————— Curious News J He-Man Baby Robust Richard Is th of Mr. and Mrs. DE. Ward of Phoenix City. Ala. Although Rich- ard is only twelve days old he dis- plays a contempt for nursing bottles and his deep-toned snoring have removed any doubts he is a he-man baby. Nurses at Community hospi- tal were properly impressed when he weighed in on the delivery room scales just a few ounces under 12 pounds. They were sure they had something when, at the age of two hours. he scorned milk from the us- ual bottle or spoon but drank read- fly from a glass. The snoring talent made it unanimous “Goodness! You can hear that fellow shore sev- eral rooms away,” said Mrs. C. D Ware, night supervisor - - - Growing Families Game Warden J K. Halder, of Chester, Va., will tell you that the job of doing away with homeless and unlicensed dogs has complica- tions. Flist his children took a lk- ng a doomed hound--and the und pro same the mother of five Then David Hawkins Colonial Heights come afte A SLray found the terrier—alk i+ to \ town clerk of alled Halder 10 Halder en new Lerrer SO Sev pups Cop Uses Head Nimmo Yi i 11 ileridly detective, of head In h John 6-Toot Toronto finding and other ing a house ed a 1} heard and, in mil a resul used jewelry While detectives were search- s head contact His keen ears precious metal ves took sev~ dng { and t hur Moran his stolen ight the Out brooche 21, was eral AS arrested Dog Shoots Master While out ting and two companion of Stuttgart, Ark. : When Duke handed the Af Os wit] Searchers Get Lost While 4-year old i drowned, at $ Stokes and Jake Di and were found only had searched woods for them. Beach Yields Gold Several San Francisco persons have set up slices and are working the California beach for Gold. One man, M. J Larson, claims to have washed out as much as $19 worth of gold a day. but now admits average I about $2 a day searching for Pa 20% all that his hat his EY only Embarrassed Papa Answering come in hood, William which had his home neighbor- Kemper, fireman of Cincinnat], was embarrassed to find his 5-year : standing by the box. The boy admitted that a com- panion had hoisted in the alarm "juss run.” an ¥ ar ey from hi him up to tum to see the engine sat Suffers ‘Plumitis’ Stricken suddenly {i Howard Noble, 12, of Conshohocken Wis rushed to the hospital for an opera- tion. It turned out to be "plumitis a8 surgeons removed a plum pit from his appendix Howard said he swal- lowed the seed last Christmas Study Old Taxes Two centuries ago ministers, clerk and sextons of the Church of Eng- land in South Carolina were paid with the revenue from wines, ale and rum, Rosamonde R. Wimbetly re- vealed In her thesis, “Drinking Cus- toms in South Carolina, 1663-1830 10,447 Disputes In the two and a half years of its operations under the Wagner Labor Act, the National Labor Relations Board reports that it has d'snosed of 10.447 labor disputes. invdiving 2.- 116338 workers Stole a Barn : Henry A. Beggs. of Scranton went on trial last week on a charge of stealing a barn-—board by board Isabelle CGiganlunas charged before Judge T. Linus Hoban that Beggs dismantled the barn causing dam- ages estimated at $841.50 Catches Large Trout Hiram Greenland. postmaster a Karthaus, last Thursday while flsh- ing in Logan Branch near Bellefonte caught one of the largest trout taken fram that stream this season. The trout, of the German brown species measured 20 inches in jength and weighed three pounds, gix ounces Mr. Greenland is a brother of Clay- ton Oreenland, of Bellefonte, lino- type operator at the Centre Demo- crat, ~~ Cats As Scarecrows Cardboard cats instead of scare- crows, according to a travel bureau at Rockefeller Center, have been erected on a farm in northern Ire land to protect the crops. The card- board figures were strengthened with wooden laths, which made it easy to install them in the fields, The artificial cats, black on one side and white on the other, are said to frighten away birds and field mice while the seeds are In the ground. “ csi MF = —— One reason why the farmers have trouble: Last year farm production increased about six per cent while non-farm production was cut about a third, i Odd and | A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. | SECOND ‘SECTION v @he Cenfre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES - 0 VOLUME ” { BELLEFONTE, PA., THU RSDAY, JUNE 9, 193 NUMBER 23. ope os 90-YEAR-OLD WAR VETERAN SUCCUMBS AT PHILIPS BURG Survivor of Civil War Had Planned to Attend Reunion of Blue and Gray on Gettysburg The ranks of the Blue were thin- ned Tuesday evening of last week ! the death of Miles Warren Mor- rison, 80-year-old Civil War veter- an, who had been a resident Philipsburg for the fifty vears An nes six days proved fa- tal to Mr. Morrison a peaceful. Iy away Presqueisie street home 7:30 o'clock Tuesday evening. His death w monia. He was the veteran in vear of past of he at slept his t at as due 0 Phe - third Civil War Centre county to die this Bathurst Miles. burg, passed away January 5 and John H. Hoffman, of Millheim, suc- ‘umbed on Pebruary 156 Only a8 week Ago Mr answered the War Den to attend the of the Battle In hi Simeon Of Morrison "tment enty-fifth in- vitation would tend ¢ Boys in Blue and which will be held 1 Boys in Gray late this month early of Jul part the Morrison to light for hi Warriors Mark to Harrisburg by st freight He determined was country ang fl train Houtzdale Youth Fatally Injured Under Truck Afler It Turned Over on Punx- Pinned sutawney Street Law ne boroug! Tt by the Roose Brothers Houtzdale, had Just around a sharp curve ar Punx owned th of Higgine pital where iffering was he from had n by in- een the Reese. the pant without Two rushed from Houtzdale to try to save Higgins DIOOg transfusions, The produce us injuries ds of CATION volunteer in were an effort life with bovY's condi. 1 page six) i i (Continued o1 st Pennsylvania Battery He eighteen vear old and his was a corporal in the army North the close father of the Alter married to Hall Moo; y who h They we have of the war he was Hartsock of survives celebrated KIMILVETrSAry resid. fifty Amanda and nave Liv past ne parent of whom are Martha Lewis of De Morrison Ras0 September He Shank wa a faithiul men Epwcopal neral sere afternoon in Rey isted by D WaE cemetery Friday pastor George Rev, P Hewlett Jurial made Woman Freed at Industrial Home Had Served 27 Year Sentence For Murder of Her Hushand 4 the or Women Philadel REINER Hires the cottage which was her he beauliful garden which waz her par- years of Lhe the twenty- Muncy previously been Eastern State Peni Moyonmssing Prison ladelphia County prison | received by Su- lin B Wilson, of paroles for Mary Steils Stolsky, of ¢ formalities in con. thelr release will Vera) weeks the nd at nd bert th with not completed for New Fire Tower in Snyder new fire tower being erected in at the eastern tip of Jacka Mountain will be of steel con- ri and #0 h No tower the is more 60 : new Lowe with radio, as to connect all fire towers ald Eagle Dist officer to provide quicker ommunication A Hnvdes Counts rion Tops i Bye e Pri has fest h be equipped the itl the B Mifflin and biter at Foy IR Alpine Club Enjoys Successful Trip To Historic and Famed Indian Steps The following article from the Al- toona Tribune describes the Penne sylvania Alpine Club's visit to the famed Indian Steps, an historical panorama of natural scenic beauty in the vicinity of Pine Grove Mills and Pennsylvania Purnace. The trip was made on Sunday. May 20th and is related in detail as follows Assembling at the Miller farm at 10:30 a. m. the hike started prompt. Iy. In spite of threatening weather the day turned out to be all that could be desired and the group of 50 hikers led by 80-year-old Sam- my Kephart, of Altoona and 8-year. old Walter Chatham, was eager to £0. The trail to the steps is marked by white-washed stones beginning near the Miller barn and leading through a beautiful hickory grove, the property of the Miller family These folks have lived here all their lives and the “Glade Farms” as the Miller properties are called, are well known for their chicken dinners’ served to visitors from all parts of Pennsylvania The steps were climbed to the | top of Gobbler's Knob where a stop was made and pictures taken. After a consultation # was decided to vary the route by following the course of the ridge to Schall's Gap through which courses Schall’s Run | a sparkling stream and the source of the “Glade Parms™ water sup- | ply. Laurel, the state flower of Pennsylvania, is plentiful here and almost ready to burst into bloom. | Scarlet tanagers sang their robin- like strains, a crested flycatcher | senit forth its characteristic guttur- | ai enll and a turkey vulture eir. | cled on malestic wings above the! mountain as the walkers made their way back to the starting point ; As the lunch hour had arrived it was decided to loak for a suitable! campsite and this was found by. crossing Tussey mountain at Penn. | sylvania Purhace, by way of the fire tower, into Harry's Valley ang! thence into Diamond Valley to the forest camp near the foot of Round Top. Here we found shelters, tab les and fireplaces with Globe Run nearby, an ideal place for tourists though off the besten path. Some of the Alpinists who been in this vicinity expressed their astonishment at the extent of the Logan state forest after their view from the Tussey tower and the trip | over the woodland roads to the ren- dezvoiis While lunch was being prepared Marion Jones and Marguerite Me- Graw entertained with songs ac- companied by the former on a gui ‘ tar Miss Jones, also an accom- plished artist, made a very lifelike sketch of Col. Henry W. Shoemaker president of the club After lunch a visit to Lodge Al- pine was made where Port Sisler, a charter member of the club, was entertaining friends. An unplanned and pleasant feature of the trip was a visit to the Huntingdon dis- trict Girl Scout camp along Me- Lain's run. A iarge dam for swim- i ming has been constructed as well (Continuea on page six) had never Gran'pa’s Got Somethin’ There! vi FN 4 FLAG WwW - 4 4 YESS, Bus. - TWERE ¢ OLD Loy. THERE Aan'T A THIS B WIDE WORLD Tuar b COMES ANWAR RE 4 NEAR WER // WHOLE Nuisance Taxes Wiped Ou By New Revision Program Treasury Department Will Cease Collections July 1st-Only New Tax Will Be Increase on Newly Manufactured Liquor federal 4 law i hE IYO ance 1. the trea these taxe dealing wi fits a1 ofits and a 0 1838 income ching Individual tes OF «No change overage exoept as gains New inciudes in of capita ordinar b § 4 LESS THAN WEEK LEFT TO ENROLL IN FARM PROGRAM As the closing date for the | Agricultural Conservation Progr proaches, the Centre County Age iral Conservation Committee y ponsiderable interest farmers this year’ ty farmers have NR during intentions Year June 15 s the clowing date 3s a 1 al in tw weeks their this The ied date commitiee yesterday so farmers wish the program this enrolled may do so The farmers are urged in touch promptly with their county agricultural conservation office in emphas that all cow to takes art your and not at once who ready to ge {tee with acreage data and other in- formation necessary for listing their farms as participants The Centre County Agricultural Conservation office 8 jooated al the Post Office building Bellefonte | "Teo Compete for Lawrel Queen Among youfig women numbering 160 or more, who will compete at the State Laurel Festival of the Pent syivania Grand Canyon country for he title of State Laurel Quesn, al | Wellsboro, are the following from Central Pennsylvania: Miss Grace | Woodburn, Sayre; Miss Helen Wal- Hin, Athens; Miss Smith, Towanda: Miss Helen Wes- neski, Blossburg and Miss Marie Grenobel, Lewisburg. With the title goes a loving cup and a check for £100, - Finger Caught in Cornplanter J. C. Lannen. Jr. 14. of Loganton suffered an injury to his finger while helping to plant corn at his home Thursday afternoon. The first fine. er of his right hand was caught in a corn planting machine and nearly severed at the first Joint, He was treated by a Lock Haven physician Mary Annet! gains Bf arnabisest af ? “ Ws WEISS LS triluted 10 stoekhinider 16 "we FIVE HURT WHEN WHEEL OF CAR STRIKES BERM Five and a} urned near at to and were persons were injured ar badly damaged as it overt new Ciearfieid Decatur, Friday momming ork The car belonged Thomas of Clearfield by his wife. They od by Miss Geneva, a Thoma their of was n the way Yio} FEN a 8 Oey fin. two one which lens mont Mis Thomas front seat. were cut by broken Lids Mr Thoma: snd daughter riding in the rear were bruised and | njured only slightly. Doctors could ot Immediately determine if the baby had suffered a brain concus- sion Mrs riding in and i The arcident wax said to have re. sulted rota a wheel getting off onto the berm and pulling the car It was raining at the time - TWO LEAVE HOSPITAL, RETURN AS WRECK VICTIMS soft An automobile collision sent Wal- | ter Duck, 35, and Welland Cross, 17, | both of Cherry Tree, back to the | Clearfield Hospital Friday only an | hour after they had been dis- charged i The two men. who recently were | patients in the hospital, had come | in for a follow-up examination. | Clarence Rank. of Cherry Tree, was | driving the car . Betweery Mahaffey and McOees | Mills on the homeward trip. the Rank ear and another machine side. | swiped on a slippery stretch of | road. A Mahaffey physician gave | first aid treatment to Cross and! Duck. Occupants of the other car i Spanish Gold to U. 8. i | Over GROUP TO ME CONVENTION OF RELIGIOUS ET ATHOWARD Centre County Council of Christian Educa- tion Will Hold Three Sessions in Metho- dist Church, Tuesday, June 14th The tion of Goth the annual spring conven Centre County Council of Christian Education will be held in Methodist Episcopal church Howard, on Tuesday, June 14, with moming afternoon and evening session: The vention theme The Church at Work With the oon il be The Dela of presiding seesinmn Rey Hall during the progran t. Keener Centre t} officer ang the §:30, registration devotional period led R Johnson 10:15 welcome by Rev. Robert E. Fleck 10:20. nddress Unfinished ES EB by Arthur Bodmer; 1} cement niment [ foliows 10 Rey address delegates by the George of Ness an- nous nd appol f comn with theme tees discussion, per- Cooperative Chri Work in Centre h ity 11 adjournment; 12 if the He od {- 1:45 served by Evangeli- ny ainner ward Tyrone Puts Halt To WPA Project Sends Prospect i ¢ Altoona Workers Home; Says Ty- rone Has Own Jobless Determined that bor ots fre primus ugh WPA ored for CUroing 100 Gut the request ntil Wednesday the Johnstown office notified borough officials that 35 men from AlloGna would report Thursday morning. With many men fn Tyrone and 8n township the borough officials special meet- Wednesday siderable dis- several council. yder A the council and after cussion which men expressed opinions In no un- mistakable manner, it was decided that Tyrone had sufficient unem- ployed to do this work without bringing In workers from other communities, that such action by the Johnstown WPA officials was an imposition upon tax pi vers of Tyrone and therefore, the pro- d the outside workers refused permission 10 on oo in the fel would be closed an ie work Thursday moming 35 men Altoona reported to Foreman Rus wil Cruikshank John Punk borough engineer work. They were old that Tyrone had no work for them and sugpested that thes return home and await develop. ments and for ————— ss HANOVER GIRL AWARDED HONORS AT COMMENCEMENT Miss Helene Ard. daughter of Dr and Mrs. Qeorge P. And, of Han- and granddaughter of I J Dresse, of Lemont, was one of eight students graduated from the York Collegiate Institute, York, at the commencement exercises held Thursday afternoon. Miss Ard won senior honors for having obtained 8 genergl average of over 80 per cent during the last two years of the schoo! course of study and was | presented with a senior honor pin. She was also awarded the Cham- ber of Commerce prize of five doi- lars given the student receiving the highest average for the year in American history. Miss Ard is plane ning to enter Bryn Mawr College in the fall Jape unt Elephants Pour hundred Japanese naval of | ficers and marines Tefently visited Blam to take part in an elephant hunt. The sport hat been revived in this country by military authori- Two hundred tons of Spanish gold | tes and silver passed through France en route to the United States where it i would be used in “payment for orders | Most writers aim to convince their readers; what the average reader for a material placed in America by would like 10 see is a willer who the Loyalists.” wants to inform them fairly. for work on of {icery afternoon the 15 devo bad Rev. lewis E. Kil 1:30 The Adequacy of Jesus for by Bodmer id divisional groups for young Peo- fry intet vy aguring the | Bion program of which follows oy addres: Today's rye fot VO ea World busin 14] 2:00 195i NER 30 conference workers in 4:00, address, “A by Mr gar delegates ion fe Large Barn Burns In Union County Imple- ments Also Destroved Livestock and Farm in Disastrous Fire the Bamue] B TW {es north ny, Wi Wednesday two pigs, a sieralyie nes arrived nily, who his fathe the straw rd was in Same rapidly tothe bulld- the time fire companies from New Berlin and Milinburg reached the goene, the bam was doomed, and the firemen conden trated thelr efforts on saving the ad- ne of the | ments were re. ih A sisrk in The # SHTeRG is re ing and the barn one of the largest in and the owners os proftecied by Insurance Mifflin Ly 5 Mr burg Twelve Graduate At Port Matilda Exercikes Held in M. E. Chorch—Address by Prof. H. H. Nve, Huntingdon partially Midler oEtmaster ai Twelve seni were graduated at the commencement of the Port Ma- tilda High held isst Friday evening in the Methodist Episcopal church at Port Matiida The commencement address was made by Prof. H H Nye, of the faculty Juniata College, Hunt- ingdon The graduates were Mae Albright, Betty Jane Crain, Marjorie Walk, Bessie Willlams, Prances ‘Woods, Russell Albright. Richard Chaney, Harold Kelly, Marlin Patton, Clyde Reese, Lawrence Williams. The honor students were Russell Al- bright, Bessie Willlams, Mae Al- bright The faculty of the Port Matilda High school consists of A. H. Als- house, Isabel Snyder, Donald P Rice. C. Paul Zeigler. The board of education: M. O Mains, president; WW. E. Willams, secretary: Forrest Wills HL B Woodring, W. J. Wootiring, Clifford Relly. ir school of Twins Lives Are Shorter gly born. persons, health organization Center. In organization reports, acvording to a at Rockefeller the average #5 10 the guthor of a “Comments Candid” recent insues of a joeal Mre. Bamuel Shallcross, Linn Street, a student of t Penn Bate Best new column appearing in DewsDa Der of West YOuTrnini gues mn a The Federal governmerit is stight- n administering ald io Announcement that under the a farmer may Y borrow Lhe en~ ioe from the govern- can borrow more property. He gels 3 per cent interest and 0 pay back the wishing build anywhere near the Pederal Housin They can borrow to 90 percent of the total 5 per iMmerest and wen ly eock-eyed Af ore 1738 Wis mad week Farm OR hones such o $ Vo raion ut 8 4 Le an iguetis says ABLOSs are properly fork Anyone who yd a french fried po- | they taste with the BIND A sparrow fies w One GRY as abou! went out an air shaft, n freedom by through the wr was injured or how 10 estape. Al » other sparrows soon learn predicament and kept orscls of food to the trad- hem down the : this process one ¥ the newspaper employes learned of the death of a relative, upholding th ef that a bird flying into : omen of ll-fortune wd up ther 1s ls Fors ry HRUre ped air 574 all nire Cow randblast astone: marble dealers of letter Aher markers sand used in hin be hard sharp IHinols sand costs about on delivered to Bellefonte quality. Some have found Mi. Union sand Bele of L090y rOmeLe ries excellent hard and sharp and mes as Jong as sand ly catch to the new material that 11 oosts $124 per ton. SO powerful is the stream of air-blown sand used 10 eich Jetters and OeCOMN - tions on stones that the steel noszies through which the stream is direct for only 25 or 30 minutes of By that time the sand the hole of the norzle it is not possible 10 main. proper air pressures ry everyone has his or he’ favorite method of overcoming oc- casional attacks of insomnia. James R. Hughes former headmaster of the Beliefonte Academy, recom- mends a vigorous brushing of the hair with stiff military brushes, f01- lowed by a massage of the back of the neck, the forehead ems and temples. When that fails he adds a few vigorous calisthenics The method, he claims never fails to produce almost immediate sleep Many Centre intiang are won- dering why sifius infections seem to be s0 much more prevalent these days than they were in former years A Bellefonte physician & author- iy for the statement that the in- fections probably arent any mote common than ever—ils just because medical science in recent years has learned the source of the Infections, he gaid For example, the ailment known in the past as catarrah is really a form of sinus infection. The physician declared that while severe gine involvement is serious. the minor forms usually respond resdily 10 treatment and only in the séver. esl cases Is surgery Necessary or nd- visable, 1 many 1 A feature of Schoo] Alumni the Bellefonte High dance at Hecla Park Twing live shorter lives than sin- | the United States, the length of life of a singly Born male is 60 years and that of females 82 years. The expectation of life of male twins is about 48 years, that of female twins 50 years and that ‘of mixed twins 48 years — | KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES' — An Exchange of Compliments NOTHIN' LIKE TEY USED TO was-- BUT THEY'S A LWOTO LITTLE HOW TO TWO OR TWREEFOOTERS| USIN' TW OUT TuERE = A es RENDOWS TERING Ba Nm TOWLE HOPG " MAN =~ WHY OUT IN THEY EE IN MUK a JIST AIN'T NO UP TMV HIPS AN' KETO MORE BOOTS By POP MOMAND WN RE LAKE i i : i [i i AW he stirring of
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