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INK SLINGS.
BY GEORGE R. MEEK.
—Hirin' and firin’ bids fair to be
‘he greatest achievement of the
resent Pinchot administration.
~The Watchman has no favorite
lor President, but it will go so far
18 to say that Governor Ritchie, of
Maryland, would make a mighty
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
1andsome looking one.
—William Wrigley, the chewing VOL. 7
jum magnate died in Phoenix, Ari- | m————
sona, on Tuesday. It might well COUNTY EXHIBITO!
s¢ said of him that he kept more ‘ON
Se apn an any Cr nO PRE MONEY
n the world, if that be claim to % A .
ame. Pine Grove Mills Girl Won First
—Dr. Joseph J. Klein, associate Honors for a Special Entertain-
yrofessor of taxation at the College ment of Six Minutes.
f the City of New York, is of the —
pinion that “boot-leggers” shouldbe Centre county exhibitors at the
axed. That's a novel idea. But State farm products show, in Har-
10ow can the government tax a busi- risburg last week, “brought home
less that it has outlawed? |the bacon” in the shape of $5675.00
—A Democratic Congress passci|in cash and enough cclored ribbons
\n appropriation of five hundred mil- to festoon a large hall, as well as
ion dollars for the President's Re- honorable mentions galore. And in
onstruction Finance Corporation in addition a Pine Grove Mills girl won
ust three minutes. It's Republican first honors for a six minute spe-
yredecessor would have taken three cial entertainment. The show drew
rears to do that job.
—When it is considered that sixty ing the week and Centre county fur-
ser cent of all taxes paid in the Rished a goodly representation.
vorld are to maintain the engines of County winners, as far as it was
var it would seem that total dis- possible to asemble them, were fur-
swrmament would relieve humanity nished the Watchman by county
.
BEL
Ey.
‘rolled in vocational agriculture, who CARBON MONOXIDE GAS
sent exhibits to the show, were PROVES FATAL TO A
awarded many prizes. Some will PHILIPS MAN
receive cash rewards while others — BURG :
‘will receive the customary place tag. man Had Apparently Been Dead
However, the honor of winning in geveral Hours When Body Was
such a large show against such pound,
keen competition will repay any who
might not have received some cash| James H. Miller, well known resi-
award. (dent of South Philipsburg, and fa-
The county was represented by ther-in-law of Leo Boden, county de-
| thirty-five vocational boys and girls. tective, was a victim of carbon mon-
Gregg township boys competed in | oxide gas, in the garage at his
the State demonstration contest with home last Friday morning. He was
a very fine exhibit on soil testing. | employed as a truck driver by the
Harris township boys’ and girls’ | Lauderbach-Griest company. He
‘teams competed in this contest, also, went to his garage shortly before
‘the boys demonstrating the judging seven o'clock, last Friday morning,
|an attendance of 278,000 people dur- Of livestock and the girls a demon- and when he failed to report for
| stration on the uses of apples as work an investigation was made
(human food. Susan Wagner, of the between eight and nine o'clock and
| Harris township school, won honor- his lifeless body was found lying on
able mention in the demonstration the floor of his garage. Tools scat.
contest. | tered about on the floor showed that
LEFONTE, PA. JANUARY 29, 1932.
rom a greater burden of taxaiion
han any other conceivable retrench-
nent.
—Bishop Cannon, the hypocritical
relate of the Methodist church
jouth, is credited with having said
hat alcohol “is all right if you take
t as a sauce or a tonic.” A “tonic,”
ve should say, is exactly what nine-
y-nine percent of those who use
t take it for.
—Undersecretary of the Treasur-
ry Mills thinks that if fear were
outed it would do much to pave the
vay to recovery. Perhaps it would,
wut how it is going to be routed
vhen every other person in the
ountry might be classed as the
burnt child” who “dreads the fire.”
—We will not feel easy until
apan and China get their ruckus
It looks to
county is in such a mud-
le that criminal court can't be held
prosecuting officer
«.sher is
sed to be.
they advertised two Little
two Uncle Toms.
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—Wild geese are flying north, Peters Brothers, Stormstown; cow |
are off the coast of New three years and under 4, 10 entries, | Hublersburg, Sth; Morris Way, Port
ersey, dandelion, violets and pan-
ies are being picked every day
in Pennsylvania and
who went to Florida to es-
winter's rigors might well
at home. Sun spots,
stream or what have
cause of having
pleasant as May
g
g
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8
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it would be most convinc-
feeling on the matter
ere to welcome a chance to
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ty for a referendum certainly gives |
se to suspicion that they fear a
iow down.
—Much is expected from the re-
mntly created Federal Reconstruc-
on Finance Corporation. It is
sing hailed as the crowning achieve-
“ ent of the Hoover administration.
\ view of what Mr. Hoover's ad-
inistration has accomplished thus
r any achievement, however small,
ight well be a crowning one. How-
rer, the Federal Reconstruction Fi-
wince Corporation is not the crea-
re of Mr. Hoover's brain. It is
thing more than an adaptation of
e War Finance Corporation Act,
1ssed under the Wilson adminis
ation, and attempts to appropriate
1 anticipated benefits to glorify
r. Hoover are political plagiarism.
agent R. C. Blaney, and are as fol-
lows:
In the horse department the Penn-
sylvania State College won first on
‘an aged percheron stallion and first
on a two year old Percheron stallion,
also winning grand champion with
the aged Percheron stallion, “Sir
Laet.”
The swine department, in the Po-
land China class, second on junior
sow won by Hartle Brothers, Belle-
fonte. 8th place junior sow pig won
by Peters Brothers, Stormstown.
5th in the senior sow pig and 4th
on junior sow pig won by the Penn-
sylvania State College.
In the Berkshire class, 5th place
junior yearling sow, 3rd and Tth on
junior sow pig won by the Pennsyl-
| vania State College.
| The Chester White class, 4th place
on junior yearling sow, 1st and 3rd
on junior sow pig and reserved
grand champion won by the Penn-
sylvania State College.
Duroc Jersey class, second
senior sow pig, 3rd junior sow
won by the Pennsylvania State Col-
lege.
. In the dairy
class,
der one year, 8 entries, 4th place
won by Peters Brothers, Storms.
wheels of justice have stopped town; bull three years old or over, Fis Rearick, Russell Mark, John
The newly elected Judge 8 entries, 5th place won by Peters Zubler, J. E. Zerby.
evidently not as versatile Brothers, Stormstown; heifer 4.
the managers of “Tom” shows months and under one year, 31 en. °éntered from the classes of the
They always made the tries, 3rd and 5th place won py county vocational supervisor, W. 8.
believe they were bigger and | Peters Brothers, Stormstown: heifer Jeffries. Four of these won places,
18 months and under 2 years, 24
entries, 3rd and 6th place won by
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| 5th place, Peters Brothers, Storms-
| town; exhibitors herd (5 animals),
4 entries, 3rd place, Peters Brothers,
Stormstown; breeders young herd
(56 animals), 6 entries, 3rd place,
Peters Brothers, Stormstown; pro-
duce of dam (2 animals), 19 en-
tries, 3rd place, Peters Brothers,
Stormstown.
The egg show; 1st place in class of
5 dozen white eggs, Kerlin Grandview
poultry farm, Center Hall. 3rd and
4th place in class of one dozen white
eggs, Roy Detrow, Center Hall. 4th
white eggs, Thomas Delaney, Centre
Hall, 4th and 5th in farmers five
dozen white eggs class, Thomas
Delaney, Center Hall.
Centre county, 4H lamb club ex-
hibits, Hampshire class, 2nd place,
Charles Harter, Nittany.
Shropshire Class—2nd place, Min-
nie Tate, State College; 3rd place,
Eugene Lederer Jr. State College;
8th place, Richard Luse, Centre Hall;
10th place, William Hipple,
Glen.
Southdown Class—T7th place, Mar-
garet Ross, Centre Hall; 8th, Carl
Burkholder, Centre Hall; 9th, Rich-
ard Ross, Centre Hall; 10th, Albert
Homan, State College; 11th, Lee
Homan, State College.
(of 10 pens in the three breeds men-
| tioned. The lambs were sold at auc-
|tion on Friday for an average of
8% cts. per pound.
5th place on a sample of wheat,
H. A. Hoy, Bellefonte.
| Rebekah Lodge, of Pine Grove Mills,
| presented the one act play “Mothers
|Old Home” in competition with six
groups in the Central district. They
were awarded 4th place in the dis-
trict.
Miss Elizabeth Goheen, Pine Grove
Mills, won first honors in a special
‘entertainment presentation, which
was not to exceed six minutes, and to
| be presented between acts of the one
|act play groups.
| Center County was represented in
‘the horseshoe pitching contest by L.
| P. Fielder, Aaronsburg, and Wert
| Bohn, Boalsburg, who substituted for
| Howard Stere, of Unionville. The
|contest was won by the defending
| champion of last year, Mr. Straw, of
Clearfield county.
Centre county boys and girls en-
bull calf, four months and un-
place in farmers class of one dozen |
Pine |
The Center County club consisted
In the small grains department,
NO. 5.
ESCAPED PRISONER
GETS SALTY SENTENCE
At a session of court, last Satur-
day morning, Fred Williams, who es-
!caped the morning of June 27th, 1931,
‘and was captured at Charlotte, N.
|C., last week, was given an eight to
| sixteen year sentence in the western
| penitentiary in addition to serving
|out his original sentence. Williams
{was convicted in Erie county of
‘breaking and entering, larceny and
receiving stolen goods and was sent
morning of June 27th, 1931, he and
another prisoner by the name of
Reed were routed out between five
and six o'clock for kitchen duty. On
their way from the
the dining hall they turned from the
beaten path, dodged through a gap
{in the wire stockade where repairs
were being made and made their
The Gregg township vocational he had been at work on his car and °Scape- It was not until last week
school again carried away the coun- a temperature test of the solution that Williams was located in Char.
ty honors in the State project con- in the radiator showed that the mo- lotte, N. C. arrested and brought
test. At the meeting, last Tuesday tor had been in operation long Pack here for sentence.
morning, the following boys from |
| Spring Mills received the project
awards:
Senior Contest—Samuel Wise, 9th
‘on bees; Russell Mark, 1st on truck came to Centre county securing the ‘Presenting the Appleton Novelty
enough to raise the temperature of
the solution.
Miller, who was 63 years old and
a native of Lackawanna county,
M. L. McKenzie, of Lancaster, was
| brought before the court on a charge
of false pretense preferred by F. A.
| Keller, of State College. McKenzie,
and 2nd on corn; John Zubler, 4th |position of conductor on the Pitts- cOmpany, of Cedar Rapids, Mich,
on corn and 2nd on dairy records; burgh and Susquehanna railroad (lo-|
Dean Ilgen, 2nd on sheep; Ellis cally known as the *“Alleypopper”)
earling , 6th and 8th on junior v
y aw, Rearick, 8th on winter grain and where he remained for twenty-seven |
10th on dairy.
Junior Contest—Gerald Johnson,
5th on gardening; Richard Felten.
berger, 4th on potatoes; Ellsworth
| Stover, 2nd on swine; J. Adam Con-
ido, 4th on swine; Jean Rishel, 1st
‘on dairy.
| Harris township vocational school
‘also had two winners in the project
| contest, William Ross, 6th on dairy,
'and. Lynn Mothersbaugh, 7th on
shee
| Roberts, of Houtzdale, who survives
p-
| + The Keystone chapter of the Fu-
years, then took a similar position
on the New York Central. He was
with that company only a short
time when he quit railroading and
became a truck driver for the Lau.
derbach-Griest company. He was a
member of the I. O. O. F. and the
Railroad Conductor's association.
In 1902 he married Miss Jennie
with two children, Mrs. Leo Boden,
of Milesburg, and Clifford, at home.
| He also leaves his mother and four
ture Farmers of America, an organ- brothers. Funeral services were held
|iation of boys enrolled in vocational
‘agriculture in Pennsylvania, of
{which William Campbell, a former
student at the Gregg township vo-
cational school is the retiring presi-
dent, again honored of the
boys from Spring Mills, Those re-
| ceiving the Keystone degree being |
In the egg show six exhibits were
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jas follows: Jean Krape, of the Hub-
| elrsburg school, 2nd; Mahlon Bailey,
Rebersburg, Tth; Mildred
Matilda, 9th. By winning the above
2nd place in the county class.
In potatoes, John Miller, of Hub-
lersburg, won 1st in his class; Wal-
ter Cummings, of Rebersburg, 5th,
and Ocean Yearick, of Hublersburg,
6th.
In small grains Gerald Zimmer-
man, of Spring township, won 1st
in oats, and Ellis Rearick, of Gregg
township, 4th place. Gerald Zim-
'merman also won 2nd place in
| wheat.
| All of these exhibits were selected
either by the pupils themselves or
under the direction of their teacher
of agriculture from their own pro-
ject.
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VETERANS OF FOREIGN
WARS OPEN CLUB ROOMS.
Members of the Jackson-Crissman-
| Saylor post, No. 1600, Veterans of
the Foreign Wars, have opened club
‘rooms on the third fioor of the
| Watchman office building, the first
time since the organization of the
post that they have had permanent
quarters. The officers of the post,
who were installed on January 16th
iby a delegation from Lewistown
| post, are as follows:
| Commander, Ray W. Eckman;
senior vice commander, Richard S.
Taylor; quartermaster, Herbert S.
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places Centre county was awarded
Miller; adjutant, Charles C. William-
son; trustees George W. Sunday
Harrison G. Kline and Joseph Ber- |
tram. The post meets the second
and last Fridays of each month and
all overseas veterans are cordially
invited to visit the club rooms at
any time.
——The fire companies were call- |
ed out shortly before ten o'clock
Sunday night, by small fires on the
roofs of the Adam Grafmyer and
Harry Sager homes, on Halfmoon
hill. The fires were caused by
sparks from a flue fire at the Graf-
myer home. They were extinguish-
ed before much damage was done.
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~The second half of the Senior
basket ball league of the Bellefonte
Y was inaugurated on Wednesday
evening and that of the Sunday
school league will start tomorrow
evening. All the games in these
leagues are free to the public.
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at his late home at 2 o'clock on Mon-
day afternoon, by Rev. G. S. Womer,
burial being made at Brisbin, Clear-
field county.
PENN BELLE HOTEL CLERK
AMONG THE MISSING.
Fred Loveland, who the past two
years has been chief clerk at the
Penn Belle hotel, left Bellefonte un-
expectedly late on Monday after-
noon and up to the time the Watch-
man went to press no trace of his
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| whereabouts had been discovered.
The young man left the hotel about
four o'clock in the afternoon and go-
ing to his home, on east Curtin
street, packed a bag with clothing,
telling his wife he was going away
to a Greeter’s convention. He drove
away in his car and that was the
last seen of him.
Loveland also conducted the Sweet
Shop, on Beaver St. State College,
which was in charge of a Bellefonte
woman who had formerly been a
waitress at the Penn-Belle. The
Shop had the college agency for the
Lake-to-Seas bus lines.
The woman referred to is also
missing, and it is alleged that sev-
eral hundred dollars belonging to
the Bus company is gone. Natural-
ly all kinds of rumors are abroad
jand authorities are endeavoring to
|trace Loveland through the license
tags on his car.
Loveland’s father, Blaine Love-
land, came here from Mansfield, Pa.,
on Monday, and on Tuesday took his
son's wife and two children to the
home of her relatives in Mill Hall
where she will remain for the time
being.
The young man's accounts at the
Penn-Belle were all straight and he
was very much liked in the hotel,
both by his employers and the
traveling public.
Those who know most about him
think he was just so hopelessly in-
volved in debt that he could see no
way out and, under strain of press-
ing bills, became so discouraged that
he ran away from it all
It is reported that Loveland’s car
was found abandoned at Port Ma-
tilda. ‘That has given rise to the
| theory that the woman in the case
eft the Shop in State College, drove
to Port in her own car, and picked
him up there.
J. Mitchell Chase
is authority for the statement that
the Treasury Department in Wash-
ington has the papers all prepared
and that in the near future con-
demnation proceedings will be insti-
tuted to take over the Krader, Hib-
ler and Montgomery properties, on
Allegheny street, as the site for
Bellefonte’'s new federal building.
Only one of the buildings, the Mont-
gomery property, has been vacated
up to this time, and so far as can
be learned, the tenants of the other
properties have not yet received a
notice to vacate.
made a trip to State College selling
candy vending machines. He madea
number of sales and collected in ad-
vance $1475. When the machines
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made and it was found that McKen-
(zie had cashed the checks and con- |
| verted the money to his own use.
| His arrest followed shortly after the
first of the year. When called for
charge of false pretense, John J.
| Bower, acting district attorney, told
{the court that McKenzie had made
arrangements with the firm he rep-
resented for the delivery of all the
machines within ninety days, and if
that is done Mr. Keller would not
press the prosecution, and he sug-
gested placing the man on proba-
tion upon payment of costs in order
that he might have an opportunity
'to make good on the delivery of the
machines. Ivan Walker, Esq. repre-
sented McKenzie and also asked that
{he be given a chance. The court
| Placed him on probation, as request-
led, but gave him to understand that
he must make good or he will be
brought back for sentence.
CHILD WELFARE WORKERS
|the Centre.Clearfield Crippled Chil-
dren's Society was held at the Phil-
ipsburg hospital on Wednesday eve-
ning, January 20th,
meeting was conducted by its presi-
assisted by the secretary and treas-
urer, Mis Anna Laumen. The prin-
cipal guests of the evening were,
Miss Jane Marshall, executive.secre
tary of the Pennsyl,ania Society for
Crippled Children, Harrisburg, Pa.,
and Miss Sara M. Murray, supervis-
or of the orthopaedic unit De-
About fifty-five interested persons
from Centre, Clearfield and Elk
counties sat down to the dinner. The
meeting was probably the most in-
teresting and spirited held in a num-
ber of years. Great progress in the
work of aiding the crippled child
was made during the year as is
shown by the report of the secre-
tary. The funds of the society are
low and are, frankly, inadequate to
finance the proper care of the large
number of crippled children which
they have handled and will handle
during 1932. However, with the
financial assistance of all who are
interested in the problem of the
crippled child, it is believed that the
budget for 1932 will be met.
During 1931 ten full day and ten
half day clinics were conducted at
the hospital as compared to nine full
day and nine half day clifics in
1930.
A total of 643 examinations of
crippled children were made at these
clinics; a gain of 129 over 1930. 87
new cases were found during the
year and brought to the clinics. A
total of 52 operations were perform-
ed as compared to 33 operations in
1930. 56 casts were applied as
compared to 59 in 1930. At the end
of 1931 there were 198 active cases
in the file of the society.
—During 1931 the motoring pub-
lic of Pennsylvania paid into the
State Treasury for automobile and
drivers’ licenses the stupendous sum
of $31,402,253, and of this amount
Centre county is credited with $183,
306. The county is 44th in the list
of counties in the amount spent for
licenses, there being 23 counties
from which the money received was
= | his pulpit in the Mt.
up for eight to sixteen years. On the |
cell block to
failed to arrive an investigation was |
sentence after pleading guilty to a
|in municipal bonds. The purchase in-
| cludes 5,000 acres of watersheds,
MEET TO PLAN FOR 1932 reservoirs, 22 miles of mains the system
The annual meeting and dinner of
1932. The
dent, the Honorable Harry B. Scott,
partment of Welfare, Harrisburg, |
Pa.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
i —-A baseball bat that slipped from the
(hands of a batter killed 10-year-old Clare
| Springer, at Warren, on Saturday. He
| was watching older boys play. The boy
| was struck in the stomach and died en-
‘route to a hospital. The coroner exon-
erated the batter.
—A third operation to remove a pea-
nut from his lung was performed, on
Saturday, on 6-year-old Robert Moore, of
Sharon. He sucked the peanut down his
| windpipe January 12. A small particle
| not obtained in the two previous opera-
| tions was removed and physicians believe
| he will recover.
~-Dr. Edward Bleakney speaking from
Lebanon Baptist
church at Pittsburgh, on Sunday, de-
| nounced police for being “too quick with
| their guns.” He sald no law-—ecclesi-
| astical or political-—can justly punish a
{man for stealing food when he or his
| children are hungry.
| —Ervin A. Heindel, stock and bond
. salesman, formerly of West York, but
lately a resident in Gettysburg, is being
sought to answer for embezzlements and
bad checks totaling over $25,000. It is
alleged that Heindel was entrusted with
certain stocks and bonds to be sold or
| exchanged. He is said to have disposed
iof the securities and appropriated the
money to his own use.
~The Bureau of Motor Vehicles re-
{ports that 155,724 unclaimed and undeliv-
{ered operators’ renewal applications have
been returned by the post office author-
ities. This represents seventy-nine bags
of unclaimed mail. Of the number, 95,-
{408 were unknown to the post office;
‘52,845 applicants had moved, but for-
warding addresses were not known; 5,
865 had moved from the State and 2,108
had died.
—In order to be prepared to receive
any county, State or Federal relief that
may be granted to the Panther Creek
Valley Relief Association, the association
has started making a survey of each
town in the valley to learn the exact
| number of unemployed and what may be
required in the nature of relief if the
present depression runs into the sum-
mer of 1982. At present the association
is furnishing aid to several thousand per-
sons.
—Three youthful bandits obtained $483
in a holdup of a drugstore in the center
of the business section of Pittsburgh late
Saturday night. They drank soft drinks
at the soda fountain until other custom-
ers left, and then drew pistols on the
employees, forcing the assistant manager
to open the safe. Once it was opened
they herded the four employees into the
basement and locked the door. The
manager of the store was killed in a
holdup several months ago.
—A note saying someone had put a
“gpell” on him was found in the pocket
of Orval Stiler, 49, Briar Creek township,
Columbia county, who shot and killed
himself with a shotgun at the foot of
Knob Mountain last Friday. Fishermen
on their way to a stream found the body.
Stiler had taken his daughter to work
in a silk mill in Berwick earlier in the
day, Mrs, Stiler said she believed the
“spell’” was worry because of lack of
work. The widow and six children sur-
vive.
—The Public Service Commission has
approved the acquisition by the borough
of Tyrone of the property, rights and
franchises of the Tyrone Gas and Water
company at a hearing in Harrisburg
Thursday, the 2lst. Purchase price is
$400,000 covered by an issue of $400,000
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two
installed in the borough, and the good
will of 2,200 consumers. The gross in-
come of the company is $48,000 annually.
—The New York Central passenger
‘station at Jersey Shore, was robbed
isome time last Thursday night. When
| James Morrow, the agent went to work
‘on Friday morning he found all four
doors had been broken open and the
candy and weighing machines rifled. As
only $2.50 was in the safe, it
left unlocked. This money
and investigation revealed the
| disturbed nothing except the
{the amounts in the various machines. The
| property damage amounted to much more
I'than the amount obtained.
| —Justice speeded up in Williamsport,
| last week, when William G. Stiffler re-
| ceived a two-to-four-year sentence in the
eastern penitentiary on a charge of ar-
son, less than three days after causing
a $35,000 blaze. Stiffler was arrested
within 20 hours after a large storage
building was destroyed Tuesday night by
the building exploded. He pleaded guilty
to charges of larceny and arson in com-
mon pleas court on Friday morning and
was sentenced.
—Sale of the historic site of Fort Au-
gusta, Northumberland county, which is
one of the last remaining reminders of
the days of Indian warfare, by Mrs,
Ella G. Rossiter, Albuquerque, N. M.,, to
the State of Pennsylvania, was formally
concluded in the office of C. M. Clement,
at Sunbury, on Saturday. The purchase
includes the old mansion erected for
Colonel Hunter, the first commandant of
the fort, and the old powder magazine.
Plans by the Northumberland Historical
Soclety will now go rapraly forward for
ceremonies to mark the dedication of the
fort. Recently the Legislature appropri-
ated $15,000 for the purchose of the old
fort which was erected in the year 1756.
—Re-opening of the Sunbury Safety
Tire company was assured at a meeting
of the stockholders in the court house, at
| Sunbury, when $8000 was subscribed by
eighty-one persons. About $4000 is still
needed, it was pointed out, but this sum
is expected to be raised without any dif-
ficulty. With that amount of money all
of the urgent debts of the company
could be paid off and the plant would be
ready for operation. Although the re-
opening depends entirely upon the de-
cision reached by Federal Judge A. W.
Johnson, it was pointed out that if he
finds the stockholders are anxious to re-
tain their holdings and is confident the
present liabilites can be met, he will dis-
solve the receivership now in charge of
the plant and return it to the board of
less than Centre County's total.
directors.