Odd and CURIOUS in the = NEWS EAA ANAAY | Liked Pipe and Rod Butler county's oldest resident, | Mrs. Angeline Williams, a lover of | the outdoors who hunted and fished ! until she was 80, is dead at the age | of 103. She had been {ll only a short | time and passed away at the home | of a daughter, Mrs, Frank Ward, in | West Sunbury Mrs. Willlams smoked a pipe since her girlhood days in Clarion and Lawrence coun | ties, Her favorite in her old age was | a long-stem pipe Born in Ship- | penville, Clarion county, June 17,{ 1937, she lived in Lawrence county | as a young woman and moved to | Butler county at the age of thirty, Cows Join Deer Walter Daielski, Cros ng whether maybe 4 three heifers a Constable Keys, is wonderi someone gave his copy of “Ae ‘'s Fables” or whet r Al's just the weather. The Alle- gheny township peace officer re COWS ported his three young joined up with a herd of deer Carsan Valley-Maple Hollow section and have learned the deer's antics and customs, ling ing fences, according to men who tried unsuccessfully capture the heifers. * ‘bw 0} W x Have in the ine HC New Experience Judge Rudolph Desort, of go, thought he heard thing that could be sald in a divorce case—until Walter Appelt 1D, | Apppelt, defendant in divorce | ceeding } he had a “sin cere affection” for his mother law and wanted support Judge Desort was startled he ask- ed Appelt to repeat “In all experience the divorce 3 te Lo Chica-~ | had every- spoke pt r 10 >) motl said a in-law I've Judge Shocking! When Farmer Floyd Coop Boone, Iowa, turned on his electric Lghting system sparked his an electrifying adventure animal loose and showed on the porch of a Boone home. ” n began nudging the windows of a parked car, giving the occupants quite a shock. A tn } a goad, finall bull back to the cleared th ne to broke he Fucger . 3 ue a Travels 60 Miles Billy Lindemann, whe lives on 2 island in the middle of the Missis sippl river near 8: Charles, Mo rows actoss the river in a skiff to the mainiand, then drives an anuto- mobile eight miles to meet 3 schoo! bus which takes him twenty miles to school. In all, he has to travel sixty miles to and from school every day p. glad to . Gets Fortune, Dies Only a short time after inherit- ing $28000 from the estale of grandfather whom he did not know, Vincent Johnson, 26, of 8t. Paul, Minn., who had spent his short ile in poverty, ill and misfortune fied of cancer, To the Juvenile Court he willed $23.000, saying that he wanted “other boys to have a tter chance in life than I did.” 2 Knockouts! Thirty-year-old Wilmer Shaw of Everett, R. D., is a two at one blow hunter. He not only felled his deer near Philipsburg Monday morning but also wounded himself with the same shot when his fun jumped and struck him in the forehead. He vas treated at the Philipsburg hos- pital dispensary for a gashed head Hobo Snob When Brakeman Ed Bamard of Goldendale, Wash. saw a hobo rid- ing on top of a box-car in high wind and near-freezing wealthier, he took pity on him and invited him to) share his warm caboose. To his sur prise, the hobo refused, saying, “No, thanks, I've got my radio rigged up Rere, Tt won't work inside.” Mg ness {the youngster told ir > - The Driving Snows Cars driven by Elmer Snow, of New Britain and Waiter Storm, of Cambridge, Mass, collided head-on at Stafford Springs, after one of the machines skidded on pavement made slippery by the first snow storm of the season. -_ No nation is big enough to invite the enmity of smaller nations. COUNTY HAS Since the office of County Super-| intendent was established In Centre | county in 1854, ten men have served | in that capacity, according to » list) prepared recently by Charles A. Fet- zer, of Bellefonte, for some time | employed as research assistant for | the Works Progress Administration. | The County Superintendents and | thelr terms »l office as shown in the | list follow: | Dr. J. W. Gibbons, 1854 to 1857. | J. 1. Burrell, 1857 to 1860, i Holahan, 1860 to 1866, | R. M. Magee, 1866 to 1875. "PUNISHED FC Helga Echleuler, 20-year-old New | Jersey girl. was sentenced to a term | of one to two years in the woman's Reformatory at Clinton, N, J., Fri- | day, on her convieton of defiling the | i i — avo | tear i sister who had ! Richard, re ‘upstairs atl the time, hurried down | office was changed to four years, ED FOR DE The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. SECOND SECTION he Centre Democraf NEWS, FEATURES | VOLUME 569 BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1940. NUMBER 49. Grid Victory Celebration At Tyrone Turns Into Real Community Free-For-All Tear Gas Bombs It was a great victory for High School fo thall team Thursday when it downed {| Huntingdon High team 13-0 first champion ory celebrati Tyrone High climbed to place a5 Wi conference The vic jubilant the town equally a game tempers bon-fire tral part from the Avenue and the mejes Kas Ling a and flamed as high probably illumina ed bomb Dig viclory ing's pes! Jubilant Huntingdon and Students Get Aid In County NYA Expending $6174 in Fin- ancial Assistance, Super- town dents 180 visor Reports etn 40 000 ident of well themselve J afforded by NYA thy the schos availed anti he 1040-10417 ie ASIC All and (Continued on page en cm— > ————— Altoona Youth Kills His Sister Gun Accidentally Discharges Into 12-Year-Old Girl's “HVE } £ven) Regina Mary Koslorek old Altoona girl, was { ed last week by her brothe: ward, 12, while the youth was pl ing with his fathers 12-gauge gun, The aceident occurred the parents were absent from Sobbing oth I'm not a murderer esti IV igating lice "I didn’t go to do i! Fdward told police he playing with the resting it on the landing of a st way when the gun slipped from grasp and discharged, wounding Just come the doorway near the stair Eleanor 20, 11. had PFET gun and had ¢ another brother sister, a who we stairs where they found their sis- ters body lying in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs. Blood was flowing from above the heart of | the wounded girl who apparently died instantly ! The father returning home ter he had heen notified of the tragedy, assumed all blame for letting his gun and shells lie around his home “That ends hunting for me for ever," he said. ¢ Hi H. Meyer, 1875 to 1881 Rev. D. M. Wolfe, 1881 to 1850 D. O. Etters, 1800 to 1802 i 0. L. Gramley, 1862 to 1893, ap-| pointment C. L. Gramley, 1893-1802, D, O. Etters, 302 to 1926 F. Glenn Rogers, 1926 to present time, i Prior to 1930. three-year terms of | office were computed from the frst! Monday in May. After 1030 the! terms began the first Monday in! July. Effective in 1023 the term of | elected ali areca a = after her arrest, "I'm a Nazi and | proud of it.” Judge Percy Camp pronotineed sentenee with the com- | ment: “It takes $ueh times as these | to prove the importance of respect | | prepared to go glong with from the ld a the ugmented Imbert for T hey been 41 i (Continued on page 141 seven) | ‘Cops and Kids Tangle as Victory Bon-Fire On Main Street Is Blitzkreiged By Police Crowned Heads of U.S. J INTERAATION AL ¢ —r— ybody reads the Classifieds Six Escape In Bare Feet - And Night Clothes as Fire Destroys Hawk Run Home House, Garage and Greenhouse Leveled to the Ground by Blaze Which Consumed All The Family Clothing, Furniture Hawk eclion eigl ~- BRUSH VALLEY, rs Man; at Py 1 words POW Bruih Valley ORleC aver a net ahd lndery rd resides Lh CLASORM IRR 5 2X t . + moved to Gieni Rok {oom ark, Pa 1904; 1907 to 1610 We 2A a LOM Calle Work water cours. Tt Ji ve Of caverns £ 31 # Smaiilaon ™ - LER BY ¥ CEN 15 cotil ed ’ wed something MIX OF % » waler from umber of : rock orev to the Ea Lie Ghee E RIRT Ls Al the Argent one From just AlTRe can be traced $uhin Bre ted Dy A , . ; wey i Meser fam now oo Fred Bohn, then West to thie Hen ik m Win- Jergipe bv Mr Hntwing Souls Mever farm and fie of ithe ne ie pan ¥ tera: ih cos Creek (Continued on page seven) Seek Increase In Teachers’ Salary 19,000 Teachers Getting Less Than $1,000 Yearly May Benefit Year be in Iegisiature, troduced in convenes loged which was « chin on Satur a revival of one of Lhe 1930 legislative Pennsyivania School revealed it teachers which seek to ir pay of some 5.000 Penn- yivania teachers receiving $1.000 a year or But there was one important proviso P. O Van issues of the Won, Directors Association 15 Organizations ¢reased the Ness, executive di i tor of the School Directors A: HAD 10 SUPTS. ion must be made 0 reimburse the | school ation, explained: "We are will to go along on this, but seme provis- diz tricts Otherwise such a measure would bankrupt many dis- trices.” The measure to be introduced will be ’ ol passage al the 1939 session be- i cause of administration opposition nability of the legislators | and the ng imilar to the one which failed to find additional funds for school | | add, The measure would provide thas the pay of fourth schoo] 3800 to $1000 a year, with class district | teachery be increased from | four | annual increases of $100 after that. | | High school teachers who now re- [ceive $1,000 a year world have their salaries raised fo $1200, with the same annual increments. In order to provide the money needed for these incremsed outlays, Van Ness said his organization would support several tax measures in the 1941 legislature. ———————— — Highway Forces Ready for Battle Keeping Roads Open For Win. ter Travel Is No Small section Monday morning Flask * dead body of the hunter, the —— wot hunting fatality in that tion orders has ! : « in three was found in the SNOW miles from DuBois 1 Paul Vanderwort, one of the men with whom Long bad been hunting Dr. E. 8 Erhard, depuly coroner of Clearfield county, sald Long and the three companions he had set oul with Monday morning, had not been driving but had been “pot hunting * STRAY BULLET A stray bullet from a high power- rifle ploughed through the of 54-year-old Thomas Bois, R. D. 1 killing 1 he wag hunting in rd and hea J. Long inst Is H arm vi It Du as an Wy the | Mab izat sted to the field fore syivania Department battle with ments Lo keep the roads open for winter travel! During the coming winter the department plans to Keep record-breaking {f 18.236 of road open on its snow re- program, Centre county has miles of roads to be kept year nine 35 their annua] a total © mile moval 355.03 clean Under the law the department! cannot assume the responsibility fori In an effort to get out of the now removal on city streets that! “flood district” in Lock Haven and form parts of State Highway routes. | into a warmer climate, Mr. and It is permitted, however, to per- Mrs. T. I. Allabach, for many years | form this service on State routes in residents of Lock Haven. a year Bg | boroughs jremoved to Amarillo, Texas, only The equipment for the annualinow to find themselves in the heart! battle with the ele ments has been of a present flood and storm district assembled and with last Tuesday's! The couple resides with thelr son nowiall hay already gone into ac-| Theodore, and his family in that tion | southern city, Officials of the Department urge EE motorists to use caution while trav. | Turnip Grew and Grew eiing on icy or slippery roads. Care| Charles Kilmer of Estella, Lycom- also may save the life of or preventing county, planted turnips in his (Continued on page seven) juotnte patch, getting a crop of 16] Can't Escape Floods | } - | i : | | students, all enrolled KILLS HUNTER The bullet which £315 L i£ seciion struck Arm, pa through his heart iodged In his back, Long's rifle had not been fired. Deputy Coroner Ere hard said Long had died tantly Long's body war I oo clock Monday mornis dently been dead to the de victim's fins ung al He an Coron. were g had evi. for ur acs uty r who CATS cording said the In the only other hunting accident Richard Srock {rover serious ares 21, of Ginter, was wounded by a gun | shot would in the jeft ear. He Ia & patient at the Philipsburg hospital bushels, all jarge Lwunips of the rutabaga variety, The largest weigh. ed 15 pounds, and measured 30 inches by 34 inches around am a——_ 5 Countries Represeniod Students from five foreign coun- tries spoke last week at a campus Thanksgiving program at Penn State, giving thanks for various cul. tures and races In America The in the Penn- wivania State College, were from | Switzerland, China, Czechoslovakia, { Cuba, and Hungary ~3hop the Classified ool and i Alleged Killer Held Without Bail Altoona Man Remains Un- shaken as He Hears Con- fession Read £1 Harmo Harry MOV Ceriaker’s arrived ‘ ered b Death Cancels Wedding Plans Husband-to-Be of Youn Greensburg Woman Killed in Accident or = Dae: 5 weddin x burg woman by « n band-to-be. G '. M Just before McEihor to New York last week ian Jennings bou their future hom On the way back trailer-truck MeElhow iurching SOvereda Wi Armag! i McEihe Bo bis a elder Jjumy Was He died and fractured tku jams Le F in wan skiddinz broken tenek UWNCcK neck Chums Army Boddies I. Reitz and Peter I of Sunbury, who Donald Motlern Corsa? ough | for Sunbury High School togethe: on many field a foothall will open and baseball thelr army careers | together after induction at Wilkes- | assigned i Barre. They are the for selective in ing by drafl board number three, that city. first recraits service Lr af Pilot of Last Raft Dies Fdward Richard Winner, 71 mer riverman and tobaceo grower and pilot of the illestarred Last Raft, which crashed into a railroad bridge south of Muncy, died at his home in Lock Haven, ‘Thursday, having been {ll of complications, for- a a A A A AAR A Random [tems PAA YVAN aaa ads SL AL A A Aaa ad Lo a » CANCELLED GAM} : f EL ¢ i or BADGE FROM TFEMONT ‘ ANTA'S VISIT MOKER "HOOVE Form R var Cor ¢ a verre LETTER: WILLKIE 3 siark (Continued —- . h i’ ot Kills Rabbit Wit oourance 1 Stone that Bob : ' poe square on : Later examining why it had aserrigin ng the shooling Merritts, 20, of | patieni at Mer { bullet wound | Merritis aecording to i gered indo her parent | Thuraiay morning and 1 i The shooling. j curred in a parking lot her otmpanion wa {car temporarily, she | revolver, ang while & { gun accidentally ¢ | Bonk BIHAR | pataa {while ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — No Answer to oi A | — _ . ——— — Ed By POP MOMAND MI WB LL Swiss 15 TH NEAREST HOUSE CARL That, Sonny WELL MAVEE “YOu KNOW THERES A FILLING STATION Off A STOR ) J) 3 Ia MEER NOT sur I ANT LOBT = 1 He {to the flag.” The girl heard the! Speaking about the variely of | i States hat by tasking fire. | sentence without visible display of | human beings, ws -cide lh al grou urin ion. wr tgports writer who included in his men's parade at Lakewood, June 29. | Her counsel blamed the incident | column an account of . thew cham- “The ght was quoted ag declating [on “loo many beers,” | plonship match, 2) »
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