Page OBITUARY | z=xa | Sr— a —————, MRS, ROBERT HOLTER. Mrs. Beth Stitzer Holter, wife of Robert H. Holter, dled at her hom» in Rochester, N. Y., Friday, Jan, 31, 1941. In addition to her husband she 1s survived by one son, William KE. her step-father, Marius E, Miner Howard. and a brother, Harry Stit- ver, Lancaster Funeral service were conducted Sunday at the Hed- ges Memorial chapel at Rochester, followed by further services at the Howard Methodist church at 3 belock Monday alternoon. The Rev. Wallace J. Cummings officiat- ed. Burial was made in Schenck cemetery CHESTER M. BERRY, Chester M. Berry. 73, retired bri worker, died at his home at Lock Haven Friday afternoon, Jan, 31 1941, after an illness of two week Born Jan. 9, 1868, at Beech Creel he had resided in that vicinity al his life. He retired 12 years Surviving are his wife, Catherine M.. three daughters and a son: Mr Harry Hawking and Mrs, Claren Shaffer, Lock Haven; Mrs. Haye Runner, Avis, and Warren Berr Zanesville, O.; also 23 grandchil- dren and 6 great grandchildren Funeral services were held on 8un- day at 2 p. m. at the late residence with Dr. Curvin H. Stein officiat. Burial was made in Fleming- cemetery. 40 na 144 ton MRS, CALVIN E, CREBS. Mrs. Mary E. Crebs, 81, widow of Calvin E. Crebs, Madisonburg, dled at the home of her daughter, Mrs Raymond Orner, in Mill Hall Wed- nesday afternoon, Jan, 20, 1941, fol- lowing a year in bed with a fractur- ed hip which brought about compli- rations. She was born and reared at Tylersville, and married Mr Crebs at Hublersburg in 1877. Mr Crebs was a farmer for many years inn Nittany and Brush Valleys. She was a lifelong member of the Lu- theran church at Madisonburg Survivors include two sons, W. Ho- mer and Winfield B. Crebs both of Selinsgrove daughter Mr Oldo, and D. Rishel Ia ede » Gieiz ai grandchil five great grand.children al services were held at 1 Saturday afternoon at the hom A Mr. and Mrs. Omer in Mill Hall with ¢ Rev. Dale Kohr officiat ing. The as taken t« bersburg terment +) body f » for It ROY SAMUEI y Samuel MYERS on West, Fatrmount College, at 6:30 morning, February 1 several months lines: ; was a son of Joseph and Jenni Rider Myers and was born al Oates. burg on November 28, 1889 making his age at time of death 51 years mon.hs, and 3 day On December 4 1914 he was united IMArriags with Frances I. Rider who sum with ‘a daughter, Mrs lian Gross. of Cincinnati Ohio, two sis , Mrs, Eleanor Kingan, of Cali- fornia Mrs. Elenberger, of and two brother Jobin of State College, and Earl, of Waddie Funmil ¢etvices were held at the Koch Puneral home fol- wed by services a. the QGatesburg church, Tuesday afternoon. with Dr, Jolin FF. Harkins, of Btate Co.- lege officialin Interment made Mn the Galesburg cemeter: in tor abd Btate Collegr MRS. HILDA M. MENCER Mrs. Hilda M. Mencer, wile of Chief of Police A. D. Mencer, of Ty - rone, died Friday morning Jan. 31 194]. a; 2:45 o'ciock in the MeGirk Sanitcrium, Philipsburg, Mrs. Men- cer Had not been in good health for several years Mrs. Mencer wa bom June 18, 1903 at Port Matilde R. D. a daughter of Daniel and Pm- | ma (Ewing) McMonagal. On Sep- tember 2, 1922 in the United Breth- ren parsonage al Tyrone, siie was united in marriage with A, D. Men- cer. She is survived by her hus band, A D. Mencer, ong daughter Miss Ka hieen 8. Mencer; one son, Adrian I. Mencer; her mother, Mrs Emma McMonagal, Port Matlida, R. D.. two brothers and one sis ter, Samuel C, MeMonagal, Leland D, McMonagal Port Matilda, and Mrs. Grace Robinson, Tyrone. Mrs Mencer wag a member of the Unit- ed Brethren cinirch of Mount Pleas. ant. She atiended the Pirst Meth- odist church since her marriage and was g member of the Naomi Ruth Bibie class. 8he was a past councilor of Columbian Council No. 91, Daughters of America, and was 6% prominent committee woman of the Auxiliary Unit to Howard Gard- ner Post, American Legion. Puner- the tome, Howard Granite Works FRANE WALLACE, Prop al services were held Monday afters noon at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by Rev. J. Resler Shultz. Interment wis made In Eastern cemetery, MRS. MARY PP, DAVIS | Mrs, Mary Patterson Davis, a sls ter of Mrs. Jennie Miller of State College. died Friday morning, Jan 31, 1941, at the home of her son, Newton C. Davis, Altoona. Born June 25, 1861, at Birmingham, she was the daughter of Mr, and Mr: Samue] Patterson, Members of the family Include her son, at whose home she died; two brothers, and the sister residing at State College | Mrs, Davis was a member of the lower Spruce Creek Presbyterian church JOEL. NEWTON TRESSLER ! Joel Newton Tressler, 70, died in Mackeyville Sunday night, February 2, 1941, at the home of his brother, Emanue] Tressler, after an illnes of four weeks. He was born in Nit- tany and resided in Nittany Valle) all his life, In addition to Emanuel he is survived by a sister and three other brothers: Mrs. Lydia Tressler Bellefonte, R. D.: Frank Tressler, Logan Mills; Harry, Lock Haven, and Samuel, Mill Hall. Funeral ser- vices were held at 2 m. Wednes- day with the Rev. Howard G. Young Lock Haven, in charge at the Me- Closkey Puneral Home, Mill Hall, and burial made at Snydertown OTTO F. GIRTON Otlo Freeman Girton, 36, of Moo- ument, died at the Lock Haven Hos- pital shortly after midnight Bunda morning, Februar 1941, of itonitis, the result of a bladder rup- He had been a patient at hospital for a week, suffering with the recurrence of the bladder all ment. Mr. Girton. who had lived in Monument for the past 12 years, was a moulder in the Harbison-Walker Refractories Co. plant there He had followed brickyard work ince was 14 years old. Surviving are his wife, the for Idella Durken, of Monument: one son, Archie Free. man; one daughter, Katherine Ann; h M Ella Girton, Lock Haven: two brothers, Howard of Blanchard; Arthur C.. of Penns- grove, N. J.; one sister, Mrs. Harry Toner Monument: and one half brother, Charles Mathewson, of SBa- pulka, Okla uneral services wer held Wedne 3 2:30 p m the home in Monument with Rev. Robert DeBoer officiating Burial in the Christian TT nD i DET. per ture Lhe he m ner Wi ot { his mother af of - ‘ at ’ v was made MRS. ARTHUR SUNDAY 5 Edith F. Sunda Jun of Milroy, died at 1:45 o'clock on Mon- ary 3, 1641, after s With a compii- cation of diseases Mrs was a daughter of James C. and Sarah C Burris and was born in Ces 50 years ago. SBurviv- ing are her husband and hil W Sunda a Ripka, both Gap, Harry B ence Aumilier Mr: Eugene Adams, all of Milroy, and Mrs. Rus- sell Weaver, of Bellefonte. Algo sur- viving are 12 grandchildren and these brothers and Samuel Burris, of Bellrfonte, R. D.; Wil- liam, of Easton: Harry, Centre Hall; Mrs, Geoarge Kuhns of Hol- iyhill, Florida; Mis, Sylvester Young, of Dartona Beach loricda: Mrs Jewett Brooks, of Pleasant Oap, and Mrs. Lois Smith. of Bellefonte, Fu- neral services will be held at the home at 2 o'clock this Thursday af- ternoon, followed by services at the Miirov Pilgrim Holiness church, Mil- roy, at 2:30 o'clock with the Rex Thomas Fuvigison officiating. Infe: ment wil ve made in the Wood. lawn cemetery. Milroy. Mrs. Bun- day was a member of the Pllgrim Holiness clhyurel Sunday Btover tre county there chili nd Mr Pleasant Mrs. Flor- Cloyd af ba sisters re of HARRY GETTIG, Harry Gettig. well known Pleas- ant Gap business man, dieg sud- denly and unexpectedly at his home in that communiiy at 11:45 o'clock Saturday moming, February 1, 1941, death being attributed to a heart attack. He had been In his usual good health up until the time of the fatal attack. Mr ttl was a son of Samuel and Sarah Hahn Gettig and was born In Cregg townahip on March 23, 1867, mak- ing his age at time of death 73 years, 10 months and 8 days. He was united (n marriage with Rachel Rimmey, who survives with two daughters, Mrs, William Tressler, of Oak Hall Station, and Mrs, Wil ltam Shuey, of Pleasant Cap. Also surviving are two brothers, George M. Getllg, of Pleasant Gap, and Elias I. Gettig, of Hublersburg. | Funeral sertices were held on Tues- | | day afternoon at the home, with the | Rev. Ivan Miller, pastor of the | Pleasant Gap Methodist church, of- | Dciating. Interment was made in | the Pleasant Gap cemetery. For some time Mr. Gettig had owned land operated a butcher shop in! Pleasant Gap and he wag widely known throughout the central part | of the county. i : i | WILDLIFE FEEDING 1S i GOOD WINTER ACTIVITY | Winter feeding of wildlife, to be | really helpful, should be well plan. | (ned and should be carried on | throughout the winter, says County | {Agent R, C. Blaney. ! Bome rural residents already have | provided winter feed for game birds | {and soug birds in patches of corp | {or sorghum near thickets or wood- | lots. Others have left shocks of | jcorn and small grain within sever {al yards of good woody cover, In| {other cases, however, feeding sta-| | tons will have to be eonstiuettil | {for taking care of the needs of) | ume and song birds. j willing to stand or fall upon vital | A nation, like a person, must be | {Peneipies, - He's Cheated Death Five Times (Continued trom page one) steel door crashing against Spelich- er's head. His skull was fractured, but the worst was still in store A few years later, at the yard, a guard rajl around the power house had been painted. Speicher touch- ed the rail to see If it wag dry. A charge of 2300 volts went through his body That time, a physician pronounces ed him dead. Two hours later the eyes or the “corpse” were seen to move, His skull had been fractured again, in his fall, and doctors be- lHeved some brain cells had been destroyed by the current, But his faculties gradually returned Now, retired on government pen- sion, Specther spends a quiet life building miniature villages and con- structing figurines. Says he “Guess I'll trip over a rock in garden and break my neck don't die of old age frst” Groundhog Fable— Other Superstitions (Continued from page one) mh if 1 It Is sald that meet corpse your time will come nex the corpse Is stopped on the way Lo the grave another member of family will soon follow Kraut must be made in Lhe dark the moon if it is 10 be sour considered the height of folly cut a childs fingernails before it | a year old, for then it will pilfe and fleal. "The nails must be brok- en and bitten off Potatoes and al planted in the dark of the shen it ks decreasing and dosnt in size. likewise, crop grow above the ground must glanted In the Hght or Increase the moon. Hogs must be butchered when moon is Increasin otherwise LO meat will shrivel up and fry awa in eo0king A {family must n in the lght or increase of This will insure prosperity creage of possessions If a child 8 sliowed a mirror before it & a {eething will be difficult If a coffin containing a corp placed 30 that it reflects In 4 mis there will be another death in nside of a year if you ol rox .) ui SVE Move exceed the moon and x int PAs tn ir ror the The tying taining mole assures from the rub TAT [> remove I a plece it and then bury | Say nothing about th the war, will soon disappear A stray biack cat In yard foretells good Tuck if 3 woman Js making 20ap and a man stiss it. all will be well and soap will be fine; but if a woman comes the soap will be spolle in ed x WAr of bacon = ng you Wil 44 sing in bed before night If you want a cat to stay at ho rub Its paw on the stove To keep a new dog, measure tail with a cornstalk and bury latter under the front step If you sleep with your feet toward the door you will soon be out a Corspe. In setting out fruit trees a4 woman must hold the tree while a man pet it and tramps the dirt about the roots, This makes iL a sure bearer To kill a toad will cause the cows to give bioody milk You in you wil the carried Youn y Democrats o Meet March 8 (Continued from page one) hill; Prank Kozieki, Mifflin county: G. Rees Lichliter, Salisbury: Rus sell M. Lucas, Philtpsburg;: William J. MecNelis, Altoona; Mrs. Dorothy Muir, Altoona: Richard F. Hartzell, Lock Haven: Clair V. Meyers, Lock Haven; Patrick BE. O'Leary, Alloona: Frank Seifert, Johnstown: Harold Snyder, Orbisonia; Fllis Sprowl, Wells Tannery; Carl Wilson, Hunt- ingdon. Despite the best intentions and the exercise of extraordinary intel: ligence & man sometimes gets mixed up in u bridge game with three women, j® "es nq « visIT NEW VENETIAN + GARDENS o CABARET * OPEN NIGHTLY AT 8:30 : Floor Show ¢ 12-Pc. BAND » No Cover Charge * ® ALTOONA, PA. ! fleoreorel February 6, 1941, THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. ~ THE WAR IN EUROPE Clearfield Co. Court Sustains Dismissal | Germany and Italy bsve both i made serious mistakes in the pres- ent war. Hitler, for all his reputa- are with the tion as a planner, plainly overlook or territory ed his big opportunity when he T Italian failed to order an atiack upon ¢ BOC aU xe Great Britain when Franee collap derst ed and the Brish lay prostrats after the loss of equipment in Dun kirk, The was not the caplure or disper } (Cont wd fre pe One) nants of Graz Continued from page on nn present Zure of citi is own behalf, and outlined Lo rinetp lit Ayan and the uiely die to bn Bardia and Tobruk offensive of helmed the permite Ol ed army. at the time, Pris to attack England V and the British fleet guard, 1 In short, Hitler was as much sur prised by the scope of German su France as the British, In Der Fuehrer, alts ing with Joy, wa confiden the war was over the British wou peace Mussolini, it Is France in tl was all but over He knew that Ii prepared for a lor Loo, miscalculated the British would do Boih Wrong About The Both Hitle wtisfied that OL, al German ready tulian stood arm) cess in addition dane tha ald believed tha d negotiate sult Mysterious Ie " Mu ua The allan atu indicates that Muss over. 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