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A SPENDID TICKET FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
The ticket nominated by the Democrats of Centre county is one
that will stand the acid test for every requirement that might be
conceived as essential for faithful, efficient and economical conduct
of the county's affairs.
From Sheriff to Auditor men of character, men of known ability,
men who are not beholden to any political machine have won the
honor of representing their party purely on their
Be it said that there is no Democratic machine in Centre county.
Even the county organization is little more than a name, so that each
and every nominee of our party who might be elected would go in-
to office without the possibility of subservience to any other interest
than that of the people whom they would serve.
Centre county is paying the price now for having been caught
in the meshes of machine politics. When the cost of its govern-
ment jumps seventy-five thousand dollars in three years, with little
to show for it, there can be no other explanation than that needless
expenses have been piled up because there has been no one so free
from machine domination as to attempt to call a halt.
The candidates our party has nominated for office are all men
who will take their mandate from the people of Centre county and
not orders from Governor Pinchot, Senator Scott or Judge Fleming.
And that would be as it should be, for taxpayers should not be
made a pawn for political manipulators to play with.
As we have said in these columns, time and again, the principles
of no party can be affected by the election of a member of its op-
position to a county office. Machines hold themselves in power by
preaching a contrary doctrine, and machines could not survive a
minute if there were not those so blinded by partisanship that they
cannot see the price they are paying.
The Commissioner’s office is the county's accounting house. It
is now doing an annual business of nearly a third of a million dol-
lars—with your money. And what do we know about it? Noth-
ing more than that there has been needless waste or incompe-
tence.
than a perfunctory examination, a friendly pat on the back by a
couple of amiable gentlemen who would shudder at the idea of stir-
ring up a mess in their own party. What Centre county needs is
an entirely new Board of Commissioners and Auditors with courage
enough to care not a whit whose toes it might tramp on. As a mat-
ter of fact it needs the fearless offices of certified accountants, in
lieu of that the next best thing is the election of Irvin Meyer and
Clarence Yearick. They are Democrats and being such would just
naturally more carefully check up on what is being done with the
hundreds of thousands of dollars that are passing through the Com-
missioner’s hands every year.
—In the light of the charges that Armstrong and McGovern are
making about fraudulent voting in Pittsburgh it is not hard to be-
lieve that the friends of (he late Eddie Beidleman were justified in
claiming that their favorite was cheated out of the nomination for
Governor in 1926. It might also be said that John Hemphill would
have been Governor of Pennsylvania today had there been an hon-
est vote and an honest count in Allegheny county.
—We congratulate our departed contributing editor. Last
spring a boy who had something that we haven't been able to diag-
nose yet attached himself to the Watchman’s staff. He wrote reams
of copy in desperate determination to have something published
Finally he came through with some bits of meritorious verse. Then
several news stories on which many of our readers commented most
favorably. On Sunday the Pittsburgh Press’ much advertised new
colored section gave its very first page to John M. Fleming's “Hell's
Stretch.”
in six months is a fast pace.
Apparently he has arrived.
Let us hope that John can keep up.
His problem now is to stay there.
THE ONE GREAT REASON.
Who deserves the office of Sheriff of Centre County more than
a Legionnaire; especially since the Legionnaire happens to be an up-
standing, intelligent, christian young man.
Harry Keeler claims he has eight reasons why he does.
We have talked to John M. Boob frequently since he became
the Democratic nominee for Sherifi and we have never heard him
mention a single reason why he should have the office. He is a
fine, clean young fellow and gave us the impression that his ambi-
tion was predicated solely on the thought that everyone has the
right to aspire to public service.
It's a strange thing about the Legionnaires. One rarely meets
one who by even the most indircet insinuation makes him feel that
he owes them anything. Yet all of us owe an obligation to them
that we can never repay.
In talking with John Boob, recently, about his chances of elec-
tion we ran over all reasons why Keeler will be hard to defeat, ex-
cept the eight, and never once did he mention the one great reason
why he should not be.
Somehow those boys who went overseas to fight our battles are
different from the Veterans of our Country's other wars. You can’t
drag a thing out of them. John Boob might have told us that he
was terribly gassed in the Argonne, that he laid in hospitals in
France for weeks and that even after he came home and was honor-
ably discharged he had to go back again.
we wouldn't know these truths now if we had not gotten them from
another source. Probably he didn’t want his really big reason for
our support to halt a most searching inquiry into what he was be-
fore he went to France to fight for us and what he has been since
he has returned.
We have made the inquiry and we have found out that John
Joob is not the old woman who lived in the shoe. He doesn’t want
vou to elect him Sheriff because he has so many children he doesn’t
know what to do?
He has something more than fecundity to point to with pride.
He worked his way through a boyhood of drudgery on farms, ever P
ambitious and hopeful of something better and then the war came
and he went across. Coming back broken in physique, but not in
spirit, he fought on to a business education that prepared him to
take a place among the most capable men the town of Millheim
boasts.
He has a right to ask you to vote for him on his record as a
good citizen.
Knowing that he is
vote for him for the supplemental—
he fought your fight and ours.
that we take the liberty of asking you to
and to us the big reason—that
sub,
be or will
personal merits.
The annual statement of the Auditors reveals nothing more
From a casual scribbler to an accepted sydicate writer
He didn’t, however, and
i
This column is 10 be an open forum.
| Everybody is invited to make use of it to
Br
8 Sih Be ilemea. or faites. os
- or as
the contributor may desire—ED.
Oh, for the Lazy Summers Frank
Puts In.
pinion they may have
libelous will be
—Rev. J. F. Tallhelm has been as-
the United Brethren
Well, the summer is about gone
and we leave our camp here for
the trip back to Los Angeles on
September 6.
‘some very hot weather, but
Trail, Oregon, Aug. 29-31 ing for the lads.
Dear George:
We have had a great summer,
you
| -—On September 29,
residence of
Lamb street,
Geo. D. Pennypacker,
know being in the woods we can Esq
dress to be comfortable, and the
| fishing has been so good that we
‘have not had time to worry about
the heat.
| quite expert with the fly. Harold
landed the largest steel head we
measured 29%
inches and weighed 81% lbs. He got
it on a Royal Coachman, with buck-
tail wings, a 4%lb test lead-
er. It took him a little over three
“hours to land the big boy—and what
‘action he did have.
| We have steel-head, rainbows and
cut throat trout and all have lots of
fight in them, especially so since
the Rogue river has many rapids
to add trouble for the fisherman.
About ten days ago we went
down to the mouth of the Klamath
river, about 170 miles from camp,
on the California coast, where a
Chinook salmon run was on. We
caught over 150 lbs. George, you
‘sure would get a kick out of this
fishing. They use a surf rod, not
too heavy and lots of line, and the
salmon run from ten to thirty
pounds each. About 18 pounds was
the largest we caught. There they
have what they call a sportsmen's
cannery so that you can have your
own catch canned while you wait.
It costs only 10cts a can and from
each 10lbs of salmon you get seven
cans, all dolled up with a boastful
label bearing your own name as the
“champeen” fisherman.
I think you should come out and
join us next year, for we intend
spending a week at the mouth of
the Klamath.
| Yours
F. W. HESS
Mr. Hess is well known in Cen-
tre county. Until a few years ago
‘he lived at Philipsburg and Sandy
Ridge. The boys mentioned, Har-
old and Frank were once stars on
Penn State's Varsity foot-ball team.
Nuts for Mr. Owen K. Adams to
Crack.
Karthaus, Pa., Sept. 21, 1931.
Editor, Democratic Watchman,
Bellefonte, Pa.
Dear Sir:
In your issue of September 18th
I notice that, in his zea: for Jack
Dempsey and his rights, Mr. Adams
has hooked him up with a decayed
remnant of European Royalty, and
has given you a * ' because
you have exercised your right to
criticize the parties mentioned. Carl
‘has never been much more on eith-
er side of the Big Pond, than anir-
rational “hop head.” Queen Helen
took the only course left open toa
decent person in her dealings with
'a vile libertine of the Carol type.
In all of his fights, save one, Jack
Dempsey has been favored—either
by the fates or the referee—and
‘has always been given the “breaks.”
In all of his important battles, both
during “war” and “peace,” Demp-
sey has extracted his pound of flesh,
‘and has been paid at least $25,-
000 per minute—actual fighting
time. America does not owe him
'a cent; but he does owe to America
a great deal. In the second Tun-
ney-Dempsey fight it is admitted
that Dempsey got a raw deal,
| through the “long count,” but that
was only a piece of retributive jus-
tice dealt out to Dempsey so that
he might experience the injustice
that Firpo must have felt, when he
was cheated out cf the champion-
ship.
Rules governing ring contests
state that “when one of the princi-
pals leaves or is knocked from the
ring, he must return unaided with.
in a period of one minute or be dis-
| qualified.”
Dempsey recently had written and
published in the Saturday Evening
| Past, over his own name, a series
‘of articles, and in these he admits
‘that he asked for and was given
‘assistance to get back into the ring,
after he had been knocked out of it,
in the Dempsey-Firpo battle. He
| undoubtedly violated both of the
rules named.
It is quite evident from certain
{ quotations in the Adams letter that
| the writer has read the Dempsey
series of articles, and knows of
Dempsey's admission; yet he has the
temerity to ask “fair play” in behalf
of a ring idol, when he, himself, is
not playing “fair.”
Of course it is quite probable
that Mr. Adams, while having a
more extensive knowledge of “for-
eign literature” than either you or
I, may not be so well grounded in
the rules of the prize ring, or in
oiitics. The prize ring and the
political ring have produced much
scandal, which in yoar capacity, as
editor, it is your duty to expose
even though it does get under the
hide of a “thin-skinned” Republican,
upon occasion, or pinches the toes
of a prize-ring idol.
Like yourself, Mr. Editor, T make
no pretensions to extensive knowl-
edge of certain foreign writers, and
| their works, who, like Mr. Bercovici,
hang round the outer fringes of de-
| caying royalty. So permit Mr.
Harold and Frank have become
last week and people generally were
not much disappointed. They hadn't
‘expected much and got just what
‘they expected. This has been a
bad crop year so that the agricul
tural exhibits were few and far be-
‘tween. The whole thing looked run
down at the heel. On Wednesday
there were 88 paid admissions. Thurs-
day 5000 people passed through the
gates. The was fair. Jeff
Middagh, Charley Woodin, Leon
King, Bob Peck and Jacob Cook
had horses in the 2:50 race which
was won by “John King” in 2:50,
2:56 and 3:00. In the county race
John Ballou's “Bay Kate” beat Rush
Lasimer's “Brown Dick” in 3:10 and
—Mrs. Nancy Reed, mother of
James Milliken, now in Europe,
died at the family residence in this
place last Saturday evening. She
was 83
-—A committee of the Senate and
House is spending a week at State
College investigating that institution
and if anything ever needed investi-
gation it does.
—J. Howard Lingle, of this place,
was married to Miss May Brower,
of Bloomsburg, Wednesday morning.
The groom is the second son of ex-
Sheriff J. G. Lingle and is now a
partner in the foundry and machine
shops of W.P. Duncan & Co. J. L.
Spangler and Thomas Keogh were
the ushers and Frank Montgomery
was the best man. Among those
from Bellefonte who went to Blooms.
burg for the ceremony were Rev.
John Hewitt, Misses ma Lingle,
Jennie Reynolds, Flora Fox, Nannie
Harris and Miss Bessie Montgomery.
—The Bellefonte car works will be
sold at public auction on October 27.
| —People of Philipsburg drew their
first supply of water from their new
water plant last Saturday. About
20,000 ft. of
been laid in that place.
| ~The new Boy's Branch of the
'Y. M. C. A. is organized in seven
companies, each with its own cap-
‘tain. They are as follows:
Co. A, R. F. Shaffer, captain, Ed-
ward Harris, John Harris, T. C.
Moran, Percy Blackford, George
Doll, John Bayard, James Harris,
Harry Sternberg, Andrew Cruse,
Sammy Irvin, Willie Hunter, Harry
| Wolf, John Derstine, Willie Burch-
| field, Willis Williams, F. E. Benner,
Geo. Miller, Max Furey, Lewis
Furey, William Seibert, Robert Tay-
‘lor, James Mitchell, Willis Woodring,
Harry Irvin, Bruce Garman, Kline
Woodring.
Co. B, C.P. Hewes, captain, Earl
Tuten, Malcolm Laurie, Alonzo Pot-
ter, Charles Cruse, Edward Butts,
Alfred Fellenbaum, Robert Woodring
John Long, Will Doll, Frank Rhoads,
John Shugert, William Marshall,
Harry Gottshall, Charley Moore,
John Given, Edwin Sunday, Harry
Fulton, Harry Miller.
Co. C, James D. Gordon, captain,
John F. Laurie, Thomas Mitchell,
Charley Hughes, John McCartney,
Oscar Sternberg, Edward Valentine,
Sherman Seibert, Thomas McDer-
mott, Harvey Ginter, Wm. Brew, St.
Clair Roberts, Geo. Valentine, Lewis
Lose.
Co. D, Alfred Nichols, captain,
Edward Haupt, Geo. Miller, Harry
Jenkins, Robert Sommerville, Willie
Keller, Allen Sommerville, George
Bayard, Calvin Ray, Reuben H.
Smith, Alexander Hoover, Willie
Hoover, Gilbert Beaver.
Co. E, C. F. Cook, captain, John
McAfferty, Harvey Miller, Willie
Bartley, Frank Lukenbach, George
L. Jackson, William Butts, William
Cook, Charley Schad, George R.
Meek, Jerome Harper, Newton Haupt,
Orie Laird, William Garman, John
McNichols, Frank Taylor, Guy Traf-
ford, Harry Williams, James Harris,
Blanchard Zimmerman, Walter Camp-
bell, Wash Johnson, William Pen-
nigton, Elijah Shope, Forest Ginter,
William Derstine, Benjamin Pen-
nington.
Co. F, W. F. Reeder, captain, Wil-
liam S. Furst, Kirk Tate, James J.
Rhoads, William Chapman, Arthw
L. Valentine, Morris E. Swartz,
Paul Sternberg, John Anderson.
Philip McGinley, Frank Van Ormer,
Hugh 8. Taylor.
Co. G, D. M. Leib, captain, George
Glenn, Thomas Orbison, Harry Kel-
ler, Charley Rhone, John Howard.
Scott Harris, Rash Williams, Frank
Sharp.
Editor's Note.—Of the above list
of 115 boys ranging m age from 10
to 15 years, who were representative
of the boyhood of Bellefonte fifty
vears ago, only 20 are residents of
the town today. Many are dead
and several have risen to fame in
their professions. Of their captains
only Charles F. Cook and C. P.
Hewes Esq. are living.
Adams to peruse his Bercovici, and
you and I, Mr. Editor, we'll go
fishing!
NIT HARMONY.
pe have thus far.
‘has been practically completed we
HODGE—PODGE OF
NEWSY INCIDENTS
In a nearby county 2 man was
jail for nine months,
‘week, and givena $200 fine for driv-
ing an automobile while intoxicated.
His
i
| known
A
fact that the public in
'is not buying any more than
absolutely necessary. “In fact,”
one of the men, “even those who
don’t intend to pay are not buying
much.”
—So0 far we have been unable to
might be a good idea for the street
commissioner to lay in a supply for
his next paving job—he then would
be able to get plenty of men to
handle them without going outside
the borough limits.
Last week we spoke of the scarc-
ity of glass jars in Centre county
just at a time when the
season was at it's height. Since
then we have learned how great the
demand for jars was this year.
One wholesale firm in Bellefonte
handled a carload a week for five
weeks and is now disposing of it's
And
sixth car load for the season.
this does not include the truck load
after truck load of jars handled by
the various chain stores in most of
the larger towns in the county.
This will give some idea of the
amount of fruit and vegetables that
have been canned for winter use,
but unfortunately reports have al-
ready reached this office of consid-
erable loss in canned stuff as the
result of imperfect canning, or
from some other cause. One farm-
'er's wife we heard of has already
lost one hundred jars of her fruit.
From the low condition of Spring
‘creek, below the falls, the past
week, it would look as if that new
pump is using a good bit of water
and to curtail the flow the water
superintendent might drive just one
‘of those big eels down into the
turbine water wheel.
Out at Clarence there is a family
in which the thirteenth child ar-
‘rived only recently, and the father
is not running for an office, either
Now that the Lamb street bridge
voice the sentiment that it is an
artistic structure and in looks, at
least, surpasses the High street
bridge. The latter, however, could
‘be much improved by a coat or two
of paint to freshen it up. It also
might lengthen the life of the iron
superstructure.
Football as’ it is played in college,
prep and High schools, and on every
town lot, is regarded as a distinctly
American game yet a survey of the
various lineups will show that more
than fifty per cent of the players
are of foreign nationality. Is it
because they have more brawn and
stamina than the American boy, or
is’ the latter lacking in the courage
and grit so necessary on the grid:
iron?
“Governor Approves ‘anning Bees
to Help Needy in Winter” says a
headline in a Cambria county paper.
We opine that any man would have
to be very “needy” before he would
resort to eating canned bees.
Some days ago enforcement of-
ficers had quite an exciting chase
after a load of "White Mule” that
was on the road, somewhere be-
tween Brush Valley ard Milesburg.
Some good citizen who is in favor
of upholding the law had given
them a phone tip with the hope
they could confiscate the cargo.
The officers gave chase and finally
came up with the load. Imagine
their chagrin when they discovered
that the truck was really full of
white mule, but it was an old one
that had died on a Brush Val-
ley farm that morning and was on
the way to the reducing plant in
Mileshurg.
Leander Green missed some good
eats, on Saturday evening. Over-
hearing some one speak of a supper
at the Methodist church he decided
to go up and partake. On the way
he stopped a man and asked the
price of the supper and was inform.
ed that it was not a public function
but a banquet for the delegates at
the Leaguers convention. “Oh, law-
sie,” says Leander, “I'se no delegate
to that affair,” and he faced about
and walked the other way.
——Down on the riflles, south of
the silk mill foot bridge, a big
trout lay dead on Tuesday. It was
a monster, the kind that would
have made any fisherman's eyes
dance with delight to pull out of the
water. The cause of the trout's
demise is somewhat uncertain but
one trout enthusiast was firm in
the conviction that it died as the
result of an attempt to make it's
‘way up stream in the unusually low
water, got caught on the riffles and
| couldn't get back to deeper water. |
TYRONE TERMINAL IS
ENTIRELY ELIMINATED.
With the adoption of the new fall
last and winter schedule on the Pennsyl-
'vania railroad, on Tuesday, the Ty-
'rone station passed out of existence
| ——Last Friday Wiliam Mor.
‘caught in a wire fence near Bald
‘Eagle. When his train reached
Tyrone, he motored back to Bald
Eagle and released the fawn. One
foot was literally torn off so he took
the animal to Tyrone, had the leg
properly attended by a veterinarian
and delivered it to the Rush town-
ship game preserve.
——The baby clinic in Bellefonte,
with Dr. Hoffman, Miss Jean Noll
and Miss Daise Keichline in charge,
will be resumed today, Friday, Oc-
tober 2, in the W. C. T. U. room in
| Petrikin hall. It will be open at3
p- m. and every Friday afternoon
at that time throughout the fall and
winter.
| ——Mrs. Carl Gray has taken the
position in the G. Oscar Gray in-
surance office, made vacant by the
resignation of Miss Adaline Ander-
son, who has been with Mr. Gray
for a number of years.
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———There was a slight frost, last
Friday morning, the first of the
season, but there was not enough of
it to do any damage.
HOWARD.
Mr. and Mrs. K. R. Wolfe were
Clearfield visitors Tuesday.
Sumner J. Wolfe attended the
fair, at Lewisburg, last Thursday.
Miss Carrye Butler spent several
days, last week, at the home of Mr.
‘and Mrs. Geo. Griffith, at Ebens-
burg.
The Parent-Teachers Association
‘held a reception for the teachers at
the High school building last Fri-
day evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Girard Altenderfer
and the latter's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Weber, spent Sunday
with relatives and friends in Jer-
sey Shore.
The members of the Pilgrim Holi-
ness church held baptismal services
in the Bald Eagle creek, on Sun-
day afternoon. About 14 people
were immersed.
James Kane, Rev. J. F. Winkle-
blech, T. A. Pletcher, G. A. Ekdahl
and Girard Altenderfer attended the
I. O. O. F. meeting, at Bellefonte,
Monday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lyman and
children of Coudersport: Mr. and
Mrs. George Griffith and sons, of
Ebensburg; Hon. and Mrs. P. C
Cauffiel and children, of Johnstown,
spent the week-end with the ladies’
mother, Mrs. Stella V. Williams.
The Howard Community Public
Health organization has sent cards
to the parents of the underweight
children in the schools stating cor-
rect weight and present weight. If
the parents desire their children to
have milk in school it will be fur-
nished for 10 cents a week. Some of
the children became confused over
this matter and the Health Organi-
zation thought it advisable to send
a card to the parents.
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IN BELLEFONTE CHURCHES
BELLEFONTE METHODIST CHURCH.
Church Bible school, C. C. Shuey,
Supt., 9.30, with extra events, world
service offering and double reward.
League, 6.30, Rally day—every mem-
ber reporting and new members re-
ceived. . Baptism of children, 9.45
and 2.30 report to pastor. Worship
—Holy Communion at 10.45 and
‘with candle light, in charge of the
young people and especially for the
young people, at 7.30. Keyword
for Communion thought. Members
enrolled. Sacramental offering
stressed.
Pastor responds to calls for his
services. Strangers, commercial
travelers and visitors frequent this
church for worship. All welcome.
Official board, Monday. Interme-
diate and Junior leagues, 6.30 and
m id-weeek meeting congregation,
7.30, Wednesdays.
Horace Lincoln Jacobs,
ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH.
9:30 A. M., Church school; Her-
man Hazel, superintendent.
10:45 A. M., Holy Communion with
Pastor.
short address: “Christ's Absolute
Requirement.”
7:30 P. M., Holy Communion;
Sermon: “The Victory of the Chris-
tian Life.”
The preparatory service to the
Holy Communion will be held this
Friday night at 7:30 o'clock.
Clarence E. Arnold, Pastor.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Russell Harpster and Edna Breon,
both of State College.
Abram N. Frederick, of Lewis-
burg, and Virginia Blanche Horner,
of Boalsburg.
Walter F. Lichty, - of Donervilie,
and Manda K. Foulke, of Strasburg.
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—Get your job work done here.