June 22, 1939. Page Five - Echoes From the Past Fifty Years Ago Mr. Peter Carney and Ed. Swiler have erected a very nice platform out near Roopsburg and intend holding dances during the summer evenings. The very best of order will be preserved Joseph Dukes and his son, while working in Laurel Run mine Philipsburg this county, on Tues- day, were covered over by a fall of co.l. Mr. Dukes was killed instant. ty and the son had his skull badly rushed. The sharp flash of lightning of last Friday afternoon struck the tin shop of H. A. McKee & Bros. No serious damage was done. Frank Waltz got down on his knees and plead for mercy, and George Wolf offered up a prayer The flood in Fishing Creek played havoe with the Colby homestead at Cherry Run, the scene of the mur- ders for which one man was exe- cuted. The house, barn and other outbuildings were swept away and the place so changed by the force of the current that a person would hardly recognize the locality About three hundred sembled in the Court House on last Thursday evening to hear Miss Maud Peterson relate her experi- ence in the Johnstown Flood. 8he is an easy speaker and entertained the audience with a full description of the terrible calamity. The young lady is making an effort to suppor her family in this manne: they had everything destroyed The Bellefonte and Eastern Rall- road Company was chartered sever- al years ago to run from Bellefonte to Watsontown, but nothing was done in the way of bullding the road, and a few years ago the Wilk- es Barre and Western Rallroad Company to construct the road and advantageous financial arrange- ments have been proposed. The Bald Eagle Branch of the Philadel- phia and Erie Raliroad is the only road that runs to Bellefonte, and it requires a roundabout shipment to reach New York. The Bellefonte and Eastern road will run through Sugar Valley, which is noted for its coal mines and lumber distric.s, and will terminate in Watsontown, where it will connect with the new extension of the Wilkes Barre and Western Kurtz and Centre Hall workmen commenced placing machinery on Tuesday. They pect to turn on the steam about the first of August At Philipsburg the Methodist bell was tolled every five minutes the day of electior remind the people that every minutes a drunkard went grave. This is a new scheme Over twenty thousand people are fed daily from the commissiary de- partment at Johnstown. Major J L. Spangler can now boast of " ning the largest supply depot in the country The new directory that has just been issued shows Wil- Hamsport proper to have a popu- lation of 22,170 persons Messr John 1. Purst, Charles Hughes and lee B Woodcock, three of Bellefonte’'s promising ¥ men expect to enter the freshman class at Princeton next year Col George A. Bayard has received the contract for paving all tl A around the Pennsylvania State Col- lege with his patent concrete pave- ment A man by the name of Bryant was arrested up near Scotia for threatening to shoot a man. He was lodged in the Bellefonte jail on Monday people as- as mill and Son's completed new is * his 0 US un 8 Ung near | Weaver, of Aaronsburg, Philadelphia on Monday mst to purchase machinery and complete outfit for manufacturing temperance drinks, such as birch beer, ginger ale, etc. He wil open up at Asronsburg Mr. John Kernes, of this place, better known as “Codey,” was kick- ed and beaten so badly in an empty building in Cambria City that he had to be taken to a hospital. It is supposed to be the work of some tramps, their intention being to rob him Herbert Guyer Cuyer formerly Methodist church at Milesburg, had both badly crushed while try- ing to board a moving freight train ipton station near I'yvrone, last He died soon after the ac- Charles went ww Ww the son of Rev, G pastor of legs atl Friday cident A carload of provisions and cloth- ing were sent to the flood sufferers at Coburn and Midheim from Phil adelphia list week. It contained flour, canned meats, groceries, cook- ing utensil and large lot of alothing. Among many girs were dozen hats sent by the charitable of the Quaker City The first passenger train Bellefonte tw Montandon since flood made the trip successfully on Saturday morning. This road fered as much damage as any road in the state. At many points em- bankments and heavy fills, twenty feet deep away. The roadbed at hed a the plug dude about a from the suf- were swept Pardee station WAs wa out for almost a quarter of a mile and the stream flows a new channel where the roadbed was formerly Last Friday night a peculiar theft Michael Harper, a man well advanc- ed in yea: at the home of a Mr. Weaver In that town and It was known ti iderable money day Mr. Harpe ’ in located lived always carried con- in his purse. One f ind that someone had been in h room during the night and had stolen his purse The doors and windows of the were not disturbed and it was posed that an entrance was ed by means of a key. On Sunday morning Mr. Weaver saw a coat ly- ing in the barn and when he picked it found Mr Harper's under it with over two | dollars in paper money some hty dollars having Moved A small package coin Mr. Har found the house stable wt he fo is house u sSup- effect- up been re- of old er Was and ely i bel later between nging to fternoon the alarm was given at Mllesburg beautiful re Esq. was seen rapidly did that it On Saturday a fire after idence Potter 80 Bread spread SOON the of John flame element to be in the firey WARS USS ess ’ ry O ry building and by managed to of household kept from harolc efforts of buliding was a frame dwelling was one of section was to save the neighbors portion fire wa the hard work a large goods The preading by present. The two-story ind what est homes in Save those large nouse once fir hat fir that the soon turned into a mass of glowing embers. The los n the building will be about $2500, and the Insur- ance amounted to $1900. Mr Pot- ter was away from home the time. The cause of the sup- posed to have been a defective flue Mr. Potter ag heavy loser from the recent which swept away fences and outbulidings and d ‘considerable damage to the land al tens | fire is Wis flood id ia Twenty Years Ago The stork passed over West Beav- Lucille Gramley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 8. W. Gramley, of Mill- heim. fell on the sidewalk near her home and fractured both bones of the right arm, between wrist and elbow. Captain Pierre de Lagarde Boal son of Major Theodore Davis Boal of Boalsburg, married to Mademo- {selle Jeanne de Menthon, the daughter of an officer in the French grmy. Captain Boal and his bride expected to vidit chortly at the Boal homestead near Boalsburg During a violent electrical storm which passed over Bald Eagle Val- ley lightning struck the house of Robert Weller, at Julian, the boit passing down the flue to the hearth where Mr. Weller, the child, and all other occupants of the house were stunned by the bolt, but were not seriously injured. Bloomer Shutt, employed by Dairyman George Furey, read the riot act to a bull when the animal showed signs of becoming unruly. While Bloomer was leading the bull to water, the ring through the ani- mal’s nose broke, and while the man was trying to put it back in place, the bull tossed his head knocking him down and bruising him. Shutt jumped to his feet and quickly crowded the bull back into the stable C. E. White, of Bellefonte, an em-« ploye of the State-Centre Electric Company had a miraculous escape from electrocution when he fell | across a 22,000-volt wire while cut- | ting limbs from a tree on the Henry Hoy property about two miles from Bellefonte. Fellow workmen, see- ing White's body across the wire In the tree. telephoned to the plant and had the current shut off before rescue attempts were made body was lowered to the ground with ropes and the man was rushed to the Bellefonte Hospital, where he | quickly responded to treatment Centre Countians who were grad- uated from the Pennsylvania State | College were: Louise J. Cruse, Mel- vin J. Locke, Jr. Ellis Orvis Keller, all of Bellefonte; Amos G. Barrett, Ruth E. Winter, Edna M. Bittner, Ruth 1. Edmiston, Ardie W. Owens, Alice L. Robb, Elisha T. Kirk, Wil- Mam H. Pisher, Martin T. Kummer, Robert M. Foster, Clarence W. Ow- ings, Gustave A. Kemmer, Sarah U. Wykoff, all of State College; Mary M. Kane, Howard; and William H. Hosterman, Spring Mills. An hon= orary certificate was presented to Cyrus Hunter, of Stormstown, who was a member of the class of 1869. ho» , The | leaving baby girls at the and Mrs. James Cald- and Mrs. John Mc- er Street homes of Mr well and Mr Nichols Harold Keller, son of Mr. and Mrs. D K. Keller, of Centre Hall had his right forearm broken while attempting to crank the Ford car of Dr. HO H Longwell The frac- ture was reduced st once by Dr Longwe'l Florence, the 86-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin P. Shawver, of near Millheim, crawled into the top of an abandoned bake oven and fell down, a heavy piece of iron striking the right leg, fracturing it in two places between the knee and ankle, Dr, C. 8. Musser reduced the fracture One of the big yellow busses op- rerated by the Emerick Motor Com- pany between Philipsburg and Osce- | ola Mills, caught fire and was com- pletely destroyed near lendar. R. C. Thompson, of superintendent of the State-Centre Electric Company, suffered a lacer- ation of the chin and other injuries when he fell 25 feet from a pole at | theatre. | the rear of the Scenic I Mr. Thompson was repairing a line atop the pole when his hand came fn contact with bare wires, the ishock causing him to lose his grasp on the pole { The fonte gitizens were spending a vaca- ition In a cottage near Snow Bhoe; | Mrs. Sophie Hughes and daughter, Miss Ottalle; Miss Mary 8mith, Miss Grace Basserman, Mr. and Mrs Charles Hughes and children, James, Oraham, Virginia and Daisy. Miss Daisy Graham, Prof James R. Hughes, all of Bellefonte land three students at the Bellefonte i Academy John Bottor!f narrowly escaped serious injury when he fell from a itree on High Street, a distance of isbout 25 feet. An employe of J Mac Heinle, Mr. Bottorf was aiding {in stringing wires for J. M. Nichols {who was decorating the streets for | a celebration on June 26 and 27 when the accident happened. The {fall occurred in front of Roy Wit- imers store and had not Mr. Wit- mer grabbed Bottorf as he neared ground he would have fallen on {his head and shoulders. As it was the man suffered a badly bruised hip and hand. fYsies Mapleton | Hill, entailing a loss of $4000. The | bus was driven by Benjamin Kal- | Bellefonte, | following group of Belle- | Chester Barnes, who was a stu- | dent at the University of Pennsyl- | (vania, Philadelphia, visited the pa- {rental home in Bellefonte for sev- eral days THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. - Modern Etiquette | The following Bellefonte residents attended a limestone convention in Pittsburgh; L. A. Bchaefler, Blaine Mabus, A. C. Mingle, A. J. McNitt, John 8, Walker, and Charles Morris At a meeting of the Millheim school board the following teach- ers were elected: principal, Miss Rose McCormick, of Hublersburg; W. E Keen, Millhelm; intermediate, Miss Catherine Grenoble, Aarons- burg: primary, Miss Margaret Mensch, Miliheim During the meeting L. E. Stover and J. C. Hos- (terman resigned as members of the board There was every indication of a good hay crop, and with hay about {$40 a ton, wheat at $2.40 a bushel corn nearing $2. oats between 60 and 70 cents, hogs at $21 a hun dredwelght, and cows at $100 and over, the thrifty farmer in 1919 ex pected to pay his local taxes, in come tax and have some left over for purchasing War Bavings Stamps to w are were issued the following Chester Williams, Philipsburg, and M. C Thompson, Port Matilda; Harry M Schreckengast, Avis, and Gertie M Greninger Tylersville; Paul L Houtz and Ruth A. Mooney Snow Shoe; Edwin M. Grove and Margaret E. Bauer, Bellefonte; John W. Dague, Ellsworth, and Mary B Wofley, State College: Andy Ku- blarchick and Mary M. Rushnock both of Clarence Walter Winton of Bellefonte Academy fatally injured when the ton Six touring car he was driving on & curve at the foot of a iil] at the Musser farm a short distance east of Stale College lege. He died fifteen minutes later Had young man lived until hi 21st. birthday would have In herited his father's $2.000.000 estate Five other Academy students in the car at the time of the wreck es- caped with minor injuries DO YOU KNOW Tu y ight to for Marriage licenses couples both Scranton, a student, was overturned steep 1 the he "n 2. When did the Relations Act become 3 Where does rubber? What 2? the does the United 1s Gen Franco an ally of Hitler Musso What sumption ganized? Can What SUEAr he fe percentage require nig Deel inqustry ied by How f farm cash 1929 y How one SUGAr 10 goes Lhe power wiih 11 eral in 12 ment many taxe 7 persons Does Feleral Gov 1eCt tax the an unempicyment the benefit surance for of States? 13 trackages is inv ceedings? 14 Is the U battleships? 15. Who lg Adal! A. Berle, Jr? How many countries are there United States? What percentage of ri ved in ded S. bullding 45.00 About much 8 the Government & month? About hows Government for loans? 19. When did Finland independence? 20. How many ve the President velit? how much hold as * Ya 1a and The Answers 1. Yes by vention, 1936 2. July, 1905. 3. Most of it from the Dutch Eas Indies the Malay States and Cey- lon 4 Most of It from States and Bolivia 5. Apparently he is 6. According to the Milk Indus try Poundation, 153 quarts { 7. Estimate: 7933000; unorgani- zed 20.229 .000 8. Yes; fluently { 9. About one- fourth; tons 10 11 12. the Montreaux Con the Malay 1,803 841 About 95.2 per cent For 1937, 3.309.753. Yes; about $700,000,000 a year 13. One-third. | 14. Construction of two is about 110 begin | 15. Assistant Secretary of State 3.100. Estimate of June $375,000,000 | 11,400,000 bales, | | After the 1917 Russian revo- | lution, 20. Nine, PARKING GARAGE WITHIN i The city's first {within an office bullding will be iopened shortly for public use in Rockefeller Center, New York The garage, with an 800-car ca- ture, is being watched with interest by traffic experts as a possible step [toward the solution of mid-Man- hattan's parking problems. To speed up parking the cars ifirehouses have been installed Down these columns, ' staggered {from floor to floor to limit the drop, garage attendants will slide, nity, the people are filled with con- sternation, but given to automobile accidents which kill thousands of Americans every year, big Win-|"* N. ¥. SKYSCRAPER TO OPEN parking garage | pacity and occupying six floors of | ithe Center's newest 18-story struc- | {just the matter ifiremen’s poles exactly like those in | i When a disease atfacks a commu. 07 a card | | little “thought is [Nave this privilege bridesmaids next physician or dentist as Mrs. or Miss Miller? 7. What should a her husband telephones about hour before dinner and says he bringing a guest home with him? 8. What should a man do when he meets a woman on the street and they wish to talk for a minute? 9. When riding alone in a taxi upon which side should & woman sit? 10. For what purposes should one use the dinner napkin? 11 uid guest 1. When you are entertaining guests In a restaurant, and you are sure a4 mistake has been made In the bill, what shouid you do? Al a wedding should stand in the and In what positions 3. Is it ever printed or engraved cards? 4. If a man has been introduced to a girl, and likes her very much has he the privilege to ask her If he may call on her? 5. Bhould a guest smoke at to her hostes dinner table, If the hostess has 12 provided cigarettes and ash trays? maid hie 1s to be mardied in 6. Should address a woman dress? Answers ai botlom of column REBERSBURG | (HURCH t Mr. and Mr Glenn Hosterman Hublersburyg Aaronsburg, visited relatives Rev. J B. Mus minister last Thursday Phyllis Page Bervices inday, Ji 2 Trinity Hublersburg) ending the summer months period wife do when an who 1s line 2 “ reception receiving permissible to send “Thank you ry] 85h u say good-by the not when leaving a tea? Should a bride have brides when one un traveling of in own of Slt ate © Evangelical - Reformed hb Nes | + Tne of her parents Page Mr a ntre « int 1 Mr. and B ‘harle Monday imitted a Ce . m., the ci Wilk Hie surgical patient v Hospital a Progr Sunda preach rvice. Wedn Thomas Hartman gin } | r's Bt Jean vidted and Mr inaay W. H Joanne Hx HOO at Adam Methodist (ieorge Bellefonte on § LOCK and Mrs nter YEDUTE Huackenbers and Mr. and pent 8 wee daug Cu and Monday Makoma I'he Ladi inger this " (lier at Bellefonte Arn alter Lhe Lutheran nce B fa rrichat MGR Y “" John's Tr Marvin Holy Williamsport 4 i Reformed NEregali St Bellefonte Th John's Episcopal Rev. Samuel H Sayre . MILESBURG viditing at t Frank Cox Mr and Ms Mr and Mm Rockey Bellefonte, motored to Hunting Sunday wmes Harry Bcke Jinmie Co vantage o LL rails k Bu » the New the weekend Danald Biers ove Charies Minnis James Frank, Malvin Houty Zee ie DOI were W. J Bkenrctd a1 ivy vO Vist JX WH Lillie AZO Wie warneg « Yer F 4 Miss Cla n, Pa spent week at the Reformed Eckenroth «Nort summe; er and a seYeTA her Wert of State proud parents im Monday ne of Mrs. Oertruds Corman. Mr Wert will be bered as the former Mary Peters home Mrs. Rube Musser of Woodward g visited Mrs W. J Hackenberg la of Thursday afltern Mr. and Mr flock Haven Morrisville Youngstown Dome AG Eckenroth Dorothy passed Monday morning Among the visitors = wi of AWAY remem Corma mbeth Swartz and Philipeb ure Mrs William Snow Shoe for daughter, Mis Mr. and Mrs ily have moved © MA'S HAT. Ma went shopping t'other day Came home with this an And among the thing: Wag what she called a It was tilted high. at Away up in the rear It almost covered both her eyes And rested on ohe ear won Ralph Cummings Mahlon Cummin and lady friend Ohlo, visited at the of their parents, Mr. ang Mn: Cummings the weekend Miss Catherine Bend State College, spent last week with her grandmother, Mrs. Ella Die Ralph Cable and family of Lans- dale recently visited his sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. BR. W_ Bierls Laz: Monday night the member and their families of the local grange held their annual ham and ege sup- per at Penn's Cave with seventy-two people present Miss Dorothy Shay of Williams- port spent last week with her friend Gloria Stover Mr. and Mrs, Paul Brown and two daugnters were Sunday evening sup- per guests of Mr, and Mrs, Jay Vonada at Fiedler On Monday of this week Mr. Wil- liam Breon suffered a paralyti stroke at the home of hig son, Ken- neth, Mr. Breon ig very poorly at this writing. i John Brungart attended the an- nual Dairymen's League convention at Utica, N. Y. several days last week Children's Day services were held | in the Reformed and Ligheran churches on Sunday morning and evening respectively. The exercises were well rendered at both churches Peters ha @ visil wr ¥ gs f r from » over er of At ha gd that ught ni ni ihe b hat the back In the center was a thing a-ma- lig That Jooked just like a carrot, And on the side 1 do declare Was a yellow and green parrot There was ribbon, and lace "he latest Paris creation, But I think the guy that made it Had vivid imagination Pa said to ma “I think ilg nice” His name is Theodosius, But I could tell just by his smile He thought it was atrocius We've formed a at house Together we are branded, We think if ma can wear the thing The rest of us can stand it L flowers, Lion our bs ———— The ancient order of [reebooters had little on the German-Italy-Ja- pan alliance «Classified ads are thrifty i BR —. nq Answers to Modern Etiquette 1. When the meal is finished, al-; 7. Prepare the best meal possible low your guests to go ahead while under the circumstances, and make you quietly and good-naturedly ad- the guest feel welcome. If one cannot do! 8. The best form is for the man this, ask the waiter quietly if there 10 turn and walk in the direction isn’t a mistake the woman is going. 2. The bride should stand at the| J. The seat on the right. right of the bridegroom, with her | 10 The napkin shouid be used to maid of honor on her right the | Wipe the nyputh before drinking ' from Sue water glass, that the gliss ! {May n smeared, and also to 3. Only when thanking someone wipe the fingers, especially after | using the finger bowl. {| 11. Yes unless her hostess is ac {tively engaged in conversation with | 5. It is better not to do so. [other guests, 6 No; she should be addressed | 12. No, though she often his & | as Doctor Miller, : maid of honor. ad IAI % 4. Yes; both the man and the girl | Hh Min # > Our Weekly English Lesson pr Health and Beauty OVERWEIGHT DOES NOT PAY. Words Often Misused, Watch Omit you The | Ihe fNigures in LO expres mind or you redure Bay Do not say out Lo will fall down Walch out on Do not say NECERSAry JATLY The JOUWH 1 ’ OW river ( 4 {rt vite 4 ' QOUWII onveil i k ‘Mh Mv fals n not oniy in Overweight menace LO neal vitamins jack Enough infection that he aken 5) t lay hunger and a sense of He who overeat that ne will fall ent itis a The obw oe wem UU MT OW igures appear Lo ub ect Iu Say nce Ww TR Us 1% manifest Lo Lhe food pancreas nage Lo He ( Mm ed Ww him much delighted t Do uly no ah men ay Wi y young relerriy LRA} Words Often Misp onounced jad, P 1 onounce a-jeq, + “ wu a — ———— —— —— ————— ——————— —— — i —— ——— — —— Household Scrapbook oe ——————————————_————_ rc ——_— ———_ Words Often Misspelled njplexion not nplect Cooking Green Vegetables To Clean Stone Ww ard Stay Stringing Beads piring Hands ¢ Shrinking Drees Goods “ Tough Steak Tea Flavor Toe Gain ———— Body "Bootleg M ner Weight Recover ! 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