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that P. Meek edited and published for fifty-seven years and
by his Estate at the Watchman Printing House, Bellefonte, Pa.
Editors,
CHARLES L. GATES
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be paid up
A beginning has been made at what some believe will be com-
plete reorganization of the Centre County Mothers’ Assistance Fund
Board. Already one of the women who has served with ability for
a number of years has been replaced by another who has had no
experience, whatever, in welfare work; two others have been noti-
fied that they are to be removed and a fourth member of the Board
has declined to accept re-appointment at the hands of the Governor.
Ever since its organization, fourteen years ago, this Board has
been one representative of the State that has been outstanding in the
character of its personnel; unusual in the intelligence, ability and
will to work of every member. The women composing it have been
representative of the best in the moral, social and business activities
in our community. There has never been a question as to the ex-
cellence of their administration. Rather, there has been a source of
wonderment at the devotion and personal sacrifices they have cheer-
fully made to carry it on. The board has been composed of women
who would spurn the suggestion that politics should weigh in the
balance of their judgment; women who have filed no personal ex-
pense accounts so that the ten per cent allowed them might go to
those in need; women who have given up many more pleasurable
activities in order that they might devote their full time to the work
they have so splendidly carried on.
Mrs. E. H. Harris, of Snow Shoe, has already been replaced
by Mrs. Ruth Crain, of Port Matilda. Mrs. John S. Walker, of |
Bellefonte, and Mrs. G. S. Frank, of Millheim, both of whom have
been on the board since its organization, have been notified that
they are to be dropped. Their successors have not as yet been an-
nounced, but it is rumored that Mrs. William Young, of State Col-
lege, and Mrs. Arthur Dale, of Bellefonte, will replace them.
Inasmuch as the three members who have been retired are ex-
ceptional in ability and qualification even among such an exceptional |
group as comprises this Board, the loss of their services to the
worthy dependent mothers of Centre county is serious. It is a ter-|
rible price to pay for what must be the gratification of the petty
spleen of some-one who has access to the Governor's ear.
The disruption of this splendid agency of the County and State,
no matter what may be said by way of justification by those who |
have motivated it, is an insult to the County. It outrages decency
and those who have been parties to it should be pilloried by public
scorn until they hang their heads for shame.
THE GOVERNOR HAS ANOTHER BOGEY
Just why there should be any uncertainity as to the state of the
finances of the Commonwealth is a matter of interest. If the State's
accounting system is as comprehensive as that of an ordinary busi-,
ness concern there should be no difficulty in ascertaining, at any
moment, just what its resources are. Yet there is a continual
wrangle between the Governor and the State Treasurer about the
matter.
A few weeks ago Governor Pinchot announced that revenues
were falling off so rapidly that it would be necessary for him to
make serious cuts in appropriations made by the Legislature in 1931,
to carry charitable and educational institutions over the biennium.
Of course the announcement threw the trustees of such institutions
into a panic. They had made their plans on the assumption that
funds would be forthcoming to carry them to completion and, in
many of them, contracts had been entered into that cannot be brok- |
en.
It is an unfortunate situation, but no sooner had Governor
Pinchot made the disturbing revelation than State Treasurer Martin
authorized publication of the statement that the actual receipts for
the year June 1, 1931, to June 1, 1932, the first half of the biennial
period on which the Governor has based his scare, were some six
million dollars in excess of the budget requirements. To be exact
the receipts were $85,283,218 whereas the budget for 1931-1932 re-
quired only $79,587,264.
From these two conflicting estimates of the State’s resources
only one conclusion can be arrived at: Either State Treasurer
Martin is an incapable book keeper or Governor Pinchot is indulg-
ing in loose talk. In the light of his many misleading statements
in the past most Pennsylvanians will be inclined to accept the Gov-'
ernor’s view of the situation “with a grain of salt.”
It has been a hobby of his to take exception to statements made |
by the fiscal officers of the State. In his first administration he
and his present Superintendent of Highways, Samuel S. Lewis,
who was then State Treasurer, devoted much of their time to
quarreling over how much was in the Treasury and how much
‘more revenue might reasonably be expected to find its way there.
"Then the Governor was in high esteem in Pennsylvania. The |
masses believed he had put up the moon and in such a state of
mind, of course Lewis was wrong. Time, however, revealed that
Lewis was right.
And so it may be that Treasurer Martin, and not Governor |
Pinchot, knows best just what the State’s condition is today. It!
is nafural that he should, since he is it's bookkeeper. |
Assuming that he does and assuming that the State’s income
last year exceeded by six million dollars the authorized expenditures
what motive can the Governor have for throwing a scare into the
institutions that are dependent on the State’s bounty?
It is likely that when May 31, 1933, arrives it will be found
that revenues have been adequate to meet the $79,587,264 of ex-
penditures that have been authorized for the year. The surplus of
the 1931-'32 period justifies the hope, at least.
In any event the possible deficit will be so small that it seems
only Pinchotesque to be crossing the bridge before we have come to
it.
——The most serious blow that the Eighteenth Amendment has
suffered was delivered on Monday, when John D. Rockerfeller Jr.,
made a public statement to the effect that he has come to the conclu-
sion that it’s outright repeal is for the best interest of the country.
Mr. Rockerfeller is only one of one hundred and twenty million
people, but he happens to be the active head of a family that boasts
of three generations of absolute teetotalers and which has given a
third of a million dollars to bring about the legislation that he now
believes has resulted in more harm than good.
——The Garner bill providing for a bond issue of $2,300,000 for
public works passed the house of Congress on Tuesday by a vote of
216 to 182. The majority it received 1s significant in that it reveals
that the Speaker has not lost prestige, as his opponents would have
the country believe, and that the members of the house saw little
FIFTY YEARS AGO |
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
| Items taken from the Watchman issue We wonder how many people liv-
of June 16, 1882,
scribers to
their
possibly reach their eye until after’
they had gotten it?
—Mr. Walter Bayard, of Green's
drug store, represented the Belle-
fonte druggists at the meeting of
the Pharmaceutical Association in
Altoona on Tuesday.
—The 21st of the present month
will be the longest day of the year
and we haven't had a real hot one
yet. :
— 7 lefonte borough has just
passed an ordinance making it “un- |
lawful for any person or persons to
ride on horseback or to drive with
any wagon, buggy or other vehicle
over any bridge or bridges within
‘the Borough of Bellefonte faster
than a walk.”
—Ben Beaver, late mail carrier
between Bellefonte and State Col-
lege, has given up his stage and ac-
cepted a place in the Sechler gro-
cery, Mr. Page, late of the Meiss
store, up town, has also joined the
clerical force at Sechler’s.
—John Barnes has bought Daniel
| Derrs’ plumbing equipment, which,
added to that of his own, puts him
in position to continue extending
his business.
—A base-ball nine from the State
College, in this county, knocked the
stuffin out of a nine from Lewis-
burg university, at Williamsport,
one day last week. :
—Clement Dale Esq., of this place,
accompanied by his father, left for
the west on a visit to friends on
Tuesday morning last.
—The other day a rat in the “Re-
publican” office ran up Brit Steele's
pantaloen leg, Of course there was
terrific excitement and a great’
hub-bub in the place until editor
Tuten a poker and started
to belabor the rodent. His marks-
manship wasn't very good, however,
for he hit poor Brit's leg ten times
for every blow that landed on the
rat. While the rat was finally kill-
ed Brit came so near meeting the
same fate that he is now on crutch-
es.
—Farmers Mills is the name of
the new post-office in Centre county
and J. 8. Auman is the postmastér, |
—Mrs. Sophia McEwen has been
appointed postmistress at Hublers-
burg.
—A little son of William Peltz,’
of Madisonburg, fell from the tres-
tle of Soutz and Elliotts’ sawmill,
last Wednesday, and was killed. It
was quite a long fall and the boy
landed on the back of his head,
—One man at market, on Satur-
day morning, had seventy dozen
eggs for sale. |
—The mercantile establishment of |
Isaac Guggenheimer & Co., in this
lace, was closed by the sheriff on’
turday. The firm confessed judg-
ment in the sum of $13,000.00 to
| Mr. Hirsh, of Lancaster,
—Rev. W. W. Hicks, formerly pas-
tor of the Methodist church in !
lace and now living in Washington, |
. C,, is spiritual advisor of Guiteau,
assassin of President Garfield,
is about the most unfortunate
that has yet happened that
devil, and the prison authorities |
censured for thus imperil-
chances of Heaven. Hicks |
was a Florida
Bob Ingersoll.
—Mr. W. T. Bair, of the Philips- |
burg Journal, paid his first visit
Bellefonte last Tuesday,
———A surprise birthday party
was held at the Paul D, Fortney!
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home, on east Bishop street, last | much alive. The siege was kept wp!” the borough work. A meeting of
Saturday evening. It was in hono: | all night and about nine o'clock on
of Mrs. Albert Quick and the eve-
ning was devoted to “500.” The
guests present were Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Quick and son, Brown, Mr.
and Mrs, Daniel Houser, Mr. and
Mrs. George Hazel, Miss Verna
Smith and Mr. end Mrs. Paul Fort. |
ney and son David.
A ——
——Home grown strawberries
were fairly plentiful at the curb]
cts. a box or two for 35 cts. While |
the berries were damaged by
frosts and freezing weather late in
April and early in May the crop still
promises a good yield, according
growers, if sufficient rain falls
mature the berries.
to
to
——Miss Caroline M. Valentine
has presented to the Centre County
hospital land for the site of the
proposed new home for the nurses
of the institution. The plat com-
prises nearly an acre and lies to
the south of the hospital property.
The gift is a memorial to Miss Val-
entine’s sister, the late Anna J. Val-
entine.
~The Woman's Club of Belle-
fonte will hold a bake sale in the
Variety shop Saturday, June 11.
Their very good pastries and other
foods, to be sold at reasonable
prices, should be an inducement for
you to do your over Sunday buying
from them. The sale will open early
‘of virtue in the bill which President Hoover had presented.
Centre county at the time.
horrible ever
' rawboned man,
tragedy, at Woodward,
thirty-six years ago.
man, at least, who.
is John P. Condo, of
who was sheriff of
:
The tragedy was one of the most
enacted in Centre
county. William R. Etlinger. a
woodsman, was a regular terror in
his home community, He had served
(one term in the county jail for ag-
gravated assault and battery. A big,
high-tempered and
irrascible by nature, he was disliked
and feared by all his neighbors. Dur-
ing the winter of 1895-'96 he had a
fight with his father-in-law, Benja-
min Benner, and hit him on the head
with a piece of stove wood, cutting
a large gash in the scalp. A warrant
was sworn out for his arrest on the
charge of aggravated assault and
battery but the constable of Haines
township refused to attempt the ar-
rest.
At that time borough and town-
ship elections were held in February
and John Barner ran for constable
in Haines township on the platform
of arresting Etlinger, if elected. He
was elected and several days after
he was sworn into office, armed
with a warrant and accompanied by |
C. G. Motz and John Hosterman,
Barner went to the Etlinger home, |
located at the eastern end of Wood-
ward, and found the doors locked
and windows fastened. He forced
open a door and going inside the
thee men found that Etlinger, his
wife and two children had gone up- |
stairs and had locked the stair
|
ing in Centre county today can re- 5, was admitted last Monday as a Of the Centre County
| call with any degree of exactitude surgical patient.
PATIENTS TREATED
AT COUNTY HOSPITAL
Cary Wyland, of Bellefonte R. D,
Charles Miller, 7 year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller, of
Bellefonte R. D., became a medical
patient last Monday,
James Kramer, of Pleasant Gap,
. a surgical patient. died at the hos-
pital last Tuesday.
Mr, and Mrs. Lester McKinley, of
Spring Mills, are receiving congratu-
lations upon the birth of a daughter,
at the hospital last Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Glenn, of
State College, are the proud parents
of a son, born at the hospital last
Tuesday,
William Meyers, of Nittany, was
discharged, Monday, after being a
medical patient for 293 days.
Margaret Carver. of Bellefonte, a
medical patient, was dischargel last
Monday.
Mrs. Harry Barto, of Julian, was |
discharged Tuesday after undergeing
medical treatment.
Henry, 7 year old son of Mr. and |
Mrs. John Shindler, of Milesburg,
was discharged Wednesday after un-
dergoing surgical trcatment for a.
day.
Mrs. William Snyder, of Boggs
township, became a medical patient
Tuesday.
Mrs. Orvis Taylor, of State Coil-
lege, was discharged Saturday after
having undergone surgical treatment
since Tuesday.
Mrs. Helen Bitner. of Boggs town-
ship, was admitted Wednesday for
treatment.
Joseph, Emil, of Bellefonte, was |
admitted Wednesday for surgical
treatment and was discharged Sat-
urday.
door. Barner demanded admittance | Vincent Kane, of Bellefonte, was
on the threat of breaking down the discharged Sunday after undergoing
door and Etlinger told him if he Surgical treatment for several days,
broke open the door he would do so Mrs. James Confer, of Orviston,
at the peril of his life. Securing an Was discharged Sunday. She had
axe Barner broke out one panel in been a surgical patient.
the door and was in the act of 6 John Henry Bullock, 19 months
crawling through when Etlinger fir- 01d son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
| ed two loads of buckshot into the Bullock, of Bellefonte, was discharg- |
constable’s head and body. Later he ©d Wednesday after undergoing
went down the stairs and cut his medical treatment.
throat, ear to ear, Motz and Hoster- Mrs. Mary McCool, of Spring
man beat a hasty retreat, Mills, was admitted for surgical
This was on the morning treatment last Thursday, i
March 5th, 1896, and at that time | Harold Custer, of Connellsville, a |
there was no telephone connection Student at Penn State, was dis- |
with Woodward. There were few Charged Tuesday after undergoing
telephones at Millheim and one or Surgical treatment.
two at Coburn. It was also before | '’iliam Smeltzer,
the days of automobiles and the Vas admitted Friday for surgical
only communication with Bellefonte treatment. |
was a drive of seven miles from _ John H. Raymond, of Milesburg,
of Bellefonte, |
| COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOLS
| TO MEET IN MILLHEIM
i —
| The sixty-third annua! convention
| School Association will be held in
' St. John's Lutheran church, Mill-
heim, next Monday and Tuesday.
June 13 and 14.
The sessions will open Monday af-
ternoon at 2 o'clock, with president
C. C. Shuey, presiding, and close
with the evening meeting on Tues-
day. The program follows:
MONDAY AFTERNOON
2:00—Registration of delegates
2:30—Worship service, Rev. A. C. Paul-
hamus, pastor Millheim Evangelical
charge
2:45—Address of Welcome, M. O. Stover
{ Superintendent Millheim Lutheran
Sunday school
REBPONSB.....cercrcsscssssemamuinni ls FF. Wetzel,
president District No, 11
| 3:00—Conferences:
Children’s division... Mrs. F. M. Fisher,
Leadership training...R. Stanley Kendig,
Penna. State Sabbath School Ass's
Stan
| Adult's Division............ Walter E. Myers,
f Penna. State Sabbath School Ass'n
Stafr
i Special Music
4:00—Address.............. Walter E. Myers
4:30—Announcements and adjournment
MONDAY EVENIN4
| (Presiding officer—S8. W. Gramiley, Vice
i Pres, Centre Co. Ass'n)
7:30—Worship Service, Rev. H. A, Pruyn,
pastor Spring Mills Methodist charge
Anthem.......... -.Choir St. John's Lutheran
church
7:50—Address, ‘The Home Contribution
| to the church". .R. Stanley Kendig
Hymn
| 8:80—Address ‘The Challenge of Relig-
ion to the Youth of To-
| day" ...........Rev. BE. H. Brewster
Penna. State Sabbath School Ass'n
staft
| Anthem,
| Offering
| Announcements
Benediction
TUESDAY MORNING
(Presiding Officer, C. C. Shuey)
9:00—Registration of delegates
9:30—Worship Service, Rev. G. A. Fred
Griesing, pastor Aaronsburg Re-
formed charge
9:45—Camp Kanesataka,.....Ruth Bechtol
10:00—Young People Conference. R. Stan-
ley Kendig
Open Forum,....... Rev E. H. Brewster
11:00—Question Box
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
(Presiding Officer—Mrs, J. R. Miller, Y.
P. Division, 12th District)
2:16—~Worship Service,...Rev. Paul Miller,
pastor Rebersburg Evangelical charge
2:30—Address, Rev. W. C., Thompson,
pastor Bellefonte Presbyterian church
Special Music
3:15—Rusiness Session
TUESDAY EVENING
cee MEN’S Quartette
Woodward to Coburn and by West-
‘ern Union telegraph from Coburn’
to Bellefonte.
As soon as word of the killing
was noised about Woodward a cour-
fer was dispatched to Coburn to
send an appeal to Sheriff Condo for
assistance.
available man in the vicinity of
Woodward, armed with rifles and
shotguns, surrounded the Etlinger
home to keep him from escaping.
But he made no effort to escape,
However, he took pot shots at every
man who got within shooting dis-
tance, slightly wounding two men.
When Sheriff Condo received word
of the tragedy he quickly gathered
together an armed posse, which in-
cluded the late Col. H. 8S. Taylor
and James Cornelly.
about twenty-five in number, went
to Coburn by special train and were
conveyed from there to Woodward
in sleighs and sleds, It was almost
dark when they got to Woodward
and Sheriff Condo stepped out in the
open and called to Etlinger to come
out of his house and surrender. A
shot in his direction was the only
answer. Col. Taylor, who personally
and while knew Etlinger, attempied to tempor- work has been scare
| here had about as much religion as ize with him but a bullet whizzed oouian't get S a he
| past his head and he beat a retreat. | go applied for work on the streets
The posse then attempted to shoot
to it out with Etlinger and round after
‘round of ammunition was fired but
'at regular intervals an answering |
shot would come from the house
telling that Etlinger was still very
the morning of the 6th, Jommy
Cornelly volunteered to set
house on fire as the only means of
breaking the siege. While the guards
kept up a desultory gunfire from
the front of the house Cornelly
crawled up in the rear and applied
| an oil-soaked torch. It was only a $73,778.96.
| few minutes until the entire rear of ' drew $1692.17 from the county and | Supt.
the house was ablaze.
time later watchers saw an
A short
outside
market, Wednesday morning, at 18 .ellar door being pushed slowly open $381365 to make the triennial as-
from the inside and one of the Et-
linger children pushed out. Then
came the other child, followed by
Mrs. Etlinger. The woman was un-
armed and she told the men her
husband was ready to give up.
In the meantime every
The posse, '
' became a medical patient Saturday. (Presiding Officer—E. R. Shreckengast,
Emily J. Shultz, of Curtin, was past president 12th District)
admitted Friday for medical treat- 7:30—Worship Service, Rev A. J. Miller,
| ment. pastor Rebersburg Reformed charge
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Frucher, p APNE Mens Choir of St. Jehn's Luth-
of State Ccllege, are the proud par- | sqaress Dr. W. R. Heaton,
ents of a son, born at the hospital | Centre County Coroner
on Saturday. Offering
A son born to Mr. and Mrs. Hen- | Anthem, .... eccrine Men's Choir
‘ry D. Ellis, of State College, died | Address, ........ Rev. Homer W. Tope, D.D.
at the hospital, several hours after Installation of Officers
: Benediction
birth.
| Fred C. Miller, 9 year old son of
|Mr, and Mrs. Charles Miller, of ON Tueslay moaiog sewer
| Spring township, was discharged | oads By Jeeps ony
punday after receiving medical pon school students, from Poplar
i men i
There were 35 patients in the Grove, Ohio, stopped for a brief per-
_ lod in Bellefonte while the girls
hospital at the beginning of the loaded up with lollypops, provisions,
Etc. They were evidently on a camp-
ing trip as the rumbl? seat of one
—-—Chief burgess Howard M. of the cars was filled to overflowing
Freeze, of Danville, is playing in with loaves of bread and paper bags
‘hard luck. Though he holds the containing fruit and olhoar provi-
highest office in the borough he is sions. Most of them were clad in
‘only a laboring man. Last year he pajamas that reached to the ground
| collected and turned into the bor- and we naturally wondered if all the
‘ough treasury over one thousand girls in Ohio wore such extremely
dollars in fines and licenses. For long “pants”
, some months past the burgess has —eteee—
‘had hard sledding to get along. IN BELLEFONTE CHURCHES
| ST. JOHN'S REFORMED CHURCH
|e SE vee Ae wie
| morn-
‘and with the water department but | ing. Preparatory service in the eve-
was refused by the men in charge. ning.
Then he applied to the borough | Robert Thena, Pastor.
: didn't demand a salary —
but asked that he | ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH
BS Ziven-a.shave 9:30 A. M., Church school
10:45 A. M., Children's day serv-
ice with program presented by the
Beginners’ and depart-
ments,
7:30 P. M., The vesper service and
| sermon: “Helping Others Without
Money."
Clarence E. Arnold, pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH
Church school session, C. C. Shuey.
9:30, Big study: Goal attend-
ance, gifts to Children's day fund.
At 10:45, an extensive program by
| representatives of the school’s de-
| partments. Miss Kathryn Kingsley
tells the story, then the childien,
trained for , begin their
to labor at,
council was held last Friday eve- |
(ning and the Street and Water
| committees were instructed to give
| His Honor work whenever possible.
{ : =
Cem
| ways. For the year 1896, the time
lof the Etlinger tragedy, the total |
| expenditures of Centre county were
The Sheriff, that year,
| the prothonotary $352.85. The court
| costs were 5540.28 and it cost but
| sessment.
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The sheriff called to him to come
In another column of the Watch-
man the news bureau, at State
College, tells of all the activities
| during their college years of the six-
| ty<five young men and women of
out and he slowly emerged from Centre county who were awarded
the cellar with a revolver in his | their diplomas, on Monday, but we
hand. A dozen guns covered him and | opine that the majority of them
he was ordered to drop the weapon would have preferred an offer of a
and throw up his hands, Instead of | good job to anything that can be
complying he raised the revolver
and sent his last bullet crashing
through his brain, dropping dead in
his tracks.
The story of the tragedy or such
meagre details as could be gathered
owing to no direct communication
with Woodward, made the first page
of every eastern city newspaper, but
how different it would be now. Tele-
phones, automobiles and airplanes
would get every scene of such a
tragedy to the outside world within
ten minutes after it was enacted.
Saturday morning.
We have also progressed in other
| said about their college careers.
Thomas J. Lamb is almost at his
wit's end. The cut worms have dev-
astated his garden. He has tried
out every remedy suggested. A gar-
den culturist told him to use wood
ashes. He has used a barrel of them
and the cut worms are cutting
away. Now he is feeding them corn-
meal, molasses and paris green, in
the hope that they will eat enough
of it to kill them. There is only one
sure remedy, we know of and that is
two stones with the worm between
them.
parts,
exercises which are very attractive.
Primary, junior and other depart-
ments share in the impressive
events. Baptism of children. Recep-
tion of members. At 7 the ve
charming pageant will be A
This is an exceptional program and
will please the people,
Rev. Horace Lincoln Jacobs, Pastor.
Sr ——— A ———
MARRIAGE LICENSES,
Clair O. Bickle and Helen L.
| Smith, both of Warriorsmark.
Paul Peter Kaspick and Luella
Osceola
Martha Hinska, both of
"i Espenshade
Earl Ebersole y Of
Bellefonte, and Edwina Elizabeth
Ulrich, Millheim,
William L. McClellan and Mary V.
Schantz, both of Oil City.
Russel Hoy Weaver and Margaret
Isabel Sampsel, both of Pleasant
Gap.
Andrew Vangor and Anna Poinst,
both of Clarence,