[4 ‘The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. Odd and | NEWS, * SECOND Curious | News ! | i ! | ] | SECTION he Centre Democvaf FEATURES VOLUME B58. BELLEFONTE, PA, Had Her Fling Two-ton Elsie, fugitive Glreus ele- phant, was lured back into captiv- ity again at Staunton, Va. after a safari of 200 police snd country folk had stilked her through the foothills of the Blue Ridge moun- tains for a day and a half. Elsie, we and hungry, had plodded through the forests south of Staun- ton for 33% hours since escaping from a wrecked circus trailer, She walked quietly from the woods with two fellow pachyderms her side They had been freed to entice her from her hideout. Fright engender- the w killed a cir- another elephant itive found TU Kly was traller and mnoke, Va fOOts( by ed by reck that attendant and gone when mates an loaded on to started on the cus was the {ug her «<1 she « another way to Re 7,104,768 Steps Mack of Allento passed through Lawrence, Kan last week enroute from the NEW York World's Fair to the San Fran- cisco Exposition. He is making the trip afoot and is measuring the dis- tance between fairs by means of § pedomet He timate the tri at about 7.104. 7¢ ten Hi only food on the wa | 13.4 27 wn, Pa R quan n Plowed ve Wallet Th acker HE 0 UAYy Week willie for wheat wallet, cash Toothpick Violin 3457 u pain At a cost picks labor, field and 108 Earl Nelson Ma hours of takin SO 20 5 W picks and the keyboard, tailpiece rest, keys and strings Riding Bull Averaging Terry, Sun remaincey a day. Tec Valley, Idaho, cowboy | 0 the New York World's tride a 1600-pound bull. Ted and “Hitler” started their journey from Idaho on September 15, 1987 and expects to arrive in New York by next year, gure Loses Teeth Passengers Engin Albee teeth whi h b oon wwhed a1 A they { engine oab's gh Bo at N. M. Albee immediat and the the traly 12 miles i | and train crew helped find a pair of false lost when he oul of ¥ Sante Fe fer ear Brooch in Spud While slicing potatc had dug in her garden Brackett, of BEtowah surpri ang delighted highly-prized pin hich she lost five fel) ¢ one ol © which she Mr; B.C Tenn. was when a had All ‘Brothers’ Am the pris rence il recently brothers, old twins ne jail, at there were Da pain y of including a set of 3l-year- HELPER DIES, DRIVER INJURED WHEN TRUCK WRECKS NEAR TYRONE Sleeping Man Pinned Under Crushed Cab; Accident Occured At Entrance To Tyrone Paper Mill The sharp curve on the approach the Tyrone paper mill was the scene of a fatal accident early Sun- lay morning when a truck-traller from New York to Chicago nning the driver and helper under the crushed cab I'he Wilmer Cramer, 22, of Penn ndizna county, died in ambulance while being Philipsburg State Hos- asleep in the to enroute erturned, p victim Run yrone to the ) WES n th h occurred, suf- ferad fractures the skull neck and crush injuries of the The the time of the ident, Charles Peters, 21, of Fos- toria, Ohio, suffered head and body bruises According the truck of and body driver at ac - driver's story, west 11 SAN the travelling to Ws t and using tate the town due Near Drowning at Black Moshannon Lifeguards Rescue Unidenti- fied Man as Victim's Boat Upsets proved their Moshannon unidentified rly drown- again Black » Bunday Park at being able | Musser, an- state boat Both were vaged Lyle Musser, a life guard station- ed at the dam who is a cousin of Willlam, was stationed on bridge and swam to the scene 100 feet away and brought the accident | tam in Rem Dunsmore, the other guard, was at the water's edge aid equipment upon their arrival The victim was treated for shock A at the park time and ral different reunions and picnics vic large crowd was the ls groups had —————— ——, — ‘Eight Homeless In Huntingdon Fire Flames Sweep Business Building, Entailing $30. 000 Loss persons were at Huntingdon, M« 1 in a $30000 fire which pt through four business estab- lishments and two apartments of a building there rendered nday { orived no warning of the fire which HOSPITAL INMATE FOUND IN MILL HALL STAIRWAY Responding to a complaint that a sir@fige man wis lounging in the stairway of a Mill Hall buliding | last Thursday, Deputy Sheriff Leroy Bryerton of Lock Haven picked up! the individual and lodged him in| jadd He proved to be George Edward Ellis, alias George Whitney, of the State of Washington. When ques- tioned at lergth, Ellis declared that ' he hud escaped from the Patton [gqfety. State Hospital in California in Oeo- | tober. 1086, after having been there since December, 1934 He said he had since been in Elizabeth and Newark, N. J. play- ing in bars, An eflort is be- ing made to determine what dispos- ition should be mude of the man gil you please about the causes of crime, but, at the botiom, ft is doe to the public's habit of taking it for granted piano Talk WEB-FOOTED “WHATSIT" BLOOMSBURG RESIDENTS AGOG. ' Pherson, 25, of Noblesville, Bloomsburg identification is still agog over) (or rather lack of it) | appeared to be a combination faun, at, beaver, and common, “Whatsit” Caught by farmer Rush Fritz, fa- ther of Jasper Pritz, Osceola high school teacher, while it raided his | chicken coops, the animal, two feet! long and 10 inches high, was placed on exhibition at a firemen's carmi- val and the entire populace was fhe | vited to “guess what it is and it's yourd.” Billed as a feature attraction at tite carnival after S. 1. Shortess, | head of the sclence department af the State Teachers Cols | lege examined it, scratched his head ard vowed he had never seen “such | an animal,” the critter attracted 400 townspeople to guess last night—at Tive cents per guess, living several blocks sway. The building. which is jointly by George W. Fisher and Mrs J W. Miller, was a frame and brick construction immediately enveloped in flames which fellowsd the sudden flare up | Huntingdon Volunteer firemen found the structure shested In flames upon their arrival and found it necessary to run ladders to a sec- ond floor apartment in order to bring Fred Moser and his family to Mrs. J. W. Miller, who with two children, occupied sn apart. ment adjoining Moser's, was able to escape before flames blocked the stairways The Kurtz barber shop, bakery and the were on the frst floor of the build ing Damage to the building was plac- Fisher's ,ed at $16000 by the owners, ‘Who sald the loss was covered insur- | By INSUF- | 1s said the youths had buried some lof the goods in the woods near . | Osceola ance —-—— HAD The firemen In charge of the car- nival, though realizing the commer- of a tailess, wob-footed snimal that | cial importance of their were puzzled about what to do with ordinary | the “thing” after the cuthiival ends | Saturday night. Afraid to turn it loose because they don't know what it is, Chairman Raymond Kashner | said that if the animal could not be identified and no #200 offered to take it off his hands, it would prob- | ably be shot. exhibit, The web-footed creature, spotted Tike 4 faun, having a head ike a | rat and nibbling like a beaver, has | ovown: fur and an undersigng low- | er jaw. Tossed apples, celery avs read by curious townspeople, the efitter ate of everything. But Parmer Pritz, for his part, hopes no one identifies his catch. Fle gets a percentage of the “take” at the carnival to compensate f 30 of his chickens the animal killed, j ated by from ' bridge the | with first! { dangerous The vecupants of the building re- | owned | and was! her ed up Tuesday night of last week | Lee Chick Shop | at Alexandria being closed the accident there two week: ago. The fog which prevailed at the time prevented the driver from see- ing the curve In time to slow up Knocking down six guard rails and the high steel wire fence at that point, the heavy machine turned completely over, coming to rest a few feet from the edge of the creck The impact demolished the left side of the trailer and the entire front of the cab In which two men were pinned bridge since According to Peter's tatement two traller-trucks loaded with mis- merchandise, and oper- the Monark Motor Freight of Chicago, were enroute York to Chicago nN trucks stopped at Eagle and adjusted brakes. In ing towards Tyrone and passing Narthwood the truck Peters was driving started down the slight grade re curve which the mill CLE OUs ompany 1 New Bald come just after verse paper Lhe roaches LOwWards app According to Peter brakes but only the held. He released then applied them again but still did not hold. Peters just man- aged to get around the first curve when the truck swayed, turned wing the opposite direction. pants of the leading that Cramer had met accident and stopped near paper mill office on Pennsyl- vania avenue, They ran back to find Peters in a dazed condition and endeavoring to extricate him- sell from the cab which was badly (Continued on page #gnt) he applied the left side brakes | the brakes and’ then wer, fi The occ truck saw with an the ' board THURSDAY, ————————— AUGUST 10, 1989. NUMBER 32. Random | Items SON You MAKE Y Wall FEEL RIG OUD OF You, My 80 The Crop Report WA 2 MOTHER COOKS ON FLAT STONES AFTER HOME BURN A county of how a mpe lie and twi had b Tribune Mrs R story her pathetic m was 0 cook meals for herself dren after their home told by the Altoona The Heimsa chiidren and One Was Alt H the daughter was vis forte, the family was less when an oil stove chen of their LAO frame dwelling apparently exj and complet ely destroyed Uw For several days they were pelled to Hye in a garage property, Ha walls lined wit! Their onl lothies T mother Is of Altoona Lawrence Louise, of last week th are Mary day whiie in ONE e made in tore fly tory ve al » Lose provided cooked thelr « by They meals Heimsath ne nearby the house, i went to visit While noticed he there one of Reimesat th The frantic mother serious flame from death neighbor prevented to the flames pOsseRsions or S Corp FIREMEN TO MEET AT HOUTZDALE FOR GALA WEEK'S CELEBRATION = : Many Expected To Attend District Meeting Which Is Being Held In Connection With Town's Old Home Week f convention ol Fire- The 47th annual the Central District men’s Association Week which open 14th, at Houtzdale until Saturday, August indications of being the most colorful celebra undertaken by section One been with elles Volunteer and Old Home Monday, August and conlnue 18th, has biggest and to ev bo nil on er 1 local firemen of tha engaged 1 many show and many and thrills Tuesday at a pet parade fOr ind including 16 parade is scheduled promptly at 6 o'clock dale F will Kida e entering giv gift Wednesday convene at the 10 a. m. The will be: David J of Agriculture and Hon ator, Houtzdale ing the day will includ Age to Brisbin grave of president As annual (0m 6 p all Year lead *h a Bherkel convent jon Pr ( Wa Le spesker ¢ De} partmer cemetery 4 8mith emen’s baseball Firemen’ Americas Alexander of the Fir tion sociation banquet at band con Band ert by Department rks, and BURNING OF BUSH ARCADE IN 1887 little over 52 years ago Belle. fonte suffered the loss of one of its prominent business blocks when the Bush Arcade burned, entailing a joss of nearly $100000. Nineteen business firms and tenants were The fire occurred on Sunday morning, January # 1887. The weather was bitter cold, and when the alarm was given very few {eit like responding Many citizens sione, looked out of thelr windows and as no Hght was viaible, again retired About son, who half past four, John Daw- occupied apartments in the Bush Arcade, was awakensd by a8 choking sensation. His room was filled with smoke and the floor had miready become heated. He and his family were barely able to es- cape with their lives Finally flames and smoke suing from Valentine store was forced open and a small procured, but the hose was and consequently of no use There seemed to be some difficul- ty in arousing the citizens to the | situation. The bell on house was rung, but was were cellar front discovered the f th of Le The door hose te y wrogen the hose not generally heard. John Wagner, | broke out with a roar heard by per- | Who later became | sons procured | Fiedler, one of Belle- | | fonte’s first mall carriers, Recalling the Memorab! of Bellefonte’'s Prominent tled Blaze in 1 Bitter Cold We Sn a rms ening a number of firemen In thet way However the Undine were on scene, bur Le gained rap and 1 was so parent that the building was ed. While both companies hard and faithfully Yyery ] wv 4 1 the in those days mean ong bef OOH Pane " 3 +88 not and Logan it the ne chi chon worked they OOLIG Lie ited appar- atus used In the wi Levi ne or fam e the the seobnd and BY and sn Kevat foo wi everything cription Ist, am counts, were destroyed. The ors. Robert Cassidy and Jame suffered a total loss Immediately above this and in the same end of the bul was Armory Hall, otcupied by Com pany B of the National Guard, and it was the next victim The flery element raged so fierce- iv that Bt was utterly Snpossible © rite ON attacked ing book: er Which Blocks Dest roved One Firemen at- a heavy gun and fired # off nk hpin admittance to the building, sii! those vho were In Were ICKY Lo ERCADE ar 3 few day trothery had of ¥P. § Mayer S07 Hei Irance Next ~aCing re bakery was a hnllwa) WwW. T Twilmire OTe AG X the to the ues fiTE and Mr ad Ane was succeeded Twiimire Savin 1 See BOCK almost compile enheimer's roprietor suffered by water story next to a room occupied This gentle- angled and had of the win- Gugg The p cavily from damage On the second CGagette office was Jacob Shrom in was almost str to be taken oul of one dows the Bond Valentine ren) estate office f ire conlenis John Dawson occupies the emant apartments adjoining insurance office. Mr. Dawson family escapsd with onl) night clothing and were wr dave a single article hall Mr LIOWES were and enti burned en the ann! their Reasner upied i by F s Mayer ho esc aped from the building wit great difficulty On the second floor of the building lived George Chase Robinson boarding house was cated here The third floor was used pany Sth Regiment mory The apartme: handsomely fitted up, and co od the uniforms, guns, anny 1 and an ‘excellent gymnasium When the fire cooamunicaled to the cartridges, it gounded like a minia- ture battle ‘he other half of the third floor | (Continued On page eight) ew The als i2 by Com- B OSCEOLA YOUTHS CHARGED WITH PHILIPSBURG THRPT | Three Osceola youths, Bvioh | Kephart, George Crain and Paul | Maguire, are being held in the | Centre | next County fil awaiting the ters: of court where they will | face charges of the General | Hardware Stores at Philipsburg last | week, According to the Rockview Motor | Police the Osceola trio were pick- on a suspicion charge by the | Clearfield chief of police. Through an investigation conducted by Pri- | vate Ream and Jordan of the Rock- | view barracks arresty of the youths | were made. ! Information given by the motor police disclosed the youths had ap- parently taken $1560 in merchan- dise from thé Philipsburg store. It | ———— Guardian Gone, Tired and sléepy after seeing the sights of the big city, Edward iy nga., walked to a park. A man whom he had met on a street corner, whose | name was “Doc” told him to take | a map and he would guard him. | When McPherson awoke, Doc was gone and $29 he had in his pocket with the Bellimer® Bundsay Amerl- can, On sale by all progressive | newsdenlers. Father's Truck Crushes Baby, Unaware that his one-year-old son had toddled under his lee. | truck parked in the backyard of | | Potato,” POTATO GROWERS TO HOLD FIELD DAY, AUGUST 21 Pennsylvania’s potato growers are tour in and around Coudersport Pottér county, on Wednesflay, Aug- IR { {week by looking forward to a field day and | Howard street, Belisfonte, executive Many Centre county potato grow- ers are planning to make the trip, ording to reports received this Ebon B. Bower, {secretary of the Pennsylvania Co- ust 23, under the sponsorship of the | Potter County Foundation Seed Ladin Association, Inc Co-sponsors of | the Pennsylvania Cooperative Po- tato Growers Association, Inc. Pennsylvania Agricultural Experi | thent Station and the Potter Cotun- ty Extension Association, The day's events will begin at 8 o'clock with an astembly at “Camp east of Coudersport. Dufing the morning there will be an inspection of the camp, an inspection of the] seedling plots with Dr. E. 1. Nixon, | of State College, ag guide; inform- al ground discussions, znd short addresses. After a ionch served by the NY at “Camp Potato,” guests will be in- the program are (llam Berg, of Milesburg, operative Potato Orowers Associa- tion — CHARGE 54 TROUT TAKEN TLLEGALLY of East) OSCEOLA YOUTH KILLED IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Word has been received by Mr and Mrs. William Dillon, of Osce- ola Mills, of the death by accident of their son, Milford William Dil jon, which occurred Friday, August 4 Details were lacking, the message lonly stating that he met desth in| Acocrding to a news report Wil- | was fined | $45 at Renovo for fishing without a located about seven miles icense and the possession of illegal | devices. after having been arrested on Youngwoman's by an official of the Fish and Game | Commission Warrants are expected to be serv- | jes sa | the charge, the fines could amount i troduced and in the sftarnoon an automobile tour of Potter county | ity | ted on two men, sald to have been {in company with him, and to have | [removed with a net from the ereek | {54 trout, one of which was 20 Inch- | If the men are found gullty of, to upwards of $1,000 Evidently, the “Keeping the Goi doers, Creek Saturday | | i { | Read this fllustrated st August 208h. Issue of The [ {an sutomobile accident near Pred- ericksburg, Virginia He was about 25 years of age, and is survived by his parents, his wife, | the former Miss Jessie Raftovich, | of Osedola Mille, and two brothers and two sisters. For the past eight years he had been 8 member of | the Naval Air station at Norfolk, Va “>. Tales of the California Gold Rush | Another exciting chapter by one of the few remaining survivor; c | the exciting an of the West when | | men oul for gold and women | | fought to take it away from them. | in in the | | who gave | College Twp | Harris Twp { Howard Boro In nh youne usd on pape 500 i at Scotia Picnic (Cont ight) Annual Out- ing be Held Elsewhere is Rejected Suggestion That in ! Rey McAli an in Next was Witt Mr . ney DOT spirational address Harris a former Scotia resident, who sipxke of the ore and fron and thelr many use: and of th at Sootia when that ory Benford Walter Healon, of (Continued on Page Eight) ——— School Districts Receive Funds Semi-Annual State priation to County $127.334.07 Philips- P Totals 2 3d - iy Centre t aistricts have received a total $127 334 07 from Harrisburg, representing the county's semi-annual from the State for school purposes In the following table are shown the usual the amount of ments, less the District Bellefonte Boro Benner Twp Boggs Twp Burnside Twp Centre Hall Boro August pay- reductions Ami, Due §14068 08 2.355 00 | 2733.34 | 941.73 3117.75 1820.00 Curtin Twp Ferguson Twp Gregg Twp | Haines Twp Half Moon Twp 900.00 3,781.50 2513.35 1.20436 1.600 00 Howard Twp Huston Twp | Liberty Twp 3.82650 { Marion Twp 1.500 00 (Continued on page ight) Berry Picker Bitten by Snake Joseph Minmnich, 46, of St Marys, a rattlesnake while picking berries| along the St. Marys-Johnsonburg road, three miles north of St. Marys | The wound was opehed and cauter- | ized by a St. Marys physician and | Appro- | appropriation | 1737.09 | 4,485.00 | 581672 2473.15 | — SOAP BOX DERBY Clarence Bingaman won the first annual north ward soap box derby | held last week on East Lamb street | There were four contestants the wis 15 cents each, and ner took ail Lompetiiafs, in to Binga James Di ck Cupers Bhef- number of spectators } bis to attend the running the derby were disappointed gsters, for some reég- quite clear, déecided morming hetead ridey afternoon originglly set conducting a ciatmed 1 i entrance fees the were and Pete 0% IPRA 80 [aka | whe of when th son whieh isnt " 13 iting Ireaay sit id Capers phan Nis ank'e COACH 15 MODERNIZED ¥ F widow ’ THINK? would be pleased Newswriters WHAT DO YOU a v4 Fvs ior § Pal vine] much Mos * from being bec modern WE diction that Ions This the more unwieldy virtues in- dictionar- now that might as v hie A Tals Go OPENING FOR GOOD MAN \ the and beer inter. Bellefonte need i= a good man person n the 1 kéepers to the biunder of antogonizing a of wvotés by tir kind of Inguisition upon person whe petitions to place the ballots chairman would have you have to do guilt and oon. so that those yoit out of bus. Do res] reason to sbomt the way in which your establish Ter ‘| " Such 2 permittees make on signed issioners red ns interests Now boys, all sit tight, keep your business i who'd like to vole iness will have complain you ment’ SO WHAT? 5 there duet s PE v ar rimming ditoriailzing nn the fact that are never more than 406 men ng the city on foot ang in Cars at any one time, 3 Phils. ia newspaper out that means only one policeman on duty for every 5000 inhabitants. “What would you think of a town of 5000 that had only one policeman on jauty at a time? the newspaper asks. In other words, what do you think of Bellefonte? COUNCILMANIC LAMENT A Councilman at a regular meet. day night voiced displeasure over the fact that in newspaper re- ports of Council meetings the names of Councilmen who offer and various motions are often The Councilman hinted that the practice continues Onell may resort 10 some secret sessions with newspapermen barred. Persons [in public office of #ny Kind are lke golifish in a4 bowl insofar fs their | public acts are concerted. If some- | one covers the bowl, pele either begin to imagine ali king of carry- Ings-on are RUIN on intlde, or else (José Intereft In thé goiatish to the extent thai they Torgét to feed them. Imagine the horrible thoughts 7 the public weuld have II Council { suddenly decided to wrap iiself In 8 blanket 10 bhoid its meétings! What chicanery. What double-deal- ing! What political maneuvering! What the heck ! We much prefer the present set-up, with no holds barred, and we believe Councilmen in the jong run would find that secrecy would work far more dams. ageé than would the statement in thy local press that “Councilman Charles Shunprint offered a motion fo abolish the present inané and dangeroms arfangement of stop [efgns 81 Allegheny and ldnn, Alle- igheny and Biahop and Bithop and | Spring streéts i up pode red deln days Wty POLIS ng Mor second given if + | was bitten behind the left knee by CAN YOU EXPLAIN IT? Hubert Rossman, West Bishop street battery man, reports that automobile batteries Seem to fail in unison. For years, he Sy8 he's noticed that several weeks will pass | Weekly, distributed with dhe By Balti | rattiesnake serum was administer. | With practically no oalls for battery seed fields will be the chief activ-| heeds is fewer talkers and more more Sunday American. On sale | Jat all newsstanfs. hd ed. The knee was badly swollen and! he suffered much pain. servicing. Then an avalanche of ! (Oohitinued on page three "KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — Haw t
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