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Bellefonte, Pa., June 27, 1930.
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Democratic State Ticket.
For United States Senator
SEDGWICK KISTLER
of Clinton County
; For Governor
1 JOHN M. HEMPHILL
of Chester County
For Lieutenant Governor
GUY K. BARD
Lancaster County
For Secretary of Internal Affairs.
LUCY D. WINSTON
of Cumberland County
For Judge of Supreme Court
HENRY C. NILES
of York County
For Judges Superior Court
AARON E. REIBER
of Butler County
GEORGE F. DOUGLAS
of Philadelphia
District and County
Ticket.
For Representative in Congress
AXWELL J. MOORE
of M’Kean County
For State Senator
DON GINGERY
of Clearfield County
For Representative in General Assembly
JOHN G. MILLER
of Ferguson Township.
Democratic
JOHNSTOWN WOMAN
VICTIM OF GUNSHOTS.
Mrs. Stella Shaffer, wife of Ro-
land B. Shaffer, of Johnstown, is a
patient in the Memorial hospital, in
that city, suffering with a gunshot
wound in the right side of the chest
and another through the upper part
of the right arm. The bullets were
fired by Mrs. Joseph DiBartola, a
jealousy-crazed woman because, she
alleged, her husband, a prominent
Johnstown merchant, was too inti-
mate with Mrs. Shaffer.
Mrs. Shaffer is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar McMullen, of Cole-
ville, who were visitors at the
Shaffer home at the time of the
shooting while Mr. and Mrs. Shaf-
fer's daughter, Miss Eleanor, was
here visiting friends at Coleville.
The shooting took place about ten
o'clock Sunday night. DiBartola had
taken Mr, and Mrs. Shaffer, Mr.
and Mrs. McMullen and two boys
for an outing at an amusement park
near the city on Sunday afternoon.
They returned about ten o'clock at
night, Mr. DiBartola driving to the
Shaffer home. As Mrs. Shaffer was
walking from the car to the house
two shots were heard and she drop-
ped to the ground unconscious. A
woman was seen running away, but
it was too dark to recognize her.
Mrs. Shaffer was removed to the
hospital and an examination reveal.
ed a shot in the right breast and
one in the right arm. Neither one,
however, is believed to be serious
and the woman’s recovery is ex-
pected.
On Monday morning Mrs, Di-
Bartola, who is fifty years old and
the mother of eight children, walk-
ed to the central police station, ac-
companied by her son Philip, and
gave herself up. She then stated,
“I did not want to kill her, but
wanted to scare her so she would
stay away from my Joe.” Mrs. Di.
Bartola claims her husband has been
friendly with Mrs. Shaffer for three
years.
BE —
NEGRO MURDERER WAS
ELECTROCUTED MONDAY.
John Pierce, 31 year old negro
of Delaware county, was electro.
cuted at Rockview penitentiary on
Monday morning for the murder of
Frank Kowalski, a Chester police-
man, early in the morning of De-
cember 16th, 1929. The shooting
occurred in an all night restaurant.
Pierce, who was under the influence
of liquor, insisted on dancing and
creating a disturbance. When the
officer remonstrated he pulled a
gun and shot him.
Pierce was attended to the chair
by Rev. A. E. Mann, a colored
minister, of Media. Dr. J. V. Fos.
ter, of State College, and Dr. W. B.
McLaughlin, of Rockview, were the
physicians. The body was claimed
and was taken back to Delaware
county for burial.
Pierce was the third man electro-
cuted this year and three men are
scheduled to go to the chair next
Monday morning and one on July
7th,
#
——The many friends of Merrill
T. Eisenhauer, billing clerk at the
P, R. R. freight depot and a mem-
ber of the Bellefonte board of audi-
tors, will learn with regret that
he has been taken to the Danville
State hospital for treatment. He
has not been in good health for sev-
eral years and following a general
collapse last Saturday evening, while
on a visit to the home of his wife's
parents at Beavertown, it was
deemed best to take him. to the
State hospital for treatment.
GREENE.—Miss Ida Mary Greene,
for more than half a century a
well known resident of Bellefonte,
died quite suddenly about nine
o'clock Sunday morning, as the re-
sult of a heart attack. She had
not been feeling well for several
days and Sunday morning decided
not to go to Sunday school or
church. She became ill while at
the residence of William Houser,
just opposite her home, on south
Water street, but was able to re-
turn home. A physician was sum-
moned who rendered medical aid
but shortly after he left she became
so much worse that another hurry
call was made for a doctor but be-
fore he arrived she had passed away.
She was a daughter of Frank
Peebles and Lavinia Burris Greene
and was born at LeClaire, Iowa, on
March 29th, 1858, making her age
72 years, 2 months and 23 days.
She was a direct descendant of
General Nathaniel Greene, of Rev-
olutionary fame. A year or two
after her birth her parents came
east and located in Huntingdon
county, later moving to Philipsburg.
On April 2nd, 1871, the family mov-
ed to Bellefonte and this place had
been her home ever since. As a
girl she learned the trade of a
seamstress and followed that oc-
cupation all her life.
In January, 1871, when not quite
thirteen years old, she became a
member of the Methodist church
and in May, 1875, she was chosen
a teacher in the primary depart-
ment of the Methodist Sunday
school of Bellefonte, and for fifty-
five years, continuously, or until her
death, she served in one capacity
or another most diligently.
She was one of a family of four
children and the last to pass away.
Her mother and sister, Annie Rose,
died in 1899, her father in 1908, a
brother, Edgar B., in 1919, and an-
other brother, Elmer C., in 1924.
Her only survivors are two nephews
and a niece, James Greene, of
Winter Haven, Fla.; Frank, of Al-
toona, and Mrs. Samuel Christian,
of Ocala, Fla.
Funeral services were held in the
Sunday school room of the Metho-
dist church at 2 o'clock on Tuesday
afternoon by Rev. Horace Lincoln
Jacobs, while Rev. C. C. Shuey of-
ficiated at the interment in the
Union cemetery.
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COWHER.—Samuel R. Cowher, a
retired farmer of Worth township,
died on Monday morning, at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank
Pfoust, in Tyrone, as the result of
a heart affection.
He was a son of Thomas and |
Sarah Cowher and was born at Port
Matilda on January 1st, 1860, hence
was 70 years, 5 months and 22 days
old. He followed farming all his
life until his retirement a year ago,
since which time he had made his
home with his daughter in Tyrone.
He was a member of the Methodist
church and the Port Matilda lodge
of Odd Fellows,
In 1887 he married Miss Emma
McMonigal who survives with one
daughter and a son, Mrs. Pfoust
and W. Harry Cowher, both of Ty-
rone. He also leaves two brothers,
Dewey and Adam Cowher, both of
Port Matilda.
Funeral services were held at the
Pfoust home, in Tyrone,
o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, by
Rev. Samuel W. Strain, after which
burial was made in the Grandview
cemetery, Tyrone.
Il I
ALTER.,—Miss Sarah Alter, a
native of Centre county, died at the
Methodist home in Tyrone, last Fri-
day morning, of general infirmities.
She had been an inmate of the
home for five years.
She was a daughter of John and
Elizabeth Homan Alter and was
born at Millheim on March 17th,
1849, making her age 81 years, 3
months and 3 days. John Alter, of
Millheim, and Herman Alter, of
Williamsport, are her nearest sur-
viving relatives. Funeral services
were held at the home at 11 o’clock
on Monday morning by Rev. Emer-
son Karns, after which the remains |
were taken to Millheim where bur-
ial was made in Fairview cemetery
the same afternoon,
fi I
LYTLE.—Mrs. Margaret Lytle,
widow of the late Andrew J. Lytle,
of State College, passed away on
Sunday, June 15th, at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Nellie Fenste-
macker, at Bloomfield, N. J., as
the result of general debility.
She was a daughter of Mr.
Mrs. Harrison Miller and was born
at Boalsburg eighty years ago. All
her married life, however, had been
spent in the neighborhood of State
College. Her husband died several
years ago but surviving her are
one daughter, Mrs. Fenstemacker,
and two step-daughters, Mrs. George
Hollobaugh, of Coleville, and Mrs.
Roy Johnson, of Clearfield. Burial
was made in the Branch cemetery
last Wednesday.
i!
YOUNG. Mrs, Anna Eliza Young,
wife of Roland Young, of Boalsburg,
died at the Centre County hospital,
on Wednesday of last week, follow-
ing an illness of several months
with a complication of diseases. She
was a native of Gatesburg and was
46 years old. In addition to her
husband she is survived by twt
sons. The funeral was held on Sat-
urday morning, burial being made
in the Boalsburg cemetery.
—Read the Watchman and get all
the news.
at "2:30
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! TANNER.—Mrs. Crissie Daup Tan- ' PATIENTS TREATED AT
ner, widow of William Tanner,
‘passed away at her apartment in
‘Petrikin hall, at 8:30 o'clock last
, Thursday evening, following an ill-
ness of ten days. She was first
Stricken with an attack of intesti-
‘nal flu and later spinal meningitis
developed which caused her death.
A daughter of George and Martha
Hughes Johnston she was. born at
Mount Eagle 65 years ago. At the
age of twenty years she married
William Tanner and for a year or
two they lived in Altoona. From
that place they moved to Renovo
where they spent a number of years
and finally came to Bellefonte over
thirty years ago. Shortly after ar-
riving here Mrs. Tanner opened a
boarding house on Bishop street,
and later moved to the Brew house,
now the Decker home, on Spring
street and from there onto High
street. As a boarding house mis-
tress she was quite successful. From
High street she moved into Petrikin
hall and about six years ago open-
ed a cut-rate drug store, on High
street, in the management of which
she also was successful.
She was a member of the Metho-
dist church for many years and not
only affiliated with all church so-
cieties but an active worker in all
of them, She was a member of the
Bellefonte chapter Eastern Star and
the Royal Neighbors. Her survivors
include a daughter and two sons,
Mrs. Hugh J. Boyle, of Hazleton;
George and Forrest W. Tanner, of
Bellefonte. She also leaves one
brother and three sisters, J. Ken-
nedy Johnston Esq. of Bellefonte;
Mrs. Howard Orwig, of State Col-
lege; Mrs. John C. Brooks, of Lin-
den, and Mrs. John Foresman, of
Howard.
Funeral services were held in the
Methodist church at ten o’clock, on
Monday morning, by Rev. Horace
Lincoln Jacobs, burial being made in
the Union cemetery,
It It
TAYLOR.—Miss Elinor Kathryn
Taylor, only child of Samuel S. and
Kathryn Leib Taylor, former resi-
dents of Bellefonte, died suddenly
at seven o'clock Tuesday evening, of
heart failure, at the Taylor cottage
in the mountains fifty miles from
Bridgeport, Conn. She had been ail-
ing for about two years and her
condition had been considered serious
for a year at least. Two weeks ago
she was taken to a cottage in the
jmountains in the hope that the
| change would prove beneficial, and
i while she showed apparent improve-
{ment it was followed with a col-
I 1anse which resulted in her death.
She was born at Rutherford, N.
J., in 1908, hence was 22 years old.
When but a child her parents moved
to Bridgeport, Conn., where she was
educated in the public schools. Af-
ter graduating from the High school
she took a secretarial course at
Booth College. She was a member
of the Presbyterian church since
girlhood and always active in the
young people’s societies of the church.
She was quite well known in Belle-
fonte, having come ‘here most every
summer for her vacation. Her par-
ents are her only survivors. The
fonte on this morning’s train and
taken to the home of her aunt,
| Miss May Taylor, on north Spring
street, where funeral services will
be held at eleven o'clock by Rev. W.
C. Thompson. The remains will be
‘laid to rest in the Union cemetery.
| ——Deer are annoying Spring
i township farmers. Out about Axe
{Mann, on the Jodon, Meek, Kline
{and poor farms a whole flock can
be seen every day eating the corn}
(and other growing crops.
| —_——
| ——Mr. and Mrs. Smith, of State
College, celebrated their golden
, wedding anniversary yesterday.
|
|
AARONSBURG.
|
| Miss Sara Bower motored to But-
ler for a brief stay. She was ac-
companied by Mrs. Paul Meyers, of
Millheim.
Mrs. George McKay and daugh-
, ter, Miss Florence, of Philadelphia,
‘are guests of Mrs. McKay's mother,
, Mrs. Phillips.
| Mrs. Charles Wolfe has returned
home from a visit of three weeks
among her children in the western
part of the State.
| William R. Maize, of New York
‘city, who had been the guest of his
sister, Mrs. William Guisewite, re-
turned to his home Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs, Fred O. Wolfe and
small child, of Akron, Ohio, have
been in town the past few days,
Mr. Wolfe having been called here
on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Grove and
three children, of Williamsport, were
week-end guests
Mrs. Grove’s mother,
| Eisenhauer.
Mrs. Clarence Hill and two chil-
dren, of Rahway, N. J., have been
the guests of Mrs. Hill’s brother-
|in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs.
; Charles Limbert.
Dr. Luther Holloway, of Salona,
and his brother, Thomas Holloway,
of Akron, Ohio, were in town, re-
cently. While here they were guests
of Mrs. George Weaver, at the old
Holloway homestead.
Mrs. William Brown and family,
of Bellefonte, and Mrs. Brown's
mother, Mrs. Herman, of State Col-
lege, motored to town, Saturday
evening, and spent a short time with
Mrs, Herman’s brother, A. 8S
Stover.
Mrs. J. G.
—If you want to know what is go- |
ing on take the Watchman.
remains will be brought to Belle. |
at the home of'
CENTRE COUNTY HOSPITAL.
Herbert Manning, of State Col-
lege, was admitted on Sunday of
last week as a surgical patient.
Mrs. Herbert Haugh and infant
daughter, of State College, were
discharged on Monday of last week.
Mrs. Deborah Dobelbower, of Belle-
fonte, was admitted on Monday of
last week for surgical treatment.
Perry Moran, of Bellefonte, be-
came a medical patient on Monday
of last week.
Mrs. Frank Daley and infant
daughter, of Milesburg, were dis-
charged on Monday of last week.
Miss Emma Bloom, of Bellefonte,
became a medical patient on Mon-
day of last week.
Florence, daughter
Mrs. Robert McClellan,
township, was admitted on Monday
of last week for surgical treatment
and discharged the following day.
Bruce Moyer, six year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Moyer, of Cen-
tre Hall, was admitted on Tuesday
of last week for surgical treatment
and discharged on Wednesday.
Mrs. Wallace Breon, of Millheim,
who had been a surgical patient for
the past four weeks, was discharg-
ed on Tuesday of last week.
Miss Bertha Barr, of Bellefonte
R. F. D., who underwent surgical
treatment for ten days, was dis-
charged on Tuesday of last week.
Mrs. Malcolm Musser and infani
son, of Bellefonte R. F. D. 4, were
discharged on Tuesday of last week.
Steve Seporich, of Clarence, was
discharged on Tuesday of last week,
after having been a medical patient
for twelve days.
Judge L. Bottorf, of Bellefonte,
was discharged on Tuesday of last
week, after having undergone medi-
cal treatment for the past seven
weeks,
Hunter Meyer, of Pleasant Gap,
who received medical treatment for
the past six weeks, was discharged
on Tuesday of last week.
Paul Gross, of State College, was
discharged on Wednesday, after hav-
ing been a surgical patient for some
time.
David Hemphill, of State College,
who had been a medical patient for
the past four weeks, was discharg-
ed on Wednesday of last week.
Lois, twelve year old daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. A. Ward Campbell,
of Bellefonte, was admitted on
Wednesday of last week as a medi-
cal patient.
Mrs. Esther Gordon, of Bellefonte,
was admitted on Wednesday of last
week as a surgical patient.
Tony Worrick, of Bellefonte, be-
came a surgical patient on Wednes-
day of last week.
Master Frank Broderick, son of Mrs.
| Helen Broderick, of Bellefonte, was
(admitted on Wednesday of last
week for surgical treatment and dis-
charged on Thursday. :
Paul Braucht, of State College, be-
came a surgical patient last Thurs-
day.
Mrs. Sumner Frankenberger, of
Millheim, was admitted last Thurs-
day for surgical treatment and dis-
charged on Friday.
Mrs, Harmon Kruse,
fonte, who had received medical
treatment for a week, was discharg-
ed last Thursday.
George Gallagher, of State Col-
lege, a surgical patient for the past
five weeks, was discharged last
Thursday.
Mrs. W. Hassell Montgomery and
infant daughter, of Bellefonte, were
discharged last Friday.
Mrs. Elmer Musser, of Bellefonte,
was admitted on Friday for surgical
treatment.
Mrs. Paul Richards, of Bellefonte
‘R. F. D,, was admitted on Friday
for surgical treatment.
Clarence McCool, of Spring Mills,
became a surgical patient Saturday
night. :
Clarence, seven year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. William Heffner, of
Pine Grove Mills, was admitted on
Sunday as a surgical patient.
John, eight year old son of Mrs.
Nellie Cole, was admitted on Sun-
day for surgical treatment,
Mrs. W. H. Witmer, of Bellefonte,
became a surgical patient on Sun-
day.
Miss Loretta Myers, of State Col-
lege, a student nurseat the hospital,
became a medical patient on Sun-
day.
J. J. Garbrick, aged 83, of Belle-
of Mr. and
this week as a medical patient.
There were forty-two patients in
the hospital the beginning of this
week.
—Walter J. Lyster and Harold
iP. Watts, former coal and iron
policemen, convicted several months
ago in the courts of Venango coun-
ty of involuntary manslaughter in
connection with the death of John
Baracoski, an Allegheny county coal
miner, almost two years ago, were
sentenced, on Monday, to serve
twelve and ten months respectively
in the Allegheny county jail. Both
men had originally been tried for
murder in Allegheny county and ac-
{quitted. They were formerly mem-
bers of the State constabulary and
|several years ago Lyster was sta-
| tioned in Bellefonte and was defend-
rant in an action here for beating
up a man. He later got into trouble
|in Cambria county which ended his
|career as a State officer. Both
| LLyster and Watts will serve their
i sentences.
|
|
—Get your job work done here.
of Belle- !
fonte, was admitted on Monday of |
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NON-RESIDENT PUPILS
PASS EXAMINATIONS.
A list of 203 boys and girls in
the various township school districts
in Centre county have successfully
passed the examination for entrance
into High schools which offer a
four year’s course. These pupils
are entitled to entrance into the most
convenient High school to their dis-
tricts which, under the school code,
is obligated to pay all tuition charge
but are not required to pay trans-
portation of the pupils to and from
their homes. The list of pupils, as
furnished by county superintendent
F. G. Rogers is as follows:
BENNER TOWNSHIP
Jean Meckley, Marion Stere, Jeanne
Houser, Gladys Poorman, Margaret
Houser, Louise Behrer, Lee Lucas,
Marion Behrer, Howard Armagast, Ethel
Witherite, Charles Resides, Esperance
ider, Beulah Chilcote, Winifred Tress-
ler, Robert Herman.
BOGGS TOWNSHIP.
Margaret Mitchell, Jane Hall, Melvin
Aikey, Meryn Walker, Eva Watson, John
Mong, Merrill Watson.
BURNSIDE TOWNSHIP.
Mildred Hoover, Harriet Beates,
Joseph Beates, Margares King, Mary
Pachipka, Josephine Kochik.
COLLEGE TOWNSHIP.
Harold Coble, James Houtz, Hen-
rietta Nichols, Hazel Whitehill, Lois
Hockman, Nevin Houtz, Charlotte Reish,
Kathryn Walker, Miles Bloom, Beulah
Brooks, Ralph Brooks, Russell Hoy,
Tracy Kuhn, Blake Warman.
CURTIN TOWNSHIP.
William Cyphert, Joseph Confer, John
Onapiat, Raymond McClure, John Daley,
Earl Watson, Blanche McCloskey.
. FERGUSON TOWNSHIP
Maxine English, Ruth Collins, Grace
Keller, Iva Rudy, Paul Ream, Rodney
Wieland, Margaret Everhart, Alice Corl,
Mary Meyers, John Colpetzer, Ruth Col-
petzer, Mary Wieland, Chalmer Wieland,
Sara Hess, Mary Homan, Gail Barto.
HALFMOON TOWNSHIP.
Eleanor Lane, Ernestine Lytle, Mil-
dred Gummo, Roscoe Harris, Jean Eves,
Henrietta McKelvey, John Ellenberger,
Robert Hamilton.
HOWARD TOWNSHIP
Kenneth Pletcher, Julia Swails, Wal-
Daughenbaugh, Fount McCartney,
Mary Glenn, Paul Glenn, Laird Senor,
HUSTON TOWNSHIP
Evelyn Gill, Zella Mattern, Merrill
Alexander, Thelma Sones,, Francis Alex-
ander.
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.
Marjorie Williams, Eva Baumgardner,
Vesta Young, Boyd Gummo.
MARION TOWNSHIP.
Gerald Rogers, Theodore Ishler.
. MILESBURG BOROUGH.
Virginia McClellan, Norma Lambert,
Mary Emily Miles, Betty Lambert, Fay
Sheckler, Anna McClellan, Bessie Quick,
Robert D. Woodring, Philip Knisely,
William Wagner, Paul Fisher, Car
Rossman, James Wallace.
PATTON TOWNSHIP.
Dorothy Kelley, Ruth Beck, Marjorie
Glenn, Eva McClellan,
Harry Meyers.
POTTER TOWNSHIP.
Geraldine Saxion,
Richard Ross, Philip Smith, Ruth
Walker, Ralph Walker, Alice Foust,
Mabel Burkholder, Jack Kifer, James
Delaney, Lee Cummings, Irene Smith.
RUSH TOWNSHIP
Melvin Renwick, Harry Bratton,
neth Pizer, Margaret Cartwright,
Barnett, Ralph Swope, Gertrude
Frances Frontino, Catherine Moore, |
Edith Sharpless, Alma Cartwright, John
Hoover, Rosabelle Spittler, Mike Le-
presti, Frances Hess, Carl Vaux, Arnold
Schnarrs, Mabel Davis, William Ach-
moody, Minnie punish, Joseph Palermo,
Chester Angeiske, illy Miess, Verda
Dixon, Irene Kost, Kathryn Petrosky,
Nellie Yokobosky, Edward Gulesky, Jo
Mandall, Nicholas Shinkarick, Katy
Gegiske, Lima McGinley, Mike Sura,
William Hassinger, Alverta Squires, Ed-
ward Grannis, Louise Cieslar, Donald
Wilkinson, Helen Powell, Paul Tulo-
witzki, Andrew Hudak.
SNOW SHOE TOWNSHIP.
Edward Conoway, James Kelley, George
St. Clair, Raynold Watson, Cyrill Drap-
gho, Emto Drapcho, Emily Matty, Edith
. Clair,
Ken- |
Earl |
Miller,
SOUTH PHILIPSBURG.
Samuel Crain.
SPRING TOWNSHIP.
Harold Yarnell, Paul Corman,
Rote, William Johnson, Charles
Ruth Haupt, Henry Harter, Allen Smith,
Tevola Burris, larence Young, Mike
Bonchack, Elsie ‘Moore, Dorothy Saylor,
Hazel
Smith,
George Monsell, Eva Leathers, Robert
Sager.
TAYLOR TOWNSHIP
Marguerite Kerin, Calvin Stahl, Anna
May Howard, Earl Beckwith, Paul
Maguire.
UNION TOWNSHIP
Amber Lindenmuth, Elizabeth Saxton,
Janet Fisher, Verna Smay.
UNIONVILLE BOROUGH.
Martha Jane Williams, Pauline Lucas,
Ethel Hall, Virginia Hall, Lorraine Par-
sons, Isabelle Bruss, Gladys Shank, Min-
nie Bruss. .
BIRTH OF OUR NATICN.
Late in ‘the afternoon of the
Fourth of July, 1776, the old bell in
the statehouse at Philadelphia rang
out a joyous peal. A few moments
before, exhausted by the great heat
and vexed to desperation by a mul-
titude of flies, the fathers of this
country’s liberties had unanimously
adopted the Declaration which sev-
ered the Thirteen Colonies from
Great Britain and made the United
WHY WOMEN TAKE JOBS.
If you cling to the old maxim
that women’s place is in the home,
read over the recent bulletin from
the United States Women’s Bureau.
This bulletin reveals that: women
in increasing numbers are being
called on to support their families.
Out of 30,000 families investigat-
ed, for instance, 27 per cent were
supported entirely by the wages of
their women members.
Of 17,000 unmarried women stud-
ied, one in five was supporting a
family unaided.
An enormous proportion of city
families is depending wholly or in
part on the money earned by wives
and daughters. In certain industries
which employ women, 65 per cent
of the women working are married.
Evidently the woman who marries
for economic security stands a fair
chance of getting badly stung. In-
stead of being freed fromthe neces.
sity of supporting herself; she may
have to pitch in and help support,
Bot only herself, but her husband as
well.
Yet we have no breadlines, no un-
rest, no nation wide exhibit of suf.
fering, despite the fact that we are
continually harboring this enormous
number of men who cannot get
work. Why? Well, Mr. Chase sus-
pects that the women worker hasa
good bit to do with it. Many and
many a family in which the bread-
winner has lost his job has been
saved from starvation by the fact
that the breadwinner’s wife has
gone to work as a salesgirl or tele-
phone operator.
We won't know what the remedy
for all of this is until competent
economists have studied the whole
thing more carefully. Meanwhile,
however, it is oblivious that some.
thing is wrong somewhere, Our
prosperity can’t be quite all it is
cracked up to be if it is placing a
constantly increasing economic bur-
den on women.
It would seem that there are sev-
eral things back of this recent in-
flux of women into the realm of
jobs. It isn’t apparently, the out-
growth of a sudden desire, on the
part of womankind, for freedom.
The marriage or career stories writ-
ten by our popular fiction produces
—how idiotic they sound, now that
the real facts are coming out!
Most working women, one concludes,
are working because they have to,
not because they want to. The mod-
ern world is giving them, not a
new freedom, but a new duty.
Stuart Chase, in his recent book,
“Prosperity: Fact or Myth,” sheds
a bit of light on the subject.
One out of every 13 male wage-
earners in the United States, he es-
| timates, is always out of a job. The
“technological unemployment” that
our engineers talk about— the re-
| placement of worker by labor-saving
machinery—is giving us an army
of jobless men that averages around
3,000,000.
IN BELLEFONTE CHURCHES.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Church Bible school, C. C. Shuey,
Supt., 9:30, with special events and
a commanding study. League, 6:30,
has exceptional interests and timely
topic. Worship, 10:45, very special
expostiion of Scripture —“Life Tri-
umphant,” At 7:30 pithy preaching,
perhaps pugnacious, sure towards
prejudice, predatory practices—in
business and in morals. Pastor re-
sponds to all calls for his services.
Commercial travelers, tourists,
strangers and week-end visitors find
a welcome in this church, a “House
of Helpfulness” for all people.
Horace Lincoln Jacobs, Minister.
ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH.
The congregation will receive the
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper at
two services. At 7:00 o'clock in the
morning the confessional service will
be held followed by Holy Commun-
ion. The 10:45 A. M. service will
also be that of Holy Communion.
There will pe no evening service.
Sunday school will be held at 9:30
A. M. |
Clarence E. Arnold, pastor. |
States of America forever free and
independent. John Hancock, presi-
dent of the Continental Congress, had
then affixed his flourishing signa-.
ture to the document and what up
to that time had been an uncertain-
ty, owing to the unwillingness of
many to entirely forswear allegiance
to the mother county, had at last
become an accomplished fact.
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BY EXPERT WAVERS
Friday and Saturday, June 27-28
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Special at $6.50 to $5.00
Eugene Waves
From $7.50 to $6.50
Long Hair $1.00 Ext
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the new 1931 Waves of Paris.
waves, with ringlet ends.
discolorization.
ra
ew York City, will be here with
You may have large or small
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Phone 75 for appointments,
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or call and see us.