The r that P. G Meek edited and published for fifty-seven years and now published by his Estate at the Watchman Printing House, Bellefonte, Pa. Bditors. MARY GRAY MEEK —— To Correspundeuts.—o communications published ess accompanied by the real name of the writer. In ordering change of address always give the old as well as the new address. It is important that the publisher be notified when a subscriber wishes the peper discontinued. In all such cases the subscription must be paid up date of cancellation, GEORGE R. MEEK Published weekly, every Friday morn- ing. Entered at the postoffice, Belle- Pa., as second class matter. of Subseription.—Tnti) further the following rates: $1.50 - 17% 00 fonte, Terms motice at Paid strictly in advance Paid before expiration of year Paid after expiration of year A sample copy of the Watchman" will be sent without cost to applicants. The great engineer, the great financiers, the great all have their pet ideas as to how the industry of the country might be lifted from the low estate into which it has fallen. Some of them might command a modicum of respect if the public were not conscious of the fact that these same great minds have been conjur- ing ideas for more than two years and not one of them has had the slightest palliative effect. Public confidence in those who presume leadership is further shattered by the fact that those who were assuring the country in 1929 that such a state as the present had passed into the limbo of conditions never to be experienced again are the very ones who are now running around in circles in a futile attempt to extricate them- selves from a slough brought on by their own false prophesies. As a matter of fact, there is nothing wrong with the country. Our fields, our forests: our mines, our mi terways are here, just as they were in 1919. Their intrinsic value is just as great today as it was then, and the present trouble has all come from the failure of the great financial experts of the country to realize that paper values created by the exigencies of the World war were not a sound foundation on which to establish a peace time regimen. The situation is unfortunate: ‘There is much distress in the country, probably not more than there has been at many times be- fore. It seems more terrible only because the present generation was born with a gold spoon in its mouth and knowns or cares lit- tle of the hardships its forbears endured that it might have all the marvelous advantages it fell heir to. There are bread lines everywhere, but Valley Forge and shoeless feet leaving crimson imprints in the snow. In Andersonville and Libby prisons bread lines often formed, but there wasn't even bread for those who had fought to preserve ana- tion that boasts of its greatness and whimpers because it has found out that inflation was only a business Santa Claus. As the Aposple Paul said, the country “groaneth and travailith,” but out of it all will come the greatest good. It is learning the les- son of common sense, beginning to understand that great engineers, great financiers, great economists sometimes become so eager to get there were bread lines at their heads higher into the clouds that they forget to keep their feet on the ground. Until the people of these out of the idea that they are ducing at least as much as their liv the road to national poverty. Super financing corporations such as the President, in his sur- prise message to Congress, suggested, giving away the Farm Board's accumulated wheat, laying new taxes, tinkering with the tariff are not going to help the situation. good old United States of America get entitled to have a living without pro- ing costs there will be no turn in What is needed is guts to lie in the bed that we made our- selves, until our personal suffering forces us to get up and be doing without the stimulus of a shot in the arm from the syringe of pater- nalistic government. DICTATING OFFICIAL DEPOSITORIES. The security companies doing business in Pennsylvania no conceived and lobbied the act through the Legislature that it mandatory for county officials to furnish corporate bond they can qualify for the offices they have been elected to. in question also puts the cost of such bonds on the county. Before that law was passed an official whose office happened to be one for which a bond was required often offered personal bonds- men and when that was not done he paid for the bond as an essen- tial part of his personal qualification for the office. The Act of 1929 has some merit, but no one had wisdom to foresee a contingency because of it that could make the several se- curity corporations doing business in Pennsylvania the dictators as to the depositories of every county official in the State. That situation is here now. County officers who have to be bonded may go only to an incorporated bonding company for their surety. Many of these companies refuse to issue such bonds unless the depository in which the official proposes to carry his funds gives a bond also or earmarks a stated percentage of its own securities as collateral for the account. That would be making an official ac- count preferred against all other depositors in the bank and, mani- festly, would be unfair, and possibly illegal. All over Pennsylvania men who took office this week were in straits as to where to get bonds. Many banks declined to meet the requirements of the bonding companies and the situation has brought to public attention the danger that lurks in legislative enactments that have such far reaching possibilities as the Act of 1929 seems to have had vested in it. doubt makes s before ——————————————————— — Pennsylvania Republicans are sowing more seeds of discord. Ever since “Puddler Jim” Davis busted into the Senate there has been fear that he might horn Senator Davey Reed out of that body. it is not probable that the city of Pittsburgh will long be permitted to furnish both Senators for this great Commonwealth. So either Davis or Reed must be stopped. “‘Puddler Jim” is more or less of a political accident in Pennsylvania. He doesn’t fit into the big business and high tariff schemes of the real rulers of the party in the State: It is desirable to get rid of him and save Reed movement has been launched to move James M- Beck, Congressman from the First Philadelphia district, into the upper House. The Mellon group is said to be back of it and Mr. Vare is reported as having Amen'd the proposal before going off to Florida for the winter. Congressman Beck is a militant wet, but as Senator Davis is none too dry that question would not be so much of a factor in their primary fight as would the factional alignments. Since the death of Penrose Pennsylvania Republicanism has been unable to find a boss and, lacking one, its troubles keep pyramiding. ———————— —We can't see eye to eye with those economists who insist that reduction of wages would reduce the purchasing power of the coun- try. It is our opinion that it would increase, rather than diminish. Lower wages would bring lower prices for all commodities produced by labor and if our economic system is right the relative value of its dollar would be exactly the same as it is under the present scale. A reduction in the cost of commodities would make the buying pow- er of the great class of our people who have been living on fixed in- comes commensurate with the reduction in their incomes. For the most part they are the class that supplied the capital that has pro- vided employment for labor. If they are to be deprived of any in- come from their investments so that wages can be maintained at a point where they are eating into the capital structure of such invest- ments how long is it going to be before every industry in the coun- try is bankrupt and capital frozen stiff? economists, | lls, and factories, and wa- | A |from the balance of account in the FIFTY YEARS AGO i —No sleighing in this section yet. | There are at present 509 pupils enrolled in the Bellefonte public ! schools, 30 of whom are negroes. ~ —The frame work of the bake- oven at the James Sommerville home ‘on Spring street caught fire on Wed- 'nesday and both fire companies were on the scene, though their services were not needed. | —The scourge of small pox is rag- ling all over the east though Belle- | fonte has not had a case of it yet. Al Haupt's wife, who was Miss Em- ‘ma Hoover, of this place, died of it in York on Wednesday. | —A first class musical entertain- ‘ment will be given in the Evangel- ‘ical church, at Hublersburg, on the ‘night of January 28. All of the artists have been under the instruc- tion of W. F. Beck, of Bellefonte. Among the feature numbers to be offered will be “O, Restless Sea,” by |e and Mrs. Aikens and Mrs. k. | —Charley Tripple has succeeded Mr. Ballet as driver of the Adams Express wagon. —The stable belonging to the Ramsdale house in Philipsburg was destroyed by fire Thursday night of last week. Two horses, one COW ‘and four pigs were cremated in it. — There is a case of small pox in | Unionville, one at Milesburg and ‘one up Buffalo Run. | —Mr. and Mrs. Andy Lytle cele- brated the fifteenth anniversary of their marriage at their home near State College on the evening of De- cember 20, 1881. Hiram Patterson, a resident of | Unionville, is stricken with small | ‘pox. He had been working in Pittsburgh, where the scourge is ‘raging, and came home to spend the holidays with his’ family. The home is under quarantine and so is Cook Jones who went into it to shave the victim before the nature of his ill- ness was discovered. A. J. St Clair is in charge of the house and |Dr. J. M. Blair is the attending | physician. The schools have been | closed and the churches, as well. — Two mad dogs ran amuck in! | Unionville last Tuesday and scared ‘that town nearly to death. John | Hicklin, Willard Van Valin, John Gingery and Joe Bing all had a hand in slaying them. —The Brockerhoff Bros. retired as managers of their own hotel on Jan- | uary 1st. i —The Bellefonte glass works are | ‘going full blast and are likely to! continue going. A new company has been formed to finance them. | {In it are Hon. C. T. Alexander, C.| 'M. Bower, D. G. Bush, John Ardell, | ‘Hammon Sechler and Dr. R. L.| | Dartt. i — Typhoid fever is prevalent in| the neighborhood of Zion. Pine i rove Mills has been having ~«poth i | typhoid and diphtheria, but they are ‘abating now. i ' ~ —Editor's Note—Of the 106 good in a quarter of a century when ‘men and true who were drawn to every one of the major office hold- |ers is a Democrat the Watchman Glamorous, alluring Greta Garbo | serve as jurors during the January /'court, in 1882, we believe not one is | living today. At least having scan- | ‘ned the names very y failed to discover any that we know (to be living. Strange. | too, since a person could have serv- The act!ed as a juror then and be only 71 ty. years old today. EE —————— A ——— i PHILIPSBURG BANK WINS LONG DRAWN-OUT CASE. maneys held by the Altoona bank | Which were claimed by the plaintiff. The case grows out of the failure of Callahan & Co., investment brok- | ers, in March, 1928. The Philips- the company stock for sale which | had ybeen used as collateral instead. The Philipsburg bank secured an in- junction restraining the Altoona i i for it's own use. The decree of the court makes the injunction perpe | and authorizes and directs the First National bank of Altoona to pay to the First National bank of Philips- burg; Mary E. Dugan and the Peo- ples National bank of State College, name of Calahanand Company, Inc. to wit, $1,119.28, and the proceeds of the sale of 40 shares of Dela- ware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, 40 shares of Baltimore and Ohio railroad and 50 shares of | Atchison, amounting to $31,012.40, [to the full satisfaction of plaintiff's claims. The attorneys for the Philipsburg bank were George W. Zeigler, = of Philipsburg; Woodcock & Woodcock, of Altoona, and John G. Love, of bank from disposing of the stock S53Y Bellefonte. | i { ——Clyde Conkiin, who two weeks | ago was sentenced by Judge Flem- | ing to imprisonment in the Alle-| for two to he took in robbing the Penzoil gasoline station, at Philipsburg, is being held in the Centre county jail until the Febru- | case against William Cartwright, now in the county jail awaiting trial as an accomplice in the robbery. | : | ANNUAL A HODGE—PODGE OF NEWSY INCIDENTS Items taken from the Watchman issue | They're all in office now—the sev- | ‘en hundred or more men and wom- ‘en selected by the voters of Centre in Novemebr county at the election to serve as county, borough and township officials. While every man is an important link in the chain of home rule, local government by the people for the people, the one set of officials who will be looked to to pear the brunt of whatever of good or evil may come tu the populace of the county as a whole during the ensuing four years is the county of- ficers. On their shoulders rests the burden of the economic system of financial reconstruction that may lead to a reduction of the tax bur- den bugaboo; but it is going to be a hard hill to climb. So many and varied are the demands on the coun- ty cash box these days that the life of a public official is not a bed of roses. He is damned if he does anc damned if he doesn’t, and the man who cen strike a mean average must keep a stiff upper lip and hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may. Apropos of the induction of the new county officials, Monday noon, the outgoing officers had the work in their various offices right up to the minute. Every paper had been executed and filed, every account entered ani checked and in one of- fice, at least, an enterprising deputy took down the pictures and wiped off the four years accumulation of Republican dust so the incoming Democrat would not have to snuff it up his nose. That, we opine, was remarkable foresight. Of course every one of the new officers will have troubles of his own so don't go around burdening | them with yours. One of them, by the way, received an anonymous letter, last week, from a correspond- ent up Bald Eagle valley telling him what to do and what not todo, but the writer got mixed up a little in the matter of officials and mailed | putting down of the well are very his letter to the wrong man. Of course it will probably get as much attention from the man who receiv- ed it as it would had it been sent to the right official, as anonymous communications invariably end up in the waste basket. For the first time in a number of years skirts will not be rustling around in the office of the County Commissioners. It will be strictly a man's office and if the situation arises when any of the officials feels like expressing himself emphatical- ly he can do so without fear of of - fending feminine sensibilities. The same rule will apply to the Record- er's office. — As this is probably the first time just naturally extends sincere con- gratulations to all of them. Every one of them is worthy the high trust which has been imposed upon them by the voters of Centre coun- They are all nonest, capable and trustworthy, and we have enough confidence and faith in them to ‘believe that the affairs of Centre tivating charms to gain secret in- county will be handled in a business- like manner during the next four years and with an eye single to the interests of the individual as well as the public at large. In taking the oath of office as a councilman from the North ward, Monday evening, John S. Walker be- _| gins his twenty-first year as a mem- ber of that official body. And his re-election” as president of council marks the start of his nineteenth | year as the presiding officer, a rec- ord never before attained by any man in the history of Bellefonte. To ‘the credit of Mr. Walker it can be G said that he makes a most efficient and capable president. He never burg bank claimed they had given | 108es his poise and his just and Triumph equable rulings have frequently re- sulted in tempering the situation when members of council displayed a little more belligerency than neces- . That he will be equally suc- cessful as a guiding hand during the next four years is not to be ques- tioned. COUNTY THRESHERMEN TO MEET JANUARY 16. The annual meeting of Centre county threshermen and farmers protective association will meet in the court house, Saturday Jan. 16th, at 10 A. M. A representative of the State organization will be pres- ent. The right of tractor engines, autos and trucks on the highway will be considered. Delegates will be appointed toat- tend the state convention in Harris- burg, January 20th. STORE ROBBERS TAKE MONEY, SHOES AND EGGS Robbers broke into the store of Frank L. Wetzler, in Milesburg, Sunday night, by prying open the front door. So far as Mr. Wetzler could ascertain the only things tak- en were five dollars in cash, two pair of shoes and a bucket of eggs. The fact that eggs and shoes were taken would indicate that the rob- bery was a local job, as no man from a distance would feel like ped- dling around a bucket of eggs. CLEARANCE SALE | AFRAID HE'D LOSE JOB IN ALTOONA STORES. MUNSON MAN KILLS SELF. January is always a time when Fearful that he might lose his job stores make an effort to clear from as a telegraph operator with the their stocks broken lines and re- New York Central Railroad com- mainders left from the busy holiday pany, Simon Rader, 46 years old, of selling. Munson, went to the begroom of his In line with that policy, stores home, Sunday afternoon, and shot connected with the Altoona Booster himself through the head with a .32 Association are going to have a caliber revolver, dying instantly. He community clearance sale, starting had been “bumped” out of his job Wednesday, January 13, announce- two weeks ago but it was said that ment of which is made elsewhere in he had been ordered to report for this issue. duty on Tuesday morning as a care- There are so many lines of goods taker. He had been in the employ handled by the Altoona Booster of the company for twenty-three Stores that a clearance sale featur- years. He leaves a wife and nine- ed by this group always offers op- year-old daughter. Burial was made portunities for buying merchandise at Drifting on Wednesday morning. of all kinds at attractive prices, re- ductions being made in order to ~The well baby clinic will be make a quick clearance. held this (Friday) afternoon, at 3 There will be opportunities offered o'clock, in Petrikin hall, and every for securing personal needs, as well Friday hereafter, as usual. as new furnishings for the home, and while the reductions will apply HOWARD. largely to odd lots and remainders of lines, style and quality will be just phe Alice er By Zlilagel as dependable and desirable aS ho, home here. % though there were complete assort- Eugene Pletcher, of Philadelphia ments from which to choose. As noted, the clearance sale will Spent Severn) das Yim lis mother, start on Wednesday, January 13, Miss Mae Orr, of Philadelphia which will also be Suburban day and spent the holidays with her parents, will continue throughout Wednesday, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Orr. : Thursday, Friday and Saturday. J. C. Weirick, of Abington, spent several days, last week, with his GAS STRIKE AT HOWARD mother, Mrs. Jennie Weirick. - Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dingler, of ONLY A WINDY GAS STORY. Jersey Shore, were Sunday A Mr. and Mrs. Girard Altenderfer. On Wolneslty SoTming ory i. Philip Nei, who ip stiseding | - school at Harrisburg, spent the fonte that a big gas strike had been Christmas vacation paren made the day previous at the well ‘Mr. and Mrs. C. un With bie is, now being drilled in the mountains north of Howard, but an investiga. Nou ha yh Ysited Syer tion disclosed the fact that the story 'Pfaeffe, at West Chester, and Miss was only one of windy gas. | Mary Rodgers, at Mexico. The fact of the matter is that no The members of the Howard Com- drilling has been done in the well munity Health Service met at the for a week or ten days. The tools home of the president, Mrs. Ruth are fast in a rock crevice and the | Wolfe, on Tuesday afternoon. drillers have not yet been able to Mr. and Mrs. James Kane are |get them loose. Both the drillers Spending several weeks with their and the men who are financing the daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jason Snyder and family, at York. Mr. and Mrs. Kline R. Wolf and ———— A —————— ———— —————— | secretive about the work. They ' give out no information of any kind, famil tS th Re ‘not even in regard to how dee amily spent Sunday wi v. and reg Pp the Je ’L. R. Husler, at West Milton. | well has been drilled up to this time. | But one thing is known, and that [JaMmes Wot is 2 2 USE, the Week |is that there is gas there, the only question is how much. At present Mis Virginia Bennison entertain- oy oncugh of it to ignite apd|SL 8, number of friends at 8 New | show a good-sized flame when | Year's party, on Friday night, at a lighted match is held over the to the hoiiw oF her parents, Me. wd oF he well. And P Mrs. Robert Bennison. Those pres- ell. nd the men who are ent were Myrtle Johnson, Nelle Wy- financially responsible for the well land, Kathryn Cummings and Nan- |being put down have an abundance CY Yearick, of State College, Clif- lof confidence as to the success of ford Swope and Mac Bennison. their undertaking. ‘They have not Miss Alma Pletcher entertained | asked for any financial assistance the members of the Keystone Bible (from anyone. In fact have declin- class of the M. E. church, at her led to sell stock in the enterprise. home Wednesday evening. The | members present were Mrs. Edyth { elitists — Ekdahl, Mrs. Fred Pletcher, Mrs. “MATA HARI” BRINGS Sylvs Be Mrs. W. C. Thomp- GARBO TO , son, Mrs. e Lauth, of Lock CATRAUM “Miss Alma Pletcher and Mrs. Willard McDowell. The fol- comes to the Cathaum theatre, State 1OWing officers were elected for the coming year: Teacher, Mrs. W. C. | College, next Monday and Tuesday in a0 teache: | “Mata Hari,” the picture that is be- ed oN (Saistan ay Mra. |ing hailed as her greatest screen Thompson; secretary, Miss Alma | triumph. The star of “Susan Le- Pletcher; treasurer, Mrs. Edyth nox” has her greatest role as Mata Ekdahl. ‘Hari, Europe's most fascinating woman spy who used all of her cap- (Received too late for last week.) Miss Esther Schenck, of Cleve- land, Ohio, spent the holidays at her home here. Edwin R. Robb, of Philadelphia, is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. ! formation for her country. | The supporting cast is brilliant, ‘including Ramon Novarro, long a ‘star in his own right; Lionel Barry- more, among the greatest of char- t wilhur Hall. ‘acter actors; and Lewis Stone, al- Mrs. Marion Pletcher and mother, ways a smooth, polished actor. Yet ae, Tr mene spent last Friday ‘even in such company, Greta Garbo | stands out in brilliant relief. | Miss Josephine Muffley, of New | * ‘Paltz, N. Y., spent the holidays with i = ‘her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. MM, | IN BELLEFONTE CHURCHES, Muffley. — | Mrs. Robert Bennison and daugh- | ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH. | ters, Mrs. Joseph Diehl and Miss 9:30 A. M., church school. | Virginia Bennison, and Miss Cath- 10:45 A. M., The service and ser. 'erine Cummings, were Lock Haven ‘mon: “Simon-Peter; Transformed by | shoppers recently. race.” Prof. and Mrs. Eugene Robb, of 7:30 P. M., Vesper service and! Bedford; Mrs. Clara Hicks and Mrs. sermon: “The Christian Way of Cora Robb, of Altoona, called at the Over Evil.” ‘home of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Me- Clarence E. Arnold, Pastor. Dowell, last Monday. | Christmas day guests at the home |of Mrs. Clara .Butler were Mr. and Mrs. Dean Bennett and daughter | Kathleen, of Mill Hall; Mr. and Mrs. Sermon Samuel Williams and Mrs. Corl {DY Mice Palmer. oti | Swanson, of Renovo. | :30, Christian eavor. . and Mrs. W | 7:30, Evangelistic service. Sermon | tammy," of ES alter er sof | by Miss Palmer, | Weber, of Somerset; Miss Lauretta A. Ward Campbell, Pastor. weber, of Clearfield, and John Web. a er, who is attending West Chester PILGRIM HOLINESS CHURCH | Normal school, spent Christmas and District Superintendent Rev. Wm. the week-end at their home here. will preach at Highland, A special Christmas program was | Satu evening, January 9, 8t|gu., at Sunday school at the M. E 17:30; at Beech Creek Sunday moOrn- |... Sunda December 20th ling Jan. 10, at 10:30; at Coleville yo, Sora sale istmat | Sunday evening Jan. 10 at 7:30. ‘were given by W. C. Thompson anc | METHODIST CHURCH. 'C. M. Muffley. A short entertain | ment on the “Life of Jesus” was Ea Sean eague, 6.30, with pertinent di | different departments of the school sion under Prepare) tear, Popular | == " young peoples mee . Worship— LEG VERTISEMENTS 110.45, preachment on supreme sub-{ AL AD TiS TOCKHOLDERS' NG—The an ject at 7.30, evangelistic service; Good music. Mid-week, Wednesday, OC meeting of the stockholders o' Whiterock Quarries will be held a! 7.30, forum, devotion, prayer, praise. Intermediate and Junior leagues, the offices of the Company in Bellefonte 6.30. Protracted meeting, Jan. 24 Pa., on Monday, January 25, 1982, at ter ’ . o'clock a. m., for the election of direc Feb. 7, with B. V. Galbraith and | tors for the ensuing year and to transac daughter Miss Katherine V., in sa- wach Auer ustuess 3 . properly song rograms and 0 . ey Er hghod Dr. C. S. -2-3t RAY C. NOLL. Secretar) ‘to calls for his services. All wel- i EVANGELICAL CHURCH | 9:15, Sunday school, Wm. M. Os- man, Supt. 10:30, Morning worship. | | H. Joppy Saturday : DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.— | Let: come at this church, where stetinge ters of sdmbsstertion, having bes o | ers and commercial travelers delight | granted to the unders ghed upoh | estate of E. Miller, late of Belle to worship. quale of Mary deceased, all , person! knowing themselves indebted to said es tate are requested to make prompt pay ment, and those having claims agains the same must present them, duly au Horace Lincoln Jacobs, Minister. Revival meeting will start at Cole- ville on Sunday evening and contin- | {henticated, for settlement. ue through to January 24. Rev. MAURICE MILLER, Administrator Robert H. Heckart will be in charge. |76-49-6t Bellefonte, Pa |
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