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Bellefonte, Pa., October 81, 1930.
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FOR THE HALLOWEEN FEAST
Bernice Claire, movie actress and
musical comedy star, plays the new
spelling game, “Three Ghosts,” as
a sure way to forget the weather.
«Three or four persons can play
it in the absence of a bigger
crowd,” Miss Claire explained as she
sat sipping iced tea in her room at
the William Penn Hotel. “It’s the
greatest way in the world to im-
prove spelling and it's exciting from
beginning to end. Hollywood has
] up bridge and cross-word
puzzles to play it.
«Three Ghosts” is played with any
number of players. One, the starter,
voices a letter. The next must add
another letter to spell some word,
which for the time is kept a secret.
The third player adds still another.
So it goes around the circle, back
and past the starter, The player
forced to end the word is compelled
to pay a penalty. The only re-
striction of words is that they must
be good ‘dictionary English.” Any
player may be called upon to reveal
what word he has in mind. The
penalty for “faking” is the same as
for ending a word.
«All-Hallow Day” was originally
the occasion of the harvest festival
as celebrated by the ancient Druids,
This festival centered around the
yearly ceremony of extinguishing and
replenishing the altar fire in each
little village as a protection against
evil spirits. Each family in the
village was given a spark from the
newly kindled altar fire, which they |
used to kindle a new fire on their
own hearthstones to be kept burn-
ing as a protection for the coming
year. When Druids adopted the
Christian faith the festival was
abandoned, but the country folk be-
lieved that on All-hallow Eve the
fairies and elves came out to dance
in enchanted moonlight spaces and
that on this night witches, goblins,
and bad spirits congregated in ruined
castles or deserted abbeys to plot
against mankind. As late as the
seventeenth century farmers would
tramp over their acres on Hallowe'en
brandishing lighted torches and chant-
ing a weird doggerel to frighten
away the goblins for the coming
twelve month. . |
As these old superstitions were
gradually dispelled, Hallowe'en cele-
brations developed into merry parties
at which all sorts of pranks and
mysterious games were played, and
much fortune telling was included.
Witches and goblins, black cats and
other manifestations of evil came
to be used as a decorative back-
ground.
Delicious and different types of
refreshments are now as much a
part of the Hallowe'en festivities as
are the decorations and entertain-
ment and have really grown out of
the fascinating traditions of the an-
cient All-hallow Eve feast, Here |
are a few menus and recipes for
salads, sandwiches, and desserts that |
are appropriate for Hallowe'en par-
ties.
For Brown Bread Sandwiches, |
cream one-half pound of any soft!
yellow cheese, or- add enough cream
to grated American cheese to pro-,
duce a consistency that will spread
easily, and add one-fourth cupful of
chopped chives. Spread between
slices of buttered brown bread. This |
will make ten to twelve sandwiches.
For Hallowe'en Salad, scrape three
medium-sized carrots and cut in
one-eight-inch strips about one inch
long; Marinate for one_half hour in
French dressing which has been,
slightly sweetened. Meanwhile dice
three medium-sized tart apples and
pour just enough lemon juice over
to keep the apples from turning
dark; drain off excess lemon juice. ,
Wash one cupful of seedless raisins,
dry, and add with the apples to!
the carrots. Mix well, drain and
serve on lettuce. Serves eight.
To make Jack O’Lantern Cookies,
use any chocolate or ginger COOKy
and cut in round shapes two and
one-half or three inchesin diameter.
When baked and cooled, ice with
orange icing. Make a face on the
jced cooky with drops of melted
chocolate for the eyes and mose and
a streak of chocolate for the mouth.
Black Cat Sandwiches are made
by using a cooky cutter shaped in
the form of a cat. Spread thin
slices of buttered graham bread with
e filling made as follows: Cook six |
frankfurters, remove the skins, and
put through the food-chopper. Add
one-fourth cupful olives and enough
tomato catsup to moisten well. This
recipe makes twelve sandwiches.
For Goblin Salad, arrange a leaf
of lettuce on each plate, and place
half a canned peach round side up
in thhe center of the leaf. Use whole
cloves to make eyes and nose anda
pimento strip to make the mouth.
With a pastry tube make a frill of
cream cheese around the goblin’s
face.
For Hoodoo Puddings, make spice
cupcakes, When cool cut off tops,
scoop out centers, and fill with the
following: Soak one tablesponful of
gelatine in one-fourth cupful cold
water five minutes. To the beaten
yolks of three eggs add one cupful
sugar and one-fourth teaspoonful
salt. Add one cupful of strong
coffee and the gelatine and cook in
the top of a double-boiler, stirring
constantly, until the mixture coats
the spoon. 'Remove and cool. Whip
one cupful of heavy cream and fold
into cooled ‘custard with one-half
cupful of chopped pecans. Fill cup-
cakes, replace tops, and frost with
coffee frosting.
Witches’ Brew is a Hallowe'en
name for hot chocolate or any hot
beverage.
— All nursery-grown and native
plants, trees, shrubs, and evergreens
should be watered thoroughly before
heavy frost. Rhododendrons, laurel,
and other evergreen shrubs tolerant
to acid soil should be mulched with
Yak leaves or pine needles.
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“the above unfair practices may
These free licenses will be
PRODUCE DEALERS
MUST BE LICENSED
The Perishable Agricultural Com-
modities Act requiring the licensing
of commissio merchants, dealers
and brokers by the United States
Secretary of Agriculture, becomes
effective on December 10, 1930, ac-
cording to the bureau of markets,
Pennsylvania Lepartment of Agri-
culture. This act is intended to
suppress practices in the marketing
of fresh fruits and vegetables in in-
terstate or foreign commerce and
provides for the licensing of all
commission merchants, dealers and
brokers, subject to the Act.
Perishable agriculture commodities
as defined in the law, means fresh
fruits and fresh vegetables of every
kind and character, whether frozen
or packed in ice or not. The term
' {‘dealer” applies to amy person buy-
ing or selling twenty or more car-
loads per year, A producer selling
only commodities raised by himself
is exempted from the provisions of
the act. Any person buying for
sale at retail less than twenty car-
loads annuallv is also exempted. An
annual
provided in the law.
The law states it shall be “un-
fair conduct” to engage in any of
the following practices and makes
their use unlawful: (1) fraudulent
charges (2) unjustified rejection or
failure to deliver, (3) discarding,
conditions, quality, quanity, disposi-
tion or market conditions, (5) fail-
ure to correctly account, (6) mis-
representation of state or origin,
and (7) removing or alternating
tags which represents Federal
State inspection.
Any one who suffers from any of
file
a complaint with the Secretary of
Agriculture for the purpose of se-
curing equitablé reparation. If a
licensee shall be found guilty of
violating the act he shall be liable
for the full amount of damages sus-
tained, which will be enforced by a
reparation order of the Secretary of
Agriculture or by suit in court.
Any commission merchant, dealer
or a broker, subject to the provi-
sions of the Act, who fails to pro-
cure a license by December 10, 1930,
shall be liable to a fine of $500 plus
$25 per day for each one of opera- |
tion thereafter without a license.
The secretary of Agriculture of the
United States may, for violation of
the act, publish facts and suspend
a license for not over ninety days,
or for flagrant or
tions, he may revoke licenses.
Every person, subject to the act,
must keep such records and ac-
counts as will disclose all business
transactions and ownership of the
business. The secretary of agricul-
ture is empowered to inspect all
records, accounts and memoranda of
a license, for determining the facts in
reference to a complaint and may
publish facts or suspend a license
for ninety days for failure to keep
records.
—Read tke Watchman.
SPECIAL SEASON
FOR DOE HUNTING.
A special doe season has been
fixed for November 27, 28 and 29,
ending twenty-four hours before the
opening of the fifteen-day buck
season, December 1. The
fee is $2.00.
In Cambria county the township
of Chest will be. thrown open to the
killing of does for the above three
days. The does must weigh not
less than 60 pounds, dressed.
The licenses will not be distrib-
uted among the twenty-three coun-
ties in whose townships does may
be shot, as is the case with licenses
for the regular hunting season.
Applications must be sent direct to
the Board of Game Commissioners
at the Capitol.
Pennsylvania not only has' more
deer than any other State, but its
hunters kill more than are killed in
other States. The female deer are
said to outnumber the bucks five
to one, and the special doe-killing
seasons are expected to reduce the
does to a point where the sexes will
be more nearly equal.
The killing of a doe during the
special season does not prevent a
hunter from killing a buck during
the regular season. The commission
holds that the doe season is an
emergency measure only and a doe
killed then doesn’t count against
the hunter who desires a buck later,
In order to get special license,
which will cost $2, an applicant
must first have obtained his regular
season license, also costing $2.
. The extra license permits doe.
hunting only in the county the
license designates. District game
protectors will mark the borders of
open territory on trees or by other
markings.
Because of the lack of time, the
licenses will not bear the names of
the counties, but will be so number-
ed that the protectors will know
in meeting hunters if they are
violating their license rights.
Cambria county, for which 240
licenses will be sold, will contain
hunters during the special doe sea-
son bearing license numbers 1 to
300, for example, Carbon county's
numerals will run from 301 to 3600,
as 3248 licenses will be issued for
that district.
The numbers provided for each
county exceed the number of li-
cenges that will be sold, but may
not exceed the number issued, for
there are free licenses for farmers
and other land owners who
will hunt only on their own lands.
; issued
' only by district game protectors.
It is not expected that the hunt-
ers will kill all of he 56,024 does
| permitted. Last year in all the
| counties where there were deer 22,
822 bucks were legally killed. Im
1928, during the entire season of
fifteen days when does alone could
| be killed, 25,097 were shot.
| —Subscribe for the Watchman.
reported viola- |
licensing fee of $100 is
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' dumping or destroying without rea-!
sonable cause, (4) making fraudulent |
or misleading statements concerning '
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1924 Chevrolet 4-Door 1926 Chevrolet Sedan .......... $ 150.00 1927 Nash Sedan ................. $ 275.00
Sedall ..........iioeeeeree $ 75.00 1924 Oldsmobile Sedan ........ $ 125.00 1925 Stewart 11% Ton Truck
1926 Essex Coach ................. $ 45.00 1927 Essex Sedan ................. $ 225.00 (2 mew tires) ........... $ 175.00
1926 Overland % Ton Panel 1929 Essex Coupe ...........e... $ 225.00 1926 Chevrolet 1% Ton
Body Truck ........... $ 50.00 1927 Pontiac Roadster ....... $ 240.00 Truck (open express
1925 Buick Roadster . ...$ 75.00 1927 Oakland Roadster ....§ 225.00 body) iis $ 150.00
1926 Ford Coupe ................ $ 62.00 1929 Ford Roadster ............. $ 325.00 1929 Chevrolet Coach .......... $ 450.00
1925 Ford Coupe .................. $ 45.00 1928 Whippet Roadster 1929 Chevrolet Sedan .......... $ 460.00
1926 Chevrolet Touring ....$ 60.00 (Sport) .....ccooeooaa: 225.00 1930 Chevrolet Coach (Very
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CHEVROLET CO.
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CAR INSPECTION >
| WILL END TODAY.
Only one more day of the annual
period for inspection of motor ve-
remain and quite a number
or of owners of the registered cars
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the test, according to asurvey made
by the Pennsylvania Motor Feder-
ation, State unit of the A. A. A,
There will he no extension of time,
the Federation announced, and warn-
ed that any motorist on the road
after October 31 without an official
“inspected and approved” sticker on
his car will be arrested and fined
and face revocation of license.
«This is a compulsory inspection,
provided for in the motor code and
authorized by proclamation of the
Governor,” said S. Edward Gable,
president of the motorists’ organiza-
tion,” and we have been advised
that the State authorities mean to
enforce it to the letter. Notice is
bing sent out to the State’s law en-
forcement officers to apprehend the
driver of any motor vehicle on the
road after October 31, the end of
the inspection period, without an of-
ficial sticker on his car. All local
police will get similar instructions.
The task of handling the last-min-
ute rush of cars will keep all of the
stations operating at capacity and
any car owner who delays further
in applying for inspection runs the
chance of having to wait in line for
the test.”
In this connection Mr. Gable warn-
ed motorists who have had their
cars inspected and approved not to
be lulled to a false sense of safely
and a feeling of immunity from ar-
rest for faulty lights, and brakes or
other defective mechanism merely
because an official sticker has ben
placed on the windshield. “A car
inspected and approved ‘a week or
two ago may not measure up today
to the requirements of the test,” he
said. “A light bulb may have burn.
) 'ed out, a brake lining may have
license
been scorched, or one of numerous
other mechanical defects may have
developed, It is against such things
that the car owner must guard at
all times, and see to it that not only
at the time of compulsory inspec-
tion, but every day throughout the
year, the vehicle is in safe mechan-
ical condition.” :
THERE CAN BE MONTHS
WITHOUT A FULL MOON.
Moonless month is the name
popularly givento a month in which
no full moon falls, says an articlein’
Pathfinder Magazine. Under our
present calendar February is the
only month that is shorter than "the
lunar cycle and consequently it is
the only month which can have
fewer than four moon phases. The
missing phase, however, need mot
ncessarily be the full moon, but
may be any one of the four. Like-
wise five phases of the moon oc-
casionally fall in the other months.
The average time from one full
moon to another is 291% days, and
the time from one phase to another
varies from less than seven days to
more than eight. About every six
years February has only three moon
phases; it is, of course, without a
full moon much less frequently. In
1866 February had no full moon,
while the preceding January and
the following March had two full
moons each.
This remarkable sequence, astron-
omers estimated, will ® not occur
again for 2,500,000 years. Feb-
ruary was without a full moon in
1885 and 1915, and from approxi-
mate computations made by the
Naval observatory there will be no
full moon in February 1934 and
1961. Februaries without new moons
or either of the other two phases
occur at about the same intervals,
but, of course, in different years.
MORTALITY RATE DECREASES
Deaths from all causes showed a de-
crease in Penna., during the first six
months of 1930, the State Depart-
ment of Health reports.
The mortality records of the de-
partment show a death rate of 11.8
per thousand population a year for
the six-month period, a decrease of
1.4, compared with the same period
last year.
The greatest rate of decrease was
shown in deaths caused by influenza.
In 1929, during the month of Jan-
uary, an epidemic of influenza re-
sulted in 3,010 deaths, and 2,398
from pneumonia. This year there
were only 225 influenza fatalities
and 1,001 pneumonia deaths, during
January.
The departmental report showed
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MENTAL PATIENTS
There are approximately 251 men- |
tally ill persons in institutions in |
Pennsylvania for each 100,000 pop-
GATHERS DATA ON |
Financial Information
ulation in the State, according to
a report made public by Mrs. E. S.|
H. McCauley, state secretary of wel-
fare.
The report is based on the esti- |.
mated number of patients in the
institutions on January 1, 1930, and
using the population figure for the
State of 10,000,000 persons, The
estimate for the mentally ill through.
out the State is set at 25,172.
The ratio of the number of men-
tally ill persons to each 100,000 pop-
ulation has grown during a sixty.
year period when the inhabitants of
the State were numbered at 3,521,951
and the mentally ill were placed at
2404, thus showing 63 mentally in
to each 100,000 in 1870.
This would indicate that the num-
ber of mentally ill has increased
for each 100,000 of the population.
, However, this conclusion cannot be
' said to be accurate since the ad-
! vance in mental health work in the
Commonwealth has achieved great
{ strides during the past twenty years,
officials pointed out. Facilities have
been increased for examinations of
| patients, diagnosis and treatment.
| As a result more persons who are
| mentally ill are coming to the at-
| tention of the proper authorities
| than there were in 1870.
| Also authorities virtually agree
Whatever financial service you may
require—information about securities, the
standing of distant prospective customers,
the prospects for trade in various lines; in
short, anything pertaining to trade or
finance—we may be able to furnish. We
have late data and receive regular advices
relating to these subjects.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
that with modern treatment and ad-
' vanced facilities 25 per cent. of the
mentally ill now recover and return
to normal life in communities. Six-
ty years ago there was little help for
a mentally ill person and the old
asylum for custodial care was the | |
end of such cases. Thus the re-;
' port indicates that itis questionable
| whether there is an actual increase
in the number of mentally ill per
100,000 of the State's population.
POSTOFFICE TO COLLECT
| 5 CENTS A DAY ON C. O. D.
Effective October 1, 1930, any
collect_on-delivery parcel which the
addressee fails to remove from the
post office within fifteen days from
first attempt to deliver or the first
notice of arrival at the office to the
sender, charged with the return
postage, whether or not such parcels
bear any specified time limit for
delivery, and a demurrage charge
of not exceeding five cents per day
may be collected.
Under the present system a pack-
age sent C. O. D,, which is not ac-
cepted at once is retained thirty
days without charge by the local
postoffice and then returned to the |:E
' sender.
Under the new ruling the package
is kept without charge for 15 days,
but for each of the succeeding 15
days there is a charge of five cents
per day and at the end of the thirty
day period the article is returned,
if not accepted by the addressee, the
sender paying the amount of demur-
rage which accumulated in addition
to postage for forwarding and re-
| turn.
KFAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
| ©. D. Bartholomew, Adm, to C.
H. Pressler, tract in Gregg Twp.;
$6.
Commissioners of Centre county,
to Charles Bilger, tract in Rush
Twp.; $563.66.
| Charles T. Bilger, et ux, to M.
K. Pringle, et al, tract in Rush
| Twp.; $1.
Miriam J. Brouse, et bar, to W.
Roy Gentzel, tract in State College;
$1.
The Philipsburg Coal and Land
Co. to George L. Wilkinson, tract
in Rush Twp.; $190.
Theodore B. Haupt,
Daniel L. Gordon, et ux,
Bellefonte; $3,200.
william H. Noll, Jr, et al, to
Theodore B, Haupt, tract in Spring
Twp; $150.
Henrietta Simler, et bar, to Don-
ald W. Simler, tract in Philipsburg;
$1.
Adam H. Krumrine, et ux, to
Douglas Mead, et ux, tract in State
College; $325.
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et ux, to
tract in |A4
—Values up to $45.00.
All ‘Hand-Tailored.
less cancer, cerebral hemorrhage,
heart disease and nephritis deaths
for the period as against 1929, and
a reduction of 630 in the number of
deaths of infants under one year.
The _totals for’ alcoholism, cirrhosis | {i
of the liver, diabetes, and typhoid | 2ik
fever were practically the same for |-
the compared periods.
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