Odd and Curious | News The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. SECOND SECTION dhe Cenfre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 68, BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1939, NUMBER 40. Random [tems \. A Real Split Herbert L. Bruce and Miles Dun- can, two parthers nn a v—— eral 50-50 basis, liquor, dishes, glassware, tooth picks, napkins, tables, chairs, doors, | windows, cutlery and the plumb- ing fixtures equally between them but they were momentarily st umped by a counter, the Cir cular bar, a discarded straw hat and an old] rogst chicken in the ice box. 80 they hauled out ripsaws and sawed | all four in half | Bathés Ih Barnyard Investigating complaints that nude men were doing ballet danc- ing in His barnyard, police went 0 the farm of Milton Hoffman, al) Ottawan, Ont, and found a young man, who explained that, hot and; tired of driving and seeing the ani-} mal watering trough in Hoflman's parnyard, he stopped his car dis- robed and crawled in Doesn’t Ride Alone A six-foot blacksnake rides the rural mail route with Harold Hanks, of Guy's Mills. The carrier found) the reptile recently and put it in the | trafik at the rear of his car to take home. The snake made its way nto the top of the car and no amount of iiducement has succeeded In get- | ting it to come oul Lady Flinger ary Shaw, of Berwindale, ¢isims new laurels for her sex. She won the Clearfield County farmers’ horseshoe pitching contest, quali- fying to compete for the stale championship. And the experts who saw her play wouldn't be Sur- prised if she carried off the stat te | title. Return Armored Car | An armored car, belonging 0 Joseph T. Miller, police equipment salesman, of Tulsa, Okla. was stol- en and missed two days before po- lice found it. The thieves had not bothered a sub-machine gun, bullet | proof vest, tear gas guns or 1,000 rounds of ammunition with which | the car was equipped. Shows Money Loses It | En route to a bank to deposit $665, James Battista, 50, of Chicago, | told police he was stopped by two] men who inquired in Italian where a bank was. Obligingly he told, them and admitted that he, had to make 4 deposit, showing re money. The men grabbed the money and fled Harlem cafe, in New York, went thelr sep- arate ways in New York after Spit | ting up their partnership on a Mt- | They divided the! | Kot, HOME OF BELLEFONTE NATIVE ABOUNDS IN UNUSUAL ANTIQUES Cottage, Built in Cape Middle of Large pe Cod Style, Set in| Field, is Model of Beauty and Convenience A vivid description of the com- | fovtable home of Mr. and Mrs, Mer- rill Wetsel, of Watebury, Conn, peared in the September Issue of “Bumker Hill News ® 4 neighbor hood hewspaper published at Waterbary., Mr. Wetzel, son of rs. Emma Wetzel ol Willowbank Street, Bellefonte, is widely known In Bellefonte where he spent his boyhood. The description is reprimed a follows: (The “On” and “Ev™ re ferred to in the article are Mr, and Mis, Wetzel, respectively.) “A visit to the home of one of “Bunker Hill's Joutiges married Bigler Boy Is Killed By Auto Lad Dashes + From Embank- ment Into Path of Passing Car Frans! in D. William died last Thursday afternoon at the Philips vw ¥ State Hospital of injur- jes received whe n he dashed from an embankment into the path of anh automobile along the new highway between West Dec and Clear- field The driver car, Joseph Pawlukozich, 25, Clearfield, and three occupants of the machine, were injured slightly when it swerv- ed into a culvert, The boy suffered fractures of the skull and in Incerntions of the leg and face Mrs. Philip Pawlukozich, mother of the driver, all of treatment at 6. of Bigler, ati atur of the eg Clearfield, Clearfield received ap- | addition to severe | Nick Baron and Pete | Hospital, | couples brought who were privileged LW see it “The hame t8elf is a six room coliage, In Cape Cod Siyle sel in| large fleid, with | the middle of a plenty of room on all sides—room for » huge garden at the rear, with wide lawn and Dower gardens al both sides. Huge maple pees ab Lhe entrance of the delve give a feeling | oteclon nestied behind them, in no way shut out shine, which pours at all sides during day “The two-car garage stands al the side of Lhe house, connected by a single room on one floor. Be- tween Lhe garage and Lhe two house entrances stands an old fashioned Ueet lamp on 4 post. This reas Ite house and yet they he lively sun- into the rooms some part of of pr Ww the ure was acquired from West Corne | wall, Coun as ae lamps { E 4 It is fitted electrically two vielorian carriage that flank the [ront door Note: The carriage lamps ori- ginally graced the old funeral coach of funeral director Hardman P Harris, of Bellefonte. Mr Wetzel also hag two other carriage lamps which were original equipment on a | Stanley Sieamer once owned by C. Y., Wagner, prominent Belle- fonte resident). “Our hosts, “Ev” and “Oz” Wel- zel, for it is none other than they were formerly Woodside Avenue residents. They have bullded this lovely piace out in Middlebury, on Three-Mile Hill Road. They take us in through the side door, where the den, with windows (Continued on Page 6) the a thrill to those | the ! { Coliege The Oldtimer (11 DECLAR RVING EACH LONG TIME SINCE | CUT A BAKET Gr FAH WAS KROWN AS Wii w STONE. | Th A Go Ho DAYS. | (RRVED SE Tr oF | xi led and seven other of them students, | game at | DuBois FOUR OUT FOR NAVY HONORS Two appointments to the Uniled United State Naval Acads Annapolis by Representative E. Van Zandt of the 2rd disirk are the men in the district will compets a civil service examination Satur- day. October 7 Pour of the county. They are State College; Paul Smith, Aar burg. George MacMullin, Jr College, and Owens Yeuell 39 are from Cenire ri - The mental tests the United States civil service com- mission, will be the basis for selec tion of eight young men--fwo prin cipals and two each as first third alternates to supervises by ee and the § {in 1040 wl LS 41) James | t Bt prizes for which 38 young « in other Fred Doggett, ' State #5 State T [ the applicants will take the postoflice DuBois, and few will be tests In attend. ination in at Altoona, oliege, while a 10 take identical where they are eparatory schools re thi be acemy, they must en by the navy ities admitted to pass rigid department.’ feants must be. between the 16 and 21 bona {ide of the 23rd district A —— A ———— Killed Same Day wurs and a balf after d, Steven Jacogs, 35 vuicanizer of Cleveland when a steam wvulcaniz- * he was operating blew Y Can Gets Job: THREE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS KILLED ON WAY HOME FROM GAME |: Seven Others Injured as Skidding Autos Crash | Following Clearfield-DuBois Football Game ere high school serious al DuBols Hospital, Baucher and Hevner died student 5 were | wi persons, four were injured when two sulomobbies relianiog from the Clearfield -DuBols football Clearfield skidded Satur-| day on the wel highway The dead are: Dolph Baucher, 18 and Russel Hevner, 17, DuBois high tudents, and Pear! Poulson, a Curwensville high school se- Three | roadster In which she was rebar. ing from the game with others, skidded between Clearfieid and Cuwrwensville, She was pinned beneath the car and died of a brow- en peck Her companions, all identified at Clearfield Rospial Robert Hadden 20, ( which Hevner Autumn Young 19, M and Atley Hummel, 20 riding skidded into a id, midway between New Bridge And Road Dedication shoo] x 17, nor The car in Baucher were near Penfie ,~ LIWensy Ciearfl 3 ee ana Lite and Clearfield Four Du- Boils students in the car and injure ed In Ke accident were Lloyd Smiley, IT both legs broken; Thom- as Bedell, 17, an arm and jeg broken Charles Gray, 17, internal Injurie and William Gray, Charles’ brother, acute shock The cond smiley, and Charles Wika Formal Opening of Highway Structure to Be Held October 30 of 8 Bede! reporied a TEN INJURED AS AUTO HURTLES INTO CROWD Governor James has been invit- ed to be present th ¢ formal open- ing of the new bridge over the Bi que 1a River, the easter: of lock Haven, which Ii place on Monday, October 30, and if he comes the State Teachers’ College bulldings will be dedicated { the same time, according to ten- 15 At least ten persons were injur- at d ed at Siperville near Emporium, Saturday, when a 1080 model aulo- mobile participating in a “jalopy race” hurtied into a crowd of spec- tators The injured were pitals al Bt. Marys, other towns nearby taken to his- y DuBois and JEACHers oonlaining for treatment. | Seals will be erected | ol It was not known immediately the speakers’ platform at the finish- anv were seriously hurt ing ne of the bicycle races which ; ; will be run over a part of the new The driver of the car sai flood proc! Wr i bet ween gleering gear broke and Prom: Wi bon Vth © mata Dunnstown and Chariton fron So FOOD FOR THOUGHT In contrast with Philipsburg, which received practically no rece Miss Powsan was killed when the | three | take | A religious service is being plan- Baron being admifted for further | treatment of a back injury According to State Motor Police | Private R. A. Martin, of Philips- burg, the boy dashed off the em- bankment into the ie pit 9 of the car wo. Workman Killed In Lime Slide ' Fatal Accident Occurs in Yard Bolt Hits Bible Reader | While sitting in his home at Me- dina, N. Y. reading his Bible, Mer- ton Wiser was struck by a boit of lightning, but lived to tell the tale. The bolt struck g tree near his house, traveled down a wire in the dwelling and tore 4 hole in the bulldihg. Defines 13th Jinx Taking superstition for a ride, | Jane Bomgardner, 19 yerdeoli daughter of a war-time Navy flyin | instructor, at Scottsbluff, Nob, ' picked the thirteenth day of Sep- tember for her flying tests, after having 18 hours solo figing to her eredit Some Baby While Tom Weigman, of Pitts- burgh, and his three-year-old son, Tommy Jr, were having a rongh- | house session on the fidor, the child | began jumping on this father's chest. Papa went (oo bed with a) broken rib { broken neck and back Bus Goes Wrong When no pupils showed up at her one-room school the first day of school, the teacher at Crade, Idaho, was perturbed. Investigat- ing, she found that the school bus had taken the children to the] wrong school. ! : Roaring fhe was lengaged in | Seven , fic became evident when the of Roaring Spring Paper Mill James Peather, 30. of Martins- burg. Blair county, was killed almost instantly last Thursday afternoon by a lime slide in the yard of the Spring paper mill, where employed Feathers and two other men were removing the old lime ‘deposit and it is said that Feather became caught in the slide when ia deposit of cinders forming a crust on the top of lime, suddenly broke off and hit him Coroner Rothrock of Blair eoun- sald that the man suffered a and $s injuries a possible fractured skull The other two employes were not { injured by the slide and aided in (removing Feathers from the slide SEVEN MOUNTAIN ROAD MAY BE FOUR-LANE HIGHWAY Possibility that the road over the | Mountains might be widen- accomodate four-lane traf-| pro- posal, made recently by a commit- tee of prominent Mifflin County residents to ed Ww ceived what has been termed “care- ful consideration.” It was intimated that the pro- | posal, as well as one calling for the Sent To Attic Complaining that his wife had relegated him to the attic for two years, Harry Moore of Newark, N.' J, won an uncontested divorce from his wife, Fannie Moore, after eighteen years of married life, m——— construction of the highway from Reedsville to Belleville, would re- ceive immediate attention. The proposed new road from Reedsville | to Belleville would change the in- tersection of that road with the road to Milroy, declared to be one State Superintendent | of Highways I. Lamont Hughes, re- A few days ago & news item In the city newspapers reported that ‘a hen owned by an eastern chicken farmer had laid a dozen eggs In rapid-fire order, then died i This over-zealousness on the part of the hen may have been lnduced | by & desire to step-up production in the face of rising prices; or it may have happened that this particular “biddy” had a foreboding that man- | made competition was on its way, somewhat lke the undertaking of James Storrey, a Kansas City in- ventor, who at ane time threatensd to put the nobie hen out of exist nce Storrey, it was claimed, craved to become the world's largest egg pro- ducer along About 1891, He was granted a patent for the manufac~ ture of artificial eggs, and the first factory ever known of its Rind was set up in the city of Philadelphia All the necessary machinery was designed and bullt under his super. vision, and in the same year was installed and put in readiness to begin competition with the Ameri- | can hen { Mr. Storrey's profess wis ao- knowledged to be very simple. yet he boasted that he was prepared to | manufacture an artificial egg that the moat critical housewife would i find impossible to distinguish either EGGS AT THREE CENTS PER DOZEN How One Man Had Vision of Putting the Noble Hen Out of Business in appearance or taste from or a proud Leghorn In fact, {t was claimed by the in- ventor that the artificial product’ would be s0 perfect that the hen herself would have no cause © biush with shame when looking st it. She might even feel impelled 0 cackie her approval The ingredients to be used ir proposed synthetic hen lime, waler, biood, milk, tallow peas, and one or two other vege ables. Tre shell and yolk were not considered a difficult problem imitate, but the white of the egg required considerable ingenuity on the part of the Inventor. To make a perfect imitation of the while, puzzled the would-be ege king for quite a while, but he finally hit upon the solution According to Mr. Storrey, who at the time posed as the “human hen” the yolk of an egg was supposed 0 consist of 30 per cent yellow fal M4 foesl * arult were $ wa per cent of caseine, and about 5 per cent albumen and water He proposed to use comme: fa or beef fal, which was very cheap. asx the chief ingredient. To this ' the prime product of a Plymouth Ro k| cs : ud add a liberal ne, which is Laat thai produces butler and , Albumen, secured from beef . together with water, was 0 mixed in small quantities The color, siready a yellow, was 0 be treated with 8 chemical which would serve a double purpose of deepening the eoior and preserving the mixture in a semi-liquid state until £ was cocked The “white” of the egg is claimed to be about one-eighth pure albu men, was considered a dfllcuilt substance to produce chemically However, the ~invent- hit upon a Ribstance that ap- d to the eye exactly similar hardened and whitened cooked. It was produced by a mixture of legumin, or vegetable gibumen, extracted from common peas. which forms just one-fourth of the a litle albumen from trifle of sulphur, eon- and a chemical prevent rapid decom-~ and which siso whitened whole bulk when subjectad to heat, just as the egg becomes white when botled amount of portion of Jiik be ar a ra and anda which when peas be of blood a siderable geletin ution position, the 10 ned by the Clinton County Minis- texium for Sundeg, Oclober 29; the bridge dedication and possibie college buildin dedication, pi- grimages to historical poitns in the county and a Hallowe'en parade compiete the program Held Under $500 Bail For Court Philipsburg ‘Man Held After] Series of Domestic Troubles be utilized the big egR- cars were fitted ing the blood to the Chicago As beef blood was to in large quantities in mill, & few special up with tanks to br the factory from slaugliter-houses The shell was perfectly by a simple solution of and glue The machinery thal was required was needed mainly in pulting the egk together, Every yolk was first run into a mold lo become proper- ly shaped, and ben dumped into a second mold, where the right quan- tity gt the while was placed pre- vi . The latler substance, being a enletine-like matier, incased the volk very rapidly. By a unique ma- chine the meat was then enveloped in the shell As the shell was only partially samiivy premises in an inloxicated hardened when the egg was Dul condition on September 13, and into it, a liberal amount of glue breaking a window, and forcing a was added 10 the Lime, Which Caus-| jock 10 gain entrance to the house ed the edges of the shell to adhere The arrest won officer stated that | to each other very tightly, leaving is was ai least the eighth arrest no traceable mark where they were Sor the man. Joined It was stated that on August 15 In order to make the imitation he tigned the North Philipsburg more completely successful, the in- | property over fo his wife and In ventor had designed molds of sev- articles of separation agreed not 0 eral sizes, which made the eggs vary molest her or the family. After in bulk as do the products of any Saning eniranve to the house on (Continued on Page © Sept. 13, he is sald 10 have threat- imitated | ume walter | At a hearing before Justice of the Peace E.R. Hancock at Phil- Squires was held under $508 bal for appearance in court an charges Gf breaking and entering, asssull and baliary, and surety of the peace. Bal wes posted. A — Mahaffey Man Is “Stabbed ToDeath Cm ———— Charles Hutton Dies After | Brawl Along Highway; Cousin Held ——— | Charles Hutton, 37, of Mahaffey, | was stabbed to death through the heart with a penknife Sunday near Mahaffey following an argument which was said to be the outgrowth of a drunken brawl Being held is Harold Hulton, 38, 1 who allegedly took his cousin's life! wife! 1925 to 1831. while Mrs. Charles Hutton, ‘of the dead man, is reported to have | |Rev. S. B. Evans Succumbs at 81 Served as Methodist Pastor at Philipsburg From 1925 to 1931 The Rev. 8. B. Evans, 81, retired | Methodist minister and a promin-| ent member of the Central Penn- sylvania Methodist Conference, died suddenly early Friday morning at his home in Williamsport. Rev. Evans was pastor of Trinity Methodist church, Philipsburg. from The Rev. Mr. Evins was one of | of the most dangerous in the state. | watched the fatal brawl which is) the senior members of the Central EE ————— i WOMEN’S CLUBS MEET A report on the progress being | made by the Centre County Library corporation featured the fall con-| vention of the Centre County Fed- eration of Woman's Clubs in Presbyterian church at Milesburg, | Baturday. The report was submit. | ted by Mrs. Robert Mills Beach i Plays by the State Club | and by members of Grange, and addresses by the Rey. | Charles W. Maclay, pastor of the! burg, in, 4 of 1 ay and by Mrs. A D. Goug- fer, vice gm of the North Central rict of Pederatéd Wom- én's Clubs, were highlights of thé tonvention. The sekuioms Were presided over by Mrs. Mock and the invocation was given by the Rev. Howard Oak- wood, pastor of the Presbyterian, hurch, Milesburg. Mrs. Lesmer oodring, president of the Miles. burg Woman's ghb gave the ad- dress of greeting, response s. Thomas Jodon, was by Mrs. gargel, president of the Pleasant Gap Civie Club. In her report on the library, Mrs. | Beach declared that ispring meeting some tand loaned by the State Library. {The building has been placed in| {good repair and plans have been { made for painting the exterior. The delay in opening is occasioned by | were expected in June did not be- gin work until the middle of Aug- ust. Mrs. Beach prediclied that the! library will be in operation in the] near future, Miss Jane Cowell directed a play given by the Stile College club in which the difference beiween poor- | ly and well conducted woman's Maclay spoke on “The Recovery of Ideals,” and Mrs. Gougler devoted | her address to a review of the work of the Federated Women's Clubs | The Bald Eagle Grange play, entitled "No One at Home.” Delegates to the convention were served a luncheon at noon by the Indies of the Presbytérian Gugrel, o- | | Clearfield county's first | case in many months. State police, called to probe the | case, attempted to question Hutton i who was placed in jail when he was | unable to make satisfactory answers {to the questions fired at him. According to police the tragedy murder | since the resulted from an argoment the two 10000 vol- | the | imes have been donated, purchased, | highway toward the murdered man's men had while walking along the residence, When the two men reach- ed the home they are said to have | started the quarrel which was cli- maxed by the stabbing. Hutton was stabbed three times, once on the ‘Bagle| the fact that WPA workers who | wrist, once on the hand and finally through the heart. Huttont died within a few minutes after being stabbed. Harold Hutton is being held in ithe Clearfield county jail. After a search h the house for a of AMoonas, found thet their young | son Gary, was complaining of pain | suspicions in his stomach. | aroused, the lad was rushed to Als toons Hospital for an X-ray, and rected by Mrs. James Wallace, was sure enough the missing key wad | found lodged in his stomach. pital authorities | Pennsylvania Conference. Born in Huntingdon county, December 12, 1858, he began his ministry at West port in 1885 and served liamsport at that time, having pre-| viously filled successful pastorates at the Third Street and Newberry Methodist churches, and having been field agent for Dickinson Bem-| his arm was s0 badly injured that inary and Junior College from 1932 | it was necessary to amputate it. His (Continued on page four) ‘Loses Arm As eontinu- | og Ser og gol he ret [swerved the car back, causing it to Truck Upsets Victim Alleged to Have Grab-| bed Wheel, Causing Ser- ious Mishap Edward Wagner, 45, of Ramey, | Clearfield county, had his right arm | amputated Monday night when a truck in which he was a passenger upset on route 253 near Ramey. Steve C. Zolyak, 28, also of Ramey, driver of the truck, told the Philips- | burg detail of the motor police that Wagner wag a passenger in the truck and was intoxicated to such | an extent that he became excited | |and grabbed the wheel of the truck) causing if to swerve off the side of | the road. In an effort to bring the | truck back on the road, Zolyak | upset Wagner was removed to the Phil- ipsburg State Hospital where he was | admitted. Hospital attendants said condition is reported as fair. {injured and damage to his Gruck {which was loaded | ened his wile. The Hier, Steve Zolyak, Was T™ Lad Killed in | A ride In an fatal Saturday to 7-¥ | Porno Sr OF Roos na, when Fall ice with lmestone, | was estimated at $2300 structress of nurses in the WANING | school ai the Danville State Hos- | pital, was elected to the superinten~ | dency of the Philipsburg hospital | Shocks That Cure When Doctors Cathet will fil} the vacancy creat | ed by the resignation of Superin- | restore {0 he tendent Almena Wuerthner, is after medicine and sur- | gery have failed. Don't misg this | feature in the October 16th, issue | of The American Weekly, distribut- that In case of a fire alarm, all use | of water for domestic purposes! Guy H Nolan, event of a serious fire, every avail- | Haven, recently, which resulted in able gallon of water would be need- | an automobile accident, according ed. | to the traffic Bureau, of thet city. ipsburg, Friday afternoon, Chester | Janis 4 | WATCH THIS | keen The charges were the outcome | of Squires aliegediv going to Lbs | i i ion at the recent Primary elec in Centre county, we have How- Is well served for a of its size. Balser Weber Is a Comunissioner; Merrill coparmissioner member of the rs, and Lee ity chert All are resi 8 of Ho ward UPKEEP 18 LOW The purchase of new tires for the | quadruple combination of the Un- Hose Company, Bellefonte, is irst major expenditure for that al The truck, now red less than i wis pure Of course that figure does One and smi | Won { | | ard, which ' A Jury A ane regul since Ohl inured, were | as | Vlearfield; Miss | HOW COME? J Weys south from have been surfaced with ¢e and oll to make a repair. The alleys lead from the same street have »d and every rain quantities of stone cown over sidewalks and gutlers INATURE NOTE A young rabbit early Monday evening scurried out from the yard the Dr. Paul M. Corman prop- on North Allegheny street, and landing on the curb while } Oth ways to see that no rallic was in sight, darted across he street into the front lawn of he Talleyrand #8 sireet nor i been uch | washes large lang mua nin the SWELL STORY | After World War same wi the second. is iter could spin a swell n about what actually happened Bremen, prize flagship of : hant marine For 0000 luxury In to drop H ht 1 no one Ww what has be. { the major od- 1 of od- INET ¥'s merc IS IT POSSIBLE? With all the double-cromsing sig misstatement other attribules of a den of going on in Europe, the pub- He is somewhat Sustified tn sUSpect- ing that the Te-arrangement of boundaries was settled long ago be- tween rious countries, and that the use of arms now going on is nothing more than a good show for the masses in an effort to con- vince them thst everything is on the level. In other words, it may be , pre. treachery and thieves the va | possible thal the people of Europe | are going through the greatest mass ! sell-out on the part of their Jeaders i that the world has ever known. For this reason alone it seems that the U. 8. would be sticking out its neck in becoming involved in the mess SPACE NEXT WEEK Next week this department hopes to present to its readers, if any, a and thoroughgoing story on the water-tmellers of Centre couns ty. For those of you who might be in doubt as to just what is a water- smeller, we explain that he is a fei iow who is able to tell where water Hes under the ground. And until you read this department's leirned monograph on the subject, don™t scoff, for we'll present the latest de- velopments in the science. A NEW LOW IN MEETINGS Members of the Centre County Newswriters’ Association who at- tended Monday night's meeting of Bellefonte Council, came away feel ing that a new low has been reach- ed In public meetings. The hours frittered away with nothing being done in the wiy of making news- paper headlines. There was plenty of useless talk, laughing, joking. and good fellowship. I! resembied a joi- en a ——— “KEEPING, UP WITH THE JONESES' — Hawkshaw Dolan Gets Results FL AN SEELEY Ni ARABRC AMS AEE a was |
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