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Bellefonte, Pa., October 3, 1930.
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‘NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——Dont’ forget the dance at St.
John's Episcopal parish house this
Friday evening, 8:30 to 12. Re-
freshments 35 cents.
——Bishop Joseph F. Berry, of
‘Binghamton, N, Y., will preach in
‘the Methodist church here on Sun-
day evening. Everybody welcome.
——J, M. Ward has resigned as
manager of the Haines shoe store,
in the Heverly block and has been
Succeeded by Earl J. Vandershot,
«of New York. Mr. Ward's plans for
“the future have not been made pub-
lic.
——J. L. Burns has resigned as
president of the Chemical Lime com-
pany, incorporated, to accept a posi-
‘tion with the Missouri, Kansas and
“Texas Railroad company. = He has
been succeeded by A. H. Nance, of
Baltimore, Md.
—While attempting to start his
motorcycle, Tuesday morning, Her-
man Teaman, son of Mr. and
"Mrs. Edward J. Teaman, of Rey-
molds avenue, sustained a fracture
of the right ankle. He was taken
to the Centre County hospital to
‘have the fracture reduced.
——The regular monthly meeting
of the board of directors of the
Centre County Motor Club will be
held at the Brockerhoff house, Belle-
~fonte, this (Friday) afternoon at
5 o'clock, followed by a dinner at
® o'clock and the annual meeting of
the members at the court house at
"7 o'clock.
——What
is known as audible
ringing, by means of which persons
making a telephone call can hear
“the bell ringing at the called tele-
phone, was established in Bellefonte
on September 27, so manager J. H.
Caum, of the Bellefonte exchange,
says. We will tell you more about
‘the system next week.
——The Democratic State Candi-
dates, Hon. John M. Hemphill and
Hon. Sedgwick Kistler, will spend
“tomorrow in Centie county. They
will arrive in Millheim about 2
o'clock tomorrow afternoon and hold
‘a meeting in the court house at 8
State College at 7 in the evening
and come to Belllefonte in time for
-a meeting in the court house at 8
-0’clock.
——Among the private
made by Mrs. ,
widow of. Timothy 8. Clark, a
‘piosieer lumberman, of Williamsport,
who died recently leaving an estate
of $750,000, was $1,000 to
bequests
Mattie E. Clark, |1V known.
i Academy where Skidmore’s
ier, Leonard Skidmore, who has been
Miss jat the Academy this session,
SENSATIONAL MAN HUNT
FOR ALLEGED MURDERER
Chased to Earth in Hunter's Cabin
George Clark Skidmore, of Pitts-
burgh, Escapes from Officers at
Night. Shoots Two Men Satur-
day and Evades Capture by Large
Posse. Life History of the Dar-
ing Young Man.
One of the most sensational man
hunts ‘that ever took place in Cen-
tre county transpired over the week-
end and Sunday when a score or
more state policemen and highway
patrolmen, fifty or more members
of the National Guard from Belle.
fonte, Lewistown and Lock Haven,
and many civilians participated in a
chase for George Clark Skidmore, a
twenty year old Pittsburgh youth
wanted in that city for alleged par-
ticipation in the hold up of a filling
station on the evening of September
20th and the murder of the crippled
attendant, Charles P. Hammond.
The first intimation that = Skid-
more was implicated in the affair
was obtained by Pittsburgh detec-
tives through the arrest, on Wed-
nesday of last week, of Eugene
Batdorf for complicity in the theft
of guns and 600 rounds of ammuni-
tion from the 176th field artillery of
‘the National Guard, On being given
the third degree Batdorf named Skid-
‘more as oneof his accomplices in
stealing the guns and ammunition as
well as a participant in the robbery of
the filling station and the murder of
Hammond. He also told ‘the officers
that Skidmore and one William Dut-
ton had left Pittsburgh and gone
_into the mountains of Centre county,
with which Skidmore had become
well acquainted while a student at
the Bellefonte Academy two years
ago.
Batdorf’s alleged statements were
broadcasted over the tele-printer on
Thursday and state highway patrol- |
men here at once began a search
for the alleged fugitives. It was
opened the door and found Dutton
‘the only occupant. George Skid-
more had seen the lights of the ap-
proaching cars and taking an army
rifte, revolver and lots of ammuni-
tion had bolted into the woods.
Dutton and Leonard were brought
back to Bellefonte and placed in the
Centre county jail on a commit-
ment as ‘suspicious characters” is-
sued by ’'Squire J. L. Tressell. Ser-
geant Baer and corporal Beals re-
mained at the cabin until towards
morning in the hope that George
Skidmore would return but he didn’t
and they finally left.
Along about noontime, on Satur-
day, the highway patrolmen again
went to the mountains in an effort
to capture Skidmore. They went
up the Unionville road and near the
Rattlesnake encountered William B.
Fox, keeper of the airmail beacon
light at the Rattlesnake, and stop-
ping asked him if he had seén any-
thing of a strange man. On being
told who it was the officers were
hunting Fox replied “why I know
him; he used to come to Point Mec-
Coy frequently to see me when I
was keeper of the beacon light there
two years ago,” Asked to join the
party so as to identify Skidmore if
they met him Fox consented. The
party continued on past the inter.
section of the road from Julian and
elbow and another
on rounding a curve they saw a man
walking toward them with a gun
on his arm. “There he is,” said Fox.
Stopping their car the officers got
out. Before they could make a
move, however, Skidmore darted in-
to the underbrush and opened fire.
The first shot hit Fox in the left
shot hit the
revolver stock of J. G. Olmes split-
ting his thumb and the bullet flying
to pieces wounded him in a dozen or
more places on the chest. One bul-
i let from Skidmore's gun pierced the
cap of sergeant Baer and another
tore a hole in the trouser leg of
corporal Gross. The officers re-
tu ned the fire but Skidmore escaped.
Shortly after the fusilage of shots
not until Friday afternoon, however, | game keeper Elmer Pillings and
when they got a trace
of the burgess John W. Beals, of Philips-
fugitives, who were then believed to | bu-g, happened along and they took
be hiding in the mountains
where in this section.
some- the wounded men to Philipsburg,
Later devel- | Olmes to the State hospital and Fox
‘opments showed that Skidmore and |to the McGirk sanitorium.
| William Dutton, traveling
‘former's Hudson car, crossed the
‘Point Bridge in Pittsburgh at 1:40
o'clock on Monday afternoon on
their trip out of the city. They
{ Tuesday morning but where
' spent the entire day is not definite-
At one time during the
day their car was parked near the
broth-
was
Mary A. Sho:kley, a Williamsport | S¢en in conversation with the two
School teacher. Miss Shorkley “is
Bellefonte, and has been a frequent
[mem In the afternoon Skidmore and
a cousin of Mrs. Charles Gilmore, of |
Dutton bought provisions at Jodon’s
grocery, laid ina supply of ciga-
Ted ; iol
visitor here for a number of years. jrettes and cigars at Garbrick’s cigar
~——The community card party
‘given annually by the Woman’s club,
- at the Elk’s home, is being arrang-
ed for by the committee for Friday
© evening October 17. Both bridge
and five hundred will be in play,
parties either making up their own
tables ov leaving it to the com-
-mitiee on arrangements; playing to
‘begin at eight o’clock.
fifty cents will be sold over the town
by members of the club.
At a brief session
“last Saturday morning, H. BE. Cath-
<erman, of Boggs township, entered
ca plea of nolle contendre to the
«chaige of unlawful possession of
liquor and was sentenced te pay the
costs, $25 fine and placed on pro-
bation for one year to eighteen
~ months. Ciinton »icArthur, an es-
~caped Rockview prisoner, was given
an extra eighteen months to three
_ years in the western penitentiary.
——Frank P. Hoag has leased
~ the basement room in the White
Bros, buildinz on the corner of
High and Spring streels, formerly
the Valentine residence, and on or
about the first of November ex-
“pects to open up a store for the
sale of milk and all kinds of milk
products. Mr. Hoag knows the
milk business from the time the
lacteal fluid leaves the cow until it
gets into the hands of the consum-
ers, which is a sure guarantee that
anything he will handle will be ex
actly right.
——Mr. and Mrs. George Johns
Campbell, of Germantown, have is-
sued invitations for the marriage of
‘their daughter, Miss Helen Isobel
Campbell, to Dr. William Taylor
Hunt, of Huntingdon, the wedding
to take place in the First Presby-
terian church, Germantown, on Octo-
ber 18th. Dr. Hunt is a son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. T, Hunt, of Renovo,
-and the wedding is of interest to
Bellefonte people because the doc-
tor’s mother, before her marriage,
was Miss Anna Mabel Wodring, a
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
D. W. Woodring, of Bellefonte.
—Col. Frederick A. Dale, who
‘the past several years has been lo-
cated at Boston, Mass. as medical
officer in the United States army,
has been appointed surgeon of the
Third Corps area, U. 8S, army and
will be stationed at Baltimore, Md.
Col. Dale is a brother of Dr.
David Dale, of Bellefonte. He was
born and raised at Lemont, took
his degree of bachelor of science
at State College thirty-seven years
ago, studied medicine at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania and joined
the Fourth U. S. artillery as a pri-
vate. He became an army surgeon
in 1901.
i store, in the Bush house block, and
; purchased
| While at the latter place they were
{seen by James
fruit at Carpeneto’s.
R. Hughes, who
spoke to George.
While no person has
found who saw them leave
yet been
Belle-
i forte deductions of highway patrol- |
;men point to ‘the fact that they left
Tickets ati ols are
in the afternoon, accom-
panied by Leonard Skidmore, and
(drove to the Allegheny mountains,
{away out along the road leading to
of court, | Grass Flat and then taking another
road to the right finally reached the
cabin of Carl Ericson, the taxi-
dermist of Philipsburg. There
George Skidmore and Dutton pro-
ceeded to make themselves at home
while Leonard drove the car back
to Bellefonte and parked in
Wrights’ garage,
Leonard Skidmore had a motor-
cycle at the Academy and the sup-
position is that he used it in carry.
ing food supplies to his brother and
Dutton, but this is merely conjec-
ture. But on Friday afternoon he
received permission from Mr. Hughes
to take a run to Tyrone on condi-
tion that he be back by six o’clock.
While he was away two highway
patrolmen went up to Hughes field
and asked James R. Hughes if he
had a student by the name of
Leonard Skidmore and where they
could find him. Mr. Hughes told
them he had taken a trip on his
motorcycle but would be back at 6
o'clock. When - that time came
Leonard telephoned Mr. Hughes
that his motorcycle broke down at
Port Matlida and he would have to
hitch-hike home so would be a little
late. He returned, however, about
6:35. About - 7:30 in the evening
corporal C. I. Gross went to the
Y.M.C. A., where Mr. Hughes was
attending a supper, and again in-
quired for Leonard. On being told
he was at the Academy he went
there and got him. The young man
was told that the officers knew his
brother was hiding in the mountains
and through persuasion or compul-
sion Leonard accompanied them to
the Ericson cabin near the Beaver
dam on the Black Moshannon.
Composing the posse were Ser.
geant W. C. Baer and corporals C.
I. Gross, J. G. Olmes and A. E.
Beales, of the highway patrol, and
Leonard Skidmore in one car. Game
protector Thomas A, Mosier, W. J.
Aikey and William Delansky, of
Osceola Mills, in the other car.
Young Skidmore acted as pilot and
steered the posse to the location of
it
the Ericson cabin, in one of the
wildest spots in ‘the Allegheny
mountains.
Some distance from the cabin the
officers left their cars and proceed-
ed on foot. Arriving there they
in the!
Bellefonte for
, sheriff Dunlap,
The highway patrol returned to
reinforcements and
county detective
Boden and about twenty-five mem-
bers of Troop L. went to the moun-
reached Bellefonte about five o’clock ! tains and joined in the search. Sev-
they .
eral Pittsburgh detectives in com-
mand of Lieut. Frapkx Ferris reach-
ed Bellefonte Saturday afternoon
and also joined in the man hunt.
The search was kept up until dark
without finding a trace of Skidmore.
Some of the men came in while a
good-sized patrol was stationed all
around the piece of woodland in
which Skidmore was supposed to be
hiding. }
Sunday morning the searching .
force was augumented by twenty
or more state police and highway
patrolmen, as well as increased
forces of ‘the National Guard and
many civilians, The underbrush was
thoroughly combed but no trace of
the man could be found, dead or
alive. |
About two o’clock in the afternoon
word was received in Bellefonte of
the finding of a gun on a coal car
on the New York Central railroad in
Jersey Shore, and checking up Pitts-
burgh detectives asserted it was'the
gun Skidmore had in his possession. !
Later a trainman employed in the !
Jersey Shore yards told of seeing a :
man in the yards early Sunday
morning who tallied with the de- |
scription of Skidmore, but at that |
time he knew nothing of the man
hunt and made no effort to
him. He, also, was unable to tell
where he went. Satisfied that the!
man was Skidmore and that he had
broken through the cordon of guards ;
in the mountains some time Satur- |
day night and made his escape, the |
hunt was called off in Centre coun- |
ty late Sunday afternoon and trans- |
ferred to the country around Jersey |
Shore, but up to this time not a;
trace of Skidmore has been found. |
Some are inclined to the belief
that if the gun found at Jersey
Shore was Skidmore’s that it had !
been thrown on the train as a blind |
and that he is still in the Allegheny |
mountain section. According to
Dutton he still has a revolver in his
possession and lots of ammunition
for it.
Whether the young man is guilty
of the crime charged is not for us to
say. Their father was a West Vir-
ginia mountaineer and :heir mother
a Pittsburgh girl. After their mar-
riage they went to live in Chicago
and because of family disagreements
detain |
Mrs. Skidmore obtained a divorce
from her husband and was given
the custody of her children. Later,
the two boys were kidnapped by the
father and taken to Wyoming. = At
that time they were but 6 and 8
years old but the father taught
them the art of self-defense and
also how to handle a gun with the
result that both became good shots
while only children, When the
mother learned the whereabouts of
her two boys she recovered them
through due process of law and
brought them to Pittsburgh where
they have since lived with their
grandmother, Mrs. M. J. Clark. Both
boys entered the Bellefonte Acad-
emy two years ago, George re-
maining but one year while Leonard
continued his studies and this
would have been his last year.
When George was at school two
~and burial ground.
‘of Harold S. Rich, the
. $5000;
will be paid to the trustees of the |
. Williamsport Dickinson Seminary for,
: Rich Memorial.
| BELLEFONTE WOMAN MIGHT
! county, they have just succeeded in
{harnessing a well that for a week
ior more spurted forth
|L. Daggett owns 134 acres of land
(Turn to page 4, Col. 2.)
TWO PRISONERS ESCAPE
FROM CENTRE CO. JAIL.
Centre county had it’s first jail
delivery in years, on Monday night,
when two escaped penitentiary con-
victs who had been recaptured and
were being held for ‘trial, broke
through the ceiling of their stee.
cell and with a saw made from a
table knife sawed a hole through the
roof of the jail. With a blanket
rope made from their bed clothing
‘they descended from the roof into
the jail yard. They tied a big
stone on the end of their blanket
rope, heaved it over the jail wall
and thus climbed to freedom. The
escape took place between one and
two o'clock in the morning and was
not discovered until four hours
later.
The two men are Steve Walters
and Joseph Chali, a Cuban, both
of Allegheny county. Walters was
sent to the penitentiary for 5 to 10
years for the larceny of an auto-
mobile, Chali 4 to 10 for larceny.
They made their escape from Rock-
view on Sunday evening, August
31st, and were captured near Spring
Mills on Thursday, September 4th.
The men have all along refused to
plead guilty to escape and it is be-
lieved that their ceason for doing so
is because they contemplated break-
ing jail, if possible.
While the cell in which the two
men were kept was lined with three-
eighths inch steel, it is the same cell
from which a former prisoner at-
tempted to escape and had partial.
ly pried loose one of the steel plats
in the ceiling, This plate had
never been wholly repaired and
it was by prying it loose that the
prisoners were able to make a hole |
big enough to crawl through. |
Penitentiary officials have offered
a reward of fifty dollars
the recapture of the men.
each for !
mn teen fh emt stm mee
W. B. RICH WILL LEAVES
THOUSANDS TO CHARITIES. |
The will of the late Michael Bond
Rich, of Woolrich, who was killed in’
an automobile accident about a
month ago, was filed for probate at
Lock Haven last week. He left an
estate estimated to exceed a million |
dollars, the bulk of which is left to |
members of his family and relatives, |
Other bequests, however, included |
$5,000 to the trustees of the Metho- |
dist church at Woolrich as an en-'
dowment, the income to be used in|
paying the minister's salary; $10,000 |
is to be paid to the board of direc. |
tors of the Williamsport Dickinson |
Seminary as an endowment or for
purchasing land for the erection of |
additional buildings by the Seminary;
$10,000 is to be paid to the Metho- |
dist Home for the Aged at Tyrone !
for purchasing land for the use of |
said home. . The board of trustees |
of the Woolrich church will receive |
the sum of $1500, which income is |
to be used to maintain the cemetery |
At the death |
Methodist
Home for the Aged will receive |
the Methodist Home for
Children, Central Pennsylvania Con- |
i
ference, will receive $2000, and $5000
a scholarship fund for young men |
and women who intend to devote |
their lives to preaching the Gospel
or to missions or deaconness work,
and this fund will be knwn as the
REAP FORTUNE FROM GAS.
Up in Farmington township, Tioga
. 22,000,000
cubic Teet of natural gas daily. This
in itself might not be of much in-
terest to Bellefonte people but read-
ers of the Watchman will be inter-
ested in knowing that Mrs. Wells
and has a half interest in the min-
eral rights on two farms which
are located within half a mile of
the big gas gusher.
Geologists and experienced gas
drillers aver that her property is in
the gas basin and representatives
of the gas company operating in
that vicinity have communicated
with her regarding a lease of her
property, and are expected in Belle.
fonte most any day to make a deal.
Naturally Mrs. Daggett’s friends
rejoice at this appearance of good
fortune fer her and hope that
spurting wells will be found on
her property.
LEWISBURG BARBER WILL
SHAVE MAN IN LION’S DEN,
The Union County
burg will open next
continue until Friday night, the 10th.
Beside the regular exhibits of the
products of farm, garden and house-
hold products good racing programs
are scheduled for Wednesday, Thurs-
day and Friday.
The Excel Animal circus will be
the big amusement attraction and
will give shows every night. The
fair association has offered $100 to
any barber and customer who will
enter the den of lions and go
through with a shaving act. An.
other $100 is offered for any couple
who will be married in the lion's
den.
Rumor has it that one Lewisburg
barber has entered for the shaving
act and has a customer who will
let him shave him. in the ded.
The evening shows will continue
from 7:15 to 9 o'clock.
fair at Lewis-
Tuesday and
{ meeting
| Diocese
i Tuesday,
| Watchman office.
i tives and friends in the town.
cpa,
PINE GROVE MENTIONS.
—Miss M. C. Snyder is on a buying
trip to New York, spending the week
there selecting her fall and winter stock.
—Mrs. John Bullock spent Tuesday and
Wednesday in Pine Grove Mills, a guest
of her uncle and aunt, Dr. and Mrs.
George H. Woods.
—Mrs. R. S. Brouse went to Allen-
town, Monday, representing the Re-
formed church at the eastern synodical
missionary meeting in session there this
week. %
—The John §S. Walkers and Miss
Shortlidge, who have spent the month
of September motoring and visiting in
the middle west, returned to Bellefonte
this week.
—Mrs. Ebon Bower returned, Monday,
from a ten day's stay with her sister,
Mrs. Burd, in Millheim, the visit having
been made at this time owing to Mrs.
Burd’s illness.
—George McNichol, with the Bell Tele-
phone company at Harrisburg, was home
over the past week-end on one of his
frequent visits with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. James McNichol, of Howard street.
—Mrs. John Dawson and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Sue Chandler, left Wednesday,
in the latter's car, for a drive to New
Alexandria where they expected to spend
the remainder of the week, visiting with
Mrs. Dawson's aunt, Mrs. Rachel Mec-
Divitt.
—Miss Helen E. C. Overton returned
from Atlantic City, Monday, her coming
being deferred on account of her fall a
month or more ago. Although not hav-
ing entirely recovered Miss Overton was
able to resume her work at the Acad-
emy on Wednesday.
—Mrs. H. Terresta Smith, of Millheim,
left there last week, for a visit with
the Harry C. Shure family in Sunbury,
intending then to go for her annual
visit at Ventnor City, where she will be
a guest of Stover G. Snook and his
family during her stay at the Shore.
—Mr. and Mrs. William Houser and
their daughter, Mildred, who have been
; with Mrs. Houser’s mother, Mrs. Charles
Moerschbacher, since August, are in
Bellefonte only until employment condi-
tions become better, expecting them to
return to Meadville.
er left here fourteen years ago.
—The Rev. Stuart F. Gast attended a
of the Clerical Union of the
of Harrisburg and Bethlehem
held at St. Luke's church, Lebanon, on
Rev. Gast being secretary of
After the meeting he went
down to Germantown where he met
Mrs. Gast and Stuart Jr., returning
with them to Bellefonte yesterday.
—Mrs. David Hughes and her son
Billy will leave Monday to return to
their home at Hazleton, after spending
the summer in Bellefonte with Mrs.
Hughes’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Klinger. The long visit was made ow-
the club.
ing to the child’s health, . which is so,
greatly improved that he will be taken :
home in an almost normal condition.
—Mrs. W. D. Swartz, of Snow Shoe,
was in Bellefonte on a shopping trip, on
Monday, and made a brief call at the
On Sunday she had
as guests her father and mother, Mr. and |
her
Mrs. Fred Smith, of Philipsburg;
brother, C.F. Smith and wife, and her
sister, Miss Emma Smith, of Warren,
and Mrs. James Knowles and little son
Jobe, of Philipsburg.
—Mrs. Jeannette Belts, a relative
Mrs. J. Will Conley, drove
Pittsburgh with Mrs. Conley and Mrs.
Wallis, last week, remained in Bellefonte
for a visit then drove back with Mrs.
Wallis to Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Mrs.
Wallis will be home until the afterpart
of
fof the week, expecting to come in with
Mr. Wallis, who has spent the majority
' Their own
Mr. and Mrs. Hous
in from .
REGS,
—Miss Margaret Cook has been in
Philadelphia, this week, continuing her
course of treatments under specialists.
| —Mrs. George W. Norris and Mrs.
, Thompson, of Philadelphia, were arri-
vals here yesterday. They motored up
for a visit of several days and are at
{ “The Talleyrand.”
{ —Mrs. Hettie Faust and Mrs. Wil-
iliam H. Unger, of Shamokin, Pa., made
a week-end visit to their friends, Rev.
and Mrs. H. L. Jacobs, at the Metho-
dist manse in this place.
' —Mr. and Mrs. Moses Behrers, a farm-
er in the Buffalo Run valley, was down
Wednesday, visiting with his daughter
who has been a patient in the Centre
County hospital for some time. :
—Mrs. M. A. Kirk went out to Mead-
ville yesterday by bus, expecting to be
there with her daughter, Mrs. C. H.
Young and the Young family, for ten
days. When leaving she had made ten-
tative plans for spending a short time in
Pittsburgh. Dr. and Mrs. Kirk will
have with them this winter their two
grandsons and Mrs. Norman Kirk, who
anticipate closing their home east of
town, the last week in October.
————— rer ararat—
PLANNING WINTER TRIPS
TO THE RIO GRANDE
Charles Glenn is in the county
representing the American Rio
Grande Land and Irrigation Co., of
! Mercedes, Texas. He is Planning a
:series of trips to that land of op-
portunity and anyone interested can
get in touch with him either by tele-
phone at State College or inquiry at
this office.
| These rips are arranged for the
purpose of selling land in the Rio
Grande valley, but those who take
ithem are in no wise committed to
|buy. All the company wants to ac-
, complish through them is to get
: people from the north down there to
see what opportunities * are offered.
eyes and judgment are
their guides and if they buy, all
fight, If they don’t, its all right
00.
| The trips are personally conduct-
‘ed, planned so that the tourist will
have every luxury of travel and sight
seeing and the round trip for two
people is only $150.00 from Altoona.
This covers everything for two
weeks, car fare, Pullman service
hotels and sight seeing side trips,
Mr. Glenn has his first trip of the
. winter scheduled to start on October
10. If you are interested in this one
or any of the following trips get in
touch with him at once.
MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT
FOR MRS. W. I. FLEMING.
At the last Sunday morning serv-
ices in the Bellefonte Methodist
church Dr. Horace Lincoln Jacobs,
the pastor, presented to the trustees
‘of the church a check for $2000.00.
It was the gift of Wilson
ing ito the Corporation for t
{pose of carrying out his
wife's plan to create an
‘ment fund to be known
| “Fleming Memorial Bequest.”
Half of the income of the be.
quest isto go to maintenance of the
local church, the other half to gen-
,eral benevolences,
The gift was accepted on behalf
of the trustees by S. Claude Herr.
of the summer week-ends in Bellefonte.
—Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert MeclIlvain were
here from Dowingtown, recently, for a’
rela- ;
Mr. Mec-'
short visit with Mrs. Mcllvain's
Ilvain, one of the best known architects
of the east, was making his first visit to
Bellefonte, while Mrs. McIlvain, for-
merly Miss Betty Breese, having spent
much of her life here as a child,
only back home on one of her occasional
visits.
—Mr. and Mrs. Allan Garman were in
Bellefonte, Wednesday, just returning
from a motor trip east where they spent
much of the time while away in New
York city. For the past several years
Mr. and Mrs. Garman are at their home
in Tyrone very little of their time,
both being fond of traveling and Mr.
Garman having retired from business,
they are in a position to live where and
how they choose.
—Mr. and Mrs. George Horsteck, who
were here from Wednesday until Sunday
of last week, were house-guests of the
Clayton E. Royer and S. H. Hoy fami-
lies during their stay in Bellefonte.
—Thomas Patterson, of Seattle, was in
Bellefonte between trains, Sunday, for
his first visit here with Mrs. Patterson’s
aunt, Miss Margaret Stewart; having
stopped in Bellefonte enroute west from
a business trip to New York. Mrs.
Patterson recently spent a year at the
Stewart home and with other relatives
in the east.
—With fall comes the gunning season
and then a strange light comes into the
eyes of those who love to take down
the trusty gun and hie away into the
woods. We saw just such a light in
friend Bill Zimmerman’s eyes last Mon-
day so we started hunting talk. There's
where Bill is at home and we might
have been talking yet if the little mat-
ter of keeping someone waiting dinner
for us had not come up. Incidentally,
Bill is in the woods every chance he
gets and his eye is on bees too. He has
eleven marked now that he expects to
get a lot of honey out of later in the
fall.
—On Tuesday William R. Tressler, of
Oak Hall, was in town looking after
some business matters. William has been
carryingon on the farm since the death of
his lamented father, the late J. J. Tress-
ler. And he must be doing it well for
he seemed so happy and hcpeful. There
was no complaint about poor crops, dry
weather or anything else in what he
had to say. Of course his corn isn't as
good as usual and he has had difficulty
plowing hard, dry soil but he wasn’t
hanging crepe all over the place on that
account. We confess that here isa
young man whose outlook on life we
liked a lot. Just a nice, sensible young
country gentleman who deserves to
succeed and we hope he will.
was
BELLEFONTE ACADEMY
LOST TO DUQUESNE.
In a hard fought game, on Hughes
field last Saturday, the Bellefonte
Academy football team lost their
opening game to the Duquesne
Freshmen by the score of 7 to 0.
The teams were well matched though
Duquesne showed a little more
(development in team work than the
! Academy.
| Tomorrow afternoon the Academy
'will meet the Western Maryland
{Freshmen on Hughes field. Game
will be called promptly at 2.30
‘o'clock. General admission, $1.00;
{students, 50 cents. This, also, will
{be a game worth seeing.
MORAN AND MACK
IN “ANYBODY’S WAR.”
Following the signal success of
heir first picture, “Why Bring That
{Up?” Moran and Mack's second pro-
{duction has been eagerly awaited by
{the hosts of movie-goers who enjoy-
led the hilarious mirth-making of
"this inimitable pair.
Now it’s here “Anybody’s War,” the
second “Two Black Crows” comedy
feature, comes to the Richelieu
theatre Monday, Tuesday and Wed-
,nesday of next week.
i ‘“Anybody’s War” has been refer-
.re to by a Hollywood writer as “All
Riot On the Blackface Front.”
PHILIPSBURG YOUNG MAN
ARRESTED AS FIREBUG.
Henry Johnson, 22 years old, of
Philipsburg, was arrested on Tues-
day night on the charge of starting
fires in that town which destroyed a
quarter million dollars worth of
property. In default of bail he was
brought to the Centre county jail to
await trial at the next term of court.
Johnson, it is alleged, made a con-
fession in which he stated that he
started the fires because he got a
thrill out of seeing the firemen
running.
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & Co.
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