Bruin
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Bellefonte, Pa. September 4, 1931.
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN AND cour.
——The Centre county teachers
institute will be held the week be-
ginning October 19th.
— There will be preaching serv- |
ices in the Dix Run Baptist church
Pp. m.
——1In the neighborhood of one |
hundred people, men, women and
children, attended the annual picnic |
of the West Penn Power company,
at the Snow Shoe driving park,
THREE INJURED IN
|driven by Robert Hafer,
| Run valley.
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AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT.
Two women and a man were seri-
Bush's Addition, Bellefonte, on Sun-
day morning, when the car in which
they were riding collided with a car
College. The injured are:
Mrs. Mary Barr, injuries to hip few friends witnessed the
and laceration of the right eye.
IM.
of
'ously injured in an automobile col- and Miss Dorothy K. Clayton,
|lision, at the forks of the road in | daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J.
Clayton, of Trenton, N. J.
| married at noon, on Tuesday, by
Rev. Herring, in the Episcopal
M.
Only the immediate families and a
cereraony.
| Following a honeymoon spent in
Mrs. Anna Allison, lacerations of will be at home at
Sunday, 10:45 a. m., instead of 7:30 right thigh. | Virginia they
A. B. Lear, lacerations of scalp,
puncture of the right forearm and
fractured ribs.
They were all members of an au-
tomobile party from Pitcairn, and
were headed on a trip up Buffalo
At the sharp right-
Saturday afternoon.
——The cider presses in Centre {hand turn in the highway, in Bush's
county have been put in commission | Addition, they collided with the
squeezing out the apple juice, but |Hafer car. The Pitcairn car was
with apples a short crop there is | overthrown which resulted in the in-
little likelihood of a large stock of jury of the occupants. They were
hard cider for next winter. a taken to the Centre County hos-
memes pital for treatment.
Cee oa EE he) Hafer was uninjured but both his
nounces that the regular monthly and the Pitcairn car were badly
meeting of the board of directors amaged.
will be held at the Penn Belle| , ednesday of last week a
hotel, Bellefonte, this (Friday) eve: ity of four men, whose names
ning, at 6.15 o'clock. | could not be learned, were driving
——The Woman's Foreign Mis- yp Bald Eagle valley in an Oakland
sionary Society of the Methodist car. This side of Port Matilda the
church will meet at the parsonage driver lost control of the steering
this (Friday) evening. As the elec- wheel with the result that the car
tion of officers is scheduied and oth- left the concrete road and rolled
er important business to transact a over several times. The only one
full attendance is desired. of the occupants seriously injured
— The Neiman family near Cur- was a one-armed man, who was
Philipsburg hospital
| the Harrisburg Academy, where Mr.
first Governor of Delaware and a
colonel onthe staff of General Wash-
ington during the Revolutionary
war, graduated with “cum laude”
honors at the University of Pennsyl-
vania in 1929, and was head of the
English department of the Sharon
| High school. She was formerly an
instructor in short story writing and
|drama at the Ogontz school. She
|is a writer of short stories, a num-
‘ber of which have been published.
| Mr. Glenn is a graduate of Ohio
| Wesleyan University, class of 1920.
| For one year he was instructor in
English at the Kent school, in Con.
| necticut, then went to the Harris-
burg Academy as an instructor in
English. In 1928 he was made sen-
|ior master. During the World war
‘he served as an ensign in naval
|aviation at Seattle, Wash, San
| Diego, Cal.,, and qaulified as a pilot
|at Pensacola, Fla.
— A ————— —
David A. McNeal, born and raised |
| ber when they separated
ler blamed members of his wife's
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| went to the McNeal home and
‘near Bellefonte, shot and killed his
brother-in-law, Joshua Woomer, at
'er, 61 years old, married one of the
of State Church of the Saviour, Philadelphia. McNEw girls 38 years ago. They
together until last Septem-
and Woomh- |
‘family for his marital troubles.
On Sunday morning Woomer
de- |
manded information as to his wife's’
| whereabouts. Being refused he is
'said to have attacked Mrs. McNeal,
77 years old, beating her on the
head and knocking out several of
‘her teeth. The son, a semi-invalid,
went to the rescue of his mother
when Woomer, he claims, made for
him. He went into another room
‘and got a single-barrel shot gun
and as Woomer continued his ad-
vance shot him in the neck.
A neighbor, hearing the shot,
went to the McNeal home and found
| Woomer lying on the floor with Mec-
Neal standing nearby. A Tyrone
doctor rendered first aid and Woom-
er was placed in the Tyrone ambu-
lance to be taken to the Altoona
hospital but he died on the way to
| that institution.
McNeal, who was placed under
arrest and held for murder, is 59
years old. He was a son of Robert
/C. and Mary McNeal and was born
/in Spring township. For several
| years past he has been employed in
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs. Mary Patterson, of Juniata, is
visiting friends at State College.
—Richard Burns and his niece, Miss
Cleland Driscoll, of Pittsburgh, spent
Sunday here, with their uncles,
—Mrs. Howard Gearhart, her sister,
Miss Anna Fox and their niece, Mary
Parrish, drove to Atlantic City, yesterday,
in the Parrish car, with plans for spend-
ing a week or ten days at the Shore.
—Mrs. William B. Wallis, with her
mother, Mrs. J. Will Conley and Mrs. R.
G. H. Hayes, as motor guests, drove to
New York State, early in the week, with
Niagara Falls as their objective point.
—Philip Ray left, Monday, to begin
work in his new position with the State
Welfare Association, of New York city,
after having been connected with that
of Pennsylvania for the past year or
more.
—Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ward and thelr
! children drove in from Cleveland, Satur-
| day, for a week's visit in Bellefonte with
| Mr. Ward's mother and sister, Mrs. J. E.
| Ward and Miss Isabelle, at their home
|on Curtin street.
‘of Mrs. Ward's two sons.
i
Witcraft, with Mrs. Agnes Atchinson as
a motor guest, drove to Pottstown in
Beezer's car, and visited over the week-
end with the Rev. G. E. Shay, a close
friend of the Beezer family.
| —A Watchman office visitor, last
day, was H. C. Weaver, who stopped Off
here for a few day's visit while enroute |
from Shenandoah to his home in Edge-
wood, Pa. Mr. Weaver was born awd
raised in Bellefonte and is a brother of
the Misses Weaver, of Howard street.
—Miss Margaret Cooney drove to Phila-
James |
were the McNeal home in Tyrone, about .n4 John McDermott, at their home on
| six o'clock Sunday morning. Woom- Burnside street.
Harold is the younger
—Mrs. P. L. Beezer, her daughter and
grandson, Miss Helen Beezer and Philip
Fri- |
| —Mrs. Emma C. Bathgate is spendin;
the week with her son, Willis Bathgat:
and family, at Jacksonville.
| Mrs. Norris Longacre, of Harrisburg
is a guest at the summer place of Mrs
| Joseph Baker, at Snow Shoe Intersection
| —Mrs. George M. Glenn, who is spend
ing the summer on her farm in Hal
| Moon valley, and her son John, of Get
| tysburg, represented the family at th
| Glenn-Clayton wedding mm Philadelphia
| returning to Half Moon Wednesday.
| —After spending the summer vacatio
in Bellefonte with her parents, Mr. anc
Mrs. Neilson E. Robb, of east Curth
street, Miss A. Leila Robb will leave
next week, to resume her work in th
schools of Ardmore, where she has bee:
an instructor for several years.
8. E. Craig, of Pittsburgh, who ha
been in Bellefonte for the week visiting
with his son, James B. Craig and hi
family, on west Curtin street, will b
{joined by Mrs. Craig and his tw
| daughters, tomorrow, for a family Labo
day party at Mr. and Mrs. Jame
Craig's.
—Miss Sara P. Malin returned home
Monday, from a six week's visit with he
| sister and niece, Mrs. Shugert and Mrs
Lochrie, at Central City, Somerset coun
ty. Miss Malin, while in Bellefonte
makes her home with her brother, Og
den B. Malin and his family, on eas
Linn street.
—Mrs. John Puff and her son, Wil
liam Boozer, with Mrs. Puff's siste
and brother Miss Rebecca Derstine anc
Jacob Derstine, of Freeport, Ill., drow
over from Centre Hall, Saturday evening
to spend several hours here with friends
Mr. Derstine will leave to return
| Freeport tomorrow, after a three week”:
| visit at his boyhood home, at Centn
| Hall, it being his custom to make
Yearly visit during the Granger picnk
| time,
| CurriertWiaver—a valited: weds A HE STONE highway department.
| delphia, yesterday, with the Parrish-Fox | —Mr. and Mrs. Merton Shelley,
tin, who recently lost everything in taken to the
a fire, which destroyed their home, |
| wrecked.
are greatly in need of a stove, eith-
er for cooking or heating. If you
have one or know of one not in use, |
which you are willing to donate or
sell cheap, please call this ffice.
——Bellefonte is increasing in|
for treatment.
Last Friday evening Taft and John
Frantz, Malcolm Williams and Mah-
lon Woodring, all of Port Matilda, |
were enroute to Tyrone in a Ford
runabout.
The car was badly | ding announcement is that of Daniel |
|C. Currier and Miss Christine Weav-
er, both of Bellefonte, who were
married at the Evangelical parson-
age, in Lewisburg, at four o'clock
lon the afternoon of August Tth, by
the pastor, Rev. J. W. Thompson.
Woomer was a son of Martin and
Mary Ellen Ayers Woomer and was
born at Bald Eagle. For many
years he was a trackman on the
Bald Eagle Valley railroad but of
late had worked for the Home Elec-
tric Light company, of Tyrone. In
addition to his estranged wife he is
They attempted to pass
They kept their marriage a secret g,,yujved by seven sisters and one
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party, expecting to be there for a week | Akron, Ohlo, were visitors of relative:
or more before going on to resume her in this neighberhood from last Thursday
school work at Hewlette, L. I. Mias until Saturday. Mrs, Shelley is a bride
Cooney has been in Bellefonte for the of only a few months and will be bet
entire summer with her father, Martin ter known here as Miss Evelyn Irwin, ¢
Cooney and the family, at their home daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Irwin
on Bishop street. !of Akron. While here they divide
Miss Katherine McGowan and her their time between Mrs. Shelley's grand:
niece, Agnes Kellerman, are arranging | Parents: Mr. and Mrs. William Florey
population slowly, but surely, as 55
more pupils are registered in the
a car ahead of them and instead of
yielding half the road the driver of
| until last Saturday when they de-
| brother.
His funeral was held on
to leave next week for their annual fall
visit at Niagara Falls, and with friends
of Pleasant Gap, and Mrs. Susan Irwin
of Reynolds Ave., Bellefonte.
public schools this year than last.
The High school has an attendance
of 435, Allegheny grades 394 and
the car crowded them into the ditch
with the result that the Ford turn-
ed up on to it's nose, with the
parted on a delayed wedding tour myesday afternoon, burial being
| which will include a visit with rel- made in th ye ui] Yel nei
|atives at Berwick, several day's e in the Bal gle cemetery
| sojourn at Delaware Water Gap and |
Bishop street grades 344, a total of
1173. Last year the registration
was 1118.
——The ashes of the late Charles
Schreyer, who was cremated follow-
ing his death at Oak Park, Chicago,
on June 27th, will be brought to
Bellefonte, next Tuesday, and inac-
cordance with lis expressed desire
prior to his death will be deposited
on his first wife's grave in the
Schreyer lot in the Union cemetery.
——A few farmers have started
work cutting their corn, and with’
very few exceptions it will be a
bumper crop. The stand is good, it
is well eared and the ears are filled |
to the very tip. The good corn
will in a measure make up
for the disappointment in the wheat
crop, especially with wheat selling
at the low price it is today.
——At the annual outing of the
Volunteer Bible class of the Metho-
dist church, at Hecla Park, last
"Tuesday afternoon and evening, a
contribution of $10 was voted from
its treasury to the Methodist home
for children, at Mechanicsburg, for
the school bus. The contributions |
from Bellefonte people for the new
bus are reported to exceed those
from any other church in the con-
ference.
——Wimbert Dunlap negro,
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of
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Bellefonte, will be given a hearing
before justice of the peace A. M.|
Hinds, at Rockville, Dauphin coun-
ty, at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon,
on the charge of involuntary man-
slaughter growing out of an auto-|
mobile accident along the river
road, on June 22nd, in which Mrs.
Mary Fessinger, of Bradford, sus-
tained injuries which resulted in|
her death.
———The Sunday evening union
church services came to a close
with the service in the Methodist
church last Sunday. Rev. Horace
Lincoln Jacobs, the pastor, was in
charge and Rev. Robert Thena
preached an able discourse from the
text, “The Destruction that Wast-
eth at Noonday.” Other pastors
present were Rev. W. C. Thompson, |
Rev. C. E. Arnold and Rev. H. E.
Oakwood, of Milesburg.
~——-Down in Montgomery Square,
mear Philadelphia, lives a woman, |
Mrs. Mary Ann Knapp, who, on Au-
gust 3rd, celebrated her 105th birth-
day anniversary. She is said to
have been born in Bellefonte during
the time that John Quincy Adams
was President. During her life she
has witnessed four wars in which
this country was vitally interested,
the Mexican war in 1848, the Civil
war 1861-'65, the Spanish-American
war in 1898, and the World war
1915-'18.
——Last Thursday, as jeweler W.|
E. Crossley was pulling up the awn- |
ing in front of his store,
Brockerhoff block he dropped a
package of diamond rings he was
about to take to the postoffice to
mail. When he looked for
package it was gone, though he had
not seen anyone near him
time.
fonte woman telephoned Mr.
ley that her boy had brought home
Investiga- record. Five full-blown flowers
fact
| period and three weeks later it put on four concrete piers.
| forth seventeen flowers in one night. weighs about twenty tons.
a box with two rings.
gation resulted in disclosing the
that the boy had seen Mr. Crossley
drop the package, had grabbed it
and made away without being seen.
He had opened the box and thrown
an entire block.
six more buds on it, which have ad- |
away most of the rings in an alle
Mr. Crossley, the boy's father and |
sheriff Dunlap instituted a search
mand found all but one of the rings.
"The
$380
| will ride to the throne.
in the |
The same afternoon a Belle-
Cross- | every season for the past six years.
wheels in the air. Williams hada
shoulder dislocated while Woodring
and Taft Frantz sustained cuts and
A passing motorist took |
bruises.
the boys to a physician, in Tyrone,
who attended to their injuries. The
offending driver did not stop but the
boys got the license number of his
car.
EIGHTEEN SPEED DEMONS
ENTER ALTOONA RACES.
Eighteen big league auto race
| jockeys, each bidding for a slice in
'the national championship of the
American Automobile Association,
are ready to pull the curtain in Al-
toona on the 1931 board season in
one of the most thrilling climaxes
in the history of automobile racing.
With the championship hanging on
the balances ready to topple either
to the side of Lou Schneider or
Freddy Frame, depending on who
sets the fastest pace, the Labor day
classic promises to uncover faster
speeds than ever before known to
the new type two-man cars.
It will be the hottest battle seen
here in some years. Lou Schneider,
Indianapolis winner, to protect the
championship for which he has been
| shooting since he crossed the finish
/line at Indianapolis Memorial day in a
blaze of glory, must win at least the
100 mile feature classic. But Fred-
dy Frame, the popular west coast
star who finished only 41 seconds be-
hind Schneider in the Hoosier grind,
is known to have developed 10 miles
an hour more speed than that day
|he trailed the Indianapolis winner,
and is favored to win the local
laurels. If he does, Schneider will
be shoved to the rear and Frame
Then, too,
Frame is well acquainted with the
Altoona boards while Schneider hds
yet to experience the thrill of the
fast pace. Schneider rode the local
planks in June last year during
practice sessions but on the eve of
the Flag day classic he appointed
Freddy Winnai to ride the mount.
Only the new type two man cars
with mechanics riding will start in
|the two 25 mile sprints and the 100
mile feature classic. The same line-
up will go to the post for each event.
|The first race will start at 2. p. m,,
Eastern standard time.
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——Vote for J. M. Keichline for
Justice of the Peace. He is qualified
to fill the office. 35-2t
JOHNSTOWN WOMAN'S
NIGHT-BLOOMING CERIUS.
The Watchman recently published
several items regarding the night-
blooming cerius at the home of Mrs.
D. R. Foreman, on north Spring
street, and this week we received a
communication from a subscriber in
Johnstown, Mrs. Willis Weaver, who
| will be remembered by people living
in little Nittany valley as the for-
the mer Miss Blanche Holmes, who tells
of two plants in the flower garden
at the of a neighbor, Mrs. Nathan Miller.
One of the plants has bloomed
This summer it has made an unusual
burst forth at it's first blooming
The sweet and heavy perfume of the
flowers permeated the atmosphere in
The plant now has
vanced to that stage where it is
| likely they will also come into bloom.
ring still missing is valued at
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—Subscribe for the Watchman.
|a visit at the bridegroom's home at
Coudersport.
| The bride is a daughter of Mr.
|and Mrs. Samuel Weaver, of Belle-
| fonte, and for some time past has
been one of the efficient operators
pany, of Bellefonte. They will live
in Bellefonte.
AAP AT
Walker—Sickler.—Cecil Walker,
son of former sheriff W. Miles Walk-
|er, of Bellefonte, business manager
'and one of the owners of the Centre
Democrat, and Miss Margart Sick-
ler, daughter of L. C. Sickler, a for-
mer resident of Tyrone, were
ried in Philadelphia, last Friday af-
ternoon, by a Presbyterian minister.
The bride was given in marriage by
her father while the attendants were
Miss Elizabeth Walker, a sister ot
the bridegroom, as bridesmaid, and
|L. C. Sickler Jr.,, a brother of the
! bride, as best man. The bride isa
‘and the State Teachers’ College, of
‘Millersville. During the past few
| years she had been an instructor in
‘the Lancaster public schools. Mr.
‘and Mrs. Walker will live at the
| Walker home, on east Linn street,
Bellefonte.
McClellan—Watson.—George E.
McClellan, of Bellefonte, and Miss
Mildred Watson, of Snow Shoe, were
married in Williamsport, last Satur-
day, according to word received by
relatives here. The bride is a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel
Watson and, until her resignation
several months ago, was a third
year nurse in training at the Cen-
tre County hospital. The bride-
groom is a son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Charles McClellan and is assis-
tant secretary and treasurer of the
Bellefonte Central Railroad com-
pany.
Burkholder— Emenhizer.— Walter
| Robert Burkholder, of Altoona, and
| Miss Mary Emenhizer, daughter of
{Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Emenhizer, of
| Fleming, were married, on Tuesday,
at the Greenwood United Brethren
parsonage, by the pastor, Rev. H.
B. Seese. They will make their
home in Altoona.
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BIG GAS TANK BEING
PUT UP AT STATE COLLEGE
A big steel gas tank is being
erected by the Central Pennsylvania
Gas company, on it's property near
State College, for the storage of a
sufficient quantity of gas to assure
a constant and even pressure tothe
company’s patrons at the College.
When the service was installed
there a 5,000 cubic foot tank was
erected, and at the time this was
deemed ample for all purposes, but
the consumption of gas at the Col-
lege now far exceeds the original
estimates, and in order to afford an
ample supply and constant pres-
sure the company decided to install
an additional tank.
The new tank will have a capacity
of 50,000 cubic feet. It is shaped
like a Goodyear dirigible and rests
The tank
When
'it is completed the Gas company
| will have a storage capacity of 55,
| 000 cubic feet to supply gas con-
sumers at the College.
——Vote for J. M. Keichline for
Justice of the Peace. He is qualified
to fill the office. 35-2t
in the Bell telephone exchange. |
The bridegroom is assistant mana- |
ger of the West Penn Power com- |
| graduate of the Tyrone High school | with the boys who
| FAMOUS PSYCHIATRIST
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'M. D. of Johns Hopkins’ University,
lis coming to Saint John's Episcopal
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| COMING TO BELLEFONTE
{| The Rev. John Rathbone Oliver, |
in Toronto, Canada. During Miss Mo-
Gowan's absence, her sister, Mrs. J.
Barry Case, of Washington, D. C., will
be with her mother, Mrs. William Mec-
Gowan, at the McGowan home on Spring |
Creek. {
WHIPPO.CARPER FAMILIES
HOLD FIRST REUNION
The Whippo-Carper families, liv-
—Howard Wetzel and his mother, Mrs, ing in Centre and Blair counties,
H. M. Wetzel, arrived in Bellefonte, Sat- held their first annual reunion at
urday, from Coalwood, W. Va., where Shady Nook park, along the Bald
Mrs. Wetzel had been visiting with her | Eagle trail, seven miles east of Ty-
church for an acolyte's festival tc !daughter and son for seven weeks. How- | rone, last Sunday. All told 130 mem-
be held in that Parish, Friday and ard is back home to spend a part of herg of the clan were present, and
Saturday, September 11th and 12th. | September in Bellefonte, anticipating ‘being Sunday,
Doctor Oliver is not only a psychiat- |
rist and psychoanalist of promi- |
nence, a professor at Johns Hopkins’
University, a priest on the staff of
Mt. Calvary, Baltimore, but also an
author of distinction. Dr. Oliver's
books, “Victim and Victor”, “Four-
square”, “Fear”, “Rock and Sand,”
have all had large sales and his
“Victim and Victor” missed the
Pulitzer award a couple of years
ago solely due to the blunder of a
member of the committee. Father
Oliver will preach at the opening
service of the festival on Friday
evening at 8 o'clock. The public
is invited. He will also conduct a
conference eon Saturday morning |
attend this fos
tival.
The acolyte festival, which brings
Dr. Oliver to Bellefonte, has been
arranged by Father Gast and the
local branch of the St. Vincent
Guild of Servers and is the first
festival of its kind to be held in the |
diocese of Harrisburg. The pur-
pose is to bring together the vari.
ous groups of acolytes, boys who
serve at the altar of the church and
in other ways assist in the services,
for spiritual advantages and gen-|
eral good fellowship. Priests and |
their acolytes from many parishes
in the diocese and outside have been
invited to come to this festival.
MORE RURAL RESIDENTS
TO BE DUG OUT OF MUD
To date Centre county has had
in the neighborhood of twenty miles
of rural roads improved under Gov-
ernor Pinchot's twenty thousand
mile road program and the Highway
Department has announced six ad-
ditional stretches of road to be put
in condition before winter sets in.
The roads to be improved are as
follows:
4.06 miles on Route 14012 from
Howard to Romola.
2.29 miles on Route 14003 from a
point north of Moshannon toward
Snow Shoe.
4.48 miles on Route 14010 from
Milesburg toward Curtin, generally
known as the back road.
4.29 miles on route 14011 from
Central City north past the Advent
cemetery.
0.38 mile on Route 14013 from
Pennsylvania Furnace toward Ma-
rengo.
1 mile on Route 14009 from the
Plum Grove school house out to-
wards Dix Run.
According to announcement work
on these roads will be started at
once.
ONE MAN DISCHARGED
ANOTHER ONE SENTENCED.
At a brief session of court, last
Friday morning, Charles H. Breon
was given a hearing on the charge
of desertion and non-support. At
the conclusion of the testimony sub-
mitted the court discharged the de-
fendant upon the payment of costs.
W. G. Keller, of Duncansville, en-
tered a plea of guilty to the charge
of a violation of the liquid fuels
act and was sentenced to pay the
costs, $100 for the use of Centre
| county and undergo probation for a
| period of three years.
early summer, is expected to land
driving to Bethlehem with his mother
and sister, Miss Mildred, during that
time, for a visit with Mrs. Wetzel's moth-
er.
—Mr. and Mrs. William Troup, who
came over from New York a week ago
to spend a part of William's vacation
| here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Calvin Troup, will go to Buffalo, today,
for an over Sunday visit with Mrs,
Troup's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A.
Larson, expecting to return to Bellefonte
early in the week. The Troups were
married a year ago and celebrated their
wedding anniversary Monday of this
week.
—Philip and John Shoemaker and Miss
Annie ..ignot drove to Washington, D.
C., Thursday of last week, in Fhilip's
car, spent Friday and a part of Satur-
day sight seeing and left, Saturday af-
ternoon, accompanied by Miss Mary Shoe-
maker, for the return drive home. Maty
will be home with her mother, Mrs. T. A.
Shoemaker, until Labor day. Miss Ellen
Shoemaker, who has been abroad since
in
New York on the 5th of September.
—A Watchman office visitor, on Mon-
day, was David 8. Lingle, of Potter
township, who came to Bellefonte primed
to enter a strong protest against vacat-
ing a portion of the road running from
the Sunset club down through Georges
valley. Mr. Lingle lives along this road
and naturally didn't want to see any
part of it vacated. When he arrived in
| Bellefonte he was agreeably surprised to er, of Tyrone; Mr.
learn that the petition to vacate the road
had been withdrawn, so all his worries
were at an end.
—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wray and their
two children, Robert Jr. and Jane, spent
the week-end here with Mrs. Wray's
mother, Mrs. Sarah Brown, and in Bell-
wood with Mr. Wray's mother. The
visit was made enroute home to Cleve-
land from Ocean City, Md., where Mrs.
Wray and the children spend a part of
the summer each year, Mr. Wray hav-
ing gone to the Shore for a short time
and to accompany them home. Mrs.
Brown, Mrs. Wray's mother, has been in
Bellefonte for the summer,
—Mr, and Mrs. Ira Proudfoot drove in
from Pittsburgh, last week, on their an-
nual visit with Mrs. Proudfoot's broth-
er, Frank Gross and family. They
brought with them Miss Mary Gross,
who spent the past year with her sister
in Pittsburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Proudfoot,
with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Proudfoct
and the latter's svn, William Proudfoot
and wife, of Altoona, recently took a
motor trip through New York and the
New England States, stopping for a visit
with friends in Boston, Mass.
—The children of Mrs. William Mc-
Clure and also her two sisters, were
called to Philadelphia during the week,
on account of the seriousness of her
condition. After an illness of almost a
year, Mrs. McClure was taken to the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Murdock
Claney, at Narberth, early in the suin-
mer, that she might be under the care
of Philadelphia specialists. Although at
times she responded to the treatment,
there has been no permanent improve-
ment since she left Bellefonte.
—8. A. Bixler and Mrs, Bixler, former-
ly Miss Marguerite Potter, were here for
a day last week, having come up from
Lock Haven to spend a short
Bellefonte with Mrs, Bixler's
home at Waban, Mass. The Bixlers
were former residents of Lock Haven,
and went from there to their present
home in Massachusetts some years ago,
Upon leaving for the return drive to
Waban this week, Mr. and Mrs. Bixler
will be accompanied by Mrs. Dravo and
Mrs. Strong, of Pittsburgh, also former
visting there and with Dr. Joseph Brock-
erhoff, in Bellefonte,
time in|
relatives |
and friends before returning to their
| Oats
residents of Lock Haven, who have been | Rye
| Barley
| Buckwheat
the time was spent
|in social intercourse and recounting
| ancestral experiences. Of course
there was a big dinner and the 106
plates laid were all taken.
A brief business session was held
in the afternoon at which the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Ella Carper; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Mary Patterson; corres-
ponding secretary, Dr. Eva Roan
In the party was Mrs. Rachael
Whippo Hamer, 77 years old. In-
cluded in the gathering were the
following:
Mr. and Mrs. George Carper with six
of their younger children and the fol-
lowing married ones: Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Carper and seven children, Mr.
{and Mrs. Benjamin Carper and daugh-
ter, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Carper and
/son, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Carper and
| daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. William
Houck and three children, all of Hunt-
ingdon Furnace.
| Mrs. Rachael Whippo Hamer and
| daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kauff-
| man and Mrs. Mary Patterson, of Al-
| toona.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Neff, of War-
| rior's Mark; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Carper,
|of Lewistown; Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Carper, Mrs. Verna Derring and three
‘children and Harold Carper, of Union
| Furnace. Mrs. Etta Whippo, Lewis
| Whippo and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoov-
and Mrs. William
| Carper and daughter Mary, Mr. and
| Mrs. Walter Downing and three chil-
dren, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Down-
ing and two children, of Lewistown;
| Mrs. Rachael Edmiston, of Pittsburg,
and two of their daughters, Misses
| Martha and Ruth, of Jacksonville, Fla.;
| Mr. and Mrs. Harry Roan and son Jun-
|for, Mr. and Mrs. John Kelley and son
| Clarence, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Reed
land Mr. and Mrs. Harry Markle, of
State College; Mr. and Mrs. William
Whippo and daughter Joan, of Altoona;
Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus Carper and five
children, of Tyrone; Mr. and Mrs. Clar-
ence Waite and three children, Mr. and
Mrs, Miles Carper and Mr. rnd Mrs.
Easton of Union Furnace; William Owens,
of Axe Mann; Mrs. Stevens, of Holli-
daysburg; Mrs, Clara Sill, of Warrior's
Mark; Mr. and Mrs. James Isett and
daughter and Mr. and Mrs, W. A. Boy-
er and daughter, of Everett; Mrs. Mary
Reed, of Stormstown; Mr. and Mrs, Wil-
liam Gates and daughter, of Warriors
mark; Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Stewart, of
Altoona; Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Reed
and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reed, of Storms-
town; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Grenoble, of
Pine Hall.
——Don't discard your worn felts.
Have them remodeled to Empress
Eugenie or other new styles. Head-
sizes shrunk or enlarged. Elizabeth
T. Cooney Hat Shop. 35-1t
—— A —————
——A rumor on the street, yes-
terday, that the Brockerhoff house
had been rented proved to have no
foundation.
——Vote for J. M. Keichline for
| Justice of the Peace. He is qualified
'to fill the office. 35-2t
——First-class hair cutting 25cts.,
at Eckman’s. 35-1t*
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