YEARS AGO
FIFTY
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
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| Items taken from the Watchman issue
lof December 9, 1881.
The r that P. Gray Meek edited and published for fifty-seven years and |
BOW pub by his Estate at the Watchman Printing House, Bellefonte, Pa. |
Editors,
GEORGE R. MEEK CHARLES L. GATES
Published weekly, every Friday morn-
Teo Cuprespondsnts. to i |
. Entered at the postoffice, Belle- published ess accompanied by the real ported in the Watchman that the firemen didn't try hard enough but
TY Pa., as second class matter. hame of the writer. i 3 | Excelsior Bible class out there bust because if there was a fire it was
Terms of Su ~Until further In ordering of address always of up because it couldn’ i
notice at the follo ray give the old as wel as the new address. | o0 POPU rch in Jay i it out by the time they arrived.
Paid strictly in advance ~- - $1.50 1t js important that the publisher be | him f mak. But what we want to do here is
Paid before expiration of year - 1.75 notified when a subscriber wishes the met eighty cents due him for a in beltalf of te 4
Paid after expiration of year - 2.00 paper discontinued. In all such cases ing the fires that kept them warm. | Speak word 9pet
A sample copy of the “Watchman” will the subscription must be paid up to Hig version is that the trustees of ators in the telephone exchange.
be sent without cost to applicants, date of on,
DECEMBER
4, 1931.
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A TRYING SITUATION.
Congress will convene on Monday. With its organization the
Democratic party should be greatly concerned, since responsibility
for what may be done by way of legislation during the session will |
weigh heavily in the election of the next President.
As the membership of the House stands the Democrats are in
position to organize it. The wisdom of taking advantage of numer-
ical strength, however, is the debatable question under existing con-
ditions.
Rumors are coming out of Washington to the effect that several
of the best Republican minds in the Senate are of the opinion that it
would be wise to force the Democrats to organize that body, also.
Such intimations should be warning to our party to fear the Greeks
bearing gifts.”
In control of both House and Senate the Democratic party could
properly be held to accountability for legislation during what will be
the most trying situation our country has ever known. Aside from
unprecedented depression and the economic chaos in our own coun-
try, there are extremely critical and delicate problems in our foreign
relations to be met.
Billions of American dollars are invested in German securities,
as well as those of other foreign countries on the verge of bank-
ruptcy. France is obdurate in her demand that German reparations
shall be paid her before Germany provides for the integrity of pri-
vate loans made in this country. France appears to be selfish to
the point of making every plan for relief of Germany subservient to
her own enrichment.
In the far east China and Japan are at swords points over Man- |
churia and our Secretary of State, Mr. Stimson, has involved us in
an unpleasant controversy with the Tokio government. Under
ordinary circumstances it might be regarded as merely an incident
for diplomatic notes to close, but the nerves of nations are strained
to the point where a snap in anyone of them might precipitate
world-wide war.
Such conditions may not be chargeable to the Republican party,
but admission of probable failure to find any palliative for them is
very apparent in the suggestion that opportunity to organize the Sen-
ate be wished on the Democrats.
In such an event our party would be responsible for all legisla-
tion. If any of it should appear to have merit a Republican Presi-
dent could veto it and we would be without power to pass it over
his head, the net result being that we would go into the campaign
of 1932 with a record of having accomplished exactly nothing when
given a chance to show what we could do.
Public confidence is a very fickle thing. The mind of the mass-
es thinks only of today and tomorrow, rarely of yesterday. It
would give no thought to the fact that the Democratic party is not
even remotely responsible for any of the impending great problems.
It will measure it solely by what Congress does during the coming
session by way of their solution,
For that reason control of either the House or the Senate, or
both, might thwart what now scems the certain election of a Demo-
cratic President in 1932
MACHINES ADD TO ELECTION EXPENSE.
One of the several arguments used in launching the campaign
for introduction of voting machines in Pennsylvania was that they
would effect a saving through the elimination of printed ballots that
would, in time, pay the cost of the machine. The claim
MARY GRAY
communications
| —Mr. James Steel writes from Of alarms and at one in partic- |
| Pleasant Gap to say that our cor- ular, that on
t from that place stretch- they were unable
led the truth slightly when he re- This, of course, was not
(the church wanted sixty cents a They will go the limit in case of a
{night for rent and as the class was fire to notify the firemen or have
it couldn't pay so much. the alarm sounded, but the large
|—Those who remember him will be | majority of people in reporting a
| small
interested to know that the late W.
‘Francis Speer, originator of the
| A HODGE—PODGE OF
NEWSY INCIDENTS. know of the capacity of
| went out for dinner and what we
some of the
| men we conclude that the P. G.
willing
During the past week Bellefonte girls must have been very
‘firemen have responded to a number | workers to feed them for four bits.
breezy “That Column” still running
lin the Keystone Gazette, was the
teacher of the class—Editor's Note.
—Mrs. Mary Lemon, aged 63
years, died at her home in Ferguson
township on Saturday, Dec. 3, 1881.
Typhoid fever was the cause of her
' death.
—A handsome iron fence is to be
placed in front of the Episcopal
church building on Allegheny street.
—Pomona Grange, No. 2906, is
| building a very handsome hall at
Sprucetown.
-—The Zion band has purchased a
| operator is unable
name of the person making the call
‘or the exact
set of silver instruments that cost'
them $800.00.
~The hod carriers on the new
Centre county bank building struck
the other day. They came to the
| conclusion that carrying hods of
mortar and brick up a perpendicular
ladder three stories high was worth
more than a dollar a day. They
got a slight increase and went back
to work.
—Word comes from the Robert
Haynes hunting camp at the head of
‘we have not yet been able to figure
'ty one of the candidates at the re-
| cent election filed his account show-
the Fishing run dam that they have
nine deer hung up. In the party
|are Mr. Haynes, J. H. Holt, of Snow
Shoe; John W. Gardner and the
Messrs. Lucas, of Howard.
—The largest woman in Centre
| county, Mrs. Kline, of Philipsburg,
|died last Sunday. It is said that
her casket was so large it couldn't
|be gotten into the hearse and had
‘to be taken to the cemetery on a
| wagon.
| —Professor Hayden, former prof-
essor of music at State College, is
‘now in the Blair county almshouse.
{ The Professor was a wonderful mu-
'sician. He was a wonderful drink-
er, also, and that caused his down-
| fall.
| —Maj. James Gilliland, at one
time Treasurer of Centre county and
|now living in Maryland, was
| town last week.
‘he was looking hale and hearty.
| —John Corman, of Hublersburg,
was badly bitten on the hand by a
hog he was butchering last week.
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At the age of 70!
| ~The new nail works here are
| expec
| by February 1st.
ted to be ready for operation
| The Bellefonte glass works were
put in operation again last Thurs-
|day night. The first batch of glass
|is said to have been of a very su-
| perior quality.
| Mr. Charles McCafferty, of this
| place, and Miss Catharine Williams,
'of Philadelphia, were married in
| that city on Wednesday, Nov. 30th.
Miss Williams is of the Bellefonte
| Williams family and is a relative of
| Mr. McCafferty's first wife. She is
rofile was taken
|the woman whose
| from which to mi the “Liberty”
sounded | that adorns the silver dollar of the |
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reasonable enough because printed ballots for election districts when U. S.—The Williams family referred |
there are many offices to be filled, many parties filing tickets
many candidates for places are intricate and costly work, upon which
penalty prices are quoted because they must be rushed to comple-
tion regardless of what other pressing work the printing plant might |ing a Centre county historical so- |
have in process. Actual use of machines has revealed the surpris-
ing fact that they have added to, rather than decreasing, the cost of
holding elections.
In Luzerne county, where machines were used for the first time
this fall, the combined cost of the primary and general elections was
$40,000 in excess of that for 1931.
Other items of expense not necessitated by the machines might
have contributed to this unusual increase in Luzerne. As to that
possibility we are not informed, but the experience right here in
Centre county gives support to the belief that the whole increase
might be chargeable to them.
In Philipsburg borough, the much discussed machines that Mr.
Secretary Beamish ordered against the protest of the Commissioners
of Centre County, were used at the last general election. They
worked very satisfactorily and the returns from the wards of that
borough were known almost before election boards in other precincts
of the county had gotten the ballots out of the boxes preparatory to
starting the count. :
Now that the bills have come in
| their descendant, the late Mary EIl-
{len McQuistion, left the residue of
| her estate for the purpose of found-
ciety Editor’ Note.
| —Ome, James Stimson is suing the
‘city of Altoona for $50,000
to his character. He was standing
{in front of a church there waiting
‘to take his girl home when a police-
‘man nabbed him and chucked him
‘in the “jug.” Because of the dis-
|grace his girl broke their engage-
ment and a rich maiden aunt, who
'had made him her legatee, cut him
| off without a cent. And so he
! proposes to make the city produce
|some balm for his troubles.
BELLEFONTERS AROUSED
BY EARLY MORNING FIRE
Three-fourths of the people of
Bellefonte were awakened from their
| “beauty sleep,” about 5.20 o'clock on
Tuesday morning, by a double alarm
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and to were pioneers in Bellefonte and |
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the price of getting early re- |of fire, which proved to be on the |
turns is taking the edge off the enthusiasm for machines that was roof of the James R. Hughes resi- |
manifested on the evening of November 3.
ballots per district in Centre county was $12.00.
The cost of printing dence at the Bellefonte Academy. A |
There are three spark from the smoke stack at the
districts in Philipsburg, so paper ballots for that borough would have heating plant evidently caused the |
involved an expense of $36.00. The cost of printing the labels for
the various levers and other gadgets on the three machines used
was $72.00. Just twice the amount the ordinary ballots would have
been done for.
| blaze, which started at the cornice
on the rear part of the roof.
Both fire companies responded and |
the fire was extinguished by the use |
fire are not explicit enough. They
rattle off the call into the telephone
so fast and unintelligibly that the
to catch the
location of the fire.
Frequently the person hangs up the
phone before the operator has time
Thanksgiving evening, |
to find any fire. |
to question him or her in regard to
the property or location. All fire calls |
should be made in a distinct and!
plain tone of voice, and the person |
making the call should never leave |
the phone until he is certain the
operator knows the exact location of |
the fire. This will enable her to!
give the firemen explicit directions |
and save endless confusion in get- |
ting to the scene on time.
We have always wondered what is
gained by the law compelling candi-
dates to file expense accounts, and
it out. Right here in Centre coun-
ing expenses well along in the hun-
dreds and later a man bobs up who
says that the candidate told him
that his campaign cost him over
three thousand. Now one of the
men must surely be mistaken. |
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The Lutheran church at Pleasant |
Gap has a class of “Willing Work-
ers” who served a Thanksgiving din- |
ner of chicken, Etc., for 50 cents a
plate. A number of Belletonters |
Sth
FOREVER |
THANKFUL
for this new
for ithe.
AND THIS OLD
DUTCH OVEN
GOODNESS TO
HER MEALS
‘Wonderful meals that cook
by themselves!
Foods rich
with the flavor of old Dutch
Oven Cooking! Basting, tend-
ing, watching, stirring vanished
replied:
man who sold it to me.” After ex-
plaining that he had not bought a
car and didn't intend to buy one,
he said he considered it quite a
compliment to be placed in the class
of Buick Six owners, and that it was
the third such compliment he had
received during his life. The first
was when a stranger asked him
what big league ball club he played
with and the second when a man
stepped up to him and asked him for
change for a hundred dollar bill.
Granite markers have been placed |
at the four corners of the new fed-
eral postoffice site on the corner of
Allegheny and Howard streets, evi-
dence that borough engineer H. B.
Shattuck and his assistant engi-
neers have completed their survey of
the plot. Granite markers were
probably used so they would last
until all the legal preliminaries have
been disposed of and the government
is ready to erect the buiding.
With over seven thousand hunters
in the Centre county mountains on
the trail of deer neither the male
nor the female of the species will
have half a sportsman's chance of
escape. And the slaughter will
probably continue until the end of
the season on December 15th.
—-The annual fair and country
store of the Bellefonte Presbyterian
church will be held in the chapel,
on Spring street, on Thursday af-
ternoon and evening December 10.
| There will be all manner of articles
suitable for Christmas gifts, aprons,
The
candy, cakes and other foods.
fair will open at 3 p. m.
ad
all
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STATE COLLEGE
Matinee daily at 1:30
Evening opening time 6:00 p. m,
FRIDAY —
Joan Crawford, Clark Gable in
“POSSESSED”
Slim Summerville Comedy
| SATURDAY—
Lilyan Tashman, Kay Francis in
“GIRLS ABOUT TOWN"
MONDAY AND TUESDAY—
Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez,
Jimmy Durante, in
“The Cuban Love Song”
WEDNESDAY —
John Gilbert, Leila Hyams in
“THE PHANTOM OF PARIS”
THURSDAY—
James Dunn, Sally Eilers in
“OVER THE HILL
NITTANY THEATRE
FRIDAY—
Ronald Colman, Fay Wray in
“THE UNHOLY GARDEN”
SATURDAY—
“POSSESSED”
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontaine in
“THE GUARDSMEN"
THURSDAY —
“THE PHANTOM OF PARIS”
A
WORTH WHILE
A GIFT of oll
SPECIAL |
CHRISTMAS OFFER
ees As Low As
$€).50
: In the light of such facts it is easy to believe that the increase of the chemical Sppasatas Hough |
which Luzerne county is wondering about is directly attributable to |tionary measure to wet the roof and |
the use of machines. loutside of the building. The dam- |
|age was not large and is covered by |
—Mayor Jimmie Walker, of New York, is in California to make insurance.
a personal appeal to Governor Rolph for the pardon of Tom Mooney, |
whe is serving a life sentence in San Quentin prison for supposed | f celebrated their thirt
bombing of a pre-paredness day parade in San Francisco, in which { oF, Fomor, a Mn ey
a number of persons were killed. = Whether Mooney was an actual y g )
te ; . A |day. Prior to her marriage Mrs. |
participant in the murderous outrage was not definitely established |gihhs was Miss Minnie Kline, of
at the time of his trial.
His record as an agitator in defiance of law | Bellefonte. Rev. Gibbs is a retired |
was a long one and it was known that he was in sympathy with the | Presbyterian minister.
spirit of the bombing, so that his conviction was regarded as a just |
one, if for no other reason than it put a very dangerous man in a|
place where he could no longer be a menace to society and govern- | R. G. Cole and Vivian M. Poor-
ment. Mayor Walker's unusual interest in the case has caused! man, both of Bellefonte. :
much speculation as to its real motive. To many it well appear as| wiliam H. Callahan, of Linden |
heing more a play to the gallery than anything else. |Hall, and Virginia E. Bailey, of!
Boalsburg.
et . . . . Paul Edward Bohn, of Centre |
—The State Department of Mines is crowing because deaths ga) and Alice Emeline Ralston, of |
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have decreased in the bituminous fields. Why shouldn't they? State College. |
T'here are so few soft coal mines going in Pennsylvania that casual-| Lester Wiliam Schmoke and |
ties ought to be few. Twila E. Fye, both of Moshannon.
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