Deora Waldo —The King of Siam is better look- ing than the Japanese Prince, but that isn’t throwing much of a bou- quet at the King. —Just now the G. O, P. clings to the tariff as it's one basic principle. Five years from now the tariff asan issue will be in the grave with “the bloody shirt.” Mark the prediction. —Governor Roosevelt didn't exact- ly white-wash Jimmie Walker. All he did was to say that the Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes and Rabbi Ste- phen Wise didn't have their paint well mixed when they pictured him as black as they did. —Daylight saving is now in effect in four-hundred and thirty-seven American cities. The armies of un- employed within those municipalities will cheer because of that, no doubt. Saving daylight will mean a lot to | them, we don't think. —The falling prices of commodi- | ties must inevitably result in one of things: Reduction of wages or tries possible. Both are unpleasant eventualities, but one or the other is inevitable, The happy solution would be an equitable reduction in each, but would labor be reasonable much entitled to a fair earning on the investment as it is to a fair —The American Philosophical So- —A poll of the delegates to the last Republican national convention reveals an overwhelming expression January and all it has done has been fight for or against some thing that Mr. Pinchot wants. In all the years we have been following affairs at Harrisburg we have wit- nessed such a footless exhibition of i : i ; E E 5 i i i ! ] 2 o iy I th iL fF falf ei 3 i SEF Wy y : nia we find no fault with it asa prin ciple of government because it leaves every community to decide for it- self just what it's habits shall be, and that is a fundamental of a Democracy. BN IL / TATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 76. HISTORIC HOUSE BADLY DAMAGED BY FIRE. Shortly aft:r eleven o'clock, last Saturday, fire was discovered in the third story of the double house on Reynolds avenue, owned by Albert E. Schad and occupied by the fam- ilies of James Leitzel and Samuel Richards. By the time the firemen arrived on the scene the flames had burned through the roof and made considerable progress inside. Not- withstanding this fact the firemen succeeded in extinguishing the fire before it burned through to the sec- water did considerable damage on the first and second floors. Mrs. Leitzel, who has not been in good health for some time, had been taken to the Centre County on Friday evening while Mr. Leitzel was away from home at the time of the fire, his sister being in his furniture while Mr. Richards had no insurance. The house was in- i The house at one time was home of John Ardell, in his day of the biggest lumbermen in Cen county, and stood on the corner 2% HEH ° € B PF ar it sEIRES fils £] § § 2 i =5g 1 R. Bg ig HTH : gE: 10 i E i : i i gt bgt i: I 1 5 ; ; : § Es 5 4 bt i fill Eis : i ¥ i §Fs 8 8 § : £3 | £ g 58 iE ga ; i : f i } } | E £ iF i 8 H EEREE Opponents of the county poor farm unit in Clinton county have engaged former Judge Ellis L. Orvis to work in conjunction with Abra- ham Lipez Esq. of that city, in pre- paring an injunction to be presented tc the Clinton county ccurt asking that the county commissioners be restrained from eracting a county poor house at Hymer. The injunc- tion will be supported by a petition signed by six thousand tax payers. open on Tuesday, be in charge of John S. Sommerville who is already organizing an ef- | ficient corps of solicitors in of charge selected captains. May 12th will be “National Hospital Day,” which accounts for the starting of the drive on that day. The Centre County hospital has the distinction of being one of a very few within the State with a small endowment that has been able to operate without a deficit the past two years, in spite of the great in- crease in charity work. This has been made possible through the | unique plan of membership | contributions. | Donations by the county, | churches, lodges, clubs, civic ‘maintain repairs and improvements neen descendant, and Gerald Borland, to the Goheen '& descendant of John Borland. They on which this assisted by two little represent- we have met today effort will De gtives of the seventh generation of | cestors | Goheens, Dorothy Dale and Barbara equi t. i care of the and the at one if fi Pinchot E3ggE i ; i i ls i + ¥ : | ¥ 38 3 5 ; g | BE £ ¥ E E 5 a § 5 because response during the membership drive, i in the hospital | corporation and the genorous annual various charge corporations and business firms, organi- business de- charity is a H burg are in a bad way, since Gover- nor Pinchot has vetoed Senator Scott's bill drawn to re-inburse them. back to the day last fall Governor and the Senator % another steps in this said: 3 i fine of $200, costs of prosecution and serve not less than six months nor UR SOLDIERS OF 1776 MEMORIALIZED BY D. A. R. The annual membership drive of . Last Saturda ‘the Centre County hospital will Bellefonte Chapter D. A. R. formally | May 12th. It will unveiled monuments in memory of four soldiers of the Revolution who lie in graves in Ferguson township, Centre county. The first was that erected by his | descendants to John Goheen, pioneer of the distinguished family that for | more than a century has maintained | It isa ONTE. PA. MAY 1, 1931. y afternoon, April 25, prominence in “the Glades". night, or probably more than | night to rest his horses 8 south of this spot. He never went any | Westmoreland county for a i i i ERE de of he lived until his death. : he original Goheen house and stands | his farm. on the north side of the highway at | Rock Springs, on land the original Goheen grant. From can be seen the little family cem- 'eétery at the foot of the mountain in | which the body of John Goheen lies. no grew to manhood, He married | the land and tilling the soil. had five children but NO. 18. and stock. ' He liked this locality very much, J farm where under a huge rock, only a few rods further west, but exchanged his bounty land in farm here, which was afterward di- ed into two farms, one of which sold later but kept the one this the road for his own, and This marker was built of stone onument built of stone taken from that was used in the first house on John Goheen’s wife was Mary Ja- | that was in cobs, of Philadelphia. | good, faithful wife to him, helping him bear the hardships of clearing only Simmons, regent of the this union were born seven children: efonte Chapter, formally opened Isabella, Mary and James died young, a when Dr. Lucretia | this farm to carry on the work. To| | Tuyl yer. Potter. | Mr. | and Capt. briefly of his wn : John McWilliams, of Pitts- Burgh, read the war record of his | fllustrious ancestor and told some- | kindness of this Chap ig of his pioneering in Centre arranged the exercise Robert Goheen, another ke and exhibited and he died the following was made by Dr, N. F. Dunaway, Prof. of history at State College, william H. Fry spoke recollections | of the man whose service was memorialized. With the sounding of ended 2 i 1 offered | i jE marker memory. | descendants | Chapter Daughters | Revolution, and many | to chapters at other of the descendants fo! died year, but his memory still lives with John Goheen's wife EF REE As a daughter of the descendant of ved and being | Revolution, a me there jee Ee : 14 i g SEE gest g g i i is; ef gg ES (£3 a i il 7 og g g E i . ; : - i g BE SREECEREICAE hts Le Es J Ee cone sometimes the North of Ireland, about 1 and settled in Chester Co., he & £ erick, Md., married near g the old Octorora Pres! HE sz B§E (Continued on page 5, Col. 2) "8 Eseit : . 34 © : mar- ried Catherine Montgomery, of Fred- Gettysburg, Pa. They came from the bounds of Church, of the State. { —The seventh case of smallpox re- | ported in Pennsylvania this year was dis- | covered several days ago in North Brad- | dock. | —Penn State Froth, the humorous maga- | zine published by the students of the | Pennsylvania State College, was awarded | the title of the best managed college comic in the United States at the recent national convention of college comic | magazines held at the University of Wis- consin. . —After several futile attempts, Robert E. Leiter, photographer for the State | Game Commission, has succeeded in ob- | taining motion pictures of a young raven in its nest. To secure the piciures, Leiter was lowered sixty feet over an almost perpendicular cliff near McElhat- tan, Clinton county. —An appropriation of $25,000 to defray the expense of a Pennsylvania exhibit ‘at the Chicago centennial anniversary was proposed in a bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Scott, of Centre coun- ty. Governor Pinchot was authorized by the bill to name a commission of nine members to arrange the Pennsylvania ex- hibit. —A $300,000 Masonic Temple will be constructed by the Johnstown Masonic order, with work expected to be started as soon as possible to relieve unemploy- ment, it was announced on Monday. The site already has been secured and a cam- paign among the seven units there to raise the building fund will be started immediately. —George J. Garver, York, Pa., has car- iried mail for the last 30 years under six | different postmasters. Recently, when ‘he reached the age of 65, he became eligible for retirement, but, at his own request, he has been granted an exten- !sion of two years. Before entering Uncle | Sam's postal service, he was foreman | printer in a newspaper plant. | ~—Stanley F.Plachecki and Thomas Me- | Hugh, of Tyrone, have | limestone plant at Hyndman, Pa., known { —The Bell Telephone Company of Penn- | sylvania has closed its options on prop- erty of the Clinton Telephone company, with offices at Avis, and the Salladasburg HI EH : i - il with embezzlement, but ready in jail serving a term for | Rife’s attorney entered a plea of contendre. to workhouse §§ § g | 5 : i i § i : : : | ! | : § 1 2 E583 fig i g 11 electrify residents of that 1h g : I ; | ;
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