=F
Bellefonte, Pa., December 11, 1931,
——————
TO A FRIEND ON CHRISTMAS
—
BY JOHN M. FLEMING
This isn't a lot of boloney sliced thin,
‘Cause it reads like a fairy tale.
Its a wish that's above all the Santa
Claus din
That's hearty, sincere and hale.
There's about Christmas
dawn
And a year's most fitting end,
That brings back thoughts of a day
that's gone,
When harmony would blend.
something a
1 were the kind of a guy that'ed
drink,
And had a pint or two,
I'd fill the cup to the bloom’in brink,
And drink a toast to you.
I
And venture a wish for the coming year,
As well as Christmas day,
That joy and peace and all good cheer
May always come your way.
——————————————————
LOVERS OF NATURE
GARNER NUT CROP
Gathering nuts in the woods is
one of the most enjoyable pas-
times of the autumn season for
lovers of the out-of-doors in Penn-
sylvania. A variety of nut-bearing
trees is found in every part of the
State.
Nuts mature in September and
are usually ripe and begin to fall
when the first frosts arrive. Those
that fall early may be undeveloped.
Now is the time when they are at
their best. According to reports
received from various sources
throughout the State by John W.
Keller, deputy secretary of the
Pennsylvania department of forests
and waters, the nut crop this fall
will be bountiful, the result of a
growing season and sufficient
rain-fall during the past summer.
What is perhaps the best known
put tree in Pennsylvania is the
black walnut. It grows wild in
rich bottomlands and on fertile hill-
sides, but is rare in the northern
part of the State, where severe
frosts are apt to cause it to freeze
pack each year.
nut is a favorite in the preparation
of cakes and ice creams because it
does not lose its flavor in cooking,
and it is high in food value.
The butternut or white walnut
tree resembles the black walnut,
but the fruits are quite distinctive.
The covering or husk of the black
from one to two!
walnut is round,
inches i amter
husk of the
and very hairy and sticky.
nut is sweet, but it is
than the black walnut.
Six species of hickories are na-
tive to Pennsylvania, and one other
variety, the hickory, has
been planted extensively for
sweet nuts produced by it. All the
hickories bear edible nuts, but the
whereas the
The
i
PE inatily not used as food owing
to their small and rather bitter
kernels. - The favorite nut-bearing
species are the shag-bark
big shellbark hickories, The meats
are white and sweet and the husks
split open fairly easily.
The sweet kernels of beech nuts
are delicious and nutritious. The
early colonial settlers fattened their
hogs on beach nuts, and since an-
cient times they have been used ex-
tensively for human food. Beech
trees are found all over the State in
woodlots, but they are most abun- |
dant in the northern part and at
the higher elevations, where birch
and maple are their most common
associates.
The hazelnuts, or
two species native
They are shrubs,
clumps and thickets, rarely exceed-
ing eight feet in height. The nuts
are about one-half inch long and
contain sweet edible kernels, which
are common on our markets. The
hazelnut is found locally throughout
the entire State, and frequents the
borders of woodlots and fence rows.
Many people consider the filbert our
choicest and most deliciously tasting
nut.
The chestnut,
known nut-bearing tree
filberts, have
to the State.
and grow in
probably the best
of the
northern hemisphere, was one of the
most sought-after nuts until the
blight, a bark disease, swept through
the forests of the State a few years
ago killing the entire chestnut-
stand.
of nut-bearing size are living now,
although foresters and rangers oc-
casionally find a tree that has
grown from sprout and has resisted
the blight.
The chinquapin, or chick-a-pin of
the South, is a small brother of the
chestnut and is a native in the
southern part of the State. It may
easily be distinguished from the
chestnut by its small size—it rare-
ly exceeds 25 feet in height—and by
its smaller leaves. Unlike the chest.
nut which usually produces three
units inside each bur, the chingua-
pin has only one, and, occasionally
two nuts in a bur. The kernels
are very sweet.
Many natural hybrids of domestic
wild nut trees have been found,
and considerable grafting and arti-
ficial propagation are being ed
on in Pennsylvania. These experi-
ments have resulted in the develop
ment of some exceptionally large
and delicious varieties of thin-shell-
Nuts are now raised and
marketed as an agricultural crop,
and may be purchased throughout
the year in grocery and candy stores.
But autumn is the season for gath-
erng the nuts in the woods, and
now is the time when the true dev-
otee of the out-of-doors finds them
at their best.
—Read the Watchman and get all
the news worth reading.
The meat of the
butternut is elongated
the
ut- and bitter nut hickories are |
and the
Very few native chestnuts
At a special session of court, on!
‘Saturday morning, Walter Vance,
‘the big negro who made an attempt
‘to escape from Rockxiew peniten-
| ha
|tiary on Monday night of last week,
was called up for sentence. Asked |
why he made a break for liberty |
he stated that he had been kept in
solitary confinement for some days
land he didn’t like it. Deputy war-|
den W. J. McFarland told the court
| that Vance had been put in solitary
confinement because he refused to
work. He was given a duplicate of
his original sentence, three to six
years.
Homer Detwiler, who on Novem-
per 6th was sentenced to pay a fine
of $300 and serve sixty days in the
county jail, for a violation of the
/liquor laws, was granted a parole
on condition he arrange with the
probation and parole officer for the
payment of the fine and costs.
Michael Shay was also granted a
parole on condition h e make ar-
rangements to pay his fine and
costs. He was sentenced on Au-
gust 15th to pay a fine of $400 and
serve four to eight months in the
county jail for a violation of the
liquor laws.
The fourth man called before the
court was Guy Coll, a well known
barber of Bellefonte. His case has |
been before the court since May,
1924, when an action for desertion and
non-support was brought against
him by his wife. An order of $25 a
month was made against him for the
support of his child. On a number
of occasions since he has been
brought before the court for failure
to comply with the order, and now
he is almost $700 in arrears. The
court sentenced Coll to make satis-
factory arrangements with the pro-
bation officer within ten days to
pay the arrearages and monthly
order, and failure to do so go to
the Allegheny county work house
for six months to one year.
Two escaped prisoners who so far
have refused to plead guilty are
Charles Cole and Jack Dunn and
the court made an order transfer-
ring them from the Centre county
|jail to Rockview penitentiary until |
such time as their cases are called |
for trial.
TWO MEN FINED FOR
DRIVING OVER FIRE HOSE |
Give the firemen of Bellefonte and |
their apparatus a wide berth in the
future if you don't want to pay for
your thoughtlessness. At the re-|
| cent fire at the Academy three mo- |
| torists drove their cars over the fire |
hose and another man drove over |
‘the hose at a fire previous to that.|
| Information was made against the
| four men before a Bellefonte justice |
|of the peace and two of them ap- |
peared before that official and set- |
tled by paying a fine of ten dollars |
and costs, or a total of $12.45 cents |
each. At this writing the other |
two men have not appeared to set-
tle their cases, and if they fail to
do so within the time limit war-|
rants will he issued for their arrest.
The firemen feel that this is the only |
‘way to break up this practice of |
| carelessness upon the part of auto- |
mobile drivers. |
MOTORISTS WARNED OF
STOP SIGN ENFORCEMENT.
|
Motorists traveling on State high- |
way route 350 are cautioned to stop |
‘at the intersection of that route
‘with route 220 at Port Matilda. Local
officers in that borough are rigidly |
| enforcing a stop-sign ordinance re-|
| cently passed.
Since the improvement of the road |
‘across the Bald Eagle ridge, many |
' motorists are now using route 250
from State College to Buffalo Run |
‘and from there to route 550 to al
point below Stormstown where route |
350 intersects and crosses the moun-
itain. The district under strict sur-
veillance is the neighborhood of the
intersection of route 350 and the |
| Horseshoe Trail at Port Matilda.
Port Matilda officers are also en-
forcing the speed limit through ol
‘borough, so be on your guard and
don't drive too fast. i
BUILDING, STATE COLLEGE,
DAMAGED SOME BY FIRE. |
The Peoples National bank build- |
ing, at State College, was damaged |
to the extent of $2500, last Thursday
evening, by a fire that for a time baf-
fled the efforts of the firemen to ex-
‘tinguish. The blaze started under |
|the stairway leading to the second |
{floor and was in a location difficult |
to get at. In addition to the bank |
| the building is occupied by Winner's
meat market, on the first floor, om |
T. Taylor's law offices and Frost
|and Doty's insurance offices, on the
[zecond floor. While the fire did
mot reach any of these offices all of
|them were damaged by smoke and
| water.
|
PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK |
——At the election on November
3rd twelve justices of the peace
were elected in Centre county and
leleven of them have notified the
Prothonotary that they will lift their
commissions. The one man who
| don’t want to be a 'Squire is C. A.
Dolan, of Marion township. His de-
clining to serve leaves a vacancy
which will be filled by an appoint-
ment by the Governor, if anybody
is willing to take the office.
The Fish Commission has an-
nounced purchase of over a million
brook trout eggs from
hatcheries in preparation for the
season at Pleasant Mount,
Tionesta, and Re :
has been founda by the Board
more economical than the re- |
of brood stock at State
hatcheries the year around. i
The trout are in
hatching troughs immediately after
they are received at the hatcheries.
The hatching period varies from 90
to 120 days and is contingent upon
the temperature of the water at the
different propagation plants.
While all trout of over legal size
available were distributed from the
hatcheries this autumn, thousands
of speckled beauties not yet of legal
eggs
to be
‘limit are being held over at Rey- |
noldsdale, Pleasant Mount, Corry, |
Tionesta, and Bellefonte for the
spring stocking season. Rapid
growth under scientific methods in
vogue at the State hatcheries in-
sures a splendid supply of brookies
for the spring stocking. An idea
of the extensive fall stocking pro-
gram now neariy completed, may be
had, when the fact that 122,320
trout were distributed in August,
while the September distribution
exceeded 179,000. The autumn
stocking supply of broak frout rang-
ed in size from 6 to 11 inches. |
Total value of the trout stocked in |
August and September exceeded |
$72,000 if purchased. |
A constant increase in popularity
of trout fishing throughout the State |
makes the propagation of brook |
trout one of the major activities of |
the hatcheries. Outstanding suc-
cess in the rearing of these beauti- |
ful game fish has marked the propa- |
gation program of the Fish Com- |
mission. i
LUMBER OUTPUT IS
BELOW CUT IN 1929 |
The production of lumber sawmills |
in Pennsylvania during the current |
year was only twenty-five per cent
of that of 1929, according to data
compiled under the direction of
John W. Keller, deputy secretary of
the Department of Forests and Wa- |
!
“OUR SPECIAL"
CHRISTMAS
Wes
T Penny EvgcTRIC Snops
ters based on a recently completed
State-wide survey of the industry.
The survey shows there are 177
sawmills with an individual annual
production of less than five million
board feet in the twenty four forest
districts into which the State is
divided.
——————————————————
THE FIVE CENT CIGAR
GETTING POPULAR AGAIN
The popularity of the nickel cigar
is spreading in vania. |
Manufacturers’ sale of that type
increased nearly $2,000,000 last
month over October a year ago in
the Twenty-third Pennsylvania In-'
ternal Revenue District, which has
headquarters at Pittsburgh.
The Pittsburgh district's gain was
in accordance with a similar trend
in the First District, with offices at
Philadelphia, existing for several
months this year and checked for
the first time in October.
Sales of 5-cent cigars there last
month totaled 103,545,970, as against
106,179,160 for the same month in
1930. Corresponding figures for
the Pittsburgh district were 7,133,-
715 for last month and 5,298,100 in
October, 1930.
The decrease in sales of the high-
er priced cigars in the First District
evident during most of the year was
maintained during October. Only
i
955,750 of Class B cigars, or those
‘gelling for 8 and 10 cents retail,
were sold last month, as against 8,-
503,870 in October, 1930, and Class
C, or 15 centers, dropped from 64,-
211,028 to 36,976,968.
PROHIBITION DISCARDED
FOR TEMPERANCE.
A report declaring Finland's pro-
hibition law to be insupportable and
recommending that beer and wines
be legalized will be submitted soon
by the government commission ap-
pointed last winter to study the
problem.
The majority report, it was learn-
ed on the highest authority today,
will declare a change is needed in
the interests of real temperance. It
will offer three proposals: i
To permit the manufacture, trans-
portation, storage and importation
of wines of not more than 12 per
cent alcoholic content by volume, of |
beer of 3.2 per cent and liquors of
12 per cent. |
A
— as she scrubs
with the most
Oven days.
Flavor
{er L. R. Smith for the following
hea : i
worthwhile gift of all —a
Westinghouse Electric Range. This modern
range cooks automatically . . . doesn’t de-
mand her presence in the kitchen from the
time she closes the oven door until she bears
the food to the table. And what food! So
lusciously brown, so meltingly tender, so
filled with savory flavor that it can be likened
only to the famous fare of the old Dutch
ee. As Low As
HE WAIVES A HEARING
| ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
In Dallas, Texas, Wr KLINE WOO!
Claud Williams was arrested for |S “La AR ge
owning a cache of whisky and tak: | all
Soho: Giller, “vu 3 Cel
en before United States Commission
KENNEDY JO! v
: Law, Bellefonte, Pa. ate
legal business
Q—What do you plead?
Ss
57
A.—1I pleads guilty and waives the | ghtrusted to
hearing. guilty = High
Q.—What do you mean, waive the
hearing ? J
A.—I means I don’t want to hear
no more about it.—Time.
M. KEICHLINE.—Attorney at Law
and Justice of the Peace. All
prompt attention. Offices on second floor
ot Temple Couste
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. W
:
G. RUNKLE.— ARtoriey at Law,
Consultation in Engl and Ger-
H. E. Dunlap, sheriff, to Joseph man. in Crider's Bachange,
H. Weaver, et ux, tract in Ferguson | Celeronte. Pa
Twp.; $1868.00. i on
Catherine Armor to D. C. Bloom, | SPECIALISTS
et ux, tract in Benner Twp; $1. |=
H. E. Dunlap, sheriff, to Adam H. | R. R. L. CAPERS
Krimine, tract in Spring Twp.; $3,-| OSTEOPATH.
, | Bellefonte State
Michael Hettinger to James Het.| Criders Bx. 66-11 Holmes
tinger, tract in G ; $1,-1 Es
Trams. EE TRE BC Ca TREN ptogseeyt- le
Joseph Wright to Minnie Wright, | Eyes examined, glasses fitted. -
| isfaction teed Frames re
tract in Rush Twp.; $10.
guaranteed.
and lenses tched, Casebeer dg.,
Mable Johnson, et al, to Harry A. | High lef
St., Bellefonte, Pa. 71-22-18
X poks et ux, tract in State College; | VA B. ROAN. Op
. . . ’ tometri
SJ ow {Eby “ine ‘State Board; State
e College Borough to Lynn R.| e day except Saturday,
Daughetry, et ux, tract in State Col- | fonte, In the Garbrick puilding oppoutie
lege; $1. |from 2 to 8 p.m. and Saturdays 9. a. m.
Harry Morrell, et ux, to Arnold J. to 4:00 p.m. Bell Phone 63-40
Currier, tract in State College; $550. |
Mary H: Miller, et bar, to Clair A. |
Gettig, et ux, tract in Spring Twp.; |
$2,000. |
T. E. Jodon, et ux, to Elizabeth J. |
Klinger, tract in Spring Twp.;
000.
Olive Jenks Brown to Earl A.|
Harper, et ux, tract in State Col- |
lege; $800.
Bellefonte Realty Co., to the Belle- |
fonte Boro. tract in Bellefonte; $1.
Boyd A. Musser, Exec, to Otto
Barardis, et ux, tract in Bellefonte; |
$1,025.
Cloyd S. Harkins, et al, to Bor-
ough of Philipsburg, tract in Philips-
burg; $900.
Fannie E. Boozer, etbar, to Adam
H. Krumrine, tract in State College; |
we Ets es Sd J J) E DS!
FIRE INSURANCE
At a Reduced Rate, 20%
133% J. M. KEICHLINE, Agent
$1,-
IRA D. GARMAN
JEWELER
1420 Chestnut St.,
| PHILADELPHIA
Have Your Diamonds Reset in Plantium
T4-27-tt Exclusive Embiem Jewelry
i
Adam H. Krumrine, et ux, to Fan-
lege; $900. |
We have taken om the line of
Purina Feeds
We also carry the line of
Wayne Feeds
per 100lb.
Wagner's 16% Dairy Feed - 140
Wagner's 209% Dairy Feed - 145
Wagner's 329% Dairy Feed - 1.60
me » Wagner's Pig Meal 2. 178
Lilohen agner's Egg Mash - - - 1
cares Wagner's Scratch Feed - - 150
Wagner's Horse Feed - - - 140
Wagner's Winter Bran Bulk - 1.10
Wagner's Winter Midds Bulk - 1.20
Blatchford Calf Meal 25lbs - 1.25
Wayne Calf Meal Per H - - 3.50
Wayne Egg Mash - - - - 210
oil Meal 34% swonin 290
Cotton eal + - - = MM
Soy Bean Oil Meal - - = 160
She's too good a soldier to complain. But if [ites Foul iewifu Mew” - 15
you could see the lines of fatigue in her face Mont Scrape 45% =r. 3%
as she slaves over a hot stove every afternoon | Fish Meal 556, - - - - - 300
and scours soot-smeared [S88 So San = lata) 5 300
i r - = a == J
kettles — you'd realize how much she longs | Molasses - - - - - - = - 100
for freedom from kitchen cares. You can Let us grind your Corn snd Oats
{ this freedom Chris and make up Dairy Feed,
give her fora tmas present, Oo Seed Meal, Oil Meal, Gluten,
Alfalfa, Bran, Midds and Molasses.
We will make delivery on two ton
C. Y. Wagner & Co. ine
BELLEFONTE, PA,
76-1-1yr.
Caldwell & Son
Bellefonte, Pa.
Plumbing
and Heating
Zone Range
Then as lung as is 18 or 24 v g
mont ay the small apor....Steam
OFFER balance? By Hot Water
he ceWear-Ever” Pipeless Furnaces
Buy your electric range NOW, from us or any other dealer, and this
3-piece $13.50 set . . . for electric “waterless cooking” . .. will be given Full Line of Pipe and Fit-
to vou absolutely FREE.
Two Sauce Pans (2 and 3 quart) and one Steaming Skillet (10%4”
diameter by 214” deep). All have black
absorption. “Steam-Seal” covers allow foods to cook in their own
Removable handles for oven use.
juices with a minimum of water.
tings and Mill Supplies
All Sizes of Terra Cotta
Pipe and Fittings
Glyptal bottoms for quick heat
ESTIMATES
Cheerfully sad Promptly Furnished
Las