INK SLINGS.
BY GEORGE R. MEBK.
STATE RIGHTS AND F
EDERAL UNION.
BARN ON JODON FARM
DESTROYED BY FIRE
ON SUNDAY EVENING
Head of Stock, Corn, Oats
brother breeders of Guernsey cattle Hay and Farm Implements Burn-
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Pennsylvania. That's quite an idea| Ome of the most disastrous barn
that Ralph has, but we fail to see fires that has occurred in Centre
the tie that should bind a breeder of county for many years was that, on
pure blood cattle to a political mav- | Sunday evening, on the Thomas E,
erick. | Jodon farm along the State highway
—Rev. Floyd Thompkins Jr.,
has succeeded his sainted father as the farm has been tenanted by Boyd
rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal | Johnson, who moved there from Run-
church in Philadelphia, is evidently | ville. On Sunday evening Mr. and
as simple in his faith and sound in Mrs. Johnson and daughter motored
his doctrine as was his distinguished to Runville, the women to go to
forebear. He thinks, and so do we, | strech while Mr. Johnson went to
that physical proof is of no essen- See his father, who is ill. They left
tial value in spiritual matters. If one at home a young married couple,
has faith, real faith, in anything it James Helman and wife. Mr. Jodon,
will be abiding, regardless of physi- who lives at Pleasant Gap, was out
cal proof of the reality of its objec- west buying a car load of horses.
tive cr the scoffing of skeptics. | About half-past 8 o'clock Paul
—Gen. Butler, Governor Pinchot's Dubbs and Jack Yeager were on a
candidate for United States Senator, little motor trip out to the Gap and
will be in Bellefonte tomorrow. as they passed the barn saw a glare
Somehow, the General's campaign
hasn't gotten off to a very encour- backed up and
aging start. As to the cause of the certain there was a fire Dubbs ran
apathy among the Republicans one |
guess is as good as another. Ours
is that the moment Butler and Pin-
chot dodged a four-square declara-
tior on the Prohibition question the
drys, their greatest source of
strength, became suspicious of their
sincerity.
—Having voted enough taxes to
balance the budget the House forth-
with started in to cutting down ex-
penses by voting to make the Philip-
pines free. Now, the stand patters
are turning handsprings all over the
country. They say it is governmental
insanity. And those who are yelling |
the loudest are the very ones who
helped keep us out of the League of
Nations because of the foreign en-
tanglements it might involve us - in.
What consistency? So far as our
and his wife. In the meantime a man
who occupies the D, M. Kline farm
ran to the scene.
were horrified to find the upper por-
tion already a mass of seething fire
and they turned their attention to
saving the stock. Six horses were
turned out of their stalls into the
barnyard and most of the herd of
milk cows were taken from the
barn and driven into the orchard
across the highway. In the mean-
time the horses had gone back into
the barn, breaking down the door in
their frenzy to get under cover. By
brooms, shovels and pitchforks
the
Our protectorate is the most one-
sided pact ever written. Of course
the Senate will not pass the bill. If
it did the President would veto it, pyshels of oats, 100 bushels of bar-
the Japs, the Russians and joy all the farm implements except
| the plows which had been taken
fodder, 300 bushels of corn, 300
harness was saved.
| The origin of the fire is unknown.
—Maj. Eugene H. Lederer, burgess The barn was equipped with electric
of State College, who is running for light so that there was nothing in
the Republican nomination for Con- the fire line in it at any time. When
a “bring the government
discovered the fire was in the north-
home” platform, has taken a | west corner of the upper portion of
stand, He has come out the barn, and as that was where the
on. J. Banks Kurtz is an hay and cornfodder was stored it
dry and up to this writing was only a question of a few min-
on. J. Mitch Chase, Mr. Hoen- | utes until the entire interior was
stine and Mr. Rockel, the other three | ablaze. When the fire broke through
have made no declaration. the roof it illuminated the country,
. Chase is not likely to, as he usual- for miles around and so many auto-
ly runs with the hare and chases with A mobilists from Bellefonte and other
the hounds when it comes to a politi- towns sped to the scene that the
‘cal fight such as has developed in road was jammed for a mile or more
this Congressional district. Since in each direction, completely block-
‘Lederer has not minced matters as | ing traffic.
‘to where he stands he offers the wets The worst feature of the fire is
a rallying point on which they could that Mr. Johnson did not carry a
concentrate. If they should do it,
leaving the other four gentlemen to
split the opposition Maj Lederer
! me th So far as Con-
gh i neither barn and outbuildings were among
side can have much faith in any |the best in the county, but he car-
statemen make for it was | ried considerable insurance.
Lie might or | The barn was located on the site
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delivered from them, Apparently we Harry Swartz was celebrating the
had gotten by that state until Wed- day by shooting off firecrackers near
.nesday morning came and with it a the barn. A piece of an exploded
letter from the lady of the Adams cracker landed in a tar barrel. It
Iyaily and we luda sejapde The little | caught fire and exploded throwing
jt came on us the moment we saw | some of the contents against the side
‘the post-mark on the envelope. Mr. of the building. The coal tar painton
Adams, you'll recall, is the gentle- the barn was hot from a scorching
man who has our epidermis nailed sun and in less than five minutes the
‘to his barn door. Mrs, Adams’ full entire exterior of the barn was in
page letter is written backward and flames and it was impossible to save
since we've been too jumpy to de-!the stock or anything else therein.
.cipher it the fear that she is after Shortly after the fire Mrs. Hast-
our derma has brought on the big ings sold the farm to ¥. J. Pruner
jitters. Always we've suffered with and the barn and out buildings just |
“the pipp.” We don’t know how we destroyed were built for him in the
contracted that malady of the chron- |fall of the same year by Elias Breon.
fc grunter, but if we have to pro-| After being finally driven away
vide an anatomical asylum for the from the fire the horses evidently
big jitters, too, we know that Lock | spent a panicky night. They ranged
Haven is the cause of out latest ex- | all over that section, got as far away
~cuse for lamentation. |as Dale's Summit and were not
who to Pleasant Gap. Since April, 1931,
of light. They stopped their car,
investigated. Feeling |
to the house and roted out Heilman
tenant house had seen the glare and
Hurrying to the barn the men
to overseers of the poor or members
the fields on Saturday. Not a set of tne Associated Charities. Distribu- newal and new notes to the amount
also run into the thousands, as the
had | If owners fail to do so they will be
‘| Then they were standing on top of
i pled
lily. On the 4th of July of that year
E DURING CURRENT YEAR
| An announcement received, this
week, from the Governor's office in
| Harrisburg, states that “in addition
|to the funds spent for road mainte-
| nance during the year June 1, 1931,
ito May 31, 1932, the sum of $606,-
| 180.10 will have been spent by the
Department of Highways for build-
ing roads in Centre county.”
| More men were employed building
| roads in the county last winter than
| ever before. This was due to com-
struction of roads with highway
forces, The Department also took
| advantage of local material, such as
| field stone, gravel deposits and a
| large number of stone fences which |
| were given to the State. i
| The percentage of the total cost of
‘road work paid to local labor was as
| follows: Reinforced concrete (con-
tract), 24 per cent.; bituminous sur- |
| face treated macadam (federal-aid
contract), 33 per cent.; rural roads
using napped stone base, 58 per cent.
On January 31st the number of
men at work building and maintain-
|ing State roads in the county was
334.
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FREE FLOUR ARRIVES IN
BELLEFONTE ON MONDAY
The requisition of government flour
for free distribution under the aus-
| pices of the Bellefonte chapter of
the American Red Cross arrived in
| Bellefonte, on Monday, two car loads
|of it, and trucks were busy all after-
‘noon hauling it to advantageous
| points for distribution.
| As stated in a previous article in
the Watchman the flour will be giv-
|en out only as needed to deserving
| families of the unemployed. The un-
| distributed portion has been stored
in the warehouse of the Potter-Hoy
3200 24-1b, sacks and 438 48-Ib, sacks, |
|a total of 98,000 pounds. As
| above the flour has been
| the Potter-Hoy building and
| distributed only on orders from
| tion days will be Tuesdays and Fri-
| days, from 1:30 to 5 o'clock p. m.
| Through the country districts the
| flour can be secured from the follow-
|ing named people:
| Worth township, W, J. Woodring.
| Port Matilda, Dennis Reese. |
| Taylor township, W. A. Walker.
| Huston township, V. B. Heaton.
| Pleasant Gap, Mrs. T. E. Jodon.
| Howard borough, Mrs, Weber.
| Walker township, Hogan Markle.
Liberty township, James H. Neese.
| Curtin township, J. A. Welch.
| Unionville borough and Union
| township, Howard E. Holtzworth.
| Milesburg and Boggs township, |
Miss Besse Miles.
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| Benner township, Hiram Grove.
| Marion township, E, £. Vonada.
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| Standing on the streets and alleys
| of Bellefonte are quite a number of
|old auto derelicts, bearing 1931 1li-
| cense tags, which have either been
| abandoned by their owners or allow-
ed to stand because of inability to
secure 1932 tags. Borough council
decided, at Monday night's meeting,
that all such cars must be moved.
hauled away by direction of the
street committee and disposed of in
dome way.
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found until nearly noon on Monday.
the hill to the west of the
evidently looking them over.
ruins,
HOUSE AT RUNVILLE
BURNED TO GROUND
The bungalow home of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Bennett, at Runville, was
burned to the ground, with all it's
contents, last Friday afternoon. Mrs.
Bennett had been in charge of an
eating stand they have a short dis-
tance from their home, and went to
the house on an errand. As she open-
ed the kitchen door she was horrified
to find the interior a mass of flames.
The fire spread so quickly she was
unable to save anything of conse-
quence, Bellefonte firemen responded
| to a call for assistance but the house
was practically destroyed when they
arrived on the scene. Mr. Bennett's
loss is partially covered by insur-
ance.
—We will do your job work right
| “Clean-up” week and urged council
| demnation proceedings on “The Is-
Councilmen suggested that he get
ed for payment, after which council
volume on Saturday. When editor W.
‘ever, owing, no doubt, to Mr. Bair's
ON MONDAY EVENING
Borough Solicitor Instructed to Con- | Back in June, 1923, Edward Fiddell
tinue Condemnation Proceedings made his escape from Rockview pen-
on “The Island.” !itentiary where he was serving a
sentence of three to six years im-
Every member of council was poged in Cambria county for break-
present at the regular meeting on |ing and emtering, He was captured
Monday evening. Secretary W. T. in Chicago ten days later and brought
Kelly reported that he had notified pack to the Centre county jail.
the Bellefonte school board to put Jt developed in the meantime that
down pavements along the old steam | pygdell was a Chicago gangster and
heat property, corner of Spring and gunman. On August 2nd he made an
Lamb streets, and Mr. Emerick attempt to break jail by assault-
stated that a member of the board ing Sheriff Harry Dukeman as the
informed him that the pavement jgtter was going out of the jail door
(will be built as soon as the weath- nto the corridor. The Sheriff suffer-
er settles. led a fractured rib and other injuries
The Street committee reported but finally subdued his prisoner.
opening the Howard street sewer, On September 26th Fiddell was
cleaning streets and the collection of taken before Judge Quigley. He re-
$30 for a sewer permit at the West fused to plead guilty but acted as
Penn garage, on Lamb street. 'his own lawyer in trying his case.
The water committee reported the On direction of the court he was
collection of $550 on water rents and found guilty on all charges and was
various minor repairs. The commit- sentenced to serve two and one-half
tee also reported that during the 61 to five years for escaping the peni-
days the water meter has been on | tentiary, three and one-half to seven
the High school building it shows the for assaulting the Sheriff and one
use of 1,371,217 gallons of water and one-half to three for attempting
which, at five cents a thousand gal- to break jai. As he had four
lons would amount to $68.55, or at years yet to serve on his sentence
the same average for the school year in Cambria county his maximum
of nine months $308 for the one incarceration amounted to 19 years
building alone. The matter was left which would keep him behind bars
in the hands of the committee to see until 1942. In 1927 he was transfer-
if there is any way in which a more red to the eastern penitentiary and
economical use of water might be some years later became insane and
accomplished. was transferred to Farview, where
Mr. Cobb stated that he had re- he is now and will probably be kept
ceived a blue print and tentative for the next ten years or longer.
plans from engineer H. B, Shattuck ——————
on the repair of the reservoir by PHILIPSBURG MAN
putting in an eight inch reinforced PAROLE VIOLATOR
concrete lining, to be raised two feet RETURNED TO PEN.
above the present wall. His estimate :
on the cost thereof is from $3500 to
$3800, and he recommends it as the
best method of repair. Mr. Cobb was
instructed to have the engineer make
detailed working plans and present
the same at a special meeting of
council next Monday evening. .
penitentiary on parole,
the western Denitantiatys to be
| that institution.
Bannon was arrested in 1916
the charge of starting the fires which
destroyed the Majestic and Lyric
moving picture theatres, in Philips-
burg. He plead guilty to the crime
of arson, in open court, on Novem-
ber 16th, 1916, and was sentenced
by the late Judge Henry C, Quigley
on one indictment to pay a fine of
| $500 and imprisonment in the west-
|ern penitentiary of not less than
| five years nor more than ten, and on
The Special committee called at- the second indictment a fine of $1000
and from 10 to 15 years in the peni-
tention to the fact that this has been tentiary. He had served about fifteen
possi years and three months when pa-
10 eg-operate in every, Way ble. | + ed, and still has fourteen years and
Mr. Ardery, chairman of the com- |
nine months of his maximum sen-
mittee, called attention to the fact) A bim in the face.
that quite a number of old cars are
Bellefonte with 1931 tags on and Probably mot live to complete his
council authorized the Street com- | Sentence.
mittee to remove same.
G. Mac Gamble appeared before |
council to find out if anything is
being done in the matter of the con-
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ment for services at the
destroyed the Pifer planing mill
The committee also reported a bal-
ance in the borough fund of $24.80
and water fund $73.93. Notes total-
ing $12,000 were presented for re-
of $3200 authorized.
The sanitary committee presented
the monthly report of Dr. Nissley,
health officer.
MISS ELEANOR SMITH IS
NEW EXTENSION WORKER
Miss Eleanor Julia Smith, of Buf-
falo, New York, has been appointed
home economics extension represent-
ative of Centre county to succeed
Miss Jean Alexon, resigned,
Miss Smith enters extension work
after two and one-half years’ exper-
fence in teaching home economics at
North East High school. She is a
graduate of the Buffalo State teach-
ers’ college and has done post-grad-
uate work at the University of Buf-
falo.
land,” and the secretary was in-
structed to notify the borough solic-
itor to proceed in the matter.
Mr. Badger reported that he had
been out at Vandergrift inspecting
streets made of tarvia and he was
much impressed with it's lasting
quality, and he recommended getting
enough of it to top-dress the brick
pavement between the Watchman
office and the Penn Belle hotel.
March 28th, Miss
Smith will have charge of the pro-
gram in home economics extension
which includes projects in nutrition
and health, clothing, household man-
agement, and girls’ club work. She
will have a desk in the Agricultural
prices and all information possible
and report at next meeting.
Councilman William Doll reported
that policeman Howley is in need of
a new uniform and the Fire and Po-
lice committee reported that they
are considering the purchase of one.
The borough auditor's report for house, Bellefonte.
DEMONSTRATION OF
SHRUBBERY PLANTING
AT FORREST TANNERS
Prof. A. O. Rasmussen, ornamental
horticulturist of State College, gave
a demonstration in shrubbery plant-
ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs, For-
rest Tanner, last Friday, and very
| few, if any, members of the Beile-
| fonte garden club were there to sec
how it was done. A barberry hedge
was planted along the street fronts
on both Allegheny and Spring,
while on the side néxt the Linn prop-
erty were planted different kinds of
spirea, honeysuckles, etc. Different
kinds of evergreens were planted at
both sides of the front porch. It will
be interesting to watch the effect
during the summer season.
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Fred L. Alexander, of Miles:
burg, is one of twelve new members
recently elected to the Symphonie
band, at State College.
Borough bills
and water bills $844.40 were approv-
adjourned to meet next Monday eve-
ning.
With its’ issue of last Friday
the Daily Journal, of Philipsburg,
completed the forty-fourth year of
its existence and started the new
T. Bair launched the daily edition in
1888 it was considered a daring ven-
ture and the journalistic infant was
given a short lease of life by resi-
dents of Philipsburg. But it lived
and apparently thrived on adversity
and while there has never been mil-
lions in it editor Bair kept it's head
above water until it was able to swim
with the tide. Today it is better than
selection of John M. Fleming as lo-
cal editor, May it continue to live
and prosper.
Extension Association office, in the
—The Bethlehem Steel company’s plant
at Danville reopened on Monday to fill
orders for a large quantity of reinforce-
ment bars and steel fence posts. Several
government orders also will be filled.
—The cause for the great popularity of
Mrs. Mamie Rush's boarding house at
Media, proved the undoing of its pro-
prietor. Police discovered Mrs. Rush was
serving beer with meals and arrested her
on a charge of illegal possession of lig-
uor.
—Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts, 95 years old,
of Bloomsburg, was quarantined for
mumps on Tuesday. Physicians expect
her to recover, although she is the old-
est mumps patient in their knowledge.
Mrs. Roberts has been an invalid the
last two years.
—Paul Deifenbach, ten-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Deifenbach, of
Milton, died at the Evangelical hospital
near Lewisburg at 7 o'clock Saturday
evening from lockjaw which resulted
when he was hit at school Friday by a
snowball which contained a briar. He
was admitted to the hospital Saturday
morning.
—The liabilities of Norman H. Bailey,
| of Coatesville, as revealed in the bank-
ruptey court records are $125848. His
assets are $760. For a number of years
Bailey engaged in the hardware business
| at Coatesville. Later he embarked on the
political seas of Chester county politics,
was elected to the Legislature and is
now postmaster of Coatesville.
—A moratorium on increases in teachers’
salaries is sought by the Altoona board
of education. In a letter to Governor
Pinchot and the State Department of
Education, they urged influence be used
to bring the action. It was pointed out
that school directors over the State are
having difficulty balancing budgets and
thar taxpayers can stand no further in-
| creases in levies.
—Rev. Lawrence Trembley, of Erie,
administered the last rites of his church
to a woman killed in an automobile acci-
| dent, unaware that the victim was his
! mother, Mrs. Joseph Trembley, 56, of
| Holyoke, Mass., was killed on Tuesday
by an automobile as she alighted from
a street car. She was en route to St
| Joseph's orphanage to visit her son,
! Father Trembley.
—Russ Citra is back at work in the
mines, slightly tired from strenuous ace
tivities. On Monday he was sentenced to
the Fayette county jail for a traffic viola-
tion; he walked the 17 miles to the jail
only to find the place on fire; he worked
an hour helping to extinguish the blaze
then he was released and hitch-hiked to
Brownsville 20 miles away. He went back
to work on Tuesday.
—Mr. and Mrs, Frank George, 65, were
bound and gagged by three robbers arm-
ed with blackjacks, revolvers and ropes
at their home in McDonald Monday night.
The house was ransacked from top to
bottom and $50 in money was taken. The
bandits apparently were under the im-
pression they would make a rich haul,
but George said he never kept much
money about his home.
—If Joseph ‘“Woggles" Jacobs, small-
time Philadelphia gangster, had not been
slain by racketeers in Pittsburgh, last
today. A winning" “numbers” ticket,
found in his pocket, would Nave been
worth that amount had he been able to
i collect. The ticket cost $10 and would
have paid odds of 540 to one. Police say
they have been unable to learn who is-
sued the ticket and the winnings probably
will never be collected.
—After sending her two smal! children
to the home of her parents and her
brother on an errand, Mrs, Grace Rick-
| ard, 24, Marion Center, Indiana county,
| fatally wounded herself in her home last
| Friday, according to police. The woman,
| found by her brother, Eugens Thomas,
Marion Center high school student, when
he returned from a store was taken to
| Indiana hespital where she died without
making a statement. Police said they be-
| lieved she was despondent because her
husband had only partial employment
| during the pnst two years.
! English sparrow and European star-
ling, much berated as pests of the first
order, have at least one use in the world,
says Dr. Thomas E. Winecoff, of the
Pennsylvania Game Commission, in a re-
port to the headquarters of the National
Association of Audubon Societies. They
are destroyers of a much worse pest, the
Japanese beetle. Not many birds will eat
Japanese beetles, Dr. Winecoff says, but
sparrow and starling are joined in their
attack by two of our commonest song-
birds, themselves occasionally looked up-
on as nuisances by orchardists: robin and
| purple grackle. And down on the ground
an introduced game bird, the ringnecked
pheasant, lends a helping hand, or rather
beak, in the good work of destruction.
—A truck owned by George Fairs, of
Altoona, and driven by L. A, Williams,
also of Altoona, was destroyed by fire
Sunday afternoon while traveling toward
Northumberland, on the Danville-North-
umberiand highway. The truck was load-
ed with equipment for restaurant booths,
and was en route to Altoona, when the
driver of the machine saw the smoke
from the fire in the rear end of the truck,
when he glanced in the mirror at the side
of the car. A patrolman of the Milton
| State Highway detail happened to be at
the spot and assisted the driver in ma-
neuvering the blazing truck from the
highway. The car and the contents were
destroyed in the blaze, the loss of the
equipment being estimated at $800 and of
the machine at $200.
—Securities worth $35,000 were found
in the cold, dark shack where Alfred
Carlson, 65 years old, of Ridgway, died,
after years of self-imposed privation.
Carlson's body was buried in a casket
| that cost $1,000. For years he bought only
| over-ripe fruit and stale bread for food.
These he crammed into a black bag he
always carried, and for that reason he
was popularly known as ‘the man with
the black bag.” A search of Carlson's
hut revealed Liberty bonds, Building and
Loan stock and other investments. He had
been employed as a night watchman at a
shop until a few years ago. Carlson was
generally believed to have been destitute,
his seclusive mode of living attracting
but little attention. He was a well known
figure about the town, and the fact that
he had such a large sum hidden away In
his shack was learned with general sur-
prise. The man was not married, but he
is believed to have a brother and sister
in Sweden.