_ FIFTY YEARS AGO 'A HODGE—PODGE OF MOUNTAIN HI CAGERS
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BELLEFONTE,
PA,
TWO SIGNIFICANT MEALS.
seemed of little
Two incidents of last week that might have Ii
political
significance to some were probably freighted with great
potentialities.
Al Smith, as a lone dinner guest of Governor Roosevelt of New
York would not have been a matter to start tongues wagging before
Mr. Smith attacked the plan of the Governor on his reforestation
project. But that attack gave color to rumors that the two devoted
friends had come to the parting of their political ways and the fact
that the former Governor has since gone to break bread with his
successor has intrigued political imagination.
Friends may differ in their evaluation of the wisdom of certain
courses of action and still be friends. On such a premise Mr
Smith's attack on Governor Roosevelt might very properly be re
garded as not the opening of a campaign to stop Roosevelt for Pres-
ident, as it was so generally supposed, but merely his characteristic
habit of speaking his own mind on matters of public interest, re-
gardless of whose political fortunes are at stake. He did it when
the chance of his own opportunity to be made our party's candidate
for President was in the balance.
The Roosevelt—Smith dinner was followed quickly by the meet-
ing at breakfast in Washington, of John W. Curry, boss of Tam-
many, and Representative Garner, of Texas, who will, in all prob-
ability, be the Speaker of the next House of Congress. Possibly
it was only a coincidence.
While Mr. Smith is a Tammany man there has been much in
his connection with the Society to indicate that he has not been in
accord with all of its projects, so that the dinner for two in New
York and the breakfast for two in Washington might have been
more than mere coincidences.
“LET GEORGE DO IT”
Several days ago Governor Pinchot made a statement to the ef-
fect that there are forty individuals in Pennsylvania who could un-
derwrite his proposed forty million dollar bond issue and never feel
it.
Doubtless he was right in his estimate of the wealth of a num-
ber of persons in Pennsylvania, but it is not quite clear as to what
he intended to convey when he said, in effect, that they would never
feel it.
Since the proposed bonds would bear interest and be a mortgage
on the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania they would, if legal, be
gilt edged securities. As such no investor in them would have his
income affected in any other way than the possibility of a difference
in the interest rate they might now be receiving on their money and
the rate the bonds will carry.
From this view point it is difficult to understand the Governor's
intimation that the persons he had in mind might make some sacri-
fice for the common weal.
If he looks on it that way why doesn’t he offer himself on the
sacrificial altar? Why doesn’t he say to the other thirty-nine: I
will take my share of the bonds if you do?
The Pinchots are reputed to be among the very wealthiest of
those claiming residence in Pennsylvania,
rarely seen among those making really large contributions to any
public welfare movements. Unless they keep their lights well con-
cealed under the bushel the public is justified in the belief that they
are of the class that want to “let George do it.”
President Hoover has just announced that he will give his sal-
ary for three days a month to the relief of the poor inWashington.
All the world knows of our Governor's spirit of generosity, ex-
cept with other people's money, through the record that he resigne
his office as Forester of Pennsylvania so that he could beat the
law and accept re-appointment to it the next day at a higher salary.
Laying a mortgage on Pennsylvania for future generations to
pay, especially if it should be foreclosed at a time when they might
be in just such distress as our State finds itself to be today, is a
matter of doubtful wisdom. Nothwithstanding that, the Governor
might have his special session .of the Legislature more perfectly
hypnotized had he shown willingness to do as much as he is calling
on “George” to do.
ON THE STOOL OF REPENTANCE.
The Keystone Gazette is evidently in sackcloth and ashes for
having called the hundreds of unbossed Republicans of Centre coun-
ty who voted the Democratic ticket at the last election “traitors”,
“renegades” and “rubbish.”
In an editorial in it’s last week's issue it attempted to qualify the
lambasting it gave members of its party who jumped the fence by
stating that it meant that only “those candidates who refuse to abide
by the results of the primary election have no place in any party and
are especially unwelcome in the Republican party in Centre county.”
~The Gazette is being more explicit in the objects of its vitupera-
tion, but not quite explicit enough to give the public an idea as to
just who it did call “traitors,” “renegades” and “rubbish.”
Since it has attempted to narrow it down to the gentlemen
who were defeated in its own party primaries will it pick the goats jo
from the sheep among them? In order to make the task easy we
here list the men who ran in the Republican primaries, a number of
whom were not given a square deal by their party's organization:
For Sheriff—I.. Frank Mayes, Willis B. Bathgate, N. R. Lam-
oreaux, James J. Leitzell.
For Treasurer— C. C. Shuey, Ernest E. Demi, Hon. Philip E.
Womelsdorf, R. J. Barnett.
For Prothonotary—E. R. Hancock.
For Recorder—Lloyd A. Stover, James S. Reish.
For Register—Harold D. Cowher, N. R. Stiver, Thomas Mor-
gan, Clark N. Aikey, Frank Sasserman, S. S. Osman.
For Commissioner—Newton I. Wilson, James M. Deitrick, G.
W. Mothersbaugh, Harry W. Frantz, E. S. Bennett, Mahlon R. Hag-
gerty.
For Auditor—Geo. C. King.
| Everybody is invited to make use of
the widest latitude in invective when
NOVEMBER 27, 1931.
yet their names are most’
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; Meek edited and published for fifty-seven and | | Talla dilor |
r that P. Gray ted pu od fifty Fears as
This column is to be an open forum.
it to
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on any sub
Thinks the Country Needs
Less Foolishness.
New York City, Nov. 21, 1931.
To the Democratic Watchman:
It has been a long time, indeed,
since my last visit to Bellefonte.
Going there, to tell the truth, is
something like going to a college
Mr. Given
reunion; not so darned pleasant; too
many changes; and changes which
are not conducive to merriment
when the visitor has gray hair. But,
I am always planning to take my
children over to see the place; and
my wife, too, of course. We were
all set for the past summer, but ill-
ness interfered. Perhaps next sum-
mer. I hope so.
Summer has come back to New
York and everyone 1s sweltering.
Not so comfortable; but God's good-
ness to the thousands who are out
of work and out of home. It
strikes me that many of them are
people who left the farms during
the boom period. Now the show is
over.
I have to laugh when I read of
the activities of the snoopers around
your section. Why, over here the
people got tired of the farce long |
ago, and this goes for those who
never take a drink, but who can see
Speakeasies are now |
and read.
only side door saloons and there are
open bars every where. And they
all pay blackmail to augment the
salaries of the grafters whose sal-
aries from the Government, it has
been set forth, aggreyate more than
the total individual income taxes
ccllected. It is a mnne thing tc
skin the navy and allow this out
rage to continue. My opinion ie
that people generally now see that
having contributed to starving Sand-
wich Islanders, built tibraries for
outlanders of all descriptions and
wasted generally they are now with:
out food through their own foolish:
ness; they realize that the whole
thing was the bunk and they are
sore at the self seekers who led
them into it and giving themselves
the laugh for having fallen for it.
The Pollyanna good time is over
because the dupes are busted or
exhausted. Taxing those who have
it to give to those who haven't is not
going to solve the problem. Eng-
land tried that and now they gre
el
all in the same boat. All
worth while fish have been eaten.
What this country will have to have
is less foolishness.
My, I did not know I could get
so steamed up over something which
began years and years 880 . when
Col. Pope started the good roads
movement so that he could sell
‘more bicycles. The best example
of all is right with you. Bellefonte
has good roads and = rotten sewer
system.
Sircerely,
JOHN L. GIVEN
Former Centre Countian Has Be-
come Noted Religious Educator.
The following, taken from the
last issue of “The Christain Advo-
cate” refers to a man who was born
in Centre county and is the hus-
band of the former Miss Nora Gray,
or the
Gray, of Half Moon valley.
Professor James Voorhees Thomp-
son has been appointed director of
the new College of Religious Educa-
tion and Missions of Drew Univer-
sity, Madison, N. J. Last Septem-
‘ber he joined the faculty of the
Graduate School, coming from a
professorship of Northwestern Uni-
versity. His long and intimate
connection with the practical educa-
tional affairs both of local churches
and of the genera! Sunday School
Board of the Methodist Episcopal
Church makes him especially val-
uable as a teacher and administra-
tor. Among Professor Thompson's
best-known publications are his
Handbook for Workers With Young
People, The Daily Vacation Church
School, with Professor Stout as co-
author. The college which Profes-
sor Thompson now heads is begin-
ni to make a name for itself in
‘educational circles as emphasizing
thoroughly modern educational meth-
‘ods but retaining a true liberal arts
' character. As an undergraduate
professional school ror men and
women it is a senior college only,
‘requiring two years of recognized
college work for admission. Ma-
| jors are offered in general education
‘and in religious education, with
courses leading to the Bachelor of
Arts degree.
i
Yes, They Were the Good Old Days.
From W. G. Hoffer's, Wellshire, Ohio,
| Herald.
| Really just cause for Thanksgiv-
ing: Our old home county in Penn-
sylvania went Democratic Nov. 3,
for the first time in a decade. Prior
|to the time we left the old Keystone
| State almost fifty years ago, the
Republicans had difficulty in secur-
ing persons to fill their tickets, fre-
| quently permitting the election to
| go by default. Those were the da;
late Samuel T.
Items taken from the Watchman issue
of December 2, 1881
—The regular session of Novem-
ber court opened on Monday last
with Judge Orvis and Associates
Frank and Divinie on the bench.
Benjamin Rich, of Unionville, was
made foreman of the grand jury.
‘Among the true bills found were
‘against the road supervisors of Ben-
ner Twp., for neglect of duty; Wil-
‘liam Neary, carrying concealed
weapons and threats; A. Vandyke,
| flourishing a revolver and threats;
Elmer Foulk, libel (This was selling
The Owl). John Kane settled the
case against him for tearing down
the borough lock-up and assisting
prisoners to escape.
| Fifty years ago two men not
practiced in law were elected to sit
as Associate Judges. They had no
voice in questions of law, but in
Bench appointments, granting li-
censes and questions of fact they
had a voice. The Ow! which Elmer
Foulk was charged with libel for
selling was a mysterious publica-
tion, a scandal sheet, that was sur-
reptitiously sold on the streets of
Bellefonte and purveyed only such
stuff as local livery stable, bar-room
and poolroom gossip. It was re-
garded as very raw in those days,
but compared with the modern tab-
loid it would now look like a Sun-
day School lesson leaf. —Editor's
Note.
—The new store room of A. J.
and F. E. Griest in Unionville is a
model that many merchants in large
towns might do well to pattern by.
Every class of goods has its respec-
‘tive department. x xxx Alex Ship-
{ley is the head clerk and is always
on hand to greet the customers.
Master Eddie Griest fills his part
(well and gives satisfaction in his
| department.
—The Excelsior Bible class at
Pleasant Gap has sunk under the
pressure of eighty cents, which it
owed the janitor of the church for
keeping the place warm for the
class. They couldn't raise the mon-
ey so the janitor froze them out.
At Johnstown, last Thursday,
our rifle team of Co. B, was defeat-
ed on both the 100 and 200 yd
ranges by the team of Co. H. of
that city. Hale, Geissinger, Gross
and Van Pelt shot for Co. B.
—Typhoid fever is prevalent in
the neighborhood of Pine Grove
Mills.
-—On Thanksgiving day the ice
was thick enough on the dam at
Coleville to afford fine skating for
the boys and girls. :
| —William Mills has been elected
to the school board to fill the va-
| cancy caused by the resignation of
George Skinner.
| —The question of opening Water
street so as to connect with the
Milesburg pike a little south of Mor-
ris’ lime kilns is being agitated by
some of our citizens.
{ —The State College boys and the
! Lewisburg University boys will play
|a match game of football at State
| College to-morrow, Saturday, De-
cember 3.
| —Maj. Forster, of the Centre
Democrat, is suffering from the ef-
fects of a very severe fall on an icy
side walk a few days ago.
—It i8 rumored that there is to
‘be a railroad built from here along
the Buffalo Run to connect with
the branch of the P. R. R. at Scotia.
| —The properyt of Dr.J.H. Pearce,
of Philipsburg, which was sold last
week, was bought by his wife. The
‘marble and mercantile business will,
we presume, be continued by her.
—Wheat is $1.30, corn .75, po-
tatoes $1.25, eggs .25, butter .35 and
sugar cured hams .15.
"TYRONE HAD $60,000 FIRE
LAST FRIDAY MORNING.
| The Garman block, in Tyrone, was
‘almost entirely destroyed by fire,
'last Saturday morning, while the
Tyrone Herald building, on one side
of the block and the Fisher build-
‘ing, on the other side, were consider-
‘ably damaged, causing a total loss
“estimated at $60,000. The fire
originated in the furnace room of the
Garman block about 7.30 o'clock in
the morning and had gained con-
| siderable headway when the fire-
men arrived on the scene. Not-
withstanding the damage to the
Herald building Editor Jones man-
aged to get out a paper, as usual,
that day.
—————— A ———
~The rotogravure section of the
Morgantown, W. Va., Post, of Fri-
day Nov. 20th, devoted almost an
|entire page to illustrations of the
large operations of the Greer Lime-
ston Co., at Greer, W. Va. Thisis
the company of which D. J. Kelly
is the general manager and his pic-
ture, as well as that of his son
| Frank, who is superintendent of the
operations, add a personal touch to
|the very interesting illustration. And
| by way of local pride the Watchman
| assures its readers that the two for-
| mer Bellefonters suffer nothing when
| their appearance is compared with
| that of many other of West Vir-
|ginia’s prominent business men
| shown in the section.
.
| ——Rumor is to the effect that
YS Mr. Keeler has secured affidavits
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
NEWSY INCIDENTS.
Prothonotary S. Claude Herr is
now engaged in sending out certifi-
cates of election to the more than
four hundred men and women elect-
ed to borough and township offices
at the election on November 3rd,
and it is no simple job. Hereto-
fore election boards were charged
with the duty of issuing certificates J
but under a recent act of the Leg-
islature the court is delegated to
count the vote for every candidate
‘and on prothonotary Herr, as clerk
of the court, falls the duty of send-
ing out the certificates. In doing
the work he is up against two puz-
zling situations. The first has to
‘do with quite a number of candi-
' dates who ran on both tickets for
the same office. On one
they gave their name in full, such
as “William A. Malone,”
‘the other ticket it was simply “W.
A. Malone.” While the supposition
is that the candidate is the same
man on both tickets yet Mr. Herr
has no way of knowing that he is,
and under the law cannot combine
the votes, so it is just possible a
number of such candidates may
lose out because they did not have
their name the same on both tick-
ets.
The other situation Mr. Herr is
up against is finding out the right
adress of the successful candidates
so that the certificate of election
will reach him. Inasmuch as all
boards of road supervisors re-or-
ganize on December 1st certificates
were sent to the successful candi-
dates for this office on Saturday so
that they will be sure to get them
on time. Other certificates will
probably be sent out the latter part
of this week.
In recording the vote it was dis-
covered that out in Snow Shoe a
man was apparently elected over-
seer of the poor by one vote. At
least the ballot bore the by-line
“Vote for two,” and while the reg- M
ular candidate got a normal vote
another man received but one vote,
and he will receive a certificate of
election. The probability is that
there was only one overseer to elect
and that the by-line on the ballot
was an error, but inasmuch as the
prothonotary had no way of deter-
mining this from the returns he
could do nothing else but issue the
certificate.
While the election is now almost
a month past and the average elec-
tion story is passe, here is one too
good to pass up. Along toward the
close of the campaign two candi-
dates made a trip up into west Fer-
guson township. They stopped at
a certain farm house and were met
at the gate by a very surly dog.
The canine did not wag his tail in
friendly greeting but snarled his de-
fiance and showed an ugly set of
teeth. The woman of the house,
hearing the commotion, went to
the door and seeing the men hesitat-
ing because of the dog called out:
“Bob, come up here; come on up
Bob." Mystified as to how the
woman should know his name the
one candidate answered, “Yes, I'm
coming,” and followed by the other
he braved the dog and went up to
the house. It then developed that
the dog's name was “Bob” and the
woman had been calling him in-
stead of the candidate. But it
turned out all right in the end as
it resulted in several votes for both
candidates.
Among Major H. Laird Curtin's
flock of fowls, on his home farm at
Curtin, is a hen who has adopted
one of the farm horses as her roost.
ing place at night, and the horse is
just as much attached to the hen.
When the shades of night begin to
fall the hen will make her way into
the horse stable and fly up and cud-
dle down on the rump of the horse.
The latter will whinny a greeting to
it's feathered friend. If the man
in charge of the stock, on his last
visit to the stables at night, at-
tempts to remove the hen tHe horse
will stamp it's feet and in other
‘ways manifest it's disapproval, while
‘the hen will flop and cackle and if
not penned up will soon make it's
way back to it's roost on the horse.
How would you like to prepare
450 chickens, peel, boil and mash
' 35 bushels of potatoes, use 75 loaves
of bread for “fillin’" for the fowls,
make 75 gallons of giblet gravy
and bake 575 mince pies, all for
one meal? That is what was re-
quired for the Thanksgiving dinner
served yesterday to the 1800 pa-
tients and 350 employees at the
‘Danville State hospital. And the
entire meal was prepared and serv-
‘ed by eight persons. This was
'made possible because of the fact
that the kitchen is electrically
equipped throughout and the oven is
of such ample size that the chick-
ens were all roasted at one time.
The football togs will now be
hung up for another year. Local-
ly the season has beep a frost. |
The Bellefonte High school, the
ticket |
while on
WILL OPEN SEASON JAN. 8.
The Mountain High school basket
ball league schedule for the winter
season has been announced as fol-
lows:
January 8
Lewistown at Bellefonte
Mount Union at Hollidaysburg
Huntingdon at Philipsburg
State College at Try
anuary 15
Pelicans at Huntingdon
ollidays at wn
es: Union
ilipsburg at State College
Jan
daysburg
State College at Lewistown
Huntingdon at Mount Union
January 22
Hollidaysburg at Huntingdon
Mount Union at Philipsburg
Bellefonte at State College
Lewistown at Tyrone
January 26
Tyrone at Bellefonte
State College at Philipsburg
January 29
Philipsburg at Hollidaysburg
Huntingdon at Lewistown
Bellefonte at Mount Union
Tyrone at State College
February 2
Philipsburg at Bellefonte
State College at Huntingdon
Lewistown at Mount Union
Hollidaysburg at Tyrone
February 5
Bellefonte at Lewistown
Mount Union at State College
Tyrone at Philipsburg
February 6
Lewistown at Huntingdon
February 9
State College at Bellefonte
Huntingdon at Hollidaysburg
Mount Union at Tyrone
February 12
Hollidaysburg at Bellefonte
Tyrone at Huntingdon
Philipsburg at Mount Union
February 13
Philipsburg at Lewistown
February 16
Mount Yiion at Huntingdon
aysburg at State Coll
Bellefonte at Tyrone, vee
February 19
Lewistown at Hollidaysbur,
State College at Mount Union
Bellefonte at Philipsburg
Febrrary 23
Huntingdon at Bellefonte
Hollidaysburg at Philipsburg
February 26
Mount Union at Lewistown
Jlunlingdon at State College
Philipsburg at rone
Bellefonte at Hollidaysburg
arch 1
Philipsburg at Huntingdon
Hollidaysburg at Mount Union
Lewistown at State College
March 4
Mount Union at Bellefonte
State Colle at Hollidaysburg
Tyrone at wistown
March 8
Lewistown at Philipsburg
Huntingdon at Tyrone
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Millholland—Fryberger. —A per-
fectly appointed wedding took place
in St. Paul's Episcopal church, Phil-
ipsburg, at sin o'clock last Saturday
evening, when Miss Alice Nuttall
Fryberger, daughter of Mrs. John
E. Fryberger, became the bride of
Paul Douglas Millholland IL, otf New
York city. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. F. T. Eastment.
There was the usual number of at-
tendants and following the ceremony
a reception was held at the home 4
the bride's mother. Mr. and Mrs.
Millholand will make their home in
New York.
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——A two inch post steel bed,
four band Rome link spring and
fifty pound cotton mattress, all for
$13.75.—W. R. Brachbill's furniture
store. 47-1t
| ore Teddy R. and Gifford P. hove !
Dr. Oscar E. Hewitzy, Dr. into sight in the political spotlight | 2nd will present a petition to have Bellefonte Academy and State Col-|
Walter J. Kurtz. | —actually, the really “good old 2 recount of the ballots cast in the lege have all been below par and
. , a RAAT . » | » north precinct of Rush township on | neither of the institutions have any-
ME Cm gi Bn November 3. Boob carried it by a thing to brag about. Probably the
or it aid saying: “Here's your hat what's your hurry” ¥ all of | ——-The afternoon group of chil. | majority of 34. As Judge Fleming players suffered with the same in-
. uy . . ie 4 : : | dren in the Bishop street first grade is holding court in Media this week | ertia that brought about the de-
them, but since it is trying to get its foot out of its mouth it would |ghos1 made thirty Thanksgiving he will not be able to act on any pressed business condition.
be very nice to see it do the job right by naming just who of the greeting books which were presented | local matters before bis return on | .
twenty-seven it regards as the “traitors,” “renegades” and “rubbish.” |to patients in the Centre County | Monday, next. Up to Wednesday | The cost of furnishing text ed from the ie am bg to the
It would be nice, also, if the Gazette were to explain just how hospital. They are new ready to | evening, however, no petition had | books to the children in the public | Philipsburg orp 5 i ore. it gaa
and when it was delegated to say who is welcome and who is not | begin their annual Christmas greet- been filed at the Prothonotary’s of- schools of Pennsylvania averaged found that he sustained a frac-
in the Republican party in Centre county. : ings for the same institution. | fice. $1.56 per pupil in 1930.
For Coroner—Dr. Evan IL. Jones, — Guy Lucas, of Moshannon,
was caught under a fall of rock in
a small coal mine he was operating
near his home, last Thursday after.
noon, and lay unconscious several
hours before being found by mem-
pers of his family. He was remov-
tured shoulder and body bruises.