HEEL PRINT IN SNOW BRINGS | DOWNFALL OF BURGLARS. — J. M. CUNNINGHAM HOME DAMAGED BY FIRE. JOHNSTOWN WOMAN ASKS $50,000 FOR HUSBAND'S LOVE. A frozen heel print lying in the The home of J. M. Cunning- Mes Pgaqua Dn Burials, of Jolie: Dix Run road led to the capture of ham on south Potter ctreeet was town, values the loss of her Sn ‘two burglars, on Tuesday afternoon, badly damaged by fire last Friday band's love at $50,000, and she who broke into and robbed the J. H. morning, and both Mr. and Mrs. brought suit against a Turner sture, at Julian, on Monday Cunningham were almost overcome Woman, Mrs. Stella Shaffer, Bellefonte to re- ——The new system of number- night, of various articles to a value with smoke before they were able cover that amount. : license tags is said of upwards of one hundred dollars. to get out of the house, In fact it ae EE | arrested are Francis C. was the smoke choking her which of record in the prothonotary's eck: Joving - Yous. 3 ave | Watkins, 27 years old, and Charles awakened Mrs. Cunningham about fice, on Monday, Mrs. Di Bartola day's ty. Burns, 23 years old, both married declares is that much less expensive than the | old one. i ——Alpha Tau Alpha, an honorary and living on Dix Rum, north oe aroused from his slumbers coming to this country they lived | hospital next week, after having Unionville. fraternity for men showing promise ‘as rural educators, has installed a ‘hen Mr. Turner went to his five o'clock. Their bedroom ‘blue with jt at the time. was On door Mr, Cunningham opened the of- | that she was married to ‘Joseph Di Bartola in Italy. After ‘happily in Johnstown until 1925. ‘chapter at the Pennsylvania State Store, Tuesday morning, he found a into the hall and was confronted In that year, she alleges, her hus- ‘College. | The interior of the store showed that ——Robert J. McKuight, ope time ;'y.g yey burglarized. As luck well known resident of ‘Bellefonte, | =o have it, a light snow had "dled unespectedly, at Bis; home {Blg,y., iy that section during the Pullageipiia, yesteiday, = Partin! ct and fn it My "Tarner “fougd lars will be published next week. the tracks of two men and trailed —Research chemists at the Penn- them some distance. Later he call- sylvania State College have announc- ed county detective Leo Boden and ‘ed their success in distilling a BasO- | ought his aid. line fuel with a knock rating of on- Detective Boden responded and in ly 3, where gasoline used in the ow followed the tracks of the experiments had an original rate of | men to the Dix Run road, thence 9. out that road toward the mountain. One of the men walked with a ‘shuffling step, shown by a slight drag of the footprint in the snow. Going out the road the county de- tective found a frozen ball of snow that one of them had kicked off of the heel of his shoe, and on it the imprint of the heel was as plainly (marked as if photographed, He the Senate, If it becomes a law carried the evidence with him. The the Highway Department will have trail led to the Watkins house. to take over all toll bridges in the Watkins was at home but denied State and that would end stopping having been out during the night or to pay atthe entrance to any bridge | knowing anything of the robbery. in Pennsylvania. Confronted with the heel print in ——Contrary to the belief of a the vumber of people George Gray Bar- the heel on his shoe, he admitted ——Among the high scorers as judges of livestock and poultry in the agricultural feature courses at State College is Ray D. Shoemaker, of Pine Grove Miils, who ranks first among the students who have taken ‘only one year in sheep judging. ———Senator Scott is sponsor of the free bridge bill recently passed by § i her and she has been in- |stairs and open the front door, ed from ‘which helped to clear the house of jured to the extent of $50,000, which ‘smoke so that Mrs. Cunningham She is seeking to collect from the by insurance. snow which corresponded to made Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham are managed to make his way dowe- could get down and out. ; A still alarm brought the Undine fire company to the scene and they were able to extinguish the flames with chemicals and by using’ their booster pump. The fire evidently originated from a defective flue leading from the furnace in the basement, had burned through the floor into the kitchen and living room and up along the flue back of the sheathing, Practically every- thing in the kitchen and living room was either burned or damaged be- yond repair, and while not another ‘room in the house was touched by the flames every place was saturated with heavy smoke that left such a coating on wall paper, paints, etc. that all will have to be done over. Appraisers fixed the damage at ap- proximately $2100, which is covered Until repairs can be living in the other side of their nard, noted sculptor who was born his guilt and implicated Burns. house. in Bellefonte, did not design the Watkins was brought to Bellefonte bronze figure of Governor Curtin, and later in the day Burns was ar- which adorns the monument in the rested. While the Undines were fighting the fireat the Cunningham home, or about six o'clock Saturday morning, : i ell a victim to the wiles of broken window and an o door. with billows of smoke but no flames. band f Pon | As there was no fire to be seen he | Mrs. Stella Shaffer with the result | that his affections have been alienat- ‘Bellefonte woman. Mrs. Shaffer is a daughter of Mr. (and Mrs. Oscar McMullen, of Belle- 'fonte, formerly of Coleville, and the For | |some years they lived in Johnstown | wife of Roland B, Shaffer. and last summer, ' ning, the victim of a shooting affair in ‘which Mrs. Di Bartola appeared as the “trigger woman.” Mr. and Mrs. McMullen were visiting the Shaffer ‘home at the time and that evening on Sunday eve- Mr. Di Bartola took Mr. and Mrs. | Shaffer and two boys and Mr. and ‘Mrs. McMullen to an amusement park in his automobile. They returned home about ten O'clock and as Mrs. Shaffer was ‘walking from the street to the house the Sabbath evening quiet was broken by two shots and with a cry, “I'm shot” she fell /to the pavement. A woman was seen running away but it was too dark to recognize her. to the Memorial hospital where it was found that she had heen shot in the right arm and in the right | In a summons in trespass entered June 22nd, Mrs. Shaffer was Mrs. Shaffer was taken at once NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. “HELLO SPRING” —Mrs. Sara E. Swope has closed her By the Timberline Poet. home at Julian and gone to Youngstown, yy... spring! I've been a wishin’ Ohio, for an indefinite stay. You'd be amblin' long this way; —Mr. and Mrs. A S. Garman, who I'm just itchin’' to go fishin’, have been spending the winter in Miama, | Been a-watchin' ev'ry day. Florida, will return to their home in’ Tyrone next week. | —-Mr.*and Mrs. D. M, Kline, of east ‘Linn street, were in Philadelphia Cg Te n= | week, having gone down for a three | Jus’ lay off yer Easter bonnet, avenue, Make yerself at home right here; Haven Whar's that fish-pole now, doggone it! been That I put away las’ year? a surgical patient there for a month. . : —Miss Elizabeth Cooney left, yesterday, | Norer Ro SB al around— on a buying trip to New York, expecting | Ketchin’ trout is sure a thriller to spend a week attending the retail | Fer a real ol fishin’ hound. openings and selecting her spring stock | for the Hat Shop. i —R. B. Freeman, of Philadelphia, made WHERE WILL WE PUT OUR one of his frequent short visits to the NEW FEDERAL BUILDING? | Nittany Country club within the week, So : Bellefonte has been assured of a | stopping here enroute home Saturday to | ‘spend the night. | new federal villding to house the —After holding court in Bellefonte, POStoffice and internal revenue on Monday, Judge M. Ward Fleming Partment, but the perplexing ques- left, that evening, for the eastern part tion now arises, where will we put of the State where he has been holding it? court in Delaware county. | Postmaster John L. Knisely, last —Byron Heverly Blackford, who spent Thursday, received from the depart- the winter in Europe as a guest of the ment papers inviting proposals for friend with whom he was traveling, re- | a site, either for sale or free. They cently returned to the States anda 1s | state, in effect, that a corner lotis again located in Alliance, Ohio. | ired, that it must contain 29,000 —Charlotte Weaver, the nine year old | square feet and have a frontage on ' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Weav- | he of the main streets which it er, of Allegheny street, has been Among | ight occupy of 160 feet. To in- the children out of school during the | | clude 29,000 square feet, and have past several weeks, on account of {ll-| ness. Charlotte, however, is now rapidiy 3 | frontage os So elo | recovering. | have y here —Mrs. William Armstrong Kirby and Can such a lot be found in the her son William Jr. drove up from | Business section of Bellefonte? An- Baltimore this week, to spend several other requirementis that it be easily days in Bellefonte with Mrs, Kirby's | accessible to the railroad depot. mother and sister, Mrs. Hammon Sechler | While quite a number of places and Miss Anna at the Sechler home on |pave been mentioned as possible wv. H. Miller had ag 3115 that was before it was known —Mr. an A " er as | . house. Brootss ver Sulasy, oo Misses | 2° much ground would be requir ed. To get so much space in the | Helen and Rose Hagerman, of TYIon®, | oiness section of the town would who during their stay in Bellefonte, | motored to Williamsport with Mr. and €0St almost as much as the entire Mrs. Miller for a visit with the young allotment for the postoffice, and it Know'd you come along Like you always used —James Gunsallus, of Phoenix is expected home from the Lock Diamond in this place, W. Clarke Noble was it's sculptor. ——According to an opinion re- “cently handed down by the Superior “court an assistant county superin- ‘tendent of public schools is “a public | ‘officer as distinguished from an em- ployee,” and therefore is not covered by compensation insurance carried for ‘protection of school employees. —=—John McCoy is not satisfied ‘with the $500 award given him by ‘the road viewers for property taken ‘in rebuilding the state highway be- tween Bellefonte and Milesburg, and through his attorney, James C. ‘Furst Esq, on Saturday, filed an “appeal. Mr. McCoy asked $183,000. —Not one in ten automobile driy- ‘ers strictly observe the rubber “stop” “signs at the intersection of cross “Streets with through streets. In- stead of stopping back of the sign ‘they invariably drive past it onto ‘the crossing before stopping, thus rendéring it foe. for pedes- ‘an alarm called out the Logans to fight a small fire on the roof of the Harry Rote home, in Bush Addition. This fire was discovered by Jacch | Barlett who ran to the Rote home (and found the family sitting at the table eating breakfast, unconscious ‘of the fact that their home was on fire. The Logans the about midnight, Monda t, They blaze before it did much damage, A | went to the Turner a gut. as a Spark on the roof caused the fire. freight train was passing and the ———ee. noise of the train drowned the GIRL'S GLEE CLUB CONCERT crash when Burns smashed in the IN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (window. Among the articles stolen — The Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y clubs of were shoes, shirts, overalls, flash- | lights, knives, watches, socks, about the Bellefonte High school, organ- 16 pounds of sugar and 4 pounds iized through the Y. M. C. A., have of lard. Most of the stuff was re- | arranged an exceptionally good pro- covered by county detective Boden. gram for the evening of April 6th, The men were given a hearing Easter Monday. They have secured before ‘Squire S, Kline Woodring, the girls’ glee club, of Geneva Col- ‘on Tuesday evening, when Watkins lege, ‘was held in $750 bail on one charge in the Presbyterian church, and Burns, $1500 on two charges. The club will make it's Being unable to post a bond they eastern concert tour In a written confession Watkins ' stated that Burns had committed a number of robberies in that section during the past several months, and that he had been with him on one trip before the robbery of the Tur- ‘ner store Monday night. that robbery he stated that they had hidden in the school house until | Beaver Falls, to give a concert breast. Neither wound was serious Women's grandmother, ‘and she recovered within a few days., —Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Baum and The morning after the shooting Mrs. little daughter, of State College, departed ‘Di Bartola walked into the police Yesterday ona three week's trip to i -_ | Florida. Mr. Baum, who had been a station, in Johnstown, and gave he;- ‘hospital patient in Philadelphia for a | self up, admitting that she was the | | mber of weeks, has almost entirely woman who shot Mrs. Shaffer, but recovered his normal health. claimed that she had no intention of —Miss Lenore Taylor, an operator in ‘killing her but just wanted to fright- (ne 10cal Bell telephone exchange, was en her. Mrs. Di Bartola is fifty the guest of John Rutter at the banquet | years old and the mother of eight ' given by the Shaffer Stores company to children. The family is among the their employees, Monday night, at the best known Italian residents of Penn Alto, in Altoona. Mr. Rutter is Johnstown and are quite well to do. With their downtown store in Bellefonte. Just when Mrs. Shaffer came to —Willlam Cooke, manager of the Phil- Bellefonte to make her home is not definitely known, but she is now living on Bishop street, night, for a visit with his brother, Ed- ward, and with relatives at Howard. The Cooke men are sons of the late Mr. and THE UNDINE FIREMEN | Mrs. John Cooke, for many years resi- ENTERTAIN AT BANQUET. dents of Bellefonte. —— | ~—Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Meek and Mr. Tuesday was St. Patrick's day and and Mrs. Albert Deal, of the Undine Fire Co. celebrated the Who have been in Lake ‘event with its annual banquet, as it *ince Sutly 1 Juudaky, have started the |has been doing for years. And like Last is" hardly likely that a location in ‘the outskirts would prove advisable lor acceptable. As the bids are to be in by April 21st it will be sary for anyone having a site [offer to get it in as soon as sible. } | BASKET BALL GAME FOR | CRIPPLED CHILDREN. | Having defeated the St. Paul | quintette, of rt, on the | armory floor Tuesday evening, | §s will be called promptly at 8:30 o'clock and the price of admission will cents for adults and striang. were sent to jail to await trial. Spry oe Sn ingusg A ORIGINAL BOY'S BAND | ‘tre Hall. The last of the wells BANQUETS ON BIRTHDAY. ‘drilled by the water company that On Tuesday night it was just “Supplies the town has come in With oi ohteen years since Frank Wetzler an abundance of water and it is i , y thered twenty boys around him in ‘mow being pumped into the reservoir Sab astec edly og building in| ‘and ketping that storage up to the Milesburg and so saturated them -point where there is no longer need with the idea that they were for saving ‘water. makins” of a band that they made ——The appropriations committee one. . ‘of the House of Representatives And what a band! The original ‘was at State College yesterday and twenty, grown to forty, ‘most of last night. The members were ‘guests of the students in home ‘economics ata luncheon served in ‘the women's building, attended the student mass meeting last night and | later attended the intercollegiate boxing tournament in the recreation i -building. the fortis, the pianissimos of that boys band, now men. And when ——Since bei brought home “from the ry Boi. in Phil- they marched off down Hien Steet “adelphia, Tuesday of last week, Mrs, 1 the banquet they had at the Penn- 'W. F. Reynolds’ condition has be. Delle the crowd in the Dione hres | ‘come so critical, that little hope is ‘eft a-quiver, thdlled by fhe ganizati | ‘felt for her recovery. Her two sons, shy feat samous o on - Frederic and Phil, the former of ways . ‘Canada and the latter of New York whom ‘city, and her younger brother, Ran- three, all of Were of the SHE /nal band except five or six guests. _dolph H. Hoy, of Crafton, have been down :45 and it was in Bellefonte for a week, | They sat a4 6:45 jt 3 —--Shortly after noon, on Mon- | “day, as Clarence McCafferty was ‘batking his Studebaker car out about it all. A. There were men there from Re- : Curtin street, novo, Tyrone, Altoona and other ‘the machine caught fire, and a quick places, all back for an evening with | -alarm called out the fire department each other. An evening too short The flames were extinguished and the | to go over the days when they were ‘car saved from total destruction | happy, care-free kids in Milesburg | though it was damaged considera- and unconscious of what Frank bly. Imperfect wires caused the | Wetzler was doing to them when he ‘blaze. was trying to make soft lips and | them assembled in the Diamond! here, Tuesday evening, and proved beyond question that the daddy of Central Pennsylvania band masters must be, as we have often surmised, kin of the Pied Piper of Hamlin, i It was great to hear the attack, | loved leader just how they felt | Patrick of Altoona Clumsy fingers produce the scale on Rpt igri Altoona, | some tstoumen | BW Schalles, Mr. Laughlin banker of Bellwood, was the toast | bo. | make a [ business. left their ice in the Civil war and was present ladies at home so without going be- | nder of Lee at A yond the bounds of propriety some geous 1931 tterns of ut the sure Pree things were brought out that might | 5 pa “sary on Tuesday, ‘came to this country from Ireland Master and kept the party in an u in 1860 and located in Bellefonte. roar with clever interpolations When Lee's army invaded Pennsyl- tween the speeches the band men vania in 1863 he enlisted for sery- made. The boys had "mattox Court House. Returning “from the war he lived in Bellefonte Otherwise have remainded sealed up ‘a few years then located in Altoona. In the vaults of memory, bee It was a great night. ——Tony Ficarra, who las. been ,.' oj; suest ang. let feeling far ‘80 long in the employ of Angelo y,,,.or than we dig thirty-seven ‘Genua in his shoe shop ia the Bush o... ago when we talked to another | which to work, and We went during their spring vacation, and Bellefonte will | be their first stop. From here they ‘will go to Philadelphia, then to Bos- | ton, New York, Atlantic City several smaller towns along way. The program will include not only and orchestra was making the ap- Michigan, where she will visit for chorus music but instrumental and paratus room nelodious > [eigen of March. Mr. and Mrs. vocal I ya ye Spaiinbic | cn which one hundred and fifty Fridgen had arrived here Friday, having wo! readings. without doubt, enjoy. The admission charge will be 50 cents for adults, with a lower rate for children. The time will be 8.15 p. m. Save that date, be present and help make the concert a success. —-—A nationally advertised 9x12 seamless living room rug, in beau ful oriental patterns, $29.75 during the March sale of rugs at W. R. Brachbill's furniture store 76-12 «se————— E. SAGER WILL OPEN NEW PHOTO STUDIO. Ww. Union Telegraph company, and will open a new post card photographic studio there either to- voting most of his time and point where he has decided to devote his Because fact he felt He will supply of cameras; © studio with ut- ntinue to card work most g ——Choose from the many gor- “Bigelow- | Sanford” seamless rugs. America's |largest and oldest weavers of rugs. The lowest prices in years at W. R. Brachbill's furniture store. 76-12 —-—J. Wesley Foreman, of near Penn's Cave, brother of David R. and | After the flow of wit and feast of Pscided install all ‘the greatest show on earth, it gets bigger and better each time it comes around. the The engine house on Bishop street was artistically decorated in green and white and Scheckler's Milesburg uthe hearing and one that every ome win, COVers were laid invited the firemen and their guests to be seated. . The banquet served by caterer | Bickel was delicious and st ‘There was roast chicken, vegetables, relishes, ice cream, coffee and cigars. When the last of it had ‘been serv- ed chief George Carpeneto called the happy crowd to consideration of the follow-up of post-prandial talks, Those who felicitated, praised and thanked the firemen for ‘were Father Wm E. Laird lard M. Tawney, risburg fire department, and Charles |E. Dorworth. Other guests on the (list of speakers were several officials (from the Lock Haven fire . t ment, Chief Seigworth, of the State latter a very close friend, room in the Bush house block, for- At the banquet there were forty- merly occupied by the Western | grand | time until late in the night when (all retired realizing that the Un- | dines are not only most efficient fire-fighters but wonderful hosts as i TRIAL IN PITTSBURGH. An echo of the big man hunt which took place in the All mountains on the 27th of last tember comes from Pittsburgh in the trial there, this week, of Eugene Batdorf for the murder of Charles Hamon, a crippled gas station at- tendant. It will be recalled that Batdorf | and George Clark Skidmore, a for- mer student at the Bellefonte Acad- emy, came to Centre county three days after the shooting of Hamon and hid in a hunter's cabin out in one of the wildest sections of the ‘Alleghenies. They were traced here by Pittsburgh detectives. was captured at the cabin on the egheny | Batdorf | Arcade, will embark in business for | great Milesburg band on the oc- himself on April 1st. He has rent- ed the Clarence Rine room on west High street, formerly occupied by ‘Thomas Fleming, and will have it “equipped with all the tools neces- sary for speedy and satisfactory shoe repairing, - shoe shining and dyeing. Tony will appreciate any work given him and his reputation and will have charge of one of the the leg and amputation was resorted declaring that he did not chairs in Boscaino's barber shop, in to as the 4s such as to justify the statement ‘that it will be well done, i | casion of its having won the inter- | county band contest at Hecla Park in 1894. ———Guy Coll, the barber, who has | been away from Bellefonte over two | years, hes decided to relocate here | i the Penn Belle block. Foreman, of Bellefonte, had his left Night of September 26th, while leg amputated about four inches Skidmore took to the woods. (above the knee, at the Centre Coun- The next day Skidmore shot three ‘ty hospital, last Thursday afternoon, Men who attempted to effect his About six weeks ago he suffered a Capture and finally escaped. Noth- ‘stroke of paralysis which affected Ing has been heard of him since. (his entire left side. Later gangrene At his trial, this week, Batdorf de- | developed in the lower portion of Ried all knowledge of the killing, meet up only means of prolonging With Skidmore until after the crime | his life. | had been committed. | l in Orlando and from 1 north expecting College in about two weeks, —Mrs. George Waite left, Saturday, as a driving guest of her daughter and in-law, Mrs, BE. N. Fridgen and | Fridgen for their home in Lansing, the § gas f hei 2 g 16g driven in especially for Mrs. Waite, and | (after an overnight visit with other mem- lack of funds. (bers of the family started onthe return game will give everybody ‘trip to Michigan Saturday afternoon. tunity to help a little and | —Mrs. Frank Bassett and her grand- a worthwhile game. ison, Hugh Winters, drove up from the | Winters home at Annapolis, Saturday, for an over Sunday visit at the Academy | THE SPRING BRIDE | with Mrs. Bassett's brothers, James R. | will be interested in the three-piece, {and Charles Hughes. Hugh, who is over-stuffed living room suite in [the only child of Lieut. Com. and Mrs. beautiful Jacquard velours. A 9- | Winters, will enter the Navy, having just piece dining room suite i his entrance examinations for | £ 3 E 5 | ~—-Miss Tomazine Potter and Mrs. Hiram | Hiller came up from Philadelphia, Sun- | day, when the condition of Mrs. Rey- | nolds became alarmingly serious. Both | women, the former a cousin and the 25 Brachbill, furniture and rugs, street, Bellefonte, Pa. : 3 5 Hiller have been house guests of Mrs. {Beach and Miss Blanchard. i B 7% ; ———_ FRIGHTENED HORSE pening COCKS MAN FACE. county, were overcome pics ™ ‘carbon monoxide gas Hearing a commotion in the horse cumulated in stable on the farm of Joseph Owens, ‘Runkle lost between Pleasant Gap and Zion, wheel and last Friday evening, Charles Vonada, pole along ‘an employee on the farm, decided Matilda, and to investigate, as the Owens family Rev. were away for the evening. opened the stable door and inside one of the horses, that evidently broken loose from (8.all, landed both hind hoofs in | Vonada’'s face, inflicting painful cuts and bruises as well as smashing false teeth. Vonada was knocked down and, though he was not rendered un- conscious, he suffered excruciating pain, and it was some time before (he could get in touch with a neigh- bor farmer who brought him to | Centre County hosprtal. i day in : 1 ho! i me the ting along § |. MARCH 18.—At the residence | middle of Bellefonte, 5 Hoes, ol enerai line of farm ——A really notable picture will | ‘be shown at the State all next week. | It is Charley Chaplin's “City | offered. | Lights,” Critics estimate Chaplin's L. F. Mayes, auctioneer. |art as apantomimist as the highest | RA. fn attained by an actor. Chap- Bellefonte Grain Markets. lin will not speak and there was | rected Weekly by C. Y. Wagner & much interest in the making of this, | v hr his latest picture, because it was » generally believed that it would not | oats “© be a success. It has proved quite | Rye 50 | the contrary and is regarded as a | Barley + tm + 8D | classic of the screen. | Buckw! a Rd