| AGED BELLEFONTE MAN | mason, of Bellefonte, was burned to death in an outside toilet, at his day morning, and no one knew of his tragic fate until firemen started ‘to pull the debris apart to make ! sure the fire was out and discover- — The regular monthly meeting of the board of directors of the BURNED TO DEATH. J. Fall Stover, well known stone ‘home on Bishop street, early Sum- Centre County Motor Club will be held at the Hotel Brockerhoff, Belle- fonte, this Friday, February 6, at 6:15 p. m. ~The public schools of Centre county this week received their an- nual semi-yearly appropriation, a total of $99,854, which is about $3000 less than the amount received one year ago. ~The first semester at the Pennsylvania State College ended on Saturday last and the students led his badly charred remains. It was just 4:20 o'clock, Sunday ‘morning, when & number of persons living in that section discovered the fire. An alarm was promptly sound- 'ed and the Undine fire company ‘was on the ground inside of five minutes. The building was original- ly a double toilet, half of it being ‘on the Harvey Miller property and ‘half on the Stover property. Of late years the building had been used mostly asa storage house. Be- TIMELY WARNING ABOUT INFLUEZNA. The first week of January, 88 ‘populous cities reported 780 deaths from influenza and pneumonia, The same cities reported 810 deaths the co week of 1930. Because influenza this year is ofa mild type which has not often caused pneumonia, the health men are not greatly concerned. None- theless, General Hugh Smith Cumming, of the U. S. pub- lic health service, saw fit to advise the public last week on how to guard themselves. His gist: home and go to bed—call the doc- tor—remain in bed; eat a simple diet; take plenty of fluids such as water, fruit juices, milk, boullion LOCAL COAL DEALERS Coal dealers in Bellefonte who maintain yards and a fleet of trucks for prompt delivery have appealed to borough council for protection against non-residents hauling coal into town by truck and peddling it around from house to house to the detriment of their own business, ac-/ cording to a report made to borough council, on Monday president John S. Walker. The deal- ers claim that the haulers do not pay taxes here, have no expensive overhead and conse- quently dispose of their coal at a price apparently lower than that of the regular dealers; but as they sell by the load and charge for a | | WANT PROTECTION. NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. | —Thomas King Morris Jr. is here ' from Pittsburgh for a week's visit with relatives in Bellefonte. i —Dorothy college and University, Philadelphia for their midwinter vacation. evening, by independent | and hot soups at frequent intervals certain number of tons the consum- —Do not take any so-called cure. er has no positive assurance as to of the institution had time off until yesterday, Feb. 5, when the second semester began. ——On Monday President Hoover transmitted to Congress a message asking appropriations for public buildings throughout the country, and included in the list was $125,000 for a public building in Bellefonte. —Officials and employees of the West Penn Power ey in the in less than ten minutes. Bellefonte-State College district will| When the fire was apparently out celebrate Washington's birthday with fire chief George Carpeneto sent all a supper party in the P. O. S, of A. the firemen back to the house as it hall Monday evening, February 23rd. was a cold morning, except a detail In the neighborhood of one hundred of four, which he kept with him to have already signified their inten- make sure there were no tion of being present. | sparks which might be fanned into — Members of the Bellefonte a blaze. With a drag hook chief chapter D. A. R. will give a card Carpeneto started to tear the ruins party at The Talleyrand tomorrow apart and it was only then that afternoon to which the public is in- the charred remains of Mr, Stover vited. Price will be one dollar, the were uncovered. How he come to receip | nance of the D. A. R. room inthe started, will never be known. Centre County hospital, as well as He had just recovered from an pay for the service at The Talley- attack of the shingles which had rand. ‘kept him housed up since about the ' middle of November, and on Salur- —-—Adelbert L. Christian, of oy talked of going 10 work ob Juan, ad pa. en Wat ona. | Monday. It had been his habit for burg, early last week, by Rev. H.| years to get up about four o'clock, J. . Mrs. Watson had 24 children to her first husband, George W. Watson, who died in 1928, eleven of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Christian will live at Julian, ——On April 1st Mrs. Hannah Beck Kelley will move from the! Musser property on Logan street into the Blair property on north fore the firemen reached the Stover home men first on the scene had carried out some tools from the Mil- ‘ler side of the building which was ventured near the Stover side, which was enveloped in flames. When the firemen arrived the entire build- ing was a seething mass. As the | building was small it burned down on Sunday morning and went out 'to the building on the hunt of his | tools. | stored in the building and in an ef- |fort to extinguish the flames was | overcome before he could make his | escape. | morning but with the meagre facts Spring, now occupied by Mr. and g¢ pang the jury could only return Mrs. W. C. Cassidy. It is reported , ,. gict that Mr. Stover was burn- that she will take the Taylor house 4 {0 death in a fire which destroy- adjoining, also, in order to have .; ., outbuilding at his own home. ample room for her boarders and go was a son of John William lodgers. and Elizabeth Stover and was born ——Henry Johnson, of Grass Flat, at Callensville, Clarion county, on the young man who started a num- August 2nd, 1853, hence was in his ber of costly fires in Philipsburg so |seventy-eighth year. When a boy that his girl friend could see him in his parents moved to Unionville and action in hig uniform, was recently it was there he learned his trade as judged insane by a lunacy commis- a stone mascn. Forty-eight years sion and on the authority of Judge ago he went to work for the Ameri- Fleming was committed to the Fair- can Lime and Stone company and view asylum for criminal insane at | continued in their employ ever since. the last to catch fire, but no one had’ lurking | ts to go toward the mainte- | be in the building, and how the fire (and it is quite possible he did so He may have struck a match and accidentally set fire to stuff An inquest was held on Monday There is no specific cure.” Additional information about “flu” by Dr. Harvey Kellogg, Battle Creek, will be found in the health column on another page. ———————— GAS PLANT GROUNDS TO BE ARTISTICALLY BEAUTIFIED. The extensive grounds surround- ing the plant of the Central Penn- sylvania Gas Company, at Axe Mann, are to be artisticallly beautified ac- cording to plans prepared by Albert W. Grove, landscape artist, who will supervise the work. Mr. Grove isa son of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Grove, a graduate of State College who spent six months in Europe studying landscape gardening. As a dominant feature in the de- sign Mr, Grove has planned a series of three pictures which passing mo- torists will view in succession as they move along the adjoining State highway. Consideration has also been given to the aspect of the pic- | ture at night. A large gas mantle en- cased in glass will illuminate the facades of two buildings and will bring out interesting silhouettes of trees and shrubs planted in its vicinity. ’ Frank L. Murphy, general man- ager, who is putting forth every effort to put the company on a dividend-paying basis, does not in- tend to have the entire plan put in execution at once, but will do it by degrees so as to spread out the bur- den of cost over a period of several years. HOW PINCHOT ROAD PLANS WILL AFFECT CENTRE CO. Centre county road supervisors are already beginning to figure on ‘how they and their townships will benefit by Governor Pinchot's. rural road plan; wondering just who will | be pulled out of the mud. The Watchman has it on very re- liable authority that Centre 8 quota of township roads to im- proved will be between 200 and 250 miles, or about 25 per cent of the | total mileage in the county. The | Governor is not in favor of im- Honesdale, Pa. Bellefonte firemen responded He was a member of the Methodist proving small sections of roadway, ‘church and the Bellefonte camp P. but long stretches where it will be 0.8. of A. _ ‘of advan to most people. for chimacys fre sar at Sat ® on “rtruary sth 157, he mar "There ax iwenty iv ownaips i a avenue, and the Tied Miss Anna Stover, at Union- Centre county and 230 miles would other at eyndls | Collar. provert | ville, and the first few years of mean an average of 10 miles to a wn cast Lamb slrect 2 pe their married life were spent at township. But it is hardly likely was *dohe’at * eith oF lace (that place. Thirty-eight years ago that the allotment will be made on fn sday they were plas od they moved to Bellefonte and this an equal basis. The proper thing it to ib 1ds Nels 22 mn a fay had been his home ever since. Mrs. to do would be for the supervisors to fire at the Earl Teaman home Stover has been dead for a number get together and select the roads . |of years but surviving him are two that will be of most advantage to! -——-'Abraham Lincoln” will be daughters and four sons, Miss Nora the entire community, and thus set- the showing at the Richelieu theatre Stover, at home; Mrs. Daniel tle on a definite plan to present to ‘how much coal he is getting, as it 'is never weighed in Bellefonte be- fore delivery, President Walker | suggested the advisability of passing lan ordinance covering the matter. i | Mr. in the town as well as everything 'else. The matter was held under | consideration until the next meeting. | When council convened burgess ‘John J. Bower reported a fire hy- drant, on Bishop sireet, as being out of service on Sunday morning when firemen wanted to use it. Wa- ter commissioner Seibert reported i | day. that it had been repaired on Monday. pressor had been hired for the pur- pose of drilling a test hole cesspool | that no further work has been done. ‘the committee. The Water committee reported | the collection of $1686 on water taxes and $10.05 for rent, Mr. | Cobb, chairman, of the committee, ‘reported that it was about time to order the 12-inch pipe for the Lamb street connection from the Gamble mill to Allegheny street, and he of- fered the suggestion that an appli- cation be made to the Water and sion to lay the pipe under the of Spring creek. President Walker expressed the belief that it would not be necessary to get a permit if the pipe is put under the bed of the stream. Several members of council, however, expressed the be- lief that it would be best to aoply for a permit and the matter was left in the hands of the Water com- mittee to make the application. The Finance committee presented the xeport of the borough treasurer which showed a balance in the water fund of $4027.18 and $816.88 in the borough fund. Two borough notes for $1000 each and a water depart- ment note for $1500 were authoriz- ed for renewal. reported three alarms for chimney fires since the last meeting of council and the burning of an out- building at the J. Fall Stover home, on Bishop street, Sunday morning, in which Mr. Stover lost his life. The Sanitary committee presented the monthly report of Dr, S. Nissley, health officer and milk in- | spector. Mr. Badger, of the Street com- next monday, Tuesday and Wednes- O'Leary, of Bellefonte; Curtin and the Governor when the time arrives day. Every historical character ap- John Stover, of Akron, Ohio; Cam- to make application for the county's pearing in this mammoth screen eron, of Butler, and L. Scott, of allotment. | i | mittee, presented the request of fu- neral director F. L. Wetzler that tbe borough pay him for burying i | —Miss Nelle Smith —Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Rothrock drove gteubenville, Ohio, to Philadelphia, Tuesday, to consult the end on one of her frequent specialists under whose care Mrs. Roth- with her father, J. Frank rock has been for the greater part of the winter. —Mrs. D. A. Boozer was among the peen visiting with Col. and Mrs. James out-of-town women here shopping Tues- G. Taylor, at Mexico, Mo., where Col | day, having driven over from Centre Taylor is military instructor at the D. Casebeer went to of Harrisburg, and Miss Stanton, Va., last week, called there by | Helen Gross, of Wilmington, N. C., mo- the illness of her daughter, Betty, who | tored here yesterday for luncheon with was operated on there, Wednesday, for | Miss Mary and Henry S. Linn. | appendicitis. Betty isa student at | —Miss Mary McClure went to Narberth, ' Fairfax Hall, at Waynesboro. | yesterday, expecting to spend a part of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Beezer will | February there with her sister, Mrs. leave the Rogers apartments to move to Murdock Claney and the family and Burnside township, where they will live 'with Mr. and Mrs. Waite, in Philadel- | while Mr. Beezer is supervising the phia. | building of a piece of road. There is |B. Wright, Jodon suggested that if such 'an ordinance be passed it should | also include the peddling of groceries | that it had been repaired on Mon- The Street committee reported | in the being put down on east’ Howard street, but the engine leak- ed and the pipes on the air com- pressor were full of holes and it | was impossible to use the outfit, so | The matter was left in the hands of | rower Resources Board for permis- —Mrs. Violet Barnhart-Morris is now | { at Sloan hospital, N. Y., for several ! months work, as required in the traning | ! school at Sinal. Following this she will return to Sinal to complete her nurses’ | training course. ~—Miss Bessie IL. Thompson, who] spends much of her time in Bellefonte | with her brother, the Rev. Wm. C.| Thompson and his family, at the Manse | went to Washington, D. C., Saturday, | for several weeks. —Mrs. Joseph Baker came in from Pittsburgh, last week, to look after her | ‘summer home at Wingate, the entire | furnishings of which had been destroy- ed by persons who had gained an en-' trance by breaking out a window. —Thomas R. Buck came up from Berwick, Saturday, and was met here by his niece, Miss Geary, whom he ac- companied to Centre Hall for an over Sunday visit with the Geary family. Mrs. Geary is a sister of Mr. Buck. —Mre, Frank Warfield will leave today for Detroit on one of her periodical visits with her sister, Dr. Edith Schad, and the Chaney family. No definite plans as to the time of her return had been made when she left Bellefonte, ~Miss Mabel Allison was over from | Spring Mills, Saturday, spending a part {of the day here with friends. Miss Alli- ison is anticipating closing the Allison home at Spring Mills in the spring, In- | | tending to make her home in Millheim. —Miss Louise Carpeneto joined Mrs. | Healy and a party, at Altoona Saturday, | to drive to Connellsville for the funeral | of Mrs. Louis Cuneo, returning home | Monday. Mr. Cuneo, who died last fall, | was a close friend of the late Louis | Carpeneto. —Robert Sommerville, of Winburne, was in Bellefonte, Tuesday, having come | over to look after some business mat- | terz here. He was looking and feeling (fine and reported that his sister, Miss | Bessie, is rapidly recovering from her | recent very serious illness. —Mrs, Estelle Grauer Payne was back | home, Saturday, for an overnight stay with her mother and daughter, Mrs. Grauer and Millicent Payne, returning | to Philadelphia Sunday night. It was | Mrs. Payne's first visit to Bellefonte since leaving at Christmas time. | a probability of the Beezers locating permanently in that part of the county. Philip D. Waddle, who until his marriage several years ago was a resi- dent of Bellefonte, came down from State College the early part of the week and was a house guest of L. A. Schaef- fer and his daughter, Miss Helen, while visiting with his friends Monday and Tuesday. KITCHEN SHOWER FOR HAPPY YOUNG COUPLE. A kitchen shower was given, on Wednesday evening of last week, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dale | Shuey, at Lemont, for Mr. and Mrs. John Knapik, who were married just before the holidays. The young couple received a big supply of kitchen and other equipment for their future home, Refreshments were served during the evening, games played and a general good time had by all present. The guests included: 5 g efit : g if the i gE ¥ LH ii f : 2 3 - . i The Fire and Police committee M. Friday, to join Mr. Daley in Washington, romance of Lincoln's life bears a . Bellefonte. He also leaves two | James Parks, a borough employee | sister of Mr. Reber. Bell | —Mrs. Frank Daley and her two little | daughters, Dolores and Mary Edith, left, | where he is now permanently located. |Since coming east from the Pacific Ruth Hartswick presided and also coast Mr. and Mrs. Daley have cccupied acted as toastmistress, in which the Cooke cottage east of Milesburg, un- capacity she displayed considerable til last fall when Mr. Daley returned to ingenuity and originality. Rev. A. his former home in Washington, Mrs. Ward Campbell pronounced the invo- Daley and the children remaining here cation and the principal address of striking resemblance to the original. brothers, William and Henry Stover, More than one hundred and twelve both of Butler. of the best known character actors Funeral services were held in the on the stage and screen appear in Methodist church at two o'clock on the picture. | Tuesday afternoon, by Rev. Horace Raymond H. Smith, comptrol- Lincoln Jacobs, burial being made ler of the Pennsylvania State Col- in the Oak Ridge cemetery, near lege, and very well known in Belle- Unionville. fonte, as been granted a six-month | Jeave of absence by the board of CLEVELAND SYMPHONY trustees which he plans to spendin ORCHESTRA AT STATE. rest and travel. The leave takes effect this week, Mr. Smith, whois; The Cleveland Symphony Orches- a graduate of the college, class of tra, under the direction cf Nikola 1905, has been actively connected Sokoloff, will appear in concert at with the institution in an executive State College next Wednesday eve- position since 1911 when he return- Ding, Feb. 11, ed as alumni secretary and graduate Among the great orchestras of manager of athletics. He has serv- America, this organization stands ed as comptroller since 1918. (alone in its record of playing with ——Ambrose N. Diehl, who for | Ever Ine SE roplarty and suc cess for audiences of all kinds, all ten years has been chairman of the coun i doe board of athletic control at thelo c: the try. The jusistent de mand for its services has created a Pennsylvania State College, has re- ri od the podivion and Col. J. H. surprising situation in the fact that (the Cleveland orchestra actually ap- M. Andrews, of Philadelphia, has been elected to succeed him. Mr | [027 Bg Often 14 other cities ast does in its own home. Its annual Diehl was made vice-president of the | ooncerts in New York have become United States Steel Corp. last fall gonifcant features of the metro- and his added duties in that office have made his engagements top tan season and are generally dis- | tinguished b, onerous to continue on the athletic oe ed the ni gg. MISS IRENE BEWLEY TELLS OF MOUNTAIN LIFE The Woman's Club gave an enter- | tainment, last Thursday evening, in | the Presbyterian chapel, at which {Miss Irene Bewley furnished a charming program. Miss Bewley comes from the low hills of the Tennessee mountains. She gave monologues, composed by herself and own life from a girl, born ina log school of dramatics in Boston. The sketches showed how the mountain people lcoked upon the “foreigners,” as they called out- In one scene a New York siders. woman of fashion was entertaining ‘home friends at tea and telling them of the corn-cob pipe and bewailing the fact of her son's visit to New York city, where danger lurked for him ‘at every corner. e——_— EARLY SPRING CHANGES Newell B. Long and family, con- cabin, to student days in a contemplated visit of | ‘her husband to those dangerous’ Tennessee mountains, while the sec- ond scene depicted an old woman of | the Unaka mountains. smoking her 'who dropped dead on the street in January, 1930. This brought up the question of compensation for the Parks family and secretary Kelly stated that papers had been made ‘out and sent in to the State Work- men's Insurance Fund but he had never had any reply. The was referred to the Street com- water bills $463.74 were approved for payment, after which council adjourned. BR’ER GROUNDHOG SAW i i i There is no doubt about the i . As for us, we have reached that point /in life when we fail to be impressed by the groundhog. The almanac | tells us that winter is only half | over, therefore we are due for six | weeks of it yet, whether the ground- matter mittee to find out definitely whether compensation can be obtained, at least sufficient to cover funeral ex- penses. Borough bills totaling $1641.53 and | HIS SHADOW MONDAY. with Mr. and Mrs. Cooke and Miss Snyder. | —George Sherry II, of Salisbury, N.| C., only son of the late Ambrose Sherry, is in Bellefonte for an indefinite stay with his grandfather, George W. Sherry, | having come up at the time of his grandmother's death. In addition to George those from out-of-town who were here for Mrs. Sherry's funeral included her two sons and their wives, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Sherry and Mr. and Mrs. | Kennedy and Miss Florence Kennedy | of Lock Haven, and George Shell, of St. Mary's. brother, John | family, died, Sunday, at his home in| DuBois, just ten days after his sister. —OQur old friend Michael Lamb got out of a sick bed on Tuesday and trudged | away down here from his home out on north Allegheny St. merely to pay his subscription. We use the word merely to express cur approximation of the im- mediate importance of the $1.50 involved. Michael looked at it from another angle, however. It meant the forty-eighth an- nual trip to this office for the same pur- pose. And he is hoping he can stick around long enough to make these an- nual pilgrimages fifty in number. We hope he can too; not for the $3 that it would mean to this office, but be- cause Michael is one of the old friends | for whom we have always had a peculiar liking and they are dropping out all too the evening was made by Rev. Stuart F, Gast. Twenty-five year jewels were pre- sented to the twelve ladies, charter members of the organization, and six men. The ladies were Mrs. Elizabeth Hazel, Mrs. Roxey Smith, Mrs. Myrtle , Mrs. Anna Leitzel, Mrs. Carrie Clevenstine, Mrs. were Benton D. hart, Edward Owens, Cyrus Show- ers, Edward Young and Samuel Gettig. Thanks to the lodge on behalf of the ladies were extended by Mrs. Elizabeth Hazel while Edward R. ed to pay the costs, a dollar fine board at State, It looks very much | quality of performance. sisting of his wife and two daugh- ROE saw his shadow or whether he fast. and placed on probation for one as though ‘Amby” is headed for the myckets for the concert are $1.50 ters, arrived in Bellefonte, last Fri- didn't. And as the first half of ye met the Hon. John T. MeCor-|> presidency of the great steel cor- ang may be reserved by calling the 9ay, and are occupying the apart- | Winter has not been at all bad, ac- mick, of State College, on the street TRALEE TE poration. treasurer's office, 110 Old Main, ‘ment in the Sim Baum building re- | COrding tothe laws of compensation, here Monday morning. As he approach- SALE BEGISTER. ~The Warner--American News, State College. ‘cently vacated by Mrs. C. E. Robb. it is only reasonable to expect that ed we just lovked sug marveled. There OE on Abe yd o he for January, contains quite an ar-| Mr. Long entered upon his duties, he last half will give us some real came a man upple of movement, the | piqqie Buffalo Run road, 4 miles west ticle on the visit of the twelve] — The annual mid-winter dinner O° Monday, as assistant to presi- | Wibter. In any event it might be Flow © ey | ta 10 aa al on | | dent Charl M. well to anticipate it, then if it don’t | zest of life shining through the smile | 14 mil cows, head of other foremen at the Bellefonte plants to dance and general get together of 9° 3 McCurdy, at the | that broke when we greeted him. When we 2 0 3 tractors. the Warner industries at Philadel- the Centre County Association ot | First National bank, some we will Rive an agreeable ,....q that he was 82 on January 23 Be ARE 2 phia and Wilmington, Del., the ar- Philadelphia will be held next George Kelley and family have |SUrPrise. So that's that with the | ye envied the gentleman the spirit that | also start at 9: ticle being embellished with a group Saturday, February 14th, at| moved from the Harry Kelley home, | roundog: |has been vouchsafed him to carry his| auctioneer. 3 picture of the men taken while on at 7 o'clock p. m. at the Belle- | Linn street, into the flat in| | years so gracefully. Last Friday his een the trip. Under the head of vue- Stratford hotel, Philadelphia. salvaging rotary kiln blocks the Many invitations have been sent out News also publishes a picture of the but as all members cannot be reach- |Petrikin hall recently vacated by | Dr. Brumbaugh, | Pinge, the barber, contemplates | moving his barber shop from the late J, Fall Stover dressi the ed the committee in charge hopes blocks for use in the shaft kilns at that any who may be overlooked Richelleu building into a room in plant No. 20, and in addition a plc- | Will come forward voluntarily and |that portion of the Centre Democrat ture of George Berg salvaging ele- | encourage others to do so, The din- | building now occupied by the “Blue vator chain equipment. | ner will be $2.50 per plate. | Bird” tea room. | ——The albina trout seen in | Spring creek, last week, was one of |a consignment of six which burgess Hard P. Harris secured from the fish hatchery and placed in the the overflow but was recaptured and put back into the spring. | good wife, his sons and daughters had { another of those annual birthday dinners | | for him and from what we hear of them | Corrected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & Co. spring. The trout escaped through | | they're prodigious affairs—in the eats, | 80 | especially. After a sitting at that kind | Corn RK | many of we younger fellows would be Oats AD hunting dyspepsia tablets for days. Not | Rye 40 so, the Hon. John T. He enjoys them | Barley EE —————————— | | and suffers not a bit in consequence. Buckwheat | esvessommmaearsan t 4
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