Odd and Curious News A Visitor In Sever Thousand Homes Each WeeR., SECOND SECTION ——— TE SELLERS RENN VOLUME B58. The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. | ie Cenfre Democraf ———— -> At Last He Dies As a Confederate spy in the Civh War, James Smith, of Cincinnatl, was captured by the Northern forces and sentenced to be shot. He es caped on the eve of his execution At Gettysburg he was 0 badly wounded his comrades left him {on dead on the field of battle. He re- vived as he was being lowered Into a trench In a mass funeral and avoided being buried alive by wrig- gling a finger to the startled grave- diggers. Started across the Poto- mac River to a base hospital, the boat upset and Smith almost drown- ed. Instead, the water washed his infected wounds clean and actually sped his recovery Afier three such cventful escapes death came quietly to James Smith last week at the of 101. age Snail Captures Snake This time the snake stuck nose into the wrong place—into the shell of a snail, which clamped the shell down on the snake's head and killed it. The snail and the snake, still held fast in death, were exhib- ited in the game commissioner's of- fice at Harrisburg last week. Pre- served formaldehyde, they will Le turned over to the state museum Capture of a snake, by a shail is a ‘very unusual’ occurrence, the com- mission said. The snake, about 18 inches long, was of the common Va- riety known as the milk snake, or house snake. The snail trapped the snake by bringing a hinged inner shell against the outer shell, squeez- ing its head between them . Everything Free Denver, Colo. voters were flocking to the support of Bishop Frank H Rice, of the Liberal Church, Inc. the eccentric clergyman announced And no wonder! Bishop Rice is a candidate for mayor in the May election. He is distributing litera- ture promising, among other things Free gasoline and oil; free coal; {ree medical service—to all persons on relief and to families whose total income fs less than $25 a week. The bishop does not explain how going to secure funds to furnish this free service 13% | i in » . Wedding Pickete A fashionaole church held at St urday night d wedding Louis. wa Jilted picketed Sat- someone Cidim- ed. But instead of being a heart broken suitor it was a labor union tivat objected. The pickets were “not interested” in the marriage of Mar- cla Groeock and J. T. Vaughan, but paraded in front of St. John's Meth- odist church in protest against erec- tion by non-union workers of a sidewaik canopy thal shielded sev- eral hundred guests from Lhe rain Profitable Owen (Owney) known sportsman profited when robbers his restaurant Making morning checkup he frightened lwo men who had 75 bottles of whiskey ready lo carry out, they left a suitcase with U guns. McManus sald two of the weapons had been stolen from him in a similar robbery . Mail Must Go A dispatched pigeon f(r Chester, Pa miles away-—returned by mail, be- cause: Somewhere enroute the pig- eon was killed by a hawk. Near Stroudsburg, Peter Devore saw the hawk on a fence and killed It with a rock. He found the pigeon in the hawk's claws and returned the let- ter. McManus, well Pittsburgh, broke Into an early 50 of badly ree jetler via Carrier ~some 100 omni . Problem Too Big Officials the General Electric Company at Bchnectady are con- fronted with a new problem. From a little zirl in New York came & posteard which read: “Will you kindly send me a little sample of electricity, if you can spare it. We are studying about it in geography of Careless? District Judge Arthur Thomsen wrote J. Edgar Hoover, director of the federal bureau of Investigation, for information on finger prints. He got it with this comment: "Il may interest you to know, judge, that on your letterhead you left 36 finger- prints, and on the envelope, 16.” - Popeye Married Popeye, the sailor finally won his fair lady. Olive Oyle, Arch Mercer 24, who speaks for Popeye in movie cartoons and Margie Hines 21, who speaks the pieces Olive Oyle fires back at him. were wed March 3 in Fort Lauderdale Florida, Wimpy and Bweel Pea weren't present. ———— — Gels One-Day Benience Blaine Beatty, 22 , of Mahaffey Clearfield county, got off with a one day jail sentence at Pittsburgh, for parole violation. Beaily who was placed on probation in March, 1036. had served 96 days on a state charge of defrauding a State College inn keeper of a $28 room bill, agents said, Judge Schoonmaker also revoked the parole. Has License Revoked Eizht revocations, seven suspen- sions and seven dismissals have been announced by the State Liquor con- | irol bonrd. They included: Revo- cation-sAndy Panick. new beer gar- den, Snow Shoe township, Clarence, Centre county. - Tolerance means permitting other people to decide for themselves, what is right and what is wrong, with the proviso that they must not injure others or interfere with their similar privileges. thing slipped my mind.” STATE GAME BOARD SU. [ DISPELS BELIEF THAT DEER ‘SHEDS’ ITS LIVER Research Discloses No Such Phenomenon Oc- curing — May Arise From Fact of Animal Having No Gall Bladder Is It true that a deer sheds its liver each year in the same manner as a buck renews its horns? The reader who asked for infor- mation several weeks ago through these columns raised an interesting point of discussion, which up to this time seems to preponderantly negative From que not deer’s gested neit stanti King does not take From so reliable a Pennsylvania Game the following reply to the office of ug 1 be the many to he tion received by bears any anatomy unaergoing change. On the has any one il proof that replies t this newspaj knowledge the other offered 1 change of Wr on of ¢ One Of | 18 ~ hand sub- some her place source as th Commission to © the directed ard in Harrisbt Harrisburg, Mirch 8, 1039 Democrat Director the writer to no evidence to hat a deer loses Found In Reservoir Suicide Seen in Death of Young Mother of Three Children at Altoona M. Whit children o ast seen Tuesday n not determined how long bottom of discovered ¢t the the re- ’ hy John 3 wpector of the city electrical bureau Her identity was surance and other papers in a worn brown pockeibook found by Mr Hudson on the edge of the reservoir No marks which might indicate foul play were found on the body The husband informed the coroner that his wife had 1} shopping Monday, pur new hat, coat and ¢ item being found the woman «$y an gleaned from in- heen on t hat and coat were found in Ivy's second story aparime sald his wile had bye az ual when he at LS) Tuesday , but revealed that Saturday Some day, King and find me kissed eft 6 ock said home Agnes Margaret White was in Hollidaysburg, & daughter and Mrs. Hayden Ezan, who he family clude the husband and three child- one bi r. Eugene, and a sis- ter. Mrs, Rosemarie Treese, both of itoona iT ren. Gregg Township Republicans Meet Large Gathering of Club Members Held in Grange Hall monthly meeting Repubiicans of District held at Bpring Mills, Thursday, March 2nd. Gregg township acted as host to Young Republicans club ind invited individuals from sur- rounding communities. The meeting was held in the Grange Hall which was filled to capacity. The busines smeeting which was conducted by chairman Harry Byrd, was held in the Grange auditor- ium where various County Chair- men, County Executive Commitiee- men, Precinct Chairmen and Vice Chairmen and officers combined to make the meeting one of the largest and most interesting of the season at which many new membership cards were issued Following the business meeting the group was invited to the second floor social rooms where an abun- dance of refreshments were served to about 200 people, after which Chinese | checkers, tournaments, hearts and 500 games progressed. Haines township extended an in- vitation for the next regular month- iy meeting in April which will be a continuation of the visitation meet. ings being held in the various town- Mstilps of District Seven for all Re- publicans. ——— GOV. JAMES SAYS NEW TAXES MAY BE NECESSARY The of Young Seven was Governor Arthur H it “may be necessary to assess new its liver every vear and we are at a loss to understand how a myth of this kind should have begun. Pos- sibly {it tarted by the fact that a deer does not have a gall bladder So far as our research men are able to determine, a deer never loses liver it nmmay continue z change as the vital or- gans in the body of a human being wan animal A male vear but Wa although i ’ y LO gro alid deer lose horns every no other physical that we kn of truly yours, CHAS. FP. STAMBAUGH Chief Law Enforcement Clerk While the in the above ficient ( 1% there Is ant | CHANRS wu Very IW W contained ld be sul- he controversy, our reader: \e¢ opposite theory the information letter sh 33 wu pt there ¢ weral inclined expons a deer of still One absence of allows the Hen the animal | 4 iaurel during Of green liver dries a ppe be renewed » fall Along t ame are line of reasoning 10Y Bor- All €x- informs he s found ne he new liver . dt - ymebody xpected Random NEWS, FEATURES [tems BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1939, NUMEER 11. The Surest Sign of Spring Sl RARE DISEASE VICTIM SAVES OWN LIFE BY THE LIM Had Neighborhood Terror For Several Months in Sears gone by has enjoyed the luxury of a number of host scares, a fact to which many of th citizens can testify Beliefonle e& oider One in to be excitement particular which is about ribed, created no litte Allg for a long time af- dese fy « OF that the borough located the Ardell planing mill, now known as Claster lumber yurd A mysterious willowy been seen moving about ises on certain dark nights each time ils presence wa seribed the more [rightening it be- came The story was repeated with such startling frequency that it had the effect of keeping the women of that section at home the evenings, and the young men from traveling that street aller visiting their best girls. Folks began to wonder why a spook should choose a lumber yard of near the form had the prem- and de. " te) BER, Spooks Are Spooks Cihost slories are reac he only reason for the ap history of mankind ghosts ha wer locality, but are repuled to exist to be the disembodied spirita of 1 n all other localities wher {0 have been eon i midnight nu pposed about at ie «8 pars exited either in reality or In the tmagivation of the liman mind SAVING OTHERS 0 while Murph Lake his en- { hioog | a ~ ow Harbors "ey oe Mr Adar celebrated their 59th e World Over 5 relis) Th A with muct which | eo of this one. Ever since the early Ghosts are not confined to one and are supposed in Centre county he We i over as well y commitied. or Is exneciad vr and we ahead e place to roam, and it had for making it we in Beliefonte. Why unfetiered it should should large when rest? an someone dug up the rea st it sounded like a plausibi wemed to salisly the di minds the citizens that away back ; two brothers named Flannigan resided in that locality Both bore an unenviakis reputation thieves and robbers. Their crimes became 50 notori that they had to seek some olher community for safety. The next heard of them was in Cambria ty. where at the little town of about six miles east of Eb- irbed of earn seems in (he forties as Muncy, enaburg y Te tered the Fiannigans brutally an aged widow for her maney. She kept the only tavern in the place ¥ tried be pee mau at crime ar convi hanged While awaitis | Ty oo i Sheriil’s danghter they were arrested ted, and sentenced o 2 iB 4 eir execulion, fell In love inger Flannigan, and with the ¥ ie stormy disappeared from the jail and were never afterward heard from. This was in 1843 Al sided 0 fare sir r the Ume the Fiannigans re- in Bellefonte a traveler and 8 peddier are sald to have myster- iously disappeared, and although a thorough search was made for them they were never heard of after- wards MOTHER, SON FOUND DEAD OF POISON GAS IN ALTOONA GARAGE Husband Discovers Tragedy After Returning From Business Trip to New York; Victims e Were Seated In Family Car f the ho victims of carbon | bodies Apparently the mon poison ng Mrs. Myrtle Johnson Centre County, and David Jr, 10, were found early urday morning in the automobile the garage at the rear of their home 1409 Broad avenue, Altoona 4 he ty Vv wi r iiscovered Ro afler a New York busi ris Chester C. Rothrock, of inty, learned that mother {sited In H daysburg nd that the boy was back of the cal thelr the 50 xide a native of Roscoe Rat 8a'- ner son Y he) by a Iroed Johnson had ass rit hand One time he red Il sleeping on the when they made When the bodies were I d motor nag i covered that phe OPH d due 10 8 Serk Blond Robbers 4 ifs A DeAULIIUE DONG i robbed Allen Black wn, Ohio Ver DuBol o] red 51, Young of $1040 al bw A who 3 tressed slate Po woman «W She kee] a disappeared - etting Smoky fet? Pitts vee it $y Altoona G toona i roned 1thougt LUMBER-YARD GHOST ‘Scorned Shot and Beat- ing With Base- ball Bat years the Fini tare vot 8 In alle dence was for a betler one cellar with nigan re down to make room and in digging out human skeleton was bullet in the a a hole came lo ethereal that lo- of one the conclusion frequently the restless spirit xi cality of the murdered men In the meanwhile whether In spirit form or imagination of the many worried mands, continued to demoralize the neighborhood, and many schemes were devised to “lay HU” without was 1 o ‘ the gh avail avail At residents { two of the braver male decided to get that ghost suffer the consequences of what- # ghost has to offer in the { vengeance way of iar or ever Pretending their disbelief in dis- embodied spirits, hob-goblins, or long-necked things, each put a rab- bit foot in his pocket, and one arm- ed himself with a revolver and the other with a baseball bat. (Continued on Page 6) Motion Pictures, Review of General Benner's Life Fea A series of interesting motion pic- tures showing the work being done by the Pennsylvania Historical Com- mission in the restoration of histori- cal landmarks, and & comprehen. sive review of General Philip Ben- ner's life by J. Thomas Mitchell, ‘Bellefonte attorney, featured a ‘meeting held by the Centre County Historical society at the Court House last Thursday night, | The meeting was conducted by Philip Wion, representing the Coun- ty Historical Society, while Prof 8 K. Stevens. of State College, pre- sented and explained the motion pictures. The program opened with three numbers by the a capella choir of the Bellefonte Methodist Episco- pal church, with Mrs, Philip Wion directing. Designed to create Interest in tre proposed restoration of the General Philip Benner mansion along Spring Creek, the meeting was well attend. ed and additional plans were made in an effort to have the Stale Com- | mission take over and restore the! imansion to Hs former condition of | | beauty. {The text of Mr. Mitchell's able ro- | iview of General Benner's life fol- | | lows: i { “One hundred and forly six years {ago a young man of t thirty | iyears of age readed a procession, | ‘consisting ~f his wife and ninety. ! James says one other parsons, iron workers and | {their ‘families, which had tolled along | taxes” to carry on Pennsylvania's | the a'most unbroken road from Sun- state government. The governor heretofore had taken the position that no new taxes would be levied, but recommended reenactment of ‘the entire bracket of emergency taxes assessed by the former Earle administration. The emergency tax- es are calculated to yield $163,000 1000 a biennium. thury, with roughly built springless | wagors and a train of horses and imua'es, The trip through Penns Val. {ley around the western end of Nit. i tany mountain to Bpring creek, was | through dense virgin forests and over rough hills. Upon viewing the {sheer ledge of rock facing north “Unless business wescwardly alos the banks of the conditions improve, and relief rolls (siream, the leader cred, "This will Correct this sentence: “1 intend decrease, it may be necessary to as- be ‘he rock where 1 will build my to be at the meeting but the whol? sess new taxes,” Governor James home, | declared. “Tie masier of this caravan, ture Meeting Here than is clder i.cr Philip Benner, was rormal age In exp» As a bn cf sixteen his moiber had quilied told in his vest ard sent him to ¢ revelutionary armies to replace h {ather, Henry Benrer, who had beet captured and imprisoned by the titish. Philip fought during the rema‘nder of the sar with the Pean- yivania Line si eained a commis- sic by his se:xvices. “After th? war he built an iron upcla, or small forge, at Coventry a own in the northern part of Ches- ter County, an. maac ron there for several years. Through Colonel Samuel Miles and Major John Pat- ton, of his old regiment, he learned of the rich veins of iron ore 10 be found in the country west of the Susquehanna and north of the Juni- ata, made a trip to Philadelphia where he met Josiah Matlock, who had purchased part of the Davis, Keene and Wallls surveys, in what was known as the “Barrens” of Nor- thumberiand county. “He made a deal with Matlock by hich he purchased three tracts of ind agreed 0 buy olhers as Matlock could make the titles good THe next day he married Ruth Rob- eriz. of Chester County, whose an- Hogh Roberis, had been A captain of one of the ships that brought a Joad of Penn's “First Pur- chasers” from Wales, and who had ettied on the “Welsh” tract in the ‘Great Valley” of what was (0 be Chester County “Benner knew that Miles and Pat- ton had been ahead of him in the purchase of some of these iron lands among the mountains of Northum- berland county, and were preparing fo erect a charcoal jron furnace at the point that is now known as Centre Furnace. Keen business man as he was, he had no desire to cumpete with his friends in the mak- ing of iron. “I bought their iron cheap with a short haul,” he wrote, “and made % into bars which had a quicker sale.” "Miles and Pation had a little difficulty in selling their "Pigs" at first, tince they were newcomers in ithe market, but Benner devised the pian of bending his bar iron into roe 4 and estor, of horses and mules and driving over the mcountaing to Pills burgh. Arriving tt ere. he sold his bars as “Juniata Iron” which the furnaces at COrbisonia and Bedford had made known ic the Pittsburgh trade, for $250.00 per ton the iron which had cost him only $75.00 per ton to make and arcliver at that mar- kel, He would then sell all hig live- stock, except enough to bring his men back, and repeat the Lrips i "Benner’s migration from Chester Connty to the wilds of what later be. came Centre County, and his trips to Pittsburgh with his iron, make a theme for a story which awiats the telling by one whose research and {imagination is equal to the task is the whole history of the American ipioneer, the struggle with the ele- ments, breaking the way through ‘dense forests, fording flooded ‘streams, fighting the wild savages and selling the goods for cash af ithe end of the journey. Many othe; (iron masters came to the Centre | County iron beds and made thelr [fortunes haulifg iron and supplies lover many a weary mile, but none of (these underwent such personal dif- ficulties in their money making ai- ‘hem shape, loading it on the backs | 'empts or succeeded better than | American. (Continued on page six) | of Joshua R 1 Me ral It | a. Story of the Week: When the Bellefonte School Board nel Monday night ising Principal Fir] K. Block tossed & half dollar on the board table with ¢ “That has & then related that seve woman, who as a 12 years ago atiended the Hig hool, appeared at gave him the ball doliar ared that one d when Heller ackey was In charge me economics department h school ge (the stu- i veral classmate assigned to do some cleaning the ki While In the » of their task, she sald, on some pineapple 8 pilfered from the fifty cents, the for the lared mon insisted ver Wo similar added revival vi for« texthook, an rticle of Bupery : declaration He ARO oon story! tla Eiri somes Beliel offiox n LF is A des hyn dr 8 M A se other Mrs county Johns Aj On was bord 9, 1889 and Blanche Members of the fami husband, Ro D.: he Mr anche Croft ’ 14 Fry Mi Jlanche rofl of Altoon brother — Ji chen Coe a ry adi dec the she lefonte or stricker — Do Animals Really Beientist not Think? SRY may function out they ing Read Mar Weekly Baltimore gale at al 1H rticie in the ne American with distribut fularly y American tand the Or sun- news- either ———— gy ————— Dismiss Teacher At Lock Haven School Board Finds Mrs. Rose Flvan Schwer a Tus or a guest Yeager AIVay ger has been an ipporter of the fire companies, but h about join- However, for this Mord ardent never thought mt of the heard of the et he 1 1888 the ¢ ER one ool 1 he is that Onm- and were the or- reco - ng yt : ie! nine fund £20 y. ade a drive of ntribut ng Fry Guilty on memherehir $v » 3 had faint Three Counts contributed $20 he asked the Un- to determine whether The iat time tine secretary he is still a member secretary dusted off the old files found Yeager wld he na : and ago Mr $20 life member, 8¢ going to the banquet, and this department haz a good ugh to hake up for all the he's missed the half hat just 51 year ontributed e the 4 Sitting in § board deliberat- a half I've - 8 Hsar- been made ed for mor 1) he rl the a mo In ¢ ! belers oo { ire act . Schwer was board meeting: were found true by enough time | ones Inst fen in century —. The appointment by schon board of Thoms: Morgan as exira janitor at the Academy buliding, is a most fitting one. Tommy will re- ceive 5 monthly wage of $25 for as jong as he is employed, but department feels that the amount ware doesn't matter much % him. He was a regular janitor st the Bellefonte High school building for many years. He took pride in keeping the building clean and In good condition. He was a kind of unofficial host to teachers and pu- pils, for he had a warm greeting day in and day out to everyone en- tering the structure. When his age forced retirement several years Bgo, was with deep regret that be s brushes, mops and dust the last time. Probably in Bellefonte felt a deeper sense of personal loss than did Tommy last month when bee joved building burned. Now he is again to take care of a high school building. It the same one he worked in for so many years, but he'll be glad to mingle among the pupils and teachers again, and to feel the responsibility of keeping the building and grounds in neal and orderly condition—just og he used to do when he was a regular janitor. the Two, intemperate derangement ignored A H. Liper. attorney for Mrs Schwer, announced the case would be appealed to oo Thirty days are allowed for such appeal Mrs. Schwer dismissal with and were ths nf we salary CHEESE STUFFED POTATOES MAKE TASTY LENTEN DISH If tasty you're looking for something serve during this Lenten n, why not try this recipe for Cheese Stuffed Potatoes which | been especially prepared in Se Labo ) Kitchen Rockefeller Center - The to GOASOT has It the © s 1s at no one ingredients are: three large butter, salt and pep- teazpoon of ground of hot milk, three- of cottage cheese of chopped tomud his baked potatoes ! halt per, one-half Sage, one cup re ’ : 1 of isnt wien pt q ial and two chives Cut pola in half-length- wise, scoop out the inside and mash. Then add melted butter, and salt | and pepper to taste. Add the sage and hot milk and beat until the po- {atoes are smooth. Add the cottage | cheese and chives and pile in the ! potato shells. Bake tn a moderately hot oven for about twenty-five min- utes a cup teaspoons the taloes | “Bellefonte Had Record Low Per {Capita Fire Loss Last Year®ihis {headline stared from a time-worn Hocal newspaper in a shed where an | employe of this newspaper found It the other day. The headline refer red to 2 report made by the late | John J. Bower, Fire Marshal covers ing the work of the fire department his brothers may cost John Snyder, [during 1834. The total fire loss in of Mahaffey, R. D., who was struck (the borough was $2813, or a pet in the eye with a dynamite cap the lcapia Joss of only 55 1-4 cents for sight of his Jefe eye {the year The report is significant | 3 | The youth was drying dishes on |in view of the fact that this Pebra- the opposite side of the room {rom | ary alone the total fire loss in the his brothers when the cap which was | borough was more than $215.00 rigged up to two dry cell batteries making a per capita logs for the and exploded. Several pieces of met- {month of approximately $43 {al pierced the boy's chest and eve. | : The brothers who were conducting | ¥rom the Than Mei Company the dynamite cap experiment were | COmes an interesting booklet entits (not injured [ted “Yardsticks of Aserigan, Pro. The youngsters was rushed to the | Bess.” published by the ational Clearfield hospital where aerate | Assocation of Manufacturers The said the boy was in no danger but pamphlet shows graphically that that the sight of the eve would be | Americans are much better off than impaired 3 are those living in foreign ooun- | tries. Examples: an hour's wages ia ousewife’ the U. 8 will buy 283 baskels o ig fe's Food Almanack fond. An hours wages in Greal A gastronomical calendar with Britain will buy but 126 baskets: comment on food ideas for various | in France, 1.23; In Belgium. 111. In days of the month, Don't miss this | Germany, 1.02; In Ttaly, £5. and in helpful feature in the March 26th Russia, 4 It's the same story with issue of The American Weekly, dis- bread. butter. beef, potatoes, oof tributed with the Baltimore Sunday | fee, cigarettes. shoss, shirts, socks, On sale at all progres- |gveralls, silk stockings, dresses, ra- sive newsstands. (Continued on Page 6) - DYNAMITE CAP PIERCES MAHAFFEY BOY'S EYE —— The youthful experimentation: of KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES' — Eddie Has Misgivings WATCH! ME T MS APPrTITE ALONG, TOO. WELL, I'M Sick HO HAMM =* XT i. ' By POP MOMAND HEY! WHAT'S WHAT WAS THAT NOISE! | DID You THAT WAS ONLY TH WIND RATTLING A WINDOW X CAN SEE You'Re
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