' Random [tems Farm Show Note: A visitor to the State Farm Show, at Haris burg, last week, whe vised practi- cally everything in connecuion wi h the show, reports that accomoda- tions provided for the 66 State Mo- tor Police officers detailed (0 Farm Show duty were something less than medieval. The Commonwealth provided them with an old Armory conststing of one large room. Fa ollitles of the room were: 2 steam radiators suspended from the ceiling ~one water sink, with no hot water —two commodes; 65 army cots, be- lieved to be relics of the Word War and issued with the caution that if any of the cots broke the user would have to sleep on the floor There were no showers or oiller bathing facilities One mot the 65 officers awoke In a temy ture of a degree or (wo above with no steam in radiators spite that. the crowd that mill about the lone sink trying 10 get enough ice cold water with which to wash and shave was as large as any group of hiseers who gathe: around the warm pens of sleek, fal prize-winning hogs, modern Farm Show rae 2010 De the 8d in the Juilding There wis a time when this de- partment sbought Councilman W J. Emesick was paving a little off- side when he tried to Impose re- gitfetions against Beliefoit¢’'s way- ward dogs. Of late, however, th realization has come that Mr. Emer- feck was entirely justified, for the town in the early moming hours sounds like a jungle when beasts of the forests awaken and begin their forage for food. Mr. Emerick nevel mentioned the howling. barking, snarling and yapping of dogs as his objection to them, basing his com- plaints solely upon the fact that dogs running at large ruin va uable shrubbery and destroy gardens and lawns, From the number of dogs to be seen each morning roving the streets and alleys in packs, like wolves, the town's shrubbery and lawns during oming summer are doomed unless the new Council does what no other Cotincil has ever been able to do—pass a dog gsegulation tha: really re Compositor's Note: We state for the benefit of Mi that the sudden change of of of the writer was caused by an eaily awakening and geiting down to the office ‘before eight o'clock-—the f=st tite since he became ga writer (This paragraph inserted withou! the conser: of the writer.) the Bellefonte once had a street nam- ed “Wisdoms Way,” according to one of the town's oldsters, who still remembers that the thoroughface was & well known trysting place for lovers, "Wihdim% Wiy" wns ® street that cut diagonally across the plot on which the Centre Coun~ ty jall now stands. At the time 8 #chool house was located on Wiad Way" which can found ticned in old deeds. was part of East High sireet has been able to explain street gol Its quali’ name Charles FP. Ccok, of Bellefor has two marriage li which ace of more than passing interest, One jssued on September 13, 1753 drawn in Phi adelphia for the mar- riage of his great grandfather, Ja- cob Cook to Suzannah Roads. The other, issued near Philadelphia on October 20. 1795, was for mAar- riage of Jacob Cook's son, Jessee, t0 Hannah Davis. Beth Jacob and Jesse Cook were ‘fighting Quakers and when Jacob was injured in the battle of Brandywine his place in the ranks of the Colonial Army was takén by his son Jesse. Jacob meanwhile, was taken to a army hospital. where surgeong about to remove his badly wounded leg, ask- ed him if he wanted some whiskey to act as a partial anaesthetic. The old soldier. mindful of his Quaker upbringing, dec ared: “II I'm going to die, I'll die sober.” The leg was amputated, and Jacob lived for many years afterward ——— - Pennsylvania Had Big Travel Year + a i 8 men. eNEe wa the Highway Commission Says Publicity Has Drawn Tour- ists to Our State “The year just ended was the biggest travel year in Pennsy vania’s history.” Warren Van Dyke, chairman of the Pennsylvania State Publicity Commission, so reported last week to the convention of the Prnnsyiva« nia Newspaper Publishers’ Associa- tion. His report was sead for him by Orson N. Rilzman, eyecutive sec retary of hte Commission “Pennsylvania during the past year.” sald Mr. Van Dyke, “moved into the fleld of active competition with other states for a share of the vast tourist business in the United Slates. “The first seven months’ expen- ditures from the hall-million dollar appropriation made by Lhe last eg- isiature for the two-year period from June 1, 1937, to May 31, 1030, have already repaid the Commonwealth its Investment many times over “Not only has otir advertising and publicity’ campaign through the (Continued on page three) Young Tyrone Coaster Hurt 7,000 Copies Go Into the Homes Each Week. The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County Er it—— SECOND SECTION dhe Centre Democral Odd and NEWS, Wiki Curious FEATURES VOLUME 57 BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 27. 1938 Governor's Mansion Once Had Gravestone Porch Steps p——— Executive's Wife Protested When Discovery Was Made That Stones Used as Steps Had Been Taken From a Nearby Cemetery The recent anniversary of the haf eentunr the remodeling ol nor's mansion Front Harrisburg, releases flood: of old memories among elderly resi- of beautiful Pennsylvania capital city by usque ol FOVEe on the street fonts he the dreamy 8 rads of SPOTL audiences io Manson i handful of handed ou WAS ided Ors. a JOS ae ut the unde this was done 30TTOT marve omo taken fron located back names ana re conspicu- When I »HAVEer's wie found to be SONS Or “grave slabs metery former The of the deceased wie mansion Nine Pay Fines Or Go to Jail Sentences Imposed For Hunt. ing Violations in Clin- ton County Christie L C. Pletcher, of Heveriy and Joseph Howard, were are rested Sunday, January 16th on the Beech Creek-Renovo road, for having a loaded rifle in their car a hearing before Alderman $25 ye por each and costs , charged with the game Baws, have heavy fines or begun to serve long jall terms in Clinton county with- in the last week. Three are from outside Clinton county The heaviest punishment was that meted ot 0 Clarence R Aungst and Theodore M. Mover of Avis, who were convicted of having parts of two ilisgallv-kilied their vioia- paid deer in possession Lhe fi. Aungst had =a Justice Peace Avis, and Mover rungard 208 davs jall when they were $200 fi Another Avi man Aungst, charged with inting for deer in closed sPR20N., Was Sen- tenced by Mr. Brungard to serve 108 days In the county jail, in leu a $100 fine All three, according t0 Game Protector Miles Reeder were arrested in the Pine Creek gection where the alleged violations occurred Albert W. Welsh and John L Welsh of Lock Haven, R. D charged with possession of illegal- ly killed deer in the closed season were fined $100 each by Alderman Brungard. They were charged with killing a deer Monday in the Queens Run region. They were also ordered to pay costs, Two other out-of-county men paid fines of $20 directly © Mr Reeder, charged with lending » hunting license, in the case of Roy Beagle, and hunting on & borrow. ed leense In tie case of James Madden, both of Bloomsburg Juniata Workman Takes Life by Hanging COs hearing be- M. 8 Irvh came before Both were in mnable to auring of man tended O Lhe oO nes Ar Maynard of Adam Ear! Kel er, 61, of Juniaia ended his life by hanging himsell in the e¢cllag of his home shortly afer noon Friday Discovery of the body was made by members of the family. They said he had been in ill health for some time and had not been able to work for more than a year. Born in Decatur, Iiinols 126, 1876, he was the son of Danie and Martha Keller, both deceased He had been employed as a boller- maker in the Juniata shops of the | Altoona works Mr. Keller was a member of the Otterbein United Brethren church of tent. No. 008, Maccabees, and of the P. R. R. relief CLEARFIELD COUNTY YOUTH FATALLY INJURED IN WRECK Robert Hopkins. 21, of Ramey, Clearfield county, died last Thurs+ day In Phi ipsburg State hospital of a [ractured skull after being unoon- scious since Bunday night when the automcbile In which he was riding ran off the highway near Moutadale, His death represents the fourth traffic falality probed this year by {state motor police of the Philips. | Jun | Edward Patton. elght-yensn-old, burg detail. Hopkins was trapped | Tyrone lad, Is suffering from &| with three companions in the severe cut on the hand the result of | w:eckage of their car when it ¢limb- colliding with an automobile driven ed a six foot embankment and by Willi; W. Walk, of Port Mati da | splintered a telephone pole The boy was coasting at the time. | | Nearly ten years ago the news People who laugh at young couples papers of the United States were in Jove would probaby be better off printing editorials about farm re if they were In love, | lef, NUMBER 4 News Keep Him in the Hole! WELL , GROUND MOG, \ OLD BOY--T'M JUST GONNA MAKE SURE you DONT SEE VvOUR SHADOW 3 THIS VEAR #74 ) Girl Burned to Death in Home Child in Flaming Bedroom—Six Family is Satisfied With Baby Mix-up Curwensville Trapped “We Like the Little Girl, She a Good Baby,” Say Par- Leap For Lives ¢ nis After Investigation Predicts Boom i For The Nation ry I x ~thirds of the OUT bof ed friotite tend of Mrs i“ when she Jumped from the second a story window to the ground ried: a? ‘ ’ » ’ x » : ‘ 1938 ’ ge 1 A {1 nt LOTY : . hd . oe i ih aed t irvey. direcied oo 40 manu- following Ma disclosed an ¢leven per decline in employment between tember 1987. and Janumy 1 Chester ified. He sald facturers cen ery this wa ine Int Ww Was In as good ren in 1930 so [ar Ey emp oyes LEVEE Work Started on New Sanghi in Se Philipsburg Hospital WK ta the } . with severt X ri ’ f “ie ui are We nout knowing 0 5 H . ( the 1.000 ela 3 the oe v N | Ralph J $11 WHE U Lit Bh face Altoona Girl Wed, | ie » wid a an Not Kidnaped ately $5.00 Stating that everything connect ed with her disappearance was pre- arranged, Marion ©. Fleck. in a etier received by The A toona Tri bune, last week, denied she had been kidnaped and later forced to write a note concerning her marriage Miss Fleck, or rs. Marion (Fleck) Hoover, as we jetler was signed WNAON 4 A ————— fave Gov. Earle Grants Respite to Lockard OGovernor Earle rneA granted res lo elght Me slavery ¥ Bectrocution of Roy Locka Blalr counly and Edward Theodore Duminidk and John Os zak of Delaware eounty wis p poned from January 24 to Ferbu 14; John Polens of Warren ruary 31 egheny Col ph A extended the greeting and the governor in he project. Albert 1 resenting the secretary 4 Jos Benausk y hh oh ’ RL 3 3h ow 3111 fare and the staff of that no A spoke of the many im- ¥ h : savin " tal { vy y 4 and Anthony Pernace, N ments in stale Institutions in w 8 a : A ’ Ee he past few years humberiand, fro: bruary 7 \ Poh nty »" rom Pebrua Judge fvan Walker of the Centre hadi] lid RA . int was the final speak The governor has not yet act tire " ‘ § he case of Frank Sielma of we high | n tal is held by local thumberiand county. The board pardons recommended commuia 0 life for Stelma H J0s8nh tH Roce dizappeaied early on the morning Jan. 4, while on the way 0 at. tend classes at Altoona High school where she was & senior student Shown the letter from her 19- vear old daughter, Mrs. Heen M Fieck of 2206 Thirteenth avenue who informed police of her suspi- neeming an abduction, rated her formar statements ahen questioned later by Tribune news- men that Marian did not leave her own volition She sald that the Altoona police bureau had been appraised by the Youngstown, O., department that they had located the automobile owned by George Hoover, 21, a for! mer resident of Altoona and be- lleved by Mis. Fleck to be the other (Continued on page three) - The nation's problems may be solved but there will be new puzzles 0 Ww bright stat'smen i — —— — Hitler says he Is for peace makes it unapimogg g of rent cions ourt and oid of ich the Iv of te — A ——————— NEW PNEUMONIA SERT™S ARE DISTRIBUTED BY PENN STATE — —no ar tA AS Cross U, 8, in 11 Hours sixteen ton, four-motorcd Th* Pennsylvania State College bombing plane, Lieut. Col. Rober! has become a distribution center for Olds flew from March Pleld, Cali anti-pneumonia serums, Dr. J. P {fornia to Langley Field, Va. a dis Ritenour director of the College ance of about 2317 miles, in eleve walt service, hay announced hours and one minute, bettering rums are stored at and distri. record on his East-West trip a few irom the College infirmary days before by two hours and twen- Professor Michael A. Parre 1, head ty-six minutes the division of bacteriology at the A cmm— Uege, has arranged to make 10518 The general attitude toward (ax 50 as to discover whether the patient is that those who pay them are can be treated successfully with the against them pes of seram now available. ill 2 wry the that he wants C—O — > Doctor Tells of Changing Viola From Old Drum | 4 wn Boys Into Girls By Surgery i. iii Famed Surgeon of Johns Hopkins University Relates of Magical Feats Performed-New Use of Vitamin B-1 To Make Old Young Startling Result $ Climbed High to Die o, Bee © by Masked Sex State to Require Auto Accident Reports Within Twenty-four Hours ¢ CAE 8 a Taras The Gove PF he new of Ww reduce jaw enforcement drive Bare the Governor's program 10 arrest Aighway aocidents 1 violate also will serve lo present and He god the state . ary eT Slate Mostly Boardman Wo par Spurns Rocker Bowman, of Everett, Wash. Wilke 20; T.3 aceurate fizures relating 0 three months the driving foenses « Rapids Te» as said Fewer Accidents This Year £2544 Denariment * « at ats Revenu Like M Farmer P ‘eta Music ’ of 8 ountain l a wv fog id Wilso Enforcement Reciprocity ‘mel hg 34 t} ar The fig ay B Mrdman peeding was A Canine Operation Trucker Hit as He Former Clinton Co. 2 BO Wipes Windshield Family Escape Fire James P, Scibert. 55 of AY Mr. and M trucker, is 8 patient in 13 a n harles and Pats ahil burg s'ate hospital with us srmer residonts of ; faven, prank iffered Priday afternoon when run i s faith os by & car at the Triangle, near ing his'¢ Neth Sibert received possible fractures x severe interations of both lees Rides Fi Hi y lived on the se zood Mr. Wadsworth received a brol A woman telephone operalor of condition is regarded as fairly According to reports. Seibert had ; hen he Jumped in dish 3 ihe <Page dn. from stepped from his machine wine | on he bull ” a i oar Samm R ih Sun-aele the windshield when h® was struck winnd The bY a passing motorist. Taken to the wy’ dd Warr? hospital in the Tyrone ambulance hed by A he was admitted shortly after WAL overcome WICH W o'¢lok to be nan QONVA es0en0e re Truck Home 0 Another te CArTIoq The Wadew Havm for many y Philadelphia only a few months ; Charlies Wadswy Hyner of Mr. Wadswortl Cut Off Foot With Axe After a two day search, the of a 40-year-old Cree Indian, George Methat, of Moosonee, Ont. found the him pinned under a tree. Unable to move him abd fearful that blood- poisoning, which had set in, would kil him before help could be sum- moned, the sons amputated his fool with an axe. Then bullding a wig- wam with canvas and tree branches they left their mother with him and d the institution may be put in journeyed seven days on snow shoes Fastern Kentucky or at Brags, Ok- to Albany for help lahoma NAPS g SONS rth moines Life Begins at 92 Life begins at 82." ingion A. “Uncle Bil ¥* Boyer. Civil War veteran, of Red Lodge, Mont, as hi» wed Dolly BE. Trotter 71. They pikn a wedding trip to the annual G. A. R reunion at Gettysburg, Pa _—~ Jobless; Builds Auto Laddie Cankor, 22-year-old job jess machinist. of Cleveland, Ohido, built his “Cankor Special” ong, low and swanky-looking mui A ——— “Aleatraz” For Women insisted Wash An institution. similar to Alcatraz is planned by the government for hard-boiled’ women convicis While deialls have not been dis —— The number of friends that can depend on can be counted, as a rule, on the fingers of one hand. - I A ————— The cash buyer usually gets what he wanis by leaving the seller what yon ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — Quite New to Scaley make asutomobile--with $300 and two years of work By POP MOMAND — AGONNA, DIG - WELL. Toppa! [) 7 NAR HMEERD ME RIGHT I''SiDas AND YOU GOT work T'DO!! Me n IN CASE YOU DON'TS NOW | THIS AIN'T NOUR VACASHON NOT) MOREN IT'S MINE! WE -ONS |S A NEW MINNOW A " 50 GIT Missed Appointment A few hours before his wife was to have joined him to live in thelr new home st Bloomsburg, Stanley Blew, formerly of Phi adelphia, was killed when his truck plunged over a 20- foot embankment. - Bill to Protect Oldsters An employer who dismissed refuses 10 hire a person 40 years over because of his age could
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