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BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, APRII
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1939,
SO 0 —— A SOI
SUBSC
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RIPTION--$1.60 PER YEAR
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TO LAUNCH WELFARE DRIVE
BEGIN AT DINNER, FRIDAY
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Captains and Solicitors|12 P % icipating Agencies
Plan Swift, Thorough- Serv. ® Yefinite Purpose
going Campaign i % ymmunity
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LOCAL SCOUTS TO CITE 19, F INCOME
AID IN PUBLICITY AS F oa DGE BASIS
Every Institution is Vital
To Welfare of Belle-
fonte Area
Progress Indicator at Dia-
mond Will Trace Pro-
gress of Drive
Using as its slogan, “Thanks for
the Break, Neighbor,” the fifth an
nual Bellefonte Community Welfar
drive will officially this week
The drive will be launched at a din
née: tomorrow, Friday night at the
Y. M. C. A. which will be attended b
captains and members of the various
teams and welfare officials
With the knowledge that the d
has been a success in past years and
has proved to be the best way
which to help organizations
solicitors will begin their work
the close of tomorrow's meeting | o«
Persons of Bellefonte and vicinity
are asked to welcome the solicitors
and to make an effort to give a
much as possible to worthy
cause
lewis Orvis Harvey, as president
of board of directors, heads the wel
fare organization
“Solicitors are not
are giving their time
make your contributions
(Continued on page three)
open
rive
‘anak ‘
10Cal i HOLL
at | County Hos
anpaliue
No agenci
the
beggers, bul
help h
commit- t Is es to sit back
Oo yon
and
(Continued on pege three)
= ek ass i AR
Origin of Fire
Is Undetermined
Blaze at Bernstein Store An-
nex Results in Fire, Smoke,
Water Damage
| Messenger 42 Years |
Fire of undetermined origin caus- |
considerable damage to the Sid
store on South Allegheny
Btreet about 12:39 o'clock Friday
afternoon.
The blaze was centered
second floor of an annex at the rear
of the main building, in a room in
which were stored wrapping paper
twine, store and advertising fixtures
and other little-used equipment. On
the first fHoor of the annex Were a
large quantity of footwear and some
new merchandise which was dam-
aged by water
Mr. Bernstein reports that neither
he nor any employe of his store had
been in the second floor room of the
annex for several weeks He scout-
ed the theory that a defective light
wire mit have been the cause but
added that workmen that morning
had been engaged in putting a hot
rofing compound on an adj
building and that they heated
(Continued on page three)
®
on he
ining
Paul Jones
form
National Bank of Belle-
has bee employ -
decades
of bank meés-
John
Lhe New
by the First
font by whom he
Rev. Barry, Former «io no
Clergyman, Dies
Spent Two Years in Belle-
fonte as Pastor of Luth-
eran Church
Lhe
ecentiy
than
family
for
Jones
ane time
navy, died
Having
His father, the late William
a native of England and
member of His Majesty's
here on June 8 1899
served for 14 vears as messenger at
the local bank, He was nearing 77
years of age at the time of his death
and worked as usual the day before
a heart attack ended career. He
was wi ki mmunity
(Continued on page three)
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School Board's
Position Asked
Report Taxpayers’ Group De-
lavs Action Pending Answer
a $8 pp
aie]
The Rev. Fred W. Barry. who
served {Or two years as pastor of
the Bellefonte Lutheran church and
later became the resident pastor of
the Centre Hall church. died Friday
afternoon in a hospital at High-
spire, Dauphin county, after a long
illness {
Born in Selinsgrove, the Rev
Mr. Barry was the son of the late
Rev. David Rittenhouse Porter Bar-
ry and Rebecca Kuhn Barry. After
graduating from Susquehanna Uni-
versity in 1907 he was chosen to
serve as pastor of the Lutheran
church in Bellefonte, where he re-
(Continued on page three)
is
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lely known in the ¢
to Plea
group of
taxpayers
have held an
A
fonte
unidentified Belle-
are reported
informal meeting on
Tuesday evening to discuss ways
{and means for putting into effect
the sentiment of the citizens of the
{ borough favoring building the new
State College Boro
Sued For Damages
Angelo Intorre, of State College
has filed a damage suit for $1000
agdinst State College borough as the
result of injuries he claims to have
received on April 2 when he tripped
and fell on a section of broken
sidewalk.
The sidewalk where the mishap
occurred, the statement of claim
avers, was in front of the Mrs. Em-
ma M. Campbell home at 428 West
College avenue The conerete walk
had been damaged where the Water | Informants declare approval
Department put a pipe, and the | Elven to a suggestion that the
walk was in dangerous condition, it | School Board be afforded full op-
fe alleged | portunity at its hext regular meet-
Intorre says he suffered cuts | 0g 10 frankly state itg position in
about the right eve and chin, had | the matter without qualifying pro-
two front teeth brofen, and had | Visos, so that further procedure may
other injuries {be determined by what the Bchool
- | Board does at the meeting in ques-
Store Ownership Changes | tion.
The Bottorf Brothers Boot Shops! These conclusions were arrived at,
in Bellefonte and Clearfield are now | it is reported, When it was explain-
under few management and are ed that the State Department of
trading under the name of McClure | Public Instruction would not arbi-
Boot Shops. Bill Waite, who has |trarily disapprove a specific recom-
been employed in the local store for mendation by the School Board that
gome time, has been retained asthe new High school be built on the
manager of the establishment, old site,
legheny and Linn streets
A public meeting to give expres-
iglon to the sentiment against Jo-
leating the Bellefonte High school
in Spring township was
urged, it is stated, but action on the
suggestion was deferred for the
present out of courtesy to the
| 8chool Board
was
|
High school on the old site, at Al-1
strongly |
Into Bridge
9
i, Howard, R.
D., Succumbs at Lock
George Falls,
Haven Hospital
MACHINE SKIDS, RIDER'S
HEAD STRIKES GIRDER
Anglers Witness Accident
Near Eagleville; Funeral
Held Tuesday
‘red Saturday
30 o'clock
when
at the
Cieorge
ward, RD
of Philips
ae
D. Rosen
State Motor Police
of the © that
motorcy
pinion
road at an
foe
the i}
trike
BriK
a metal
William Rupert of Eagleville Sta-
won TISTIE nearoy in
aid the cy
at the rider would have bee
the creek had
me
the creek
le crashed with such
force th n
stig irr :
hurled to
toy $ t
(Continued on page sight)
be caugnt
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GRAND JURY
T0 CONVENE
{15 Indictments Scheduled for
Presentation; 11 to
Plead Guilty
Fifteen criminal indictments
scheduled for presentation to the
Grand the May of
Court when th body convenes here
Monday mot District Ati
Musser W announced yes-
terday
Belore Grand Jury
Hberation !
HDETR i
are
Jury for
term
at
ning Ney
Cetin
the begins its
other
TRONS charged crime
re expected finding:
he Grand Jury and enter pleas
tte
ity
owever, eleven
witli variou
to waive the
n unusual feature of t
activities In Court
jomestic relations case is
to be heard next Thur:
regular time for hearing
domestic relations, appeal
other similar matters. Usually
are from six to a dozen such
tion, at which time
also are heard pleas of guilty on the
part of a number of defendants
wgainst whom the Orand Jury has
returned true bills
(Continued on page three)
Ea -—e
oming
he «
t that
anda
there
actions
listed for the =
TRCZIYULNY CEMETERY
GROUP GETS CHARTER
The Trezivulny Cemetery Associa
tion at Milesburg
preparing for a general renovation
of the historic old cemetery near
that community.
The comunitiee, consisting of Mrs
Florence Pelers, CeoOfge Newman
and Charles Sheckler, makes an ap-
peal to all lot holders to clean up
lots before Memorial Day. Services
will be held there at 11 o'clock that
day and a special effort is being
made to have the cemetery in as
presentable condition gs possible
Lot owners living at & distance
may have their lots cleaned at a
nominal cost by getting in touch
with any comimitiee members.
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| 3-Foot Boy Plus
Stick, Cord Line,
Equal 18-in. Trout
“Huckleberry ¥inn” came to life
on Monday morning when little
Bobby Reeder, son of Wilbur Reed-
er of this place, who resides with
his grandmother at Red Roost,
came into the office displaying an
{18-inch brown trout weighing 2
pounds and one ounce, which he
had caught on the day previous,
To make the {llusion complete,
Bobby, who Is six years of age, car-
ried his improvised fishing tackle
with him which of a six-
foot switch off a willow tree, a
length of cord for a line and an or-
dinary hook. And the bait, he in-
angle worm.
Bobby picked his trophy from the
waters at the end of the trestle
nédr McCoy's dam on Sunday af.
ternoon, and while he deserves full
credit for hooking it, he admits
Hai ne had to have help In landing
-
Going to church is a habit that, at
the worst can't do you any harm,
last week receiv. |
ed its charter and the group is now |
formed us was a common black |
DEMONSTRATION
HOME TO OPEN SATURDAY
putting finish hie Bellefonte High school bulld-
3elle font 130 LANE 1s being placed around the sam-
1 be With the school building
be demolished in the
authorities de
rather u
rulned during the de
perations
f
placed In 1 ale : house, of
Workmen Lhe
ing touche
demonstration
are
to
w
home Wis
which
on i |
on | t nn 1 Lure chool
furnished from 10} ide ell 0
1ncls Nt
pend
caped
opened to the public Sat
I'he lu
street, |
'
Oo
me, located
being we sod mn
m, the
land
Dott 5
gro
odded and
being frame construction
pectic by Liz= ull concrete block 1
b
thing |
‘ : unda
are sel « “
concrele
he building contains a
lining room, kitchen
ms, a downstaln
ndry, furnace
rage, Exterior
ndeck the
in the west side
iva
game
feature
room
at rear i“
and
on t t sige
iw Th
ng Om Is B powger
opposite end is a
}
fianked on both ides
wIR anes
lead Into the dining
m the aming
he wWalnaocoting the
sidewalls of
water]
fr room tw
in
well as the
of a roo!
Linol
th is Cee
DEINE
Housing
are
Ke SQuUAres
Kitehen a
¢ floor
trouble
hroughout
" niet ,
Imindstre This
tration Tif ths
Power
nte
demon
Per
Bell
xi La
the
with
good for
Ervice
Wn and is
the frees
Commerce the home are
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Junior Board Member MH. B. Shattuck
I Dies At College
Was
Former County Survevor,
Penn State Professor
Borough Engineer
B Shittuck professor
at Penn State for
Surve
4 £1
years
and at one
Engineer
bis home on West
State Coliege, at
morning alter
condition
a1y: fg
¢ LCOnts yor
Belieionte Porough
away at
avenue
cock Tuesday
iness with a heart
He was in his 66th ver
we Holder of a bachelor
gfpwe atl Dartmouth College, and
8 sindlar degree al Penn State, Pro
fossa! Shattuck awarded =a
technkal degree § vil engineer at
Penn Rate in 1915, after completing
th, he was
on Electri
» following year
entered a
in November
] Was employed
Hotel, Lakewood N. J
pring of 1901 he was
assistant in civil engineering
(Continued oh page three)
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medical
1900 to Ant
:
¢ Pine:
1 he
William t th
East Bishop
Was elecieg as
Bellefonte sche ;
pice of James R. Hughes, resigns
Mr. Tr
probably youngest
tc be a member of the local
board. He Is a sn | 1 ang
Calvin {f Bouth Th
Troup, of
sireetl
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- Al the morning services in the
| Milesburg Baptist church, Sunday
a large key was presented to the
ing people of the church by Rey
end L. Sheetz, symbolizing the turning
: badmad =a over of the duties of the church to
Legion Anticipates Huge , ~~ ©
Throng Here For District The Youth Week idea is to pre-
pare the young members for future
Convention work in the church and to create
mare interest in the duties
The week officially
the presentation of the key to the
youthful members
The young people realize their
responsibility and are working at it
(Continued on page four)
{OPEN BIDS ON FURNITURE
FOR COUNTY POOR HOME
in the &
meiner named
| board to take
Wipe aa YEArs
Person
wb
wi
* Young People
Conduct Church
Boys And Girls of Milesburg
faptist Congregation in
Charge of All Activities
the
na
Preparations for the 23rd District
American Legion Convention
Flag Day celebration to be held
the Brooks-Doll post No. 33
Bellefonte on June 14 are moving
forward steadily. Already over 150
Veteran and Legion posta have been
invited to participate
The Fire Departments
tended invitations to over 100 fire
companies and from present indi
cations the response is most prom
Ising
1 ‘
{ The contract for street decorat-
ing will be awarded within the next
{few days. Pree outdoor attractions
{10 be presented in conjunction with
the legion Carnival from June 8
to 14 will be selected during the
next week
{
BG
have ex
Bids on furnishings for the Cen-
tre County Poor Home were open-
missioners, Tuesday afternoon
Bids were submitted on 14 groups
With as many as 39 separate tems
in each group. The work of reading
and tabulating the bids required
four-and-a-half hours of work,
Members of Hunter & Caldwell,
Altoona architects, who are study -
ing the bids with the view toward
making a recommendation to the
Commissioners on Monday, late yes-
| With no less than 60 drum snd
{bugle corps, bands and veterans
from all parts of Central Pennsyi-
yania, and not less than 50 fire
departments with equipment sched:
uled for participation, there is as-
surance of a record-zhattering Flag
Duy celebration
In addition the Chamber of Com-
{merce Is supervising parade entries
by organizations, fraternal orders,
and until that work is completed it
11s impossible to name the high and
low bidders
The contracts for furnishings are
expected to be awarded by the In-
Boy and Girl Scouts and other cv- stitution District, Monday, after the
lc bodies, further contributing to 8rchitects have determined the
the magnitude of the June 14th 8Mounts of bids on each item
Convention and Fag Day celebra- Among local business places bid-
(Continued on page sight) ding on various items were Hazel
& Co, Brachbill's Furniture store,
and the Electric Supply store.
Emergency Crop Loans
| Colonel Louis EB. SBchucker, State
{Bupervisor of the Emergency Crop
Loan Office, will be In Bellefonte at
ithe Post Office on Tuesday, May 9.
{at 1 p. m. for the purpose of accept-
Hing appilcations for “seed and feed
loans. THis will be the last meets
{Ing In this county for accepting ap- ©ity and posted bond for court, It
plications for 1939 spring loans 50 | IS reported that a part-payment has
farmers wishing to apply should be | been
certain to be at the Post Office 8t |
the time shown,
Post Bail Fer Court
Charged with issuing a worthless
check for $41 in Philipsburg more
than a year ago, Mrs. Pred G
Johnson, of State College, Saturday
Waived & hearing before Justice of
the Peace Eugene Lederer in that
of science
began alter |
ed in the offices of the County Com- |
4 Miners Held BELLEFONTE WOMAN, AGED
or Court In "78 "DIES IN FALL AT HOME
Mine Damage
Mrs. Mary Miller Suec-
Philipsburg Men Charged Lala 4
With Malicious Mischief; cumbs To Head Injury
After Accident
TO SPEAK HERE
FE
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All Post Bonds
FUNERAL SERVICES
SATURDAY MORNING
Was Native of French-
ville; Widow of Late
Conrad Miller
CLARENCE MEN FREED
IN DYNAMITING CASE
Charge Dismissed by "Squire
Because of Insufficient
Evidence
Philipsburg
court on
hiel grow
hg cul of damage 10 the John
traithh mine April 13
ing before Justice of
E.R Hancock at Philipsburg
day
They bond of
alter being fined $10 and «
1 & charge of trespassing
Arrested
Galbraith
near Osceola
Joseph Shiroke
George Bocle
Joe Fetoenko
D
According to the operator, a group
of men Old him April 11 they
would not disturb anything if work
was stopped at once. Galbraith said
no one worked the foliowing
On the moming of April
contended, six carloads of men
MCT Q 8 icKeters Tive
aMcTibe as pickets afTived (Continued ou page four)
(Continued on page four) —
from lie
for
ASL
Four
vicinity
har
men
were
res of
heid
maidicion
Cal
sfler a heat
Peurs
Mon-
Lhe
$700 each
usts each
posted a
oh information
owner of
Mills, the men
George Hurtock and
all of Hawk Run
Jr, of Philipsburg
and
R
basement as
had fallen
investigating she
r prone the
ob ject
Qay
he i
¢] on
13 Mille
he De
at
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SHIFT TROOP
10 ARTILLERY
Order Becomes Effective June
17; Guard Unit Will
Lose Horses
Captain Herbert M. Beeser
manding officer of Machine Gun
Troop, 103rd Cavairy, yesterday re
erived official notice that the Belle- Sun
foute Nations! Guard unit teen Fhe other day
redesignated as Batlery E 16611 aged about 16
Field Artillery. The change becomes | Vhe Hoffbrau on
offer on June 17, the day the to Thoma
cal Guardsmen go ote their an t
nual two weeks encampment at
Indiantown Gap
The chie! significance of the re-
| designation lies in the fact that the
troop’s 32 horses will be assigned to
other guard units, while the Belle
fonte organization will be supplied
instead, with artillery units includ-
ing trucks, station wagons, and field
pleces
As
Gives Town Place
Minnow Masticator |
In Gulping Sun |
Ps ea
Mrs. G
{and the
carried upetair:
were in attendance until degth
(Continued on Page Eight)
New Records At
Cooking School
Attendance larger Than
Ever; Display Proves At.
tractive Feature
|
Bellefonte citizen Al Cal
heads proudly in the knowledge that
¢ RUDPY-Rulpers, angieworm as
simniiators, lve while mice eaters
aml others wo have brought fame |
to themselves ang promunence
their home towns by eating various
forms of fish, bird and salad life
alive, this town made its big!
{ “ livestock eating
Ca¥
LO
weg
oom-
Nas
piace in the
Tank BSciablea
employed at
East Bishop street
Caldwell be
Bellef
re
who Is
With the close of the annosl
hree-day cooking school sponsored
The Centre Democrat, last Fri-
SEVETal NEW records were es-
Atlendances at the ses-
M. C A gymuasium
81 any previous
and We programs
tive
at if Was
vrtige one had
ng
EW SRR Pers
the tech a
DeCaluse nN
alive for the bene
Sciabica Sons in Lhe ¥
wn by larger th
the dav for ing school
good old Bellefonte by grabbing a generally conceded to be the
fve fishing minnow out of a min- inleresling and instructive
now pail, flipping fish into his presented
mouth and sending it on ts way to The electric kitchen set up on a
fame and fortune. The only error platform ane end of the room
in his technique his fallure % | wa: more complete than any pre-
call out newspaper reporters, and | viously used and demonstrated
photographers Ggain the time and labor savings
He claimed to possible through a well arranged
effects after the fish quit kitchen
. - An Interesting feature
school was the display of electric
appliances by various dealers in
Bellefonte, who exhibited ranges, re-
(Continued on Page 3)
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C.F. Tate Dies
~ Last Night After
Lengthy lliness
to forest Clarence F. Tate, for nearly 30
flames | Years 8 well known Bellefonte
Monday | plumbing contractor, died at his
men, work- | home on West High street st 9:15
direction of | O'clock last night after a lingering
i liness. He was 71 years old last
| Friday
Mr. Tate had been bedfast since
ali
Caldwell, and saved
the
at
wha
§
has been the case for
years in the past, the local
(horses will be sent to camp two
weeks in advance of the departure
of the troop, in order that the
horses may be used by other Na-
(Continued on page three)
Begin Demolition
of School Today
Clam-Shell Will “Rite Off”
Sections of Brick Walls;
Legion Buys Stene
— Monday
Work on the demolition of the able destruction to farm
Bellefonte high school building will | 2s well as untold damage
begin today, Edward Kofman, of and wildlife The
Kofman & Co. Bellefonte, an- were got under
‘nounced yesterday. Mr. Kofman (night by large crews of
has secured the necessary bonds, ing under the skilled
and his price of $1950 for the de- wardens
imolition of the structure has been For a time the village of
accepted by the School Board crest, two miles west of State Col-
The brick walls will be torn down '¢g¢, was threatened by flames, but | three years sgo when he suffered a
with the use of 8 clam shell Kof- the Alpha Fire Company aided by | Series of strokes. The imihediate
man said yesterday. The machine, other volunteers baitled the ap- | cause of death, however, was & cold
{being brought here from Lock Ha- | Proaching forest fire and saved the | Which he contracted Friday and
ven, will literally “bite off” sections (Continued on page four) | which caused a fatal congestion
of the wall and carry them to the | | Mr. Tale was » son of Poster and
ground, preventing excessive break- Elizabeth Tate and was born at
{age of the bricks. Kofman has de- Coleville on April 21, 1868. He was
&Ome
troop
felt no ill
flopping
have
sin
of the
Forest Fires Cause
Heavy Damage!
Flames Burn Over Wide Area
in Barrens; Many Homes
in Danger
Forest fire
area of the
over a wide
rth of State |
consider- |
property
B
arren nD
College causing
raging
control
Woody -
DRIVE AGAINST OVERTIME
PARKING IS EFFECTIVE
terdiy declared that the bids have |
not ben broken down and analyzed, |
{termined upon a method for the | united
quick cleansing of the hundreds of
[thousands of bricks he expects to
salvage from the building and he
{is offering the bricks for sale
The smokestack inside the build-
ing will be dynamited Kofman said
(Continued on Page 3)
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ISTEWART-WARNER STORE
TO N SATURDAY
Ralph X. Owens announces that
he has leased the store room on
Bouth Allegheny street formeriy oc-
cupied by The Smart Shop, until
his room next door has been remod-
eled.
The tem place of business
will open on y 5th and 6th, at
which time a complete line of Stew-
art- Warner products will be on dis-
play. This firm is one of the lar-
gest manufacturers of its kind In
the world, which was largely instru.
mental in Mr. Owens’ decision to
introduce Stewart-Warner products
to this area,
—afen’s all wool $1885 suits now
Nine cars were tagged for overtime
parking the, business district
Monday
i Dukeman, and during the latter
{part of last week the number of
tags given out was quite heavy,
| Enforcement of the two-hour
{ parking regulations is having exoel-
lent effect. Parking spaces are al-
in
singularly free of machines.
is $1, and for each
Harris for hearings
the 2-hour limit 4 in effect are
clearly marked.
Injured in Fall From Oar
George Fleck, a 54-year-old West
Decatur resident, was injured about
the face Monday evening when he
fell out of a car on the macadam
road south of West Decatur. He is
the door opened as the car was
rounding a curve, The car was
$12.50 at Sid Bernstein Ine, \d
driven by Arthur O. Kyler, also of
.
by Chief of Police Harry |
{ways available and the streets are |
The penalty for the first offense
additional of- |
fense, $2. All violators are required |
to appear before Mayor Hardman P. |
Streets where |
| in marriage with Virginia
Purdue, of near Bellefonte, who sur-
J vives with two sons Ernest CO. of
| Bellefonte, and Budd F., at home
Other survivors include s brother,
| Irvin Tate, of Coleville.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 o'ciotk Saturday afternoon
from the home on West High street,
| with the Rev. GO. E. Householder,
| pastor of the Bellefonte United
| Brethren church, officiating. Inter
| ment will be made In the Meyers
cemetery, Buffsio Run Valley.
Mr. Tate learned the plumbing
| years ago opened a small
| the alley at the rear of
establishment on West
Several yefrs later he moved
shop into the basement rooms
| the Petrikin Hall and
{chased the building in
reported to have fallen out when | v
{ville was president of the commun
ity water system.