding in
the home of Rev. W. E. Fisher, in
Centre Hall, last Thursday evening,
they were surrounded by mno less
than thirty horsemen
attire, who escorted the buggy into
which they climbed all the way to
Earleystown. They raised a great
pandimonium and all of Centre
Hall rushed to front windows to
discover what the noise was about
A special meeting of the Demo-
cratic County Committee was held
in the office of Col. D. F Fortney
last Tuesday to consider what will
have to be done if Congress de-
clares a vacancy in the Twentieth
district as a result of the Curtin-
Yocum contest for the seat If a
vacancy is declared it is now too
late to vote for a new Congressman
at the February election so it will
probably go over until the fall
election unless a special one is or-
dered. J. L. Spangler, Esq., chair-
man of the committee, was author-
ized to join with the chairman of
the convention held last September
in a call for reconvening that con-
vention to name conferees
it be necessary.—Col Spangler isthe
only one of that group of men now
living.
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS.
Owing to the fact thatIam mak-
ing preparations to move my store
to another location all persons hav-
ing repair work with me are re-
quested to get it out promptly.
Under the circumstances I cannot
assume responsibility for any such
work for more than ninety days.
W. BE. CROSSLEY, Jeweler
per discontinued. In all such cases the '
in fantastic |
should |
, COCHRAN, Charles C. Cochran,
associate professor of mechanical
engineering at the Pennsylvania
State College, died Tuesday at his
home, at State College, of complica-
tions arising from influenza.
Professor Cochran came to State
College in 1920 from the LaSalle
Extension University, prior to which
he was connected with the Morgan
Engineering Co., the Emerson Insti-
tute of Indiana, and the University
of Kansas.
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' regulation uniforms and equipment
He took his degree of bachelor of
science in mechanical engineering at
the University of Colorado in 1906,
‘make, campaign style.
GAME PROTECTORS
ic IN UNIFORM NOW
All regular. field officers of the
Game Commission
heads are now in possession of the
“and department
authorized by the board sometime
ago. The uniforms are patterned af-
ter the new uniforms of the army
officer, and are olive-green in color.
Reefers patterened after the old army
officer's mackinaw, have also been
furnished. The hats are of Stetson
Officers are
'also equipped with police whistles,
having entered four years before
after working ten years as a ma-
chinist in various railroad shops in
the west.
Professor A. J. Wood, head of the
department of mechanical engineer-
ing, expressed the regrets of the fac-
ulty at the loss of Professor Coch-
ran, and paid tribute to his ability.
«Professor Cochran” he said “will
be greatly missed by his co-work-
ers. He had a strong character and
impressed himself favorably upon
both students and faculty. For the
past eight years he has had com-
plete charge of the mechanical en-
gineering laboratory, during which
time he designed and built ‘many
pieces of apparatus in use there.
Many of these are ingenious devices
of particular merit.”
Born November 26, 1870, Profes-
sor Cochran was a communicant of
the Episcopalean church, a member
of the American Society of Mechan-
ical Engineers, and published a de-
tailed analysis of the coals of Col-
orado. He was married and for the
past ten years had made his home
in State College.
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REISH.—Samuel Reish, well known
veterinarian of Pleasant Gap, pass-
ed away at his
last November. The greater
of his life, however,
followed farming but later took up
the study of animals and their di-
seases and became a licensed veter-
inarian, He had made his home at
Pleasant Gap for about thirty-six
years and his services were always
in demand.
As a young man he married Miss
Annie Wion who survives with eight
children, namely: Harry Reish, of
Centre Hall; John of Bellefonte;
Clayton, of Allentown; Mrs. George
Shearer, of Centre Hall; Roy, of Al-
toona: Mrs. George Smith, of Lock |
Haven; Frank, of Oak Hall, and
Mrs. Paul Heisey, of Reading. He
also leaves twenty grandchidren and
two sisters, Mrs, Calvin Struble, of
State College, and Mrs,
Shaffer, of Lock Haven.
Funeral services were held in the
Lutheran church,
at two o'clock on Saturday after-
noon, by Rev. M, C. Piper, of Miles-
etery adjoining the church.
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PARKS.—A brief item in the
Watchman, last week, told of James
M. Parks, a street employee, drop-
ping dead at noon last Thursday,
while shoveling snow near Decker’s
garage. The cause of death was
| given as chronic myocarditis. Mr.
| Parks had not worked for four days
| and was not feeling good when he
| went to work Thursday morning, but
thought he would be able to put in
the day.
. He was a son of George P. and
Sarah Ginter Parks and was born in
Clearfield on September 16th, 1863,
making his age 66 years, 4 months
and 7 days. He came to Bellefonte
when a young man and for a long
term of years was employed as a
fireman at the Bellefonte Gas and
Steam Heating company. For the
past ten or more years he had been
cleaning force.
He married Miss Angeline Kline
| who survives with seven children,
| Frank Parks, of Milesburg; Mrs.
George Reed, Bellefonte R. D.; Miss
| Ida, at home; Sarah and
| Laurelton; James,
| Hobart, at home.
| Rev. William Snyder had charge
| of the funeral services which were
held at 10 o'clock on Sunday morn-
ing, burial being made
lion cemetery.
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LUCAS. Mrs.
died at her home in Philipsburg, on
Saturday morning, following a pro-
was born at Runville
24th, 1865, hence was in her 65th
year. As a young woman she mar-
| ried George Lucas, of Boggs town-
| ship, and the early years of their
married life were spent on a farm
in that section, but fifteen years ago
they moved to Philipsburg and had
resided there ever since. She had
been a member of the United Breth-
ren church for forty-five years.
In addition to her husband she is
survived by seven children, Clayton
Lucas, of Bellefonte; Orvis and Mrs,
Edward Mayes, of Milesburg; Mrs,
Kdward Fetzer, of Tyrone; Russell,
of Meadville; Arthur and Mrs. John
Gearhart, of Williamsport. She also
leaves two brothers and three sis-
ters, William Brower of Tulsa,
Okla.; Martin, of Philipsburg; Mrs,
Lucy Poorman and Mrs. Emma
Reese, of Miesburg, and Mrs. Sadie
Alexander, of Fleming.
Funeral services were held in the
United Brethren church, at Philips-
burg, at one o'clock on Tuesday af-
ternoon, burial being made in the
Messiah cemetery, in Boggs town-
ship, <
as the result of a stroke of paraly-.
pecially when worn while stopping further back than four or five years
home in that place property for evidence of the viola- |
on Wednesday evening of last week tion of game
| of
The Sam Browne belt, pistol and |
puttees are of tan colored pigskin, '
and with shoes to match present a
very pleasing appearance. The reg-
ulation sidearm is a .38 special re-
volver. Two silver white State seal
ornaments are worn on each side of
the roll collar of both the uniform
coat and reefer. A similar ornament
only larger is worn on the campaign
hat. On the left sieeve at the shoul-
der of both coat and reefer is the
commission’s insignia which consists |
of a half circle - of maroon flannel
upon which is embroidered the words
“Game Protector” in black letters
and a solid black keystone, |
The value of the uniform in law
enforcement work was greatly em-
phasized during the past season es-
and inspecting cars. And, a great
many prosecutions resulted. With- |
out uniforms officers were constant-
ly in danger of their lives when at-
tempting’ to stop automobiles and in |
one or two instances were even fired
upon and almost run down, drivers
believing, no doubt they were be-'
ing subjected to a ‘“hold-up.” |
The uniform will be worn when |
searching the homes of aliens for |
firearms and when searching any |
laws. Officers will
also wear the uniform when appear-
sis sustained the Saturday previous. ing before sportsmen’s organizations, |
He was a native of Union county field trials or
where he was born 75 years ago meeting where
part represents
was spent in and at divisional meetings when the |
Centre county. Inhis early yearshe supervisor shall inspect equipment, |
field meets,
the officer
the Game
directly |
CELEBRITIES TRAP WEASELS
Among the several thousand
claims for weasel bounty received
by the bureau of predatory animals
the State Game Commission in
January thus far appear the follow-
ing names: Woodrow Wilson Lines- |
a ha
| Dale property and
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Everybody is invited to make use of it to
express whatever opinion they may have
on any subject. ‘Nothing libelous will be
published, though we will give the public
the widest latitude in invective when the
subject is this paper or its editor. Con-
tributions will signed or initialed, as
the contributor may desire.—ED.
THE CLOSING OF LAMB STREET
At the meeting of the borough
council, to be hed Monday evening
February 3, 1930, there will be a
discussion of the proposed closing
of that portion of Lamb street be-
tween Locust alley and “Spring street,
as requested by the school board of
Bellefonte. ,
In order that there might be a
clear understanding of what the
passage of such an ordinance will
mean, both to the borough and to
the school district, wide publicity
of the aims of both sides should
be given, as many erroneous ideas
are current at this time.
It has been said that the
board proposes to erect
stadium, figures as high as $40,000
have been mentioned, with a con-
sequent large increase in the tax
burden, The public needs to go no
school
a costly
in school history to realize that
within that short space of time the
school district has acquired the
transformed it
into a model primary school at a
cost of over $18,000; that they have
acquired the lot of the defunct
Steam Heat and Gas company at a
cost of $6,000 and have recently
purchased from the State the armo-
ry property for $17.000, besides
keeping all properties in adequate
repair and making many extensions
in furniture, equipment and addi-
tional courses. The mew proper-
ties alone amount to $41,000, and
are paid for, and there have been
no additions to the school tax mill-
possible by wise and careful plan-
The board has in mind a further
extension of the school property by
the simpe joining of the two lots
now belonging to the school district
facing west on Spring street by
asking council to vacate that por-
tion of Lamb street between the al-
ley west of the Episcopal Parish
house and Spring street, in order to
provide an adequate and safe play
space the year round and room for
i ville Pa; John S. Fisher, Knox, Pa; : :
William Mkinley, Everett, Pas | tho Rios" PIOSHL (0 JOYS
| Charles Lindburg, Pottstown, Pa; ample size for high school pur-
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Newton COMMISSION WANTS LICENSE STUBS
Mark Anthony and Cleo Patrick,
Northpoint, Pa.
Mark Anthony is getting to be
quite a weasel trapper as he sends
in a claim every week. 18,000 weas-
els were received for bounty thus
far.
poses, including a track, would be
obtained at the same time, although
this is not the primary object of
the board, These plans are to be
worked out over a period of years
as the funds become available. This
has been a part of the board's hope
for many years, the first step of
which was actually =~ taken by the
condemnation proceedings against
one of the regulars on the street |
(All sportsmen who have complet-
ied hunting for this season are ur-
| of game killed to the offices of the
| Game Commission as soon as possi-
| to begin tabulation of these reports
|at an early date so that the figures |
|on the final kill of small game will
i be available to the public as soon as
| possible,
| If the report slip attached to the
| hunting license has been lost, fill in
| your report on a sheet of paper and
| send it in.
| been discharged from the Centre
| County hospital and is now at home
in the Hart apartments on Spring
| street, where Mr. Mattern can have
their new little daughter, Helen Pa-
tricia, all to himself if he isn’t like
most young fathers, afraid to pick
her up for fear of breaking her.
— 109% to 30% reductions on liv-
ing, dinihg and bedroom suits dur-
ing February sale at W. R. Brach-
5-1t
| bill's Furniture Store,
| STRUNK.— Mrs, Lovinah Strunk,
| widow of the late Robert Strunk,
| passed away on Monday evening at
the home of her daughter, Mrs,
Anne, of | Walter Scull, on Wilson street, Belle- |
in Pittsburgh, and | fonte, as the result of heart trouble. |
| She was born in Union county on
| January 18th, 1844, hence had reach-
ed the age of 86 years and 9 days.
The greater part of her life was
in the Un- | spent in Bellefonte and vicinity. Her |
| husband died some years ago but
| surviving her are the following chil-
Elmina Lucas dren: Harry and Frank Strunk, of'
of Pleasant |
| State College; John,
| Gap; Ray. of Tyrone; Mrs, Robert
longed illness, She was a daughter | McMullen, of Milesburg; Mrs. Emma |
of Philip and Elizabeth Brower and | Kunes, of Blanchard; Mrs. Harry |
on August | Miller, Mrs. T. J. Kelleher, Mrs, Cur- |
(tin Taylor and Mrs.
| all of Bellefonte.
Water Scull,
| She had been a consistent mem-
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ber of the Reformed church for
| many years and Rev. Robert Thena
{had charge of the funeral services
| Which were held at the Scull home
'at two o'clock yesterday afternoon,
| burial being made in the Union cem-
etery.
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BAUMGARDNER,—W. H. Baum-
gardner died at the Altoona hospi-
tal, on Saturday, following a brief
illness. He was a son of Mr. and
Mrs, James Baumgardner, deceased,
and was born at Blanchard. He had
been a resident of Altoona for over
fourteen years and was employed by
He is survived by one sister, Eliza-
beth Baumgardner, of Blanchard;
two step-brothers, Alfred and
Blanchard Rupert, of Clearfield and
two half-brothers, Frank Rupert, of
Altoona, and Fred, of Beech Creek. |
The remains were taken to Blanch-
ard where burial was made on Wed-
nesday.
| Mrs. Hayes W. Mattern has
the Pennsylvania Railroad company.
and subsequent purchase of the old
'Steam Heat and Gas property, the
at Pleasant Gap | gently asked to send their reports i clearing away of the intolerable
| menace to safety and insult to
|every notion of a town beautiful
burg, burial being made in the cem- pje It is the Commission's desire which that property presented for |
{many years, A secondstep in the
program was taken by the purchase
| of the armory to provide gymnasium
{ facilities and additional class room
| space for an ever increasing pro-
| gram.
Their plan includes the taking care
of the surface water from upper
at ‘the Spring street end, filling in
the street to the level of the present
wall with an open mesh steel fence,
to be later covered with growing
vines, this adding beauty to the
entire locality and value to the
properties now facing the town
dump. The plan includes the laying
of a walk along Spring street, piant-
ing trees parallel with the walk
and massed shrubbery on the Linn
street side, Thus beauty and utility
will be gained, not only for the
schools but for the borough as well.
The objection to this plan has been
filed with council by the vestry of
| the Episcopal church giving no rea-
sons, but talk on the streets hasit
that the light would be cut off
from their Parish house. Nothing
could be further from the truth. A
bleacher four or five feet high could
be the only possible building at
that point, whereas for many years
even at the time of the building of
the Parish house, the alley at that
point was lined with high brick walls
gas retorts with their chimneys and
tottering old sheds much higher than
anything the school board has in
mind,
It has been said that the prop-
erties in the neighborhood of the
Lamb-Spring street crossing, three
of the four corners of which now
belong to the school district,” will
be damaged in .value. Yet when
these properties were built they
faced the worst possible condition,
the old tumbledown buildings of the
steam heat company, open gas wells
half filled wth stagnant water, tar
wells, falling bricks, rusting boilers,
ash piles -all in a hideous welter
of ugliness. It was the school
board's action in removing this eye-
five foot wall across Lamb street:
school grounds -and- surmounting the:
off of Allegheny street, the busiest
street in town, Likewise all traffic
from the south ‘of Lamb street. de-
siring to use West ‘Lamb street
can do so by way of High street,
Howard street, Bishop street or
Logan street connecting with Spring
just as readily as they would now
use Allegheny and the stretch of
Lamb street between Allegheny and
Spring streets, again taking traffic
from Allegheny. The only automo-
bile traffic interfered with in the
least is that from the two blocks of
east Lamb street and from part of
that portion of Penn street between
Howard streets and Lamb street.
This traffic would be required to go
the short block of 200 feet on North
Allegheny and the same distance
south on Spring in order to get from
.one side of Lamb street to the other,
and this traffic is very light. The
proposed scheme would not affect
pedestrians; who could walk across
the playgrounds, as many people
now do in taking a short cut from
Allegheny to Spring, or cutting the
corner of the school grounds from
Allegheny to Linn, :
It has been said that there would
be danger to the younger pupils
who are now housed in the Dale
building if they were to use this
new school playground. Adecuate
playgrounds have already been pro-
vided for the children of those two
grades, surrounding their own build-
ing except on those occasions when
they cooperate with the other grade
children in larger physical or dra-
matic projects, On such occasions
they can always cross the street un-
der the direct guidance of their
teachers, just as they do now in
coming to the high school building
on special occasions.
It must be remembered that coun-
. cil in acting for the borough in pass-
sore and menace to health thathas|ing this ordinance will be taking
given these properties most of their
potential value. A further beautify-
ing of this corner as contemplated
can only result in increased de-
sirability of these properties to
prospective tenants. As a commen-
tary on this factit might be well
to state that all of the tenants in
this whole neighborhood, except one,
, signed the board's petition tocoun-
or any | 506 These things have been made cil.
Commission : ning and have grown out of savings. jf rE 25 heen gn |
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jon the field constructed on this
property there will be increasing
traffic difficulties owing to parked
cars during the games, The fact
is there will be little need of the
Bellefonte patrons using their cars
to attend the games as the distance
will be short. And as for outsiders
it is safe to say that there will
never be at any high school game
anything like the number of cars
that fill our streets every Saturday
and Wednesday evening, and then
not more than once or twice during
the entire year,
It has been said that properties
on East Lamb street would be
damaged but how or why no one
seems able to say.
It has been said that Lamb street
is one of the main highways through
town. On the contrary after run-
ning up the East Lamb street hill for
two blocks it runs into a farm and
goes nowhere. On its western end
it connects with Thomas street by
means of a very dangerous railway
crossing, and most drivers wishing
to reach Thomas street, in order to
avoid this crossing use High street.
But the closing of the 200 foot
| stretch on Lamb street does not
interfere with the use of the west-
ern end or eastern endin the least.
, Traffic from Beaver street, Curtin
' street, Linn street on the north
simply use Curtin street or Linn
street to Spring instead of to Al-
legheny street, thus taking traffic
i nothing from the borough, The bor-
{ough and the school district, repre-
sented it is true by two different
boards, the one by council, the other
by the school directors, are in real-
ity one and the same thing. They
are made up of the same folks and
have the same interests at heart,
The children of the schools are just
as much a part of the borough of
Bellefonte as its qualified voters and
the great majority of them will be
its qualified voters in the coming
years. It is simply for council to
decide whether they shall serve the
sefish interests of a few persons who
might have a little farther (mot
more than 400 feet at most) to drive
their cars on some occasions, or who
mistakenly think that their particu-
lar properties will be lowered in val-
ue by beautifying their surround-
ings, and the unselfish reqest of the
school board to serve the children in
their care with the best opportuni-
ties they can give them, not only
now but in all the years to come.
Over 900 qualified voters of the
borough, the list of which includes
959, of all those who were seen in
the hasty canvas that was made,
signed their names to the board’s
petition. The matter is now in the
hands of council, These 900 voters
should help them to decide, wok
— Some wonderful pictures have
been booked for early showing at
the Cathaum theatre, State College.
Among them are the “Show of
Shows”, “Devil May Care,” “Holly-
wood Revue,” “Dynamite” and “No
No, Nanette.” All except “Dyna- -
mite” are exceptional musical produc-
tions while “Dynamite” is the dra-
matic sensation of the year on the
screen. It is a DeMille picture and
that is sufficient guarantee of excel-
lence to those familiar with picture
production,
Las? street, the construction of a
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Cars that Cannot be Matched Elsewhere for Price Value
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bargains will be given on used cars for the next three days ending January 27.
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Corner Spring and High Streets . ... BELLEFONTE, PA.
CHEVROLETS AND FORDS
We have a few 1929 Model Chevrolets left at reduced prices.
New and Used while they last.
Special
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