VOL. XCIII.
Chairman Walker's Report,
UNITED STATES eo
GOVERNMENT
NO. 11
CENTRE HALL. PA. THURSDAY. MARCH 13, 1919.
Bellefonte Jeweler Scares off Hold-Up
Man.
The sight of a gun poked into his face
by a stranger who demanded his money
and his jewelry, did not alarm Frank
Galbraith, a Bellefonte jeweler, to the
extent that he lost his head and thus be-
come an easy mark to a would-be rob-
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TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
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HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS
We'll all save the day light and be
lighted to do so.
BOALSBURG SCHOLARS FARMER REGAINS LOST SIGHT. THE DEATH RECORD.
TO GIVE PLAY. - - ——
John Kreider, of Snyder County, | Mrs. Carrie Wolf Dies in West.—Body
Blind for Seven Years, Suddenly | Brought to Ceftre Hall for Burial,
Regains Sight, Worr.—The death of Mrs. Carrie BE
Wolf occurred at Colorado Springs,
Colorado, on Saturday, two days after
“Billy's Aunt Jane", 3-Act
Comedy, to be Given in Boal Hall,
Saturday Evening.
a
Blind for seven years, John Kreider, rl
The junior and seni-r classes of the | of Kratzerville, Snyder county, suddenly
The report of sales of W. S. S, and T
ber,
Boalsburg High school are preparing to
produce the three-act comedy drama,
exclaimed one morning this week, as he
gazed from the window, * mother, I can
her seventy-fifth birthday anniversary.
A telegram of her death was received by
Harry Weaver, of Altoona, was
Centre Hall on Saturday,
in
her niece, Mrs. Joha C, Rossman, in this
place, at whose home the deceased spent
the greater part of last summer. She
had been in ill health for three months
preceding her death.
Mrs. Wolf was formerly Miss Carrie
Working and was born and raised below
Centre Hall, a number of her relatives
being buried in that section. For the
left totally blind |Past eighteen years she lived in the
: west. Two sons survive—E, J. Wolf, of
Kansas City, Kansas, and R. Bruce. of
person to lead him. They will accompany the
ing on his employ a body to Centre Hall, and burial will be
farmer to do the sim. made from the local Presbyterian church
late Friday night when all alone in his see |”
little shop to the rear of the Lyric thea-
tre on Bishop street. Mr, Galbraith
was busily at work when he suddenly
heard the words, * I want’ your money
and your jewelry.” Raising his head
he looked directly into the muzzle of a
revolver, in the hands of a man not
twenty-five years of age, and a total
stranger,
** Do you want all that's in the draw-
er, too?" he asked.
** Yes, " replied the robber,"
quick about it.”
“Billy's Aunt Jane", in Boal hall,
Boalsburg, on Saturday evening of this
week, The scholars are anxious to
place a piano in the school and are tak-
ing this means to raise funds toward the
purchase of it,
The play abounds in humor and is
sure to delight the audience, The cast
of characters follows
CHARACTERS,
Proffessor Stephens - Pres. of |
College.
Harry Confer, of Rebersburg, shipped
a carload of horses from Coburn station,
last week, to Washington, D. C.
S. of the Benjamin Franklin (1919)
Series, so far as Centre county is con-
cerned, was 89c. per capita on March 1st,
1919,
From the reports received. from the
several postmasters in the county for
the months of January and February,
will be noticed the fact that many people
are not, as a general rule, purchasing
many stamps, and it is evident that in
certain localities the postmasters and
authorized agents are not urging sales.
No special effort has been put forth by
any person in the county, so far as your
chairman is informed, to sell W. §, S,
in large numbers, The *' Systematic
Saver " of 1918 is the person who is now
taking advantage of this real govern-
While chopping wood his home
seven years ago, Kreider was struck
the eye with a flying chip.
at
in
The ey
was penetrated and he went to Phils
phia, where he u
A small supply of postage stamps and
envelopes kept or hand constantly by
those served by rural mail carriers, will
be found of great advantage,
nderwent an
in which the eye was removed.
A short
operation
other
the
lost the
time later eye be-
Compared with a few years ago
power
are not nearly so many
at horse sales,
came affected and of
" ponies ¥ sold
And later on they
be less and less until finally there will be
none on the market.
vision,
When
premises, it
and he was
he
went around the house, or
all *
elimore
4 Was necesss
He
farm and to
another
3 L olorado.
notn-
and be could do
Galbraith went to the
money drawer, opened it and jerked out
a revolver about two sizes bigger than
one the burglar ha {, whereupon the latter
exclaimed, ** Don't shoot,” and in two
jumps was through the door and made
Grart Kline
Billy Blakesley - - A Popular Bellmore
Student
There will be more sociability
the period between now and a
Tuesday in November than for
years past, That smile
winning.
Rev, T. Hugh Macleod, pastor of the
during
certain
'
this ( Thursday) morning.
Mrs. Mary Dinges, of
several
and
Paul Coxey
Tom Burke - - - - - . Billy's Roommate
Carl Bohn
Ralph Peters « - - - . Billy's Classmate
He arose nd
an
y pg. |
HORKECQ
morning was
. .
Centre Hall, is
is a sistef-in law of the deceased.
; 5 ovat
filled with greal
from
s
the window an and
and rn
hill takin
aii axing
ment security.
Two months of the campaign have
elapsed and unless the several district
chairmen, bankers, authorized agents,
postmasters and others, will devote a
little of their spare time in interesting
the public generally, the per capita will
be at a standstill, and the standing of
our county will in a short time lose its
enviable position.
Union county now has over $35.00 per
capita and is first in the list of counties
in the State. It has been said that
the people in certain localities feel it
their duty to buy W. S.S. and T. S. the
same as to buy food, clothing and other
necessaries of life, and it is among that
class of people that large sales are being
made, as well as the ‘systematic
saving" idea is becoming definitely
fixed,
The post office report on the sales of
W. S. 8. in 1919, shows Centre Hall to
have purchased 64 W, S, S. in January,
7 in February, or a total of 151 up to
March 1st. For the same length of time
nearby post offices had sales as follows :
Spring Mills, 230; Boalsburg, 8% Lin-
den Hall, 7; Millheim, 4; Tusseyville,
18; State College, 424-
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** Head of Family '* Meaning Defined.
A statement issued recently by Collec-
tor of Internal Revenue, B, F. Davis, de-
fines the exact meaning of the designa.
tion '* head of family,” such person be-
ing allowed the $2,000 exemption grant.
ed a married person in the filing of an
income tax return.
** A head of a family” said Collector
Davis “is a person who actually sup
ports in one household one or more per.
sons closely connected with him by
blood relationship, relationship by mar-
riage or by adoption. Whether in the
absence of continuous residence with his
dependents a perspn is the head of a
family depends upon the character of
the separation.
* If the benefactor is absent on busi.
ness or on account of military or naval
science, or a child or other dependent is
absent temporarily at school or on a vis-
it, the common home being maintained,
the exemption of $2,000 applies. If
however, the dependent continuously
makes his home elsewhere the benefac-
tor, irrespective of the question of sup-
port, is not the head ot a family.
**In the case of man and wife, the
joint exemption of $2,000 allowed a mar-
ried couple replaces the individual! sx
emption allowed each only if they live
together. Unavoidable absence of a
wife or husband at a sapatorium or asy-
lum on account of illness does not pre-
clude claiming the exemption. If, how-
ever, the husband continuously and vol.
untarily makes his home one place and
the wife at another each must file an 1n-
dividual return of net income of $1,000
or more, and each is assessed on the
amount of net income in excess of $1000.
** A person under twenty-one years of
age or under the statutory age of major-
ity where he lives, whatever it may be,
is required to render a return if he had a
net income for 1918 or $1,000 or more, or
guardian may render the return for him,
The earnings of minor children depend.
ent upon a parent should be included in
the parent's return of income.
A tls. fs
nge in Postal Rate July 1st, 1919,
On and after July 1st, 1919, the rate of
postage on all matter of the first class
will be the sume as the rate before Octo.
ter and, 1917.
That is, the rate for letters will be two
cents for each ounce or (raction thereof
instead of the present rate of three
cents.
The rate for single postal cards will
‘be one cent for each card instead of the
good his escape.
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Letter from M. M. Condo.
Greensburg, Pa,
March 6, 1919
The Centre Reporter,
Centre Hall, Pa.
Editor Reporter :
to answer ;
so if you wil
to publish ti
gh
ts
Mrs.
came out here and, of
good, At
present we are slowly recovering from
an attack of the flu. I have been sick
for about three weeks, during which
time we have been at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. C, E. Price,
get good attention, As soon as we are
able we to come to Centre
Hall for a few days, probably between
the 1st and ath of April. Dr. C. E.
Pierce, who has been attending us, just
returned a short time ago from Georgia
where he had been with our soldier boys
for the past eighteen months,
One of our
Curry, has been
have you do 80. Condo
well when we
course the trip did her no
avd, of course,
expect
T. 1.
da
the
Hospital for the past three weeks.
is only a few squares from
have been unable to go to see her.
and in case any one wishes fo
101
write, a
letter will reach us at Columbia
Ave., Vaodergrift, Pa.
The rest of the children are well.
With best regards to all our friends.
I remain,
M. M. Coxvo.
A AANA
“Bob ' Keller Writes from France.
The following letter has been received
from Robert J. Keller, a former Centre
Hall boy, whose home address is In.
gram. He is with the A. E. F. in
France,
Villion, France,
February 16, 1919.
Dear Friend Ted
This is my ninth mohth over here. I
have gone torough all the drives un-
wounded, and I consider myself pretty
lucky.
Just got back yesterday from & seven
day leave to Val Les Bans, a French
summer resort. This is a small village
in which we are now located,
Will close for this time.
pleased to here from you.
=
Would be
My address
(Pvt) R. J. Keller,
Co. D, 319 Inf., 80 Div.
American E, PF,
Civil War Hero Is Dead.
David Trutt, a Civil war hero, who
knocked the Confederate flag from Fort
Sumpter in the first battle of the great
rebellion, died in Sunbury, on Saturday.
He was born in Winfield, Union
county, July rs, 1837. He enlisted in
the Northern army and served from 1861
to 1865 as a member of Co, D, sand
Regt. of Pennsylvania Volunteers
Heavy Artillery,
When Fort Sumpter came in posses.
sion of the ‘Rebel forces, the Northern
for two days but failed to dislodge it,
flagstaff clean off the fort,
A i a
Legislators.
Frank Hosterman
Harry Hunter 3illy's Classmate
Lester Brouse
Philander Wells - - - A Miping Expert
Roy Searson
Deacon Podger - A Tight-fisted Farmer
Russell Bohn
Sam Johnson - - - A Colored Chore Boy
Harold Fisher
Mrs. Jane Briggs - - - - - . Billy's Aunt
Rebecca Close
Miss Wiggins - - - « + A Maiden
Dorothy Lonberger
Dora Grant - - - - . Apna Rishel
.
Alice Moore - - ~ Larue Ishler
Bertha Wright Myrtle Houtz
Anna Moxley ~ - - . . Emeline Hess
Students at Bellmore
- = = A Hired Woman
Mary Hazel
Time—The Present,
siimore College &
Lady
Katie Murphy
Buxton,
ALT
Scene-~-Sitling. room of Col
ing House,
ACT 11.
Scene- Aunt
Home,
Sitting-room at Jane's
ACT 111,
Scene~-The Lawn at
Camp ”
"Cosy Nook
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Turn Clocks Ahead on March 30.
The Daylight Savings bill is still
law. The clocks of the country will
set ahead one hour Marc
When the Senate adjoursed without
having acted on the Agricultural Appre
priation bill, to which a repeal df the
Daylight Saving law was attached as a
* rider ”, it is left the extra hour of sum
mer sunlight law on the books.
oan
a 30
ns HI MP APA AIA
Reformed Churches To
$6,000,000.
The general synod of the Reformed
churches of the United States was
vpened at Altoona last Thursday with
three bundred delegates, ministers and
laymen, in attendance. The present
session, the first since 1591, was called
to consider matters relating to the recon-
struction period following the war,
The Reformed churches will be asked
to raise $6,000,000 during the next five
years. Of this sum $1.115.700 will go
to foreign missions ; $1,000,000 to home
missions ; $2,125. 000 to colleges, semi.
naries and $10,000 to assist European
churches,
A committee of sixteen, of which the
Rev. Dr. C. E. Kreitz, of Reading, is
chairman, was appointed to plan the
campaign,
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FRUITTOWN.
Edward Horner is moving this Thurs-
day from this place on to a dairy farm
near State College.
Mr. Reiber returned home last week
after spending a few days with his son
in Johnstown,
Anva Reminger, of this place is visit.
ing among friends and relatives at
Spring Mills and vicinity,
Anna Fohringer went to State College
last week where she will be employed
for some time.
Mrs. William Jordan spent several
days last week with her brother Thomas
and family, near State College.
William Bubb, who is employed at
the Standard Steel works at Burnham,
spent last week at the home of his par-
ents in this place.
Wilbur Holderman, who was just re-
cently discharged from training camp,
spent last week with his brother Arthur,
in this place,
Norman Fleisher, of Camp Lee, Vir
ginia, spent some time last week at the
home of his grandparents, Mr, and Mrs.
T. J. Fleisher,
Raise
outlines grew
the
#001
Aratzerville was
range recovery. Kreid-
active work
ug
The Doughboy, Not the * Y", was
Wrong.
nseguence
iQ appearance the French
andard article
price had been ten «
the
'
increased cost
add five cents 1
it yielded the
that
uniess
consideration
|
n juarter, he had
quite a right to feed abused —until he re.
membered that ** cts
breviation for
was charging a
"18 the French ab.
centimes and that twenty.
five centimes equals five cents. Often
he didn't remember, however, and that
is one reason why the Y. M. C. A. bas
been said to overcly rge.,
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Grays Appeal for New Trial.
W. G. Runkle and Ellis L.. Orvis, Esqs.,
last week filed an application in the Su.
perior court praying that a new trial be
ordered for |. G. Gray and his two sons,
George and Clyde, and requesting the
court to direct that they be released on
bail provided the necessary bond is fur.
nished. In filing their application the
attorneys state that new testimony has
been discovered which they consider
very important and which they believe
would bring about an acquittal of their
clients if a new trial is granted them.
In pursuance of the above appeal the
court has requested prothonotary D, R,
Foreman to prepare a complete record
of all the cases and have it ready by Ap-
ril first. When it is considered that
there are over five hundred pages of
typewritten testimony in the three cases,
an idea can be had of the job Mr. Fore.
man now has on his hands. The rec
ords must not only be assembled but
printed in book form so that the evi-
dence can be submitted to the higher
court,
A AY NAAN
Browx.—Mrs. Anna Brown, widow of
Nathaniel Brown, passed away at the
0” her son, William A, Brown, at
ngdon, an Monday, She was past
ight years of age and knew
little or k_ow illness all her life. A few
suffered a
seventy-¢
days prior to her death she
ic stroke which resulted fatally,
was Miss Dunkle,
Jacob and Mary Dugkle
near Spring Mills and
lived there practical Two
was
Anna
cally all her life,
and it
then that she was removed to Hunting.
isband died
years ago her hy
1ake her home with her son. the
There are no
the Dunkle
in
. Brown was a consis
member
the Lutheran ch
The
»d in Centre Hall on Wednes-
urch all ber life
the
in-
n, and was conveved to
melery at Farmers Mills for
7. 12, 8. Kurtz officiating.
Lus—Mrs, Dorothy Helms died at
of her mother, Mrs, G. D.
mbruster, at Farmers Mills, Wednes.
day evening, from tuberculosis. She
was aged thirty-five years. She first
took sick at Altoona. Later she went to
Colorado, she remained for six
uths or more. On her return from
the west she came to the home of hor
siter, Mrs, James Bilger, and about
Christmas returned to the home of her
mother, where she died as noted above
Isterment was made in the Farmers
Mills union cemetery, on Saturday, Rev.
D. S. Kurtz officiating.
where
”
M1
the
sex —Miss Rebecca Musser died
home of ber brother-in-law,
George M. Stover, at Aaronsburg, last
Thursday, aged seventy-four years and
twenty-one days. She had suffered
from dropsy for a long time. Burial
was made at Wolf's Chapel, on Sunday,
beside her parents. Rev. Donat, pastor
of the deceased, officiated, and services
were held in St. Peter's Reformed
church,
at
Snoox—Milinda C, Shook, wife of H.
P. Shook, of Williamsport, and a sister
of D. J. Meyer, of Centre Hall, died on
February 27th, from apolexy. She was
born March gth, 1845, at Meyers Mills,
Haives Towaship, this county, In Jan-
uary, 1897, she married H. P. Shook.
Burial was made from her late home at
Williamsport, on March 3nd,
A I HG SOBA
Thrift to Be Taught in the Schools.
It is now probable that thrift will be
taught as a part of the regular course in
the schools of the country, with a spec.
ially prepared set of text books. In fact
a start along this line has already been
made. The War Savings Division of
the Third Federal Reserve District has
approved of the idea and appointed a
commitiee to work on a plan for submis
sion to the state school authorities,
The school authorities of the country
were urged to join in the government
campaign to make thrift a happy nation.
al habit in a telegram sent today by Sec-
retary Glass of the Treasury Deparnt-
ment to the National Edacation Associ.
ation in convention at Chicago. Secre-
Union County Want Farm Bureau.
Union county farmers will ask the,
¢unty commissioners to giv: them an
appropriafion to pay the expenses of an
office and traveling expenses of a Farm
Bureau Agent. Other counties in this
section of the state have a Farm Bureau
Agent, they declare, who acts.as an ad.
visor to the farmers and the Union
county men feel that such a move is of
great benefit to them,
tary Glass asked that the teaching of
culum during the present year,
. Sunday fishing, Sunday base ball
playing and Sugglay ** movies are all
before the State legislature,
5
Pity poor Henry Ford, His income
for 1918 was so seriously affected by the
United Brethren church of Bellefonte,
has tendered his resignation to accept a
position under the government, in the
war risk insurance bureau.
The knitting mill
being closed down for several
at Millheim, after
weeks,
started on Monday morning and the eng-
ployees will be given three days work a
week until conditions improve,
A bill established as a state song the
work of Dr. Will George Butler, of
Mansfield State Was
favorably reported to the State Legisla-
ture last week, It
vania of Mine ”,
Normal school,
: Toul 6c 1X a
is entilied fennsyi-
ie Columbia S xtette
TH loubt
will undoubt.
edly prove one of the finest musical treats
in many seasons, Lecture Course
trons shonld remember the date of
appearance of this number in Centre
Hall—-Wednesday, March 19th
Better get your income tax sheet fixed
up. You have prospered during the past
year, and much of the profit you made is
directly or indirectly due the world
war, so why kick when asked to chip in
the hat? Come uj the line, give a
true account your income, and pay
the pri that every man who doesn't
have an income tax to pay wishes he
had,
fo
* to
of
is the name of a proposed new indus
in that city,
talized at $100,000, and application
charter has already been made.
sew plant will contain all the mode
machinery necessary for the bottling of
milk and making chéese. Later
company will produce condensed
in' large quantity,
the
“sh
milk
Clarence Brungart, the miail carrier
between Bellefonte and Lock Haven,
was last week graoted a certificate of
public convenience by the Public Service
Commission to operate one car between
Bellefonte and Lock Haven and carry
passengers to and from any of the inter.
mediate points. The granting of the
certificate had been contested by the
Emerick Motor Bus Line company.
Be careful to put A. E. F., which as
you know is an abreviation for * Amer-
ican Expeditionary Forces,” on all let-
ters addressed to soldier boys anywhere
in service abroad. A three cent stamp
is the proper postage on letters address-
edto France. If the A. E. F. is not
used. the postage rate is five cents, and
your letter is treated as addressed to a
tourist or native of France,
Several slight cases of scariatina have
developed at the Odd Fellows’ Orphan-
age, near Sunbury. The victims are be-
ing cared for in the mfirmary and are
getting along nicely. Supt. Chubbuck
says there is no cause for alarm and that
every precaution has been taken to pre-
vent the outbreak of a serious epidemic.
One of the victims has about completely
recovered, but is being kept under
quarantine for several days longer as a
measure of precaution.
L. T. Stees, secretary of the Funeral
Benefit Association, of Philadelphia,
whose company insures the members for
something like one thousand P. 0. 8. of
A, orders, was in Centre Hall Thursday
of last week, and attended a meeting of
the local P. O. 8, of A. on that evening
in the interest of his company. It was
his first trip to Centre county and it re-
press himself on the beautiful scenery
and the rich appearance of this agricul
The West bill increasing the pay of
members of the State legislature from
$1,500 to $2,500 for each regular session
was passed. in the house last Wednes-
day, amid cossmderable hilarity, Mr,
Williams, of Tioga, demanded a verifi-
war that his income tax figures about
one million dollars less than the year
previdus, ?
AA SA AA £
There is no reduction in coal prices com-
ing, at least, not yet. Instead of the us-
C. 8, Thomas is spending some time
with relatives in Brooklyn, New York,
and will be accompanied home by his
wife who spent the winter months with
her mother at that place.
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Petitions will be circulated for signa.
tures favoring a farm agent for Union
county, and when these petitions are.
signed they will be presented to the
county commissioners asking them for
an appropriation of $1500, or as much as
may be needed to pay the office and tra. ual fifty cent reduction April 1, present
veling expenses of a Farm Agent or Ad. prices will be effective until May ist.
visor for one year, . : «Oa that date the price will increase ten
The salary of the Farm Agent is paid cents a month every month for five
by the state and Federal government, months. : : Fa
t rate of two cents,
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Ford Promises Cheaper Automobiles.
Henry Ford has announced that on
his arrival at Detroit, from his trip to
California, he would perfect plans for |cation of the roll during which several
the manufacture, by a new corporation, | members chaoged votes,
or a cheaper automobile than any now
extensively marketed. Mr, Ford said] * Billy's Aunt Jane”, a school play,
+ he had designed the car while * resting”, will be given at Boalsburg on Saturday and cutoff a large piece
#t Altadena, near Los Angeles, evening. Don't miss it, the ball of the left thum
i 4 ; .
vy x i 4 -
While cutting wood, one day last
week, M. H. Smith, of Millheim, had
the misfortune to have his axe glance
e of flesh from
* bow
2