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BELLEFONTE, PA,
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET
Sheriff County Commissioner
JOHN M. BOOB JOHN 8. SPEARLY
of Millheim of Spring Township
J. VICTOR BRUNGART
County Treasurer of Rebersburg
ROBERT F. HUNTER
of Bellefonte County Auditor
IRVIN A. MEYER
of Coburn
CLARENCE A. YEARICK
of State College
Prothonotary
8S. CLAUDE HERR
of Bellefonte
Recorder of Deeds Coroner
D. A. McDOWELL DR. WALTER J. KURTZ
of Spring Township of Howard
Register of Wills
JOHN L. WETZLER
of Milesburg
County Surveyor
J. THOMPSON HENRY
of Huston Township
: For Y YEARS AGO
WE MADE THE BED. LET US LIE IN IT.
In the days of the Punic wars Caius Graccus was to old Greece
and Rome, just what Herbert Hoover is to the United States and
Gifford Pinchot to Pennsylvania today. Caius gave corn and soon
had cities overflowing with idlers and beggars.
The President of our country, the Goveronr of our State have
been running hither and yon for a year to find a legislative panacea
for a country that has no malignant malady, a country that is suf-
fering only from nerves that have been strained by excesses of every
form.
The President can appoint commissioners until there are no
more eligibles for such duty left. The Governor can call extra ses-
sions until the crack of doom and nothing more will be accomplished
than Caius Graccus accomplished when he threw corn to the Greeks
and Romans,
The U. 8. A,, the world, is learning a lesson today. Anything
that the President or the Governor might do by way of urging pater-
nalistic legislation will only be spreading corn and circumventing the
lesson that was given to the world centuries ago when Sodom and
Gomarrow were wiped from the face of the earth.
Drunk with wealth our country has strayed a long way from
the ideals for which its founders fought.
Man made laws can be nothing more than sops to those who will
not look for the real reasons for present conditions,
What is needed is moral fibre in our citizenry. Sense to
know that what we are going through is the consequence of our
own improvidence. And courage enough to face it without groveling
at the feet of our President and our Governor; beseeching them to
be as unwise as Caius Graccus,
THE COUNTY NEEDS A VICTOR BRUNGART.
It would be a very wholesome thing for the taxpayers of Centre
County if J. Victor Brungart were elected to the Board of County
Commissioners, Someone is needed in that office to call a halt on
the riot of spending and with the courage to stand up and fight
against outside domination of the business office of the taxpayers of
Centre county. Mr. Brungart is just such a man.
If he is made a County Commissioner there will be an end of
this thing of using public money to pamper political favorites, He's
a fighter, just the kind who will want to know why and for what
any dollar in the county treasury should be paid out. ‘There is too
much of this “Oh, that's all right” stuff in the management of the
county's business. It might be all right to those who are getting
theirs but it isn't all right to the people who will go without clothes
enough to keep them warm this winter in order to save their prop-
foes from being posted for tax sale in the corridors of the court
ouse,
How are men who are desperate as to where they might get
even bread and molasses to feed their families with tomorrow going
to get money enough to pay taxes for wax to polish the court house
floors, for voting machines that a Pinchot satellite shipped to Phil-
ipsburg the other day, law books in $2400.00 lots that litter the floor
of the library in the court house, for salaries of officials as useless as
fifth wheels to wagons? ‘
; God save the county. Victor Brungart can't do it alone, but
he'll try. We know he is free enough from political entanglements,
to be under the thumb of nobody. We know he is clever enough
to forestall any attempt to put anything over on him. We know he
has been so successful in his own occupation as a farmer that the
salary of the office is of little consequence to him. We know that
all he wants is a chance to show the taxpayers of Centre county that
their business should be managed for their benefit, instead of that of
building up a machine, whether it be one of his own party or that of
his opposition,
~The ides of November are approaching and county candidates
are hot-footing it day and night. We hope that none of them are
troubled with “dogs” as mean as Mr. Andrew H. Brown would have
his radio audience believe his are.
Whatever they do at the coming extra session of the Legisla-
ture we hope some way can be devised for getting the State's help to
the needy without taking fifty or sixty cents out of every dollar for
cost of distribution,
—Thomas A. Edison was an exceptional genius, The Watch-
man has no thought of undertaking to dim a single memory of his
wonderful usefulness to mankind, but does anyone suppose that we
would not have had electric light, the phonograph or any other of
his revolutionizing inventions had he never been born?
—D. A. McDowell needs no praise from us. His uncomplain-
ing acceptance of physicial affliction that would have knocked nine
out of every ten other men dewn into the mendicant class, his strug-
gle and success under such a handicap, his record as tax collector of
Spring township are things that those of us who have no cross such
as he bears can view with nothing less than admiration. Let us
give “Sandy” the office he seeks. He would be an excellent Record-
er and, being a Scotchman, we know that two terms in that
would insure him a much needed competence for his old age,
IN CENTRE COUNTY
Items taken from the Watchman issue
of October 28, 1881,
their owners thought
a Bought they
£ riekn Bought. then
them
| At the annual mee
Bellefonte Y. M. C, A.
ton S. Balley; treasurer, J. W,
hart; directors, F. W. Crider, Abram
'S. Valentine, Dr. J. W. Rhone, F.
Potts Green, W. 8. Zeller and James
A. Beaver. The Association then
proceeded to the work of selecting
its first general secretary in the
person of J. Willard iller, at
present principal of the High school
at Shickshinny.
~The inaugural meeting of the
Philipsburg Driving Park Associa-
tion was held four s last week.
There were a lot of entered
in the races and large crowds
ent to be thrilled by their speed.
The half-mile foot race for a purse
of $100.00, was won by John Rey-
nolds, Abe C. Steele was second and |
Wesley Hargrave third,
~Mr. Abe Weber, of Howard, was
in Bellefonte yesterday. He brought
his wife and baby up to have their
picture taken,
- Wolf, one of Bellefonte's
brag tinners, is now making a spe-
clalty of setting up stoves and get-
ting spouting ready for the winter.
—Gotleib Haag has completed his
grist mill at Pleasant Gep and it is
‘now running full blast in custom
grinding.
—Soclal circles among our Jewish
fellow citizens are considerably ex-
‘cited by the approaching nuptials of
Mrs. Dora Sussman, the fair widow
of the late Abraham Sussman, to
‘Abraham Hirsh, a wealthy merchant
| and realtor of Lancaster,
-—Miss Ada Gill, 18
old
i year
daughter of Amos Gill, of Gilltown,
| near Pleasant Gap, died last Sunday
from typhoid fever,
~Did you notice the big, new
eggstove in the Bush house office?
It is a regular furnace.
~~New and second hand buggies
‘and spring wagons are being offered
at bargians at Bartruff's carriage
works on Bishop street.
~-A nail works for Bellefonte ap.
pear to be a certainty. Gen. Beav-
er has announced that work on the
buildings will be started shortly.
~Mrs. Hoop, of Philipsburg, ac-
companied by her niece, Miss Alice
| Flegal, and Dr. John McGirk, left
‘week before last for Idaho Springs,
Col,, where she will join her hus.
band Dr. Hoo who has
operations in t section,
Girk made the trip just to see the
country,
| A charter has been
| the building of what is to be known
as the “Nittany Valley railroad.”
It is to be a narrow gauge line four
miles long and will run from the
Annesly ore bank to Bellefonte,
through Armor's gap and connect.
ing with the Bald age valley R.
R. near Cowdrick's brick yard.
—Luther Rishel, of GQ town-
ship, and D. C. Keller, Centre
Hall, have just returned from Can-
ada where they purchased a cars
load of full blooded Leicester lambs
for stock in Centre county.
I —Lucy, the two ear old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John Dunklebarger,
of Pleasant Gap, choked to death
last Saturday morning. She had
gotten some popcorn in her
windpipe and it could not be got
ten out.
HOWARD.
Mrs. Stella V. Williams entertain
ed the members of the Civic club at
her home, Wednesday evening.
Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Kilpatrick and
daughters, Edna and Kathyrn, of
Bellefonte, were Sunday guests of
Mrs. Stella V. Williams.
Mrs. Claude Confer is spending
this week with her husband, at Ket:
tle Creek, where he has been em:
ployed the past several weeks.
Mrs. Mary DeHaas fell down
stairs at her home, Tue morn.
ing, and fractured her I arm
near the wrist, j
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nata
oi Stn soa’ Hw sind
e, e, were Su -
/lers at the home of Mr and Mrs.
H. T. McDowell.
| The Woman's Home Missionary
| society of the Methodist church held
their ar monthly meeting at the
home Mrs. W. C. fhompson, last
Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Robert Benison, who has
been a surgical patient in the pris
vate hospital, at Lock Haven, re-
‘turned home Saturday and is get.
ting along very nicely.
The W. C. T. U. institute wiil be
held Thursday, October 20th, at the
Christian chapel. There will be
two sessions, beginning at © A, M,
land 1 P, M. Everybody is urged to
(attend these meetings.
| John Wetzler, Democratic candi-
[Jake oor Ruglater was in Powis Mon-
and was accompanied b
his brother, Frank Wetzler and th
| Milesburg band, which sev.
eral selections at the intersection of
|Main and Walnut streets, They
also visited Blanchard, Monument,
| Orviston and Mt. Eagle,
The annual school fair was held
|in the High school building, last
| Friday. Children and their parents
[were very much interested in bri
|ing fruits and tables for dis
| ay, and many splendid drawings
| were on exhibition from the primary
| cessful fair ever held here.
granted for
NEWSY INCIDENTS,
| A plainly lettered cardboard sign,
case. It was inspired through the
embarrassment of 8 young couple
who got into the Treasurer's office
Gep* py mistake, one day last week, and
to their request for a license the
(young lady deputy handed out a dog
license and a tag.
Depreasion, hard times, no work,
no money, form the toplos of nines
tenths of the discussions these days
in most any crowd and gathering,
and we wonder if a lot of it isn't
psychological, Up to the first of
October the borough tax callector
had taken in eighty per cent of the
pres= _ohool tax duplicate, or about $1400
less than last year. And the fours
teen hundred discrepancy was not
the result of people being out of
work but was the resuit of a num-
ber of large taxpayers falling to
get under the wire before the five
per cent was added.
Strangers coming into Bellefonte
by way of north Water street can.
not help but be impressed by the
improved appearance of the ap
proach to the new Lamb street
bridge. The trees and brush along
the banks of the stream have been
trimmed up, giving a splendid view
of the stream and new bridge.
Lamb street around the old Gamble
mill has been widened and much
improved so that the approach to
town from that direction is on a par
with that of any other road leads
ing into Bellefonte,
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Centre county farmers are selling
their porkers at 6 cents a pound on
the hoof. The butcher does the
killing and sells the meat to cons
sumers at 20 to 20 cents the pound,
The head meat is made into pons
‘went down to Yorktown, Va, Sat.
‘haus, the liver and heart into liver
wurst, the fat is rendered into lard,
‘the small intestines are used as
caseins for the sausage, pig feet
‘have a ready sale for pig feet jelly,
‘and the bristles are probably sold to
the tooth brush maaufacturer, So
(we'll let the reader figure out for
‘himself how much profit the man
‘who eats the pork pays to the
butcher who bought the hog from
‘the farmer who raised the pig to
{pay his taxes which Pinchot prom.
[ised to reduce but didn't.
The Centre County hospital did a
business of approximately sixty
thousand dollars last year, accord.
ing to the annual report of the busi
ness manager. The hospital
poration has a membership in ex:
‘cess of twenty-three hundred
There are fifteen members on t's
‘board of managers, eight of them
‘being from Bellefonte and vineity,
and only eleven people, just five of
‘whom were members of the board,
manifested sufficient interest in the
institution to attend the annual
meeting of the corporation last week.
This is not intended as a reflection
on the hospital, It is doing a
splendid work for humanity in Cen.
tre county, but the people at large,
and the members of the board of
managers in particular, should exert
‘a greater interest in it's welfare
than is exemplified by the small ate
tendance, every year, at the annual
meeting of the corporation. Any
one who read the report submitted
by the Woman's Auxiliary, publizh.
ed exclusively in the Watchman last
week, must admit that the members
of that organisation were active dur.
ing the year. A total of 2601 sep.
urate articles was their contribu.
tion, in addition to taking an sotive
part in the hospital drive last
spring. That is the kind of work
that is worthy of commendation,
From now, henceforth any man
who wants to be appointed a game
warden or forester in Pennsylvania
will have to undergo a regular civil
‘service examination to determine his
fitness for the position. Politics are
not supposed to cut any figure. All
the man will have to do to get the
“job, when there's a vacancy, is to
(show that he has a good knowledge
of wooderaft, knows the habits of
wild animals and birds, ix not afraid
of a bear and has been and will
continue to be a Pinchot supporter
| Forty-seven years ago, this fall,
W. Miles Walker was elected shers
iff of Centre county, hence is the
‘oldest living ex-sheriff by quite a
[number of years, At that time
[there were but 42 voting districts
lin the county, now there are 60.
|The actual voting strength in those
‘days did not excesd 8,000 and the
| |
A baby daughter arrived at the | prescated to " The
Roy Snyder home last Wednesday. churches were decorated with flow
John Harm and daughter Mae evs and ferns and alt the oo
have moved from Saulsburg to Rock casion proved quite thal.
George :
after i
matters. ‘only nominee on the Republican and
Mrs, C. A. Breon and daughter pemocratio ballots. He 18 a laws
| Anther wars weekend Visitors in| yer by profession and a Justice of
lamaport. the Peace and has the qualifications
Miss Rosella Reed, of State Cols v0 an the office. 41.8t
lege, is in town, this week, visiting
Mrs, Charles Smith has gone to UNIONVILLE,
State Coll for a week's visit with | Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Kokenroth
a le a of, the Stes: | NSE 4 the homie of MN avd abe.
city, are spending a week Amon | Tey eon $51 Runove, tue day
(a motor
Ors |
county was decidedly Democratic,
Now the voting registration is over
121,000, which includes the women,
and the Republicans are in the ma.
jority,
i
| wewuVote for J. M. Kelchline for
[Justice of the Peace. He is the
‘only nominee on the Republican and
| Democratic ballots, He {8 a laws
yer by profession and a Justice of
| to MI the office,
‘United Lutheran chureh of Amerloa.
Lent,
|
office | grades, making this the most suc. the Peace and has the qualifications wished for
41.3t | many more years of continued sues |
old friends in section,
On October 38th Fred B, Tate will |
offer at public sale his full line of
farm stock and implements,
Mrs. Rose Lytle and Mrs, Maude
McCormick spent the latter end of
the week in the Mountain city.
Mrs, Laura Krebs went out to In.
diana, Pa, on Friday, to visit her
brother, A. J. Musser and family,
Mr, and Mrs, Charles Homan and
three children, of Centre Hall, spent
Sunday with the Royal Kline family.
Mr. and Mrs, C0 W, Swarta mo:
tored to DuBois, tne latter gant of’
the week, to visit Dr, GQ. R, rte.
G. B. Jackson, Mr, and Mrs, W. 8.
Jackson and Miss Claire Jackson
Hon last week at Watkin's Glen,
Rev, Samuel B, Brown, GQ. B Fry
and D. 8, Peterson attended the Sun.
day school convention, in Altoona,
last week,
Mrs. Ada Krebs went up to Jun.
fata, last Thursday, to help take
care of the little daughter who ar.
rived at the J. C. Corl home,
W. H. Roush and wife, who spent
the summer in Ohio, are here ming.
ling among old friends, making their
Hoaiquurtere at the J. NH, Balley
e.
When John Hess came back from
his tp to Altoona, last week, he
brought his gun along to have it
for another hunt with the
Modocks during the deer hunting
season,
A number of People from here at
tended the family gathering held at
the Joe Kepler home, on Wallace
Run, on Sunday, An elaborate din. |
ner was served by Mrs, Kepler and
daughter,
CM, Fry and John Molaughlin
urday, for the big celebration, On
their way home they will visit a
number of the battlefields of the
Civil war,
Mra CH, Goss, with her son
Charles and wife, of Houtadale,
made a brief visit with Mrs, A, F
Goss, on Sunday, on thelr way to
Stone valley to see the George A.
Goss family.
Daniel M. Clemson, with a party
of friends from Pittsburgh, was
th h this section, last week, on
trip and noticed many
changes in the half century that has
since he left the old ore
mines at Scotia to take a job with
the Carnegie Steel company, at
Pittsburgh.
On Monday night three separate
rties went out coon hunting on
y mountain. One coon was
Ng and members of all of the
rties claimed it with the result
at there was some trouble sets
tiing the dispute, Finally one of the
rties got the meat, another the
ide and the other ene nothing,
8. Wilson Cummings, of Tyrone
was 80 yoars old, last Saturday, and
a birthday dinner was given dn cel.
ebration of the event, to which a
fow of his closest friends were in
vited, Mr, Cummings was born in
the Kishacoquillas valley, but be-
fore moving to Tyrone i a long
term of years at MoAlvey's Fort.
He married Miss Alice Irvin, of
Balleyville, who passed away two
years ago.
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HOAL BURG,
Alfred Lee Is having a new heats
ing plant installed in hia residence,
Mr, Jacob Meyer, who has been ill
for a month, is yet confined to bed.
Henry Dale and sons, Jack and
Charles, of Mifftinburg, were in town
on Sunday.
Mra, Harry MoeGirk, of Bellefonte,
spent the week-end with her slater,
ss Anna M. Dale,
Mra. Frank MoFarlane, of Belle
fonte, was a guest of Mrs DB
Thomas, of the Rranch, over the
week-end,
Miscos Anna Mary Hess and Ruth
Crain accompanied a friend on a
drive to New York, on ra
ute
turning to attend teachers inst
in Bellefonte this week,
Vietor Grange entertained their
friends at a Hallowe'en party, on
Tuesday evening, A grand march,
mes and refreshments were .
ures of the evening's entertainment
Very Interesting services were
held in the Lutheran church on
Sunday, at 1080, in honor of the
ator, Rev. Wm, J. Wagner, Rev,
agner entered the ministry forty
Joars ago and for the past ten Nat
as been the very efficient pastor of
the Boalsburg charge. The sermon
for the occasion was preached by
his son, Rev, John HW, Wagner, of
Hudson Heights, N. J, who also
read a number of congratulatory
messages, among them one
from Dr. Kneubel, president of the
A la and attentive audience pars
ticipated In the services, friends
from other nearby towns being pres.
Another service was held at
St. Marks, Pleasant Gap, in the eves
tng Rev. J. I, Harkins, of State
Calle
, bringing the m , The
church and Bund prin. room |
Mr and Mrs, Earl Waite, of War
vioramark, and Mrs, Walte's par.
ents, Mr, and Mra, J. RK \
were guests of Miss Laura Rumbers
ger, last Sunday.
Guests at the home of Mrs, Fran.
ces Hall, last Sunday, were Dr and
Mrs, H, C Lovell and two sons;
Mra, Ela Root and Mr. and Mrs,
Lo. M. Kask, all of Bellwood,
At the meeting of the board of
managers of the lower (Stover)
cemetery, on Monday evening, it
was planned to serve a baked ham
supper in the Community house, No-
vember 13th, 30 and per plate,
Don't forget the chicken and wat
fle Supaor is (Satu ) evening,
at the Hotel Union, by the ladies of
the M. K. church. 30 and 80 ¢ per
plate, with pienty of trimmings and
ple, Home made icecream and
cake extra
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There are hiwade apecial ats
traction offe by Hooster
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Many people plan to visit
Hooster Mtores Kvery Wedness
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Rev, and Mrs, Wagner |