Odd and Curious News Sees Mild Winter The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. SECOND SECTION Ce ——— A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. dhe Centre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 58. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1939. NUMBER 49. | Random [tems A mild winter, without heavy gnow or blizzards, is the prediction | of Willoughby Troxell, Lehigh coun- | ty's “goosebone™ weather forecast. er. A green Christmas and possibly a white New Year's Day completed his forecast. ‘Troxell observed Thanksgiving Day, his forecast be- | ing made after examining three goose breastbones, The prediction was Troxell's twenty-fifth made af- | ter the Thanksgiving Day dinner Troxell declined to accept the earl- fer holiday proclaimed by President Roosevelt and Governor James be- | cause the goosebone markings might be incomplete at that time “The Lord’ Provides Wrecking his automobile, Rev Lawrence Seeley, Methodist pastor of Perry, N. Y., planned to replace the automobile in the spring. It won't be necessary now, though, for a stranged handed him a paper the other day—it was a bill of sale for a new car which stood at the curb When questioned as to who it was who had made the gift, the stranger said he was instructed to say only that the car was a “gift from the Lord.” Good Arg ument A Pourth gun Altoona, mer- chant talked his way out of a hold- up Wednesday night by telling a man who pointed a gun at him, “You don't want to rob me, do you? You know I don't have enough money here to make it worth while” The bandit slowly lowered his gun, wavered a minute and then walked out of the store without another word. Police were given a descrip- tion of the man. Escape Injury The Holidaysburg detail of the State motor police were called to Tyrone Sunday to investigate a head-on collision near the West Virginia Pulp and Paper company mill east of Tyrone. Police said car driven by Mary J. Bartges of Sta'e College collided with another machine driven in the ¢pposite di- rection by Clyde Woomer of Tyrone, | No one was njited. Oldest Hunter Robert Myers, of Flemington, better known as “Uncle Bob,” is be- Heved to have been the oldest hunt- er in Clinton County woods the opening day of the deer season. He is in his 98rd year. He hag hunted since he was 14 years old, and has secured a hunting license each year since the law went into effect mak- ing it necessary to have 4 license to hurt. ~ = ito appear CLEARFIELD STAR WITNESS IN MURDER TRIAL FOUND DEAD James A. Garfield Johnson Believed to Have Committed Suicide On Eve of Being Summoned Before Grand Jury Less than 24 hours after James A Garfield Johnson, §7, of Mahaffey, had been served with a supoena before the Clearfield county grand jury to testify about the knife slaying of Harold Hutton, also of Mahaffey, he was found dead in a field near Mahaffey, Part of the man's head had been blown off by a shotgun explosion Investigating motor police, fear- ing foul play, reached the conclu- sion that the death was a suicide Johnson had been worrying about the important part he would play in the coming trial and was said to have been despondent Powder marks on Johnson's showed the shot gun, 16-gauge Youthful Miner Is Electrocuted 20-Year-Old Victim Came Contact With High Voltage Wire head had John Rasch, Jr., 20-year-old All- port miner was electrocuted last Tuesday night at the Cunard Slope of the Morrisdale Coal Mining Co, when he came into contact with 12 high voltage wire Firs; aid was immediately given to Rasch when his father, becom- ing anxious over the youth's long stay in the mine, found his son ly- ing beside several derailed cars. A pulmotor was rushed fromm Philips- burg but all efforts 10 revive Rasch failed. Both Rasch and his father had left the mine al § o'clock when ing youth said he was going to reen- ter the mine 10 inspect a car After waiting some time for his son the father went back into the mine where he discovered his son's body Recording to Clearfield County Coroner Dr. E E Erhard the youth probably came in contact with # | high voltage wire which electrocut- | ed him, Young Rasch is survived his parents and by his wife, the form- | or Elsie Jemney of Munson whom Modern Sampson “You can't do that to me” thund- ered Carl Lucken, farmer of Twin Valley, Minn, when his car be- gan advancing upon him as he cranked it. Carl who has quite a reputation as a stout fellow, flexed his shoulder, lowered his head and charged. The car stopped, all righ:, but it cost Carl $12 to get the radia- | tor grille fixed. THat makes him! almost as sof 28 as his shoulder. Fire Follows F Family Fire continues to dog the trail of A. H Yong and his family. Eight! years ago thelr home was destroy- | ed by fire. A second home was swept | by flames a week ago. They moved | he married several months ago — ai Farmer Is Killed By Enraged Sheep Tramped to Death by Animal From Neighboring Farm An infuriated sheep killed John ' K. Meyer, an 8l.year-old farmer, on his farm near St Priday. Mary's on The aged man had gone to one of the fields about 200 yards from hid | home, 0 do some work. A number { of sheep were grazing on a neigh- | boring farm close by and for some Priday. Piremen, however, saved the | structure, ————————i oy 10 Years Too Long Duval Curtis, of Chicago, drove. his wife, Norma, downtown t6 com. plete her shopping on Christmas , 1928. He promised to call for ‘an hour later. Mrs, Curtis wait- . Friday she got tired of waiting obtained a divorcee on grounds i § Mrange reason the male member of i the flock resented Mr, Meyer's pres- i ende, The the man, : stomped him as he ples, crushing his ribs and inflicting fatal head injuries, Mr. Meyer's son, who was attract- ed by his father's cries, succeeded in beating off the enraged animal infuriated animal | but not before its victim had re- | cefved injuries, from which he died : INDIAN WOMAN “An Indian has the right to prac- tice Indian medicine without a li-! cense,” Mrs. Zubette Mitchell of Drifting told a Clearfield Justice of Mrs. Mitchell pleaded guilty to the charges when ghe wag arraign- ed by Clem G, Smith, of Harrsi- Nail Penelrates Fool Malcolm Lindsey, of Beech Creek, -| while hun unting ast week, jumped on pile of brush, and a nal which iwas in a board concealed in the | brush, penetrated his foot. He is re- covering from the injury although 48 Sl Quite Pl. PLACED IN JAIL , the dark complexioned woman was “disgnosing, prescribing and sell- ing medicine without a license” Freely Sdmisting that she has no built up a large clientele in the Det area, Hunter Finds Woman With Broken Hip In Woods ter | Near Philipsburg ohe Dickson rushed Into Jumped | the woods onl he found Mrs. Al- He attempted to shoulder the | announced award of a patent to Ed- | Jersey jured woman and carry her into | {town but abandoned the ides and| ran for aid. Mrs. Albert was then taken to the | sty’ + Bospitas by John Waring, a neigh- Baer held close to his suicidal act by the HEAD last Wednesday in the Carl Riddle farm adjacent Mahaf- fey, by two youth An Investigation by and Clearfield county’ E. E. Erhard evealed had left his home morning. His body later There icide head in the The gun was lying near body which was discovered field on the motor coroner thal police Dr John- early Wed- was found were no hotographers were to 1 “41 eflort taken in an suspicion that been murdered Hutton, of Mahaffey, R D.. is charged with the fata) ul. bing of his cousin, Charles Hutt October 1. "Ne trial Is expe ted ome before Clearfield county in December oe scene of the shooting down any may have to trace Johnson Harold Bags Large Wildeat Walborn, of Towanda who went hunting for deer, did not get what he went after, but this hunting expedition was not without success, as he came back with a large wildcat, the first he ever saw He was stationed for a drive on Barclay Mountain, when he heard a rustling in the leaves, and turn- ing was confronted with the cat which he shot in the side, killing it instantly vv aller - for the 1940 cal- their appearance It’s about time endars to make yi MILE WHY IER VIoD ‘Month of Miracles THE FACT THAT (CHRISTMAS WILL Tf} S00W BE Hee, Ig Ti BROTHERS BECOME ENEMIES OVER DOUBLE THANKSGIVING Bu the gan bane, because wis as usual restaurant operated at Il. by Hurry and Frank Ki- 34-year-old twins i nobody claimed day was Thanksgiviz Harry and Frank generally along in their parinership agree on most things But ho politics. Frank is a solid Den Harry is just as solidly a Repubil can 80 it was ants serve AuUKe~ but inevitable, since restaur- turkey dinners Thanksgiving, that the broth should run into trouble, On ber 23 Frank celebrated Thank an tre business 1 turkey din- oof. To him ol Thanksgiving Thursday it It was N nbe: Thanksgivin He proclaiming Was Harry's 30 and, to up a publican Thanksgiving To Republicans only.” Frank did nol remain aloof. He ipa Sidewal booth, pp rated th bunting, and erecled his own Democrats on page egnt) ts Ww (Continuea MOUNTAIN GRAVE NEAR HYNER TO HOLD ASHES OF CREMATED SISTERS Discovery of Box Containing Ashes By Hyner | CCC Youths Last Week Brings Request from Relative that of aged twin sister: teboard boxes ! f¢ The ashes the d in two pa t the foot on Hyner been claimed, Hor- 1m) lelphia Ek a intain, have Goodman, of Phila pilgrimage to Clinton to the cren and her beer COoun~ ated twin seure wife discovered ISCON } youths the intersectic wort pike and the Lock Haven the two women te boxes, were § we at the Hyner near strange funeral Phils air “iii ydelphian a mount Qerns r and buried the Emma ©. Goodman ster, Miss Anna A. ! Horace Goodman of Lhe we the discovery is 67 years of remains of mes red of 3, WOO fed e quiet, secluded . spot together in som ‘My wile and sister devoted to each other” wey Ber were very he expiain- they desired & They said they Wan dot, Be cluded grave in a cemelery-—and they thought ¢ mountain would give it to them Goodman's wife died in the spring 1887 and her sister in the m ed aq < of “The grim old State museum as Harrisburg gels many queer re- quests,” remarks Colonel Henry W Shoemaker in a recent issue of his “Morning Comment.” and in sub- stantisgtion continued: “Last week it was lo find out how many days it takes for turkey eggs to hatch | Later came a request where to pur- | chase a “hand” or gnomon for & sun dial” Quick on the trigger and nimbie of wit, aged “Uncle” Henry K Defsher, veteran museum curator can answer about any question off- hand as a result of his Jong and varied experience, and obligingly Samtuied to discuss the subject of sun dials “The Liiyivatia Germans have about given up sun dials as they ; have many other picturesque cus- toms,” he began, “but there is one old blacksmith ai my home town, Kutstown, who can still turn out a pretly fair gnoman (or handle) The last old-time sun dial I s8w in my neighborhood was in Jonathan Sleitzer's fr Station “There was of course an ancient type sun dial ail ‘Sally Ann ancegiral forge and home of anor Fhher's ancestors, but it mater ont at Bowers yard Gor nears residence was remodaled out’ with open fireplaces pewter and Btisgel glass are hard to get The ently Swiss set sYivania were partial to moon dias and wd Prof, Sebastian Munste of Bas el, described hem elaborals tall clocks, Now the? ders in Pend- El Pilla h oer "Peazigylva a cks, walches id the time OY old-time had no cic Germans hour glasses and sun dials exclusively “The first we know had tide lines, time being dl vided into four tides’ of three hour each A tide dial was oflen ots of stone with the four raised lines and told the cut tides in time ad- was torn away when the Joni 4. yivania German bride : former Caiberine Welsenbers snd had & sun Qal cut in Irish ® sCOfe Of Years ago: iD Tas aii aexwood but hal one %as in New of Mohawk Valley and LIS IVALIG Pramsylvania Cerman were oiten street in front al moon the threshold of U window sili whicn tell the Ii was however, unil the Penn- became exper Dey were gun- ters ana replaced by 8 clocks, shell clocks hes. The Pennsyvivania with his mixed biood was and a te observer and Nn he was O manut fact Fe, : os dele 0 or Tee aOUTS as s and pe ekly et 4 wal German £6 PASSING OF THE OLD SUN DIAL Shoemaker makes ve sOfD was made over by Billy on gin nded Clinton county pioneer The “hours are carved on a large circular dial of mountain brownstone snd after all thes: | years & still In use and is frequen:- iy consulled when walcheg ana clocks mre not 0 be relied on. A @ sun dial was set inlo the huge muey al Chimney Spring 4 fen $94 “ki ag in 8 pm t ' Great Pine Barre of Centre Coun- wriler in of mys- Ag +5 Fy Leaves rest and ery.” When the old chimney fell, the dial was presumably buried in the debris The first religions servioes what s now Catesburg were held about IT In a combination biack- smith shop and shed built of Jogs belonging 10 a member of the pion- eer Hartsock family. Tradition ha (Continued on page eolght) Philipsburg R. D. Man Exonorated ——————— ' Absolved of Blame in Fatal Highway Accident on November 21 A. H Newman, of Philipsburg, R. D. was absolved of all blame for the fatal highway accident in which Edward 8. Parks met his death on the night of November 21, by a cor- oner's jury which met at the West Decatur P. O. 8. of A. hall last Thursday evening. Testimony of five witnesses who saw the victim immediately before the accident or who arrived at the scene immediately afterwards was heard. The testimony of the withesses checked in every detail and reveal- One Out of Ten Get State Aid 4,451 Centre County Resi- dents Are Receiving Assistance A total of 4451 Centre county residents received some form of state assistance during the month of September, the monthly detafled report showed today. This repre- sents about 9% per cent of the county's population which oom- pares favorably with the state-wide average of 10% per cent. Total cases receiving some form of financial aid during the month was 1668. The report divides the cases as follows: general assistance, 839 cases, 3311 persons; old age { assistance, 634 cases; aid to depen- dent children, 118 cases, 431 per- sons; blind pensions, 75. A total of 458 applications for as- sistance was received in the coun- ty during the month covered in the report. Of the total, 408 were for , | general assistance, 23 for old age » coroner's jury was made up Dagen, Richard Ulsh, Smeal, Harry Hamer, Ray Grant Lindsay. SLIGHTLY HURT IN TRAIN-CAR RUN-IN | Irene Thomas, occupant of a car operated by Rex Curry, Fallen Tim- | ber, R. D., was slightly injured Fri- day eventing when the automobile train. Miss treated at a doctor's p. for lac erations of the face and foot, The car and front of the locomotive | were damaged. The train was bead. ing into Houtzdale "on the Moghan- aon branch. Granted Patent The U. 8. Patent Office Monday ward Fayette Gehret, of Shore, Pa. invent of 3 Method | for manufacturing propelior blades, Manuf rights were assigned to Aviation Macutactuting - Corp- | oration of Williamsport, Pa. | assistance, 25 aid to dependent chil- dren, and 3 for Blind pensions, To. tal Centre county expenditures for | September amounted to $4382021 | > Do not discount human emotions; | they may cause much suffering but once controlled and directed they | generate life for the human race. son eT r——— 3 Three pe As Auto Overturns Accident Occurred on Black Moshannon Road Early Sunday Morning residents nearby Phil. ipsburg were injured: early Sunday moming four miles east of that town on the Black Moshannon road when the car in which they were riding hit the soft berm on the side of the road and overturned Three of The injured were Martha Graife and Samuel Cartwright, both of Gearhariviile, and Harvey Hummel, of West Decatur. Hummel and Miss Graife became patients at the Phil- ipsburg Hospital Mrs. Graife was cul on the face and head and has a possible frac- ture of the skull. Cartwright re- ceived cuts on his face and head while Hummel, driver of the tar, was badly cut on his right hand Motor police said Hummel was driving towards Philipsburg at the time of the accident. A steering rod is believed to have broken, causing | the driver to lose control of the car fh i ———— Moose Home Barns A $80,000 fire early Saturday seri- ously damaged the inlerior of the’ Williamsport Lodge of Moose. | Twenty years ago the ied joage Jost, its home in a sim 5 | Insurance-~contributions to [edge of ether. Altoona Hunter | Dies In Accident Wilmer Campbell Fatally In- jured in Wreck Near Clearfield Wilmer Campbell, », of Altoona, | returning from a hunting trip, died | Sunday in the Clearfield Hospital of injuries reorived early Priday morning when his car toppled near | Clearfield. Motor police who inevstigated | the accident said Campbell's car | left the highway and overturned. A | brain injury received in the accl- | dent caused Campbell's death. ! Campbell and his son had been | on a hunting trip to the Kane ter. ritory and were returning homs | when the accident happened Camp- | bell, a native of Kerrmoor, Clear-! field county, was an airplane me- | chanic and employed in Altoona He is survived by his wife and nine | children. The fatality marked the forty-se- | cond for this year on Clearfield and Centre county highways. - Modern Definitions: Eternal Fire your church. po Business men who mistake adver. tising for charity have little knowl. mes panied by ons { BStiver | year-old Clearfield | maiden name wag Daisy Owens, left | two notes—one addressed to Clear- Remains be Held of 1938 ving sisters she toward # sp misma am— Row Over ‘Date’ Ends In Jail Altoona Man Receives Severe Head Injury After Argument Merle Btiver, 2 ‘ charges of aggravaled batiery after he Clarence Stump! is given as Oak tieth street, over the head with a tire pump along Horseshoe Trall about 10 p. m. Sunday Stiver allegedly struck Stumpf over the head wit tire pump with Stiver “ ave: th h a when Siump! disagreed over Biivers 13-year-old si ing dales Btiver i= alleged been fn favor of } dates. Stump! is # with Stivers taboo on dates fee stad weld iurmasheg ai Would-be Suicide Instructs Coroner Clearfield Woman Writes Notes, Then Shoots Self Twice Before shooting the left chest, Mrs herself twice In Scott Hess, 56- resident, whose field County Coroner Dr. E E Er- hard and one addressed to Mr. Levy, her undertaker. lame no one for this. Please spare me newspaper publicity,” she | wrote {A her message to the coron- er before firing the two shots which narrowly missed her heart Mrs Hess was treated immed:- s'ely after the shooting and laden to the Clearfield haspital whore she onmtinues to live In a set. us 00D- tion. The two shols in her breast uere side by side and cams cut ber wk awoy’ ihree inches appari. Toe pullets pasred under the heart Mrs. Hess is a widow, her hus- band died several years ago. There | are no children. 8he lived alone in a room in the home of Mrs Delis | Conrad, where the shooting took place between 10:30 and 11 A MM. | A 32-calibre revolver was used. All she would say following her | nearly successful suicide attempl] was “I have a sorrow.” Previous to this attempt she was being treated for a fracured right arm Hex arm is still In a cast. Every individual has an oppor-| tunity to regulate somebody—and we don’t mean other people. | SCHOOL BOARD MEETS shoe news- permitted to I" Bellefonte o ng Mon Pret WaQrTrOLg time been of 4 first have tings ard For the papermen atiend meet 1 Bot Behot HIgh Wag i Dew mei tHe Dosra =m mem the Rig £ Order of Pu Magica HOUSE-CLEANING For some ~EFRCE NARs months been gro Geparinent item Amen aed?” report of a | meeting 5 {ate Chamber of Commer 0 s and assoried literature State of the Nal nd WW Rieg reason excited about Vallee old news; rubber band tr ee be on the ion , ubm 1 ted by frie for some can” get of RuCy or oth a» DOIG METS a Ep Po Jian © N tr % tn 4 nave 1 write Lem REAL NEWS! at t meetings of Othe: papermen. The stories would t-1i all the little intrigues, the personalities the propagandist objectives of every story, as the hewswri ter De They woul rich more interesting than bold tabloid storie y woul do a% Be cet Ags HANDY COAL MINE Graders st work on the gigantic new Black Moshannon Airport cently struck a seam of coal which crops out near the surface of the ground. The coal is sbout 20 inches in thickness and much of the vein will be removed in grading the Seid Meanwhile coal is being dug and carried a few feet to the office build- ing where it provides a source of economical fuel Work- men on the project go to the air port, Bundays, dig themselves load of coal and haul it home. IMPROVEMENTS S80 far we've neglected 0 com- mend Council for the elimination of danger at various street inter. sections by placing stop signs 1ib- erally at those intersections, Tre- gardiess of the “through” highway routes in town. Doge are noticeable by their absence. Radio interfer ence seems to have cleared up 10 a ‘remarkable extent While we're at it, we might sz well mention that Christmas is only 18 days distant. and we've found a place where you can buy toy steam engines It's a pretiy good world after all! MURDER SCARE Several of Centre county's high- powered crime investigators were lealled t0 Kato Mondsy on whst looked like a first class, Page 1 news story. Word came from Kato that a badly decomposed human body had been found in the woods near that community. Sheriff Har- rv V. Keeler, and Officers Harold 'D. Ream and 8. R. Richardson, of the State Motor Police at Rockview, rushed Io the scene and found the , report substantially correct. There was a decomposed body, all right ‘but its originality belonged to a | deer. Scattered around the «te were {torn pleces of hunting clothing, {which may or may pot have been tossed there to give someone 2 {thrill " ro - n re sleacy a } KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — Too Bad Eddie Can't See Ahead _ By POP MOMAND
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