INK SLINGS.
BY GEORGE R. MEEK.
—In three days spring will be
here. Winter will probably linger
long in its lap, but winter has been
very decent since December 21.
—Since the Governor's office
forces are to be called off from lickin,
stamps they will probably have more
time to devote to lickin’ “Puddler”
Jim Davis.
—Most of the luscious melons that
our great corporations cut for the PH
benefit of their stock holders a few
years ago have turned into lemons
and rotted into the bargain.
—Pennsylvania is waiting for Gen.
Butier to admit that he is as dry as
he says he is or only as dry as Gov-
ernor Pinchot thinks he ought to be.
Wouldn't it be awful if Smed got
away from Gif?
—The State
VOL. 77.
TLADELPHIA MAN
DIGS THROUGH ROOF OF
| CENTRE COUNTY JAIL.
‘Walter LaBarr Tuesday
Night, Stole Car and Left No
Trail Behind.
Walter LaBarr, of Philadelphia, a
prisoner in the Centre county jail
| awaiting trial for complicity in the
began robbery of the A. and P. store, in
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engineers
inspection of dams in Pennsylvania Snow Shoe, on the night of June 4th,
about March 15 and it is highly 1930, escaped at two o'clock Tuesday
probable that the owners of such night by digging his way through
water impounding reservoirs will be- the plaster ceiling of his cell, knock- |
gin damning also.
—Soon the dandelion will be in
ing 2 hole in the roof and crawling
through to liberty. Taking the
blossom and since science tells us| blanket from his cot with him he |
that it contains a very important fashioned a rope by means of wnich |
vitamin we publish the fact so that |he descended to the jail yard at the
those who might spy us plucking ' Southeast corner of the building. |
them will know exactly what we Going to the north side he scrambled
‘up a vine trellis to the roof of the
| porch leading off from the laundry,
—~Henry Ford ought to have saved ao in eS ay crawled to the i
that peace ship he sent to Europe t0 gc tne wall and to the Eroind
“get the boys out of the trenches be- below. jumped Broun
fore Christmas.” Had he mounted a
few six inch guns on her and moved A maroon colored Ford Tudor
sedan. license number 25M35, was
her into the River Rouge she might
have quelled that riot for him stolen during the night from in front
: of the house of M. P. Brooks, on
—The Governor has put another | Logan street, and it is assumed Le-
economy plan into effect in the State. | Barr made his escape, in the Brooks
He is going to use post-cards instead | car.
of letters in his department. By! pe hole through which he escaped
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Et Samp Hewat he | wae about 10x12 inches in size and
| how he managed i
spit. But what's he going to do With | yatner puzzling. io arewl TREN is
the spit? | ment he used to dig with is also un-
—The proposed sales tax seems to known, as the only thing the sheriff
be running into rough sledding in | could find anywhere was a good-sized
Congress, and so it should. Under its | spike. Ralph Klinger occupied the
provisions the millionaire bachelor | cell with LaBarr, but so far he has
will pay just one-twelfth as much | refused to give the Sheriff any in-
tax on what he eats and wears as the ' formation. Klinger made no attempt
day laborer who has a family of ten | to accompany LaBarr, as his prison
children. | term is almost up.
at b"’ Miller, of State College, | LaBarr, who is 29 years old, mar-
ried and the father of three children
has volunteered to undertake to stop ?
the Hon. Holmes. “Bob” is popular is alleged to have a long criminal
both at the College and in Philips- record. As a Youth hs Ws winod Up
burg, two districts that ha been | In alleged robberies in phia,
Bid ve | Harrisburg and Baltimore but every-
very friendly in the past to the he’ co jotion. On June
statesman from “Krumrine Station,” ime escaped .
and he might turn the trick.
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—Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt | motor to Snow S night Won't meed to be sent to Mifflin mated at several thousand dollars, on
appears to have given “Alfalfa Bill" the Ee. more, at thal place, county to @o tt. | which there is some insurance: = |
Murray a set back in the North was robbed. The night of June 5th
Dakota primaries. It's up to the the men spent at the Passmore
picturesque character from Oklahama | house, Philipsburg. The next day
to say to the Governor of New York | they went to Harrisburg, and that
what the Governor of South Carolina ‘night robbed the A. and P. store in
Carolina. captured, tried, convicted and given
Scientists chim that they can 18 men 0 S00 00 ere di
tell one's age from a single hair of ©38 .
the head. Not ours, because, in such | charged on parole on December 19,
a test, we present conditions such as after serving - their minimum sen-
gave rise to the story of the rabbit | tence. On March 11th county detec-
pot-pie. You know that ome? It's tive Leo Bodon and Roy Wakingon:
condition is that to have a success- | probation officer went to e
ful rabbit pot-pie one must first phia and arrested LaBarr
catch the rabbit. ’ brought him to Bellefonte for trial
: for his part ih the Snow Shoe rob-
.—The straw vote taken by the Des yor. Brown and DeAngeles are still
Moines, Iowa, “Register and
Tribune” has made rather startling 8 large.
revelations as to the present state of
mind of the voters of that dry Re-
publican State. In addition to going
decisively wet it actually gave a ma- :
jority to Franklin D. Roosevelt, over
President Hoover, as a presidential
preference.
—Inasmuch as it is necessary for | braid and having a large gold “B” in
the State to save the Governor sn. centre, were stolen from the
will hereafter notify his favorites of pajefonte Academy athletic supply
increases in their salaries on a post- ,.,om,
card. We've just got to save money rhese blankets were a present to
and by using post- cards instead of | mr. James Hughes twenty-five years
letters bearing a two-cent stamp ago from one of the students and he
we'll save a cent on the notification | hag prized them highly. Mr. Hughes
of every salary increase, as well as (i show his appreciation in a sub-
the new appointments. | stantial manner for any info on
—Maj. Eugene H. Lederer, burgess | that can be given him that will re-
of State College and candidate for | sult in the recovery of the blankets.
the Republican nomination for Con- |
gress, to bring “America
Back Home,” if he is sent to Wask- | OLD TIME BAND MASTER
Major's chances are, but we do know |
that i# he would promise to bring
the Lindbergh baby back home
they'd be darned good.
—The suicides of the Swedish
match King and America's great
camera magnate, were startling
SOMEBODY STOLE NINE
ACADEMY BANKETS.
Some time between Thanksgiving
day, 1931, and February, 10th, 1932,
nine large navy blue blankets, two
‘square, trimmed with gold
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annual banquet tonight. It will be
served in the Methodist church social
‘room at 6:30 and preceding it the
| boys of the old organization will get
| together for half an bie
08 | 5 few marches” —as etzler
4 gg r i 2 Bast Man | vs And we want to add that when
of us do with hundreds of 88 that crowd rips them off it's some
most Pen | vippin!
nies, but was it worth while? Ap-| : =
parently neither one of them had William Brown, of Huntingdon,
| old time band master who coached
gotten much out of life else they | ...
: y every band in Centre county
would not have feared it when the | during his long career, will be the
going began to look hard. | speaker of the evening.
—The failure of President Paul | ee
von Hindenburg, of Germany, to gel wo yn ONE FAMILY
a majority of the votes cast in the
national election last Sunday will DIE ON THE SAME DAY.
make it necessary for him and “Hand- |
some” Adolf Hitler, the runner-up, to yrs Harry DeArmit, of Howard,
go into another contest on April 10. | gjed at noon, on Tuesday, after a
Germany has been in the throes of jar jliness, and several hours later
political chaos for years, but the ne child's grandmother,
apparent certainty that her conserv-
ative eighty-four year old President | per gon, died as the result of a stroke
wi be re-elected has had the effect | of paralysis sustained on Monday. A
giving the world assurance that | jouble funeral will be held today.
the land of the Hohenzollerns is en-
deavoring to avert complete govern- |
mental disaster. |
fa
Mrs. Clara
DeArmit, who made her home with
—@Get your job work done here.
STATE RIGHTS AN
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BELLEFONT
E, PA.
NO PLANS HAVE BEEN MADE
FOR FIXING COUNTY JAIL
| FOR FEMALE PRISONERS.
| So far no definite action has been
taken by the County Commissioners
| toward fixing up accommodations for
female prisoners in the county jail.
Representatives of the State Wel-
fare Department have been in Belle-
fonte twice since the beginning of
the year and made an inspection of
the jail. They offered various criti-
cisms but no workable suggestions
D FEDERAL UNION.
MARCH 18, 1932.
_No.
NOW HARD AT WORK IN
LITTLE SUGAR VALLEY. | with saving the life of Thomas Mitchell,
| Middleburg laborer, when an iron bar
Believed to Been Member of Quite a large colony of beavers he was carrying came in contact with a
Titled Family. Death Caused by head of Littic Sugar Run, not far high tension electric line. The contact
Acute Alcoholism. have established their home near the blew out the fuse and broke the electric
— from the McMullen-Yarnell hunting | circuit. Mitchell suffered leg and arm
aa Sgr pe do ou ay SED, Where they have init 8 dam) Du: elilladil hia poli who shot and
county’s cem es | estimated to be five feet in height. | phia policeman
remains of a man who less than four | Te rum at twat point rap 2HS8 4, youth stealing Christmas trees
months ago was given a pauper’s un the middie of the | won a directed acquittal in quarter we
funeral and ever ce there has been throug valley | sions court on Tuesday, when Judge
| which is almost a quarter of a mile
Ward Fleming, of Centre county, ruled
that he might ;, wigth and it was necessary for
that a policeman may shoot to kill if in
pursuit of a fleeing felon and ordered the
women can go out for their daily |
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for a separate compartment for have been a mem of a titled Eng- tne peavers to build their dam the
women. lish family and had been living in gy) width of the valley in order to
The plan the Commissioners have the States under an assumed name. pcx yup the water to the required
in view is to reconstruct the large county from ' 4a.nth to protect their houses.
room over the kitchen in the sheriff's one cf the eastern cities less than a cate. oo he. Jha
residence into quarters for the year ago for a job on comstruction =. 40 run, consequently, are
women. This room is approximately work. He was an artist in his line | ite a distance from: the: shore line. |
but he loved his drink. | Beavers, ordinarily, confine their dep- |
24 feet square with a large closet |
6x10 feet which could be converted Late last fall he received $1000 | idations to what is known as soft |
into a bathroom. from England and it was this remit- down |
One or two cells could be parti- | tance that gave rise to the suspicion | tr Linie pA Tn ret ut
tioned off in the main room to ac- | that he was at least a member of 8 | have cut down white i and othe
commodate any women who might prominent if not titled family in his pard species
become unruly in the dormitory. native country. When he received the! over in Decker valley there is a
After doing this there would be money he stopped work at once and oolony of beavers Ry has built
plenty of roo for three or four cots, gathering around him several cronies some four or five dams on the small
the same number of chairs and a proceeded to ‘eat, drink and : = a
small table, which women could use merry.” owne:!
for card playing if there is ever He lived alone in a small shack Jie have F op the dant ” sie,
enough of them in at one time for a and very little attention was paid they can cut all the timber they |
game. There is also a small closel {5 nis comings and goings. The day want, and he'll plant more for them
which coul¢ be used as a clothes came however, when one of his fel- every year.
press. low workmen dropped into his shack |
The only hitch in this plan is that to see him. He found him dead in
the Welfare Department wants the | ped, and beside him laid one of his
Commissioners to construct an out-' grinking cronies in a maudlin sleep. |
side stairway from the projected ist
quarters to the yard below so the}, The. Engh BIR I aa |
exercise without going through the | oY me. ey, was i
residence. The Commis- co. 1.0 was finally aroused suf. Dim and his mother, was entirely de-
sioners object to this suggestion a8 oo...) to talk rather incoherently. |stroyed by fire between seven and
they contend that it wiil only create =. Coo able to tell how or when | ¢ight o'clock on Monday evening.
another hazard for the escape Of | yl pl lil oioq” When asked if |The fire originated from a spark on
prisoners who prefer going out the |), hadn't “seen the vermin on the|iDe roof and with no adequate way
back way to through the front door. | ov. replied that he had, but he | Of extinguishing it, it spread rapidly
And there is where the proposition: Clo, yo were bed bugs. jand by the time Bellefonte firemen
is now hanging fire. Some day, per- ~ , " .onoms inquest was held ang 8rrived on the scene the entire upper
‘haps, the Welfare Department and ..-_. 4 was death as the regult | Portion of the building was in flames.
the County Commissioners will get 0° ‘C4 "0 holgm, Not a cent of | WIth the help of neighbors most of
together, the contemplated improve- | & Tl 00 om England could the furniture on the lower floor was
ments will be made and when Centre |," 115 yo the authorities and the
mi : removed but nothing was saved from
ed Io Be. aot Lo iii Ta was. uicied it 8 putper's grave. the upper floors. The loss is esti-
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BOGGS TOWNSHIP HOUSE
BURNED TO THE GROUND.
A house owned by Clyde McKinley,
located above the brick yards in
Boggs township, and occupied by
REV. CAMPBELL RETURNED
70 BELLEFONTE CHURCH.
Before nine o'clock on Tuesday
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jury to free Neil Sheridan, a patrolman.
—Mrs. Mary Simchock, former post-
mistress at Tire Hill, near Johnstown,
posted a $1000 bond last Thursday, for
her appearance in federal court on a
charge of having converted $448 in postal
funds to her own use. Mrs. Simchock
was replaced as postmaster last month
after a shortage was discovered by postal
inspectors,
—At the monthly meeting of the Lock
Haven hospital Nurses’ Alumni associa-
tion held in the nurses’ home Friday
evening, it was decided to reduce the
salaries of professional nurses on private
duty in that city and vicinity from $6 for
general duty and $7 daily for contagious
or obstetrical cases to $5 and $8 per day
respectively.
—The public water supply has been
definitely eliminated as (he probable
cause of an outbreak of typhoid fever in
a small community about one mile from
Morrisdale, Clearfield county, acording
to assistant engineer H. E. Moses, of the
| State Department of Health. The investi-
gation was made by district engineer
Young and Dr. L. Dickey.
—As an illustration of the extent of
Pennsylvania, fire bureau officials of the
Pennsylvania State Police point out that
if the buildings destroyed or damaged by
fire during 1981 were placed on lots of
sixty-five feet frontage they would form
a continuous line of ruins extending from
Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.
—It was stated at the offices of the Bell
Telephone company of Pennsylvania, on
Monday, that last Sunday night's wind
snowstorm caused damage esti-
$750,000 in Central Pennsylvania.
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federal court at Scranton, on Monday,
LOCAL RED CROSS WILL
| REQUISITION FLOUR FOR
FREE DISTRIBUTION.
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morning the Undines had a call from | yas senténced to 60 days in Bradford
John McCoy to extinguish a fire on county jail on a charge of having em-
the roof of‘his home. They were able | bezzied $963.34 in government funds in-
| tended for Ralph Kendall, feeble mind-
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Only twenty-three changes were |
made in the assignment of the 102
The Milesburg band will hold their
Harry Jr. infant son of Mr. and |
ministers’ closing session of
The United States government is... BE RO os
giving away a portion of the forty .. .;. myangelicial church at Milton
million Rg wi Qbcyriieat parciugod |, Monday morning. Rev. A. Ward About an hour later, the same
| ize the oak to help feed the | was returned a3 pasion of | morning.: the ‘Sremel’ Were |
oo Tae Watt Pn eh ground | th Beilefonte church. Rev. Reed O. called out, this time to the Pete
four and distributed in-24-pound | Steely: who has been pastor of the Mangino home, on east Lamb street.
| eka. : | Fist Se es ce leaving [The house has 8 pipsless furnace and
i ) on » | some one some tar paper
The local Red Cross has put in a | gigneq to the Lemoyne charge, | into it which started a chimney fire.
Stovepipe holes in the chimney on!
| requisition for 600 barrels of the | [8 hin county. Rev. A. D. Gramle
y. , . y, |
flour for free distribution among | . vou. will succeed him at Milton. | poth the first and second floors had,
the Er ae WAG a oa ad Rev. J. R. Schechterly, who has only paper coverings and these burn-
I ecinte. ail Of Bald Bagle | Po located at Rebershurg the past ed off with the result that the house
| Valley from Beech Creek west to the three years, has been to | was pretty well smoked inside. To
| rate” county Bi Ni McClure, while Rev. Paul A. Miller 444 to the troubles of the firemen an
Baral > Ru y ey iia en Tin ¥ | has been transferred from Liverpool ecumulation of waste paper and
ve Distes of hour 30e a. |to Rebersburg. refuse which had been thrown down
SE wo tas wir on Toe statistical repocts submitted, the register and landed between the
| the needy for three months. It will | last Friday, showed a total of 30,100 | ¢rnace proper and its outside cover-
y ; members in the conference, who €on- | ino caught fire and it was necessary
J A Be tributed for church support during i tear away a portion of the jacket
get al .
tributed as needed, a 24-pound sack
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| As the requisition has only been | hatch had FATHER SAVES FAMILY
is not defi-|{'""
he he Bw Pr, 8 A SOA
arrive, but due notice will probably * '° church, Mount
be given as to the exact date, when exceeded ‘by only G% NC ein
|those needing same should make Holly ‘Springs, 65
| thelr wants known. membership was 50,
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Quick action and presence of mind
enabled Alex Sokolosky, of South
‘Philipsburg, to.save his wife and
four small children from their burn-
ing home while the flames spread
| nearer and nearer to their only point
of escape.-
It was at an early hour on Satur-
|day morning when Mr. Sokolosky
was awakened by the dense smoke
in his bedroom. Jumping out of bed
he ran to the stairway leading to the
first floor but was driven back by
flames and smoke shooting up the
stairs. Gathering his wife and four
small children into his bedroom he
‘seized a blanket and lowered the
children to safety, one by one. He
then attempted to lower his wife in
the same way but when she was
about halfway down the blanket
broke and she sustained back and
internal injuries, but her condition
is not believed to be very serious.
The flames were almost at his feet
when Mr. Sokolosky climbed to the
window ° sill and jumped to the
ground, escaping injury. The home
and contents were entirely destroy-
ed and all the family had left were
the night clothes in which they es-
caped, Their loss is placed at $3,250,
on which there was some insurance.
| SPORTSMEN TO ORGANIZE
COUNTY ORGANIZATION
In an attempt to organize all the
sportsmen of Centre county, both
hunters and fishermen, in a county
| tion a meeting and dinner
| will be held at the Nittany Lion Inn,
| at State College, Thursday evening,
| March 24th. A. H. Deibler, State
Commissioner of Fisheries, will be
| the prinicipal speaker.
| Tickets for the dinner may be
‘secured at H. W. Sauers’ store and
| Earl Kline's shoe shop, State College;
| Heverly's store, George Miller's
| store and Robert F. Hunter, Belle-
| fonte; R. P. Dunsmore, Philipsburg;
| Robert Stover and S. Ward Gram-
ley, Millheim; A. H. Hartswick,
Spring Mills; H. L. Ebright, Centre
Hall; Guy . Williams and George
Bohn, Lemont; Brouse's store, Boals-
burg; H. G. Elder, Pine Grove Mills,
and J. Will Mayes, Howard.
AZINES
FOR LABOR CAMPS
Public contributions of magazines
both old and new will be accepted at
the state employment offices in
Pittsburgh, Altoona, Harrisburg,
New e and Erie, for distribu-,
tion to state labor camps at Pyma-
tuning dam and other parts of the
State. These men employed al road
work and on the reservoir, have no
other form of amusement on rainy
days and evenings. Some of the
camps are miles from the nearest
town.
About 450 men living at the six
camps in Fayette, Washington, Blair,
Westmoreland, Clearfield and Jeffer-
son counties, are working on thé
roads. The Pymatuning dam proj-
ects employ more than 350 men
living at the camp. :
Several hundred magazines have
been sent out to the men by employ-
ees of the Department of Labor and
Industry at Harrisburg but many
more are. needed.
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—-J. Claude Showers, of Pleasant
Gap, an employee of the West Fenn
| Power company, suffered a stroke of
| paralysis, Tuesday morning, while at
work on the Baileyville line exten-
gion. He was in charge of the recl of
wire at the time he was stricken. The
Bellefonte ambulance was summoned
and he was brought to the Centre
county hospital where it was found
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—Word has been received in Belle-
fonte of the death of Frank Young-
kin, in Akron, Ohio, following a |
week's illness with pneumonia. He |
was a former clerk at the Penn-Belle
hotel, in Bellefonte, and while here
married Miss Violet Zimmerman. He
has been away from Bellefonte for
some months.
—=Twenty-six young people of
the Methodist church attended the
monthly council meeting, at Snow
Shoe, last Friday evening. On Sun-
day members of the church. congre-
gation will elect a lay delegate to
the annual conference which will
convene in Williamsport on June
15th.
that his entire left side was affected.
to do so but not until a hole about
ten feet square had been burned in| ed World war veteran of Sayre, Pa. Shel-
the roof. A spark from the flue was
also the cause of this fire. |
ton pleaded guilty last October and sen-
tence was deferred to allow him to make
restitution. He was appointed Kendall's
guardian on April 29, 1920. :
__ Bellwood women are stretching their
dollars. In an extension project on chil-
dren's clothing supervised by Miss May
D. Kemp, Blair county home economics
extension representative, the group spent
$7.11 and made garments worth $70.28.
Left-over renovations, and new mater-
jals were used. For 31 cents one woman
made garments worth $11.80. Augther
woman spent $1.49 and had clothing
valued at $24.95. A third mother spent
10 cents for thread and made garments
worth $7.70.
—-A fireproof safe, weighing between 400
and 500 pounds, stolen Saturday night
from the store of Adolph Hochberger, in
Philadelphia, was found broken open on
Sunday on the road leading from York-
shire to Longstown. About $100 in cash
which the strong-box contained was misgs-
ing. The thieves entered the Hochberger
store by breaking a rear window. They
made their way to the safe and carried or
rolled it out of the store, through a back.
door. Tt was then loaded into an auto-
mobile and hauled away. :
—The first suit to test the government's
right. to levy. an assestment on. stock-
holders of defunct banks was started in
the district federal court at Scranton, on
Saturday. L. .P. Noble, receiver for the
Mahaffey National Bank, of Mahaffey,
Pa... instituted suit. against Harry M.
Phlegar, of Williamsport, to recover
$1000. Mortimer C. Rhone, of Willlams-
port, filed the papers. Phlegar was the
holder of ten shares of stock in the
closed bank .with a par of $100. A 100 per
cent. assessment was made on the hold-
ers of the $50,000 capital stock of the
bank.
—The leather tannery at Powell, seven
miles south of Towanda, once the second
largest tannery in the world, is being dis-
mantled. The machinery and the 6000
tons of bark in the yards is being ship-
ped to larger plants. The tannery was
organized in 1867 as the Towanda Tan-
ning company and was owned by several
individual firms before it was absorbed
by the Elk Tanning company, its last
operators. In 1891, at the height of its
production, the plant covered 75 acres
and the company owned 15,000 acres of
timber land in Bradford -and Sullivan
counties, y
—Army aviation officers at the Middle-
town depot had a hunch on Monday after-
noon that saved a farmer's family from
| hunger. They looked across the Susque-
hanna river, frozen during the past week's
cold spell for the first time this winter,
and wondered if the George Boyer family,
which lives on a mid-river island, had
provisions. Lieutenant C. A. Ross flew to
the island and dropped a note telling
Boyer to wave a tablecloth if he needed
food. A vigorous waving of a tablecloth
was the answer. Within an hour Lieuten-
ant Ross returned and dropped a good
supply of food in front of the farm house.