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
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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-
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home of John Ardell, in his day
of the biggest lumbermen in Cen
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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
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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
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He never went any
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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|
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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
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Church,
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{ —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
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—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
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