Odd and Curious News A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. SECOND SECTION | VOLUME 68. LS —-. A Long Errand Thirty-one years ago Mrs. Kesey, of Whatland, Pa, sent her son, An- thony Kesey, then 13 10 a local grocery store to buy a gallon of kerosene. The lad never returned and was given up for dead. So the aged widow wasn't thinking of the past as she answered a sharp knock on her door, one day last week. The strange man on the threshold hela a one-gallon can in his hand, and when he spoke he sald: “Mother, it’ Tony---and I've brought your coal ofl” Mrs Kesey almost faint- ed, but was able to whisper: “Yes Tony, I know it's you" Kesey now #4, said he had worked on farms in neighboring Ohio as a runaway jJatér became ga wrestler traveling with carnivals, and recently had been living in Florida Somehow hie “never got around to” writing Jr returning home His “Bank’’ Burned For some time George Franek, an unemployed miner from the Drifting grea. had been saving his spare money for the surgical operation his wife needed. The little fund had grown to $50, which Franek hid In the wall of his cellar. Last Thurs- day afternoon while he was absent from his home, the house burned to the ground and with it his savings His wife gnd children were working in the kitchen when a neighbor rushed to the door and shouted, “Your home is on fire The flames caused by a defective flue spread so rapidly the Franek's were unable to save any of their furniture. They watched their home bum the ground unaware that there was any money in Wasted Tears A blonde woman's tears were un availing at Clearfield as a jury there found her guilty of stealing $1000 from a Youngstown trucker he woman, Miss Jo Ann Coates, charg- ed with stealing $1000 from Alle Beck sobbed in her handkerchief as the jury listened to final summari- zations. Beeing the tears Clearfield County Distriet Attorney Carl Belin admonished the jury to pay no attention to the “sob act Miss Coates will probably face a prison sentence to the house All Tied Up A half-dozen patrons pounded on the door of a state liquor stose in phia when they found It locked 10 minutes before closing time Three clerks heard the ing-—but they couldn't do any thing about it. A hold-up man had locked the door, drawn the shudes ét tht moment was taking $172 rom cash registers. He escaped through a rear door, leaving the pa- trong still pounding and the clerks, bolind with rope, lving on the store- room floor Tough Luck John Tazarek, 38 Morann miner went to work Monday for the first time in 40 days and 15 minutes lat ér was in the Philipsburg State Hospital He was injured that morning while walling in the work- ings of the Brookwood shaft near Houtzdale. His left leg was frac- tured when he was caught by a chain on a coal cutting machine He had been in the mine a few minutes and was walking to his working place when injured No Floor Show Faced by emergency, Cuyahoga county jall Inmates ‘borrowed an idea from the night clubs. They now have a cigaret girl. When the black and while calf tipped the eral days ago, the prisoners called in Dietician Minnie Wachuta She agreed to push a cart-load of candy, cigars and clgaretts around the cell blocks each day “Spirits” Real picking wild flowers at Mor- gantown, two little girls peek- ed into a on culvert and started away in Jright, informing police that they had seen “a spooky-look- ing thing” The “spirits” proved be thirteen pints and twenty-half pints of Hquor in two white pillow cases “Beggar” Rich Convicted of interfering with pe- destrians, a beggar, Lloyd Edens, 42, of New York, a paralytic who for years has dragged himself through Broadway areas on his hands and Knees was disclosed to maintain a “lavishly furnished hotel suite, has g family an automobile and a per- sonal valet.” Profit In Honor The Benton Rural Electric Associ ation of Washington recently eli- minated meter readers and asked all customers to read thelr own meters. report by postcard and makes pay- ments by money order. Manager J B. Whitehead says collections im- proved 50 per cent under the honor | gystem Well - Well When the wind blows in Oklabo- ma, it blows. Senator Lee (D-Okla) told the senate 50 in a speech. “They | hang a heavy iron log chain on 4 horizontal pole as a wind gage,” he gald. “When the log chain stands straight out, the farmers know the wind is bit they go on pitching hay.” Gets Letter Mrs. Antonia Schultz, of Seattle, | Wash, recently received a letter | from an uncle in New York who | had forgotten her new address. The | blowing. If it sags a little | NEPHEW HELD INDEATH OF TYRONE MAN WITH WHOM HE QUARRELED | Thomas Johnson Dies In Altoona Hospital of e Head Injuries, Nine Days After Being Knocked d Down In Fight Investigations Thomas Johnson eran, were into the death Of] Tyrone war vel- underway over the week end, as police detained Robert M Sprow, 28, also of Tyrone, on an as- sault and battery charge pending an inquest to be held this week Johnson died at the Altoona Ho pital on Thursday morning nine days after he received a head in jury, sald to have been sustained in a fight with Sprow Coroner Rothrock Blair county reported Sunday night that he learned both Johnson and Sprow were under the influence of liguor when the pair engaged in a street quarrel in Ty- rone, May 3rd According to Invest encountered his uncle and when his request was refused which resulted In knocked to treet and hi broken. The head injuries were al- leged to have been inflicted when Sprow picked his uncle from the street and hit him a second tims Ol gators, Sprow on the st Or money ment being leg reel DEgan an Jom Ary oo the Unserved Warrant Saved Gypsy Band Muncy R. Farmer Claims He Was Tricked Into Part- ing With “Roll” Failure of the n band of gypsies operating in LL unty last week, who were sus pected of robbing a resident of that area, cost a Mune $806.20, who becams tim of the roaming poiice yeom- dig CO the nomad It was disclosed thal a John warrant: had been against th gypsy band early in Week omplaint of William Houek, a resi- dent of Willlamsport. Houck that he paid the gypsies $10 to ¢ him his fortune and that he wag told by them to return the next day with $20 before the reading could be finished Instead of returming took his complaint to an alderman who tssied a warrant for the gypsies arrest The warrant eerved ference ment issued the he was not to a eon the police depart- magistrate over (Continued on Page 6) a 15 To Graduate From Port Matilda School The Port he Id that however the delay being due Detlween thie amt and the commencement Matilda High school in the Methodist churcl piace on Friday, June 2ne roll consists of Fave Crain, Virg Fisher Warren ih r Pai Lois Steele Virginia Travis Walk, Glady Woodring pupils are nye Weston and Cecil Walk Class motto, "Build Por Character Not for Pame ” Class colors, maroon and gold. Class flower, Talisman rose The following program will be observed Processional, orchestra (Continned on Page 6) I cias Donald Philip ne ford sti Way ana Liles Julia Elwood Weston veg, Cecil Mar jorie Honor Gladys Crain, MEL of | Sprow who trolmen Tyrone tiee Of Was Hutehison nr arrested and Falgned the Peace WV and default of bond committed to Blair county jail It was Indi- cated that aaditional charges may Mnst Sprow by Wagner betore Ju Robinson wa ii be fied ag Johnson home ister, M achel Sprow mother HH man thi as born December 25, 1877 Valle Huntingdon of ti Irvin and Cath hnson Hi time held in Case COLL one H nitday am cemete Taxi estimated at $60 A y 9 t do dent Truck Crashes Into O'clock afternoon when ¢ James W. Houtz 'rashed into the by Walter F » College, a passenger South Frazier One was uy us on BEL 0 B FONTE, PA., Happy L ——————— T HURSDAY, Zhe Centre Democraf M AY 18, 1939, andings’ Child Born To Five-Year-Old Mother sul gtr) some 1th There ¥ exact dak 37 Inche of her tall His FENN STATE SENIORS NAMED TO PHI BETTA KAFFPA 1 Lie Pennsyl- ge Liave been elect Kappa NEWS, FEATURES — NU MEER 20 ———————————— pa FIND BURNED BODY OF MAN IN BOX CAR NEAR JERSEY SHORE Victim Said to Have Been One of Group Who Built Fire In Car In Drinki The the of a man car at Jerse aut irst foul Jars dental discovery of dead body badly burned, in a box Shore on Friday thought 0 evigence play, but the Qeath WARE ved 1h She MEY Ml Deen CAMERA FANS TO FAIR MAY USE DARK ROOM Belletor New York immer will a piace 10 ¢ of bout 1 the nati THOU GHYS OF AN ( I've rafted trom Clearfield creek to Marietta, driven logs out of the Sinnemahoning and Kettie creeks peeled bark in Elk county near Ha- zglehurst and on Morris’ run, Potter and cleansed up the last vir- gin white pines in the ridges back of Howard sald old "BIL" anc cOantinuing county id ‘Bob’ ( store at hinter af unter of ‘ook, who foward wa that ran the A Een- great - locality and had ong as cats left fact 114 Wal the 1iiy good ness Hone Hall enemy The Marsh y the summits was panther I believe more panthers killed and they held on longer than In Key called ever knew =n h sworn of the Pens region ug Alleghenies and Creek of the ountry were there tion Bob 2 long benct id hunter } evenings to fight their battles and we boys gained our and courage H ated ver again inspiration tussles wit! wild cts and Bob Cook pas hearing of wolves, panthers, bears wounded buck: When od on, Howard lost something that can never be re placed, a link with big game hunt ing in Pennsvivania that will come noe more “Seth Gordon has brought back our deer hunting and if he had his | way would restore wolf and panther Worked In Wrong Office 14 Years For fourteen years, Miss Helen Yauk wilked Into the Luzerne County Treasurer's office at Wilkes- Barre, hung up her hat and coat and went to work-—-not knowing the was working in the wrong office Now, much to the astonishment of the County Commissioners, it was disclosed that Miss Yauk had been working in the County Treas- urer’s office when she should have been in the Mercantile Appraisers office SECOND PAYMENT FOR IMSPOSAL PLANT RECEIVED The second payment of the Pub- He Works Administration 45 per cent outright grant of $55800 for the construction of the Sewage Dis- posal Plant project in Bellefonte Was rece here last week, P. W A. Resident Engineer Inspector Howard FF. Meltner announced Federal Government received by lo- eal officials here matks the second | transfer of Federal funds on the | new project. The contribution of the | Federal Government enables the lo- | | cal officials to pay the contractor and also the other expenses involved | at this phase of the work. The con- | tractor in turn can pay the men empioyed on the construction site | and order the materials needed for | this project. The number of men employed has | been steadily increasing as the work progresses, The employment spread by the construction of the Sewage Disposal Plant ds not limited to thosc who are working on the site | of the project. Por every man em- { ployed by the contractor here, two letter was Sent to her in care of her | and a half other bresdwinmers have telephone number and wag promptly delivered. |» livelihood in private industry in| forests, factories cies producing and jer, The “revelation was made when Miss Yauk's services were ended and A successor appointed to take her place It was discovered that for fourteen years she had been work- ing in the wrong office. Came the comment from County Controller Robert Bierly that he had been struck with the fact that ‘It was funny the State was paving the wages Of Miss Yauk and we were getting twenty-five cents in addition for each license handled ™ = - or aR am supplying the building materials used The check received represents twenty-five per cent of the total cost of the Federal Government's contribution toward the construc tion of the Sewage Disposal Plant A 4-H Club Elects At a meeting of the 4-H club of | Woodycrest last week the following : 8 elected iss 1 The check for $12.400 from the | OfCETS were ol M ona | Rinehart. president. Jane Klinger, vice president; Louise Gill, leader; Eunice Wolford, game lead- cal leader. Mrs. Milchell Rinehart a ———-——— How's Your Luck? Watural laws do not decide your | good or bad fortune. Tt's just plain luck and a noted university professor tells you why in an enlightening il- lustrated story of the May 28th is- se of The American Weekly, dis- tributed with the Baltimore Sunday American On sale at all news- | stands. — a ——— “Few die and none resign” applies to those who hold public office and and other agen- easy jobs, (tunity to inspect the {rural organizations song | Rachel Ross, secretary; Eleanor | | Albright, news reporter. The meet- | ing was held at the home of Miss | Madeline Rinehart. Plans for the | summer were discussed with the lo- | Retired after an adven vears as logger, river-man aged native of Howard, Centre county, furous of seventeen raftsman, “Bill” Krape, is fond of reminis- Career and cing over Wik long vears in aliePennsyivania forests, This we learn from Henry W. Sh toona Tribune, who gives a f oemaker's column in the Al irst-hand word picture of the veteran riverman's recollections, the sport of he-men. but fast. We Over forestry de- nuniing HI small fame ge Id etinme: felt when James redeemed Uh partment from politics by naming Albert Btewart, of Clearfield secretary of forests and waters there was the best chance of lNok- ing the greatest destroyer of game the forest fire—we have had since Cifford Pinchot's day back in 1887 Albert Stewart, 1 bh will stop the den trees by CCC boy making wildlife homeles: I a lot about “housing problem: does this include the gEanw which has no place to hide and which gets kill automobile while searching homes? My neighbor young Mr. Fritz cut down an old hollow tree, a White oak, the other day. It was a land. mark but he said It is an seragey thing and will never make anything =o I will down her’ As it fell the dried shell cracked open and out sprang a mother grey ng pe for new oid FARMERS FIELD DAY TO BE HELD JUNE 15 thousand farmers of the Five seclions from all state ure expected at the annual Parmers' Field Day to be held at the Pennsylvania State College on Thursday, June 15 The visitors will be given an oppor- experimental barns and felds of the agricultural experiment station. Members of the staff will discuss the experimental projects The seventh annual rural chorus festival will be held in the after- noon as a special feature on the program. Only groups representing will be eligible for the music contest. The required number is “I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair” Each chorus | will also sing an optional selection. | According to R. W. Kerns, exten- | sion rural sociologist, the object of | the music festival is to stimulate a love for singing and a greater ap- preciation for the kind of music that will make a worthy contribu- tion to rural life & nest ttiest little baby We Jeli them would not neighbor, Mr them home Then popuiar protector Cirant keep them a peg we but until they Bre hohe in the freedom squire PR there £ Foprr 8 § Lia he ped grown them thell Pritz now ncient oak reaching carrect note! Wis a d to be 70, as In my [ guess 1 was born tough the oy waters i our corduroy freeze regret and realizes about saving Heads please r-Gf yi were ui al often solid would knee Nave with 2 stone so we could walk For that we got $300 a day and our | MAELHATTAN PASTOR NOW OWNS “PLOWED UP” CAR The Rev. Elwood L Elhatian, Clinton drive around to conduct services a' the churches on his charge Sunday but ina badly baliered car Late Wednesday afternoon he parked his car in a private driveway at his home Nearby a team of Bair of Mc- horses, owned by Charles Prita. also of MeElhattan became frightened and ran away The horses were hitched to a plow, and dragging this ‘behimi them they raced for the Bisir car, one ihorse went on one side. the other e went on the other side, and the plow went over the top Damages are estimated at-450 We m——————— hot ‘Swallows Cigar Representative Gary Alden, of Denver, Colo. that he swallowed his lighted cigar. | He was uninjured, but got very sick Linside return Swine sua reshoot - Heeder You oan wire and cutting all the of CCC hard life to our trousers and we to crack the ice at the county, was able wo became so excited | iwhile listening to legislative debate | LD RAFTSMAN a complained and Pat Flinn, or Pat ©O’- I Big Foot’ Blackwell was Uke coming home They surely treated us if we were of the am- iy and we will always hold such men in grateful gnemor; While rafting had Iu it was nothing compared driving and while Cherry MoCleery was generally considered bravest of the brave, we alway: Joe Colberth, Chet Zimmerms Bammy ¥ their kind a: smaller game i faster can be bred by forest fires, the fires ended lum- bering ss 4 permanent business in Pennsylvania. Al one time 150.000 men were employed in lumbering in this state. On tracts like that of Wheeler and Dusenberry. in Porest county, who commenced operation away back in 1837, and kept - rest fires no matter how high the sot are now cutting third Eowth on the same land while most of our big lumbermen cut, let the fires go through the slashing: sold to the state and pulled out for Louisiana, Mississippi, Idaho or Was ington state, scuttling a great indus! for Pennsylvania hie 1 feel George Wirt's heart is too big for his job, 1 realize that public opinion is a force that even (Continued on Page 6) we never thrills, too, io river. Tree Joe oul and real heroes being de- of ‘As the stroyed thar ous hey ri WEALTHY PARENTS WANT CHILDREN TO LEARN TRADE | Parents these days, including the very wealthy ones, want their child- {ren to learn a trade or profession About vighteen per cent of the residents of rich and populous Westchester county, New York, ap- | piled to the American Schools As- | | sociation at Rockefeller Center re- | concerning | ischools which prepare children for | | cently for information vocations, according to Kenneth J Beebe, vice president | Mr. Beebe believes that parents | {in every walk of life now wish their i children to become prepared to take | part in daily affairs and be able to {earn their living in some definite | j trade or profession. Particularly in| { the case of the well-to-do parent he | [tras noticed the growing awareness | ito children’s place In our changing | society. a tthe Federal government's {when they don't know ‘how i they owe, debts There are people who worry about | While Indulging ing Bout ed &@ warning and cigarelle Bheege je He ther eran 8 tu port Appreciative Father Rescues Keep Forger Out of Jail Mill Hall Three Deed Ago Wins Man’ § Heroic Years Him Freedom ferers When a house in the caugie fire, the family for help and Styer: ang wem finished heard ERS a Syers flood zone in it called got a row boat to the rescue. He later sentence and was DOL witll his i arrest ast his from promised he would appear when they wante but in the to-enjoy his freedom because of his role a8 a hero more ago a Gc Hal “iy meantime Ne than three year: 3 Narrowly Escape As Home Is Burned Neighbors Succeed in Arous- ing Inmates as Flames En- velop Residence narrowly €©5 h Tisdale Pt hidips burg g when a fire oll lamp burned the Henry properiy lo the ground Atiracied by shout the crackling flames, neighbors ruched to the burning two-story frame dwelling and helped two men who had been asleep to battle their {WAY through {be fame: In the house on the first floor at the time of the fire were Henry Bax- ter, owner of Lhe property, and two { men whose identily was not learned The fire spread rapidly through {the interior and caught on the roof No furniture was saved from the home. Thesquad truck of the Hope Fire Company of Philipsburg re- sponded 10 a call and suceeeded in keeping the fire from spreading to nearby build dings Mysterious Light of the Night | Why can owls, bats and even some humans see in the dark? A distin. guished French astronomer explains Saturday mo by anh overt eariy causeq Baxte er 1 svat. and sounds of ms SA ———————— | the mysteries of eyesight and tells | of unseen light even in the blackest | One of many illustrated fea- | lettuce and tadishes oh : tures in the May 28th issue of The about. the time the furnace fire is American Weekly, distributed with | night. {| the Baltimore Sunday American | On sale at all Dewsstands. Prices Still High | Prices paid by the farmers in the | United States for commodities gsed | 8 | in living and production still aver mach | age 20 per eoent higher than they | did in the pre-war period | ba ' crowd | opld weather has uring of spring onions { heard of extent {shes also are slow Random Ttems ———— “PICK-UP” OR "TOM SWIFT OVER STATE COLLEGE’ Our «id friend To Bwilt hanieal geniy ng heal ! ]R DOYLE wg Lae- many f prose report edd WELL KNOWN PIANIST DIES death of Miss Bernice Cr umberian ax! a8 Very Jefinas Week part our generation Priday night jhe gang woul into the Scenic theatre watch Pearl White's. lalest escape from a horrible death in the cur- rent episode of “The Cunt “hing Hand.” “The Iron Claw,” or what have wou, while Mist Crouse ren- gered appropriate masic at ihe o- ano. This department nder- ed bow anyone cogic : after evening £% . 4 le of often wo Cr EXPECT PLENTY OF SPEED We don't know freight into opers le Valley Branc the ides ng how fast tus they te BOLE mn over the Bald 1 will travel taut jest wo put Eag chee Iw develo freight servic valley may et s if speed afte: operation a LAME STREET HEADACHE: The [posed closing of Lamb street may not be the simple mat- ter most of us think it should be One of the problems which seem- ingly would . deserve consideration fs the fact that several walter and sewer Hine: extend under the street in question. 1f the street ls closed and graded to the elevation of neighboring plots, the pipes would be buried under many additional feet of earth, entailing 8 major en- ment wed new the been in while | gineering problem in the event the lines &f 4ny time required servic. ing. Hawever, some way around this difficulty may be found if Council {favors the proposal LETTUCE ROPE: Prolonged cool and downright delaved the ma~ to an un- Lettuce and rad- in mathwring. to the vast irritation of gardeners who pride themselves op having enions, the table drawn for the year Dries on Honeymoon. Three days after her marriage, Mrs. 1oah Buf Frankel 32, of Charleston, W. Va. fell to her death from a hotel window in New York, The husband John 8. Frankel wa: aroused from sleep by detective: | and Informed of her death i REEPING up WITH THE JONESES' The “Cat”! Not Even a Kitten! . By. POP MOMAND
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