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THE TALBOT FUND DISTRIBUTION.
The ‘I'reasurer of Centre county is mailing checks to the thirty-
six poor districts in the county covering the allocation of the $18,-
435.47 received for December, January and February from the
State Treasurer as Centre's proportion of the appropriation made
under the Talbot Act, passed at the recent special session of the
Legislature, for unemployment relief.
There has been considerable confusion as to how this gift from
the State may be legally used. The wording of the Act is very clear
in that it is designed for the relief of the unemployed and not for
the support of those who were known as habitual dependents on the
various poor districts prior to its enactment. The question arises as
to whether a fine line of distinction must be drawn between those
who were more or less dependent on public charity prior to 1931 and
those who have been forced to seek aid because of lack of employ-
ment since the depression set in.
It would seem that the latter class can be the only benefici-
aries of the Talbot Act. This determination of it is supported on the
theory that the Act was not passed for the purpose of relieving the
poor districts of the counties of the State from their normal bur-
dens of supporting the indigent, but to aid them in meeting pres-
ent abnormal conditions.
On page 3 of this issue will be found a table showing the con-
dition of the various poor districts of the county as of 1931; the
property valuation, the millage laid, amounts received and paid out,
as well as other interesting data.
From this table it will be seen that some districts in the county
have had a far heavier self imposed burden of supporting their poor
than others. In fact the rate of millage in five of them has been one
per cent of the assessed valuation of their property, while in two
no poor tax at all has been levied.
Of course emergency demands occasioned by the depression are
likely to be relatively as great in those districts that have hereto-
fore had few, if any, poor to support as in the ones in which there
have always been many more or less dependent on public charity.
The allocation of the fund was not made on the number of poor
in each district. It was based on the number of unemployed who
might need relief, as reported by the Overseers of the Poor of the
county, not more than a month ago. It is probable that some of
the former were included among the latter.
However the fund is applied it can’t go far toward relieving
any real distress there may be, because the total amount is only
$8.54 per unemployed person. It will help, of course, but it will be
only a drop in the bucket if conditions continue long as they are.
To be forewarned is to be forearmed and because no one can
foresee just when there will be such a revival in business as will put
all the unemployed back to gainful pursuits the present is the time
for the Poor Overseers of the county to estimate future demands
and provide for them through adequate taxation. In Port Matilda
borough and Half Moon township, for instance, no poor tax has
been levied, yet the former reports forty-three unemployed persons
and the latter twelve. If the depression continues these heretofore
self-supporting residents naturally must call on their more fortunate
neighbors for help and they have every right to expect it to be
forthcoming from a fund which the law authorizes every corporate
unit in the State to establish through a levy of enough tax to pro-
vide for its own poor.
——A general warning has been sent out by hospitals and the
medical profession as to the overcrowded condition of the nursing
profession. In many cities it is reported that professional nurses
is providing one meal a day for as many of the unemployed as it
can and in a number of cases that meal is the only one the benefi-
ciaries have. So many of the hospitals in the land are training
nurses that the point of saturation of the profession would, inevi-
tably, have been reached in a few years, but the depression has been
responsible for its precipitation. While classed as a necessity a train-
ed nurse, because of the high cost of the service, is an economic
luxury. Only those above the average means ever could actually af-
ford to employ one, and since it has been the people who have been
better off who have been hit hardest by the depreciation in bonds
and stocks and the passing of interest and dividend payments nurses
have become a luxury to be forgone even by them.
——Owen D. Young's removal of himself from the field of
possible nominees of the Democratic party for President is regret-
table. While Mr. Young was never regarded as an active candidate
for the honor it was generally hoped that he might be a receptive
one. There is no scarcity of available presidential timber in the
party, but inasmuch as thcr= is premonition of difficulty in select-
ing one from the several leading candidates at present in the field it
was reassuring that should the exigencies of convention strategy
direct attention to a “dark horse” there was one of Mr. Young's
caliber to be groomed for the race.
——Tuesday's primary in New Jersey gave all the delegates
to the Democratic National convention to Smith. While they were
not pledged to the former Governor of New York they are the
slate set up by Mayor Frank Hague, of Jersey City, who is his good
friend and that means that they will be with Smith, as long as he
might want their support. More important than that, however, is the
probability that should Smith take himself out of the race he will
be in position to say where the New Jersey votes will be thrown.
It is inconceivable that there could be such people in the
world as those who have undertaken to exploit themselves through
the sorrow that has befallen Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh.
The actual kidnappers, inspired by innate criminal instincts, are
little more to be condemned than those of supposedly higher moral
fibre who willfully deceived the searchers for the stolen baby.
om—
——Last Friday afternoon E. G.
Way, of Unionville, parked his car
along the side of the highway, near
that town, while he went into a
house to call on a friend. When he
was ready to leave he pulled out in-
to the roadway without looking to
the rear and his car was run into
by a highway truck driven by Mil-
lard Solt, of Bellefonte. No one was
injured but both the car and truck
were damaged.
fonte Academy,
this (Friday)
o'clock, and next Wednesday after-
noon, at the same hour, the Dan-
ville High school nine will be the
Academy's opponents. The admission
price to these games will be 25
cents. The Danville team, by th
way, has been coached by A. J.
Sharidan, an ex-Tri-State pitcher.
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wishes the |
DeGarmo,
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NEWSY INCIDENTS.
The State Department of Agri-| Up to the present time borough |
culture is predicting the passing of
the old apple tree, giving statistics
to show that in five years, from
11925 to 1930, over 54,000 farmers in
proprietor of |
| —George
| the restaurant in Snow Shoe, was in
| Bellefonte on Tuesday, and reported
| that winter was on it's last legs
out there,
—Mr. Frank McGowan, of Snow
Shoe, and Miss Tillie Hazel, of
Roopsburg, were married in the
Catholic church in this place on
Tuesday morning.
—Mr. and Mrs. William T. Speer,
of Pleasant Gap, moved to Belle-
fonte on the first of April and have
taken up their residence on west
Lamb street.
—How it rained on Monday after-
noon and all that night. The gales
of the heavens were opened and the
floods descended with amazing copi-
ousness.
—OQur friend Bartruff has moved
into his new building near the Big
Spring, from his abandoned Bishop
street. shops. John has plenty of
room now for the manufacture of
carriages, buggies and wagons, as
well as for their display.
—Mrs. Hannah Chambers, relict
of the late James Chambers, died at
her home near the Big Spring on
Monday morning. She had suffered
for a long time with consumption.
Business is extremely dull now
and probably will remain so until
after corn planting and, possibly,
until after harvest,
—J. Harbison Holt, of Snow Shoe,
was badly hurt last Tuesday. He and
some other men were building a
platform on a tree from which to
watch a deer lick. They were up
| about thirty feet and Mr. Holt lost
his balance and tumbled to the
ground. He is reported to be quite
seriously injured.
—The Bellefonte public schools
‘will close today, Friday. The pri-
mary schools will have their closing
exhibition this mornng so they can
' be finally dismissed at noon. The
to
| higher grades will give their enter-
| tainment during the afternoon and
| be dismissed at its conclusion.
| —Mr. Al Garman, of this place,
second son of Mr. Daniel Garman,
| proprietor of the Garman house,
made himseif happy for life, on
Tuesday evening, by taking to wife
Miss Ella Cowdrick, second daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs, M. W. Cow-
drick, of 2ast Linn street. The cere-
mony waa performed at the home
of the bride and there were no
‘guests other than members of the’
immediate family
of the young
couple. As Mr. and Mrs. Cowdrick
had been unexpectedly called tothe
bedside of the latter's sister, who
the State had cut down their apple
orchards without planting a new
one. Looking back to our boyhood
days we do not wonder that so
many orchards were converted into
firewood, We can recall many of
them, covering from four to ten
acres of ground, and most of them
with not over two or three tr2es
bearing the same kind of fruit, and
most of it a variety that could sot
be marketed now. There were the
oats apple, the golden pippin, the
rambo, baldwin, pound apple, water-
melon apple, Rhode Island greening,
and many varieties we cannot recall,
but we tried them all. The rambo
was a fine eating apple and the gold-
en pippin was also worth the pick-
ing. But of them all the Baldwin
still sticks as an excellent market-
able variety. The delicious, the wine-
sap and Stayman's winesap are
among the leaders today.
During 1931 Centre county's apple
crop totaled 145,920 bushels. A large
percentage of it was convert-
ed into cider because that was about
all the apples were fit for. Dur-
ing the fall all handpicked
sold for a dollar a bushel.
that was the price throughout the
winter, and the farmer who had an
orchard of good fruit had no trouble
disposing of its product.
Take the Greib fruit farm down
at Lamar. They have an orchard of
select varieties, the Stayman wine-
sap predominating, and though they
fruit
In fact
treasurer J. L. Carpeneto has been
unable to secure a bond notwith-
standing the fact that borough
council reduced the amount of the
bond from $20,000 to $10,000. But
it is not so much the treasurer's
fault that he has not posted a bond
as it is the requirements of bond-
ing companies, according to a letter
read at the meeting of borough
council on Monday evening. The
companies now require the president
and secretary of council to stipulate
the bank in which the borough
treasurer must keep his funds; that
the bank put up a depository bond
equal to the amount of the treasur-
er's bond or deposit gilt-edge col-
lateral with another bank sufficient
to cover the bond. The Finance
committee of council has been doing
everything possible in assisting the
borough treasurer in securing a
bond but so far has accomplished
nothing definite.
The Street committee reported
various repairs and the collection of
$30 for a sewer permit and $18.60
from Miss Anna McCoy toward the
expense of laying a sewer from her
home, on Curtin street.
The Water committee reported a
few minor repairs and the collection
of $613.63 on water taxes and $8.70
for rent of garages. The committee
also stated that contractor C. A.
‘Talbert has filed his bonds and is
getting his material on the ground
to repair the reservoir. While the
reservoir is being repaired the town
will be supplied by pumping into
the mains and a safety valve has
been placed on the pipe at the
reservoir to assure a supply in
had thousands of bushels they sold | every part of town as well as to
them all, The big crop on the Fish-
er fruit farm, near Unionville, was
exhausted late in the winter. The
crops from the experimental orchards
at State College were disposed of
without any trouble, all of which
goes to show that an apple orchard
of good fruit, properiy taken care
of, will yield a marketable crop,
that will help out with the financial
income of any farm, and why so
many farmers are cutting down the
old apple tree and not planting a
new one in it's place is hard to un-
derstand. i
In Centre county there are many
orchards that are not worth the
ground they occupy, but before they
are cut down new orchards ought to
be planted and allowed to develop
to the bearing stage.
Several days ago we saw a bunch
of fishermen feeding their old bait, |
night crawlers and minnows
very ill, Mr and Mrs. Garman took | t0 the big trout in Spring creek.
no honeymoon other than to take They were not trying to catch the
of the
during the absence of the bride's
i ts. The calithumpians
‘hand early in the evening
‘an awful racket.
—Wheat is 1.30, corn .80, oats 50, oo 00 bot would
eggs .15, bacon .12, ham
' butter .25.
12 and
“HONEST PEGGY”
WILL BE PRESENTED
| DOWN AT RED ROOST. |
Cowdrick home | trout, simply disposing of the bait
they had no further use for, but the
oe On | trout refused both the crawlers and
and made the minnows. They would make a
dash for them when thrown into the
stop in apparent
disgust when they got close to them, |
| were approved for payment,
regulate the flow and pressure in
the mains.
The Finance committee reported
a balance in the borough fund of
$3553.68, which included a check
for $1000 received on Monday from
former tax collector Sarah M. Love,
and a balance of $1006.98 in the
water fund, A water department
note for $2250 and borough notes
for $4900 were renewed and a bor-
ough note for $1000 ordered paid
when due.
The Town Improvement committee
presented the request of Mrs. Dobel-
bower for a permit to erect a gar-
age on the Mrs. John Porter Lyon
property, on Curtin street, which
was granted.
The Special committee presented
the request of residents of Willow-
bank street that Hill alley be re-
paired and the matter was referred
to the Street committee.
The Street committee reported that
residents of Halfmoon Hill are per-
sistent in their demand for a street
light and the matter was referred
to the committee with power.
Borough bills for $784.80 and
water department bills for $721.54
after
which council adjourned.
‘all of which proved that the big DECLAMATORY CONTEST
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trout are not only discriminating but
rather choicy about their eats,
Fishnet stockings are here. We
| “Honest Peggy,” a one-act play, Saw a pair of them, on Sunday, and
ses will be presented by th: Pleasant Our only impression was, why wear
are actually in bread-lines. In one that we know of a large hospital | View Health Club, on Friday eve-
ning, May 27, at 8:00 o'clock in the
! Pleasant View union chapel, at Red
Roost. This is a benefit program,
the proceeds of which will be used
| for physical aid for members of the
club, as well as for any other heaith
use. = The program will consist of
a health skit, songs
‘and music, beside the one-act play. |
The admission charges will be lac
i for children under twelve years and
|25¢ for all over that age.
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| GET YOUR LAWN MOWER
IN SHAPE TO CUT GRASS
| There is nothing more annoying
| than a dull lawn mower. After you
(have worked hard to cut the lawn
| grass it is discouraging to discover
[that it is full of “cat steps” and
‘other muffs that a mower that is not
| sharp and properly adjusted is sure
| to leave. If yours is that way
{it to Swartz's machine shop,
| Race street, at the rear of
| Penn Belle, where it will be
| ened for only 75c and any
repairs made at cost.
Grass shears, scythes,
hatchets, axes, knives and all
tools are sharpened right at Swartz’s
| Why worry with dull tools when
ones are such a pleasure to
| work with?
take
on
the
sharp-
needed
cycles,
edged
TWO WOMEN INJURED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
| A car driven by Benjamin Saver-
(cool, of State College, and contain-
| ing in addition to himself Mr. and
Mrs. Jeremiah Sauers, Mr. Lenora
A. Shadow and a young girl, was
| wrecked against a telephone pole
| this side of Lemont, between eight
and nine o'clock on Tuesday morn-
ing, when the driver attempted to
turn to the side to pass another
car. The two women and Mr. Saver-
cool were brought to the Centre
County hospital. The women sus-
tained lacerations of the head and
body but no serious injuries. Sav-
ercool’s injuries were minor and he
left the hospital after being treat-
ed,
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them ?
Only nine more days after today
and the 1931-'32 school year in.
Bellefonte will be over. After nine
long months of it we opine that
both teachers and pupils will be glad
it is over and a summer vacation at
hand. But the boys and girls of
this year's graduating class who
have no intention of going to Col-
lege are the ones who will be up.
against a stiff proposition in finding
suitable employment at the present
time, when so many experienced
men and women are out of a job.
Philipsburg residents are com-
plaining about a swarm of little ant-
like flies that have invaded that
section, and are at a loss to know
how to classify them and whether
they will prove a destructive insect.
We have them on this side of the!
mountain, too. Automobilists who
drive at night complain about them
literally covering the windshield, but |
so far there has been no evidence of
destructiveness on their part, whith-
er they came or when they'll go.
MANY BELLEFONTERS
AT BELLEFONTE HIGH
The members of the Junior class
of Bellefonte High school are pre-
paring for the annual declamatory
contest to be held the week of
commencement, They are competing
for the prizes awarded each year by
Col. W. Fred Reynolds to the boy
and the girl who are adjudged the
best speakers. The competitors in-
clude Betty Woomer, Gladys Samp-
sell, Mary Hartle,
Helen Myers, Roy Wilkinson, Nor-
man Kirk, James Bair, Philip Ma-
bus and Calvin Purnell
WHAT MUSIC?
When walking in the corridors of
the Bellefonnte High school for thc
past week or so, one might at any
time hear the expression “They ure
fine musicians.” This refers to the
Randolph Houck. The musicians are
all lively and spirited, and they are
willing to play at any time in the
future for festivals or other social
activities at very reasonable terms.
Engagements can be madz by call-
ing 456-J. Some of their favorite
selections were written by the late
John Philip Sousa.
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JOHN BARRYMORE, STAR,
ON CATHAUM SCREEN
The remarkable return to popu-
larity of John Barrymore this year,
as attested by his brilliant showing
Margaret Mills,
STATE HIGHWAY WORKMEN
. DESPOIL OLD BEER VAULT
| AND RILE THE OWNER
| State highway workmen are mak-
| ing some improvements on the Buf-
' falo Run valley road—widening oat
‘ the narrow places and eliminating a
few sharp curves. Out at Roopsburg
they dug about four feet off
the point of the hill just this side
of the Mrs. Mary Kane home, ard
in doing so dug out a corn=r of the
old beer vault in which the brew of
the one time famous Roopsburg
brewery was properly aged.
Mrs. Kane, who owns the proper-
ty, was away at the time. She has
been planning for some time to
convert the old vault into a mush-
room farm and when she returned
home and discovered just what
had been done to her property, and
that the nicely squared stone taken
out of it had been used to construct a
retaining wall along Christ Beezer's
barnyard, there was “h-——1 to pay
and no pitch hot.”
But at last reports a truce has
been declared. Highway department
| officials and the County Commis-
sioners have agreed to restore the
, vault so it can be converted into a
mushroom farm and Mrs. Kane has
offered no further resistance.
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HOSPITAL BOND ISSUE
MEETING WITH SUCCESS
| Thirty Centre Co. investors have
| already taken advantage of the op-
portunity to make a good investment
in a local institution and have pur-
‘chased to date Centre County hos-
pital bonds aggregating $20,000.00.
| These bonds are part of the $70,
1000.00 issue being sold at this time
| for the purpose of retiring the pres-
ent issue of $30,000.00 and the
building of a new nurse's home.
The bonds are issued in denomina-
tions of $100.00, $250.00 and $500.00,
and are tax free. The interest rate
is six per cent and payable by de-
tachable coupons, which will be
honored at any Centre county bank
every six months. With the comple-
tion of the new nurse's home the
properties and building of the hos-
pital will have an appraised value of
$190,000.00 or nearly three times
' the value of the bond issue. In view
of this fact, it is apparent that the
‘wisdom of investing in these bonds
' is unquestionable, and the trustees
| are confident that the entire issue
| will be sold in a very short time.
Bonds can be purchased through
your local bank. The hospital board
' especially recommend this issue as
a gilt edge investment for fraterni-
ties, lodges, fire companies, and for
the small conservative investor, as
‘well as the individual who has
| larger amounts to invest.
BIG DOUBLE CIRCUS
HAS VAST PROGRAM
The collossus of all amusements,
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey
Circus is definitely scheduled to ex-
hibit in Williamsport on Wednesday,
June, 2.
The No. 1 advertising car, the
first of three in advance of The
Greatest Show on Earth, is now in
that vicinity. Billposters, bannermen,
lithographers, radio men and press
agents are heralding the great
event, and soon everyone will be
for a gala visit to the
‘world’s largest “big top,” the center
of the biggest canvas city ever as-
sembled to thrill, entertain and
(amuse a great and discriminating
| populace. '
| Traveling on four trains of double-
length steel railroad cars, the giant
of super-circuses will bring 1600
people, 1009 menagerie animals, 50
elephants, 700 horses and a herd of
| the largest and tallest giraffes ever
| exhibited.
| Pre-eminent features are many. A
tribe of monster-mouthed Ubangi
| Savages from the jungles of equa-
torial Africa are presented this sea-
popular ten piece band directed by go, by popular demand.
| There are 800 peformers and 100
| internationally celebrated and belov-
ed clowns, The Ringling Bros and
Barnum & Baily horse fair has be-
| come a feature amazing in its ap-
| peal throughout the North American
. continent.
IN BELLEFONTE CHURCHES
ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL
Saint John’s Episcopal church will
‘have a special service of induction
| this Sunday evening at 7:30, when
| ive boys will be admitted to the
| local guild of the nationai order of
| Saint Vincent. These boys have
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AT ALTOONA SERVICE in “Arsene Lupin” and “Grand Ho- | D¢R Probationers for nearly a year
Saint John's Episcopal parish, |
Bellefonte, was well represented at]
St. Luke's church, Altoona, on Whit- |
sunday, when the Lenten offering of |
will be still further advanced
following his latest picture, “State's
Attorney,” which is to be the
Cathaum theatre, State College, at-
traction on Monday and Tuesday of
and will bcome members of the na-
| tional guild of acolytes at this serv-
| tional guild of acolyts at this serv-
| ice. The boys who will be inducted
| are Elwood Bastian, William Cox,
| George Curtin, Neil Gray and Jack
the parishes of this Archdeaconry next week. America’s foremost ro- Wilkinson.
was presented at the altar,
Sixteen automobiles carried about
one hundred church school children,
teachers, officers, acolytes and par-|
ishioners to the service held Sunday |
afternoon at 4 o'clock. The large
church was crowded to capacity and
a massed choir of more than 125
voices headed the procession into the
church.
Shortened evensong was sung with
the Bishop of Harrisburg as preach-
er. The presentation followed the
sermon. Father Gast, of Saint
John's, Bellefonte, acted as master
of ceremonies in place of the rector
of Altoona, who is ill, The Rev.
Fathers Gottschall, Frear, Sherwood
and Parchment assisted in the serv-
ice.
mantic actor portrays a modern
day role, and you are in for a
treat,
You will see him as the attorney
who wins juries with tricks—and
women with love, One day he is a
counsel for crooks—the next, as the
State's attorney, he hunts them
down. But in love—he’'s an outlaw
always! Whether he is in the court-
room, with a dramatic plea, or in
the boudoir for a romantic moment,
Barrymore is at his best, which
means brilliant entertainment.
———Among the nine nurses to be
graduated at the Lock Haven hos-
pital, on Tuesday, June 7th, are
| Miss Emma Tice, of Howard, and
| Miss Vera Weaver, of Bellefonte.
| The order of service will be short-
‘ened evensong, sermon by the Rev.
| Thomas Worrall, rector of Saint
Mark's church, Lewistown, ceremony
‘of induction and special music,
| The music will be sung by both
| the parish and junior choirs, aug-
| mented by guest singers from the
| community. Soloists will be Miss
| Rebekah Valentine, soprano; Mr.
| Jack Yeager, tenor; and Mrs. Louis
| Schad, violin; Mrs. Paul Beaver,
| directress and organist.
EVANGELICAL CHURCH
| 9:15, Sunday school
10:30, Morning worship, “Be of
Cheer.”
6:30, E. L. C. RE.
7:30, Evening worship, “For Such
!a Time as This."
A. Ward Campbell, minister.