Best Advertising Medium In Centre County Everybody Reads It centre Democra Circulation Over 5,600 % Both Phones RANDOLPH DAGGETT'S UNTIMELY DEATH KILLED IN AUTOMOBILE WRECK TUESDAY EVENING. | FOUR ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED Car. Swerved Into Ditch and Struck Telephone Pole—Occurred on State Road Two Miles East of Belle fonte—Neck Was Broken. | Remember about half past automobile accident oc- state road leading from Hecla Park, and as a | result one young man was almost stantly killed and four of his companions suffered serious injuries. | Their names are follows Randolph Daggett, age 17, son W. L. Daggett, proprietor of the House, almost instantly killed fractured and neck broken Charles Chandler, driver left arm crushed from wrist broken and injured Frank Thomas, son of Mrs, Mary Thomas, of State College, left wrist | broken, fingers crushed, several ribs | broken, painfully bruised about head and body and injured internally Joseph Knisely, son George Knisely, left knee badly injured, face | cut, several teeth knocked J. Robert C Jr., son tect Robert Cole, of Bellef« ' ly bruised about face and body When the became broad on Wednes morning that the cident had and that dolph Daggett killed, it a fealing and intense « citement the ymmunity The partic affair are about The young Tuesday ten a terrible curred on the Bellefonte to On evening as of Bush Skull of eibow the car, to wrist, internally of out | of Archi- | inte bad news day occurred was horror throughout the of lars of sad follows gen ided during the early part of the evening that owing | to the fact that it was a beautiful moonlight night they would enjoy an | automobile ride of the party | claimed to have a credit of $3.00 com- | ing to him at Keichline's garage and | accordingly they engaged a car for a spin Hecla Park. Mr. Keichline furnished them a new Ford touring car with Charles Chandler, a very careful driver, in charge of the car. They left Bellefonte about 8.30 o'clock Nothing happened on the way down | and they stopped at Mr. Workman's | house where they spent a singing and listening to the music a victrola About ten o'clock they started home, singing and laughing and little thinking of the fate that] awaited them. They stopped near the | school house at Red Bank, when an other auto passed by them, and t} followed after A short distance! ahead there is a sharp double curve | in the state road. From the tra ks | in, ihe side of the road the next morn- Ing it was evident that on the wec- | ond curve the rear wheels swerved to the left side of the road into the ditch. The middle of the car then struck a telephone pole, with the full momentum, tearing the middle seat! ar of body loose This | car to it then the road nee pos as ded (ne in the ilsed, h or his companions Cole was seriously hurt an oon vered at once | 4d to Lutz's the nes est farm telephoned to Dale me § Oo When Ch ‘s side h Chandle« minutes man Knisely then ’ . wstened the Was lea and Thomas dragged him farm ho and telephe the r and Corman’s them and 1 Ne also ned the “ that Dag was broken must have r after the a Whether his head ne or not, will William Keichline rtd with an automobile Wing men were brought Knisely, Chandler to eir spital Undertaker the HOOT and gett was and skull lived but cident h struck the never be arrived sh and the Bellefonte Cole were Thomas to will recover, ris reached the accident An #Xam dead fract few wned tele ph wed neck He ites Wi pole known taken t) th homes all of wh H. P. H ‘ hortly after charge of the body of young Daggett and brought it to the Bust House, where th grief stricken father and brothers awnited It The oung man's mother was in N York city and was noti fled by wire that her son w wot ously Injured. She reached home last evening on the 8:30 train harle Chandler the chauff« it the time of the a | were traveling ver 20 Bald Chandler along nicely and and took AR ar t) states nt dent or nr we ming everything was all right. The bo were singing songs with no thought of danger, when suddenly just sharp turn in the road, seemed to go wrong with the steering gear and we plunged to the left slde of the road. 1 remember calling Cole and throwing my brake tight shut, and doing everything 1 could to stop the car. Then I knew noth ing until I came to on the road" | The rest of his story Is as above stat. ed, Joseph Knisely's story fortunate affair is as follows: “We were on our way home from Hecla Park and were enjoying the beauti- ful night and the ride very much. Chandler was driving with Robert Cole on the front seat with him, Dag- get was In the middle on the rear seat with Thomas and myself on each side of him. When near Red Bank we turned out for an auto and later we struck a sharp curve and seemed to swerve off the road. I don't know what happened next, but belleve the stearing gear must have broken. When I came to I was lying on the road and I heard Chandler say “Dag- not hour the miles were Ox at a something of the un- F will be | have a | make | MISS A | of keeping track of in- | young |; | compelled to | name SAME AS | LABEL which w i slons have come (Continued at bottom of next col.) 4 Circulation Over 5,600—Largest in Cent county. MOVING TIME. 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Zong—Yorks. Zong, of Ming arch 12 F. Winey Bodle—Lannan, James Dodle n of Flemingtor annan of Bald half hour |‘'" mis St. Patrick's Day Banquet. The # annual St " banquet f the Undine F fteenth Com-~ ire THAT | BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, MARCH 20th, 1913, GRANGE LEADERS WANT TOWNSHIP ROADS IMPROVED BY APPROPRIATION FROM THE STATE. 80,000 MILES IN PENNSYLVANIA | Expert Supervision Is Provided—State to imme- | Patrick's | 8 pany was held in their handsome bulld- | ing on Monday evening, March 17th | and it is neediess to say It was a grand | The halves do Hen fUCCean things by I'ndine boys never and these social to be looked forward pleasure, hy those =o invited to attend ed 11 that tO, for with great irtunate, as to he to be a Find Har kK, George r Haag Fire a Run, ore Dix about destro The fire adjoining spread with the entire build ames. The famil the fire started escaped with their ture and even destroyed. The a mystery Mrs n the wash house while doing her fire may have start. igh a defective flue probably be about one We ] not irance, if was and ontents house and ni irni washing ed from t The Ik sand learn what carried YRS dollars “The Third Degree.” The Third De to be meen at Garman’s opera house on April 14th cems to be the centre of popularity theatre ge where are sald ¢ responding tL firmness this remarkable drama They give proof of thelr enjoyment of Charles Kle erness in disclos- ing the evils too frequently occasion ed by the in making preliminary vestignti and the topl is surely x time! here The story of the to a plausible vein and a human interest that The Third Degree” a it the public teacher p ’ Bree, ers ever with grea to ample Cle n = one andhereg is filled with play sely student and was recently the High school is a son of Water street, under ni Kn High school president of team He Knisels of south the young men are we except Chandler Thin road was recently rebuilt hy the state and is well crowned with limestone that was rolled making the surface smooth, with ample on either side for drainage. The road- way Is quite narrow, and when a car is under 20-miles per hour speed, which is not considered fast running on such a curve, there Is danger of the rear wheels skidding to the out side of the curve and this is about what caused the unfortunate wreck. There wan nothing to indicate a de- fect In the steering gear Randolph Daggett, who lost his life as a result of this accident, was born in Bellefonte and was 17 years of age. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs, W. IL. Daggett. He was a stu- dent at the Bellefonte Academy. Sure viving him are his parents and the following brothers: Louls, Boynton and Frederick. Funeral yl wg af ternoon, services at the home, ment in Union cemetery. gett Ix dyi Al the elected In A by sue (}e0 H All of ball 21 | rema i the | or th | mills { land | tow ns i this | the | past | . and | township to Pay One-Half-——-Would Special Bureau—Is Grange Leaders. Create Endorsed a ne mo ures the the legl (48! Is bill house | | it Important present the Jones which was mi ion Gibson intro- t sponsors beginning ers of is He ol duced since } memi ring wped would be + majority of which the gov naturally every ernor ths iuthors Endorsed "Tn il t preg th ma improvems art roa it mitted to of the emen the ior ir and the wnships but Was dirt WE Vere tof Teeny other mints per of the the £ on mmonweaith remaves this objection in the state highway bureau of township roads, with a deputy highway missioner at its head and this bureaus will devote Its whole attention te the more than [0.000 miles of township roads in the Road bullding A ba ITI recent Years money given This new act by establishing department a piatle er i ’ , 4 5 ‘ Expert Superv: inion of roads the state lirect an isors In the point town ip visor has hoped him intelli re- “TY int, an : in ian t aid obtain re more in m permanent townshis h not to ex sture being ! system in needed in Pennsylvanl round out her big road poll ile the state inder the bill takes over constructs 500 miles of main should aid i the maintenance of the miles of roads, which everywhere make automobile is ev ruins these earth The state collects license money for these automo- and should return a portion of the townships for roads Relief to Land Owners. in Pennsylvania werage tax of six corporate property the average four must come to the this help to the state will accomplish the same system Aas been helped for years tl, Nt by « full more for Sproul these 6 alec the no6n highways it townships In ining 50 plain people daily of The where and nearly roads many times use 1 biles t to Real in burdened by teen mills, while is taxed only on Some relief and estate owner by the on exactly schools have The Jones-Gihson become fully operative appropriation, will do Can cash | the public roads of Pennsylvania than Years | ditches | | | tial any other legislation up to this time” 208 Killed by Autos. Pennsylvania stands second rank of states for the number tomoblle fatalities in the States and Canada In the five weeks between December and January 23, according to a record kept in Omaha In these five weeks there were 1.276 accidents, 208 persons killed and 1.230 injured. Of these Pennsylvania had 17 deaths and 11 Injuries Y. MM. C. A. at Millheim. A movement is being made to es. tablish a Y. M, C. A. at Millheim, and it has the assurance of substan- support from that community. Geo. Bmull, of Rebersburg, Is taking nn active interest in the association and Informs us that it is now well under why. Smaller towns than Miliheim successfully maintain such institutions, Hosp in the of au United ital Notes. Admitted for treatmentt: Mrs. Mary Shroyer, Milesburg; Mr. Robert Way, Port Matilda; Frank Thomas, Belle fonte, Operations: John KH. Nolan, Nit. Coleville, tany;: Olive ) Discharged: Jennle Stover, Axe- mann; Helen Boyer, Bellefonte; Mra. Alice Jamison, Spring Mills, by | {the on a i would and | page, | | can i White com | { empl {| Woodr and | | powe r | abandoned The { should stand { China | endlens {| countries | And | for | the | people | keep | rostrums { wreck business and | fusion In NEW ADMINISTRATION MERITS CONFIDENGE WILSON ABOLISHES BOOZE FROM WHITE HOUSE. MANY REFORMS ARE INSTITUTED Special Session Called For April 7th— “Dollar Diplomacy” Abolished Pennsylvania Democracy Recogniz- ed—Tariff Will Be Reduced, It is a since Woodrow ated President of these United At this writing the sun continu shine, the rain fall on the jus unjust water Linus down hill, and no cow be giving bloody milk the predictions tops last and dish little ov Wilson Vi now Wee KE inaugur con favor wenther vorably tranquil H and 1s time vetem Cnormo Hipment te »f thelr impart sident Wilson ce of cabinet member iniversal H Revol satisfaction he Mexican swept Int wards 1 were Oy of blood and murder to American and and Wilson admin 80 notified them, and the publ hearti! Jurageous stand ideas the Wilson is an memt of this «¢ and frankl weforth during House there will be no intox eatie” dquors served at any of their functions The man *imply stands by his Nfe-long conv ong. and will be the dictator of his own household no matter what the tastes of others may Is no hesitancy about point about m President man and Abetainer her ntox ITWH 1] 4 : be. and there it either. The this matter in, we admire nn ins convictions and mat the Te ¥ « canis appl they may to whe in sea questions depart where there opportunity for that the White degenerate int an Ale Light thought Ignore have stood for party son and out, but that should be referred to ments of the government will time and full consideration House shall not yment 1 IW these other } ’™ ureau Another and shock came to the great the country wl dent this week gave out a statement that in the future the “Dollar Diplo- macy” of the Taft administration In dealing wih foreign nations would be president not point that the government back of the money pow certain proposed deals with which might involve compPcations vith We have enough to home, to keep us for some time, without hunting trouble in the Orien- tal countries again, Woodrow the people applaud the money inter financial 3 Presi. ests of yen the doesn see the er in busy Good again Monday, April the special fo convene for the tarify The tariff reform, ith, is the date sot session of Congress the consideration of president promised and he now ingigts that men who were selected by the to go to Washington, shall thelr pledges so sacredly made in our platforms and from the public It ina not the iden of the that there shall be a slash smash of all duties po aw cause great cone industsrial lines. Duties now high and give many certain unduds advantages, The time has come for the interests of the people to be considered, and it will be done, After this the presi. dent advises that tariff legislation shall only be made when there has been exhaustive study and sufficient data assembled to afford intelligent action, But there Ia going to be a reduction where unjust profits have been levied by the favored Interests, upon the people. It Is coming and there will be no mistake about it There is no doubt of there being favorable action in the house as the majority is large and the friends of the president are in absolute control The progressive democracy now has matters well in hand and the few reactionaries will have to go with the great tide of public sentiment that in sweeping the land. In the U 8 senate there was more doubt for soms time as to the possibility a progressive tariff measure president and a are too interests to { Vol, 26, + M. E. CONFERENCE on ne doul Wor ther there ha in doubtful Hgnment it latter vinhes Death of Prominent Charles 8. MeO Esq. at his home in Lock Haven or | day evening, after a ten-day’ with bladder trouble | the nm of Robert and McCormick, and was |} Attorney. acs - ” Mars orn in Clinton ated "nt 1) 6 bl¢ ted ied made on Wednesd Spepcial Bargains To-Day. ¢ Lear 1st. heen the past first of persons want to s« get busy Ix ist You oan your subscrip Democrat office, Contest Will Close on April The | nte that h Progr (Gilllam's few months will « ‘ April For that A8un all who interest and cure votes will have to tween this and April votes hy paying tion at the Centre or by securing your merchandise at Gilllam’'s department store in the Orider Exchanges During this con- test all sales at the store entitle you certain number of votes that can varded to your choles ans ut = in an at store on the Aare vert get fo Aa Oyster Supper at Axemann. On Saturday evening, March the members of the singing class at Axemann will hold an oyster supper in Obrien's store room formerly {cupled by Harry Harter, to | Rene ral public is cordially invited {| The class has adopted this method of raising necessary funds, which they find necessary by reason of A number of members dropping out dur- ing the recent smallpox scare, For this reason it is needful for the cinss to secure ald in the above mentioned way. There should be a liberal pat- ronage of the public, New Receiver Takes Charge. The receivers of the American Un- fon Telephone Co, are transferring the United Telephone and Telegraph Co.'s property and Interests over to the new receiver, W. B. McCaleb, of Har- risburg, who assumed charge of the united interests, of which the Com- mercial system in this city and vie sinity Is a par. It will be the policy of the new receiver to greatly Im- 20th prove the system, linens | Deceased was i White | which the | ENDORSES WILSON THE RESOLUTIONS UNANIMOUS. LY ADOPTED AT ALTOONA. /1"; WHERE MINISTERS ARELOGATED Appointments Announced for the Al. toona District—Meet at Harrisburg Next Year—Events of Closing Ses- sion, The closing odist Eplsce Monda n oints toona Whereas, hewn Whereas, mi Friw re Whereas, the TThitéd DETess « y nt “or 1s 3 iW : it fe at Lad cating that we president for th most heartily and his cable. position they litico-moral heartily rt in rm nt- the to his commend the net and congress have Assumed on these entions “ P. Shriner. KE Mortimer ¥ Il. Jacobs Joseph Paciarelli VW. Wasson Ww am W un Reese, Brenneman Hllams (supply). Render, Oyler, Brachetti, Comp, leaver Res H. Engler Hibhert Ww am Campbell, Steward Hope, William F Moon, Marion ings, William Jacol James E us, William Lumber City, Elmer Mahaffey Abraham lo Mileshburg and Unionville, Ash Mill Hall Glen Fra 1k Henry K. John WwW, Worley Morrisdale, William A. Carver Munson, Richard H. Colburn, New Millport, Omer B. Poulson Mills, Herman HH. Crostey Patton, David D. Kauffman Penns Valley, J. Max Lantz, Philipsburg ree M. Glenn Pleasent Gap, David J. Frum, (supply) Port Matilda, William B. Cook Ramey, Charles . Snavely, Salona and lamar, Willis A. Graham. Sandy Ridge, Harry T. Stong Shawville, John 1B. Durkee Snow Shoe, R. Frank Ruch State College, James McK. Reiley Wallaceton, Michael B. Bubb, Woodland and Bradford, William Hartman Bupernumerary-Elbert V, Brown. Retired--George HB. Ague, David F. Kapp, Willlam A. Stephens, Lewis A, Rudisill, Charles A. Biddle, William W. Reese, Osceeoln (EL H. Fire in Boggs Township. Early Saturday Morning fire
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