r that P. Gray Meek edited and published for fifty-seven years and
by his Estate at the Watchman Printing House, Bellefonte, Pa.
Editors.
CHARLES L. GATES
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now
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DECEMBER 11, 1931.
A PRACTICAL SUGGESTION
The Watchman is in receipt of a suggestion that it find ten per-
sons who will give ten dollars a month, for four months, for the re-
lief of the needy in Bellefonte.
half a week for ten families until April 15.
It sounds like a trifling sum, but there will doubtless be many
That would be two dollars and a|
FIFTY YEARS AGO
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
from the Watchman issue
16, 1881.
i.
and Catholic
usual, hand-
|
£
(of Mr.
| Pine G!
| of Seath
‘disease . Diphtheria and
| fever are both prevalent about Pine
Grove.
| —I Guggenheimer & Co. have
‘just received and put on display the
largest lot of silk handkerchiefs ever
brought to Bellefonte. They are
the popular Christmas present now
'and Guggenheimer's have thirty
dozen to select from.
—Next Thursday evening a con-
cert will be given in the Presby-
‘terian church in Milesburg and some
of the best musical talent in the
cases where even such an amount would be a veritable Godsend, county will be on the program
especially through the hard winter months that are on us. It would Among them Mrs. Love, Mrs. Sadie
buy more than enough coal to keep a little home warm. There are Hayes and L. T. Eddy.
some people in the town who have been so practiced in frugal living
that two dollars and a half would pay for nearly all the food they
have been accustomed to having. There are others depending on
odd jobs for subsistence to whom such a weekly gratuity might mean
more than their pride would permit them to tell.
The suggestion of the gentleman who made it is offered for the |
consideration of those persons in Bellefonte who have not been face
to face with the problem as to where the next meal is to come from.
It was a timely thought and the Watchman gives it publicity because
if anything is to be done the moment is at hand.
The money could be given to the Associated Charities for dis-
tribution. That organization is being pressed now for relief that itis
not in funds to supply and one hundred dollars a month or—if there
were one hundred people who would join such a project—a thou-
sand dollars a month would assure those who have that none of those
who haven't will be in actual distress during the winter.
The Watchman is willing to join the movement. It will be
glad to hear from eight others if the mark is to set at ten or from
ninety-eight if one hundred appears to be a possible goal.
THE NEW POST-OFFICE BUILDING.
Inasmuch as the proposed erection of a new post office building
in Bellefonte has now gone beyond the stage of uncertainty and en-
tered 'the realm of early probability the matter of its design has be
come a topic of discussion among those who have an eye to main-
taining traditions in a town beautiful and distinguished for its many
types of colonial architecture.
The new post office will occupy a corner where it will be entire-
ly surrounded by the traditional lime-stone houses of early day
Bellefonte. It has been suggested that the Post Office Department
might be persuaded to change its specifications calling for a brick
structure of the stereotyped small town public building and adopt a
design more in harmony with the environment in which the new
structure will stand. Also to use native limestone instead of brick
for the outer walls.
It would not be an unreasonable request to make and Washing-
ton might react favorably to a suggestion that a town that has given
the country so many notable public men, a town so rich in historic
interest, might be given a public building that would be made sym-
bolic of some of its traditions.
It is not beyond the realm of probability that one or more of the
historic old houses on the square on which the post office will stand
will become perpetual memorials in the town, so that a new federal
building that would not jar with the materials of construction and the |
type of architecture of its surroundings would be a credit to the gov-
ernment’s sense of the propriety, as well as the utility of its building
here.
—Congress convened on Monday, the Democrats organized the
House as expected and as there was perfect harmony in the party
ranks they have gotten off to an auspicious start in an under-
taking that will be watched with the keenest and most critical inter-
est. Economic legislation is to have the foremost place in the con-
sideration of the body. That is as it should be and every effort
should be put forth to strangle such extraneous subjects as will un-
doubtedly be injected into its deliberations. The country is weary
and out of patience with do-nothing legislative bodies. That is the
reason there is a Democratic Congress in Washington today.
show what it can do. Certainly it will not be a difficult matter for
it to accomplish as much as its predecessor, but that will not suffice.
What is needed is a program of constructive economic legislation, as-
siduously pressed to enactment, without regard
import.
~The collapse of a state controlled bridge over the Neshaminy
creek at Newtown, because of which Walter Ross Jr. lost his life,
might have been regarded as just another unfortunate accident for
which no one in particular was responsible, if investigators sent out
by the Highway Department had not undertaken to place the blame
on the victim. “A dead man tells no tales,” but those who survive
him think that responsibility might be laid at the Highway Depart-
ment’s door. In fact it was laid there and Secretary Sam Lewis is
said to have offered the alibi that the Governor, having taken all the
money to build bridle paths, has left nothing for him with which to
keep bridges safe. If Sam persists in sticking behind such a de-
fence a “Big Bertha” is going to be trained on him from the Execu-
tive office and he is going to be blown clear off the highways just
as Paul D. Wright was in 1925.
It 1s!
the first time in twelve years the party has been given a chance to
to matters of less
—District Attorney Heinle has
purchased the double house on Bish-
op street, next door to the residence
{of Chief Justice Smith.—This is the
property now owned by E.J.Gehret.
Editor's Note.
—A telephone line from Philips-
burg to Tyrone is likely to be built
soon.
| —Lock Haven is getting alarmed
about its water supply. A commit-
tee recently visited the streams
that supply that town and found
them nearly dried up.
— Chester Munson, L. G. Lingle
and Lewis Hess, of Philipsourg,
have been appointed by the court to
divide that borough into three wards, |
the increase of the voting population
having made such a division neces-
sary.
~The door of the Presbyterian
church in this place was ornamented
last week with a notice of sale by
| the Sheriff for a bill of $180.00. At
‘the Sunday school service on Sun-
| day afternoon Gen. Beaver suggest-
|ed that $100 of the amount be
| raised. It was done and next day
the other $80 was raised and the
congregation has highly resolved
never to let its handsome church
edifice be disgraced with a Sheriff's
Sale bill again.
—The new Sovtelary. for the Y.
M. C. A. J. Willard Miller, arrived
in town last Tuesday.
—Burns Gates, of Port Matilda,
shot a wild turkey that weighed
231bs. on Muncy mountain last Fri-
day.
—One of Philipsburg’'s pleasantest
gentlemen was in town on Tuesday.
We allude to Mr. Robert Lloyd, pro-
prietor of the Lloyd house,
hotels in the State.
—D. H. Chandler, lumberman, and
proprietor of the Temperance hotel
in Julian, died on W y night
of last week.
sudden having occurred during the
I night and without any manifestation
|of pain.
—On Friday night, the 30th, inst.
the Logan Hose Co., will hold anoth-
er of their delightful balls in Bush's
hall. Tickets are ony 50cts and
everybody who possibly can ought to
buy one.
Christian Derr is suffering from
hurts received by a fall from the
Milesburg trestle, on Monday eve-
ning. He had reached this end of
the trestle under which there was
no water but many rocks. On them
he landed and was badly shaken up.
He made his way, however, to Mc-
| Coy's works where Frank hitched up
his horse and buggy and drove him
to his home here.
———Apartment for rent. Inquire
49-2t
‘of Mrs. B. O. Driscoll.
D. A. R. MONTHLY MEETING
HELD AT STATE COLLEGE.
The December meeting of the
Bellefonte chapter of the Daughters
'of American Revolution was held at
ithe home of Mrs. Frederick W.
Owen, at State College, Pa.
The hostesses were Mrs. F. W.
Owen, Mrs. F.G. Merkle, Miss Mary
‘Bevan, Mrs. Dwight DeMerritt, Miss
| Grace Fitts and Mrs. E. I. Wilde.
Reports of the 35th State confer-
ence held at the Wm. Penn hotel,
in Pittsburgh, November 10th, 1931,
were given by the three delegates
‘who attended the meetings; Mrs.
‘John G. Love, regent; Miss Anna A.
McCoy and Miss Kate D. Shugert.
Also a report of the eastern divi-
sion meeting held at the Bellevue-
| Stratford, Philadelphia, Pa., Novem-
one of
the best and most comfortable
His death was very
A HODGE—PODGE OF
NEWSY INCIDENTS.
“Help the Unemployed” is the big
‘appeal emblazoned on the front
i published in
nia, as well as the country atlarge.
‘It's appeal is heralded to every vil-
remote corner of the back-
gen-
on the few. Some of
course, are well able to give while
others who will give because of a
feeling that they must or for the
‘reason that they will be ashamed
not to do so, are little better off
‘than the unemployed. They are
| virtually holding on by the skin of
their teeth, hoping they can worry
‘along until there comes a break for
| the better.
| The Legislature is now in session
‘in Harrisburg in compliance
legislation for the relief of the un-
employed. It's cost to the taxpay-
‘ers is already in excess of a quarter
"million dollars and not one definite
'thing has been done. The - Gover-
nor wants a bond issue and wants
‘to tax this, that and the other, to
most of which the Legislators are
opposed. Just how much good will
eventually come out of the extra
! session no man can tell. And upto
‘now we have not found any reason-
able excuse for it. Every city and
‘town in the State and every poor
district in the Commonwealth has
| made plans to take care of those
| really. in need, so why the help from
|the State.
| The Associated Charities of Belle-
fonte is in operation and will en-
‘deavor to extend all the help need-
ed in this locality. In the Diamond
is a big barrel on a pair of scales
for the collection of a ton of pen-
nies, but so far the needle doesn't
show a very liberal contribution.
last year just $100 were collected
by this means. One hundred dol-
lars in pennies means 10,000 copper
|cents, and that is quite a number
for the way most of us have to
pinch pennies these days to get
along.
Of course the unemployed are de-
serving of sympathy and if they are
destitute should not be allowed to
go hungry or in need of the neces-
sities of life. But why are they
destitute, even though they are
lout of work temporarily? The prime
‘cause of need and suffering now is
| explained in profligate spending and
the lack of saving when high wages
and steady employment was the rule
rather than the exception. And
the man who did save is now called
wupon to help the man who spent his
all in riotous living.
Up in the Barrens, this side of
Fairbrook, lives a man and his fam-
ily on a small farm. Anyone who
knows anything about land in the
Barrens knows what a struggle itis
to wrest a living from it's sandy,
shallow soil.
well known Centre countian stopped
(at the farmer's home and was in-
| vited into the house. When he got
inside the man asked him to go
| along down stairs into the cellar.
|The cellar is large and roomy.
{It's four sides are the foundation
‘walls of the house and the floor
is the ground trodden smooth by
the foot prints of many year's use.
The farmer pointed to a rough
wooden table on one side where
are stored 125 jars of tomatoes; to
a similar table on the other side
1
(where are lined up over two hun-.
| dred jars of other vegetables, fruits,
‘etc. He exhibited a well-filled
' closet of jellies, a bin with 25 bushels
|of potatoes, another with 20 bushels
‘of apples and he had a good supply
‘of cabbage buried in the garden.
Then he said: “This winter I will be
literally one of the unemployed. I
haven't got much money but I won't
need much, and we're sure of enough
to eat until next summer when we
‘all hope for better times.” And
‘that is the real way to keep the
wolf from the door during times of
depression and unemployment.
Some time ago a new meter test-
er arrived in Bellefonte to work for
Being a stranger in the town offi-
cials at the office jotted down the
| names of the places where meters
| were to be tested and among the num-
{ber they gave him “Evan Church.”
The new man hunted almost a day
~The Federal Farm Board has stuck Uncle Sam for $177,000,- ber 19th and 20th, by Mrs. Edwin tryiny to locate Mr. Church and was
000. That wouldn't be so bad if it had accomplished anything that
it set out to do. Wheat was 81.9 cents a bushel when the bungling
bunch of bunkoers thought they were stabilizing it. Now it is 56
cents on the Chicago market. Cotton wag; $81.50 a bale when the
economic necromancers waved their wands and told it to go up.
Now it is quoted around $31.00. Injecting artificiality into the laws |
of supply and demand always was and always will be costly experi-'
ments.
$177,000,000 and the worst part of it is that U. S. spells us.
We!
are the United States and we have to pay the bill. :
—1f Senator Frank Baldwin, of Potter county, should be named |
for State Treasurer by the Republicans the way would be open for |
Senator Harry B. Scott to achieve his ambition to have a place on |
their State ticket. If Senator Baldwin, who represents a constit-
uency not nearly as great as that represented by Senator Scott is |
entitled to such an honor why should our Senator not be entitled to
recognition for the self sacrificing devotion he has given to the regu-|
lar organization of his party. Central Pennsylvania hasn’t had |
representation on a Republican State ticket for so long that few will |
recall just who the last one was.
Senator Moses probably never thought there would be enough
“sons of the wild jackass” to kick him out of the coveted position of
president, pro tempore, of the Senate. |
| Erle Sparks, who attended as a rep-
| resentative of the Bellefonte chap-
IN BELLEFONTE CHURCHES
well nigh dispaired whem some one
suggested he the Evangelical
|church. He did, and found it to be
' the place.
with
.. a call of Governor Pinchot to enact
A few days ago a
the West Penn Power company.
In this instance the United States have been “stung” for ‘Supt. 9.30 “Confronted by the Chal-
METHODIST CHURCH. |
| pajamas or bath robes. This year
Church Bible school, C. C. Shuey, | = ceul gifts should predominate.
le Christ:" special events. |Profit by the savings the
etn trees for special gifts for anniversary sale affords.
the little folks at the Methodist
home for children, Mechanicsburg,
only useful articles, inexpensive, too,
requested for boys an gitla, Strong | LIFE BY DROWNING.
ic in League, , and interest-
2 discussions. Wor ship—1045, Ernest Charlton, 49 years old and
preachment from scriptures center. unmarried, of Munson, committed
ing in Christ's Birth. At 7.30, suicide, on Wednesday night of last
evangelistic meeting. Friday, 18th, | week, by jumping into a deep pool
Christmas celebration by the inter- in Moshannon creek. Financial wor-
mediate = mor Lene ey |r over the fact that he had no
exercises. -week, - | ney is assigned as
neaday. Tuesday class, C. C. Shuey, | {nec oiice™ The man lived in bach:
leader. Pastor responds to all calls ol a aa with his brother Vic
for his services. Strangers and vis. COT quarters *
itors as well as commercial travel- | to Burial was made on Saturday.
ers worship in this church. Wel | :
come to everybody. |
Horace Linclon Jacobs, pastor. | 45th anniversary sale.
Fauble
49-2t
MUNSON MAN TAKES
Stetson hats, $5.25 at Fauble's
49-2¢
-——@Give him hosiery, neckwear,
| Ed Osmer went out onto Nittany
END. mountain, back of Rockview peni-
|tentiary, last Saturday afternoon,
shot a 3-pronged buck which weigh-
ed 165 pounds and was home in time
for supper.
Quite a number of illegal deer
have been picked up by game war-
‘dens. Last Friday evening eleven
deer were hanging up in game pro-
‘BIG SLAUGHTER OF DEER
IS NEARING AN
| The big slaughter of deer in Cen-
tre county mountains is drawing to
'a close, even though there are four
more days of shooting season, in-|
cluding today. But so many hunt-
ers have come out of the woods that
what deer are left have a better
| chance of escaping the high-powered tector Mosier’s back yard, but on
rifles now in use. Saturday morning there were only
| It would be a futile attempt to nine. Who got away with two of
| endeavor to give a list of those whe them has not yet developed. Among
' killed deer in the county because of the deer was a large doe which bore
the fact that a large number of the tag of a Shamokin hunter.
them were bagged by day hunters | Mr. Mosier stated yesterday that
‘who went to the mountains, got it was impossible to give anything
their deer and left for home the like an accurate estimate of the
same day. Last Friday, Saturday number of deer killed in the county,
‘and Sunday automobile after auto- but as one guess is good as another
mobile passed through Bellefonte his guess would be somewhere be-
with from one to three deer. They tween 2000 and 3000.
‘came from the Seven mountains and| As many of the deer were killed
from the Alleghenies, and the big single-handed it might be well to
majority of the deer were does. !call attention to the fact that it will
Quite a number of the old-time be unlawful for any person to have
hunting parties scorned to shoot the in his possession vension longer than
female of the species and spent all | thirty days after the close of the
their time running down bucks. deer hunting season.
‘The Yarnell party, of Hecla, was |
one of these. They were in camp |
in Sugar valley and returned home
on Saturday evening with three nice
bucks. They could have shot lots
of does but refused to do so. | ,
The Bellefonte crowd of hunters and Nulty i Savor. Dost bo afraid
| which inuded: Charles: W. 4 | Of it because it doesn’t look bleach-
Wine ey ries Yvagner and |.; The big green outer stalks
| postmaster John L. Knisely came
‘home from the Alleghenies with five, bee a Sander. 85 the Bea¥is: of 4
four bucks and a doe. | :
J. W. Mowery, of Old Fort, shot |
a pure albino buck in Blue Bell gap, |
on the first day of the season, which
dressed 60 pounds. l
| Hunting with a Unionville party, |
.on Wallace Run, last Friday, C. C.|
| Shuey, of Bellefonte, shot a 150
pound buck, and avers that it didn't,
‘excite him in the least. :
Up to Tuesday of this week coun.
‘ty treasurer L. L. Smith had issued |
7100 resident licenses and 133 non- |
resident.
Irvin Martin, popular young bar-
ber of Bellefonte, has quite a reputa-
‘tion for bringing dulcet tones from
an ordinary hand saw. When hand-
ling a razor ke knows all about close
shaves, but when he gets his trusty |
rifle on his shoulder and starts for |
————— A se,
—Talking about things to eat,
why waste money on stringy, tough
celery, when the Pascal variety
can always be relied on to be crisp
——Come to the Watchman office
for high-class job work.
8
ALTOONA BOOSTER
MERCHANTS SAY:
Trade in Your Home Stores
First, But Come To Booster
the mountains it's different. There | Stores for the Things Y
is no “close shave” for any game Home Merchants Ee
that comes his way. Out about Supply.
Orviston, last week, he bowled over
a ten point buck and a fine young
bear. i
Up in the western end of the]
county Clair Burns bagged a nice
4.pointer near his home at Gates-
burg. |
Ed Martz, a merchant of Pine
Grove Mills, brought down a fat
doe. : Sak « Ls ir
Curt Greenoble, of Ferguson tone}
ship, took home a 150 pound bear |
killed in the Allegheny mountains. |
The Shoemaker crowd, from near
State College, got » 160 pound bear
in Potter county. {
H. D. Albright got an 8-point |
buck.
The Elder crowd have three deer
hanging up in their camp, and the
George Smith crowd four. i
George Musser got a 9-pointer and |
Paul Sunday shot a big doe at a
range of 300 yards. Charles Stuck
got a buck with four prongs.
Wayne Kline got his buck and
other successful hunters int hat sec-.
tion were Fred Painter, of Bailey- |
ville, Bob Reed, Wilbur Todd,
George Philips, Hugh Dale and the
three Dean brothers, of Tadpole, |
Christmas
Suburban
Day
in Altoona
Booster Stores
Wednesday,
December 16!
Many people are planning to
give just as many gifts this
year as formerly and those
who come to Altoona Booster
each of whom killed his deer. YOU WILL FIND
s———— | THAT YOU CAN
| BUY GIFTS FOR
CATHAUM | MUCH LESS IN
Smilin | Booster Stores
STATE COLLEGE THIS YEAR!
Matinee daily at 1:30 i
Evening opening time 6:00 p. m. "| Christmas Suburban Day will
' | be a good day to select gifts
NOTE: For gift purposes, special Christ-| | ag special attractions are al-
mas Ticket Books at $1.00 and $2.00 are’ | ways offered by Booster Stores
on sale at the box office. A most ae- | on Suburban Day.
ceptable gift. Ask abut thom, Look for the Suburban Day
Window Streamers on Wednes.
day—They Help You Locate
GIFTS FOR
THE HOME
|
| | More attention will be given
| this year than to
buying gifts for the home and
| | Booster Stores are better
|
FRIDAY —
i Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert in i
“HIS WOMAN”
Masquers’ Club Comedy
SATURDAY—
‘Jimmie Gleason, Robert Armstrong,
Bill Boyd, Ginger Rogers in
“SUICIDE FLEET”
MONDAY AND TUESDAY—
Liddie Cantor, Chaslotte Greenwood| | cduipped than ever to subply
in
satisfactory gifts of this kind
and at Lower Prices than have
“PALMY DAYS” prevailed for years!
WEDNESDAY —
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper in
Gift Buyers Will Find Pleas-
! ure, Satisfaction and Profit
THE CHAMP | || in Making Selections at
THURSDAY— |
Booster Stores.
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy in their
feature length Comedy
“PARDON US” ALTOONA
BOOSTER
NITTANY THEATRE | ASSOCIATION
| FRIDAY —
| “OVER THE HILL" Starting Saturday, Dec. 19,
SATURDAY— Booster Stores Will Be
“HIS WOMAN"
| insoAY AND WEDNESDAY—
Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis in
“GUILTY HANDS”
| THURSDAY—
“THE CHAMP”
Open Evenings Until 9
O'clock 'Till Christmas.