Bellefonte, Pa., December 12, 1930.
THE CHRISTMAS BURGLAR.
I hear a rustling in the hall,
The creaking of a chair;
A shadow steals along the wall,
A step is on the stair;
A muffled tread thuds to and fro
While, sh-inking in the gloom,
I watch and wait, for well I know
A burglar’s in the room.
A Burglar! Just when Santa Claus
Has scampered up the flue
And madly dashed away, because
There's much more work to do!
A burglar, with an eager face
And wide and shining eyes
Just as the sun comes up to chase
The darkness from the skies!
But what a reckless burglar this—
A burglar without fear,
Whose rapturous little
bliss
The household wakes to hear!
Who tumbles bundles all around
And searches stockings through
And cries aloud that he has found
That Santa Claus is true!
shrieks of
He had his doubts but yesterday
His faith began to fail,
He feared the reindeer and the sleigh
Were but a fairy tale;
For someone said, but they are wrong
The prayed-for toys are here,
The faith that he has held so long,
Still shines, serene and clear.
By James J. Montague. |
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HOW TO MAIL YOUR
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
All parcels must be securely wrap-
ped or packed, with strong paper
and heavy twine used for safe mail-
ing. Umbrellas, golf sticks, canes,
etc., should be reinforced their full
length by strong strips of wood
tightly wrapped and tied or other-
wise sufficiently wrapped to with-
stand transportation. Hats should
be packed in strong corrugated or
fiber boxes and ordinary pasteboard
boxes must be crated. Hats easily
damaged should be marked “Fragile.”
Cut flowers should be placed in
strong suitable boxes of wood, tin or
heavy corrugated cardboard. Wrap-
ping them with tissue paper will re-
tain the moisture.
Candies should be enclosed in
strong outside boxes or containers.
Sharp pointed or sharp edged in-
struments or tools must have points
and edges carefully guarded, Draw.
ings, paintings and the like must be
packed or wrapped in strong ma.
terial to avoid damage.
flat, they should be rolled around a
wooden core and
tied carefully or placed in a strong
pasteboard tube.
Articles easily broken or crushed
must be crated or securely wrapped.
Liberal quantities of excelsior, or
like material should be placed 1n,
around and betwees the articles and | Fallon.
the outside container. Ordinary
boxes of cigars wrapped in paper
will not be accepted. They must
be packed in a manner
breakage.
Articles likely to spoil within the
time reasonahly required for trans-
portation will not be accepted for
mailing. Wrap or
according
mark all such
Use special delivery stamps to
pedite delivery.
Addresses should be complete, with
pack
parcels “Perishable.”
ex-
house number and name of street, |
post office box or rural number and
typed or plainly written in ink.
No parcel may be more than 84
inches in length and girth combined.
For delivery locally and in the first,
second and third zones,
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U. S. ASKS BIDS
FOR NEW PRISON
Bids for the construction of anew
federal penitentiary just outside
Lewisburg have been invited by the
United States government, has been
announced at the office of Represen-
tative Edward M. Beers,
Grading work has already been |
started for railroad sidings and for
a highway approach Tt is understood |
in Washington, and awarding
of the actu contract for building
the jail is expected to be followed
by the earliest possible start on
foundation and construction work,
thereby adding materially to the
government's program to relieve un-
employment. :
Plans for the new penitentiary
which is intended to relieve over-
crowding in other federal jails, have
been drawn and filed by a New York
architect, it is understood here, and
it is said that all that remains now
is to advertise for bids and to award
the contract, steps which authorities
here hope to expedite as much as
possible.
Although a hitch has been en-
countered in the requirement that
the Pennsylvania Legislature must
formally cede the penitentiary site
to federal control, the only details |
that remain is to secure bids -and |
to award the contract, steps which
are being expedited as much as pos-
sible.
Newspaper advertisements for bids
have been sent out by the Bureau
of Prisons and the letting will
ber 30, it was announced.
FOREST FUNDS AID
UNEMPLOYMENT
Apportionment of $9,500,000 i. for-
est highway funds this year to 29
States and two Territories is aiding
unemployment relief by speeding
road construction in the national
forests, according to the Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
The Forest Service is urging
early completion of the proposed
highways to encourage unemploy-
ment. Many are expected to be
finished by next April. The bulk
of the roads by July. Maintenance
work sn secondary roads is. being
contirued with funds from other
appropriations.
The allocated amount is more
than double of the last fiscal year
in most of the regions receiving
forest road funds. For five years
the annual Federal appropriation
has been $4,500,000. Under pro-
visions of the Oddie-Colton law, an
additional fund of $5,000,000 is being
used in the current fiscal year.
Division of the road funds is made
on the basis of area and value of
the forests.
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then wrapped and | COURT ISSUES WRIT
TO SILENCE ROOSTERS
A court order restraining John
Webster's roosters from crowing be-
tween 10 p. m. and 7:30 a. m. was
signed by Vice Chancellor John J.
The injunction was issued at the
behest of George Becker, a neigh-
bor of Webster in Ridgefield, who
to prevent ! said the crowing disturbed his sleep
and injured his health.
«Will the Court inform me,” Web-
ster asked after the injunction had
been signed, “how am I to keep my
roosters from crowing?”
‘Yowll have to figure that out
for yourself,” the Court answered.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Alwilda Bitner, et al, to Mary R.
Dashem, et bar, tract in Potter
Twp.; $2,500.
C. P. Garbrick, et al, toJ.C. Jodon,
et ux, tract in Spring Twp.; $2,000.
L. L, Miller, Exec, to Harry C.
70 pounds is Rothrock, et ux, tract in Bellefonte;
the maximum weight, in all other ' $1,550.
zones 50 pounds,
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Postmaster Gearnart also called
attention to the following notice on
the mailing of automobile license
Paul D. Eberhart, et ux, to Cecil
A. Walker, tract in Bellefonte; $1.
Cecil A. Walker to Paul D. Eker-
“hart, et ux, tract in Bellefonte; $1.
gs: ;
The department of revenue of the
State of Pennsylvania advises, that
approximately 1,830,000 auto license
tags will
jority of which will be mailed prior
to Jan. 1, 1931.
The law requires that all auto-
mobiles be equ pped with the 1931
tags onJan. 1, and permit their use
_on and after Dec. 15, 1930.
Inasmuch as 437,502 tags
mailed in the last half of Dec. 1929,
be issued for 1931, the ma-
to Simeon K.
Twp.;
William C. Tate
Dickerson, tract in Benner
$71,00.
Mary K. Pringle, et al, to Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania, tract in
Rush Twp.; $2,471.70,
were
295,315 of which were mailed be-
tween Dec. 16 and Dec. 22, all post.
masters in Pennsylvania should stress
the importance of making applica-
tion for automobile tags now in
connection with their “early mail-
ing” - campaigns, This not only
helps the car owner but relieves the
mails of the burden when taxed to
capacity.
NEW YORK’S CHILD BRIDES.
Child marriage is usually regarded
as something remote, in far-off In-
dia, in the Orient, or in southeastern
Europe.
But itis known in New York City,
too.
Within the last academic year, the
annual report of Superintendent of
Schools discloses, 483 Dboys and
girls—the vast majority girls—were
dropped from the school rolls be-
cause of marriage.
One little’ girl of twelve and
another of thirteen, we read in the
New York Sun’s digest of the re-
port, were among those married.
at the age of fourteen twenty boys
and girls left school to be wed, and
eighty-thee more went to the altar
when they were fifteen. The ma-
jority of pupil marriagés took place
at sixteen years, 342 of that imma.
ture age leaving school because they
became husbands or wives,
A score or more were seventeen
or older, but the statistics for these
ages are not significant, since seven-
teen is the legal school-leaving age;
most prospective brides or bride-
grooms of seventeen or more would
leave school, as they have a legal
right to do, without disclosing their
reasons.—Literary Digest.
Centre County Commissioners to | -
Commonwealth of
tract in Curtin Twp.;
Pennsylvania,
$83.50.
Charles S. McDonald, et ux, to
The Peoples National bank, tract in
State College; $1.
A. Day Bradley, et ux, to Roy A. |W
Ruhl, tract in State College; | ¥is
$1,300. ;
meee lee.
“Did my father leave an order
with you this morning for a
load of lumber?” asked a strange,
but attractive young lady of a well
known lumberman.
“1 don’t know, miss,” replied the
man. “There was a gentleman in
who said to deliver a load to a
driver who would call and said it
was for Mr, Zell.”
“Yes, thank you, said
Gladys Zell.
“Eh, what?” he gulped.
“I'm Gladys Zell,” she repeated.
“Oh, yes, yes, of course,’
plied; ‘som L”
An Englishman was visiting this
country for the first time, and as he
was driving along the highway saw
a sign, “Drive Slow. This means
YOou¥
The Englishman stopped in sur-
prise and exclaimed, “My word! how
did they know I was here?”
Visitor (to Johnnie, who has up-
set a bottle over a new carpet)—
Tut, tut, my boy, it’s no use crying
over spilt milk.
Johnnie-—of course not, All you
have to do is to call the cat to lick
it up. But this happens to be ink,
so mother'll do the licking.
“And how is your poor husband
Mrs. Dorfindinger?” :
“Oh, he suffers something awful
with his foot, and I know what it's
like because I've had it in my eye.”
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held in Washington, D. C., Decem.-
AHA!- AFELLOW MOTOR(5T
IN DISTRESS /- AEM -
MAY | BE OF ANY
« ASSISTANCE, YOUNG
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1924 Ford Turing ............... $ 15.00
1925 Ford coupe :
1926 Ford coupe
1929 Ford coupe Run less
than 6000 mile ........ $ 350.00
1929 Ford Roadster 1st
Tires: oil. 325.00
1926 Chevrolet Touring ...... $ 60.00
1929 Model “A” Ford Ton .
Truck large steel
BOE ........ concen 325.00
1927 Chevrolet Coupe ......... $ 200.00
2 1926 Chevrolet Sedans
each... $ 150.00
1930 Chevrolet Coach 5 wire
wheels .............. 500.00
1927 Chevrolet Touring ...... $ 140.00
DECKER CHEVROLET CO.
Phone 405...... BELLEFONTE, PA.
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SURE DO WISH
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AN' HAD A
REAL RUTO.
1926 1927 Buick Sedan Standar
XPress ....o.ooccoeeceoeneas $ 150.00 Six ee sev
1928 Chevrolet Coach ....-.... $ 325.00 1929 Whippet Coupe
1928 Chevrolet Sedan ............ 350.90 1927 Whippet Sport Road-
1929 Chevrolet Sedan .......... $ 450.00 ster... $ 150.00
2 1929 Chevrolet Coaches 1924 Oldsmobile Coupe -...... $ 125.00
RCH... $ 390.00 1924 Oldsmobile Touring ...$ 50.00
1927 Chevrolet Sedan .......... $ 150.00 1926 Overland % Ton Panel
1925 Chevrolet Coupe .......... $ 125.00 body Truck only.....$ 40.00
1927 Chevrolet Roadster ...$ 140.00 1929 Stewart Cattle rack
1924 Chevrolet Roadster ...$ 25.00 Truek «.................. $ 150.00
1926 Essex Coach $ .00 1920 Vim 3 Ton Dump
1928 Essex Coupe : (automatic) Truck...$ 150.00
1927 Essex Coach 1927 Pontiac Sport Road
1925 Buick Sedan Standard Ster ............ooeeins 225.00
Six on $ 250.00 1926 Oakland Sport Road-
1924 Buick Roadster ...........$ 60. Lepr $200.00
Decker Chevrolet Co., Bellefonte, Pa
YES -StR./- THEN ' WOULDN'T HAVE To
FIX MY AUTo WHEN IT WAS ALL
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THERE / OADDY SAYS THEY
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NAMES OF ILLITERATES
Congress will be asked to author-
ize the Bureau of the Census to re-
lease the National Advisory Com-
mittee on Illiteracy, of which Secre-
tary Wilbur is chairman, the names
of all citizens in the United States
unable to read and write in any
language and classified as illiterates.
Because of a technicality, the Cen-
sus Bureau believes that it is pro-
hibited from giving this information
without specific
Congress, and the Committee on Il-
literacy has stated that it is handi-
capped in its work by refusal of the
The American Legion of New York
P, Morse, of Syracuse, legion chair-
man of Americanism, wired Secre-.
tary Wilbur offering the aid of the
legion.
Secretary Wilbur accepted the of-
fer and urged that the legion should
back the State and local school of-
ficials in their
operate with the
Committee on Illiteracy.
With the legion back of the move-
ment, it is believed thdt a power-
ful impetus would be given to the
illiteracy campaign in other States.
—Read the Watchman and getall
the news.
MIGHT BE RELEASED.
year,
instructions from
cember
campaign and co-
State Advisory Willie
tions about
before he was born.
MOTORISTS PROVE
SLOW TO GET TAGS.
The number of automobile regis-
trations for the coming year is now
70,000 less than on the same
last year, according to Commission-
er Benjamin G. Eynon, of the
reau of Motor Vehicles.
“Our records,” said the Commission-
er, “show that the numer of passenger
car registrations for 1931 is 321, per
cent under that of registrations re-
ceived for 1930 at this
the number of commercial
registration is 28 per cent lower and
the number of all
per cent lower.
men can’t get license plates to their | {lic
after December 15.
apply-for new-tags ‘later ‘than De-
24 cannot expect to have
their plates in time for January 1.”
Mother: “Now, Willie, I want you
to get acquainted with the nurse.
Go in and kiss her nicely.”
and get my face
slapped like papa did?”
“Yes,
Be
Pa—Did Willie pass the school
examination ?
Ma—My, no, they asked him ques-
things that happened
registrations 34
Owners
15 TRAINED DOGS
AID BLIND PERSONS.
Following the training of five per-
sons to be guide dogs last year under
the sponsorship of the State Council
for the Blind, State Department of
Welfare, several classes have been
held in neighboring States with Penn-
sylvania blind persons in attendance
and there are now fifteen of these
dogs working daily in this State,
according to a report of the State
Council for the Blind. The report
shows that Pennsylvania has the
highest number of dogs working
with the State of California second:
with fourteen.
day
Bu-
— Shipment of 50,000 cottontail rab--
bits, ordered by the Game Commis--
sion from western growers, will be:
made early in December,
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time last
COMFORT GUARANTEED Si
names. Tansse decreas: may partly be 0 le
Figures already available indicate | 2500 xn for by the fact that in)[l Ue
thatothe. Bght to reduce illiteracy | 1320 ol of RR i B ® Sh Oe
has been successful. In Delaware, gl = y St J
the first State to report, illiteracy but only parhy. b Rethzps + he be ane S oe ore up
I ek Tod 3% 1-C per vent. TpiRreiage owner 193 heen e vichun fit ie
other States show the same propor- of Soe muse] mes, oF perhaps ins 4 WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor A
tion, illiteracy will have been re- |b. 00 s him to believe that }Lp 30 years in the Business He
duced from 6 per cent to about 4 though he apply at the last moment | [ic ir:
per cent in the nation. his procrastinatory sins will be for-: FL . oh
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yet available for New York, in 1920 | the case with Humpty Dumpty, all = =
there were listed 425,022 illiterates. | the king’s horses oD Ls Yines A BELLEFONTE, PA. Te
was the first to volunteer the serv-| destinations in time if the owner 1] SERVICE OUR SPECIALTY SPECIAL ORDERS SOLICITED 5p
ices of its 800 posts in the cam-|ynduly delays his application. clcELSELSLCUSLELS ERLE EEL EUELELELUELUS EURLELET o
paign to remove illiteracy. Charles| «Tagg for 1931 are legal on and Ss, TSN 2 A eb ks SST Ar
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The Fauble Store
&410 Anniversary dale
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A Time to Buy
Thrift does not mean saving alone. It means
care in the expenditure of money, living within
one’s income, prudence, the avoidance of unnec-
essary expense. :
And It Also Means Buying To Advantage
Thrifty people are now buying things they need.
They think prices have reached bottom.
And in view. of business conditions affecting every-
body, buying now will, in the long run, help the indi-
vidual more than saving to excess.
Buy what you need now—and buy everything vou
can at home.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
is in Full Swing, Saving the People
of Centre County
Many, Many Dollars
No Hard Times Here
he good people of Centre County know
that this sale of Central Pennsylvania’s
Largest and Most Reliable Men's Store
is DEPENDABLE, and makes possible all
the Joy—all the Happiness that is usually
yours at Christmas time.
The store is chock full of the Choicest and
Most Useful Gifts—priced to make a few
dollars go as far as many did a year ago.
Come to the Fauble
44th Anniversary Sale
:
This is to call
all weights,
YOUR CHRISTMAS TURKEY
Telephone 666
Bellefonte, Penna.
P. L. Beezer Estate..... Meat Market
your attention to
the fact that we have bought for
hundreds of Christmas dinners. the
finest turkeys we could locate. We
have them—plump and tender—in
both gobblers and
hens. We ask that you let us have
your order as early as possible so
that we can reserve for you the
bird that will meet your needs.
Market on the Diamond
and Share in the Real Savings
you will be Sure to Find.
We give the Coupons
that permit you to share in the
$500 Gold Prizes.
A. Fauble