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Curious
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Night in Woods
Ed. Growden, 75-year-old Blair
county man went huckleberry pick
ing with a friend. They got separ-
ated. Ed. couldnt find his way
of the woods so holding on to
his gallon of berries he sat the
night out on a was found
early the next by Con-
stable Diamond who was informed
when the aged man did not show
up the night before. That he was
none the worse for his experience
wis the general opinion those
who Tound him although
admit wis mighty hungry
and his friend, Jack Jones
about the sami decided on the
huckleberry expedition but
after a few wood
neither
managed to
home but Ed
dark I just
way back he
out
log and
morning
of
aia
Ed
a
Hniso
he
ne
ARE
picking
hours
could
quit
said
Remembered Lincoln
farmer comrade thered
looked back to
1864
called him
White House
Company 1
Carney
a cold ny night in
President Lincoin
the the
Carney privat
135th Pennsylvan
guard duly
ed back
light from th
glinted
light dimmed i
wie was framed in the window. The
President
SKIS
in his
beck:
out of
called
when
ink
sheler
and
on his bayonet
and a tall
at the dr PROK
wrapped
looked uj
glanced at senlry
roost and then
Come in
Pre
drenched
ned to
rain
Private Cat
Kills
the
!
And
Elephant
Mahe!
phant, known
Man
16- yes
i an Dest
the Hagenbeck-V
loading for
day &t
Coroner
man. Georg
Ca
bull-hook
by butting
feed truck
door handle
He died enro
him int
Page
fractur
ie
Dog a Kidnapper
Nipper. a tiny fox terrier }
guarded three
from a nearby hou
ecalo
ly Kitten
napped”
squeezed through her private
ing pane! in a rear screen
Sunday and stole the Kittens
her master, Louis Abrams, of Ph
deiphia, = AWA Carn x it
she brought
and pi
SWiNg
door last
wile
ia
as
4
them & ,
Abrams
remais
all visitors
Got Wrong Number
’
y chair
sed since, scotning
Hike $ v god
The WEEeLy WO K*
he fh
fork is
if
Simmons hm
tiers arour
Se N0IG
Simmons
the ore
again soon
was 2 mix
his wile
Triplet
boy
’
Kept ‘Abuse Score
When Mr R. Hollenbaug!
24 weit Lo court at Media
for a divorce displayed the
lowing fe she kept
husband Struck
an
at hed
72)
she
had
abiises
kicked
mstiiied
puiled
12 time
out of
Lines,
er Sates 2a Fp
ao Limes. oe,
She got her divorce
n .
Finds Fireworks
Alfred A Cole, of Manchester, N
H. got up early to light the kitchen
stove When the smoke cleared
awry and Cote had picked himsell
up from a corner of the kitchen, hi
wife explained she had the
children’s Fourth of July lireworks
in the oven
put
Injured in an automobile accident
on her way to be married, Mis
Elaine Seward Evansville, Ind
borrowed crutches, went to the
wedding. and then went to a hos-
pital for treatment
Killed by Golf Ball
Miss Alice Krause, 24-year oid
Federal soll conservation clerk, died
at Spokane, Wash. of injuries re-
oeived when she was struck on the
head by a golf ball
Is Your Daughter Ever Too OM to
Be Spanked?
Eminent Psychologist points ou’
that it may be painfully embarrass-
ing at times but a spanking is still
an effective corrective measure
Read this fascinating article in the
July 17th issue of The American
Weekly. distributed with the Baiti-
more Sunday American. On sale al
all newsstands.
of
on
Costly Oversight
When officers stopped the car ol
Ban and Max Silk at Elkhart, Ind.
because they falled to display a
headlight, they found 328 quarts of
liquor in the machine. The lack
of a 30-cent headlight bulb cost them
$110 each in fines, their car worth
$500, and the liquor, valued at $700.
Weds Third Wife Twice
Because he enjoyed the experi-
ence and “got a kick out of it,” Harry
memoers
Ric
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VOLUME 57
GUNMAN GETS $40 IN HOLDUP
The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County, Is It Right or
dhe Centre Democraf
NEWS,
FEATURES
OF FLEMINGTON GAS STATION
Masked Intruder Makes Get-away After
Forcing Attendant to Hand Over
Receipts of Cash Register
With
talement his is a
[ 4 ml
he simple
hold
calmly 1»
up.” a
Asked voung man ybbed
Donald K. Pa
in Flemingt«
$60 Saturday
ervice sta-
$40
about
M
Ser'-
between
norning at
in James
the
# gun
Altoona CCC Boy
Killed In Crash
Six Other Blair County Boys
Injured in Virginia
Road Mishap
camp at
New
Carl grade }
Keith Junior High
He was a membe
Laitheran church ag
Ridge
this yes
fd |
tioned at
Ast 7 al
April 7 of
Members of
the W
ail two
Wilbur
Frees: aun
brother:
Ras Jr
Samuel and
father, five
Mari
Joan
an
Jack
home
B
ft
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BIRTHDAY PARTY HELD
FOR MRS, NANCY PACKER
party given In
honor of Mrs. Nancy Packer's 88th
birthday by her grand-daughter
Miss Relda Greak, the following
persons were present: Mr. and Mrs
Fred Kessling and son Clarence and
daughter Mabel, and Mrs. Kessling's
mother, Mrs. Lucy Conaway. Har-
vey Healon and housekeeper, Ellen
Packer, Ira P. Confer and house-
keeper, Mrs. Margaret Tice and
granddaughter, Lila Tice, of Union-
ville; Hubert Neil and Marshall
Packer, Bellefonte; Mr. and Mrs
Wilbur Emel and daughter Nancy
Mae, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McCart-
ney amd sons David, Joseph and
Buzzie, all of Pleasant Valley. and
Toner Packer, Howard Packer Faye
McCartney and Richard McCart-
ney Nancy Packer and Relda
CGreak
All told
present
At a birthday
there were twenty-five
UR CIEN
ALTOONA PRIEST HURT IN
AUTOMOBILE COLLISION
The Rev. Father Roger 8 ODon-
nell. pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes
church, Altoona. was admitted to
Mercy hospital late Friday after.
noon with injuries suffered in a
collision of automobiles that oc-
curred within sight of the parish
rectory on Broad avenue,
The priest received a laceration
of the right side of the head, an
injury to the right shoulder and
possible rib fractures. His condition
Is not serious.
Accarding to police, the Rev.
Father O'Donnell was hurt when
his machine was struck by a light
delivery truck operated by Nello
Langdon, comedian, and his third DeSantes.
wile, Mabel Langdon, were married
again. They were first married in
Tucson, Ariz, in Pebruary, 1934, and
Local market report. Bill collec
tors active; demand, persistent;
have a three-year old son, Harry, Jr. | receipts, very light,
slouch hat rob-
where
in the
gel-away
tween
prefaced his
with “This is a stickup
mont The thief
made his
auey
lark
robbery
4 4
street, toward
robbery,
‘
Ol
tigation
Bryerton
tigation
WALIOnN
Pet Deer Gets
:
‘Hospital’ Care
Union County
of
Keeping Animal in Seclusion
(‘ase Against
Farmer Includes Charge
ner 3
2 Garkenegd at or two Your
the animal has been a victim of
™ ’ :
at als
Lhe preserve
ag
i condit
5 po ivi
tls HH had
0 an
Bart
pal
when he
a Union Coun-
the peace and was fined
charge of Keeping the
he found the ani-
» Winter of 1035-36, It was
i ¥ H
pon i during a a
ng YW
he took it Ww his own farm
(Continued on page four)
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YOUNG ALTOONA WOMAN
SUFFERS BULLET WOUND
Miss Neviing, 24. of East
Belle Altoona, is a patient
in Altoona hospital with a gunshot
wound of the abdomen. Her condi-
tion was regarded as critical
Miss Neviing was injured. acoord-
ing to police. with a J38-calibre pis.
They listed the case as an ate
tempted suicide but reported they
were unable 10 determine » motive
Miss Neviing asserted the shooting
was accidental, hospital attaches
said
Hannah
Avenue
04
New Low Record Set
For every 1.000 live births during
1937, there were 545 deaths of chil-
dren under one year of age the
infant mortality rate in the
history of this country.
lowest
All should know the
riuies safety in the water. It
might prove to be valuable informa-
tion
Swimmers
of
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BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 198
Leaving 'Em All Behind
WH LL GEY
COME BACK
WAIT, BOVS --.
WHEN THEY
MN
-~
ira
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Holds 44-Hour Week Unconstutional
Court d« ih
Friday 1
Mami Ung employment men
forty-four he a week, one of
130 jC
ne
The State
Lhe ent
onstitut
pre
ed UK Hin Iw
of
NTS
eR ALAN
om i aoe
OTHER POINTS IN ERROR
In view of thls, the Supreme (
i vith the law because |! a
ipted 10 hand over to Federal au-
iy *** plenary power to
ie working hours in Pennsyl-
icked first by Hol-
Kane. Then
oint
of
MT PDALLICS
throwing
Gul a4 aw
ame
not mterfere will
{or women and
bec allackec
DAUPHIN COUNTY COURT
Dauphin County Court
per -
Od ERLE BRLIW
essary oulgrowih of
¢ MEGTY ©
ve pu . *
Henna 1
page fo
Sixteen Pallbearers Needed To
Carry 526-Pound Mountaineer
526
Bixteen palibtarers carried 53
pound Walt Cagle to his final rest
pice in 8 COULArY Chchya
B Ala. last week
Wearing a new pajr of
wi measur #0
the giant of a man wi
Philosopher of Sa
Wik
rd inches i
The
was buried in a specially
Lt seven-foost coffin
whine weather for
meteorological
ding a heart
§
ou
nw
of
Doane
mie
{oriy-aeven
i
wear and make for winter
generally
ready
for
“ he
ought mate
Hi wile
excel
winieT
Ciot hem the
he wore
His sige 13 usually
to case his
were
ACIGEs LHC VOD feet
Since 1038 Boaz merchants have
slaged 8 Wall Cagle Day fall
when the big fellow came to town
and last year York
for a
He
Car
Only
tis
PS
each
he wet to New
PETSONIA] ADPEATARoe
made the rip In a baguage
is Wigow sun
Brother of Father Downes Is
Commended by Newspaper Article
Jame: RB Downes former Tyrone
reddent, and assistant to the pred
dent of the Pe Ivania Railroad
comes in for merited tribute In the
Philadelphia Record. He is a broth-
the Rev. Father William E
Downes, rector of 88. Johns Ca
olic Church. Bellefonte: and of Pal-
rick Dosnes. a 3 train maste
Middie Division and Joan
Downes. train director, Middle DD
vision, Altoona, both of whom mm
ide Tyrone
The Philadelphia Record goes
to say this about James R. Downes
“Like every other high executive
of the system, Mr, Downes glarted al
the bottom.
“It was a humble beginning for
Mr. Downes. Born in 188 at Ty-
rone, Pa. son of John and Cather-
ine Cushen Downes, the boy started
ailroading, while still in high school
as a messenger on the Tyrone Divi-
sion in 1900.
“A year later, finished with high
school, he entered the office of the
\ pasa
nnss
er of
ie
in
on
— WEIS
3.000 000 Married Women Work
According to Labor Departizent
statistics, there are only approxi-
mately 3.000000 married women em-
ployed in this country. 36 per cent
of whom are in domestic service and
9 per cent. in agriculture,
If advice could solve the agricul-
tural situation, the people on the
farms would be millionaires.
of the Mitsburgh
clerk. Por five year
he held various jobs on the Pitls-
burgh Division until! March 1. 1906
when he was transferred to the gens
eral manager's offior ai Philadelphia
n January 1, 1914. he became Cie
ing chief clerk of the office
‘He was appointed chief! clerk 0
the regional director of the Alle
gheny Region, United States Rail-
onl Administration June 1, 1918 and
shen the government returned the
roads to private operalion in 18320
Mr. Downes was named chief clerk
to the vice president of the Central
Region of the Pennsylvania Rall-
road at Plitsburgh, scene of his ear-
lest jobs
“In 1922 he became superintendent
of Preight Transportation of this
region and five years jaler was Lran-
sferred to Philadelphia as Chief! of
Freight Transportation. September
16, 1834. he was promoted 10 assisl-
ant vice president,
(Continued on page four)
ee SE
saperintendens
Division as a
==
Become Parents of Daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon V. Koons-
man, of Spring Mills, are receiving
congratuations on the birth of a
daughter, Donna Maye, born at ihe
Centre County Hospital. Bellefonte
Wednesday of last week.
Most men who have a monopoly in
one line of business are believerg In
stern competition in other fields.
"7
il,
NUMBER
2 ALTOONA WPA WORKERS
ARE KILLED |
N AUTO CRASH
Driver Jailed After Cor. Hits Abutment Near
Greenwood; Vehicle Was Totally
Demolished
WPA worker
injured early Friday
the automoblie in
riding was demodlshed
oncrete abutment on thu
just below Greenwood
Thur
Both died in
Two Altoona
fatally
ing when
they were
agaist a
highway
were
mor
win
v
n
ict
were Vaughn ton
and John Ebersole, 19
Altoons hospital where
it clock
anit
they wert
ed at 7:30 «
f 13
Qi Wat Cal Qi
The drive; Georg
Waytowice
with minor
mitted Blair
fault of $2500 bond to awall a cor
ners guest
The accident, according
Motor Police Private B. V
occurred at 7:10 o'clock
Greenwood and Oak
ie machine, a sedan
way west Lhe
curve
i ’
p 4 | bi
Alloona
injuries
who ¢
com-
oe
capped war
lo county n
jL IEE
Kiraine
between
Grove
jell the
t Oak
just of
Traveling for a distance of
after striking the abutment
which Waylowicz said resulted when
he lost contral of the car because
the wheels “shimmied th
machine wed completely
throwing Men CHAr
Way
allempting
{eet
front (
TT
wi
ain
the
towice Wid investigators thal
straighter al
mm
of the
¢
16
wheel t the sh
he werved
striking
could swing
when he [«¢
0 the left glide
the abutment
back to the hig
road
he
WRY
Snow Shoe High
Class in Reunion
Graduates of 1933 Meet at
Morgan's Camp; Was First
Reunion of Any Class
High
original 22 members of
Cass, 16 attended 1 reunion,
follows Virginia Reese Miller
Hamaport: Fare Goodyear 8in
Snow Bhor, Virginia Sherman, 8in-
nemahoning: Jane Kisling Belle-
PFoeth Swartz Beliefont
Marjorie Sharkey, Enos 8boe. Paul-
ne Rogue, Clarence, Sara Ann Bud-
Snow Shoe. Mary Elizabeth
MoLaughlin: William Smith, Boos
Shoe, Willlam Hel, Tonawanda
Coeorge Sinclair. Snow Bhoe: Oscar
Hann, Bnow 8hoe: James Butter-
worth, Snow Bhoe: Donald Irwin
Snow Shoe and Joe Padisak, Clar-
Late of
Since graduation on May 25, 1933
five members of Lhe class have been
married. Those five are: Paye Good-
car, now Mrs. Kenneth Sinclair
Virginia Reese. now Mm Charle
Miller: Daisy Stark now Mm. Mich
Mclaughlin: Ethy! Dudish, now
Ffilliam Burne, Jr. and Wi-
liam Hall whose wile is the former
Elnine Benton. To date the follow
ing have children: Faye Goodwea
Sinclair, a gon; Virginia Reese Mil-
wr. a son: Dalsy Stark Melaughlin
a daugitier, and Ethy! Dudish Burns
a Son
Those of the class who were un-
able to attend the reunion were
Daisy Stark Mclaughlin, who be-
came the mother of a lovely bab;
girl just laf week: Ethyl Dudish
Burns, Lou Dudish, Virginia Oswalt
Mary Duke, and Margaret Bamat
Thomas H Stetier. who has been
principal of the Snow Shoe High
School since the Class of 1983 were
freshmen, honored the class by his
presence. Invited guests were: Jack
Shope. Snow Shoe: Bill Gehring,
Ere. and Bun Beaver, Bellefonte,
Why People Disappear from Home.
An absorbing article about “miss-
ing persons” and an experts analy-
sis reveal many surprising facts
about what caused them 10 disap-
pear. One of many interesting il-
Of the
tome
nger
ae)
At va
WATS
justrated articles in the July 17th
issue of The American Weekly, dis-
tributed with the Baltimore Sunda)
American. On sale at all news
stands.
il
Cholera Kills 12.000,
An epidemic of cholera, described
as one of the worst in modern Is
tory, has taken 2.000 lives in the past
seven weeks in the United Provinoes
in India’s extreme north.
ma
Wis iPped awa Jan
demolisl
about
dire
pact. Although
chine tumed
rest facing the
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28)
’
nad conu
Passing motor
whose nNaine
McocCani r
to hospital wi
clock an
Waviow ice
1
al 9 0 Fbersole a
reporied
Q COOK
Doth remained Hd
Wavtowi y /
5 Me
Eenerally
0 make
wi
Pleasant Gap
Gets New Pumper
500-Gallon Per Minute La
France Apparatus is Dis-
plaved During Weekend
TN |
The newly pure
$4700
Pleasant
JU sed fire
«
WUE was
Gap Fire
France (
aelivered tie
Company the La
pinay
th of
The Volunteer Fire Company paid
$3400 for the new equipment at a
special sales price. The pumper is
mounted a 1836 Dodge truck
with windshield, hydraulic
brakes booster hook-up
The pumper has
pry minus
tr. fioal tx
vniigal Ly
on
special
and
500-gaiion
capacity and of cen-
5 ibh-galion
ax
pe. There 6 a
booster tank
ban
wpe
ine
i
The hose is latest
with special automatic nozzles
cluding a Siamese coupling
The modern outfit has already
been tested by Samuel Smith. La
engineer. demonstrating at
The pumper devel-
Op pressure wherever the flow
of water sufficient. It can be
used al any available source of wa-
ter as well stream. dam and
consequently is 1 efficient at
farms or
France
Pleasant
fine
Gap
in
such
ughiy
in town
The booster
trol a large spread of flame. and
makes the damage from water as
small as is physically possibie
The community is justly proud of
the new equipment which ensures
more protection for the people of
this area. The Fire Company in-
vites all interested citizens fo look
over the pumper
tank alone
Can oon-
2000- YEAR-OLD CART
FROM EGYPT ON DISPLAY
An
used for
ancient Egyplian ox
transporting sacred
mals to the sacrifice, some two
hundred years before Christ. is on
view ai the Museum of Science and
Industry in Rockefeller Center
The cart was found in a vault of
an oid temple excavated on the
banks of the Nile several years ago
The vaull wag s0 securely sealed
thal no water had penetrated it
during the Nile's many floods in
succeeding centuries
“This almost hermetically sealed
condition.” according to the mus-
eum, “probably accounts for the re-
markabie state of preservation of
the vehicle, whose wood. although
deeply grooved by age. is still hard
and firm”
On the walls of the vaulf where
the cart was found, a tablet stated
that it was 10 be used only for the
transportation of animals destined
for sacrificial slaughter. Conical
clay tablets scattered on the floor,
covered with picture writing. estab.
lished the date of the period of the
temple and the cart as 225 B. C.
carl
ani-
‘KEEPING UP WITH THE
ro
JONESES’ — Luck—-Of a S
IVE HAD FISHIN UP
a
CHANGE
c'mon inst!
TH BUM LUCK
Ear
IT Will. SEEM 00D TO OO
SOMETHING HELSE FOR A
By POP MOMAND
Rh uu
——
Is It Wrong
By FREDERICK GATES
(NOTE The following artigle
was writen and submitied for pub-
ici by Frederick Gales, North
Allen Street Collge, PM
There & no intention on the part of
i 10 cast reflections on any
Hgious worship, nor Wo
igitimate sales of re-
Interest will be found
which the author
that actually
exist among the uneniighlened pop-
wince of some portions of the south.)
5
on
Blas
he author
form of
ai
4
ii if
I ge tL}
parage Liu
WUEAOUS WOT
manner in
aes rie cONaitions
season of
Salesman #
Bouthern
w»
one
nw approaching the
LM year for Bible
migration nl mall
Corn unites migrat.on
annual, and Year some
ream:
Lim
he
This
each
8 harvest
nestied
of the Cum-~
population, of
largely made
grammar
Their ex
milled
Numaville
cisely In the shadows
beriand Pla | §F
u
POSCREINE
jcation WIE
Tennewoe
Call
ome five hundred
ip » PEO
school ed
ww
y and 1 munediate
Their powers of oon.
msequent
environment
Aare
are fi he
erst tous
OCIA
Come Was
manual
wage
A
re
en
Ww
3
rood vid
the tidings
Holey, and Holey
Publishing C«
enough
coming
the commu-
of the com-
In.
ernations es] ny a
will
wl
man cipaled
roascs
throughout
Baseman
tie
ny
Our Apostolic eache:r having been
advanced Information has
of time 10 labuiate and gloat
over the possible revenue for the
church and for its leader. Through
the Bible sales the churh receives
i") percent. and the Prescher io!
peroely, of the otal saies made with
t flock. His church badly in
salary, be-
ing wo small msider as su
“iso needs replenishing The Rev
erend, therefore, prepmres a list
those who can be frightened out of
sevens to fifteen dollars by the
thought of everlasting damnation
another list of these pood for from
seven dollars
means
church and
betier if relief! checks have just been
received
ith free labor from the members
the churches half of the forty dol-
lnrs will just about put the edifice
imo condition hetand an-
given
plenty
Prd
ang hn
Wo ¢
need of repairs
of
thr ’
idle 0
= Hx
USUALLY
"0 fp i
other twelve months of revivals The
parsons ten percent gets him much
needed pants and his good wife and
Caughters a supply of gingham for
new dresses
Our Beciesiastical friend ig further
elated over the coming of Mr
George. He knows that Mr. George's
sales talk will drive home. to each
church member. the necessity of sal-
vation and the fear of damnation in
new and more persuasive Janguage
Phrases. that will make the very
Devil shake, will be driven home
with such foroe that only a new and
better Bible with which to read the
Word, can possibly save the members
of his flock. This sales revival will
not only help the souls and the sale
of Bibles but will also swell the
weekly collection for the next two
or three Sundays
This annual migration is « spirit.
ally economical boom
The “light” arrives on schedule
with his bag full of Bibles and his
bead full of tricks.
Mr. George is a most saintly and
righteous man in appearance and
bearing. One feels the light of
purity radiating from him as one
feels the heat of the sun. This char-
avier trait appears particulary evi.
dent to those who arent used to
dealing with 5 smooth “bird” and
this “bird” IS smooth. But to our
Divine leader he is “God sent” In
mote ways than one
Our two guiding “lights”
Saturday evening going over the
list, that has been prepared
Reverend, of those who are
Bibically saved Individual ob
aclenigtios of those listed are noted
and well astablished in the mind of
our good Mr. George. He also makes
a list of all deceased persons and