1924, THURSDAY, SEPT EMBER 18, i ——————— 5 TT \_ VOL. XCVUI THE CENTRE HALL, THE PA. HIGHWAYS TO BE PLACES OF BEAUTY NEW BRIDGES TS CENTRE ——— DEMONSTRATION, Sm——— Order Holds Out-Door Meeting On Grange Purk, Attended by 3,000— Big Dispiay of Fireworks, The following note was handed W. 0. Heckman by the editor, and the printed account of Saturday's gath- ering is the result: “If you wil give us an account of the Klun affair on Baturday, omitting all ‘bull, over your signature. we will be pleased to use it. While I am not at all in sympathy with the Kian principles, your article will be accept- ed of strictly news” ~~ On Saturday, at one o'clock, mem- bers und friends of the Ku Klux Klan began to gather at Grange Park, Cen- tré¢ Hall. The program of athletic events had to be dispensed with Ong... 00 and maintenance of detours | account of the rain. But when the ao " ; Lu nut producing trees Klan Band from Altoona arrived may amount to balf as much more. certs by the band attracted the crowd There to the Kian headquarters where they | the listened to selections played. The or- ganizer for the Central Pennsylvania counties had charge of the demonstra- tions, which opened officially with the raising of the U. 8 flag and the' Na- tional salute with the band ing The Star Spangled Banner At seven o'clock, following ening prayer. A. 0. Boring, ma, on the principles Klan. Following this hundred Klansmen and Klanswomen led the band, paraded from the entrance of the park the West end of the grounds where they formed a hollow square within which the Al Kinvaliers put their drill while red fire decorated the grounds Following the drill a display of fire. works wus off Uncle Sam The Little Red American Flag and Pieces were appre- by the The closing the naturalization of a candidates under the Cross DUTY OF HON- EST REPUBLICANS, FIRST K. K K $50,000 FOR CONFRON ORGANIZA- ITS PURPOSE, FORE FIRE TION AND TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS, Grange wily al 8 oclck desired, COUNTY Land Damages and Detour Malnten. ances Means $25000 More-—1925 A Costly Year. Government to Be Chlef This Campalgn-—Issue Dishonest Acts and of Corrupt Republican Honesty In Issue of Created by Practices Oftielals, John W. Davis, forceful government Banks and Slopes of Pennsylvania Roadways WHI Glow With Color Next Year. Banks and Duties of a Forest Fire Warden. Mingle, Obligations Forest {By J. R, District. ] Penn, State Progress day evening tendance A HTVOW 10 the meet Batur- the Penn: A good at- sylvania highways next year will glow with color. Flowering grasses, vines and shrubs will hide the yellow » and slopes along The following article of general in ARTICLE The oath IL Oath, of office man a terest to the leporter readers is res mn the can: " in his own elegant printed from Bellefonte Hepuhili- truck be driven Bellefonte latter chassis to haul Harris- Shannon Week, used to from J bast admin ‘When istered the ba hon- declared be the Mr, the and way, bas sears plow was making a forest fire burg made, « which the In- program, include cuts have been Department, ago a where fills or The Highwhy Some chief Davis in Lo of not be asty of de wa maintenance to Bridge building. himself within easy ‘He He himself to he casts the duty. warden, of i LOO Ze ¢ ¢ issue this campalgn. Booze part of damages lands. of The tours, and private reach law, has sworn him- announced planting program of blossom -bearing trees, department months of that out this this issue. the dishonest dishonest and corrupt Re- The that did create issue; people did not ated by executive committee of Falir Grange Arcadia, at 2:00 o'clock, the Baw resulting from Mate place relocating sections self to a has seen the duty It was cre- Grange acts and corrupt create auguration Encampment will 3 Bn higlvways, will unquestionably 1 perform it to He scheme the and the important pledged of “ation Thur eet winy, 26th has the wetting vines gn yd «Nn revised to as one Centre biggest of Commissions upon county the ’ bdlity is just / ins Gaxity. ¥ $ of his 18 | practices of the best Hem of Austin, single eX Denne during th officials, of msue, { ed WO shies reactionary i . : Forest, Clarion and Venango ocoun- in great pre publican i ry and small term Spearly, Swabb ; ngo Jun leaders have the to defend officials; to obstruct venting forest fires highest | and official lation as in Tory party first and shelter by Offi last few weeks have Highway inls during tes are the the sultation alonk only counties In the state i Hie of $50,000 and Bridgfs the wil re by at- the attempt comparative emphasized shit man land in We in the to him a standard been in will of Ag- Waters, con produce a chest crop of destroyed the county upwards L.and duty. mig well term | tempts ac- the Department Forests Game Commission, with his chest bearer, a with an | cussed secondly, riculture and and in all other parts ideal. investigation, and now con the ing the Bureau of State Botan Penn- and is just a bare of soheduled « possihiily that In his communty he is admired and] when challenged by Democratic for the Municipalities, and the OM InMASSMoOners WwW Austin, James Harry in © D of Const rebuliding three bridg respected because of the stand he has | nominee President they further His as along The Highway authorities anxious ist, relative to planting John Speariy, Herr solicitor B on the moerete Iw i. highway taken, ability ‘is above the emphasize issue by a conspiracy | syivania highways ald Eagle ork, Claude AN pany Btate, Valley it may this Commissioners have jr #44 of nary, his followers. men ith alike Hence, Degmirtment are that roads will borough tended on the Getlig, that little fagor that feet SG remote respect for the great need ent: honesty in government as the chief the in prev to hasten planting so passage the County the convention county ing forest fires, depend him for | inevitable ewe in the cam guidance upon over Pennsylvania not be hope for break ‘in at Readng last week The bridges of greater span thay * ~ as an even of Republi- play it of refer refusal to the refusal to propaganda. and direction paign, despite continuowsly through fandscapes of higher courts have buildings on the lots purcha Countless times personal matters | can reactionary leaders discuss scarred by the activities road the op- of Altoo of the several Hockman, near the rall- end to duties of their speeches, and who are negleced to att State. The men wise, sacrifice and in builders, The notified y vit on turnpikes revert to the coun-1™ station, are being taken down. follow him, like- | the Republican precious hours | | to it the organization highway engineers have been spoke that they for deem » ties, which in turn must iding a home, with ac- VLTEY their address the in printed may make other The 300.000 requi- ¢ i . § days that forests of reconstruction riginally it | commodations TOT a sometimes kept sacrifice that business place honest Republi- The leadership what is duty of sition vines and growths soon as possible adio Mary and may be free devastation Men be MI claimed, old pike that and Hv the rotate this campaign? re Tory for “ins same which office incompetent the presidential in they necessary. state will an ddeal might to in the « that realized, Ary produced Min plunk road, and artist This wa nds ft RT actionary and require approximately will creeper Fines especianly HE vin Kessler, Mrs, A studio hair line distinctic i= all n the person of wns resposible placing in wild ramb- the : : ' ” # * 2 CIE. where the ideal concerns and benefits Thess include Te between Centre dishonest, and toona «| offic ina corrupt ler and FOES | on spring the kutzu is atrimony all and many populated communities matrin ; fem Th © that a an of about $15,000 inlg, is responsible for nomina- has a yellow which honeysuckle, deserves no little encouragement, vine, which in bridges County Commi recently gave FU se a tiom of the Republican end leaders blossom ; vine, tenes candidates These | 4 Mr. should man receive from « and « very man Wo put hope laesical Washington, Houses, the stationary legal ruling that the road nginy program 4 hiki a sincere intion vice-presiden tial colorfuy berry: bush of which the which Lppres George Bchool : cannot be classed as a Bucknell; University, . xa all ¢ 13 then. whe fve who nominated Coolidge | the blossoms range from . : It behooves al i us, then. Who lve : tminist * id place this at upon one of the finest aaminisira- he either dominate his by would tion if other ciated tetni 3 snide pa vs rc Hed " a1 ¢ vt Fug within the bounds of the Penn For : white to red; yellow fopsythes, not. it wil be up to he state, will be open- any remote accident the of crowd the which blossoms from red; dogwood, est District to look upon the untiring range pay the bill when - The event was ith Lafayette of forty a Nery The tion would it repudiate if in- } +] Opus should be ected, or class Pi of efforts of forest fire warden white shrub pink he as to yellow forsythea ban : 4 : t utterly a light highway stadium has been u BY. Mr rendering impotent, the assert heroic; to help the who sees has white and should develop io of which the Coolidge blossoms; with white the barberry ravaging forest fire spires, its attendance at the demonstra Was three thousand (Bigned), W. 0. HECKMAN —————————— AA a fierce enemy is obligation points ination and the courage blossoms: snow berry. the Jupan- about bon "we Sy inde dence as ; : the way to a | a inde pends noe, he ha oS and the tiberty iris ages and maintenar ; ' vet shown no signs am 1 , : : and he should ; which has a lavender blossom. elimina » ENE ALITA “ Ver tonite tv Of Fg FYE 5 4 Republican party can never hop colors will be confined the support and « jut the Duties forest fire warden is not in the present (Co 0 Me . 3 L a. bin ; rderaed . & ure pens M 'nday will pass through 14 ands. which | ! 4 : 1in Un réguing op | uring Monday of and civil to regain the confidence of the people t th 0 ve vines will dil The from department aud the En- made such unt dishonest, ind Tory Republicans corrupt, react on - A eT. both usually quarter sessions court The subject to vot iy ’ > want engineers are makin sp Ai Pea wes no only ary lendership ie repudiated i 8 4 £ will have The | morning liste and large lections ten including the the ywermen and K rss by Centre Wallace the criminal which wil POSLisNENE a8 continuing the pered than attracting the Musser murder up for trial Honest render ef in can are un other forest body notify white clover, the om every- pink vetoh, alsike clover, purple al These plant - result Run wil of for a The intereat which confi- in their most tive aid In part well ! restoring take ad- who might dence and biue hairy the either number CRWes ong Case the Corn their in by Centre county him ful 2 ‘ $ » “gs or seusson nim ZoVernment thus falfa and yellow vaccaria dad a double duty, Davis, who as performing John W speach of supreme legal ruling relative oC st } er usual on lected togeth by voting for grasses will be used for siope A ae er bridges farther up the Rebecca ( y most in - na will shape in with tall ing meadow his conjunction orchard grass the back tw govern* jared In “It to de CH State Highway Department jd th wart house in Bellefon Whil wife regular telephone tuck. fescue. meadow ‘anada grass shoulders will oat weeptance that is {ded to bulid the highway fick f Mme F | Niwher, Centre good the grass | rye beams blue grass and peren- the the A ———— A —————— Great Union County Fale, Great Fair at Pa 30, October 1. 2 1924 ind need of the hour bring the tre county will have no 30th nial In panting of use Kentucky people confidence in their on but tv pay such oosls as Millhedim, upon it AM i itherman yf Hartieton, It County of the and are Slop atl various and North latter state, Alfred also Alfred period » oot ment.” or the roads Union County lewis when he | com————————— blue LECURE COURSE THIS WINTER. department burg, and 3 The all raced September was stated at the offi will Way 8 ac grass, red top. red fescue, alsike clov Com missioners LiSSpurs, quick attack in the 1BICK attack er, perennial and white mn Lhe High School te of Entertalnment for Centre Hall i bret The assumed rye Etneas Fair program : annual consecutive rebuilding notes almost at and a son of Loeal clover At a Sponsor Season a big present toll 3-heat ) ready with race Dame Is the fire which it highways : comparatively small cost, on plan, which means} © Coburn oar or a auickl) head Dates and Attractions. im claimed, Pennsylvania every heat a race Penn township ing the " If the ne can resemblance the of marred be given a parkway There is many ty will foot something with Beaver Springs have to the Miffiinburg Thurs The big at- traction of acrobats, as well as the Lock Haven, Sunbury and Lewisburg Troop, giving riding and a running Hall Menty of music responsibility fou winter Centre High school has of putting Centre Hall months purchased from lureau, the same bureau Centre Hall year the sale the near the pub their pa- of profit Charles 8. Krum- Mrs but and Miss Jane re is he fire has ‘s] ! te the fire ha no reason why state's will run into it hope 1 a band Wednesday, dny, the and Had lle be solemnized Monday, parents had Sidney amd a find then gi i 2t srt th i reborn 5 2 3 ap ly Ant Wal : waen may ion a lyceum course marvelous miles seen lc or §$25.006 the ; Lewisburg Friday was pointed of Ph iphia, former 1 cannt handle | A dispatched man is luring The the Antrim sold to A cany the COME ns been splendoras should be un- cuts or fills by will be a troop only wr relief fx possibly SEs sightly and naked bould- ors. county in the possiteilit be a towerman is at the the smoke, ernment This road astdstance mas the £4 direct : : Cavalry ; and after = which inst avalry bd al Mr Overbrook. tims ———— A ————— WILLIAM H. NOLL Democratic Nominee for the Office of Representative In the General As. sembly for Centre County~A Thorough = Business Man—Brief Sketeh of His Life, William H. Noll, the subject of this sketch, has t a resident of Pleas ant Gap. Spring township, all his life. His ancestors being among the early settlers of Centre county. His early life was spent on the farm and at public and Norma! schools, and at the age of 18 years he passed the ex- amination and followed the profession made {or exhibition race i» based on port that the $2.00, in and it. js hoped that repond Hbherally with Whatever Janargin may after paving for the usin] toward the pur- piano for the High schoo is a list of the attractions sees no let up sam will be bride's and of suson tickets, at which was contested at constitutes a mail route this race Lewisburg Mrs isnt year and at camp summer. | from Coburn to Milheim. As was y This will the final for the “The championship of the three troops for County this year. All seats on the grand stand have been numbered and sold adcordingly which wil; be on sale at the general ticket office prior to the race. The ladies of the Reformed church have charge of the dining hall this year. Any one wishing any further formation will communicate with Les- ter W. Brown, who is secretary. Friday, October 3. is School Child~ en's Day. All teachers and enrolled ‘holars will receive free tickets, AIA A ——— OPPOSED TO SPEED TRA State Highway Department Lists MU- flinburg As a Community Where Unjustifiable Prosecutions Are Be. senh Gils at cther warder with Juweph Gilfillan, at future, men to help mak ment of inst week, on the purcha M. Bradford, in the the name of HE ) i” ng be win al x last § of 2 home Jast Wai & Road | seve of explained in tepublican™ of road at x be Always the eous, the oon dire best on will find court you tronage. Board this be taken $2.000 week, the warden Men where t and there be Viewers have $2.000. It will by Centre shly . appraised will be of a lowing dates COUT Re Shreckengast was as the own- been Fred- Mr. Shreckengast the 3 ven are here and th , : be doggedly @e re chase have to over Fol and . er when he en K present it should have Work oan dome for the first County fk ; county, or pos: erick Carter, in Like a but tireless machine he more, and fronting the will be the most of which are in very bad shape. for Spring thing con hy iy ns . sticks until the fire is out. Then cau ihe tenamt in home, J. Coates tober 15th Former November Lockhart—8aturday, Oc- 1924. Governor Brough—Tuesday, 18th. 1924. & Company — 1924 Era 20th, O 11th, Commissioners the tiously he not the line to The ti of kept and hmitted Headquarters, > owner selects nn few Void ats fe . men to patrol rebuilding of the bridges, an outbreak EITWay Corporal of the Hi in charge Harry Keller, Patrol, who has been of the Lewistown sub sta- it was established early last spring, has been ordered back to the training schoo: at Hershey for special duty. His courtesy both in civilian fe and on the highways has won many friends for him in this district where he has been enforcing the high- way motor laws Corporal Keller, it will be remembered, is a native of Linden Hall, and has long been known by many readers of this paper. : § State me the in to the with report men carefully t Diet ric ber Sth, New Centre i# also lable the cost of reconstructing the Mille bridge. This will add some thing like $2.000 to the bridge account Originally the State Highway ment classed thie paid by the State. . county Dist ri Friday, Decem- of containeg time in- tion since LOTS report - Dramatic Co 1825 Bowman 1925. the “Tuesday, 2 ™ fire The fire January Robert February > /4 Speed Trap, Maybe, The Heporter is informed Sunday the ¢ Of and location the fire: ait estimated Wednesday, \ that numbers of seven or automobile licenses were taken, the drivers of the css having, in the eyes of the watchers, violated some rule or law. It woalld be regrettable if a speed trap has been established here, Such a move would be detri- mentaj to the business interests of the town, The following paragraph is from a circular letter issued by State Highway Department: “The Department belleves in and encourages all moves for observance of motor vehicle Tawa It vigorously disapproves, however, unjustified pros. ecution of road users by local police authorities In the altogether too fre- quent Instances where their actions are dictated more by a policy of fines and costs for revenue rather than safety on the highways" -~ Depart - to so far area and damage; cause of number fire and of damage as an item be party responsible; men and went as Af- stage. employed, as parties of this report a suffering to secure large tile for the work ter matters had reached thie the State Highway Department that the cost of the bridge properly belonged to Centre county, and the county has to stand for it. There has ng Made. : been considerable negatiation between | protection Local opposition to a speed trap op-| the State Highway Department and |game, is inducing land owners to post grated by the. boroush polis. ou the the County Commissioners, with the | ™° nanaue ns ” thei Promises r Ww m [ n in order a roteclion m i Miffinbure was —— ol i result that an amicable adjustment torded braids Yon mish ply recently when a statement was sent | Das been effected. By this arrange-| pave only recently been planted in out from the state highway depart | ment, the State Highway Depaftment | Centre county and wh are having a ment at Harrisburg listing Mifiinburg | will contrbute the tile on hand, and |struggle to exist against the ruthless among the communities where “un-| Centre county will pay for putting Shslwughis of hunter oe eagtnt uetif (Gap sportsmen are to €o hae hn Nhie | them in place. ale paying for build- for tholt actin. article Paul D. Wright, secretary of me ug. wain and approaches. highways, and Major Lynn Adams, 1 told, it looks like costly times head of the state police force, were in 1926 for Centre county, The peo- listed as being opposed to operation of | ple want improvements, and Improve- ments cost money--usually, a lot of money, owners the land. Along with itted on bill is more subm the showing of ation; ruled hours and rate; name each man employed; total of extinction, Compensation, The greater of Penn transport meals. No. 176 of thé United Sports- Pennsyivania, at Pleasant active organisation in the and propagation of wild Camp men of Gap. an it any, and cost per cent the are farmera living To attention forest Dis- ’ far. Rive the fire wardens trict est In Forest the must near taken the * realize a he his Crops, spring forest its worst, profit to Generally of teacher in our public schools for four years, after Which he took a full business course at a Commercial col- jege in Painesville. Ohio, fitting him: self for bookkeeper, etc. On his re- turn from school he and his brother Abner entered into the mercantile business at Pléasant Gap, where he #till continues in busi Later he added to this business that "of lumber- ing, buying a saw mill and tracts of when the fire spuson is at the with a mountain Likewise, warden is confronted of work in the fall of is burdened with work fires are most likely tb occur, The compensation of his office is In sufficient to pay him in financial way for the time spent away from on the farm. he forest the vear when Mr. and Mre W. W. Canningham, of fxm Angeles, Oalifornia, have been 'n the east for several weeks, and are now with friende In this section. It is six years since they were east but 0 such speed traps Mifflinburg. Hike other communities the farm. Except in extreme cases, where a warden has at his command a ploked and regular trained crew, he is paid but 40 cents per hour for act ual time expended We will assume he is a carpenter making 60 cents an hour. If a forest fire discovered he Is duty bound to go. His loss in a financial way is evident, besides the hardéhips and dangers attended in the extinction of the fire, This brings to us, clear and distinet, the real object of the forest fire ward: en. Not the emoluments of his of fice, for this is but a“ aim base in the BE fe CA {Continued on toot of next column) - It is the Jordan car and not the Chrysler J. Shannon Boozer is sell- ing In connection with the Overland, Willys-Knight and Flnt cars, (Continued from previous column) background of his thought: not a slap-on-the-back from the fickle pub Me, but a deep devotion to an Ideal Uppermost In his ndind is the thought that he can rise In the morning and soe the forests green aid hear the happy song from its depths, rather than look upon, with sore eyes and remorseful heart. & thing of naked- ness, & black, gutted muss where nothing lives. vein where speed traps have been main. tained, has found that any benefits derived in the way of financial return through fines and costs, and the strict adherence to the letter of traffic reg- ulations and ordinances, ware more than offset hy the loss of trade, de- crease In number of visitors to the (Continued on inside page.) —————— AI —— Water for Nittany Top. ba At a depth of 130 feet an abundance of water was found on top of Nittany Mountain. The well filled to a depth of fifty feet, and the tests made by the drillers failed to show any indioa- tions of lessening the supply. J. H. | Detwiler, who owns Nittany Mount ain top. ie feeling elated over securing a supply of water, for it was the one thing needed to make Nittany Moun- tain one of the greatest resorts in Central Pennayivanis, Water was the Nature had per formed ite work in all other respects no view within the state pares with that Jooking over ww find few notable changes among their people, Mra, Cunningham's maiden name was Miss Anna Moyer, a dnugh- ter of the Inte J. M. Moyer. Mr. Westmoreland county, where he and Mre, Cunningham spent several weeks before coming on to Penne Valley. He is engaged in the rea) estate busi- ness, and ie als, connected with the Standard Ol company in California. While here they are dividing their time between thelr Jdanghter, Mrs. Ruth Bilger, at Pleaswnt Gap, and their many more distant relatives and friends. i —
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