"VOL. LXXXV.
Communication 111.
It is when we come face to face with
the new demands made upon the
Church that the inadequacy of the
&versge country church building is
specially felt. It cannot be but that
the great amount of thought, discussion,
sud effort now given to improving
country life will result in just as great
changes and advances as have followed
the use of like means in other regions of
life. Wallaces’ Farmer, whose editor,
himself a minister, was on the Country
Life Commission, is no false prophet
when it says :
There is to be a great future for
country life. Three years ago, when
President Roosevelt appointed his
Country Life Commission, half the
people of the United States jeered and
laughed, and for a month or more the
commissioners were in doubt as to
whether they would geta hearing or be
laughed out of court. Since that time
has come the beginning of the develop-
ment of a distinctly rural civilization.
There will be a revival of the country
church. Ministers will realize that
it is their duty to make life out in the
country better worth living, to make
the church the social center of the com-
munity, to interest themselves in farm.
ing operations and farm questions, and
teach the great verities of the kingdom
in terms of country life,
With increasing frequency and urgen-
cy the church is called upon by those
leading in this new rural civilization to
assume a more active leadership and
new duties. She will not wish to disre-
gard this challenge, she c uld not if she
would. * Two personalities are promi-
nent in the history of divine accom-
plishment thru humanity : the farmer
and the preacher. The first great
want felt by creation was for ‘a man
to till the ground,’ The first great
commission of the Creator to man re-
quired him to subdue the earth ; the
last great commission of the ascending
Savior was to preach the gospel in all
the world, this final commission to man
as world-wide preacher is the comple-
ment of the primal commission to man
as world-wide farmer. The tiller of the
soil and the toiler for souls have always
held a close relation in the designs and
providence of God. ""—J. 0, Ashenhurst.
The new rural life will bring the
preacher and the farmer closer together,
‘Together they will toil, the one for the
souls, the other for the bodies, of men.
And there is need that they should eco-
operate. Shrewd men of the world tell
us that unless the farmer learns to make
the soil produce more per acre the time
is not far away when he will not be able
to feed the inhabitants of America. On
the other hand the Church has not the
grip on all the people it should have.
Whether it bas lost it, as some de. lare,
or whether it never had it, as some
think, need not be discussed now. If
the church by becoming the social cen-
ter of a community, if by taking a deeper
interest in all that makes men fit to live
in society, and the world a more fit hab-
itation for the children of God, —if in
this wa, it can get a firmer hold on
men, certainly it has increasad its pow-
er for spiritual good. This work how.
ever requires a hall or rooms for Jes
tures, entertainmen:s, and institutes ;
other rooms for classes and clubs and
bands and libraries and wholesome
games. Such a building need not be-
long to the church, bat, if the church
does have control of it, it has increased
power to see that these things are pure
and uplifting in character. Moreover
where the community is over churched
it will be difficult to find money for the
erection of such a building.
Roosevelt's Comunission on Country
Life says : ** The country church of the
future is to be held responsible for the
great ideals of co umuanity life as well as
of personal character. ” And again :
He ( the pastor ) is the key to the coun-
try church problem. ” If these wise
men are right in their opinion that the
future will rightly demand so much of
the church and the pastor, then it is
only fair that church aad pastor should
have proper tools « herewith to work.
But the inadequate material equip
ment of the rural church in view of the
new duties of the new era is not the
greatest regret or the greatest obstacle
in meeting these demands. This pew
work is of such a character that it can-
not be done well, if at all, if the Chris-
tian forces of a no
vided, Success dopends on corporation,
on presenting an undivided front to op-
posing forces. That is true largely even
of church work ag generally recognized
aow.
One of the most interesting and
hopeful phases of Christian effort is in
connection with children’s mission
bands and junior endeavor societies and
leagues, boys’ brigades and scouts.
These require leaders whose qualifica~
tions are rare. If a small community
one man or woman well to
such leadership it is fortunate. That ft
should have from three to six is beyond
reasonable expectation. If it has none
i
LETTERS FROM SUBSURIBEKY,
Reporter Sabsoribaers Correspondent Col.
umo--New Department.
C. W. Btahl, who laid his education.
al foundation in the schools of Centre
Hall, and is now an attorney and
notary in Los Angeles, Califoruia,
sends this message to the Reporter :
I do not want to be without the
Reporter, as it is like a good, long
letter from bome, although I have
been away from there for more than
thirty years. I have been a constant
subscriber for the paper daring all
that time, and appreciate it very
much each week as it reaches me. It
keeps me in close touch with many
familiar persons and facts of my boy-
hood days, which I would otherwise
lose, as 8 long aveence causes friends
to be slow snd negligent ie writing
friendly letters.
Bo I heréwith enclose a check for
$1.00 to cover the next annual sub-
scription. Kindly give me credit and
receipt for same Wishiog you a
happy and prosperous comlug year, I
beg to remain.
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UpaLL, Kansas, Jan. 3.
Dear Editor Reporter ;
We are having a little cold anap
bere, but nothing like you folks are
used to in Pennsylvania, for it never
LL. PA. T
AGRICULTURAL SPEVIALISTS,
A Specialist, an Expert In Farm Maunge-
ment, Provided for 1s nn 13111 Fathersd
by McHenry,
RBtruck with the amazing number of
vacant farms and the vast areas of
waste farm lands throughout the.
Keystone and other states which he
8aw recently during various trips of
inspection, «Congressman McHenry,
of Pennsylvania, began to make a
close study of the underlying reason
for such an anomaly io a progressive
Gountry like the United States. He
bad not gope very far before he met
the uopleasant discovery that the en-
tire fault lay with the farmers who
had been the occupants of those waste
and vacant farms and farm lands, and
who neglected to post themselves on
soil and other conditions, which
would have enabled them to make
their farms profitable propositions,
sod their cattle of all sorts equally as
paying investments,
WANTS SPECIALISTS APPOINTED.
After mature thought, he has de
vised a method of bringing much
needed educations! agricultural knowl
edge within the easy reach of farmers
everywhere—not only in his own
congressional district, but in every
county snd town land in the nation
To this end he has lotroduced in the
stays cold here more than two or three |
days, then it gets warner. We don't
bave any snow to speak of, just light
snows. We had two blizzards this
winter but it wasn’t very cold,
The bog cholera has been bad around
bouse a bill for the advancement of
agriculture. It enscis that the secre.
tary of agriculture is directed to ap
point in each and every coogressional
district in the Uoited Biates, in
which sgriculture is one of Lhe leading
tere. We lost thirty-seveu head.
Kansas is a very nice place to live.
[t doesn’t get very cold in the winter
and Io summer it is hot duriog the
day but we always have cool nights
too sleep.
industries, an agriculturist who must
be & farm mavagement gpecialist.
The daties of each of thegs egricul-
turists shall be to investigate the types
of farming prevailing in each district
Che crops were fairly good here last
year, but they can’t come up to Iii
nois. We dida’t get the Reporter last
week, ( vacation, you know ) and we
missed it very much, We are always
glad to get it, and it most generally
reaches us on Moadsy forenoon.
Our thoughts go back to Pennayl.
vania very often, at least at present,
as Mr, Brown's brother, Jerry Brown,
is very sick. We hope for his re
covery.
Best wishes to sll cur old friends in
Penosylvaunia, acd a prosperous new
year for the Reporter.
As ever, yours,
Mrs B. F. Brows,
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Mrs. Annie Mingle Bwartz, of Lew-
isbarg, io a letter to the Reporter eon-
graiulstes the prople of Centre cou aty
for having elected and now having in
office such a good line of Democrats,
and a' the same time regrets that there
were not enough Democtats and
Keystoners in Lewisburg to elect her
husband, W, H, Bwartz, to the office
of constable without the amistance of
Republicans.
Mrs, Bwartz is an invalid, and whiles
much of her time away writing to
personal friends, and she much de-
sires to come into communiestion with
some of her old school mates who
went to school with her at Pine
Stump,
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Transfers of Heal Estate.
Ellen Huss to Spring Mills Grange,
August 5, 1911, tract of land in Bpring
Mills. $150,
G. B. Gummo et ux to Rie E.
Stevens, Dec. 16, 1911, tract of land in
State College. $350,
John Tobias et al to Andrew Tobias,
December 18, 1911, tract of land io
Snow Bhoe twp. $1 00,
John Deitrich’s heirs to LC. Deit-
rich, March 28, 1801, tract of land in
Walker twp. $912.25
John W, Harteock admr. to Harrlot
E. Hartsock, Dacomber 19. 1911, tract
of land in Patton twp, $500,
D. M. Kline et al gusrd. to O.car F,
Gill, December 8 1911, tract of land
in Bpring twp. $800,
Mary E. Miller et bar to James
Stickler, December 15, 1911, tract of
land in Bellefonte. $1050,
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Bucrene Dairy Feed has proven to
be an all "round economical, practical
feed, and one that brings satisfactory
results—R. D. Foreman, Centre Hall,
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Every family has need of a good, re.
liable liniment, For sprains, bruises,
soreness of the muscles and rheumatic
pains there ls none better than Cham.
berlain’s. Bold by all dealers.
[ Continued from Previous Column, |
it might be able to import one, or to
send one of its own young. people to a
training school ; but not one for each
church, Hence there are populations
of four or five hundre; mad as many
churches where the children are receiv
ing practically no Instruction and teaig.
ing of a sort that the larger churches of
the city have found so fruitful, The
want of leaders, of suitable meeting
places, and of enough children in any
one church to give interest are obstacles
which seem to the churches unsur.
and the general results secured from
each type ; the cropping system used
on farms of different types, adapts.
bility of different types of farming to
the particular region ; to study the
local conditions with reference to the
amount, kiod and character of avail.
able farm labor and market condj-
tions ; the adaptability of crops to lo-
cal conditions of soil and climate, ete.
APPROPRIATION oF $300,000,
Each sgricultarist Is to bave head.
quarters io his special district as cen-
trally located as possible to wall, tele
phone, telegraph, and express facili
ties, and must report directly to and
be sut jsct to the direction of the secre.
tary of agricuiture, or such offi sers of
KIND WORD FOR THE BHKUNK,
es, Coons, Chipmank, Bats a 1d Males
A strong plea for the conservation
of animal life in this state has beep
the divison of zrology sl the depart-
ment of agriculture, To the killing
off promiscuously of various soimals
Professor Burface attributes the in.
crease in destructive insect life.
Cats, chipmunks, foxes, skuokse, rac.
coous, bats and moles are among the
animals that Professor Burface pleads
for. They are natural enemies of de-
structive insects, mice and rabbits,
The robin, too, while he may steal a
few cherries, devours greal quantities
of grub and cut worms and other pests,
and the skunk, which may eat a few
exgs, will also dig under stones for in-
sects which ruin erops,
It is recommended that cats be car-
ed for and fed, but not to sush an ex.
tent as to make them lazy. Abandon-
log a eat, it is declared, is almost
criminal, for the cat, growling wild,
learns to cateh and kill sougbirds and
other birds of value
A domesticated cat will also kill grass.
boppers and June bugs,
sud the despised bats are foes of bugs
that fly by night.
While moles are regarded as nui.
#ances in a garden, they are declared
to bs benefactors
Upon earth worms which destroy the
rools of plants. The porcupine is put
uuder the bao bicsuse Oy goawiog at
bark it destroys trees.
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Oak Hall,
Mra. J. J. Tremler is
from her recent iliness.
Mrs. William Rishel, of Lemont
was a caller io town last week.
Mre. Philip Dale is able to
Again after a few weeks loess,
improviog
be out
noon at Pine Grove Mills.
Prof. D. O Etters, of Btate
visited the Osk Hall schools last week,
Willlam Folk hss purchased the
property owned by Arthur Peters
Oscar Rishel is assisting his brother
William in the biscksmith shop at
Lemont, this week.
Mrs. Edward Bellers, who has been
is not
improving.
Miss Mary Homan spent Baturday
and Bundsy with her parents at
the department as he may designate,
For the purpose of carrying ont the
provisions of this act Congressman |
McHenry is asking congress to set |
aside an appropriation of $300,000 for
the coming year, His bill is now in|
the bands of the house committee on
agriculture,
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OMeers Instalied,
\
ress
Grange held Friday evening in Grange
Arcadia, the officers for the ensuing
year were it stalled, the ceremony in-
cident to the occasion haviog been
performed by David K. Keller, a
Pastmaster. Afier the installation
proper was completed, addresses were
made by Dr. W. H, Schuyler, Rev, 8.
A. Boyder, A. R. Alexander, and
Hon. Leonard Rhone,
Although mercury stood at zero the
attendance was large, the asudionce
being made up of members of the or.
der, their families and friends. When
the businees of the session was com-
pleted, the Master, who had been in.
stalled for a second term, invited all to
the hall below, where tables lndened
with choice refreshments awaited
them,
The officers who will serve through-
out the present year are these :
Master, Dr. 1. F. Bitoer
Overseer, Leonard Rhone
Lecturer, Prof. C. BR. Nef?
Steward, Cloyd Brooks
Asmistant Steward, Christ D, Keller
Chaplain, Mm. Kate Conley
Treasurer, George Gingerich
Secretary, David K. Keller
Gate Keeper, Ray Durst
Ceres, Ruth Brooks
Pomona, Rath Callahan
Lady Steward, Mrs. Victor Auman
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The Weather Man,
Upto this time January weather
has been unusually cold. Oa the first
day of the month mercury was the
highest, reaching forty above mero.
Oa the night of the fourth it was two
below, snd during the next day the
range was between thst and zero, On
the night of the fifth it was four below
zero, and on the sixth one above zero.
Oa the night of the seventh meroury
agalo went to four below the dividing
line,
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Bras, Dairy snd Stock Feeds,
You will always find at our mill the
best bran, Badger Dalry Feed, and
Bohumacher's Stock Feed. These
feeds will bear com
[feeds on the market for motual values
from a scientific sod practical stand.
print. Purohuses sre made In oar
load lote, aud prices reasonable.
W. Hexey Somoynes,
tate College,
Mr. and Mm. John Bhatt and little
dsughter, of Bellefoute, were recent
visitors at the hone of Mathias
Dernar,
W. A Odenkirk and wife, of Glen
ghter Anns,
were visitors at Bunny
Hillside Inst Wednesday,
Mr. and Mra. Fred Davia
of Byracuee,
New York, spent the holiday season
with the parents of Mrs. Davis, Mr.
aud
.
Aaronsburg,
Mee. W. H, Philips speat a day in
Bellefonte last week.
Mies Kate Fleisher, of Centre Hall,
Was ou guest at the home of Mrs. { De.)
Deshler,
Mrs. John Coldren, of Centre Hall,
WAS a guest at the home of R. W.
Mensch » few days | wt week,
Mrs. Homer Zurby mod brother
Horace Biover have returned to their
Lome in Youngstown, Ohio,
Mrs. Bright Bituer and daughter, of
days at the
home of Mra. Nelson Wert,
Miss Ardrenna Harmon returned to
Lancaster on Monday to continue her
studies in shorthand,
Ralph Kerstetter and brother, of
State College, visited their sunt, Re
becoa Boyder, at the home of Z. D.
Thomas,
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Colyer.
Mrs G. RB. Meese spent Bunday at
the home of Newton Yarnell,
Miss Ida Klinefelter spent a day
Inst week at the home of Mrs, Sallie
Horner,
Sir. and Mrs. Irvin, of MifMinburg,
are visiting friends and relatives at
Tussey ville,
Mra. John Bpangler, of Chicago, I1).,
Is spending several weeks at the home
of James Spangler, of near Tasseyville,
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Ripka and fam.
ily and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rickert
and family spent Suaday at the home
of William Moyer,
Colyer No. 2 Telephone Company, a
branch company of the Patrons Rural
Telephone Company, installed tele
phones in the residences of J, 8
Houseman and Heaty Moyer.
resulte,
it and be convine 4d. It is also an i
1912.
dg =
.
COL. WOODWARD’ S BAY,
leports 861 290 Exproded for Farmers’ In.
stiiuien tn Decomber
| Col John A. Wosdward, the Re-
porter presumes it was bim, caused to
be sent to this effics a column long
[article s'gued by himself, W. Fred
| Reynolds, and Willard Dale, board of
county lostitute m anagers, in which a
struggling etfore is made to make it
Sppear that this paper was ig error
wheu it caloulated the uoused fuods
apportioned for the six days of Far
mers’ Lastitute held in this county to
be $44 10. The calculation was made on
the basis of the funds used for the two
days of institute at Centre Hall, which
was $10 30
Before anything further ie said on
the tual ject, the Reporter wishes to
i#ay very plaivly that Mr. Reynolds
{80d Mr. Dale have never been coneid-
{ered as having had a part in the ex-
| penditure of any of the state's funds
{for institute purposes. At least Col,
| Woodward always expressed the re.
| presentative of the state by the use of
| & pronoun vertical in character,
Col. Woodward, by nis statement
| vent bere, which is too long for publi
eation, sums up the total expense for
the institutes in Centre county to os
$61.20, or $13.71 cents Jess than might
have been used had the full amount
credited 40 these inetiiutes been ex-
bausted,
Iu his expense account Col. Wood.
ward has no charge for his trip to
Ceutre Hall to arrange fir the pro-
Kram, aud if he made one to Btorms-
{town and Eagleville, af he said he
| would, be has made no charge. The
trip to Centre Ha'l was altogether up.
| necessary, There was nothing done
| here that could not have been done by
| letter or over the telephone, but since
| complaint,
| Now this is different from what it
jused to be—so far as the chargiog is
| concerned. Beveral years ago when
{ Mr. Woodward came to Centre Hall to
| make the preliminary arrangements
for the institute program, he hired =»
Z-horee team in Bellefonte and cha'g
Up the expense to Centre Hall inst.
tute; sod also added a number of
other expenses foreign to the lostitute
at Centre Hall, and when it came to
settling with the logal committee
there was bhair-pulling—in words.
According to his statement, Mr
Woodward had much more than ex.
pended the allotment made to Centre
Hall, and at that time he argued that
Dot more than $25 00 could be used at
Dy ove lostitute. [ He does not
Argue that way soy wore. ] The lo
cal committee by its slalemeut showed
that the $25 00 bad not been exhaust.
ed, aud appealed its case to Hon. A. L.
Martin, Director of Iustitutes, at Har.
risturg, snd its claim was paid by him
after the Colonel had refused to socept
the bills. It might be of more real in-
lerest and benefit to the farmers of
Centre county if Col. Wood ward
would go to the trouble to have pub-
lished one of his «t stements made be
fore the Reporter gave Lhe public the
sum of a possibile balance of unexpend-
ed available fonds,
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MURNAY & BITNER'S SUCCESS,
Great Popularity of Plan to Sell Medicine
At Half-Price and Guarantee A Cure,
Murray & Bitver the enterprisivg
druggists rather than await the ordi-
nary methods of introduction, urged
the Dr. Howard Co. to secure a quick
sale for their celebrated specific for
the cure of constipation and dyspepsia
by offering the regular 50; bottle at
half-price,
The wonderful success of this plan
Was a great surprise evea to Murray &
Bitoer and today scores of people here
in Centre Hall age using and praising
this remarkable remedy,
In addition to selling a 502 bottle of
Dr. Howard's specific for 25; Murrey
& Bitner have so much faith in the
Remedy that they will rtand the
money to suyones whom it does not
cure,
When your bead aches your
stomach dows not digest food enaily
and naturally when there ia constipu-
tion, specks befors the eyes, tired
feeling, giddiness, bad taste in the
mouth, coated tongae, - heart burn,
sour stomach, roaring or ringing In
the ears, melancholy aud liver
troubles Dr. Howard's specific will
cure you, Ifit does not it will not
00st you a cent,
This latest achievement of science In
of great value ln curing siok headache,
Thousands of women ace today free
from that painful disease so
through the use of this specifio,
A I HY SAIN.
The Bucrene Dairy Feed for
milch cows. You will be
with the result.—R. D.
tre Hall,
When buying a
ohildrga bear in mi
that
In
ne
lect
oallant feed for calves sud young
J. H. AND B. E. Wrpgs,
Ly -. RD. F
infu, h Remed
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TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
Progress Grange will hold a regular
meeting Saturday afternoon,
The borough counell did not hold
its monthly meetiog in January,
A. R. Alexander, of Michigan, con-
tinues to evjoy his visit to Penns
Valley very much.
Eight inch ice was stor
of this week,
very good,
this winter,
Distemper has become epidemic in
Nippenose Valley, macy horses hav.
ing the disease, and in s number of
cases the disease proved fatal.
Harriet Goodlin, colored, of Belins.
grove, a poor charge for thirty years
and the only colored person in Boyder
touunty died at the advanced age of
oae hundred and ten years,
Columbia county associate Judges
have come to the conclusion that the
court crier is of po Couscquence and
have discharged John Ww. Bhumar,
who fills that position in that county,
An hour after lakiog the oath of
0 Foe, Prothonotary I 7. C. Dissinger,
of Bunbury, became unconscious from
a0 alisck of graemic poisoning and
without regsining consciousness died
the next afternoon.
ed beginning
The quality was also
It was the first crop for
Mrs. Laurs Lee has returned from ga
plessure trip to the West, having visit.
ed ber sisters Mra. Conrad Peck, in
Kansas, and Mra Heary Dasher, in
Michigan. Bhe is Very much pleased
with the country and people in the
we lern states,
Heory Linn recently sold the old
Lino farm, near Hunters Park, to
Foster Housel, of Valley View. The
farm consists of two hundred and
twenty acres, a portion being under-
layed with limestone, and the consid.
eration was $5000
Frank Beatty, a liniment veuder,
was found along a public road pear
Huotingdon almost froz:n to death,
He was taken to the Biair Meniorial
Hospital where he died a few hours
thereafter. He was intoxicated, and
it is supposed he laid down and fell in-
to a stupor,
Having sold his farm, near Lemont
to the Penvsylvants State College,
William Johnstonbaugh purchased
the Henry Tibbens farm, oo the
Jacksonville road below Bellefonte,
and tenanted by James Bartly. The
consideration was $6000, and posses-
8ion will be given April 1st,
What.is known as Colyer Rural
Telepbone Line, No," 2 & branch of
the Patrons Rural Telephone Com-
pany, will reconstruct its line from
Colyer to Centre Hall, snd pole by
the way of Potters Milla, Many of
the poles sre now on the ground, and
&8 800D 88 the weather conditions per
mit construction will begin,
W. H. Baird has decided to quit the
farm and next March will make sale
of his farm stock and implements,
and thereafter move to State College,
Thomas Delaney, who now lives on
the Hoy farm, on the Jackeonville
road below Bellefonte, has rented the
farm. He is a brother of John De-
Isvey, who lives on the Albert Bpayad
farm, at Egriystown.
The baru on the farm owned by J.
H. Loong and tenanted by Tobias
Weitzel, located two miles east of
Jacksonville, was recently destroyed
by fire, the only thing saved being
one horse. It was one of the largest
barns in that section. Five mileh
cows, three horses, two young cattle
and several hogs, all the farm ma
chinery, feed, grains, ele., was also
destroyed. The total loss js estimated
at between $2000 mod $2500. Mr.
Wetzel had but $700 insurance ; there
Was no insurance on the barn,
A two-story school house, at Mack
eyville, erected in 1866, and valued aot
several thousand dolisrs, was totally
destroyed by fire Friday night of last
week. A new heating plant had been
installed recently, and on several pre
vious ocossions during sessions of the
schools, the flor of the building wae
ignited, but the flames were extin-
quished before damage
The fire that destroyed the building is
also supposed to hava besa
the heating plant. There was bat
$500 insurance, and it was held in the
Bagar Valley company,
The Reporter is indebted to David
B. Klige, of Los Angeles,