Odd and Curious News —_— |} Beha Ends in Death In order to join his and marry her, Leonard Trimble hitch~hiked and rode the box cars fram Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Los An- geles. When he left a box car, he saw another train bearing down on him. Jumping back, he fell under the train that had brought him west and died of injuries received Owned ‘Lost’ Lot Alter paying taxes on a piece ol property at Spokane, Wash, for the past five years, rv Bell Wilson, of Chicago, decided to visit spot She couldn't Ged her property and as a result, she was given a tax re- fund and a $100 award . Unexpected Patients Dr. Albert W. Brown of Philadel- phia, started to a hospital the othe: day one patient ther with four. The first was an expeci- ant mother | was taking ma- ternity war The others were man and women who crawied from the ckage of an automo- bile he passed on the way sweetheart 25, the with to a w Rat in His Pants When his car crashed into parked truck. George Shaffer farmer, of New Castle, Ind. leaped out and yelled frantically Where's the rat? Catch the rat!” Shaffer was beating his trousers. Suddenly a large rat scrambled out. Shaffer jumped on it. The had caused him to lose control of his Pain Doubled Jeremiah L. Carroll of Lisbon had a pain in his back Three gv women told him they would rut pain away. They rubbed and bed. One hem rubbed so clever- Iv she managed to wrap her fingers around Carroll's pocketbook taining $21. He still has None Slighted When the daught of Comm sioner of Public om y Jose Skelly was married recently hole city of New Orleans was to attend the wedding re More than 12,000 sandw cakes and 100 gal were seived Captures Robber Slamming the door as store an one hand robber, Abraham Widma delphia h of the police was splintered b) robbers gun, Widman ed au a Tal cal of the pain 10.000 punch eo ol ol “a Lh fe doo: from the Win jul. him until Although 80s was . Buys Boy Bicycle fter the same 12-yeal-old was brought before him {or the time on the same charge- a bicycl Judge Geo Xenia, Ohio him | took oliect ‘Dead’ Boy Returns turn Donald Filion two-year hitch-hiking ntity of a boy buried in Masontown, Pa. be- Donald's parent 20 buried the body of a boy to be Donald. Donald 5» his home the day before Dag and so great wa th upon seeing 1 - ol ieved Mothers surprise molher Owl Attacks . Judge While taking pictures owls in a nest Lo record their al Basin, Wyo., Judge Percy Metz wag attacked by the mother owl. who struck him on the back, ripped away his clothing and left painful talon marks at fainted of young growth 11 Days in Drain After wandering for eleven days wriggling through underground drain pipes, at Pikesville, Md., Pris- ky, a terrier. wag rescued by James Taylor. Negro chauffeur, who heard hiz feeble bark and lifted him tirough a garage floor drain MILL MALL CLASS IS 40 YEARS OLD Forly years ago Tuesday, May 17 1808the first class of graduates at the Mill Hall High school received their diplomas. Local members of the class, residing at Mill Hall and at Lock Haven. had hoped to hold & reunion but their plans did not materialize B. J. Bower, retired, now living In Johnstown, was the principal There were 12 in the class, includ- ing only one boy and Thomas Rosser, of Williamsport and Mrs. Eva Rosser Bressler, now of Chattanooga, Tenn Two members of the class Blanche Irvin, Mil Hall, Effie Hunter Bower, have died. The remaining eight students are as follows: Miss Leone Bartholo- mew, Miss Anne Chatham, Mrs Della Masden Rogers and Mrs Pearl Chandler Oberheiin, all of Lock Haven; Mrs. Etta Eckley My- ers and Mrs. Helen Flanigan Truck- enmiller. both of Mill Hall: Bertha Watson Rolfe of Hubbard, O.. and Mrs enhorn, residing in California. Eggs With) Black Butter Sauce Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in 2 heavy frying pan to a light brown add 1 tablespoon of vinegar and 1 feaspoon of taragon vinegar Cover Miss and Mrs Williamsport, A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Weck. The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County, SECOND SECTION Cenfre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 67 his sister, | Mrs. | Maude Hunter Plank. | closely and cook gently until well | blended. Pour over fried or poached eggs after they have been arranged on the plate, { never paid.” v BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDA AY, MAY 26, 193 NUMBER 21. Random [tems l DRIVER OF DEATH CAR HELD UNDER BON Inquest Into the Trogic dish of Near Philipsbu Blame Upon John Andrew Gor- One~Mile Run died last from jure bY an auto morning, wa death of of The Wag dish, a resident Philipsburg Wednesday i when struck Sunday neal who f ¥ » allernoon hel Friday of Di inques 1 Hal W. R testily as to what he acciden Pave Petroff, George Dem Callo Tekels Paul Susan Gallo Gallo Jou ck NK Gus Hyak Paul Where Fish Really Climb Ladders Dam is Scene of Athletic Salmon Bonneville Prowess by and nes bellel 000 000-5 } tests have gotten Bounes uncourfted year The giant For ave 34 ie dam ensure been ascer aimon would enter them mage of man- been 8 y AMONg sporismen 1 rir [14 Jai Tun Rrgument Now salm nas arted (Continued on page eight) - SPEED CHAMPIONS TO RACE AT ALTOONA second world's record Speedway ’s The name wtomoblie racing ieder enter the Altoona 100- mile national championship event June 11 was announced this week by W. A. Morgan, owner-manager of the rebuilt track He is Ben Shaw daredevil mark for Pa. Jast record tance 4711 in Woodbury, N. J who shattered the world’s 100 miles at Langhorne year and then set a new over the flat half-mile dis- at Honokus. N. J Shaw last season competed A. A. A sanc- tioned contests The worlds record for the half mile on a banked track is held by Ewgrett Savior, Dayton, O. who wis one of the first to file his en- try for the Altoona event Savior roared around the Winchester, Ind half-mile oval in 22 seconds fiat Selection of George Heller, Day. ton, O.. as official starter for the June 11 championship classic was announced by Morgan and met the approval of the Central States Rac- ing Association Contest Board A a £100 DAMAGE TO CLOTHES IN OSCEOLA FIRE, FRIDAY Clothes valued at $100 were de- stroyvedd in the fire which resulted in a clothes closet in the home of Clayton Williams on Stone street in Osceola Mills at 9:30 Friday morning Wakened by the amell of smoke Willams, who had been injured by a fall from a horse. got out of bed | to investigate the smell. When he opened the closet door he found the entire clothes closet full of clothes blazing. The [lames were quickly extinguished The cause of the known in fire Is not a Pays 40-Year Funeral Ei Pulling a tattered $100 from his pocket a stranger handed it to Max Lowe, a funeral director of Evans. ville, Ind.. stating, “Your grand- father buried my wife more than forty years ago and the bill was ——— i DS FOR COURT Death of Andrew Gor- rg, Results in Placing Rice, Philipsburg Millheim Plans Sesqui in July Home Be 150th Every to in Community Decorateed For Anniversary wehoid “ ii mociern in windows Miliheim Parti ds the Geph the site where farm home, will indicated as the has become art ecorated and home site in what iliheim Borough-—one hundred fifty after Joe Reichert took over his father’s purchase to make a home and rear family several whom later Ame minently identified with affairs in lower Penn's Valley Millheim's SBesqui will be cele- brated over a period of six days July 2nd to Tth—and visitors have already the week in the community, most of whom will join in the spirit of galety and witness an occasion the like of which they have never seen an Years of TYIeY pr Couple Overcome by Fumes. Overcome by fumes from thelr re- frigerator, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Rickert, of Woolrich, were found un- conscious In daughter, Mr. Rickert, 84, was first overcome when he opened the re- frigerator door, and Mrs. Rickert etideavoring to aid him, also became unconscious. It is not believed tha: they sufleied any permanent jil- effects Can't Shave Mustaches A law, passed in 1800, prohibits officials in Hungary from shaving their mustaches. Officials are ask- ing for repeal of the law made reservations to spend | their kitchen by their | Yricls of ¢ a "Vet" GeTTIN INTO TH with. YOU SET I CAN'T WO eB LD. Tie ALL Day / in) AD "RH PRIVATE RESUS (FOR TH NEMOR/AL DRY PARADE) IS A MAJOR UNOERTAKING THESE 0AYS. FOR ©1TY'S SAKE ’ THAT BUTTONED LP.» / Ebensburg Newvilie Royal Linesvilie Fair Part mits Fe » in yihe Park Associ Columbia Counts York Man: Bloomsbury Laan - Beptemb tor v Tit plember 6-8 6-10 9 sept, ember ptember September September September Seplember September Seplember September 26- October Oc 4-8 v4 tober Alcatraz Tames ‘Hard Guys’ in Year-Old Dungeons Built by Spain Most of the dungeons Sams halted Alcatraz Spaniards nearly 400 years ago are still in exislence-—and are used az the occasion demands That revelation waz made receni- iy by Capiain A. R Archer, former guard at Alcatraz prison where the Governinent sends ils worst convicts “Daylight.” he said. “never pene- trates to these dungeons and rals grow large and fierce. A bianke spread on the damp foor, no sanila- tion but a bucket, a cup of waler and some bread. The toughest pris- of Uncle > were bull the and sidll (oner doesn't want much of this ISOLATION CELLS. “Only slightly betier are the sola- tion cells of concrete and steel. A narrow grating admits air. but little light “In othe? words Alcatraz has the means for breaking the toughest prisoner But there isnt much trouble. because the zitustion is 50 hopeless that most prisoners realise it.” When trouble does start, it is ally in the prison laundry “The prisoners know that if can tie up production there, an cause the prison management ail of trouble. and of course thy like to do that whenever they can in such a say as not to bring Back upon themselves EMERY DUST IN BEARINGS Emery dust in a bearing, a shar; knife or the canvas rolls of an iron- er, or a bil of see! in OMe gears and then the jaundry piles up on Wie dock as it comes in from the army fransports, the Presidio and Angel Island.” Archer said Despite their situation, the pris- oners retain their sense of humor according to Archer, “The cons describe the prison launch McDowell as ‘the fastest boat in the world. it takes you 80 far in 10 minutes that it may take you 20 years to get back.” AL STILL SANE. Reporis about Al Capone's assert- od insanity appear 10 be exaggerat- ed “He takes setting-up exercises in hig cell fvery morning, and was excellent physical condition the last time I saw him.” Capiain Archer said Nevertheless, some prisoners do go | dicament SPAN OF OXEN STILL DOING FARM WORK IN CLEARFIELD Traveling Saw Mill Man Tells of Old-time Beasts of Burden Being Used by Moun- tain Farmer i in n His Fields shoemaker) few men know the trodden byways of the Pennsylvania nountains like the travelling saw- mill hands. They go wherever a portable mill is set up to saw timber tract which had sw lumberiing days because of ibility, In these remote old way old customs the: wo face (By Ww Probably Henry un - out vived INACCeSs Lies and and face IT; Wiis i COIN ! hat nal d elsewhere VA long exterminats Klinger [S41 v-miller now worth es- Creek Val the span of oxen mot now doing and chores ncar Kyiler- orge old Ell Clover Aabl antain work arm town Once hese pict aid iresqgue steer: much the lumberwooOds strict but now Du ian tes hornea reg hauling in Clearfield di remains dese: one pan thes ve our ecm Parad ag wii Cd Lh ER FAS Giflords 1 g g He Lele cel h., Omar Lamune COUNLY Qe Hess. who took fron Calaract Missing Man Is Found in Swamp Hollidayshurg Citizen Alive From Per- Aged Rescued ilous Position it bOrOUgn was climaxed morning with 0. of Js river ~30Ur search Lae Holidays! avi Thareds) finding of James Keller, 7 street. standing up Ww Lhe VUE CRI the mie heailh o'clock Wednesda) of his fami and an ing isunched unces Rober ran Rotiin ediats ne Girecs Cummings wh firema driving a Phoenix ruck equipped . with search it. scoured and f SUrgess Paul Bur Jurran Ore Fire a LEM fields of 4 man also Frankstown A molorist the river caught standing In 8 dazed the swamp. Removed {rom his pre- Keller seemed to recov er immediately from the exper. jence Brought to his home members of the family reported that Keller had suffered a paralytic stroke six weeks ago which seemed io have affected him mentally along sight Keller condition in driving of We BLAIR COUNTY GAS STATION PROPRIETOR SHOOTS SELF The lifeless body of Francis 8 Miller, 48. of Catherine township Blair county. was found lale Mon- day afternoon at his home on Short mountain where he conduct ed a gasoline service station. A 12- gauge shotgun was by his side The victim is said to have been in 111 health and despondent for some time. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ruth (Hetrick) Miller, three children and three sisters insane in Alcatraz “One was Joe Bowers, No. 210 who climbed a fence by the incin- erator and was immediately shot His body plunged 75 {eet to the water below. Another con 100k off hie clothes in the recreation yard and did a fan dance until carried inside the cell house.” The chief standing rule for prison guards, Archer reported. is “If any of ‘em start to go. shool twice and then holler halt!” Lh Lt dees wsually large today the Pennsylvan timber Coleman Geer in neavie in are Laken in inal ell standh i Perhingp erage? : i pulied 0 omeLning Thoug MOL tract a tiraher mo ng } wie i inoered count bee! ares lt Lhe not Lhe wane 1 Cen- MAW "0 ol i ven wed on page eight) Court Refuses To Interfere Puts NLRB in Position to En- force Order to Reinstate Strikers The Bupreme Court refused on Monday Ww interfere with orders of the National Labor Boand directing three Industrial oonce to rein- state striking employes pe ial of the refusal forocable the Board's Remington Rand order he the Remington 13. 1837, ordering 000 employes retur Orage affected Tonawanda Conn Ohio Board Joard is decision § ~-Rand case on Marct approximately 4.- ned to work. The empioyes in plants In North Tonawanda. Ii- and Marietta and Nor- ued Na 2000 The ale 1 Car- issued required the to th dis- decision the umber Company September 26, 1836 company 10 pay back wages workers declared to have been tinued on page eight) in ane (Con AUTOMOBILE HITS BRIDGE OSCEOLA NAN UNHURT Fred Henry. of Osceola Mills R D. 1s a lucky man Thursday evening. May 1h. at 7p m. the car he was operating struck a bridge at Phoenix, near Osceola, and then rolled over three times Henry, unhurt, calmly stepped out of the ruined car. It is believed he lost control of the car while com- ing down the hill approaching the bridge nan smn I ——— Altoona Man Fatally Injured Injuries received Saturday night when struck by two automobiles and run over by a third proved fatal Monday to John B. Grove, 50. of Al- toona. The accident occurred on Union avenue near Baker boule- vard. Grove was employed as a fire- man at the United Home Dressed Meat company plant A Real Fiction Tread A Novel, complete in each issue, is distributed as a regular feature of the Baltimore Sunday American Remember, each story is a full Jength novel by a popular author usually a 82 geller, printed in ocon- venient tabloid form with your copy of the Ballimore Bunday American On zale at all newsstands. While it takes two to disagree, it also takes two to agree SAA —" po ‘KEEPING uP WITH THE JONESES’ — A Matter of Onion YE GODS! wmaw!! MAW! MAW! 1E YOU THINK THIS Wi By POP MOMAND [ == YOU TeiNK THIS TOWN IS COUNTRY Ey Owing 0 an ible difference paper Chamber almost Impercept- in the weight of the which the Bellclonte of Commerce's descriptive Centre oounly are print- folders enclosed In envels melling weigh Jess than an others are slightly weight Conse ~ ho mailed mall last week them would go required 12 the post pare over on folders of some for oC Op ounce w ver noe a1 OULCE 4 wentl i VINE PETROS foudes the Angeline motored alter- a feu sl er as y funeral of had known ars. They exper delays on detour, enter nge route. Fin- the friend’ proce toward Lhe cemetery Grouped aboul the wotnen were walch- descend nto minister HIS abNes the neared { ry re funerss CALEY AOW.Y wad coording to the County Auditors t lor 1837 Philipsbuwrg's lwo N. R. Lamoresux (also there and Edwin fees from cOLslabies chief police colecled » more the rest of 4 Lamoreaux gol $304 - iw Laan we combined Lalson nALAD: $448 30 and Gus Fhe next highest amount paid nstable went to 1. C. Holmes College. who drew $21287 olf Belieionte re F. CG Mensch paid $4880. The « conslabies (6 © $1411.34 Although for ail - been reduced, the recs wa ean coliecles vag oy LONG ail 18 all wa he mueage foe oh fat 10 ial iv weraay ive a is get money-making of the Peace J BOUrg., received 1 the county of being $378.27 J. M. Keichiine J18A42. The late Belielonie aii other juslices cfoute, with Woodring of eived $280.10 unger Kline re- Cle $200 3 837 Aud- 2.0 reveals that [Tice of the Coroner of Centre has been bulll up to where really amounts © scmelling Coroner W. R. Heaton, of Philips burg. received a otal $1.083 #8 ast year Fees for juries and wit. nesses aggregated $822.01. and the Coroner's bond was $13.13. making otal for the office of 81.- tatement ANY of = rang { 088 02 We munics Lion or ftapmlf IBS sell have at hand another com- from the reader who Naidraug, and this time it ask ‘How come your oh- w-smart column wasnt In last week's paper? Have they finally abolished ii. or did you jeave il out the bope someone would miss We refrained {rom writing this answer for two whole days until got the temper thoroughly un- control, and now we {eel abie tell our pet in-the-side that the reason this piliar of erudition falied to appear last week was be- cause our tootsie-woolsies went bad and we had 10 go to bed. (Forseging possible comeback from "Naid- raug.” we hasten to add that a mis- in the feet does not altogether mental activity.) ne der tu pain- a ery halt Sons of Grover A. Spearly of Colevilie, were roller skating in the basement of the family home, Fri- day afternoon, when Grover went down to walch the fun and accept- ed an invitation to don a pair of skates. Although he never roller skated he used to cut quite a fig- ure on ice skates and he got along 0 well that the boys asked bim why he didnt fall Things went on well for a time until Grover, wish- ing to stop suddenly. reached up and grabbed hold of a rafter His skates flew out in front, his body swung parallel with the floor and he crashed down, striking the con- crete with the back of his head and lapsing into uncONSCIOUSHEsS. He remained in bed for hall a dey recovering from the effects of his fall Father Paschal, who is in charge of St. Michael's Catholic church, Clarence. while Father W. J. Pally is absent on & tour of Europe, writes 10 correct us upon Our mse of the word “Slavish” to denote the language spoken by the people of Corecho-8Slovakia. The rector ine forms us that the people of Osecho- Slovakia speak the Slovak lang- usage. Slavic or Slavonic is used to denote all the Slavs, 1. ¢ Russians, Poles. Slovenians, Slovaks, Caechs, Croatians. Serbians, Ruthenians, Rusnaks, Moravians, Dalmations. There is po such word as Csecho- slovak, Pather Paschal writes. That is 2 misnomer-—a name invented by the present Caeechoslovak govern ment. Csech and Slovak is correct, he concludes. Our only alibi for using Slavish to denote the 8 tangs uage is that it is general this vicinity. and that or , though correct. looks like an ea to the misinformed. Two Complete Solo Flights Mortis B. Way, son of Mr. and Mrs. Derlington Way, of Storms-
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