(ARY 14, 1924, TATE" FEB | EXAMINATION OF NEW DRIVER TO BEGIN IN MARCH, r —— GREATER GRANGE ENCAMPMENT, LIVESTOCK | VALUE DECREASES. DENTAL HYGIENE WORK FOR LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOTS, - February 15 to 26, Inclusive, Dates for Actual Tests Will Be Held in Belle. Visits of a State Dental fonte, One of Examiun@ig Polnis MILLIONS OF FARMERS ARE BANKRUPTED. —— | Executive Committee Meets Lay While Mellon and His Republican Fol. Ground Plang for 1924 Gathering, lowers in Congress Are Endeavor: | Which Begins August 30th.* TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. 2s —— Report of Department of Agriculture | HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST Shows Difference of More Than | fo In Ing to Reduce Taxes of the Rich. Official figures collated and published by the Department of Agriculture ace of which has been experienced by the ag- revealing the extent the distress ricultural producers of the county dur- ihg the last three vears 9f Republican control of pational affairs. Practically & million farmers have been bankrupt- It that ffve million and have this ed, is estimated or six of men, women children been involved in wholesale ruin of agricultural values, The Department of Agriculture con- ducted the farmers of fifteen states of the east and ’ a special mquiry among noth central which there of 2.280.000 owners and region 4n are a total operat- The Cit atl tay committee the and Fal Arcadia of ASRoel- Wednes- i which will executive Er net inge weampment mn in Grange afternoon 1 lay the groun pinns for this vear's gathering begin Saturday, August 20 and close Friday, September ith, > , #ate Prof. Crowell, Prof. | I.. Watts, whe ds having State of College, the Inndscape authority, lav out nu new ground plan of the camp, which, if the result by movement committee will I accepted by t L changes, is advised i for the that the changes come gradually that Hal on in radical those responsible finan Indd burden UL neo. the “ is nog easly association ore of farms. Replies were from abogit 2,400 of these farmers. Th | that 108.000 | received i results of thig inquiry indicate the farmers had n | section studied more than of or lost their farme other | property through foreclosure bank- cuptey, more than 12.000 had lost their holdings without legal proceedings, and nearfy 373,444, had kept through the leniency of creditors. While and i i although practically ruined. their property only | . { these farmers are in poverty | Adminis- devoting its energies t for i ! n the country The | distress the Republican is tration the task of wealt hilest Administration's reducing surtaxes the classes | ! insistence on the en- | { actment of the Mellon tax plan in pref- | would erence other the to any consume | practically all present sesston of | Congresg and thus prevent the passage | for of of any legislation the relief the farmers, *- Fifty Killed While Hunting. records for | Ah number of sportsmen injured in fatalities and 8 Bin- , Ble hunting season were shattered last when 50 hunters ind 150 others The 1923 days ago, shows that 196 were killed gunshot record, made year, at least received wounds, Be the last killed dents, The vided laws holding hunterg responsible pub- a few ddring five years persogs were and 608 injured in hunting acei- recent Legislatures have pro- for accidents. However, it is believed | that the majority of the wounds were | self-inflicted, due to carelessness, There were 37 persons killed and 125 wounded during the 1622 Last fall was years that hunting season the first time elk could be legally killed the state, and 23 were shot of i= given at 6465. ith 6115 1922. The bears killed was 500, while in The kill deer as compared of the number was 563. It wae an unusually » | i n number in 1932 good wild turkey season, and 6049 were | killed, as compared with 5431 in 1922 -— Guide for the Lover of Liberty. If the sublime with which Woodrow Wilson fired the wilj to lib- the democratic purpose of the world should this words erty of the American people and ever perish, nevertheless utter- ance -y any man champion of liberty who does ng erence the laws of our beloved land He has adopted the standards of the enemies of his country whom he affects to despise.” must live: Can never accept as a rev- IM etl So ms SOA. Propose New Taxation Unit. A recommendation that the county be made the unit of school taxation in- stead of the township was adopted by the State School Directors’ at the final session annual convention, Other refolutions the State to take over all expense of eodu- cating defective children, asked that the State reimburse school districts for loss of taxes where large withdrawn’ from taXation and favored State =id for rural «districts where means avallablg are inadequate —————— > Elks to Go to Willlamsport, A meeting of the officers and mem- bers of the Advisory Committee of the Pennsylvania State Association of Elks was held In Willumsport for the pur- pose of discussing plans for the State convention of Elks, which will be held there next August for four days. The cpnvention will open on August 25. and iy #8 expected that there will he at least 26000 people In the city during the convention. The annual parade, always a feature of the conventions, wil be heM on August 28. The parade will bring about 75600 uniformed men, accompan- ted by a half bunired bands. Phila. deiphin will send two special trains carrying 750 men of the famous march - ing unite... Harrisburg, Bethlehem and Reading will also send large delega- tions, as the three cities wil} ake a bid for the next annual mefting. The Ia- dew’ auxillary of the lodge will meet at the same time, and the women are ing elaborate preparations for the Associntion of its twenty-ninth held in Harrisburg. adopted urged areas are school It addition: it i gricultinre or was definitely declied to erect exhibit buflding., but whetn- wi be devoted to horticulture, a institutional exhibits | not yet been decided, The plans for the under building are also being WwW p the direction of rive 1s i Ho fs location wil camp Miss cdith retary association = last season mu 192 ne esl for quarters for en and thst one hunds cations for tents were ars to be 4 committees 2 (epartment «1 mesting of Wednesday At nea ’ in Carange Ba Watchman Dies, f M Crossing Samuel jowsabyiynge sudden nearly wife he is survived by amphbe Joseni is ——— 3 Mother of Five Burned to Death, Mi May Fry Jac Hail, wus burn wftermnon Edna wife «of H Mi Friday ing caught @ ¢ ¥ fatally ile when her fire while she was ty start The and she A fire with rose ne { rare bee accident occurred about 3 was : Haven Immediately Lack hospital she Wheres B®. % o'clock Mra Fry and Rg evenin was weed thirty-three 4 hussain vou ahd etn ¥ survived by her Lin L.onn, is five children ian FF ’ the okiest th ber father, Hiram Harry, of Ranshaw; G Mary and irteen of brothers, years Long ge three and Ralph Long. Mra OG beriand, Hilbert and two Ms Northum- of of i ters, Bast reas and Miss Lillian Long, Pittaburgl ss — A —_ ROBBING STUDENTS (HARGE AGAINST CAPTURED MAN - Fugitive from Prison Sald to Have In- vaded Three Colleges, rf of Wayne Charleston, Cob, alias James Boyd W. Va. fesse, according to the police. that he had Florida Penitentiary two monthe ag, and since he of rob- bing college wm arrested at State on Sunday con - escatwsl from the State had made a Students then specialty He College on an outbound bus within an hour after he had strolled through the rooms of sleeping students Nu iw alleged to have the house, $62 | in Signa fraternity where he taken from students Coihs Lewisburg, where he was sad to have robbed Bucknell University of $80 while members slept, He was identified at “the Bellefonte | jail by John Buchovecky, of the | Jucknell students who ALL robbed. The prisoner. who fs 24 years old, was | said to have told the police that he had served 22 months of a five-year term for along in kidnaping a school girl. He sald he had also robbed students at Franklin Marshall Lancaster, He is hefingd held In the county jail for trial and Florida authorities have been notified of his arrest, came to State College from a fraternity house at one and College, at A RAs Se N The Buffalo Valley Inn i# to be closed a8 a public house and assume the role of an apartment house. A restaurant will be conducted on the, first floor, This hostedry was opened by Mifflin. burg citizens. o number of years age, who were opposed ty the rum teafMc, The house flourished and became pop- ular, but appeabs to have waned in entertainment of the visiting ladies, popularity upon the ‘opening of a aso- * Ist to Centre Hall Schools, of the interest taken in the sale of Tuberculosis Christ Centre Hall in securing the services of a Den- Hygienist, of Because year mns seals, vig been nite tal pervision under the Health working the State in the various school rooms Work Oak on will Hall weeks of Hall inclus- in the Lemont and two February and in the Centre schools from February 15 to 26, ive, E. is well Miss Cora Mitchell, the known Demal Hygienist, in this vicin- ity. number of both having worked in a great the towns throughout the county this year and last vear. of the methods in This work represents one and most up-to-date of safeguarding the health keeping Not 8 through ed only do normal mouth condl- in in producing a well developed body thelr ald t, mastication b and digestion but by greatly reducing the number of diseases, ninety per cenl find Abscessed teeth be { which thelr gateway through uth have been ly known to the oatse of ible, kidney trouble, rheuo i m wd a4 numBer of other Cavities the teeth which Hed with decayed food make breading places germs of varfous kinds After i the jeeth are i Sent Lo the parents vy parents muss whether * PLONE yy : dental child Help 1} ae 3 Na ¥ i done to work iar chil the A vuraging hm tooth d : visit the dentist thy baoxdy Nea sir mind fonts Foust—{ arson, yuEseg Mew Mariha Potters Mills, and Car were united of Wednesday Methodist Hey F ) The bride in a daughter of Mr Mr. F Potter marringe late night Woe M 31 the ELrsOonage, ring iis, & i Cnt} y Mrs, Joseph Caneon Crease Whoo teacher in this tench ng . —————————— Photoplays at Scenle and Opera House “Friday, Feb Herber “His Mystog irl.” ES term gz t » i Heer i Rawlinson in y OG Aa a with’ fast action and the Secenes, etd in the haunted rare very well done. A man cures Oihier £2 An infatuation by hirin dra masti fo Also {pera Feb. 15 Pioneer Tallis” a coTnpany piay it out 11th episcsde of "The Steel Trall House—Friday and wp in and 16: Cullen LAndie in with all star cast, a wonderful Indian rush of 1848, screened, picture of gold fight reel comedy, Greatest Indian ever Also, 2 ——————— Possibly a Ford Factory Site, Agents of Henry Ford are believed to have taken option on a forty-eight acre along the near Sunbury last taken Cruse, water power site Susque- hanna week, The the river Prmit to buy was out in of Wade H. but the residence was not given, and came af- of owner Name ter weeks negotiations, of the not know who the buyer is, he says. Hummed, property, does a record for property there. farmers sud, . S————————— A ————————— They Met——they Loved—They Married! It is barely a month ago that Count Ladwig Salm Von Hoogstracten, Anse tridiny nobleman, herg of the battiefleld, tennis champion runner-up, shiek of the movies. a noted figure of the Euro- pean duelling grounds, made the world gasp when hw marridd, an elope ment, Mary Millicent Rogers, the beau- tif héress of some $40.000,000 of Standard Oil's fabuons fortune. Count Salm bas written the story of his whole life with fte swiftly varying surround- ings of old-world regal splen@or cul- minating in his wedding of Amerion's richest heiress. With their usual en- terprise the Hearst newspapers have secured the exclusive rights of this in The details of this smashing international romance are of abworting interest. Under the tide "How 1 wooed and won Millicent Rog- @e” the story will stare in the Sun- day New York American next Sunday and continue in the daily and Sundyy until completed. There ls no romance of modern times that compares in in. terest with tile of the multi-million. aire helress and the hamdsome Count Balm. adv, ond house In Mifflinburg similar in character. State, Twlee Department Issues Instructions. Announcement has been received Harrisburg that the examination li- from of | conse all! new applicants for driver's begin Mwch 1. A who has not will applicant is one lellefonte hag been designated an lone of the places in which the exami- | Will be held in Bellefonte, the first nd | third Wednesdays of each month, us- | ing Allegheny streets for | the actual road tests Laumb and | Other locationg in this section of 4he | State In which an applicant may take jan examination are as follows: Lewis- Williamsport, Lock Ha- Altoona, Lewistown, of highways nounced the following refulations cov- the burgg Sunbury, | ven, Tyrone, The ele, department an- | ering examinations: “All direc by of state highway patrol. examinations will he held at in inspector a member of "Applicants falling % meet all Of test must be re ! gould "Applicants will bring a machine in running order t, such examina- jon for the purpose of wractical i the a i (demonstration, and observe rule wid ft requirgs that such appli ants be ja companisd by a licensed operator "Applicants wilt for ToDo hous of 8 5 betwen wi the mi. en examination dave ve. the examination Ww the next regular date conflicts with the explmtion shown on the learner's permit, the ap icant wi tomods i¢ le vision, Har department of high- ways mit. the dante of | Eleven Million Dollars 1922 and 1928. The value of all jivestock and poul- i 1 was more than $11,060,000 jess that a year previousiy, reports received by the stite department of agriculture The give a total valuation dicate, figures, made public as for horses, mules, and chickens of a8 COmparsd witn 52,700,631 The esting 2,942 townships, $1 a Yer ago, reports also disclose other inter facts of farm life ravlion din ‘ Ww in ch ment said there are approximate! on farms throughout the ty-Lw, per cent are using automobile compared with 132.692 the In 11,683 Tsaseg 696 wwown- | WMyips there motor and on is use In the A It is estimated , a 1 Hue meres] with with ot CUO moto follows vibes pee TTI sr nation within the thirty-day period The of 3 practical appii- eXamination will 15 Consist 1 a determine the yi oant = t tomobdle | show fey or motoroycie, an oral test to applicant's knowledge of the mo- vehicle Jaws and roles of the road, r ind a physical examination, whe: { dewrnesd ‘No advisable practical test wili be given any car the owner of which has not in vehicie laws to loense tags approved diamyp devices. and adequate brakes {Deaf operators must have their car | equipped with "AppHeant with hen respect a mirror) mytast his to the examiner. No ap- icant will be examined whose permit present Tearn- er's permit ER ————— Surprise Birthday Party. | On Monday night of Inst birthday surprise party was Harshbarger who week a given lives in Bellefonte. The occasion was the fifty-sixth birih anniversary of Mr. Harshbarger. The | evening was most pleasantly spent. and returning home light refresh. served. Those present Lillian Minimyre, Joseph W. Blain Benner, Pearl Grove, | Hugh Longwell James Drearson, Chas. | Benner, Mra. Max Harshbarger and son oy Searson, Walter Bathurst, { Margaret Behdrs. Alice Jessop, Mrs | Harry Harshbarger and daughter Sar- ah, William Jessop, Ralph Grove, Sarah {C. Behers, Mrs. Longwell. Emma Wit- mer, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Harshbarger agd davghter Frances, Mr. and Mrs George Searson, Mr. and Mrs Calvin Witmer. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jessop and children, Grace, S8amue; and Ralph; Mr. and Mrs Hivam Grove, N. HH. Krape, Mra. Bert Bathurst. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Harshbarger, Clyde W,. Harshbarger, Ralph E. Harshbarger, Edna B, Harshbarger. A. Mae Harsh- barger. 2 James { Buffalo Rup Valley, above | i i i before | ments Wore were; | Behers, ———— A ——————— Primaries April 22nd. It will be a matter of but little more than two monthg before the voters will be obliged to go to the polls and ex- press thelr preference $for candidates for State and National delegates. This year, through an act of the Legisla- ture of 1923, the spring Primaries will be held Apel 22nd instead of the third Tuesiay in May. Along with naming delegates to the National conventions of the major parties, the voters will nominate candidates for State Treasur- er, Auditor General. Congressmen in every district of the State; State Sena tors in one-half of the districts and representatives in the General Assem- bly from every district. . a ——— Rev. J. M. Kickpatriok, for the past week, hag been Yeaching the Potters Mills grammar school while the regular teacher, Edgar Miller, has been #] with tonsilitie, - | | | | | {MH hew 250 inst Sheep ealimated inom $2 1.048.725 valuatl Bwine 429 ag compared with 1.068 1% $14,691 i111 & Chickens four per cent valuation $15,647,411 mW year Contract Let for New P, ( State College, § i Postmaster Glenn at Stafe Colles: received word the from Washing BE Supervising | i the i ! Arch thai of E the iat ton of Pratt al bie Zimmerii Kansas. f 1 a Post Office Building | ate State Con had He gis sent Mr plang to be delivered ¢ " erection s lege, to been accepted. | Glenn two sets of the This that operations will the for to construction superin- tendent of certain- iy i» an Indionation be started without delay and that of ovat College will dream office bullding State all time A not be a dream for ————————— Stork Overtook Pastor and Wie. The stork the Rev, Mrs RH Scranton, toursvilie day, by motor to their home sult will home twin girls, and Mon - while enroute overtook * Dick, of at the other re- of and as a return with a pair Mrs ti Mr a Upon reaching Montoursville, Dick felt fatigued and stopped hoted Dick waited ¥ at rest Yh Central for shor the short time afterwardg he was called in- ts the hotel that father of a outside in car and and notified he daughters, was iWin selina IL 0. 0. F. Orphanage Fine, The Central Odd Fel lows’ orphanage, Jocated near Sunbury, is In splendid condition. according tn the board of Girectors, which held its annual meeting recently. The children are well cared for, the schooy attend- ance is nearly perfect and i very little sickness at the home, they reported. : President of the Orphanage associa- tin, Fred C. Hanyon. recommended the borrowing of $30.000 to complete the construction work, now going on, within the next six months, President Hanyon wag given permission to bor. row sufficient money to carry on the work at the home, K. A. Hartisan, superintendent of the home, reported that in the pasr six months, 29,687.23 had been spent. The receipts for the year were §$91.845.10, The year janis started with a deficit of about $1.400 and this deficit Js now more than $5,000. : The boys’ band receipts for the year are $1685.29 and those of the orches- tra, $140. The profit from the farm was $624.64, AIAG ASTIN. The Centre Reporter, $1.50 a year Penneyjvania there is FROM ALL PARTS, Pedestrians tn the generally law get may have on | thelr side, it they hit from behind. M. Campbell, the Milthelm furni- ie has added two show rooms his plaice of 1 JURINeNS, Mr. Mrs motored and John Mowery and som. ty Alloona last week im there to Patton by the way 10 visit Mr i and fr (A Cresson Mowery's motn- or, i not In the best of health, wi Wil, L While working the Spyker etone Centre Hall a stone fel; and E onder i in i quarries a F i + | struck Arney on the instep, in- that he had been lo locomote since only with much lifficulty. Juring HO Liile David H to of Willlamsport, was Frantz home, near Centre him wife, who is staying He was accompanied by ID. Noll, who last fall re- South America. 1 ¥ atl the Hall, 3 A visit ner Home L irned from i brother, E “Hm 8 of the MP. in the em- Food Prod- Willlamsport. as a trav- Charles, manager is Oriole of Store, now oyment the Keystone He in succeeded in his by Miss Marion Adams. out that advertisement” ia M of Centre Hall off fivst Garbrick, made upon morning this and have pays Ww adver. remark Roy farmer west wring the We one i the stock, it & BOM all £ LOT CAs mone; ma del of undetermined Wigin razed Me Knight entailing damages “an ng on the farm, Park $2.004 Unters covered by $3500 in- Mr. Mrs absent the ving The ang tenants, RR Wee when discovered by neighbors. ume from the funeral br, Orio Ereon, who drowning. Florence fingers crushed Ly the them. The Millheim there. The who oging on happened at the alter the Ceremonies a3 taken to a surgeon wounds, of baby hatched at Grand View Poultry Farm Thousands Kerlin ry ohix, siche were shipped out bw mall nel week. most of the consignments ng south The first hatch was very the customers. All BO satisfactory, as were also reports the capacity being two hun- aceived from the machine the filled x ¥ Mrs W. W. Kerlin and little son returned Philadelphia Thursday afternoon after a stay at the Children's Hospital, 15th and Bain- William from iin to the city to meet her, and before returning home they visited the homes of John C. and O. E. Bailey; al- #0 Miss Elsie" Geiss and Mrs Virginia Miller at the Green street Geiss apart- ment house, went In thie issue = given the rules and under which “beginner's” automoltie drivers’ licenses will be is- sued, and it may not be such an easy job to obtain a first-year license. Un- der the rules lakd down the beginner musty be able to qualify as a driver be. a livense is issued and under the one can regulations fore automobile law a has not obtained driver's poense, %, that while the be- ginner is learning the process of driv- ing a car he is technically a law vio- lator no car who a This (Thursday) afternoon a meei- ing will be held in the Woodman hall, Millbeim, in the interest of placing the state highway between Old Fort and Miflinburg back t, the class of prima- ry road where it had been classed and where it beldngs, By some hocus po- cus method, it appears. this Important road was shifted to the secondary class of highways, a class of road not receiv. ing the attention a road of the impert- ance of thi one is deserving under present conditions. The meeting fs op- en 0 all interested Rev. Dr. A. H. Spangler, of Yeager- town, who has been in failing health for over a year. left Wednesday of last week for Harrisburg where he hag en. tered the Harrisburg hospital for ob servation and treatment. He was ace companied to Harrisburg hy Mrs. Spangler and his physician, Dr, V, 1 McKim. Five years ago Dr. Spangler wane voted by the Lutheran Synod a tite-tfine pastorate of the Logan Cire cult, which includes Yeagertown, Reeds. ville and Alfarata, of which circuit be haw been the pastor tn charge for 28 years. He enjoys the unique distinc. tion of being one of the three honorary members in the United States of the Grand Army of the Republic,
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