INK SLINGS. BY GEORGE R. MEEK. —The California primary resulted in an overwhelming victory for John Garner, of Texas, and started the President makers to predicting that Ritchie, of Maryland, will be the STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. nominee. | — Senator Huey Long, of Louisi- | ana, thinks he is the only Demo-| crat in the upper house of Congress, VOL. 77. And he ia the only one who comes) ~~ © rE 2 | up to his own ideas of what T. E. JODON NOTIFIED | damnphools Democratic Senators NOT TO REBUILD BARN i ought to be. | ON OLD FOUNDATION | —=Science has at last succeeded in| Highway Department Protests Be- | splitting an atom; at least announce- | | cause of Preemption Claim for The atom, you know, is the smallest thing that is, so that if one hasbeen The State Highway Department split something smaller than there | has entered a protest against T. E.| never was has been found. | Jodon rebuilding his barn on the site | On the evening of - April ‘8fih[9f ihe one destroyed by fire a few | former Judge Arthur C. Dale, who | Weeks ago. was chairman of the Butler cam- paign committee, made a State-wide BELLEFONTE. PA., M A WOMAN'S AUXILIARY VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS ORGANIZED MONDAY EVE. A woman's auxiliary to the Jack- son-Crissman-Saylor post Veterans of the Foreign Wars was organized in Bellefonte, Monday evening, at a meeting held in the assembly room of the Logan Fire company. Thirty- eight women enrolled as members. Ten contractors, six in Bellefonte and four away from here, are anx-| Centre county but for a number of | ious to do the job of repairing the years a resident of Avis, died at’the The bids were Lock Haven hospital, last Saturday | | opened last night, after the Watch- | morning, as the result of injuries | man went to press, and itis possible sustained in an auto accident that | the contract might have been award- | morning. State officers present included the ed, pro | department president, Mrs. Ida May was | The protest was filed because Of | Stanford, of Pittsburgh; the depart- At the regular meeting of borough Bellefonte reservoir. able to file the required bonds. the preemption claim entered 0 ment secretary and treasurer, Mrs. | council, on Monday evening, borough was overtaken by J. A. VICTIM OF AUTO ACCIDENT NEAR LOCK HAVEN William C. Rider, a native of He started to walk from vided the successful bidder Avis to Lock Haven to purchase flowers to put on the grave of his wife. Near the McElhattan bridge he Willits who —_— er ee ime A— SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE —Checks to the amount of $250 and merchandise valued at more than $50 was stolen from David S. Burket general store, Curryville, Blair county, last Sun- day night or early Monday morning. —Pennsylvania State forests provided 9,000 cords of fuel wood for needy fami- lies during the past winter, according to the State Department of Forests and Waters. The department issued 1,160 per- mits for wood cutting in the State for- est areas. —A Westmoreland county farmer ap- parently intends to come down to earth. He inserted an advertisement in a Lraensburg newspaper, last week, offer- ing to ‘swap’ an airplane “in splendid condition with full complement of propel- ler, wings anc tail” for a set of farm machinery. —The Starford Lumber company, of Starford, was low bidder for the general contract for construction of a dormitory at the btate tuberculosis sanitorium at Cresson, with a bid of $11,150, the State Department of Property and Supplies an- nounced last Friday. R. E. Wolfe, of Harrisburg, with a bid of $2248, was low | bidder for the heating contract. —Federel dry agents, directed by J. O. | Loos, deputy prohibition administrator | for the Middle Pennsylvania district, | raided the Castanea brewery, Lock Hav- advised offered him a ride in his car, They | ®™ last Thursday. James Jordan was t el arrested as the alleged owner of the the | Hg ot me wilt aa plant. Large quantities of beer and wort record in the County Commissioner's! genevi s d M M i broadcast which he opened with the evieve Shaft an rs, yrtle | solicitor N. B. Spangler following admonition to the Repub- | Pcs ote Highw land for widen- Bayard, both of Pittsburgh; Mrs. | council by letter, that under lican voters of Pennsylvania: “You . Way: | Lillian Painter, of Lewisburg, and law the contracor should be required . must make a momentous decision at| It will be recalled that the State | rs, Wyhile, of Williamsport, The to file two bonds, one for the faith- Open and Mr. Willits reached across Xp aban in Salgeryiiang Wu the primary. lection on:~apHl ig. | Legisiatute pamed an act in 1925 | degree team of Sunbury put on the ful carrying out of the contract and to pull it shut. As he did so he lost| oq, "Ne suppose Arthur has heard | authorizing the Besrelary ~ High- | work of instituting the new organ | gif to indemnify all persons who | control of his car and ran into a| _pollowing in the footsteps of his momentous it was. | ways to designate the of any | zation and installing the officers, as | perform labor or furnish materials. tree, | father and grandfather, attorney and —The Senate is going to divestis | T02 in-the State, 1o-ave SUFVeYS sullowat |" A communication was received Both men were taken to the Lock | editor Benjamin C. Jones of Tyrone, will gate Governor Pinchot. That tol” the same made "nd entered of pregident, Mrs. George B. Thomp- from James R. Hughes in which he | Haven hospital where Rider died | head the Blair Republican county com- | record in every county, and empow- gon: Senior vice president, Mrs. asked exoneration of all water tax-| Within an hour as the result of | mittee. He will be named to the post per cent assessment on State em- | | | ng the State to take the necessary George W. Sunday; or vice presi- | shock and 1 f blood. Willits was | held in former years by Claude Jones, ployees seems to have begotten |, nq whenever traffic was sufficient | 8 y: junior | #8 against the Academy to date, a and uss of Y | his father: Col. David M. Jones, his doubt as to whether Gifford has any real claim to being virtuous as Caesar's wife. The first time he was our Governor he dedicated himself to cleaning up the mess at Harris- burg. This time all his energies to demand the widening of the road. According to the survey filed in Centre county the width of the road at the Jodon farm was placed at 66 feet, which would take in at least half the foundation of the barn. seem to be devoted to leaving a p.¢ tne difficulty there is that Mr. messier one for his successor 10 j,qon has no other place suitable to clean up. | Jocate his barn and he is going to —Mr. Vare licked Mackey and go ahead and rebuild it on the old Max Golder in the recent primaries ocation, notwithstanding the pro- in Philadelphia, He paid a terrible | test filed by the Highway Depart- price for that demonstration of the ment, and run the risk of the land completeness of his present political not being needed during his life- dominance of that city. If he didn't | time. dig his own grave on April 26 we're Mrs, Charles Williamson; secretary, Mrs. Harry E. Dunlap; chaplain, Miss Blanche McGarvey; conductor, Mrs. J. D. Leitzell; guard, Mrs. Grace Barnhart; historian, Mrs Ray Eckman; musician, Mrs. Magdaline Lyon; charge of the colors, Miss Mary Saylor; color bearers, Mrs, Leo Boden, Mrs. Helen Davis, Mrs Flor- ence DeLalli and Mrs. Alice Woom- er; trustees, Mrs. Frank Shillings, | Mrs. Harry Alters and Miss Nora Stover. The next meeting of the Auxiliary will be held at the home of Mrs. a poorer prophet than we were when, | in 1929, we advised readers of this column to get out of the market and put their money in banks at three per cent, against the day when | they could buy twenty times what they then had for the same money. NASON’S BIG BARN BURNED i NEAR JULIAN ON FRIDAY The big barn on the farm of O. H. | Nason, near Julian, was totally de- stroyed by fire, about eight o'clock | last Friday morning, but fortunate- | | George B. Thompson, in the Bush Arcade, on May 12th, MOTHER'S DAY PROGRAM AT STATE COLLEGE Parents of students attending the Pennsylvania State College are com- — There will be no extra session ly none of the stock perished in the ;.. i; tne college from every part of the Pennsylvania General Assem- bly. Things are in a bad way in the | State. It is confronted with a deficit | and there is no apparent source of flames. Mr. Nason and wife had started on a trip to Philipsburg. | The farmer in charge was hauling | out manure. When he left the barn- of the State today for the annual celebration of Mother's Day. Al- though Mother's Day itself will be voserved Saturday, the entertain. 1,172 gallons of water in 92 days, ment and y start d : at ih rt tonight | 0s cents a gallon would additional revenue. Only automobile yard everything was apparently all ‘licenses - remain as | Fight. He drove out to the field 4 wth on looking toward the barn, was objects to be soaked. Inasmuch as | John Hemphill would have been Gov- | ernor of Pennsylvania today had not | Allegheny county stolen thousands | of votes from him and gudg-| cons believed Pinchot could grant | fifty cent licenses for automobile | drivers, there is nothing else for Gif. to do but pass the buck, The] regular session, in 1933, will have to | save the State from its childish | motions that there still are Pied | Pipers of Hamlin and Santa Clauses. —We are sincerely grateful to the | Democrats of Centre county for the vote they gave us in the recent primary. While we ran nearly three hundred behind the candidates for State and County nominations we headed all aspirants for Delegate to the National Convention of our par- ty. The vote, itself, is gratifying, but | not merely so much as was a tele- phone call, last Wednesday morn- ing, from a dear woman friend who wanted to tell us that she “made the biggest mark” on her ballot op- posite our name. And we are rather prideful of the fact that in the township in a neighboring county, | in which our fishing camp is located, l horrified to see it almost entirely | enveloped in flames. Fortunately there was no livestock in the barn | at the time and he was able to get back to it in time to save the pigs, and chickens. The loss was consider- | able but was partially covered by insurance, The origin of the fire is a mystery. TWO HOUSES BURNED AT PORT | MATILDA Two houses were burned to the d at Port Matilda, last Thurs- | day morning. One was a two story | unoccupied house belonging to Den- | nis Reese and the other a bungalow, | owned by William Robinson and oc- 'cupied by John Walk and family, | The fire started in the Reese house | and communicated to the Robinson | house nearby. Lack of water facili- | ties hampered the firemen in their | efforts to combat the flames. | rapidly did the flames spread that | members of the Walk family escap- | ed through a window, clad only in | their night clothes, All their house- | hold effects were burned, and they | had no insurance. ———— A AP ——————— | BELL TEL. CO,, CO-OPERATES ue tomorrow and through Sunday afternoon when the Penn State symphonic band will give a concert on the front campus. Other student events to be held Saturday include the crowning of the May Queen by women students, a tea for mothers, and a play by the Penn State Flay- ers. Seven athletic events are | scheduled. The major academic event will be the scholarship day exercises which will be held Saturday morn- ing, It is understood that many of the parents who are driving to the college for the day are planning to arrive in time to witness the presentation of fellowships, scholar- ships, honor medals and other schol- astic awards, The speaker for the occasion will be Dr. Edwin C, Broome, superintendent of schools | in Philadelphia, i i | FREE FLOUR RECEIVED | AT STATE COLLEGE The State College chapter of the | American Red Cross has received a | car load of government flour for frée | distribution among those in need. we received a vote next highest to | Mayor Eugene H, Lederer, burgess that of her native son who was cn TO STOP FOREST FIRES the ticket also. | The Pennsylvania Department of —We have come to the conclusion poregts and Waters announces an that a trout stream in Pennsylvania | grrangement whereby any person is no place for the fellow who Seeks geoing a forest fire anywhere in the solitude. If there was as much 8C- giate which he has reason to believe | tivity in the marts of business a8 p,q not previously been reported to ‘there is along any of the water, goregt fire warden, may report it and go home and all the | telephone operator, stating that he corporations could resume dividend | jegires to report a forest fire. payments. So many little mountain gacn exchange operator has listed ‘streams dried up last year, with the on her exchange board the name that the trout in them perish- ong telephone number of a forest fellows accustomed | gro warden, As soon as a forest fire turning to the | oq; jg delivered to the operator, it larger waters. Then the great army .;; pe possible for the person de- unemployed seems to be mobiliz- | giring to report the fire to communi- banks of the creeks; mo- | .o¢e with forest officials. The fire such numbers that sections ' warden should be told as nearly as of the streams we have rarely Seen ,,qqipje the exact location of thé more than two or three fishermen g.o tg approximate size, and if on, when we have sallied forth in the | ,ougihle the direction of the wind at past, now look like “circus day in| tne time of the report. town.” The primary purpose of this co- operative agreement between the Department and the various tele- On the High street bridge, last | phone companies is to get fire fight- Sunday morning, a clean cut looking | ers on the fires which have not pre- young fellow, apparently of foreign | viously been reported, or on fires extraction, was talking to two | that are just starting, Persons are younger looking friends. To one of | asked not to call the telephone com- them he said: “Both of your broth-| panies concerning fires which have ers are drunkards, your brothers-in-' reached large size and which obvi- law are drunkards, That's enough to ously are already known of. show you what a——fool you are for | heading the same way.” We have, -——Among the advance payments heard lots of temperance sermons, of the semi-annual payment of the but we've never heard one that said State appropriation to public schools, as much in as few words as that| made last week, was $4700 to Spring one did. | township, Centre county, | 2 8 A REAL SERMON | Bower; Gregg, Mr. Lingle; of State College, supervised the un- loading of the flour and allotment of same to the various overseers of the poor in the territory under control of the State College chapter, which extends from the Bald Eagle range to Woodward. The overseers who have the flour for distribution in the various districts are as follows: Ferguson township, Mr, Peters; College, Jesse Klinger; Harris, N. B. Martz; Potter, James Runkle and E, C. Wagner; Centre Hall borough, John Heckman; Penn township, L, P. Patton, George F, Stevenson; Hslfmoon, J. M. Rider; Haines, J. O. Auman and John Hosterman; Millheim, J, L. Winegardner; State College, W. E. Smith and J. H, Holmes. A ——— A ————— ——The Pennsylvania Greyhound Transit company has filed an appli- cation with the Public Sevice Com- mission for permission to abandon its bus route between Williamsport and the New York State line, near Bullis. Lack of patronage is given as the reason. In fact it is another case of “dog eat dog.” A few years ago the bus line came along and took a large per cent of the passenger traf- fic from the railroads. Now there are so many privately owned cars that the bus lines are having a hard time keeping out of the red. ——A marriage license was issued at Cumberland, Md., last week, to Frederick Edwin Olsen and Bernice Lovina Scoll, both of Bellefonte, pression. Referred to the Water committee. The Street committee reported that the tarvia mixture suggested as a covering for the brick pavement on High street between the Watch- | man office and the Penn Belle hotel | and extending from the High street bridge to the bridge over the race would cost $7.71 a ton, A ton of the | material will cover approximately | nine square yards. The matter was | referred back to the committee to ascertain as near as possible the number of square yards in the block and the total cost of the job, The Street committee reported some minor repairs to streets, clean- ing and patching, and laying 308 feet of six inch sewer pipe from the McCoy residence to Water street. The Water committee reported va- rious repairs and the collection of $1114.95 on water taxes and $13.05 for rent, The committee reported that the meter at the - High school building shows a consumption of amount to $100.50. dent, Mrs. Barbara Kline; treasurer, total of $496.26, owing to the de- Dot seriously injured. Rider was 80 years old and was county, Before moving to Avis he had lived at Warriorsmark. He had | grandfather, and Major C. S. W. Jones, | a granduncle. Benjamin Jones is editor ‘born in Ferguson township, Centre ., \;. Tyrone Herald. | —Grover R. Haggerty, of { and his brother, Philip, of Uniontown, Vanderbilt, been employed as a janitor at the pa, lost their fight to have their father, The Finance committee reported a balance in the borough fund of $614.92 and $435.18 in the water fund. Borough notes for $3,500 and a water department note fer $14,500 were presented for renewal. The com- mittee also reported that the Centre County hospital requested payment of a note of $5000 on Tuesday and that the borough treasurer had made arrangements to borrow the money and pay the note. A new note for $1000 was also authorized to meet current bills. The Fire and Police committee presented the request of Daniel Gordon for a light on Halfmoon hill, Referred to the committee for inves- tigation. The Sanitary commitee presented the report of health officer and milk inspector S. M, Nissley. The Town Improvement committee presented the request of Harry Sager for a permit to erect a garage on the rear of his lot on Halfmoon Terrace, and on recommendation of the com- mittee the same was granted. The Special committee reported that some time last fall the tele- | phone company erected a new pole | in front of the Thomas Fleming prop- erty, on Reynolds avenue, which was to take the place of two poles then standing there, but up to the present time they have not removed the two old poles or even transferred the wires, The matter was referred to the Street committee. The secretary reported that the annual meeting of the Association of Boroughs will be held at Conneaut Lake in June. On recommendation of M, M. Cobb, H, B. Shattuck was re-elected borough engineer for one year from January 1st, 1982, Boro bills totaling $1360.71 and water bills for $312.70 were approv- ed for payment, after which council adjourned to meet in special session Thursday evening to open bids for repairing the reservoir. BOALSBURG HAS SCOURGE OF SCARLET FEVER Within two days, last week, twen- ty-one cases of scarlet fever devel- oped in Boalspurg and the schools were closed forthwith and school buildings thoroughly fumigated. For tunately none of the cases have proven fatal, or even very serious. It will be recalled that during the winter there were quite a number of cases in that town but prompt measures of quarantine and fumiga- tion overcame the disease before fit became epidemic, Just why so many cases should develop at one time, as there did last week, is rather baff- ling to health authorities. | | Avis bank for a number of years. He had no children but is survived by two sisters and two brothers, Mrs, Charles Henderson, of State College; Mrs. Jennie Shull, of New Castle; J. A, Collins Rider, of Tyrone, and Frank Rider, of Altoona. Funeral services were held at his late home, at Avis, on Tuesday morning, after which the remains were taken to Warriorsmark for burial. FOUR RECEIVE INJURIES IN AUTO COLLISION Between four and five o'clock last Friday afternoon, as W. L. Gunsal- lus was returning to Bellefonte from his work as stableman at Rockview penitentiary he undertook to pass a truck, coming toward Bellefonte, on the curve south of Prossertown and collided headon with a car driven by Gunsallus sustained a bad fracture of the left knee, the cap bone being splintered. Mr. Shuey received sev- eral cuts and abrasions on his arm, With him in the car were Mrs. Shuey, who received cuts and abra- sions on the right leg and the frac- | Finley Haggerty, 72, adjudged weak- | minded because he exchanged $29,000 if | securities for a $5,200 farm. The elder | Haggerty testified in court the securities had depreciated in value and that the acre farm included a six-room house, | barn, coal and a gas lease. —An attempt to poison his entire family was frustrated, police said, when they answered a call to the home of Harry V. Turner at Williamsport, on Monday. The police reported they found that poison tablets had been placed In each cup of coffee and glass of milk, sprinkled in the sugar and gravy and over the meat, by Turner. A bottle of the tablets was taken from him when searchad. He is being held pending fur. ther investigation. —Training school for guards at the new Lewisburg federal penitentiary will be conducted in New York city, starting May 1, instead of at Lewisburg, as pre- viously announced, it was learned follow- ing the visit of Mr. Stutzman, superin- | t of the school and Lieutenant Hanson, his assistant, to Lewisburg. The guards will undergo rigid training in New York from May 1 to July 1 and then will be removed to Lewsburg where the school will be continued. — ~The Danville Iron and Steel com- pany plant of the Kennedy-Van Suan Manufacturing company, has received an ture of a small bone of her left | order for a iarge rimary gyratory crush- hand, and Mrs. Elliott Armstrong, | er. to be used in the cleaning plant of of State College, who also sustained | the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and several cuts and abrasions. All were | Iron company's new breaker at St. Nich- taken to the Centre County hospital The crusher will weigh over a y quarter of a million pounds, and will for treatment. take a feed of material two feet thick, SE———————— | four feet wide, and six feet long and INQUIRIES BEING MADE | crush this down to a very small size at FOR GLASS CASKET STOCK | the Fate of 5,000 tons in 10 hours. | —Trucks of the Centre County Lime During the past few weeks the Al- | ,nq Stone company, of Salona, have been toona Chamber of Commerce has pusy for several days hauling limestone received a number of inquiries rela- | from the quarries at Salona to State tive to the stock of the Glass Casket Highway route No. 364, from Beech corporation, a concern in which a | Creek to Monument and Orviston, pre- number of Centre countians were Paratory Xo Spvizing a wat of limestorie finan and oil to the surface of t route. con- aneially a d some structed last summer. A roller was In g t the high , roll- ten or twelve years ago for the pur- action last wesk, on he highway | ing down sections that had to be resur- pose of manufacturing glass caskets ...4 by the patching crews on account for burial Several sample purposes. of settling and breaking through of th® caskets were made for stock selling surface where roadbed was graded last purposes but none were ever put on | year. the market. The company finally —While firemen were battling a fire went into the hands of a receiver and was sold at a foreclosure sale, the plant and all tangible property being bought in for the benefit of the bondholders. The sale wiped out the value of the stock and why inquiries are now being made for it is a perplexing question. It is quite probable, how- ever, that any holder of the stock will be only too glad to dispose of it to anyone who wants same. STEVE HAMAS TO ENTER MOVIELAND AT HOLLYWOOD Steve Hamas, the one-time idol of all athletes at State College, is scheduled to enter movieland at Hollywood. Just now he is booked for a return fight with Tommy Loughran, at Convention hall, Phila- delphia, on May 11th, and if he is able to keep his face from being too badly disfigured in the set-to he will leave shortly after for California, where he has been engaged to take the leading part in a proposed pic- ture where an athlete does his stuff. ———At a brief session of court, on Saturday, William Winton, who fail- ed to file a bond to insure compii- ance with a court order for the sup- port of his wife and two children, was sent to the Allegheny county workhouse, and Oliver Quick, of Moshannon, was given ten days In which to file a bond to comply with an amicable agreement to continue to contribute to the support of his wife and child. at the home of W. G. Marshall, in East New Castle, on Saturday, they were as- tonished to see fireman James E., Thomas, of the city department, roll out the front door. He had been fighting the blaze on the roof when the part where he was standing collapsed and he fell through to the top of the stairway on the second floor. His flight was not stayed, but he con- tinued down the stairway and as it led to the front door at the bottom, he con- tinued on through before his fall was stopped. Despite the unusual experience, he was not injured. —Everything was set last Wednesday for the funeral of Ivan Tiffany, 25, a farmer of mlk Lake, near Montrose, but the ‘‘corpse’” walked in on the mourners and they walked out so the funeral was called off. The Sunday previous a barn in which Tiffany was repairing his aufo- mobile caught fire and was destroyed. When Tiffany failed to appear, his fam- ily believed he perished in the flames. Neighbors dug into the ruins nnd fished out what they beleved were Tiffany's bones. The bones were placd In a casket and the funeral services were about to begin when Tiffany returned home. —An invitation is extended by the Pennsylvania department of Labor and Industry to its friends, to attend the an- nual state-wide safety conference to be held at the Penn-Harris hotel, Harris- burg, May 12 and 13. A program of entertainment including several addresses, a luncheon on May 12 and a banquet on the evening of May 13th at 6 o'clock has been arranged. The safety plaque con- tributed by the Pennsylvania Manufac- turers’ association will be awarded and a playlet entitled ‘Cloud and Sunshine,’ will be given as additional features of the program. Requests for reservations should be sent to the director of irdus< trial standards of the department, * see
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