Bellefonte, Pa., January 23, 1931.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
~The Woman's Club will hold
its regular meeting on January 26th.
Miss Anne Keichline will speak on
“Home Architecture.”
— Jury Commissioners Jjohn F.
Condo and J. Cal Gates will draw
the list of jurors today for the
February term of court.
~The Bellefonte Academy box-
ing team defeated Lewistown in a
series of seven bouts, in the Y. M.
C. A. gymnasium, Tuesday night, 5
to 2.
~The Catholic Daughters of
America will hold a card party in
their rooms in the Lyon building,
this Friday evening. Everyone wel-
come.
William H. Brown, manager,
will give his fifth annual Centre
County Hospital dinner at the Penn-
Belle hotel on Thursday evening,
January 29, at 6:30 o'clock.
— If every Centre countian who
went to Harrisburg, on Tuesday, to
see Pinchot inaugurated Governor
expects to benefit by the shaking of
the Pike countian’s plum tree, it
will take a pretty good crop to go
around.
The light snow-falls and rains
we have been having have resulted
in no appreciable change in the
streams, wells and springs of this
section. While cisterns gather a lit-
tle water other sources are actually
dwindling.
—In the winter course in agricul-
ture and dairy manufacturing at the
Pennsylvania State College eighty-
one students have enrolled. Twenty-
five iu dairy manufacturing and fif-
ty-six in general agriculture. Only
one of them is from Centre county
and he is Adam K. Garner, of State
College.
——Mid-year graduation exercises
for those students at the Pennsyl-
vania State College who have done
their four year's work in three and
one-half years, will be held next
Tuesday, January 20. Ninety one
are inthe class. William G. Walker,
of Spring Mills, and Sarah P. Went-
zel, of State College, are among,
them,
——-A recent change at the
American Lime and Stone Co. was
the advancement of Linn Fromm
from storekeeper to assistant ship-
ping foreman; George Porter Lyon,
who was formerly car checker, was
given Mr. Fromm's place as store-
keeper. John Curtin Jr., who had
been loading foreman, was made a
salesman and will be stationed at
Oil City.
At a special session of court,
on Monday morning, Chester Mec-
Cue, Huntingdon county, and Theo-
dore Markcal, Clearfield county, the
two prisoners who escaped from
Rockview penitentiary on Sunday,
January 11th, were sentenced by
Judge Fleming to an additional term
of two to four years, to become
effective at the expiration of their
present sentence,
-—— The Great Lakes Construction
company, of Chicago, proved to be
the lowest of twenty-four bidders for
the erection of the new federal pen-
itentiary, at Lewisburg, when the bids
were opened in the Treasury De-
partment, at Washington, on Mon-
day. It's bid was $2,771,800. The
highest bid submitted was one for
$4,256,512. It is assumed that the
contract will be awarded within ten’
days.
Roiand Spicer, who has been
farming the Swartz farm up Buffalo
Run, for ten years or ore, is go-
ing to quit farming in the spring,
He is not tired of it, nor has he
any complaint to make about not
being able to make it go at present
prices for farm products, “Rollie”
has been getting on all right, but
he's all knocked out physically and’
just has to quit. Consequently he
is going to sell out on March 18th
and there's a sale you should keep
in mind, for he has a big lot of
stock and good implement equip-
ment.
—Our attention has been called
to the fact that some people are
throwing on the ash pile or giving
to paper gatherers old Bibles and
other books that might possibly con-
tain memoranda thatis or will be of
historic value. Shortly an historic
society for Bellefonte and Centre
county will be organized, We have
reason to believe that it will be well
enough endowed to make it a per-
manent and very useful organization
in both town and county. With that
hope in mind we are suggesting that
when cleaning out the attic and oth-
er places where old things have ac-
cumulated in your house, if you find
anything that bears on birth records,
or other eventsin your family, save
them until this Society is formed.
They might become very important
fifty or one hundred years from now
in establishing fucts for your pos-
terity. It must be remembered
that prior to the institution of the
record of vital statistics by the
State, which was relatively only a
few years ago, no permanent record
was kept other than what might
have been in your family Bible or
on some paper easily lost. For a
while at least, hold onts anything of
interest or records of the past
in Centre county.
TWO YOUTHFUL HOBOES
A REFRIGERATOR CAR
AND KINDLY PEOPLE
BY JOHN M. FLEMING
Cervantes roamed the sunlit roads
of Spain, Goldsmith played a flute
for bread, Jim Tully has immortal-
ized the open road and “Frankie”
Ziem and “Jimmy” Hackett have
learned that home »s the best place
after all.
Just a week ago, last Wednesday,
“Frankie” and “Jimmy,” aged four-
teen and sixteen respectively, wan-
dered to the railroad yards of their
native city, Hillside, New Jersey.
They watched with envious eyes the
long freights pulling away for dis-
tant parts and the thrill of adven-
ture crept into their young, romantic
minds. Previous warnings by par-
ents and teachers were swept to the
four winds by the glamor and glory
of a journey into that great beyond
where the railroad trains went, and
without further consideration for
home and mother they climbed a
freight and embarked on a career
into an unknown world,
This being the initial journey of
the would-be hoboes and not being
at all familiar with the mode of
transportaion they had chosen
“Father Fate" deait harshly with
them. “Jimmy” and “Frankie”
found themselves on a refrigator car
and having only an ice compartment
or exposure tothe eloments to choose
between as a resting place, they de-
cided on the lesser of the two evils
and crawled into the top of the car
where the ice is stored. The ride
was undoubtedly very cold but neith-
er the rays of a tropical sun nor the
freezing temperatures of a refriga-
tor car can abate the ardor of ro-
mantic youth, and only after the
traia had stopped in Altoona did
the lads emerge from the polar cli-
mate in which they had made their
debut in the wide, wide world.
It was twelve-thirty the next morn-
inp when the slow freight arrived in
Altoona. The youthful vagabonds had
been almost sixteen hours in their
air-cooled state-room. It was dark
and they were in a strange city.
The hours from the time of their
arrival till the break of dawn were
spent on the top of the car, and
with the dawn came another desire,
even stronger than the desire for
adventure; a desire to go home.
In the pocket of Hackett's well
worn sweater reposed a twenty-five
cent piece. The entire purchasing
power of “Jimmy” and “Frankie”
was wrapped up in this one piece of
silver. Even the stoutest of hearts
would flinch at the thought of being
three-hundred miles from home and
friends with only a quarter but the
firm of Hackett and Ziem, explorers
in the fields of fame and fortune,
was not dismayed. They calmly
purchased two bars of chocolate and
a package of cigarettes, the cost ea-
tirely consuming the finances of the
duo.
By the grace
hearted motorist
Bellefonte about
Perhaps the thrill of an auto-
mobile ride and the fascination
for the wonders of a motor vehicle
that only boys of their ages can
possess, the “Jersey Kids" decided
that they would motor home in a
car of their own, Not having the
necessary funds with which to pur-
chase an automobile the only alter-
native was a theft. The car of
Miss Beulah Fortney, of Pine Grove
Mills, parked near the Court house
attracted the eyes of the two boys
and they concluded to make away
with it. With the realization that
neither knew how to operate the
machine they were temporarilly
stopped, but youth knows no harriers
and Frank and James came to the
conclusion that it would be the best
kind of fun to learn to drive on the
way to Hillside; so they boarded
the car and attempted to start the
motor. Before they succeeded in
making a get-away Fire Chief John
Bower intercepted them and the
motor patrol took them in custody.
They were only too ready to tell
the whole story and First Sergeant
Bear, of Troop C, immediately sent
a teletype message to Newark. An
answer was received which indicated
that the boys were not “wantes” in
that State but were merely missing
from home and the father of the
Ziem boy would come and take
them back. In the spirit of mercy
tempered with justice, and consid-
ering the tender age of the youths
the arm of the law in Centre coun-
ty did not enter a prosecution
against the two sheep who had
strayed from the fold.
Fven a highway patrolman has a
heart, (believe it or not) and most
of them are quite large, so the
would-be knights of the road be-
came guests of the Pennsylvania
Motor Patrol at their barracks in
the residence of Mrs. W. C. Coxey,
on East Bishop street. A bath
was in order, administered by Ser-
gant Bear, Corporal Moriarity, and
Private Holmes, clean clothes were
provided by the patrolmen and food
in mountainous quantities was serv-
ed to the hungry lads without charge
by Mrs, Coxey. Nothing was over-
looked for the comfort and pleasure
of the guests and she and “John Law"
enjoyed playing host to the fullest de-
gree. Sergant Bear, in repeating
the story, remarked, “you should
have seen those boys eat.”
Saturday morning at two o'clock
Mr. Frank Ziem, father of the
vounger prodigal, arrived in Belle-
fonte and called at Sheriff Dunlap’s
hotel on the hill only to be inform-
of some kind
they arrived in
noon Thursday.
|ed that the boys were not register-
ed there but could be found at the
patrol barracks. Mr. Ziem was
cordially greeted by Mr. Coxey who
rather than allow him to begin the
tiresome journey back to New Jer-
sey immediately gave him a bed and
the next morning he departed for
home with the two runaways,
“Frankie and “Jimmy.”
Quite an experience for youths of
such tender years? Yes, but what
can we gain from a. knowledge of
something of this nature.
home is perhaps the best place in
the world but its the last place we
want to be 'til we're so far away
that we can't walk back. I ven-
ture to guess it will be a long time
before “the Jersey Kids" will take
another ride in an ice compartment,
but it always takes the stern reality
of experience to prove to ourselves
just how well off we are, safe in
he harbor of home. And again,
we see that all the world is not
cruel and harsh and even though
we step off the beaten path, some-
one will give us a bath and a meal
and start us off home again.
“Frankie” and “Jimmy” have gone
back home better citizens, and hap-
py; knowing that the uniform of a
policeman doesn't always sigrify
that there isn't a great big heart
beating beneath the coat,
JUST A GLAD HELLO
Say. pal. did you ever stop to think
When you're at your play or working,
That often times in the heart of a friend
A sorrow may be lurking,
And a cherry smile and a glad
May help him on his way
And then, perhaps, when you are blue,
He'll pay you back some day.
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UPBRAIDED BY MOTHER
GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE.
Upbraided by her mother for
her conduct with a young man
Clara S. Wilkins, better known as
Bessie Coble, shot and killed her-
self, at noon on Monday, at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Coble, at Oak Hall. According to
reports the girl had been a source
of worry to her parents for some
time.
Shortly after eleven o'clock Mon-
day morning Mrs. Coble had a heart
to heart talk with her daughter.
At it's conclusion the girl ran up-
stairs, got a bottle of liquor of
some kind from her trunk and re-
turning down stairs locked herself
in a lower floor room, At 12:20
o'clock members of the family, who
“Hello”
were in the kitchen. heard a shot,
and when Mr. Coble forced the
locked door he was confronted with
his daughter lying on the bed, her
clothing on fire and a revolver tight-
ly clasped in her right hand. An
empty bottle was found on the floor |
by the side of the bed. Mr. Coble
quickly extinguished the girl's cloth-
ing. She was still conscious but
soon lapsed into unconsciousness and
died at 1:15. The revolver with
which she killed herself is alleged to
have been one she had taken froma
Potters Mills man several weeks
previous. When taken from her
hand it contained one empty shell
and a loaded cartridge.
When the young man who Mrs.
Coble upbraided her daughter about |
heard of the suicide he went to the
Coble home and begged for the gun,
declaring he would kill himself, but
of course the gun was not given
him.
Coroner W.R. Heaton was notified
of the suicide and after holding an
inquest the jury returned a verdict
of suicide, In addition to her par-
ents the girl is survived by two
brothers and two sisters. Burial was
made at Boalsburg on Wednesday.
ELMER BREON FIRST MAN
IN FIELD FOR SHERIFF.
Elmer Breon, of Bellefonte, is the
first Democrat out in the open as a
candidate for Sheriff. His an-
nouncement will be found in another
column of this paper. Mr. Breon, a
carpenter by trade, was a candidate
for the nomination four years ago
but lost out and is going to try it
again this year.
Last week the Watchman, in giv-
ing a possible lineup of contingent
candidates, mentioned the name of
Sinie H. Hoy, but we did not men-
tion the fact that Mr. Hoy is now
the efficient deputy under sheriff H.
E. Dunlap.
Also, in our list, last week, we
gave the name of James Huey as a
possible candidate for County Com-
missioner on the Republican ticket,
when as a matter of fact the only
Huey out for that office is Thomas
M. Huey, our good, old Democratic
friend, and he will be on the Demo-
cratic ticket and not the Republican.
PURSE SNATCHER ROBS
BELLEFONTE WOMAN.
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Shortly after eight o'clock, on
Tuesday evening, as Mrs. Paul Eber-
hart was on her way to the Ameri-
can Legion card party, she met a
young man on Howard street, along
the G. Murray Andrews property,
who grabbed her handbag and made
a getaway before she had a chance
to get a good look at him. The
bag cost $9.00 and contained only a
small amount of money in change.
Philip Benner, a young man who
works for Cohen & Co., claims he
was held up, last Saturday evening,
at the corner of Allegheny and
Logan streets, by a masked man
who demanded his pocketbook at the
point of a gun. Benner asserts
that he gave the man his pocket-
back who, after
money, $10.00 gave the pocketbook
back. |
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Well, |
ANNUAL MEETING OF
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
BELLEFONTE TRUST CO. _ cprist Hartle, was here from Drift-
The annual meeting of the stock-
holders of the Bellefonte Trust com-
pany was held on Tuesday, at 11
o'clock. More stockholders were
present at this meeting than at any
previous time. The old board of
directors was re-elected, and are as
follows: J. L. Spangler, J. T. Hen-
ry, N. E. Robb, C. Y, Wagner, D.
M Kline, J. L. Seibert, W. J.
Emerick, L. HL. McMullen, F. L.
Wetzler. The hoard of directors or-
ganized by re-electing the following
officers: J. L. Spangler, president;
C. Y. Wagner, vice president; N. E.
Robb, secretary-treasurer and trust
officer; Earl 8. Orr, assistant secre-
tary-treasurer; Helen R. Williams,
assistant treasurer and assistant
trust officer.
The report of the auditors, Ivan
Walker, Homer P. Barnes and C. Y.
Wagner, who were elected by - the
board of directors to audit the ac-
counts for the year ending Decem-
ber 31, 1930, was presented to the
stockholders, The report was ex-
plained in detail by Ivan Walker
and showed a very healthy growth
for the year, taking into considera-
tion the present business conditions.
The capital structure in part now
stands:
CARA] ocr sree: ce $200,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits. $198,577.89
Resources ......... $1,452,894.657
The Trust company has no bills pay-
able, no overdrafts and is in the best
financial liquid condition that it
ever has been, Mr. Robb said.
Another asset of very great im-
portance is the number of wills, life
insurance trust agreements and life
insurance partnership trust agree-
ments, totaling more than two mil-
lions of dollars, in its files for fu-
ture settlements. There are, no
doubt, many other such trusts that
have not been placed in its hands
for safekeeping which would be an
additional asset to the institution.
The trust department shows a very
substantial, healthy growth, which
is evidence of the confidence placed
in it by its customers.
After the stockholders meeting a
banquet was served at the Brock-
erhoff house, and there were 113
stockholders and guests present.
The speaker of the day was John W.
Chalfant, an attorney and also vice
president in charge of the trust de-
| partment of the Colonial Trust
company, Pittsburgh. His subject
was “Trusts,” which is a very
voluminous, broad subject.
The music was furnished by Mrs.
Louis S. Schad, Mrs, Russell Blair
and Paul Crust, who gave a very
delightful program of instrumental,
classical music. Many pleasing com-
ments were made and the musicians
are to be highly complimented. M.
A. Landsy, p tor of the Brock-
erhoff house, ed a delicious
turkey dinner and all that goes with
it.
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LAWRENCE TIBBETT IN
“NEW MOON” AT CATHAUM.
Music lovers in particular, and
theatre-goers in general, have a
treat in store for them on Monday
and Tuesday of next week when
“New Moon,” Lawrence Tibbett's
superb new picture, will be the at-
traction at the Cathaum theatre,
State College. Many still remem-
ber with keen delight Mr. Tibbett's
marvelous singing in “The Rogue
Song" last Spring, and for them
“New Moon" promises even more
glorious entertainment.
“New Moon" is now in its second
month at the Astor theatre, New
York city, at $2.00 prices but there
will be no advance in admission for
the Cathaum showing. Supporting
Mr, Tibbett is the beautiful Grace
Moore, Metropolitan opera star; the
debonair Adolphe Menjou who says
volumes witha shrug of his shoul-
ders; Roland Young, stage celebrity,
and others.’
Daily matinee at the Cathaum
will start at 1:30, with a complete
program being shown from 3:00
o'clock on. Evenings open at 6:00.
FORMER JUDGE DALE GETS
LUCRATIVE APPOINTMENT.
One of the last appointments made
by Governor Pinchot on the eve of
his induction into office was that of
former Judge Arthur C. Dale, of Belle-
fonte, as chairman of the workman's
compensation board. A belief was
prevalent among Mr. Dale's friends
that he would be given a cabinet
appointment but Mr. Pinchot evi:
dently had too many debts to pay
with such honors. While the ap-
pointment given Mr. Dale has not
the dignity nor quite the salary of
a cabinet position it is one of the
most worth-while of the secondary ap-
pointments at the disposal of the
Governor. The compensation board
is the leading division under the
head of the Department of Labor
and Industry, and the salary of the
chairman is $9,000 a year, or $750
a month. Whether Judge Dale will
move his family to Harrisburg or
continue to make his home in Belle-
fonte if not known at this writing.
Mr. Dale will succeed Paul W.
Houck, who had been connected with
the compensation board for twenty-
one years,
During the past two years the
Highway Department has erected
433 miles of guard fence along pub-
lic highways. Erection of this
already up cost $1,200,000 in the
period of two years.
College,
taking out the new fence and maintenance of that
ing, a week ago, a guest of Mr. and
Mrs. H. E. Garbrick, at Coleville.
—Snyder Stover, of Coleville, spent a
day, the afterpart of last week, in Dan-
ville,, having gone over on business.
—Robert S. Walker left, Sunday, for
St. Louis, where he has been attending
the National Limestone convention in
session there this week.
—Mrs. G.M. Gamble has had as
guests this week, her two daughters, Mrs.
W. T. O'Brien and Mrs. W. Bruce Tal-
bot, both of Phillipi, W. Va.
—Miss Mary Cooney is expected home,
this week, from a month's visit with her
sister, Miss Margaret Cooney, at Hew-
lette, L. I., and with friends in eastern
Pennsylvania.
—Mrs. Ebon Bower went down to Har-
risburg, Wednesday, to join Mr. Bower,
who has been spending a part of the
week there attending the State Farm
Products show.
—A. L. Mayer of the Mayer Bros.
Milling Co., was among the many from
Centre Co., who spent a part of the
week in Harrisburg, attending the State
Farm Products show.
—W. I. Fleming has been in Williams-
port for the week, having gone down
Monday for a meeting of the Consis-
tory, Mr. Fleming remained for a visit
with his brother, Eugene.
~—Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Waite were
up from Jersey Shore, Sunday, having
driven to Bellefonte for a day's visit
with Mr. Waite's mother,
Waite, of Phoenix avenue.
—Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Duncan,
Philadelphia, have gone to Orlando,
Florida, for the winter. Mrs. Duncan,
before her marriage, was Miss Ruth Al-
tenderfer and a resident of Bellefonte.
—Dr., and Mrs. 8S. M. Nissley drove to
Harrisburg, Tuesday, that Dr. Nissley
might attend a veterinary meeting in
connection with the State Farm Pro-
ducts Show, being held there this week.
—Miss Caroline M. Valentine sailed
from New York, last Saturday, for Ber-
muda, where she expects to spend the
winter. Miss Valentine had been in
Philadelphia since closing her home here
in the fall.
Judge and Mrs. Arthur Dale, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles E. Dorworth and their
daughter, Miss Rebecca, and Hardman P.
Harris, were among a number of per-
sons from Bellefonte who drove to Har-
risburg for the inauguration Tuesday.
—-Miss Elizabeth D. Green, of Briarly,
who has been in Lock Haven with her
brother, Dr. George Green, for three
weeks, owing to ill health, has been
taken to the Lock Haven hospital, where
she will be under treatment until able
to return home,
—Mrs. Cromer and Mrs. Broderick
drove to Altoona, yesterday, to attend
the funeral of their brother, Luther
Crissman, returning in the evening ac-
companied by their father, W. H. Criss-
man, who had been with his son at the
time of his death,
—Mr. and Mrs, H. D. Meek,
have gone to Lake Worth,
Florida, where they have taken a small
apartment and expect to spend the win-
ter. A note from “Bert” is to the effect
that they are very comfortably located
and that on the 13th temperature there
was 78 degrees, with a gentle rain fall-
ing.
Miss Anna Muffly, of Howard, was
in Bellefonte shopping, on Wednesday,
and it was with regret that we learned
from her that her mother, Mrs. C. M.
Mufly had a very serious accident on
Friday of last week. She slipped on
some ice on a back step of their home
and fell with such force as to suffer
distressing shock and bruises. No bones
were broken, however.
—Miss Kathleen Seibert R. N., of
Chambersburg, who has frequently visit-
ed in Bellefonte, as a guest of Mrs, John
A. Woodcock, has been made community
nurse of her home town. Miss Seibert
was formerly a supervisor of Columbia
hospital, at Wilkinsburg, superintendent
of the Homestead hospital and a super-
visor of the West Penn hospital, at
Pittsburgh, but tiring of institutional
work, resigned and returned to Cham-
hershurg two years ago.
—Dr, George L. Hays, prominently
known surgeon of the staff of the
Mercy hospital, Pittsburgh, made one
of his very rare visits to Bellefonte
Monday afternoon, but only on the rail-
road platform on his way back home
from a business trip east. Bellefonte has
had reason to be proud of its claim on
Dr. Hays, who left here to locate in
Pittsburgh after his graduation from
medical school; his work since then hav-
ing given him a place among the lead-
ing men of both medicine and surgery
of that city.
—Mrs. Charles Cuneo of Genova, Italy,
was a recent visitor of Mrs. Louis Car-
peneto and her family, stopping here
enroute to New York, from where she
sailed January 14, on the steamer Conte
Grande, to return to Italy. Mrs. Cuneo
had been in the States since October
looking after her husband's business in-
terests in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, and
had intended going home for Christmas,
but was compelled to prolong her stay.
It will be remembered that Mr. Cuneo
and the late Louis Carpeneto were in
business together, about thirty years
Mrs. George
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TEST CASE TO BE MADE ON
FIREMEN’S COMPENSATION.
A test case will probably be made
in the Centre county courts on the
question of compensation insurance
for volunteer firemen, based on the
claim of Mrs. Bertha Foster, widow
of the late Philip D. Foster, for the
death of her husband on March 21st,
1930, while on his way to a fire at
State College. It will be recalled
that Mr. Foster, apparently in good
health when he left his home, suf-
fered a heart attack while at his
work at the fire and died withina
few minutes. Mr, Foster at the
time was chief marshal of the State
College fire department and his
duties required his attendance at the
fire.
State College borough carries
compensation for its firemen, as
required by law, and Mrs. Foster, in
due time put in a claim for com-
pensation. As per schedule of al-
lowances her claim was for $300
funeral expenses and a $3000 death
compensation. The referee of this
district allowed the claim: but the
insurance company carrying the com-
pensation appealed from the decision
of the referee and in due course of
time the case was argued before
the compensation board. Last week
Paul W. Houck, chairman of the
board, handed down a decision af-
firming the award of the referee.
Now, it is understood, the com-
pany carrying the insurance has
decided to appeal from the board's
decision and ask for a court trial.
As the case is from Centre county
it will naturally come up for
in court here. Interest attaches
to the case because it is the first
of the kind to occur in Pennsylvania
and this will be a test case.
The result of the case will be of
interest to all volunteer firemen in
the State.
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CENTRAL PENNA. MILK
GOING TO NEW YORK CITY.
That Central Pennsylvania even-
tually will provide a large percent-
age of the milk consumed by New
trial
York city, was the opinion express-
of State’
ago, in the room now occupied by the
Western Union, in the Brockerhoff house |; a week or ten days.
block.
—John B. Griffin,
of Tyrone, was a
Watchman office caller, Saturday after-
noon, while on a business trip to Belle-
fonte.
seemed very well
and the world in general, a condition
ascribed to the fact that he has just re-
We might add that Mr. Griffin
pleased with himself Emma Jane Brigstock, both of Bal-
tired from the clothing business after
being a member of the firm of Griffin
and Bessie E. A, Decker, of Coburn.
Bros. since 1901, and now he won't have
anything to do but have a good time
among his friends and talk Democratic
politics: that is if he has not strayed
from the doctrine of his revered father,
the late J. Hile Griffin, of Stormstown,
who half a century ago was one of the
party's war horses in Centre county.
SALE REGISTER.
MARCH 18.—At the residence of
land Spicer on the Swartz farm on the
middle Buffalo Run road, 4 miles west
of. Bellefonte, a clean up sale. 6 horses,
14 milk cows, 13 head of other cattle,
25 hogs. 50 chickens, 2 tractors, and a
general line of farm implements in good
condition. Some household articles will
Ro-
also be offered. Sale will start at 9:30.
L. F. Mayes, auctioneer.
| Wheat
Buckwheat ....
ed by Professor W. D. Swope, of
the Pennsylvania State College, ad-
dressing several hundred Sheffield
Farms milk producers at a meeting
held Monday night in the court
house at Bellefonte.
Milk from this part of Pennsylva-
nia has been shipped to New York
city only within the past five years,
according to Professor Swope, but
in that time milk shipments have
grown until now more than 300,000
quarts daily are being sent to the
metropolitan area. This milk comes
from over 5000 farms, and requires
the operation of 47 plants.
The necessity of extreme care in
the handling of milk for New York
!city was emphasized by Professor
| Swope in his talk.
‘No other city,”
he said, “has more stringent regula-
tions governing the quality of milk.
For this reason it is necessary that
the farmer should take every pre-
caution in milk production, Milk
must be given every bit as much
care by the farmer as it receives
when it passes to the New York
milk companies.
“Cows,” he pointed out, “must be
kept clean in clean surroundings.
All utensils must be sterilized fre-
quently, and be designed so they
protect the milk that comes in con-
tact with them. Milk at all times
should be kept below 50 degrees
Fahrenheit.”
Harrin rstine.—A wedding
of interest to Bellefonte people was
that of Maynard G. Harrington and
Miss Mary Elizabeth Derstine,
youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Derstine, both of Ambridge.
Pa., the wedding having taken place
at Sharon, on Thursday, January
15th. The officiating minister was
Rev. H, E. Phipps. “Betty,” as she
is better known in Bellefonte, has
been a frequent visitor here with
her grandmother, Mrs. William Der-
stine, and has always been quite
popular among the younger set of
the town.
Mr. Harrington isa U. of P.
graduate and a member of the
Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity. Heis
now associated with his father in
the management of the largest book
store in Ambridge. The young
couple will live with the bride-
groom's parents until spring when
they will go to housekeeping.
——Miss' Josie Decker expects to
have her Ladies Shop, on Spring
street, open and ready for business
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
John Albert Geesey Smith and
timere, Md.
David Blowers and Mary Bell
Rothrock, both of Morrisdale.
Clarence C. Breon, of Spring Mills,
John Bramish Jr., of Hawk Run,
and Elizabeth Barbara Tekeley, of
Rush township.
Josephine Acton and Catherine M.
Williams, both of Philipsburg.
Steve Frank Marimjak and Anna
Bucca, both of Clarence.
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Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & Co.
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