Yul. XCII111. $00,000 YOUTHS STARVING. Central Penna. Relief Chairman Tells of Sufferings of Millions. CANDLES KEEP RATS FROM STARVED JEWS 100,000 of among the Ameri- More equal were Harrisburg. than and an number candies of boxes by i ) supplies red sent agents from Paris ite Jews of Poland, in can Jewish y destii le these starving peo- to ancient \ i HIaies {0 enal ‘0 conform tLe'r » x adults of conveyed by the Central Pennsylvania ceg in the Chamber [ rooms, Harrisburg, recent direct activities t syivania drive lief Campaign £35,000,000 “But for Jewish ing tO 1H1e54 imagine what ti be,” one traveller © I travelled, I f agents hand bre ad t { More than Jewl i fal ers, are bein eas‘ern Europs committees. Al humanitarian 1s 000, D060, Americ the Cent: People As sect i8 1 rrier among th recs i8 no obs*ack relief A fryer now being smitt » and pad rts being vish Relief ('o iittee for sufferers from te Eu tion the war for its work in your organiza- with wonder ful eritl cal I's « rope. speak too highly of the spirit an LH ness op ns the mos’ tive Distribution Commit in 1 too strongly the critical its emphasize necessity for i $200,000, Centra nsyivanii as been ask £200,000) this drive t oflices have been d in the hamber of Commerce BINS i David Kauf- rel, Harrisburg, Is chalrman of the general committee, and Morris B. Jacobson, also of Harrisburg, Is treas- urer, For efliclency’'s sake, the district campaign will be conducted at two different times. The first drive will be during the week of February 9-16 in Fulton, Franklin, York, Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry, Mifin, Juniata and Huntingdon counties, The second part of the campaign has been arranged for February 23 to March 1 in Tioga, Potter, Clinton, Lycoming, Center, Union, Snyder, Northumber- jJand and Montour counties. FPrelim- inary drives, however, have been suc. cessful in raising the quotas in Mon- opens of RETURN OF SOLDIER DEAD POLICY IS ANNOUNCED. Wishes of Kin will be Sole Determin- ing Factor. The policy of the War Department in regard to the return from France of the bodies American soldiers, was announced by Secretary of War Ba of deceased d ker to a delegation of forty-six men an women—all relatives of dead service men—from Pittsburg, Greensburg, Leis- inring and Scottdale, Pa., Chi S Louis, Baltimore, New York. Birming- Ala., Richmond, V ir D. C. The ment was as follows “At War promised that it would ago, ham, Va., and Wash- 1gton, Secretary's state r the outset the Department as practicable, the bodies of all who died in France and whose kin desired the return. The War Department parted from this promise any effort to carry it out. stacles have been overc Luxembourg, Siberia, side the war he largest The State Department is seeking actively number of allied dead are buried. to have this consent given, and as goon as it is given the same steps will be taken 1¢e American dead bu th regard tc there. Nos the acti ter of reno As fp Opening the Roads. F OR yrmed silt of road scraper, perf splend boards, was made a path twelve feet in width ped keep the plow runnin and s Blow heen pow Deen roads will incur re is nothing else The snow plaw will help ce the cost of remov- lus snow, especially if througt unta As unis A snow plow was also used the mu far as the Mifflin county Centre Hall and over ins over A to take line ; also Nittany mountain. On Monday I ills road as fa: the as Spring Mills, over state road through Brush Valley. —————————— Divorces Galore in Clearfield Co. No less than six divorce begun in the Clearfield county courts en Monday, Feb. 20d, according to the rec- actions were ords in Prothonotary Ralston’s office, ERP Brick School House for Sale. The Potter township school board of- fers for sale what is known as the Slack School house, in Potter township, brick structure, Parties desiring to purchase the property may view the same and make bids to the undersigned, E. W. Crawrorp, Secretary, Centre Hall, Pa a 0.7 —————————— A Girl Meets Terrible Accident. A rather singular accident took place at the Pennsylvania Match Factory at Beliefonte, a short time ago, when Miss Sarah McClellan came near losing her life. She is a daughter of the late Will- iam McClellan and is employed as a packer. While attending to her duties her hair caught in a machine known as the mangler, and her head was almost drawn into the machine. Her screams brought help just in time to save her from an awful death. A screwdriver was thrown against the revolving chain which broke and the machine stopped. In order to release her much of the ma- chine had to be taken apart, Theyoung lady was practically blind when released and suffered other injuries, She was taken home and is now slowly regaining her sight, FRANK E. On January 1 Name Street and No. City . Supervisor of Census, Dr. Williams's Lecture. His life work has cles ¢ Ciel hurch had not ¢ Saturday ni » at Spring Mills at State College ————— A AAP Prohibition Effort in Schuylkill County . i cases were session. Las® CASCsS were retu **Average numt in wet in times present 70, nes hang-overs from 1 the wet period, an 1 Top tL jail population ex- pects to « yin a sh “The ¢ y will shortly save at least tint oun $3000 per month in jail expenses, and al 80 expects to have its force of duced Att means a and all deputies in the District discharged, re office YS saving of many additional nds of dollars to the ¢ ounty. he almshouse and insane asylum of this county are also declining in popula- “Then in addition, think of the sal- vage of human lives and family homes these decreased criminal figures repre- sent. Then candidly give us your un- biased opinion as to whether prohibition pays.” a EE ——— Sheep Industry in Pennsylvania Shows Improvement. According to the estimates made by the Bureau of Statistics, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, there are in this State now approximately 881,000; sheep compared with 806,000 four years ago, This is an apparent increase of 75,000 or over nine per cent, and may be at- tributed largely to the attractive prices of mutton and wool that have prevailed, the imperative and patriotic necessity for the better protection from the rav- ages of the dogs under the provision of the present dog law. Sheep produce two good paying crops, within a year—wool in the spring and lambs in the fall, A] PIO The Centre Reporter, $1.50 a year. Fur Cap Saves Bellefonte Man from Death. for the was struck as Rishel, of Bellefonte, years track foreman on 1 railroad Fri is now a patient in efonte Central flying stone on lay morning, the Bellefonte v iral wed its critical condition, 1 and his associates track the near erected by and Stone company. nearby fre quarry, the about as large as a was whirled into the air and Rishel’s head. wich confusion in getting Superintendent F Rishel to the ym where men were g. aud a stone baseball ame down on There was so nr Hat “as an ambulance t i { \ . i. Thomas took Mr. hos- ar after a period of an hour psed, It was found actured Deen Ir his brain against m was performed : ’ paid that the oniy thin low from nstantly was a fur Boy Scouts at spring Mills. he | u f tre Hall, will ‘A Country I'he Boy S suts, of Ce Cow Makes High Record 1 31 A i \ } ure bred nnsyl t completed luced 6854.- [ 5.4 per cent and 1nds f butterfat » test she was two rank third in og the test she re but was milked She stood in stanch- college herd. 5 her 's of her test, — eat “Centre’’ County. } Center, iing of the State auth. , the and not States notwith- past there lisposition on the part t departments t to spell it Cen. had noticed the Center wrote to the a At. torney General William I. Schaffer, while ling that his office was to 1008 « United the contrary years of 2 iene i 5 in people correspon ter and one man who replies spelling it Attorney General for decision, hol give opin- y to people connected with the State Government and that only on offi cial business, referred the inquirer to the Northum- It spelled it Centre, In. nine other counties were formed in the same year of 15800. They were Ada.us, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Crawford, Erie, Mercer, Venango and Warren, This was the year of the greatest forma- tion of counties, although 1804 with six soon followed as the result of agitation for new counties on the northern tier, EE} EN Items from the Millheim Journal. Considerable sickness the uature of grip is reported in Millheim, but up to the present we have not heard that any cases have been dinguosed as influenza. At the public sale of the real estate of the late Thomas E, Smith, near Wood- ward, on Monday afternoon, H, O, Feid- Jer purchased the homestead for $2 800, and the tract of timberland was purchas- ed by John H. Brindel for $so. On Monday morning Jos. W, Reifsny- der had caught three fat rats in a wire trip at his barn. He picked up the trap, carried it to the yard, and supplied him- self with a good club with which to kill the rats left them out on the snow crust. The rats naturally started to run and Joe, in endeavoring to follow them, fell and the rats got away, EE — ene — Advertise in the Reporter—it pays, NO. 6 2, 1920, THE STATE WILL DO ROAD WORK. Plans To Have Construction Crews of Its Own at Work This Year. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania during the 1920 season will have con- struction crews of its own at work, build} ding important stretches of state high- ways on the primary system. Not only will the state highway department have its own construction equipment, but i will open its own quarries and sanc banks; and a new branch has been creat- ed which, under, the direction of Chief Engineer W, D, Uhler, will have c¢ of the new activities, The entry of the state into road build- ing activities follows conferences held by Governor Sproul and Highway Commis- sioner Lewis S, in f oi + 1 harge Sadler, which resulted the enactment by the 1919’ legislature laws permitting the department not to maintain roads, but to build them. Department engineers have fou able stone and sand deposits in ny hundreds leases already in effect will be able to secure these new localities; and wi‘h of materials prices without delay. at reasonable tM mse. Co. Assoc. to Hold Annual Dinner. Centre The sixteenth dinner of the Centre County Association of phia will be held on Tuesday evening, annu anu Philadel February 17th, at seven o'clock, at the Rittenhouse, 220d nd and Che streets, i The cost of the dinner will 3.00 per Cover. meet eetee— Six Murderers to Be Electrocuted at Rockview murderer Governor Sproul, number of persons from . a list, The times Buck Dunmore March Brown figure in such are : Week of March 1¢ Benny Rowland ; week Russel and Don and of William Edward March Green. 29, Dolish and Frank ———————— Will Give Piay. The junior class of the Gregg Town ng prepa- ration to give the play, With- out a Country”, Ed. ward Everett Hale's great literary mas- terpiece. A comedy sketch will also be given. he entertainment will be given in three towns, on the following dates At Spring Mills, Grange hall, Thursday, March 4: Millbeim, auditorium, Fn day, March 5; Centre Hall, Grange hall, Saturday, March 6. ————— Government Saves Millions Cancell- ing War Contracts. A formal statement to a conference of division commanders, Major General Burr reported that in the adjustment of 23,000 of the 27,000 contracts and obli- gations by which the War Department was bound at the time of the armistice, the Government had been saved $1.924.- The settlements thus far made he said, involved more than two and million Vocational School is maki “A Man dramatized ship from at 739,000. thous- dollars, Sunbury Pastor Turns Down $500 Salary Boost. Rev. Charles E. Roth, pastor of First Reformed church, of Sunbury, refused to accept a $500 increase in sal- ary him by the congregation. Mr. Roth declared that orphans, educa- tion and missions must be cared for first and that whes such needs were met he would give more consideration to the matter of his own pay. T————— A Names Spelled Out, A request has been issued to the pub- lic that they spell out the first name of all persons to whom they address mail and that they ask their correspondents to do the same. The postal authorities find similarity of names frequently causes trouble. the has voted Bellefonte Lady Makes Numerous Be- quests. The will of Mrs. Harriette Kurtz, an aged Bellefonte lady who died in Flori. da quite recently, was probated at Belle- fonte court house last week. Mrs, Kurtz left considerable mouey fr charit. able purposes. Among her bequests are $2,000 to endow a free bed for invalids in the Bellefonte hospital ; $1,500 for a similar purpose to the Lewistown hos. pital ; $2,000 in trust for the Bellefonte Episcopal church, same to be invested and earnings used for foreign missions ; $1,000 for the placing of a watering trough for dogs and horses, same to be completed in six months or the money to be given the woman's branch of the Americin Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in Philadelphia; $500 to the Presbyterian cemetery in Lewistown, and minor sums to a few close friends, Mrs. Kurtz's maiden name was Harriette Thomas and she was the last of a large family, Her girlhood days were spent in Lewistown, but she lived in Bellefonte with Mr. TOWN ARD COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREET FROM ALL PARTS Today (Thursday day. The U Philipsburg, 1%. Williamsport plans to r ion dollars, by a bond iss r pal improvement, this spri Pleasant Gap has five or six vacar houses, and thus holds a unique among towns of its size Occasional! great difference 1" 11 seler \r ¢ € NTS, Mary Shox Pp ing in Al ng r ing in Altoona for some ti in Wash D. ington ingwon Was spre however, loose at the various rel day was light snow was also responsible Huntingdon, a seminary pointments announced un lar heading in Reporter. Sell Student wn student, n last week's Samuel H. Poorman, a former township boy, has purchased the Spring at Robert Roan and will condu known shop in Garage, Bellefonte. fre " well the future, Big Spring Garage is popular among auto- mobilists. sh t that ine de experience in all branches of the auto- mobile business, ; Mr. Poorman has had wi He has made a cl study of overhauling and repairing cars. The Overland and Paige automobiles will be handled from the garage. ne rm of Irving Irving S. Horton, of the f S. Horton & Co., operators of the local stone quarries, was in town last Thurs- day arranging for a settlement with the firm's creditors, Mr. Horton avers that the untoward season last year was responsible for a loss of many thousand dollars on a state road-building contract in Huntingdon county, and resulted in the present financial embarrassment. He further states that a Reading firm has assumed all financial obligations and that by February 10th, creditors will be paid eighty-five cents on the dollar, as per agreement on the part of the various creditors. The Pleasant Gap correspondent to the “Watchman” says: Huyett, Me. Nitt and McMullen just completed the cutting of timber located at the side of the mountain between Zion and Hecla. The tract yielded 25.000 mine props. Elwood Brooks, the veteran lumberman, is superintending the removal of the props to the Pleasant Gap station for shipment. Some eight teams are engag- ed in the hauling, a good paving mid. winter job for our farmers. The hust. ling Ripka farmers have two teams hauling from Greens valley to the sta- tion and it is alleged that they are clear ing up $250 every two weeks, That is going some. But it must be remember- ed that the Ripkas are out early and late, and never keep tab on the clock to know when to quit. They have a repu- Kurtz for many years, tation as mon-quitters, -
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