Odd and CURIOUS in the NEWS FREE PIES! The hungry look on the faces of | a group of children emerging from | # Brooklyn, N. Y. school disappear- | ed quickly at noon Thursday. Just | as the children were dismissed for | lunch, a fire truck collided with a | pie truck outside the school. When an inventory was taken fifty piles were missing. The children had no explanation but continued to loiter in the sun around the crash scene instead of going home to lunch «FIND TINY BODIES A man rummaging around in a field at Altoona last Wednesday dis- covered the tiny bodies of two em- bryo infants. The bodies of the pre- mature infants, whose exact ages were not determined, were taken to an Altoona undertaker. Police who investigated sald the bodies were three and four inches In length The bodies, well preserved, had ap- | parently recently been removed from a container of alcohol EXTRA COURSES It wasn't on the menu but Walter Myers got a girl with his soup. He was just about to taste the first spoonful while eating in a restaur- ant at Philadelphia when 16-year- old Mildred Jaynes fell through a skylight which she was washing, landing in his lap. Both went to the hospital, Myers with glass culs on his hands and an Injured back, and the girl with minor injuries. MARRIAGE RETURN When the Rev. Loyal M. Thomp- son, of Bloomington, Ill, performed his 77th marriage recently, the bridegroom paid him $7.77 in 77 pennies. The Rev. Mr. Thompson who has been in the preaching bus- iness for 25 years, sald $7.77 is above the average. For instance: In a double ceremony in which two bro- thers married two sisters, he receiv- ed 50 cents a couple $12,000 ONIONS A single onion—one onion—that was purchased for $12,000 was plac- ed on display in London Saturday A whole box of onions brought $137 .- 532, The onions. now extremely rare in Britain were raffled off as a feature of Greater London's War Weapons Week which ends with) subscriptions for war bonds and cer- | tificates totalling $402 400,000, TOO VALUABLE TO LOSE As firemen arrived at a burning apartment in Indianapolis, Mrs. Elizabeth Steele, 39, emerged from a smoke-filled stairway clad only in pajamas and a bathrobe, but trium- phantly carrying a new sunwner hat, Firemen said she wanted to return to rescue a new pair of shoes but they restrained her. SILENT REVEILLE Pat, an Airedale dog, has put an alarm clock out of a job in Mrs. W C. Peterson's home, at New Brun- side, Ill. For three years the ani- mal has been awakening her dally a. about 4 ag. m by touching her cheek or arm with his cold nose CLOSED CORPORATION Said Teacher Ruth Cyvk to Cou- | sin Carol Clark: “School is dismis- sed for the Summer.” And that end- ed the school year for Cedar Coun- ty's one pupil, one-teacher and one- family school at Alten, Neb. Two COC Camps to Close According to unofficial informa- tion, the Farrandsville and Logan- ton CCC camps in Clinton Co., will be abandoned May 31. The reason, it is stated, is due to the few en- rollees, because of drafts for mili- | tary service and the increased num- ber of jobs in industry. — Um our Classified Ad columns. | ed recently | Bellefonte by Private | which no one was injured {evening at 9 o'clock cars The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. SECOND SECTION dhe Cenlre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 60. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY. MAY 29, 1941, NUMBER 22. Clearfield Fur Considered Thief Is Suspect In State College Robbery Police Believe Altoona Man Committed Crime | In College Town in Which Shomberg Jew- elry Store Reported Theft of $3,000 Edgar D. Swartz, of Pranks town Road, one of five Altoonans arrest- in the Clearfield Taxi- dermy Company fur robbery, is re- ported by State Police at Rockview | to be a “definite suspect” in the $3,000 robbery of the H. 8. Shom- berg jewelry store in State College last February 13 | Police, who filed Information against Swartz for the State Col- lege offense, expect to lodge a de- tainer against him, pending his re- lease from the prison to which he will be sent for the fur robbery They are said to be “reasonably sure” that Swartz is one of the men who broke into the store and “clean- ed” the watch board and took mer- chandise from most of the show cases Information connection with the Shomberg case was lodged against the former WPA worker be- fore ‘Squire Harold D. Cowher in 8. R. Rich- ardson of the Rockview sub-sta- tion. Police say that they have col- lected considerable evidence which In Howard Man Has Jaw Fractured (Car Leaves Marsh Creek Road And Crashes Into Tree Dean Miller, of Howard, R. D. 1 is a patient in the Lock Haven Hos- pital with a fractured jaw received in an accident about 6 o'clock Sun- day evening on the Marsh Creek road His brother reported that Miller's car left the road and struck a tree The Lock Haven motor police in- vestigated two other accidents, in Friday driven by | Edward Klein, Beech Creek, R. D 1, and Walter E. Mann, Monument | collided on Route 220 at the Inter-| section of the old road in Allison township. Klein stopped to the rear of a car turning left onto the old] road and Mann, unable to stop in time, hit the rear of the Klein car Damage totaled $30 ins MP Assis on Expanding Rail Injures Workers Two P. R. R. Track Employes Are Victims of Unusual Accident Three Pennsylvania Railroad! {track workers were injured in a pe- iculiar accident near the passenger | station at Petersburg. The men were | engaged in putting in new rails, and | iwhen they removed the spikes from | one of the oid rails, which had ex- | panded from the heat, sprung for- | ward and struck them on the legs. | Leroy W. Lightner, 28. and Ray | Fitzgerald, 45, are patients at J. C { Blair Memorial Hospital with bro- | ken legs, while the third, G. M. Ru- pert, was discharged from the hos- pital after treatment for a bruised loot All are of Petersburg. _ Classified Ads being results. Democrats Cut Property Taxes, 7 Provide Special Hospital Ai The four mills State tax on per- sonal property will be cut and the Commonwealth will meet all its obligations to school districts and county mental] hospitals. This announcement of Demo- cratic Party policy. made on Sat- urday by State Chairman Meredith | Meyers, concurred in by John B. Kelly, Philadelphia City Chairman, House Majority Floor Leader Acnh- terman, and Senator Minority] Leader Shapiro, Is the cuimination | of three months’ intensive study of the Republican budget proposal, The Democratic analysis of Stat» | finances tore to shreds the Gover- | nor's contention that the special | ald promised the school districts in | 1937 and posiponed by him in 1939 and the State take-over of the | rs er es Decoration Day A widow's devotion to her hus. band--a Civil War soldier killed ir the battle of Fort Donaldson—gave the United States the Memorial Daj observance which will have its sev enty-third anniversary Priday, Two war veterans, sitting on thr porch of a country church near Car- bondale, Ill, watched the widow place a small wreath on her hus- band’s grave in the church ceme- tery and offer a short prayer, Impressed, they decided to decor- ate the graves of their comrades. They mentioned their a to friends and a special service was arranged for April 25, 1866. Rain interfered, but it was held the fol- lowing day. With hundreds of persons looking on, 219 uniformed veterans of the county mental hospital promised in 1938 and postponed by him in 1939 | must be put off for two more years. | The Democratic Party has de- | stroyed the James economy myth, for the Democratics are planning | to reduce taxes which the Gover- | nor asked be re-enacted. Obvious- | ly caught off base by the announce- | ment, the Governor said he would g0 along with the Democratic plan if its feasability were demonstrated. Meyers’ statement was as follows: “The Democratic Party has al- | ways been firm on two principles: 1. That the tax burden should be imposed on those best able to bear it. “2. That unscientific and un- sound taxes should be eliminated at _{(Continued on page six) i i Is 73 Years oid | Woodlawn cemetery at the edge of | ‘he city limits. General John A. Logan delivered | the memorial address and closed his | patriotic message with the asser- don that: “Every man’s life belongs to his | sountry and no man has the right | to Refume it when his country calls! for it.” The crowd then placed flowers on the grave of every soldier, whether they had served in the Confederate or Union Army. Two of the flower girls, Mrs. Julia Amon, now 90 years , and Mrs. A. C. Elliott, 84, still live there, Two years after the Carbondale service, General Logan as command. er of the Grand Army of the Re- public issued his now famous gen- eral order No. 11, creating an an- yar, led by 4 brags band, (raged from downtown Carbondale to nual memorial service. connects Swartz | he ed to be made ers taken from the | police State went Swartz acting ant | Was the State College robbery. They stated that had a number of accomplices | and that other arrests are expect- Two cigarette light- store have been present time with recovered up to the revealed Roland Martin, College police to Clearfield and identified as one of the men he saw suspiciously in State College the night of the robbery Swartz is now in Clearfield county jail, together with Harry Walls, william Kelly and Mrs. Ruth Wey- all of Altcona, for their part the thefts of more than $7.000 h of furs. Swartz’s wife, Ruth charged with relving stolen and is under prosecution in county a member of the department, in wor goo Blair an " MISSING GIRL RETURNS BRINGING HUSBAND Miss Fay Dershem. 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. Der- shem, of Lock Haven, reporied miss- ing since Monday, returned to her home on Thursday, the bride of Malcolm Moore, 21, of Beech Creek According to Clinton County Sheriff D. Edward GQGrenoble, the bride's mother was arrested by her new son-in law for assault and bat- tery, when Mr, Moore came to the Dershem home at Lock Haven to claim his wife. An argument en- sued and the arrest followed , by 2 Memorial Day DISPEL MYTH | OF RESTORING LIFE If you have ever held the belle! 1 that a criminal who has been pu to death in the electric chair at Rockview could be restored to life scientific methods, dispel it from your mind, Science has put the experiment 0 a practical test proved it a myth At a meeting of Scientists in Bos- ton last week disclosure was mad» of actually experimenting on the body of a murderer from the electric chair, and finding not the tiniest spark of life might be fanned to living flame Joseph Brooks, 30, wag escorted into the death chamber gt Charles- ton state April 22. A few moments he Was pro- and fresh that wy prison al alter nounced dead four shocks having snuffed ou. his life in payment for the killing of a policeman Brooks’ body was taken 10 the Massachusetts General Hospital Jess than an hour after he was pro- nounced dead Dr. Willlam J. Brickley conduct- ed the experiment of reviving Brooks, The doctor reported Filly minutes aller Brooks was removed from the chair a brain- wave machine was placed over the killer's head in an effory to detect activity in the brain, There was none. A stimulant was injected in- 10 the heart muscles 10 see If It coulfl be revived NN could not (Continued on page five) Two Die In Crash Near Bellwood; Two Others Are Injured In Collision Frank W. Harpster, Juniata, Mrs. Pearl Cole- | man, Grandview, Killed Instantly; Col- lision on Three-Lane Road A man and a woman were killed | and two other persons seriously in- Jjured Monday night when two auto- mobiles crashed headon on triple- lane route 220, about three-fourths of a mile east of the Bellwood in- lersection Th Frank WwW an emplove of the company, who wa in automobile multiple lacerations of the body, broken left leg and other undeter- mined injuries Mrs. Pear! Coleman 36, of Grand- view, near Wehnwood, who died at Altoona hospital at 7456 p. m. of & fractured skull, a severe gash of the left arm and brush owns of the body The injured William Cornmesser wood head Robert Patlerson, view, back injury Both Cornmesser and were reported in “falr at Altoona hospital It was jearned that Cornmesser vas driving southward toward the Bellwood intersection and was alone in his sutomoblle The other car opposite direction ster, the driver, and and Patterson. Harpster was dead in a sitting position the wheel Cornmesser, friends related, had | been visiting a Budd family in Tip- {ton around 6 o'clock and was en- route to his Bellwood home when the accident occurred Due to the lack of witnesses oner Rothrock announced he be especially interested in contact. Ing the driver of an automobile he was old that preceded a bus bound from Tyrone to Altoona and which had stopped momentarily at the scene of the crash, but then drove away Harpster's destination! was tain, although Mrs. Coleman's hus- band, C. T. Coleman, reported at Altoona hospital, where his daugh- ter, Henrietla, is a patient, that he believed his wife was going to Lock Haven 0 visit friends or relatives Frank W. Harpster was born Au- gust 8, 1811, at Warriors Mark, and wis the son of Willlam E. and Hay (Blair) Harpster He had been employed (Continued on Page 5) Road Building Bid Is Accepted York Firm Submits Low Esti- mate on Beech Creek- Howard Road Cor- would dead are 70, of Juniata East Side block found lifeless suffering from Harpster his unoer- 20, of Bell- deep lacerations of the lore- by the 16, of Grand- Patterson condition traveling in the contained Harp- Mrs. Coleman found behind proposed on between Low bid on the unk” ocosntructi missing Howard WHY SOME FOLKS You, Mr. and Mrs Average couple of Centre county, may not alway: get along like a palr of love-birds but take it {rom the record, your difficulties can’t touch some peoples Just to furnish a comparison ‘o your own marsal troubles, let's Jook over the strange reefs on which matrimonial barques have been cracking up lately: Pirst. the ladies division, their grounds for divorce. worry, ihe gents will have LOO ) wee An Omaha woman: Her husband only tock a bath every three weeks A Chicago woman: Her husband not only monopilised all the bian- kets in cold weather, but also chased her out in the snow in her bare feet A Hollywood stunt girl who speci- alizes in jumping out of burning buildings: Her husband stayed oul and | (Dont theirs WANT A ’ too lale at night, making her ner- ous A Bridgeport, Conn husband went out buy cream for ne back for A Los Ar woman three months of marriage band gave her diam A Chicago woman: insisted that s woman: Her One off ee a Year the and didn't ge les During her hus- $150000 worth of Her husband ¢ become a nudist A Los Angeles woman: Got a di. vorce on the ground that her hus- band took a girl friend along on their honeymoon A Camden N. J because they never who should h first bathtub An Elizabeth plainned that couple split uw» could decide ave whack at th N. J. woma her husband Hn oon was in morning Lo! onds, bat only $20 for groceries, the unddl hie habit of tickling her feet became hysterical A Camden N J. woman divorce because her husband ed her nose when i" And now A Key West, Fla, man in his sult divorce alleged that in her fils temper his wife had knocked every door in their home off ils hinges An Elizabeth N. J. man: His wife poured suger the gasoline tank of hig car and put shellac in the transmission got a tweak she had a boll on in A Milwaukee man charged in his divorce suit thal his wile just for pite, served him tough steak alter he had had his teeth pulled ow A Pilsburgh man was granted a give the men a chance. | bn 64 was 227%. H York and Blanchard ar nounced Friday J. Williams and sas said by riment of Highways have been low bidder Construction il cover 47 miles il result in ex nd fills, bringing prac- a straight road between the two communities dlanchard is ex- pected to be eliminated from the thoroughfare Estimates indicate the work will take approximately one year 0 { complete. with delgurs to be in force. New bridge over Bald Eagle {| Creek, east of Howard, and Culvert i over Hunter Run, west of Blanch- ard, are contemplated Bome culls will run 19 10 20 feet deep When completed, the highway is expected 0 be accepted as a mili- tary route, pari of the system from the hard coal region to the Pennsgyl- vania Turnpike at Bedford The e DIVORCE because his wile punctured he U on his car with on ice pick A Newark (New Jersey again husband testified his wife had mov- ed their residence 27 times in six vears—ao0 that he hardly could re- | member which bus 0 take home A Los Angeles man sued for di- vorce on the ground that his wile ‘had slcoed thelr dog on him every day R A Wabash, Ind, man got his mar. riage liquidated because his wile toid him she had only two previous husbands, whereas she actually had six ACamden N. J man: In 13 months his wife spent $3500 on ! n fortune tellers, and “I still don't Toad will compiete the Lock Haven know what she was trying to find | Mi burg link g - 0 divorce res {Continued on page six) | Penn State Star Is Chosen Coach Bill Miller Elected to Direct Athletics at Jersey Shore High Bill Miller, former all around ath- |lete at Penn State, has been elect- led coach of the Jersey Shore High | school, it was announced last week Miller replaces LaVerne Casner who j resigned his head coaching post at! the end of the 1940 season, Miller won out over Harold Stackhouse of { Ralston, and Gray Purey, Mill Hall j coach, seeking the Jersey Shore | position. The ex-Penn Stater’s appointment was made on the recommendations {of Bob Higgins, Joe Bedenk, Chick | Werner and John Lawther, Penn | State coaches, who stated he was one of the best coaching prospects for a high school position Miller played football, basketball and was active in track at Penn | State, In his senior year he was an outstanding end for the Lion grid team and captained the State track | team. He was one of the best ham- mer throwers in the history of Penn | State. Following his graduation from the Centre county college he accepted; a coaching position at Allison, N. Y. where he was head coach of foot- ball, basketball and baseball His, teams won 79 games, lost 28, and tied four, Sixty aspirants will be on hand to greet the new football coach in the fall. Prominent Man Hurt, D. J. Driscoll, trustee for the As- | sociated Gas and Electric Co, New | York, was injured Friday in an au- | | tomobile accident 12 miles east of | | 8t. Marys. The former chairman of | | the Pennsylvania Public Utility | Commission was en route to his {home from New York when his au- | | tomobile overturned. Several of his | | ribs were reported broken, Child Attacked by Ram George Riggs, 22-month-old son! ‘of Mr. and Mrs. G. Paul Riggs, of | Sunbury, suffered a fracture of the | left leg, when he was attacked by a ram at the home of his grandmo- | ther. The attack happened when the child was climbing the fence | into the barnyard, and the ram butted him in the hip. He is a pa- | tient at the Mary M. Packer Hos- | pital. - Clothes may make a man but it, takes hosiery to make a woman. | Held In Vending Machine Theft Two iock Haven Men Face Charges of Robbing Ser- vice Station Edward Kriner and John WwW. Wol- ford, both of Lock Haven, have been committed to the Clinton county jail following their second arrest within a week last Thursday The men are charged with the theft of 830 in cigarettes and cash from a vending machine which was broken st the Casselberry service station in Lock Haven The machine had been rifled twice previously Whether there was anything miss ing from the service station where the men were employed was not established Kriner and Wolford were arrest. ed Thursday by Sheriff D. Edward | Grenoble, Deputy W. Glenn Adams | and Stats Policeman Charles Lick, of Williamsport, and were given a hearing Friday afternoon by Alder-| man Lipez who held them for court They were committed in default of | $500 bali each > Is Fatally Injured Kenneth Dewalt, 17, son of Mr. | and Mrs. Fred C, Dewalt, Danville, ! R. D. 6 was fatally injured when the tris: he was driving was struck | by a west-bound freight train on the Wilkes-Barre Division of the’ Pennsylvania Railroad, at Riverside, He died in the Geisinger Hospital He suffered a frictureg skull, frac tures of the right arm and leg and interna! injuries. and did not re- gain consciousness after the crash. jthe edge of the Fugitive Shot By Altoona Cop Negro Who Drew Knife on Patrolman is Fatally Wounded A 50-year-old Negro, identified as | James Boit Hall, who drew a knife on an Altoona city policeman Mon- day night after being srrested for a reported theft, was shot to death by the officer. The shooting occurred in Eighth | avenue alley, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets when the Negro, ! who broke away from Patrolman John Schonder while under arrest, | pulled out the knife when Schonder overtook him The dead man's address is not known but city police expressed the opinion that he was not an Al- toonan. After the shooting the victim's body was taken to Altoona Hospital where, after an autopsy, it was {found a 38-calibre bullet had en- tered the right side of his back and { plerced his night jung, touching just heart, ili Osceola Mills Woman Hurt Mrs, Cecelia Fox, 58, Osceola Mills, suffered contusions of the chest last Thursday at Harrisburg in an automobile collision between cars driven by John Anderson, 19, of Osceola Mills, and Benjamin 'Gurnberg, Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs. Fox, who was treated at the Polyclinic | Hoenital, is owner of the Anderson machine which skidded on wet lightning. roads and crashed into the rear of the other car. State to Improve 5 Roads in 1 County Highway Department Will Resurface and Build 4.79 Miles Lightning Bolt Destroys Mill Davis Planing Mill at Janes- ville Burned to Ground Thursday Night The Davis lumberyard at Janes- ville, Clearfield county, was totally {destroyed last Thursday night by { fire after it was struck by a boit of | lightning. The Houtadale firemen were call- ed to the scene but in spite of their ; efforts the planing mill was destroy- ed together with its machines and | [stock of lumber. to be completed by WPA forces Damages (0 the building and ma- | Some of the work to be done by { chinery owngl by Seth Davis are department forces will consist of reported to be high. | placing macadam surfaces on roads The flash of lightning, which previously improved with a stone! struck the bullding during the base. The remainder is the building | heavy electrical storm, was follow- {of base and the placing of surface. ed by a heavy peal of thunder and | Roads In Centre county scheduled | soon by flames. for improvement during the pres- Large crowds of people living at ent construction season by depart. | Janesville, Houtzdale and nearby ment forces are: communities watched the flames Route 445 between Millheim and consume the good-sized wooden | Madisonburg, 1.42 miles of base and | building. | surface. “ | Route 14048, between Fisherman's | Paradise and Legislative Route 871, Church Steeple Damaged re of a mile of base and surface A vicious wind and electric storm | Route 150, in Jacksonville, 52 of which passed through the vicinity | {a mile of base and surface, of Tonawanda blew the large gilded | Route 14047, east from Route cross which surmounted the steeple | 14013, 1 mile of base and surface of the 8t. Peter and Paul Church Route 14003. east from Route 144 | from its fastenings. It made a | and in Clarence, 103 miles of base | large hole in the church roof. and and surface. then bounded off into the church! yard. Two barns In the county | {were burned, after being struck bj {| The Department of Highways is iplanning to improve 4:79 miles of iroad in Centre county this season , With its own forces, This is part of {a program approved by Governor {than 700 miles of road primarily in rural areas of the Commonwealth The work to be undertaken by the department forces will be in addi. tion to any contract work in the county and does not include pro- { The time has come for the United | [States to accept its responsibility | in the world as the largest and | richest nation on the globe, even If | Herr Hitler does not like jt. Classified Ads bring results | Stanley 1 ers {Arthur H. James for improving more | ests sponsored by the department’ Random [tems CLASSIC: Bellefonte High Bchool Buperin- tendent ©. PP. Bollenberger was teaching one of the sophomore his- tory classes the other day. The lopic was war, invasion, ele Ree ferring to the necessity for prepar- edness on the part of the U 8, Mr Bollenberger thumped the table and asked: “If the Nazis landed outside of Bellefonte tomorrow who would be the firs. 0 g0 out and uy w stop them?” There was a heavy silence for a moment. Then young Musser son of Mr. and Mrs Lester Musser piped up “Kar. Kussge!"” MYSTERY: Workmen dich engaged in opening & along Allegheny Btreet for the Bell Telephone Company's new underground cables are puzried over what seems 0 have been a substantial concrete road under the brick paving, from Pike Street southward. Even borough officials ant figure out when the concrete road was in use, Some belleve Lhal it was placed ax a base for the brick paving some years ago, but there’ some doubt about this since Lhere about four of earth other material Betees the con- crete and brick 8. 0. 8, PLEASE! Wil] some good soul gest an appropriale name new highway belween Bellefonte id State College? This depart ment doesn’t care who selecls Lhe name, or what the name is. just so ong as i is hali-way appropriate the road Centre County's two chief cities labored so long and so earnestly to gel. “Benner Turn- pike.” has been pinned on the high way by some newspaper: but it & meaningless and inept name the highway is no. a turnpike, and thing al all to dv Here's a main high- way inki ng Beliefonte and State C ollege by an almost straight routs passing through the grounds of Rockview penitentiary (which in is known far and wide) and one 10 dale has been able 4) of a g00d name for it. The be comparatively short ou have any suggestions, please telephone, write, or call any news. paper office in the county and we believe your efforts will be sincerely appreciated, (Note WwW Newspape As fellow members of the Cen- ire County Newswriters' Association we feel certain that you will want 10 see the Dew road correctly and appropriately named. We are posi- tive that a good name is available, if only someone would think of it We repeat tha: we don't care who is inche or kindly sug- 1 for the ar ', J @ for " must men | Bets the credit for the name and well be glad to give credit where credit is due), BICYCLISTS: At some time or olher we recall having read that bicyclists must ob- serve traffic regulations the same a: moorists. But see Bellefonte bicyclifis In action. youfd hever know ii, They run through “stop” signs with the greatest abandon To them traffic lights are nothing but pretly lanterns at sireet corn- Neither man nor beast is safe on streels or sidewalks. We're in favor of bicycles ang believe that more peopie ghould ride them. Bu: those who 40 should be made to give the rest of us at least hall a chance 10 enjoy life, limb, and the tn vo | pursuit of happiness, WANTED: This ad is somewhat unusual so we're pulling it here. The Undine Fire Company for weeks has been trying to obtain two parade rifies, for use strangely enough, in pa- rades. All efforts to locate such “dummy” weapons have been fruil- less. For the life of us, we cant imagine any of you folks having a brace of parade rifies in your attics But if you have, call or write Carl Moerschbacher, or the Undine Fire Company, immediately. “FATHER” DOWNES: Sunday night the Court House | was crowded to capacity as the Un- dine Fire Company presented the Rt. Rev. William E Downes, rector of the local Oatholic church, with { the robes of a domestic prelate | After the ceremony it was interest | ing 10 note that of the hundreds of | persons who flleg past to congrat- ulate Monsignor Downes. practically {every one of them in speaking to | him called him “Father” Downes. We have a suspicion that many of | those who have known him all these years will unconsciously, perhaps, continue to ¢all him just “Father” | instead of by hig new title | ACADEMY : Anyone who attended the Acad- emy Alumni reunion and banque: | here Saturday must have been im- { pressed by the fine type of men, generally who came here for the There were doctors, law- yers, coaches, professors, dentists (Continued on page five) ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES' — (od YES, MR BOWERS I'M HAPPY TO SAY THAT OUR OBSERVATIONS or YOUR REACTIONS ARE JUSY COMPLETE — Meet Alfred, Eddie!!! ‘By POP MOMAND 0)
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