Bemoreail flat
Bellefonte, Pa., June 12, 1931.
——DuBois has been tentatively
“gelected as the place for holding the
annual convention of the State
"Grange in December.
_ ——Gardeners in Bellefonte and
: hout the county are having
ble trouble with cut worms,
“this . which are not content
with preying on the cabbage patch
but are cutting tomatoes, lima
‘beans, peppers, Etc.
——Election day this year will
fall on November 2nd, the earliest
-date possible. The first day to se-
~ cure signatures on petitions to file
‘with the county commissioners is
. July 2nd, and the last day for filing
{ petitions with the commissioners is
- August 11th.
——The traffic signal at the in-
‘tersection of High and Spring
‘ streets is no more, A truck driver
“ran into it, last Thursday night,
and all that was left of it was the
«concrete base, and it was badly
chipped. The probability is it will
L mot be replaced.
—Miss Grace Corman, of Coburn,
‘a junior at Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, has been chosen by the
Bucknell chapter of Pi Beta Phi, as
: its representative to the national
- convention of the fraternity, which
~ will be held at Asbury Park, N. J,
t from June 22 to 27.
— Having completed a year's
t course in journalism, at The Penn-
«:gylvania State College,
* went to work as local editor of the
©.Centre Democrat on Monday morn-
!4ng, to take the place made vacant
* py. the resignation of Ralph
I Smith several months ago.
———Among the
' made by the Bell Telephone Co,, in
*. the Pittsburgh region, was the ad
Paul Dubbs |
recent changes .: pajefonte, would
STATE HIGHWAY WORK
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| If all the reports coming out of
Harrisburg can be relied upon more
| State highway work will be done in
Centre county, this summer, than
|has been done in a
{At the
'& Sons are making good
lon thelr
\way' from:
| “Devil's Blbow,’
| Philipsburg, a stretch
| miles, and
‘June 26th
'the road from
| Among bids opened. last Thurs-'
‘day, were those for building 1.1
miles of concrete through the peni-
{ tentiary grounds, in Benner and
‘College townships. Corrado
low bidders, $29.171.
The Highway Department has alsc
announced that 276 miles of sec-
‘ondary highway will be built during
‘the summer in fifty counties of the
| State, and Centre county's share of
this roadway will be the road from
Orviston to Beech Creek, a little
over eight miles. This road will be
‘built by the State's own highway
‘forces at an estimated cost of $7,
500 a mile, Local labor will be used
entirely in this work, highway en-
'gineers and inspectors to be in
charge.
Several other projects are in view
(but the above seem already assured,
land will mean an expenditure of
| considerably more than half a mil-
{lion dollars in road werk in the
| county, which ought to be some re-
lief to the unemployment situation,
"MANY MEN AT WORK IN
CLASSIFICATION YARD.
Looking over the work being done
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in enlarging the Pennsylvania rail-
road's classification yard, just north
i indicate that
the company officials have optimistic
“views on the revival of business in
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
and
| Galliardi, of Connellsville, were the
The Snow Shoe State bank closed,
‘on Wednesday,
morning. While the bank was not
| exactly insolvent deposits continued
‘tors were given twenty-four
(in which to see if they could raise
the money to keep the bank open.’
Being unable to do so it did zot
(open for business on Wednesday
| morning.
According to the last
of the bank it's
| the neighborhood of $375,000. The
officers of the bank are as follows:
| President, R. E. Kech;
B. Bloom; directors, H. J. O'Brien,
David Chambers, Dr. Edward Har-
ris, Roy Chambers, John Lucas
land Mack McClure.
statement
Powdrell—Kepler.—The
|Hon. and Mrs. J. Will Kepler,
Pine Grove Mills, was the scene of
a pretty wedding, at 7 o'clock
(Monday evening, when their daugh-
ter, Miss Helen Madaline Kepler,
was married to Earle Carlisle Pow-
(drell, of Wellfleet, Mass. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. J. S.
English, pastor of the Lutheran
church, in the presence of fifty or
more guests. The attendants were
(Miss Madeline Powdrell, of Wellfleet,
‘and Donald Carlson, of Boston,
. vancement of Thomas King Morris | in, near future as well as a belief Mass. Immediately after the cere-
- Jr., from division supervisor private
Bell exchange, Pittsburgh division,
* to that of district traffic superin-
! tendent, Central district, Pittsburgh.
!in the continuance of Bellefonte as
|the best shipping point of any town and dinner served at the Centre
(of it's size on the Pennsylvania sys-
| tem.
| mony a wedding reception was held
Hills Country club.
| Later Mr. and Mrs. Powdrell de
—Qver two hundred boys and | The Anderson Construction com- parted on a wedding trip through
* girls, 4 to 16 years of age, were in
* attendance at the first day's session
« of the vacation Bible school, held in [force of fifty or more men continu- home of the bridegroom's
* the High school building on Monday.
| pany, of Tyrone, which started work
(on the yard early in April, has a
{ously on the job. The bulk of the
‘the New England States and east-
lern Canada. On returning to the
parents,
(at Wellfleet, Mass, where reception
. Since then there has been a decid- grading has been done from the will be given them on June 20th.
increase in attendance, Last
the total was in the neighbor-
ed
year
*" increase this year is quite large.
———Probably few people in Belle-
“ fonte know that the James A.Jack-
: son, whose name is seen so fre-
* quently in news stories from Wash-
* ington,
is now connected with
/ ment of Commerce in
sand is especially .
<- survey of negro business activities
Lin the country. In the capacity of
‘sap investigator he travels from
« "nopast to coast.
. ——Next Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday “Young Sinners” will be
‘shown at the Richelieu. It is not
what its name would imply at all
~ It is just a pretty story of how a
¥v wayward boy was reclaimed by a
* man who knew boys and how the
‘job was done so well that the girl
" who had caused his downfall in the
‘first place was led to reform when
‘she found she couldn't drag him
“beck. This isn't what is regarded
i in the extravagant superlatives of
7 moviedom “the feature of the year,”
‘But it is, what many of them are
mot, a good show. ,
——The laying of the twelve inch
“ewater main on Lamb street has
“been completed from north Water
“..street to Allegheny. The connec-
"" tion has not yet been made with
** the twelve inch line, on Allegheny
‘street, and the Water committee has
not definitely decided on how to
~ carry the line across Spring
«- greek for connection with the pump
“1 at the Gamble mill. The pipe can
“:.gither be laid through the creek or
hung onto the new bridge, but if
they wait until the bridge is com-
is the son of the late Abe
Jackson, colored, of this place. He
Washington
(ord lime kilns north to where the
{point of the mountain was cut off
track down along the old fair
grounds. A new double track
| bridge has been put down over Buf-
(falo run where it empties into
| Spring creek and the men are now
As
or six new
the entire
laying of them
|good portion of the
time for the shipping of road stone,
| assuming that the various limestone
' operations hereabouts are successful
in securing their usual contracts
this summer. The increased fa-
cilities in the new yard will enable
| the shifting crews to make up trains
much more expeditiously than be-
The Bellefonte Hi-Y club held its
last regular meeting for the season
at the Y, M. C. A. last night.
~ With a candle-light ceremony the
old officers retired and the ones
will serve for the next year
inducted office.
follows: President, Ja
president, Geo. R. Meek Jr.;
tary, Lyman Zimmerman; assistant
seretary, Harry Vonada; treasurer,
Albert Osman. A number of new
members were initiated.
The regular monthly meetings
will be resumed with the opening of
school in the fall
The Hi-Y is a purposeful group
of High school boys who believe in
‘pleted it will be late in the year be- the worthwhile things of life, the
fore the line can be put into service. motto is “Clean Speech, Clean
—— Tomorrow night a thriller
“will be shown at the Richelieu.
"Everyone is interested in how the
Lpolice of great cities handle crime,
Cyet very little of the real workings
+ of ‘those whose duty it is to eternal-
"ily keep a vigilant eye on known
+. grooks is ever revealed, “The Vice
“.zSquad” lets you into secrets you
! *mever ‘thought existed. It is a
*. ‘pevelation to those who often won-
~der how the police system finds out
“what it does. It is a romantic
‘melo-drama of gripping interest and
‘ “features Paul Lukas and Kay Fran-
+ ugle, who do some superb work in ite
12 produttion.
——It ‘might be of interest to
“Bellefonte people to know that Har-
“xis P. Child, who graduated at An-
r'mapolis two weeks ago, was de-
+ glared winner of the sword present-
~ @d annually by the
‘the American Revolution for excel
“ Weaver Child, a grand
“ the late Mr, and Mrs. John P. Har-
“ ris, of Bellefonte. He was appoint-
«.ed to the Naval Academy on recom-
‘mendation of Congressman J.
Daughters of |
p. Hej
in the by F. G. Mason, of Tioga county,
kis term won
boxing, foot-
S , Clean
and Clean Living.”
Scholarship
UNVEILING OF MARKER
IN BRANCH CEMETERY,
A patriotic ceremony iz the
Branch cemetery, at 3 o'clock to-
| morrow (Saturday) afternoon, will
| be the unveiling of a marker by the
| Bellefonte chapter, Daughters of
| the American Revolution, in memo-
{ry of five Revolutionary soldiers,
namely: Col. John Patton, Capt.
| David Whitehill, and privates John
| Barron, Eleazer Evans and Robert
| Moore. Hon. J. Laird Holmes, of
State College, will be the speaker.
| The public is cordially invited to
attend.
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TO DRILL FOR OIL AND
GAS NEAR PHILIPSBURG.
An organization is being formed
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land J. Edward Horn, of Philipsburg,
Rush
Mary |to drill for oil and gas in
daughter of township.
The men are now seeking
|leases on that section of land be-
| tween the Halfmoon road and Mo-
| shannon creek, and Philipsburg and
the top of the Allegheny mountains.
Just as soon as enough territory
can be secured by lease to
it drilling operations will be started.
justify | Carpene
|The bride is the youngest daughter
(of Mr. and Mrs. Kepler and was a
hood of 175, hence the percentage of to permit of the laying of an extra member of the Junior class at State
| College.
| Jacob W. Kepler and
| Mary, and Mrs, Albert Schroeder, of
Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. Milton
Block, of Washington, D. C,, and
{Miss Florence Bantley, of Windber.
'
pretty wed-
ding took place in New York city,
at the Little Church Around the
Corner, on Friday, June 5th. when
groom was attended by his brother,
Ellingford Anderson.
A reception followed at 1583 West
10th street, after which the bride
|and groom left for an extended
tour through Europe. They will be
at home after September 12th at
Rockville, Maryland.
g
resources were in
cashier, C,
home of
at |
© —Harey P. Menold went down to Phil.
| adelphia. Monday afternoon, on a busi-| yp. william McClure returned !
| The committee having in charge
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announces that the stock sales have
been mounting rapidly and that the
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M. Bullock, chairman of the
be released at the present time
treasury |
present, and when it
be at $13.00 a share.
the subscribers to date,
ey could be obtained, is
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Clevenstine, W. J. Emerick,
Nelle Flack
Dr.
J. J. Kilpatrick, Levice
James Harter, H. A. Rossman,
|George A, Beezer, Fred O. Witmer,
George Hazel, John M. Buliock,
James C. Furst, Charles Schlow,
Earl 8S. Orr, G. Oscar Gray, Mary M.
Crawford, William B. Rankin, Kof-
‘man & Sons, Colonel G. Decker, and
Dr. C. J, Newcomb, Bellefonte.
L. D. Fye, H. B. Frankenberger,
B. F. Hann, Grace Keeler, James
Knepper, F. V, Struble, Dr. P. H.
Dale, Dick Gentzel, Dr. J. V. Foster,
IR. F. Stein, A. W. Rodgers, J. K,
| Zerby, Ted Rush, F. L. Struble, J.
|W. Storch and J, C. Struble, State
College.
| Dr. W. J. Kurtz, Howard; W. W.
(Kerlin, Centre Hall; Edgar W.
| Sommers, Pleasant Gap, and Simon
Rote, Axe Mann.
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‘MANY ACCIDENTAL DEATHS
AND SUICIDES IN COUNTY.
During the first five months of
11931 there have been twenty-nine
(accidental deaths and suicides in
Centre county necessitating investi-
|gation by the coroner. The coun-
‘ty, in general, is a community in|
which extreme lawlessness does not
abound and there is little actual
| provocation towards self-destruction,
(yet more suicides have occurred so
far this year than in any equal
(period of time in many years. i
| The result is that coroner W. R.'
|Heaton has bad twenty-nine cases
investigation to
settle definitely in the minds of
friends the exact nature of the
prothonotary’s office where a
fee is also allowed for entering up-
on the quarter sessions docket and
certifying the bill of costs to the
county commissioners. The cost
to the county in the twenty-nine
inquests held so far this year is in
the neighborhood of $850.00, which
already exceeds the total for any
previous year.
MOTHER'S CLUB HOLDS
MONTHLY MEETING.
The June meeting of the Mother's
Club, of Bellefonte, was held Mon-
day evening, at the home of Mrs.
Van Jodon, on Curtin street, with
eleven members and three visitors
present. Mrs. P. G. McGroarity was
enrolled as a new member, The
meeting was called to order by the
president, Mrs. J. M. Hartswick.
The minutes of the previous meet-
ing were read and approved. The
treasurer's report was read and
accepted. The president appointed a
new program committee, Mrs, W. T.
McCormick, chairman; Mrs. Wil-
liam Kline and Mrs. Harry Yeager.
The following articles were read:
“Use of Money,” by Dr. U. T.Kerr,
and a poem, by Edgar A, Guest,
read by Mrs. L. C. Heineman; “Re-
wards and Punishments,” by W. N.
Miller, read by Mrs. Leif, A, Olsen.
Mrs. J. M. Hartswick rendered a
whistling solo which added to the
entertainment of the evening. She
was accompanied on the piano by
her daughter, Betty Ann Hartswick.
After a general discussion and so-
cial hour refreshments were served,
and the meeting then adjourned to
meet in September.
——While the others on the Rich-
elieu's advance offerings are really
good shows “Sin Takes a Holiday,”
which you still have a chance to see
because it will be shown again to-
night, is probably the best of the
three. That doesn't mean that
“The Vice Squad” and “Young Sin-
ners’ are not good offerings. It
merely means that the Constance
Bennett show strikes a chord that
neither of the others touch. If
you haven't seen it we think you
would make no mistake in going.
Mary's Guild of St. John's Episco-
pal church, will be held in the Va-
riety shop this Saturday, June 13th,
at 2 o'clock. An opportunity to buy
home-made cakes, ples, Ete, for
over Sunday.
| Hoy,
ness trip, returning Tuesday night.
or to be more exact, the sale of stock for the proposed yu. Guy Coll was taken to the Cen-
‘did not open for business that Centre County Thrift Corporation ';. County hospital, Tuesday, to be un- |
‘der treatment and observation for a!
time.
. —Miss Stella Cooney went over to New
‘her sister, Miss Margaret, at Hewlette,
—Mrs. W. C. Smeltzer was taken to
‘the Geisinger hospital, at Danville, on | City the
| Wednesday, to be there for a time, for pecting to
a diagnosis and under observation.
—After spending the winter in Okla-
homa Mrs. Etta Grether returned to
Center county for the summer season
and has opened her house at
Gap.
—Mrs., Hiram M. Hiller came up from
Philadelphia, Tuesday, to spend a part
of June as a guest of Miss Anna H.
at her home on north Spring
Pleasant
street.
~The Rev. A. G. Herr, of Milesburg,
and his daughter, Miss Grace, spent two
days of last week in Lancaster, having
driven down for the funeral of a nephew
of Mr, Herr.
—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ceader Jr., of
Cleveland, weére among those at Fenn
State for commencement, living at the
Nittany country club during their visit
to Centre county. Joseph is a member
of the class of 1917.
—Mrs. Collins Shoemaker and her
small daughter, Sally, who have been
making a summer visit of two weeks
with Mrs. Shoemaker's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Stevenson, at Waddle, will
return home tomorrow.
—Dr. Lee Woodcock and his cousin,
Byron Woodcock, are here from Scran-
ton, having driven over, Wednesday, to
spend some time in Bellefonte with Dr.
Woodcock's, mother, Mrs. John A. Wood-
cock, of the Petrikin hall apartments.
street, was taken to the Centre Cow
hospital, Wednesday, very seriously i
week from the Clearfield hospital, wh
she had been under observation for t
| weeks,
—Mrs. Sara Condo will return to !
{work in the local Bell Telephone «
' change, Monday, following a two wee
| York, a week ago, expecting to be with vacation spent with friends in Altoon
~—Miss Mary Hill, who had been
| Bellefonte at
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| from yn, last week, to open
| summer home at Milesburg for the s
son. Mrs. Sears is a native of Mil
burg and returns to occupy her girihe
| home there for a part of each year.
| —Mrs. George Waite has been spe:
‘ing the week with her sons in Jer
| Shore and Williamsport, having been
companied to the former place, Saturd
!by her daughter, Miss Emma, who
—Mrs.. George R. Meek, her sist
Miss Louise Valentine, and their broth
George Valentine, will leave Monc
! morning, as guests of their uncle, Thor
| Downing, of Downingtown, on a wee
motor trip through eastern Canada.
| Wilson I. Fleming and Lincoln
| Swartz, made a two day's trip to E
| abethtown and Harrisburg, last we
! At Elizabethtown they visited the 3
| sonic home while their stop in Han
burg might have had some politi
| significance, and again it might not.
| —Myron M. Cobb and his eldest :
Arnold, who has been east this week
| see his mother, will go to Danville
‘day, where Arnold will be the donor
| blood in a transfusion which will be g
jen Mrs. Cobb at the Geisinger hospi’
in preparing her for an abdominal op
iation Monday. Mrs. Cobb was tal
to Geisinger from camp Devitt, wit
Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Ruhl, of Lock the past week.
Haven, former residents of Bellefonte,
and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Smith, of
Water street, left, Saturday, inthe Ruhl
‘car for Buffalo, intending to go on from
there for a week's drive through eastern
Canada.
—Mrs. Eleanor Cook McDowell,
her little daughter, Barbara Ann,
Bellefonte by bus, on Monday,
with
left
for
| Youngstown, Ohio, on her way to Ober-
‘lin to attend the annual commencement
at Oberlin College,
graduate.
~—James Kellerman II, “son of Mr. and
of which she is a
| Mrs, James Kellerman Jr., of Cresson,
land Miss Marion Guthrie, drove over to
Bellefonte for a week-end visit, being
guests during their stay of James’
grandmother, Mrs. Hannah Kellerman, at
the Benner house.
home of her brother,
expecting to be here for two weeks.
Miss Garman had planned to come home
earlier in the season, but was obliged
to postpone the visit.
—The Misses Jane, Mary and Sarah
Valentine drove up from Chestnut Hill,
Wednesday,
ard’s business interests there, intending
then to go back to Philadelphia where
they will be until next week.
Miss Helen, of Bellefonte; Mr. and Mrs.
Winslow, of Patton, and Mrs. Charles
Cruse Jr. and her small child, of Clear-
fleld, are at Edgefonte, the Garman sum-
mer home at Axe Mann, for the month
of June. Mrs. Isaac Maitland, of Wil-
liamsport, will join the Cruse family,
Sunday, expecting to remain the remain- | Col
der of the month at Edgefonte.
—Miss Thomazine Potter, who is now
in Philadelphia, is expected to return to
the middle of the month,
with plans for being here indefinitely.
Miss Potter will be with the James H.
Potter family, who are now arranging to
leave the Penn Belle at that time to
occupy their home on Linn street, the
H. Laird Curtin family having gone
back to thelr own home at Curtin.
| —Capt. W. H. Fry, who for a th
‘of a century or longer has dished u
| newsy column from the Ferguson tov
| ship district of the county for Wat
[man readers, is delinquent in
| contribution this waek, but he has
very good excuse. The only one of
| company which served during the C
| war, now living, he is spending
| week in Lancaster attending the 6
| State encampment of the G. A. R.
|eard received from him states that th
are in attendance 300
| and of
G. A. R. vetera
the Woman's A:
of Vetera
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At a regular meeting “of t
Bellefonte school board, on Mond
Columbue, Ohio, distinguished hi
dent at Mercersburg Academy.
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