RT Sl hi BE! 3 Sse si "—— << VOL. CVI. 1939. A——— to Compete in Contest. Put Annual in State Be at Harrishurg Elimination Contest Winner to Farm Show «Wide 1d the plays th Bett urg Betty Gap “Kidnaping irange, Boalsb Kidnaping Pleasant f« Penn State Gra Grange, ‘Sauce the “Paradise i Ha¥moon Grange, Warriors Max YY K. retent 8s on pa winnin Three comj the merits of the & group wil winning group fr LO om Hunting salect from Ntate t a Harris will A ard Ma in ment jors State's 1933 Footbal} Schedule, football id Johns team will Hopkir meet 1801 FOR LOW-COST £2.000,000 MORE PINCHOT entre oo ROADS ited the construction of addi- The allotment of been allocs unty has su $20,801 st part of a tot m of for tional low. roads. funds are $2,000, EMergen re a itl 600 made by the State y rd to all in i for use in constructing a total of 9%8 miles of in All be constructed are on y bons counties the Stats low-oost roads the State the roads to system taken over by Philadelphia, which 5 d Your ip roads, wi not sh LICENSES ARE GRANTED TO SEVEX APPLICANTS cards s o jaa DEMOCRAT PLAN LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM be dis 1 ursued House in xpected + ita v ” THON i i veteran There Rev Sarig 1 ntes Me ; candid Frarell Talbot | will atated Democrats House caucus and = minority the Senate minority caucus “The advocating a program of beneficia) leg- islation much of which has been clear ly expressed in the national platform of the Democratic party adopted at the recent Chicago convention,” Van Dyke madd. “The coming session will be the first opportunity the party has had to exirt enough influence to bring this program within the realms of the possiblities in Pennsylvania.” ———— AA SS Democratic party has long been Boavers are active in Stone «reek, near the Slack hunting camp, clove to thehead of the run, While engaged in the State Forest, Forest Ranger Rich ard Brooks picked up two billets of birch wood each about eightecn inches | in length and seven inches In clroum- | ference, and brought them to town to show how skilled the beavers were in| cutting timber. Both pleces referred to were cut from the same tres, which | had lodged. After the second cut fail | ed to bring down the young birch, the bemvers apparently went in quest of] oho standing tress. “a 2% QUITS AFTER IN YEARS usiness for if the Intro- The 418s OULaY mer € GRANGE WILL OPPOSE GENERAL SALES TAX Also Goes On Record as Against Ree duction of Income Rates, ition to the general sales tax PPO voted the National Grange, at 1 +4 ’ 1H meeting other ti ad mittee in appointment of three tional program members of the Lax and 1 situation fon with other na Collection of uries ws favored “4 tion of of better den, a State income distribution limitation ments control t ur —————— A Co IOS SOME HEAYY HAMPSHIRES, ET Jam —— FUNERAL A. SMITH, ATTENDEI] (LY D} Of i MARRIAGE Bordas py Miller LICENSES Wast | Onerond Spring Qrsedn Spriy ¥ i Linden By M re Freebur LEGISLATIVE PROSPECTS, Democratic representation in the State for the next session will be sufficiently large to assure its members a good time, if it does not grant them apowerful legislative Ine fluence. The prospects are Yhat 65 Democrats wil] be scated in the House. This isn't enough to make the bloc important in itself, were It not for the fact thay division of the Republican forces into organization and pro-Pin- chot groups will give the Democrats some advantage in bargaining. Demos cratic votes will be of sufficient Im portance to garantce that those who hold them will not bo a neglected mi- nority. They will posseas a balance of powre, should thel ines between the opposing Republican groups be tightly The situation will be unusual for Pennsylvania Democrats, In most of the othr States, ‘such a proportion of the untire strength of the legisiature would be too small te attract atten- tion, but we may count upon the mi- nority at Harrisburg to make its pres: ence Known, legislature xt two wa upied former ed In Mountai few his only SEB $ year LW killed » antlers may be legally oo —"— The plaint : claims Game Commission that many persons making for bounty insert the bounty |nMdavits in the samo package with the skins, making the package first. class mall instead of parcel post, caus. ing much trouble and finally an addi tional cost to the sender. should be malled scparate skins as first-class mail. I ASAD. WEEK-END SPECIALS! While they last we offer the fol. lowing unusual values, all suitable for Christmas Gifts Reg. val. Bpecial 10 In, Cast Aluminum Skillet $1.85 Aleminum Twin Sauer Pan Set No. 8 Griswold Chrome Nickel Skillet $170 Me Also, for a limited time, the fa. mous White Star Broom, always sold for 81.00, ag 6Pe HOSTERMAN & STOVER C0, makes COM from the She HAINES TWP. FOUND FARMER'S WIFE TIED Mrs. Paul Near Masked Orndorf, Tells How Three Early Frikny Her——Sherlft tective Heved ed and County Investigate—Story by Nelghbors, cider THOSE “SAFE’ WOMEN DRIVERS, Hi ATFISH, FLACED sm —— NFISH, PROGS IN SINKING st 1 * CRny ——————— ALTOS MADE INTO TRUCKS TAKE HIGHER LICENSE FEE past year hanged from ynmercial vehi he proper afferetd where of A passenger vehicle has * rear portion of a uted vehicles ke a asseng subetit a truck i ther rs an become CHESTERWHITE LEADS } ohn ho 4 —————— I MESA roduct ———— Pretty and “Too Wie” lo {io Science a Poor Man's Explodes Many About Marviage®™ are only two of many interesting fcatures filustrated—in the American Weekly with Sunday's New York American. PAGEANT-DRAMA BY LOCAL AUTHOR, TO BE PRESENTED IN LUTHERAN CHURCH A pageant-drama entitled “A Christmas Conversion,” written by Harvey W. Flink, wil} be present. ed in the Lutheran church on Sunday, December 25, at 7:30 P. M. The work consists of a Pro logue, five scenes from the Naw Testament, and an Epliogue. The author is a reident of Cen tre Hall and a contributor to lead: ing poetry journals. Hie ballad, “The Merrow,” was reprinted in The Literary Digest, and also In The Harrisburg Telegraph under “Poems That, Live.” MILLWEIM, REUMING—LONG. Heuming, ad Howard Miss Mary | Mrs George Ridgeway al OF long, vughtoy Mr of the Yenns 1 Iu L.ong, distri were united hb Clarion « ———— COUNTY TREASURER ADJOURNS SALE OF SEATED LANDS, FOR TAXES, UNTIL DE(. irnment — tp HUNTING NOTES, an m—— A A AIS CHRISTMAS SAVINGS IN CENTRE COUNTY, IVIL CASES DISPOSED OF AT FIRST WEEK OF Out of COURT twenty-two cases on the civil list for during the first court, fourteen were either settled or continued. Those disposed of by trial included the following : Dr. R 1. Capers ve. John A. Shuey, of Axemann. an action to collect damages as the result of an auto ace Cident. Vérdict In favor of the plain. tiff for $77.8%07 The Trucson Steel Co. of Ohio, vs The Borough of Milesburg, an action to recover for a consignment of re- enforcing steel used in the construc tion of the Milesburg reservoir. The reservoir had been built by contract but the borough had guarnteed the pay for the steel. The matter was over looked and theo ontractor pald In full, but he later falled. to pay the Steel company, which brought suit to re- cover from the borough. The borough was ordersd to pay the bil} of $500, DR Cook va. W. H Seckinger, both of State College, another action to recover damages of an automobile accident. Verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $250, trial wiek Advertising will gain new customers -irj NO. 47, EE — FOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS ng prine school J. I Hall Conference University. addressed yaLey Pr Centre Hy of. the the Frank« step iting ros Fredefe wn where ! 14a | Fredericks, i i 1 family i this time | £ nd Mrs, Shawver took this oooRes Mrs. at capital and ute ai ational enr on Norrie leading of by fire of The Mifflinburg fire and its members hinery and fire i8 he Guisewit$ withe flamed at the on the road destroyed called % cattle, mac of the the barn the estimated Anny girl John sited Ralph at the Dale the her and to the Mrs, M. here they the tén to cirou* ’ if the Pron inced Tha bhirg 10 gt fever permitted their Rossman, at be obliged before gO \ remain for privieged in public. Mrs. Dale is being cared for by a trained nurse and af last reports was not seriously {ll home - will or grandmothe Tussevville, to being {days late In defense of a general assault by taxpayers against the expenditure of tax moneys for salary paid for a .oufis ty probation and descartion officer, Roy M. Wilkinson, the officer in this coulis ty. in an interview with a State Cols lege Times reporter, endeavors to oofi vince the public that through his offf« ciating the county is saved much ned’ less expense, instead of being a drain on the county finances. He produced an array of figures that may mean much or little in disproving that he as an officer, is a moans of saving money to the ridden tax payers. The thing the average man falls to come prehend Is how these affairs me afl taken care of in other counties whet the probation and desertion officer I¥ unknown, and how Centre county gof along with a much lower tax rate prior to January 8, 1829, the date upon which the office was created in this upon a dicree of President Judge Ward Fleming.
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