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Bellefonte, Pa., August 29, 1930.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
‘W. Grant Kissling, of Snow
Bhoe, who had been in the employ
of the Pennsylvania Railroad com-
pany for 47 years, was placed on
#ghe retired list on August 1st.
The last Pennsylvania railroad
«excursion to Philadelphia and Atlan-
‘tic City, for this year, was run on
“Saturday night and it was the best
patronized of any. 33 tickets were
‘sold to Philadelphia and 40 to At-
JBantic City.
——An acre on the John Richter
‘farm, near Duncannon, produced 423
‘bushels of first and 34 bushels of
second grade potatoes this season.
‘He planted certified Maine IrisH
“Cobblers in March and notwithstand-
dng the drought was again able to
«qualify as a member of the Key-
stone 400 Bu. Club.
Mrs. W. T. Twitmire's roses
“have again been attracting much at-
dention this season, their beauty
sand profusion of blooms being unex-
welled by any in this locality. Hav-
dng specialized in roses for several
years, she has now become quite an
«expert in the production of flowers,
“her cuttings now almost equalling
‘those of June.
———Announcements have been re-
“geived in Bellefonte of the marriage,
‘at Alhambra, Cal, on August 16th,
“©f Miss Caroline Anne Rhone to
“Theodore Hewitson. The bride is a
daughter of the late Charles Rhone
and a grand-daughter of John W.
Rhone, forty years ago one of the
Beading dentists of Bellefonte. The
‘regular budget of court costs.
| In 1911 the entire costs ascribable
‘wedding announcement was made by | tO quarter sessions work, which in- |
INCREASE OF CRIME
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
Many Petty Cases Cost Taxpayers
Thousands of Dollars.
The grand jury summoned to con-
sider the bills of indictment for the
September term of court will meet
in the court room, Bellefonte, on
Tuesday morning of next week to
begin their work. And they will
have quite a job on their hands, as
up to Tuesday morning of this
week district attorney John G. Love
had ninety bills in his possession,
which number may be increased to
one hundred or over before the end
of the week. And among the total
number there is not one of a very
grave character while quite a lot
of them are of such a petty nature
that they never ought to have found
their way into court.
A large percentage of the bills are
for infractions of the motor code
and highway law, and violations of
the Volstead act. Every case, how-
ever, has it's quota of costs which
in many instances the taxpayers
have to stand for. This large in-
crease in the number of cases in
the quarter sessions court induced a
Watchman reporter to delve into the
records for the past twenty years
and he was able to uncover some
startling fact. In 1911 the entire
number of entries on the: quarter
sessions docket totaled 85, while for
the year 1929 the number had reach-
ed the astounding figure of 516. Of
course all the entries on the docket
are not cases for trial in court, but
on taking an average for the year
1929 it was found that eighty per
cent of the entries were cases for
court action and which carried the
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‘&he bride’s aunt, Miss Ella Rhone, cluded court costs, prothonotary and '
“wvho will be quite well remembered
by many people in Bellefonte.
——The board of road and bridge
‘wiewers held a meeting, on Monday,
-and one of the principal cases heard
“was a claim of Harry Ebbs, of Buf-
‘falo Run valley, for damages for
Jand taken off his farm by the State |
in the building of the new highway
from State College to Waddle. Sev-
“eral petitions for vacations of small
“stretches of road were also consid-
ered. No decision will
Dy the board until each case has
“been given thorough consideration.
Huckleberries from the Bear
Meadows were on sale at the Belle- |
‘fonte curb market, Wednesday morn-
dng, but the supply was limited to!
“four quarts. The huckleberry crop | comparatively small but from 1920 i
{to the present the number of cases |
wn the Allegheny mountains, which
«arly in the summer gave promise
1000, while
1$239,000, and a two per cent addi- !
be rendered | rest
went up by leaps and bounds. Quite |
sheriff's fees and the keep of prison. :
ers at penal institutions was about |
$13,500. Last year the same costs, |
rand those of the county detective,
probation and parole officer |
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court officer aggregated |
close to $75,000, or almost six times |
as much as it cost twenty years |
ago. In 1912 the total expenses of
running Centre county were $127,-!
last year they were |
tional tax was laid for this year to |
“extraordinary emergencies,” |
such as damages for state highways, |
etc, but from the above it will be |
seen that new highways are not the |
only drain on the county treasury.
From 1911 to 1920 the increase in
criminal cases in Centre county was
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THREE YEAR OLD CHILD
KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT.
Jimmie Smith, three year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Smith, of
(north Spring street, was so criti-
cally injured by being struck by an
automobile driven by Miss Mauvis
Furey, shortly after eleven o'clock
on Wednesday morning that he
died at the Centre County hospital
at one o'clock the same day.
The Smiths live in one of the
Mingle houses on the east side of
the street and just across the street
lives the child’s grandmother. Miss
Furey was driving the car of Ken-
neth Wall and was on her way south
on Spring street. Just as she came
along the little boy ran in front of
the car on his way home from his
grandmother’s, He was hit and
knocked to the hard-surfaced street,
sustaining a bad fracture of the
skull and other injuries. State high-
way patrolmen rushed the lad to
the hospital but nothing could be
done to save his life. He was the
only child of Mr. and Mrs. Smith
and his tragic death is naturally a
sad blow to them.
Those who witnessed the accident
aver that Miss Furey was not to
blame. That she was not driving
fast was proven by the fact that she
stopped the car within forty feet.
Coroner W. R. Heaton, of Philips.
burg, held an inquest late on Wed-
nesday afternoon and after viewing
the scene of the accident and hear-
ing all facts obtainable the jury
exonerated Miss Furey of all blame.
The funeral will be held tomor-
row afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Rev. |
Horace Lincoln Jacobs will have
charge of the services which will be
held at the home of the child's
grandmother, burial to be made in
the Union cemetery.
BEES CARRY BACK HONEY
TAKEN FROM THEIR HIVE.’
Joe Messmer, living down in the
vicinity of Mt. Eagle, has a number
lof hives of bees. During the early
part of the summer the busy little
insects had no trouble finding an
ample supply of nectar in fruit
blossoms, flowers and clover tops.
Messmer regularly took the honey
from the hives and stored it in what
he supposed was a tight box in a
second floor room of his house,
Then came the dry season and
naturally poor picking for the bees.
Going up stairs, a few days ago,
Mr. Messmer found the room in
which he had stored his honey
literally alive with bees. Securing a
fly swatter he chased them out of
the window, but he still noticed
bees coming from the box in which
of being unusually large, was cut'a number of cases brought through jhe had stored his honey. An inves-
‘short, last month, by forest fires and the officiousness of over-zealous of- tigation revealed a tiny knot oe
But in the’
‘fhe hot dry weather.
“dense undergrowth of the Bear
Meadows
"Ehe berries right along,
of the drought.
Jape of Mr.and Mrs. Charles Brach-
“®ill, of Bellefonte, at which the rob-
bers displayed unusual paitiality in
“taking all of Mrs. Brachbill’s silk
‘underwear. Sincethen it has been
¥ea:ned thatsome one, a few nights
ago entered the apartment of Mrs. .
Pearl Brown, in Bush Arcade, and
‘stole all the silk underwear belong-
‘ing to Ther daughter, Miss Helen
‘Brown. The latest robbery leads to
‘& suspicion that some female of the
ispecies has turned burglar.
-~—~J. B. Darlington, of Bellefonte,
“inventor of a new headlight for au-
Bomobiles which he has named the
‘ “Mona Non-glare Headlights,” a de-
“scription of which was printed in the
Watchman several months ago, has
‘succeeded in interesting the Chamber
“of Commerce of Jackson, Mich. with
“a proposition to establish a factory 1920
“&here for the manufacture of his in.
“wention. One of his reasons for de-
“siring to locate in Jackson is because
“#% is near Detroit, where more auto-
‘#nobiles are manufactured than in
any other city in the world.
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-——Alfred Ebright, of Pennsylva.
nia Furnace, is developing a seventy-
five acre wood
‘finding out whether specialists know
what they are talking about when
‘ghey say $500 profit is possible each |
“winter from such a lot, properly |
wwared for, Ebright has a small
=awmill, a shingle-making machine
‘swith which he plans to convert
‘fhe trees in his woodlot into finish-
«ed products.
“2500 board feet of lumber which he
‘mised to repair his farm buildings.
¥nstead of cutting all the trees as
"he goes Ebright harvests the tim-
“Per systematically.
Curt Johnson and his two
“Horsedray is now an institution in
Bellefonte, as it is the only one of
‘fhe kind that has not been driven
«out by the automobile, but it came
migh to having a summary end about
"2:30 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Johnson drove down High street
intending to turn around the traffic
signal at the intersection of High
and Spring, for a trip out south
‘Spring. Just as he started to make
fhe turn Harold Shillings, of Union-
“wille, coming down High in an auto.
mobile, attempted to pass him with
fhe result that the machine struck
"#he near horse, knocked it down and
“Jbroke the harnes.
‘stopped but got away as fast as
“possible. Mr. Johnson was not in-
‘Jured but was rendered quite ner-
“wous by the near catastrophe. The
‘#sorse’s shoulder was injured slightly
:and the harness damaged .
They are either ignored by the
people have been picking
regardless
'a bill of costs for the county to pay. |
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#ast week, told of a robbery at the,
ficials never reach a jury trial. |
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grand jury or ruled out by the
court, but in every case there is
Entries on the records reveal the |
fact that more offenders are haled |
into court during the summer time |
‘than in the winter months, and that |
the September term of court is al-
ways the largest by long odds. The |
May term is next while there is |
very little difference between Janu. !
ary and November. From 1911 to
1920. inclusive, the total number of
in one corner of the lid, and on re-
moving the lid the box was found
full of bees, all working on the stor.
led honey. All told they had carried
back to their hive several pounds of
| honey but there was hardly a frame
in the entire box that had not been
worked on.
SURVEY BEING MADE FOR
NEW STATE HIGHWAY.
State highway engineers are now
at work making a preliminary sur-
vey for a new highway from State
College by way of Boalsburg to
entries on the quarter sessions 3 :
docket was 1297, while from 1921 to , Lusseyville to connect with the new
’ i piece of road being built this sum-
dete. oy ove, a | mer from Tusseyville to Potters
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lot with a view of
ual program of services.
Last winter he cut |
ness meeting.
Shilling never |
y : Mills.
Following isa list of ihe The road in question is now an
improved highway route, of maca-
dam construction, but it is the in-
tention of the department to re-
years.
‘entries for each year and term of |
court:
Feb. May Sen Dec. Total ;
... 20 24
. 13— 85!
26. 39" 49 B_ 107
5-0 oa 3 a3
M.i20 5 B18!
22. 3 13 33. 1%;
Tell g 2— 1
38 44 fo 1
A” 48 a1 3 18]
1 mm 42 31H
9 35 58 3% 18
48 83 33 Ra. op
8 55 ‘68 E53
56 53 e543. Za
0 5 13 6. 208
6 79° 17: $0
71 0 106 79 Bp
6@ of 13 o- 05
= s3 vn) 97 5
{1929 106. 120. Im ol 518
162 99 147 = 408
Totals... 978 1028 1755 929 46%0
FRIENDS MEETING
OVER THE WEEK-END,
Friends quarterly meeting will be
held in their meeting house, near
Stormstown, over the week-end of
September 6th and 7th, with the us-
Saturday at 2 p. m. regular busi-
3.30 p. m. ministry
and council.
Sunday at 10 a. m., First day
school association. 11 a. m., meet-
ing for worship. 2 p. m., community
‘conference, in which ministers and
congregations of the neighborhood
are invited to take part. Subject for
consideration: “St. Paul as a Travel-
er.” Bliss Forbush, of Baltimore, and
other visitors will attend the meet-
ing. The public is invited.
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BALD FAGLE PILGRIMAGE
AND SPECIAL RALLY DAY.
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| Announcement has been made of
| the fourth annual Bald Eagle pil-
wSrimage and special rally day to be
eld on the grounds of the Meth-
;odist Episcopal church, at Bald
| Eagle, tomorrow (Saturday) from
(10 o'clock a. m. to 6 p. m. Refresh-
ments will be for sale on the grounds,
-and plenty of entertainment has been
arranged for young and old. All
former residents of that locality, as
jas well as the public in general, are
21 build it of concrete. The route of
the road will also be changed some
to eliminate curves and grades.
While the road will not be rebuilt
this year it is possible it will be
reached during 1931.
The department is also considering
i changing the route of the present
j highway from Pleasant Gap to State
College, through the Rockview peni-
ten.iary grounds, so that it will run
between the railroad and the prison
buildings instead of south of the
the railroad. This work, also, if the
change is decided upon, will not
be done this year.
OBJECTIONS FILED TO FEES
ASKED BY BANK RECEIVERS.
Objections having been filed to the
amount of fees requested as well as
compensation for their attorneys in
the final account of the State re-
ceivers of the Centre County Bank-
ing company, a hearing will be held
in the court house, Bellefonte. on
Wednesday, September 3rd, at 10
o'clock a. m., before Lee Franics Ly-
barger, acting referee, to hear evi-
dence and arguments and decide on
the compensation to be allowed. The
receivers in their account asked $7,-
500 for themselves and $9,500 for
their attorneys.
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REV. FISHER THE SPEAKER
AT FISHER REUNION.
Rev. F. P. Fisher was the speaker
at the annual reunion of the Fisher
clan, held at Bland park, Blair coun-
ty, last Saturday. Others who took
part in the program were Miss
Fisher, a daughter of the late Rev,
Ira Fisher; Mrs. Nannie Fisher Wil-
liams and Dr. M. A. Kirk, of Belle-
fonte, who read a well-prepared paper
on the Fisher family.
Officers elected for the ensuing
year were Roy Fisher, of Wingate,
president; Harry Fisher, Warriors-
mark, vice president; Mrs. Jennie
‘invited to attend.
Fisher, Fleming, historian.
FRED BOHN WON HONORS
IN CATTLE JUDGING.
One Centre county youth, Fred
Bohn, a student of the Harris town.
ship vocational school at Boalsburg,
won a place for himself onthe dairy
cattle judging team which will rep-
resent Pennsylvania at the National
Dairy Show to be heldat St. Louis,
Mo., by placing second in a group
of 245 boys entered in the dairy
judging contest at the Future Farm-
ers’ Week, at State College last
week. Ten boys qualified and Fred’s
Score was 343.4 out of a possible
400 points.
The Harris township dairy judg-
ing team, of which Bohn was a
member, won fourth place in team
honors. The swine judging team of
Harris township won fourth place,
and Bohn placed 10th high in
individual scoring. The teams en-
tered by the county vocational su.
pervisor and Gregg township voca.
tional school made creditable show-
ings, considering the fact that they
had not had a great deal of expe-
rience.
| Future Farmers Week was one of
the largest and most successful af-
fairs ever held for vocational boys
at the College. Official registration
shows that 554 boys took part in
the various judging contests. Almost
every county in the State was rep-
resented. The contests were divided
. as follows:
{ 1. Dairy Cattle—4 classes, heifers
and cows.
2. General Livestock—I ring each
of horses, beef catfle, sheep ana
swine.
3. Swine—4 classes, gilts, bar-
rows and sows.
4. Poultry—4 classes, standard
production basis; pens selected from
| white leghorns, barred rocks or
Rhode Island reds.
! The boys were divided among the
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Miss Helene Williams had as a week-
end guest, her aunt, Miss Charlotte Hub-
bard, who was the youngest sister of Miss
Williams’ mother.
—John C. Bair and his grandson,
Jimmie, are back from a summer spent
in Philadelphia, having driven up with
Mr. Bair’s daughter, Mrs. J. W. Jones,
who returned east the same day.
—Miss Alma Schaeffer is expected up
from Mifflinburg for a week-end visit in
Bellefonte, and will be a guest while
here of her uncle and cousin, L. A.
Schaeffer and Miss Helen, at their home
on east Curtin street.
—Among the motorists back home for
a visit during the week was Andrew
Rine, who, with his wife, drove in from
McKeesport Saturday for an all day Sun-
day visit with Mr. Rine’s mother, Mrs.
Edward Rine, at Coleville.
—Miss Caroline M Valentine, who has
been back from Ogunquit, Maine, for
two weeks is entertaining the Misses
Jennie, Mary and Sara Valentine, na-
tives of Belefonte who are here for a
visit of two weeks or more.
—Miss Virginia Healy had as guests
over Sunday, August 17th, the Misses
Helen and Marjorie English, of Staten
Island, N. Y., both of whom were her
classmates when she attended Elizabeth
College, at Morristown, N. J.
—James I. McClure is back home from
Atlantic City, occupying his house on
north Spring street. Mr. McClure has
been dividing his time between Belle-
fonte and Atlantic City for several years
and will now be here until October.
—Miss Zoe Meek was in from Snow
shoe, Tuesday, seeing the county super-
intendent relative to some school busi-
ness of the school board of Snow Shoe
township, of which she is now sec-
retary.
—Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Reiter, with
their three children, were in Bellefonte
for lunch yesterday. They were on
their way back to their home in Cum-
berland, Maryland, after a week’s visit
at Mr. Reiter's parental home in Mon-
toursville. '
—Mr. and Mrs. William H. Brouse
will drive to Long Island, next week, go-
ing over for their daughters, Caroline
four contests as follows: 95 in live- 2nd Janet, who have been spending the
stock, 246 in dairy cattle, 150
. poultry and 63 in swine. Following
,was the make-up of thé various
teams from Centre county:
| Dairy Cattle—Harris township, Fred
Bohn, Harry Gingerich, Ross McClintock.
Gregg township; Nevin Shook, Stellard
Beightol, Nevin Keller, County vocational
Gerald Zimmerman, Clarence Hoy, Ocean
Yearick.
General Livestock—Harris township,
Dan Mothersbaugh, William Ross, Harry
Addleman. Gregg township, Beiber Rishel,
William Campbell, Lester Rossman.
Swine—Harris township, Wert Bohn,
Cyrus Wert, Albert Lightley.
Poultry—Harris township, LeRoy Shar-
er, Fred Dale, Lawrence Wert. Gregg
township, William Foreman, John Zub-
‘ler, Ellis Rearick.
Lewis Ilgen and Nevin Keller, of
Gregg township, were entered as
individuals in the poultry and dairy
contests, respectively. Allen Weaver,
a member of the county group, was
entered asan individual in the dairy
contest.
The dairy cattle judging team
which will represent Pennsylvania at
the National Dairy Show will in-
clude the following boys: William
Smith, Guy Mills, Crawford county;
Fred Bohn, Boalsburg, Centre coun-
ty, and Kermit Peterson, Cochran.
ton, Crawford county.
These boys, under the leadership
of one of the vocational agricultura.
teachers, will drive to St. Louis
some time before the National Dairy
Show, stopping at various places
to do practice judging before going
into the final contest. It is very
likely that Edwin H. Dale, supervi-
sor of agriculture in the Harris
township vocational school, who has
so successfully coached Fred Bohn
in the art of judging will lead tne
Pennsylvania teams west.
He has had ample experience in
livestock judging, having representea
Penn State as a member of the
College judging team while in col-
lege.
MRS. MARY KANE RAISING
SQUABS FOR MARKET.
Centre county has quite a num-
ber of chicken farms, and there
must be money in it, as most every
year one or two new ones are started
but it has only one squab farm,
and that is being operated by Mrs.
Mary Kane, at Roopsburg. Mrs.
Kane occupies the old Haas property
at thelittle village that was famous
fifty years ago as the location of the
Haas’ brewery, where the best brand
of beer brewed in this section of
the State was made. But the ruins
of the old brewery are all that re-
main as evidence of the beer brewed.
Several years ago Mrs. Kane pur-
chased the old homestead and has
fixed it up into a most comfortable
home in every way. A year or so
ago she decided to go into the
squab business and she now has al-
most one thousand pigeons, the
best breed possible to obtain, and her
squab raising is now showing good
returns. Squabs reach the best age
for killing in just one month after
being hatched when they will dress
about one pound each. Mrs. Kane
makes a killing every. week and
finds a ready market for the squabs
in New York and Philadelphia.
——Maurice Baum, of State Col-
lege, who with Mrs. Baum went to
Philadelphia two weeks ago, became
suddenly ill the day after his ar-
rival there and was at once taken to
St. Joseph’s hospital, where he was
‘operated on for appendicitis. His
condition since the operation has
gradually improved and it is now
expected that he will have both a
complete and rapid recovery.
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and Mrs. F. W. Topelt, at their summer
home out on the Island.
—Charles McC. Scott and Warren L.
Cobb will leave, tomorrow, for a week’s
motor trip in Canada. Warren, who is
with the Irving Trust Co., of New York
city, has been home since last week,
» ' spending the first part of his vacation
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
M. Cobb.
—Mrs. Cora T. Noll was in from Pitts-
burgh, last week, a guest at the home
of her son, Dr. Richard Noll, from Wed-
nesday until Sunday. Mrs. Noll at pres-
ent is with her sister on Ellsworth
avenue, having just recently returned
there from a three month's stay at
Charleroi.
—Miss Janet Potter stopped in Belle-
fonte for several days last week, for a
short visit with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. James H. Potter. Miss Potter was
enroute back to her work at Polk, from
Rome, N. Y., where she had been for six
weeks attend ng a national clinic of wel-
fare specialists
—Frank Simler,
Myron
of Tulsa, Okla., a
nephew of Mrs. Forrest Bullock, spent a-
day in Bellefonte last week visiting with
the Bullocks. Going from here into
New York State, Mr. Simler was joined
by his grand father, William Robinson,
a former Centre countian, who makes
his home with the Simler family in
Tulsa. :
—Mr. and Mrs. Ira Proudfoot will
leave for their home in Pittsburgh, to-
day, following their customary annual
visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Gross, at Axe Mann, and with Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Klinger, in Bellefontn.
They will be accompanied by Miss Mary
Gross, of Axe Mann, who will be their
guests in Pittsburgh for an indefinite
time.
—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gehret, Mrs.
Philip Beezer, Mrs. Orin Kline, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Kline and Mr. and Mrs. John
Bottorf left, Tuesday afternoon in the
Gehret and Kline cars, for Reading to
atend the state convention of Elks in
session there this week. Enroute over
the Gehrets stopped in Harrisburg to
look after some business relative to
their recent trouble concerning their dog
license. .
—Mrs. William Keene, matron of the
Bellefonte borough home, entertained at
dinner, Wednesday of last week, a party
of women from Pleasant Hill, near Phil-
ipsburg, which included her mother,
Mrs. Mary Adams; her sisters, Mrs. Sara
Shaw and Mrs. A. H. Newman, Mrs
Joseph Fitzgibbons, Mrs. William Selby,
Mrs. Charles Selby, Mrs. Harry Shimel,
Mrs. Harold Bock, Mrs. Mary Fitzgib-
bons and Mrs. Caroline Fenton.
—Dr. William 8S. McCalmont, of Phila-
delphia, with Mrs. McCalmont and their
daughter Helen, were in Bellefonte, last
week visiting Dr. McCalmont’s sister, Mrs.
John Hartswick and family, and also
relatives at State College. Their stay
here was prolonged on account of the
illness of Drs McCalmont’s nephew, son
of Mrs. Glenn Sutherland, of Ambridge,
who, with his mother, was visiting with
the Hartswick family at the same time.
—Mr. and Mrs. Harry J Mentzer, of
Pottstown, Pa., with their three children,
Harry Jr., Isabelle and George, made
their annual visit back to Bellefonte
during the week, having driven up to
spend the week-end as guests of Mr. and
Mrs. James D. Seibert, at the Seibert
home on Pine street. Mr. and Mrs.
Mentzer were former residents of Belle-
fonte living here for several years
while Mr. Mentzer was associated with
the Y. M. C. A. as physical director
—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Irwin, of Ak-
ron, Ohio, with their son Donald, are
here for their usual summer visit with
Mr. Irwin's mother, Mrs. Susan Irwin,
of Reynolds Ave., and Mrs. Irwin's par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Florey, of
Pleasant Gap. They arrived here last
Saturday evening. Tonight the rest of
the Irwin family will be here. That
is Harry's girls and their families:
Mr. and Mrs. Doran Dill and their
daughter Louise, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Dyer and “Buster” and Mrs. Ernest
Maddox and their son Robert. There
will be big doins at the Irwin and
Florey homes when they all get together,
for they are a jolly lot and such home-
comings are onty once a year
—Mr. and Mrs, T. S. Strawn, forme:
residents of Bellefonte, are here from
New Kensington, guests at the Mark:
land.
—Mrs. Wallace Kelley has been home
from Philadelphia for one of her oc
casional visits with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert F. Hunter.
—Burgess Hard P. Harris, Charles M
McCurdy and Drs. M. J. Lock and J.
J Kilpatrick will leave today for Canade
on a ten day's fishing trip
—Mrs. J. Willard Barnhart and he:
daughter, Miss Elizabeth, were over tc
Hazleton for one of their frequent over
Sunday visits with Dr. and Mrs. Fred
Seidel. .
—Mahlon K. Robb, one of the twec
Bellefonte men with the Irving Trust
company of New York city, is home for
his vacation, spending it with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Robb, of
Curtin street. 3
—Mrs. William McClure will be among
those in Bellefonte, to entertain a fam-
ily Labor day party, her guests includ-
ing Mr. and Mrs. Murdock Claney, of
Narberth and their four children, Nancy,
Kenneth, Robert and Jack; Mr. and Mrs,
Samuel Waite, of Narberth and Miss
Martha McClure, of Pittsburgh.
—Mrs. Helen M. Shugert and her
grandson, William Lochrie, who were
here last week visiting at the 0. B.
Malin home, returned to Crystal City
Sunday night, with Mr. and Mrs. Rufus
Lochrie. The Lochries and their other
two children had driven over for Mrs,
Shugert and their son and to spend a
day in Bellefonte,
—Mr. and Mrs. “Ab” Fleck, with their
son and his wife, drove here from Erie,
last week, for a visit of several days with
friends over the county. The Flecks were
formerly from Centre county and were
house guests while here of Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Hoy, of Thomas street. Mrs. Hoy
and Mrs. Fleck having been girlhood
friends and schoolmates.
—Dr. Woodcock and his cousin Byron,
of Scranton, and the Rev. J. R. Wood-
cock, of Syracuse, were “n Bellefonte
overnight this week, driving down for
one of their frequent visits with Mrs,
John A. Woodcock. Mrs. Woodcock is
anticipating going to Chambersburg with-
in a few days, for a visit with her two
sisters and brother, the latter being at
present critically ill.
—Mrs Mary Way returned to Belle-
fonte the latter part of the week, from
spending the summer months in Half-
moon valley, near Philadelphia and in
New Jersey. During the past few years
she has spent the winters in Bellefonte
with the Issac Underwood family but
has decided to spend the coming winter
with the Underwood family, at Wood-
bury,— N. J., and will leave for there
within a few days.
-—Mrs. J. C Butterworth, who had
been here from Wilkinsburg for a week’s
visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John L. Knisely, motored back to Pitts-
burgh, Wednesday, a guest of Miss Nel-
lie Smith. Miss Smith had been home
with her father, J. Frank Smith and the
family, for a vacation visit and left here,
Wednesday, with Mrs. Butterworth and
Mrs. John Smith as driving guests, to
return to Pittsburgh to resume her work.
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STATE COLLEGE PROF. TURNS
PICKER OF PRETTY GIRLS.
From a “professor” at State Col-
lege to a picker of pretty girls
landed Edwin F. Bamford in the
Philadelphia county jail, on Monday,
and might keep him behind bars for
some time, but the whilom professor
must have had a fascinating job as
long as it lasted.
According to Bamford’s story - up
until Wednesday of last week he was
a professor of sociology and psy-
chology at Penn State. Then he
went to Philadelphia and, be-
coming stranded without funds con-
ceived the idea of establishing an
employment agency. Taking rooms
at the Adelphia hotel he opened an
office as director of the “National
Motion Picture and Modeling Em.
ployment Agency.” He then adver-
tised for “pretty girls wanted as
models,” and they came witha rush.
Bamford charged one dollar a head
as a registration fee and when he
was arrested, on Monday, he had
$282 in his pockets. One of his re.
quirements of all applicants was
their appearance in bathing suits,
otherwise the applicant was required
to remove some of her clothing in
order to display her figure to advan-
tage.
When Bamford’s office was raided
by Philadelphia detectives fourteen
girls were lined up as applicants,
some in bathing suits and some only
partially dressed. The erstwhile pick-
er of pretty girls, who by the way
is 48 years old, has a wife and two
children living at Manhattan, Kan.,
while his youngest child is a ward
at the College practice house, at
State College, where it is being
hygienically raised by the matron
and co-eds.
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——Bids are being asked for lay.
ing the supply pipe to carry water
from the Big Spring to the new
pumping station at the Gamble mill.
It is a 16 inch pipe and will run
directly from the Spring, crossing
the island and striking the point of
Race St. at the rear of the Beatty
garage. From there it will run di-
rectly down Race St, The borough
will the trench and lay the pipe
along ce St. Bids are being sought
for carrying the line from the Spring
down to and crossing Spring creek.
Eleven concrete piers will be re-
quired, as the line is to be carried
above high water mark, both over
the outflow stream from the Spring
and over Spring creek.
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & Co.
Wheat 80
Corn 1.00
Oats 45
Rye 20
Barley 0
Buckwheat . R