AWW Odd and CURIOUS in the NEWS CAMA IAAI ¥ A WILLKIE HUNT Two Pennsylvania State College students spent 26 hours trying to catch Wendell Willkie in Washing- ton. Gordon L. Coy, Jr, of Norris- town, and Robert W. Cooper, of Leacock, wanted Willkie's answer to an invitation to speak during a student war relief drive at Penn State. They wanted his reply for the Daily Collegian, student news- paper. They were unsuccessful (1) at his hotel: (2) at the Senate Com- mittee hearing where they got with- in 25 feet of the and (3) at But the chase hotel elevator ry the White House gates ended in front of the Mr. Willkie was sor- he couldn't acce pb PILING EM a crash J Md bile THAT'S Awakened by ings Salisbury and saw an autom f tree near } could get dos torist landed turned over Cars were scaitered i way, Hastings' ditches. Saven mach, nes overturn. 0 one D looked out piled against Before he nother mo- yard and hours 15 of Cross high- 1a! is an nn in fleids and in FIRED L AST SHOT Col. Wi 4 n Peace, U retired, wh week home at the the last Col. Pea 11th U gonne minut tice ho his stafT retaliation German unique hot fired in ACe was S FH CAME TRUE “It would be remarked Fr companion as billboard river, at urday f ank I G and drownec GRANDMOTHE R AT 29 Mrs. Eva Emory Logan. W Va, “hadn't thought much about’ being a grandmother at 20 until friends pointed out was one of the nation’s youngest. A son was born recen to her daughter, Mrs Joe Scott, y will be 15 on Feb. 21 PREPARED The doctor Mr. and Mrs Clarence Barnes of Colorado Springs, Colo., to expect twins lets arrived—all boys. “But prepared.” said Barnes, for all of 'em—Kurt, Keith.” of she told Jr Trip- we were Kent 1940 GOP nominee, | | The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. SECOND SECTION Che Centre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 6C JELLEFONTE, PA., THURSD AY, FEBRUARY 20, 1941. NUMEER Aged Woman Burns To Death In Vain Effort To Save Old-Age Check Alone In House When Oil Stove Explodes In Bedroom, Victim Is Overcome by Flames and Smoke at Mrs. Mary Les Ko en. a 78-yea old woman, was ! at Grassflat. Clearf) Tuesday aftern the upstalrs earoom elderly up to the wa ed after mered livel Three Families Routed By Fire Apartments of Jadly Second-Floor Flemington Home Damaged 00M Flemington used a booster while the Hopes used fire from all company plug and stream, hose lines to attack the sides The Don ler With Te all fryer our fire was discovered by Bator! who called J W who live other saving although they of YOung Mil- across the street hbors, they succeed- ed most of the furniture could not reach the ke and liscovered flames had (Cont inued on page six) REALIZED EVILS OF SOIL EROSION WASHED AND GULLIED PARTS OF A FIELD OUGHT TO BE LEVELED AND SMOOTHED, AND AS FAR AS IT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED, COVERED WITH LITTER,STRAW, WEEDS, CORN STALKS OR ANY OTHER KIND OF VEGETATIVE RUBBISH TO BIND TOGETHER AND PREVENT THE EARTH FROM GULLYING. Hunn [Hm WE HTIRTN look through several of the existing collections of Washington's letters shows that he was concerned with the gullied and washed condi- tion to which the tobacco and corn lands of his beloved state of Vir- ginia had been reduced. With the overseer of his plantation at Mt Vernon, he planned and put into effect experiments to stop washing and gullies. The Father of his Country was not the only one of his day to worry about soil erosion, however. His fel- low Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, tried CONSORT flelds and hillside Forced To Step A Reading billiard and bowling parlor and 50 male patrons were robbed of several thousand dollars early Monday morning by four men with pistols who forced the cus- tomers to take off their trousers and line up against a wall. Detective James Bowman sald the robbers grabbed money from tables, emptied the cash register and then spent about 35 minutes going through the pockets of the trousers,’ ditches—two measures which are widely used for the same purpose by farmers today. In 1817 Jefferson, speaking at Albemarle county, Va, said: “the fields are no sooner clear- ed than washed.” Madison and T M. Randolph were other Virginians who wrote deploring the widespread soil wastage North of them in Mary- land, Thomas Moore said that ero- sion was responsible for the loss of more fertility than crops took from the soil. Although erosion was most notice able in the southern states during {Continued on page six) Out of Trousers which they threw in a heap on the floor. The holdup men bought sodas before flashing their guns. Several persons walked in while the robbery was in progress and were forced to join the pantless lineup. One of the robbers was apologetic to a soldier in uniform: “Sorry, old man.” he sald. “I may | be in the army myself pretty soon. ‘filed In | husbandry at State College, has been selecteg as | Head of Stairs Wa Her hu band pl Sill Growing reed Individualists | Centre County Residents Spend Most of Budget For Food And Goss Census Bureau Figures Indicate We Folks Like to Eat and Go Places; Philipsburg Leads In Number of Stores and wt abl y traveling showman the litlle folks s0 81 characterize Hith as 8 riper One VE ritabie Pied Sue Turnpike Board In Crash Pair Ask $20.0( 000 in Collision With Commission Em- Two damage suits gregating $20000, last week were the Dauphin County Cour: against the Pernaylvania Turnpike Commis 1 for an automobile coi | in whi its employes Sums ag- ch one of The suits were brought by Willard F. Frye. owner of one of the auto- mobiles, and his guest passenger, John House, both of Homestead, Al- legheny county, who were both in- jured. Bach sn for $10,000 for personal injuries. Frye alleges that he wag driving his automobile along the turnpike a; the west end of 8ideling Tunnel last October 18, when a car driven by Allen C. Whetsone, Jr, a turn- pike employe, cut out from the north to the south side of the high- way in the path of Frye's approach- ing automobile i Frye alleges that he suffered in- juries of the chest, head back and both legs House claims that he has suffered injuries of the chest, the lower back and right leg and internal injuries, The right leg is so seriously affected that he claims that he has virtu- aky lost the use of that member — Barrels of Headache Frank Thomas, 60-year-old Frank- town farmer, might have been pre- paring for Hallowe'en in advance but the “revenoo-ers” butted in. The “revenoco-ers state control agents of the Altoona office, raided Thom- 103 as’ Blair county home and confiscat- ed nearly 1.000 gallons of hard cider, contained in 19 barrels. Heads Poultry Work ! Leon Todd. a graduate in poultry | the Pesnncylvania managing director of the North- eastern Poultry Producers’ Council For the past three years he has served as secretary of the council Belfish people never made a na- | tion great, regardless of the money | | they managed to acquire, A simple way to reduce ghwat | Drop your trousers and step out of | fatalities: Enforce traffic regula- them.” hi A i tions withous lear or favor, Pennsyivani Two Injured When Auto Hits Wagon PRR Makes High Freight Record CAT RE “Once § Year either before Three Accidents Near Avis, Sunday |S Lock Haven Rural Residents 3,265 Cars Over ‘Bald Eagle One Driver Crashes Bus: Lo- Figure in Street Col- lision and Mrs. Lee Das sherman of R D. were sl {1 Mr Lo k Haven Lock Haven The horse-drawn ice with a ghted lantern at the side was trav. eling east on Chureh street and had just cleared the In‘ersection with Henderson street when the car driven by Mrs, Richard Clausen, Lock Haven, struck it. Both cupanis of the wagon were thrown to the ground. Mrs, Dauberman suffered injuries to the knees back and hip and her husband bruises to the knees. Both were treated by a physician, The horse was not A. reet veh ol Of « t hurt C—O oS —————— Fire at Sunbury Garage Loss was estimated at more than $2500 in a fire which badly damag- ed one of Bunbury’s oldest land marks. the old street car barn, which has since the abandonment of the trolley line between 8Sun- bury and Northumberiand, been the headquarters and garage for the bus line. I: is believed that the ire originated from over heating of furnaces, ~The family’s newspaper. Branch During Past Ww sekend ays freight movernent over win line of the Pennsvivania raliroad’s Middle division. 7.224 cars was the largest one-day movement more than : the n a decade It enabled a long standir for over the division to break 8 weekend record also, comb ined with 6.160 cars moved the main line Bunday. the Sat- urday and Sunday total reached 13.- 384 cars Over the Bald Eagle branch of Middle division the weekend move- ment of 3265 cars also was high Sunday the high one-day total of 1981 cars was counted and on Sat. urday, 1,284 i —— Married 69 Years Believed 10 be the oldest ried couple in Clinton County, ang Mrs. J. L. O Donnell, resdients of Pine {or a half century, recently celebrated thelr 60th wedding anni- versary. Mr, O'Donnell is a retir- ed sawmill operator and farmer, a former school director and road su- pervisor of Wavne Township and a former Clinton County commis sioner. The Oid Pine Station Ho- tel, a landmark in that section for many years, which burned in 1823, belonged to the family. Mr, ODon- nell having eut the lumber himself to erect the structure. mar- Mr ganton Man to Face Reck- less Driving Charge Within morning voived in 45 minutes early Sunday four automobiles were in- two craches east of Avis on Route 220, two persons were in- Jured and damages totaled $600 Malcolm Williams, Swissvale, driv. ing a car owned by 1. N. Miller C. C. C. Camp No. 76, Renovo, was named as the driver of a car which cracthed the rear of a bus at the Woolrich intersection on Route 220 at 9:15 p. m. Sunday. No one was in- Jjured and the car was damaged to the extent of 865. Warren Gottschall Woolrich, was the bus driver, it said Lester Guiswite, Loganton, it is re- ported, will face a reckless driving charge before Justice Dean H Fred- ericks, Flemington. following a crash at 10:40 p. m. Saturday on the Flemington cut. Police explained the Guiswite car crashed a vehicle that was parked eight feet off the concrete, when Guiswite failed to make a tum. Damages were listed at 8150 to each car. Both vehicles came to rest on the lawn at the Al- bert C. Brown home. Guiswite suf- fered a concussion of the left fore- head, injuries to left eyelid and left hand. The two crashes near Avis oc- curred at 12:45 a. m. and 1:30 a. m (Continued on Page 5) is | lined and has SAB LEWIde Cable Breaks Garrisc ¥ of Man's Jaw Man Killed As Train Hits Auto Lycoming County Dairyvman Fatally Injured While De- livering Milk 267 JUNE GRADUATES OF PENN STATE, MARRIED £ TR re. Women vealed “The numbet taking Ray an 4 clerical work, wi claims Houtzdale Dentist Dies Dr. A. H Pidgeon, a dentis Houtzdale. Clearfield County Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 11. 1941 at his home there. He was bom in Houtzdale, a son of Mr. ie Mrs Edward Pidgeon. Surviy ng are his widow, Mrs Ram Langsford Pidgeon, and these children: Mrs Dorothy Hartzwick, Mrs. Eleanor Spence and William Pidgeon. all of Washington, D. C. and John Pid- geon, at home. A son, Edwarg pPid- geoni, preceded his father in death There are four brothers and tHe sis. ters. Funeral services wen ducted at the Pidgeon home Frida; morning and interment followed in the I. O. O. F. cemetery at Brishin aici i s— New Type Caboose. The new type caboose of the Pennsylvania Railroad company many of which are being useq on the main line these days, are at- fracting attention as they pass through. The new caboose is stream two trucks under- neath of four wheels each, in lieu of the old type of but four wheeis The new type serves for easier rid. ing and absorbing of tiain shock dail M— Self-defense includes reasonable foresight in preventing an occasion a —— of died oot ~ | for the use of firearms, ‘KEEPING up WITH THE JONESES' re Eddie Isn't Eveid Died A RAR RA A Random [tems SOMEBODY KNOWS EFHRAHRRRRRRRRRLR RAR REPORT { S. 8. GOER: And here loudly MonCay sloshed through snow his rounds. “How come a patron asked 1 whist) from swearing, dag blast ¢ Stergiakis, command local American Legion how newspapermen n showing up when fox wd anywhere, anytime, simile: “As jong as a ne man's nose for a free feed” speaking of food, a local restaurant waller, shouting an order to the Kitchen for a hamburg, well done sings oul: "One burger! Take out the hamess marks!” The bova and gals are still talking about the floor show at a local night spot last week VERE WEDADET- oA 280 (Continued on Page ©) By POP MOMAND ——— HIM OUT OF THE TRANCE THIS MALLET -- Tw’ NORMAL — NOW “THAT MR BOWERS MAS DEEN WWPNOTIZED I SHALL BRING BY A BLOW ON TH HEAD FaoM REACTION WOULD BE FOR / ee TH PATIENT TO WAKE UP he A WITH A SLIGHT HEAD" J “— h, ATAATING «- iS HEAD 21rd LIKE A CraiNSE Baa Gaal HE'S COMING 7 AL vow DO YOu Feel , MR BOWERS? DO NOU HAVE 7 A HEADALVE 7 ie HHOLD 1 1” J vigapacue ? )/ we WY A HEADACHE 7 I FEEL FINE «~- ay EXCELLENT. - \ THAT CLNOMES iY DECDEDCY ) ABNORMAL hy SUL. MUST Be ) AVE { ABOUT TURES NCHES THICK Y iV
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers