Odd and Curious News * A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week, SECOND SECTION The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County, he Centre Democraf VOLUME B58. Locked In Death A story of death in the high cold country of Parlin, Colo, of two big mule deer who were viotims of their natural makeup was revealed re- cently by the Statk Fish and Game Commission. ‘The bodies of two bucks, in a well-preserved condition as a result of the frigid atmosphere, were found by John McClain, = pangher, with their horns locked together. McClain reported the deer battled over a half-acre of ground until one buck died, his antlers in- tertwined with those of his adver- sary. The first warrior to die slip- ped into an arroyo, McClain theor- fzed. with his hind legs barely touching the ground The victor held his victim suspended until he too succumbed from exhaustion, af- ter being unable to free himself MoOlain sald he would have the heads of the two four-point bucks mounted, with the antlers still lock ed Lived To Tell It Constable’ Les Strunk of Ci field lived to tell thi Traveling arrest George Fry, 25 Surveyor on charges of larceny of Dbicy Strunk saw Fry attempting to es CADC ACTOSS a creek when the fugi- tive noticed the constable ng after him. ‘As Strunk went after | man, Fry pulled out a revolve and aimed directly at the officer of the law Miraculously the hot missed Strunk. Pry disappeared in the woods before anyone could grab him. He was later taken into custo dy by state policemen from the Clearfield barracks PAr- to ‘ of ie no Home Preserves william A. Richards, of Grove City, opened up an abandoned cellar which caved in 26 years ago and found three of 200 jars of canned fruit still good. He broke two to remove the dirt packed about them but said a jar of black cur- rent jam recovered was as good 2 ever. Richards said the fruit =a at least 30 years old Lrying Prefer Spinach Believe it or not but of a "favorite food” survey recently made of the public schools Iw rooms of Chicago, reveal that of the 48 000 high school students question ed, more than 18.000 said they liked spinach 10.000 said they did not and the remaining 14.000 didn™ commit themselves. Ice cream was the fav- orite dessert “Bandits” Spanked Standing between the rails. flour- ishing, “guns,” two bold bad bandits “held wp” a Northwestern train at Crandon, Wis. The culprits, boy three and four years old, promptly “shot” the fireman as he stepped from the cab. They got as their re- ward a good paddling from their mother Has Teeth Pulled Born with a sot of ten teeth, Allen Lorah, 4-weeks cld, baby of Reading had the unpleasant experience having them all pulled by a dent who was afraid they migh: become loose and be swallowed by the id Liisa » » » Birth Champion Dies At the time of his death, Dr. Har- rie Abijah James, 78 well known the past 45 years, claimed birth champion record having delivered nearly 000 babies during his years of prac- tice 175th Gavel Vice President Garner recently received his one hundred and seven yi-fifth gavel. The gavel was made ef wood taken from the home of President McKinley. at Canton. {Oindo. Extra Hung Marjorie Wambeck, 15. of Wor- eestor, Mass. bit too deeply into a mandwich the other day, Police Bur- @eon Joseph P. 8oola took two #titches to close the wound in her right thumb ——————— A ——— Neither the mation nor the jodi- idm] can balance a budget by spending money, but sometimes, in ath cases, the spending of money is ‘mecessary pegardiess of income budget. the results of the or | bo THREE HITCH-HIKING GIRLS INJURED WHEN CAR COLLIDES, UPSETS Victims Were Enroute From Houtzdale To Their Home In Osceola Mills, When Car They Were Riding Plunged Off Road Hitchhiking their homes In Osceola girls were injured morning two miles when the car plunged off the garage and then ing a colli Houtzdale to Mills three early Bunday west of Oseeola were riding in iriek a follow from thes highway rolled over lon it strik- wa Hos- Iw Tossed out of the car when 45 feet In the Mary Philly she wa dashed alr alter Bakolsk: sbhurg Btate ing the garage taken to the where uffering { fractured 1 « found to fractured left leg arm laceration pital rom n ght and { the fac Her kolsky two companions, Pauline Sa and Isabel Selfridge received lacerations of the face. They were harged from the hospital where were treated Mike Fember, 3 driver of the car the girl received [ di 0 they Smith Mil which picked brush burns 1p ’ of Contractor Loses Machinery In Fire Blaze Lock De- stroyvs Sanders Warehouse at Haven and Garage Lock wu hye wno Sander Haven niractor gaged fo razing school building, sustained 55 by fire Saturday m the warehouse at Lock Haven in which machinery was stored, bu The building, owned by his father, Barner Sanders, was totall; de- n ning when his rned It 1s rep i 0 arried on the machi dan t the hich included 2 garage, amounted to and the and about $2,000 Mr. Sander ners P ¢ " ] f bulid eo the equipment day befor maciuner the . Only stored the i and equipment in the building after completing swimming pool at Cherry Run Woman Dies Afte Fall Down Steps A Mrs. Emma Homan, Native of Centre County, Meets Fatal Accident Altoona, a died Bune Mrs tive afterne Emma Homan { Centre Count »" lock at th she 245 ¢ al where 118) pt toonha hospit mitted last Thursdas down the steps al her peaking non Oni : home fas she WRs : 4 ORUX ite muel H. and Emma Jane Kunes Marie irst husband, Lot W. Gros band. Robert M both preceded her in death the family include one daughter, Mrs. Essie H Weirick of Lakemont. two brothers George McClelland Kunes and Nathan Mit- chell Kunes, both of Altoona. and two sisters. Mrs ‘Bertha PFiseufl of Pittsburgh and Mrs. Clare Treese of Royer, Pa. Mrs. Homan was a member of the Methodist shureh In Centre county. She and eocond hu Ho- man Member ' a Lightning Strikes Power Line A 4000-volt power line at the Home Electric company plant in Tyrone was struck by lightning shortly after 7 o'elock Bunday “eve. ning. It dropped to the tracks of the Pennsylvania raliroad company's branch line and blew a consider- able number of fuses. Electric eom- pany employes and Tyrone citizens residing nearby at first belfeved an explosion had occurred. Damage was reported comparatively Nght Osceola Mills Destroyed A ——— By Fire Sixty-Four Years Ago, Saturday (Philipsburg Journal) Bxactly 64 years ago on Saturday hat had been the famous lumber ‘ing ‘town of Osceola Mills became = shambles when in leas than three ng the town was destroyed by Terror-stricken residents, driven from their homes gathered at the mace track at which is now oalled Pairview since the track offered the only ecieared spot neir the town ‘Starting In the woods the fire to ‘the #hurch and then ate its way to the lumber mills The Moshdannon Hoopes-Humes, Taylor, Helms, Bell and Elliot and Caldwell were a few | ‘of the mills destroyed. Jesse COraw- | ford's new foundry went up in smoke, helipad increase the total damage to over $2000000. The fire broke out at 11 o'clock “In the morning and soon moved to the Mothannon Co. where 15,000,000 “feet of lumber burned, A strong wind tossed huge chunks of lumber over the entire area of the town and soon 180 of Osoeola’'s homes were blazing. All private buildings except the Catholic and Methodist churches burned to the ground. old Presbyterian | All communications were cut off The Tyrone fire department left that town with its steamerand hose carrier to offer aid to Oseeala but could not reach the inferno because [the raliroad was burned. Bo com- pietely did the fire do its work that rot a fence, shed, boardwalk, stump or stick of any ‘kind remained where the fire swept, L. G. Lingle, burgess of Osceola, sent out frantic calls for help when ithe fire had bummed itself out. The Methodist church was turned into a commissary and provisions came rushing in from nearby towns. Soon tents began to spring up and Os- ceola’s new growth started, Bome of the heavy losers in the | fire were: Liveright, Lingle and Co, James K. White, Isaac Taylor, C. 7T | Hetms, Dr. DR. Good, G. M. Bris bin, L. A. Crist, John Eliott, J C Henderson, and Emmet Sayers Since the ° school was burned down, classes were held in the Methodist church. There Miss Me Quade taught and many a young- ister Jost his hard-earned marbles fon a floor knot-hole, the teicher’ | favorite dumping ground, when the ‘clicking of the marbles in pockets , interrupted the classes, face and an In companion, COeorgs dightly tn hend, elbow wrist. Hi Smith Mil above the right eye the jured Yelkn ured The wa t ocurred when Fem her th an ng ar driven by Charl 28. Blandburs whe jure das! ERY: nocikdent o liided w ypproach Berge ped w police sald Uw before triking ff the garage and he indeed Cnt in cal th Cl foading Ties at Beech Creek Several thousand sawed rath tie pe on road at urni Howard of Madi timber being loaded on ’ New Y J Beech Creek hed | John Lyor Fetterholf are cu the and sihurg, wh on the Pete! On Bon tra ong ting the and operating saw mill al Monument-Orviston highwa mile Beech Creek. It 3 largest quantity of railroad tie in at Beech Creek above station in Ac sa — Farmer Has Narrow Escape & half mile team of run Petty, a farm near death laceration of the akin wa arms and shred rd ver almost road by Drags 8 blocktop away horses. Ci or of Br ar Berwick narrowly He aiff ered brush burns and contusion entire body. Much of the rubbed from his legs and his clothes were {orn Bs rie Creek townashis escaped sTion BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, MAY The Old-Timer 2 “0, 1939. NEWS, FEATURES ———— NUMBER 21. | A GARTER SWAVE. £4 S007 BF Te INE WAVE FORGET WHEN | yi OW WH for APETY WN WELL SHAVES LE AINT MEVEED SEEN SOCK Plte SNAKES Tum FIFTE Dionne Quints Take First Tr famed Dior iret ne quintupiet train ride Bun- for HW Ume neighborhood to see the The went on thelr night, a we first srted from were Loi ween oD thes Q here kit and Behl escort of Ontario pro- i al 1 he five children rode hi with their new raliway Crimson and ini 3 } Ta Callander board the uintiand Bpe B00 residents were after jer farewell i mile automo ys before & band now almost five years: in light Dbiue flannel coats and straw trimmed and were su Ad were dread Anrihie hreacsied of fine ribhon } thirilied ol chiidgen rake bonnet with pink Nr err) Fart { i 3 i took RIOD the WP AGE | HAD A RATYLE VIAKF HWUERE TH LIBRARY STANDS VAS CALLED SHAKE HOO THEN | EN FEET (Mw ALTOONA MOTHER IS VICTIM OF BEATING BY OWN DAUGHTER Struck Three Times On Head With Hammer a When, It Is Claimed, She Refused To Stop on Beaten daughter with a hammer one morn - ain Ride f rita 4 d Insist. Marie h #4 tha | 3 were A ing to see her oldest dol same privilege, and den ¥ ets aimost as other three Dsar The nd th payin had raelf ngs which nurses and Louise to acquaint the might expect disrupted pro- afternoon by by airpaane final rehearsal haughne _rrenged th what thes Marie K the play- airshis told of t around the imaginary i Emile ne look 2 cried In wok of faken Callander slong es were Supt and milk he Cl ing Ww request Altoona, 1s | Hospital fi | poasible Mi the cand Ing = had mother her she refused daughter 63. of Altoona suffering of head and of the skull was the daughter who (eld police serag wan last week because stop singing at her t, Mrs. Ruth Cassidy A patient at the where she Ibs m laceration the fracture Belzed by Ine mother-daughter by her mother's domineer- Mrs. Cornelius claims she headache requested her to stop singing but the mo refused polices Cornelius a @ and confessed time from id dy she Investigors oa triking Mr ( with hammer of the she three obtained kitchen bot! ving fought back investigators home where The mother is sald and was be- been had beer have ed by from nave by ad hammer flying off ley a ved furter 11 rie the handie of the estranged from her had ghtr ghter tel The dau | band police Shwe been suffering from ea nervous breakdown wing the birth of a child The daughter wa behaved of wer stated her generally wel but occa- sionally had dispia temper were { the Ca ¢ pariad from who for where 1h dy hi into room raging. Not living wil called to the ¢ roomer in ’ 33 y battle wa is wile. he 1a Wa the hatile by a gle wi ’ 2 Blair county The daughter age, has been et who is 27 3 commitied "A MEMORABLE TRAIN WRECK Early in the moming of 1894. 2a huge train of sixty-five foot cars carrying the Walter L. Malr Circus, was making its way along May 30 Ch TT wr Cie itA dwench of pro $ Railroad Lewistown fiat eontain- spec) I the perform the 1) Pennsvivania ite from Howutadale tu of cage curios The “er ong An CATS piled high with CRTBY * d and animal wore hound many wi of the worid he 3 Frorel oO IE : elephants camels or m and and wether a hundred re trained f ponies work horses Nn specially-fitted freight fifty PEERY ] L man f more than ndred and and ci rule wit by rail laborer performer vas the rest on the Mat cars ; in the roadbed at that par- the link between the and the tender broke, caus- released engine to dart ahead like a speeding arrow. The tender, however, no longer held in place by the engine, leaped from the rails and toppled down a fifteen - foot embankment, dragging most of the train with it A mighty crash of breaking tim- ticular engine ing the piace Anniversary of Circus Disaster The fatal railroad disaster which acenrred near Vail station on the morning of Memorial Day ago, was one of the most unighe as well as costly of the Pennsvivania Railroad. in the history were nearly a dozen lives lo animals perished as well as forty-five years wrecks Not only 4. but many rare and wild the entire equipment of the Walter L. Main Circus destroyed heyond repair. The own- er. who afterw ards reconstructed the show and continued in business for many years, Was compelled to buy an en- tirely new outfit. crunching steel echoed stil norning alr hat miles around ys brie! period of slience ium broke loose Uo the atimnoaphere Was ‘ shrieks of animals the heavily-loaded engine and three tilled down the steed d reduced to kind the be { followed by pan fist heard rhen demoy all 3 ard rent the exes h wR ira wmohe bankment wood Al Ne one traved in the following that memorable event of forty-five years ago The circus had exhibited in Belle- fonte Saturday, and after filling an engagement in a pearby county was proceeding from Houtedale to Lewistown when il met with disaster. ‘The extra-lengih cars were solidly built and wery heavy. It was the general opinion adequately por- indescribable has ever word ROCs the previous y ; footy d people were killed right olhrts dead injured William wWil- laborer, of treas- ive Geos Sere f Tyrone 2 wi Liberty arly and 4 kat Hanapou £7 emo the Care an the Houlzdate bome us at has before inknown labor - by pime of Bar apd two other circus laborers were 125 circus performers coping in hie three coaches which aped being wrecked The seven men killed outright sere taken lo Tyrone and prepared for burial The bodies that were un- interred in A ceme- place. The seriously 3 4 younro wernt Thepe pe aimed at were that injured were removed hospital, where two silghtly Altoons ds died A relief train containing doctors and nurses was dispatched to the sopne 8h SOON Ar posible. Two bours panied before rescues could reach Frank Trak agen! T the time his int ee and Ww a afterwar the mar frequent) work removed inst he and rescuny in their timber was breathed TH wreck sight. Withir oouid be seer plies hot from he his ¢ preset tod 2 terribire fg large area but dead animals and debris " were killed out. nothing piles of Pi ah ght and a doen 2 “pon five oY others had to in relieve thetr siifferly Among them were several ble animals, sald to several thousand doliars the horses ridden by the star riders killed, Two sac- instant death Yer. Yai be we each $y ma of the circus were red cows a The chief ithe escape from their a lime nt 50 met 1 Aros WAS iid animal # OF menace th of many » ALNE, CRAUSINE the neighborhood Fiocks of rare bird: monkeys two “gravediggers’ from Austria, a biack panther, a silver tiger from Asia, and a lon, all made their way to freedom Several of the ani- mals were captured and others shot when they threatened fo become a menace in the neighborhood One elephant was serjously hurt but the others of the lange herd es- (Continued on Page &) error : in PASTOR 1S CALLED BY PRESBYTERIAN CHARGES The Rev. John 8 Lonsinger, of Philadelphia, aged about 27 years, who graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary last Tuesday was given a call 0 become pastor of the Presbyterian churches of Mill Hall and Beech Creek al sep- arate congregational meetings held at two churches united in that charge at the close of the Sunday | school sessions Sunday forenoon. |! The choice of the Rev. Mr, Lon- singer was unanimous at both meetings, and the church officials | have been given assurance that the call extended will be accepted by the young pastor. Action by the Northumberiand Preshyiery on the call can be taken at a meeting of that body to be held in 8hamokin on June 13 and it is expected that {the new pastor may be estabiished Mill Hall by the of the the Manse at end of June. The pulpits two churches have been vacant since the beginning of February when the Rev. Lindley E. Cook, ac~ cepted a call to Aberdeen, Md, as pastor of the Grove City Presbyter- ian church, The Rev. Mr. Longinger fs a graduate of Lafayette College, Easton, and is the son of a Pres- byterian pastor in Philadelphia. The salary, including the manse, is §1.- 800 annually. i nse ———. ! Plant 2000 Chestnut Trees | Reforestation operations in the | vicinity of Berwick have this year | included the planting of 17,000 troea | on the nearby mountains. Among them were 2,000 Chinese chestnut trees, planted on state land by | in game warden, Lewis H. Estep. Ii Is’ : believed that these will be blight proof. >. ~The most news for $1.50. ASCENSION CLUB HOLDS ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY An all-day meeting of the 50th anniversary of the Aseension Club was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs Walter Daily of Altoona, on Thursday, May 128 Four charter members of the club were present, which was organized at Jackson- ville, Centre county, in 1880 There were members and friends present from Ohio, Fittsburgh, Al- toona, Btate College. Hublemsburg., Howard and Jacksonville. The home was beautifully decorated with tu- lips, lilacs and lilies of the valley A delicious dinner was served by the hostess. Devotional service was held in the afternoon In reverence of the day - People whé inherit money are 4i- vided into two classes: ia) the ependthrifts and ) tightwads, a INTRODUCES BILL TO AID ARMY AND NAVY NURSES Congressman James E. VanZandt has introduced legisiation {0 remove what he sald wes discrimination against disabled Army and Navy N Corps members who relired between 19268 and 1830 He sald World War nurses were entitled to disability retirement benefits up to 10268. A 1830 act al- J disability retirements equal per cent. of the nurses’ gal- Thoze who left the service between 1028 and 1930, however, re- ¢ only the peacetime benefits amounting to about $3750 a month, VanZandt said. His bill would close that four-year gap irse ved in Ee iJ aries rel (162 trucks In moving ithe highways, as compared to 47 | pH { raflroads would be practically un- RAILROADS OPERATE MORE TRUCKS THAN LOCOMOTIVES Railroads run more trucks jocomotives, according to an than an- | pouncement made by a research or- ganization at Rockefeller Center. In 1837 the raliroads were using &63.- freight over locomotives that were operat- ing over their right of ways The trucks are used to move | freight over the highways along ad- ditional and vital feeder lines of transportation without which the able to operate | About 90 per cent of the freight | land 100 per cent of the passengers | {earried by American rafiroads tra- [only daugbter of Lydia E Pinkham, | World's Fair as Singing the older womar witl ir ged batter char ray and agg : riter nection tack em CLOCK TELLS TIME 24 WAYS A is He tiny my 1 ahgpa : a moon na be that night Loses Life W Struck By the head ‘by her county jail to await the outcome of LL. RIGHT twenty-fc Deen SL heh Train Woman Fails to Reach Safety When Automohil e Stalls on R. R. Crossing agair ng in W of Ba of the jeape calind t Car Mr which the vehicle elit: a (Continued at ——— Cable t ¥ Haa ot Ar £ we on Page 6) 115 From Rockview Receive Diplomas Inmates Get Certificates on Various Subjects at “Graduation” diplomas ind t certificates we 3t the gr ene Rockview I'rabue auditorium f the sol dean « ation at the onilege principal addre Nine member: staff of the onilege an time exiansion i comprised the faculty They have conducted ey es twice a week Einoe mt i tm Le the atl fq ut ba wstrial cred- re resented reises in the Dr M R nol of edu- eliverad Lhe resident A we ictors have Rockview CNINE CIASRE PRL October (Continued on page six) Figure in Motor Arvests Recent arrests Haven Detail of include Calvin mage Slate Motor MeCioskey, by the Lock Police of Miles burg. arrested in Mill Hall fate last week for having no o cense. He was driving i H G. Rorabaugh, of was arrested in Jersey Pine Creek perators li- nn Mill Hall Shore, town - ship for failure to observe a stop sign —a—— ——— Loses Appendix at 80 Instead of going to the New York she h | @0-pear-old Mrs. Mary of Williamsport, went t for an appendix oper physicians said her good and that barring complications ghe probably ed planned, Jane Price o a hospital ation. Later, condition was unforseen would recover and go to the fair, after all tn sam Assmmes Inspector Job Effective Monday, Harry MM. Tay- lor, of Balona, will ‘be a Junior In- | dustrial and Buitiding Inspector for the counties of Clinton, Lycoming, Potter Tigga and Mcokean State Department of Labor and Industry Mr. Taylor held a similar post, prior to the Earle administration i— ————————— Lydia Pinkham Heir Dies Mrs. Aroline Pinkham Grove, Manufacturers who clamor for th? | gal over roads and streets in getting | founder of a $3.000000 patent medi- Government to get out of the way of | business would be the first to howl | if the Government took them at their word and sbolisised the tariff. | to and from the railroads i —— ns Ms cine business, died at French chateau in 2 her feudal fashionable People are afrald of what they do | north shore town in Massachusetts not understand Es sr ————— Random [tems FRAYER FOR TODAY: Let us that sfoul the law ad cour our cit 0 live fall into CAND when we wr hieied witnesas are iaractier ! mar fice thing tha the with Philipsburg pt Lever in etic " es on 4 iia LHS weg anor in NOTE TO W. W. 8IEG, M. D Fi of all the M mean ous ON NOT WEARING STOCKINGS tment does not ‘ | M™ ae] ar that ml B Lue In the King “ we'd like to know THE BOYS DONE FINE! rartrneant } wa n FR BIG BUSINESS 8t the rate of $1.50 thousand cicabed For ioeal bor labored over L mounting bricks grew COmMPAany friend eT be made at tl isamed the truth Wingate abandoned the ial Ed. Note to raised uaded 1 pe Phi 1 & iS we Big Eddie ie to 82 Lhe a theusand HOMES FOLLOW LIGHTS An official « er Compan) homes be ereched ection the Bush to the lights in the the pewer that alwavs, when are placed In a new terri- tory. there is a notiosabie increase in bullding activity Agitation is now uhder way to have street lights installed on Halfmoon street, Half- moon Terrsce, although no definite progress has been reported -- Captured ‘Chicken Thiel" When James Council Sinne- mahoning, found a pr chicken which he had been saving for a Bunday dinner, dead in the chicken vard, from an attack by a myster- ious marauder, he left it there as a decoy. and set a trap. The following moming he found that he had snared the biggest homed owl he had ever seen, and one that he be- lieves may establich a state record The bird had a wing spread of more than 5 inches It fought bitterly before it was dispatched no ———— Unhappy Together—Unbappr Apart An illustrated article which dis- cusses the unromantic difficulties of an actor and his wife and the com- plications that have resulted since their marsiage One of many features in the June 4th issue of The American Weekly, distributed sith the Baltimore Sunday American in owse 1 of claimed finds ights street that area company sireet mnt Go {On sale at all newsstands ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES' — It's Good Eddie Wears a Toupee ALL RIGHT ~<==ALL agi YO DON'T HAVE TD BE- eve Me" BUT I SAW MIM =~ AN IF IT WinaN'T WBAIZING &Joubse "= Bowmme ALL RieMT 7) ALL TW YEA - WES mage A 4 YELL: WHATS EXCITEMENT? UTN, BOVE BER iN Ss EONTRON: ~ sree od oe » *
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