Odd and Curious News The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. | SECOND SECTION he Cenfre Democr NEWS, | FEATURES | VOLUME 69 . BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1940. - | TE Life Circled by 13's Number 13 doesn't mean bad luck for Arthur Landon, postal clerk, of Brandon, Va., who has 13] Born on Pri- | ~~ LAWIN APPEALS letters in his name. day the 13th he was graduated from high school on the 13th, was married on the 13th and become a mail carrier in 1913. He bought & | new home on Jan. 13 after living In another house-—ves 13 years Got the Divorce Seeking a divorce, Donald W Minster, 24. of Media, charged that his wife—played the radio all night when he tried to sleep. Watched him polish his car until it glisten- ed, then peppered it with gravel. Threw money he gave her out the window. And—the climax—poured soap flakes over eggs he had to fry | himself because she refused to cook He got the divorce, Nothing There Even if a burglar had been trying to get into the State Treasury vaults he wouldn't have got anything ex-| cept a dose of tear gas. That's what state policemen and capitol workers got the other day when something— “it might have been a mouse,” said walter G. Scott, deputy secretary of property and supplies —set off a tear gas cartridge Shot Bird Revives A hunter at Shelby, N. C., gave Thad Eure, Secretary of Stale, a grouse which he had shot out of a| tree. Eure placed it in cold stor- age. Twenty-four hours later, Eure found the bird pecking away at bonds, apparently none the worse for its experience. Too Late Cab Driver Herb Flanigan of Pittsburgh has been rushing wo- men to hospitals the past 12 years and beaten the stork every time. But when he started out with his own wife he got only as far as the driveway before she presented him ith a baby. girl. Star In Cow The deputy sheriff from some Wisconsin county who lost his of- ficer's badge can get same by ap- plying at the Milwaukee stockyards of the Equity Livestock Co-Opera~ tive Association. It was found in the stomach of a cow recently slaughtered there. No Chiselers Relief money isn't a gift to Mr and Mrs. James Edward Young, of | Lock Haven. It's a debt—to be re- paid if possible. When they inherit- | ed $2500, the first thing they did was to repay $560.90 received from the Btate as old age assistance and relief, 901 Transfusions Edward (Spike) Howard, 61-year- old veteran professional strongman, of Philadelphia, who a year ago sald he wanted to give 1,000 biood trans- fusions before he died, has started on his last 100. Recently he gave his 901st gift of blood. He does not make any charge. A Sick Thief It must have been a sick burglar | who broke into a Charlotte, N. C.,| store, He took € bottles of malaria medicine, 12 bottles of caster oil and | 12 boxes of cough drops Agreed A report to the Titusville borough council showed $90 spent for bury- ing cats last year. In the word of Mayor Hoenig, “that is an awful lot of cats” Some newspaper articles are writlen by old men who, in their youth, were the champion pout- ers of thelr village. . Tax Deadline Is Week After Date Set For Execution William Yeager, 53-year-old Mon- tour, county farmer, has been serv- ed with an ultimatum $0 pay $6.25 in k school taxes by March 6-— or : 6 probably will be “or #lse.” He's scheduled to die in the gh ehalr at Rockview, Fenny 8 (tefl days before the tax for the slayilg of State Trooper warned: Phis will mean considerable ad- ditional costs and inconvenience to ¥ puslér was shot to death in 1937 MOT A ———————. its | | Northumberland, averred the | arrange men interested DEER KILLING CASES ~ INVOLVE POINTS OF Clinton County Court is Seat of Interesting | Legal Entanglements Over Alleged In- fractions of State Game Laws | { Two appeals from alleged game to make several plantings of tomato! | law violations were heard at a spec- 1 {last week which involved interest. {ing points of conduct concerning { hunters A selttlement was asked for in the of Ira Riggles of Hyner, {charged by the commonweéaith with { Killing two deer out of season. Rig- gles claims the deer were shot be- | cause they had been destroying gar- den and field crops. Both prosecu- ition and defense had previously a- {greed on the facts in the case Riggles on the witness clared the deer were so destructive that he and his brother were forced | | case Tyrone Men Win Accident Award | Former Local Residents Plain- | tiffs in Suit Againsi Gil Company | — - - For the second time within four imonths, a Philadelphia common { pleas court jury this week awarded Frank Z. Rosenhoover, 44 and his ison, Frank A. both of Tyrone, dam- ages for injuries received in a ccl- lision between their coal truck and {a vehicle owned by the Atiantic | Refining Company | The Rosenhoover's, plaintiffs fn {the action, are well known in Belle { fonte, having formerly resided here | The elder Mr. Rosenhoover a | brother-in-law of Mrs, J. D. Thom- 188, of North Thomas street, this ! Last November, the father was i awarded $10,000 and the son $375, but the oil company subsequently { was granted a new trial. The latter resulted in a verdict of $4750 for ithe father and $250 for his son ! The Rosenhoovers maintained the { accident, which occurred May 28, 1938, was caused by the gasoline jtruck being off itz lane. The driver of the latter, Ronald 8. Rowe, of nh no H is enhoovers' truck swerved into his vehicle ‘Sandy Ridge . Home Destroyed | Family Away as Flames Re- | duce House and Contents to Ashes While Earl Kennedy was working lon a WPA project and his wife was ial session of Clinton county court sand during tand de-| plants, putting in at least a thou- | the growing season. | of them were nipped before could bear, while all the red were eaten. Even hot pepper which the game warden had ted he planted keep the deer away, were consumed the animals Alfalfa farm Many they beets plants SURKE 0 by and corn were wilch among the 1 uflfered from (Continued on page sight) .. Ope 100 WOMAN KILLED WHEN CAR GOES OVER BANK Mis Hams; momrming lanche Fern Kelley killed early Monday 1 highway curve east of when the os which ruck a tree and an embankment Mi instantly killed and her 8, William Kane, of Wil- who is believed to of Wil. MOT wa rin riding st rolled down Leliey was ompanior Hamsport have { been driving the ear, and her moth- er, Mrs. Clara Kelley, are in the { Jersey Shore Hospital, both in a ser- i wou H i H i city. ! condition. The accident hap- pened about 2 a. m. near Spook Hol- Wow. The partly was enroute to Wil- lHamsport At the Cross Roads | SHUCKS | DORT KNOW WHICH ONE { OUGHT TO SEND Planning On Getting Hitched? You'll —-— —. Need Medical Ex The June bri “April Fool” em in Pennsylvania this year and et her wedding accord- to a bulletin of Medical of the Pennsyl- If she wants 10 avold a med- al examination she will 1 hitched May 17 Will engaged persons de may date ahead ing Society vania i} State of i have get before slate in this r Gq Te oy belr ried tive? E mai becomes off eg Pointing jesir — — ‘OLD WOODEN MILL NUMBER 7. | GEARS MAY LEAD TOLOST COLONY | Relics, Dug Up in South Carolina, May Be Old- est Pieces of Machinery in America, Says Penn State Professor wooden mill gears lug up in South Caroling may be] one of the oldest pieces of machine- | America” and possibly a clue Jost colony of Roanoke ls~ Virginia, Prof. Dedrick, of authority on old Ameri- | SEVETAd QAaYs ago The gear found by W. L ver. a banker, while digging on of an old mill pond about Orange- set of old ery in to the and, Penn State ait mills, stalled were te les from his home al to Dedrick, retired mill expert of the Pennsylvania State College, and wher section ww the Smithsonian Institute i A ngton. Dedrick { the institute reparted the geal from any exhibit We Wash vy al {ifferent ara: Lies ECDArAU with the largest 19 feet nee, had been buried al perhaps were years and YEA 480, even be a clue Wo Roanoke Island disappeared and 4 fled or mi- Lave Carolina,” he 41 mig the lost of whose people might possibly grated into South added “One of the most ponvineing facts | COMO Y (By Henry W. Shoemaker, in Altoona Tribune) The recent finding of a badly scattered child's skeleton under an overhanging rock on Laurel Hill near the head of Indian Creek, Do- negal township, Westmoreland coun- ty, brings back memories of the missing Ankeny boy. whose fate was till more tragic than that of our own “Lost Children of the Alle. ghenies” in that the body was not recovered, even after the black art of the hecks was brought into it Little Jakey Ankeny, so the story Ros-| Was related to this writer several {years ago in the hotel at Ligonier: {was the only son of respectable’ 3 f | man legend farming parents residing on Indian! | Creek, south of the present Rolling Rock Club where Pethr Marmie, the French ironmaster who jumped into the biasing stack with his hounds at “La Orande Alliance” furnace in 1703, giving rise to the first Chasse Volant, or wild hunter- in western Pennsyl- { vania once prospected for hematite {ore loved {out sewing at a relatives’ their home | burned to the ground ai | Ridge Monday mommning All that was saved from the two- eral Refractories Company four pleces of furniture carried out by Robert Flick and John Reichard who were the first {0 nolice | house had caught fire Sandy Ridge firemen poured all their chemicals on the fire in an al- | tempt to stop the flames Irom spreading. Osceola firemen, moned in the meantime, arrived at Sandy Ridge. The flame-enveloped hore was too far burned to be {saved from complete destruction. Flick and Reichard, spolting the fire, raced to the back door of the home. but could not enter because of the intense heat. Running to the i front of the house they kicked In Sandy | 314 Monkeys To story frame house owned by Gen-! were | i the | | sume- | i ! [| | i { ‘the front door and proceeded to | leart out what furniture could be saved. With the exception of a chair, | studio couch, rug and stove, all the {pelongings of the Kennedy family | were destroved. Damag?s; to house ' f rnishing« alone wer. estimated al tec PENN STATE PLANS FINE TURF MEETING The twelfth annual fine turf con- ference gt the Pennsylvania State | Qollege will be held February 21 to (23, according to an snhnouncement By H. B. Mussery professor of ag- ronomy and chairman in charge of tg for the gathering. greenkeepers and other fp growing lawn-type grasses may attend. The educational program will in- eglnde a discussion of soll bacteria, topography, plant growth insect problems, organic matter in the soil, water penetration, rate of growth of grasses, a3 of tests with vari species and strains of bemt greens, sig : Sn FOR 25¢ The nursé ssid the miner's wife, , and a review of the results % for putting] The Ankenys had sent the dark little fellow after the cows which pastured along the lower! benches of the mountain which had been Ip again In but when darkness set in was the worried an formerly cleared. but wir growing haws and red maples and he back and Ww not parents becams all night was begun were flocking in ed Mke made its and a strange Gipsy Caravan, 4 from Btahls. town camped that very night at the Big Spring In the gap coming east had Hundreds of neighbors joined foi! the search, which kept up mo long that little Jakey's distracted parents forgot that the cows were not {ound —4n fact they never turned up. The bunt kept up until everyone oon- cluded that unless the lad had beer killed by wild beasts or kidnaped he would have starved to death Al last it was decided to send for Mother Belisha, the Mother Skip- ton of Somerset county, who lived across Laure] Hill Lost Run pear the east slope of Negro moun- tain. There were many volunteers to go, including the public-spirited and philanthropic minded young A an Be Prof.’s Friends Penn State Instructor Goes to Peurto Rico on Strange Mission After five months in the class-| room, Dr. C. R. Carpenter, an asso- ciat professor at Pennsylvania State College, sujind for Puerto Rico last Thursday, to resume his} studies in the world's first experi-| mental primate colony, populated by 300 Rhesus monkeys and 14 gib- | bons Curiously enough one of his major | concerns is “how weil” the man-like animals will be. “The old belief that all creatures living a natural outdoor life are! splendidly healthy does not prove true,” he sald. “A number of the monkeys were suffering from tuber- culosis and other ailments when we | captured them in India.” § New Milk Price | hiked to 13 cents ~ STORY OF LOST CHILD RETOLD ' of Greensburg HEOWED In Li 1: sppealed to af sport, but when they carcely be played riding astride. their Wai found iL could fngept when dere GUC) Bometimes Miss D'Arcy id these de Freane DOWD i were Of ariiyv A 5 iv J a trim. neturel-wood buckboard. When it bring Mother Belish IYArey de Fresns after her wil} ponies ab origin finished was desired to a quickly Miss volunteered to go drive. Paes the buckboard her favorite pair of the Galaxie ing Oalant The Jast white (not anc named was almost snow fiea-bitten while) hence was translated into Eng- ish meant “Miky-Way"” Galant WAS bay entire horse, about the name a dark 1 maiden POSKCSHE~ WOOKIng ~ Wha whHitose name was Sarah Heshbon an erdspiegie, or heck's glass, which she carried in a bag | made of tanned wollskin, and by | looking in it lost persons had often | been found i Despite the state of the roads! the fair Samaritan reached the wise | woman's tiny eabin, which stood | a grove of gum trees near a spring, in less than six hours, and a resting the horses until 1 a! m. started back with Mother Bel-| isha, and the precious erdspiegle. | The canny old lady had pow-wowed | over on taking it out of a locked cupboard where she gu jeal- | Pra i They were back at the Ankeny! homestead in time for a 7:30 a. Mm breakfast. Mother Belisha laid the (Continued on Page 6) ocd filer larded it iy Schedules Ready Rates to Consumers in Local Area Will Remain Unchanged Rew milk price schedules for the Erie, Sharon-Parrell Harrisburg and Central milk marketing areas go into effect tomorrow, Friday. Governor James last week gigned the four orders which provide foc a retail price to the consumers ©f 12 cents a quart in the Erle and Sharon-Farrell areas, leaving the 12 eent price in this area. The Pitisburgh consumer price had beer a quart, while the Sharon-PFarrell price was drop- ped to 11 cents a quart, until this order is effective. The new achedule for the Central area provides: A class 1 producer price of $280 a hundred for zone 1. in Clearfield county: a class 1 Dr. Carpenter will be on a special | producer price of $270 a hundred six months leave from Penn State. | in zone 2, including Centre, Hunt- His researches during that time will | ingdon and part of Blair county be conducted for the college of phy- | prices to consumers remain un- selans and surgeons of Columbia changed: 12 cenis a quart in large University, under whose sponsor-| centers of population, and 11 cents ship he has probed into the jungle In sparsely-seitled areas which con- life of “man’s cousin,” the primates, | stitute the separate “statewide” dis- an three continents, | trict. The colonies of Rhesus monkeys — gibbons, segregated on a 36 acre 15-| Pompous individuals carry the land along the Puerto Rican coast, | weight of the worlds affairs be- are the only colonies of their type in | tween their shoulder blades but the the world, The animals were world doesn't know it, brought back by Dr, Carpenier and —— his associates from India and Siam | ,p, xecutive 14 a man who puts in 1038. | his feet on the desk i — ee Four In Family lil From Poison Taken to Lock Haven Hospital After Being Stricken in Home the Thomas y from near Rauch- mn DUNILY, are recover. in the Lock Haven Hospital from tacks which physicians diagnosed is either coal gas or food poisoning Mrs. Laura Thompson and her three daughters: Mary, 15: Ruth, 12, and Helen, 7, were admitted at 10:45 o'clock Saturday evening after Dr. Joseph Korengo. of Nippenose Valley, had been called to the home by Mr. Thompson. Dr. Thompson reported he found Mrs. Thompson suffering a severe headache, while the girls appeared to be in stupors. Three other child- ren and the father were not il The patients were reported Mon- day as geiting along nicely at the hospital tin sin: WP —— —— Philipsburg Boosts Water Supply Philipsburg's new emergency pumping station went into opera- tion the ast of the week, to augment | the water supply of some 450000 gallons of water daily. The station will pump water 24 hours a day, un- Ht reaches its normal level. A pumping dam has been built at the, game reserve, and a pump and ster-| ilization plant established. A long- continued drought in that section necessitated the emergency station. | | the woods, with Bottoxf in hot pur- the water in the main reservoir small’ Runaways Caught In Clinton County Two Youthful Members of | Kis-Lyn School Nabbed at Westport Robert Hamm, 16, of lock Ha- ven and Clyde Robbins, 13, of Honesdale, escaped inmates of ihe Kis-Lyn Industrial School, were taken into custody last Wednesday | afternoon at Westport by Officer Ross B. Bottorf of the Lock Haven | police and Private C. A, Rice of the | State Motor Police, Bottorf, receiving a Lip that the | two boys were in hiding near West- | port, got Officer Rice and they went | to the spot, which ig about six | miles off the main highway through | that community. It was the sec- ond time young Hamm had been found in the shack at his father's | mine ghere. The officdra were noticed ap- proaching, for Hamm hid under a bunk while young Robbins took io suit. Private Rice had to remove a number of shoes and overshoes | from under the bunk before he caught hold of one which was filled. The two boys were placed in the Clinton County Jail to await officers from Kis-Lyn, to take them back to the institution. It was young Hamm's third escape since his com- mitment there, i House to house canvassers rare- ly build up the trade of a com- munity. former | he heard the boy's screams of the gears’ antiquity” Dedrick reported. “is no or the mill have anecdoies referring wo been found in that neighborhood imporiant mill were mks and were known i colonial day De hal Lhe Operalion was interrupted shoruly bull, possibly by some ite. A bullet is embed- SegIenN Us sing from he rim of al recorcs Buch and- for miles around might : KN ded | one of Lhe PAY and also the cogs are n he mortioe how setile- . no permanent | Gi Wil Dar nid abou 18% Deng maghnt 0 and examined Dy pe te FE antecale ial — Earle Named To Bulgarian Post Former Governor Gets Impor- tant Assignment in the Balkans George H. Parle, atrplane-flying’ “new deal” governor of yivania has been appointed minister vo Bulgaris diplomatic assignment in “powder keg” Balkans President Roosevelt nomination to the senate expected (0 confirm it without Penny < a deli- cate ue sent the which is de- Jay Governor 193% of Pennsyl vanja from 1838, Earle lost to Senator Davis, Republican a contest and Pennsyl- st Democratic adminis 44 years went down ww James J sensa vanit in 3 al tration defeat with him A World war naval won his diplomatic wi to Austria in hero, Earle as mine turbule rE ister nonths preceding Chancellor Doll- | fuss’ assassination six summers ago | 10] Presidens Roosevelt sent him Vienna in 1683 and there Earle gained a knowledge of problems in the neighboring Balkan countries which may serve him in good stead at Sofia — Blair County Boy Cremated Frantic Efforts of Mother to Rescue Son Prove Futile The frantic efforts of Mrs. Harry | Daugherty to reach her four-year- { oid son on the biazing second floor of her home near Biue Knob, Blair county, Friday aflernoon, proved useless when she and her father were driven back by the intense heat of the Naming structure The body of four-year-old Wil- lam Daugherty was not recovered | from the ruins until shortly before noon Saturday. The trunk of the body was found in a corner of the cellar minus the legs, arms and head which were completely con- sumed The fire was discovered by the | boy's grandfather, William Daugh- erty. living across the street, when ing into the first floor of the home, he aroused the mother who was | sleeping on a couch, unaware of the fire When all attempts failed to res- cue the boy and his pet dog, neigh- bors and friends were foroed io stard by and watch the two-story frame and plank dwelling burn. Dies on Wife's Sick Bed Mrs. Mary Kincaid, 69, of Wild- Rush-~ | Random [tems Brun CURES FOR COLDS The other day we heard two dis- tinguished gentlemen from Penn's Valley reviewing some of the fav- orile cold cures in that area, One remedy thal struck us as being as something or other, foliows: Boll the akin of a grapefruit in a pint of water, Then drink the waler, AN other is Lo take a pint of milk, cut onjons in it and boll the mixture then drink the milk. On the agon’t seem Ww O02 wr TOU fp ¢ ; " ace Of IL, OOK } ‘ Cd as { MARCH 17. Practically everyone will be wear ing the green on Sunday, March 17 For the time In many years that date, which is Ps Sunday BL. Patrick's first AiN0 an BANQUETER: Although maliager of arranged Emerick, aflable Peun Belle Hotel, many a banguet he ate his first Thursday night Fire Company I dinner ang se. We didn't hear his com- menis on » hotel's food d ser ne ign ke one TO THE UNDERDOG: Judging from the reaciion of the crowd at Madison Square Garden Friday night when Arturo Godoy, slout-hearied Chilean, carried 15 rounds of dynamite fo Champion Joe Lodis bul Jost his attempt W n the world heavyweight Lite, the crowd was with the Boulh American fAghier. Possibly a vole among the fight fans would have been different then the olld analy- tical decision of the officials who decided the fight, CLOSE SHAVE: William Deorworth of Street, Bellefonte a Penn State Paul Lhe Dad al ann last ey thai popular banque! Lhere when the U Wil oa yo RE ‘ dan Wh ali iu “win ne he arly OF bul wad wi East Linn student at has been congratulst- ing himself. He missed by a hair's breadth being a passenger in the car which crashed at Martha Pur- nace early Priday morning, Febru ary 2, seriously injuring Dorworth's friends and fellow students, John W. Harkins, of Siste College, and Berne F. Cramer, of Bast Siuronds- burg. The wvouths had attended a dance st Houtadale, and upon leav- ing the dance Dorworth first got In the car with Harkins, Cramer and others. The car was uncomfortably crowded, however, so Dorworth got and came home with another group of students. COLUMN BY CATM ? Friend Jesse H Caum, worried over the lack of ideas in this space ast week, has been invited to help us out sometime. So whenever the Spirit moves him we hope to be able to publish Mr. Caum’ maiden eflort a a columnist, THE WIND: Tuesday of this week was the first anniversary of the fire which destroyed the Bellefonte High School building. Somewhat bee latedly this departmen: reports thet among the lems lost In the blaze, and not hitherto mentioned was one of the first oopies of the book: “Gone With the Wind" The vol ume, which was the property of Mrs. W, Harrison Walker, of East Linn Street, had been loaned Ww (Continued on Page 6) out Married Women Are Out of Luck In Holding Jobs Married women whose husbands have jobs are taboo in the James administration, Only in exceptional cases--where some married women have husbands who are not self-supporting—will the rule be relaxed, according to Gov. Arthur H. James. The chief executive said that his administration hes adopted the pol- icy of not hiring married women { with working husbands “We {ry to sustain as many homes {as we can, nol individuals” he as- IE . (married. He wrged extension of ipolicy t0 all departments of the ist overnment., wood, N. J. ill of pneumonia, was | “aie 8 ah nursed night and day by her 84-| year-old husband, Henry. He then | became ill, lay down next to her in| bed and died. It wag three days before the weak cries of Mrs, Kin-| caid were heard and help was sume | wilh a husband gainfully employed. mened. sistance, however, a civil service rul- >. Twin Hurts | ing Twin sisters, Miss Louise Vento! in and Mrs Josephine Bono, 18, of 10s | of Angeles, are seeking $5000 dam- ing ages, claiming that their backs | to married were broken in the same place, 81 who are gainfully the same time in the same auto- Roaring Spring board of mobile accident. | at a meeting Jast week. Snow Aids Capture. | When Joe Clay, of Lewellen, Neb, decides to play robber again, he’l ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — The §, probably be more careful of the weather, A grocer, on discovering | of 3 eH HR SA A
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