Odd and Curious News The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. ~ A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. SECOND SECTION he Cenire Democrat NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 58. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1939, NUMBER 28, | Random [tems . SL ——————— dan " Couldn't “Take It The conscience of Marvin “Skeet é" Douthat Roanoke, Va. College basketball star, wouldn't let him Sleep after he collected $1000 as a theatre bank prize so he returned the cash. “Since 1 really had no ticket I do not feel the money rightfully belongs to me,” Douthat sighed, “and 1 couldn't sleep. You can't you know, when your con- science hurts.” It seems “Skeeter” was standing near the theatre when & friend rushed up, shouted “you've won the money,” and dragged him to the box office where another pal crammed a ticket in his hand. Then the basketball player joined the crowd inside and claimed the money, Except for ticket to the bank prize performance, “Skeeter” was eligible for tne award. He had registered during a previous ats tenance at the theatre. Lucky Hold-Up A Philipsburg robbery several years ago not only gave Miss Cath- erine Hall her most thrilling ex- perience but also brought her a re- ward of $10 from the Philadelphia trguirer. Her story, run under “My Most Thrilling Experience” column was published in Sunday's mag- azine section of the paper. In her story Miss Hall related how when she went to work one night at a building and loan office in Philips- burg she was met, bound and gag- ged by several bandits who scoop- ed up $70 and fled. Soon the alarm was spread and in less than an hour the bandits were captured and brought to Miss Hall for identifica- tion. Two of the men had had pre- vious prison records Perils of the Farm Proof that the farm isn't the safest place in the world is offered in a casual survey of scattered ac- cidents: A mule in a runaway team stumbled and fell on Raymond Springs, 21-year-old farm hand, near Boiling Springs; Harry Law, 30, Spring City, R. D. 1, fell from & hay wagon on a Chester coumy farm, and broke his right arm; lightning hurled George Lape 30 feet on a farm near Johnstown, leaving him bruised and stunned; a cow being milked by Murray Neal near Blossburg toppled on him and proke Neal's leg A Divided Bible A family Bible and a dozen heirs gave Judge J. Burnett Holland of Norristown, 4 problem fit for King Solomon. The judge awarded tite Bible to the twelve children of Mrs, Barbara 8. Harris ‘in one-twelfth TWO HELD FOR COURT IN DEATH OF AVIS MAN CAST FROM BARROOM Action Follows Inquest and Hearing Held at Lock Haven, Thursday — Surprise Witness Gives Description of Fracos Vincent A. Puluszak and William , whom he recoghized later as Lupold, | = Nichols, of Avis, charged with invol- untary manslaughter in connection with the death of Alfred Lupold, 63, also a resident of Avis, who died of injuries received Saturday evening, June 24, in an altercation at FP. G Emerick's barroom, Avis, were held for Clinton county court at & hear- ing Thursday afternoon before Al- derman T. Mark Brungard in Lock Haven. They will be tried in Oec- tober, in the meantime being allowed thelr freedom under $1500 bail, each. A surprise witness appeared at the | hearing in the person of Gilbert Wolfe, 18, of Avis, called by District Attorney Haag after all the other witnesses who testified at the in- quest had repeated their stories gave the most damaging testimony offered the two defendants The young man told of walking on the side of the street opposite | the Emerick establishment, directly across from the when he heard a commotion the night of the argument. Looking over at the taproom, he saw the forms of three men outlined against the light, standing In the doorway. The screen door was flung open, he testi- fied, and the man In the middle, almost Mother of Slain Baby Found Sane Woman Held in Lewistown Jail Must Stand Trial As Accessory A court-appointed sanity commis. sion last week found Helen Wolf, mother of the murdered “Rosebud Baby,” i not mentally i! and not a fit subject for confinement in an asylum.” Judge James M. Barnett. of Jmn- lata county, who appointed sanity commission, sald she will re- main In fail at Lewistown, awaiting trial at the BSeplember term of feourt at Mifflintown on a charge | of being sn accessory after the facet | undivided interest each,” leaving it to the heirs to decide whether each should have the Bible for one month a Year or divide it into twelve parts Good Silencer Lester Massingham, of Poular Bluffs. Mo, knows one way to get rid of a “back-seat” driver. Re- cently, he caught a huge king snake and locked it in his cir with the windows closed. The snake disap- peared and although he practically tore the automobile to pieces to prove to his wife that the snake was gone, she refused to get in 164 Tired Feet Bighty-two pairs of very tired feet were being rested at New York this week. They belonged fo a con- tingent of 81 hardy souls who under the leadership of Bernar McPFad- den, 71, the publisher, walked to | New York World's Fair from Phil- adelphia, beginning last June 3 As If there isn't enough walking to do at the Fair itself. BR Disturbs Golfers Eérie sounds come just when Louisville, | Norman Glenn of that place, which seemed to Ky. golfers were about to swing so un- | nerved players that an fnrvestigation was made. The “volte” belonged to a parrot which had escaped from its cage at a house nearby, and was sit- { date no record of the fight had of-/ ficially reached the police depart.’ ting up in a tree at the edge of the | Meat for All According to R. C. Pollock, Gen- | eral Manager of the National Live Stock and Ment Board, there's a cow, sheep or pig for every person | in the United States. He estimated | thst there were animals on our farms, including 30 - 955,000 beef cattle, 49,011.000 hogs | and 53,762,000 sheep and lambs Rescues Horse I required the services of an au- | tomobile wrecker to pull the 1500- pound mare of Virgil Hoflstetter from the bottom of a 40-foot well, at Alton, Til, into which the animal had tumbled. The latter appeared none the worse after being pulled from the well by a holst chain, Long Walk Linemen ai Eufala, Alabama, ST a 40 todh pole, they ANALY found a 40- h a six-foot on circalt—a snake tnt had climbed and been électro- Needle Kills Child Gloria Longlade, 2, of ighland Point, Ont., died In a hospital from injuries stiffered when she féll on a steel knitting needle, which plerced the roof of her mouth and passed through Ber brain, 133,000,000 meat of the murder of her baby The young mother’s defense at- torney had asked an investigation | of the! woman, who was employed as a do-| was | inte the mental condition mestic at the fime her born Paul W. Barrick, 21, her erstwhile sweetheart, was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering the baby after he signed a statement saying he had “besten” the child about 50 times and branded her with a hot stove lifter. He is now serving sfntenced in Western Peni- tentiary at Pittsburgh child Lock Haven Man Injured In Fight CCC Men Alleged to Have Taken Part in Alterca- fion at Hotel A group of CCC men, six from Waterville and two from the Hyner camp, are sald to have been in- volved in an altercation at the European Hotel in Lock Haven, Monday night, July 3rd, In which re- ceived severe head injuries. The affair was not made public until Priday afternoon when Clyde E. Detling, proprietor of the hotel, | reported it to the district gttorney. It was disclosed that up to that ment According to Deviing, a group of CCC men raised a disturbance at the hotel and he asked them to leave. As the last one went out the! door, the proprietor said, he was pulled out on the street. Several local young men rushed to his aid and a general fist fight ensued for several minutes. Glenn fell fo the sidewalk. He was taken to his home where | He has remained In a partially un- | conscious condition since. Attends | June 23, 1865. He died October 21, | ing physicians stated that he Is i ] i i 3 i 3 taproom, | the ie was ejected from the place. The other two men, one on each side of Lupold, had hold of his shirt at the neck and seat of his trousers, he sald. Wolfe testified it was too dark for him to recognize the three men as they stood in the doorway Saw Bedy Falling He sald that Lupold's head seeme ed to strike a steel pillar supporting the roof over the driveway at the Emerick filling station, which ad- Joins the taproom, and that his body of the steps with such force that his straw hat rolled out Into the street in front of the place. Lupold's body fell out of the door backwards, he sald The doorway is about three feet | higher than the drive, he testified Continuing up the street, Wolfe saw Nichols, night bartender at Em- erick’s, come out of the room and try to revive Lupold. He then pulled the man’s unconscions form over to the buliding whee he résted it and felt Lapold’s pulse before going back into the barroom, according to Wolfe This testimony of Wolfe, with the statements signed by Paluszak and Nichols, In which they admitted pushing Lupold out of the taproom, were sufficient evidence to hold the two for court, Aldermmn Brungard | decided. The statements were ex- hibited as evidence at both the in- quest and the hearing Mrs. Elizabeth Lupold, widow of the victim and mother of twelye children, was next called to the wit- ness stand by the coroner, She told how Lupold’s brother, John, who was living with them, found the man's (Continued on page four) — Day Dreams Me, Ah had struek the concrete drive at the foot | EY Om 3 ah LEWISTOWN WPA WORKER KILLS WIFE, Leaving no motive for his terrible crime, Guy W. Hartley of near Lewistown, killed his Mary Shahen Hartley, 31, and John Irvin Hartley, while they slept early Monday morning The mother and son instantly by shots fired from a 22- calibre single-shot rifle shot Into the back of their head: Hartley died from a forehead wound The tragedy was discovered about 6 o'clock Monday morning by a brother of the slain woman, Ross Shahen, who slept through the shooting In an adjoining room. A sister, Anna, 22, likewise falied 10 awaken The modest home of the Harleys willie faces heavily william 30 fe NOT were the traveied killed | on SON AND SELF three miles west of SBhahens sald they the backfire of ad during the Penn highway Lewistown. The were accustomed Ww ro motors night I on the Is said the young couple were excellent terms. Hartley seldom went out evenings and appeared devoted to his family. The husband was employed as a WPA timekeeper and was regarded as one of the best employes in that area. Wallace Blein, WPA engineer in that dis- trict, sald Hartley was in no dan- ger of losing his job Triple funeral services were held a little church where his parents, Mr. and to servicers Bun- VP in erday Hartley took Mrs. D. 1. Hartley day night cab of the truck to charred 23 FLEE BLAZING BUS AFTER CRASH ON ROAD IN JUNIATA COUNTY . Greyhond Driver, Attempting to Avoid Col-/ lision, Heads for Field, But Rear End Skids and Wrecks Twenty-five persons ished a Gravhound bus and the cab of a tractor-trailer truck following a collision on the William Penn Highway about one-quarter of a i mile east of the junction with the Port Royal road, Juniata county I'wenty-three persons in the bus en route from Pittsburgh to Har- | risburg and New York City, left the vehicle Just before it burst into flames which reduced the bus and ruins One woman passenger, Miss Franosg Flowers, 33, Newark, N. J sufferdd contusions of the back and was taken to the Lewistown HoOs- pital where her condition was des- ribed as not serious Rear End of Bus Skids W. C. Moran, of the Pennsylva- nia Motor Police, said that the bus driver, Fred Isler, 28, Pittsburgh wis atlempling to pass a small truck, which speeded up, when the accident occurred. Approaching the bus tractor-traller truck of the Mon- arch Freight Lines Ine, Chicago driven by its owner V. Wondra Madison, Il, who was going from New York City to Louisville, Ky The bug driver, in an attempt 0 avoid a head-on collision, tumed 0 the left into a field, and the rear end of the bus, skidding on the wel road oolifided with the truck which had almost stopped The small truck falled to sop The oragh took place just a few vards east of the home of Mr Mrs, Thomas Henderson was Le nd anc . ang ai- ANDREAS HARTER A PIONEER The descriptive account in last week's issue of a “fHtting” of an early setler into our county, in con- nection with a graphic tale of how teaming was done over the Seven | Mountains to Lwisburg, recalls the {experiences of other hardy pion- | SPrS Those of us living today in a world of progressive transportation, can searcely realize the hardships {endured by the men and women who blazed the trails to establish civilization In Centre county. They often faced the danger of hunger and exposure, as well as the peril of wild animals that roamed at will, in order to protect their new- ly established homes. They were a hardy set of people, these early gettlers, and thelr names deserve 6 be kept alive In the annals of | local chronology One of the fearless souls who fought His way through sdversities [to Become an Hohored citizen of | the county was a German named | Andirew Harter Andreas (Haerter) Harter was among the pioneers of the east end | of Centre county. He came to Penns Valley Im 1800-01, from Lancaster county. Determination and Fortitude Rewarded This is the story of a Lancaster county German who came to the wilds of Centre county with his wife and hewed | for himself and helpmate one 1 of the finest homes in Penns Valley. The hardships endéred would probably be consid- | ered useless sacrifices by the present generation, but it was of that brave stock that civilization was built to it present high standard. -= — cad AT Arriving at what is known a8 Wolf's Chapel, two miles east of Aaronsburg, he left the valley road and with two bind horses struck through the woods and thicket In a southwesterly direction two miles, and located a mile south of Aarons- burg, where he settied in whal was then 8 dens wilderness In his trip over these two miles the thicket was so dense that he had to use his tomahawk to cut & pass- age for his horses to get through. Here he cleared a tract of land which became one of the richest farms in the county The next day after his arrival on the spot, With the assistance of his i peu _ a pts sos coon wife, he felled small trees and put up a log hut, filling the cracks with mud. For windows olled paper was ased, and blankets served as a door. This was intended as a home to bridge him over for a year, but he occupied it twelve years as his home, when he built a two-story log weath- er-boarded house. He cleared all the land on the farm, with the assist- ance of his wife. This work was per formed with methodical skill They would take a dutch oven with them to where they were work- ing in which the wife cooked their dinner. The oven was moved from one Jog-fire fo the other, and when ithe dinner hour arrived the warm | — meal was ocarriad to the house and eaten His surplus grain Mr. Harter would haul to Reading, the nearest market, | requiring five days for the trip, and received 30 cents per bushel for wheat, and other produce in propor- | tion During his sbeence or such a trip his wife remained alone in their log hut with only a dog to protect her and their little children Upon one of these trips while the | wife was alone she heard a commo- tion on the outside during the night, which indicated that the large dog was having a fight with some wild animal. In her fright she meved tables and such other furniture as was in the room, against the blan- ket that served as a door to bar out | the wild animal should it attempt to enter. Next morning the noble dog was | found seriously wounded and almost dead from the injuries received from the animal, which had made its es- | cape. In his trips to Reading plonieer always spent a night in the | long Narrows, horses tied 10 the wa- gon, while he himsell crept under the hay and wrapped in a blanket, (Continued on page four) Dau Vet hter of War Seeks Pension i — Howard R. D. Woman Claims Physieal Disability Since Childhood A pension for a Howard woman, daughter of a Civil War veteran Kylertown Bather Was Exhausted Pulled From Water of Black Moskannon Dam in Un- conscious State Eugene Hardyshell, of town, was pulled from the walers Kyler- ‘Mill Hall Youth . Seriously Injured 'Skall Fractured When Bi. | eycle Collides With Auto- mobile — land Mrd. Stephen Kennelley, of Frank Kennelley, 18, son of Mr. | Township High Adds New Course Vocational Agricultare De- partment Established at Hublersburg —— July 1, Walker now dead, was included in the of Black Moshannon dam Sunday [Mii Hall R. D. 1, was admitted to | | omnibus pension bill which passed exhausted. He, was given first aid the Lock Haven Hospital in an un- | the House of Representatives this treatment for shock by the two life | conscious condition Saturday after- | {noon after he had suffered a frac- | {tured skull in an accident on route | | 64, three miles west of Lock Haven, | week and i now Awaiting Senate action. 8he is Lydia Prances Nyman, and ner address is rural delivery No. 2 in Howard. { Misg Nyman, who is 53 years old, {is the daughter of William Nyman. | who wag a private in Company E, | 146th Regiment of the Pennsylva- | nia Infantry during the Civil War. | He served from August 27, 1863 to guards on duty. Hardyshell had been swimming and regained the pled ii an ex- hatusted condition. After he reach. ed the edge he became unconscious and was pulled out by several per. sons. Rem Dunsmore and Lyle Musser, the guards on duty, reported that the only difficulty experienced was with the crowds of spectators Who packed around and shut off the | j where the highway is intersected by {a rural road near the Packer farm. The youth was injured when his l bieyele crashed into a car driven by Miss Clara E. Lucas, of Lock- [port, who was accompanied by her | Patents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Lucas, {| The occupants of the car state that Kennelley did not stop his suffering from shock and & possible | fracture of the skull, but that ind Deputy Sheriff Farry Bryerton | went to the Waterville COC Camp | and brought back Wiliam Minard, | (Continued on page four) 33 TT 1910. Although Miss Nyman has no title to a pensiont under existing laws, since she atinined the age of 16 prior to the death of her father, | medical evidence submitied with | the bill indicates that since an at- | tack of infantile paralysis when she | was 15 months old, she has been | | Bunday than on the bicycle at the Intersection where a stop sign is erected. Kennelley's 15-ydar-old sister, ic | Sara, is also a patient at the Lock t. | Haven Hospital where she under- went an emergency operation for appendicitis Sunday. Our own recipe for better times: fresh air supply for the victini, The erowd had to be moved by 4 state motor poliéeman. The life guards asked the publ to cooperate with them in preven ing accidents and not erowding July. which shall include such timely, practical gubjécis as Vegetable and Ornamental Gardening, y THE JONESES' — Elmore Tries escaped | rectly across 4 y 'B ar y wv v Po | f death on Sunday when fire demol the old | | thom 4 ‘ Wie rod from their farm Both the bus and truck burst into flames immediately while the pas sengers and driver left the bus by the front door, the emegrency door in the redr of the bus through g& window by means of one woman escaped Among the injured in was Tony Krezel Madison Il, a helper on the truck, who received treatment from a Miffiintown phy- gician and was then th and which the crash é mw eT removed Ww Vhs | Lewistown Hospital wmmoned the oom- Port Mir Mifflin panie: Roval companies five pleces « ambulances {0 the soene Henderson and Mifflintown fire and two ambulances and Thompsontown fire 50 answered calls, and and two went r Apparatus Autos Jam Highways, Hundreds of med the bumper for one mile one each of the accident for at least hours. Bix motor policemen GOe- toured traffic from Mexico to Mif- flintown by way of a back road (Continued on page four) automobiles jJam- bumper 10 side three Badly Hurt As Team Runs Away Aged Lycoming Co. Farmer Suffers Possible Skull Fracture Leaping from a wagon drawn by a team of runaway horses Thursday afternoon, on the Cogan Siation R D. 2 highway, Lycoming oounty Henry Lowmil 75, suffered a pos- fractured skull. The injured man was removed to the Williams Hospital he is reported Nn A Srious congilion In the wagon with wére Donald Lowmiller, 18, New. {berry, a grandson, and Leonard | Baglert, 18, Cogan Station R. D. 2. { were uninjured, | Employed on the farm of George Englert, lowmiller with the (wo boys were leaving the land to haul lumber when the horses jumped | their reing and broke them Becoming frightened, the team farted ohh 8 wild dash down the road, Lowmiller clung to the wagon | until the horses reached the main highway and then jumped. He landed on his head and was knock- | 6d UNOONSCIOUs The team wag brought fo a halt on the Isaac Ulmer farm, nearly a mile away sible where ary port Lowmiller Chosen Pastor of 2 Congregations | Installation Services Held at | Mill Hall and Beech Creek Churches | | | John 8. Lonsinger, newly-elected | pastor of the Beech Creek and Mill | Hall Presbyterian churches, recent | graduate of Princeton Theological | Seminary, and the son of a minis- { ter, was formerly ordained into the Presbyterian ministry at a service {at the Mill Hall church Friday | evening. The ordination service was part [of two special services at the two | during | {churches of the charge, { which Mr. Lonsinger was also for- {mally installed as pastor for the | congregations. The servieds were | attended both at Mill Hall and | Beech Creek by a large representa~ |tioi of both congregations, as well {as by the yoting minister's parents, {the Rev. and Mrs. Jesse L. Lonsing- jer of Philadelphia, | The ordination service was in the {form of an adjourned meeting of [the Northumberland Presbytery, with the Rev. John C. Moore, of {tion questions, the Rev. Mr. Lon- singer, father of the new minisier, gave the ordination prayer, and members of the Presbhyiery formally the | came forward to participate in the actual “laying on of hands,” which constitutes thé impressive ordina- ceremony. Mr. Lonsinger is not only the son of a minister of the Presbyterian denomination, but also hag a broth- er who ig preparing for the minis try. Danvile, moderator, presiding. | y | Mr. Moore propounded the ordina~ | MORE SHERIFF LORE | Dave Hughes, gas, oll and beer | tycoon on North Water street, also {a G. OP. afpiratit for the Shriev- | aly, has a loyxl supporter in his son, Bill. The youth, owner of an | ancient sedan, has plastered over | all available space on the bugly's exterior: “Hughes for Sheriff ~ WHAT'S WRONG | WITH BELLEFONTE? The prominent citizen who wrote a most able article on this question for The Ceritre Detnoérat last week has raised quite a furore, but few there are with the courage fo an. swer the question under the stipuls- tion that zil replies must bear the writer's signature. NICE GOING, JIM! The other day, we are inforined James J. Leitzell, of Milesbtirg, & Republican candidate for Sheriff, as seen slong the Beliefonte- leasant Gap road end on the Cen- tre Hall mountain road cutting brush away from boulders on which were painted large white signs reading “Leitzell for Sheriff” Jim had the signs painted during his campaign four years ago, snd they're still good w P JUST A QUESTION Now that the campaign is on, maybe well be able to learn why the Centre County Comgnissioners, in having ballots for the special school bond issue for Bellefonte borough printed last spring, sent the job away instead of keeping it in Bellefonte where it belonged even If it was an inconsequential Job? After all, the election war strictly 2 Bellefonte affair, and since the baliot printing was such | 8 measiey job it seems that it could | have been kept at home | WELLSBORO FOUL NEWS { In regard to the photo of 8 deer appearing in a new folder issued by the Wellsboro Chamber of Come merce, and which this de last week declared was a foul De- cause the phiolo of the deer was | taken in the Seven Mountains, Lar. ry Woodin, the Wellsboro C. of C's moving spirit, is reported fo have written to a Bellefonte friend: “The picture was furnished to us by a photographer hired by the state . . . He didn’t seem to know where it was located at the time he furnish- ed if to us.” So that's that! PASSIONATE FIREPLUGS Bellefonte's } each side of the pl violent red. The decorated in similar violent the town would soon become show piace for the rest of tion. Maybe this is a good drawing tourist trade. KUDOS TO KOPS This week's laurels go to Private James H. Griffith and Hareld D Ream, of thé State Motdr Police ' ty. In arresting Harry Williams, of Beech Creek, and obtaining his confession that he fired the shot | use a formula whic 5 | Att | i : A | Sun | trees fhs'un etm. | closing of the highway. The | washed out and oeilars i i | i i i : { : i : i ii sk : H i | were fifty-seven in attendance, a?
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