INK SLINGS.
BY GEORGE R. MEEK.
—The Republican platform is wet,
just wet enough to make drys put
on rubber boots to stand on it.
—No matter what your opinion
may be Al Smith seems to be big
goes and what-
news wherever he
ever he says.
— Former Chief Justice of the
State Supreme Court Robert Von
Moschzisker, threw a whole hod-full
of verbal brickbats at Governor
Pinchot, cn Wednesday.
Mr. Warren Van Dyke's fear
that National Committeeman Sedg-
wick Kistler will steal some of his
those who know Warren,
__Mr .Sharkey's flying fists took
the heavy weight championship away
from Max Schmelling and his flying
tongue is likely to chase all the glory
of his victory away from him. If it
doesn't, Steve Hamas eventually
will.
As a matter of fact the Repub-
licans didn't want Hoover any more
than they wanted Curtis. They had
to nominate Herbert because no one
else would take it and they nomina-
ted Charley because Dolly Gans has
more “it” than Alice Roosevelt
Longworth.
—Boiling the alcoholic content of
the Republican platform down to
one-half of one per cent it means
that New York, New Jersey, Massa-
chusetts and other States that want
to be wet may be so, but dry Con-
gressmen from Maine, Kansas and
other arid areas will decide just
how wet they may be.
—The Governor has called the
General Assembly of Pennsylvania
into another extra session. It is to
convene next Monday night to con-
sider a fourteen point program for
unemployment relief. The Governor
is long on points. All of his pro-
grams have so many that the prin-
cipal one is invariably overlooked.
—The next President of the
United States will be a Democrat,
no matter who is nominated at Chi-
.cago next week. This isn't a predic
tion, It's a foregone conclusion ar-
rived at by the country after its dis- |
covery that the Republican party
and prosperity are not synonomous
and the belief that it would be im-
e for a Democrat to make
matters worse.
On Monday wheat on the Chi-
cago market made an all time low
price record. And this in the face of
prospects for a poor crop of spring
wheat in this country. The break is
generally attributed to the effect of
the Federal Farm Board's vast sup-
plies hanging over the market as a
threat. It is just another evidence
of the futility of attempting to fix
prices by legislation.
—The Republican National Con-
vention would have been a complete
flop had not a Hollywood movie
magnate, Louis B. Mayer, taken
charge. Delegates and spectators
were walking out on the show s0
fast that there would have
nothing left
come to the rescue and created an
atmosphere in which Senator Moses
_cavorted like one of “the wild Jack-
asses” that only a year or 80 ago
he thought to be so contemptible,
—Bill Noll, merchant prince of
of Pleasant Gap, like Geo. W. Ward,
of Pittsburgh, predicts that if
Roosevelt is nominated Pennsylvania
will go Democratic. Bill has been an
nnusually accurate prognosticator as
to the political trend in the south
precinct of Spring township and if
it should turn out that he knows as
much about the State as he does
about his home precinct we're right
here to say that when Pennsylvania
. Democratic he is prophesying
a residence in Danville for us. For
when Pennsylvania goes Democratic
in a presidentizl contest we're going
“beserk.”
—Up to the moment we had for-| of council will be July 4th, when
| ought to furnish work for a r
- gotten to comment on an action tak- | there just naturally won't be a a county a Bye
also
en by the Methodists at their recent
quadrennial general conference at
Atlantic City that intrigued us at the
time. They removed from the mar-
riage vow: “With all my worldly
.goods I thee endow.” The young
folks marry, these days, without any
thought of “worldly goods.” If the
groom's or the bride's parents have ast year, 7 mills for borough, 7 for
an automobile, an extra bed and a
probable meal ticket venturing on
the ‘matrimonial sea is no more to
them than going to a movie. So
what was the use of tying a hymen-
eal knot around a bundle of empty
promises.
— We know little about the con- reservoir property to keep the bank
troversy that is engaging residents
of State College as to the wisdom
of extending the borough limits so
as to include Lytle's Addition.” We
do know, however,
that, between |
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| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
| —Milk is said to be selling at 5 cts. a
| quart on the streets of Selinsgrove. The
| Jo price offered farmers by the dealers
| caused the cut. Rather than accept the
| offered price a number of farmers start-
| ed peddling their own production. A year
ago the price was 11 cts. a quart.
| —Ninety persons took the civil service
examination at Sunbury, on Saturday, for
positions at the Northeastern Peniten-
tiary at Lewisburg. At the same time
seventy-three persons were taking similar
VOL. ¢%.
| MEN WHO GET HELP
| SHOULD DO SOME WORK
AVER BORO. COUNCILMEN
| Poor Overseers to be Asked to Co-
Men to Work.
| Many men are clamoring for work
| all over the
| Bellefonte likewise has
| who are not so anxious to find work.
| If an agreement can be reached be-
| tween Bellefonte borough council
| and the overseers of the poor of
| Bellefonte all able-bodied men who
| ask for aid will be required to work provement is to divert through traf-
for it.
| The matter was brought up at.
| Monday night's meeting of council
| by Mr. Jodon,
| who said he knew a number of men
| who are getting help from the over-
| seers and who are physically able to
do a fair day's work. His suggestion
was that as soon as contractor Tal-
| pert completes his job of repairing
| the reservoir it would be a good
| idea to put some of the men to
| work fixing up the surroundings and
| make the place a beauty spot to
| compare with the pumping station
| at the spring. He said he had spok-
|en to the poor overseers and they
| expressed willingness to cooperate |
| but felt that the borough should
| also pay at least a portion of the
| support given the men. The matter
| was finally referred to the Water,
| Street and Special committees for
| consultation with the borough solici-
tor and overseers in an effort to
work out a plan of some kind by
which the labor of the men can be
utilized to advantage.
{
| Kelly read a communication from
the Undine Fire company regarding
'a bill of expense for covering the
| with heavy wire screens to keep the
| children who use the vacant lot
| north of the building as a play-
ground from breaking the glass. The
bill for the work is $46.58 and the
company wants council to pay it.
Referred to the Fire and Police
| committee.
| Secretary Kelly stated that he had
written a letter to all the insurance
agents in Bellefonte regarding coun-
| cil's desire for a rebate on insurance
premiums but so far had received
| no replies.
| The Street committee reported
various repairs, the laying of 60 feet
| of sewer pipe on Thomas street, the
been | start of work on laying the sanitary
of it if Mayer hadn't| sewer in Spring creek, and execution | were opened ior the construction of
| of a contract to cover
and Watchman office with tarvia at
i
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| engaged in filling up the holes in
the paving in order to keep the re-
| quired amount of tarvia as low as
e.
The Water
|
| and $11.20 for garage rent.
| The Finance committee reported a
balance in the borough fund of
| $523.98 and $722.24 in the water
| fund. Authorization was granted for
| the renewal of old notes totaling
| $10,600, and a new borough note for
| $1000 to meet current bills. As the
| date for the next regular meeting
| meeting, the treasurer was
! authorized to negotiate new notes
| in both the borough and water de-
partments for such amounts as may
| be needed to pay bills at that time.
The Finance committee also rec-
commended that the tax millage for
| 1932 be fixed the same as that for
street and 3 for interest. The rec-
ommendation was approved.
| In the absence of chairman Cobb,
| of the Water committee, Mr. Beaver
called council's attention to the fact
| that there should be a retaining wall
| built along the southern line of the
from giving way. The matter was
referred to the committee with
| power.
| The Town Improvement commit-
tee presented the request of Roy
BELLEFONTE, PA
STATE COLLEGE PEOPLE
thunder should beget a laugh from operate with Council in Putting
| dinance passed recently by the bor-|
' viding for the vi of south Ath-
United States and] 8 paving
| it's quota.
| Then there are others who are ask- |
| ing assistance of the poor overseers
| ing forward to the completion of an
of the West ward,
| Eagle valley.
| windows in the company's building
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
EE.
| BIG FARM BUILDINGS |
PROTEST PAVING OF DESTROYED BY FIRE
ATHERTON STREET | SATURDAY MORNING |
In court, on Saturday, argument Chicken Coop and Wood House Only |
was made on the validity of an or-| Structures Saved on Farm of Ep-
| ley White.
ough council of State College peo] One of the most destructive fires
erton street. The action to set aside that has occurred in years on a
the ordinance was instituted by resi- Centre county farm was that at the |
dents of the street in question who | home of Epley White, two miles |
thus protest t the expense south of Bellefonte, at an early
agains { hour on Saturday morning, House,
that will be imposed on every prop- barn, some five or six outbuil |
-|
erty owner if the ordinance provid- | all their contents, and one twee]
ing for the paving of the street 18 burned, while the only things saved |
approved by the court.
The pur of the proposed im-| were the chicken coop which housed |
| over a hundred chickens, the wood
| house, sewing machine and several
chairs from the house. The only re-
| deeming feature is that Mr. White
_ had his buildings and contents fair-
entire concrete highway from Pot ly well covered by insurance. As his
ters Mills to State College and the policies were also burned he was
building of the link connecting the ble to give the t Agures but
present concrete road from the Col- | exac
fic from the business section of the
town. State College people are look-
lege to Buffalo Run valley from the tual, of Centre county, the S
latter place across Bald Eagle moun-
tain to the concrete highway in Bald yalley BN Seavie Sompanies.
at the time and the only persons in
This would put the College on a 4p, poyge were Mr. White and a boy
direct highway east and west
through the State and would natur- Wao Works 1008 Jim, The } Mee Sign :
ally attract considerable through
traffic. While the college merchants Soubiless He mA Seforiive Pipe om
and business men are anxious to] three 0 rning
have as much traffic as possible stop | Shee in og
in the college town, providing there .... that it was impossible to save
is any financial profit therefrom, .,vining of consequence from the
they do not want their main busi- ,,,5. Calling Bellefonte firemen for
ness streets, College avenue and ,.ggtance Mr. White and the boy,
a lot of through traffic that won't
| ger, turned their attention to saving
mean anything to the town. | the stock and were able to get every
1 The present concrete highway peaq t ap
through the Barrens enters State cq ou d to safety except one,
| College almost opposite south Ath- Tne Logan fire company went Sak
| three blocks south, where a connec the use of chemicals hel to save
tion will then be built with the the chicken house and od The |
highway running from to | puildings were !! in splendid condi-
the College. This would divert tion the barn being one of the best
| through traffic from the present’ equipped in the county for the dairy |
| route of two blocks east on College | puginess. Mr. White had most of
| avenue and thence south on Allen jast year's corn crop still on hand
| street to the Boalsburg. highway. this, with the destruction
In the argument, on Satdny, | of
his other stock feed, is a serious
| former Judge James C. Furst rep- loss. While he was unable to give
| resented the citizens opposed to the any figures his loss will probably
| paving proposition: and N. B. Spang- | top ten thousand dollars. {
! ler the borough. The court will ren-
| der a decision in due time.
MONSTER TRUCK USED
NORTH CAROLINA CO. IN HAULING COAL FROM |
WAS LOW DER ON SNOW SHOE TO BELLEFONTE |
CENTRE CO. HIGHWAY |
At Harrisburg, last Friday, bids
What is believed to be the largest
truck and trailer ever built is now
being used to haul coal from the
Snow Shoe mines to Bellefonte for
the brick g74 miles of concrete highway on the American Lime and Ston an ev
| i e com- | ings and wishes fo ry good, to
| paving between the Penn Belle hotel route 307 in Harris and Potter town- pany. The truck is the product of | each and all. Every 3
| ship, from Boalsburg to Tussey- the Stewart Motor company, of Buf-
a cost of $7.71 a ton. As it is not yjjle, including a reinforced concrete falo, N. Y., and was built for Lloyd
i ' i , N. X., folks are busy packing up and put-
| knowh dow Hany tons wii be re- | two-span bridge, the low bid having I. Wingert, of DuBols, who was re- ting everything in 8 SE ey Tour
iy ho jo = is cost | heen submitted by the Robert G.| cently awarded the contract to| moving out shortly after the noon
| is uncertain. The committee is NOW Lassiter company, of Raleigh, N. C.,| transport the coal for the American hour next Tuesday.
| $210,256. Lime and Stone company, which had |
The Highway Department also been hauled during tht past year by
announced that the contract for the | the Shoemaker Bros. of State Col-
construction of 9.4 miles from Pine lege.
ege
committtee reported Grove Mills to McAlevy's Fort has The truck and trailer runs on 22
| | of any denomination are invited.
| various minor repairs and the col-| heen awarded to Joseph Ciccone, of | tires and hauls a maximum load of Ty on pastor,
lection of $637.21 on water taxes philadelphia, at his bid of $178,847. 25 tons. When it is recalled that in Heckman, was in Bellefonte on Wed-
| Surveys are now being made for
| the extension of the concrete road
| from Matternville across Bald Eagle
. mountain to near Martha Furnace,
| the old horse and wagon days a ton
of coal was considered an average
load for a team some idea of the
size of this truck can be gathered
a distance of a little over four miles, from the fact that it hauls twenty-
‘while the road from State College five such loads at one time. It takes
to Boalsburg will also be rebuilt. As in the neighborhood of 20 minutes
these roads are all scheduled to be to dump it out automatically.
‘built this summer the four jobs |
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| BELLEFONTE ACADEMY
WILL REOPEN IN FALL
POTTER TOWNSHIP BOY Headmaster James R. Hughes de-
DIED OF TETANUS | Sires to announce that he fully in-
| | tends to open the Academy in Sep-
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Linn Thomas Smith, ten year old tember and is making every effort down on the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Smith, to that end. He would appreciate it | fell over,
| who live near the Old Fort, in Pot- if day students of Bellefonte and bullet,
ter township, died at the Centre Centre county who attended the,
County hospital early Sunday morn- | Academy last year and desire to re-|
| ing. as the result of tetanus (lock- turn in the fall to complete their
| jaw.) About two weeks ago he ran work so well begun would make
‘a splinter into one of his fingers, their desires known at once. |
| but thought little of it at the time. There are many other students in
| A few days later the wound became the county who have expressed a
infected and by Friday of last week desire to enter the Academy in the
| a decided case of tetanus had devel- fall. It would be advisable for these
| oped. He was brought to the Centre students to make the necessary ar-.
| County hospital but all efforts to rangements with Mr. Hughes for
| combat the disease proved futile and their entrance as soon as they can
| he died on Sunday morning. conveniently do so. No
them, the two communities have | Bayletts for a permit to build a|2urvived by threo Brothers and one | There will be some one at the Aca-
been occupying a great deal of the
time of the county civil and crim-
inal courts of late. Last Saturday
morning ‘we met a court officer on
the street. His home is distant
from Bellefonte and because it was
unusual to see him in town so early
in the morning and on the day when
court is rarely in session, we stop-
ped to inquire the reason for his
presence here. Imagine our surprise
when he said: “State College has
Taylor township beat all to h——for
keeping the Court busy,” and, with
a “Cyrusian” wink, walked on.
| garage on Beaver street and also
| stated that a man whose name had
| not been learned wanted a permit
to build a $3000 house on Halfmoon
hill. The committee was authorized
to grant the permits if the plans
| and specifications come up to the re-
quirements of the building code.
Borough bills totaling $1642.80
and water bills for
council adjourned.
—If it isn’t in the Watchman to-
| day it isn’t worth reading.
$1662.81 were | sumed last week in hearing testi-
approved for payment after which mony in
| residents of
me end, and the case was continued view is
| sister, Bruce, Hazel, Philip and demy all summer to represent Mr.
1
| Bryce Smith, all at home, Funeral Hughes in making all necessary ar-
| services were held at the Smith | rangements for admission.
| home, at two o'clock on Tuesday af- |
| ternoon, by Rev. D. R. Keener, bur- __The court, last week, appoint- |
| jal being made in the Centre Hall oq Edward J. Thompson and Philip |
cemetery. | BE. Womelsdorf, of Philipsburg, and |
| James R. Reish, of Potter t~wnship,
— Five days of court were con-| viewers to assess the
ing to the Gamble
seizure of “The Island”
| creek, by Bellefonte borough under
reaching | the right of eminent domain. The
to be made and report filed
within twenty days.
the equity proceeding of
State College against
| the Neidigh Bros,, without
until June 20th.
. JUNE 24. 1932.
| conference of the Methodist Epis-
| few weeks.
' he has policies in the Farmers Mu-'
| liamsport.
south Allen t, cluttered up with | roq)izing that the barn was in dan- trustees of the conference corpora- ant N. Williams, Philadelphia Negro,
| resignation as a member of the
When council convened secretary erton street, and what the ordinance t, the White farm but with no | ivi geld actpt’ $e | edigh |
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proposes is to provide for the pav- | er supply the were unable to do
{ y e tuned to delay insistence on accep-
ing of that thoroughfare for two OF much to fight the flames, but with | tion for SE : year,
| very regretful goodbye
| Talbert at the Bellefonte reservoir, |
| Monday morning, Edmund Thompson |
| lost his balance while wheeling a |
up an incline, tumbled to the ground,
below, a distance of eight feet, with
damage accru- lowing after,
estate for the Centre
sions.
been determined whether he was ine | others when tracked down from a filling
| ured internally or not.,
{ examinations at Lewisburg. The positions
| are storekeeper and receiving clerk.
| —The Orphans’ court of Philadelphia
| county has awarded to Wilson College,
| Chambersburg, the trust fund created
under the will of Dr. William Curran,
Presbyterian churchman and physician,
who died more than 50 years ago. The
fund now yields about $50,000 a year,
and four colleges have been contesting
for it.
—Due to the advance in postage rates
from 2 to 3 cents, the Scranton Spring-
brook Water company has decided to
make its own delivery of monthly bills
NO. 26.
METHODIST CONFERENCE
SENDS A NEW PASTOR TO
BELLEFONTE CHURCH
The annual Central Pennsylvania
i
copal church closed at Williamsport
on Monday afternoon with the read-
ing of the appointments by Bishop |
rather than send them through the
McDowell. Sixty-two changes were , ..,. Tne company sends out more than
made in the assignment of pastors s;oi statements each month and figures
within the conference, which means | jt can make deliveries at a lower cost
that about one in every five or six | than the new postage rate will entail.
will have to flit during the next | —Orval Sees. 27. of Bloomsburg, ad-
| mitted last Friday, police said, that he
Rev. Horace Lincoln Jacobs, Who purglarized nineteen places in Columbia,
has so ably filled the pulpit of the | Montour and Northumberland counties
Bellefonte church during the past within the last three months. He was
two years, was assigned to Woolrich | arrested a week ago and was held for
and Rev. E. R. Heckman was trang- | questioning. In most of the places he
| ferred from Carlisle to Bellefonte. | broke open safes WAT & chisel and
| sledge-hammer. The most he obtained
Other new appointments in Centre |
county are as follows: Halfmoon, ftom one plac’ was $250 from a store In
Burton Bastuscheck; Port Matildg, |
H. B. Simons; Sslona and Lamar, | —Mrs., Flo Skinner, of Lewistown, has
2 brought action against a New York Life
J. P. Hurlhuit; Pleasant Gap, RS Insurance company to recover $54,000
Dershen; State College, Wesley ,, , life insurance policy carried by
Foundation, G, C. Weimer. | her late husband, Orville Skinner. The
Other changes in which Watch- | defendant company claims Skinner com-
man readers might be interested are mitted suicide, but witnesses say they
the transfer of C. A. Metzger from saw an unidentified man running through
Pleasant Gap to Conyngham; Rev. the yard just after hearing shots. Bal-
Homer C. Knox from Barnsboro to | listic experts say the fatal bullet did
Hazleton, and W. W. Willard from not come from a gun in Skinner's pos-
Harrisburg to Mulberry street, Wil- | "=o"
| —Injuries suffered a month ago when
Conference accepted an invitation he was struck by an automobile near
| Tyrone and carried 110 miles, then to
Io most in First church, Lewistown, | |, nqoned proved fatal to William
. | Knode, 57, Birmingham, who died early
At Monday's session of conference | ,;, Monday morning at the Brookville
| Rev. Jacobs presented his resigna- pnospital. A charge of involuntary man-
tion as a member of the board of | slaughter has been lodged against Bry-
confessed driver of the fatal car and ab-
ductor of the aged man, who is under
hoard of trustees of the Home for | $1000 po to appear in the Blair county
Children, at Mechanicsburg. Confer | cut “hen wanted.
—An explosion which blew the boiler
of a locomotive from its chassis and
wrecked the engine, killed an engineer
| and fireman of the Baltimore and Ohio's
| fast passenger train, the Capitol Limited
occurred Monday near Pittsburgh. The
explosion tore up several rods of track
and sent the engine, a twisted mass,
on its side. The ten cars of the train
» Lincoln bumped along for more than 500 yards
Pastor H Jacobs Bas before they halted. They were not
conveyed to the writer the fact that =. ., ng .
: | none of the eighty-four
he has solid ceasons for Saying 4 | passengers were injured.
of this community through the!
Watchman, His contacts with the
children, by frequent visits to the
schools, his trips to the hospital, and
his fellowships with the several)
churches and their pastors and
people will be remembered with |
gladness. That his stay here and
his usefulness in this community |
have been other than he hoped for
and sincerely sought, is his to carry
away with a very sure sense of dis-
appointment. He leaves his greet-
tion, having previously presented his |
PASTOR JACOBS SAYS A
REGRETFUL GOODBYE
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—A dog who fought for two days to
protect his master won the latter's free-
dom. John MsShane, 33, was arrested in
Pittsburgh for being drunk. His Spitz
dog forced the arresting patrolman to
get reinforcements to make the arrest.
Then the dog fought the lieutenant who
ordered him to jail. So much barking
and growling was done the dog was put
in the cell with McShane. At the arraign-
ment before Magistrate Leo Rothenburg,
Saturday, McShane was sentenced to five
days in jail but when officers sought to
lead him away the canine jumped again
into the fray. After he'd snapped at
everybody who approached, the magis-
trate and police decided such loyalty
should be rewarded and the sentence was
rescinded.
—Mary Wydra, unmarried, worker in
a Kulpmont cigar factory, was winner of
a $35.000 verdict against attorney Donald
| M. Johnson, of Scranton, formerly of
Lewisburg, and son of Federal Judge
Albert W. Johnson, in Northumberland
county court, the result of an automobile
accident in Bloomsburg, on the afternoon
of September 27, 1930. The verdict was
taken by agreement of counsel and direc-
| tion of the court. The defendant, it is un-
| derstood, carried heavy accident liability
and getting a slant of the work on insurance. The accident occurred on Main
| street, Bloomsburg, while Miss Wydra
this charge. He expects to move
| was riding in the car of John Ravack,
here with his family on Wednesday | of Kulpmont, driven by Walter Kuzma,
or Thursday of next week. | of the same place. They were proceeding
S———————— | toward Danville and in making a left
BUFFALO RUN GIRL | turn Kuzma gave the customary signal
VICTIM OF GUNSHOT "** contended.
— | —Convicted of stealing seven chickens,
Last Friday afternoon two young | Melvin M. Schlossman, of Columbia, Lan-
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Wat- | caster county, is under sentence to pay
son, of Benner township, were out | a fine of $1000, the costs in the case and
at the barn shooting rats with a .22 | ave Jour to sight years iin the Saneru
| penitentiary. attaches sal e
calibre rifle. Tiring of the sport they | severity of the sentence was without
went to the house and put the gun i
back porch. The BUD | Sas convicted by a Jury which did not
was discharged and the eave the box after district attorney Paul
after going through a win-| A. Mueller produced a confession signed
dow, struck Eleanor L. Hull in the by the defendant. Attorney Marshall
side and entered the abdomen. A | Cohen, counsel for Schlossman, sought
hastily summoned physician gent | to introduce testimony to show his client
the girl to the Centre County hos- | was without work and owed a board bill
pital where she is under treatment, | at the time of the chicken thefts, but
"| Judge Atlee refused to admit the testi-
He condition is not considered criti | mony. “Some of you fellows will soon
know enough to leave your hands off
The child is twelve years old and | other people's chickens,” Judge Benja-
a daughter of Edward and Cora min C. Atlee commented in passing sen-
Hull, who formerly lived on Reynolds tence.
avenue, Bellefonte. Her mother died _y (jarence Thoman was sentenced
some four years ago and for several | i, serve eighteen years in the Columbia
Rev. Jacobs and his household
A public farewell reception will
be given Dr. and Mrs. Jacobs, In the
lecture room of the church, Monday
evening, to which all of their friends
R
Rev. Edgar
nesday overlooking the parsonage
payments | years she has made her home with county jail and pay $6000 fine after he
| In addition to his parents he is are required until after school opens.| the Watson family. ¢
pleaded guilty to six charges of intimi-
| dating Mr. and Mrs, Harry L. Magee, at
While at work for contractor | session of court at Bloomsburg, Mon-
| day night. An alleged confession of sev-
en pages was read Into the record and
the only witnesses were the Magees and
policemen. Thoman, a telegrapher of
Beaver Springs, was alleged to have de-
manded $15,000 from Magee, a carpet
manufacturer, in threatening letters, di-
recting that the money be dropped from
He was taken to the | an airplane near his hideaway. A pack-
| age containing two $20 bills which had
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wheelbarrow load of wet concrefe
the wheelbarrow and coacrete fol-|
County hospital where a
| been soaked in silver nitrate was drop-
in Spring diagnosis showed four fractured ribs | ped last week. The nitrate stained Tho-
and a number of bruises and contu-| =o... hands black
rk, police said, and he
Up to this time it has not .onfessed to the Magee pilot and four
station where he passed one of the bills.