1885 Deworralic ia 1932 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. Editors. CHARI.ES L. GATES Te Correspondents. —No communications published un ess panied by the real name of writer. of address always orderi i a as the new address. t is important that the publisher be acgnly Ean subscri wishes the MARY GRAY MEEK GEORGE R. MEEK Terms of notice at the following Paid strictly in advance - Paid before expiration of year - 1.75 Paid after expiration of year - 2.00 A sample copy of the “Watchman will be sent without cost to applicants. BELLEFONTE, paper discontinued. In all such cases | the subscription must be paid up to date of cancellation, i } FEBRUARY 19, 1932. | PA. i ARE WE BUILDING ON SAND? | Itisnot the desire nor the intention of the Watchman to question | the motives of those who hope to restore the business of the country through legislative enactment. It admits little faith in the efficacy of the methods they would employ, however. Since itis impossible for anyone to foresee what the future holds, | piling up prodigious debts in order to keep the wheels of industry turning at a time when there is no demand for what they may pro- duce seems to be little else than pyramiding our difficulties. To say the least, it is not a sound structure on which to base hope of a permanent business revival. It is a plan that bids fair to operate just as the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill has since its passage in 1930. This Act made eight hun- dred and ninety increases in rates that affected two thirds of our dutiable imports under the Fordney-McCumber bill of 1922. The latter imposed enormous tariff burdens upon consumers and restrict- ed imports even of articles that did not enter into serious competi- tion with American products. After its passage imports fell off steadily and with their decrease there was a corresponding falling off in our exports. Without stopping to consider the effect of our economic relations abroad upon our business conditions at home Congress sought to stimulate business and passed the Hawley-Smoot bill. No sooner was it done than economists all over the country pro- claimed that it would ruin American industry. The truth of these statements became evident almost at once and last month our exports reached the lowest figure that has been recorded in eighteen years. Foreign countries being unable to ship any of their products here were unable to buy anything from us and as there was no outlet for our surplus manufactures business here threatened to come to a stand-still. To avert such a calamity American bankers began lending enormous sums of money abroad, the condition being that the loans should be used to buy American made goods. The result was far from satisfactory, however, because the bor- rowing countries spent the money and since their own goods were barred by the Hawley-Smoot tariff they had no way to repay the loans. Billions of American dollars are locked up in Europe and South America for no other reason than that our great financiers thought that a national economic crisis was only a transient business disorder. The country has paid an awful price for that blunder. And with that in mind one is justified in looking with alarm on the pre- sent riot of mortgaging it’s future for present needs. UNFORTUNATE. The fight in the Democratic party in Pennsylvania is most de- plorable, coming as it does at the time when harmony all along the, line is the thing most needed, if we are to be successful in the fall. Always, however, there are those who put selfish, personal am- | bitions ahead of the broad principles for which political parties con- tend. It seems to us that thete was no reason for that meeting spon- sored by Mr. Joseph Guffey, in Harrisburg, last Friday, other than to snatch from the regularly constituted organization of our party in the Stat. any littie glory that might come to it if we should elect a President in the fall. So far as we have heard neither National Committeeman Kistler nor State Chairman Collins has spoken a word for or against any of our many possible nominees. Yet the Harrisburg meeting would have the State believe that they are out to “stop Roosevelt.” Itis. true they did suggest that the Pennsylvania delegation go to Chicago | uninstructed. The Republicans of Pennsylvania, notwithstanding | they have only one candidate, are going to their convention unin- | structed. The Democrats of New York, Governor Roosevelt's own State, are going uninstructed. In neither case is lack of binding obligation evidence that Pennsylvania Republicans will oppose Hoov- if you furnish me with a forge and | because er's renomination or that the New York delegation will fight the nomination of Governor Roosevelt. | Had Vance McCormick, Mitch Palmer, Jim Blakeslie—he who | smoked a cigarette and thought (?) and John McSparran, been there | with Jimmie Magee, the editor of the Perry county Democrat, and | Warren VanDyke and E. B. Zimmerman the meeting couldn't have been more of a replica of what happened in 1912. : They were the gentlemen who then “re-organized” our party when they sensed the election of Democratic President and the | possibility of jobs. And the same reason motivated the meeting that Mr. Guffey engineered last Friday. He wants to make Frank- lin D. Roosevelt believe, in the event he is nominated and elected, | that he controls the Democracy of Pennsylvania. That's all there is to the turmoil in our party in the State. It's unfortunate, but it can’t be helped as long as there are Democrats who think more of themselves than they do of Democ- | racy. : —Congress has passed the so called “lame duck” bill and since the changes in it are only minor the Senate will likely concur, so that an improbable veto is the only thing that stands in the way of its progress toward abolishing the short session of Congress and changing the date of the inauguration of future Presidents. It will require a constitutional amendment, however, before it can be- come operative. If it is not approved by three-fourths of the for- ty-eight States within seven years it will automatically become in- operative. If it meets such approval future sessions of Congress will convene on January 4, and the President will be inaugurated on January 24. As the custom now is a Congressman elected last No- vember will not take his seat until the session that will convene next December. This feature of the present law has made it possible for Congressmen who havebeen defeated for re-election to represent their Districts for a full year after their repudiation. Such Congress- 3 men have been dubbed “lame ducks,” hence the name given to the bill that would end them. —President Hoover has appointed Benjamin N. Cardozo, Jew and Democrat, to a seat on the Supreme court of the United States. Judge Cordozo owes his opportunity of a chance to the much de- famed Tammany organization of the Metropolis. He is recognized as without a peer in concept of law in the United States and he is the second of his race to occupy a seat on the bench of the govern- ment’s highest tribunal. —The United States and England have joined in another “vig- orous protest” to Japan. Always, it seems, a boy is being sent to | Jacksonville. try slopes gently down Spruce Creek, Hun do a man’s work. Florida. i St. Petersburg, Fla, 2-1-32 | Dear Folks at Home: “We had a delightful trip, 1390 miles from my house to this apart- ment. The first night we stayed in Gettysburg, the second in Rich- mond, the third in Fayettesville, N. C., the fourth in Waterboro, S. C,, and the next night, Saturday, in We then drove to St. Augustine and spent the day sight- seeing; saw many interesting and | historical places. Savannah, Georgia, I think was the prettiest place | through which we passed--wonder- i ful | flowers everywhere. Arrived in Lake homes, beautiful streets and Wales on Monday afternoon and stayed with Miss McCauley until Wednesday. She drove us around the country about there and a lovely | country it is. The orange, grape- fruit and tangerine groves are at their height and we have been thor- oughly enjoying them. While there we went out to the Bok or Singing Tower and never saw anything quite so beautiful. Itis built of white, pink and grey variegated Georgia marble and a native buff or yellow stone and such wonderful shrubbery and flowers everywhere. It stands on the top of a small hill and the coun- from all sides; so that it is lovely beyond de- scription. The carillions are beauti- ful and the carillionneur, Mr. Anton Brees, a Belgian who has taken out his first naturalization papers, lives at the Seminole Inn, where we stay- ed with Miss McCauley. I wish you could see the abun- dance of fruit down here! We pur- chase both grapefruit and oranges for twenty-five cents a half bushel; fresh green peas are five cents a pound and all green groceries and staple groceries cost in proportion. There are many apartments for rent at very reasonable figures. The loveliest roads down here you have ever seen. So smooth and for so many, many miles, it's a great pleasure to travel on them. We revel in the sunshine and it is warm enough to go without coats. We were out to the beaches yesterday where there were many in swim- ming and we expect to go soon. Wish our friends could be with us for am sure they would all enjoy it” HELENE A. WILLIAMS Miss Williams and her aunt, Mrs. Mary Williams, of Beech Creek, left, Bellefonte on January 17 to motor, to Florida where they will spend the rest of the winter, having taken an apartment at St. Petersburg. The Miss McCauley referred to in the let- ter above is Miss Anna McCauley, who was the Red Cross nurse here several years ago.—Editor's Note. Frank Nelson Bids for Position as Street Commissioner Bellefonte, Pa., Jan. 7, 1932 The Town Council of Bellefonte: : Gentlemen: | I hereby make application for the position of Street Commissioner of Bellefonte Borough. : I agree to do the necessary work of the Borough that would come under my jurisdiction and also do the blacksmithing for the Borough! place to do it. i I offer to render this service for $100.00 per month. Now gentlemen, please let this have your strict attention. Respectfull Y FRANK NELSON | P.S.—8ix hundred dollars and! about fifty dollars worth of black- | smithing would be a saving to the | taxpayers. : A SPLENDID CANDIDATE YEARS AGO IN CENTRE COUNTY. —Tuesday was election day and it was an exceedingly wet and dis- agreeable one. John Powers was re-elected burgess, over John Sour- beck, by a mojority of 210, Robert McKnight won out in his fight for in the North ward, L. O —The ball of the Undine fire company on the night of the 7th was a success. Prior to that night the boys were somewhat afraid that there would not be ladies enough, at the recent revivals, they said, but the event proved that either the girls had not all else a lot of them who had had gone to the ball anyway. —At the election last Tuesday Mrs. John P. Harris, Democrat, came within 36 votes of beating her hus- band, John P. Harris, Republican, for school director in the North ward. The normal Republican ma- jority there is about 100 and while Mr. Harris was acting very nervous about the polls all day his good wife sat serenely at home. No tell- ing what might have happened had she been out electioneering like he was. —At a very interesting spelling bee held in the Harrisonville school house a few evenings ago master George Hile, a lad of eleven years, spelled everybody down and among them were quite a few teachers and other expert spellers. —Quite a number of mechanics from Pleasant Gap have gone to Cresson to work on the big summer resort hotel that is being built there. Married. February 16th, at the home of Mr. Joseph Marshall, Buf- falo Run, at one o'clock, p. m., by the Rev. W. O. Wrigat,' Mr. D. H. Shivery and Miss Mary Etta Mar- shall, all of Buffalo Run, Centre County, Pa. There were about forty guests present. —Wheat is 1.25, corn .75, 00, potatoes 1.25, eggs .25, .35, ham .12 and bacon .10. ~During the absence of Maj. R. H. Forster in Washington, D. C,, J. Rees Van Ormer will act as local editor of the Centre Democrat. —The proprietor of the Lock Haven “Republican” is threatening to start an evening daily to be call- ed the “Express.” -—~County Treasurer D. C. Keller oats butter ‘moved to Bellefonte from Centre Hall last week and he and his fam- {ily are now ensconced in the Baney ' ‘house, on north Allegheny | —Editor's Note.—The Baney house street. stood where the house now occupied by Horatio S. Moore stands. ~The Philipsburg “Journal” has been enlarged to eight columns to the page and last week installeda new Campbell power press. —Mrs. Dorman, of Nittany valley, was badly injured a few nights ago. She was in attendance at a concert and while the crowd was assembling two boys engaged in a foot race. One of them ran into her, knocking her down with such force as to in- jure her seriously. In fact she has been confined to bed ever since and is not getting better fast. —John J. Lejeal, piano tuner, will be here to see his customers about March 1st. Because of unhappiness at home a man named Whitney, of Penn Hall, tried to commit suicide on Wednes- day of last week. He shot him- gelf both in the forehead and inthe chest. He was still living on Sat- urday but doesn't want to get well, he says he will only do it The tragedy occurred at a small store midway between Penn Hall and Spring Mills. He rode to the spot with William Krape and told him what he was going to do, but Mr. Krape the statement and drove on onl be shocked by the reports ofa p before he had gotten one hundred yards away. -—-—Notwithstanding that attend- ‘ance at chapel at State College is goods. “the girls had all got religion” “got religion” or put no credence in to DEATHS. HALE.—Mrs. Sophia A. Hale, for many years one of the bést known A HODGE—PODGGE OF NEWSY INCIDENTS. | During 1931 exactly 191 Centre | countians were patients at the Geis- !inger hospital, Danville. ‘was represented with 9 patients, | Bellefonte 55, Blanchard 1, Boals- 'burg 1, Centre Hall 6, Coburn 4, ‘Curtin 1, Fleming 2, Madisonburg 2, _ She was a daughter of Richard and | Millheim 16, Nittany 1, Orviston 3, M8ry Ann Atherton and was born | Philipsburg 2, Pleasant Gap 2, Re- lege 66, Woodward 4 and 4 whose 92 Years and 8 days. In 1860 she post office address was not given. Married Elias W. Hale who passed From the above it will be seen that 2Way in 1881. Two children were State College led in the number of the result of this union, James P. patients but Bellefonte, with a hos- Fitle and Mrs. Snow, both of Youngs- pital of its own, was a close second. |!°Wn Ohio. Mrs. Hale made her home at “Halehurst,” Philipsburg, And speaking of hospitals, the until fourteen years ago when she Centre County hospital has been disposed of the home and went to made beneficiary of bequests, during Youngstown to make her home with the past year, of $7,300, with a pos- her daughter. sibility of more in the final settle- _ She was a daughter of Richard and ment of several estates. As plan- Episcopal church, of Philipsburg, ned by the board of managers all 2d a woman of most pleasing per- bequests received will be placed in Sonality. The remains were taken an endowment fund and where spe- © Philipsburg where funeral serv- cific uses are provided for the in- ices were held in the Episcopal come, it will be so applied, but church, last Saturday afternoon, by where the bequest is general and to Rev. Franklin T. Eastment, burial be used at the discretion of the Peing made in the Philipsburg cem- board of managers it will be car- tery. ried as a general endowment with the hope that some day, through gifts and bequests, the fund will be large enough so that the income therefrom will make it possible to it 1] PEACE.—John W. Peace died at his home at Milesburg, last Friday morning, following a lingering ill- ness with diseases incident to his forego the annual drives fo ,|advanced age. He was born at 8 n ¥ support Curtin 83 years ago, at a time when Of ccurse this will be some yearsin it was the location of ome of the the future and must not be regard- ! ed as an excuse to withhold contri- Pusiest iron manufacturing plants in butions when the hospital drive is the county. The result was when put on this spring. he grew to manhood he learned the trade of a puddler and worked in Next Tuesday the entire country the rolling mill at that place until will celebrate the 200dth anniversary it Was dismantled. Of late years of George Washington, and yet, as ‘he had lived in Milesburg. a matter of fact, it isn't the real He is survived by his wife and anniversary of his birth. George seven children, Mrs. Lyman Heaton, was born on February 11, 1732, put °f Palmer; Mrs. Theodore Boone, of at the time of the revision of the East Liverpool, Ohio; Mrs. Lee calendar in 1752, when the Julian Smith, of Altoona; Mrs. Etta Gear- calendar was adopted, ten days were hart, of Baltimore; Mrs. Roy L. Hall, suppressed and leap year accounted of Milesburg; William Peace, of for another day which shoved Bellefonte, and Lester, of Lock Hav- George's anniversary ahead eleven en. A sister, Mrs. Sarah Simcox, days, or on February 22nd, and that of Woolrich, was a nurse in the is the day we now celebrate. Civil war, and another sister lives in Williamsport. Though it might be a little late Funeral services were held at his we just now happened to recall the ate home, at two o'clock on Sun- fact that when Sheriff Dunlap went 9aY afternoon, by Rev. M. C. Piper, out of office he left Sheriff Boob a Purial being made in the Treziyulny ‘whole jail full of prisoners but he ¢emetery. didn’ I I n't leave him any of that stuff) oon Wh, 5.00: 5 Eder he kept under lock and key in the fe of Samuel Y. Elder, died at her cellar. And he didn’t take any of | it with him, either. All the stuff home at Millbrook, College township, was taken out and dumped, late in °0 Wednesday moruiig of dusk week, ' December, on order of court. There 2° the result of heart trouble. was one time during Mr. Dunlap's She was a daughter of Simon and term as sheriff that he had stored Mary Baird and was born on April in his cellar nineteen 50-gallon bar- | 18th, 1864, at her death being 67 i 9 months and 22 days old. rels of illicit whiskey, and while so Y*&™ © far as we know no official examina- [She is survived by her husband and four children, Mrs. Ralph Walker tion or test was made of it, it was reported to have been a fairly good 2nd Mrs. R. R. Rossman, of State College, R. F. D.; Miss Sadie and ‘brand, but it was all dumped where it would do the least harm. George, at home. She had been a ‘member of the Lutheran church at According to the calendar Sunday Pine Grove Mills’ for many years. was Valentine day and we've got a Funeral services were held at her Chinese coin with a square hole in late home, at 10 o'clock Saturday the centre which we will pay for morning, by Rev. Grubb, of Juniata information as to the sender of one burial being made in the new ceme- ‘we received. It is a libel on our tery at Pie Grove pr looks and poetically untruthful asto our tastes and inclinations. ot GEIS Atiss Elsie Geiss died at course the handwriting was dis- the Woman's hospital, Philadelphia, 'guised but we incline to the belief last Friday night, following several that the sender was a woman, and year's illness with heart trouble. we have our suspicions as to her She was a daughter of David and ‘identity. ‘Sarah Geiss and was born at Centre ren Hall about 64 years ago. She lived A bit of news that escaped us last ;¢ Centre Hall until going to Phila- week had to do with a big explosion | gelphia twenty-one years ago. Her on south Thomas street. An ex- g,ryiyors include her father, who is office holder over there was feeding ' go years old, one brother and a sis- his chickens “Lay or Bust.” The ..°', wagner Geiss, of Bellefonte, rooster ate some of it—and he and Mrs. Virginia Miller, of Phila- | couldn’t lay. | delphia. The remains were taken to Centre Hall, on Monday, where fu- ejal-autvi Soy iwieti Tui 1 BY Bay $ ‘court house, last Saturday morning, F. Greenhoe, assisted by Rev. W. J. ‘and the offerings consisted of fresh Wagner, burial being made in the beef and pork, chickens, eggs, ap- | Centre Hall cemetery. | ples, dried corn and a few canned | SCHENCK. cl 1e8 'F. There has been only One| “yoo. township, died at the Three market wagons were back- 'ed up at the curb in front ‘of ithe; FOR THE SUPERIOR COURT not compulsory on Sunday an aver- Saturday during the winter, so far , o. po wo yoepital, Saturday night, Robert A. Henderson, Democratic tingdon y Pennsylvania, November 2, 1870. He was reared on a farm and received education in the pub- a brilliant legal scholarship that has ripened and matured as the years Aside from his interest in the law, Mr. Henderson: hes slways Man Ge tics. To re party and its princi- haa slways Given o 3isatifast foe he unwavering tion Forty. Dem: clared . | margin | age of more than seven hundred as the writer recalls, that there was students attend the morning service. Of course only ministers and divin- ity school heads who are outstand- ing in their calling are invited to officiate at these services. ocratic party has brought him a de- | recognition as one of its lead- ers of State wide prominence and prestige. In 1921 he was nominated by the Democratic party for the office of President Judge of Blair county and was jed in that contest by the one of everyone when counted after days of disputed com- putation, Judge Baldridge was de- the winner by the narrow of 242 votes. Ey os Sogtis aL y as a n, acting in this its most recent conven- tion in Houston, Texas, in 1628. At the prescat time he is chairman of the tic committee in Blair county. The party's choice of Mr. Hender- son as its nominee for the office of Judge of the Superior Court is one that meets with the unanimous ap- proval of Democrats throughout the State. Friends and admirers every- where, regardless of political affilia- tions have been profuse in their wishes of success and in the expres- sion of their opinion that a minority interest as substantial as that repre- sented by the Democratic party in Pennsylvania should be recognized by his election. of | mo curb market, a most unusual roo. {°F Weed Jouning, pe Tl a jou. a | sustained in a fall from a tree which A little boy passed away at the | he bad been trimming two weeks | Centre County hospital last week. previous. He was a son of Michael | During the few days he was so and Susan Schenck and was 70 | critically ill in that institution a years, 6 months and 6 days old. His young nurse was especially kind and | wife died several years ago and his | attentive to his every want and need, | only survivor is one brother, A. A. but her faithful ministrations could | Schenck, of Howard. Funeral serv- not save the child's life. Several ices were held on Tuesday evening ‘days after the little body had been and on Wednesday the remains were | laid away in it's final resting place taken to Philadelphia for burial. the father of the child appeared at the home of the nurse's mother with load of coal which he presented to of her daughter. | A certain Bellefonte woman has ‘been serving on the grand jury this week and it has been a novel experi- ence for her, as she never before had been inside the court house to | hear or observe court proceedings | tibule. While she suffered no brok- of any kind; and when she reads | en bones the right side of her face this item it will probably be her was badly bruised and she was al- | first intimation of how near she | came to being appointed forewoman of the jury. vived sufficiently in a few minutes to leave the postoffice unaided and disappeared without disclosing her identity. ———Councilman Thomas Beaver is wondering what will happen to the big trout when the Street commit- ——Betty Spicer, five-year-old tee of the borough council lays that proposed sewer down Spring creek. Why should Tem worry now? The big trout might all be dead by the time the committee secures permis- sion from the State to lay the sew- ar, y a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Spicer, of Pleasant Gap, suffered a fracture of the left arm, near the shoulder, Saturday evening, when she was hit and knocked down by a hit and run driver. Her condition, however, is not serious.
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