v,
JUNE
8. 1916.
VOL. LXXXIX.
Fresent Period of Industrial Activity
FPromiges to be Permanent, Says Necre-
tary of Treasury.
The United States, according to a
>
G. McAdoo, is facing an era of unpre-
cedented prosperity. The outlook for
the country, he says, has never been
as bright as that at the present time,
Unlike other previous periods of this
great business activity, the present
ascendancy in all lines of industrial
endeavor possesses all the ‘elements of
permanence, provided the people are
willing to avail themselves of the op-
portunities, literally thrust on their
hands,
‘Prosperity has permeated every
corner of the country,” said Secretary
McAdoo, ‘‘Every line of business is
pulsating with it. Every industry is
driving at top speed of profitable ac-
tivity, Never in Americad history
have conditions been so favorable to
American business and American
industry. We have not alone the full
dinner pail, but the overflowing din-
ner pail,
‘ Agriculture, which is the basis of
all prosperity, is experiencing a most
wholesome growth. The farmers of
the United States never in their his-
tory have enjoyed such splendid re-
warda for their toil, end never before
have the economic conditions and the
laws already enacted by a Democratic
adminietration so justly favored them.
The rural credits bill, which will soon
be passed and approved by the presi-
dent, will emancipate the farmer from
many of the most serious ills he has so
long endured, and provided the long
time credits at low rates of interest, so
essential to the remunerative and pro-
ductive development of the farming
industry.
‘* Money and credit are abundant;
the ghost of panic has been securely
laid. Io the midst of a war-torn and
war-worn world, with adversity
crumbling the economic foundation of
almost every other great power, the
financial, commercial, and industrial
conditions in the United States are
phenomenally sound and exceptional-
ly strong. This is due not to tranpsi-
tory war orders, or ephemeral trade,
but to the amazing economic strength
of the United States.”
A A AY A———
Forest Fires Fewer This Spring,
Reports submitted to the Chief
Forest Fire Warden, and tabalated to
June flist, indicate that the loss from
forest fires in Pennsylvania this spring
will be considerably less than for the
spring of 1915. There Pave been fewer
fires, the average acreage per fire is
smaller, and the cost of extinguishing
the average fire is lower than lsst year,
Figures for the total money loss from
forest fires are not yet available, but it
will probably be less than for several
years past,
This showing is to be attributed
partly to weather conditions, and part-
ly to the more effective system of re-
porting and combatting fires, About
800 bills for extinction costs have been
submitted so far, and the great ms-
jority of them are for fires which burn-
ed between April 15th and 20tb, and
May 8th and 20th, Three fires are re-
ported ss baviog burned over 10,000
acres each, five over 5,000 acres each,
and thirteen over 1,000 acres each.
The total area burned by the twelve
largest fires reported is about 57,000
acres,
The largest single fire burned over
11,000 acres in Blair county, and was
of incendiary origin, Potter county
comes second, with a single fire of 10,-
400 acre, also incendiary, and Luzerne
county third with .one. fire of 10,000
acree, and another of 1,200 acres, The
other counties which have had the
most severe fires are Cameron, Centre,
Clinton, Junists, Lebanon, Hunting-
dor, and Mifflip,
As usual, the great majority of the
fires are ceused by carelessness pure
and simple. Brush burning on dry or
windy daye, defective spark arrcsters
on locomotives and other engines,
abandoned camp fires, and burning
cigarette stubs took their usual tolls
and left their usual charred monu-
ments to someone's senseless negli
gence. Reports are far from complete,
but to date brush burning snd railroad
locomotives seem to hold the question-
able honor of having started more fires
than sny other agencies. The one re-
deeming feature of the list of causes is
that the number of fires started by
fishermen is considerably lower than
last year,
W. F, Zeigler Elected Onshier,
At a meeting of the dliectors of the
Farmers National bank, on Monday
evening, Prof. W. F, Zigler, of near
Madisouburg, was unanimously elect-
od cashier of the baak to fill the va.
cancy caused by the resignation of J,
G. Eby, says the Millhelm Journal,
He will enter upon his new duties to-
Say ley Prof. Zeigler has
ie qualifications for the making of a
first-class cashier for or py
beak,
THE TOLL 18 OFF,
Turnpike From Oentre Hall to Hellefonte
Passed Over to the State Last Thursday,
No More Toll !
You may give the merry hal hal
to the toll keepers as you swish
through the toll gates on your way to
Bellefonte from now on, and incident-
ally keep your forty cents lor gasoline
or for a hundred other things that will
make you feel as though you really
got something in return for your
money.
The order to swing wide the gates
came Thursday noon, Parties travel-
ing in the morning were required to
pay toll but after the noon hour the
roads were free. The turnpike com-
pany couldn’t have wished for a better
day tn close on than the one following
circus day, for its coffers were greatly
enriched from the hundreds of autos
and wagons that passed over the roads
on Wednesday.
The deed conveying the road,
Enowhb as the Centre and Kishaco-
quillas turnpike, to the Blate was re-
ceived in Bellefonte on Wednesday
and wae accompanied with a voucher
for $13,211.25, representing three-
fourths of the price agreed upon. The
county pays the remainder of the pur-
chase price, which was $17,600,
With free roads to Bellefonte travel
from this side of the mountain will be
greatly augmented,
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Lightning Strikes Shoop's House,
At the height of the terrific electri-
cal storm which passed over the wval-
ley Friday night, a bolt of lightning
struck the flue on the Bamuel Bhoop
house, opposite the borough school
building, and besides doing consider-
able damage gave Mrs. Bhoop the worst
gcare of her life, More, Shoop was alone
that night, her husband being engag-
ed at carpenter work st Ingleby, and
when the heavy crash came she was
suddenly buried beneath a mass of
plastering which covered the entire
bed. Her screams brought her neigh-
bore, Mr. and Mrs. John Krestmer, on
the scene and after Mra, Bhoop became
composed an inspection of the dwell-
ing was made. It was found that the
bolt pierced the flue on the second
floor, makiog a very small hole, and
passed through two adj.lping bed-
roome, and down into thedining room
and kitchen where it is presumed it
struck the water pipe and scatiered.
In all rooms the plastering on the ceil-
ing ani side walls was torn loose, the
greatest damage being done in Mre,
Bhoop’s sleeping room.
Being what is known ss a “‘ cold
boit” the flash lacked the elements
that result in a covflagration, thus sav-
ing the buliding from utter destsuc-
tion,
TS —————p Mp sn
vatting State's Printing Bu),
Eograved letter heads are now being
treated at the capitol at Harrisburg as
something of fair value, not as scrap
paper. Departments which have been
using such letter heads for circulars
and similar purposes are revising their
practices, saviog the state thousands
of doilare,
Lavish use of expensive paper came
under the official frown of the Penn-
sylvania Btate Bociety, which Includes
all heads of departments. The society
r.commended to Governor Brum-
baugh that he formally ban such
waste by limiting the use of engraved
letterheads to correspondence only.
It also recommended that engraved
letterheads be furnished only to heads
of permanent departments, Commie
sions, bureaus, transient commissions
and other minor offices will have to
get along with printed letterheads,
Further saving in the state’s print-
ing bills is sought by asking the Gov-
ernor to order that all copy furnished
the Biate Printery be edited carefully
in advance,
A fp ssn
Millersville Normal Goes to State,
Arrangements have been completed
whereby the state board of education
will take title in behalf of the com
monwealth to the property of the
Millersville Btate Normal Bohool, mak-
ing the eighth of the thirteen normal
schools to be taken over,
The slate will pay $4725 in cash for
outstanding stock and sssume a debt
of $44,000, obtaining tit'e to a property
worth approximately $600,000, Nego-
tiations have been started for the ace
quisition of the Kuiztown and SBhip-
pensburg schools, the state already
having the schools at Californie, Lock
Haven, Blromsburg, Edinboro, Blip«
pery Rock, West Chester and Clarion,
——— AS ————
Heavy Downpour of Rain,
The most severe electrical storm, ‘ac~
companied by the heaviest rain fall
this spring, passed over the valley
Friday night. The amount of water
which fell during the short duration
of the storm was 1.55 inches,
————— A ————
Msjor General Leonard Wood, who
spoke wt Bosleburg bn Saturday,
one of the Presidential possibilities
10 session at Chioago this week,
MAJOR GENERAL LEONARD WOOD
SPEAKS AT BOALSBURGO, SATURDAY
is Host of Theodore Davis Boal on Ocoasion
of Inauguration of Mounted Machine
Gon Troop.~Thousand Feople Eat at
Old Fashioned Barbecue,
With the pungent odor of roast
beef and mutton from a nearby barbe-
cue in the nostrils of a thousand per-
sone, appetites were sharpened as the
crowd listened attentively to Msjor
General Leonard Wood's talk on pre-
parednese at Boalsburg's barbecue, at
which Theodore Davis Boa! was the
host, on Baturday afternoon, Thun-
der showers shortly after the noon
hour kept at least another thousand
people away. Following a heavy
shower the sun sgaln shown forth and
the afternoon proved delightful,
The occasion celebrated the insugu-
ration of a mounted machine gun
troop recently organized by Mr. Boal,
who bas been chosen captain of the
troop, The organization is made up
principally of Boalsburg and Btate
College young men, about fifty in
pumber. They were togged in their
new suite on Saturday and made a
grand appearance, Mr, Boal is fioan-
cing the movement and it is proposed to
have each member, at the expense of
the captain, own a good young horse
in a short time,
Major General Wood, in opening his
speech, expressed the hope that the
troop would be taken into the federal
service, and complimented the move-
ment very bighly. His talk on in-
creased armament for srmy and
navy was in keeping with the pre-
gram which has been laid out by Con-
grees, bripging the army's fighting
strength up to 150,000 men and in-
creasing ma'erially the siza of the
navy. His advocacy of a system of
military training such as iz in vogue ip
Swilzerland, and of a trained citi-
zenry, mel with hearty approval.
He exploded the fallacy entertained
by the average American that in the
event of war our “traditional courage’
and great numbers would defeat the
enemy. The men of no one country
are more coursgeous than those of an-
other when their national honor is at
stake, he said, and ss for numbers—
{ here he amusingly stated that
wolf was ever frightened by the size of
a flock of sheep, the ouly thirg which
might cause him any deliberition be-
log which eheep in the flock was the
fattest and best to his taste.)
Dr. E. E. Bpatks, of the Pennayl-
vania Biate College, preceded General
Wood, and made one of his charascter-
istic force’ul addresses, lining up for
preparedness also, but rather, for
moral preparedness. He cited the
German pation sas ap example of what
thoroughvess and regard for detail
have meant for them in the world
War,
It was after four o'clock when the
speech making wae through and then
the crowd lined up for thelr choles of
roast beef or mutlop. The six young
animales that bad been prepared over
sn open fire and browned to a turn
were served to the guests, Everyone
evjoyed this feature of Mr. Boal's
bospitality and there was plenty,
there being no occasion for anyone to
go away hungry.
The picnic grounds were on Mr.
Boal's estale and a iarge tent had been
erected which served to harbor those
who had arrived on the grounds when
the big rain storm came up. An
American flag was hoisted to the top
of the center pole of the teut when the
announcement came that Msjor Uen-
eral Wood and his host were arriving.
The Boalsburg band struck up a pa-
triotic air and a period of handshak-
ing followed the arrival of the princi-
pal figures,
General Wood spoke to the Penn
State students on the campus at State
College on Balurday evening.
MEMBERS OF THE TROOP,
Following is a list of the members of
the machine gun troop :
Harris Holmes John I. Thompson
J. F. Harvey T. P, Henshall
J. G. Butterworth Ray Mingle
T. BR, Weber Russell Foster
Wilbur Hoy Luther Kline
William Imboden
R. C. Harlow
Dr. J. V., Foster
William P, Allen
Dr. W. R. Ham
W. F, Leltzall
L. BR. Gammo
Theodore Davis Boal
E. C. Belbert
R. H. Bmith
K. B. Heberling
D. B. Garver
Thomas MoMahon
Walter Hosterman
Lynn Plats
C. EK, Glenn
H. A. Leitso)
J. KE. Davis
no
Wilbur Decker
J. H. Kuhn
Cyril Zechman
Jomeph Pittelli
Arthur Deering
W. BE Lewis
Ver! Struble
Philip D. Foster
J. 0, lawrence
“In Flam Valley "A Pinay.
Halurday evening, June 17th, the
yoang poople of Biglerviile, Mifflin
county, will present “In Plum Val
n diame,
aH 1oF
the Biglerville band.
EXTRA WEEK OF vOURT,
Biair County Judge Fresides~Impormant
Unse Bearing on Loss of Oattis In Fas.
ture Fettied,
Bpecial term of court convened last
Wednesday with the Hon, Thomas J.
Baldridge, President Judge of the
Blair county courte, on the bench.
The first case called was that of
Btonybrook Blate and Brick Co, va.
Centre Brick & Clay Co., guarantor of
the United Brick and Clay products
Co., being an sction in sssumpeit ;
continued,
The Blaledell Machinery Co. ve, The
Bellefonte Engineering Co., being an
action brought to recover on two notes,
summing $1400, Verdict on Wednes-
day aflernoon in favor of the plaintiff
In the sum of $1616, subject to the
questions of law reserved by the court.
Nancy Butler ve. Christian Sharer.
This case wae brought by the plaintiff
to recover for four head of young cattle
lost in the summer of 1912 out of the
pasture lands of the defendant. The
pisintifl having delivered to the resi-
dence of the defendant eight head of
young cattle and in the fall of that
year having returned to her four head.
The plaintiff contending that these
cattle having been delivered to the de-
fendant and placed in his pasture land
the defendant was liable for the value
of tha cattle not returned while the
defendant contended that he was not
liable for the value of the cattle when
they got out of the pasture land and
that be had made every effort to locate
them and that he was merely pastur-
ing cattle for a consideration. Verdict
on Thursday afternoon in favor of the
defendant.
Toner A. Hugg ve. the Bilate-Centre
Electric Company. This is an action
brought in trespase, the plaintifl alleg-
ing that when the defendants had re-
paired and deepened their race at their
power plant in Milesburg and after the
water bad been turned into the race
permanently that the cellar of his
property filled up with water and that
it was caused seapage or leakage from
the race and percolated into his cellar.
Ihst his cellar had always been dry
prior to the fall of 1914 with one or
two exceptions which bad been reme-
died. The defendant however, con-
tending that the water got into the
plaintii’z cellar from soother source
and pot from the race. Verdict on
Friday In favor of the plaioti@y for
£300.00,
Hiate-Uentre Electric Company we.
loner A. Hugg. This is an action
brought to recover for material put on
the premises of the plaintiff for the
purpose of a political demonstration in
the fall of 1914 at a certain rental and
in the event that Mr. Hugg wanted to
retain the material the price being
fixed therefor ; the plaintiff contend.
ing that it bad sent employees to re-
move this material and that Mr. Hogg
was figuring on the purchase of it al
though the rental bad been paid. The
defendant alleging that he had paid
the rental as agreed upon and had re-
turned the light globes to one of the
plaintiff's employes and that they had
the right to remove the wiring, ete., at
their (pleasure, Verdiot on Saturday
morning in favor of plaintiff for $5.59,
a ————— A ————
He Onught some Big Ones,
The face of our neighbor, F. P.
Geary, was wreathed ip smiles on Fri-
day evening as he disembarked from
the cars with fish bsaket, rod, and
landing net after a half day's sport in
Penns Creek, below Coburn, Frank
hse been making weekly trips to his
favorite fishing grounds and following
bis firel experience there which re.
suited in no fish but an increased
knowledge of the fishing art, he has
been real successful, His most recent
catches were a quartette of fine trout
measuring 184, 17, 13, and 12 Inches,
respectively. They were the largest
trout exhibited in this place in many
years and consequently Mr. Geary has
little fear of losing the belt for some
time. His real generous spirit ime
pelled him to part wilh the biggest of
the string, and furnished the junior
editor and family a most elegant sup-
per. The Delaware river shad is no
comparison in taste to a follwized
California trout,
I A ———
He Wil! Have Oharge of Ox Roast,
The task of handling the big ox
roast on July 4th, on Grange Park,
will be in charge of Wesley Gelman,
of Bt, Thomas. Mr, Gelman has had
large experience in handling big rossts
of this kind, and the local lodge
04d Fellows hopes to learn how
bandle this huge cooking job so
in future years it can take care of it
itaelf,
In order to roast the animal whole
than three feet high, T. L. Smith,
the focal tinsmith, will build ti
be similar to the se fhsting
the housewife uses in: preparing : i
young fowl for the Bunday dinner,
FIELD DAY FOR GIRLS,
Athletic Uontests Arranged for Girls a
State Usllege Next Friday Open to All
~Badges tor Winuers,
Friday of next week, June 16th, the
girls of Centre county will be given an
opportunity to paes certain athletic
tests at Biate College which the Play-
ground and Recreation Association of
America has adopted as standards
which every normal girl ought to be
able to attain. Girls from all parts of
America will pass the same tests, ‘I he
winners are entitled to badges which
may be procured for 25 cents each.
There will be three events, the first
test of each being as follows ;
All-up Indian Club Racs..............50 seconds
Or Potato Baoe..............cnmndl s000048
Basket-ball Goal Throwing..... 2 goals, 6 trials
Balancing............. «oi 24 fo6t, 2 trinls
RULES FOR TESTS,
There are no height, age or weight
limita,
Unless otherwise stated there shall
be but one trial in each event,
In order to win the national badge
it is necessary to qualify in all three
events,
(There are second and third tests,
but as no girl may receive more than
one badge in one year they are not
here given.)
DIRECTIONS FOR EVENTS.
All-up Indian Club Race.~Draw
two tangent circles, each three feet in
diameter. In one of the circles place
three one-pound model BS Indian
clube. At a point 30 feet distant from
& line passed through the center of the
circles, and parallel to it, draw a line
to be used as a starting line, On the
signal the girl rune from the starting
line, transfers the three clube, one after
the other, to the vacant circle so that
they remain standing and runs to the
stariing live. The girl makes three
such trips finishing at the starting
line. The girl is permitted to use but
one hand in transferring the clube.
The surface within the circles should
be smooth and level. A wide board
msy be used when the test is made’
out-of-doors,
To qualify for a firet test"badge a girl
most mweke the three iripe to the
circles in 80 seconde.
Potato Race.—Oa a direct line draw
4 circles, each 12 inches in diameter
and 5 yards apart from center to cen.
tre. 5 yards back of the center of the
first circle and at right angles to the
direct line, draw a line to be used ss a
starting line, This ie alec the finish
line. On the first circle place a basket
or other receptacle not over two feet in
height and with an opening not ex-
ceeding 1 foot in diameter,
On the signal the girl runs from the
starting line, takes 1 potato from the
basket and places it in the first vacant
circle ( nearest the basket ), runs back
to the basket, passes between it and
the starting line, takes the second
potato from the basket, places it in the
second circle, returns to the basket,
passes between it and the starting line,
takes the third potato from the basket,
places it in the third circle, and runs
back to the starting line. From the
starting line abe runs to the first circle,
picks up toe potato and replaces it in
the basket, passes between the basket
and the starting line, runs to the
second circle, picks up the potato, re.
places it in the basket, passes between
the basket and the starting line, rune
to the third circle, picks up the potato,
replaces it in the batket, and rune
acroes the finish line,
If a potato is dropped anyw here but
in the circle where it should be placed
or in the basket it must be picked up
and properly placed before another is
touched.
To qualify for a first lest badge a
girl must cross the finish within 42
seconds from the time the signal to
start je given,
Basket-ball goal throwing.—The
regular basket-ball goal may ased
ure Hog 18 inches in dismeter ( in-
side). It should be placed 10 feet
above the ground and the
should extend 6 inches
face to which it is attached.
From a point directly under the cen-
ter of the draw a wi
ha a ao pl
side of but touching the th
The basket-ball shall be
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS
Btraight road to Bellefonte—and
without stops !
A band of gypsies passed through
town very quietly on Thursday,
Roy Corman, who conducted a sume
mer school at Spring Mille, closed the
term on Friday.
John A. Black, one of Potter town-
ship's respected aged residents, was a
brief caller at this office last Thurs.
day.
Carl Byivie, who spent the greater
part of Inst summer in this place, un-
derwent an operation for chronic ap-
pendicitis at the Lock Haven hospital
Inst week,
A new porch is being bailt to the
front of the double dwelling house
owned by A. W. Alexander and
tenanted by T. L. Bmith and Mra,
Carrie Buhl.
Wednesday of next week the big
Ringling Brothers circus will be in
Harrisburg. Jesse McClenahan, the
Potters Mills auto-touring man, ex-
pects to make the run ino his Paige
car with a full load of passengers.
F. V. Goodhart was called tn Slate
College on Wednesday night because
of the death of Mrs. Susanna Herman.
H. N. Koch, the funeral director in
that place, was absent from town,
necessitating the call of the local di
rector.
Centre Hall was pretty well depop-
ulated last Wedneadsy, every avail
able automobile carrying crowds to
Bellefonte to take in the two big at-
tractions of the day--the Hagenback-
Wallace circus and ““ The Birth of a
Nation.”
Mr. and Mre. R. D. Foreman, Mr,
and Mrs, H. G. Btrohmeler, daughter
Miss Berths, and Clayton Homan,
were an auto party that made a trip to
Loganton, on Sanday, where the
cousins of the Foremans—Miles Breon
and Miss Maggie Breon—reside.
Samuel Poorman, son of 8. I. Poor-
man, of near Pleasant Gap, on Thurs
day opened a newly built garsge at
intersection of the Btate road from
Plessant Gap to Lemont and the road
lately taken over by the State. Bam-
ael is 8 bustling youth apd will un-
doubtedly succeed in his pew venture,
Harry F. Burkholder, a draftsman
inthe P. R. R. office at Pittaburgh,
from Thursday until Bacday was the
guest of his brother, M. A. Burkhold-
er, and family, near Potters Mille
He wae sccompanied home by his
wife, who had been spending several
weeks at the B., W. Ripka bome st
Centre Hill, and littie Miss Zella Rip-
ks, who will see the sights of a big
city for the first time.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Lichtwardt,
of Cleveland, Ohio, wete guests on
Saturday of Mre. Mary Rearick and
daughter, Miss Savills, As stated in
this psper last week, Mrs. Lichtwardt
before her marriage 8 week ago, was
Miss Ruth Moyer. The bride and
groom are on & honeymoon trip at the
close of which they will sail for Porto
Allegre, South Americs, where Mr.
Lichtwardt will organize a branch of
the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion.
Contractors Lucas and Zettle are
quite busy these daye, and for the most
part are engaged at Ingleby, where a
large bungalow ie being vrected for Bert
Rowe, of Middleburg, who for & num-
ber of years has made the mountains
hie abode because of the delicate health
of his wife. The structure when com-
pleted will be known as “Hotel Hoot"
and will be open for a particular clase
of guests, The workmen engaged
with the Lucas and Zettle firm are
Henry Foust, Charles Weeder, Bamuel
Gross, Blaine Palmer, Charles SBmitb,
Samuel Bhoop snd Fred Lucas.
Miss Sarah C, Nefl, oldest daughter
of Prof. and Mre. C. R. Neff, of near
Centre Hall, and Miss Mary Laws, a
class mate of the former at Pennayl-
vania State College, were thrown from
a buggy Saturday noon and fortunate-
The young
Indies were driving one of the farm
horses which hss a dislike for automo-
biles and upon approaching the milk
truck, of the Mill Hall Condensery
which was standing on the road at the
Lycurgus Lingle farm, the hore
soared and refused to pass although
Mies Neff, who was driving, made a