Bellefonte, Pa., January 16, 1981, —— . EE — NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. — The Tri-Hi-Y club will hold a bake sale at the Variety shop to- morrow (Saturday.) At a meeting of the stock- holders of Burns Bros, large coal distributors of New York, last Fri- day, Noah H, Swayne, of Philadel- vy BELLEFONTE BANKS HOLD Reports ANNUAL MEETINGS, of Business Depression. In spite of the adverse conditions prevailing during the past year, the First National Bank closes the per- jod with most satisfactory results. “In view of the world-wide depres- sion in business we had reason to expect a reduced volume here, with a loss in deposits, said Charles M. McCurdy president, but this did not occur. Our business during the pbia, was elected president. £ th | year maintained its high degree of ~The ladies auxiliary of the L.iuity and the loss in deposits Brooks-Doll Post American Legion will serve a sauer kraut supper in the Legion home on next Wednes- day evening, from 5 until 7. The public is invited. Judge Frederick C. Hill C. 8. | of Chicago, will deliver a free lec- ture on Christian Science in the court house, in Lock Haven, on Monday evening, Jan. 19 at 8 o'clock. The public is invited. — Charles Smith, line foreman for West Penn Power company, en- tertained about sixty officials and employees of the company at a sauer kraut supper, at his home near Milesburg, last Saturday. evening. — The Ladies Aid society of the Lutheran church will hold a bake sale in the Schaffer hardware store, tomorrow (Saturday) beginning at 9 o'clock. Everything good in the way of pastry and breads in addition to sweets, will be on sale, — The ladies of the Methodist church of Pleasant Gap will servea chicken and waffle supper in the church at that place Thursday eve- ning, January 29, beginning at § o'clock. The charge will be 50c for adults and 35c for children. —The Bellefonte Academy boxing team will open the fistic season in 2 match with the team of the Lewis- town Athletic club, in the Y, M. C. A. gymnasuim on Tuesday evening, January 20th. Although the Acade- my team has had the advantage of only two weeks coaching by Mr. Gutteron every man is showing a very clever style of handling the mitts. Admission, men 75 cents; ladies, 50 cents. — The last will and testament ol Mrs. Sarah Davis Dale, widow of the late Clement Dale, who died in December, was filed for probate during the week. In it the testatrix leaves to her son, former Judge Arthur C. Dale, the sum of one dol- lar ‘because he is able to make his own living,” and the residue to her daughter, Marian Ethel Dale. It is understood that the estate con- sists of about $5,000 in stocks and cash, a tract of land in Worth town- ship valued at from $1500 to $1800, and a mortgage on a property in Spring township. Miss Dale was appointed sole executrix, The will was made in 1926, — Since the new highway that has been built straight from Sandy Ridge to Philipsburg the distance from Bellefonte to Philipsburg via the upper Bald Eagle has been shortened until it is only 44 miles. Via Snow Shoe the distance is 42. The ‘Triangle’ route is the fastest however, because it is all concrete and a car has thirty miles of al- most level running between here and the Triangle. The shortest route however, is by way of Port Matilda and Flat Rock. That way it is only 32 miles and even though the twelve from Port to Philipsburg are dirt reads, if they are in fair condition one can make that run much quick- er than by either of the other routes, ——Many of our readers know and revere Dr. Lawrence M, Colfelt. He is now living at Middletown, Va, where he celebrated his 81st birth- day anniversary on December 22nd. It was the thought of William 8. Furst Esq. of Philadelphia and Belle- fonte, that some notice of the event on the part of his friends might be appreciated by the eminent divine. Accordingly, he wrote a round-robin Christmas letter that was signed by one-hundred and fifty persons and in it was enclosed a check for $300. Dr. Colfelt was quite overwhelmed and we quote just a few lines from his letter of gratitude to Mr. Furst: “My sensibilities also were touched to the quick by the fact that your dear bld mother obtained the signa- Zures of so many of my contem-' poraries among the professors of ! State College and dear friends in Bellefonte.” ——Thomas B. Hamilton quietly « meet a number of unusual ex- half years of service, Mr. O'Neil |penditures, such as damages in estimates that in his service asa car- State highway claims, etc. The rier he has walked more than one most of these have been met and hundred thousand miles, or four forthcoming audit will show a bal- times the distance around the earth ance on hand of about $40,000. This at the equator, Johnstown flood in May, 1889, he any unusual demands on the coun- was sorting letters in the postoffice ty treasury this year. when the water rose in the roomin General depression, failure of many which he and another man were farm crops and the unemployment working. They tried to escape | situation were also persuasive fac- through a skylight but could not get tors in influencing the Commission- it open. A moment later some freight ers in making the reduction. cars being carried along the street a ——— by the avalanche of water, crashed pORESTRY EXPERIMENT AT against the side of the building and ROCKVIEW Y PENITENTIARY, knocked a hole in the brick wall O'Neil and his companion dived, Among the experiments in fall through the hole and escaped by planting at the Rockview peniten- clinging to wreckage. Mr O'Neil tiary nursery was the i of 35 has frequently visited his daughter quarts of bittersweet berries for in Bellefonte. ' growth experiment. |” A black walnut plantation has Burgess Eugene E, Lederer, of State College, has made application | nuts instead of seedlings. to the Public Service Commission to operate a through that college town. As plan- ned the service would start at 6:30 |at the nursery for 1,274,000 trees a. m. and continue until midnight for spring planting. This number following, the busses to be run on | exeeetts last vear's demands at this | motor bus service ability of fall planting. | Orders have already been received regularly scheduled time. ime by 300,000. the At the time of the will probably be sufficient to meet | erick, at been established by the planting of | An acre of evergreen trees was for a certificate of public convenience planted to determine the practic- Mrs. M. A. Landsy returned home, last Friday, from a three week's visit with her parents in Philadelphia. —Mrs. James D. Seibert, who was a patient in the Clearfield hospital early in December, under the care of Dr. Water- worth, is now slowly convalescing at her home on Pine Street. —Mr. and Mrs. John P. Harris 11 were here from Palmyra, N. J. on New Years day, for their first visit to Belle- fonte with John's aunt, Mrs. Frank War- field, since their marriage a short time ago. —Rev. and Mrs. Reed O. Steely were up from Milton, Tuesday, for the meet- ing and dinner of the stockholders of the Farmers National bank, held at the Nittany Country Club, Tuesday after- noon and evening. —Mrs. C. F. Tate and her two sons, drove to Danville, Sunday, to see Mr. Tate, who is a patient at the Geisinger Memorial hospital. Mr. Tate's condition has remained unchanged since his en- trance there two weeks ago. —Mrs. Perry Gentzel, one of the older residents of Spring township, was brought. to the Centre County hospital the early part of the week for X-ray examinations, to locate the injuries received from a fall recently, in her home at the Gentzel farm. Miss Ella Bottorf and Mrs. Runkle, of Lemont, were among the out of town stockholders of the Farmers National bank here, Tuesday, for the annual meeting and dinner held at the Nittany Country club during the afternoon and evening. William Chambers and Calvin Troup drove to Danville, Tuesday, taking with them the latter's son, Louis, who was put under the observation of specialists in the Geisinger Memorial hospital for a heart condition. The boy will be there until his sickness is thoroughly diag- nosed. —On Monday our old friend John Davis dropped in to talk for a minute or so and we were glad to see him looking so hearty. John is like we are, going down the other side of the hill, but he still does a man's job firing his kiln up at the Chemical Co's plant and does it well. —Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Lentz, with their daughter, Miss Mildred, former residents of Bellefonte, who have been living in Harrisburg since they left here, are on their way to Florida, where they expect to spend the greater part of the winter. They left Harrisburg the first part of the week. Miss Dorris Cobb, of Bellefonte, and Miss Frances Bottorf, of State College, left here, Friday, to go to New York from where they sailed, Saturday, for Florida, expecting to spend the remain- der of the winter nt Boca Grande. Both young women went down to accept positions which had been tendered them. —Two well known Philipsburgers, Messrs. Fred Todd and Charles Free- man, were in Bellefonte last Saturday on business. The gentlemen are interested in lands in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and expect to devote some time during the winter months in orgenizing tours to that veritable Land of Promise. Mrs. Estelle Grauer Payne, who Is now located permanently in Philadelphia, went down the beginning of the month to accept a position in the offices of the manufacturing company with which her brother, Edward, has been associated Mrs. Payne's daughter remained in Bellefonte with her grandmother, Mrs. Grauer, to finish the school year, expecting then to join her mother to make her home in Phila- delphia. —Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Love and Mr. and Mrs. George Love were Over from Altoona, Saturday, to visit Clyde Love who is now recovering from his recent serious attack of pneumonia. Mrs Annie Love, mother of the men, came tJ Bellefonte when Mr. Love's condition was regarded as critical and remained here with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Ifarrison. Mrs. Love had been with another daughter, Mrs. George Sym- monds, at Punxsutawney. —Samuel M. Hess, of College township, favored the Watchman office with a brief but pleasant call, on Tuesday afternoon. Being in Bellefonte on a business trip he made it a point to go tothe Centre County hospital to see his uncle, John Hess, of Altoona, a victim of an ac- cidental shot during the hunting season in December. see him on his first visit as Mr, Hess has not been feeling quite so good for several days and being asleep at the time the nurse thought it wise not to disturb him. —Frank Jurcik, formerly owned at Clarence, was in Bellefonte, on Wednesday. Frank said that business is normal cut there. The Le- high mines are all working and the brick yards have gone onto a 3-shift day again. Their only trouble is water and many are hauling Beech Creek at the Beech Creek trestle. In his own house he fills his hot water heating system with buckets as there is no water, whatever, in the reservoir that is supposed to supply them. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Broderick and the latter's brother, Clarence Hamilton, drove down from State College, Tuesday, to spend a part of the day with their uncle, Thomas B. Hamilton, who was celebrating his ninety-third birthday The family party, of which Mr. Hamilton himself proved to be the most entertain: ing member, was completed by Mrs. H. E. Fenton, a cousin, wno joined the party for the evening. Clarence Hamil- ton has been with his sister, Mrs. Brod- State College, since leaving Geisinger hospital in December and in- tends remaining there indefinitely. —Doyle Eberhart, son of Harry Eber- hart, of Curtin street, sailed from New York, Thursday, Jan. Sth, for a several ' | month's leave of absence in Europe. Landing at Liverpool he intended spend- ling a week in London and a week in Paris, with in Spain, with Madrid as his headquar- | ters, leaving the remainder of his time tc be planned for later. Mr. Ebcrhart is now recognized as among the leading | architects of New York city, and his | trip abroad will be devoted principally Ite study in the Interest of his profes- sion. Immediately upon his return he | will resume work with the business | firm with which he has been associated |for a number of years. But he did not get to who is successfully | running the big store that Oscar Harm it clear from gide trips, then six weeks —Mrs. J. O. Stutzman is a guest at The Markland, here looking after some business interests in Bellefonte. —Judge M. Ward Fleming went up to Erie. on Sunday afternoon, where he will be engaged in holding court all week. Mrs. Mahlon Robb formerly Miss Anne Wagner, has been home from Jersey City, for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Y. Wagner, of Willow- bank street. — Frances Hazel, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hazel, returned home this week from Philadelphia, ill health making it imperative for her to give up her studies at Drexel for the | present, DECEMBER A BUSY MONTH IN COUNTY HOSPITAL. Manager William H. Brown's re- port to the board of trustees, at their monthly meeting on Tuesday evening, showed December to have been a busy month at the Centre County hospital, New patients ad- mitted during the month numbered 79, and the total number of patient days was 1329. During the month there were three deaths and six births. Mr. Brown's financial report for the month is as follows: Thanksgiving Offering Boals- Y covercszemmetrasceseene . $11.21 Thanksgiving Offering (Rebers APE) cooeressesremssnsnnsssssrssnssmmmssnasaes sassssss 5.10 Thanksgiving Offerin LONE) ones + consernseserssraressssssasssensessasesss 126.11 Thanksgiving Offering (Howard) 5.86 Lutheran Sunday School (Madison- Mr. and Mrs. T. M. . State COleBe .ooeorninncs vo cnn 5.00 Miss Anna McCoy—Upkeep of Centre County Soldiers and Sail- ors Endowment RI, 75.00 Miss Mary BE. McQuistion—Up- keep of room—Endowment Fun vrs. § assota —————— 50.00 Centre Coounty ship Fund omnis Receipts from patients .. Total Receipts .. Bank Balance Dec. ist, 1980... TORRE covcerssessssssassinssensomsssssnsassasssssssnsssoness 4665.41 DiSDUPSEMENES ..oooeoeierreranssssssessassnses © 3858.19 Bank Balance Dec. 31st, 1930 .... 612.22 “SAFETY CHASERS” WIN MUCH COVETED TRIP. During the last four months of 1930 the American Lime and Stone company conducted a strenuous safe- ty campaign at it's big plant in Bellefonte to eliminate accidents and lost time as the result. Obligation rested on the heads of the various departments to see that accidents were conspicuous by their absence. There are twelve departmnts and the men in charge are Bayard Magee, Linn Fromn, James McNichol, Claude Darr, Arthur Rote, Sol Koski, Calvin Gates, Jay Schlegal, Oliver King, Daniel Gordon, Merrill Gordon and Samuel Irvin. They were known as “safety chasers,” and the prize for every wan who pulled his de- partment through the four months without an accident was a free trip to Philadelphia and Wilmington, Del. When the contest ended on De- cember 31st a checkup showed that not a single accident had occurred in any of the departments during the four months of the campaign, and every one of the twelve men was entitled to the free trip. With an official of the company in charge the men left Bellefonte by automo- bile, last Thursday, motored to Phil- adelphia, thence to Wilmington, where they were shown the plants of the Warner Bros. Lime and Stone companies in those places, They re- turned home on Sunday, GIRL WORKED OVERTIME CAN'T GET COMPENSATION Because Martha McKissick, 17 years old, worked overtime in the ice cream factory of L. G. Sheasley & Sons, at Flemington, she has been denied compensation insurance for an injury sustained in May, 1930. Miss McKissick went to work in the factory on the day of the accident and had worked only a little over three hours. Between 9 and 9:30 o'clock in the evening her dress caught in some machinery and she was painfully injured. The referee granted compensation but on an appeal from the insurance com- y the Workmen's Compensation last week, overruled the ref- erece's decision and denied compensa- tion, The reason given was that the girl could not legally be em- ployed after 9 o'clock p. m, and in working overtime she did so at her ig risk. | EVERYBODY LOOK | We have corrected our mailing list | this week and the label on this pa- per should show credit for remit- | tances on account of subscription. | Will you please look and see - whether we have yours right. 1 | ——Maglin Estella Biddle, of | State College, was one of a class of | thirty-three women admitted ‘to the Harrisburg hospital training | school for nurses, last Friday. ————————————————— We'll wager dollars to dough- nuts that Governor Pinchot's Secre- tary of the Commonwealth will be the Beau Brummel of his official family, Bellefonte Grain Markets. Corrected Weekly by C. Y. 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