Random Items C—O 4 Santa Claus. appearing in a Belle- fonte store. Saturday, leaned down to one little voungster and asked him what he wanted for Christma Froaning, the young shaver whin- ed: “Well, r&!ad §1%8!, didn't you gel my letter?” They fell one on State Motor Pb- oher day he went into a West Bish- op Street accessory store and told the attendany to put now bulbs in hic headlamps. Going out to the car with the attendant, Finkbelme: halped him with the bulb replace- ment. After the job was completed the Offtcer walked around to the rear of the car to check the tall light, and discovered they had been working on th? wrong machine, Hi ear. of the same make and style. was pa:ked just back of the other ond oh CR Bddie Widdowson, who last wees trimmed the lawn of his establish- on North Sireet ie-size ment Allegheny with a Sal Claus plete with reindoar and sled, rushe wild-eyed into this office Monday afternoon, and bought a pair of “No Hunting” signs. Noticing his agi- tation we asked him what the troudis seemed to be, “Aw, > Sadd “Dee. Stevens. Doc. Kilpairi a coupic of other punk Ih in that end of own didn“ deer this vear and I've eyeing-up those reindeer! Led 1% Si This events vear's nding in Centre County, newspapers stand labcr difficulties at the Tit plant and the Judgeship The vear's outstanding tragedy was the accident at Whiterock Quarries when three emploves were bl : Outs TT v0 death in an explosion In next nent week's make Bellefante’s Man orier guidc our this strange path. suggestions from they know the tills n Wild of to footeteDs we If you have son mind. send name, with yowr f believin is entitled to be called Belielonis No. 1 Citizen for 1837 Joe Mesmer, of Pike Sireet, Belies forse, one of the Christmas Th cancessionaires at the Court House had about $40 worth of choice Christmas trees dang night by boys. found it great sport to jump from the railing op- posite the State Theatre, junio the heap of trees beside the Court House, The limbs were broken and the fol gaze was shaken fiom the trees tO the extent that they were rendered valualess . as Yuletide decorations. Aa -— HERMIT, COAXED FROM TREE, NOW WOULD RETURN World War Veteran Well in Crude Home and Not Worrving eone in in tomet NEY reason oe ah 4 14 Living SOUGHT REFUGE IN TREE 5 MONTHS AGO Removed by Armstrong Coun- ty Commissioners to Kit- tanning Home Harry (the Hermit) Shick warme- ing himgelf by a fire in the Arm. strong County home af Kittanning declares he'd like to g0 back next Spring 0 “the hired land” and the hollow tree he was persuaded to leave for the winter, The 48-year-old ex-soldier sought refuge in the eight-foot poplar five months ago. When (rigid blasts swent Western Pennsylvania he | \ { mately | 7.000 Copies Go Into the Homes Each Week. The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County | SECOND SECTION he Centre Democraf NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 57 BELLEFONTE, PA.,, DECEMBER 16, 193 NUMBER 50. Topics and Comment & Moshannon Airport | Tobe Largest in State Federal Approval Last Week Makes Possible $450,000 Landing Field Project ONLY "PORT WITH TWO 5000-FOOT RUNWAYS To Be Located Between Black Moshannon WPA Camp and Wolf Rock CCC Camp on ¥ I approval an hannon, will make construction in Centre he largest alrport. in It w the only State two-5000 ind the nnougncemet Yederal at Mo th ili be airport with foot hard-surface total construction will be approxi- $450,000 in addition to the original DOB allocation for the cl ¢ acres of land and ¢ truction f two 3200. foot runwa) addi- tional $250.000 has been granted to the runways ol $200, r of NW all increase the size of final ant, now {iciall moved, will be eC from and federal funds, it i ng ap- both All- ured ETRE Atl a meet $100.000 was recent nouneed Harrisburg from st MAN DIES AT AGE OF 100 YEARS of Allport Passes Away at Home of Former Resident Son in Pitcairn Louis H. Bogner, a former Allport esgens vho lived to be 100 Years old, died last Wednesday at "he han his son, Orin, in Pitealrn vhere he had lived for the past sev- eral yeas » of Contacts with two presidents of !ihe. United Stales were cherished “hunkercd” in the tree and for three | days never ventured out. A stable door, pulled over an opening, broke the wind. “Oh. neo, it wasn't 50 cold,” he re- called. “My clothes kept me pretty warm.” He added “When Bpring - comes I'H get a fresh start. 1 guess every man has a mission in life x x x I'll find mine.” County Commissioners found and coaxed Shick from the tree, four miles from the village of Oak Ridge He had bought food in the settle ment with his $100 “bonus money.” After his parents’ death in 192], Harry lived with his Uncle Saul un. til: “Uncle Saul got up and walked out the front door. I hollered at hin, ‘where you goin’? He didn’t answer nothin’-—just kept walkin’ “x x x Uncle Baul went down to the road and hitched a ride to the county home.” Shick also went to the home in January, 1936, but lefg mn April, 1936, to live witly his halfshrother, Silas Doecrspike, Bub he sald Doer- | spike didn't pay him for farm work $0 be left and wandered in the woods. bee Bi In July he found the hollow tree and stayed close - to 1b thercalter, going inwide when Jb refed Shick said he “tdn't think about much of anything” while “hunkered down" in the tree. “I was Mving well and not wor rying,” he concluded. Shoots Deer With Freak Antlers : Harold McQuay, of Hamleton, last | week ghot a nine point buck weigh- ing 180 pounds. on the mountains fitar the Kelly sesiosnet. Mb. ve peculiar, ing fia wich Fo pols side resembles ap elk ries to lim. One was his meets with Abraham Lincoln. The wa a #tier 1 {roan Roosevelt one #37 1 ing t ived hig June on versary last Years ag wWiipsburg (1 in county d to sed social, econo~ al life of America a mg man Bogned miles into Harrisburg his home and shook hands President Lincoln on t ste stale vo Te Hi oLI3 CalIlO.. {i Bogher recaued him President Lincoln U1 { capitol 1 y went up and shook hand ith him. 1 wo." Lincoln had stopped Urg enroute the dedication he OCGenttysburg hattlefisid, he made his fasinous Gettysburg a Cress, Bogne jonging m.. the his oatmeal Cays “If people would eal oatmesl and cornmeal as much as I do.” he one: remarked. “then they would lve as long as 1 have.” Bogner lived for 83 years in All- (Continued on page six) a nn porti Hasris- 0. wihwere mn credited oatmeal with pro- ife. He died at B06 a une he ordinarily arose for He had been {Ul five Pe Shoots Father to Ald Mother. Sobbing convulsively, Robert Mil fr, 15.year-old high school senior of Freehold, N. J. admitted fatally ! shooting his unemployed father when the latier came home drunk and mistreated the boy's mother. He showed regret for what he had done, but saying, “He wouldn't let my mother alone.” — gf —————————— There are any number of persons! in this world who know all the answers, what they lack is the opportunity 0 put their views into practice - Compliments are paying invest- ments but they must be true and! sincere if they are to have the de-| sired effect, Pneumonia Serum Is Now Offered Free in State defended his action by! Pennsylvanians will be able to get free pneumonia serum from tne Slate--a serum so expensive that until now only the very well- afford it. MacBride-Dexter, alt wealth 0M to-do could SCC announced the se. 3! wns made possible through a 660,000 federal grant, and will be avallable to all who apply through their physisians after De- cember 15 Dr. MacBride-Dexter within the week 2.000 highway bill boards advertising the fice serum ld be placed throughout the effort to stamp out said . that State in an pneumonia deaths, “No longer wili Pennsyivanians he wived of serum pneumonia treat. ment because of the high cost,” she lared J. Moore Campbell conservn director burean, between “if. for each health tion He scrum sis | fun f ve treated.” The dises Pct ] dollars seventy patient sed 9,004 deaths in 1936 fourth nia death rate in the ’ THREE HUNTERS» FINED FOR POSSESSING Smith and Clifford Dor. Mill Tall, and Lester B Lockport, Clinton county fine of 3100 and cols ution for possession of an lied doe. The three were r Game Protector Miles they were bringing Websr admitted hiz guilt and settled with protector on field, but the other two defend. nts were a hearing before Alderman T. Mark Brungard at Lock Haven, where they entered ) aud paid the fines d costs Imposed aig DOE George an Ol Weber, of each paid au of proce illegally ki donned be Vi : Reeder vy their mn dow the given pleas of guilty ——————_ oy Hunts for Deer, Shools Bobeat. William J. Longenberger, mechan- ic at the Danville State Hospital, - th] Hunters Take Time Out to View Penna. Scenery This group of nimrods lel the deer trail grow cold to climb Northeast Mountain, In Spreul State catch this Inspiring sight. They are overlooking the Susquehanna Valley toward Renovo, ILLNESS FATAL TO FORMER M. E. COUNTY PASTOR The Rev. William E. Ruth, 63, Expires al Home in shot an 18-pound bobcat as he hun- | ted for deer in Clinton county. Lon- genberger came upon a pair of the cats, both unusually large, and kili- ed the one at a distance of 30 yards His companions, A. J. Rockafellow, Danville, and Fred Huges of Baltimore, searched for the second animal without suceess. The hunt- er tracked the cat he had shot and found if dead in a thicket, some 60 Yards away snr ——— BR Donate 5618 Cookles to Hespital Donations of 5616 cookies for Cookie Day” at the Coatesville Vet- erans’ Hospital were reported at the Tri-County Council mesing of Am- erican Legion Auxiliaries held at Muncy last week, Filty-fotir rep- resentatives attended from Clinton, Centre and Lycomaing counties HUNTER DIES [4 of OF EXPOSURE, Lawrence County Man Near Death When Located by Searchers A searching party Thursday night | iTived Lop lale to save the life of William 2Zich, 45-year-old war vet- eran of Enon Valley, Lawrence County. who was 0st more than 24 hours in the ER COounty woods, after separating from 8 deer hunt. ing party Although stil! ailve when search. ers found him in a snow-covered clearing near Rathburn, nine miles from St. Mary's, Zich died of ex- posure while en route to the Andrew Kaul Memorial Hospital, Zich, a brother, Amil, and a nep- how, Leon, arrived In St. Mary's Wednesday morning and made thelr headquarters al a farmhouse about six miles from Rathburn. The three men 500 out after agreeing to meet again in the giternoon. When Zich failed 40 return, his companions called the Elk County 'Sherifl. who organized a searching | party, He was aided by State Motor Police, 75 COC boys, Cameron Couns ty Sheriff Roy Shadwick and private McEmhatian JOINED CENTRAL PENNA. CONFERENCE IN 1902 Served Pastorates in Snow Shoe, Mileshburg and Un- ionville The Rev. William Elme: i Ph. D. pastor of Le Lock Haven Melhodist Cirouit, and a well known former resident minister of Centr county, died at his home in Mc- Elhattan at 7:46 o'clock Priday night of complications. He wag 63 He became {ll late last summer and underwent three months’ teats ment in the Lock Haven Hospital Edwin Reater student at Dickinson Junior College, has been filling Mr Ruth's pulpits since the latter came {li Rul he deceased was born In Pen Arzy! and was eGucated at Busque- ‘hanna University and Drew Theo. | logical Beminary. Before joining t Central Pennsylvanis Conference of ithe Methodist Episcopal Church in 1902. the Rev. Mr. Ruth served as supply pastor at Anderson, N. J | Sines 1002, he was appointed to the following charges: Excelsior, Benton, Bloomingdale, York Springs, Muncy Valley, Cross Fork, Penfield, Salladesburg, Picture Rocks, Rivers | side, Wilburton, Riddiesburg, Mor- jcersburg, Snow Shoe, Centralia, { Milesburg - Unidonville, Harrisburg, | MII Hall and Logk Haven eiroult | «He leaves his wife and two broth- ers i Puneral services were held at the | parsonage in MoElhattan at 7 [0'clogk Monday evening in charge of the Rev, J. Merrill Williams, of | Williamsport, distriet superintend- jent, The body was taken to Belins- | grove Tuesday morning where It {lay in state in the Methodist church | from 12:30 to 1:46 o'clock. | Services at 2 o'clock were eonduc- | ted by the Rev. Mr, Willams, nas- {sisted by Dr. 8. B. Evans and Dr, A. LL. Miller, of Willlamsport; Dr. O. ©. Miller, Mechanicsburg; the Rev | H. T. Covert, Woolrich, and the Rev, | Dennis Smith, ¥iemington. Burial {was made in Selinsgrove, 5 sinisters of the Central Pennsylvania Mcthodist Of month { 8innsg Bho mierence i In recemt The H nerman, « ¥ Snow Be H 3 v y ot " w BIN vOVCR ood 4 ET im 3 8 TR vy Shore, Of J WwW Kelchr : several months ———— A TA —————— HUNTERS TO GET MONEY BACK BY JAN. | DEER : TERBUTCS i Beith Gorden : e game tor $2 Frgay of the aunung on i deer The $106 4 BCE state A : collected by the permits is expect by mail before Jan treasury depariment returned 1, the orn The return of the 53.000 fees for the special three-day sea- n Was or the Dauphin court November 22 when un granted sporis- against the open season wl pee p—— INVALID WOMAN SEES HUSBAND DIE SUDDENLY [+ ary OM} All~ Moen se dered by 1301: was PRE Myers Stouffer, %6- at ast invalid of nearby ywmansdale Cumberland county, her husband die of a heart at- watched his body yer Be tack and beliplessly {for preven hours before a bread truck driver discovered her predicament The woman's feeble cries {afled to altract neighbors’ attention. Dr. Eduard A. Haegele, Cumbers land county coroner, said the man died shortly after the attack. He was attending his wile when strick- en Frm oi Mh — Hunter Loses Thamb Cillllon county's only serious ac Cidens of the big game season oc: curred in the waning hous of the asl day. No fstallties resulied for the fst season jn a number of years, While preparing 1o leave for his home late Saturday afternoon, Har | oid Summerson, of DPrury’s Run, went to pick up his rifle. which was resting against a tree. The weapon discharged, blowing off Summer son's right thumbd — This Deer Asked For It While Counsliman Harvey Here man, of Mill Hall, was busy pump- Ing up an automobile tire, he was startled by a noise back of him, and turned to see a large boek, which he brought down in Jess than a minute and had it home in less than | | Continued on page 8 this section. | With the passing of the Rev. Mr.| ah hour after he started hunting. Donate Cross for New Church. of The Penns cChfcK Paul’ Haven lor Al fie Association State College has to the official board of Episcopal Church at a processional t memorial to Charles Lee Mr Mrs, Heary lee of Haq Lee was struck & ning and killed May 30, 1833 while playing baseball during his freshman year al Penn Slale, the day belore he wis $0 have returned to his ome. He was 4 member of the Bi Pauls Episcopal Church and vas a oloist in the boy choir of the chureh s a child vivania ang Lock en. M y . o¥it 4H IY aRA~ tooo on ——— ——— Youth Kills Buck: Scares Father, the of Frede Cn " father ick 18. of near Btate hile the two were huniin ard 2 single shot, lollowed screams he thought the youtlb and hastened to find and AL nee. Hows when he arrived at the place he youlh had been staliGn-~ he found him standing guard a fine buck. The young man so excited that he lost his hat and hunting coat, and found his gun under te snow only aller an hoyl's search. ALTOONA WOMAN FATALLY BURNED ————— Father and Son Seared as Oil Stove Falls Down Cellar Stairs and Explodes Explosions of gas and oil stoves in Altoona on Monday resulted in the death of one woman and severe buns to a man and his small daughter Mrs. Fannie BSakolsky, 57, died Monday afternoon at the Altoona hospital where she was taken sufl- fering from burns of the entire body received when her clothing was set on fire by a gas explosion at her home When a staall girl saw smoke is- suing from the Bakolsky home in the moming she rushed to the. Goldberg store several doors Sway and brought geighbors scurrying to the the house where they found Mrs. Sakolsky with her clothing ablaze In the kitchen. Baveral suc ceeded In putting out the flames on her clothing. Firemen said they learned Mrs, Bakolsky had turned on the gas In a reznor and presumably had gone to another room for a match. When | she returped and struck the mateh, lege } s shnt een sg0% render By POP MOMAND mse Ya Teas Gir : = Tamy ".. BURG tw Forest, Clinton County, and LARS FAIL PENSAFEAT LLIAMSPORT of n 100 Wi Yeggs Enter Basement First National Bank Without Success SAFE RESISTS USE OF ACETYLENE TORCH Entry Discovered by Regular Watchman Early Sunday Morning The strength and UU foundat % basement of Bank defied burglars, believed to have | fessionals, who wolked hows early Sunda) tempt to rob the of tin SONA] marming bank use an aocetviene burglars defaced the door a small safe in the basement of the bank quariers, at 320 Pine street but they re apparently Irighten- away before it could be opened No loss was reported Investigation : ol wi ed the burglars reaching the besement directly benesith the banking quar. ters through a paITow opening over a high wall between the boiler room | nd the main basement The entry was discovered when the watchman arrived Sunday morning and found a pingh bar, the only too] leit by the burglars, on the basement floor The city police safe experts expressed the opinion that if would require a day or more to drill into the main vault and the smaller compartment the manner in which they are cone structed The only effect the torch had on the safe was to deface the front of the door, Bank officials explained that even had the men been abie to | remove the combination dial, would have been impossible to gain entrance, because other jocks auto. | matically become effective when the combination is damaged It is believed the burglars entered the bullding some time after mide nite Saturday and were probably at work several hours before the watchman arrived Although safe-blowers have shun. ined the Williamsport vaults | Continued on page 8 this section. | The latest was the burglary of the Muncy Postoffice. A year ago the | Woolrich Postoffice safe was craock~ (ed. Both are still the subject of in- | | vestigation. bank officials and | because of | “ Avoiding The Fear Of Death There are people in Centre Coun- tv who are afraid to die. They will probably be interested in the views of Abbe Ernst Ditnnet, French scho lar and author, who says that thers are three states of mung 0 counter fear of death The first Ks truth, the second | act all Bn interest In to work for the Os to man- weine is a nobler objectives bie collab- 2 the ved by The own interest and welfare which are sting with God etiir th WIG we of one devoting oneself Lo the and happiness We FeRaer: ol others are glad to pass along to ow the suggestions of this dis- French author, There ut in 2 the Wwuished ¥ consideranle belied Moreover 1g An make come il woman Brand-New Babies Cost $5 Finland is a cisfans the highest the advanced European 1t will surprise the mothen tre County to hear that the cost of hospital care for the woman of moderate means is about fifty cen This includes expert medical it and day nurse, fee for medicine-—every- xirps. The tote - freee irom 1 country which birthrate of all eountries of Cen- a Gas cAr'e, nig operaling rootn Lthihg: there are no ¢ I a brand-new baby 5. Of course, thos stvie, and extras, can { a eTriler say: regard fon the to do Ukewise You And | separate the word busi- ness into its combonent B-U-8-1-N-E-B 8 we find that “U {| “I are in it. In fact if “U” and were not in business, it would business. Therelore ous - emadn business, we must I" in & Purther- more, we discover husinege and that the “I” is silent—it is not to be seen. not heard. Also the “U in business has the sound of "pt oy eters ' in or which indicates It 8 an amaigams- tion of the interests of “U” and “T and when they gre properly amalgs- mated, business becomes harmoh- and altogether profitable TIRE BURSTS: BOY DIES on ol of an nenneln O-Vear-0ug nd Mrs, William Patt , 8B. D. leaned against high-pressure automobile fire family automobile, the tire losion broke a rib {id lung A TSOn on ae blew ( which fatally aril injuring — EXPLORES OCEAN BED By use of a “cannon.” pecializsed piece of ardllery, which itself into the ocean floor, scientists are able to learn much of earth's past. Among other | things the sediment brought un ii shown that there were successions of cold and warm eras — a highly ls the 8 howed entrance was | gained to Lhe basement boiler room, | Oddest Accidents In the March of Time During 1937 Did you ever hear the one about the outraged chicken whieh hit the farmer in the eye with an egg? ! Tt was one of the oddest accidents fof 1987 and was recounted in “Pab- lic Safety,” the national safely council's magazine It seems that Charles Cox, of | Matoupia counity, Ili. selected the imenu for a Sunday dinner, He { wrung her vigorously by the peek In the midst of the ultimate gyra- | tion out popped the egg. A physi- {clan removed the shell fragments | from the patient's optic | Then Wayne Miller Jost his faith {in his handiwork. He slopped to {touch up a painted “shop” sign on ithe pavement at Miami Fla. A | car, approached from the rear, | struck him on the back of the lap | Mrs. Lilly Holderness of Tucson, | Ariz, sold her gila monster 0 = | Califomian. Someone, at the hour | | [ture along the peaceful banks of | Meramae river pear St. hy
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