Bellefonte Pa., August 8, 1930. r. GRAY MEEK = To ublished unless accompanied by the PR of the writer. Correspondents.—No communicati Terms of Sul tion.—Until further notice at the following rates: ol il Rowanes oa of Paid after expiration of Ya - Published weekly, every Friday ing. Entered at the postomce, Bel Pa. as second class matter. In orderin, change give the ig: we! It is important that notified when a su wishes the pa) discontinued. In all such cases subscription must be paid up to date cancellation. 1.76 the publisher ber of A sample cop be sent Sony Em—— cost to applicants. Democratic State Ticket. For United States Senator SEDGWICK KISTLER of Clinton County For Governor 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 cf York sunty For Judges Superior Court AARON E. REIBER of Butler County GEORGE F. DOUGLAS of Philadelphia Democratic District and County } Ticket. For Representative in Congress MAXWELL J. MOORE of M'Kean County For State Senator DON INGERY of Clearfield County For Representative in General Assembly JOHN G. MILLER of Ferguson Township. FIFTY YEARS AGO k IN CENTRE COUNTY. Items from the Watchman August 13, 1880. issue of —Dr. Tanner concluded his fast of forty days at noon last Saturday. Immediately he started to eat voraciously. First he gulped a peach. Then ate nearly a whole water mellon. He drank large quan- tities of milk and wine and chewed up a beefsteak, swallowing only the juice, however. His is a strange case. In defiance of all the theories of medicine he survived the forty days on nothing but water. Then, heedless of the advice of other Physicians interested in his feat, he started in to shatter all their be- liefs that he would be able: to safely take food in only the small- est quantities until his long un- used organs again accustomed them- selves to functioning. —Former Governor William Bigler died at his home in Clearfield, Mon_ day morning, August 9, at 9 o'clock. He was born at Shermansburg, Cum- berland county, in 1813. In 1830, or at the age of seventeen, he entered the printing office of his brother John, in this. place, and resided here three years while helping his brother publish “The Centre Demo- crat.” —It was hot as cat fat all last Sunday. —The face of Mr. Francis Murphy, the great temperance apostle, is already a very familiar one on our streets. He is friendly and courteous and even the little boys are making up to him fast. —The store of Lucas Howard, was broken into one night last week and robbed of goods valued between $100.00 and $200.00. —A spring wagon in which were seated Miss Maggie Sweeney and a boy driver, from Pleasant Gap, came apart on the east end of the High street bridge on Tuesday forenoon. Both its occupants were precipitated to the street, but as the horse did not become rambunctious no one was hurt. —The barn on the farm of Mr. Van Tries, in Pennsvalley, on which George Swabb resides, was struck by lightning Wednesday afternoon and entirely demolished. All of this season’s crop as well as a lot of old corn went up in the flames. —Francis Murphy has been hold- ing temperance meetings in the court house every night this week and it is assured that he will re- main in town all of next week, too. Great crowds greet him every night. He is such a fine, friendly man that he is having many more sign the pledge than was expected. On Tuesday night his success was al- most unbelievable and people rub- bed their eyes when several noted wine-bibbers and scores of young men and boys trooped up the aisles of the court house to ‘swear off.” —Mrs. Martha Irvin, widow of the late Dr, Irvin, and sister of ex-Gov- ernor Curtin and also of Constans and the late Roland Curtin, died at her home in Lancaster last Friday. Her body was brought here Satur- day night and buried from the home of Mrs. Eliza Curtin on Sunday af- ternoon. —One night last week some ill disposed person or persons mutilated the large and venerable willow tree at Mrs. McBride's corner, Allegheny and Bishop streets. The tree is a land mark, but the vandals cut off its largest limb. Just what it was done for no one seems to know. Nor is there any suspicion as to who might have done it. day Bros., in ——The Shiloh Cemetery associa- tion requests all persons having lots in the cemetery or relatives buried therein to meet there on Thursday, August 14th, at 9 o'clock and assist in the work of straighten- ing tombstones, lowering corners and leveling up graves: and lots, thus ‘beautifying one of the oldest burying grounds in the county. Editer angina pectoris. ons Shortly after nine o’clock in the morn- COWAN.—James P. Cowan, a steam shovel operator in the em- ploy of the Chemical Lime company, died at the Centre County hospital, at 3:30 o'clock last Friday after- noon as the result of an attack of He became ill real ing and was rushed to the hospital but failed to respond to treatment and died within six hours. Cowan was born at Mauston, Wis- - $150 consin, on August 7th, 1873, hence 2.00 was not quite 57 years old. For morn- twenty years past he had been a lefonte, resident of Juniata, near Altoona, ‘where the family still lives. He was as the new address: ‘a member of Y ine Holy Rosary be Catholic church and Altoona council the no. 551 Knights of Columbus. He is survived by his wife and six of the “Watchman” will children, Miss Catherine, a member | of the staff of the McKeesport Jour- = inal; Grace, Josephine, Bernadine, James and Jeanne Marie, all at home. He also leaves two brothers at the old home in Wisconsin. The remains were taken to his home in Juniata, on Saturday, and funeral services were held in the Catholic church at Juniata, at 9 o'clock Monday morning, by Rev. Bernard Conley, Burial was made at Lilly. il I LINGLE.—Lycurgus Lingle, well | known retired farmer, died at his ; home in Centre Hall on Tuesday afternoon, following wan illness of several weeks, He was a son of James and Mar- cella Malone Lingle and was born at Eagleville on March 12th, 1859, hence was 71 years, 4 months and 24 days old. When a boy his father moved to Boggs township and he lived there until upwards of forty years ago when he engaged in farm- ing in Potter township, an occupa- tion he followed until his retirement a number of years ago. In March, 1894, he married Miss Jennie Boal who survives with one son, James B., of Marshallton, Del. He also leaves two grand daughters, Janet and Ruth Lingle, as well as the following brothers and sisters: E. P. Lingle, of Lemont; Harry, of Port Arthur, Tex.; Charles, of Pit- cairn; Mrs. F. L. Wetzler, Mrs. John Weaver and J. B. Lingle, of Miles- burg. Funeral services will be held at his late home in Centre Hall at three o'clock this afternoon, burial to be made in the Centre Hall cem- etery. il Il ROTE.— Mrs. Chestie Lavinia Rote, widow of the late James L. Rote, passed away at 1.30 o'clock last Saturday afternoon, at the home of her grand-daughter, Mrs. George Geisinger, at Coleville, following thirteen week’s illness with stomach trouble and other complications. : She was a daughter of William and Mary Garbrick and was born at Zion on November 5th, 1853, hence was in her 77th year. She married Mr. Rote when a young woman and ever since had been a resident of Coleville. She was a member of the United Brethren church for many years and during her active life a regular attendant. Mr. Rote died six years ago but sur. viving her are two sons and a daughter, Charles Rote, of Penns- grove, N. J.; Clayton, of Coleville, and Mrs, Richard Black, of State College. She also leaves one sister, Mrs. Mary Ann Showers, of Zion. Funeral services were held ‘in the United Brethren church at 1:30 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, by Rev. William Snyder, burial being made in the Bellefonte Union ceme- tery. Il Il SHALCROSS.—Mrs. Mae Miller Shallcross, wife of Thomas W. Shall- cross, of Bellefonte, passed away at midnight, Sunday, at the Geissinger hospital, Danville, where she had been taken just three days pre- vious for treatment for a heart af- fection with which she had suffered for some time. She was a native of Elkton, Md., but before coming to Bellefonte about four years ago had lived for some years in Wilmington, Del. She is survived by her husband, one son, Samuel Shallcross, of Bellefonte, and two daughters, Mrs. Sidney Swin- bell, of Brooklyn, N. Y. and Miss Kathryn, who has just completed the course at an art school in Phil- adelphia. She was a member of the Metho- dist church and Rev. Horace Lincoln Jacobs had charge of the funeral services which were held at her late home on west Linn street, at ten o'clock on Tuesday morning. The same afternoon the remains were taken to Elkton, Md, where burial was made on Wednesday. [| ll MILLER—George Pennington Mil. ler, a native of Centre county, died at his home at Pitcairn, on Sunday evening at 7 o'clock, following sev- eral week’s illness with gall and bladder trouble. He was a son of Abram V. and Jane Potter Miller and was bora at Pleasant Gap on October 1st, 1871, hence wasin his 59th year. He went to Pitcairn some fifteen or twenty years ago where he has been in the employ of the Westinghouse Electric company. He married Miss Jennie Noll, of Pleasant Gap, who survives with two children, Thomas and Jane. He also leaves one sister, Mrs. James Blythe, of California, Funer- al services were held and burial made at Pitcairn on Wednesday morning.” h. Tm. LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE AT GRANGE PARK NEXT WEEK. The Grange leadership conference looms up in advance of the fair next week, It will open on Grange park Tuesday morning, August 12th, and the Grange people of Centre county should avail themselves of this priv- ilege and attend the sessions. Dele- gates and visitors will be there from probably every county in the State, in some cases groups as large as thirty coming from one county alone. They will live in the tents used by campers during fair week, and par- ticipate in the many splendid activ- ities which have been planned hy leaders in Grange and rural work. Centre county is very fortunate, indeed, to be able to secure this State conference and it is only the suitability of Grange park for the purpose that has brought it in the past and again this year. Out- standing speakers have been secured, the leading one of which will be Louis J. Taber, master of the National Grange, and a man of national fame and importance as the heart of the great organization. He will speak in the auditorium on Tuesday eve- ning and should have a large audi- ence. Other speakers and leaders of men and women who are able to give instruction and training along many lines of interest and importance to rural and small-town people will be there. Things that will go a long way toward increasing the value of the Grange to the community. The program will be full and interesting for every day and evening. The evening sessions will be free to everybody. While this conference is in pro- gress there will bemno let up in the preparation for the great fair which opens Saturday, August 23rd. Many tents will be erected this week, buildings and equipment put in prop- er condition for necessary use. Con- ADDITIONAL PERSONAL NEWS. —Miss Grace Rine, of west High street, has as guest this week her aunt, Mrs. ‘Anna Rine, of Altoona. —Mr. and Mrs. Edward Horne drove over from Philipsburg, Friday, the day being spent with Mrs. Horne’s friends in Bellefonte. —Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Philips and Mrs. W. N. Straw, of Harrisburg, spent the week-end in Bellefonte, at the home of Mrs Straw’s father, James H. Rine. —Mr. and Mrs. C. Y. Wagner are en- tertaining their daughter, Mrs. Elliot Lyon Morris and her two children, Bar- bara and Elliot Jr., of Searcy, Arkansas. —Mrs Joseph Klumpp, of Overbrook, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Furst, was here with Mr. Klumpp for a week-end visit with Mrs. Austin O. Furst. —The Alexander Morrisons, of Howard street, have had among their recent guests, Mrs. Morrison's sister, Miss Ellen Wilson, of Philadelphia, who was in Bellefonte for ten days. + —Miss Margaret Brockerhoff has been here for a week, having come up from Philadelphia Friday for a vacation visit with her uncle and brother, Dr. Joseph and Henry Brockerhoff, at the Brocker- hoff home on Bishop street —Miss Bertha Laurie will arrive here from New York, Tuesday morning, for her annual ten day’s summer visit back home. During her stay Miss Laurie will be a house guest of Mrs. George R. Meek and Mrs. J. M. Curtin. —Miss Anna M. Mulhollan, dean of the housemothers at the Methodist home for children, Mechanicsburg, Pa., is staying for ten days with her ‘‘homefolks,” Rev. and Mrs. Horace Lincoln Jacobs at the Methodist manse on Howard street. —Miss Beatrice Noll, of Pleasant Gap, and Miss Betty Neily, of Gettysburg, both graduate nurses of the Jefferson hospital, Philadelphia, ten day's vacation at the home of Miss Noll’s father, W. H. Noll, at the Gap. —Edward Love, of Breckenridge, was among the visitors to Bellefonte this week, having come in with his mother, Mrs. guest for some time. John Love, of Al- are spending a | John Love, who had been his Tanner. cession and machinery representa- 0 also home on a visit within tives are eagerly seeking the most A 7 WH Lond Id bir dain favorable locations for their re-, ~——Mrs. Harold Londo and her daugh- spective exhibits or places of busi- ness and these two departments promise to be full to the point of crowding. Play rehearsals have reached a stage where criticism must be care- ful and distinctive, Bands are prac- ticing and ball teams testing out their players for. the great days in view. GOLF TOURNAMENT TO BE HELD ON TYRONE COURSE. The annual tournament of the Central Counties Golf Association of Pennsylvania will be held on the Ty- rone course August 13th to 16th, inclusive. Medal play of 18 holes will open the tournament August 13th and those who wish to qualify may do So on either the 13th or 14th, The first round of match play will get under way at 8:30 a. m., on the following day, August 15. The sec- ond round for all sixteens and beat- en eights will get started at 12:30 p. m. on the same day. The semi- finals of all sixteens and beaten eigths will open at 9:0 a. m., Au- gust 16, with the finals about 1:00 . m. P Dr. Grover Glenn, Centre Hills Country club, won the medal at Philipsburg last year and Charles Morrill, also of Centre Hills, was the winner of the tournament. Cen- tre Hills club also won the team honors for having the lowest team score. Many beautiful and useful prizes will be given to the winners of the different sixteens. The prizes are very valuable and include suede windbreakers, golf bags, small leather bags, small trunks, golf shoes, and many other useful golf accessories. Besides the prizes there will be special prizes given during the qualifying days, To the three lowest scores made by members of each club, 10 gallons of Mobilgas will be given free. It will not be necessary to place in any of the sixteens to win any of the Mobilgas prizes. The last qualifier in each sixteen will receive a pair of Sandshus. A cup. will be given to the club having the lowest team score. TAX SALES POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 22nd. Seated land sales advertised by county treasurer Lyman L. Smith to take place at the court house, last Monday, were postponed until September 22nd, because of injunc- tion proceedings instituted, on Sat- urday, by J. V. Bowers, of Philips. burg, on behalf of himself and all others interested. In his statement to the court Mr. Bowers claims the law is uncon- stitutional, The act was not signed by .Governor Fisher until May 9th, whereas the taxes sought to be col- lected under it by the sale of prop- erties had been laid in January and February, several months before the law became effective. Judge Fleming granted the injunc- tion and set Monday, August 25th, as the day for argument. He also ordered that the tax sale be post- poned until such time as a court decision has been handed down in the proceedings. ——Next Monday fifteen young folks, members of the Epworth League of the local Methodist church, will start for Newton Hamilton to regular i ter, Rosemary, with Mrs. Londo’s sister, i Miss Martha Beezer, arrived here this ‘week, from Green Bay, Michigan, ex- { pecting to be in Bellefonte for the month of August, with the child’s grandmother, | Mrs. J. W. Beezer. —Mrs. Louis Grauer and her grand- daughter, Millicent Payne, are among those from Bellefonte who are at the Shore for a part of August, having left, Sunday, for a stay there and for a visit with Mrs. Grauer’'s sisters and her son, Edward, in Philadelphia. - —Mrs. C. D Casebeer will join her daughter, Betty, at Avalon, N. J, On the 16th of the month, for a two week's stay and to make the trip back home with her daughter. Betty has been spending the months of July and Au- gust at a girl's ocean camp. —Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hollobaugh re- turned to Bellefonte, Tuesday, after Spending a part of the week with friends in. Austin, Potter county. During their absence, Evelyn - Irvin, of Akron, who is visiting in Centre county, was with her grandmother, Mrs. Washington Irvin. {| —Mrs. Robert Wray, who was in Belle- fonte during the week, came in from Cleveland to bring her daughter Jane, for a visit with Mrs. Wray’s mother, Mrs. Sarah Brown, before the latter re- turns home to Cleveland. Mrs. Brown {is in Bellefonte for the summer, living jin one of the Sim Baum apartments —Leaving last Friday in their car Mr. ‘and Mrs. Myron M. Cobb, their daugh- ster Doris and son Junior, drove to Nor- wich, N. Y., where they spent the first ‘week of Mr. Cobb's vacation. they will go to Factoryville, Mrs. Cobb’s former home, for ond week and from there Bellefonte late next week. ! —Dr. Grover C. Glenn, of State Col- lege, and Mrs. Glenn, will leave, Sun- ‘day, to go to Canada, hoping that two weeks on the trails and streams of the Canadian woods will avoid the attack of hay fever to which Dr. Glenn is sub- ject at this season. Their daughter and son will accompany their parents, but , will spend the time in summer camps. —M. F. Hazel Jr., went last Saturday to Oklahoma City to be field engineer for the Oil Well Supply company of Pittsburgh and Oil City. He was grad- uated from the Mechanical Engineering department of the Pennsylvania State College in June and from that time has tbeen with the Oil Well Supply company in Oil City until transferred to Okla- homa. Let us hope he gets in on some of those big gushers, for we've had all sorts of celebrities but never an oil ‘baron: Its up to “Mike” to win the i distinction! i —Friend J. Orvis Peters, town, dropped in to See us on Monday. He came down merely to see what would happen at the much talked of tax sale that was scheduled for that day and, while he had no personal interest in the matter, seemed very happy that the whole scheme was busted up for the time being, at least. Mr. Peters is look- ing none the worse for the accident ‘he met with some weeks ago when he was working corn. You know he is just help- ing his sons along with their big farm- ing and dairying venture near Storms- town. The boys are an up-and-doing lot and they have their tractor harness- ed up so that they can drive it with lines from the corn worker or hay wagon or whatever it might be drawing. This saves a man. Well, Mr. Peters was on the corn worker and the tractor started before he was ready, jerking him off. Before the combination could be Stopped he was dragged through the (field quite a distance. While he was ‘severely shocked no serious injury was suffered and, after lying awhile, was able to get up and proceed home on his own power. 1 | Pa., the sec- return to of Storms- ——On Tuesday morning water * [Superintendent J. D. Seibert placed (a fire hydrant on the east end of Curtin street and shortly after the noon hour firemen put it in use in fighting a brush and grass fire in ithe rear of the Bingaman property. join in the ten day institute and Several acres were burned over be- training camp in session there. fore the fire was extinguished. Years Ago in Centre County” I have ‘been very much interested. ‘when either one was at our home Today . a ——————————————— This column is to be an open forum. Everybody is invited to make use of it to express whatever opinion they may have on any subject. Nothing libelous will be published, though we will give the public the widest latitude in invective when the subject is this paper or its editor. Con- tributions will be signed or initialed, as the contributor may desire.—ED. Tribute to Two Good Women. New Castle, Pa., Aug. 3, 1930. Editor Watchman, Dear Sir: No doubt the words enclosed please find check, as you have men- tioned before, are pleasant ones to read, *%%* It might interest you to know that the last words I had with Miss Ida Greene were after church on a Sunday morning some- time ago. Upon inquiring as to her health she assured me that she was just as well as she looked and then, true to her nature, began to express concern for others whom she told me were suffering. To some of us a few of her traits seemed peculiar and yet how many, under the same circumstances and mode of living, would pass the final examinations with colors flying as we feel “Miss Ida” must have done. Perhaps a word of praise and ad- miration might be added here for another whose obituary appeared in the same issue and that was Aunt Crissie Tanner. She was a friend to many and loved by not a few. With best wishes for your good paper, I am Very sincerely PAULINE JOHNSTON STITZINGER. The Watchman adds a fervent “Amen” to Mrs. Stitzinger’s word of praise in memory of her aunt, Mrs. | Bellefonte had no more generally esteemed or beloved wo. man.—ED. : Who Remembers Barber Beck? Huntingdon, Pa., July Dear George: Ever since you started your “Fifty 22, 1930. J In your last one Ialmost remember some of the things mentioned and at that time I was just two years and four months old. Grandfather Keich- line was a Democrat and Grand-' father Wagner a Republican and I had to wear a button choice, and I can remember campaign between Hancock and Garfield—and he wasn’t licked so bad either. . : I would like to know if John Jarret’s ear stayed put. Barber Beck began to cut my hair about that time and how he could watch the street and at the same time do a fine job of hairoutting | was always a mystery to me. : The personnel of Co. B is interest- | ing—Corporal Jack Spangler and Sergeant William Fry—both Colonels now. I have read the Watchman since | childhood, at college, at Battle Creek, at Cairo, and every week since over in Huntingdon—and the number of people I meet who for- merly lived in Centre county who look forward to its weekly visits make me feel we ought to form a of his that | whl Society—The Democratic Watchman. I know of no other column that appeals to me more than your Ink Slings. I should hate to miss it. I'm glad of your opinion of Gifford and feel like you do to Senator Nor- ris. The Drys claimed prosperity due to the Prohibition Amendment and the Republicans promised the con- tinuation of prosperity if Hoover were elected. I wonder what they blame the present depression on. I am not sorry I voted for Governor Smith, for the depression was com- ing, nothing could stop it. But am sure that he would have been able to better conditions and would have put teeth into Prohibition en- forcement. His scheme was to strictly enforce it—not because he believed in it but to bring the thing to a climax. Keep up your good work and maybe we can elect Hemphill and Sedge—stranger things have happen- ed. How long have father and Dr. Glenn had their professional cards in the Watchman? With best wishes to you and yours JOHN Dr. Keichline is most generous in his praise of the Watchman. If it merits even a part of it we are justified in the “kick” we got out of reading his letter. The professional card of his distinguished father, John M. Keichline Esq., first ap- peared in the Watchman on De- cember 11, 1874, and has run con- tinuously since, over the period of nearly fifty-six years. So far as our records show the card of Dr. W. S. Glenn, of State College, appeared first in the Watchman in November, 1890. That was forty years ago— i ED. i WARNING AUTOMOBILE TR 3 OWNERS AND DRIVERS. The numerous complaints coming to me on account of the violation of the parking ordinance by cars and trucks, parking in sections where “No Parking” signs are installed, the double parking on the main streets, the parking in prohibited spaces marked for bus stops, compel me to call the attention of the pub- lic to these violations. From now on all owners and driv- ers of automobiles and trucks are warned that this practice will not be tolerated any longer. The police department has been very lenient in the past in regard to parking, and it has been abused to such an extent that orders have been issued to the police officers to enforce the ordinance, and anyone not complying with the parking regula- tions will be dealt with accordingly. The police department has no ob- jection to the loading or unloading of merchandise, but does object to the cars standing on the streets and blocking traffic when it is not necessary. HARDMAN P. HARRIS, Burgess. \ MARRIAGE LICENSES. © ° 8. Alfred Gibboney, of McAlevy's Fort, and Carrie M. Couch, of Sauls burg. Joseph Blazosky, of Philipsburg, and Mary Kolena, of Hawk Run. Ernest W. Force, of Grassflat, and Elsie Lapps, of Munson. i andi Carl H. Soder, of Grassflat, Lydia Lapps, of Munson. Earl Raymond Karns, of Akron, Ohio, and Catherine Helen Balaconie,. of Osceola Mills. FA DAY AND NIGHT Aug. 28---Sept. 1 Clearfield County NTN INOAINS Attractions For All PNA PIAS NSS PAPA AINA Pr Bo oo a Horse Show. Flower Show .. Big Free Acts Every Day and Night Dairy and Beef Cattle Show Swine Show ... Horse Racing Horse Shoe Pitching ... Base Ball Midway . . . Hicksville Band Penna. Department Agriculture Show Bigger and Better Farm Show .« Dog Show « Poultry Show FN NN YN AVA AAA AAAS VAAAAAAAAS Thursday Fair on this day. Attractions for young and old. Friday Saturday Labor Day Day, James J. Davi ville Band, Baseball. F' Fraternal Day, Famou The Big Days County School Day—Pupils and Teachers will be guests of Horse Races, Stock Judging, Free Acts, Base Ball—plenty to do every minute. Midway—the place for fun and frolic for all ages. Baseball, Free Acts, Horse Racing, County Grange Reunion, Harness and Running Races, Baseball, Political Booster FPO VV VV OO OOOO ree Acts. Midway will have Special 7 PUTT TTT WUT WII NININIISIS s Hicksville Band, Other Bands. 8, Nominee for U. S. Senator, Hicks- TTT TTT WNW PINS