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Bellefonte, Pa., March 21, 1930.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
Considerable news of local in-
terest will be found on page 2 of this
issue of the Watchman. Si
— The Ladies Aid society of the
Lutheran church will hold a bake
sale Saturday, April 12th, at Schaef-
fer’s hardware store. ’ ; ¢ ’
———The new linoleum recommend-
ed by the recent grand jury has been
put down in the several offices in the
court house where it was badly need-
ed. ; ;
——The Missionary society of the
Bellefonte Methodist church will hold
an all day food sale at the Bellefonte
Hardware Co. store, tomorrow, Sat-
urday the 22nd,
——L. A. Schaeffer, who became
suddenly ill at his home on east Cur-
tin street yesterday morning, and
whose condition for a part of the
time since has been regarded as se-
rious, is showing some improvement,
The Philipsburg High school
debaters won the decision in their
contest with the State College Hi
orators, at Philipsburg, last Friday
night. The same evening the
Philipsburg negative debaters lost
the decision to the Bellefonte affirm-
ative group. The latter contest
took place here.
——Giving as their one hundredth
play, “Francesca da Rimini,” the Penn
State players will mark their tenth
anniversary on Saturday with their
most ambitious venture in many
years. The play, which is also known
as “Paolo and Francesca,” is laid in
medieval Italy, giving the students
an opportunity to develop its attend-
ant pageantry in brilliant colors. Six-
ty students will take part in the
production.
! — After being closed down since
the first of December the Bellefonte
Lime company’s quarries at Salona
were put in operation last week.
During the shutdown a larger crusher
and other new machinery were in-
stalled and the plant is now in
shape to turn out more crushed
stecne for road-building purposes
than ever before. J. Linn Harris,
of Lock Haven, has personal charge
of the plant.
- ——At a regular monthly meeting
of the Woman's Missionary Auxili-
ary of the Presbyterian church, held
at the home of Mrs. S. M. Nissley,
on Tuesday evening, the following of-
ficers were elected for the ensuing
year: President, Mrs. Joseph L.
Ruakle; vice president, Mrs. Thomas
Beaver; secretary, Mi:s. Charles
Beatty; treasurer, Mrs. Charles
Hughes; secretary for literature,
Mrs. Eleanor McDowell.
* ——On Monday afternoon Harold
Tressler, Leonard and Kenneth
Smeltzer, High school boys, started
for home in Tresslei’s car. They
drove east on Linn street and in at-
tempting to turn south on Wilson
street the car upset and rolled over
twice. Leonard Smeltzer sustained a
“broken leg and painful bruises and
was removed to the Centre County
hospital. The other two boys escap-
€d with’ minor cuts and bruises.
. ——The three men who last week
were canvassing Pennsvalley selling
chicken protection to farmers at
$12.50 per, abandoned their efforts
to catch the gullible, last Friday,
and departed for other and more
fertile fields, though it is reported
that they were able to clean up
over two hundred dollars in the few
days they worked the valley. Now
it remains to be seen just how se-
curely their protection will protect.
. Forty-four of Frank Wetzler’s
band boys gathered at the Penn-Belle,
Monday evening, to do honor to their
friend and leader. They came from
all over Central Pennsylavna, from
as far west as Pittsburgh, and it was
a happy night for all of them. The
su:prise banquet they gave Mr. Wetz-
ler last year left so many pleasant
memories that it was decided to
make an annual event of it. There
was splendid food, good singing by
the band’s quartet and many remi-
niscent after dinner talks.
——MTrs. Haldis Larsen, of Brook-
lyn, N. Y, has announced the en-
gagement of her daughter, Miss
Erna Gulbrandsen to Mr. William
B. Troup, of Bellefonte. Mr. Troup
is the eldest son of Mr, and Mrs.
Calvin Troup, of south Thomas
street, this place, a graduate of the
Pennsylvania State College and one
Hf Bellefonte’s very highly esteemed
young men. He is at present con-
nected with the New York city plant
of the Baldwin Locomotive works.
No date has been set for the wed-
.ding, but it will probably be cele-
brated in the early fall.
On her way to services in St.
John's Catholic church, on Sunday
evening, Mrs. Thomas Shaughnessy,
of east Howard street, was hit and
knocked down with a car driven by
Arthur Houck, mechanic at the
Decker-Chevrolet garage, at the Al-
legheny and Bishop street crossing.
‘Mr. Houck was driving east on Bish-
op street and failed to see Mrs.
Shaughenssy until too late to stop,
although he did everything possible
to avoid hitting her. Mrs, Shaughn-
essy sustained a fractured left wrist,
a number of minor cuts and bruises
and suffered considerably from shock,
‘She was taken to the Centre County
Hospital where she 1s improving very
satisfactorily.
| western Texas have been operating
Recently agents of several land
companies who are exploiting south-
in Centre county. Their’ stories of
opportunities lying along the Rio
Grande sounded so much like fairy
tales that suspicion ‘and curiosity
urged us to make an excursion in-
to the Lone Star State to check up
on the gentlemen.
Accordingly, we boarded ‘The
Spirit of St. Louis” at Altoona on
Saturday evening, March 8 and ar-
rived at the Missouri Metropolis
about 1:20 Sunday afternoon. It
was raining but the sun was shining
bright in St. Louis and the air
quite balmy, though vegetation
seemed ‘little in advance of that in
this section. There we took the
“Sunshine Special” over the Missouri
Pacific and had our first glimpse of
Texas shortly after awakening in
Texarkana. Peach trees. were in
blossom on all sides and men were
working out-of-doors in their shirt
sleeves. ‘The sky was over-cast and
the landscape had a drab appearance
brightened, here and there, by the
purple blooms of the iron trees.
The soil is mostly white sand, the
ground rolling and swampy and
most of it covered with a low,
scrubby growth that reminded us
much of “The Barrens” of Centre
county. The country is sparcely
settled and on the run of 172 miles
to Palestine we saw few horses,
only two pigs, but many cows, All
of the latter seemed to be Jerseys.
They were in poor condition and
looked rough. However, when one
considers that cattle winter out-
side in that country and the for-
age is thin they looked no worse
than stcck that winters about the
straw-stacks in northern barn yards.
About midway between Tekarkana
and Palestine the soil turned to a
red shaley appearance and we were
told that we were in a great to-
mato growing section. On all sides
we saw plowed fields and in most
of them hot-beds in which the
young tomato plants were growing
preparatory to being set out. There
was evidence that the soil was |
growing better. Cotton is also
grown in that section. Most of the
laborers in the fields were colored
and mules were the motive power
for their implements, though we did
see a few tractors. Houses are
mostly one-storied shacks and they
are few and far between. The small
towns looked like all that was need-
ed to complete a . perfect setting
for a movie “Western” was for
Tom Mix to come galloping up Main
street and toss the reins of Tony's
bridle over the hitching post at the
general store.
We arrived at Huston at 5 Mon-
day evening and had dinner at the
Rice hotel, Huston is 815 miles out
of St. Louis. It is a fine city of
several hundred thousand population
and is said to be growing rapidly. It
has a ship canal from the Gulf of
Mexico and as eighteen railroads
converge there it is one of the
largest ports, in point of tounage
shipped and received, in the United
States. The city has many parks,
public play grounds, schools and
hospitals. One of the most notable
of the latter is a magnificent insti-
tution in which no patients who are
earhing more than twenty dollars a
week may be treated. That spirit
of real helpfulness extends into the
field of education also in Huston,
for Rice college is
it any young man
given standard of scholarship
have a full college coarse at no
other expense than his subsistence. |
The curriculum of the institution °
any calling in the field of science, |
arts and engineering. i
Leaving Huston Monday night at,
9 it was a run of 347 miles to Har- |
6:45 Tuesday morning. There J
left the train for a stay of
days as the guests of the Al
Lloyd Parker Securities Co.
were taken by motor to the club
house of the Company, a short
drive f.om the town of Le Feria,
and that hospitable place was home
during our stay. {
After breakfast the party of;
thirty-two was broken up into small
units each of which were assigned
to carsdriven by Texas enthusiasts.
Possibly all the others were equally
fortunate, but we thought ourselves
specially so after a few hours of
association with our guide, Dr.
Beuhler. He is a native of Phila-
delphia, but his professional life
we
three
and
We '
had been spent in Indianapolis,
where he was a very eminent
specialist in sanitation. In fact,
during his service in the army he
had investigated conditions all over
the very territory we were then
traversing because they had an im-
portant part in the mortality rate
at the two great government posts
in Texas. Fort Brown at Browns-
ville and Fort Sam Huston at San
Antonio. Incidentally we think
statistics show that those two posts
rank second and third in healthful-
ness among all the army posts in
the country.
But to get back to the business
of our trip. We were in Texas to |
investigate the truthfulness of the
stories its boomers have been tell- |
ing Centre countians. We were
pordered on the
1a word of discontent.
then in Cameron county which is
|Opportunity Lies Along the Rio Grande
Being the Story ofa Short Journey into Southern Texas, a Land
Where Wealth Fairly Oozes from the Ground.
south by Mexico
We dont’ recall its area in square
miles, but as we drove continuously
for three days and never once got
out of it, it certainly must be as
large as some New England State.
The ground "is as level as the top
of a billiard table, much of the
territory is virgin, covered with
mesquite, ebony and cactus, Both
the mesquite and ebony are low,
gnarled growths that have no com-
mercial value, except for fire wood
and because both are so hard they:
are excellent for that purpose. The
soil is practically all silt, for what
is popularly known as “The Valley”
down there is in reality nothing but
the delta of the Rio Grande. For
centuries the floods in that river
have been
through southern Texas and de-
positing there the rich soil of the
lands in its vast drainage basin to
the north. The silty soil is very
dark and contains just enough sand
to make it loamy and therefor work
with the least difficulty. An Irish-
man would be plumb out of luck-in
Cameron county, Texas, for we didn’t
see a stone, even the size of a pea.
Government analysis gives the silt
content at 43 to 62 per cent.
They hadn’t had a rain since Jan-
uary, but we heard no complaint on
that score because everything is irri-
gated. Water is gathered in great
basins and conducted by canals to the
various sections as they are cleared
and planted. However, the annual
rainfall over that section is about 26
inches, somewhat below the average
for the United States. For drinking
purposes wells are resorted to and all
of the water for domestic use goes
through a process of filtration.
The climate is equable. That is,
they have no extremes. They have
an occasional day in summer when
temperature might register 101 de-
grees but as there is little, if any,
humidity such a day is not intoler-
able. Occasionally they have a frost
and just recently they suffered the
first freeze in many years, Always
there is a breeze and when a “north-
er” doeg not make its unweicome ap-
pearance the air is balmy from the
Gulf. Stoves, except for cooking,
are almost a curiosity. Fire places
ae used in the homes and a few
mesquite logs are burned on cool
mornings or evenings just to take
the chill out of the house. Though
our heavy winter overcoat had felt
quite comfortable here when we left
we discarded it at Houston and at
Brownsville bare legged children
were playing in what would be Au-
gust clothing in Bellefonte. We were
told that coal is indeed a rarity in
that section. They have oil'and nat-
ural gas a plenty so that it is not
needed. In consequence of this build-
ings look bright and clean and one
might wear a collar for an entire
week without its becoming as soiled
as it would in one day here. We be-
lieve this because our hands, natur-
ally the grand American dirt catch-
ers, were so clean all the time we
we.e in Texas that we had consider-
able doubt as to whether they real-
ly were our own.
Living conditious are
pleasant and wholesome. Texas is
far in advance of many States in her
public school systems. We saw splen-
cutting new courses
those people look so well and happy, |
but they can’t subsist on climate.
They must have material things as '
well. There are no great industrial
enterprises in “The Valley,” . other
than the storage and packing houses,
and they, like the people, would not
be there were it not for the greatest
source of natural wealth, the soil, we
have ever seen. We haye been inthe
most fertile sections of the eastern
States, we have been a]l over the
south, on both coasts of Florida, all
through the garden spots of Colorado
and up into the Willamette valley of
‘Oregon, but nowhere have we seen
such soil as lies many feet deep all
over the delta of the Rio Grande.
| Some have suggested that it could
be shipped north and sold as fertil-
izer. Verily, we believe it could,
Farms there are rarely larger than
ten or twenty acres. They need not
be because we saw numbers of one
acre plots that are producing, an-
nually, more than a 140 acre farm we
know of in Centre county that is
supposed to be doing fairly well.
They grow oranges, grape fruit,
limes, cabbage, beans, carrots, toma-
toes, turnips, onions and strawberries
principally. Most anything they stick
in the ground pops up almost while
one turns around. We saw Athol
; trees that were plunted from twigs
ljust a year ago. They are now
twenty five feet high. Why, repu-
, table land companies will sell you 10
lacres of ground, clear it for $35.00
(an acre, sell you grape fruit bud
| balls at $2.00 per, plant an orchard
for you and guarantee it to be pro-
i ducing in three years, with profitable
‘bearing in four years. After
fifth year any reasonably cared for
orchard will pay for the entire in-
| vestment in one crop, if the season
{and market are favorable.
| It does sound like a fairy story,
doesn’t it? It's true, however, be-
cause we went to the trouble of talk-
jing with many persons who were not
{ connected with or particularly inter-
ested in the land company that was
our host. As grape fruit trees are
(known to live twu hundred years
think of what such an orchard
means ?
But besides the fruit they have the
; vegetable farming and cotton. Cot-
ton is the summer crop. They get
iit in after the potatoes are out—
‘they were lifting potatoes while we
were there—then tue ground goes
into tomatoes, beans or any other
vegetable for the Christmas markets
north. When they are matured an-
| other crop is started at once. In
| fact they grow three and some times
four crops a year. All crops are sold
in the field or on the trees, The grow-
er has no worry harvesting them.
The packers who buy them do that.
Wild ducks of every variety were
on every lake or lagoon we saw.
The brush is said to be full of deer
Gulf is
There are closed seasons in Texas,
but’ over in Mexico where a small
fee obtains a permit’ to hunt every
day in the year offers lure to the
man who loves the out-of-doors, a
gun and a dog. Quail and turkeys
there are plentiful as starlings are
becoming here. .
We regret that press for space in
this issue makes it impossible to tell
you more of what we saw. Perhaps
it is just as well, for in such a land
only seeing is really believing.
Before closing, however, we want
Al Parker Securities Co. Its owners
are Al and Lloyd Parker, Virginians,
, we believe by birth, and men whom
the .
and wild turkeys and fishing in the
only twenty miles away. |
‘NEWS PURELY PERSONAL
—Among Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Dale’s
recent guests was Mrs. Dale's father, T.
D. O'Neal, of Johnstown.
—Latimer Curtin, of Philipsburg, has
spent much of his time recently at Cur-
tin owing to the extremely critical
condition of his mother, Mrs. Jennie Hol-
: ter Curtin.
—Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Fauble, wha
went over to New York, Saturday night on
the excursion, remained there for the
week to do the season buying for the
Fauble stores.
—Mrs. Albert E. Blackburn, of Phila-
delphia, is spending a week in Bellefonte
with her mother, Mrs. J. L. Spangler,
who is slowly recovering from her re-
cent indisposition. .
—Mrs. Charles Smith is here from Jer-
sey Shore, a patient in the Centre County
hospital. Mrs. Smith, before her mar-
riage, was Miss Elizabeth Hazel, only
daughter of M. J. Hazel, of Bellefonte.
—Mrs. John Love, of Reynolds Ave.,
who has been spending the month of |
March with her son, Edward and his
family, at Breckenridge, Pa., expects
to return home about the first of April.
—C. C. Shuey, James Rine and Cy-
rus Solt are among those of the Metho-
dist church of Bellefonte who will be
in Harrisburg, during the present ses-
sion of conference, of the Williamsport
district.
—Miss Katherine Seibert, who drove up
from Chambersburg the after part of
last week, continued her visit in Belle-
fonte until the middle of this week, be-
ing a guest during the time of Mrs.
John A. Woodcock.
—Mrs. James C. Furst returned home,
late last week, from a ten day's trip to
Philadelphia. Having gone from here to
Williamsport, Mrs. Furst was joined there
by her sister, Miss Mabel Harrar, who
was with her for the visit east.
—Nevin Noll was up from Philadelphia,
last week, to see the minstrel show. Hav-
ing always been so closely identified with
the recent home talent productions of
Bellefonte, the visit back was to see
what was being developed since he left.
—Mrs. Reilly returned to Pittsburgh,
the forepart of the week, following
a visit here of several days with her
aunt, Mrs. H. E. Fenlon, who has been
ill since before Christmas. Mrs. Reilly
is better known in Bellefonte, perhaps, as
Miss Lucetta Brew.
—Miss Anne Shaughnessy arrived home
the early part of the week, called here by ,
Miss |
Shaughnessy, who is in charge of nurses '
her mother’s accident Sunday.
at the Hospital of White Plains, N.Y.,
is now taking care of her mother, at
the Centre County hospital.
—Mrs. Hiram Fetterhoff
Bellefonte the first of April
her own home at Pleasant Gap,
pecting to be there permanently.
Fetterhoff has had charge of the Harry
Holz home ever since he has occupied
an apartment in the Dr. Rogers house.
—Mrs. E. M. Broderick, of State Col-
lege, has been here for much of the past
week, called to Bellefonte by the ill-
ness of her uncle, T. B. Hamilton, who
is suffering from one of his severe
heart attacks. Both Mrs. Broderick and
her brother, Clarence Hamilton have
been with their uncle.
—Mr and Mrs. Myron M. Cobb, of
: west High street, were among those from
, Bellefonte who took advantage of the ex-
| cursion Saturday night, to spend Sunday
{ with members of their family, in New
| York, Mr. and Mrs. Cobb’s day was spent
| with their son, Warren L. Cobb, at pres-
ent with one of the leading banks of
the city.
—Lloyd Flack, of Blairsville, motored
to Bellafonte on Sunday for a short
| rion with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Flack, of Logan street, and to be
here for the Undine Fire Company's St.
Patrick's day banquet on Monday eve-
i ning. Lloyd is a merchant in Blairs-
, ville and we are happy to say that he
will leave
ex-
evidently to say an unsoliciated word about the is getting on splendidly.
_ —Among those from Bellefonte who
; went over to New York, Saturday night
, on the excursion, were Mr. and Mrs.
did looking High school buildings in we found out to be among the most ! John J. Bower, J. M. Cunningham, Mr.
all of the small towns.
Gas, electric- highly esteemed citizens in thé Rio and Mrs. Oscar Gray and Miss
tity, telephone and telegraph service Grande Valley. There was evidence | Ward, Mrs. Harry C.- Yeager, Miss
Julia
is extended in every direction, even on all sides of their public spirited. | Isabelle Johnson and Miss Mary McCul-
row there will probably be a prosper-
ous settlement. Mexicans are em-
ployed generally as laborers. In the
day, the latter if they have been
with their employer for a year or
more. Mexican women work both in
the fields and as domestics. In the
ficient and dependable and get from
. $3.50 to $4.00 per week. Our belief
that they are personally untidy was
completely exploded. We were told
that a Mexican laborer must have
clean overalls every day and the ones
we saw bore testimony to the state-
ment. We talked to many people
engaged in many lines of activi®y
there and from no one did we hear
Everybody
seemed to be happy and well. In a
land where roses bloom all the year
round and poppies, primroses and
myraid other flowers grow wild;
where insect pests are unknown, flies
so few that swatters are drugs on
the market and potato bugs are nev-
er seen who couldn't be happy.
Business is good, there is no un-
employment there, no “for rent” or
“for sale’ signs were present to sug-
gest that underneath a smiling at-
: mosphere of prosperity there might
We talk- |
ed to men who had gone to Texas on |
crutches so cripped with rheumatism
be real financial problems.
that they had been forced to give up
their business in the north. They are
now more suple than we are.
told us that his blood pressure was
so high that he dispaired of Nving
longer than four months. Since he
has been in Texas it has gone back to
normal. Certainly he looked the pic-
ture of health and his place evidenced
the punch he must have in him now.
Of course it is the climate and the
favorable living conditions that make
A for- |
mer St. Louis broker, who has one of
the show citrus groves near La Feria,
located there, In'into the remote brush country, forit hessand we heard nothing but praise | 6. Miss McCulley remained in New
who maintains a 'is growing so rapidly that where on- | of their manner of dealing with peo-
can 'ly one pioneer isliving today, tomor- ' ple.
In fact square shooting seems
‘to be their fetish.
They are now developing the Mon-
te Grande section. It is a garden
comprehends preparation for most fields they get $1.25 or a $1.50 per spot and investments there must cir-
‘tainly yield wonderful returns. The
Parkers resort to no high pressure
' salesmanship. They are genial hosts
‘and we saw no shading of cordialty
lingen in which city we arrived at latter work they become very pro- as between guests who bought lands
| and those who didn’t.
| Nothing is needed in the Rio
Grande valley but people. That is
‘why they would rather sell land to
home seekers than to those who
merely seek speculative values, In
. this connection let us say that we be-
‘lieve we saw the beginning of what
will turn out to be the greatest boom
‘in realty that any section of our coun-
"try has ever seen.. And it will not
(be like that of Florida, either, be-
| cause “the Valley” is being develop-
ed for production purposes, not as a
| play ground, though part of it will
, undoubtedly be devoted to that pur-
! pose.
| If you are interested go down and
| see for yourself. The four thousand
{ mile trip costs only your car fare
'and meals from your home town to
| St. Louis and back. After you reach
| St. Louis you are the guests of the
| Al Parker Securities Co., and your
| money is no good.
Charles E. Glenn, of Brownsville,
Texas, born at State College and
‘graduated from the College there, is
a Parker agent in Centre county. He
is organizing a party to leave on
Saturday, March 29th. He can be
reached any time before then at the
State’ College hotel or through this
office. Talk it over with him. Any-
thing he tells you about the land we
will vouch for because we believe the
imagination of no human being has
yet been developed to the point
where it could over portray the pos-
sibilities that liein the delta of the
Rio Grande. -
York for a visit with Mrs. E. B.
Spangler and her family.
i —Miss “Kitty” White and Miss Price,
{ the former a daughter of Dr. F. K.
White, of Philipsburg, spent Friday af-
ternoon of last week in Bellefonte, get-
ting signatures to Dr. White's petition
for State committeeman, on the Democra-
tig ticket. As Dr. White has many good
friends on this side of the mountain, the
work of the young women was accom-
plished in a very short time.
—Messrs. J. M., Edward and William
Cunningham and William H. Garman
were among the Bellefonters who went
over to New York on the excursion last
Saturday night. The Cunningham
brothers went to spend the day with
the family of their brother ‘‘Mertie”.
who lives in that city. Mr. Garman
went for a visit with his daughter,
Miss Ruth, who is living in Brooklyn.
—Included in the Sunday guests whom
Mr. and Mrs. John Garthoff entertained
were J. L. Blackford, Mrs. Blackford,
their son Phil and Max Rhone, of Hunt-
ingdon; Mr. and Mrs. Heimbach, their
son Marlyn, C. M. Sanders and Mrs. Rus-
sell Taylor, of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Grace
Keefer and her daughter Lucille, of State
College. All were dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Garthoff, except Mrs. Keefer
and her daughter.
—Mrs. W. J. Emerick, Miss Margaret
Stewart, Mrs. Jacob F. Hoy and Mrs.
David Washburn, drove over to Ridgway,
Monday afternoon, in the Emerick car,
representing the Children’s Aid society
of this district, at the convention held
there Tuesday Mrs. Hoy had spent
Sunday at Ridgway also, visiting there
with her daughter, Mrs. Vincent Stevens
and her family, who moved there from
Bellefonte only a short time ago.
—A Watchman office visitor, on Wed-
nesday, was C. A. Peters, of West
Liberty, Iowa, who has been visiting
friends in Pennsylvania since the early
part of January. This week he has
been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Arbor
Eberts, of east Howard street. Mr.
Peters was born on Dix Run, in Union
township, and went west thirty-eight
years ago. He is a carpenter by trade
and looks as if the west agrees with
him.
to go to”
Mrs. -
—Mary Curtin, injured in a coasth
accident five weeks ago, will be tak
home this week from the Centre Coun
hospital. . 2h «
!| —Mrs. Salinda Shutt went out to John
town, Thursday of last week, to spend
week or two with Mr. and Mrs. BEdwa
L. Gates and family. “
—Dr. R. M. Beach continues fll at}
home on Linn street, with little improv
ment in his condition since the beginni
of his sickness three weeks ago.
—The Cameron Heverly’'s week-end w
spent at Mackeyville, guests of Mrs. He
erly’s aunt apd uncle, Mrs. W. H, Gar
ner and Mr. Gardner, on their farm ne
that place. .* | SUA
—The Rev. M. DePui Maynard, form
rector of St. John's Episcopal church
Bellefonte, was back Friday night to tal
charge of the lenten services in the chur
here. Mr. Maynard is now rector
Grace Episcopal church, at Ridgway.
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NEW A. AND P. STORE
: IN MODEL FOOD MARKE
On last Wednesday evening Ti
Great - Atlantic and Pacific Tea Ct
opened a new up-to-date food ma
ket in the old post office room |
the Brockerhoff hotel building. Tt
new food market is fully equippe
to handle a full line of meats, se
foods, poultry, fresh fruits an
vegetables in addition to its forme
‘ne of fancy and staple groceries
The store has been very attra
tively remodeled and the latest d
signed equipment for handlin
meats, dairy products and produc
has been installed. All refrigeratio
is mechanical which insures a un
form temperature at all times fc
the preservation of fresh meat
butter and other perishable food
Officials of the A.& P, claim the
this new market is one of the fines
installations that the company ha
made in recent years.
Mr. Edward R. Miller, who for
merly resided in Bellefonte, will b
in charge of the meat departmer
while Mr. G. G. Baughman, wh
was formerly in charge of the ol
store, will be in charge of th
grocery department.
“THE LOVE PARADE”
AT THE RICHELIEU
‘Settings rich beyond the dream
of the most visionary of interio
decorators have been provided fo
Ithe talking screen's first origine
musical = romance, “The Lov
Parade” which plays at the Riche
lieu next Monday, Tuesday an
Wednesday, with a midnite shov
Sunday nite at 12:01.
“The Love Parade” is a tunefu
extravaganza of the intimacies an
intrigues about the throne of a ver
modern mythical kingdom, or rath
er queendom, with Jeanette Mac
Donald playing the queen an
Maurice Chevalier starred as he
military attache, who is recalle
from a foreign capital for havin
been involved in numerous scanda
lous affairs with the lovely ladie
of the diplomatic circle.
Victor Schertzinger wrote th
ten big hit songs and Ernest Lubitsc)
directed this - highly musical an:
sophisticated comedy.
GAS BANDITS MURDER
FORMER BELLEFONTE}
George Kuhn, a former resident o
Bellefonte, was shot to death and hi
son Andrew was wounded in the hij
by gas bandits who attempted t
hold up and rob their filling statio
at Hollyhill, Florida, last Thursday
The Kuhns meved to Florida abou
ten ‘years ago. -Mr. Kuhn was a so1
of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kuhn anc
was born in Bellefonte. He marriec
Miss Sarah Burris who survives wit}
three children. He also leaves on:
brother, Clement Kuhn, of State Col
lege. Burial was made in Florida or
Sunday,
BELLEFONTE WOMAN’S CLUB
The next meeting of the Woman’:
club will be held Monday evening
March 24th, at the home of Mrs
Samuel Shallcross, on west Linr
street. The business meeting will be.
gin at 7:30 o'clock, and at 8:30 the
meeting will be open to the public
with an entertainment by local mu.
sicians, namely: Mrs. Louis Schad
Mrs. Samuel Shallcross and Mrs
Robert Walker. There will be a talk
on “Carmen,” with victrola records.
The regular time of the meeting
has been changed due to the recital
at State College by Lawrence Tib-
bett, America’s greatest baritone.
——The Troop L minstrels hac
good houses, last Thursday and Fri.
day nights, and the net receipts for
the two performances were $644,
which were divided evenly between
the troop and the John B. Rogers
Producing company.
——Harl C. Musser is offering his
home, on east Curtin street, Belle.
fonte, for sale in contemplation of
moving his family down onto his
farm in Marion township.
PUBLIC SALES
MONDAY, MARCH 31—On the R. F.
Glenn farm in Buffalo Run valley, one
horse, 11 head pure-bred Holstein cattle,
one Holstein bull, full line of farm im-
plements and household furniture. Sale
a 10 o'clock a. m. L. Frank Mayes, auc-
tioneer.
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Bellefonte Grain Markets
Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & Co.
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Corn 80
Oats 80
Rye 80
Barley Nn
Buckwheat 8