Odd and | Curious News The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. SECOND SECTION he Centre Democraf VOLUME 68. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1 NEWS, FEATURES 939. » Fooled The Doctor Fifty-seven years ago two doctors told Levi Fisher, of Shiremanstown, Dauphin county, afflicted with | pneumonia and black typhoid fever, | that he did not have much longer | to live. Today Fisher is 85 years old | and still vigorously saws wood as his | dally chore. The two doctors are | dead. The trouble with people today, | says Fisher, is that they are too | lazy. Life Is too easy for them. | Eventually, said Pisher, the world | will be populated with only lazy | | people. i ‘Inside Out’ Baby A baby born at Mercy Hospital, | Scranton, with its abdominal organs |! outside its body died Saturday after | physicians made a vain attempt to save its life by performing a replace- ment operation. The child was born with its stomach, liver and intes- tines all outside of the body. The | organs were replaced and the body | wall repaired. Shock from the op-| eration was described by the hospi-| — tal as the cause of death Wins $1,000 Robbed For the first time in ther life, | Mildred Keeper, 30, of Cleveland | won something $1,000 keeno prize at the Arrow Clug. However, it] didn't do her any good, for two | men followed her out of the club with her cofpanion, forced their car off the highway, and, at the | point of a gun, took from her the | roll of five, ten and twenty dollar | bills 3 Children, 1 Birthday The stork has arranged it so that | when Mrs. Jean Besert, of Chico, Cal., celebrates the birthdays of her | three daughters she can do it all on | the same Daughter No. 1 was | born on daughter No 26, two years ago 3 was born on year day August a “ WV as born on August and daughter No. | August 26 of this Misplaces Gems While looking at a Chicago railroad station news- stand, Mrs. J. Allen Smith rison, N. Y board box and then forgot it Clerks at the newsstand later re- ived a wire to try and locate the box which contained jewelry valued at 100000. They found it among the magazines on the counter, Swears Off Three weeks after chopping off | ‘Woman Takes the index finger of his left hand while cutting up corn for his hogs, | E A. Robbins, of Poplar Bluffs, Md removed the bandage and $larted chopping again. He chopped off his thumb, hurled the axe into a corner of the barn, and swore off chopping corn. Wed Seven Times fter a month's courtship, Mrs Rosanner Speights, 66, married Ulysses Grant Eisney, 70, at Tulsa Okla. He was her seventh husband and she was his fourth wife. Ex- plaining her many marriages, the bride declared. “The Good Lord kept taking ‘em, and I did, too.” Six Babies in 2 Years Mr. and Mrs, William Jennings Bryan Merryman, of Phoenix, Ariz, are the parents of another set of twins, making the third set born to them within the past two years There are five other children in the family besides the twins Forgetful John Dites of Cumberiand, Md, was badly cut on the arm when he stuck it out of the window of his automobile to signal for a turn He forgot to roll down the windos first, r After 35 Years Albert 1. ‘Bernchouse, an enginesr of Holteville, Calif, recently saw his mother, Mrs. Salonia Bernshouse for the first time in 85 years. The mother is 99 years old The thirst for khowledge is not nearly as powerful as the quest for sensations, Business, generally, is against anyihing that interfers with profits. NO WAR HORSES AVAILABLE Pentisyivanin has no war horses for sale, State officials said after disclostire that an “industrial re- search” group in New York hag been inquiring about the stale's stock of horses. Dr, William Brob, of the State Agriculture Department, said the inquiry expressed interest in animals between three and eight years old, suitable “for cavalry, siege gun and other” military use. But Brob, whose job during the World War was at an army remount {| perience | which | rest | stantly 26. five years ago; | { DR | saw | time | indicate that | considerable | through magazines | ! unaware 1, of Har- | laid down a pink card- | { pecied to husk corn, | cident happened. ! position BELIEVE DRUG WAS GIVEN YOUNG GIRL IN BOTTLED DRINK Lock Haven Student of Immaculate Concep- | tion High School Becomes Violently Ill With | Symptoms Resembling Marihuana Miss Marian English, a 17-year- | old Renovo girl who has been living | with her grandmother, Mrs. Mary A. Carroll in Lock Haven, while tak~ ing a post-graduate course at the Immaculate Conception High school, had an unusual and distres ex- last Tuesday afternoon for a time threatened to be- come serious Miss Ex violently Sing lish became suddenly and after drinking a sup- Lewisburg Train Kills ‘Cyclist William Markle, of Mifflin- burg, Suffers Fractured Skull in Collision Markle lived about 45 near For- Hill, Union county, was in- killed last Thursday morn- ing at 7:06 o'clock, when the motor- cycle on which he was riding to work struck the westbound Penn- will year aged one am who | sylvania Railroad train at Mifflin- burg His skull was crushed when the motorcycle toppled over on him with considerable force, after strik- the train. Tie was traveling north, and it is believed that he the but thought he had Marks the road the motorcycle zlid a He¥ance train tO cross on Member: of ¢ of the train crew were accident, and did learn of it until they had reached Coburn, Centre County An ayempt is being made to jo- cate any relatives he may have had. Mr. Markle was on his way to the farm of Charles Kerstetter, north of Mifflinburg, where he ex- when the ac- thw not ws As. Her Own Life Victim Suffered From Failing Eyesight and Poor Health —————— H] An elderly Houtzdile woman whose eyesight was failing. last Thursday stood in front of a mir- ror at her home there to make sure her suicide attempt was successful as she plunged a butcher knife into her throat The suicide victim was Mrs netie Swidersky, 74 in poor health for some time. She had stated for some time that she was “going away.” Her body was found lying on the floor by Kasmer Bwidersky her hus band, who had gone shopping a short time before his wife took her life Dr. E. E. Erhard, Clearfield coun- ty coroner, sald the woman had cut| her throat so deeply that she had severed her whole windpipe. Dr. Er- hard stated she had died of strangu-| ation caused by the rush of blood: down her throat i A maid had care of Mrs Bwidersky the Jean- who had been been taking had resigned her he fore the sul. but zhi cide Burviving are her and three danghter hinahand OVS S————— ———- Wasps Not Welcome The thousands nually make their winter home on| the Mt. Penn Pagoda, at Reading. will have to look elsewhere this year. | The City Park Department is block-! ing with cement all crannies in the pagoda’s many roofs usually ten-| anted by the wasps i posed bottle of soft drink which had De given her a few minutes earl- fer. She was removed to the Private Hospital suffering from sensations similiar to having been drugged, which has given rise to the theory that she may have been the victim of an attempted drugging with Mar- Working on this be Lock horities since thuana Have been investigatic According the informatior available, Miss English had left her home shortly before 2:30 p. m. 0 wol. Walking down Sus- quehanna Avenue, she entered The Arbor, a small confectic store t off the Teachers College cambp- After making a small pur. Tse and wl hen she had come on Lo pore a young Be to like some had known in South Re- police ave inexh Ld conducting austible mm to gO 10 =8Ci nery she noticed her inquired now?’ The stranger! smilingly Are vi Bq } Lo 8CI Miss English AnsWere affir- mative, The stranger was holding in his hands two bottles, containing straws, and saying that a compan- ion had left him, he offered her one (Continued on Page 6) 100] here in the { plants in the 201 — NUMBER 42. Victim of Might / $1.79 MILK PRICE tor of aling New area E M Harmon, asdministra the PFederal-State orders handling of milk in metropolitan marketing this week announced =a rice of $1.79 per hundredweight for 35 per butterfat milk received from producers during the month of September at handlers’ -210 mile zone from regul the the York cent content N 10 cent per hun- the price for reduction is weer than kk, and the for primarily by two fic- Harmon explained. The rtant of these is that with rger deliveries {rom produc. 57 per cent of the total (Convened on page six) NEW EXECUTIONER FOR ROCKVIEW GETS 9 DAYS TO STUDY JOB | by been chosen ! ceed the more ‘Warden Ashe Declines to Reveal Identity of Elliott's Successor, Who Was Chosen From Over 70 Applicants ink nobody would 24 when Prison ling and women legally--has been according Ww announcement prison officials on Saturday that | Pennsylvania's new executioner had and then in wh obscurity The | want men | tilled you'd tl at Rorkview job Elli Xd | ar Robert day at his the positic hn 3 granted nine da ich t tudy the job in a more ! Al the rate t to death, ¥ £45 000 of Rock view to reveal th lgentity declined of the man c! Robert Elliott nag picked 70 applicar | Tr 1 described Three Hurt in clectrician who tecis he 1 dom nis Rear-End Crash ty It is said hi to Buc- bit | IMAVELY from wen Inte tated hw been —-——— Lian The new u Accident Occurs When Motor- ist Slows Down For On- coming Traffic A Bunda of Bta Coliege on J ! jured Leo Johnson, Harrisburg: Lu- cille Rothrock, Lewistown, and Ag- nes Thompson, also of Lewistown According to state motor Pleasant detall three cu a § rane te world w ar veteran, of Cairc . who will throw the switch of the Bing Sing electric chair. Francell is { well prepared for his job. On August Gap A FAMOUS NAVAL ENCOUNTER It ha UCCe ss fait Frances the war in Europe will be nave Down have been the precicted tha! of England and now being waged 5) “ 1 or ire in decided he throug! the many ritied by the walter decisive ages used i Ae sri! ’ met} and wis OF WW. From the ropelled boa ta y the mod- tion has shown startling continuity of progress Even today, sea-fighting is not con- fined to ships alone. The submarine strikes from below and the aerial bombers from above. The smaller implement many times can inflict more damage than the larger one Harking back to Civil War days history records the memorable bal. le between the Monitor and the Merrimac. two as unequal fighting ships as could be found. The Mone was manned by Union saliors and the Merrimac carried a crew of Confederates Admiral John died in 1897, wi bered a primitive human-g manned by galley slaves tle ship. evolu tor # Worden. who il always be remem the hero of the battle be- | How Small Ship Fashioned Like ‘Cheese Box’ Defeated Its More Formidable romelad Road tween the tar Hampton Hi urred In 1862 ent battle known as the saved wh {iret 0 ADDEATAN of from total dests He 1 rebel Merrims ar The Merrim United Stale gun frigate vas 281 feet } with 800 horsepower armed pivot guns She wa unk burning of Norfolk forces pon the by the to prevent capt t els. The ship was subsequent ed by the rebels and plated railroad fron two feet under 1 which shaped her house roof appeared but ire O% wit) he Wa much above ing the woke stack This monster started on March 8 for Newport News to destro Clearfield Man Dies By Own Hand Cleo Schenck, 59, is Found Dead in Yard Office of N. Y. Central Using a shotgun Cleo H. Schenck, 59, of Clearfieltl, took his Hfe there Monday morning in one of the yard offiges of the New York Central Raliroad where he had been employ ed Clearfield Counts Erhard Coroner EE E of Curwensyille, following 2 preliminary ig 3 stigation of the zu cide, stated Font had threatened to take his life for some time No motive for the suicide was disclosed. | Bchenck’s Hivless body was found | {in his forchead. by F. B. Wilcox, | track supervisor. The gun was lying {near his side. i According to the coroner, Schenck | {had talked with an outside party by | | telephone 20 minutes before his body | was found. No shot was heard, i Schenck, Dr. Erhard stated, had Women Dies AS Man Is Killed Nanty-Glo Resident Overcome By Horror of Ac- cident An automobile kil lod 8 man on a street In Nanty-Gilo, Cambria coun- ty. Saturday night and the excite ment caused the death of a woman The automobile struck Alex Karl- inchak, 53. of Nanty-Glo, a miner injuring him fetally ing it was her son who had struck, Mrs Catherine Les nezki, 48, of Nanty-Clo, rushed to the seene, where she fell dead Deputy Coroner John A. Conway said over exertion camsed a fatal fpr of wasps who an-|1¥ig on the floor, a gunshot wound | heart attack Girl Reesives Diploma Among the sixty-six residents of Philipsburg area to receive first-aid certificates from the U. 8. Depart- ment of Interior, Bureau of Mines, is Miss Nina Pomeroy, of Philips- { burg. who is said to be the only girl emm—— been to the Eagle's home in Clear- iin Centre county to receive this hon- field Monday morning before going | or. The examinations for the oer- | station at Spartansburg, 8 CC, sald that even In those days, 1 don't think we ever got a horse from the East.” E. L. Gasteiger., department sta-! tisticlan, sald Pefinsylvania does] not go in for horse-breeding suffi] ciently to supply all the farm ani- mals it ean use, let alone export any The commonwealth equine popu- Iativh is down to about 288000. Shortly after the Civil War, there were 482000 horses in the state, | reaching a peak of 600,000 from 1800 | to 1802 Former Osceola Residents Believed Oldest Twins Believed to be the oldest twins in Central Pennsylvania, Mrs Sally Hunter and Mrs. Elvira Schoop, for- mer Osceola Mills residents last Wednesday celebrated their 78th birthday in Tyrone where they are now living. These 78-year young oldsters for many years past have made It & custom to got together on their birthday and hold a birthday party. The twins are daughters of Rich- ard and Hannah (Wertz) Copelin and were horn jn Tyrone. They In Central Penna. have lived in Osceola Mills and Ty- rone since their birth. They are the last of thelr immediate family Martin Copelin, their brother, of | Osceola Mills died in May of this year. The sisters have been lifelong members of the Presbyterian! ¢hurch which they joined when they were 11 years old. Both Mrs, Hunter and Mrs. Schoop are widows. Mrs Hunter has three daughters and two sons still living while Mrs. Schoop has | three song living, to work and had borrowed $2 while there. Dr. Erhard sail there was, tificates were held in Houtadale August 26, following three months evidently no resson for Bchenck to] of training. borrow the money as a large sum of imoney was found on his person! | when the body was examined Morrisdale Driver Injured William Hubler, of Morrisdale, R.! { when the car he was driving ran in- to a train on the Pront street cross- ing at Philipsburg, Wednesday According to reports Hubler, who {was driving a car owned by his! | brother, Richard Hubler, struck | the second car of a seven car train as the train was backing up. The car was badly damaged. No one else was Injured in the car. Hub- | ler was tremted at ihe Philipsburg | | hospital. ——————— Miniature Monte Carlo Burns The Pig Pen, Osceola’s miniature | | Monte Carlo, burned to the ground last Wednesday night when a fire of undetermined origin swept the crecacted ties which the | | Centre County side of the Moshan- non Creek rendezvous, Ey —— Ln — p—— Paging Wimpy Joe Bury ecunted $4475 receipts from hamburgers he sold at the York Fair and came with these | statistics: 44750 rep-! ‘resenting 18 to 20 steers butchered, ground up, cooked and served on | nearly 4,000 dosen pails, —— Spring As a Business An informative illustrated article | revealing how a new system of spy- {ing has superseded the cold-faghion | romantic chameters wha dealt In | D., suffered lacerations of the scald | | secret codes and dramatics. Don't miss this feature in the Oectober 2h issue of The American Weekly, the big magazine distributed with the Baltimore American. { On sale at all newsstands. with twenty-four 9-ineh shell guns, fourteen B-inch, and two 100- ansepered words that Union Str he reb- § ¥ ais report them, \dversary noe of ngir war and and crushe- a mortal traced her path ’ voile of gash she and land ihe sailors were the passed from not a muscle the Stars and toward berland d the shot crowded Cumber wided he ecks With n blood of the U RINE, nion ir ship is sink rned We Cun waler igger of his and rd an Gor] the Cum anc 2 Cars Upset On Mountain Road Slippery Highway Results in Two Accidents Saturday Morning smash-up ied to another Sat- moming on the Port Matilda oad when two cars ran y the bank and upset after skid- ing on the slippery roads Pushed off the road by an uniden- tified truck which failed to stop, 2 operated by Thoma: Anderson of Be! ran into the bank snd then turned over Harris, of Madera, travel ing down the mountain soon after Anderson, skidded and upset when he noticed the wreck and attempted to bring his car to a stop. No one was injured in dent. Damage to the two cars were estimated at $335. New Mysteries of the Sky niain rar Meotrnt cfonte Oliver Explaining the latest discoveries about awe-inspiring heavenly phen- | omena in words thal anyone can understand. One of many illus- : trated features in the October 2080. | issue of The American Weekly, the big magazine distributed with the Baltimore Sunday American. On sale at all newsstands. n— Train Dogs as Messengers Dogs capable of being trained as thumberiand, $3600; Centre, $2400; field messengers will be “drafted” into the German army. Owners of | such breeds as shepherds, Alredales, terriers and boxers were ordered 10 starting today. the aor! pccurred Gimberl] for oni tried 10 esc» became help from end 1 from the Merrimac pe into the defenses amp w indescr Omen the raked hell rebels neck and back injurd the - “ The babe vere ster succeeded ss —— Mill Hall Man Is Stricken At Work © Fullmer Bitner Suffers Heart Attack: Falls From Union Ladder The 1 while escape 10 the il ended the day of March & 1862, and with the 84 Lawrence and Minnesola still aground and fast the Merrimac satisfied with the day's work awaited to resume her work 4 1 0 the Union fleet eYery wo Lie Crew vn re were aliowed io ” Hus As heart beat in was pictured the day cle despair jon in every face. Ther } 0 pres eed Pullmer Elias Bit died while at ne Hall Haven pai WOrK § wr Deatl valcians who ex ile dilstion mill Iast he capil rel) | fears nfety of Baltimore d New York. for no there any (Continued on Page 6) Barbora Hall Contest Winner Snow Shoe Girl Awarded Med- al For Best Temperance Essay Members of the Snow Shoe W. C T. U. held a Frances Willard Cen- tenary gold medal contest at the Milesburg Bapiist church, Septem- | ru ber 28th, resulting in Miss Barbars Born and reared in Mill Hall Mr Hall being declared the winner Five | Bitner had resided there all of his contestants from Snow Shoe Loyal! fe He had been a member of the Temperance Legion, under the di-| Mil Hall Church of Christ for many rection of Mrs. H W_ Rabert 00k vesrs and was also affiliated with part in the contest. The contestants, | the Knights of the Golden Eagle in addition to Miss Hall were Ar-| holding the post of financial secre. drie Hamish, Edward Casher, Efi. tary in the lodge al the time of his een Shive and Jack Stetier Three death residents of State College acted ns He | judges a daughter, Priscilla Robinson gave a reading phia: Harris. of Lock Haven. and on the life and work of Frances Wil- Miss Dolly Bitner. at home, and lard Bobby Hall spoke on “Men of by two brothers and a sister, Ernest, Tomorrow.” and Mr. Summers, of Jersey Shore; Grover, of Mill | Wingate, gave a talk on temperance. | yall, and Mrs. Harry Best, { The Snow Shoe group has been Haven Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, In charge of the Rev, W. M. Long, and burial made in Cedar Hill cemetery morning Were CXDIes Phila - fan Amin ed of the heart doubt of : member of the 1 Fynpr oN (he fe iagQeT strike wit) 1 the floor the the head about the room could He was taken m. nearby, where I recht examined him and found him dead. a few minutes later. Dr. W. J Shoemaker, Clinton county coroner, found that Mr. Bitner was uninjured and that death was due to hix phy- gical attack which caused him $0 is survived by 1w0 son: and Charlies. of Philadel i awarded three gold medals $2400 Job Open in County Examinations to fill executive di-| irectorships in eight counties were! made public Saturday by the De- Special Game Proteclor, partment of Public Assistance! Peter J Filkosky, Scranton has | Counties in which the vacancies ex- been assigned to the Philipsburs list and the salaries include Schuyl- district as special game protector (kill, $3600; Washington, $3600: Nor- for the Clearfield-Centre county territory. His headguartiers are in Philipsburg. Game Protector Fil- kosky succeeds Elmer Tumer, for- mer game prolector for the area, who was recently transferred io St | Mary's Elk county. { Columbia, $2400; Cumberiand, $2400; Huntingdon, $2100; and Pike. $1880. Applications must be on file with the | department before midnight of No- | vem 4 of Lock w—— Random [tems > POTATO BUG: Paul Beaver Aor at Defonte High Bchool, has Deen in an agricultural frame ince Baturd ning he harvested his 4 " . th instru He ay Ni pOLalons YOU ALWAYS CAN TELL: When ni ee YS PUBLISH FEES dA Lor ~~ the Netionha expermienting ATTORNE Philadephia acing inder the guidance of Asser ial th a pias egR. Me Knows Lod 8 ire hat seems 10 be gn oni 10 guess at A) aul of grocer: WT - rvioes are fixed ar beforehand just h services going exce pre fos Sor Cec hereby Yr ont of a Dew necktie, basket thing else you have 1 torney is your NOT SO MANY? Lave 10 home you 0 guess at what your ai going « arge you lor next civoree? of the we're going I” make a prediction that at least 25 toi. will be required Hime Whe A Wa NORTH TO CANADA: Our Fomppmat with forsweas DEWEDADErS that Canada n Grest Amer Can rep ies M sal 3 little twisting « rae y A pean truth other Hitler, another Mussolini easily say: “The United Sta champion of the under ~dog: so net #0 pure, #0 chaste. is how preparing an anschiuss into Canada ™ Grea! Britain could go a step further and add: “While Hitler Stalin and Mussolini are engaged harags- ing us at bome, the United States picks this time above all to regten one of the greatest arms of cur empire!” ‘Lindbergh's ides 5 Dot & new one. and hag been vaguely in the minds of many U 8 citizens for some time But for subject 10 be broached at tid by one in Lindbergh's semi-o capicity seem 0 be only a less unfriendly than Russia's “nes potiations™ with the Baltic slates And 10 think there was a time when we'd have voled for Lindbergh for President! oli Mo Suakn, They ry in Strange things happen and among the more recent local mysteries sre two which have sitendanis at Belle. fonte’s new sewage plant in a quan- dary. One morning several weeks ago attendants were amassed to find a Pinch sucker swimming about in ihe sewage in the large Imhof tank The sanitary sewer line is imbedded in the bed of Bpring Creek. but at no place is there any opening larwe enough for a tadpole to get through jet alone a sucker. Then too, how the fish survived a8 trip through the ro- tary pump which forees sewage from the level of the creck into the (Continued on Page 6) KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — It Mig 5 JS——— ft Bo an Echo, Eddie By POP MOMAND
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