The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, February 25, 1937, Image 1

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    VOL. CX].
RE HALL, PA, TH
URSDAY. FEBRUARY 25,
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1987 SOIL CONSERVATION
gricultur
applies 1
ywunced thi
A
it
Details of the 1837
Conservation program as
ore annd
State
Ww
Hag
Vennsyvivania
week by W.
Olicer,
The ne
farmers
s
Ww pro Tam
greater
1.4 ding nt
aa soil-bullding }
ony Payment for
from general oll-deple
limited
sant of th
part »
Fer to specified
large
tobacco So
ZYOW ers
payments for
goil-depelting base
f the soil-building
OL
payments
WHacco
Most
for
wm at
Improving or
which may
these goals
establishing
land,
Increasing
ind productivity
Reforesting
ng and
wurm.
wreage of legume
of all
hillsides ti}
Oo
lands,
erod
hay
*
al are
are too pom
Improving farm Wo
gofl-conserving
Improving
vhards and vine
d diverso
Afthough
ountr
DS
ny
anda
Per
ul
oe
extent
Put
allowance
practices he
For me
budlding
he cann
4 no
3
yest
farms in the
allowances will
than they
axplained
«ible
enly
Last
tds
div
in
Wern
that
becca
mu
year
change was
Her erwion
payments
of
will
be ule part the State
PERSONAL TAX IN COUNTY
SYATE
AND
Records of persona] tax collected by
the counties and the State for 1535
am atl great variance Counties collect.
ol personal tax for years,
bs State diq for the first
1985, laying a levy of one mill
ties during 1935 found
$2292. 788 465 through
sors, while the State
taxables unearthed
ooting wp to
#50.758. 44 more
ported
In Centra county
AOmMe
BO time
Jvoune
assessable
its
from
taxable
$3.353.546 910
than local
but
local ARBOR
the same
holdings
$l
or
covered
Adings
for the
———————
The Birthday Ball
roded th Philips hotel,
iottad $428.25, the gross receipts have
ng been $533.75, and expenses, $125.-
5. Two leading items in receipts were
221 ticketg sold at $1.00 each and 52
tickets at $5.00 each. The remainder
was mada up of contributions by or-
fanizations,
for the President
in
— A A —————
The wind storm during the heavy
rain on Sunday night unroofed a bor-
tim of the barmm on the Runkle farm
naw owned by Mrs. J. W. (Harter)
Holt of State College. The farm
tenanted by James Wilson.
————————————
Rabert Dodds is selling a carload of
South Dakota horsey at Vicksburg to-
morrow (Friday.)
in
CENTRE COUNTY
HOSPITAL NOTES.
Week of February 15:
Tuesday, discharged: Miss Mary
Bemnage, Spring Mills; Maurice 8.
Bryan, Centre Hall, R. D.
Wednesday, admitted: Mrs. Harry
A. Keller, Centre Hall. Discharged:
Mrs. Wien Imschweller, Spring Mills,
r. and Mrs. Wilbu
. Stewer, Centre Hall; a son to Mr.
Pugens Klinefelter, Centre
- .
47 patients in the hos-
the beginning of the week.
* ® » » » * ®
Hy
|
Deaths
. + * *
F. DELANEYX
SUDDEN
i
THOMAS
| BY
TAKEN
HEART ATTA(
ave beer
Funeral servics
{ Thu
{ and
rsday, 1:04)
later
nd
in
Delaney
Daniel
the
isposed.
man
» “Socially
his presence
forbid. until
With It
effxgively.
mm
No
long
his
a one
in unless con-
{ ditions cheery
was heard he
disappr
Mr. Delaney,
August 15th
tained hi
:
f KEADER
[ax
| Krav
{ the
or ve
lived
have
he
would
had
next,
fourth ye
yeas
AND GEARY
atharine and
TWINS
Miss
Ve
8 Ki Geary Clara
fer ws days
‘
the iattey
stricken w paralysis twent
wed grip, terminat-
Mrs. Geary dieq from
imonths ago, devel
ing death
{ complications,
in
her
{| One daughter. Mrs. Mattia Bell, sur-
{viveg Mrs. Geary, as does also a
igranddaughter, Miss Edna, both of
whom lived 2t the Geary home.
John Geary, husband of Mrs. Geary
is critically ill at this time. He was
long caretaker of the cemetery in
which his wife was laid to rest,
HAINES. —Mrs. Margarete McCum-
mon Haines, aged 75 years was called
to God at 4:05 p. m., on Monday, foi-
lowing an illness of flve weeks. She
was a resident of Plaingrove town-
ship, Lawrence county, N, Y., for a
number of years and leaves many
friends there. The past ning years she
has made her home with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Maude Hull, Randolph, N.
Y. She was the widow of Hutchin-
son McCommon before her marriage to
8. B. Haines, of New York state, The
deceased had been visiting at the
home of her son, P. L. Uber, in Cen-
tre Hall for the past few months.
She is survived by a son and four
daughters: P. 1. Uber, Centre Hall;
Mrs. Maude Hull, Randolph, N. Y.;
Mrs. Ving Timlin, San Jose, Calif;
Mre. Clarg Cochran, Oklahoma City
Okla.; and Mrs, lois Semmer, Roch-
ester, Wash. Also, eight grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at the home
of her daughter, Mrs, Hull, Saturday
at 11:00 a. m., and burial will be made
(Continued foot of nexp cel)
FOP. CENTRE INSTITUTION
during last
wre
Governor E
the
—
PAY
ROAD
STATE BOOSTS
FOR
wis fixed
ways for effoctiv
{March 1.
i
Wage
—
TYPHOID YICTIM!
ASK
FW
fe L000
Lakemo
1 olsti rg
at AFR ii
Harry
kKilr
4
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vial 4
Ned)
Fran
8. Er
‘olloge
thirty
his death came
friends
n Mon-
Branch
Hark
| ‘uneral servi wer eid «
| day ifternoon urial] in the
F.
He §
ir
death notice
\ Fortney died at
of Mrs. Elizabeth
on Greenwood avenue at 12:50
M
sister
the
home her
| Dunkel
| vesterdny (Wednesday) morning. She
{wad 83 years of age and had been ill
{with influenza for the past week.
The deceased was born in Centre
county, July 6, 1853, a daughter of
John and Nancy Fortney. She never
married and had spent the later years
of her life with her sister and her
nieces and nephews A great deal of
her life was spent with her niece Mrs,
Rebecca Wolfe, in her home in Jun-
iata,
Miss Fortney was a lifelong and de
voted member of the English Luth-
an church and attended church faith.
fully in whichever town she was liv.
ing. She was mos interested in all
charitable work and gave unstintingly
of her time and money to helping
those lesy fortunate than herself.
Countless friends and acquaintances
that she had made throughout her
long life are sorely grieved at her
death and she will be grieviously
missed in many places,
She is survived by her sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth Dunkel, and the following
nices and nephews: John J Spang-
ler, of Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. Wolfe, John
and Mary Fortney, of Tusseyville;
Budd, Fredy and Ann Dunkel, of
Punxsutawney,
Funeral services will be held in
the English Lutheran church in Tus-
seyvilla Saturday at 2 p. mm. with
Rev. Wagner officiating. Interment
in the cemetery adjoining the church.
(Other deaths on
DODDS HORSE
REACHED
: Ty .
x fi fille
SALE, MONDAY,
$167.38 AVERAGE
d at the Dodd
t $167.9
DEFEAT
BIG
LOCAL HIGH
HOWARD
GIRLS
S BEFORE
i
y
n
|
|
A ———
COUNTY BANKERS BANQUET,
SP 1 Of 1} Centre ( ir B
I
f
LEAGUE}
GAME
BASKETBALL
AT HOME, FRIDAY
LAST
BED CROSS FLOOD FUND, |
CENTR} HALL COM. 8is400 |
_
—
(COLLEGE
IS
GETTYSBU RG
f:} $20,000
BEQUEST
WASHINGTON.
PROGRAM
LINCOLN
BY GR
IA
AD}
3
PUPIL®
TROL BOARD
FARES BEVIDENG]
oA
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| MORE THAN 200 ATTEND
A A AP AO:
AND FEED LOAN
AGENT AT BELLEFONTE! At the
i tate {Contre Coun
a . i § Lot 34
Emergency Crop | ion held
Bellefonte
this | Frank H
ole jected president
:
[CROP
fiftieth ann
. nty School
Schucker gr. I 4
sOcin in the
Thurs nee
Office announces | hap V
Gette, of Was
officers
More
meeting which
be made
} and
YOar to be purpose an
seed and fertiliz 0 pro
crop
o
ware oy 28 TYRE for the next ear
purchasing or t | wore re wmmey for tl next yea
uce a {than 200 attended the
du § \
Tha joans will
$400.00,
4%
ely
t+
oe was presided over by the pt
be
granted from $15 00 |
at tha ratelfor which arrangements were made by
~ Tod
unable F Rog
elsewhere
£4 bearing
farmers
financial
Either Mr
will
Bellefonte
interest
if {County
to 3
ers
to
whic are Superintendent Glenn
assistance
Shucker
the
on Friday,
oF
re ©™
Officers of the organization
for
president
who were
fol
vice«pres-
or a representa.
nl o
office y | EIeCied
,
ary ot ¥ term are s
tive ba at post another m are as
Dr. Gets
Haugh
M., A
SONCTELArY
March at
Any
arrang
to ad Thomas OG State Col-
old-
this loan
pt applications one
ident
y
lege vic o- president,
Burk!
R
township
whould tL
»
ye or
im at ‘
Potter township
Ferg so
F
this place
n
| Shoemaker,
Mrs
delegate
ILL AT STATE VILLAGE.
the 706 roar § ie
{treasurer
| Bell
M Broderick
$00
efonte
i Mtl
| LOGANTON M AN, 70,
FOUND
have Led ‘ your}
——————
FLOOD AREA CONSUMES |
| SURPLUS FARM PRODUCTS!
170
wxly of Troutman,
was found ball submerged in a
Flood refugees in the Ohio and the | creek near his home at Loganton, Fri-
Mississippi Valleys pmve consumed|day, shot through the mouth with a
vast quantities of surplus commodi- decared the man a suicide.
ties from American farmers. The Ag- The man who lived with Mrs. Leah
mpicultural Adjustment Administra- |Schrack Jeft his home the day before
tion has shipped more than a milllonite go fishing in the creek. The coron-
dozen eggs, 664,000 cang of evaporat-|ler decalred the man a suicide.
ed milk, 6500000 pounds of canned! Mr. Troutman leaves three daugh-
beef, 800,000 pounds of rice, 3,320,000 ters including Mrs. Euphemia Shaffer,
pounds of prunes and 2.808000 pounds|of White Deer. Mrs. Sadie Mark, also
of grapefruit into the flooded areas, of White Deer, is a step-daughter.
BANK SHOWS RESPECT W. SHOWERS, INFANTILE
FOR DIRECTOR DELANEY PARALYSIS CRIPPLE, KILLED
Due to the death of Thomas F. Struck by a Lock Haven brewing
Delaney and burial today (Thurs- company truck, Edward W. Showers
day) The First National Bank, in |OPerating a specially constructed
which he was a director. will be whee] chair on the highway, was al-
’ most instantly killed. The accident oc
closed all of the day. -_— curred Tuesday of last week pear the
——————— a — tts: home of the infantile paralysis crip.
A total of 1,077 automobiles ple, at Nittany.
stolen in Pennsylvania during A coroner's jury found Zeke Fike
monty, of January. operator of the truck, of Mill Hall, R
ID, guilty of contributory negligence
The driver claimed thers was no light
on the small vehicles and that he was
unable to see It in times to prevent
the crash.
Mr. Showers was aged 37 years §
months and | days, He was a son of
Wiliam and Ida Mae (Dorman)
Showers. The father and these broth-
ors and sisters survive: Charles, Har
ry, Mrs. Charles E. Gates, and Mrs
T. I. Rogers and Miss Blanche, alj of
Nittany.
The Washington
or
E.
were
the
LL ft sins.
Colleges in Pennsylvania have 48.
271 full-time and 31,350 part-time stu-
dents. In the Teachers Colleges there
are £326 full-time and L666 part.
| me students, Penn State ranks third
highest in point of number of stu-
dents with 5066 full time and 2,025
part-time. University of Pennsylvania
with 6507 full-time and Temple Uni.
versity with 5818 full-time students
are the two colleges exceeding Penn
State.
Burial was made at Snydertown.
| TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
motor operat rs 1k ened
nday.
New
and
wosk «
ite Col
0)
not'-
ado 4
orange
£ Mr.
of
Mies
| oug
Veg
M1
America
baval Nothariand Btn trails
Royal Netherland Steamship
I
Khe in nied her tr
DC
Fred Wells, accom-
and his wife Mr
ella motored to
a sister Mrs.
They found the sister
a wheel-chalr invalid
seriously and coon-
their son
.
i WwEe A
anc Mrs
DuBois to
Fred Wells
who has
(3
of
visit with
been
r some
fined to bed
Mr id Mrs
Bloomington
fi time. ill
ar Benjamin
the former's
The members of
Pr
enjoyed
Arcadia
was al«
and aside from consuming
oysters, its purpose
members and collect
dues.” The project
successiul
ress range
thelr
Subper In
evening
tended,
families
Grange
The affair largely
luscious
contact
nuaj
was to
the an-
was regarded
very from various angles.
E. C. Wagner, of Danville R. D. is
a guest of his son, Rev. I. A. Wag-
ner, having come here on Sunday. He
was accompanied by Franklin Wag-
ner, also a son, who with the father
is living on and farming the Wagner
homestead. Another to accompany the
Wagners was Miss Avig App. also of
Danville, who is crediteq as being the
fiance of the younger Wagner.
At the annual meeting of group ¢
Pennsylvania Bankers Association, held
in the Penn Ato Hotel Altoona, last
Friday, John Dv Meyer, vice-president
of the First Blair County National
Bank, Tyrone, was unanimously re-
elected secretary-treasurer of the
group. Mr. Meyer, who has served in
this position , score of years, is the
oldest secretary-treasurer in point of
service in the state.
A Plymouth car, operated by Dr. BE.
C. Reise, connected with the State Hos.
pital at Shamokin, was badly damag-
el on Saturday afternoon when ft
skidded into a telephone pole on the
hill immediately east of the Flaher
farm buildings along Route No. 85,
cast of Centre Hall. A boy, presumably
a son of the physician, was a, passen-
ger in the car and was injured to some
extent. He was taken to Dr. Light for
examination before returning home,