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18565 1932 IN CENTRE COUNTY.
- Items taken from the Watchman issue
The that P. Gray Meek edited and published for Afty-seven years and | ¥. 5 -— |
BOW by his Estate at the Watchman Printing House, Bellefonte, Pa. —On the third of May, 1882, Mr.
Editors, Reuben Shaffer and Miss Salli
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Paid strictly in advance - - $150 | took fright at something, pulled the
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APRIL 29, 1932 |
WHY WAS IT NOT DONE "LONG AGO”? |
In referring to the swollen Federal payrolls the Philadelphia
Public Ledger concludes the leading editorial in its last Sunday edi-
tion with the following paragraph:
“To experienced observers it is as astonishing as it is gratify- |
ing that Congress should actually have started to use the ax on the
Governments’ expenditures. This may not be the ideal method, but,
confronted by an emergency, it is doing what should have been
done, if more carefully and systematically, long ago.”
Such an admission by our esteemed, but bitterly partisan con- |
temporary is, indeed, strange reading. The Ledger has always been |
a proponent of the theory that nothing good could come out of the run clear back to Harrisburg and he sent here from the Mount Pleas-
Democratic party's elevation to power. Having groped its way in
the limited horizon of party bigotry it is not surprising that it
should think “experienced observers” must regard any constructive.
action of a Democratic Congress as “astonishing.”
The cost of government has mounted to c
through duplication of Federal and State activities, paying pensions |
but not seriously.
—Mr. James Milliken, trustee, is
advertising the large and handsome
Milliken residence on Allegheny
street for sale.
—Mr. George L. Potter, late of
the Renovo shops, has been appoint-
ed to the position of assistant mas-
| ter mechanic of the P. R. R. shops
at Ft, Wayne, Indiana. Mr. Potter
is the elder son of the late lamented
Dr. George L. Potter, of this place.
~The railroad bridge near Flem-
ington, this side of Lock Haven,
was burned on Saturday night. The
catastrophe compelled the Bachellor
and Doris circus train, which was
on the way here from Milton, to
come by way of Tyrone. It was a
Sunday jump for the outfit so it
plenty of time to make its
Bellefonte stand. Incidentally, the
weather was fine and the circus was
such colossal sums generally judged the best one ever geveral days.
visit us. The two headed lady
sang duets with herself and danced,
, because they are only | )
their fight, while all members of the Junior class, the
console themselves competitors for the annual declama-
to lie awake nights wondering where | are now preparing for the event.
are at. And the public in gen- | Those selected are: Helen Myers,
will be able to walk the streets Gladys Sampsell, Margaret Mills,
without fear of being
by a political worker in an endeavor man Kirk, Roy Wilkinson, Philip
‘to force home the fact that the can- Mabus, James Bair, Calvin Purnell;
didate he represents is the only Alternates, Pauline Saxion, Lawrence
‘man who can bring order out of the McClure.
chaos of depression in which this
country is now floundering, With
BOOKS WANTED
Stories by Edgar Allen Poe; Ad-
the primaries over we'll all have a ventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Ar-|
breathing spell of several months thur Conan Doyle; (1) Old Chester
| before the opening hullabaloo of the Tales and (2) Dr, Lavendar's People,
| fall campaign. | Margaret Deland; Tales from a Roll
If fish commissioner Oliver M. Ben Hur, Lew Wallace: Unier the
Deibler had happened in Bellefonte, Red Robe, Stanley Weyman; (1) Lit-
‘on Sunday, he most certainly would tle Minister and (2) Sentimental
have been impressed with the sight Tommy, James M. Barrie; The Light
along south Water street where that Failed, Rudyard Kipling; Master
hundreds of strangers stopped to of Ballantrae, R. L. Stevenson.
take a look at the big trout,
among them some of the beauties HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR MUSIC
ant hatchery. Crowds swarmed the
' pavement from the noon hour up.
‘until five o'clock and enough ground , concert, Thursday afternoon,
' beef was thrown to the fish to keep fifth, at three o'clock, in the State
them from getting real hungry for theatre. .
The orchestra will open the pro-
DECLAMATORY CONTEST After defeating
th the fact that they won't have tory contest have been selected and
buttonholed Mary Hartle, Betty Woomer, Nor-
|Top Desk, Christopher D. Morley;
The music organizations of the lo- |
cal high school will appear in a joint |
May
Whether it is because of interest |
gram with a group of three numbers
and salaries, both, to certain classes of employees and other such to, put the feature of the show we
needless extravagances that something must be done about it before will remember longest was that in-
: following which the glee club will
aroused by the activities of the make its initial appearance in its
‘Garden club or a personal desire to new role of mixed chorus, in several
; Xes are r to serfdom by an office hold- imitable Irishman, John Patterson,
those who pay the taxes are reduced y a an, Jolin, Patterson,
of “Bridget Donahue.”
—Mr. and Mrs, James Long, of
Philipsburg, and late of Spring
Mills, have just passed through a
terrible affliction. All of their chil-
ing bureaucracy.
As the Ledger says it should have ben done “long ago,” but it
has only to come to such a conclusien after a Democratic Congress
started to the rescue of the Country. Since Woodrow Wilson left
the White House, in 1920, there have been the greatest scandals and
| cultivate the ground we are not in- |
. formed, but we do know of a number |
ber of people in Bellefonte who are
‘going to do some gardening this
year who haven't been very active
in that direction for some time past;
dren, three little girls, died of diph- 8nd we hope they wont have the
fine groups of pleasing numbers. Es- |
pecially attractive is the German
setting—the chorus singing both the |
English and German text—of “Wenn |
by Riechardt, a
Die Rosen Bluhen”
truly beautiful ballad of
teenth century.
the Eigh-
the wildest orgy of spending public money the country has ever
gone through, yet never a word of admonition came from the Re-! "owen MeCann, 5 long 3 promis
publican press. The moment, however, it senses political rebellion it nent resident of Port Matilda, and
assumes the sycophantic “yes man” attitude and says it ought to the Democratic leader of that sec-
have been done “long ago.” tion, has moved to Tyrone, where
. . . he has taken ssion of one of
Experienced observers” will understand that, too. The Republi- pig houses a i
can party has been in control for twelve years. During all that time _port Matilda is having quite a
its representatives aided and abetted those who were blowing the building boom. James Marks, Charles
economic bubbles that busted in 1929. When the emptiness of the Cowher, James Wiser and Solomon
theria within two days last week.
same experience that a certain
Bellefonte woman had several years
ago when she made her first Years with a group of very splendid selec-
ture in planting a flower garden. A tions under the able direction of
lover of the old-time flowers she Harold Wion, The other groups are
planted what she supposed were under the leadership of Mrs. Krader.
morning glory seeds. She watered Inasmuch as no admission fee will
'and watched her plot of ground but Pe required, it is hoped a good audi-
time passed and no plants shot ©Pce Will hear these young folks in
through the earth. Finally her hus- their contribution for the Music
band decided to investigate and YWeek Program, outlined by the Fed-
The band will climax the program
pretty baubles was revealed and the country discovered that all the Weaver are all building new homes
golden Hoover prosperity was only tinsel there was great consterna-
tion. For a while the President thought we could lift ourselves out
of the slough by our own boot-straps. [I pl
thing by such a futile suggestion he has since been prescribing more
fake cure-alls than the slickest Indian medicine men of yesteryear
ever dreamed of concocting.
It was not until the people elected a Democratic Congress that morning. He was a gunsmith and | from the cabinet
he or any of his party organs thought to apply to the conduct of
government the same practices of rigid economy that necessity has !
made applicable in the business enterprises and the homes of our
land.
Indeed it should have been done “long ago,” but the Ledger
didn’t think so until its idols started toppling from the pedestals on
which it had helped place them.
HOW DID WE GET THIS WAY?
Here in Centre county, in the midst of an inestimable wealth
of natural resources, there are many people actually face to face
with the problem of subsistence.
It is paradoxical that in the midst of plenty there is really little.
One hundred and fifty years ago the first settlers came with!
practically no tools, cleared the land, built homes and raised crops
enough to feed their families, and aside from the handicaps of pio-
neering, were happy and contented. They had no money, machinery
there and the town is spreading out
so fast that some of the hopeful
residents see the probability of its
Failing to accomplish any- incorporating as a borough before Pellets and a broad grin
very long.
-—Daniel, the oldest of the six
Derr brothers, passed away at his
home on Ridge street yesterday
plumber by trade and had been an
esteemed resident of Bellefonte for
forty years.
—Tora Laughlin, son of Martin
Laughlin, of Lamb street, is home
on a visit.
David W. Keller followed his
sweetheart, Miss
trip was not without compensation
for she finally consented to become
Mrs, Keller. The ceremony was per-
formed at the bride's parental home
there on the evening of April 18.
As both the young folks were well
known here their many friends join
in our songalulations to Dave, es-
pecially, his long and pressing
suit has finally won him a pr
ing woman for his wife.
-—-Miss Kate Bowers, of this
place, has opened a subscription
: in Milesburg and Miss Lida
digging carefully into the well pre-
soil he uncovered the tiny
overspread |
| his face when he discovered that in- |
|stead of morning glory seed his
better half had planted a box of
| little liver pills that she had taken
instead of the
| seeds,
i In a certain county not a hundred |
(miles from Bellefonte ten couples
{took out marriage licenses in one |
week who asked that the licenses
|be kept secret for the time being. |
Jobs if it was found out they!
| were married. Quite frequently |
couples in Centre county make
‘the request that their license be,
kept out of the newspapers, but:
{it is mostly for some other reason. |
eration of Music.
GRADE rROGRAM FOR MUSIC WEEK
As has been the custom in past
years, the grades will give their an-
nual “Last Day” play and prepara- |
are being made to make it a
splendid entertainment. The
upper grades will continue in
very
four
bicentennial celebration in their
“Episodes in the Life of Washing-
ton,” and a cantata, “Paul Revere,”
an unusually difficult musical setting |
of the entire poem. :
The little folks are thoroughly en-
ial recently presented to them for
their part of the performance. We
have the “Old Woman Who Lived in!
the Shoe,” in a most delightful new
environment—turning all the nursery |
the winner of
§
Central distric
Selinsgrove in the
| final tilt. This victory entitles the
~
After careful trials conducted by | teams to compete for State honors
the High school English teachers for |3t Pittsburgh next Friday and Satur-
| The local teams, with but two ex-
ceptions, were composed of students
debating for the first time on any
team. Betty Woomer, who led the
affirmative last year, acted in the
same capacity this season, while her
colleague, Roy Wilkinson, made his.
first appearance as a debater several
weeks ago. Both these debaters are
Juniors and will no doubt form one
of next year’s teams, judging from
the quality of their work during the
past few months. Virginia McClellan,
a Sophomore, acted as alternate
throughout the season and will un-
| doubtedly earn a speaking post next
year. Cheryl McCormick, another
Sophomore, was berthed as second
alternate, and although her active
| services were not required this sea-
| son, she is expected to take a prom-
|inent part next fall. The negative
side was upheld by Martha Brugger
(and Eleanor Johnson, as speakers,
' while Annette Decker served as al-
| ternate. Miss Decker was the only
one of this team who had had previ-
ous debating experience. Unfortu-
nately all of these students are
Seniors and expect to be graduat-
ed in June. Their absence will he
keenly felt next year as an entire
new team will have to be selected.
Both teams deserve considerable
praise for the type of work they
have done this year. Every member
has worked hard in collecting mater-
ial and preparing speeches, Natural-
ly their inexperience made them
| somewhat less forceful and persua-
sive on the platform, factors which
' contributed to their defeat at Hunt-
ingdon, but their arguments were on
(a par with, or superior to, those of
(any team with whom they debated.
Some of the members of the team
lived in the outlying districts but
did not miss a single rehearsal. All
of them devoted considerable spare
time to study and rehearsal of their
constructive speeches and all co-oper-
ated with the coaching staff in a
thoroughly commendable manner.
The entire High school joins in con-
| gratulating them not only upon the
spirit with which they entered into
the work, but also upon their winning
the championship of Centre county.
The coaching staff and both teams
take this opportunity to extend their
appreciation to Mr. Blaine Mabus,
who so kindly loaned his car on sev-
| the spirit of the George Washington eral occasions.
a Rp A —————.
TWENTY CASES ON LIST
FOR MAY TERM OF COURT
Twenty cases have been put on
the list for trial at the May term
| joying their first taste of the mater- of common pleas court which will
convene on Monday,
They are as follows:
Grant Dull vs. Solomon M. Niss-
ley. Issue awarded.
People’s National Bank of State
May 28rd.
| rhymes topsy-turvy in their “health” College vs. Annie L. Krumrine and
And of school teachers
{recalls a story told us last week !
about a certain married teacher in
| the county who is being paid $100
ja month. She and her husband con-
, stitute the family. The husband has
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stories,
for here King Cole does not
call for
his pipe, but “for his fruit,
{his milk, and his cereals three"
There are no four-and twenty black
: birds baked in a pie, but “Four and
| twenty vegetables cooked in a pan”
to result in the gaining of a pound a
Clemson Bros. Judgment opened.
Ralph A. Smith vs. J. Clyde
Thomas, Raymond 8S. Howard and
Martin Dunlap. Ejectment.
Polydorous Bartosis vs. George J.
Gregory. Ejectment.
Robert Dedds vs. W. H. Homan,
. McGinley has embarked in the same Dot had steady work and they have
or transportation systems, kind of a venture in Coleville, run behind in some of their bills.
The second generation that followed them lived on the farms' Rev. J. F. DeLong, pastor of the Recently a merchant left his ac-
they had cleared, raised large families and either gave their chil- Reformed church in this place, was count with a justice of the peage
dren an advanced education for a professional career or endowed martied Mi Amanda E. Lau- for collection and the justice sent
them with a farm when they left the shelter of the parental roof °C mton, near Easton, on the woman a notice to that effect.
. ril 27. Rev. De i - . ,
tree. Today many of the farms that did that for those who had a April Capt. Pang Ja a ful ei ae Vhitey Ae Squires se ans
will to work are being abandoned because it is held that they won't ed the ilifated arctic exploration Ship, impossible to settle the account
produce a living for even two people. “the Jeannette,” iow 4s she needed the money to.
sec. | : : | Charles Miller, minor, by his par-
Has something gone wrong with the land or has the offspring ‘pay the last { dance material learned as part of the : by his par
i installment on the . ’ ‘ents and next friends, Thomas and
of the rugged, resourceful types of half a century ago been refined ANNUAL MEETING OF | family automobile, [Years outline "of music for these p,,, yer ys, Harry E. Cleven-
by advancing civilization until--like the silk worm—it would rather
MISSIONARY SOCIETY | The automobile | grades, Many nationalities will ar- :
die than dig for a living? Betty Lou Miller, minor, by her
io probably one of the reasons why |, . "po songs and dances will en-|
Sp —— So many families in the country to- |
! : The annual meetng of the. Wo- gay 4; not have the money to meet | Dance this little sketch, which prom- parents and next friends, Thomas
There is no need for anybody in Centre county to be hungry. | man's Missionary society of the West | 4p =: legitimate living expenses. ises a colorful place in the program and Rose Miller, vs. Harry E. Clev-
Liven it could be happy and contented, notwithstanding the depres- Susquehanna Classis of the Reform-! — : of which it will be a part. Watch for enstine. Trespass.
sion that all talk about and few move to relieve, if it were not for ed church was held in St. John's Up to this tinie not a single fish- further announcements regarding Dr. R. L. Capers vs. John A. Shuey.
what William Feather has so aptly termed the two standards of liv- church, Bellefonte, last Thursday, erman has come in to claim that this entertainment by the grades at Appeal.
‘day for those who need to build up. R. G. Homan and Ernest Homan.
Another group will bring “Silver Replevin.
Hair” and the “Three Bears”—all in, Minnie Askey vs. First National
song-—-a Toga unique style of pre- Batik of Osceola Mills. Feigned is-
senting ever delightful story. |
Third and fourth grades will Yes Standard accident and Insurance
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sent “America, the Melting Pot of CO: VS. Alex C. Bailey and Lewis
the World,” a novelty written hy Stibe, trading and doing business as
Mrs. Krader embracing’ the song and “pulley aij tino. Ausum Dait,
ing—city conveniences and rustic toil. | With a fairly large attendance. Mrs, quart we offered last week for the the close of the present school term. S. R. M yd :
» | clety, presided. The business of the | just been wondering if we changed| A ratner unusual program was giv: Mowery. Assumpsit.
reminder that it is time to feed the chickens, | ports, appointments
report showed
Trespass.
Charlotte
. : i : 'M. H. Brouse, presid | ers. Trespass.
The trouble with the world today is that it devotes % Hoc time | M- H » president of the so- biggest fish story, and we have CHAPEL George B. McClellan vs. J. W.
raving about the glories of the sunset that it forgets the sunsets | meeting included the reading of re- it from milk to
: something else i -
reming | ced t ‘milk the cows and of committees, | whether it would Be = 2a Shapdl Fridey morning. “Five, Nannie Coxey vs. Dana D. Deck
slop” the pigs that are to give it eggs and milk and meat to eat! py, The treasurer's g home economics class, | er. ‘Wighaman and Robert
tomorrow. that during the year the various,
| societies had collected and paid out
If you don't find this column very
interesting don't blame the writer.
under the direction of Miss Goodrich, |
staged a tableau on etiquette. There
R. McMonigal, vs. The Concordia
| $1,838.52. The speaker at the evening He can't put e
were two tables placed on the plat- Fire Insurance company, of Mil-
in it he orm. At one table were seated Mr.
In the Roosevelt-Smith contest in Pennsylvania “the Happy | session was Mrs. C. K. Stoudt, a
knows. If he did, he'd have to leave | ana Mrs. Right, played by Madeline
| waukee. Assumpsit.
Natalla vs. Howard Cham-
Warrior” has lost by twenty thousand or more votes, but he carried
Cambria, Delaware, Elk, Erie, Greene, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Mc-
Kean, Philadelphia, Schuylkill and Wayne counties. As a matter of
fact the strength he developed in the State is surprising. Especially |
so, since few thinking Democrats regarded him as a serious con- |
tender for the honor.
The poor old Governor and his ambitious lady were cer-
tainly treated rough in Tuesday’s primaries. Mrs. Pinchot was com-
pletely squelched in the Fifteenth Congressional District, which she!
missionary at Bagdad, India.
Officers elected and installed for
the ensuing year included the follow-
ing: President, Mrs. M. H. Brouse;
first vice president, Mrs. Frank M,
Fisher; second vice president, Mrs. C.
H. Zeckman; recording secretary,
Mr. G. A. Fred Greising; statistical
secretary, Miss Lillian Knecht; cor-
responding secretary, Miss Loretta
Latshaw; treasurer, Mrs. Harry E.
town before the ink dries on the
paper, and go so far away that
county detective Leo Boden couldnt
reach him with one of prothonotary
8S. Claude Herr's bench warrants, |
And that's that, i
a —— A —————— |
———Mr. and Mrs. George P, Hoo-
ver, of Altoona, celebrated the 32nd
anniversary of their marriage on
Wednesday of last week. Centre
countians will be interested in this
Purnell and Jane Curtin. At the | bers.
other table were seated Mr. and Mrs. george Ma A ;
Wrong, portrayed by Hazel Dunlap Maude peal and A. H.
and Eleanor Wion. Jane McCoy, as Walker vs. Col. G Decker, trading
Emily Post, read from a book of and doing business as the Decker
etiquette, As she read, Mr. and Mrs. Chevrolet Co., Trespass.
Right carried on their part by eat-| Bruce J. Miller vs. G A Pivirotto,
ing with the best of manners. But owner and reputed owner, Mechan-
Mr. and Mrs. Wrong did everything | ics lien,
wrong. They slumped on the table, _ Allison G. Hollabaugh vs. G. A.
scrubbed their lips with the napkins, | Bivitotta, owner and reputed owner.
The W. E. Hoffman company vs.
aspired to represent. All the Gov’s roads and all the Gov's men |Harter, and historian, Mrs. J. M.
can't make Cornelia a politician again. | Hartsouk,
-——Michael Flannigan, of Snow
ftom ” Mr. and Mrs, | [0Ved with the food, dropped their
| silverware and then picked it up,
Hoover were natives of Bald Eagle ther things that n
valley. He was born and grew to many oiner truss wiiloion
manhood at Unionville. Mrs. Hoover,
| taboo. These wrong actions brought
Irven Mohnkern and Ruel Mohn-
kern, trading and doing business as
the Mohnkern Lumber company, vs.
|G. A. Pivirotto, owner and reputed
——There are eight counties in the Fifteenth Congressional
District of Pennsylvania. It is the one in which the Governor's lady
ran for the nomination for Congress. Three per cent of ihe
State's population resides there and twenty-five per cent of the new
road building announced for 1932 has been allocated for their bene-
fit. Tuesday witnessed the results obtained by a Governor
who could countenance such an unjust distribution of the State's
money. Undoubtedly that road building program was not sufficient
to make votes for his wife.
~The Democrats elected a Congressman in the Cambria
county district, where a special election was held to fill a vacancy
caused by the resignation of Representative J. Russel Leech, Re-
publican. George E. Wolfe was the victor in a three-cornered fight.
Shoe, who was convicted at the last |
term of court of assault and bat-
tery and on April 6th sentenced to
pay a fine of one dollar and impris-
onment in the county jail for not
less than one month nor more than
a year, was granted a parole, on
prior to her marriage, was Miss |
Mary Margaret Woodring. She.
was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. |
and grew to womanhood at Port |
Matilda. On April 20th, 1900, the
Abraham Woodring and was born Aressed in men’s clothing.
many laughs from the audience of owner. Mechanics lien.
students. The girls, taking the parts | ———————
of Messrs. Right and Wrong, were _ wjjjam Butterworth, of Rush
| township, was arrested, last week,
This tableau was very helpful in| by fish warden Toner M. Griffith
showing the students what the cor- whine fishing with two rods in Black
young people went to Cumberland, '¢Ct table manners are, and what
| Bear run for walking away from
Saturday, on condition he arrange
to pay his fine and costs. Flanni-
gan, some months ago, sustained an
injury on the hip while at work in
a coal mine and the fact that it was
giving him considerable trouble
while confined in jail most likely
was the reason for his early dis-
charge.
Md., where they were married by |
Rev Yingling. Skortly after that
momentous event they located in|
Altoona where they have lived ever |
since. They are the parents of sev- |
en children, all but two of whom |
were home for the anniversary cele-
| bration.
resentatives
actions at the table are correct. the stream and leaving his rods and
DEBATERS DEFEATED BY DISTRICT | lines unguarded. At a hearing before
CHAMPIONS | justice of the peace E. R. Hancock,
Bellefonte High's debating team | last Thursday evening, he was fined
failed to win the district champion- | $20 and costs. After rendering his
ship at Huntingdon, last Friday, by | decision the 'Squire decided to hold
losing the opening debate to the rep- ' the matter under consideration ten
from Williamsburg | days before making it final.