December 19, 1940. THE CENTRF DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, : PA. Page Seven
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'S 0 N S lto run about 55 per cent in iron and { sympathy In the time of thelr be- | daughter, Mrs, Russell Jones a4 Isn't ib about time to read an- Robinson
HISTORY cou NTY RE MI E | was highly spoken of in the furnace POTTERS MILLS { reavement, Pleasant Valley on Tuesday. other book? Many good ones have -.
ET workings of Messrs, Curtin, Mr, William Fleisher from Bul Wishing you all a Merry Christ. Mrs, Myrtle Lucas spent Thurs paen published sinte Bwiss Family Use our Classified Ad columns,
(Contnued from page five) | had thelr mud dam, and it was af- | The plant at this mine was well | falo called on his sister, Mrs, H. E. | mas day night and Priday with relatives
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terwards found out that some of (arranged. It sonsisted of a single | | Faust on Saturday, enroute to ————— A ————— » th
abandoned by them it was taken ga best ne in Bellefonte,
ie best ore was overrun with the | 28 foot washer with a capacity of | Washington, D, €. He expects to " Ll Lk
over by the Curtin’s, who were the mud dam, about 40 ton: The steam en- | make hig home th Washington with | ORVISTON Mr. John Eliers and daughter
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AAT ba Y y r " Mu arel of Mi, Fg r Caled al Lhe
last to operate it Ihe original royalty here was gine Was none of the best, having | his daughter, here were 168 at Sunday Schon; Arana ‘ ow r id Raid
Jame AICAS hoane on Friday
The Plant $1.00 per ton, but later was reduced | been moved here from some other | pittle Janet Faust, daughter of | Sunda
The washer was run entierls to fifty cents a ton, After this re- | plant and had seen better days else- Harry Faust, who had been in the Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs Melvin Lucas and son Erle
surface ore, whose rocky chart " duction the company claimed they | where, However, {t ran the washer | Centre County Hospital two weeks | ui» and Mr J. Rhoads were Mr visited on Thursday afternoon witn
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prevented & very large daily © could mine and deliver the ore | and the pump and hoist. There Were | ror yrepinient and a tonsillectomy | ang Mrs, Dale M74, Busnell ones ang. her son
put, making or iy bo! t te EY o | Bellefonte in wagons for $2.00 per | two wells here, each being 224 leet
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day with a d vible twent ’ to deep with a standing column of 40
shaft T e fu | ' nei \ } eneral oi body here wa feet of water I'wo 28 foot bollers
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ore should have been abou flinty and had to be Jigged. There did the work, The ore wa hauled
tons a dal had been about 15.000 to 20,000 tong | through the gap in Bald Eagle
The water well at thi was Of ore taken out here in 1883 and it | mountain Letter known as ( Mrbit) 3
157 feet deep, filled up to foot had good prospects for the future | Gap, to the Curtin furnace at Cur-
and with a ten fo column ¢ The ore was hand picked after jt) Un
water, The pump wa { the res was washed which made it run a The Hoy Bank is located about
lar oll well walking beam with Mille higher in percentage of roi 0 yards north west of Red Bank,
a three foot troke, and making I'he plant consisted of one very| and is a very old bank, for nothing
thirty-four stroke er m ta A Eood we 11 107 feet deep, which wa mech eould be learned of it fer. George Etter
thirty-five horsepower steam engine cribbed to a depth of about 100 feet The same with ihe Kaufman or ha rR a dren Bobby and Carol, Mrs, William and Dick Watkin
run both the ore washer and the And it was bored by a diamond drill, D bank. These two banks had Mr. Floyd Palmer from Hazelton | Gillespie, Mrs, Alvie Confer and byl]
well. The ore after being picked of 97 feet more. And had a water col-| heen in operation many years be- camping with a hunting party In| Jackie Penner spent Sunday after- |
ite large flintstones was divided into umn of 100 feet The pump ran! fore and probably had furnished the ven mountains called LO 80 noon at North Bend with mother FILLMORE
twe sizes lamp and fine ore thirty-eight revolutions per minute, sre to the old Curtin furnace, his uncles Mr, F. FP. and Thomas | Fenner and Frank There will | Chrismas entes
mE then re ; oh a vo. 2nd had a four-foot stroke with ¢ ‘ Palmer rh Confer spe he week § aere will he a Chri AS ; §
It was then passed through a ro. 2nd hi ps re A he wi he ng to the south side of the "° 1 hy : Hugh Confer spent the week tainment at the Filmore M, E
tary steve or screen, and then id pani 2os Su Lol imestone ridge the next mine | Mr. Boyd Smith visited over the parents home Sunday Schoo! Sunday evening. De-
a Bradford jig. wi » ih re tint F MI the Hamilton bank, located at the | Weekend with his wil, ! Mr and Mrs. Bobble Confer vis-! ber ° at 7:30 o'clock
and other refuse were narat thirty-six horsépower steam én- unction of the Pishing creek road shinn ited at Mr. Ralph Confer's home ta 3 | Dutch”
the cre Iaiing to the bottom. 1 1 for hauling the Cars, q,.q the road over the hill through Mr. F. P, Palmer, wife and Mry. Lo#anton Saturday afternoon re
order ox t th J itinuon the inclin anu aldo to run the gap. Detween this bank |G. H. McCormick shopped in Lew- Mr, Willlam Poorman is suffering y
in its fiction, self+acting rakes washers and the well, There wa t Ch line the west the | istown on Tuesday from several broken ribs which he Mr. and M ean Smelt
y \ : M and irtin’s Lne on ihe w r. and Mrs. Dean Smelt;
- 2 hielhy 1 int i \ ( ( ol Wher enty - } re fror allir n u § AR y
arranged by which HARAL Qlih y vashers wen alent 's had worked the sam Mr Reed and daughter Mm, °* ved from falling 1 ’ son of Centre Hall visited
were raked off thy y foot ¢ : n . hile ‘ry md 3 Lanire ITAL Vimled
rior ds Be y oy under the same mame Rog 77s from Milroy, Mr, and Mrs, | WALE he Neath a SUArt a car ernard Crust home
- ery ttle Inte thi re 3 al al { . 4 . . Av ih rs : : LLL
was v stl are-w J Hv od ¥ rho: } p y ' as the irtin Pishing Creek bank, Charles Bungard from Farmers Mr. Amos rhood is 1» . Mr, and Mrs. Georg
filnt and ore were very rapidly sep. for SRL HUE a a y . 2 aiid int nit Milk dsted in the butchering Proving as fast ar h friend: ¢
arated by aravity, so the machine receiving t was raised si ich 1, showed quiie a i0 ; ‘ \ vb
gave Hire g tior 3 ; ut w off by a limestone ridge, | Saturaay the Mr, Roy Roye
! nti { fi ion The jg HCLVETY Sik : Movab bam 2 mati ny Dome
sereens were usuplly £ a vr) y help the flo f mud y Moe his place also had formerly been
il ned | na : " at . ¥en Pita LT nes 1
mesh and § enarated into tw woe {rom one v f the haft to eo vorked for he old charcoal . w uy Ho bd 4 CE J a FAIRVIEW a SE
sah y . a fi 2d # re | Other NRE THe Ore very deep and | Miss Dorothy cMichael teacher ‘oolish Snake
each a 4 rch 1 Ml AL . re wii ‘ ceep 5 render a Christinas service Mrs, Alfred Lucas of Pleasant Val- f F ol ho nake
bin where 1 6 was drawy ot Mine cars din | the ore direet ome of the land was used for a mud Wii render a Christmas servi iN {ey visited on Mond: " A blacksnake which seeming)
and deliver a the furna : "lv into the washer from atfor m for the Gatesburg bank higher ie Sprucetown E. church on ¥, Visiled oh Monday with Mi become confused |
"he pertion east of the ve. THERE Gore Wks. oF i thal a’ Fast A Priday evening se. 20th, 30 Chapman
PC \ east of the ore . JOVI h were open l 1 ) : : SLs . h Sewer bade Af nd Mr
er ext in the nort { th nd and dumped on an angle of 4 No work had been calried on a " ‘ shang Creek .
Gatesbure snd Tavior bank t Ih Wer sig hte ( ics barns ¢ they had taker i : Deria aust, Mr. James MLL a A
¢ u } it 1 ank 8 : 15 | QanNx A i ali . . Millon tar ¥ Myx
some old workings. The ore he was to return alt th we lumped for the old Curt hn | RQ - Laura McCormick and {48 Fy Fone Bt ieh Be
mbre or less contin a Tie. ore wax wicked of latum: tii early elihisen funda Miss Caroline McCloskey motored oo. aye Chapman of this
| { 1 nn i i Wi : J visitas Vr mg £4 a vb
Valentine Ii est from the v m at the mouth of the shaft! It !s ciaimed that a shaft 175 feet | {> Altoona and Tyrone on Wednes- | oo 0" yi Wednesday
er there wers several shafts it be passing into the s ' he | de ind been nut down here and ; ¢a Mrs, Laura MeCormick and Koas >
¥ : Ee aH 1 ng . ar : Mrs Amelia Chapman visited !
down ut 1: Hem proy Vi 8 n wi iivided Ink ire " vork i they were chased oul | ~u Caroline visited with thelr ! oh med
satisfactory on account of so much ©f meshes, for water, sa ind ore. | py water Tis shaft had a good cousin Mrs. J, K. Ray in Tyrone
tough low iv. Some of thi e All the ore that passed out of the quali { pipe ore at the bottom vhile the ret went to Altoona to 4)
in 1817 wit Se to ne pony oto or a plat! hal »y ran f ro EE a Measuring Acce leration
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nace at Curtin, bukit in 184% 1SCIDAITOW wher it wa taken
The Jackson Bank Bellefonte Ore Lo Ws re m The fin ! Motorist Killed BLANCHARD
Company ha 3 an rot RY a set of jig: an As He Flags Truck (From ast week)
a dtua ted . te iy LS 1 > | he : win hed 3 nk Ph 4 1 variou ades of the Li Dery
miles east of Bellefonte, on the ,eg hare as i Contnued from tage AVE) owl schools are in full pre
north si f the limestone ridge Bil; Sy aration for the Christmas prograir
and a i » south of the Jacksor Red Bank (Curtin Bros {e said his companion, Herbert to Be presented at the PTA on Dec.
ville r This property was under “his mir about %-mile north rpott, of Avis, looked back toward | 19th
a8 lease and contained about se t of th sellefonte Ore | om. | the parked car and reported that A son wis Born to Mr. and Mr:
enty acres and Vv a { the pany's mine wd close to the bs the people in it were laughing and Donalg Kunes on Taesday
Barnhart farm of four hundred of the limestone ridge, derived fis that he did not think anything han Mist Malle Pott a. oh Be
acre name from the bl rod colar of « | pened. In the boliel that there might | 75" are Wis taken lo
883, it ! 1 3 : eal of its clay. 7 Ulhave beer a close ¢all which Had hat Lock Have + Hospital on Bunday
then rhout tWo years. It he mine w by hirt sed merriment mong the ocens | LOF Hestmen; of an Affecleq toe
worked b ice and Cart to & de deed 40d was A trvrartiae § ants of the cdr but had hot caused | A* pW Pot s WAR he ony one
of about len fee w a surfit chive The best Ee in tra cnet | inv damage. he continued” Doms Ne at home the Wiliam Potts
three Lundred An inet : { west si f the bank where + | vard and did not know of the neei- | B98 BEoher, elite froin. Clearfisid hy : - — |
Was afterwards built { the mi very good Frade of ore was mixed | ent @ntil a few hours later id TOOK her back with him LN - : }
ing then went or much | with Som ts were Viv roak was the son of Mr and, 2 Harry Taylor of Pitisburgh WN i. | .
sole. Here they we wothered again sandy, while other ere which: | Mr Villam O. Crosk. 435 South spent last week at the home of Mrs sy a, 3 :
with limestone as t re on! : ften W run fifteer te ot 9 nn | Tone reet. He wis born in Lock enn Pletcher While Mr Pletcher hy i .... A d
all of the mines in this district. A he or t thi nk was mine | Haven and spent his entire life was at his hunting camp plioting a bod § a & : R X
few shafts had been sunk from the and taken to the foot of an incline | here, I v mployed as truck party of deer hunters of which Mr / + : : Gu W. YOI1S
bottom t n Pe { {ny ¢ CO. Taj i 3 3 Hake pr
1 Of the mine to a depth of plane and h ted to t ¢ U rit or Fragae 4 } QO VOT is 8 member
abo! it twenty p ; yrthday party was given last ra A
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Hall, took little Dorothy Confer and | John Lee and two daughters Helen Hill called on Dick Walking an
had her eyes examined, and find | and Sarah of Lemont, Sunda
she has lost the sight of one eye Mr. and Mrs. William Crispin of Mr. and Mrs. Malvin Lucas and
and an operation will have to be | Julian, were Sunday visitors at the children and Mrs, Amelia Chapman
performed to preserve the sight of | Clayton Watson's home. attended the buichering of Mr, and
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hie glher Ye whe haa been fited Mrs, Mary Bell Heverly and Mrs Nig ra Gtie A, i
with glasses The Woman's Club § Paul Lomison spent Sunday afters on Saturday
to be highly commended for Lhe dC Rea : ¥ a Boys {rom around here (hat killed
noon at the Paul Lomison home ’ 1 ,
arent } fr he 1 tnate 4 leer were. Robery Luca Tom Cone
pu re en a I orinai Mrs. David Confer and two chil. 4 Cc
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ith side of the mine 0 botheree h quit : lot of is, at home; his paren ne Lewis Pletchers ith birthday, He Fhote shows method of determining pick-up time in the Florida Road
la “ needle ore, I: mes 12. There was some ver - umber of brothers and sisters received many useful gifts an ene Test. After 100.000 miles of driving. the fleet of Jow-priced stock cars that ) West Bishop St. BELLEFONTE +:
; : ving ES " WEE PIPES of pipe ore found er a tinal laasrt work: Ue | Joyable time was had by all. Those Used new Atlantic White Flash PLUS had lost only 59% of their pick-up
t of the | a wl "wn VIREG. WT present were: Mr. and Mrs Robert ... snd acceleration from 10 to 50 mph, on new Atlantic White Flash EAVNIIVENNE IRIN III
laimed ula Kunes and two daughters Margaret PLUS, was less than a second longer than when the test started! (Advi)
and Kathleen and Miss Leah Cone
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| Mrs, Harry Taylor, Mrs. Allen €¢€ 3)
Pletcher and son Lewis visited last en er
Thursday at the home of Mr. and
Mx. Miiford Gardner in Pleasant
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¢ he Church of Christ will again
Sponsor a watch meeting at the
church New Year's eve,
Mrs. W., HA Spangler spent sev-
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husband in Retovo, and Wis again ' .
éalled Ww Rencyo on Monday eve, | t IS ristmas
because of his {liness. Mr, Spangler
returned to his home here for a few ~e
days. £1.75 and up
Mss, Harris Confer has been on |
the sick list the last few days
BUSH HOLLOW Choice Roses Stevia
| Our Sunday School is still averag- Carnations Lilies
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hoping for an increase in the §t- Heather Sweet Peas
tendande in the near future. Come | , . .
lout next Sunday at 9:30 a. m. you! Paper Whites Gardenias
be weldtme,
| Rev. and Mr. Byrd were Sunday Snapdragons Violets, Etc.
| dinner guests at the home of Mrs,
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The school children and teacher |
are Phanaing their Christmas pro- |
They are having next week of 10 A Corsage makes a most
are ng next week off for
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Cottage Prayer meeting this Pri- | 1
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<7 Rev, Shull and son and family re- |
turned to their home in Geneva : wild &, A FOR THE HOME-Be sure to have a Potted
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