P. Meek edited and blished for fifty-seven years and a I rr rans House, Bellefonte, Pa. Editors. | CHARLES L. GATES give the old as wel { i ) | i i MARY GRAY MEEK | lished Cindi es accom rr of the writer. In ord by the real of address always 43. the new. address, | It is important that the publisher be notified when a subscriber wishes the paper discontinued. In all such cases the subscription must be paid up to date of cancellation, | | : JUNE 17, 1932 | BELLEFONTE SPORTSMEN STRESS SPORTSMANSHIP A working organization for the new Sportsmen's Association of Bellefonte was completed at a meet- ing held in the court house in this place on Monday evening. There were a goodly number of members present when president Geo. I. Purnell called the meeting together. After a talk of some length : developing plans he has in mind as aims for the new organization to strive for the president announced his committees and their members. It will be seen from perusal of the committees below that a very com- prehensive and ambitious program of conservation work is to be under- taken. The president then invited members to criticize the program constructively. The invitation result- FIFTY YEARS AGO IN CENTRE COUNTY. Items taken from the Watchman of June 23, 1882, Dicd.—At the residence of Thomas | Adams, in Boggs township, on the 30th instant, Miss Francis M. Ather- A HODGE-PODGE OF NEWSY INCIDENTS | DEATHS OF THE WEEK HERE AND ELSEWHERE — Ri | The kidnapping and murder of the, WENSEL.—Mrs. Blanche Semeda | BELLEFONTERS ATTEND ACOLYTE FESTIVAL AT LEBANON LAST FRIDAY | FARMERS-KIWANIS PICNIC NEXT THURSDAY All is in readiness for the big Lindbergh baby has led to another Wensel, wife of James Wensel, of Nine acolytes of St, John's Epis- State College Farmers-Kiwanis pic- death—the suicide of Violet Sharpe, Milesburg, died at the Centre Coun- church of Bellefonte, accom- nic scheduled for Th June 28-year-old English servant girl in ty hospital about nine o'clock last | panied by Father Gast, motored to 23, at Centre Hall fair grounds. the home of Mrs, Dwight Morrow, Wednesday evening, following only Lebanon, last Friday afternoon, to These grounds provide ideal picnic been more or less under cause she and a girl friend had been ou’ on a motor trip with two young men the night the baby was Eisenhauer she was born at Union carried away from the home of it's parents. She had always maintained ignorance regarding the kidnapping, and Mrs. Morrow had spurned the suggestion that she had any part in and, if she was innocent, which now sciences of the New Jersey officers who have been hounding her, more or less. for almost three months un- | en to the hospital on Monday. | mother of Mrs Lindbergh. She had three day's illness as the result of gttend the fourth annual acolyte facilities, with plenty of shade, good suspicion uremic poisoning. She was taken festival of the Dioceses of Harris- water 8 83 Fuk | from the time of the kidnapping be- | violently ill on Sunday and was tak- burg and Bethlehem, held in St. , and shel case rm. | Luke's church, in that city. There The grounds will be open all day, tables, adequate parking A daughter of John and Maria were more than 165 in the festival and the program will start at eleven | Deposit, Dauphin county, on May | 8th, 1892, hence was just 40 years ‘and one month old. When she was a child her parents moved to Miles- burg &nd that had been her home | the crime or guilty knowledge of it, . ever since. She had been a member of the Milesburg Presbyterian church * | seems likely, her self-destruction can- | Since girlhood. As a young woman issue | not help but lie heavily upon the con- she married James Wensel and he survives with one daughter, Mary. She also leaves her mother, who has | made her home with the Wensels | til her mental equilibrium snapped Since the death of her husband, one ton, daughter of Richard and Esther and in a rash moment she drank the Drother and two sisters, Frank Eis- Atherton. Deceased was born in England in 1819, When she was an infant in arms her parents cama to this country and located ‘n Philips- | burg. deadly poison which ended her life. Almost three months have passed since the kidnapping of the baby enhauer, of Boggs township; Miss Marion, also at the Wensel home, and Mrs. John Roberts, of Milesburg, Funeral services were held at her and today the authorities seem no late home on Saturday afternoon, by Married.—At the residence of Maj. nearer a solution of the crime than | Rev. H. E. Oakwood, burial being Wm. F. Reynolds, on Linn street, Bellefonte, on the 15th, by Rev. Geo. | D. Pennypacker, Mr. Geo W. Rees | and Miss Mary Bilger, both of Belle- fonte, tragedy, all of which proves that either New Jersey officers are very obtuse or the kidnappers and mur- | derers 1 —Rev. Divens, of Salona, preached rs had planned their devilish an elegant sermon in the Lutheran church at Boalsburg on 3unday eve- ning. He was substituting for his son who is to be graduated from the act with so much cunning and per- fection that there is literally no starting point to work from. There is an old saw that “murder will out” | ed in a symposium of suggestions myneglogical Seminary at Gettysburg and right here in Bellefonte a most that lasted nearly two hours, The two that excited most interest were those concerning shooting matches and the ethics of sportsmen. It was the consensus of opinion that trap and rifle shooting matches should be made a feature of the! Asscciation’s activities. The com- | mittees in charge of those sports were urged to get them started at once in order to stimulate member interest. It is the plan to have matches among members of the Bellefonte Association, a loving cup on which the winner's name will be engraved, to be the prize and to be- come his property if he wins it three years in succession. Then there will be matches with other Associations in the county. The discusion became very general and illuminative when it came to the ethics of sportsmanship. All were of the opinion that members should comport themselves when in the fields or forest or on the streams in such a manner as to be constant exemplars of the truest meaning of “Sportsman.” The aim is to have every member of the Bellefonte Sportsmen's Association conduct himself with such respect for the rights of others that the button of the local organization will be guarantee to the owner whose land is being hunted or fished over that no damage will be done. In fact the Association will prob- ably go so far as to stand, as an organization, sponsor for the acts of its members. This is to be done with the hope of trying to eliminate the annoyance that farmers and other land owners this week and who has accepted a call to be the regular pastor of the Boalsburg church. i —A Mrs. Pifer from near Wash- ington Furnace, Clinton county, has been at Oak Hall for some time un-| der the treatment of Dr. C. P. W. Fisher. When quite young she was vaccinated with impure vaccine and | a cancerous growth developed that had covered her entire upper arm and shoulder. Dr, Fisher has suc- ceeded in taking it all off without the use of an instrument and the lady is about ready to return home. —Coup's circus is to exhibit in| Lock Haven soon. ~The case of small pox in Phil- | ipsburg term.nated fatally and now. the disease is extinct in that bor-| ough. i —A letter from Pueblo, Colorado, ong assures J. H. McClure, of this place, | that the story that has been floating | atrocious and diabolical murder was | committed almost forti-two years ago, the murderer caught red-hand- ed but who later escaped from the Centre county jail, and from the time he took French leave up to the present moment not the slightest trace has been found of him. The murder referred to was that of Harry Waterhouse who was shot | down in cold blood by one John Wil- son, on north Thomas street, as the two men were on their way to the old fair grounds, near Coleville, to see the E. O. Rogers circus, Water- house, an Englishman, had been a resident of Bellefonte for seven or eight years, He was a moulder by trade and worked at the Jenkins Lingle foundry, located where the silk mill now stands. The show around here to the effect that his | exhibited in Bellefonte September son Charley has been sentenced to 3rd, 1890, and that morning Water- | they were the day following the made in the Trcziyulny cemetery. il I BOWMASTER. Mrs. Elsie A. Bowmaster, died quite suddenly at her home at Bennage Heights, near Lock Haven, on Tuesday morning of last week, as the result of a heart attack. She was a daughter of John W. and Eva L. Biddle and was born in Patton township, Centre county, for- ty-two years ago. As a young wo- man she married Mr. Bowmaster and they lived near Waddle until their removal to Lock Haven some | years ago. In addition to her hus- band she is survived by eight chil- dren, John, Ralph, Mrs. Raloh Orn- dorf, Mrs. Earl Welsh, Helen, Bea- trice, Viola and Peggy Lou, all at home. She also leaves one brother and a sister, William Biddle, of Mansfield, and Mrs, Raymond Waltz, | of Lock Haven. Funeral services were held at her late home, at one o'clock on Friday afternoon, by Rev. Howard G. Young, the remains being brought to Centre , county for burial in Gray's cemtery. tery. I BARTGEY. Mrs. Anna Lydia Bartges, widow of the late David L. Bartges, died at her home in Centre procession, with Father Gregory Mabry, of New York, as festival preacher and conference conductor. Those who attended from Belle-' onte were Charles Bullock, Hen- ry Bullock, William Zerby, Roy Wil- kinson, William Cox, George Curtin, Edward Bastian, Neil Gray and Jack Wilkinson. Father Gast was a mem- ber of the committee on arrange- ments and acted as sub-deacon at solemn evensong. The group return- ed home, Saturday afternoon, stop- ping enroute at Hershey Park and Harrisburg. A — A —————— i DUNLAP BROS START WORK LAYING SANITARY SEWER DOWN SPRING CREEK | The Dunlap Bros. started work, Wednesday morning, on the laying of the sanitary sewer down Spring creek, a borough improvement that has been hanging fire for a year or more. o'clock with a band concert by the Lemont band. The band will also play during the afternoon. Dinner will be on the basket- lunch plan. Coffee, sugar and cream will be supplied free, Everyone should take his own coffee cup. Sandwiches, ice cream and soft drinks will be on sale at the re- freshment stand. The events of the day will include sports, contests and games with op- portunity for all to participate. Some special features will be races for boys ana for girls; balloon kick- ing, and a rolling pin contest for women; balloon bursting, and a dressing contest for men; a horse shoe pitching contest between farm- ers and Kiwanians. Prizes will be awarded to che winners in the vari- (ous contests, The last event of the day will be 2 ball game between the Farmers and the Kiwanians. A feature of the | afternoon will be the drawing for | a fine purebred Holstein calf donat« The laying of the sewer will nat- urally disturb the big trout in the stream and te keep them from go- | ing down the creek wire barricades have been erected at the High street bridge and also at the silk mill bridge. Care will be exerciz2d by the | contractors so as not to disturb the! trout more than is absolutely nec- essary. A ———— A ——— LIST OF PRIZE WINNERS AT BELLEFONTE ACADEMY Coincioent with the closing of the Bellefonte Academy for the school year headmaster James R. Hughes announces that thirty students com- pleted their course at that institu- tion. Prize awards were made as follows: W. C. T. U. prize for best essay on temperance, to Robert Bottenfield, Allentown. James Potter Hughes mathematical | prize, William Crumlish, Gap. 1 Senior English prizes, William Adams, | of Ridgefield Park, N. J., and Thomas of | of Pleasant 8 | tee of the Associa 99 years in the penitentiary for murder is all a hoax. How such a story got started we don't know, but | we always did insist that so mild a mannered and altogether likeable fellow as Charley McClure is would never get mixed up in such a mess ~The Juniata Valley Printers’ As- + sociation will meet here on m- | ber 1st. On Monday a sub-commit- visited Belle- | fonte to make preliminary arrange- ments for the convention, While here they visited the various Newspaper offices and the Big Spring. e | at the latter place, frequented years ago by Talleyrand, Napoleon Bone- | part, Voltaire, Gluck and other emi- | nents, Irvin of the Altoona “Radi- | cal,” wanted to know what had be- | come “of the tin cup that George | Wi used to drink out of.” | house met Wilson, a total stranger, ‘in the bar room of the Bush house. | The men got ~ erhouse called Wilson a fakir. There was no fight and the affair was ap- parently patched up, In the after- | moon Wilson and John Rine started {out Thomas street for the show grounds and overtook Waterhouse at a point about opposite the present milk station. Wilson promptly re- newed the argument of the morning and attempted to precipitate a fight. Rine grabbed him and threw him against the bank when Wilson pulled a revolver from his pocket. Rine ran and called to Waterhouse to do likewise but he did not and Wilson | Hall on June 4th, following an ill- Farrell, of New York city. ed by Shoemaker Brothers. The calf will be on exhibition all day, Every- one present will have an opportunity to deposit one free ticket for the drawing. Everyone in town and country is invited to attend. ——Lieut. Commander Rodd and H. P. Cooper, aviators in the United States navy, were guests at The Markland, Monday night, having been held up here owing to the rain and foggy weather. The men were on a flight east from San Diego, Cal, When they reached the Kyler- town field they didn't know just | where they were at, so came down to inquire the way to Bellefonte. They were told to follow the high- way but the clouds were so low that in attempting to do so they almost flew into the tree tops on the moun- ‘tain. They returned to Kylertown | and waited until the clouds lifted, later in the day, then flew to Belle- fonte. Lieut. Rodd was one of the fliers who made the experimental | flight across the Atlantic put on by into an altercation there over a watch trade and Wat- | ness of several months. She was a daughter of Adam and Lydia Scholl Schaeffer and was born in Miles township, and at her death was within three days of being 77 years old. Her early married life was spent at Madisonburg but in 1891 the family moved to Centre ! Hall and she had been a resident of that section ever since. Mr. Bartges died in 1927 but surviving her is one daughter, Mrs. Della Reiber, She also leaves seven grand-children. Funeral services were held on | Tuesday afternoon of last week, by (Rev. D. R. Keener, burial being made in the Centre Hall cemetery. | ff Il LINGLE.—Mrs. Susannah Lingle, ashington are often subjected to by thought- | On being informed that Gen. Grant less or inconsiderate men and boys had stolen it on the occasion of his who go into the open with gun or last visit to the Spring, Irvin ex- rod. The committees and their members 23d esid; " ave us Follows: that kind of a man. Caries Mensch, Pau M. Dbbn. "o~ | ville, near Pleasant a ar Membership Committee: —Sam . | pears, i man, Don Klinger, Bill Kline. wel Por | her mother, of the Brocesse es- wii, Committee: George R Meek, | tate in Germany. Mrs. Taylor 8 uey, . ' | McMullen. Janta rst, Lawrence | js the mother of George and TE Bass and Other Fish Committee:—Chas. Taylor, of this place, and 1s 3 a —Mrs. “Curt” Taylor, of Harrison- | .i d wife of Jonathan Lingle, died at her €ath nome at Greenbriar, in Gregg town- | ship, Tuesday morning of last week, grounds but was caught by police- | -C.OWiDE an illness of some weeks | with a complication of diseases. wi Ba Garis about here the Col- gne was a daughter of Peter and now stands. e had thrown | garan Zerby Auman and was born | running on August 4th, 1859, hence was aged | 88 | 73 years, 10 months and 3 days. She but on being | j5 survived by her husband and three Searched after his capture an Eng- | cpildren, Mrs, Louise Gentzel, of Re- {lis bulldog revolver was found on persburg; Mrs. Sarah Steiger, of Co- Wilson ran out toward the show person as well as a bunch of Sophomore English prize, Grath, of Pittsburgn. Chemistry prize, Peter Oldham, of Rye, N ¥ ! The French prize, Woodrow Wilson Gerhard, of Hazleton. The German prize, James Furrie, Ritcheyville. | American history prize, Richard Robb, of Bellefonte. The Rensselaer gold medal for excel- lence in higher mathmatics and science, Robert Bottenfield, of Allentown. The gold medal for the most useful | athlete during the school year, Conrad Thomas, of Barrackville, W. Va. — A —————— —-~Word has come to us from | Wenonah, N. J. that in the list of | graduates from the Woodbury High! school, class of 1932, is the name of Huyett Magee, eldest son of the late William Magee and Leila Huyett Magee, and a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. E, M. Huyett, of Centre Hall. Mrs. Magee's younger son, Billy, who is now in the Municipal hospital, in Philadelphia, with] scarlet fever, has been ill since January, first having contracted pneumonia from which he did not have a good recovery, then came a long period of {ll health followed Jack Me- | of | | section, meanwhile, the navy several years ago when a regular chain of government ships patrolled the course from the shores | of the United States to Europe as a partial guarantee to a safe cross- ing. EE —— i —————————— -——A letter from Frank Hess, of | Los Angeles, advises that he has left for his fishing camp on the Rogue river, near Trail, Oregon. He | expects to be there until some time in September and wants any Centre countians who might be touring that to visit him. Trail is on the Crater Lake highway and the post master there will give instructions as to how to reach the camp. We are sure wonderfully cordial hospitality will be the re- ward of any who might find it pos- sible to accept Mr. Hess’ invitation. ———A man who gave his name as George Dobler, though he admitted to several aliases, and his home near Bellefonte, was arrested in Lock Haven, on Tuesday, charged with passing worthless checks. Later it was learned that he had only recently been paroled from the E. Dorworth, Dr. Kilpatrick Robert F | tate is said to amount to $32, ‘burn, and Charles Lingle, of Spring by an operation in the Jefferson hos- Western penitentiary and he will be Hunter, Ben Bradley, Harvey Shaeffer. | nobody knows how rich they will skeleton keys and a of felt slip- | i | turned over to officials of that in- nies Torso Ming wl Hooger: Regios. i Migs Domed gh Rg eh gr Ad power JUllS: She veo eaves tWe others, Scarlet fever. developed, necesita Statin for violating his parole. Y Jawrence McMullen, George Yornell.| py peun ler wears a denied that he was a hanger-on to| ps, : : ing his removal to the Municipal Grouse and Tu Committee :—Hugh $150.00 gold watch attached to a, their outfit, and he claimed he was Funeral services were held at the hospital. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ed- ile. Dr. Dale, oh Sheffer, George | tarred rope chain. a painter from Bradford, levking for | pg dise church on Friday afternoo | ward J. Thompson, of Philipsburg, a. ora usil and other | op 1 the weather proves favorable | work, ‘by Rev. Paul M. Miller, burial being ——During the last winter season | Sympathize with them in the loss of Game Birds Committee: —Cameron Hey- | the Mesting of the Preabyterian| pe wag placed in the Centre coun- | made in the Heckman cemetery, thirteen Centre countians visited St. their nine days old son, John Barker a dy Bower Cuufien Mite the hi be Wi 4 Suis €Ve" | ty jail and his case was put down | — tr Dn "| Petersburg, Florida, Some spent | Thompson, who died in Pittsburgh, Rabbit and Squirrel Committee:—Dr. | gio® on Linn street. It Is to be ole. TOF trial at the November sessions GRANGERS PREPARING most of the winter there while others | Where the child was born, on Satur- Stevens, John Yearick, C. Noll, Li gantly decorated with Japanese lan- of court. J. Calvin Meyer was dis- were merely transient visitors. day morning, The remains were tak- R Sesnguanet, Willi Ha. Hor. | terns by Michael Kelly, trict attorney at the time, Wilbur FOR THEIR ANNUAL PICNIC ,,ong them were Miss Helene Wil- | €n to Philipsburg and buried in the Bel BE Hr Pe or | paring the romendos thunder, |. Recker wis waned o fon mo tr ampoumement ot tae ls of Belton: Mi nd Mr. | semcory thre on Sunde fernon. Robert 1. Hunter Jas Wasa chareney | old gentleman, by name Schriver, illness the case was continued at | chris ager A ampmen: yas, ‘and Mrs. C. W, Mauck, of Nittany; -———A tramp terrorized residents Ie Club Relaons Commis: Judge | By & bot of Ightning And Instantly | January. On. the meh of ecemney £4 4 10¢ far of. Next Tuesday wil Mri Elisabeth Kephart and Miss in Wes) Forguion tomnanip, on Tues n De fe anuary. e $ . moor ert Erato killed. ‘He was some little | 93,4 an Uncle Tom's Cabin company | To the lnglot4ay of tue Suse 454 no porch at the Irvin Walker home, The County Commissioners have made things as comfortable as pos- sible for the unemployed. They have | put out the two long benches pur- chased some years ago for the ac- commodation of the old G. A, R. veterans, and have put one on each side of the court house yard. On one of them they have lettered ‘women Only,” and it is really surprising to see the number of men there are in Bellefonte who can't read. According to all reports it was Governor Pinchot's susceptibility to the cajolery of the female of the species that influenced him in mak- ing the change in the Mothers’ As- sistance board of Centre county. Though the Governor is not as young as he used to be he is without doubt a wily old fox. ——— fp ————— If the United States Senate pass- es the Garner relief bill provid- ing for an expenditure of over two billion dollars for public buildings and improvements federal post- office buildings will become as plenti- ful in Pennsylvania as outhouses in chickens out of the storm at the time. —Last Saturday Mrs. Rachael Young, who lives near town, was given a big party at the home of her son-in-law, John Klinger, who lives in this place, It was to celebrate the seventy-second. birthday anniversary | of the old lady. Everybody is complaining about the general depression but it hasn't put the hoodoo on the young people of Centre county, according to the number of marriage licenses granted by register John L. Wetzler, the past week—twelve of them. They | men who had been actors in the Rogers show that exhibited in Belle- fonte the day of the tragedy. On Wednesday morning, December 24th, Wilson was missing from the jail. He had dug a hole through the side wall, Alfred Andrews in April of that year, then slid down a telephone pole which stood close to the wall on the dropped to the ground, after that the da. orten and Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Kauffman, Prof, winter approach in an |and Mrs. M, S. McDowell and Prof. | It scarcely seems possible, but it Valter Thomas, of State College. | will be only a little over two months | ——————— until Grangers will be in camp for — —About 9:30 o'clock Wednesday their annual outing and tomorrow ©Vening Ray Eckman drove up High | the encampment committee will Street, intending to continue up | meet at the park to make definite Jail hill, but on Allegheny street he | plans for the event. | ran into the car of Dr. J. J. Kilpat- At previous meetings of the com- | Fick as the latter was driving north mittee necessary repairs and im-| On that thoroughfare. Both men provements were authorized. No ex- | ere omeysarly ee he tensive buil rogram has been Mm serio undertaken ging ProgY as it was cars, however, were badly damaged. deemed unwise to increase expenses beyond those required to carry on| ——Cards received in Bellefonte lon Tuesday, announced the arrival will get married, even ii they have farming communities. to live with the old folks until times improve. On Tuesday evening, by actual count, sixty-five automobiles were parked on the street in one block in Bellefonte, on High street between Spring and the Diamond. The cars, when new, represented a valuation of at least $40,000, and to operate them means a nice sum of | money every month, so that the de- pression hasn't put everybody down and out. I A —————— ~The State College Kiwanis— Farmer's picnic will be held at Grange park on Thursday of next week. outside. Robert Cooke, of Howard, was sheriff at the time, and neither he nor any of the inmates of the that day to this not a trace been discovered of the murderer and the last entry on the docket in the court house in the case against him is “Prisoner escaped from county jail December 24th.” ——Both Congressman J. Banks Kurtz, of Blair county, and J. Mitch- ell Chase, of Clearfield, voted in favor of the soldier's benus bill, in Congress on Monday. the fair. However, the strong inter- est in the camp which is made ap- ty new tents and the lumber to fit them for occupancy. Ever concerned to increase the beauty of the grounds more trees were bought and planted-—evergreens on the ridge to the north side and larger trees to replace dead ones in the center of the park. And a quan- tity of crushed stone has been de- livered to the park for more and better road moking, ——Subsgcribe for the Watchman parent by the numerous applications | for tents for camping purposes de- cided the committee to order twen- | of Robert Brown Williams, 7 pounds, | in the home of “Thelma and Doc Williams,” Philadelphia, on June 11th, The young chap was not only lite in the evening inarriving in the Williams household, but is took him fifteen years to make his appearance in the family. -——George Ray, who several weeks ago graduated from the Pennsylvania schoolship “Annapolis, in the engineering department, has secured an assignment on a mer- chant marine freighter and sailed, on Wednesday of last week, for Rotterdam, Holland. | stole a necktie and cushion at the John Quinn home and frightened people generally, Constable Robert Koch captured the man and landed him in the county jail. ——Corporal W. J. White, of the Rockview detail state police, who was married recently, has resigned from the force and will locate in Greensburg. He has been succeeded by Corp. H. C, Johnson, sent here from the Greensburg barracks. IN BELLEFONTE CHURCEES ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH 9:30 A. M., Church school, 10:45 A. M., The service and ser- mon: “The Salt of the Earth.” 7:30 P. M., The vesper service and sermon: ‘The Satisfied Life.” Clarence E. Arnold, pastor. METHODIST CHURCH Church school, 9:30, C. C. Shuey, Supt., with major study. League, 6:30, topic alwayr strongly present- ed by a prepared leader, Worship 10:45 and 7:30, preaching by Rev. A. G. Herr. Pastor plans to conduct mid-week, June 22. Mrs. John Kingsley will be in charge of mid- week gathering, June 15, Horace Lincoln Jacobs, Miniater.