Bellefonte, Pa., March 7, 1930
Pp GRAY MEEK, Editor
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FIFTY YEARS AGO
IN CENTRE COUNTY
Items taken from the Watchman issue of
March 5, 1880.
—Harry Williams, said to be the
handsomest young man in Philips-
burg, was in town last week ana
didn’t forget to give us a call.
—The first accident since the
opening cof the: L. C. and 8. C.
railroad occurred on the White-
leather farm about a mile east of
Spring Mills last Saturday morning.
Samuel Weaver, a hireling on the
farm was driving a team over a
crossing between two fields when
the train suddenly came on him
from around a sharp curve at that
point. He was thrown seventy-five
feet onto a fence. The train was
stopped at once and Dr. VanVal-
sah, of Spring Mills, who happened
to be returning from a trip to
Philadelphia on it, gave first aid,
but the young man died in twenty
minutes. Strange, neither, one of
the horses he was driving was even
scratched.
Two new street lamps have been |
placed on east Lamb street. They
burn coal-oil but help a lot on that
gloomy thoroughfare. One has been
placed at the corner of Penn and
the other further out, near the
Richard home.
—The Curtin-Yocum congressional |
contest that was to have been set-
tled, sure, by Congress has been
put off again. Congress has schedul. |
ed it for a vote next week. |
—The wild geese are now flying |
north. This, they say, is a pretty
sure indication that spring is at
hand. |
—The
last
! death he
pleasant weather
week in February
of the
changed '
very suddenly and March came
r in
quite lion-like. !
Samuel and Felix Ludwig, of
Houserville, this county, have pur-
chased the - Ebensburg woolen mills
and will take
ly.
—Rev.. "J. 'S, Shoemaker, former. |
ly of Aaronsburg, now of Emporia, |
Kansas, will preach in the Reform- |
possession -immediate- |
ed church in this place next Sun. |
day morning.
—Dr. Hayes, of this place, has
already planted some early potatoes. |
—Young Reasner and young Rider, |
who knocked down and maltreated |
young McMurtrie,
] of Coleville, a |
short time ago, and then resisted |
the officer sent to arrest them,
cleared out after the constable went |
for assistance and have not yet
been caught. |
—This time it is Mr. William |
Derstine who rejoices over the ad. |
vent of a second baby boy who made |
his appearance one day last week. |
While he can't talk yet sundry |
kicks and squawks indicate that he |
intends his parents to undestand at |
once that if he lives he proposes to
make a lot of noise in the world. i
—Last Friday night the farm |
barn of Jacob Bohn, residing near
Boalsburg, was totally destroyed by !
fire, together with all its contents. i
Seven horse, twenty-two head |
horned cattle and ten sheep also
burned. :
—Alderman Stead, of Williams. '!
port, married a couple of Bellefonte's |
young, aristocratic colored folks on !
Thursday of last week, namely: John |
D. Emery and Miss Alice P. Simms.
« —The Philipsburg public schools
are to be closed at the expiration '
of a six month's term. The “Jour- |
nal” regrets such an unfortunate ne- |
cessity and insists that they should
be kept open seven or eight months. |
—Mr. Daniel Buck, of Reedsville, ;
Mifflin county, formerly of Union-'|
ton, W. Va.; Mrs. Sarah R.
, of Mansfield,
,of Aaronsburg.
‘three sisters, Mrs. Rebecca Strayer,
BELL.—D. Bates Bell, who will
be remembered by many of the
older people of Bellefonte because
of his residence here during his early
life, died on Saturday, at his home
in Beaver, Pa., following five days
illness with pneumonia.
He was a native of Mifflin county,
where he was born 73 years ago. As
a young man he came to Bellefonte
about fifty years ago to accept a
position as bookkeeper with the Ar-
dell Lumber company, of which the
late John Ardell was the head. He
made his home with the Ardell fam-
ily and remained here ten or more
years, or until the Lumber company
changed hands when he went to
DuBois and engaged in the insur-
ance business. He lived in DuBois
a number of years then located in
Beaver where he represented the
Travelers’ Insurance company, of
Hartford, Conn. He also became
quite prominent in the church, social |
and business life of Beaver.
He was a member and trustee of
the First Presbyterlan church of
Beaver, a past master of Bellefonte
lodge No. 268, F. and A. M, a
member of Commandery 84 Knights
Templar and the Pittsburgh Consis-
tory. He was also a member of
Sons of Revolution, the Rotary club
and Chamber of Commerce, of Pitts-
burgh,
While living in DuBois he mar-
ried Miss Lydia E. Prothero who
survives with one daughter and a
son, Mrs. Frances Bell Tucker, of
Thornburg, and John P. Bell, who
several years ago was a student at
He also
the Bellefonte Academy.
leaves two brothers, Henry H. Bell,
of Minneapolis, Minn.,, and Rev. J.
Vernon Bell, pastor of the Preshy-
terian church at DuBois.
Funeral services were held at his
late home at two o'clock on Tues-
day afternoon, burial being made in
the cemetery at Beaver.
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CORMAN.—George Ammon Cor-
man, a well known resident of Miles
township, died at his home at Re-
bersburg,
following a prolonged illness
heart trouble and dropsy.
He was a son of James F. and
Sarah Walker Corman and was 58
years, 5 months and 2 days old.
He was a farmer by occupation un-
' til compelled to retire on account of
ill health. He was twice married,
his first wife having been Miss
Susan Hosterman. Following her
married Miss Gertrude
Houtz, who survives with the fol-
lowing children to his first ' mar-
riage: Charles H. Corman, of Charles-
Rose,
Ohio; Alma and
James, at home; Mary I, of Spring
Mills, and Mrs. Gladys Hosterman,
He also leaves
of Williamsport; Mrs. W. F. Stover,
of Millheim, and Mrs. Rose Duke, of ,
Toledo, Ohio.
Mr. Corman was a member of the
Rebersburg lodge I. O, O.F., and the
Major Foster camp Sons of Veter-
ans. He was a member of the
Rebersburg Reformed church and
the pastor, Rev. W. A. McClellan,
had charge of the funeral services
which were held on Thursday after-
noon of last week, burial being made
in the Rebersburg cemetery.
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POTTS. —Miss Jennie Potts passed
away at her home in Stormstown,
on Wednesday afternoon of last
week, of diseases incident to her ad-
vanced age. She was born at Or-
bisonia, Huntingdon county, on
August 25th, 1846, hence had reach-
ed the age of 83 years, 6 months
and 1 day.
When fifteen years of age she
came to Centre county to make her
home with the Peter Gray family,
in Halfmoon valley, and after the
death of Mr. and Mrs, Gray went
to the J.
never married but was a mother to
two families of children whose real
mother passed away while they
were yet young in years. For
past fifteen years she had lived at
Stormstown during the summer time
and with the Paul Gray family, in
Philipsburg, during the winter, but
this winter remained at her home in
Stormstown.
She was a member of the Metho-
on Monday of last week, |
with |
Green Gray family. She
the '
ville, gave us a call on Friday. Mr. | dist church since early girlhood and
Buck was for three years a partner her church work was one of her
of Mr. Leathers in the mercantile
business in Unionville and went
from there to his present home. He
has just become the proprietor of a
large tannery in Mifflin county and,
in consequence, has abandoned the
mercantile businesss. !
—One night last week we noticed !
some of Bellefonte’'s young girls
throwing assafoetida at people pass- |
ing on the street. This is a very
unladylike practice
stopped. i
—The German school exhibition |
which was held at Millheim on the |
evening of February 28th delighted !
that community so much that |
there has been a general demand
for its repetition and it will be |
played at Millheim on Saturday, the |
6th, and at Madisonburg on the 13th.
—Mr. L. Olin Meek, foreman of
this office, was on Monday night
sworn in as a councilman from the
West ward of Bellefonte, to fill the
unexpired term of Mr. Kabella, re-
signed.
—Mr. James Zimmerman, a Mar-
ion township Greenbacker and
popular and excellent school teacher,
gave usa call on Saturday last, He
was accompanied by J. H. Mec-
Cauley. John says Jim will be a
Democrat before fall, but James in-
sists that he won't and will vote
for Grant or whoever the Republi-
can nominee may be.
| life’s pleasures. Her only immediate
survivor is one brother, living in Or-
, bisonia. Funeral services were hela
(in the Methodist church, at Storms-
| town, at 1:30 o'clock on Saturday
afternoon, burial being made in
Gray's cemetery
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RESIDES,—William E. Resides,
for many years a well known car-
and should be penter of Bellefonte, died at his liam J. McMullen, both of Millheim.
home on east High street, at two
o'clock last Friday morning, as the
result of general debility.
He was a son of Philip and Han-
nah Reese Resides and was born
in Benner township 86 years ago.
As a young man he learned the; !
carpenter trade,
followed all his active life.
been a resident of Bellefonte
many years. He was a member of
the Methodist church and the Belle-
fonte camp P. O. 8. of A. He mar-
ried Miss Sarah E. Jacobs who sur-
vives with no children.
however, two sisters, Mrs. Eliza-
beth Sellers, of Pittsburgh, and Mrs.
Mary Sowers, of Milesburg.
Funeral services were held at his
late home on Monday morning by
Rev. Homer C. Knox, of the Meth-
odist church, burial being made in
the Union cemetery.
ALEXANDER.— Mrs. Josephine
Alexander, widow of the late Fran-
cis Mills Alexander, died at her home
at State College, at noon on Satur-
day, following almost four months ill-
ness with a complication of diseases.
She was a daughter of Reuben W.
and Elmira Harrison Richards and
was born in Huston township on
July 28th, 1857, hence was in her
73rd year. -She was educated in the
public schools of Huston township
and later took a coursein the Nor-
mal school at Centre Hall, after which
she engaged in teaching, a profession
she followed for sixteen years. She
spent two years teaching in Iowa,
one term in Cass county and another
term in Audubon county. She was a
woman of culture and refined tastes
and had a large circle of friends
throughout Centre county.
She married Mr. Alexander on
April 7th, 1890, and for twenty years
they lived on the home farm near
Julian. About twenty years ago
they left the farm and moved to
State College where Mr, Alexander
passed away about fifteen years ago.
Surviving her, however, are three
Mrs. Armstrong and Carey Alexan-
der, at home. She also leaves two
sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Rob-
ert Radkey, of McKeesport; Mrs.
William Parsons, of Unionville; Mor-
gan and Milton B. Richards, both of
Jersey Shore. She was also like a
mother to Charles Herrington, who
spent all his boyhood life as a mem-
{ber of the Alexander household.
Funeral services were held in the
Methodist church, at State College,
iat nine o'clock on Tuesday morning,
i by Rev. A. L. Bixler, after which the
remains were taken to Bald Eagle
i valley and buried in the Oak Ridge
| cemetery.
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RUMBERGER.—John
| ger, associate editor of the Philips-
| burg Daily Journal, died at the Mec-
| Girk sanitarium,
ining, following six months illness
| with kidney trouble and other com-
plications.
{ He was a son of T. C. and Cath-
'erine Bush Rumberger and was
‘born in Buffalo Run valley on Jan-
uary 2nd, 1873, making his age 57
years, 2 months and 1 day. When
the was five years old his parents
"moved to Philipsburg where he was
, educated in the public schools. As
‘a young man he went into the
| Journal office to learn the printing
trade and subsequently worked on
| papers in Williamsport, Altoona and |
| other places. He also worked for |
{Some time on the Philipsburg Ledg-
,er. In 1917 he returned to the
‘Journal as associate editor, a posi-
tion he filled with credit and fideli-
ty until his late illness. He was a
member of the Trinity Methodist
church, the Elks and for a number
of years had been secretary of the
Philipsburg fire department.
In 1896 he married Miss Minnie
Laffin, who survives with three sons.
He also leaves five sisters. Burial
was made in the Philipsburg ceme- |
tery yesterday afternoon.
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JOHNSON. James M.
township, died on February 23rd, at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ed-
ward Mincer, at Mill Hall, follow-
ing an illness of ten days as the
result of a general breakdown, aged
83 years. He had made his home
with the Mincer family the past
four years. His survivors include
five daughters and two sons, name.
ly: Mrs. Mincer, of Mill Hall;
‘Sarah E. Johnson,
Mrs. John Strunk, of Pleasant Gap;
Mrs. Thomas R. Allen, of Watson- !
town; Mrs. Joseph W. Harvey, of
State College; William H. Johnson,
' of Bellefonte, and John F. John-
son, of Chicago. He also leaves one
adopted daughter, Mrs. George .Cox, :
of Bellefonte.
Funeral services were held at the
“Lutheran church, at Zion, last Wed-
nesday afternoon, by Rev, Paul Kel-
ler,
cemetery.
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MONEE Mrs. Louise Mec-
Mullen, wife of E. B. McMullen,
.
‘died at her home in Millheim on
February 23rd, following an illness
. which dates back ten years when
she was stricken with paralysis.
She was a daughter of William J.
'and Katherine Alexander and was |
, born at Houston, in Nittany valley,
(on July 25th, 1865, making her age !
'64 years, 6 months and 28 days.
, Forty years or more ago she mar-
ried E. B. McMullen and ever
children, Kyle M., on the home farm;
B. Rumber- |
on Monday eve-'
Johnson,
‘for many years a farmer of Walker |
Miss |
of Bellefonte; |
burial being made in the Zion
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CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL
~~ ARDELL.—Word was received in
Bellefonte, * on Wednesday, of the
sudden death at three o'clock that
morning, of Mrs. Mary Crittenden
| Ardell, widow of the late John Ar-
| dell, at her home in Binghamton, N.
1 Y., following an illness of only
' twelve hours as the result of a heart
| attack. She had been making prep-
i arations to go to Norfolk, Va. to
visit her daughter, Mrs. Clayborn
Wilcox, when stricken, intending to
i leave for the South today.
Her maiden name was Mary Irene
i Crittenden, a daughter of Rev. Rich-
“ard and Jennie Root Crittenden, and
‘she was born in Bellefonte on March
, 19th, 1864, hence was within a few
, days of being 66 years old. She was
educated at the Bellefonte Academy
and a finishing school at Waterbury,
{ Conn., and in 1885 she married John
Out at Coleville there are a num-
ber of children who don’t like to go
to school, and while their parents may
not have encouraged their absentee-
ism they failed to enforce attendance.
Constable James H. Rine, of Belle-
fonte, is the attendance officer and
at the request of the school board
he served notice on the delinquent
parents several times, without bring-
ing the desired result.
Consequently six fathers of chil-
dren were served with warrants and
a summons to appear before justice
of the peace J. M. Keichline,
Saturday evening, to answer as
their delinquency
compulsory school attendance
to
law.
| Ardell, head of the Ardell Lumber |son Grubb, Elmer Justice, Homer
company, of Bellefonte. They went K Justice, Budd Tate and Wilbur
, to housekeeping on east Linn street Rhoads.
' Miss Boone, the teacher, was
the hearing and told of the
excuses that were presented
why the children were not in school.
| After hearing all the evidence jus-
‘tice J. M. Kechline declared all the
defendants guilty of a misdemeanor
and sentenced each one to pay the
"costs and a fine of two dollars to the
school district, and in default of pay-
where they lived until Mr. Ardell’s
death. Mrs. Ardell left Bellefonte
(about twenty-four years ago and
"most of the time since had been liv-
ing in Binghamton, N. Y,
! She is survived by two daughters,
{ Mrs. Wilcox, of Norfolk, Va. and
Mrs. Harry H. Curtin, of Curtin. She
also leaves three sisters, Mrs. Clay-
| ton Johnston, of Waterbury, Conn.;
| Mrs. George Frost, of Philadelphia,
and Mrs. David Stinson, of Cleve-
land, Ohio. As soon as she was ap-
prised of her mother’s death Mrs.
; Wilcox went from Norfolk to Bing-
‘hamton and will accompany the body
to Bellefonte today. Funeral services
will be held in the St. John’s Epis-
copal church at 4 o’clock this after-
noon, by Rev. Stuart F. Gast, burial
to follow in the Ardell lot in the Un-
ion cemetery. Mrs. Johnston and |
Mrs. Frost came direct from their Ly
‘homes to Bellefonte for the funeral. Arrangements were completed by
, the Bell Telephone Company for the
establishment, Saturday (March 1)
of a special time of day informa-
tion service, plans for which were
announced recently by J. H. Caum,
manager. Now telephone users
here will be able to obtain the cor-
rect time at any hour of the day or
night by asking the operator for
“the time.” The service is planned
to meet the general demand for
this form of information.
Since its institution throughout
Pennsylvania will create an addi-
tional operating expense for the
Bell Company, a charge of five
cents is to be made for each call
for time of day information.
The annual meeting of the ——March came in like a lamb
Inter-denominational Missionary Un- but within twenty-four hours was
ion of Bellefonte will meet, Friday roaring like a lion and a real touch
evening, March 7, in the Lutheran of winter prevailed the early part of
church at 7:30. Mrs. Eleanor Mc- the week with the temperature
Dowell, of the Presbyterian church, down to twenty degrees above zero.
will be the speaker. All women in- Of course, that’s not unseasonable,
terested in missionary work irrespec- as March weather is full of vagaries
tive of denomination are cordially with springlike temperatures one
‘invited to attend. day and a real blizzard the next.
is complied with.
So far as could be learned none
of the men settled and none of
them showed up at the jail
defendants gave bail for the
ment of his fine and costs,
THE BELL TELEPHONE
i RENDERS NEW SERVICE.
ree eee.
BELLEFONTE NOW ON
INTERSTATE BUS LINE.
Thomas Galbraith, of the Philips-
burg Motor Bus company, has in-
augurated an interstate bus service
running from Cumberland, Md. to
Binghamton, N. Y., a distance of
309 miles. The route from Cumber-
land, Md., is by way of Bedford, Al-
toona, Tyrone, Bellefonte, Howard,
Lock Haven, Williamsport, Elmira,
N. Y, and Binghamton. The bus
north passes through Bellefonte be-
tween ten and eleven o'clock in the
morning, and southbound between
five and six in the evening.
SIX MEN ARRESTED. |
last |
in obeying the
The six men were John Shultz, Nel- |
{
at
varied | Which is sometimes called “the Mil-
as to | lionaire City of California.” This
serve their sentence, but one of the | States.
pay ; that Gen.
This column is to be an open forum.
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 be signed or initialed, as
the contributor may desire.—ED.
The Homans in California
Los Angeles, Cali, March 1, 1930
| Dear Editor The Watchman:
¢ To us it seems some time since
| last we wrote you of our where-
| abouts here in the Golden State.
| It seems we have became a little
| like the restless: “We are here and
| there; yet we know we are some-
| Where.”
We spent some time in Pasadena,
{
is
| because residents,
| So many of its
| permanent and transient, represent
| the wealthy class of the United
| States and even of foreign countries.
It has a population of 100,000 and is
noted for the variety of architecture,
of its beautiful homes and its en-
trancing display of flowers, shrubs
ment to go to jail for five days, and | and trees from every corner of the
stand committed until the sentence | earth.
| We left Pasadena on January 21st,
went south 150 miles to the ancient
| and historic spot, San Diego. Port
| Loma is the most south-western
t0' point of interest in the United
It was here, at Old
Fremont raised the =
| flag on the Pacific coast.
Diego truly appeals to us a
garden spot of all California.
cause of its climate, sunshine, ; -
ture and uniformity of temperature
anything that can be grown any-
where flourishes there. We spent
an entire month in that part of the
State.
We have now returned to Los
Angeles, where we landed on Dec.
14, 1929. This is the center of
population in Southern California,
Statistics give its present popula-
tion as 1,500,000. The Chamber of
Commerce here claims that 320,000
automobiles have come into Los
Angeles since last November 30.
In the same period two million
tourists have been here. So from
that it is easy to see that we have
plenty of company; some even from
our own community.
While at Pasadena we met our
friend, Howard Struble and his sister,
from Zion.
We expect to remain here until
March 8 when we will go to Long
Beach where we will remain until
April 1, when we expect to begin
the homeward trek.
Yours
MR. AND MRS. B. F. HOMAN.
——Centre county is reported to
have grown 277,400 bushels of po-
totoes last year, They had an -es- -
timated value of $416,100.
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KAUFFMAN. — John Kauffman,
the last surviving member of his
! generation of that well known fam-
ily, died at his home in Zion, at 10:30
' o’clock on Saturday night, following
A
| a brief illness as the result of a gen-
| eral breakdown. He was born in
| Spring township 79 years ago and
{was a farmer by occupation. He
| never. married and his only survivors
are nieces and nephews. Funeral
| services were held at his late home
{in Zion, at 10 o'clock on Tuesday
morning, by Rev. Paul Keller, bur-
ial being made in the Zion cemetery.
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