RE y t' 7.000 Copies Go Into the Homes Each Week. Comment — 0 Opportunity is a State of Mind. To those of our readers who may be burdened with the thought that opportunity has never offered them the chance they felt they deserved, we wish to present the following article appearing recently from the pen of Elsie Robinson, a well known nagazine writer: “I used to think,” writes Miss Rob- inson, “of opportunity as something outside one's salf— “A lucky break. A special chance Something that came knocking at the door— “And I waited for it to come knocking at mine. But it didn't came. Or if there was a knock, it was some hobo whiin that brought me nothing, (00k me nowhere “Day after drab Where was my One that every human is “1 waited ter walting come? day passed Big Moment promised? bit- Luck watched didn’t Grew Whi Lady “All around me others were mak- ing good f[ast-—doing things with thelr lives. Evidently their chance had come. Why hadn't mine come 0 me? Why didn't some one offer me & wonderful job? Invite me on a thrilling adventure? Give me the breaks? “They didn't why. “Then gradusily, through sheer necessity, 1 figure thing out. Began to see taal my expecta- tions had been wrong from the be- ginning “I had been thinking Opport ty as an outside thing. Something that came to you. But Opportunity wasn’t an outside arrangement “IT WAS AN INSIDE ATTI- TUDE. “Opportunity someone else pen “OPPORTUNITY WASN'T LUCK BUT A STATE OF MIND “An opening of your own heart “A widening of ination. know And 1 didn't sil i 8 n wo uni- int come didnt di from fust hap- your own imag- will Will “A quickening of your own “The people whom 1 saw having luck were actually making that luck themselves, by their own attitude They weren't just walting—they were willing. They were Opening themselves to luck AND IF YOU HAVE AN ATT TUDE LIKE THAT, ANYTHING 18 LUCK THAT COMES YOUR WAY “That doesn't mean that you al- ways get what you expect or want Or that you always recognize your chances when you find them. But it does mean that you are t on a winning streak “FOR IF YOUR HEART 18 OP- ER AND YOUR MIND IS AWAKE AND YOUR WILL IS ALL SET T0 GO, YOU CAN TURN ANYTHING TO ACCOUNT FIND PROFIT OR PLEASURE OR ADVENTURE ANY WAY YOU TURN. “I didn't learn all this quickly or easily. I wasnt born lucky. T didn't get off to a happy start. And, be- sides, 1 was naturally all kinds of an idiot. There were years when I seemed hell-bent for misery “But 1 w= luck. 1 lucky people I tried to how they get that way. I was envious at first, bitter and jealous. I thought such people must be “teacher's pets.” But I couldn't hang on to such a nutty notion as that. It just didn't fit the facts. “They weren't ~teacher's pl:ts” They didn't have rare and Unusual chances, But they were ready, inside themselves, for luck. They were willing to pay the price of luck which 15 often mighty steep. They were willing to make chances and adjustments, and accept compro mises . , . willing to experiment and fall and be laughed at willing to be lonely and frightened “You can't lick people like that You can't take their Opportunity from them, They carry their Op- portunity right with them . . . in- side them all set 50 anted studied see “Just as you ean carry STARTING NOW! HOLD FIRST FUNERAL SERVICE IN NEWLY REBUILT CHURCH yours Funeral services for Miss Nancy Ci. Barrows, of Lock Haven, who died Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Williamsport Hospital where she had been a patient since June, were held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the St. Paul's Epls- copal chureh in Lock Haven. Miss Barrows was instrumental in designing the chweh which was recently rebuilt after having been destroyed by fire during the flood of March, 1938. Her funeral was the first to be conducted in the new edifice, The Rev, William J. Watls, acting rector, officiated. Miss Barrows, who was the last of her {amily spent her early girlhood in Lock Haven and later studied art in New York City and Paris. Yor many years she wag a member of the firm of Wittredge and Barrows, of New York City, interior decora~ The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County SECOND SECTION Che Centre Democry NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 57 BELLEFONTE, PA. DECEMBER 9, 1937. Prepares History on Life of ‘Hairy John’ Known as Famous Recluse of Seven- Mile Narrows AUTHENTIC INCIDENTS IN HERMIT'S CAREER serving Huckleherries, Plantain Leaves Pra stieally County have at er passed. “Hailry ated alone State Highway Route 45, ‘abort midway between Wood- vad, Centre County, and Hartleton Union County, but per- haps know anvihing of the history ol the place with the exception that t Rot i name from a& hermit ] oD resid 4 11 residents of Centre time or anoth- John's Park” 50M lo- lew persons, from proprietors of Hairy ssidents of IAS Weeks {actual John's hig Demo to an old friend and well student of early Pennsyl- J. J. Weav~ or help, and as » found him ready and will- to Hairy t br Al Lhe irom 1 Harileton is bring ms inn, and voodward failed rth much informatie Hadry ry. Finally The LL n upon Centre John's past ught frui followix history r known as the Rev. Mr mit to us after inter- aumber of old residents and Brush Valleys. and visiting alry John's last resting § » Madlbonburg cemetery 1g the Rev, Mr, Weav- olorful and unu- Demo- Lt complete Hairy compiete and John Halry Weaver nleresting Vonada, belie Joh wih h ted VIEW.NR & Penns ae ene i ial iy Of ‘Hairy John” Vonada pelled VonEida and Vonada) By Rev. J. J. Weaver waonde how many of th who visit Halry John's wmmer know how tha: received its name? Nn writen, much spok- the years, and an of whispered myster- erm he mountains Continue mn pags «nd PASTOR DELAYED WHEN CAR SKIDS Mifflinburg Minister Exper- iences Accident on Centre Hall Mountain 1 We thousands Park every beauty Some has Kn bee nr urrem en aown unde Weil 4! 8 section Snow which made the Centre Hall Mountain a glassy sheet, caused an accident Sunday evening which de- layed the arrival in Lock Haven of the Rev, F, Nelson Schlegel, pastor of the Mifflinburg Reformed church at the evening service. One member of the minister's party was injured The accident occurred when the car skidded into the side of the mountain while the pastor, his wife and 28 woman member of the con- gregation were on their way to Lock Haven. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Schle- gel was injured, but the third mem- ber of the party suffered a broken vertebra and was removed to the Centre County Hospital at Belle- fonte. The car was badly damaged. Mr, Schiegel was taken to Lock Haven later in the evening, by John W. Widmann and remained in that city overnight, returning to Belle- fonte Monday morning. | The minister is a former mission- ary to the Moslem World, and was to bring a message as part of the Women's Missionary Society service at the Lock Haven church. A——————— i NIPPLE SWALLOWED BY CHILD | IN 1936 CAUSES PNEUMONIA The S5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sgymanski of Mt. Car- mel was discharged from the Cels- inger Hospital after a portion of a rubber nipple, which had been lodged In hig throat since Christmas of last year had been removed. Discovery of the nipple was inade when the child developed pnewno- nis and X-ray examination was made, The child had choked while playing with the bottle at Christ | mas time last year, but it was not | discovered that he had swallowed | the nipple until his récent {liness, No Thanks for Assistance \ For offering assistance after an automobile accident, Charles Bach- | arnoski, of Drurys Run, Clinton county, received a fractured thumb and wrist and injuries to his back. | Hearing an automobile erash while 3 car, Ohlo : hunting party in that sec- | said that warrants have | harg- | Woman Gets Oul Of Bed to Shoot Buck in Yard Most into the often hunters deep woods after for days, but Youngstown, Ondo. aidired in very unconventional garb for a buntress, bagged an eight-point buck Wednesday morning from a of her sister's home in must go hig game, last back porch Emporium Mrs. Siiman and a sister-in-law Miss Helen Sliman, also of Youngs- town, arrived late the night before the home of Mrs. Sliman's sls ter, Mrs. George Holden. When she woke at daybreak to prepare {or t day in the Cameron she saw a buck leer two does in the back yard still attireg in her night. bedroom slippes, she gun. stepped nolselessly back pore, and fired perfect. The animal about 100 yards county eowt nuiting county ald While vin and loaded her out on the Hey Mm Wa was brought the Cameron woods, down rom Fi SOUS TELEPHONE COMPANY WILL EXTEND LINES The Bald Eagle Telephone Com- pany branch the United Tele- phone Company, is bullding a new Monument and Orvis ton, two tiny brick manufacturing villages about ten miles west «ol Beech Creek borough, Orviston has been reached by a single line irgin Howard exchange of the Bald Eagle Telephone Company, which wis carried aver the mountain from Howard, and thers has never been telephone connection to Monument line to’ Orviston will be abandoned beyond Romola and the new line will extend from Martin's Grove, in Beech Creek township, up the valley in which Beech Creek is located and will be reached through the Beech Creek exchange. The Harblson-Walker Relractories Com- pany has a plant at Orviston. The United Telephone Company oon- nects with the Bell Telephone Com- pany at Lock Haven nm A——————-— MILL HALL MAN HURT. ol line to reach the The old Calvin Stringfellow of Mill Hall D. is a patient at the Lock Ha- ven Hospital, where he is being treated for a fracture of the right arm, a wound on the right hip and injuries to the face and right leg He was injured Saturday evening when he was struck by the car of R. D. Powers of Mill Hall, R. D The accident occurred on Route 220 west of Flemington. It is report- that Mr. Stringfellow had just alighted from toe bus which was traveling west, and walked around to the rear of the bus In order to cross the road toward a lane near the bridge. He is said to have step- ped from behind the bus directly in the path of Powers’ car which was traveling east, vill R ed CONSTABLE FPREVENTS SUICIDE At a hearing before Alderman Max J. Lipez in Lock Haven Monday night of last week, Robert McClos- key was sentenced ta gpend three days in the county Jail and to pay the costs of prosecution. McoClos key, who lives on Hana street, was reached by Constable David L Probet with the warrant Saturday night just in time to save the man's life, Probst says, »s wnen he enter- ed the McCloskey home, after there had been no answer to his knock on the door, he found the defend- | ant with a noose about his beck and the other end fastened to the stair- case, evidently planning suicide In) a fit of despondency. | URGES NURSES TO HOLD | HANES war PATIENTS | Nurses were urgtd to hold hands | Mrs, Sue Sliman, of | early | Greeting ! #y Monday Morning’s Typical Scene in Centre County Following Sunda) BULLET KILLS YOUNG HUNTER Tyrone Man's Gun Discharged While Preparing to Leave Camp in Blair County ing Bedford om Ralph killed Gay al a Movery Blalr eo engage d u preparatory to leaving a hunting camp ocaled between Brush and Lock Mountal abGut seven miles northwest of Ye low Springs Struck between the ribs by a high- powered rifle bullet which wag de- flecled through his heart and neck Mowery died instanily, He was ben ing over the right front Mie machine at he stmuck, i was ES FTA winue an utomobidle fender; time he wis disclosed Bialr county coroner, Chester H Wagner said the gin from whi the bullet wes discoarged was Oa ried Ly Waller Crafius of Tyrone who with J. E, Kegarise of H daysburg. R. D. 2, and Mowery, wert about to break camp According 0 an investigation the deputy coroner, Corporal Albert Davis and Private Joseph Y. Mer melstin, of the state motor police the choke on the automobile hac broken and Kegarise was attempting to start machine by cranking Mowery was stooped over the gine intent upon adjusting the car buretor Crafius, employed 8s a chemist for the Tyrone paper mill, was standing approximately seven away from the car when according to Deputy Coroner Wagner, I changing the gun, & 30-30 rifle. from one hand to the other, ff was in some manner discharged Located deep In the heart of the mountains, the camp was difficult to reach because of the rocky con- dition of the road, and it was found necessary to carry the body of the vouth altaost a mile before it could be placed in an automobile. Other members of the camp were unaware of the tragedy until their return a! 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon, The dead youth had been staying with a ister, Mrs. Carl Royer, who lives between Newry and Duncans. ville the La th feet Deer With Peculiar Color. Bruce Dibble, of Wyalusing shot a freak deer near Forksville, It was 8 six-point buck and weighed 160 pounds, and was spotted brown and white on the front legs. The head with their patients by Dr. Ansel M. |aDd back were brown and the res! Caine of Tulane University Medical | School at New Orleans. Making the suggestion before the | Southern Medical Asscciation, he | | advoented It, not as a boon to bud- | ding romances, bit as & help in| soothing the nerves of palients on | the operating table, i He sald that “a gentle pat” on | the cheek and “a light squeeze of | the hand” by the nurse “is very | helpful.” LOCK HAVEN FIRM TO MAKE L100 CUB AIRPLANES Jack Hedegard, Cub plane dis- tributor In Copénhagen, Denmark, has closed a contract with the Piper Alreraft Corporation of Lock Haven for 1,100 Cub plants, announcement or fi fi n of the body was white, Bellefonte Man Geis State Post, Highways Secrelary Warren van Dyke has announced the appoint ment of Austin C. Hoy of Bellefonte as a designer draftsman at $2100 a | year tn highways district No. 2, $6,000 FIRE ON LOGANTON FARM Valuable Bull All Farm Implements | AMUn Owner and in Disastrous Blaze Wha hunting and Hiere AM: Mu Woman Bags Deer First Time She Fver Fired Gun Mrs. Winiired Thm bersburg., wanted to go « ing Her husband, William, refusi t 22 her and sad Why N i CH 11 5 Mrs. Hines walled nd Wo ive their Lincoln highway mountain, then hells 10 State Motor George ODay. The officer rifle, and Mrs. Hines for the wool She was back and calmly announced oer I've just killed an 11-point buck. Will you help me got it home? The woman never fired a gun be- fore, O'Day said she told him ¢ 3 Joad a gun! for her hus- me the Tuscarora rifle and Policemar loaded sel oul on 1 T5704 HY the minutes later, to the offi- ten a HOWARD, R. D. MAN HURT IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Thomas Rogers, of Howard R. D., is reported 10 be “holding his own’ at the Lock Haven Hospital. where he is receiving treatinent for a pos sible fractured skull and a concus- son His sutomaisle solldded head-on with a car driven by Samuel Bow. man, Lock Haven, west of Mill Hall Saturday night. Mrs. Bowman was taken 0 the Private Hospital where a Alp wound was closed with 20 stitches. Mr. Bowman was treated at the same hospital and discharged i — Night's Fall of Snow FIND HUNTER’S BODY IN WOODS Man Automobile; Shot Pittshurgh Discovered Dead in Through Heart no damaged id be ound In the - i — HUNTER 18 VICTIM OF STRAY BULLET NEAR CLEARFIELD A siray buliet killed Elia Viadu a { Akron, Ohio, last Frios he was hunting deer six miles nortl { Clearfield Clear Willi walch at V while fieid county coroner, R. L Ans sald Vidussd the time, He said his in- indicated the mai wh on vestigation stray bullet or p in mistag ion COVering { ror fled the vicinity The bullet entered the left side of tl Hite 0 the and came out the right in front Apparently the man was holding ung across his chest » bullet struck, &; he clutching the weapon and the bul- after entering from his chest struck the right wrist been shot by & »~ dbly somebody shot him for game tragic or and had ne ( hest a read n sicle 18 gun wn x 11 the wag id Seek (0 Save Historic Bell A relic with associations for thous- ands of people went to the junk yard a week ago when the Sunbury school district sold the bell from the Bighth Ward school building as scrap fron, An interested group will endeavor 10 buy the bell, used for 65 years, J 4 has not already been destroved ang present it w the Northumberiang County Histerionl Society. The school bullding was for several years used by the high school, the last class to graduate from it being that of 1868, in which Martin W. Clement, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was saluta- torian Now that Thanksgiving is past we have a year to discover some mason {40 be thankful in 1938, BLAIR C0. MAN FATALLY SHOT BY TYRONE COP Killed While Avoid- ing Arrest at Hands Of Police Officers TRAGEDY OCCURRED AFTER WILD CHASE Officer Who Exonerated Fired From Shot Is Inten- tional Wrong-Doing 4 tnd section MOTHER BURNED IN HEROIC RESCUE Renovo Woman Collapses Af- ter Taking Children From Burning Home TWO HUNTERS BURNED AS GASOLINE LAMP FAL Two hunt burned, n¢ ers ele seriously, when a gasoline lam on the floor and set fire to the Rod and Cun Club near Rauchtown last week Willlam Banzha! of Williamsport was scalded on the right hand when he reached for a bucket of hot wat- er on the stove to help extinguish the blaze. Joseph Yorks of Oriole received bums of the right hand when he tried to pick up the lamp Alr pressure in the lamp forced flaming gasoline to the ceiling which ignited. Yorks threw a buck et of water in which a deer heart and liver were soaking on the blage A Penos NOSE The Red Cross roll eall is over but if you forgot to send in your mems- barship, you can sill do so. SF 4 PERE rl i : y ) ; « . > J FE J Pra, "7 ’ Random | Items Ai soe ie ite whin- ou pull the stopper hd your sink or naw g ‘ o oy JOBLESS PAYMENTS BEGIN IN JANUARY erating workers but the regarded mporiant cession { Labor an important ad- buying power.” hi mulated an i of $340 480.768 in job- Jess insurance trust funds © meet temporary unems- unemployment States cover 11 ve B the mergency of mel ang Le ») rt talutes of the 565,000 workers Every State p ment only in provid in January Among the 22 States, New York and Pennsy.vania alone cover ap- proximately 5.000000 of the 11.965 - 000 insured workers. New York pro- vides a maximum of $15 a week and a minimum of §7. Penosylvania, with whe same maximum, provides a now has an unem- compensation law, but 22 States do the statules beginning the benefits — 107 | mintmum of $7.50, ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — Introducing Susie
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