Mutual Fire County, The Company company, is ord Farmers of Centre a los one with a mutuay y unique fifth Monday rec annual year $2,648.54 5.032.00, total fire The company Surely overhe watchword Yio y have the Secretary F when organized its early history thus: “The Insurance Company Located South of Nittany The first at was Yeager, meeting company The throughout com- pany and Mutual Fire County el Farmers of Centre mesting were elected. of John date 1858. March 6. minutes show the which the held in Centre directors the “House Hall.” The February 26, held meeting was a subsequent | CLUBS AND INDIVIDUALS AT Centre Hall and State Will Exhibit Will Send Spring College Lambs—Anronshurg a Horse Shoe Milles Fathers Rhode Island Reds, State exhibtion the and afternoon entire will be judg sither Thun show day Friday morning Friday after nire Hall, or sold at auction on George Lasse, of Ci lender, will assist the at Harrisburg will attend the the club this year Centre Hall; lee Margaret Ross, State COC Minnie L.use, State while boys and girls members of * Burkholder, r State Hall; * Wm ¢ 1 Alber oil Hipp! Col KE Homan, ogo Pine Richard Lederer Glen; State Hall; reno Colleg: Harter, Nittany; of geloct- di- oath oath of the manner the iture dividually, ed rector in the indicating th i: ui each wd the signaty following sig The following order, thelr diretors that each a q Geo, Buchar Adam fever, Hen aay busi yu to $4.- ONT Insurance from f{ is, these insurance four per dwellings stone or brick al or date roof and located In No ured that HOO, to Tic centages on premium per twenty per cent, were demanded actual f8- rate, of the sued he lowest cent, was on m the country with et gchedule is shown for fn town, with wood but a brick roof temitt - a similar hous or stone house on CAr- ried a rate of nine per cent, and on al houses In town, per The highest rate applied to saw milla cent wooden ten a MILESBURG THE SCENE OF FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT through Milesburg, on Mrs, Travis Virginia, waa hile passing Frida the car in Chappel, of Petersburg. a passenger, was upset, resulting In the death of the woman. Death came pefore she could be gotten to the Cen. tre County hospital The car was driven by Mrs. Chappel's son, Archie A. Norris, of Pleasant Gap, whose guest she wus, Mr Norris through Milesburg when car op- erated by Parrish A. Estright, aged about 2% years, of Milesburg, was driv- en from a side street, the front bump er of the Estright car hooking in the fort ; wheel of the Norris ma- chine turning it upside down. An wha held Wetzl ral Mileghurg in charge coroner W He of Philips- ¥ “ guilty contributory of unt against y, which driving through the wns front and inquest er at the pariors at I" i stright wh Lom. found and a charg of burg negligence invol ar mansiasughter wil y lodged him re ————— i —— Salarier of Appointees of County Com- missioners Reduced, The first step the new County Commissioners took after they reorganized was to slash the pay roll of the Court House employes Chief Clerk Charles Freeman of Phil- boayd of shortly per year, $200 less than was pald his predecessor, Fred B, Healy of $50 per month, $10 less than was paid his predecessor, Mra, Hugh Wi- spon. Fireman William Moyer will re- ceive $90 per month, $10 less than was received by him during the past four years of hig service. The newly appointed janitors also received a slash in wages. Lewis Wion wil} receive $40 per month instead of $80, while John Freon will get $70 per month, a reduc. tion of $10 over his predecessor. Jas Thompson, : ——————— A A A Sa. W. P. Cole, for a mummber of years miller for Bradford & Company, but now living retired at Lemont, was in town for a few days. mci uds and ex Bellefonte iit bred and ® Br Storms. three hibited by wd China g Peters Br wl « Peters Ie hina ox- ot hors, 8 breeds Hus Pennsylivan- ad gilts and oxhibited by town bred ar os ioe © Animal department he State College s practice of a sale will be followed as in past yey Th er excellend op- over the bre«i show iil an farmers good swine is w portunity for State gilts take to purchase some tJudging at the will place on Tuesday, January Pas In the poultry show J i Rhode rir Mille exhibit Heds In exhibitors, Sp g Island wily the mentioned individuals exhibits of ogEn, oto vocational work of W. 8 Jef ifriee. E. HL Dale and John Deck. ler, are preparing and sending In a large number of exhibits, productions of their agricultural projects addition to hove of number to send grains and girls’ In the direction fn expecting emall Poys' under are in ie Cnr. mii, ———————— I MA Sr. SHOE BANK PAYS 15 PER CENT. DIVIDEND 5 per cent. dividend of the th SNOw of a 1 Payment depositors Snow Shos bank Snow Bhoe, fv. 4 has Deen { Thurs. Bank wid he Y, McCormick, to handle availabi coun paid today $ y of rord Gordon ged f or Vance ( H payment wrishurg privates banker, $26 ang $6.15 closed of the Approximately 000 been paid to the State bankers added, has banks ff pri vale Gordon depositors of in through medium licensed October 16 ES... ————————— House Reports for December, Register Harry A lossman issued 19 marriage licenses and 11 sets of letters, administration and testament lary, during the month of Decensber Prothonotary 8. Claude Herr lssued 186 Judgements and writs, 3 divorces and 1 appeal during the month, The recorder, Lioyd A. Stover, is. sued 114 mortgages and deeds auring the month. s————— As Phoenixville “on the Bam,” Sabseriber, Phoenixville, Pa., Jan, 4, 1932, Centre Reporter: Enclosed please find $3 for subscrip. tion to Reporter, I had expected to be in Centre Hall before this, but could not make It Everything down here ls on the bum; you could not buy a job just now at any price. 1 hope it Is better up there, Court Month of Writes MR. RASKOB'S PLAN. An Entirely Falr to Wets and Out of Proposal Drys to Take fon Polities, the country u ii ot B © iiminat- por tics Raskol this “GLAD GIRLS” HOLD SPECIAL MEETING MONDAY EVENING Glad Girls” Miss Society rilrie ch dealt WAS A very glory Press ited interesting Jane Campbell of. the plano during or of the prelude ertory Kirkpatrick the gave an Interesting “What Great Am. Their Mothers” told an imaginary youths and their The young girl was Chris. because she loved her mother and young man wan infidel. He had thought of his mother The Glad Girls” sang hymns which were suitable for their mothers’ entertainment. Twelve of the girls of the organization were present and nine of their mothers Following the program the girls serv. ed their subject Thought Burkholder nik on ericans of Alico story of two views on refigion. tion the little two mothers with sandwiches cooicies, plokios, like abundance and ocooon., served to the and their an eats mothers. they it when came A ——— IPLEASANT GAP GRANGE HALL NEARING COMPLETION Hall whi The Pile range h pan bout three imonths from the time construction was first W. R tractor progress in Ixie, of he mada the project, is the and remarkable on having regu- larly employed a fairly large group of workmen. One noteworthy feature the building ls that everything possibl, was purchased locally, The building is of steel framework constraction, which was furnished by the George 8. Dennithorne Construction company of Bellefonte, and all the labor was fur nished by local persons, The building is of brick veneer cone struction, 40 by 70 feet, one story and basement, and is situated along the Htate highway, Routyg 63, near the ine tormection of the highway to State College. It will be used as a commun. ity hall and will be a model of its type in Centre county. MI MSS. Wa know a young man who is flirt. ing wiih grave danger when he pushes the gas throtile nearly to the floor in descending the Nittany moun. Bellefonte, CON has of . 2 0» . FORMER CENTRE GIVES RECITAL * % * w * HALL GIRL AT OBERLIN eA SHEFFIELD MILK PRICES, west price paid r ORs hip and distress have ben predicted for dalirymen have ¢ vetiy of contd Ted OVOP. and under-consumption, AM AS DICTATING DEPOSITORIES FOR COUNTY OFFICERS Hunter time had for taking over the office of County Treas. great to many the sirnoe generally sublet had bee a bond at the ures was Bo Surprise throughout not the od, county it was that law on n materially chang- unty officials at the mer. bonding The Dem. Watchman last issue pub. lished an editorial the subject t will be informative and of great inter est to the reader The oditorial is printed below in full known a putting OO of ocratic cy COMpanios in its on The seourity companies doing bus. iness Tn Pennsvivania no doult con. oedved and lobbied the act through the Legislature that makes it man. datory for county officials to fur. nish corporate bonds before they can qualify for the offices they have been elected to, The act in also puts the cost of such bonds on i! i Before ti & S one question county was passed an of h to He bot required and not paid for fe catlential part of h it law whose office for which offered that bond fire Lo er ol A was often personal gmien when Was done tha As on “ personal the office The but RTT | qualific: Act ong 8 Some had wisdom contingency the porations doing sylvania the dictators positories of every county the State. That situation is here now. Coun ty officers who have to be bonded may go only to an inforporated bonding company for thelr surety. Many of these companies refuse to issue such bonds unless the deposi. tory in which the officia; proposes to carry his funds gives a bond also or earmarks a certuin percentage of its own securities as collateral for the account. That would be making an official account preferred against all other depositors in the bank and, manifestly, would be unfair, and pos- ubly Wegal. All over Pennsylvania men who took office this week were in straits’ nas to where to get bonds Many banks decdined to meet the require ments of the bonding companies, and the situation has brought to pub. lie attention the danger that lurks no 10 of it soveral security cor- in Penn. to tha de official in fa DC ntee could make business As tain road on the Centre Hall side. To paraphrase a well-known saying, a fool and his automoldle are soon J. R. KELLLER. parted, in legislative enactments that have such far reaching possibilities as the Act of 1928 seems to have vested in it. LOCAL BASEBALL CLUB REORGAXIZES FOR iy met ve £11 iN yiiii % Hecla, Ha ip and It will Hall team the finish The financial standing i of strong, statement receipts, furnis Give Dinner to of State Testimonial Leltzell, Harry A. College. p.ofes- Lait coun - i on from Iwan a V NONSUIT IN DETWILER. COLDRON CASE STANDS the court refused to lift in the famous Detwiler-Ooidron which heen has most three yeas determine the land the of wi in strip of Mountain inally tried it resuited in tify, J. H Detwileg, The defendant, took an appeal to and the case lower oourt fo at the November when the plaintiff certain testimony the deed tha decreeing that the deed, proper evidence It defendant made suit, which top the case was Contre county fhe a verdict for Coldron. sodart the Musser E Superior « to came court submit to it was the the sent back it of sought contravention was r retrial up term and to ir 1 court refused Ww adnalt iteail, for the aA non court's rightful but an noted Su- that a granted, Coldron attomeys for he the guestion wana then motion Ws decrea jenves of the exception for and he ean perior court if he land In the Owner plaintiff was to ths po desires, carry the case ——— MI AAS SS Borough Council Reorganized Atl first meeting the Ye by 3 COUT ugh DD. M. Bra Searecsn, not re-plocting Roy council other hard dent the The Ri continued as secretary! Moassrs MM. Homan holdover Bene. than wis arse Fender George WwW, A A. WW. Alexander. The councilmen were Messrs, Brooks, der and liegel, None routine business was transacted. councilmen Irooks, Fred A Searson, and other a—————— A ————— C. C. A. of Phila, Passes Banquet, The officers and directors of the Centre County Association of Philadel. phia held a meeting in the office of William 8. Furst, Esq, on Tuesday, and decided to pass the 1932 banquet. The regular annual pionie, however will be held In June, as usual Warner Underwood, president; John C. Beale, secretary. ————— A —————— President Hoover is very much op- posed to reduting the salaries of Fed. eraj office holders, yet the remainder of his “subjects” have suffered reduc tion of thelr incomes ranging from twenty-five to one hundred per cent —————— AI AFIS LADIES" HAT SALE. Mrs. Lucy Henney is offering her entire stock of hats at thy ridiculous low price of $1 each. This is the reg. ular January clean-up sale, offering — NO. 2, encasement [TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS y 1450 4 killed Inf nn Seas- 1 na (Fi will live Une Miss Tillie ot private » Hoe Keller's m yn fe at Lew t post by is $3,000, increased now Operas yo rially Penit + dnt ino siti SNLIAry ownship, stole a 0 pounds * Shue court on the be v, after wo before twood, is the “Im BUC wily o! appointe t Dep- Penn- strict of Clears Was ors 15. He n Sut. Grand OW ene oar a. the State o {ence of town, will now {ents Rough employ. have of proba m ey nothing proves in dis point ie who rating & putting & watching the untd] mere suffering. the costs should have measure. E38a iN Hall satu A Oak bays Soper wrt : . dog wih g € and 1h » a en write agony 5 . $14 i-placed 4 § Fa ir¥ & i A is each id las al hes for good if a sam of wi flowing out of the rocks some distante he reservoir is in dispute Some who claim to have been note mapid rise and fall at partic. X ite source is either from a leak in the main pipe or direct from the resery while others ©oOn- tend ita source has nothing to do with the water plant. There is no dispute ing theres is periodically a flow of Wie ter of some consequence at the point referred and it would appear that an investigation should be made. sire Teel rewiden ing Hs ular aim to After twenty-one years of service in the office of thedistrict attorney, in Lancaster, seventeen of which and the past four attorney, Sumner V. career as a pubs Saturday a week to the private prac ion. There fs 4 in this item bee Mr. Hosterman having n bo ind Hall, retiring from the office Mr. Hosler- to the court In too poor 10 pay in his opinion, able counsel ap- attorney ropre- Commonwealth, © years 3 were as a 1 district Hosterman prosecutor, deputy Years as ended his last and returned profess his i al interest ot thal ve of Centre oounty, n nd raised at Centre In man made behalf counsel an dal appeal of endants who Just as fom have the m senting the should ns pointed the A Sunday afternoon “buggy ride” came to an abrupt ending for Marvin Ishier, local High school youth, his younger brother and Vinton MoCiellan, the latter two small boys. Marvin hitched up one of his Shetland pons jes to a small express wagon placed a box in the front, on which he sat while the other two boys crowded in the rear half of the wagon. The trip up-town was uneventful, but going down street the pony, in taking a mors rapid gate, struck its hoofs against the front of the wagon, which doubts less frightened it, for It started on & gallop. Marvin is a youth of more than ordinary strength, but he could not hold hig pony In check. Descends ing thy grade at the Clyde Dutrow home, the pony was going “wide open.” Marvin attempted to turn in at the alley at the Grange hall to got to his home, and the result wag un grand spill, the youngsters flying in al] direc. tions on the public road. Marvin held on to the reins however, and got his unprecedented bargains, pet under control. None of thy boys was hurt, o