| PERFECT ATTENDANCE
Bellefonte, Pa., March 7, 1930
NARY BIRD “FARM”
HAS 500 SONGSTERS..
rd lovers have a treat in store
them if they have not already
ted the “canary farm” of Mrs.
lip A. Meishel, of 319 East
aple street, Ebensburg. Mrs,
shel has gone into the canary
jness on a large scale and has
ut 500 birds housed ina building
ecially erected for the purpose.
bout 450 young birds were rais-
this year and Mrs. Meishel ex-
ts to raise at least 1,000 next
r ..Hatching was started last
ruary and continued until June
for the coming year the hatch-
will start this December and be
tinued until June. The present
ipment of 83 breeding cages will
increased to 150 and the larger
aber of birds hatched will also
uire additional training cages
| more flight cages.
sanary birds are not hatched in
1bators but in the old-fashioned
y “under the hen.” The mother
j “sets” about 13 days until the
ch and the little birds require
ut 21 days after that before they
able to leave the nest. In five
six weeks they are able to take
e of themselves. They then “go
ay to school” for a few weeks,
eiving their musical education in
training cages. Some birds learn
jing earlier than others but they
ally graduate within a few
sks. They then are placed in the
ht cages, ich are large enough
w jle freedom of
nd Cinnamon
BiSfie expects to specialize
White Border Fancy, two
rs of this variety being now on
. way here from Canada.
Last week Mrs. Meishel shipped
ne beautiful young fellows to New
'sey and also made a shipment to
‘sey Shore, Pa. She is receiving
merous orders both local and
m a distance, The yellower the
d is, the better, the experts say,
ij close inspection of the groups
‘prises one to note what a large
centage of the birds are almost
re yellow.
and what a merry crowd they
;, too, all singing at once, not al-
ys in harmony but filling the room
th an alluring medley as only 500
1ary birds in action at one time
3.
Fhe man was worrying.
‘Tell me about it,” said his pal.
et it off your chest.”
‘1 wish I could,” groaned the
er “Ive got ‘Marguerite ta-tooed
re, and the girl I'm engaged to
irry is named Helen.
TO WAGE NEW WAR
ON ALL ILLITERACY.
- Each member of the committee on
illiteracy for the State of Pennsy:-
vania appointed by Superintendent
of Education Dr. Keith with the
advice of Governor Fisher, has re-
ceived a letter from Ray Lyman
Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior
and chairman of the National Ad-
visory Committee on Illiteracy, ask-
ing that he act with and be a part
of the national committee in the
intensive drive that is being put
into the campaign against illiteracy
before the taking of the census
which begins in April.
This action on the part of Secre-
tary Wilbur marks an additional
step in the campaign against illiter-
acy, Secretary Wilbur asks further
that the State Superintendent, Dr.
Keith, give him permission to com-
municate with all county superin-
tendents in the State, to offer to
them the facilities of the Nation-
al Committee and the information
and methods of procedure it has
developed. The National Advisory
Committee on Illiteracy has made a
careful study of the campaigns
against illiteracy waged in many
States and makes the lessons learn-
ed in those campaigns available to
whoever would like to use them.
It has, as a result of its studies,
prepared and published a manual of
24 lessons, the completing of which
will enable the average illiterate to
read and write. This has already
been demonstrated in several States.
The manual will be furnished by
the National Committee to any
local organization at the mere cost
of printing or a single copy will be
furnished without charge and can
then be printed locally.
According to the census figures
five million adults in the United
States are illiterate. One out of
every fourteen people of voting
age cannot read the warning sign
on a poisoned well; cannot read “Do
Not Smoke, Explosives near;” can-
not read “Danger, Live Wire.” One
out of every ten people over 21 can-
not write. The percentage of illit-
eracy in our country is greater
than that ian England, Germany,
Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, and
Japan.
FAMOUS SONG NOT BURNS’
Although the words of the song
“Auld Lang Syne” appear in Burns’
works, he himself, admits that he
wrote only the second and’ third
stanzas. A song of the same title
can be traced to the latter part of
1600. In a letter to George Thom-
son, September, 1793, Burns says
“One song more I have done, “Oula
Lang Syne.” The air is but mediocre
but the following song, the old song
of the olden times, and which has
never been in print nor even
manuscript until I took it down
from an old man’s singing, is
enough to recommend any air.”
SEND PARCELS “SPECIAL
DELIVERY” AND SAVE TIME
Special delivery and special hand-
ling mail other than first class shall
be sacked separately from other
second, third and fourth class mails
and be given the same dispatch and
handling in closed pouch trains asis
accorded pouches of letters, and
when dispatched on P. R. R. trains
will be handled in postal cars as
far as practicable.
will make up a direct sack in every
case where there are two or more
rcels the size of an ordinary shoe |
x or larger, addressed to the same
post office. Where direct sacks of
daily papers are made up in a post |
office or an R. P. O. train and
the quantity of special delivery or
special handling parcels is not suf-
ficient to warrant a direct sack for
those offices, the special delivery
and special handling packages may
be included in the direct sacks of
daily papers.
At the smaller offices where the
quantity is sufficient to warrant
directs and the character of the par-
cels is such as not to injure first
class matter, they should be pouch-
ed with letter mail.
It will be noted from the above
instructions that special delivery and
special handling parcels are to be
handled the same as first class mail
while in transit and in addition to
this the special delivery parcels will
be specially delivered at the office of
destination.
The special delivery and also the
the special handling fees are very
moderate for the service rendered.
Send your next parcel special deliv-
ery or special handling and note
the saving in time.
MILLIONAIRE ENDOWS
CEMETERY FOR PETS.
The city of Indianapolis soon will
have one of the first complete ani-
mal cemeteries in the United States
under provisions of the will of Leo
Kahn, President of the American
Sanitary Lock corporation, who left
an estate of from $500,000 to $1,-
000,000 to establish the cemetery
and to build a home and hospital
for friendless dogs, cats, horses and
other animals.
The idea was suggested by Mrs.
Castle McLaughlin, of Chicago.
Burial lots will be sold but a
portion will be reserved as a “pot-
ters field” for animals owned by
poor persons. A farm will be
bought for the hospital and ceme-
tery site.
Persons of means who send pets
for treatment will pay, but homeless
and friendless animals will be cared
for without cost at the hospital.
Wife—“I see by this paper that
in certain parts of India a wife
can be bought for two dollars. Isn't
that perfectly awful?”
Husband—“Well, I don’t know! A
good wife would be worth that.”
H you often said,
“I don’t mind cooking;
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cooking utensils out in the
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away your appetite for din-
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You’ll never have to scour
another smoked-up kettle or
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can actually take a utensil
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there will not be a smudge on
the snowy cloth. What’s
more, your kitchen walls and
ceiling and curtains stay clean
longer than ever before, sav-
ing you endless hard work.
Cook electrically for economy!
WEST PENN POWER CO
MANY FAMOUS TREES
: IN PENNA:.-FORESTS.
State-wide interest continues in un-
usual trees of Pennsylvania, notable
for their great size, historic associa-
tions, or other unique features,
State Forester Joseph S. Illick,
said today.
+ Trees of magnificent proportions
were abundant in the original for-
| ests of Pennsylvania but after the
clear cutting practice in our big
days of lumbering, few forest giants
remained. Even if single specimens
had been saved from the axe, they
{would likely have been thrown by
the wind. Individual big trees that
have grown up through the centur-
ies under the protective influence of
their neighbors, do not develop the
stalwart qualities that enable them
to go it alone, Suddenly deprived
of the collective support of their
forest associates, they fall easy prey
to wind and storm.
Thus it is that the most out-
standing sepcimens reported since
the Department of Forests and Wa-
ters began its search for -the big
trees of Pennsylvania, have been
those which developed in the open
country intsead of under forest con-
ditions. Others are trees that
stood on the edge of previous clear-
ings, and avoided in later lumber-
ing operations because their limby
crowns developed under semi-open
conditions, rendered them unfit for
the sawmill. Still others are trees
| which are known to have been
planted: +
The largest cottonwood in Penn-
sylvania is believed to be a planted
tree, standing on the Bachman
farm along the highway between
| Soudersburg and Paradise, Lancaster
county. It is reported that an ear-
lier owner of the property brought
back a cutting, used during the
morning as a cane, from which this
tree has grown. It is 225 feet
in circumference at breast height.
(4.5 feet above the ground) is al-
ways used as a comparison since
some trees develop an unusual flare
at the base, out of other propor-
tions to their actual size.
Not only the largest, but one of
the most historic horse chestnuts
in Pennsylvania, has grown from a
seeding presented by George Wash-
ington to General Brown of Revolu-
tionary fame, who planted it in
front of his home near Bath, North-
ampton county, the property now
belonging to the Bath-Portland Ge-
ment Company. Before one of the
main branches was broken off on
January 17, 1921, this tree was 70
feet high, and at breast height
was more than 17 feet around.
Four large sassafras trees, rare
giants for this species in Pennsyl-
vania, stand along the Baltimore
Pike one mile east of Wawa, Dela-
ware county. They average about
3 feet in diameter at breast height.
So accustomed are Pennsylvanians
to this species as a small tree or
shrub, of fence rows and old fields,
that it is difficult to convince them
these trees are sassafras. Probably
none of the big trees excite such
continued curiosity as do these.
While the dense condition of the
original forests produced taller trees
‘than we now have, the most mas-
sive tree in Pennsylvania is a syca-
more about four miles south of
Lancaster between the Lincoln
Highway and Marietta turnpike. The
diameter is 22 feet, height over 100
feet, and branch spread 140 fee.
Its three main branches are 70, 72
and 84 feet long.
Two others of the biggest big
trees discovered are an English wal-
nut in Berks county, between Spies
Church and Friedensburg, reputed
to be the largest in America, and
Pennsylvania’s biggest oak, near
Neff’s Mills, Huntingdon county. The
| Forest Tllick on June 9, 1923.
| I EE AEE
STATE COLLEGE HAS
OWN “LITTLE PARIS.”
With a faculty which included
the mantinee of the Parisian stage;
the preceptor in French to the fam-
ily of the former German Kaiser,
five ‘other Frenchmen and headed
by Frederic Ernst, formerly a jour-
nalist in Paris, the Pennsylvania
State College is ready to establish
! a little Paris of its own this sum-
mer.
The faculty this year is one of
the strongest ever assembled for
the = institute. Headed by Frederic
‘Ernst, now professor of French at
New York University, it includes
Georges Vitray of the Theatre Pi-
galle, Paris, where he has also serv-
ed as professor of diction
instructors who
in teaching
lecturer, and six
are actively engaged
Cons, formerly employed at the Lycee
in Berlin and as French tutor to
the family of the Kaiser, and now
head of the Romance language de-
partment at Swarthmore; Osmond
T. Robert, chairman of the French
Department at Smith; Rene Guiet
and Jeanne Guiet, professors at
Smith College; Paul Blanchet, Penn
State; and F. M. Dumont, New
York University.
WE TALK FASTER.
According to the observation of a
well-known stenographic expert,
with the passage of 20 years there
is an increase in speech at the rate
of ten words per minute. People
read more, see more, do more and
are better educated than they were
in the past and it has resulted in
quicker thinking and talking.
Radio may jack the speed up even
more. When radio was first used in
reporting people began to say that
it wouldn't be long until the short-
hand reporter would be out of
business. However, it has proved
exactly otherwise. In the last
Presidential campaign many news-
papers used the radio in getting
speeches. :
Kitty—‘“Jack says he can read
me like a book.”
Phillis—*“Perhaps he means, dear,
that you are a very plain type.”
latter tree was discovered by State :
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dramatic art since 1922, as visiting |
their native language. They are Louis
PENN STATE COLLEGE
HIGH IN PENNSYLVANIA.
submitted to the De-
of Public Instruction
The Pennsylvania State
marked the 75th anniversary of
Reports
partment
show that during the school year [signing of its institutional "charter
1928-1929, 189,819 pupils were per- [on February 22, Governor James
fect in attendance in the public | Pollock having affixed his signature
to the document on which the
lege
birthday in 1855.
With that charter
the first successful educational
terprise to endure which taught
schools of Pennsylvania.
Of these pupils 84,988 had been
perfect in attendance during some
preceding year or years. This rep-
resents a slight decrease in at-
tendance during the preceding year.
It is considered a good achievement,
however, because records in the
State Department of Health show
that there were considerably more
cases of the common communicable
diseases such as measles and chick-
en pox during the preceding year.
The number of deaths from influ-
enza alone during the past year
were 2.35 or approximately 2 1.3
times the number that occurred dur-
ing the preceding year, while the
number of deaths from this
disease during January, 1929, were
9.68 or almost ten times the num-
ber occurring as a result of the
From that same movement
in which to-day are
proximately half of the
receiving higher education
country.
Lincoln's signature
Grant Act, coming
to the
in the
ideal of higher public education
all the people, and enabled it
ed the intersectional strife.
CHARTER 75 YEARS OLD.
College
the
col-
was founded on Washington's
was launched
€n-
the
agricultural and mechanical sciences.
grew
the Morrill Land Grant Act of Com-
gress, the foundation of the colleges
enrolled ap-
students
in this
Land
early
years of the Civil War, saved the
for
to
survive the lean years that follow-
disease during January, 1928.
On an average, 100 of every 1000
pupils enrolled in the public schools
were neither ahsent nor tardy dur-
ing the entire term.
men, guaranteed to
months without runners
holes in heels
FREE {if they
wear
in leg
or toe. A mew
fail. Price $1.00.
YEAGER’S TINY BOOT SHOP
Mrs. Alden—“Do you ever flatter
your husband?”
Mrs, Brearly—“Yes, I sometimes
ask his advice about things.”
Free SILK HOSE Free
Mendel’s Knit Silk Hose for wo
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| A Bank’s Standing
here are three determining factors in a
Bank’s standing :
The Reputation of its Officers and Directors
Its Capital and Surplus
Its Resources
As to this Bank—the first of them will have to
take care of itself.
The second shows—Capital and Surplus $542,-
000. Of this amount $342,000 is surplus. Much
greater than the average.
The third shows Resources of $2,800,000.
Enough to insure the proper consideration of, and
ability to help, projects that promise to increase the
| well-being of the community and the proper needs
| of individuals.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Spring Clothes
are Ready
Me and young men will find the
most complete showing of New
Spring Suits and Top Coats ever shown
in Bellefonte.
large and varied; the styles are so de-
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