a VL. XCHIL TO ENLARGE I. O. O. F. ORPHANAGE AT SUNBURY. Central Pennsylvania Odd Fellows Plan to Use $100,000 On Institu- tion Near Sunbury. Good Re- port Made, Central Pennsylvania Odd Fellows will spend the sum of $100,000 in enlarg- ing and improving the I. O, O. F. or- phanage near Sunbury, This step was decided upon by the directing body of the institution at the semi-annual meeting held at the orphanage on last Thursday. A large new building will. be erected and other buildings will be improved Five hundred the meeting They heard a report showing 183 boys and girls now in the family at the insti- tution, J. W. Stroh, president of the as- sociation reported ards improvements pledged. Receipts during the fiscal year just ended totalled $7 compared with expenditures of $36,932. The farn in connection with the institution pro- duced a revenue of $12,000, The annual election, which the meeting, resulted in the following selections for the administration of the orphanage: J]. W. Stroh, Sunbury, president ; Frederick C. Hanyen, S ton, first vice president; Roy D. Beman, Harrisburg, second vice president ; Rob- ert Davis, Mt. Carmel, treasurer; H. I. Romig, Beaver Springs, secretary ; the Rev. 1.. M. Dice, Hagertown, Md., as sistant, and Mr, and Mrs, E. E. Chub, buck, superindendent and matron, Edward Miller, Jersey Shore, member of the first gradu from the orphanage, Mond: elected a director of the institution, is the first graduate to win this tion. attended $50,000 paid in tow- the and $13,000 9,032 featured ran- of class to was on GisUnc- ——— pp —— iy First Aerial Funeral is Held ; Ashes Are Thrown to Wind. the strangest ever took place in New York recently for Mrs. Sarah D. Brown, perance worker and writer of children’s stories, It was the first ¢ New York. Mrs. cremated and ashes was taken to sixth street neral services on Brown, daughter of Mrs , handed the urn to an undertaker, and her broth. er gave nine white carnations red one, symboliz: years of Mrs. Brown's life Frank Mallen of the Marines Lieutenant Mallen and the undertaker boarded a seaplane, left the pier about noon lew the Statue Libe The undertaker scattered ashes over and Liet Mallen dropped the roses. Ari was the air that held Probably funeral was tem- in was th ae funeral held body conta ining pier River. pier Miss Brown Brown's an at Eig Hudson the Kate an and two ninety-two to Lieutenant which and over ty. the the statue stenant tual ser- vice then read in and the plane flew back. of her remains was rown in a letter writ- This disposition dictated by Mrs. B % wot > sealed and uno ten fourteen years ago, unop- ened until after her death. Sinn. A Items from the Millheim Journal. WwW. G. Uhl spent the past week and relatives. He also visited bis at Wilkinsbu Mrs 1’ " ounstown, S, C ich, of Greenville, S, friends soa, ruce, few Mr. childre home friends and Aaronsburg. in &a motor car. The local Reforme irch is now electrically | ghted. church had been wired more than year ago, but the service connection was made by the State Centre company only recently, Baby girls were born during the past week to Mrs. B. F. Edmonds and Mrs. Harry Keen, both of North Millheim. Some time ago Hasten F. Long, of near Woodward, ordered a tractor through C. F, Stover, the local agent, The tractor was delayed in transit, but on Monday Mr. Long drove from Centre Hall to his farm and is now op- erating it and a pair of plows, At a recent re organization meeting of the Millheim school board L. W. Stover was re-elected president and Orvis M, Shull was re-elected secretary. The Millheim Banking company offered to serve as treasurer of the school district free of charge and the offer was approv- ed. Ward Weiser was re-elected janitor and Miss Blanche Smith was elected to teach the primary school. The gram. mar and intermediate schools are va. cant, days. and n, of O., are relatives They s and made a School Board a Buys New Desks. At a recent meeting of the Centr Hall School Board, an order was placed for the purchase of new single desks for use in the High school room. The desks in use at the present time have always been too small, and besides the purchase was made necessary owing to the change which will be made in the High school with the opening of the new term, The borough auditors were present at the meeting and examined the accounts of the secretary and treasurer and found the same correct. The cash balance hand at the close of the school year was on found to be $938.34. The July meeting also called for the election of a new secretary and treasur. er. Edward E. secretary and F. P. Geary was elected treasurer for the ensuing A bill for the next term's coal supply in the sum of $350.53 was presented and the same was ordered pai Bailey was re-elected year, Notice from County Commissioners To the who have County in their taxpayers of Centre jell Telephones places of business and residences : We, dersigned, of Centre nty, contracts with the Bell pany and have removed their telephones from the various county offices on July 1 1920, with the exception of the ] chambers and the District Attorney's of- fice. The Commis this action because of the recent adopted by the Bell pany by which toll charges are imposed Jellefonte and t communities the une Commissioners Cou have cancelled all Telep hone Com sioners have taken changes Telephone Com on calls between and and for the reason that it 1s 15 towns in county, possible for the commissioners strict account of all calls over telephones in the county offices and distinguish be- tween privat e asd business matters, the alls are ct harged to the telephone num- cs ber from which the calls are made, with- out naming the parties holding the versation, The Commissioners regret venience this will cause the res Con the dents the county, but it has been impossi make sat isfactory the management of the arrangements dell Telep Compeny that will insure the keeping of The a satisfactory records. Commission + toil of rates, em of ers protest the impositic according to the new the 3ell Telephone Cor H GEO, zone syst NPAny. P. AU H. YARN M. HAR ph TEN A ASN, GEO. R Coun HIOAMISSIONeTs Waste Mountain Lands in Centre Co. to be Taken by State. State Extension of the system of for mountain lapd ed by t to include all waste nly Pennsylvania Department esis templat of in Centre cou is con Gifford Pinchot, th iit 4 He LIF tious to the forests, It is policy to enlarge the as rapidly as possible, his forests ily the 5 Pennsy nverted int fitable ti 000.000 acres compris may produc the Ivanio Desert vy m er roximately one-hal Pennsylvania is now a barren waste Forester Pinchot buy tracts and burned-over mountain land, them from forest fires and assure Penn sylvania of a future timber supply. Estimates by Forester Pinchot indi. cate that the value of the present State forests has far more than they were purchased. Consequently, the expenditure of public funds for waste land is regarded as a profitable in. vestment, rather than expense, thing ot val that the cut-over growing n« ue. expec is State will vast of protect doubled singe State Agricultural Notes. ‘Be as careful of fire as you are of powder ; it is just as dangerous. ” Charles E, Crothers, a prominent far. mer as well as crop correspondent for Blaine township, Washington county, says : There isn't any class of livestock that will return a greater dividend than poultry, For years I have kept an accu. rate account and know by experience that they will pay better than anything else on the farm, Conditions of wheat on July 1 in Lan. caster county is estimated at 88 per cent of normal and 18 an improvement of two per cent. from June 1. [his condition forcasts a yield of 18 bushels per acre and a total production of 2,304,000, The crop last year was estimated at 2 457,000 bushels. Raspberries are a good crop in nearly every part of Pennsylvania, and are now in season in the southern counties: Indications point to a splendid yield of blackberries, The help problem is, largely overcome in gathering these crop by the women aad children, Scar. city of sugar is detrimental to preserv- yet reached the point to can without it, (HE DEATH RECORD. Prof. C. R. Neff, W. H. Samuel Durst Summons. Nerg.—Calvin R. Neff, a, prominent farmer, educator and citizen, passed to his final reward at his. home west of Centre Hall, on Friday afternoon at one o'clock. Mr. Neff's health commenced failing a year or more ago, and last April he was admitted to the Bellefonte hospital for an operation for bladder trouble. He was brought home in May and gradually grew worse until death ensued. For five days preceding passing away be continued in an conscious state, Mr. Neff was a son of Kuhn an Answer Final his un- Lafayveiie and Mary Ruble Neff and was bora on what is known as the Potter farm, March 19th, years of age, on 1860, hence was past sixty The foundation of his education was laid in the rural schodls and at Penn Hall academy. At the age nineteen he was matric Frank- lin and Marshall College, the year 1883, A short west the tof ulated at graduating in ti..e thereafter where he experienced After spend he left for the taught school and the lite of a lng SIX years in the 0 he to wd and took up his profession He hool Mills and Mil then Mi the principalship of the schools plainsman, % + 5 f the west, states Kansas Centre cou principally in and Colorado, returned of school taught sc iheim and to at Spring removed to fllinburg accept mn th in th at place, He then returned to Millheim and was principal of the schools there for In 1907 to Potter township and bou where he a num- er of years. he moved lived at the time rly in poSsessio the same bei his father. . Neff improved the home barn in this LOArn no this uilding a new 14 led the All the taki first round SC labor connected the , fiom F MILs tion, with | it 1 unoe ae Ll Moun nee i the remote 0 ains and hauling.it the { great ® dlat a ing burne in a great measure b The Neff farm any reason of its substant the mill, to finish the structure, was in ags.beant aud the fertility iful home surroundings, ey. rincipal of the of its land, is one of the most valuable in the val As p school, which position Mr. Hall High Neff neld for com his several years following Pojter township, and again for the term less than three years need only be said that Neff had 0 a st Of 8 #8 KL Pref £TO%. be few equals, have dent and graduate age of Prof. Neff tunate for any young who had the ambition to forge ahead in tha world’ He was He Wor € Was under indeed nag or the was for. Woman & activities a vert of and the Progress Grange ded a power among the farmer class such as no other man could. He until recently, as Master of the Centre County Pomona Grange, and in activities of the Grange, Mr. Neff figure. Religiously he adhered faith the Reformed church, was an iu that church and a Sunday-school teacher, he was a member of the Olid F Lodge No.s37. F. & A. M., also P. O. 8. of A, of Centre Hall. Surviving him are his wife and the following children : Miss Sarah, Miss Edna, Robert, Ralph and Helen Neff, Also two brothers—William R., whois a twin of the deceased, of Centre Hill, and Charles B., of near Centre Hall, His funeral services were held at the Neff home on Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock by Rev. R, R. Jones, his pastor, and burial was made at Centre Hall. able encyclopedia information his knowledge was positive. In position of lecturer of he weil 2 served, wil was a dominant the to th of elder Socially ot t of the wel ni Kynux ~The death of William H. Kuhn occurred early Friday morning of last week at the home of his eldest daughter, Mrs. 8S. W. Smith, in Centre Hall, after an illness of six week due to a complication of diseases. Interment was made at Centre Hall on Monday af. ternoon. \ Mr. Kuhn was born in Harris town- ship, and was the youngest son of Peter Kahn. He was a miller by trade, and followed that occupation in various mills in Penns and Nittany Valleys. The de velopment of large fouring mills in the west more than hity years ago lured him to Lafayette, Indiana, where his wife, nee Margaret Relph, died, leaving two children less than four years of age. After this loss, Mr. Kuhn again returned to Harris township, The deceased was a member of the Reformed church and was loyal to her beliefs. It was therefore natural that his pastor, R. R. Jones, should have charge of his funeral, Rev, Drumm, of the Lutheran church, being the assist ant. It was on his_seventy.sixth birthday that Mr. Kuhn died. There survive two daughters, Mrs. Smith, named above, aod Mrs, L. Ray Morgan, of Home. | stead ; also, a brother, David Kha, of | Beloit, Wisconsin, Dunsr.~Unable to partake of any sol id food fer nearly two months, and sub NO, 28 isting entirely on liquid nourishment, ue to a severe affection of the throat, leath finally claimed Samuel Durst at iis home in Centre Hall on Thursday svening at 6:30 o'clock. He was con- scious to the ldst and passed peacefully into the beyond. His funeral services were held at his late home on Saturday afternoon and burial was made at Cen- tre Hall, Rev. M. C, Drumm officiating. Samuel Durst was a son of Daniel and Mary Condo Durst, both deceased, and was born at the old Durst farm, now the Bartges brothers’ farm, at Earlystown on September 26, 1854, hence was aged sixty-five years, seven months and nine- teen days. His entire life was spent in farming ; as a practical farmer he met with signal success. When he purchas. ed part of the farm of the Wilson heirs about twenty years ago, he found the land in a run-down condition. It gave no prospects of returning any interest on the investment, Mr. Durst, how- ever, in a few years, had the land pro- ducing excellent crops. He erected a brick residence, large barn and other improvements, and the farm is now con- sidered one of the most fertile and best producing farms in the valley, A few years ago Mr, Durst bought the ad- joining farm, known as the Stover farm. He wasealso successful as a stock raiser, Last year he decided to retire from ac- tive farming and purchased a residence in Centre Hall, which he was remodel- ing at the time of his death, His wife, was Miss Alice J. survives, together with one son, Ed. ward, Three brothers are also left— James Durst, of Lewistown ; Alfred, of Centre Hall, and Andrew, of Joliet, Illi- nos in who Stov- er, s st —— Potter Twp. Elects Teachers. The Potter township school board, at a recent meeting, elected teachers for the township schools for the coming term. Several schools have not been plied. Those elected were ; ine Stump, Hugh Ralston. lum Grove, Berdie Heckman. 3. Alfred Crawford, Potiers Mills primary, Mildred Brown. Potters Mills grammar, Mary Foust. id Spring, Asoa Mary Harter. Pine Grove, vacant, Tusseyville, vacant, Colyer, vacant. . Tussey Sink, Floyd Jordan. Manor Hill, Sara Gilliland. Dauberman, Ruth Schreckengast. 4 x Earlysto wn, { Orphans’ Band Here for Community Prone. practi y decided that sie Band from be at Centre Hall for the Community on Thursday, Au- gust sth. A subscription paper calling for contributions to defray the expenses of their coming is being circulated, and contributions are being freely made The need no introduction to Centre Hall. They have been here on several occasions and there ability to give good music is well known, They will undoubtedly prove a big attraction for the picnic day and help swell the crowd. It bas been the 1. O. O. F. Sunbury will s nite Picnic, boys -» Fall of Rock Crushes Man's Head. A huge fons, rock, weighing about three became detached from the side of quarry. near Lewistown, where Wm, T. Roberts, 61 years old, was working on Friday, and rolling a distance of fifty feet struck Roberts on the head, killing him instantly, His skull was crushed as if it had been an egg sheil, a LOCAL AND PERSONAL. A good horse, the property of rural mail carrier Domer S, Ishier, died a few days ago. Miss Henderson and Miss Cawwood, of New York City, are guests at the George Ishler home, Rev. and Mrs, |. A. Shultz add tamily motored ffom near York to Centre Hall, on Monday, and visited the W. H. Bru. baker family, Rev, C. A. Waltman, of Millerstown, who will fill the Presbyterian pulpit in Centre Hall on Suaday afternoon, is a candidate for the pastorate. Harry W. Potter motored to Watson. town last week and spent several days with relatives, He was accompanied home on Monday by his uncle, T. P, Hayes, who will spend a short time here, Mrs. S. R. Kamp, of Lock Haven, and daughter, Mrs, T. L. Deita, accom- panied by her three interesting little children, are at the M. A. Sankey home at Potters Mills. ‘Mr. Deits, who is a wholesale lumber merchant, was not able to accompany the family on this summer outing. Out 0° town friends and relatives who attended the funeral of Mr, Kuhn, Monday, were: Mr. and Mrs, Mervin Kuhn and Mrs, J. Henry Smith, Will- famsport ; Mr. and Mr, Charles Kuhn, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kuhn, Wm, Meyer, Boalsburg ; Mrs. Catharine Rice, Frank Rice, Reedsville ; Mrs. Brower Long. acre, Philadelphia ; Mrs, Joseph Bazues, Mrs. Carlton Lichtenthaler, Phil Herman Muth, New York, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. L.. Ray Morgan, Homestead ; Fred Weber, Boalsburg, MOTORCYCLE SMASHUP PROVES FATAL TO THREE YOUNG MEN, Two from Milroy and Two from Reedsville, Traveling on Motor- cycles, Meet in Head-On Col- lision.—Three Are Dead. Three young men are dead and anoth- er is expected to die as the result of a motorcycle smashup, which occurred near Reedsville on Tuesday afternoon of last week, The dead and injured are : David Wilson, aged 27, Milroy, His injuries were multiple fractures of skull and face, and contusion of body and limbs. He was admitted to the hospital at 5:30 p. m. in the evening and died a few minutes later, William ].Stringfellow, aged 35 years, Milroy. He suffered a compound fract- ure of his left femur bone, brain hemorr- hages and other internal injuries. He was admitted to the hospital a* 5:30 p.m. but died at 7 o'clock the same evening, Guy Cummings, Reedsville, aged 16 years, receive l a severe concussion of big brain and punctured asd lacerated lips and severe abrasions of his left leg. He died on Thursday. Frank Weiler, Reedsville, aged years, received a severe concussion of his brain and 8 compound comminuted fracture of his left patella knee cap bone and a lacerated wound on his forehead and contusions and abrasions of his body and limbs. His death is expected. The two motorcycles going in opposite directions collided near the James Tay- lor home at the foot of Church Hill ceme- tery public road, at a sharp turn in the highway. The two men from Milroy going toward Reedsville, to go to their place of embloyment at the Standard Steel Works and the Weiler and Cumm- ings boys were traveling toward Milroy, Both motorcycles were evidently rua ning rapidly, when they suddenly struck each other with a terrible fore Frank Weiler had been the night op- erator at the Reedsvillé telephone ex- change the past seven years. He recent- iy resigned and secured employment at the Standard Steel ‘Works, Guy Comm. ings succeeding him as night operator at the Reedsville exchange. Frank is the oldest son of Mr. apd Mrs. Laurie Weiler of Reedsville and Guy is the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Commings of Reedsville, One of the first persons to arrive upon the scene of the tragedy was Henry Potts, mapanger of the Bell Telephone Company, Lewistown. The four vic. tims of the accident were all found in an unconscious condition, lying on the road. They were all taken as soon as it was possible, to the Lewistown hospital, in the ambulance of W, A. Barr and in automobiles. There were no eye wit- ness to the collision, David Wilson, an unmarried man, was the son of George W. Wilson deceased, and Mrs. Sarah Wilson of Milroy. The son was the main support of his mother and wasa good young man with indus- trious and honest habits. He leaves six brothers and one sister. He was a member of the lodge of Independent Or- der of Americans, Milroy. His funeral services were held Thursday afternoon interment in the Woodlawn cemetery, Milroy. William J]. Stringfellow, unmagried, was the son of W. E. Stringfellow de- ceased and Mrs. Ada Stringteliow of Milroy. whose main support he was. He is survived by two brothers, John and Robert Stringfellow, of Milroy, and by three sisters, Mrs. Wallace Gahagan and Mrs, Jesse Harmon, both of Milroy, and Mrs, Robert Smith of Centre Hall. His funeral services were held Friday forenoon, from his late home, intetment in Woodlawn cemetery. 18 Twenty tons of sugar were received in one shipment by a Bellefonte mer- chant last week. Coming at this particu- lar time, it served the housewife well in puttiag we sated ul prescived fruit. The Mascot of the Pacific Fleet. The proudest wember of the Navy with the Pacific Fleet Is “Mick” Ad miral Rodman's spaniel. From the tip of his tall to the tip of his nose “Mick™ Is a real sallor, the seas come “Mick” stuck his head through a life ring, at the photographer's TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, ————— HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS The Bellefonte Business Men's Associ- ation will hold a basket picnic at the fair ground, Bellefonte, on Thursday, Au. gust 19. The Lewistown Gazette is being printed in the office of the Daily Sent. nel. Scarcity of help in the Gazette of- fice forced this move, - ‘ J. Will Conley, of Bellefonte, is in a serious condition at the University hos. pital, Philadelphia. He recéntly went a minor operation. The Ladies Aid of the M. E. church of Pleasant Gap will hold a festival on Saturday evening, July 24th, in grove. Everybody is invited, Robert Brock and wife, Helen Bodtorf Brock, are here from Detroit, Michigan, ou a visit to the latter's parents, Mr, and Mrs, C, S, Bodtor{, near Colyer, Remember that Thursday, August sth, is the day for the Community Picnic at Centre Hall. Plan your work so you can be there for a good time, ; under- Neall'e SOLS that thou mostly of t One sand quarts of cherries, he sour variety, were picked this season on the farm of W., at Old Fort. Mr, Colyer sale for all the fruit, W. F. Ziegler, of Philadelphia ; Mr, and Mrs, ]. F, Ziegler and son, of Al toona, and Mrs, James Smith, of Akron, Ohio, attended the funeral of the late Prof. C. R, Neff, on Monday. The cherry &op this year in Penns Valley was one of the largest in years, Hundreds of bushels went to waste. Muny were taken to Lewistown where they were disposed of at quart, Dr. Robert Gearbart has from Stroudsburg to Boalsburg F. Colyer, found ready 25 cenls a removed and will be at his office on Main street after noons and evenings until September, when be will be there permanently. If t at office phone J. Ross, Linden Hall anf There is much valuable information contained in the Health School lessons which are appearing in the Reporter. The questions which appear at the head of the column are answered by the State Department, later issues. Stepping from behind an automobile from which they had just alighted, George R. Dunlap and ten-year-old son William, of Pine Grove Mills day a week ago, were struck by another car, resuiting in injories from which the boy died on Tuesday. The father sus- tained a fractured leg. and will appear in Satur. on In less than twenty hours, death claimed three good citizens in this com- munity. Last Thursday evening at 6:30 o'clock, Samuel Durst passed away. Friday morning at 1:20 o'clock, W. H. Kuhn answered the final summons, and at 1:00p. m., the spirit of C, R. Neff took its flight. All three men led very active and useful lives. § The mountain road, from Centre Hall to Pleasant Gap, has been closed by the State Highway Department, on account of construction work in progress on the other side of the mountain, Detour notices have been posted on the dia- mond, ordering travel up the Brushval- ley road, which means that getting to Bellefonte will be lengthened twelve miles, Two of the thirteen school houses in Potter township will very likely be closed up to conform with the ruling of the State Department of Instruction which requires that where the average daily attendance is less than 10 scholars, schools shall be closed and the children conveyed to another school. The two schools that fell below the required mark last year were the Pine Grove school, near Tusseyville, 2nd the Cold Spring school, At a regular meeting of the Ferguson township school board held last Tuesday evening the following teachers were elected : A. L. Bowersox, Pine Grove Mills grammar ; Violla Burwell, Pine Grove Mills primary ; Mildred Camp- bell, Centre ; Maude Miller, Baileyville, Nannie McWilliams, Glades ; Robert E. Reed, Maringo; Mary Burwell, Tad- "pole ; George 1. White Hall; Mary Vinco, Pine Hall ; Edna Ward; Oak Hall ; Grace Elder, Branch; Krum- Keplar and Gatesburg ndt sup. Arrangements have just been complet. ed by The Pennsylvania State College whereby the number of rehabilitation men to be accomodated there next year in the regular college courses is ' be doubled. During the past ye: more than too former soldiers who fad been wounded in service were soit to Penn State by the fovernment £0 receive a
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers