——————— | Odd and Curious News A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. ™ SECOND SECTION The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. Che Cenfre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES iv VOL UME 57 BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1938. NUMBER 48. Take | Your | Choice Woman A Dead Shot Mrs. Clara Hartle, of Drifting, in Cooper Township, can qualify as a true sportsman. She refuses to use & shotgun during small game sea- son, preferring to bring down her game with a 22 calibre rifle. One day last week Mrs. Hartle shot the biggest black squirrel ever seen in that vicinity, according to Driiting hunters. She knocked him off the top limb of a high tree using two shots. When the squirrel was pick ed up there were holes through his head and body. The squirrel a huge fellow, as large as a big cat, looked well up in years and had evi- dently been the target for many un- successful hunters in seasons past, being minus a tail which had been shot off at some tine or other. So far this hunting sea Mrs. Hartle has been out three times, each time for half an hour, never more and each time she's urned with a squirrel n Lt 18] ret 17-Count ‘Em The 17 member [ t Murray [amil) 15 children-—trooped ville Luther and were baptized—all at the time. Performed Rev. 8S. D Sigler, pastor baptism i ul-Lime the Ji Clay H , mother and the Green- rsdale ame e nip i baptized 36, and 5, TADEINg months At Long Last A Masonic embiem, found on 2 battlefield of France 20 years ago, has been returned to its owner living in Decatur, Ili.. who never has been in Prance. The emblem, which came into the possession of Charles M. Borchers, Decatur, bore the of the Brooklyn, N. Y., ghap er. Thee ¢ hapten fund the owner who said, in a letter to Bor- chers, he lost it 20 years ago—not In France, but in Brooklyn A Real Dear A deer took alter hunters a farm pear Bastress the other day. After their fist surprise, George H. Aldenderier Joseph Fasig, doth of * Williamsport, found that the young buck was tame and only wanted tobacco. Residenis of a nearby farm told them the deer when only a wel In age on ana fawn last year, was found and fed at the farm. Now the buek's pal is the jarm doy On His Conscience Receiving 26 cents from a woman who wanted to ease her conscience “for the money I stole off the news- stand when I was a little girl” Jacob Brandt, news-stand operator of Phil- adelphia has a burden on his con- science now. He sald he wouldn't fee! right until he found the original owner and delivered the 35 cents him. a —— Hard Luck Released Saturday from the Coun- ty jail at Gettysburg, where they were sentenced on a charge of vio- lation of the game laws, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Shultz, found their moun- tain home in the western part of the county had been robbed, the rob- bers had taken all their canned fruit and forty-five gallons of grape wine from the céllar Gives Warning, Dies Richard DeSanto, forty-five year- old Lackawanna Railroad watchman saw 200 tons of rock crash down on tracks at a tunnel entraice. He sprinted several hundred yards to a telephone, warned the Scranton dispatcher, then died of a heart at- tack. Foreman Thomas Grady found his body with one hand gripped on the receiver Bottles Test Drift Two hundred of the 6.000 bottles set adrift at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at California, to de- termine the direction of ocean cur- rents have been recovered. 1t is be. lieved that mest of the still missing bottles have been carried far out Ww sea and wil] be recovered inter No Stocking Feet Corns and bunions notwithsiand- ing, the Franklin County grand jury wants prisoners in the county jail at Chambersburg to wear shoes. The Jury made its recommendation after an inspection, urging that “if the prisoners have no shoes, they be furnished with suitable ones.” . ’ Fisherman's Luck John Galloway, 65, was pulled out of San Francisco Bay and taken 10 an emeigency hospital. “1 just wanted one of those pretty flash” he told Dr. 8, P. Smith. Dr. Smith be- | gan unbuttoning Galloway's clothes. Out flopped a four-inch smelt. A Little Trick “Hollerin’ Johnny” Wells, Read- ing's oldest Civil War veteran, exe plained his longivity at his 100th birthday. “I ran like blazes at the second battle of Bull Run.” he chue- kied, “That's why I's 1 m here today.” Turkey Day An Indian and his wife, strolling a road at Salamanca, N. Y. after injured slightly. Their names: Mr. and Mrs. Myron Turkey. Town Gets Plant. The idle $500000 plant of the Western Stas Company of Clarks- | MASKED BANDITS STAGE | We're Sure Santa Will Take Care o' This DARING HOLD-UP; STEAL TRUCK LOAD OF LIQUOR Four Desperados Slug Driver and Bind Him To Tree Near Huntingdon — Make Off With $25,000 Cargo of Liquor Four masked bandits shortly be- fore Tuesday midnight of last week elzed a $26,000 truckload of valu- able liquor near Huntingdon, slug- ged the drvier into insensibllity and Jeft him at dawn gagged and bound to a tree in a small woods near Hall fax. State Motor Police first hold-up ng his road learned of the driver, old hi when DONS, over Wing forel to a m where he d alter Wy Fans nl mile ron he was tied to The tr was found Wi morning near Rife, al in Dauphin County, empty and tor still running. DRIVER BEATEN, BRUISED. The driver, Edward FF. Taggart of Erie, bea about the head and bruised, (oid his story of the 1 to Moor Police We dnesday mornin Tagzart, who works for the Delivery Com any said he Jeft the tree dnesday Upper me uek 0 en MEO - PI whisky. CHOAmMPRENe and wins t of Huntingdon he I the road at a gasoline lunchroom He was hardly when a man wes a white over his [ace commanded “Stick ‘em up.” SAW FOUR MEN “He had a putiing up my Roy Lockard Gets Another Respite Altoona Slayer of Child Has Had Execution Staved Nearly Two Years ss iazd pulic : slalion anc out MUCK Nas and the driver The Board of Pardons ¢ week to stay for another month execution of Rov Locks to die December Lockards death has been stayed for nearly two year Governor Barle sald he would put off the exe- cution so long as he was In office Lockard was convicted of the spike | slaying of little Matthew “Sonny” Karmendi. His companion on the night of the murder, Mrs. Margaret Karmendi, mother of the child is serving a ten to 20-year term for the killing reed last the ted rd, sche Families Rescued As Building Burns Odd Fellows Hall at Roaring Spring Destroyed by Flames, Early Saturday Two familier were made homeles a $20000 fire which destroyed three-story Odd Fellows hall in Eg. Blajr county, morning taurant and in the early \ re factory an ice cream on the first floor of the buliding, 268-271 Main streel, were wiped out by the disastrous blaze which had its origin in the furnace room Discovery of the fire was made by James Massod, proprietor of the restaurant, end his son, James, Jr, about 2:16 o'clock The first task of the Roaring Spring. Martinsburg and Hollidays- burg firemen. wis to rescue two trapped families who lived in secs ond floor apartments John Curfman, his wife and three | children, were taken from the front windows snd removed to the street by adders, while John Hamm and his wife were able to make their way out a side stairway The Curfman familly were in their night ¢lothes and were unable to save any of their possessions, They and the Hamms were taken to the homes of friends. Magsod and his son assisted fire- men In removing restaurant equip- ment but the ice cream machine wns destroyed. No estimate oh the loss of the furnishings of the Model lodge of the 1. O. O. F., owners of the structure, and the Rebekah lodge, was obtained Paraphernalia belonging to the Order of the Eastern Star was dam- | aged to the extent of $300. The three organizations occupied quar- ters on the third floor of the brick encased building, one of the oldest ' in the borough. | $ Enjoy Thanksgiving Day With Friends The Centre County pilgrims who ventured to the eastern part of the state and into New Jérsey, gathered at the home of Lester Millers’ to eat ia delicious dinner and be thankful Mrs. Lester Miller and children, Jean and Paul, Mr. and Mrs, Orien Reish threw me in related, “when someone from the rear, Half-con: there were four of the men ing white masks “They dragged me towards sedan, and after taping my shut, binding me with rope 12 a bag over my head, the car in the MNAr uncon selo remembered jolting over a road In the breaking dawn w we from the car, thing I knew they were a rope around me and me a They drove it saying word,” Tag- I saw wears TIONS all a black mouth and they Taggart swhile but and then just hen inked mn ’ Lo tree a strugreled wi 8 med he hi bark mn ntinusd by rubbing the rough u Hi L youd ge in about x of nol He walked A Dun mel a macadam road. There (Continued on last working on he gasped page) Ne w Altoona’s Last War Veteran Dies 96, Was ! John B. Harnden, tive of Stormstown, Cen- tre County B Harnden a native of county, and Altoona last VIVID vil ar veterans aid a Th uesday mom axed 94 Full mili nuded in the miler Na- John tre ing of | tary funeral noon Deceased was born December 20, 1841. in Btormstown, Centre County, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Silas Harm- den, where his early career was spent on the farm. He married all w Lig March 19 June 20. 1815 hither wed good health until ind when he flered a stroke Recovering quickly able to cast his vote at the election and appear in the Armistice Day parade and exercises Last Tuesday he was stricken with a more severe stroke lapsing into a state of coma, from which he never recov- ered On Grand Army Day at park last September Mr. Harnden mused his approaching ninety- seventh birthday, December 20th That long time--87 he uttered. He beamed as ragged that he had never chewed tobacco smoked during his Ife, adding (Continued on last page) November slight he was LAV] Lakemont on 1] Year he b nor slugged me | and | 00 we YOU S908 PATOu Pain wi Philipsburg Bell Did Not {From the Philipsburg Daily Journal, November 23) H + (id mon t im Drawbaugh iller last r 83rd | Drawbaughn FOV wa a built from wheel Mi ler small Mr 82nd bir ne comer During q ny caller sant w memory d interming Woman, 82, Claims Invent Yelephone PRE tt (Continued oO Hershey Museum Containing Indian Relics Is Now Opep To The Public 5 Hershey Museum which cone George HH. Danner Pennsyivania day collections gathered CG. Worth sand David been opening 10 IO he onliec- and the of early he India Colonel Joh H. Landis public The collection is an outstanding on of interest to those who have, © ire to have a knowledge of the col- Noel Pennsylvania setiled by so-called Dutch’ 3 diate years following u American Revolution and the lishment of the constitution Unite] Btates The Museum became the posses several years ago of the collection George H. Danner, jate of Manhe Lancaster county, who spent a lile- in gathering objects and lore { the Pen Dutch. bat t Was and ie elab- nial era th the in of the ; i { im time yvivania is the wl the collection has wet "me L& he uately displayed wiudes je Wier Hection DOSLery. early rthenware and gisss- to sampifrs, bed. inens. Also spine tables, nettees , plancs. harpsichord Tgans melodians gs well utensils ! In the kitchen, living rooms and roams of the early of L 4) wha wyivani rg ire FS 2 a settlers e Danner collection was noted a of Biegci-ware the workship of German, Baron who made his home in In the Sliegel bay 8 of Stiegel glass; arthenware Wilkie, wl Page) ved , Trailing the By-Paths of Local History A BOLD ROBBER’S ESCAPE An Early Incident In The History of the County Jail. it { The history of Centre County is replete with various stories of crime among which are instances of bold robberies that could well be classed as fictional In character. This is a narrative of a series of robberies that occured in 1860, and the sensa- tional manner of escape effected by the ringleader from the County jail On Wednesday evening, Novem- ber 7th of that year, a party of seven ‘men, with features disguised and concealed, visited the home of Jacob Gentzell, residing in Penn township, for the purpose of robbery. The members of the household had re- tired for the night and were com- pletely surprised by the intruders who forced the door open with a stick of wood and marched boldly in. Going first to the room occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Gentzell, a guard was placed over them with revolver in hand, with the instruction that 'if they moved or gave the least al- arm, to shoot them down. Heckman, father of Mrs. Gentzell, a wealthy and highly respected old gentleman who had resided for some time with his son«in-law, Mr. Heck- man was seized and with a revolver pressed against his breast was told that if he made any resistence he would be killed instantly. Leaving the old gentieman in the hands of a guard, the rest went 0 ransacking for booty, Having se- cured a doublebitted axe, they used it to force open a chest containing the old gentleman's savings, which amounted to betwee) $1300 and §1.- 400, of which $550 were in gold, $7 in bank notes, and the balance, amounting to about $775, in silver The robbery, the boldest of several | that had occured in the county dur- ing that year, naturally created a great deal of excitement, and steps were taken to apprehend the per petrators. Suspicion fell upon iewis | Sherman, a resident of Stone Valley {who seemed to have plenty of The remainder of the party barged money to spend but could give no jon to the room occupied by a Mr. | plausable account as to how he was i accumulating it. At a meeting of | cit it waz decided to investigate Sherman at his home, so one Satur- day evening a posse under command | of Mr. Ross, who had some property | stolen earlier the year, started from Pine Grove for Stone Valley Arriving at the residence of Sher- man some time during the night the party remained in ambush until daybreak. Early in the morning Sherman was observed outside his | door, but soon passed into the house The party immediately surrounded | the house and detailed two of the | group to enter and arrest Sherman Upon trying the door they found | it locked, and a voice from within | warned them that any attempt to enter would be resisted with arms They threatened to force the door, | and after some parieyving it was opened and they entered The house was thoroughly search ed but no sign of Sherman could | be found. The carpel was removed | from the floor, bit no trap or door | (Continued on Last Page) 7ens in ALLEGED SLAYERS OF FORMER BELLEFONTE STUDENT GO ON TRIAL |=“: Seattle, Wash., Man and 73-Year-Old Mother | to Answer Charges of Crime Committed Ten Years Ago The Wash criminal court al Seattle this week is the scene of effort of justi perpetrators of Prison-harde: 42, px an Ce WO catch up a len-year- wd Decasto trial with © Mi Mary dew mur- the Most sen - BPO rime 71 Mayer ew v 11 om eli the Nefont © Acader 1906 to 1911 years before hi v to Seaitle and my riously dis cared aent at Bel ix Sa) ~ JOR | Academy Naval ervi hbo 18 ¢¥ ue ar Wo v Mr Year iended awaemy Ma R. Hugties, ff Commonder T. Hugh the Bremer Navy ¢ othe Winter: two A Jude ane wil by ws was Lhe wile Winer Yard at CM On he young naval officer and bi ! compietely ome time aller Le reached ang Uw DOW ches hal he was Mayer and Mrs, Smith No paris of Bassell's body Legal Size Bass Cut to 9 Inches of Is Lowered to Conserve VARNALEC d Scallle & viclim Ar ale We 10 ’ eH ye ave Limit Fish Bait Also Suppls darough LO reducing all month ni: minimum Le lege and arge- malaimum LO COLT Te Ce “It. was found during the one season period in which the 10-inch limit prevalled, that many bass just short of jegal size were Injured seri- ously and cousideraisie in these popular species occurred In with the J AREIOTE™S drive 0 conserve food for fish, In slate streams, the board moved 10 re Ayes the limit on fish bail, including fresh water ussels, water works, hell- graites and oayfish., and bait fish minnows, stone catfish and killi- fishes. Next Js I line oomn year, a fisherman may have PpOnsession al any one UUme t fishy or 35 fish bait, instead of Ny titeed in each classifioa year. He wii be permitied to have 50 of the combined species of bait fish and fish on an) Oe Cay “This reduction in limite on bail izh and fixh bail has been made De cessary owing to greatly increased Rocking bass, dependent upon this type of forage, coincident wilh a vast increase in numnber of fisher. men during the past (wo years.” 30 Employes Recalled At Renovo R. R. Shops Thirty men have been recalled re- cently to the oar repair department of the Pennsylvania Railroad shope at Renovo for a 18-month program of repairs and improvement on eguip- ment for the Maintenance of Way Department. Division officials at Williamsport report the contemplated improve- ment involves 300-man months of employment for workers at Renovo Many of the men being recalled have been halding WPA jobs for the jagt year. ‘There has been a gradu- al increase in the locomotive depart- ent activities for the past few pie Bey oo, it Was reported ge 20 Lda however Wo 4 os Most, Haunted House in England Exciting articles telling of the un- canny experiences of a noled in | American Weekly, the big magazine | distributed with the Baltimore Sun- | day American. On sale al all news lands Memory is a great asset, not forget. § 38a | that he bad gotten as far as Ohio found prosecution defendan ever peer venled a fact i on the mollier ARRESTED FOR LARCENY Linn -lpped sallow face ray-baired mote were i Wn Oskiand, Call September 13, 1928, seven days aller appeared in Beatle. They SULOIN ODE pe £0 ell route nn Le when pe wer and Basgsell gi then had Bassett They wnt were Bu MO Lis Dine aropped Sd Ph Anna ron wi Ww Islands 4r “kr Md ou HIRI PO Early ia before Mrs LA Walla Se A0~ inying of kiiled Bas Ruse Mae i yer é edie, CALLE, STRANG E AS FICTION of Mis Bmil Too Much Snow, Youth Prefers Jail Returns to Blais ( ounty Pris After Liberty on Few Days in Cold BOLOr police ang we last Monday aled the wall of the the depuly warden herifl's posse ght, when Stelmer told De a belare Sleimer plasee he decided Ww relum said that the sheriff's missed him ai the Chim- fy where he spent a night lollowing the Jal break. Prior to hiding oul there he Aid 10 have gang home on the Catfish Ridge change of clothing He reported riding a freight to Ohio and hitch hiking back his re- turn being prompted by the sudden change in the weather and a desire rve out the remainder of his year term ior breaking asa ney Rook part of the nahiAdld Tel Wo 5 for a 0 Wg used fashioned scale disap period he had mtil ¥ roOK Ww had ge bo that hous 1 QOwWn 1 the boiler i then clinabe I the wall . Two Cavalry Officers Receive Promotions The Department of Military Al- fairs has announced the promotion of Second Lieutenant Clarence P Bryan, of 48 Chestnut Street, Mill Hall, to the grade of First Lieutenant in Troop PF, 08rd Cavalry, and ihe appointment ag: a Second Lieulenant in the Machine Gun Troop, 108rd Cavalry, Bellefonte, of First Sergeant Harry C. Symmonds of 238 Willow- bank Streel, Bellefonte. 1A Bryan enlisted in the Lock Haven Troop on July 12, 1826 and was commissioned a Second Lieuten- ant on May 8, 1930. He is a native of Bald Bagie, Blair County, and is employed al a paper manufacturing plant in Lock Haven, it. Symmonds enlisted in the Bellefonte Troop in 1926 as a Private and has served in each non-comimis- sloped grade to the highest obtain. able. He is at present employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (in the Workmen's Compensation Di- | vision vestigator in a haven for creeping | {ghadows, One Of the many features | in the December 11th issue of The | Bold Holdup, Two men walked into a bank re. | oeivers office at Johnstown and while jone talked to two clerks, the other igrabbed a cash box containing $250 jand fled after calling to his ocom- [panion to follow. if you do fone an alarm oould he sounded Both men dashed from the building clerks reported. KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — Sweet—by Comparison AR IN THE CITY Wilds BE PURTHER AFTER SERGE HOW INADEGQUATELY WOU HAVE FILLED TW POSITION As TUTOR TO My TWINS LT HAVE PUT THES IN A PRIVATE SCHOOL. wis WHERE THEIR SDucATION ST \ a By POP MOMAND AFTER ALL I SHOULDN'T PBL. BAD + AFTER WORBONG AROUND HER OR A COUMLE OF WEEKS I'0 LIKE TO FIND A JOB 1S SWEET JT) ~-LKE A VINEGAR FACTORY A 3 | Soa Cautious citizens mincing gingerly | along oy pavements the past week chang on their amo hoping that the old phet of Northampton when he ns nad winier Thank you ell, of nearby vat "i You djusting ave pr of SEL ” m soblier | we hone eount , Bay: a giving wlviwe Day Will« Indian HOORS can het ve no blazes rds Wiis fon) { ¥ Par worm H HOW Waly ¥ ara t biaer We i Na id curme will the mdnog 2 ol Fygory LL gro Fer re Wer Lary with gly weath HL ¢ ne EE ilegedly ang sub NOIROT LEH AY FE ns 1 going hristmas with a mild rival {action main- 1 10 be 2 severe seas snow and ice disdainfully refer. ons as ‘bosh’ 2 ¥ 4 the 1 by observing pecudarities 1 lengthens WTOSL0al BE = i ang -— wW Adi ng QIERInE it the exira of just as Christ» ENOWY inlerested In ard dUCKE are out around bird pen ides that ani- tell what the raditione ix mals hin Regan's off bird . “« ai the ma | seasons will be like Why. #8 be 3 green Christmas for sure,” Regan sald, nothwith- tanding the brisk and snowy Thanksgiv ing day weaiher, Those mallard ducks are mate; fiey still thunk B | and you can’ fool my ducks last week the pekin duck was laying eggs. Why we had duck eggs for breakfast! Anyway, most of the mig- {| ratory are still around and that's 2 sign warm days are still ahead ™ Migratory birds gt the poo, where receive them when stop fer food and yp south.) uscovy ducks?” Re- ig 10 a flock of red-billed ducks house. “There's an- warm weather, If it a2 cold winter they'd wo lake. Loc- snd trying 10 pet they come over hese looking for something can trying ng And L Ls note there on the ogelacr Instead night over fled | Warm Wer) io eal Regan admitied he was puszied by penguins, however, and that activity might indicate colder weather Jaler on They usually | serape out small holes in the ground for nests, but this year are making holes s0 deep they can hide in them, he explained At the deer headquarters, Keeper { Joseph Conley plumped cautiously {for the hard winter theory because | the zoo's hex and elan, for instance, | have exceptionally shaggy coats of hair. He isnt so sure, however about | the bears and neither is Keeper Fred | Parlow. Their costs are about “as | usual” they agreed Mark Mooney. Jr. naturalist and member of the 200 staff, inclines © the opinion an animal's coat de | pends largely on the food and treat- | ment it receives during the sume {| mer. Mooney said, however, that &f pressed to make a prediction would take the cold winter view after watching the wooodchuck stuff hime self " 31) their Trip To Hospital Ends In Accident A car loaded with patients being rushed to the Philipsburg Hospital collided with a car traveling in the same direction, one moring recently, one mile west of Osceola Mills, on the Osceola-Houtadale road. Neo one was seriously injured. The accident occured when a oa
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