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now publis by his Estate at the Watchman Printing House, Bellefonte, Pa.
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FIFTY YEARS AGO
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
Items taken from the Watchman issue
of February 17, 1882,
—Capt.
Ganoe,
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| that and the other persons for boun-
|ty on foxes and skunks. While it
| does seem that an awful lot of the
| varinints are being killed up in Tay-
lor, the Capt. is a very clever fel-
‘low, and we hope he will be able to
| establish complete innocence when
he comes to trial.
Treasury throug |
suing fradulent certificates to this
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A HODGE—PODGE OF
of $11,666.36, all of which has been
paid over but about fifty dollars.
The above sum was over $110v less
than was collected for support in
1930, but considering the depression
it was a pretty good showing, at
that. In the four years Mr. Wil-
i
NE her li Margaret
y ttle friend,
Alexander.
George Bauder, of Juniata, spent
the week-end at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
Bauder.
| Mrs. Burton Tingue and chil-
| dren, of Pittsburgh, are visiting her
| parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mc-
Clellan.
Mrs. Aaron Hall took seriously ill
on Saturday, and was takem to the
Centre County hospital, on Sunday
evening, for treatment.
The finance committee of the M.
E. church, assisted by the ladies,
date of cancellation,
FEBRUARY 12, 1932. |
BELLEFONTE, PA.
|
MR. SMITH'S STATEMENT. |
The statement given to the public Monday morning by Alfred |
E. Smith, titular head of the Democratic party, seems to have be- |
fogged rather than clarified the situation as to what is really in his |
mind concerning the important matter of who will carry the party's |
banner in the coming Presidential campaign.
Mr. Smith says he is not a candidate for the nomination. In|
a way he mystifies that statement, however, by admitting he would)
not decline it should the Chicago convention tender it to him. By!
some of our party's leaders this qualification is interpreted to mean
that Al knows that a wink is as good as a nod to a blind mule and
has in this adroit way notified his friends to go to it.
Although January was a month
with mild temperatures, as well as: Mrs. Louise Orner, of Eagleville,
preceding months, there is no reason this county, underwent a remarkable
to believe that winter is over. Nei- experience in the University hospi-
ther can any credence be placed in tal, Philadelphia, Friday of last
the Greundhog Day theory. This week. For nine years an ovarian
supersititon has been investigated by tumor had been developing in her.
many scientists to determine if there Developing until her girth measure-
was any factual reason for belief in ment was within three inches as
the idea that a prediction or prog- great as her height. Death was
nostication of the weather could be staring her in the face when an
based on the actions of a marmot. operation was resorted to and when
The evidence shows that there is the tumor was taken from her it
absolutely no correlation. Common weighed 112 lbs and all that was
sense would convince a sensible per- left of her was a skeleton weighing
son of this, but science always in- 75lbs. Medical records are now be-
vestigates with an open mind, the ing searched to refute the state-
conclusion being what the facts re- ment that it was the largest tumor
veal. There have peen just as ever removed from a human being.
kinson has been in office he hascol-| ‘=, “co Cot nil A ar
lected for support a total of $36,- —. "4 community hall
723.66. In 192s, his first year, the | Due 0 UD JURMIOY hal Friday
amount collected was :3,016.25; 1929, ing at 5 o'clock. Home made
$9,227.20; 1930, $12,813.85, and last | noodles and pies. Price 50c for
| year $11,666.36. | adults and 35c¢ for children.
The fact that so much money is The Ladies Aid society met, Mon-
collected and paid annually for the day evening, at the home of Mrs.
support of deserted wives and chil- Lorenzo McElwain and during the
dren is a poor commentary on the meeting planned to have their usual
matrimonial standards of the young | Naish ug ton Birthday dinner at the
people of the present day. Many aos rs. John Askins, February
{22nd. It will be a $1.00 social for
of them rush Into marriage without |... society and each one contribu-
a serious comprehension of it's man- ting one dollar must tell how they
ifold responsibilities. Faced with earned it. A plate offering will
the actualities they have not the also be taken.
courage or stamina to fight the bat-| Among those who attended the fu-
Politicians are prone to read something into every public ut- many cold six-weeks following a
terance of a political leader. They rarely accept his statement as | cloudy February 2nd as vice versa,
meaning just what it says. Always they find more between the over a long period of years, and in
. : . : : 4 |a majority of instances, different
lint tain the actual text. It might be that that is what they are | 1 .alities considered, even more years
| were wintry during the spring
Mr. Smith has a perfect right to be a candidate if he wants lo. (mauths. 3: Laws. of Bat t
: ad : : gran ure canno
He says he is not, however. We accept that at its face value. He | "¢0 oeq by man and what in-
also says he wiil not refuse to lead the fight if the Chicago conven- gtinct or time-sense does a burrow-
tion calls him. There is probably no other Democrat in the coun- ing woodchuck possess to enable
try who would refuse, either. him to come forth precisely on Feb-
It might have been better if Mr. Smith had not amplified his
ruary 2nd after doing a Rip Van
. € > | Winkle stunt, and what reasoning
simple statement that he is not a candidate, but the Watchman be- power or mind is he endowed with
lieves, no matter what others might think, that the last thing in his | to decide to return to his hole after |
ng a few blinks at the sun,
if he accidentally came outon
Candlemas day? As a matter oa
| fact, the superstition comes from
Germany where the theory was
| built around an animal, similar in
| size and habits to our American
| woodchuck or groundhog. The early
|German settlers in Pennsylvania
A C CE FOR a | brought tue belief he.e and endow-
HAN A i e grou g with seership be-
® REFERENDUM | cause the native German anima) did
If the dry Republicans of Pennsylvania do not succeed in de- |not exist in America. The idea is
feating Senator Davis in the coming primaries they will have to run |® 890d joke to bandy about. It
an independent candidate or have no other alternative than to vote |DeIPS to fill in in our everlasting
mind is the thought of doing anything that might impair the chances | Plinki
of the party he loves in the coming campaign.
Al Smith is a great Democrat, a great American, so great that
those who helped defeat him in 1928 and would help do it again in
1932, merely because he happened to be born a Catholic, don't under-
stand what real greatness is.
Latest reports are to the effect that
| Mrs. Orner will recover. She is 31
years old and the mother of two
‘children.
—Notwithstanding the threatening
aspect of the weather the musical
entertainment given at Zion on
Thursday evening of last week un-
Ider the auspices of Prof. L. C.
| Romick was a marked sensation.
| “The Zion Glee Club, all male voices,
| Miss’ Mary McKlein, Miss Helen Mec-
| Calmont and Miss Bell Rupert were
| the featured performers.
Coincidental as it may seem
Howard Struble was in the Watch-
man oruce only a few hours before
we started to compile this “Fifty
Years Ago” column to say that
right now Zion is having great
pleasure in an old fashioned singing
school.
| hundred present at a session
week-—Editor's Note,
—The new pastor of the Presby-
| terian churches on the Pine Grove
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last
He said they had over one
tle of life together, especially when |
finances are inadequate to meet the
expense of keeping up a home, and
the result is disagreement and eith-
jer mutual separation or desertion on |
(the part of the husband. In either
‘case the law of the land provides
that the husband is liable for sup- |
port, and especially when there are
children. Of course the woman is
not entirely blameless, as many girls
get married in expectation of living |
a life of ease and comfort and when
|they find the reality not what they |
| anticipated they are not content to
'go through with it, and sooner or!
later another case is added to the
desertion and non-support list.
Apropos of marriage, it is not very !
long ago that we saw a young
couple coming out of the marriage
| license bureau and we felt like con-
gratulating the young man on his
neral of Mrs. Thomas Fisher,
Tuesday, were Mr. and Mrs.
Smith, of Jersey Shore; Mrs. Millie
Kepler, of Pine Grove Mills; Mrs.
Mary Fisher and Margaretta Way,
of State College; Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam Way, of Stormstown; Miss
Pauline Peters, of Tyrone; Mrs.
Charles Foster and Miss Katherine
Smith, of State College.
The funeral of Miles Hall was
largely attended by neighbors, friends
and relatives, last Friday afternoon
at the M. E. church. The services
were in charge of es pastor, Rev.
M. H. Crawford assisted by Rev. M.
C. Piper, Rev. C. C. Shuey and Rev.
William Kerry, of the Free Metho-
dist church. He was 63 years old,
had spent all his life in farming, was
an honest, upright citizen, always
ready to help the sick or needy.
Among those who attended the fu-
neral were Mrs. Headly Sult, of Ber-
wick; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Grove
and children, Sarah and Harry, of
on
William
| Mills and Port Matilda circuits has Selection of a bride-to-be. The girl
written the Watchman to say that was young, just in her teens, and
never before in hid ministry has he pretty as a. picture. The young
‘come in contact with such kindly man, however, may be nice enough
Bellefonte; Hall, Homer
‘Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hall,
Mr. and Mrs. Toner Irwin, Mr. and
Mrs. Aaron Caldwell and family,
| Charles Caldwell, all of Altoona; Mr.
for a wet Democrat or not vote at all. For, in all probability, the
nominee of our party will be wet also. In the event that the wets
name the candidate on both tickets we hope the drys do put an inde-
pendent in the field. In such an event Pennsylvania would have a
real referendum.
With both a wet and a dry preponent the voters
party would have a chance to express themselves on the question of |
the Eighteenth Amendment. If there were only one nominee from
their party, whether he would be wet
would hold their noses and vote for him because he was a Repu
lican, regardless of his stand on Prohibition. |
With a wet Democratic nominee doutbless some members of our |
party would support a dry Republican candidate and if he were a!
big, outstanding man, in such a triangular fight, his chances of elec- !
tion would be very good. i :
So far as the Democratic party is concerned the matter of who
is to be the next United States Senator from Pennsylvania should
not be as important as an expression of the State on the funda-
mental Democratic principle of bringing government back to the!
States. The next Senate almost certainly will be controlled by the:
Democrats, so that the need for securing a member from Pennsyl- |
vania is not vital to control. In fact in none of the forecasts that
presage our party's dominance in the next Senate has the thought of |
gaining a member from Pennsylvania been entertained for a mo-
ment.
Governor Pinchot’s name has been mentioned as a possibility |
for the drys to concentrate on. While he would scarcely make the |
sacrifice of giving up the gubernatorial office in Pennsylvania to |
carry the banner of a cause he never espoused until the day of his |
first inauguration he would not be the kind of candidate whose vote !
would reflect a real poll. The Governor has become so unpopular |
in parts of the State that many drys would probably vote for no |
one in preference to voting for him. The kind of a candidate need-
ed in the contest now possible of development is one mentally of |
Senatorial stature, a Republican whose party loyalty could not be
successfully challenged, a man known to be a Prohibitionist from |
conviction rather than for political expediency.
The idea of suggesting a Republican, rather than a Prohibition- |
ist or a Democrat to fight the dry battle is because the State is so
overwhelmingly Republican that a line up of members of that party |
on the issue would contribute to the reliability of the test.
With the line-up in the contest a wet Democrat, a wet Republi- |
can and an outstanding dry Republican the result in November
would reveal, more nearly than could be discovered in any other way
outside of a direct referendum, which is not likely to be possible for
years, just how Pennsylvania stands on the moot question.
Even if a dry Republican were to win in such a triangular
fight such a victory would not decide the question. If, however,
he should have more votes than the combined poll of the wet Demo-
crat and the wet Republican then it could be assumed that Pennsyl-
vania is dry.
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DANGER IN CHINA.
Regardless of protests from Washington, London, Paris and
Rome Japan goes brazenly on her way toward subjugation, capture
or benevolent assimilation—whatever one can call it—of China.
The Mikado’s government says it is not war. If not, then what
might one call the seizure of Manchuria and the bombardment of
Shanghai, Nanking and Woosung.
Japan's impudent flaunting of the Nine Power Pact and her
evasive replies to the protests of the other signatories to that agree-
ment reveals an arrogance equal to that of the German War Lord
who, in 1914, set out to subdue the world; saying that his solemn
agreements to help maintain its peace were mere scraps of paper.
The Yangste river is full of American war ships, for thousands
of our nationals are in China and must be protected, and the slight-
est slip might light the fuse that is attached to the bomb-shell of
war. God knows we don’t want that.
It is apparent that Japan has a motive as yet unrevealed.
What it is none but the cunning “little brown men” know. States-
men of the other nations carry on a diplomatic exchange of notes
that are given no heed and result in no satisfaction. .
The situation is a desperate one. We are not too proud to
fight, but the awful price we have paid for maintaining our dignity | ter
abroad leads to conjecture as to whether it is worth while.
—In the matter of settlements arising out of the World war it
looks as if France would be perfectly satisfied if she were to have
| conversation about the weather. The
the doughnut and her allies be content with the hole.
groundhog, so far as the weather is
concerned, is just some more ‘“ba-
loney.” No amount of “hecking”
will make it anything else. i
If anyone wishes to predict weath-
er considerably in advance, in broad
r warm winter or summer etc., it
is suggested that he keep tab on old |
Sol's leopard spots. In the data
of a cycle of approximately eleven
years with !
temperatures. This theory has been
tested by literally millions of | 5 |
from thousands of records by pi i
ably a hundred or more scientists in
various lines over periods |
from 50 to 2000 years and, al |
most evidence shows a strong corre-!
lation, it is still a moot question and
has not yet been accepted by the
majority of scientists. The Weath-
er Bureau welcomes research along
this line but feels that evidence thus
far deduced is not conclusive enough
for adopting the as a basis
of forecasting for long periods in
advance. It is content to rely on
its present methods of predicting
which are verified in upward of 85%
of all cases, and that is as accurate
or more so than the of
doctors. Moreover the elements
don’t speak but act.
H. P. PARKER, Meteorologist.
Since Mr. Parker has shattered the
ground hog myth we do hope he
will not set about the job of mak-
|
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ing us believe there is no Santa’ Curtin, our unheard of thing for anybody will-
Claus. —Editor’s Note. HE DE “at homes" ing to take less from the county
lon Monday evening at his residence than they had been getting in the
DOLLAR DAY IN ALTOONA ‘on H. street. In the receiving line past that we wrote the figures the
ON WEDNESDAY FEB. 13TH.
As announced in the advertise- |
ment of the Altoona booster stores
that appears in this week's issue, '
the stores connected with this or-
ganization will hold their quarterly |
dollar day on Wednesday, February |
117.
Dollar day in Altoona booster |
stores provides opportunities for |
making purchases at good savings |
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stocks at greatly reduced prices, but |
also give their customers the advan-
tage of special purchases made from
manufacturers under exceedingly
favorable conditons.
Goods suited for personal use, in-|
cluding wearing apparel of all kinds,
will be on sale at special dollar day
prices, while housewives will also find
many opportunities for buying new
furnishings for the home at special
invitation to enjoy a splendid musi-
cially assembled orchestra and is a
feature of the booster stores’ dol-
lar day plans.
and helpful people as are those
among whom he is now working.
—Some of the Temperance folks
in town are planning to open a Tem-
perance Coffee House in the McAf-
ferty building opposite the railroad
depot. The good people of Linn
of concern for the welfare of the
down town section that they can't
see that there is greater need for a
or dry, many Republicans published under the January weath- Tem coffee Tio :t in RG DBIOY in
b- | er report, there is some evidence their own 8 sacrosanct Oe | Soliection
—After a season of ten weeks the
reference to high or 10W protracted meeting in the Bellefonte |
ethodist church closed last Sunday
night. One hundred and
persons joined ‘on probation and
nearly two hundred in all were con-
verted.
—Mr. James Ryan, late of the, box
factory is to take Sharpe , B.
Crider's store at Glenn Harris.
~The first of what are to be an-
nual balls of the Undine Fire com-
night.
—Mr. Harry D. Shivery and Miss
Etta Marshall, daughter of Joseph
Marshall, of Benner Twp., were mar-
ried yesterday.
—The six cases of smallpox in the
Patterson family in Unionville have
all recovered.
—Pitching for the Reno baseball
club in a game with San Francisco
recently Monte Ward won his game
the score of 5 to 3. He
struck out sixteen men and gave
only one base-hit in twelve innings.
-—From the Washington papers we
last week were Mrs. Curtin and
their daughter, Kate, Mrs. William
Curtin, his son's wife, Miss Alice
Wilson and Admiral Amy's daugh:
ter.
IN BELLEFONTE CHURCHES.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Church Bible school, C. C. Shuey,
Supt., 9:30: special events and music.
League, 6.30, has very pertinent
fi people: ular
i r Worship at AE
regular gent exposition of strong Scripture,
at 7.30, evangelistic meeting opens
with song service. Strangers and
commercial travelers welcome. Pas-
tor responds to calls for his services.
Methodist Activities.—Highest at-
| tendance in the church school's his-
to the $30.06.
Howard was host last Friday night
to the people of the churches
of the Bellefonte group. The educa-
tional programs prepared for this
winter are of very high level: goodly
social period is the regular closing
of these meetings.
Horace Lincoln Jacobs, Minister.
ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH.
9:30 A. M., Church school.
10:45 A. M., The Service and Ser-
mon, “Christ Will Not Turn Aside
From His Passion.”
= P. M., Catechetical instruc-
on.
7:30 P. M.,, The Vesper Service
and Sermon, “All are Sinners.”
Lenten service Wednesday eve-
ning at 7:30 o'clock.
Clarence E. Arnold, Pastor.
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——Miss Ruth Royer has been
appointed tax collector of Potter
township to fill the vacancy caused
by the recent death of her father,
the late Jacob Royer.
‘but he will never give her cause for and Mrs. Wiliam Caldwell, of Cur-
| jealousy so far as looks are concern- tin; Mrs. Cora Young, of Port Ma-
World Serv-
led, and we wondered why ordinary
| looking men pick beautiful girls and
very ordinary girls get the best
But it carries
looking husbands.
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of the dominant terms as, a cold or warm year, cold street are so blinded by their tears out nine cases out of ten.
|
! Recurring to the probation, de-
'sertion and parole officer and his
money in sup-
port cases, it must not be consider-
ed an easy matter. It requires
constant prodding and urging to
| keep the payments up to date and
|quite frequently arrests for non-
payment have to be madc and if
the unfortunate is unable to pay up
lor give bond he most always is sent
|to the Allegheny county work house.
| There he is allowed 65 cents a day
| which is sent to the desertion officer |
‘and turned over to the dependents.
pany will be held in Bush's hall to- | gut the county has to pay the work |
| house about 67 cents a day for his
keep while there, so that in the last
| analysis the people pay the bill.
| The Watchman was in error, last
‘week, when it stated that county
agent hk. C. Blaney had asked for
‘and been granted an increased ap-
| propriation of $200 for agricultural
extension work in the county. The
fact is that the request was for a
| decrease of $200, from $2000 to $1,-
'800, and our only excuse for making
the mistake is that it was such an
wrong way.
{ . '
| Everybody who can get something
‘to do has to work these days in or-
‘der to make a living but there are
quite a lot of men who must lie
‘awake nights figuring on the easiest
|way to do it. If you don't believe
this just ask County Treasurer
Robert F. Hunter in regard to the
demands on the county cash box.
——The Christian Advocate of
this week, the official organ of the
Methodist Episcopal church, publish-
ed in N. Y. City has a very interest-
ing paragraph referring to the first
| correspondence pastor Horace Lin-
| coln Jacobs of the local Methodist
| church, sent in to that paper on
Feb. 11, 1892, just forty years ago.
Editor Joy writes that his long serv-
ice makes him the oldest member of
the editorial staff, perhaps the long-
est in unbroken service in Methodist
journalism. Pastor Jacobs writes
weekly, his contributions appearing
during these forty years in the Meth-
odist papers in London, England,
| Toronto, Richmond, Atlanta, Nash-
ville, Boston, Chicago and The Luth-
| eran Observer.
| ——Why the towns and cities of
Pennsylvania were given the names
they have today will form the sub-
ject of a radio talk by Professor A.
E. Espenshade on Sunday afternoon.
Professor Espenshade is the author
of “Pennsylvania Place Names” and
in his talk will tell of the origin of
many Centre county names. The
address will be broadcast through
WPSC, radio station of the Pennsyl-
vania State College, the program
starting at 4 p. m. The station oper-
ates at 1230 kilocycles. Musical
selections will form a considerable
portion of the program.
| tilda; Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Pletch-
'er and W. F. Hall, of Howard; Mr.
‘and Mrs. William P. Hall, of State
| College; Norman Resides. of Phila-
| delphia; Mr. and Mrs. Re-
|sides and daughter, of Bellefonte;
| Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hall, of Miles-
burg; Mrs. Mollie H. Bolick, of
| Bellefonte; Mrs. Emily Miles, of
Milesburg; Mr. and Mrs. H. Bottorff,
| Mrs. Katherine Furl, Leona Thomp-
son, Mr. and Mrs. John Furl, all of
Runville; Mr. and Mrs. F. McEl-
haney, of Lewistown, and Mr. and
Mrs .Donald
Hines and family, of
Bellefonte. oi inka
BOALSBURG.
C. M. Dale, of the Branch, was a
caller in town on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wieland, of
Linden Hall, were in town on Sat-
urday.
Daniel Houser is slowly recover-
ing from a serious attack of in-
testinal flu.
Mr. and Mrs. Clement Dale, of
Pleasant Gap, were visitors in town
on Tuesday.
Leland Walker and family spent
Sunday at the Walker home near
Potters Mills.
| Charles Fisher, of Penn State,
| attended services in the Lutheran
| church on Sunday.
Edward Jacobs accom his
brother, Bruce Jacobs, to psburg
for an over Sunday visit.
Mr. ay Mrs. Harvey Monery; of
Elmira, N. Y,, t seve
at the home Py and Mrs, oe
‘liam Meyer.
| A world's day of prayer service
will be held in the Lutheran Sun-
school room on Friday evening,
12th, at 7:30.
Charles Kuhn, on Sunday.
The scarlet fever quarantine has
been removed from the Lester
Brouse and Harry Sunday homes.
Others about town who have been
ill are reported to be improving.
A number of children are quaran-
tined for mumps.
ay. ee f Williams ou
daughter 0! por
Sane week-end visitors in town.
George Rowe, who had heen visit-
ing in Williamsport since Christmas,
accompanied the Kuhn family and
has opened his home on Main street.
Q ui ¢ k—McCullough. —Robert T.
Quick, of Snow Shoe, and Miss
Margaret McCullough, of Jersey
Shore, were married at the Presby-
terian church, in the latter place, at
seven o'clock last Friday evening, by
the pastor, Rev. M. W. Remaly.
They were attended by Miss Francis
Wolf and.Duke Wellington, both of
Jersey Shore. The bride is a grad-
uate of the Jersey Shore High
school and finished her education at
Fairfax hall, Waynesboro. The
bridegroom is a student at State
College and the young couple will
live there until he completes his edu-
cation.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Orlando Wilson Conoway and
Julia Margaret Krish, both of Snow
Shoe.
John Franklin Whiteman, of Miles-
burg, and Esther Margaret Shay, of
Bellefonte.