‘ December 16th, 1937. Echoes From the Past N My iY FIFTY YEARS AGO In his message to Congress Presi-| The fright among our people dent Cleveland devoted himself en- caused by the apparent spread of tirely to the problem of tax reduc- | diphtheria, is dying out. as the dis- tion. {ease has been skillfully treated by William Ishler, of Benner town- our able physicians. There was no ship, killed six porkers last week, | cause for such an outbreak of alarm, the aggregate weight of which was which if anything only tended to in- over two thousand pounds, Wil- crease the danger. liam surprised us with two yards and a half of most palatable sausage. After the 26th. instant no county orders will be cashed until after the fist of the next year. This is made necessary as the financial report for the past year is being prepared by the outgoing board of officers. If you have a claim. present it before the above stated time. Tom was never better depicted, Died: At his residence west of ; Tusseyville on December 3rd. James It does oflen appear as though Glasgow. He was one of the oldest it was a pity to remove all the old residents of tha: community, and landmarks about town, but one alter was aged about 75 years. Mr. Glas- another, slowly but surely. they are gow, whose death was caused by disappearing. Naturally we rever- dropsy, was widely known in the ence those ancient marks, but when Centre Hall area. The funeral was they have served thelr mission and held at Tusseyville Monday morn- modern improvements demand thelr ing, with Thomas 8. Land of the removal, we should be willing to Reformed church, officiating. make the change without a murmur, i ASS sine Prob. 80d in the end we find that im- Hg Pog | provements which take thelr place a general revival of trade at J. Zel- add greatly to the beauty and value ler & Son's Drug Store as their Of any locality. giving away to thelr customers ofl 5 A. Finkbinder has leased his so many free (rial bottles of Dr. phorograph gallery on Water Street King's New Discovery for Consump- to J. A. Swick. who has been con- tion. Their trade is simply enoT- | nected with Mr. Bell's gallery for mous in this very valuable article. gmetime. . . The annual ball given from the fact that it always cuies py. tn, Logan Hose Company will and mever disappoints. Coughs, ne held on Priday evening before colds, asthma, bronchitls, croup 40d christmas. A good time in general all throat and lung diseases quickly may be expected. . . The only place cured. You can test it before buy- | where candy is manvfaciured in this ing, by getting a trial bottle iTe8: city is at Jacobs. . . The new rooms large size $1. Every botiue War- i, the Arcade will no. be finished as expected by Christmas... For ranted. Thete should be a {ree library in muddy crossings Bellefonte can compete with any town In the state Bellefonte for the benefit of the public. If large comfortable rooms The saw mill of Bilger brothers at Pleasant Gap, is now ready for were furnished, there {s not a work- ing man in town who would not work... The livery men are anxi- contribute toward the expense of ously waiting for snow. . . Only one keeping up the rcoms. The Y. M. C. wagon put appearance at the A. does not fill the want of the market Tuesday moming. .. Ii is people taken as a whole. and we not considered in good taste for any have reason to know that many man to go into a store and sit upon would patronize a free library the counter... In oth OWNS even pay for the use of it that could people place their hitching posts in not be them- i- In Bellefonte they plac selves with any other than a libracy the mud puddles association & may possibly question this statement, and say that one library is enough, or raise noon. wit numerous other objections. To those we would relatives attending... . simply say, look at question that ecme to Bellefonte are fairly before you make up your mind with people many of whom are al- about having only one place wht ready siarting cn their holiday visit young men can spend their ever th some friends. A complet and then name over those who never list has been arranged for Institute go Inside the association rooms and week, and the teachers Cen you have only a few and most County may expect to rece a fine of them are married men. We do course of Instruction during not wish to be understood as speak- week. Several exceedingly ing against the Y. M. C joes pictures are to be seen in the wir its work as fa 0 react it dows Bunnell & Ailkens corner there is an element outsic and are (eally about the only work: that it will never be abi2 to reach art on exhibition in this town For this reason we would advocaie One of the finest and best equipped a free reading room entirely sep- institutions in the Siale is the State arale, or if possible a building for College near this place. All the ad- that purpcse. The an of good vamiages except a great deal of so- done by an insiitu kind y can be had for jess money than would be surprising. school in state. TNT r r . TWENTY YEARS AGO Miss Catherine Ishler, former stu- While dent nurse at the Bellefonte Hospit- Pine Grove Mills al. became the bride of Mebin John- a former m son Wilson, farmer and blacksmith dentally shot hin of Linden, Lycoming County of his ri Mr. and Mrs, Theodore Adams, of discharged Port Matilda biaed thelr edd SR YaTSalY. ] Al » , Booze was given a severe joi’ when au Pell and mal y {riends gathered by a vole of 282 to 128 the House of at the home in honor of the event. Twenty-two members of the to submit to the States an amend- Bellefonte Bar Associalion, and men: to the Poderal C tution court house officials enjoyed a ban- providing for Na'fonal Prohibition quet at the Nittany Country Club al The Senate passed mea- Hecla, Saturday. They made the gure in 1018. trip to Hecla in a bobsled drawn by four horses, and two hours were re- I: Was estimated that 200 deer and quired for the They re- about a dogen bear were in turned home on the C. R. R. of Pa. | CeDire County during thhe two- week biz-game season. Deep snows at the beginning of the second week made hunting almost impossible and it was this factor that kept the kill far below what had been anticipat- ed Friday, Saturday and Sunday the Emerick Bus Line between Belle- fonte and Lock Haven had a sus- pend service because of snow drifts in Nittany Valley. The Central Railroad of Pennsylvania managed 0 got trains through but were se verely handicapped by the snow Snow drifts as deep as 22 feet were reported In some sections of Penn- sylvania. The explosion of the boller at the awmill on the Heaton tract, about a mile and a half above the Baptist dhurch nese Mastha, completely wrecked the mill. The boller, casry- ing #0 pounds pressure at the time, rose in the air 12 feet, and was hurl- ed a distance of 125 feet. The fire- man, a Mr, Miller, sustained a brok- en ankle. The mill was operated by 0. H. Nason, Clay and Morris Witmer, father and son. of near Bellefonte, met painful accidents the same day. They were cutting up beef when the ’ carcass on which they were working p began to slip off the bench. Both made a grab for the meat and a knife in Clay's hand struck Morris’ GRUEN la hand, severing one ligament and CURYEX PEER _ . | 17.1awe! Pracision Tom: Linden Hall was packed on Wednesday night to witness the play of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Abbey's Double Mammoth troupe. It was the largest audience that has been out this season. The performance was an excellent one, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's power- ful and touching story of Uncle Uncle in aa or er v ative , . neo + pr induced to connect he groun them me fune: al of Mrs e, took place on Sur Petth vi i h nds and trains this crowded tre eit it ’ as Wi a § Ani this oth ve the €1 vial hunting In the Chester . mber of Trocp L self tl foot, The gud slipped from instep was ander his arm Ri wel cele 25th. their Representatives pasted a resolution mst a similar MNeyt four ney sSDot cutting the flesh to the bone, It was necessary for him to come to the Hospital for treatment, Later the urvax PATRON. same day the father, Clay, slipped 55 17-jewsl | om a step In the corn crib and pain- ones Wied 3& | fully injured his knee on a protrud- Curvex® by GRUEN, with the ex elusive and patented curved movement, is America’s fiest an d only wristwate with the movement uly curved to Gl] the wristform case. Come in and let ws how you our full showing of these distinguished new GCRUEN Curvex Watches Richard Noll, son of Mr, and Mrs. Charles T. Noll, of East Linn Street, {was a patient In the Bellefonte Hos- pital, suffering from injuries sus- tained when he fell 22 feet through the elevator shalt at the Potter Hoy Hardware g'ore. “Dick,” a stu- dent at the Bellefonte High School, WAS arran a sledding party and | was looking for George Austin, an tingly walked into the open elevator ternally and had a number of severe to the Hospital, him be- |employe at the store, when in the | gloom of the wareroom he unwit- | about the abdomen, was injured in- — THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE. PA. Page Seven. The State Circulating Free Li- brary, recently established ai Re- bersburg, in Haines’ store. was prov- ing to be a success, Some seventy persons had borrowed books, accord- ing to a statement by Miss Gladys Hackenberg, who was librarian When P. L. Conter, of Millheim, went into his shed one morning he found that during the night thieves had visited the place and had stolen all four tires from his car. A num- ber of tocls also were missing. There were no ciues as (0 the iden- tity of the robbers -_ Edward Mulbarger, while making some repairs to a threshing machine at David Snyder's barn at Oak Hall, was struck (n the eve by the band cutter, and for a time it was feared that he would lose his sight, Hi was taken to an eye specialist in Altoong for ‘reatment, While crew on novo Division member of a a freight train on the Re- Russell Schenck, of Howard, fell or was thrown fiom the train in such a position that th wheels crushed his right arm near the shoulder so badly that amputa- tion was necessary. The victim wa reported to be recovering nicely at the Warren Hospital, His brother Ward Schenck, went to Warren, go the detached arm which he took to Howard and buried In Howard Cemetery acting as a th i ¥ the Marriage licenses were issu the following couples WwW Adams, Philipsburg, and Ma: H. Jones, Morrisdale; Lans E u and Hannah C. Hipple. both Fleming; Dorsey B. Eckenroth Pleasant Gap, and Bes:le F. Emer ick, of Centre Hall; Clyde G. Swartz Bellefonte, and Charlotie E. Year- ick. Nittany: Ray E. Johnson, Miles burg, and Lillian G. Koch, Belle fonte;: Charles A. Vangorden, and Sallie C. Crater, both of Centre Hall; Boyd B. Lonberger, Pleasant Gap and Ula Villa Auman llheim Roosewell Butterworth beth H. Perks, both Decatur STRANGE SUPERSTITIONS By Edwin Finch TRANSPLANTS A CEDAR THE NORTHWOODSMAN BELIEVES HE WILL DIE AS SOON AS THE LOWER BRANCHES GROW AS LONG AS HIS (OFFIN Mh SIGNS INDICATING COMPANY CAT WASHING ITS FACE SNEEZE BEFORE BREAKFAST FINDING SPIDER WEB... LS. HOLLY FORIT IS "YBELIEVED THAT IT - HAS THE USEFUL Se 3 1E= A Hh : SOUTH GERMANY i AND TVROL WHEN A BLACKSMITH RESTS FROM MIS WORX ON SATURDAY EVENING HE STRIKES THE ANVIL THREE TIMES WITH M1§ HAMMER THERESY CHAINING UP THE DEVIL FOR THE COMING WEEK ALSO, WHILE HAMMERING A HORSE SHOE INTO SHADE ME HITS THE ANVIL EVERY FOURTH OR FIFTH BLOW TO SECURE THIS CHAIN«+ 4 gs | RUSSIA THERE IS A PR AGAINST HELPING ANVONE. TO SALY AT THE TABLE FOR IY MAY PROVOYE A QUARREL =F THE SALT IS PASSED WITH A SMILE A QUARRLL IS AVERTLD NEW POTATO DISEASE CAUSES HEAVY LOSS Bacterial wilt is a new disease of potatoes which appeared in Lehigh county this year. The disease was present in all fields planted with seed from a care load of Katahdin potatoes obtained from Maine, The disease has been present in Maine and also in Can- ada, Losses a8 high as 100 bushels an acre were suffered in Lehigh county. The direase appeared as wilt cf the vines early in the season and rot of (the tubers at harvest time and in storage. Growers are urged to be careful | about getting thelr seed 50 [that the disease will not be intro- duced ‘ | Yes. Thete may | Wath the | chances are i Health and Beauty OL ————— -p 0 —-———— of bact others Sometimes uffering from aware of It indigestion, or som ther condition Htti» children and Diagnose Tuberculosis Early Tuberculosis Is still taking an enormous toll of lives in this coun- try, especially among the young, It destroys more young people each vear than any other disease. 1 also "exacts of its survivors a bit- ter price In terms of productive ves lost, thwarted ambitions and quently the victims Incomplete achievement, I he part A considerable number of college should know be'te s'udents develop tuberculosis I Contaminated food and milk ‘often ruins their careers, sends them ‘uberculous cows | he to bed, perhaps for years, or ends carly death Many of these case doubtless had disea in child if it had been discover and proper treatment insu most of them would have been saved the anguish. suffering 108 of ime and early death. Why do many childr young people sufle: logis? First, b tht Into con's Nerous way {ria Aare adults vho ¢ tuberculosi but think that they heart or liver babi mbit on of y he) the Lthod hood; can be partl) ted Ne [acl tha ymounted lo alr eX nse, YOu 850 n ana Ltuboreu ate [1¢m thi the 1 with whic! tL. them means of them tlle children 0 protect again are Luving uffere: Many i Domes me there are rom diseass who are cares take few or nd fons, the chiidien sit or craw! fected fur: floors and Wd IRNorant. precaut ver i Ne gerins od C—O] = — a) Ea a a Ra ai a i oo THE BIRTH OF JESUS nael ned the first one bur School Lesson 19, 1937. International Sunday for December Da mporiant AVE a ft +] was th Mes sd Was So promised the world flocks imagine ns 18 anpeared | of the Lord, shin with glory of Lord These humble men were frightened ¥t the occurrence, not knowing what to do or think. But the ange! said Fear for, bxhold, 1 bring you good tidings of great joy, which shali be to all people, Por unto you is born this day In the cliy of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye ghall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes. lying In ¢ man- ger.” And, apparently in order add emphasis to the wonder of the announcement just made, a host of their and thems ne LY there an ans the the to Ood make it poss’ble for men to live ‘o gether In peace because of their good will dove) toward each other When men accept the ings of Jesu Christ and try follow bh ample, they will endeavor their dally lives to glorify God if they consclen'iously peate will reign in the world why Is trying to glorily God wi sutely not want to kill one of God's children, not tear! io ox throu! an do this, t} for THE ANSWERS 1. It is variously estimated from $500,000 000 to $1.000.000.000 2. In March, 1936 8, In 1935, $117.000.000 in currency ¢& Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo 5. Roberto MM. Ortiz, who will be Inaugurated in February. 6. They are, as a rule, showing fair-sized Increases. ’ | DO YOU KNOW 1. What is the estimated cost of the new farm relief measure? 2. When &¢id the Soviet Govern- ment sgn a mutual assistance pac with Outer Mongolia? 3. When is the value of the Chi- nese customs which Japan is accus- ed of planning to seise? 4. Who was the Chinese delegate to the Brussels Confexence? N ! + Bared upon permits in a num- 5. Who Is the newly elected ber of cities. new construction is Precident of the Argentine Repub- | not quite one-third of that in pres He? | depression years, 6. How do utility earnings in 1937) 8 The New Year's game will be compare with 1936? its flith appearance, 7. How does the construction of | 9 Brazil's new policy is not clear new dwellings compare with pre-de- | but more than 300.000 bags of coflee | pression years? {have been destroyed since an ans | Douncement was made that the poi 8. How many times has the Unis icy had been abandoned. i ty of Alabama played in the Row 1” 10. Dr, Max Buwe, now defending his title against Dr. Alexandrae 9. Has the Government of Brasil Alekhine, The challenger leads the sbindoned its poilcy of destroying | Maich, ce “Mother 10. Who is the chess champion of | Riectric Washer. the world? & Thor. Bellefonte Uv. 8 | me sunday School Lesson | oa v | . = WAS REVO RAPNNIRS NS STM TATA TAL ME 1 ae LD ASE TE 1 AE 1 ME 1 ME DOME 100 EA ‘ 2 WNP! Wi I Tee WN » NEPAD Hl » LE wi Your Health | Philadelphia | Hkewise 300 Phiia~ l.ouisa’s Letter m w 4 ’y Dear Lou 1 knew ¢ mn USEFUL KITCHEN SAVE TIMI GIFTS AND ENERGY OFFICIALS ORDER UNIFORMS FOR BAND HOO! - PFLANE RIDE AT of VAL RAVER ROR Santa Comes To Town With a Real l.oad of ON op Thor Washers «ironers Our new 1938 Electric Models can be had for $49.95 and up. Our new 1938 lroners for $39.95 and up. For the home without electricity 5 we offer the famous Briggs & Stratton motor on Thor Washing Machines | for only $79.95 and up. We have parts and wringer rolls for all makes of washers ELLEFONTE HARDWARE C0. Bellefonte, Pa. : i r wt {1 2—— EY FR » gRLan aN, ak, o . JN, anion, " . UDR » TN, vy a tod E71 SUL RCL RL » L} SRINSRT ra a AA RAH ROLL ye
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers