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Bellefonte, Pa., March 14th, 1930.
EX-PRESIDENT TAFT
' DIED ON SATURDAY.
william Howard Taft, the only
man in history to serve his country
poth as President and as Chief
Justice of the United States, died
at his home in Washington on Sat-
urday afternoon at 5:15 o'clock
from heart disease. He was in his
74th year.
The twenty-seventh President of
the United States resigned from the
Supreme Court bench a little more
than a month ago because of the
fliness that brought nis life to an
end. His health had been on the
down grade for some time before he
finally relinquished his post as
Chief Justice.
Chief Justice Taft was born at
Cincinnati September 15, 1857. His
father was Alphonso Taft, who was
Attorney General of the United
States in 1876-1877, and his mother
was Louisa Maria Torrey Taft, The
Chief Justice received his early
education in Cincinnati and after
being graduated from “high school
went to Yale University, where he
was graduated in 1878. He stood
gecond in a class of 121 and was
salutatorian and class orator.
He took his law course at the
Cincinnati Law School, where he
was graduated in 1880. There, as at
Yale, he maintained his high stand-
ing as a student and when graduat-
ed divided first prize with another
member of the graduating class.
Besides the various public offices
which he had filled, Mr. Taft served
the Government on pumerous mis-
In 1904 he was sent to Rome
gions. 2
by President Roosevelt to coni&:
with the late Pope Leo XIII con-
cerning the purpose of agricultural
jands of religious orders in the Philip-
e islands.
gr Roosevelt generally was
eredited with making Mw , Tat
sident, and most poll ical -
LA he unmade him
gervers agree that
four years later. Backed by the
ssevelt influence, Mr. Taft was
elected President in 1908 by the
overwhelming majority of 321 elec-
goral votes out of a total of 488.
With the Roosevelt influence against
phim and Colonel Roosevelt himself a
candidate on a third party ticketin
3912, Mr. Taft received but a paltry
eight votes out of a total of 531.
It was said of Mr. Taft at this
gime that although he was the
worst defeated President he was
the best loser of any. He left the
White House in the happiest frame
of mind, apparently glad to lay
down the cares of state, which had
peen far greater than he anticipated.
Mr. Taft was appointed a member
of the National War Labor Confer-
ence Board in 1918 and was CO-
chairman until the board was dis-
i August, 1919. He served
s presiden
rH Red Cross from 1906 to 1913;
pesident of the American Bar As-
sociation in 1913 and of the Amerl-
can Academy of Jurisprudence in
1914. He also served for several
ears as president of the League tc
Enforce Peace.
Mr. Taft’s brothers were Henry
Ww. Taft, who practiced law in New
York from the time he was ad-
to the bar, and Horace Dut-
itted
y Taft, headmapter of the Taft
School at Watertown, Conn. Charles
P. Taft, editor and publishe- of the
Cincinnati Times-Star, was a half-
brother.
. The Chief Justice was an ardent
baseball fan and frequently attend-
ed the games in Washington as
well as in other major league cities.
Je was personally acquainted with
many of the star players of the
National and American Leagues.
“My. Taft married, when he was
29 years old, Helen Herron, daugh-
ter of John W. Heron, of Cin-
cinnati, and by her had three
children, Robert, Helen and Charles.
He was devoted to his wife and
family. On his many travels not a
day went by that he did not write
or telegraph to Mrs. Taft.
On Tuesday morning the body
was taken to the Capitol, in Wash-
ington, where it lay in state in the
rotunda for three hours. Funeral
services were held at 2 o'clock that
afternoon in All Souls Unitarian
church, of which the Chief Justice
was a member, Burial was made in
Arliagton National cemetery.
—A negro was brought before a
Southern judge for speeding in an
old tin lizzie.
“What have you to say for your=
self 7?’ asked the judge.
“I wasn’t going more than ten
miles an hour,” replied the negro,
“but I've got something that beats
*em all hollow.”
“What is it?” asked the judge.
“It’s a cuckoo clock. When Ah
goes at ten miles an hour, the fen-
ders rattle; when Ah goes at twenty
miles an hour, the whole top rattles,
and when Ah goes at forty miles
an hour the old cuckoo sings
‘Nearer My God to Thee.”
LA ow. Vie of university students
‘were haulea nto trafic court the
‘ other day on a cuarge of highway
_nurdling in their collegiate fliv.
“Have you 2a lawyer to act as
counsel for your defense?” the judge
inquired. |
“No, Your Honor,” responded the |
young man who appeared to be the |
older of the two. “We don’t wanta |
lawyer; we're going to tell the
gruth.”
—Jrate Master (to negro servant):
“Rastus, I thought I told you to get
a domestic turkey. This one has
shot in it.”
Rastus: “I done got a domestic
turkey, sir.”
Master:
get in it?”
Rastus: “I speckns they was
meant for me, suh.’
et
—Subscribe for the Watchman.
“Well, how did the shot
No “Frills,” but Real
Meals in Lumber Camps
Some one recently writing of Maine
jumber camp feeds describes the table
In rather Interesting terms: “The
food Is all on before the cook shouts:
‘Come and get it! You will not find
finger bowls, white napkins or a dozen
knives and forks to every person, but
you'll find real grub, the kind that
delights the stomach of every woods-
man. There are no ‘courses.’ Yon
eat as much as you want of anything
that is on the table. The dishes are
Coffee,
kept filled by the cookees.
milk and tea are In large pitchers.
Other food is In tins or enameled bas-
ins and in large quantities. The cups
are of tin and hold a pint—a real man-
size cup. Knives, forks, spoons and
plates are also of tin or enameled
ware. Some of the men mix beans,
bread, pickles, potatoes and onions
together and then cover it with mo-
lasses. As soon as a man has eaten,
he takes his dishes and deposits them
in one of the huge dishpans that is
usually in the sink at one end of the
cookroom. To leave your dishes on
the table would be a certain sign of
‘greenhorn.’ "—Lewiston Journal.
Scottish Judge Noted
for Bathos on Bench
Newly appointed judges are invari-
ably warned against undue loquacity
on the bench, A dreadful example of
such verbosity is found in the case of
Lord Eskgrove, a Scots judge of a hun-
dred years ago. Eskgrove could never
be content with a plain statement, and
his efforts to adorn the tale often led
him into almost incredible depths of
pathos. Condemning a tailor to death
for murdering a soldier he declared:
“Not only did you murder him, where-
by he was bereaved of life, but you
did thrust. or push, or pierce, or pro-
ject, or propel the lethal weapon
through his regimental breeches, which
were his majesty’s.” On another oc-
casion, sentencing two criminals for
housebreaking with violence, he end-
ed a long recital of their crimes by
deploring: “And all this you did, God
preserve us, just as the family were
sitting down to dinner.”—Montrea!
Star.
Eliminating Ground Ivy
A simple and effective remedy for
ground ivy on lawns has been found.
This consists of a single spraying
with sodium chlorate, using 1 to 2
ounces per gallon of water, and that
quantity of solution is sufficient to
cover 100 square feet, providing a
pressure sprayer is used. If applied |
with a sprinkling can, a trifle more
solution will be needed, as that method
of application is somewhat wasteful of
material. The leaves should be thor-
oughly covered. The spray can be ap-
plied any time during the summer
or fall. Since the spray discolors the |
grass for a short time, it is perhaps
best to defer application until late
fall.
English Poets Laureate
England is involved in obscurity. In
early days the word “laureate” came
to mean in English “eminent.” It was
thus generally, although not always,
applied in a literary sense. Medieval
kings had poets or minstrels attached
! to their households, who received pen-
sions, although their appointment was
not official. In this way Ben Jonson
was looked upon as the first laureate,
but the title seems never to have been
really conferred on him. John Dry-
den was the first English poet to re- !
ceive the title by letters-patent in 1670.
From that time the post became a reg
ular institution.
Lost Property
It was kit inspection, and the sol-
diers had their things laid out on their |
beds. The orderly walked into the
room and approached Private Brown.
“Three shirts, Brown?” he asked.
“Yes, sir. One on, one in the wash,
and one in the box,” replied the pri
vate,
“Two pairs of boots?”
“Yes, sir, one pair on and one pail
in the box.”
“Two pairs of socks, Brown?”
in the box.”
“Good! Now, where's the box?”
“Dunno, sir; I've lost it.”—Londorn
Answers.
Earliest English Clock?
In the first chamber of the great
cower of Salisbury cathedral lies a
rusty, odd-looking piece of mechanism
which may prove to be the earliest
turret clock in England, dating back
to 1386, or six years before the earli-
est record of the Wells clock, now in
the Science museum at South Kensing-
ton.
An interesting feature of the Salisbury
clock is the hand wheel for winding .
the going (as distinct from the strik-
| ing) part. Omly a little work at a
trifling cost ‘would be required to
make the clock go again.
Let Down
Mother had been trying very hard
to teach little Betty to be more polite.
At last she really seemed to be suc-
cessful.
“Just you see how good she is at
dinner time,” mother boasted to ber
husband.
Dinner time came. There was suet
pudding.
“Betty,” sald the child's mother,
“will yon have some more pudding?
“No!” replied the daughter.
“No what, I'»tty dear?”
“Nn fear, mother”
BANKERS REPORT
DROP IN SAVINGS
Lure of Stock Market Partly to
Blame, but Slackened Specula-
tion Expected to Bring Return
to Thrift.
The first recession in the naton's
savings account in banks in the twen-
ty years during which records in this
field have been kept by the American
Bankers Association was disclosed for
last year in the recent annual compila-
tion prepared by its Saving Bank
Division. The shrinkage amounted to
over $195,000,000, on the basis of fig:
ures for the year ending June 29, 1929,
whereas a year earlier the reported in-
crease was over $2,300,000,000, the
largest ever recorded. The number
of savings depositors also decreased
during the year covered by more than
500,000 accounts. The lure of the
stock market and affiliated activities
are cited as part of the explanation
for these changes.
The association’s statement says
that savings deposits in banks and
trust companies of continental United
States on June 29, 1929, stood at $28.
217,656,000. The recession in savings,
it declares, indicates a fundamental
change in the savings situation, irre
spective of whether it is temporary of
not.
How Savings Used to Grow
“In 1926 savings deposits increaseo
$1,562,000,000, in 1927, almost $1,400,
000,000 and in 1928 over $2,300,000,
000,” it says. “It appears now that
some influences in one year have taken
the gain that might reasonably have
been expected in savings deposits for
1929 and lowered them from the high
mark of the preceding year. This re-
cession is not one coming as a result
of drouth, famine, unemployment or
conditions outside of the United
States.
“A year ago it was stated: ‘The yea:
closing June 30, 1928, registered the
largest gain in savings deposits in
panks and trust companies of conti
nental United States ever recorded
fn the history of this country.’ What
a difference one year makes! From
a gain of more than 214 billions of dol-
lars in savings deposits to a loss of al-
mest 200 millions!
“The loss in savings deposits is re- |
ship for war or merchant service came
flected also in the loss of savings de-
nositors. The year 1929 showed a to-
tal of 52,664,127 depositors, against
53,188,348 for 1928, a loss of 524,221.
“industrial production was much
higher last year than the preceding
year. Factory payrolls were consid
erably greater. In production, em-
ployment and trade, advances were
made over the preceding year. In the
farm areas the improvement noted for
1928 did not recede in 1929 and the
livestock industry in all its branches
was prosperous.
The Causes of the Drop
“The causes of the recession are
possibly multiple. There is scarcely
a : ' any reason to doubt tha
The origia of the poet laureatship or | By one of 2
ings and decreasing depositors has
been the lure of profits to be made in
stocks. For a number of years the
people have been regaled with stories
of profits made in stocks in all types
of companies. During the last few
years there has been a specious phi-
losophy preached that panics such as
formerly occurred were no longer pos-
sible.
“If it was the lure of profits In
stocks which caused the recession in
savings, then a factor in future sav-
ings will be the success attendant
upon this venture of savings depos-
itors in stocks. If the experiment did
not prove generally successful, then
another year will doubtless witness
an increase in savings deposits as well
as in savings depositors.”
HELPING YOUNG FOLK
TO BECOME BANKERS
Through the American Institute of
Banking, which is the American Bank-
ers Association’s educational section,
the banking profession is educating
35,000 bank men and women in the
technical and scientific departments
“Yes, sir; one pair on and one pair of their work. These students are en-
abled by this institute, which is entire-
ly non-commercial in its operations, to
obtan a grasp of the finer points of
banking without interrupting their
employment or interfering with their
earnings, in their bank jobs.
The courses given, including bank
ing economics and law and bank ad-
ministration in all the departments,
have been worked out under the di-
rection of senior college educators
and the lectures are always given by
practical men, such as lawyers in the
legal courses, experts in banking oper:
ations and college professors in the
economics courses. There are chap
ters with meeting rooms in over 200
cities and also a number of smaller
study groups are fostered with eor-
respondence aid.
It has been said that the A. I. B,, as
it is familiarly known throughout the
banking field, is the greatest adult ed-
ucational organization in the world
and is supplying the banking business
with the largest supply of trained
workers each year that any compar-
able line of business is receiving. The
organization holds an annual conven-
tion attended by hundreds of young
bank workers as well as senior bank
of ners actively interested in further-
ing the institute’s educational work,
at which numerous technical subjects
of practical banking application are
--esented and discussed. This year’s
convention will be held at Denver,
alorado, June 16 to 20,
and burn
Straw Not Forbidden
to Children of Israel
Whether or not the first brickmakes
lived in a past 12,000 years distant,
excavations at Ur of the Chaldees,
the city of Abraham, have yielded
brick tablets inscribed with informa-
tion concerning a people of 6,000
years ago. If the Old Testament ac
count is accepted the tower of Babel
was built of brick, for “they said one
to another: Go to, let us make brick
them thoroughly.” And
Holy Writ carries its reminder that
brickmaking was known to the early
Egyptians. Down through the ages
has- come allusion to bricks without
straw, although the Children of Israel
were not, as a matter of faet, required
to make bricks without that binding
material :
“And Pharaoh commanded the same
day the task masters of the people
and their officers, saying:
“Ye shall no more give the people
straw to make brick as heretofore;
let them go and gather straw for
themselves.”"—Boston Transcript.
Florid Epitaph Common
in Revolutionary Days
“Stop, Passenger,” begins an epl-
taph, dated 1781, on a stone in a ceme-
tery in Elizabeth, N. J., “here lie the |
remains of a woman who exhibited to
the world a bright constellation of
the female virtues, On that memo:
able day, never to he forgotten, when
a British foe irvaded this fuir village
and fired even the temple of the Deity,
this peaceful daughter of Heaven re-
tired to her hallowed apartment, im-
ploring Heaven for the pardon of her
enemies.
was by the bloody hand of a British
yuffian dispatched like her Divine Re-
deemer through a path of blood to
her long wished-for native skies.”
There were few brief epitaphs in those
early days.
ed as a lack of reverence to fail to
enumerate the virtues of the departed,
and as a disregard of opportunity to
fail to warn the “passengers” of what
was in store for them,
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Once Famous Port
Though Cowes is now almost synony-
mous with pleasure yachting, the little
town was famous for its dockyards
long before the annual regatta was
thought of, says “Looker On” in the
London Daily Chronicle. Many a tall
off the slips at Cowes in the old days,
including Nelson's famous Vanguard,
and during the World war its ship-
yards were adapted again to contrib-
ute worthily to British naval strength,
both in regard to new building and re-
pairs. How the town came by its
name has some interest. Really the
pames is plural, and derives from the
two “cowes” or circular forts, which
Henry VIII erected: to guard the en-
trance to Portsmouth harbor.
fort is now the headquarters of the
Royal Yacht squadron,
Dog Saved Browning
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Bar- |
rett did not elope alone.
rett’s lap dog went along.
*Not because the lovers wanted it
particularly,” Dr. Andreas Bard in-
formed the Kansas City Browning so-
ciety at a luncheon, “but because they
were afraid to leave it behind. One
bark would have spoiled everything.
Miss Bar-
Miss Barrett's father disapproved of |
the intended marriage.
“Think of it—the future of Brown-
ing poetry resting with a little dog.
If that little dog had yapped, very
likely there would have been no
Browning society and, what is worse,
none of those exquisite poems written
by Mr. and Mrs. Browning after their
marriage.”—Kansas City Star.
Wanted to See the Fight
Joseph Van Raalte tells of a New
forker who went to see the same
theater play every night for two weeks.
“You seem to be stuck on this show,
the ticket seller said to him one eve-
ning.
“No,” said the man, “it's this way:
fou know that part in the second act,
where the husband goes out and the
lover comes in the fire escape window?
Well, some one o' these nights the hus-
band is goin’ to forget somethin’ an’
come back for it an’ ketch that bird.
An’ when he does, I want to be there.”
—~Qapper's Weekly.
“Sweeping the Board”
To refer to anyone as having swept
the board is to say of him or intimate
that he overcame all opposition, tri-
nmphed over whatever obstacles econ-
fronted him and so achieved a spec-
tacular vietory.
Like several other metaphorical ex-
pressions that have gained common
currency, this one has its origin in
the patois of the card table.
For im playing cards, when one or
che participants swept the board, he
secured everything, that is, won all
the stakes on the board or table.
Hoarding Food
The habit of burying food is one
chat several wild animals possess. It
is evidently a trait handed down from
the time when England was in a grip
of continual ice. At .hat (ime the
hunter ate all he could, then buried
the rest, returning to it when hungry.
Nowadays the weasel will ill far
more than it can eat, and it siill buries
the surplus, but, unlike its ancestor:
it does not return to the «tor. as
there .s plenty of fresh .00l Lu be
obtatned - -London lit-is
In that sacred moment she |
It was apparently regard
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We Offer Subject to Market Changes:
; i per 100lb
Quaker Ful, O Pep Egg Mash, 3.25
Quaker Scratch Grains... 2.40
Quaker Chick Starter... 4.50
Quaker Chick Feed........... 3.00
Quaker 20% Dairy Ration...... 2.40
Quaker 249% Dairy Ration...... 2.50
Quaker Calf Meal. ........... 4.50
Quaker sugared Schumaker... 2.30
Quaker Oat Meal .................. 3.25
Wayne 329, Dairy Ration...... 2.75
Wayne 249% Dairy Ration...... 2.50
Wayne 209% Dairy Ration........ 2.40
Wayne Egg Mash.................. 3.00
Wayne 189, Pig Meal..... . 3.00
Wayne 289 Hog Meal 3.25
Wayne All Mash Starter... 4.00
Wayne Calf Meal... ae 425
Rydes Calf Meal... .............. 5.00 |
Bran... a eee 1.75 |
A Middlings 0 oi cell 2.20
B. Middlings 0. ln nl 1.90 |
Corn and Oats Chop............ 2.00
Cracked Corn .... .................. 2.20 |
Corn Chop ............. 2.20 |
Flax Meal ....... 2.40 |
Linseed Oil Meal. ... 3.00 |
Cotton seed Meal 2.50 |
Gluien Feed .......... 2.40 |
Alfalfa Meal... .............. 3.50 |
Beef Scrap or Meat Meal... 4.00 |
Hog tankage .................. 2.70 |
| Oyster Shells ..................... 1.00
Mica Spar Gfit...................... 1.50 |
Stock Salt «.......... icone 1.00 |
Common Fine Salt... ......... 125]
Menhaden 55% Fish Meal... 4.00
| Bone Meal ......... 3.25 |
| Charcoal ................. 3.00 |
| Dried Buttermilk .. 9.50
! Dried Skim Milk 9.00 |
' Pratt’s Poultry Worm Powder 10.00
| Pratt’s Poultry Regulator...... 9.00 |
, Cod Liver Oil, cans gal... 1.80
, Cod Liver Oil, bulk gal. ...... 1.30
i 1 Bbl First Prize Flour...
| % Bbl Pillsbury Flour...
| Orders for one ton or more de- |
‘livered without extra charge.
We make no charge for mixing
your own rations. !
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Certified Seed Potatoes
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| per 1501b
Michigan Russets 7.50
i Irish. Cobblers .............. 7.50
Green Mountains 7.50
oy Bose... 7.00
| Clover Seed.
| per 1 bu.
Adaptable Red Clover............... $13.50
W. B. Sweet Clover...................... 8.00
Alsike or oo... 15.50 |
| ®
Baby Chicks
|
i per 100
S. C. White Leghorns.................. $12.00
'S. C. Brown Leghorns..... .... 12.00
Barred Plymouth Rocks........... 12.00
White Plymouth Rocks... ...... 14.00
Rhode Island Reds....................... 14.00
and have our careful attention.
| A. F. HOCKMAN
BELLEFONTE
Feed Store—23 West Bishop St.
| Phone 93-J
| Mill—-Hecla Park, Pa. Phone 232%
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JEWELER
1420 Chestnut St.,
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BUSH ARCADE BLOCK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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SELECTING YOUR MEATS
When you enter our butcher
shop be sure to scan our display
of choice cuts leisurely before
you make your selections. If
there is anything out of the or-
that you want and it is
not displayed you may be sure
we have it in our refrigerator,
so please ask for it, We carry
all the choice meats that are in
season. We solicit your patron-
be: Telephone @87
Market on the Diamond
Bellefonte, Penna.
P. L. Beezer Estate.....Meat Market