1855 1932
The paper that P. Gray Meek edited and published for fifty-seven years and
now published by his Estate at the Watchman Printing House, Bellefonte, Pa.
Editors.
GEORGE R. MEEK CHARLES L. GATES
MARY GRAY MEEK
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BELLEFONTE, PA. - - - - - - JANUARY 1, 1932.
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.
prediction
1931 is the year that humanity will use as the standard by which
; he package is opened.
: : | e of the mill there When the : ;
to measure such distress as may be yet to come and while there are I a al aa or | real spivtt of Christmng Is
ed an enviable reputation for mak- the giving, which makes these year-
|ly remembrances very much appre-
those who may think they can’t survive anything worse than it was |
yard
they are of the class that measures everything by the dollar
stick.
Each year leaves us richer, at least in some pleasant memories,
some added friendships and some visions of greater usefulness. Af-
things in life and if the
ter all they are the worth while, the finer
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.
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. 1
cite industry, election reform and other matters. The body remain-
ed in session thirty-seven days, cost $273,561 and five
went onto the statute books as the net result of it.
The call for the session just ended embodied nineteen cardinal
points, the principal ones being a $120,000,000 bond issue, in-
creased taxes on cigarettes, gasoline and bill boards. None of the
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 | _ mhe Bellefonte “Morning News”
{has been changed into an evening
“Evening
his program down the legislative throat. It was to be what he sug-
gested or nothing. The Members and Senators, duly elected by the
people to represent them at 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.
sion he might have gotten his pet bond issue project through, but no
manner of cajolery would have induced the Senate or the House to
pass any of his tax raising proposals. The members of those bodies
on the political side of their bread.
The extra session is adjourned. Unemployment is not reliev-
ed. The Governor will go 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. Employee
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. In the light of
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 and 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 1032 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.
that
Let us | Shrom; plugmen,
was
They had to do with giant power, regulation of the anthra-
minor acts |
D. Sourbeck; 1st assistant,
Dawson; 2nd assistant,
Haupt; 3rd assistant,
Michael
and Wm. Knapp.
{ing good flour and being a good cit-
He is going to Iowa where
{he owns a farm that he expects to
| izen.
| operate himself.
—The new hotel at Spring Mills, ;
' which is to be three stories high and |to make a trip to
| 100x40 ft. in dimension is
| nearing completion.
| —There is
| fair grounds.
| satisfy a $5,000 mortgage.
|
—Married—At the residence of the apples when the pupils were
bride’s father, December 28, 1881, by | missed for recess. He attended to
Mr. W. W. |
| McCormick to Miss Laura E., daugh- |
{ter of Henry McCloskey, all of Pot-
Rev. J. Benson Akers,
| ters Mills.
| At the residence of the parents of |
| the bride, on
fonte, on the evening of the
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
Items taken from the Watchman issue
—Word comes from Hublersburg
replenished
the wells, springs and cisterns in the
community, many of which had gone
—The John Dunkle farm in Walk-
. |er township has been bought by
Miss Polly Dunkle at $54.00 per acre.
last |
Tuesday night, the Logan Hose Co. | Ut alone bat SIAR.
i for the not for himse nd- | ;
J BE > Yor iy thought for others. Every Christ- church, Rev. G. E. Householder
; vi resident, Thomas Shaugh- | mas he comes to ate ;
Sy: Lomiarer Joseph Gross; secre- | with packages which he distributes Brethren church, Rev. H. L. Jacobs
tary, William Hillibish; chief, John among friends.
Henry
Edward |
Shields | are the
| —We very much regret to note]
|that W. A. Kerlin, of Spring Mills, |
{is preparing to leave Centre county. |
Curtin street, Bars [the school house lugging a Christ-
A HODGE—PODGE OF
ter on the new year.
| year just come to an end.
mastide.
Over in Pennsvalley lives a man
| with tinsel cord, but the
NEWSY INCIDENTS.
Christmas is now enrolled on the
| pages of history and today we en-
i ith series
joy or sorrow, sunshine or shadow | will be observed Ww a
it may hold for each one of us we
[know not but we hope it will Be a
| better year for everybody than the
better y To
now for a few reflections on Christ-
Bellefonte laden |
The packages are | Junnsyy £ ths Be
John in fancy paper and tied formed church, Rev. Stuart F. .
gy : Thursday, January 7, the Presby-
outpouring of a generous terian church, Rev. A. Ward Camp-
contents |
ANNUAL WEEK OF PRAYER
union services,
evening, January 4th, and
ing for five evenings.
will begin promptly at 7.30 o'clock.
The schedule of the
where the services
, | lows:
Tuesday, January 5,
Wednesday, January 6, the
{heart with a thoughtful appreciation | bell.
assured of a delightful
ciated.
Three days before
resident of Bellefonte had
{dering what would happen to
dis-
|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
inst., by Rev. G. D. Pennypacker, Mas tree and they were met at the
| assisted by Rev. John Hewitt,
| Lyon, both of Bellefonte.
|
‘Rev. J. Alford Kour,
Ferguson Twp|
6cets a qt.
—Mrs. Margaret Kelley, who left
husband for
years
ago, returned to her old home last
delight of
her two sisters, Mrs. B. A. Scanlon,
of Boiling Springs, and Mrs. Alice
She will
Bellefonte with her
Burlington, Iowa, thirty-one
Saturday, much to the
Shaughensy, of Bellefonte.
be here several months.
—The new board of County Com-
missioners John Wolfe, A. J. Griest
organized on
Monday by electing Mr. Wolf, presi-
dent; W. Miles Walker, clerk; D. F.
James H.
and Henry Cambell,
Fortney, attorney; Dr.
| Dobbins, jail physician.
paper and is
| News.”
now the
‘back to Centre Hall
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
Had he assumed a the mental condition of Guiteau, the
tintor Ad : . : _ | murderer of President Garfield. Dr.
conciliatory, rather than a dictatorial, role at the opening of the ses |Gray is a native of Centre county
seven
(years ago when the reunion of the
3 Grove
had heard from the people back home and know who puts the butter Mills Academy Spas) 2 pane
principal of the liveries that could not be
(and was here some six or
{class of 1824 of the Pine
|at the Bush house.
{of the venerable
| Academy, Prof. Alfred Armstrong.
BRIEF MEETING OF
BOROUGH COUNCIL.
i
| dvening of last week, was quite brief |
special |
A communication sign- | Lock H ; John
oung forei c aven; Jo and Mrs. C. V.
“Taxpayer” gave council the TO usr on the street WHO | Quick, of Milesburg.
and devoid of anything of
| importance.
led a
| tag number of a car which on the
{ night of December 13th knocked
[don and broke one of tne red
lights in the triangle in the
| mond.
|surance Underwriters’
The Street committee
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 mew 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 $206.71 were approved
for payment and council adjourned.
Wil- | door by the teacher.
(liam J. Nicholls and Miss Clara V.
| At the Lutheran parsonage, at
{Pine Grove Mills, December 29th, by
—Mr. Brooks, a new dairyman in was on.
| Bellefonte, is now delivering milk at
—Ex-Sheriff Spangler has movea
and Sheriff
Dunkle is occupying the castle on
reported |
that a meeting had been held with | 2 { we
borough engineer H. B. Shattuck and |Jooked for it less than a nigiie [SIN0 Woks.
The gentle-
teacher's at-
and told her
children. She
the boys after
man then called the
Itention to the apples
they were for the
promptly dismissed
Henry A. El-, admonishing them that they were
‘der and Annie E. Harpster, both of
not to take more than two each,
and the scramble for the apples
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
of giving something out of the ordi- |
nary, and the recipients are always church, Rev. Clarence E. Arnold.
surprise |
The
behind
Christmas a
occasion
Milesburg and
rapidly placing a bushel of apples in his
{automobile drove down to the school
danger of losing our house, at Pleasant View. where he |
The Association isin unloaded the a
[financial difficulties and it is feared near the door of the school
{the grounds will have to be sold to
pples and placed them |
house.
He then proceeded on his way won-
the
his business and started on the re- |
Friday, January 8, the
In former years these
all citizens of the
given a cordial invitation to attend.
GOVERNORS VS OSCEOLA
The Bellefonte
the Osceola Mills
bail teams will
‘Governors’
‘Firemen’
(a New Year's day contest.
“Governors”
IN BELLEFONTE CHURCHES.
Under the auspices of the churches
of Bellefonte and the Ministerial As-
| sociati al week of prayer
| sociation the annu of fic reguistions
beginning Monday | Bellefonte will be strictly enforce.
continu- | In the motor vehicle
The services parking is defined as follows:
churches
are to be held
and the list of preachers are as fol-
Monday, January 4, the Methodist |
the United
Re-
Episcopal
services
have had a splendid attendance and
community are
and
foot-
meet on Hughes |
field at 2 o’clock this afternoon for
Osceola is very strong and as the
have added Cyril
Moerschbacher and Paul Crust to!
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.
in the borough of
act of 193;
“The standing of a vehicle, ex.
cept police or fire department ve.
hicles or ambulances, whether oc.
cupied or not, upon a highway or
otherwise than temporarily for the
purpose and while actually ep.
gaged in loading or unloading, or
in obedience to traffic regulationg
or traffic signs and signals, is for.
bidden.”
The public is warned against park-
ing on more than one side of aj
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,
is designated
| Where parking space
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.
IN CHARITY GAME TODAY. | 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
e Fire and Police department to
{impose a hardship on any one, but
| conditions are such that these regu-
lations must be obeyed.
their already formidable squad their TWO PRE CHRISTMAS
{is likely to be a game that will af-
| ford many thrills this afternoon.
Inasmuch as all the proceeds, ex-
lcept 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.
|
DEPRESSION HITS FEW
STUDENTS AT PENN STATE |
| Despite the depression and a larg- morning of last week two
HOLDUPS AND ROBBERIES.
On Saturday evening, December
119th, John Dawson, 21-year-old son
{of Mr. and Mrs. John Dawson, was
walking up the street to his home
jon 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
negroes
ith- entered the Deitrick Cadillac garage
cockles of the heart of the generous © enrollment, fewer students with- |
% (drew from the Pennsylvania State and held up Howard Coder, the
| Bellefonter.
Seventy-three
jfonte and vicinity by the Associated
Chariites and every basket had
dinner and thus help to make
|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-
| tent in Bellefonte this year. Com.
{paratively few packages and cards
{were mailed prior to Monday of
|last week, but the rush began at
seven o'clock that morning and for
three days postoffice employees were
literally swamped with both outgo-
ing and incoming mail. 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-
avoided.
A let-up occurred on
(fore Christmas which enabled
A few evenings before Christmas
;a well known Bellefonte man met a
{was not in a condition to walk very
|straight. In a sarcastic
voice he said:
Dia ‘have you vertigo?” “Only Halfmoon
- hill,” i
It was referred to the Fire ~~ "oF the reply he received.
| and Police committee. {
{ Secretary Kelly reported "that he
had communicated with the fire in-
Association | : 3
and that an inspector will be sent raises Tgp yo. A She went into |
| ere as soon as it is convenient to | » Which was
'do so.
rounds of the stores doing
fairly |
crowded with shoppers, and |
without thinking laid her handbag |
down on the counter. When she |
{well
|
later it was gone. The handbag |
|contained her automobile driver's li. |
|cense, the family car license, her |
{purse with $9.00 in cash and one or |
two other articles.
be the
young girl from Valley View found
|
revealed that the only thing missing
was the cash. 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 toilet.
——The unusal after Christmas
slump in mercantile business is re-
sponsible for the four days a week
working schedule for clerks in the
uptown A. & P. store,
the day be- |
tone of | :
“My young man, | Methodist church, at Milesburg, at
i | Rev. M. C. Piper, burial
Several weeks ago a well known |
Bellefonte woman was making the | tOWnShip.
some |
{county bar Edward J. Hunter Esq.,
|of Philadelphia.
College during the first three months
| veal,
night
watchman, but all they got
Christmas baskets Of college this year than last year, for their trouble was 16 cents.
(were distributed to families in Belle- reports of the college registrar re- When the negroes
entered the ga-
rage, on the lower floor Coder, who
| Prior to Christmas in 1930 sixty- Was on the second floor, took off his
‘enough in it to make an appetizing three students withdrew, twenty of coat and overalls, and threw them
(teen because of illness. In
‘same period this year
dropped from college,
{of them giving their reasons
illness.
{both years.
| This year eighteen freshmen,
| eighteen sophomores, ten juniors, one
| senior and fourteen graduates and
| special students left college, where
last year the classification was twen-
ty-seven freshmen, seventeen soph-
omores, seven juniors,
and eight graduate students and
specials.
| SMITH.—Mrs. Kathr yn 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.
|
Her husband
died twelve years ago but surviving
her are the following children: C.
'M. Smith, of Millheim; Mrs. J. P.
McCool, of Spring Mills; WwW. Ww.
Smith, of Rebersburg; George, of
Funeral services were held in the
|two o'clock Saturday afternoon, by
Rev. M. H. Crawford,
assisted by
in Hetkman's
fl 1]
——Mrs. Mary Kelly, relict of
James Kelly, died at her home on
Logan street yesterday morning at
five o'clock. She was 74 years old
and had been confined to bed for
Funeral mass will be
celebrated in St. John's Catholic
church on Monday
obituary will be published next week,
About the festive
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
and Mrs.
board were
Houser, Mr.
——A special session of court was
held, on Wednesday afternoon, to
admit to practice at the Centre
Mr, Hunter is an
attorney in the workmen's compen-
sation bureau, at Harrisburg, and
the motion to admit him to the Cen-
morning . Her |
the | them for financial reasons and four- in a car.
four seniors |
|
|
Practically all his mon--
the (€y and that of the garage were in
sixty-one | the discarded clothing, hence it was
twenty-five | Saved from the robbers.
as Of them has yet been found.
(financial and twenty on account of |
Personal reasons accounted |
{largely for the other withdrawals | sion
No trace
———Ceta Beck didn’t miss a ses.
of the Bellefonte Methodist
{Sunday school during the year 1931
and last Sunday morning her teach-
(er, Mrs. Mary Hall Bolick, presented
‘her with a beautiful gold pin in
| recognition of her regularity in at-
| tendance.
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.
|
{
|
serious problem.
——The weather during the past
week has been more wintry like and
seasonable, thermometers on Mon-
day morning being down to ten de-
grees above zero.
WINGATE
—
tre county bar was made by Arthur
C. Dale Esq.
Miss Florence Peters and her
being made | brother Kenny spent their Christ-
cemetery in Gregg mas with their
Mrs. Albert Peters, of Flemington.
parents, Mr. and
Dr. and Mrs. George Tibbens, of
‘Beech Creek, called on friends here
on Wednesday of last week. They
were on their way home from a trip
to Tyrone.
Mrs. Florence Lucas is offering her
Ford car cheap to anyone who
wants it. She says itis too hard to
get an operator's license that sheis
thinking of going back to a horse
or a pony, which she can drive with-
out a license.
Misses Virginia and Beulah Har-
nish are spending their Christmas
vacation with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Martin Harnish, of this place.
Miss Virginia is teaching in a Phil-
adelphia High school and her sister
is a student in the city.
On Sunday night, December 20, L.
E. Davidson received the sad news
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 guests of Mrs. Witherite’s
{mother and sister, Mrs. Irwin and
J Mrs, Lucas.
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