VOL. XCV.
$
CENTRE COUNTY'S 13,179 COWS
ARE WORTH $902,761.50.
Average Price is $68.50. According to
Figures Compiled by Statistician
of Dept. of Agriculture.
Centre county has an estimated num-
ber ot 13,179 milch cows, according to a
report by the Statistician of the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Agriculture, and
were they all offered for sale at an aver-
age price per head of $68 so, their value
would be near a million dollars ; to be
exact, $902,761.50,
Dairying is the back-bone of the farm-
ing industry in Pennsylvania and ac-
cording to a report of Statistician L.. H,
Wible 897,626 milch cows were on the
job in this state, in 1920, this great herd
represen investment of $67,886,
238.
Lancaster county leads the state in
the number of dairy cows maintained on
its farms, but the statistics show that
o an
ting an
the 42,793 cows in Lancaster county had
an average value of $381.75, so that Ches-
ter county, with its 41,010 cows valued
at 891.50 each, leads the state in the to
tal value of its dairy cows,
Centre county is twenty-sixth
list of total value
county comiog first with a figure of $3
752.415 00.
the
Chester
in
its
of
herd,
rnin e———
Discovery in X-Ray
Photography.
A remarkable discovery in X-ray
photography is now announced.
This discovery m an epoch in
medicine, for it enables the X.ray ex-
pert to expose to his view and to study
the very earliest effect of disease
Remarkable
ark
ars
mn
brain, lungs, abdomen and bones of
living body.
By this new development in X-ray
photography the expert, but only the
expert, can locate the smallest lesions in
the apex of the lung, can see the begin-
ning of pulmonary tuberculosis long be-
fore any other mean
can discove at a
the only symptom
disease may be a slight but stubborn
cough.
Any physician
berculosis of
discovered
stages, I
or is neglected,
carries off tens of thous:
This new developme
tography literally lays bare the
brain to the eyes of
gaze of the alienist.
brain a tumor or other
may cause obscure syn
be explained only by its presence,
By taking repeated pict
months, tumor
yield to treatment, watches its gradual
absorption, or if it remains stationary or
grows, he is conv
a
s known to medicine
rit
rit, time, when
in fact,
of the commencing
will
tha lier
ae un
and
Lest wr
3ut when not suspected,
consumption, so called,
the surgeon
He detects in
O
orey
growth which
ia
1ptoms that could
ures, through
perchaps, he sees the
ced that surgical in-
terference may be necessary,
———— i e—
To Make Public Names of All Draft
Evaders,
The names of persons who evaded the
selective service law will be made public
by draft districts as rapidly as the lists
for the districts can be compiled, it was
announced a few days ago at the war
department. Local draft boards were
rapidly completing a final check to make
sure that the name of no man shall ap-
pear as a draft evader who actually
served in some branch of the military
service in this country or the allies,
As soon as the final check for a com-
plete district has been received at the
war department at Washington the com-
piled lists will be made available to the
press, it was announced. It was under-
stood that the first district compilation
would be completed within a few days,
—————— es A AI
No Frills, Says School Board.
There will be no display of elaborate
costumes on the part ot the sweet girl
graduate this year at the commencement
of the West Chester High School, the
school board having decreed otherwise
at a recent meeting, at which the matter
was considered. The order has gone
forth that the girls must wear cotton
dresses made up in a plain manner and
with po elaborate frills, while the male
members must not wear dress suits or
even tuxedos, but only ordinary busi-
ness suits, No bouquets may be hand.
ed graduates on the stage or gifts made
at the function,
A ——— A ———
Transfers of Real Estate.
Adam Weaver's executors to James M.
Weaver, tract in Haines Twp. ; $1.
Margaret Weaver to James M, Wea-
ver, tract in Haines Twp. ; $50.
Michael Eby to James M. Weayer,
tract in Haines Twp. ; $500.
Mary A. Guisewite's executor to E, P,
Guisewite, tract in Haines Twp, ; $1,
000,
F. P. Guisewite, et ux, to James W,
Guisewite, tractn Haines Twp. ; $800.
Hannah Dubbs to AN, Corman, tract
in Haines Twp. ; $400.
Simon King, et ux, Elmira R. Gram-
ley. tract in Millheim ; $300,
Wm. B, Fiedler, et ux, to Anna L.
Bartges, tract in Centre Hall ; $1,500.
————— A.
Try a small ad. in the Reporter,
tri
| EUROPEAN RELIEF AIMS
TO FEED 3,500,000 CHILDREN.
Entirely Separate Work from the
Armenian and Near East Relief.
Unfortunately there seems to be some
misunderstanding throughout Centre
county in regard to the European Re.
lief Campaign, and some “persons have
it confused with the Near East Relief
work. The European Relief is headed
by Herbert Hoover and its object 1s to
feed 3,500,000 starving children through-
out Central Europe, while the Near
East Relicf is an entirely separate or-
ganization for the purpose of furnishing
food and clothing to the destitute people
in Armenia and dections of the Near
East. Both are worthy and commend.
able works of charity, but each a dis-
tinct and separate organization function-
ing in different areas across the sea.
During the past week many have re-
sponded to the letters sent from
headquarters and have very kindly and
patriotically remitted their contributions,
which splendid spirit of response seems
to indicate that old Centre county will
aga go victoriously ‘‘over the top,"
However, some have not replied to the
appeal sent to them, and Chairman W.
Harrison Walker is
out
al
all
that
stamped envelopes be returned by
with
with some explanation.
sent
1gh some other sour
anxious
the
to
remitta
If
their
end of [this week nee ory
any persons
have already contribution
then ki
that Cen-
yroper credit,
throt ce, ndly
nform Chairman Walker so
rill get p
1 Su Schools
uf
f
§
i OL
and nday are
to take special offerings on
this
yi
haat $i 4 4r
CUOarily.
ory
gr
a
n behal eat work of
ses ela
naa
in which three and one half
million hungry children are tc
LO
» be cared
r until next harvest,
Please do not confise the European
Relief campaign with the East,
enian or Ch
Near
Arey
“All
inese charities.
Building Boom for State College.
" 3
dwelling houses
modern
be erected
are
in State College,
their construction to begin
This "ne
his an
tate Col-
next few weeks,
he
ent is made by the S
lege Chamber of Commerce, which after
on of
ation io the college town, has come
to a final decision with regard to the
mediate need of more houses,
"he State College Times, i
says
weeks of investigati the hot
181
15108
situ
ime
0 its issue
3
t week,
Hass
I
of 1
T
his project has been under way ever
¥ # 2
since the housing commit
its
made
in State
College last fall, and i at
that time that the pressing need
for relief in this congested community
was a num ber of small-f;
Juilding will
>
tee
survey of the living conditions
ts conclusions
most
'
et
sal
dwellings
proceed the
enerosity of a number prominent
itizens who have offerd their credit to
project, arrangements being
sold
men
Bs
throug
g of
C
the
finance
made whereby the houses will be
without a cent of gain to those
who have banded themselves together
as the State College Community Hous-
ng Assogiation. has been
1e demand for these proposed houses
hat it is possible that the association
So insistent
t
will erect twice as many houses, or even
more than that, so as to relieve the big-
gest problem with which State Collegé
is confronted at the present time. The
association has formed itself directly
out of the Chamber of Commerce and
its housing committee and in its genero-
sity to enter the deal without personal
gain. is to be very highly commended.
The houses will not be rented. but
will be sold immediately for sums not
exceeding their actual cost of construc.
tion. It is thought that the price will
be between $5,000 and $6,000 each
They should be ready for occupancy
about September 1st.
Bids for construction will be asked
immediately, and it is hoped that actua
building will be started within a few
weeks. The plan of exterior architec
ture and inside lay-out has not yet been
finally agreed upon. Indications favor
the *‘cottage” effect, more or less on the
bungalow type. Ideas are being taken
from the suburban community settle.
ment plans, and the houses will be mod-
ern and up-to-date in every respect,
with every possible convenience,
The demand seems to indicate a
choice for houses of five and six rooms
each, to accommodate small families,
The rooms will be large, and as homes
the houses will be the most attractive
in town, The houses will be built sepa-
rately on lots goxi17s feet in size. The
jodRtion of the group of lots on Gill
street is within 100 feet of the borough
sewer on Beaver avenue, and the houses
will be connected directly to it, doing
away with the building of cess pools,
—— A
Find Secret Charter ; Contents Sen-
sational.
Sensational provisions, said to have
been found in a secret charter of the
Shenandoah lodge of the I. W. Ww,
were seized by the Sta te Police at Potts.
ville last week. The contents of the
document are being kept secret, Exist.
ance of the I, W. W. in the anthracite
coal regions was discovered by state of.
ficials only a few days ago, A thor
ough investigation is being made,
‘“THE PINE STUMP
of 66 Years Ago Narrates
fending Pupils,
SCHOOL DISTRICT”
the Destruction of the Old
Pine Stump school district who knows
from what source it derived name ?
The old or original building was erected
some seventy-five years ago. Maj
Neff, who lived on the public road
short distance west of the school house,
it
its
or
a
always declared that at the time was
township and the State of Pennsylvania |
than any other similar building. How |
well this claim was founded I am unable
to say, but as I look back through the
huze and mist of time I am inclined to]
believe that the claim was approximate-
ly correct.
I began my school going career at
Pine Stump about sixty-six years ago
There is not now living in the 4
the head of a family whose children
were at that
Nor is there any persons living in the
istrict
my school mates time,
now who was my school mate
time unless it be one of the Gin-
gerich or Sprow families.
The building
at
corner of what
North-east
Neff
right in the angle formed by the Linden
Hall and Ce
running
the
the
stood in
we call field,
Toe
ntre Hall road and the road
south to a junction with
the Old Fort
back in
order
i
na
road
sortof a
the Boalsburg a
The fence was set a
semi-circle form in
iy
to give place
for the school house and play ground
When the winter supply of wood was
piled % there was
room left and the children played in the
public road
i Yiesd
on the rou ittie
rel
uni
ess the ground was froz.
en in the adjacent fields where we were
allowed to play. The school house was
i J
Feeile
Fadil Y
¥
There were two windows on
of rock and had very heavy walls
the south
and two on the north, with the door in the
g was low and the prin-
1
ia
east. The ceil
ciples of
The school house would not today
sanitation wére neglecte
draw
a prize for architectural beauty. On the
porth side of the school house within
about four feet of the wall stood pine
stump, possibly ten feet high.
ly when the workmen completed
walls of the school house they cut d
Own
the pine tree which was about two and
half &
one-half feet in diameter, leaving the
stump. This stump stood sentinel over
%
the school house which obtained its
name from it for many years | however,
the wall that it
to
in
it stood so close ter.
fered with the boys when playing *‘cor-
net” ball or “*Tickley Over,” The boys
frequently discussed the annoyance the
stump gave in playing these games,
One day they held a counsel of des-
truction and it was decided to cut
the stump. While the teacher was gone
to dinner, the boys got out the school
house ax and without paying heed to
the advice to the woodman to spare that |
down
— ~ - .
March 23rd an Important Day for
Shoppers.
Wednesday of next week, March asrd,
is designated as ‘'Altoona’s Suburban |
Day Centennial,” for on that day it will |
be one hundred weeks since the famous |
“Suburban Day" was born in Altocona— |
a day which has proven a boon to out- !
of-town shoppers. “Suburbad Day’ |
has saved many thousands of dollars to
people in Altoona's surrounding terri-|
tory, and even to folks in this part of
Centre county who have taken advan
tage of the splendid bargain offerings
of this day by the merchants of Altoona
displaying the “A. B. A.” sign in their
windows,
“Suburban Day" is beyond any doubt
assured of a permanent place in the bus-
iness life of these Altoona merchants,
It has brought its thousands of shoppers
each Wednesday who look forward to
this big day of each week with keen en-
joyment, not alone for the dollars which
are to be saved, but also because of the
social enjoyment of the day. Friends
meet who otherwise would not save for
the opportunity afforded by “Suburban
Day.” This day affords one big round
of pleasure, making shopping both easy
and enjoyable.
The Altoona Booster merchants are
not selfish by any means. They say to
you. “Buy of your home merchant, but
if he does not have it, then come to Al
toons.” Who could show a better
spirit ?
Bishop Swengel Dead.
Bishop U. F. Swengel died at his
home at Harrisburg on last Tuesday
night at the age of 75. He was one of
the founders of the United Evangelical
Publishing company and contributed
largely to the church publications. He
was closely allied with the Anti-Saloon
league movement, being a director in
the state organization. He was appoint:
ed bishop in the United Evangelical
church at Canton, Ohio, in 1g9r0, and
after serving two terms retired in 1918,
He served an enlistment in the Civil)
war,
-
tree or the higher injunction not to de-
the
The boys
siump was com-
worked in relays
and finally this grand old sentinel tumb-
the grounds falling
Just about that time the teacher return-
ed from dinner and
menced,
led to eastward,
when he saw the
destruction that had been wrought, he
was the maddest man in Potter Town-
When
an investigation and when
was concluded, he had
was convened, he
it
criminals
standing on the floor,] being the you
ship. school
by gan
six
ng-
At {first he
eatened to whip each one of
est member of the gang.
thr us but
finally changed his mind. He said that
not «
th
e of the criminals should enjoy
ie privileges of recess until the stump
When
e criminals
ainst the school
the ax and
several minutes
until each one
rocess continued
was reduced to
ng wood,
th
183
kindli
recess came, he marched
out and stood them up ag
I given
&
for
touse, then one was
was made to use it
and it
had
day after day, but w
was transferred
used it, HS |
¢ made very slow
wrogress. One evehing after school, we
that
fro
ounsel and it was agreed
an ax
e should bring it the next dmorning
at way we would soon get rid
When recess came, the boys
took their axes and went out and began
their we When
teacher came out and saw what was go-
who could get m
ho
and in th
i
of our job,
rk on the stump, the
or it
~
ui
in
except wi
on he made the boys q
TN
a
chopping
Had
hat time known of cyclones
the school house ax.
xe boys at t
we would ordered one strong
dave
enough to pick that stump and de-
Nittany Mountain,
in ng the
we were
si de of
it it on
POs
alle
aily
¥ Limells rate: 3.1
ump to kindling wood whic
:
1
#
Fin we Su cended redaci
t H
a
made Lo pile on the south
school
the
any
the
the school house [its
name are still living,
As
yoded
whether
7s who helped to destroy
that
house, | wonder
¥ $
of the be
stump gave
I write this article, my mind is
1
i
of the
nd
fs
a
with the memories
Many of the ©
onug
ago. irls who
were my
ovS a
¥
playmates at Pine Stump more
than three score years ago have gone
dust, while
on the
tide
down into dreamless others,
itke myself, are standing brink
waiting for the rise of the to carry
faith into the
These lines
thouse of
1 harbor
them by the ligh
utiful x of hope,
come to my mind
“Over the River they beckon to me,
Loved ones who have crossed to the
farther side ;
Their flowing robes | see
i
But their voices are lost iu the gloam-
ing tide.’
ELIAS S. GARVER.
_ Farm Calendar.
Timely Reminders from
The Pennsylvania State College
GRAPE PRUNING—Grape pruning
should be done without delay, Remem-
ber that the fruit is borne on new wood,
growing from the buds now present on
last year's wood. “Most people owning
a few vines do not prune grapes heavily
enough. A strong vine should be prun-
ed to carry not more than twenty to
fifty buds, and weaker vines will do best
on even less buds, Too many buds will
form too much inferior fruit, sapping
the viiality of the vine. Eight canes
with about six buds each is a good pro-
portion for a strong vine.
Write to the Pennsylvania State Col-
lege school of agriculture, State College.
Pa, for Extension Circular No. 81,
‘Grape Culture in Pennsylvania,” which
contains full information on pruning.
GARDEN-—Housenold garbage has
been used succesfully, when well-rotted
in the compost heap, as a substitute for
stable manure, If it is dug into the
soil in the spring, or kept well mixed
with soil in the compost heap, it will not
be offensive in any way,
APRIL CHICKS—In order to obtam
a high egg production in the late fall
and early winteg from pullets, it is im-
portant that the chicks be hatched in
April. This means starting the incubat-
ors now,
SPRING PIGS— Spring farrowed
pigs should be given every opportunity
to make rapid growth. Provide a creep
in the hog lot and supply teed as soon as
the pigs begin to nibble at the slop fed
to the sow,
SPRAYING time will soon be here,
It is a good plan to go over the spray
machine thoroughly within the next ten
days ; see that the pump and nozeels
are in good condition, A thorough test
8 advisible. ; #3
. NO. 1]
BORO SCHOOL REPORT.
tatistical Report and Honor Roll for
the Sixth Month.
Primary School—Number
males 10, females 17, tot
attendance,
=
rir
enrolled,
al 27,
female
93,
Average
25. Per
female g3
male oq,
cent attendance, male
total, 93. Those present every day dur-
ing montn are : Marvin Ishler, Bruce
Smith, James Weaver, Evelyn Colyer,
Adaline Dinges, Miriam Gross, Dorothy
McClenahan, McClenahan,
Hazel Potter, Marian Smith and Sarah
Smith, Three of the above,—Margaret
McClenahan, Hazel Sara
Smith, have not
Margaret
Potter and
missed a day di
the term.
the
Six pupils were tarty dur
month :
ey had ti
marks, —Helen Bartholomew,
th
ia rt i
HTieer
Intermediate School.— Whole
in attendance during month,
female 26,
male
“
a
20.
total {tend-
46. Average
th,
Per cent of
ance during mon male 20, fi
total 45 attendauc
month, ‘male 99, female 97, total
e
The follewing pupils were present every
day during term : Elwood Smith,
Smith. Mae Smith,
Frances Weaver, Be
le, Ethyl McClenahan,
Jeulah Biogman. The “follow-
made 100 per cepr in spelling test
month :
Alverta Weaver,
rtha Sharer,
DAra
Genevieve
Dorothy Odenkirk, Bond
le, Ethyl McClenahan,
rithmetic, Sara Runkle.—Thos,
foore, teacher,
2 Ob. 4
ussel Slack
Grammar School,
in attendance, girl
centage of atte
Those neither absent
month : Theodore |
Shck, Wilbur
Emelyn Bn
4
2 venir
Syers Ripka,
William Stover. Paul
mg R
A Geary,
an McClen
re
FRE |
Smith,
Elizabet}
lotte Keller,
Molz, Mir
Weaver,
art
or
Gross, Agnes
Mari
iam Moore, }
Florence
Hess, teacher.
Physician Mastering
Treatment for Rupture.
Dr. H. H. Longwell, of
who is in Des Moines,
course in toe
the
Centre Hall,
taking a
lowa,
treatment of
writing R ubder date of
March 4,
11
to all
eporter
says in part: ‘Remember me
who happen :
them that 1 shall be
as |
his method of treating ruptures
tr
ruly marvelous to see
limp into Dr. DePew’s office
bome as soon
t
the poor
as t
ife were
i scarcely worth living, az
little while, say twenty minutes to a |
hour, see them spruce up and
of the office as th
dope to them except to
weight from their shoul
of them take ¢ next
Some of them come i
I might say thousands, o
some our Centre Hall
vouch for,
**The weather out here is like spring
~sun shining brightly and birds sing-
ing.—~H. H, Longwell, M. D”
ough nothing
lift
lers
4
th
of people can
8
At the annual meeting of the Central
Pennsylvania conference of the United
Ewvaagelical church, at Wrightsville,
York county, a resolution was adopted
that the trustees be authorized to under-
take the erection of a ngw church and
parsonage at State College, at a cost of
approximately $120,000, each member of
the conference to be assessed ten cents
toward helping to defray the expense of
the same,
$50,000 Worth of Booze Seized.
It would seem that Wilkes Barre is
the oasis in the desert of prohibition
judging from the booze-laden trucks
consigned to that city that have been
seized by federal officers lately. Again
on last Thursday night prohibition
agents seized whisky valued at $50,000
in a raid on the Acme Products com-
pany in that city. Loo Levy, proprietor
of the co.upany, was arrested, but later
made his escape in an automobile.
When the agents gave chase in another
car they were shot at twice. The source
of the shots has not been learned.
The Rev. R. E. Johnsen, under whose
direction the raid was conducted, was
arrested by a policeman for alleged
reckless driving while hastening to the
scene by motor car,
Oppose Sunday Fishing.
The attitude of the state legislature
toward an effort to break into the laws
protecting the Sabbath was revealed by
the house fisheries committee last week
in reporting with a negative recommen-
dation a bill legalizing Sunday fishing.
The bill was introduced by a Philadel-
phian on the grounds that its enactment
would provide innocent recreation for
thousands Objection came from vari
ous interests including the Lord's Day
Alliance whose representatives saw in
the measure, although it provided for
the least objectionable form of Sabbath
day desecration, a tendency to let down
the bars to more serious forms, Public
opinion in Pennsylvania on this quest
ion is so well known that the bill will
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
————
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS’
Next Monday is the first day of sprit
jellefon® barbers have redu
price of shaves and hairc:
uis.
Bruce Stahl is spending
with his brother, Asher C. Stahl,
s finding it
It
orenared —i
prepared,
the
lish
as
niace on
Pial Jd
: DOW, m fine ¢
good
¢, and as {ree as th
> Air.
1 COTres makes
1. ¢ of (
Wanted-—a ROO
ne power of God, to
¥ rey Sosa kor} ws tine
own Lo straighten things out,
too late.
Friends in
Mrs
McKees Rocks, wil
Centre Hall of
. ’
Marray Cooney, of
De interested that a
in
2,
Knowing baby
3 oh nr a v1 4 [re 5 6%
daughter, No, came to the Cooney
: quite recently.
G Lohr, of Oak Hall, was a caller
at this office on Saturday and en
Reporter subscriber.
Thurs
3 2
leased
picaseq
i a STOCK sale on the
Was much
AUS Ana
persons in the
Penns Valley purchases
past week
a Ford
Coburn
near ura
eta TT ~ 14
twenty-five“years old,
Wednesd
has a 1
Ted &T
rif wanlime
in TeUCs,
A three-year exemption
is really necess:
lem is to be
State-Centre-Electric
d a new tarift of rates
Public Service Commission
ren
VIC
electric se e in portions of
Clinton counties, The new
mes effective on April 1st, 1921, and
Mo. 13 covering penalt
by adding the following clause
“@
amends Rule
“Fai
ure to receive bill does not relieve con-
penalty.”
dollars is the
Pennsylvania pay
the weeds that
lands.
Thirty-two millions "of
iil the farmers in
h year for
farm
grow on
In Canada where
much more attention has been given to
thet
wer
than
the damage caused by weeds in this
IY, been that
weeds cost the farmer an average of $2
per acre, so that Pennsylvania, bh
16,000,000 acres of farm lands, and with
conditions no better than Canada, must
pay the enormous sum of $12,000,000
annuvally for these unwelcome visitors,
te
count it has found he
3
34 iva
A ils
The people of Bald Eagle valley will
receive with delight the news that I, S.
Zimmerman, sou of Shuman Zimmer-
man of Hecla Park, dec'd., was recently
granted a certificate to inaugurate a ‘bus
line from Bellefonte to Lock Haven
through their valley, and that the regn-
lar run of at least two trips a day each
way will be made in the start, and more
later if the patronage warrants it. Mr,
Zimmerman has purchased two busses of
large capacity, and is making trial runs
during the prevailing bad road condit.
ions $0 as to enable him to make out his
schedule to meet all conditions in all
kinds of weather,
The Reporter was favored with a call
on Saturday morning by that distin-
guished gentleman, Col. Henry W.
Shoemaker, of McElbattan, who, in
company with another good friend of
the Reporter, John D, Meyer, had made
an early morning run from Altoona in
Mr. Meyer's Franklin car, enjoying the
beauties of the sunrise of a beautiful
spring morning while crossing the
mountains. The purpose of their trip
was to visit the site of the “lower fort"
of Penns Valley, near Aaronsburg, the
matter of which drawn to Col,
Shoemaker's atten through an are
ticle written by Rev. J. J. Weaver and
appearing in the county papers. Col,
Shoemaker believes the spot to be as
worthy of some historical recognition as
our own Old Fort, and will endeavor to
see that a suitable marker is erected,
The passing of the direct descendants
of those early settlers who built the fort
as a shelter the attacks of the
Indians, makes it imperative that some-
thing be done Before time shall have re-
moved the last of them and all authentic
information necessary to the proper lo«
cation of the fort and the history and
got little further,
ever.
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