The r that P. Gi Meek edited and published for fifty-seven years and now published by his Estate at the. Watchin Printing T10umy Dorion ears al Editors. CHARLES L. GATES Published weekly, every Friday morn. Te GEORGE R. MEEK ~No communications A Entered at the postoffice, Belle- published ess accompanied by the real PE. Sanend able Jostallies. i name of the writer. _— a ~Until further In ordering dress always wetice at the folk rates: 150 FC the old as Is the Hew iddress. ty It is important that publisher Paid before expiration of year - 175 when bseri wishes the Paid after expiration of year - 2.00 Aad aan such Sata A sam of the “Watchman will the subscription paid up to sent oT cost to applicants, date of cancellation, THE NEW YEAR. H. G. Wells is credited with having made the 1932 is to be the blackest year in the history of the world. hope the very able writer and publicist didn’t know what he talking about when he made that direful prophesy. 1931 is the year that humanity will use as the standard by which to measure such distress as may be yet to come and while there are those who may think they can’t survive anything worse than it was they are of the class that measures everything by the dollar yard stick. Each year leaves us richer, at least in some pleasant memories, some added friendships and some visions of greater usefulness. Af- ter all they are the worth while, the finer things in life and if world has had the vision of greater usefulness all that is needed to make the New Year better than the old one was is to translate that vision into action. To those who today resolve to do it the \Watchman Happy New Year and it knows that they will have it. that prediction Let us was wishes a WAS IT WORTH $366,000.00 The special session of the Legislature of Pennsylvania adjourn- ed, sine die, at noon on Wednesday, the -Representatives and Sena- tors have all headed homeward and the taxpayers of the State are holding the bag, as usual. For eight weeks the Pinchot forces and the Republican State organization fenced for political vantage, the real purpose for which the session was called being secondary in their consideration. It is to be regretted that after spending so much time and near- ly $400,000.00 no more constructive legislation was enacted, but re- | sponsibility for the debacle of 1931 can be charged to the Governor for exactly the same reason that laid that of 1926 at his door. Five years ago Governor Pinchot called the Legislature into ex- tra session to act on what he was pleased to call eight cardinal points. They had to do with giant power, regulation of the anthra- cite industry, election reform and other matters. The body remain- ed in session thirty-seven days, cost $273,561 and five minor acts went onto the statute books as the net result of it, The call for the session just ended embodied nineteen points, the principal ones being a $120,000,000 creased taxes on cigarettes, gasoline and bill boards. Governor's major suggestions have been carried out. If ever there was an emergency that called for constructive leg- islation it was on the State while its Governor and its representatives in the Legislature fiddled at Harrisburg. Of what consequence was finding relief for unemployment in the State compared with the dan- ger of a Pinchot building up a machine that might threaten the pow- er of the regular organization? Something might have been accomplished, notwithstanding, had it not been for the exaggerated ego of the Governor, himself. Just as was the case in 1926 he took the position that he would cram his program down the legislative throat. It was to be what he sug- gested or nothing. people to represent them at cardinal bond issue, in- None of the Harrisburg, were to transform them- selves into rubber stamps with which a super mind would make its. conceptions law, because it thinks that vox Gifi is vox populi. When the Governor discovered that even Legislators sometimes display back-bones more rigid than used bath towels he offered to compromise, just as he did in 1926, but then it was too late. The exigencies of Republican politics in Pennsylvania at the moment demand a killing and the instant Gifford weakened started the death knell of his nineteen cardinal points. Had he assumed a conciliatory, rather than a dictatorial, role at the opening of the ses- manner of cajolery would have induced the Senate or the House to pass any of his tax raising proposals. The members of those bodies had heard from the people back home and know who puts the butter on the political side of their bread. The extra session is adjourned. Unemployment is not reliev- ed. The Governor will about the State begging for delegates to the national convention of his party. Those who believed him when he said he was going to reduce the cost of automobile licenses will believe him again when he tells them he isn’t responsible for the $366,000.00 that his special session of the Legislature cost them. —According to statistics that come out of Harrisburg Dr. Clyde King, who is Governor Pinchot’s Secretary of the Revenue Depart- ment, has two hundred and fifty-three more people on his payroll than his predecessor, Charles Johnson, had a year ago. and salary increases in Dr. King’s Department are reported to have pushed the cost of collecting a dollar for the State from .0038, un- der the Johnson administration, to .00856 under King’s. Dr. King is of the economic intelligentia, the kind, you know, that must have inspired this quatrain: He wrote a book on how to get rich. It really was a corker. Next day I met him on the street And he wanted to borrow a quarter. ——Senator Jesse H. Metcalf, of Rhode Island, recently plumbed the greatest depth in the diggings for the cause of our present eco- nomic slough. He discovered that one-seventh of the adult popula- tion of the United States is being maintained partially or entirely by taxes paid by the other six-sevenths. This does not include those being supported through State and county taxes. such facts as Senator Metcalf has revealed is it unreasonable to as- sume that paternalism in government is creating a Frankenstein that might destroy it. —Members of the Democratic State committee, county chair- men aid chair-women of Blair, Clearfield and Centre met at Philips- burg, Wednesday afternoon, for an informal discussion as to a per- mament advisory organization for the re-constructed ‘Twenty-third Congressional district. The District will have to present candidates for Congress and delegates to the national convention in the spring primaries and it was in anticipation of that party duty that the con- ference was held. While the District is overwhelmingly Republi- can 1932 is to be a Democratic year, and there is a possibility that the Hons. Mitch Chase and J. Banks Kurtz can both be delegated to stay at home and watch a Democrat represent the counties they still think they carry around in their vest pockets. ~The unshakable belief that there is a God in Heaven and the conviction that there will be a Democrat in the White House in March, 1933, is our inspiration to carry on through the New Year. MARY GRAY MEEK FIFTY YEARS AGO | IN CENTRE COUNTY. NEWSY INCIDENTS. | Items taken trom the Watchman issue Christmas is now enrolled on the of -Jayuery 6, 1652 ‘pages of history and today we en- —Word comes from Hublersburg ter on the new year. How much of that recent rains have replenished : and cisterns in the it may hold for each one of us we | the wells, | community, many of which had gone know not but we hope it will be a | clear dry. ‘better year for everybody than i AE Dunkle farm in Walk- year just come to an end. And er ee os Dr been bought by now for a few reflections on Christ- Miss Polly Dunkle at $54.00 per acre. mastide | ANNUAL WEEK OF PRAYER —— | IN BELLEFONTE CHURCHES. Under the auspices of the churches of Bellefonte and the Ministerial As. sociation the annuai week of prayer | ‘joy or sorrow, sunshine or shadow will be observed with a series of fic regulations in the union services, beginning Monday | evening, January 4th, and continu- will begin promptly at 7.30 o'clock. | The schedule of the churches where the services are to be held —————— AUTOISTS MUST OBSERVE BORO. PARKING RULES. The Fire and Police department hereby calls attention of the public to the fact that in the future traf- of Bellefonte will be strictly enforced. In the motor vehicle act of 1931 the ing for five evenings. The services parking is defined as follows: “The standing of a vehicle, ex- cept police or fire department ve- hicles or ambulances, whether oc- the | The Members and Senators, duly elected by the In the light of | —At the annual meeting, | Tuesday night, the Logan Hose Co. ‘elected the following officers for the not for himself alone but with kind- | | ensuing year: President, H. D. Yer- | ger; vice president, Thomas Shaugh- ‘ensy; treasurer, Joseph Gross; secre- tary, William Hillibish; chief, John 'D. Sourbeck; 1st assistant, John Dawson; 2nd assistant, Henry {Haupt; 3rd assistant, Edward | Shrom; plugmen, Michael Shields ;and Wm. Knapp. —We very much regret to note that W. A. Kerlin, of Spring Mills, is preparing to leave Centre county. | He has had charge of the mill there | for a number of years and has earn- ed an enviable reputation for mak- ing good flour and being a good cit- 'izen. He is going to Iowa where /he owns a farm that he expects to | operate himself. The new hotel at Spring Mills, which is to be three stories high and | 100x40 ft. in dimension is rapidly nearing completion. ! —There is danger of losing our fair grounds. The Association isin | financial difficulties and it is feared the grounds will have to be sold to satisfy a $5,000 mortgage. —Married—At the residence of the bride's father, December 28, 1881, by Rev. J. Benson Akers, Mr. W. W. McCormick to Miss Laura E., daugh- ter of Henry McCloskey, all of Pot- ters Mills. At the residence of the parents of the bride, on Curtin street, Belle- fonte, on the evening of the 3rd inst, by Rev. G. D. Pennypacker, ‘assisted by Rev. John Hewitt, Wil- liam J. Nicholls and Miss Clara V. Lyon, both of Bellefonte. At the Lutheran parsonage, at Pine Grove Mills, December 29th, by Rev. J. Alford Kour, Henry A. El- der and Annie E. Harpster, both of Ferguson Twp) —Mr. Brooks, a new dairyman in Bellefonte, is now delivering milk at ‘Bets a qt. —Mrs. Margaret Kelley, who left Bellefonte with her husband for Burlington, Iowa, thirty-one years age, returned to her old home last Saturday, her two sisters, Mrs. B. A. Scanlon, of Boiling Springs, and Mrs. Alice Shaughensy, of Bellefonte. She will be here several months. —The new board of County Com- missioners John Wolfe, A. J. Griest and Henry. Cambell, o on Monday by electing Mr. Wolf, presi- dent; W. Miles Walker, clerk; D. F. Fortney, attorney; Dr. James H. ‘Dobbins, jail physician. | ~The Bellefonte “Morning News" | has been changed into an evening paper and is now the “Evening News.” —Ex-Sheriff Spangler has movea back to Centre Hall and Sheriff Dunkle the hill —Dr. J. Purdue Gray, once keeper | ‘of a drug store in Bellefonte, has risen to such fame as an alienist that he has been called to pass upon the mental condition of Guiteau, the murderer of President Garfield. Dr. ing and incoming mail. sion he might have gotten his pet bond issue project through, but no Sey J 3 ative of Cents nh and was here some six or years ago when the (class of 1824 of the rove [Mills Academy ended in a banquet at the Bush house. It was in hono !of the venerable principal of the | Academy, Prof. Alfred Armstrong. | BRIEF MEETING OF | BOROUGH COUNCIL. last | much to tie delight of | Over in Pennsvalley lives a man, ‘ly thought for others. Every Christ- ‘mas he comes to Bellefonte laden ‘with packages which he distributes among friends. The packages are not done up in fancy paper and tied | with tinsel cord, but the contents are the outpouring of a generous ‘heart with a thoughtful appreciation of giving something out of the ordi- nary, and the recipients are always rassured of a delightful surprise when the package is opened. The real spirit of Christmas is behind the giving, which makes these year- ly remembrances very much appre- ciated. Three days before Christmas a resident of Bellefonte had occasion |to make a trip to Milesburg and placing a bushel of apples in his {automobile drove down to the school house, at Pleasant View. where he unloaded the apples and placed them near the door of the school house. He then proceeded on his way won- dering what would happen to the apples when the pupil were dis- missed for recess. He attended to his business and started on the re- turn trip home but when he arrived ‘at the school house it was not yet ‘recess time. As he stopped his car two of the pupils approached the school house lugging a Christ- mas tree and they were met at the door by the teacher. The gentle- man then called the teacher's at- tention to the apples and told her they were for the children. promptly dismissed the boys after admonishing them that they were not to take more than two each, and the scramble for the apples was on. After the boys had helped themselves the girls were dismissed, and while their assault on the bas- ket was not as much of a scramble as that of the boys their eagerness for the fruit was just as manifest and sincere, sufficient to warm the cockles of the heart of the generous | Bellefonter. Seventy-three Christmas baskets were distributed to families in Belle- 'fonte and vicinity by the Associated Chariites ‘enough in it to make an appetizing ‘dinner and thus help to make the day a little bit happier for the un- fortunate ones. So far as could be learned not a needy nor deserving family was missed, so thorough was the work of the committee on inves- tigation. As a slogan “Mail Early and Avoid the Rush,” was not heeded to any ex- She | and every basket had and the list of preachers are as fol- | lows: Monday, January 4, the Methodist church, Rev. G. E. Householder. Tuesday, January 5, the United Brethren church, Rev. H. L. Jacobs. ! Wednesday, January 6, the Re- formed church, Rev. Stuart F. Gast. Thursday, January 7, the Presby- ‘terian church, Rev. A. Ward Camp- ' bell. Friday, January 8, the Episcopal church, Rev. Clarence 2. Arnold. In former years these services have had a splendid attendance and all citizens of the community are given a cordial invitation to attend. GOVERNORS VS OSCEOLA IN CHARITY GAME TODAY. ———— The Bellefonte “Governors” and the Osceola Mills ‘Firemen” foot- ball teams will meet on Hughes fieid at 2 o'clock this afternoon for a New Year's day contest. Osceola is very strong and as the “Governors” have added Cyril Moerschbacher and Paul Crust to their already formidable squad their is likely to be a game that will af- ford many thrills this afternoon. Inasmuch as all the proceeds, ex- ‘cept just what will be acutally necessary to cover the expenses, will be given to the needy there is anoth- er reason why a large crowd should be in attendance. Jesse H. Caum, president of Associated Charities, is in charge and can be depended on to ‘hold the cost of the game down to | the lowest possible cent. | It is not often that people in this 'clime have a chance to see a foot- ball game on New Year's day and ‘years after this such an unusual ‘seasonal opportunity will be some- thing to talk about. ———— i — conn ——— DEPRESSION HITS FEW STUDENTS AT PENN STATE Despite the depression and a larg- er enrollment, fewer students with- drew from the Pennsylvania State College during the first three months of college this year than last year, reports of the college registrar re- | veal, Prior to Christmas in 1930 sixty- three students withdrew, twenty of them for financial reasons and four- teen because of illness. In the same period this year sixty-one (dropped from college, twenty-five of them giving their reasons as financial and twenty on account of (illness. Personal reasons accounted largely for the other withdrawals ‘both years. This year eighteen freshmen, | cupied or mot, upon a highway or | otherwise than temporarily for the | Putpos, am while actually en- | gaged oading or unloading, or | in obedience to traflic regulations | or traffic signs and signals, is for- bidden.” | The public is warned against park- ing on more than one side of all (alleys, two way parking in the | streets, parking within 15 feet of (fire hydrants, within 50 feet of fire | houses or within 50 feet of any fire | apparatus while in service at a fire. Where parking space is designated by white lines all parking must be within such lines in order to con- serve space. The laws relative to passing fire apparatus, failing to stop on the ap- proach of fire apparatus and follow- ing the same to a fire will be strict- ly enforced. There is no desire on the part of the Fire and Police department to impose a hardship on any one, but conditions are such that these regu- lations must be obeyed. TWO PRE-CHRISTMAS HOLDUPS AND ROBBERIES. On Saturday evening, December 19th, John Dawson, 21-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dawson, was ‘walking up the street to his home on Halfmoon hill when a car con- taining three men came along and stopped. One of the men got out and asked Dawson what time it was. The latter stated it was about ten o'clock and then he was hit on the head and knocked unconscious by one of the men who had gotten out of the car and slipped up behind him. They rifled his pockets of five dollars and drove away. The young man was found by his broth- er Charles about an hour later and (was taken home. So far no trace of the holdup men has been found. At an early hour on Wednesday morning of last week two negroes entered the Deitrick Cadillac garage and held up Howard Coder, the 'night watchman, but all they got for their trouble was 16 cents. When the negroes entered the ga- rage, on the lower floor Coder, who was on the second floor, coat and overalls, and in a car. Practically ey and that of the the discarded clothing, saved from the robbers. of them has yet been found. . | ——Ceta Beck didn't miss a ses- sion of the Bellefonte Methodist ‘Sunday school during the year 1931 and last Sunday morning her teach- is oc pying the castle on tent in Bellefonte this year. Com. eighteen sophomores, ten juniors, one paratively few packages and cards senior and fourteen graduates and were mailed prior to Monday of special students left college, where er, Mrs. Mary Hall Bolick, presented her with a beautiful gold pin in 'A let-up occurred on the day be- last week, but the rush began at seven o'clock that morning and for ‘three days postoffice employees were literally swamped with both outgo- Monday, and Tuesday and Wednesday were whirlpool days of activity and | though extra help had been secured | it was impossible to keep up with the rush and the result was late de- liveries that could not be fore Christmas which enabled the employees to catch up somewhat with ‘their work, but we feel sure ‘that every one of them is thankful cil for the old year, held on Monday Y*&T- {| avening of last week, was quite brief | importance. A communication sign- led a “Taxpayer” gave council the which on the | Employee night of December 13th knocked land devoid of anything of special |tag number of a car down and broke one of the red {lights in the triangle in the Dia. {mond. It was referred to the Fire and Police committee. | Secretary Kelly reported that he bad communicated with the fire in- {surance Underwriters’ Association (and that an inspector will be sent | Bere as soon as it is convenient to 'do so. The Street committee reported that a meeting had been held with | boroug! 'M. J. Barrick, of Williamsport, and !new plans were decided upon for the | sewer down Spring creek, which will delay the work until some time next spring. | The Water committee reported that an engineer from the Delaval Pump company was here and fixed the new pump and it is now run- ning quite smoothly. The commit. tee also reported the collection of $400 on water taxes and $49.55 on rent, Etc. The committee also rec- ommended that a total of $728.24 of errors and exonerations be al- lowed on the 1927 water tax dupli- cate, and the recommendation was approved. The Finance committee reported a balance of $2544.63 in the borough fund and $4880 in the water fund. Several matters of minor impor- tance were discussed without taking official action after which borough bills amounting to $496.44 and wa- ter bills for $208.71 were approved for payment and council adjourned. i well known Bellefonte man met a | young foreigner on the street who straight. In a sarcastic tone of voice he said: “My young have you vertigo?” “Only Halfmoon hill,” was the reply he received. ! Several weeks ago a well known | was not in a condition to walk very | last year the classification was twen- ty-seven freshmen, seventeen soph- omorces, seven juniors, four seniors and eight graduate students and specials. SMITH.—Mrs. Kathryn Jane Smith, widow of H. M. Smith, died at her home in Milesburg, Wednes- day morning of last week, as the * result of a heart ailment. i She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Eisenhuth and was M. Smith, of Millheim: Mrs. J. P. A few evenings before Christmas McCool, of Spring Mills; W. W. * day morning being down Smith, of Rebersburg; George, Lock Haven; John and Mrs. C. Quick, of Milesburg. Funeral services were held in the man, | Methodist church, at Milesburg, at two o'clock Saturday afternoon, Rev. M. H. Crawford, assisted by by | |Rev. M. C. Piper, burial being made brother Kenn in Heckman's cemetery in Gregg Bellefonte woman was making the | 'OWnship. rounds of the stores doing some Christmas shopping. without thinking laid her handbag {down on the counter. looked for it less than a |1atet it was gone. The |cense, the family car license, | purse with $9.00 in cash and one or | two other articles. The loss was | {nish are ding their (reported to the manager of the had their usual family Christmas | vacation with their parents Mr. |store in the event the handbag had | been picked up by mistake and was | She went into | | the dollar store, which was fairly J&mes Kelly, died at her home on ‘well crowded with shoppers, an | Logan street yesterday morning at | I Il —Mrs. Mary Kelly, relict of five o'clock. She was 74 years old When she 20d had been confined to bed for morg minute leven weeks. Funeral mass will be wants it. {celebrated in St. John's Catholic get an operators . church on Monday morning . Her thinking contained her automobile driver's as | obi BE | or a pony. —————— cr ——— dinner party at their home, on Al- returned, but such did not prove to be the case. Last Saturday a. young girl from Valley View found the handbag behind “the radiator in Runkle and their daughter Dorothy, the toilet in Hazel & Co's store. Mr. and Mrs. William Kline and She gave it to one of the clerks who | their daughter Beverly, Mr. and Mrs. notified the woman. An examination Hazel their daughter Francis revealed that the only thing missing | Margaret Forgac. It is presumed that | whoever took the bag went to Hazel & Co's from the dollar store, ex- tracted the money then threw the bag behind the radiator in the toflet. board were Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Houser, Mr. and Mrs. Morris B. ——A special session of court was held, on Wednesday afternoon, to admit to practice at the Centre county bar Edward J. Hunter Esq. | of Philadelphia. Mr. Hunter is an ——The unusal after Christmas attorney in the workmen's compen- slump in mercantile business is re- sation bureau, at Harrisburg, and sponsible for the four days a week the motion to admit him to the Cen- working schedule for clerks in the tre county bar was made by Arthur uptown A. & P. store. |C. Dale Esq. tion of he i t- Jesup r regularity in at- ~—County Treasurer-elect Robert F. Hunter has announced the ap- pointment of Miss Christine Curry as his deputy. Miss Curry is a competent stenographer and book- keeper and will without a doubt prove very efficient in that position. | Both of the reservoirs that supply Milesburg with water are about | ——The weather during the i i Miss ‘mas Wednesday of | Mrs. Florence going which she cense. Misses Virginia and is a student in the city. | _ On Sunday night, Decem {E. Davidson received the | that his aunt, Mrs. Herman Aikey, (had died at her home in Akron, |Ohio. He and his brothers, Harold, | Joseph and Plummer went out to Akron for the funeral on the follow- ing Tuesday and returned home | Thursday. | Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Witherite and | their daughter drove over from | Osceola Mills and spent Christmas | day with relatives here and at Run- ville. At the latter place they made short calls on the Michael Witherite and Lee Hoover families and while | here were of Mrs. Witherite's mother sister, Mrs. Irwin and ; Mrs. Lucas.