Odd and | Curious News The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre Coun SECOND SECTION ty. a he Centre Democrat A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME B68. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURS DAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1929. Random | [tems NUMBER 44, | ta LJ Teller's Face Red sourl, bank is in the dog house be- cause he misunderstood. Recently a member of the Ladies’ Ald Society | came into the bank to deposit some | She remark- | ed to the teller that she was “de- | of the society's funds positing some ‘ald money'"” The teller understood her to say "egg money,” and said “Remarkable isn't it, how well the old hens are doing these days?” He couldn” understand why it was the woman grabbed up her pass book and hur- ried out of the bank Scared To Death Doctors said that Raymond Soul- year-old koup, 26-year-old farmer, of Fulton, Mo.. was lterally scared to death when, while working at night in his cornfield because of the day's exces- sive heat, two boys in white garb, moaning weirdly, leaped toward him from a nearby cemetery. Soulkoup, too frightened to move, was found several hours later by his parents, In a hysterical condition. He died sev- eral weeks later in an asylum Irom maniacal exhaustion resulting from an unusually severe mental disturb- ance Plays Santa Claus Uncle Sam is playing Santa Clau to the world now, shipping more toys from his country the World War than either Germany or Japan. During the first 8 months of this year, $1.892140 worth of toy were exported from this country, or since MAN SHOT AS BARN The teller of a Mound City, Mis- | PROWLER COUNTY FARMER Victim Riddled With With Aged Owner o BY BLAIR | | — | Shot As He Scuffled f Farm — Defendant Claimed He Feared Robbers James Irvin Benton, 26, of East | notified State Police by telephone Sixth Avenue, Altoona, was shot to death early Friday morning in a scuffle with Frank Ventre, his 74- neighbor, in whose barn he was found prowling Ventre will be held on a charge of homi- cide Police reports that Benton wa shot when he grabbed the muzzle of Ventre's gun while erawling out of the barn door hi hands and knee Ventre declared he be- came in the scuffle and pulied the trigger before he realis- ed what he had done Following the shooting, the farmer examined the body and then Court Upholds Board's Action on excited old | Dismissal of Lock Haven 17 per cent more than during the | corresponding period of 1938 Jinx Follows Anyway Rather than begin thelr to California on Friday, the Lith Mr. and Mrs. GG. E. Males and their small daughter, of Dallas, Texas deferred their departure until after midnight. At 2:30 a. m.. on the 14th Males, 24. was killed, 1 victim of an automobile accident JOU TNes he * . A Coincidence Two automobiles collided at Rich- mond. Ind. recently. The driver of one was Oliver Morton, of Dublin Ind. and the driver of the other was Mrs. Oliver Morton of Fort 8ill, Okla. They were not related and had never met belore Streets of Gold An engineer, to satisfy own curiosity, took a sample of the ma- terial the streets of Orange, Cal, are paved with and bad it assayed The report showed that it assayed $4.20 a ton in gold Fire Burns 150 Years Started by a spark from steel and flint 150 years ago, the “Morris fam- ily fire” still burns at Saluda, N. C and is now tended by Bill Morris who is 79 years oid 5 ¥ Lis Big Potato Crop. J. L. Reitz, of Lewisburg R. D Is completing harvesting potatoes oD his two farms a total of 356 acres, the yield being approximately 87 500 bushels. The yield is slightiv below that of last year, due chiefly to the drv Summer. The grading of the potatoes and the placing of 5 them Mm sacks will occupy most ou | the Winter. as fast as the grading is compieted. November Milk Prices. E M. Harmon, market adminis- trator for this area, has announced the flolowing milk prices to be ef- feotive during the month of No- vember: Class 1. Class 11-A ann AI ss —— 5282 81.90 Ld The soothsayers are aniready pre- dicking who will win the election in 1940 Fase Farmers | The Centre county farmers who participated in the 1038 Agricultur- al Conservation Program improved 13873 acres of farm land in the county by carrying out soil-building practices under cording to a report on the results of the 1038 program just announced by They will be marketed | the program, ac- the Centre County Agricultural Con- servation Committee, which admin.’ isters the program in the county For their work in connection with | the program these 565 county farm- ers have received conservation pay- ments amounting to $40000. This money was earned through carrying out soll-buflding practices and com- plying with acreage allotments which are desigred to keep produc tion in line with needs In addition, “State College Water Supply Inadequate Teacher Afirmed by Judge Ivan Walker The dismissal of Mrs. Rose Flynn Schwer by the Lock Haven Board of week by the opin- ¥ i Education was upheld last the Clinton County Court ion being Judge Walker, of ty presiding he ground n by Van pecially written Centre coun The based only on the in the case opinion of court of of immorality The for wa neompetency ;. the charge was not considered opinion which was reached month following was filled In the Clinton coun- office a three the trial ty Prothonotary In brief the decision read to the ame the court opinion the is of the opinion that in the consideration of in of the harge of immorality is no evidence In the case support (Continued on Page Eight) After | testimony and rereading istening the states court the testimony the light that there to 6 Left Homeless In Clinton Co. Fire Clinton County Family Lose All Furniture and Clothing A three-room frame dwelling home of Mr and Mos. Mies Mc- Cauley and their four children, was burned Tuesday aftermodn at Sugar Run, Clinton County while Mr McCauley was husking on a neighboring farm and the mother of the four tols was gelling walker from a spring s hundred yards [rom the house. As she paused to talk to Mis | Lester Bummerson, on whose farm | the spring is, she saw her home in flames and rushing to the buming building, saw the thsee children | Edith. 5. Glenn, 4. and Dick, 3, in| the yard. An older child, Doris, was in school. There was no insurance and the fire swept the tiny building before help could be called burning every- thir but the clothing the family were wearing. Their loss included 2300 jars of canned fruit and vege- | corn H Vor [1° tebles and Mr. MoCauley: com- years into the past this week tn an iad pensation check for this year for the first time 297] wheat farmers of the county bave received wheat price (parity) payments to the amount of $0311. These parity payments on Yon | H! | State | lone range, that he had shot a man Benton's lifeless body punctured by the charge was lying about four feet barn door when the State patrol man arrived. The young prowler who was dressed in overall trous- rs, shirt and gweater, fell in his racks alier being shot Ventre authoritie been 40 chicken order to burglar the chest of shot from the 4 had Mon. | protec he sad told robbed he of night. In nine against he kept the shotgun beside his hed He said } had owned the gun fof more than 30 years ny 4 Benton was known Ventre for a ong time Admitting that had never had any trouble with the young man, Ventre sald he had however, known of Benton's police record Benton's gister, Miss Marion Ben- ton, was sald to have told police- men that her brother and Matty Ashville, had been drinking Thursday. She alse told that her brother and Yon returned to the Benton home after midnight ahd Yon lay down on the floor and fell asleep she related to investigators, Despite his sister's efforts to stop | him Benton prepared to leave home about 2 o'clock Friday moming and a short time later was shot to death {Continued on page eight) in he of day police We N eutrals | | SPEAK NO EVIL THINK AS WE LIKE TO EXPAND NYA PROGRAM week: Youth Within the next few sion of the National istration prograro will make ible ployment for 5000 ag men and we of 18 and 25. it day by Walter 8 Cowling, Youth Administrator Mr. Cowing sald that applications for work filed Immediately any of nmiy NYA Preference will be given yout! relief and income group femil- jen Ada Px f } 1O~ was announced can be at the ox offices from low need of assistance Living to Applicant should apply th olen w in Mr Soott 1 expan- | OG niry. | badd State Cous Supervisor, National Youth ration, Logan Fire Hall The new Centre county 110 persons, as compared vy 59 under the former quota reased quota represents share in the 1939-1040 | wional appropriation of 100 dollars for NYA work in the Mr. Cowing pointed ont that of the program also Jal amnmun Ie. COOpPeTa~ to fates War 1 of « ily through generou Erouj proportion we munued on pare eight) wil ’ of the boys or {ha rie tk program will be i |officially pronounced the mer NEW EXECUTIONER | CHANGES METHOD IN DEALING DEATH Three Separate and Distinct Contacts Used For Each of Two Condemned Men Who Died In Electric Chair efficient ( were Wilson $350 for the Ashe recalled ths the Frank Lee Wilson, Pennsylvania's new executioner, changed his meth- oc of execution in putting two Phil- adelphia negroes: in the chair Rockview Monday morning work t the former exe- Robert Elliott tacts i mtd to death crtioner 4 pr “ara it the State electric nt used three separa : # A not evn the sn early body ie x Th MW ' : { ia Ome men were Edward Golden Walter Tankard beating ‘ Cool and Methodical Witness i Wika Lobia i rivie CONN { ( } inde = Penitentiary Third Contact Needed After Lhe two ¢ tacts a sician, examining mp body strapped in the chair, still heard heart murmurs and signalled Wilson to throw the switch again After the third contact, the doctor dead Freight In Wild Flight Down Hill 200 Hogs Spilled A long Road- bed When Cars Are Wrecked On ~ each of first ) ¥ vibe 1 Pail { ne Golden w» dead | ter entering Tankard 6 ing. Witness badly scared nr the death minutes ! ( } doy going while Tankard was Warden or id calm Ashe he executio CENTRES CAVERNOUS PITFALLS The recent aceount of an Towa farmer having a narrow escape from being buried alive, when he and his team were dropped into a fifleen fool cave-<in on his farm similar occurrences that have taken piace In Centre county That Centre county is undermin- ed by numerous large and small caverns is the opinion of geologists who have studied the formation of the earth In this section of the It bas been demonstrated Hime and again that the entire scope of valleys just west and adja- cent to the Allegheny Mountains, and known to geologists as the lime- are literally bhoney- combed with holes and caverns of various size and depth. This condi- tion, say those in authority in such matters, has bees pocasioned by the numerous underground sires ms washing sway the soft calossroys Bmestone and silica rock. i One of the most thrilling incidents occasioned by a cave-in took place a little more than fifty years ago on recalls a farm in Poe Valley in the extreme! eastern end of the county On the day in question bert was plowing ground John Gil- Strange Occurrences That | oad to Belief in Numerous Subterranean Caverns in County in a low lying field, when U suddenly gave way ank out of sight, dragging with {hem eam plow Giibert narrowly escaped the same fate by hastily jur the earth crumbled beneath his feet It was just about sundown when the ng accident occurred, Gilbert being on, >The plow had been torn the last vound, when he was going to stop work for the night The neigh of one of the horses spurred Gilibert Lo action and realiz- ing that what could be done must be done quickly once went for help and soon had a half dozen or mare neighbors come to bis assist ance Owing to the continue! crumbling of the ground near the hole, it was unsafe to spproach near it, and the rigging up of a windiass by which he at to descend for an investigation was it slow as well a8 perilous work. In {fact #t was nearly micnight when {the job was done and Gilbert ready for corn! to descend i e earth! ing back just as © sly the men at the wind. he farmer into Lhe his surprise it Was mol st first supposed, being twenty-five feet we wide jedge of rock team of horses and lowered 1} Lo fas . a. ts there ON found the How joase in the fall and lay animals were alive bly and from the team w side Both considera cut up t Uj ‘ H y 8 derrick sufficient raise the horses oul of j and Mt the next day when were taken oul appar | the worse for the adven- oO ok untill morning # o'clock imals erty lid al FL 1s After his team had been rescued Gilbert explored the hole and found to be a cavern about twenty feet wide. There walls of silica and limesione ck on all sides ag straight as of It up by a tone mason by fifteen feet were rr { } Ulla Train Hold-up { Officials Debate Whe the rl The third fuarte § | Crime Occurred in Juniata or Mifflin Mifflin county officials dug thirty effort to find out whether a movie. | style train robbery ocourred in thes | { Jurisdiction or across the line in the | n AAA. Farm Program | | Improve 13,975 Acres In County hill country of neighboring Juniata | county who turned up at the ni with a tale that i he was the long-| 0. Lantz said “We're not sure how close lo the | given by the nurse, While wailing for infotmation!®Mminstions and were om Warren, Ohio, officials shout Blasses, paid for out of Associated the belated “confession” of a man | Charities fund. which fund is ob- | | there 18ined from the community chest drive and administered by a special adjustment | sought bandit, District Attorney H | “0mmitiee Seek Locale Old ANNUAL RED CROSS DRIVE twenty-five years previously Was BEC WAS leading f The bollom ak a and at one or opening #i $s Gireciion ne ® hadt ( westerly the or extent of which ained 4 tid 1 4 L oer it another ern. From the smal } and found in hod t covering of earth and rock could not have been more than two feet thick and this had been farmed over for s Bou stone the the Six Men Arrested For Gun Violation Fined $25 and Costs For Car- rving Uncovered High- Powered Rifle Other cases of this kind, of equal or lesser degree, are on record in Cenlre county. One of these oocur. red about seven miles east of Belle- fonte, when the horse of a farmer near Zion sank oul of sight he bole in this case was only about fifteen feet in deplh and the animal was easily rescued Similarly. a short Gilbert accident. G. B. Campbell, of Fergus township, had a narrow escape. He was engaged in plowing fallows, when the ground suddenly gave way and one his team of horses sank out of sight. In this case the horse fell thirty-five feet and was found dead on a bed of rocks at the botiom of the pit with carrying Henowered ng Al Afle ir arresied last Thursdas fined $25 and ool T Mark Brun- frye LOCK time before the the KIX met were neal irene) Creek ater 1 gard at Haven The grou; ry re 5] wy § ph on I¥ and 2) "ey Alderman & hearing heid ir in of 1£Roy and Glenn V and George L { Heimer, Beech Creek R D.; Mei- TO BEGIN NOVEMBER 11th iv . wr year-~around services of Chapter, American report of the Bellefonte Red Cross, is Miss Bertha Rimmey, as follows In the month: Augyst September made were bedaie-nuriing and maternity. P pre-natal; 50 health visits includ. ng infant, school and adit. 4 so- cial service; 7 office visits Five school childsen had eve ex- fitted with of July, visits Assisted the Bate College Red Cress nurse with a first aid station wheal are made through a special] epunty line the robbery scenrred we during the Grange encampment gt Act of Congress, in an effort to give the farmer a price for his wheat) more nearly im Une with the price ed in the Ohio town that William of sick has been organized at Un- | { 8mith, 50, alias Charles O. Edwards, |louville with a group of of things he buys. have a man checking that now ” Sheriff Ray Hardman had report- {Centre Hall. A class in home hygiene and care married The committee emphasized that|of Orrville, Ohle, related that he and single women, and is progress- the results of the 1928 program show | and a companion he identified ouly ing satisfactorily that real progress has been made toward permanent agricultural con- | servation and pointed out that the! use of similar soll-building prae- tices continue to be the backbone of a highway and the rallronl oreep gnswered by Mrs, Mary Weaver! (Childs. Foes oollected amounted fo ($90.11. Mileage traveled, 720 miles the program for this year as well as | for 1940 The committee urges all {Continued on page eight) i 5 = i i —————————— A OANA borpugh, declaring that the situation has reached an ao not only as to the amount but also to the quality of He added that conditions reached the point where the borough water 1s not fit to drink. Burgess Leitzell made three sug-' gestions, as follows: to drill a new well at S8hingletown Gap; to im- prove Shingletown reservoir and water shed, and to investigate ‘wells at Beotia as a probable new source of water. For the past two weeks the Bor- ough Water Supply has been bol- stered by large purchases of water big meal for the Festive Day by’ noted home economics. One of many features in the November 18th issue of The Americgh Weekly, dis tributed with the Baltimore Sunday American. On sale t all news. stands, The Centre Democrat $1.50 a year. as “Tom,” got $750 in silver in the! 1909 hold-yp of a Pennsvivania Railroad train in Narrows.” where the Juniata River, | between the mountains ] Find Stolen Gold | Newspaper accounts at the time made no reference to a second ban | dit, but agreed that the loot con-| | sisted of $100, mostly in pennies, and | bu than lion, i Sentenced al Look Haven Jormerly of entered pleas E. Robinson, Milesburg, whe had The nurse enjoyed a needed vacs- tion during August and, although the “Lewistown no regular nurse was provided to lake her place, emergency calls were As has been repeatedly stated, the work of the Red Oross nursing service is supported entirely by Hap- | ey collected during the annual Roll Call. At no other time in the year Is any plea made to the public for special contributions, and nothing is received from the community chest! drive or County Commissioners, a: in other communities. Ont of every! membership of one dollar or more fifty cents tu sent in Red Cross na- | tional headguarters and the re- mainder used to finance the nursing’ service, There are no pald workers, except the nurse, and the room used as an office. in Petrikin hall, is pro-| vided by the W. ©. T 17 organiza-! Hon The very excellent work done’ by Miss Rimmey in her five years’ as Red Cross nurse is well known! through regular reports and person-| al experiences of patients kindly and! skillfully ministered to, irrespective of class or color, and, we hope, be-! speaks a generous response on the! approaching membership enroli- ment ¥ Lewis Orvis Harvey, for the third, | consecutive year, will be chairman and Mrs. James Oralg, vice-chair- man of the Roll Call, which will be carried on from November 11 fo 30. Names of helpers in various districts will be published later, and will at- tempt to give everyone the oppor- {tunity to join the Red Cross, as ev- {eryone has the right to do | Last April delegates to the na- (Continued on Last Page) 5 Seek P. 0. At : sleeping fellow camp member, | vin LoVe, Monument: George E { Connelly, Fieming, Centre county { and E 5. Sullenberger, Mill Hall {| It is against the law 10 have an { uncovered rifle in an automobile e | except one day prior io the huni- . - Spring Mills, Pa ing season and two days after the Applicants to Take Civil Ser.| #04500 vice Test at Centre Hall, Nov. 4 Picking Skin Eruption Fatal | Infection, caused by picking a | skin eruption on his chin, 1 a | blamed for the death of Hershel Five applications for the | Rupp. Hyde City, formerly of South mastership of Spring Mills have | phn who died early Satur passed preliminary age and Te8-| gor morning at the Clearfield Mem dence tests, and will take the civil | orial hospital where he had been a service examination for the fob. | patient for six days. The former scheduled for November 4 at Centre| Southy resident was born in South Hall | Phillpaburg 25 years ago. He is 2 Applicants are: Mrs. Pauline E | 500 of Mis Martha Rupp and the Rossman, Ralph H. Shook, Guy 1.| Jae John Rupp. He moved from Jamison, Harry K. Condo, and Miss Soulh Philipsburg with his family Emma J. Groye. 60 years ago Civil Service Commission will cer lify three of these applicants as the highest-ranking, and this lst will then be submitted to the Postoffics Department. With the aid of “ad. visors” on Capitol Hill. the depart. ment will select the next postmaster from this list of three - COC Boy Pleads Guilty post. Tibet's New Baby God A revealing article telling of the | five-year search for the reincarnat- | to Dalai Lama that hag ended ® | the doar of a poor litte boy. Don't | miss this mysterious story of the | east in the November 12th issue of | . The American Weekly, distributed | | with the Baltimore Sundey Ameri- | jean. On saie al all newsstands. Ulysses Mitchell, 17, of Philadel-; Stodent Injured ai Sunbury. phia, a member of the Philipsburg! Richard Welle, IB. was badly cut OCC camp pleaded guilty to a Jar- | and bruised, when struck Sattrdey eeny charge when he appeared be. afternool by the Pennsylvanis | fore Justice of the Peace Hancock. Railroad special train. at Sunbury. at Philipsburg. The youth was taking the Jobo Harris High Sehool held on charges of stealing a pock- | fans to Harmsburg, after they had etbook from beneath the pillow of a] seen their team defeated by Wil- liamsport High. > GAME WARDEN SAVES COW: { of Phil | acted was | David Daligreen in the role Game Warden peburg, wis of life saver in a one-ant drama on- near Bellefonie last Thurs- evening. Dave was driv the “back” road fromn Mill to Bellelonie ¢ old Beezer plaughiern man holding Sespera cart ing the day along Mayer near 0 aw a A WISE SELECTION The Centre pCIRLIDn C Libr abd vy i Vart mos 3 Cari Ifverson Wad Wary of them — A BIT LATE Reports has Cot, the Lycoming 2 DOOEW Cour WF visited homes { thai the Centre | home now built and nearly ready for cocupancy, it geems tha: the Commissioners’ probate oosis al this mite Iate An ordinary-run-of-the- mine bDusinessman would have known the cost of operation fo the cert long before a showeilul of earth had been turned WHO'S MOST DESERVING ? Charlies Lee, candidale for Trea He alwa ork H bie position with ¢ Penn- vivania Railroad makes runuing office 3 mere hobby--net U4 necessity iL 8 for Chane Lee SPEAK UP, BALSER! We never tho i day when County Commissioner Balser Weber would turn out to be a4 shrinking wiciet in the field of Cent Couniy politics. Yet it seeing that Balser really hag be- come coy ahd bashful for he didn’t sign chat large advertisement about the County Home, published by the County Commissioners in many county newspapers last week. Bure. | ly Balser approves of the County Home! Then why didnt he sign the statement? WHAT'S THE MATTER, BOYS While the Democratic press up this time haz contented ifsel with 3 few off tackle plays ageing the Commissioners in regard fo th new Oounty Home (he Commis sioners have brought into play ther most powerful long-range guns They are going ta great lengths justify the erection of the Coun's Home. We're dropping. for ithe ime being. The right or wrong angles of building that gorgeous in- stitution, and are merely consider- ing the Commissioners’ action: much a5 & blologisd would study a squirming fly pinned under the mi. crosoope. $1 seems thet their de- fense is top strung, 100 desperate, for the eccasion. Ii almost seems that the Commissioners might in- Le ight we'd he - i ! to » Ey i wardly feel thei they've made 3 | great up a smoke screen of defense 10 mistake and are building justity their acts io the laxpayers and fo themselves, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER County : r Baymond WN Brooks, sho is seeking Section as County Register, had a piece in the (Coplinued on Last Page) boon _— o——— ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES' — Dolan's Sleuthing (Continued) oir a
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