YUL. XO1111.
NEW BELL TELEPHONE CO.
RATES EFFECTIVE MAY 1.
New Schedule Filed With Public Ser-
vice Commission.—Pre-Was Rates
Inadequate Under Present
Conditions, Is Claimed.
Day
The new Bell Telephone rates which
are fo go into effect on May 1st, were
filed with the Public Service Commis
sion at Harrisburg by The Bell Tele.
phone Company of Pennsylvama, last
week. New rates have been worked out
for every exchange in the State, Cen-
tre Hall and Spring Mills will be asked
to pay as follows after May 1st. The
old rates are given for comparison :
MoxnTtHLY Business Base Rares,
N
Individual . . . . $3.5
Four-Party .... 2
Multi-Party . . .. 2
MoxTtHLY REsipEncE Base Rates
Old
a
v2 00
New
Individual . . $2.50
Four-Party
Multi-Party.
2.00 1.50
2.00 1.50
New toll and long distance rates are
also As a matter
the schedules in use prior to December
1, 1919, with slight
modifications, form-
ity within Pennsylvania and makes the
State conform with the system in use
for interstate calls, Night rates
again be in effect,
The Company's letter to the commis-
sion explaining the need for greater rev
enues is reproduced.
Mr. Joux G. Horwoopn, Acting
The Public Commission
Pennsylvania,
Dear Sir :
There is transmitted herewith, for fil-
ing with your Honorable Commission
according and revised
schedules of toll and exchange rates of
this Company.
During the year 1916 the average op-
erating expense per telephone was $2.53
3
rapid
introduced. of fact
are reintroduced
“mn
unl
This provides
will
Sec'y
Service of
to law, new
a month, whereas, to the
rise in the costs of material
the monthly average for December, 1919,
and January 1920, was $31.45, an in-
crease of $0.92, which when applied to
the average number of telephones
service in December, 1919, and January
1920, to wit, 618,000, gives
owing
and labor,
in
approximate-
ly $368,000 a month. This
the average excess
penses in December, 1
1920, over the level of
the introduction by the management
every feasable i
represents
of
method
known and
When terms
economy.
income, this
no furthe
expressed in
ven
means that, e assumil
in the cost o
rise
for 1920 trom the existing rates would
be approximately $27,500,000 with
ating expenses of approxi
200,000, leaving net revenues for
year of only $300,000 fori
idends on an investmen
$100,000,000.
The new scheduies were prepared to
meet these present operating f
are estimated to produce addit
enues to meet the in
expenses per annu
to the excess of prevailing costs of mate-
rial and labor over the level of the year
oper-
mately
the
erest and div
more than
acts and
ional rev-
rease in operating
m attributable solely
1916, and hence to restore that relation-
ship between the revenues and expenses
of this Company which your Commis-
sion established when it prescribed the
present schedules of rates in its Order of
April 4. 1917, after a painstaking and
exhaustive investigation running over a
period of more than three years
It should be obvious that the result of
operations under present rates constitu-
tes a’serious menace to our credit, which
will be destroyed entirely if adequate re-
lief be not promptly afforded,
be estimated demand for extensions
and additions in 1920 will require $10,
000,000 of new money. Even if no new
patrons were added and it were attempt.
ed to restrict the service to the number
who now have it, there would still be re-
quired in 1920, $7,000,000 of new money
to cover replacements at the present lev-
el of prices and the ®nstant flux in the
telephone business owing to disconnec-
tions, removals and changes of location
of telephones, necessiating capital addi.
tions to both the exchange and toll
plants,
Failure to secure new money each
year would not only prevent the giving
of any service to additional patrons, but
would also cause a progressive deteriora-
tion in the quality and diminution in the
quantity of service rendered to existing
patrons—deterioration in quality because
of lack of money to introduce economies
add improvements as the telephone art
advances, and diminution in quantity
because of the inevitable net annual loss
of patrons in spite of every effort to
maintain a constant number, For ex-
ample, there will be 105,000 disconnec-
tions during the current year, of which
70,000 wiil disappear and 35,000 will
move their location, either within the
same comraunity or to another in this
commonwealth, To give service to 70,
000 new patrons to replace those who
disappear will require new money for
A 3 HAR 5 SR URN
. (Continued on inside page.)
STATE UNIVENSITY
PLANS ANNOUNCED.
Expansion of State College for Enroll-
ment of 8000 Students Under Way.
Expansion of State College into a state
university, with an enrollment of s000 to
instead of the present student
body of 1500, is a matter now absorbing
the complete attention and incessant la-
bors of the board of trustees and the fac-
ulty of the institution,
A. R. Warnock, newly appointed
‘‘dean of men” of State College, made
that statement last Thursday night at
the annual dinner of the Philadelphia
alumni of the college in the Bellevue-
Stratford. In order to carry out the pro-
gramme, said Mr, Warnock, $10,000,000
will be needed. It is expected, he added,
that part of that amount will be covered
by state appropriation, while an endow-
ment fund be conducted the
alumni to obtain the balance,
Booo
among
Explaming the State College expan-
sion program, Mr. Warnock said that
last autumn more than 6oo fully quali-
i to
fied be
accom-
candidates for admission had
turned away because of lack of
modation of all sorts,
The dean emphasized the college's duty
to the state requires as many Pennsyi.
vania bigh school graduates as possible
be educated there and expressed the be-
lief that the State
Legislature will not
fail to realize the college must be sup-
ported in order to fulfill that obligation.
he ann« 1
nuced
}
oe
In that connection an
intensive campaign will conducted
within the next six months for the pur
the members
State
By
the legislature reconvenes, Mr. Warnock
pose ol ir upon
of the Leg at
College
has been and the time
have been prepared
Scouts Re-Organize.
Boy
t a recent meeting of the local
couts, at which
missioned Scout
Assistant
Heckman
Scribe, Ernest Fr
Assistant Scribe,
Librarian,
Color Bear
Bugler, Ernest |
Janitor, |
Door Keeper, Al
Sentinels, Paul
Smith,
At
and by-laws, in aces
of Congress,
a former meeting
rdance with an act
was adopted by the troop
lines -
PLEASANT GAP.
ited his sister
Mrs
t week.
Myra Kimport's new millinery
tar bh
has been attracting large crowds
be past week. Miss Anna Rimmey is
her assistant,
Mr,
SDE
Sweeley, of New Hampshire,
he Stephen Hulton
knitting mill soar
Knitliog mii, soon to tie
under
unGer ment,
Ray Noli
new rosie wild at
rent room
State College
and will start wol-room. His pool
room
Mr. and Mrs, Lee Brooks and
rs. Ida Houser, Mrs.
Mrs. Russell Wolfe
Friday ian
Brooks’ home — Jacob Meyer's,
Tamazine Kerstetter, Ray and Jean
Noll, Ward Showers, Mrs. Jack Noll and
Samuel Weaver attend at
“Ike's”
Belletonte furnished the
baby,
Minnie Brown,
and
Boalsburg
children
Mrs
two
spent at
led the dance
Centre Hall on Friday evening.
orchestra of
music,
While in Bellefonte Saturday Mrs
John Meyer fell on icy walk and
broke her arm. Dr. Reed gave her at.
tention, following which she was remov-
ed to the Bellefonte hospital, and is now
home.
the
Law
——————— AA AA SAAN
CENTRE MILLS
Those from a distance who Riendea
the funeral of Mrs. John Kline, of Centre
Mills, were : Simon Kline and Mrs.
Fishel, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Mrs.
Godshall and family, of Oxford, Ohio ;
Arthur Kline and family, J. W. Cann
and family, Mrs. Weibly, of Altoona,
and friends and relatives from State
College, Tusseyville, Linden Hall, Le
mont, Centre Hall, Oak Hall, Millheim
and Coburn, The palibearers were Ben-
ton Hebberling, Dr. W, H, Fry, Henry
Illingsworth, Homer Walker, Stine
Walker, and Mr. Sunday, members of
the Pine Grove Mills 1. O, O. F. Burial
was made at Boalsburg, Revs. Snyder
and Stover officiating.
IAAP —
State to Take Control of Mansfield
Normal
Trustees of the Mansfield State Nor
mal school, the only one of the thirteen
in Pennsylvania not controlled by the
commonwealth, have taken preliminary
steps for the sale of the property
through the department of public in-
struction, It is expected that the trans
action will be finished during the sum-
mer,
L,
Pleasing Program by *‘Concert Five.”
Net proceeds of close to $22.00 were
| realized from the concert given by
| quintette of Susquehanna University
for the Loysville Orphans
Home, in Grange Arcadia, last Thurs-
day evening. Following is the person-
i nel of the “Concert Five”: Miss Cath-
erine R, Schoch, concert pianist ; Russel
Aumana, first tenor ; Frank Ehrenfelt,
second tenor; John W, Wilson, first
basso ; William E, Swoope, second bas-
a
students
80 and reader,
bv
these young people was a credit both to
and the
The excellent program rendered
institution which
themselves
represent. Miss Schoch displayed
they rej
exceptional talent as a pianist and hand-
led classical selections in masterly style.
The men’s singing in quartette arrange-
ment brought forth a beautiful harmony
of tane such as would do credit sing-
Their
much
to
irs of much greater experience,
solo, duet and frio work was also
appreciated and evoked
the audience. While 1t
le out one whom we might say
the applause of
would bs unfair
to si
did the best, special mention must be ac-
corded Mr. Swoope, the owner of a rich
1
bass voice, whose singing won the ad-
miration of those inclined.
musically
He is also a splendid reader, and his col-
h 3 hi
leagues say, a le college athlet-
iH,
One of rter's most valued
. Keller, of
i |
friends
Kansas
Cen
fol-
Mrs. J.
readers is Mrs.
interested in the
ny letter from her daughter,
r Reporter ;
i »
ed, please
Reporter fo
i RID
weak and
re, to her ad
y
.
every meal
s been con
rer
able to read
h we are so
her
sual whicl
y she asked that
forwarded as u
3d will res
news each week until she is
herself
We are having spring.like
yan
here now. In fact have had
or four days of zero weather
t has been un
ure
usually
at all—ramn
the season and consequently
wheat crop is not in as
previous
we have
¥
conqgilion as In years
Even had no ex-
weather, it has been a hard
winter on the coal pile, as we have had
though
tremely cold
much
ich the atmos
cold
cloudy weather, and
phere has been continued and
Coal,
been higt
has
hard
suffering
damp. here, as elsewhere,
£
and part of the season
to get, which caused much
among the poorer class of people and
we are glad to know that spring
well on its way and to hear the robins
is
sing.
all Re-
mother
With sincere good wishes to
porter readers, in which
joins me, I am,
my
Millheimers to Hear Bryan.
The big card on Millheim’s 1920-21 ly-
ceum course is William Jennings Bryan,
the “Commoner”, This would indicate
that the Millheim folks appreciate lyce-
um offerings, and that they are bending
every effort to make each succeeding
season better than the preceding one,
which is commendable, indeed. Referr.
ing to the securing of W. J. Bryan, the
Millheim Journal says:
The 1920-21 season of the Millheim ly-
coum course of entertainments will in-
clude a lecture by William Jennings
Bryan, which shows that the local asso-
ciation means to follow out the promise
that the surplus derived from entertain-
ments will be applied toward procuring
a better course each succeeding season.
Col. and Mrs. Shoemaker Sail for
Europe.
Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, of McElL
hattan, accompanied by Mrs. Shoemak-
er, sailed from New York, last week, for
an extended tour of European countries,
They will travel through Spain, France,
Italy, England and Ireland. Col. Shoe.
maker, who was recently appointed to
the state forestry commission, will study
reforestration methods abroad.
Col, Shoemaker is well known in
Penns Valley through his delightful
books of tales of the Seven Mountains,
and pumerous legends, including the
Legend of Penns Cave, collected in Cen-
tral Pennsylvania,
2%. 1920.
1
| To Raise $500,000 Endowment Fund.
A meeting of the Executive Commit-
tee of the Susquehanna University En-
dowment Campaign was held on Satur-
day in the office of Witmer-Bteele Com-
pany, Northumberland to formulate
plans of action in the coming drive to
raise $500,000 toward continuing the ex-
cellent work of the Susquehanna Uni-
versity.
Dr, Charles T. Aikens, President of
the University, laid before the committee
in brief, the imperative need of the
school, paying particular attention to
his remarks to the crowded condition of
all dormitory sleeping quarters. Dr,
Aikens pointed out the fact that only
through the good offices of the citizens
of Selinsgrove, the home of the Univer-
sily, was it possible during the present
term to accommodate some fifty odd stu-
dents turned over to the University by
State College.
An adequate library is also among the
urgent needs of the University, At
present, the rooms used as a library are
but makeshift,
The world needs Christian education
and as much as it needs,
Americanism,” said Dr. Aikens, ** and
University is the sort
do more than its share to sup-
ply the great need. But it is only possi-
ble to extend this great work by appeal-
ing to the better class of citizens.”
“The campaign will be held in an en-
deavor to raise $500,000, the sum which
is to be used in building a greater and if
possible a better University, a Univer
to keep
along with,
the Susquehanna
that will
sity which will be enabled
abreast of the demands and needs of the
the world seems to
said Dr. Woodruff.
“Surely”, he continued, ‘there is po
new era into which
be about to enter”
and
RUG 10TC
more worthy DEeCesBAry cause
at has been called to the attention of
publ this one and
people
fon ar &
he recently than it
puoi
is hoped that the will
re
spond to make SusquehannalUniversitya
in every sense of the
$irgst
greater institut
2
on
———————
WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER.
CONGRESS LENDS EAR SOL-
DIER BONUS,
is true that Congress is mak-
ing special effort to curtsil public expen-
ses in many directions, also harkening
to the pleas of citizens that a reduction
taxation wherever possible,
it seems likely now, from a careful study
of the matter, that some sort of legisla-
tion wil
TO
be made in
| soon be passed giving a bonus
to former service men in the world war,
If such comes to pass, it will mean that
from three billion dollars will
be raised in additional revenue,
as the Treasury is stripped bare of funds
a big yearly deficit is faced.
it one hundred bills have
iuced, each providing for
The whole matter
how the
money for urpose can be obtained.
It is the ides call all bills so far intro-
1 on the subject into one committee
and thrash them over, bringing forth a
suitable ‘he raising of the
devolve upon the ways
committee, Some talk is
of a bond issue, but if such is made, it
will have to be at 6 per cent in order to
sell the bonds, or else the value of Lib-
erty Loan and Victory Boads would be
depreciated. A direct consumption tax
bas been proposed, but it is feared that
the idea of thal will not be popular, be-
cause of the protests already made on
such taxes now in force. Another idea
is to make the bonusgin the form of Gov-
ernment Bonds, but itis pointed out
that they would likely be sold by soldiers
for whatever they would bring, the
money market becoming affected as a
result, Congress has solved many koot-
ty problems brought forth by the war,
and will yet solve this one. From all
indications, the solution will be found
during the next three months,
to hive
have to
now and
So far, abx
been intro
some sort of boans,
on solution as to
hinges
i
2
duce
neasure,
will
. A
anda means
SAM'S ENORMOUS PAY.
ROLL.
It is little wonder that the Capital of
the Nation is a thriving and prosperous
city at all times of the year and that few
business failures ever occur among mer.
chants and storekeepers. It is all due to
the millions of dollars paid to govern-
ment employees and expended by them.
And most of them live up to the limit of
every pehny they receive. The amount
of the payroll is said to be the largest
for any one community in the world and
totals $152,000,000 yearly. This is dis-
tributed among some 0,000 persons
twice each mouth. ‘Government pay-
days” are always looked forward to by
the merchants and storekeepers with
eagerness and special preparations are
always made by them to care for the in.
creased patronage that comes in large
measure on such days and for several
days afterwards, The banks are alive
to the opportunities presented to them
and special inducements are offered on
government paydays to Uncle Sam's
clerks who will ‘salt away” some of
their comparatively easily earned money,
Theaters and all forms of amusement
enterprises are also awake to '‘copping”
UNCLE
( Continued on inside pags. )
Urges $1400 Minimum Salary tor
Methodists.
Recommendations that the minimum
annual salary of fully ordained ministers
be fixed at $1,400 were made to the Cen-
tral Pennsylvania Methodist conference
Thursday, by Dr. Edgar R. Heckman,
superintendent of the Harrisburg dis.
trict. A minimum of $1,200 for others
and $1000 for supplies were included in
the recommendation.
nessa sans HA ———
Johnson Grenoble.
Miss Mary Grenoble, of Aaronsburg,
and sister of the late Charles I. Grenoble
of Lewisburg, was united in marriage at
the home of the bride's sister in Yeager-
town, on Tuesday of last week, to Jos
eph Johnson, who was a member of
Troop M, 1st Penna Cavalry, and who
saw 3ervice overseas with the 103d
Trench Mortar Battery. After a short
honeymoofi they will reside in Ohio,
where Mr. Johnson is associated with his
brother in the drug business.
Be .._".
Falls Dead in a Snow Bank.
Dr. W. S. Shaeffer, one of Hunting.
don county's best known dentists and
gentleman farmers, dropped dead in a
snow bank, on Tuesday of last weck,
near Allensville, Mifflin county, while
on his way to attend a sale. He was
traveling with his son and when the
drifted roads near Allensville made
travel by that method impossible, and
having but a short distance further to
go the two men started to walk to the
sale. The task was much harder than
the Shaeffers had anticipated and the
strenuous exertion proved too much for
the older man who, while valiantly try-
ing to extricate his legs from the depths
of a bank of snow fell over dead. The
vital spark of life had fled by the time
his son reached his side, He was aged
sevenly years,
Ordained as Elders.
Among the seven Methodist ministers
who were ordained as elders by the M,
E. Conference, at Harrisburg, on Satur.
day, are: Rev. C. F. Catherman, of
Spring Mills, and Rev. W. R. Jones, of
Lumber City, Clearfield county.
Killed by Fall of Rock.
Nicholas Haas, a well known young
residents of Allport, Clearfield, county,
met instant death Wednesday morning
of last week at the Kyler Mines, pear
Munson. The young man was engaged
in mining coal, and was killed in a fall
of rock.
He was aged twenty-two years, and
was one of four brothers who served
faithfully many months in the United
States service duricg the World war,
1 I SAU B———
WANTED.
Objects Used in Spinning and Weav-
ing Crafts of Pennsylvania.
An effort is being made by the Muse-
um of Industrial and Fine Arts of the
Pennsylvania State College, to secure
for permanent exhibition purposes, a col-
lection of objects used in the early spin-
ping and weaving crafts of Pennsylva-
nia.
Residents of the country in this vicin-
ity may possess or know of such tools of
bygone days, which could be donated to
the college for permanent preservation
acd exhibition. At the present time the
department wishes to secure a loom, sev.
eral different kinds of reels, hetchels,
flax breaks, scutching knives, flax beat-
ters, some hanks of homespun thread
and yarns, a wool wheel and wool cards,
There is almost no value and little in-
terest attached to such objects when the
random piece happens to be stored away
in the attic or loft, but there is an ex-
treme interest and value in a complete
collection when they are grouped and
placed where a large community may
view them.
The settlers of Pennsylvania played
an important part in the early days of
the development of wool manufacture,
The present thriving colony of hosiery
and knit goods manufacturers began
with the early dwellers ot Germantown.
Knitted materials were long known as
“Germantown goods."
While the settling of Centre county
was relatively late there were many
spinning wheel and loom makers in
many towns of the region that became
Centre county. Early records of Aa
ronsburg specify that Benjamin Miller
was a maker of spinning wheels, Ema-
nuel Ettinger of the same place was en-
engaged in the occupation of coloring
and weaving. A log building may still
be seen at Potters Mills which in the
early days had been a woolen factory,
operated by Azariah Evans, who used
dye stuff extracted from the walnut and
butternut hulls gathered in the vicinity.
Persons interested in forming the col-
lection pertaining to these industries
and who may have objects to denate to
the college, should get in touch with
Professor A. L. Kocher, the Department
of Industral and Fine Arts, State Col
lege.
The sweet-scented trailing arbutus
will soon be bursting forth in all its
beauty.
NO. 12
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
-i-e
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS
Sunday, April 4th, is Easter,
Don’t forget the Boy Scouts’ play,
Tuesday evening, April 6th. The boys
will appreciate your support.
John F. Zechman, undertaker at
Boalsburg, has been appointed justice of
the peace in Harris township.
a.
of am
Grange hall was the scene er-
ry dance on Friday night, a Bellefonte
orchestra supplying the music,
people from nearby towns were
There'll be no daylight saving in
Bellefonte this summer, the ordi
which was presented to the counci
ing been allowed to die a natural death,
XT cas
roung
resent
present,
ance
The public sale season is approaching
its close, and the average farmer is
ing for the right sort of weather to tack-
le the hundred and one jobs that S
unfolds on the farm.
V
Charlie Chaplain's wife has asked
a divorce on the grounds of
Charlie is seen
places every night
tion,
deser
different
wand
wonaer
$0 many
we don't
bas no time to spend at home.
ir
iQ
he
Miss Elsie Rearick, teacher of the Mil-
roy third grade, is ill, says the Milroy
correspondent to the Lewistown Senti
nel. Miss Rearick is a daughter of W,
O. Rearick, formerly of Centre Hall
Dr. P. H. Dale, of State College,
in Centre Hall on Monday, havi
companied his mother, Mrs. Kate Dz
and sister, Miss Mollie Hoffer, who
arranging bold sale
goods to-morrow (Friday
to of household
The degree team of the State College
lodge of Odd Fellows put the work on
the floor in the room of the local or
on Saturday evening, in a manner z
iy satisfactory to all members present.
Following the
ments were served,
close of business refresh.
The Crabtree Company Tyrone,
recently purchased the Shu
at State College and
make it a real branch of the
establishment in Tyron
dies has already assumed
of
ey jewelry
store expect to
well-know
Lewis
control of
dtate College store,
The Clyde Dutrow family is ne
sconced in the
tre Hall, the
home. The D
turned over to
make the old farm produc
dends.
aome in Len-
ir beautiful
Hosterman
a
BAS Deen
The Samuel Durst farm sale, at
ystown, last Thursday, resultec
good prices being obtained for
thing offered. Horses sold
$200 each, and cows up to
Durst's I. H. C. tractor
sale, but not solid,
for well over
The
Frank Gfrerer, west of Centre Hall,
about a week ago, had the misfortune
to have a horse die for him. The ani
mal got joose in the stable at night ar
was kicked on the stifle-joint. Anotl
borse was badly cut by being tramped.
The animal is being given good atteu-
tion and it is thought will recover.
Flying at the rate of more than two
and a half miles a minute, Pilot Robi.
son made a new record on the air-mail
route from Bellefonte to New York, last
Wednesday. He covered the distance
of 215 miles in one hour and fifteen min-
utes, and clipped off four minutes from
the best previous record, made by Pilot
Lewis.
Butcher J. G. Dauberman, last week,
sold his winter's accumulation of calf
and beef hides, —several bundred in
number-~realizing over $1400.00 in the
sale. Just how large the calf-shipping
business with Mr. Davberman is be-
coming may be understood when it is
said that during a recent week forty-
four calves were killed for shipment,
It was the banner week,
The Methodist Home for the Aged
located in Tyrone, has the distinction of
being the only home of its kind in the
Central Pennsylvania Conference. The
Home is growing in popularity and
prominence since guests are arriving as
rapidly as provision can be made for
them. There are at present fifteen
guests in the Home and others are to
arrive in the near future,
While on his way to Centre Hall last
Saturday afternoon, Arber J. Cum-
mings espied a doe deer come from the
direction of Nittany mountain, cross the
fields on Ira Whiteman's farm and clear
a five foot wire fence with perfect ease,
coming within fifteen feet of Mr. Cum-
drick, aged twenty-four, and his wife,
reached a point where the husband in
not necessarily fatal wound
slashed his throat with a razor
within a few minutes, All t
ed at Blue Ball, a few
Philipsburg, on Monday
week,
we