Odd and Curious News A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each WeeR, ™ SECOND SECTION dhe Centre Democrat The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County, NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 658. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, APRIL 20 1939. NUMBER 16, Dog Saves Family A collie dog helped to save 22 per- sons from a fire which wrecked a three-story i apartment building in| Monesson. Miss Anna McGinness, # | tenant, awoke about 4:30 a. m. find “Buddy,” her bedclothing and sniffing at her face. Realizing the apartment was filled with smoke, she aroused her Police arrived a few and fired several pther tenants, Soon after the occupants escaped, flames broke | fram the windows and roof, and the | floors began to collapse. Cat a Pole Sitter A Philipsburg cat, her collie, tugging at! to i last | | suffered fatal address un- known, was saved by firemen Sun- { his truck BEECH CREEK RESIDENT KILLED AT RAILROA His Truck Crashes MILL HALL D CROSSING father, who telephoned an alarm W. L. Glock, 47, Suffers Fatal Injuries When | minutes later | shots to arouse | Into Train; Failed To Hear Warning Signal Believed to have been confused { by a whistle blowing at the Mill Hall fire house near the rallroad cross- ing, W. L. Glock, of Beech Creek, | injuries about 1:45 Saturday afternoon, when | struck a Pennsylvania | o'clock day afternoon after setting a Phil- | Railroad train. He would have been ipsburg pole-sitting record of 12]47 years old on Monday long hours. Notified of the cat's dis- tress by Thomas Nixon, the Phil-| heen the crossing which has other fatalities railroad scene of The jpsburg service truck was put Into!is approached from a curve. The action and firemen scaled a 40- foot | fact that the fire whistle was being ladder to bring the cat tw safety | tested when the accident occurred from the high perch where it had | is thought to h been teetering gingerly. The rescue | from hearing wave prevented Glock ; the warning signal of was made on Spruce street between | the train Tenth and Eleventh, to the rear of | David Williams’ home. Human Mousetrap Goldfish gulpers, take a back seat! Now comes John Poppelreiter | of Wheaton, Ill, University of Iliin- ois freshman, who can teil grandchildren he ate five baby mice with lettuce. John prepared his eso- | phagus with cottage cheese and | pineapple juice, dunked the mice in mayonnaise and wrapped them in lettuce and downed them. For that he collected a $10 bet. “IL was a cinch.” he explained, “although the tails tickled a little.” Misplaced Toothache Ten- places Deette Smith Orawa, lo, was playing with her pet fox terrier when she started to cough. When her condition became serious and an X-ray indicated safety-pin was causing the trouble, she was rushed to Sioux City. Phy- siciang probed for the : safety pin in her throat but found a dog's tooth | little The safety pin was found fastened under Deetle’s bib Got Mouthful A dog owned by Lawrence Bower, of Calvert, Lycoming county was found early one morning with = < its mouth full of porcupine quills. | re- | some | Mr. Bower reported that he moved more than 260 quills, of which were imbedded quite deep- ly Inside the animal's throat. The dog suffered considerable pain as a result of its encounter with the por- cupine. Mute Saves 25 The alertness of Joseph Soldi, 7- year-old deaf mute, of Jersey City, was responsible for saving the lives of twenty-five persons. While play- ing in front of his home, Joseph saw smoke coming from a nearby tenement building and sounded the alarm in time 10 save the occupants of the bullding and possibly those oi four surrounding buildings MN . 3 » His Mistress’ Voice When a woman living several blocks away telephoned Mrs. Clara Wood, of Pocatello, Idaho, that the latter's police dog was romping in| her yard, Mrs. Wood told her to put the dog's ear to the telephone. “Ted.” she commanded, “You come right home.” “Within two minutes” she said, “Ted was back home.” Plastic Glass A glass that will strelch but not shatter has been developed after six years of research by the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia is laminated with plastic-Polyvinly acetal resin and is sald to be aboul five times more elastic than ordin- | ary types of safety glass and may roiled up like a rug Wren Takes Coat When C. B. Adcock, of Roxboro, N. C.. went 10 get his coat that he kad left hanging on a tree a day or | two before, he found a wren sitting | serenely on four tiny eggs which she had laid in an inside pocket. Ad- cock will let the coat remain until the wren can raise her family. Ee a ——— Brave Little Girl Dies From Burns Suffered Six Months Ago { i skull { cally { | 1 his | { | { | | Fire, of | i | | oeer 1py the 5 | whic | buildin i worked fast {in the second taken to the a [fractured Before he could be | hospital he died of His glasses were found ironi-| unbroken in the truck cab Mrs. W. J. Shoemaker, acting cor- oner for Clinton county, investigat- ed, but had not decided on Sunday whether an inquest would be held Atl the time of the accident Glock Mill Hall School | Annex Destroyed Starting in Home Econ- omics Room, Causes $12,000 Damages Fire, which broke out about 12:20 last Thursday noon badly damaged the Home Economic room and chemistry room of the Mill Hall | High School. These departments econd floor of the gym- | m annex, the latter suffering | damage except for the water h seeped through The fire did not enter the main ; as the Mill Hall Fire Com- pany, assisted by the Hand-in-Hand Hose Cc mpany Lock Haven fine the flames floor of the annex The firemen pumped water from Fishing Creek, and in about three- quarters of an hour had the fire under control. As far as could be | established, there was no one in the | ! DAasiy of O O06 {annex when the blaze started. i 3 i Damage to the home economics | room was estimated by Principal D Bruce Lytle at from $12.000 to $15.- | 1000. The chemistry room next door | suffered largely from smoke damage. | The gymuoasium below was inundat- | (Continued on Page Eight) ———— — i S——— Find Body of Man in P.R.R. Ry Victim of Drowning Was a Guest at the Blair County Poor Home The lifeless body of a guest at the Blair County Home, Harry A. Coop- et. was discovered floating in the Kettle reservoir of the Pennsylvania railroad Saturday morning by a milk truck driver who was passing the reservoir. When first discovered by Lester McCool, an employe of the Hargh- | most | barger Dairies, the body of the The glass! { the dead man to his brother, be | { Blair county, | the deceased, who Is a former em- drowned man was in the water about ter: feet from the breast of the dam Identification of the body was mafle by means of a letter writien by | telling him of his intentions lo take his own | Life Coroner Chester Rothrock of notified the brother of playe of the raliroad test depart- ment, James Cooper, the brother, explained that the suicide had been a semi-invalid from his youth Deceased was a native of Wil- liamsburg. The only survivors are ‘a sister, who is also a guest at the | county home, and the brother, | James. {in the cemetery | Hurls { that of any other { regarded as a foregone ; by every citizen in town | And it probably would have come | same ease and grace | was enroute to a mill corn from his small farm at Beech Creek. He was born in Beech Creek township and was a machinist for the Piper for a number of years had been employed in the Pennsylvania Rall- road shop at Renavo He was a 32nd degree Mason, Kuight Templar and a Shriner was a ber of the Lodge of Red Men, a member of the Beech Creek School Board and master the Beech Creek Grange Surviving are his wife DeLong. of Blanchard; at home: two brothers Haven; Monte, Mili Hall, three ters, Ada, Lock Haven; Mrs. Ella Bowman, Mill Hall, and Mrs. Stella Maves, Howard, Centre county Funeral services were held at the Church of Christ Blanchard 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the Rev. Willlam M. Long, Mill Hall, officiating, and burial made opposite the church a He of Ellen Clair Lock Si8~ nee 50nN John, at with cm— Sa ———— Low Fatality Record The only community among with populations between 000 and 10.000, which went through the vear 1928 without a single traf- fic fatality, was Jeresy Shore. There were placed on the honor roll of such municipalities, by the National Traffic Safely Council 157, of which 17 were in Pennsylvania those First THiness though she is 81 years ol F. Morrison, of Elkin C the doctor for the first time life tly when she feil Al Mrs Nunle called N in her recer and fractured her hip Su - in m———— unusual crop of ght this year Wr spring poetry Is report an in at Parvin with | Alreraft Corporation and | 150 an Odd Fellow and a mem- | Getting the Latest Reports on National Affairs Bul In Weight To Three Battleships Public avell Work: Administration Engineer, C. E. Strausser, CG. Douglas Andrews, Director, Reg jon No. 1, at the State College $5000 - Program ! Ww completion erected In Centre the financial Public Works Ad- cost $480 824 00; ided by Lhe | ng | re ported As ale PWA, th 000 00 Expansi 88: schools to OK m ag i ity through ipation of the have wi Tren row » while the remain- | ovided by PWA in Cenire Highway erected of projects Counly consist Slate Garage, Home for the Ind Ad- 1 to Philipsburg Ho al. Bew- Plant at Bellefonte Hock at Rooky NUAry we total o which ta Lo $897 052 00 and 6% of provided by PW resting Lo nots Wig Ct ent ELE Fea or. | Pal | posible { tar H three tons new welght to that of battieshing of 35000 total weight of the 284,524 000 pounds The ¥ x | 142.24 T wr project Cen of 29,735 modern trp present a rT ONE tor nearly equal to one Bulldings reat of the hen fr fal assis. wks Adminis- Educational many time; Naval tonnage This has all through the fina the Public We ahs § ned rid { trat ew i | Wor the | are | plate A e Public for which 510.286 00 total HBT oontem- Bulid- otis made Lo th iministratior L of 81,775 available ma fority these o YE i Were A va of P is are for School 8-YEAR-OLD ALTOONA GIRL FATALLY SHOT BY BOY PLAYMATE Accidentally Killed While Sitting In Kitchen Of Hollidaysburg Home Where She Was Visiting Friends to find the girl in a pool of blood A physician whe dered her take Altoona. Bhe o'ciock In uffering Her ition Lime her pthorities sal Cr Shot in the forehead by a mate Sunday afternoon while {ing at the home of Albert near Reservoir, Hollidaysburg 1. Mary Ellen Steckroth, & toona, died Bunday night o'clock in Mercy Hospital The girl, a daughter of Steckroth, was sitting on a chair the Socey kitchen when she was fatally wounded Willlam Vogel, 12 was listed by State Motor Police Private Richardson as the boy who accidentally discharged the buliet The officer the boy was | examining the rifie while sitting on a chalr the kitchen { from the girl. He found the chamber 'emapty when he first looked into i but pumped a cartridgs from the magazine into chamber unknowingly and pulled trigger it was learned Breaking across buliet struck Mary temple above the lodged in her iin The Bocey hot: rs 4 talking play- visit - Bocey RD of Al- al 8.43 was onal Mer admitted fan un CLO On fa tremenado 108 oona Was of agiming a Oscar in of ai woner Ches told calibre Was 22 3 0ross firing Lhe thu chfmataly & proximately a Old Rifle Wounds Mackeyville Boy br family ving roo rus he were Younger Brother Weapon While Was in Bam Wolfe Heads Regiment Discharges Col Wolfe, of ITE, Way am ng of ti Cavalr Pennsy) W Col. Lieut Lowish officer ment Samue]! B named « 103rd valila rt we icer: Tyvrom thumbe Vietim mano Reg nal Guard ional « at new 22nd week Nati Lhe ne AV~ roo meetin B "nf nna up oi Irv announced Liu a ’ y ww of Of Gf an and Lewis rive i roximately THE BIRTH OF A COUNTY SEAT by Act of Assembly, created In Cen- 1800, When tre county was | there arose the necessary and just- | ly important duty of deciding where the county seat should be located How this determination was arrived | ! at, furnishes a rather amusing side- Hight to the many chapters of local history Bellefonte, having been laid out five year James Dunjop and James Esq. had already assumed considerable consequence as a town and was generally conceded the avorable in the malter stabil si~ before » and Col ed by of choice The population not only exceeded community in the county but Included as weil of the more influential and cultured families. In addition, its supporters looked lence, which upon as the greatest argument in its | favor Therefore, with tion for growth and its advantage position, coming an easy its recommenda- and choice for the es- tablishment of the high seat of lo- | cal government. Its selection wis about with the that its assurance denoted, had not another town unexpectedly forth a claim for the same honor many | | its central lo- | cation added the factor of conven- prominence, | of geographical | Bellefonte bid fair to be-! conclusion | put | Bellefonte Wins By a 'Boatload’ seven hills, Bellefonte, often referred to as the town "built upon " owes its choies ghithe county seal to a clever trick perpetrated by several of its pioneer citizens. Had it not been for the County be I now rg jail would area of Miles) Jeli jovel This bold contender for the ty seat privilege was none than the neighboring community Milesburg, which had the reputat {of being one of the oldest ments in the count Thus | involved in a spirited rivalry burg could not boast of the same growth in population, but what it lacked in this respect tt made up with an intellectual equivalent A i number of fine families had estab- {lished permanent homes in the lit- tle town that lay In the heart the Bald Eagle Valley Milesburg had one argument convincing In its favor that threatened to overthrow Bellefon! | position for first place The citizens of the town poir to the fact that Milesburg was cated al the head navigation Bald Eagle Creek and thus occup a more strategic position for handi ing the Increazing that must be done by boat Cot other f an the two ow: $8 soon became Miles of 80 $ Fy tt ty wo on prt Planning Scout Meeting at Fair One Provisional Troop To Be! Entertained Week of June 12 to 20 local headquarters of the Juniata | valley Council announced on Pridas | ‘that a long distance telephone call was received from Lorne W. Barclay, National Director of Camping of the i Boy Scouts of America. in connee- Tiny Beverly Ann Watson's days and seemed to be recovering. Her of playing “Missus” little six-year-old daughter are over. The! burns had all healed with the ex-! of | { ception of a spot the size of a fifty Maurice and Elizabeth Watson, of | cent piece. { Philipsburg, died Sunday night af-| ter saying, “Mommy, hands, both of them.” hold my of the four The strain of her experience, and operations for skin | | grafting which followed, proved too For nearly half a year she was a! i much and her health seemed to fail patient in the Philipsburg State | { during the past week. While in the | Hospital] with burns covering two- H hospital she had two blood transfu- | thirds of her body. She died at 10:25 o'clock Bunday might from a heart condition resulting from the burns. Beverly was burned October 27 when she was playing “Missus” near the rear of the grade school building, close to her home, with a playmate, Dorothy Jean Eyerly. Waste paper was burning in an open fire pit and the wind swept up a piece of the burning paper and blew it towards her. ~ Bhe was dressed in a long, ruffly gown and high shoes. The burning paper ignited the ruffle dress and fhe was seriously burned over two- thirds of her body before the Screams of the children brought id. She was rushed to the hospital and remained there until her death. Although it Is most unusual for a person to live with so much of their pody bwned, Beverly Ann lived sions. Her heart fluttered and stop- | ped as her mother held her hands. | Bhe was" in high spirits over Bas- | ter and most of the time up until last week. Bhe took a keen interest ed Brethren church, just across street from her home. tion with the Juniata Valley's parti- cipution in the New York World's Fai; Boy Becout Camp. Owing to the large number of re- quests being received, (only 3.500 Scouts and leaders ¢an be accom- modated during the Fair season), | Mr. Baiciay was only able to accept one provisional troop from the Ju- niate ¥ aliey Council. Reservations aad doen sent In for (wo treops, The Juniata Valley troop has been | Ber. Seouts desiring to be included BUCCess of the ocated ve it or not, our Court House and the story, ruse, somewhere along here's the to the fact that Bald Eagle Creek flowed the entire length of the val- ley, its sponsors argued that Miles- burg was more easily accgsable as & shipping point for both eastern and western markets True, they admitted had Spring Creek stream that emptied Eagle, but It was known 0 be too shallow for commercial use and could not be regarded as a navigable water course All of which were facts that could not be disputed, and t began to look as though Bellefonte would lose out. The privilege of making a Bellefonte tributary into Bald ! choice lay with the Legislature, and [| | actually (PILOT OF {in the party are urged to send in a | [8500 deposit immediately, Additional information may be | secured through loeal Boy Seoul master | Council, or Commissioner in 5 i Squirrel Craves Sweels Roy Woodhead, of near Canton {has an uninvited guest each day in | his sugar grove, zen, and laps up the sweets, Bome- times he visits every one of the hundred tubs, Mr. Woounead thinks he Is selfish, for he is reis of the treat. An invitation, is sometimes not accepted, Headquarters or from any Scou'- | pilot where he is pow | Several generations, extracting sap in tubs, placed for Theodore J. Allan, parents of Mrs. | that purpose. A gray squirrel visits LONE, knew the air pliot es a boy | the tubs daily, after the sap is fro- WhO Was a frequent visitor at their | the only when he caught his fingers squirrel enjoying this treat, and has house-trap at the Allan home. | evidently not told his fellow sguir-| i both towns put forth their best ef- forts to have that body rule in its ted | rispective favor, The fact ths! stood st the head of nave fgntion on Bald Pagle Creek seem. | ed vo operate in the direttion of its transportation | official approval Pointing | m———— As the time approached for the 2 the smaller town removed wi) frrti eChcnH be kept i His condit 2 From Philipsburg Held In Mishap known, the citi- i of Belirfonte became spurred | to more than ordinary efforts to | | overcome their rival's claim. Hope { of success hung by a slender thread, | for there seemed 10 be an insur- | mountable argument in favor of {| Milesburg The controversy became stant! topic for conversation those who gathered in Tavern, one of the poy places for travelers in the early days of the town. The old tavern flourished for many years on South Spring street on the ots now occu pied by the buildings extending from the Decker Garage to Brach- bill's store mite Lo be made Charged With Using Cars Without The Owners’ Permission a oonh- among Gallagher's tar stopping Dalias Keith and William Kyler were arrested by and brought answer charges ing cars the owners The story Is told that one, Mich- aol Travett, first suggested to the crowd of loungers assembled one evening in the long low-oriling bar- room. how the emergency might be met and the coveled prise secured for Bellefonte. It was a bold ruse that Travett proposed. but he soon found many volunteers to carry it |TiEnt front tire blew out through. If it falled they had noth- | An Investigation by the police dis- ing to lose. Its success would bring (closed that the wrecked car, a Ply- everlasting prestige to Bellefonte. It Mouth and owned by Mr. and Mrs wis 8 brazen piece of strategy, but [Frank Myers of Phi Hpsburg worth trying ‘been taken from a Phill That night, as tradition relates, a | {age without the owner's band of 8 hall dozen or more pat- 2nd had been riotic Bellefonte citizens started op Mission a waler voyage down the rocky | According {o the police Keith | course of Bpring Creek {taken a car owned by Miss fine Hall, of Phill peburg, from (Continued on Page Eight) Ri dpe Pe 5 : burg ay motor Bellefonte of taking an the state ge lice io fail to driv- of . without permission An accident in Blair county Anrtl 7. in which Dallis Keith. of Sands Ridge, and Carry Millander Clear- field, an occupant of the car, were involved led to the investigation The car which Keith is said to have been operating crashed when sa ure psburg gar- permission driven without per- | had Cather the CLIPPER KNOWN BY MILL HALL FAMILY! The story and photo of James w. | Walker, Jr. 30, third officer and | of the trans-Atlantic Pan- | the | American clipper carried by the | | Metropolitan newspapers recently | | bore more than a passing interest | for the Rev. and Mrs. W. M. Long, fof Mill Hall Friends of the Walker clan for | Mr. and Mrs home in Charleroi. Mrs recalls several boyhood | incidents the officer, particularly | in a Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Walker, the | officers’ grandparents, and his par-| ‘ents, Mr. and Mrs. James Walker, casuaily extended, | 2nd, were also acquainted with Mrs. | much to learn and the smarter they | | complaining Long and the Allan family. The | Walker home {ipsharg. Motor police traded cars at Sendy Ridge with a group of youths from Philipsburg Police said the car the vouths had {been driving was owned by Mr Mrs. Myers and had also been taken {from the garage After the trading of cars Keith is said to have driven off in the Myers {Continued on page eight) Co —— wes in Daisytown | Washington county, just outside of { Charleroi -~ MUNSON MAN HURT IN QUEER ACCIDENT | Squeened between a car door and | 8 tree Clyde Willlams, 27, Munson, i was seriously hurt Saturday morn- | ing oni the Biack Moshannon road Williams was hanging on the side of a ear which was pushing a pre- ceding car when the vehicle Wil- | liams was on struck a tree. The door which Williams was holding swung! Spen and pinhed him against the | To Attract Tourists, The Pennsylvania State Publicity Commission relessed a report show. { Ing that out of the $500,000 appro- | priation made by the 1937 Legisla- ture, the sum of $45000 was spent | for printed matter. This amount purchased 1.250700 booklets, maps, | pictorial folder and a special folder rays will be taken at the Phii- | y re | ipsburg State Hospital to determine | = Tr New York World's Fair. | how seriously Williams was injured | p | Even the smartest individual has | - Gnashing Teeth James Procior of Pittsburgh ask ed for a divorce from May Proctor i get the better they know it | tures (false teeth) at me” had | * | was est imated by police at §390 igarage and had driven around Phil. ! said Keith and | (Ung so enthus-~ Iw going he boroug 8 time! i the police Wo Mayor Hardman P r fines every vic i $0, they] take Prosecution he Peace Coun- g mond Om ms before I vy avd has 4 § pen make a instruc gc oy 30 fev issie on decided This weeks After that what » will never the you can please ance be any dif- present borough lors] hardware display store signs reading sale” Iz HB get- y Hoense fish? prominently licenses we ish for have £300 Damage In Crash R. Haupt of Tyrone and Har- nd Harper of Philipsburg, were in- volved in an accident at Black Mo- ¢ Saturday evening, sccord- state motor police. Both cars have been traveling highway and the the highway, lide. Damage No 28% were alleged to the center of the ¢. TH ’ 3 ied t yield ing the mars fo ool one red was injur “Houtzdele Home is Burned as Children Play With Matches with Chi are believed matches ible dren ie tn have been respons playir i Tor the burning of the John Wilkes { home | Wi | He carried buckets | designed to attract tourists enroute | ia'% Priday af- in Houtzdale ternonn The blape was kes In an ups after the {wo ! school ag® had been bv Mr shortly under playing there of water to the tioset in an asttemdt to extinguish the but was unable io do 50 and summoned the fire company Bry the time the firemén arrived discovered afre lenin fairs closet 4 dren of fire, { the interior of the “hotise was gutied i “She threw her den- | : ito the aitic. All clothing and fur- initure on the second Noor was dese troved It could not be learned wa: covered by insurance the loss rm — KEEPING up WITH THE JONESES’ — Well, It Might Have Ben By POP MOMAND Bie He I'v GLAD You CAME, DOLAN ~~ LOCK
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