A——
December 19, 1940.
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ENGINEER KILLED, 3 HURT
ARIANA INNS
Odd and
CURIOUS
in the
=“ NEWS =
TAMARA ¥
Luck All Bad
Talk about Friday the 13th, luck,
listen to this lament by Mrs, Carl
Dwyer, of Oneida, Wis.; Returning
from a trip she found her home
burglarized. She started for the
constable's office, but the axle of
her automobile snapped. She went
to a brother-in-law's farm and took
a horse from the barn. As she pre-
pared to have the horse pull the car
off the road, the horse fell dead
She went home. Returning later
she found someone had the
car battery and rear-view mirror,
The Retort Clerical
The Rt, Rev. Benjamin D, Dag-
well, Episcopal bishop of Oregon
accepted a telephone invitation
fill a speaking engagement, at Port-
land. A moment later the bishop's
telephone rang again and the per-
son who issued the invitation said
‘T'm awfully sorry; I've been remiss
I meant to invite Mrs. Dagwell too."
Replied the bishop: ‘1 I've
been remiss too, There an)
Mrs. Dagwell.”
Cold Water
George Cook, Loganport, Ind.
told police he saw this happen on
the banks of the Wabash. A well
dressed man about 35 tied a heavy
rock around his neck and jumped
14 feet into the river. He stood for
a moment shivering in water up u«
his knees
stolen
guess
isnt
Then he picked up ti
rock, climbed back on the bank
tied the rope and walked away
Just Habit?
Mrs. A. B, Cornell of Grant's Pa
Ore,, won 100 prize ribbons for quilt
making. Then she made a quilt of
the ribbons
FLEMINGTON BOY IN
HUNTING ACCIDENT
Paul Wheeler, 15, of
was admitted to the
Hospital Saturday
deep laceration of
left arm,
hunting accident to
the same hospital this
Wheeler was hunting
in the Marsh Creek vicinity when
the accident happened about 7:30
2. m. He was driving a deer through
the brush and was alone when his
gun was accidentally discharged,
The voung man was brought
Flemington
Lock Haven
morning with &
his left leg and
the second vietim
of a
be treated at
season
with a party
to
the hospital by Robert Crosthwaite
of Philadelphia and Ralph Kieffer
of Flemington
—
Wise Move of Truck
by Albert
was Albert Al-
flames, near
lost control of
ran wild and broke
off a telephone pole. It continued
on its way into a creek, the walters
of which extinguished the fire. An-
derson was slightly injured, and
Snyder was unhurt,
To Edit State Manual
Brown Focht, son of the
Congressman Benjamin K. Fochs,
on Monday began new duties as
senior editor of the Pennsylvania
Manual formerly known as & y
Hand Book. His appointment,
cently made by Robert W, Rowland
state secretary of properties and
supplies was approved by Governor
Arthur H. James,
.
Bucknell 95 Years Old
Bucknell University alumni in a
score of communities will get to-
gether at Lewisburg on Feb. 5, to
celebrate the 95th gnniversary of its
founding.
When the truck driven
Bnyder, with whom
bertson, burst into
Milton. the driver
the truck, which
O
late
re.
to |
In Collision
Between 2
William H. Brougham of Elmira, Fatally Crush- |
Eighteen Cars Derailed
At Mill Hall
Freight Trains
ed in Cab-Official Version of Accident
Reports ““Misjudged Distance”
{One engineer was killed and thre?
other (rainmen were injured early
Sunday morning in a collision of
two Pennsylvania Rall™oad [reight
trains at Mill Hall, three miles wes!
of Lock Haven, on the Bald Eagle
Branch of the Middle division
Eigheteen cars were derailed
The dead man was William
Broughman, 52, Elmira
engineer of the eastbound
port extra 4647. He was crushed
the cab of his locomotive
Roy Cromis, Altoona, wa
i as the conductor of the PG-13, with
engine 0491. which struck No, 4647,
{ He needed only first ald treatinent
on the scene
The injured, all taken to the Lock
Haven hospital, were; Peter C. Sch
wab, 39, Elinira, N. Y.. fireman, suf
fering from a fractured pelvis
’ nN
Ol iN,
South-
n
listed
Two Injured At
Warrior's Mark
Rear End Collision Occurs in
Front of the Methodist
Church
were slightly
Mark about
rear-end ¢
{ront
injured
eight
TWO persons
at Warrlors
o'clock when a
occurred di ly in
Methodist ¢ h
Ilision
of the
injured were
of Warrior
who received a dee
t heek and leg It
Centre
re
xoyel
1¢ Nose and
Elwood
uffering {rom
face
Line,
lacera-
and Stine of
who &k
tions of the
Mrs. Joseph Smith, of Dungarvin,
and employed at the Frank K, Mat-
tern store at Warrior's Mark, had
just left the st her car a:
started | un
Mr, Mattern who was enroute to the
Methodist church. Mrs. Smith stop-
ped on the left of the road
) out of
ly Ae i
we in HH
y . Tom TE
or her home, picking
sage
get
car
ed the
driven by
the
automobile
rear
impact
the wide
bankment ar
fence at
Smith wa t injured but
from shock and was taken to
home. Stine and Miss Snyder were
thrown against
car. They were
treatment at Warrior’
The [rong end of the Stine car was
badly damaged, the estimated dam-
mall em-
through the
Mn
suffered
estale
her
the I» $ ’
it ATONE Oi
hy
Mark
age being $100 while the left rear of |
the Smith car
extent of $50
Was damaged
10 the
Hunters Miss Deer
When a buck and does
raded into Kenneth Lundy's
field at Loyalsockville early Wednes-
day, they didn't receive a very warm
reception although neither
they ignored. Three hunterz, how-
ever—appeared from nowhere and
let fly at the animals, All missed,
and of course, the deer didn't stay
for a second helping, The three in
the shooting were identified as Zella
Lundy, Ed Keiss and George Wii
Hams. Williams was sald to }
fired fre Fd 4 rely
fired m h fron Jo
iw 1 -
1A" 14) pa
COT
Ave
im———————
Poor Farm Sold
The farm of the former Blooms.
burg poor district, the management
of which has been under the Co-
lumbia County Institutional District
since 1038, is being sold to the coun-
ty under an agreement reached last
week, the price of $23,000 Including
three years rent due the former
Bloomsburg district, the real estate
and the personal property.
DIANA’ GRABS NEW LAURELS
Make way for the woman deer-
slayer, boys, it’s their turn ai tall
story telling.
Around the camp fires after the
chase, inflady, no longer has to sit
back and listen. 8he's been on the
trail, too, in the season just ended
and she’s got plenty to tell
Lend an ear.
Over in Warren County, near
Kinzua, a deer which Mrs. Walter
Baughter had felled “came to life”
and attempted t¢ gore her husband.
She fired her last shot.
went down again, but quickly arose,
chased Baughter from tree to tree
and finally pinned him against the |
ground.
While he yelled for help, Mrs
Baughter struck the animal with
HOUSE MAY
palatial Goceella mansion
Creek cropped up again Monday
when the huge dwelling of the late
contractor was sold to two Clear- |
field county residents, William
Hughes and Willlam Narr, both of
DuBols.
It is believed that in some section
of the home is concealed the $30.-
000 which iz supposed to have been
withdrawn from a bank by Mrs,
Goceella, 70, still living, who lived in
the vast mansion until a month ago.
Mrs, Cocella has frequently admit-
ted hiding the money but, according
to the hidden treasure
The deer |
legend, does bank which is acting as
mot remember where she hid theifor Mrs. Bridget Gocella,
(the butt of her gun, breaking its |
neck.
Mrs. Thomas Bower, 40, of Hones-
| dale. never hunted before, but went
along on a trip with her husband
and son “to protect them" 8he
got the only deer in the family
i No Wife, No Venison
Looking up from her ironing, Mrs, |
Charles Alsdor! saw a doe near the |
Alsdory barn in Crawford County, |
husband inside |
| She called to her
{ the house to come and shoot it.
| jokingly.
She did
And up at Wilkes Barre a man
picaded with a judge to release his
| wile from jail so she could cook his
(Continued on Page 6)
CONTAIN FORTUNE
The belief that $30.000 has been)
concealed somewhere in the 26-room |
in Falls]
fortune despite frantic searches over
the mansion and estate,
cellent condition, was bulit at a cost
assed a fortune by constructing the
{longest and highest stone bridges in
{the United States before the use of |
i cement,
| Even though the sale price of the
{mansion has not been divulged and |
ing reason given for the purchase of |
| he stone man’s home, rumor per-
{sists that the tale of the hidden
{Goeella fortune has something to
ido with the sale.
| The home was sold by a DuBois
tor motor
“You shoot it,” he called back, |
The mansion, which is still In ex-|
of $100,000 by Joe Gocella who am- |
guardian |
crushed left leg and severe
sions of chest and face; WE, C
ery, 59, Sunbury, brakeman, and
George M, Spalde, Sunbury
conductor, boin
and shock.
Schwab's
the
57
ses
condition was described
at hospital a
eriow
Crow
widely
of both trains are
rallroaders in
Brougham, the
had working
Altoona for approxi-
member
win
ion
kil
it
Ki among
thi
gineman
in and ©
males A Year
The collision occurred about 6:16
o'clock 1 morning on the
between Tyrone
wr C
been
f
OQ
track line
and Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
version of wreck
trains had u regular
to meet at Mill Hall passing
the westbound
22 loaded and 71 emp-
to take the passing aiding
misjudging his distance
the westbound
Barre
thie
i
single
railroad official
gave Lu the
“Both weir
oraer
ding
with rail
consisting ol
y Carls
Evidently
th of
L. Jacoby of Wilke,
the point al
siding, obstructing
and was struck head
bound Ire
Ung of 85 loaded coal can
Seventeen cars of the Southport
extra and one in the PG-13 were
wrecked and badly damaged. Both
engines were badly damaged
(Cont Page 6)
engineman
train, C
overran
end
» malr
by
Cons
clearance
of the
track,
the east ght
train
nueQ on
THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA.
Page Five
IN BALD EAGLE TRAIN WRECK AT MILL HALL
The Christmas Net-work
KLLO VLE, NORD
NEEDY FOLKS FORGOTTEN THIS
| | Help To MAKE THIS
| OUR COMMUNITY. A
FOLKS. SEE THAT NOT
REMEMBER, [M JEPENDING
S—
|
coniu- |
umn -
|
uffering (rom bru-
“painful but not |
en-
GOOD PEOPLE, IN ORDER THAT THERE BE HO (MILDREN OR
CHRISTMAS IM ASKING YOUR.
THE HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS WE EVER HAD
REAL CHRISTMAS FOR ALL THE
A SINGLE PERSON (S FORGOTTEN,
ON You
ANNUAL DRIVE ON PARALYSIS
All Amercia
call, Help the Young
Corner” and
National Deler
Paralysi
We Yirgit
women
ny
¢
for the
{ hye
! most
launched agaltsl
vader
Keith M Chalr-
man of the Committee he Cele-
bration of the President's Birthda
anmounced veslerd
arm)
rats Hi wy ’ »
JIRA heb AS Al
foyer 4
vo.un
teer
ng their organization
Morgan declared
neighborhood commitiee
on Page 6)
[
Motorist Killed As He
|
~ Flags Down
Coal Truck
After Running Out of Gas
Jesse Irwin of Jersey Shore, Driver of Truck,
Claims He Was Not Aware of Strik-
ing Anyone on Highway
1
| { Lock Ha
James KR, 21
ven, was kil f
Lock Haven
morning a n
attempt
passing coal ruch
automobile had run «
r police rad Croak
when
Haven
clock §
BOOTH
in Wab
Hospital
taken
rep
!
morn
£1,000
hearing
Brung
afternd
vy
A Inge
father, Wid
membered
by
operated
had stopped mon
HISTOR
By Harry Wiliams, Bellefonte
In gone by
ing and iron making
chief Industrie:
much of the land are
Was spotied with
were vers
year:
of
large while
just mere holes in th
they
sometime or
howed sign
wT ADL
| produced
In
toda)
a
}
i
cu
working
nine which had
many the old charcoal
The greater portion of iron
factured in those days was
10 either Philadelphia or
burgh. It wa
try
(Sat
i
be found
of many «
fur:
furnace
manu-
hipued
Pitia-
not delivered by mil
h methods of
known in
of
Ck as SAM
transportation were 1
Cel
nished quite a }
for th
107 S30
those day
manufacture
and other war material
War
One manuf
once
job
that
wa
stated thal if
him
wa hat
noted fot
vey
i
ive Niu
ant
Centre count
The Brown Hematite Ores of
fany Valley
The iron ores of formation No
were |
thi
NTY’Ss OR
were of
count
There
flattering
texted
the mine
naces
then Ve
me ro { sign ¢
It wili be remembered
means of
many
covered
* ane
Was
a
ppiying
yy
these Mines
nt
Lime
ores of
of
Writ
i chief
the wash
the “Barren
mine
lief
Any
*
i
This mine
the Valentine's
(Continued on
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Township Schools
And Roads Benefit
Two Cents For School Fund
And Two Cenis
For Roads
Auditor General] Warren R. Rob-
erts has approved payment lo the
following townships in Centre
county entitled (0 a refund by the
State, The law provides that the
Stale, in lieu of taxes upon State
of National forest lands within a
township, school district or county,
shall pay each year one cent per
acre for the benefit of the county,
two cents for the benefit of
schools and two cents for the bene-
fit of the township roads,
The following amount due
Centre county for schools ang the
| same figure for roads:
| Boggs Twp.
| Burnside Twp.
{| Curtin Twp,
| Ferguson Twp.
| Gregg Twp.
Haines Twp. ....
Harris Twp, ...
Huston Twp.
Liberty Twp.
| Miles Twp,
Penn Twp
| Potter Twp,
Rush Twp
now 8hoe Twp
| 8pring Twp.
| Walker Twp.
| Worth Twp,
the
is
Tolal
+ ———
Bull Delays Traffic
Danville-
near Danville,
of a new owner on the
Elysburg road
one shot between the eyes,
—— a,
| “My Five Years As a Red Spy in
Russia”
Dreadful plight of children under
the influence of Communism is re-
vealed by an American engineer in
an amazing story In the December
29.h, issue of The American Weekly,
| the big magazine distributed with
{ the Baltimore Sunday American
On Sale at all Newsstands,
i the
21 the
+ Benner
$2430.52 |
When a 1,700 pound Holstein bull |
burst the sides of the truck in which |
| he was being conveyed to the home |
the |
animal brought traffic in both diree- |
tons to a standstill until a rifle was |
secured and the bull was Killed with |
SCHOOLS GET STATE AID
tor General
irday approved the
$1964877 to 194] acho
throu Centre oon
oo
Warre
id
on Sat
of
gout
to reimburse them for expenditure
for the transportation of chi
While the h
schools, under the provisions of the
code, amounts (oo $3638668
64 per cent of the allotment v
paid at this time for the rea
there are nol sufficient fund:
maining in the gprroptiation
by the 1909 legiclaiure for U
pose
It is probable that the Depart
ment of Public Instruction will ask
forthcoming session of
General Assembly (0 make a de-
ficiency appropriation for the pay-
ment of the remaining 46 per cent
of the appointment to the school
districts
The
with
gilotment
ty
made
Hh
#41)
together
paid to
Centre
total allotments
the amounis to be
school distticts in
County are as follows
Schools allotment Approved
$ 60000 § 32400
2370.00
101250
1509.12
1.068.75
.« 2022.0
2217.00
2938.80
2.02500
1,422.00
Total
Boggs
| Burnside
| College
| Curtin
Ferguson
Gregg
Haines
Harris .....
{ Half Moon
1.001 98
1.199.183
1,586.95
1,093 50
767.88
KEEPING U# WITH
| 8Bnow Shoe
wal pur-
1,279.80 |
46.75 |
814.82 |
677.12
Tao
' 50
Howard
Hustor
i 2 2h
Mile
Pattor
Penn
Potter
Rush
inl
1 541
1.032
”
*i
40 32 35
ow 557 2%
T7200 1.496 B%
51800 819792
J48 66 268 27
242 00 670 68
£20 00 B74 80
T1625 419
192.00 i
305 7
1
:
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H
i
i
Spring
Taylor
Walker
Worth i
Te
17
63
H.70
$36.30668 $1064877
—
Suffers Loss of Foot
A serious accident occurred on Lhe
last day of the 1940 deer season
when Charles Gill, 48, of Westfield,
suffered the loss of his left foot
Mr. Gill was engaged in loading his
gun while hunting in the woods
near Westfield, His gun accidental-
ly discharged, the shot going into
his foot shattering it so badly that
amputation was necessary, He wa
taken to the Blossburg Btate Hos-
pital where the operation was per-
formed.
Francs BF i ————
Explosive Stolen
A 10-quart can of nitro-glyeerine
has been stolen from the E. 1. Du-
Pont DeNemours Company plant
in Bradford township, 20 miles {rom
Kane, state motor police disclosed
They asked authorities of nearby
states to watch for three suspects,
Total
Beech Creek Pair
Hurt In Crash
Car Collides With Another
Auto, West of Fleming
ton Bridge
Mr. and Mr Albert Lamey, of
Hee Creek. B.D. were severely
injured at 7:45 o'clock last Wednes-
day moming wnt their automobile
and another operated by Harn
Cazhner. of Mackeyville, collided
headon on Roule 220, just west of
the Fileminglon Baid
{Eagle Creck
Mr. Lamey
=
bridge ove:
was driving west
the highway and went PAKS Afi-
other car in front of him, crashing
into the Cashner automobile which
was traveling toward Lock Haven
The Lameys were f{aken to the
office of a Lock Haven physician
who discovered Lamey had suffered
a fracture of the right arm and Mrs
Lamey a fractured pelvis. Mr. La-
mey was able to return to his home,
but his wife was kept at the office
Their two-month-cid baby. also
the automobile, escaped unhurt
Mr. Cashner was removed to the
Lock Haven Hospital for treatment
of lacerations of &ll the fingers of
the left hand, the right side of the
face, left side of the head and hose,
and brush bums of both knees, and
then discharged
The two automobiles were totally
wrecked.
to
THE JONESES' — Eddie
MA! HEOE COMES OU BDO
powEEs! IT WOULD BR A Swill,
GAG FO ME TO INVITE HMM TO
LAMICH VALE MBS DIRTWNG AND
THEN OCR A
njoys a Light Snack
in!
Croak tried to get
— —
Two Miners Hurt
In Fall Of Rock
Victims Injured in Separate
Accidents Near Osceola
—
Teacher Denied
Re-Instatement
Court Rules Dismissed Teach-
er Case Does Not Come
Inder Tenure
ot 3
b) i he
hoard
ony
was based i I
¢
creased st
Gor
ident enrolin a the
need of economy made neorssary the
meme
ict would be pla nu
Page 6)
dh ———
Their Faith With
Venom of Snakeyg
Remarkable
ing strange
veld
(Conlinued
on
Prove Deadly
photograp!
manner
folk defy th
prove that
One of
i Drcombey
sue of The American Weekly
Lig magazine distributed with
Baltimore Sund American
sale at all Newsstands
which
noicnt
Poison
the
gious hill
of repiiies t
i strong
3 Fy " |
+CATUTC nN WY
si cl Bss—
Calves Need Vitamins
Experiments conducted Iv d
feeding specialists at the Pennsyl-
vania State College reveal that dairy
calves have special need for greene
colored preferably of the Jee
gume type, The green color indicate:
the presence of caroleme or vitamin
A. an essential the well-being
of these young farm animals
airy
hay
tor
APYMARAMMAAAAYW
, Monday's rain
}
Random
[tems
Who has ¥
PArEing
remarry
riime
t {0
DEAR SANTA
wh ou con down here Chr
£ REAL at
{ie Widdow
North A
WRONG WAY
‘ 4 teal
we ball
Aifler 5
sflerence?
lifted the
NCTE TOW. C.T. 1
GOOD OR BAD?
| ¥ 4 pe. 5
rm in the United
ere « Oor-
In th
do vou think
bad scholar?
Move
a}
nh Spel
Art ved lence 1c
requisite »
Thi
ning
aries
homes
arent any littie bays younger
than 50 years. A prominent Belle-
fonte medical man has added 8 big
bat nes track, oll stock
and equipment to he
bought lat no
sons in Lis famil
RAIN:
While
save
light,
den at
and
going
pment
ints
| yr
ch of ng
3 3] ,
pr TRIOS
Year, and
there are
merchant
rain with
grecied Mone
particular de.
“Griz” Rhoads, deputy Wer-
Rockview, was a haopy
frame of mind. He pointed ont that
the walter Jevel in the McBride Gap
reservoir which supplies waler $0
the prison, was down 19 feel Since
ithe prison uses from 80000 to 95.-
000 gallons of water every 24 hours,
was someshat of a
no
in
Dlessing
WINE, WHISKEY, BEER:
that Bellefonte
where you can
and beer, and
three others where beer only is sold.
ere pre 5 hotels, 5 clubs. 4 whis-
and beer emporiums and 3
places where you can get beer. Belles
fonte, with a population of about
5200 has a Jioensod place Tor cvery
207 persons, Assuming that half the
population is under the legal drink-
ing age, that leaves one loensed
page SX)
A check-up revenis
has 14
wine, whiskes
INOw places
i S————
By POP MOMAND