COPIES EACH WEEK; LARGEST CIRCULA- TION IN COUNTY. m—m—— EEE he Cenire Democrat sm — PAGES OF COUNTY NEWS AND WEEKLY FEATURES FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY — —— 14! VOLUME 60. NUMBER 35. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1911, SUBSCRIPTION—-$1.50 PER YEAR PARALYSIS GASE AT STATE COLLEGE 10,00¢ See Huge Convention Parade 81600 AWARDED IN Here Comes the Largest Company i in PRIZES; 16 BANDS IN COLORFUL PARADE a o . : Smethport Firemen Win| Bellefonte Firemen Will Lion's Share of Prize Clear Substantial Fund Money From Convention STATE DRUM CORPS | ALL BILLS, PRIZES ARE ORDERED PAID TAKES HIGH HONORS | Week's Proceeds Will Far 2500 Jam Stands For Exceed Expectations of Committee Drum And Bugle Corps Competition volunteer last week to successful Bellefonte fire Bellefonte's men made history They were largest and ventions ever and as a climax to nearly a week of activities they staged last Thursday one of the best organ ized parades in the history ty Thursday, the big day of Annual Central District Association Convention fot men and their friends from county area pouring into town the thousands, eager fo hosts one of the mast, held in con- f this c¢ the 40th Firemen’'s ind 12 he 0 or the m one « { the events of week outstanding program. They jammed ti decorated streets; taxed business places and restaurants capacity, and for a day turned normally quiet community into teeming cit} Sixteen bands and 10 drum and bugie corps supplied music for the colorful ten-division 1a whi H Iiness Fatal To H. P. Schaeffer required nearly an hour and a hall to pass the judges stand atop the | Prominent Hardware Mer- chant Succumbs at Hospital; marquee of the Penn Belle Hotel, on | West High Street. The parade Funeral This Morning we town's gaily in the next in ana nel scheduled to begin at 11 a. m. was approximately ‘one hour late in starting because of confusion resull- ing. from the difference between Standard and Daylight Saving (Continued on Bape siz-——Second Section Howard Youth Killed By (ar Death of Carl E. Pletcher, 8, Accidental, States Coroner. west Howard, last Thursday morning, Carl Edward | Pietcher, aged 8, son Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Pletcher, of Howard died at 8 o'clock that night in the Centre County Hospital, Death was attributed tured skull, a fracture of leg. and other injuries The driver of the car was George P. Harrison, of Milesburg who stop-! Harv ped immediately and brought the | High str iad to the hospital | century According to Centre County Cor-| oner Charles Sheckler, of Milesburg, | who investigated the accident, Har-| rison was driving east on the high- way and a team drawing a land Continued on page siz-—Second Section) Seven Girls Hurt As Car Hits Pole Seven girls. members of a group camping in Diamond Valley, were injured about 6 o'clock last Thurs day aflernoon when their car left the Brush Valley road a short dis- tance east of Centre Hall and crashed into a power pole The accident happened as the girls were returning from a visit to Penn's Cave. In striking the power pole, the car moved the pole several feet and broke a cross arm, allowing a power line carrying 22000 volts to fall on a fence just beside the wrecked car Three of the injured girls were admitied to the Centre County Hos- pital. They were: Greichen Al- {Continued on Page Seven) home just f of of to a frac- the leit ey P. Schaeffer, eet, for more engaged business in Bellefonte, o'clock Monday 25, 1941, pital Death came 73, of East than half a in the hardware died at 12:06 afternoon, August at the Centre County Hos- the result of a complication of diseases following a long illness. He had been a pa- tient at the hospital for 63 days Mr. Schaefler was a son of John and Rachel Brimgart Schaeffer and was born in Zion on March 3. 1868 As a young map he assisted his father on the farm near Zion, and later spent several years farming in Illinois About fifty years ago he returned Centre county and began his! career in the hardware business as ‘a clerk in the H. A. McKee Broth- ers hardware store which was lo- cated on South Allegheny street In subsequent years he was em- (Continued on Page Sir) Widmann & Teah to Change Store Location as to Announce ment was made yester-| day that Widman & Teah, Inc, for | some years located.in the Brocker- hoff Hotel block, South Allegheny | i street, will move into the corner | room of ‘the game block in the quar- Democratic Women To Convene Here ic: vacated some time ago by the | | A. & P. store A regional conference of District! Negotiations closed yesterdsy are | No. 8, Democratic Women, is to be reported to include the éonstruciion held at the Court House on Satur-| of a new and modern front for the day, September 13, according to an store, redecorating of the interior, announcement yesterddy. all new fixtures and a new soda Delegates from the four-county! fountain district, including Eik, Jefferson, Plans for the store are said to call Clearfield and Centre counties are for the most modern and up-to-date expected to attend, Men and wom- cut-rate drug store in Central Penn. en leaders of prominence in the | sylvania, Democratic party in the state and Owing to the great nation are to be among the speak- | work necessary in making the ers and the program will include a! change, several months are expect- tour of the county in the afternoon | ed to €lapse before the store is find a banquet in the evening. } ved into the new location, Pupils Instructed to Re- port { bandry | the ground { mud, | vention in Bellefonte last week was | amotint ‘of | | the purchase of a home, The Centre Hall Fire Company, with 56 uniformed members in Hi in the parade which climaxed the 49th annual Central District Fire men’s won similar honors at Milrey and Ho ward, crossing the Diamond, reccally Firemen’'s Parade ) ne, won the £75 first prize for the largest uniformed company in line Association Convention here last Thursday. The outfit, shown Schools Open Prisoner Has On Wednesday Brief Liberty Escapes in Office er’'s Car, Friday, Caught Saturday ; Sentenced Monday port at 9 a. m. (DST); Outline Rules Bellefonte Publi on Wednesday announ ced yester The schedule Any high tered should do so Otherwise Wednesday attend the will afternoon mon ng of school they be wd «MW and sh session All registered Hd nat "He on Wi no HNE ame as break for Friday desperate elementary hould re- made last at 9 Beginners: pupils tg o'clock on opening day should repo the first Abou o'clock tl grade teachers at the Bishop street and Allegheny street ‘onlinned on Pope Siz) t tn park. officials t reserved for th me Rockview Welfare The man parole September wr because he marole officials that a home and steady released, was seen to walk over the Buick sedan owned by Paul N on Page Siz) itd bes ap ; buildings for whose application had beer couldn’ 0 Today is is "Grange tity : Day’ at Picnic he was work if to {Confinged Heavy Rains Fail to Dampen EE bi Enthusiasm at 658th An- Central Labor Union nual. Fair To Picnic at Hecla fn . Grange Park, Centre A free gan we and floor show will hiight " feet of thousands of 90 ighlig 4 of the annual pienic | campers, Sunday, was ©! the Central Labor Union at Hee- ia Park on Labor Day, September into a sea of liquid mud it wat aniBotinead is mite | night when a downpour 1, it was annotinced by the commit yesterday rain accompanying sn electrical storm soaked the park Undaunted, hardy Patrons of Hus- in camp at the 68th annual fair, spent hours hauling and spreading sawdust and cinders over to dry up the worst puddles, Then came Monday night with a repetition of severe and pro- longed rain. Cars were bogged in and the midway, where saw- dust or cinders weren't thick, was reduced to a slippery layer of mud { which made walking hazardous and {Continued on Page Siz) Bs An inch dust churned Hall, by visitors turned Sunday or two of brown up in the and of The round dance will be held in pavilion from @ to 11 p. m. and the floor show will begin at 8 p. m (All time is Eastern Standard | Time.) In afternoon there will be al baseball game at 1:30. and a gram of speaking at 4 p. m. A bas- ket lunch will be in order at 5:30 p. m. The public is cordially invited to attend the outing i the the pro- - Mrs. Harvey Again | Wins Golf Title | Defeating Miss Mary Rankin, 5 to 3, Mrs lewis Orvis Harvey, of Bellefonte, for the fourth time be- came women's golf champion at the Nittany Country Club in a tourna- | ment held during the weekend, | In the nine-hole division Mrs | William H. Brouse won over Mrs | Mary Scott, 4 and 3 cP ————— 'Coleville Woman Wins ' Car Given n Away Here The new Mercury sedan given | away as a feature of the 40th an- | nual Central District Firemen's Con- | Mrs awarded Saturday night to Joseph Riglin, of Coleville There are seven children in the | Miss Georgette Purnell defeated | Riglin family, and Mr, Riglin is| Miss Charlotte Walker, 1 up, in the | employed by the American Lime and | beaten eights of the 18-hole play. Stone Company. Reports yesterday | While Mrs. Ray Noll was winner of were that Mrs. Riglin expects to seit the beaten eights in the 08-hole the car and use the money toward! bracket, Mrs. Noll defeated Mrs | Newell B. Long, 2 up { machine fi {road despite {er to swerve back. Mr | side. Confer crawled out of the car Continted o | Linden Hall Native Held Var-/| | Hall, prominent Centre county Dem- Home Is Struck : By Lightning Mr. and Mrs. John Lam- Blacksmith Is (rash Yidim John W. Mills, 64, Miles- burg, Suffers Broken Neck as Car Upsets bert, Jr., Stunned: ! Others Are Affected pame time vere electrical storm here lock Monday morning South Allegheny street oad 1 iarge oak near the Dent) ormeters affected at neck Persons vicinity was riding wi ] brother. ireatest effect of the flash Jesse nfer. aged about 65, | felt at the home of Mr. and J » Lambert, Jr South where the DOI cam. freplace chimney, twist other chimney out of line and the: “the building after tearing some shi the roof Passing through ghining blasted a a blind the facing one inch and passing within 1 feet of Mrs. Lambert's head before strik- ing ar severing a lamp cord Mr Mire. Lambert declared that bedroom was filled with light and both of them niinged on Pape Seven tree tumeg broken Mill Jaw the WAL Mrs Alle and on fer's home accident hap wih ino street furies According to Motor Police at and Charies who investigated fer driving along ih urtin wved Howard “back” road about 1% mil ‘ north of Curtin when he turne the narrow road wo mud puddle One the fron car struck soft at the of the road and leading brilliant irther and further off 10% the efforts of the driv- Confer said the ear traveled about 30 feet in this fashion to a point where it was leaning so sharply that it rolled | over a 30-foot embankment The sedan made one and a half turns and came to rest on its left reports ntered Pleasar ' Oentre Con inty Coron- Sheckler, of Mi) Jes by irR fat Ped 03 ngles a window the screen to shreds, and roller, of the window fire 10 a station Pr the hattered ita Was sed irtain severa avoid wd and of t wheels earth the kept EE —— Jury Returns 8 True Bills District Attorney Lists Cases For Trial; Court Opens Sept. 8 Six bruise his n minor was dead ond Sect with only a few scratches. Mills Se are listed for trial at the regular September criminal James W. Swabb | court which 8 scheduled to open Dies at Hospital | here on Monday, September 8, it Six cases was announced yesterday by trict Attorney Musser W. OGeltig Preparation of the list | action of the Grand Jury early this fous County Offices; | Funeral Friday eight cases, but two rf them in- James Wilson 8wabb, 78. of Linden hended at this time According to the court t 'o 4 1 of | wr i Tri By af a Jes houder of | four cases will be tried on Monday, ing, August 26, 1041. | September 9. and the remaining in the Centre| , County Hospital of a compiicatio Monday's | two on the following day of diseases incident to advanced | st follows age Alex Bell, Glassport. Allegheny In 1395 Mr, Swabb was elected | | county, shooting at and wounding a Deputy Register of the county for | human in mistake for game three years, and in 1008 was elect-| James H, Krause, Osceola Mills, ed to a six-year term as County | rape Auditor. He also served as Justice | Russell L. Campbell of the Peace of Linden Hall for | lege. sodomy. three six-year terms, resigning in| Theodore Flick, Powellon, sodomy 1923 when he was elected to the | (Continued on Pope Seven) board of County Corimissioners - He was a member of the Free and | Banjo Band Clears $150, Accepted Masons, Centre Hall, and | The Bellefonte Banjo Band last | of the Williamsport Consistory | Thursday cleared $150 at the Y M. | A son of George and Mary Ann! C. A. where more than 500 dinners (Continued on Page Siz) | were served to convention visitors State Col { store in the same jocation late next | A. & P. store Dis-! | conducted as such since that time followed | week, Indictments were returned in| ! volved fugitives from Rockview pen. | bobo itentiary who have not been appre | schedule, | | Company in a parade, Friday night, | {on the Milesburg school grounds bands in line: ‘pany and Logan Fire Company, dio, several boxes of | Bellefonte: 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL IS FIRST TO CONTRACT DISEASE IN COUNTY Wary E. Mason Stricken Ill Sunday; 2 Other Children in Family RESIDENCE PLACED UNDER QUARANTINE Health Officials Predict Increase of Malady in State Next Month Woman In Convention] Crowd Is Injured Titan Employees To Get Back Pay $134 Mal State but all= oomsiderably in the gress where Pa pe X ix ! been pany, and Federal ) Cont 10081 A F m on No inged on s———— be spread i ck payments will spr over a two-Fear J i Lo prevent ie Tae) oo Man Dies After | sem payment. i After wi jon, the ur with who Le asked fssvrind t reiurneg Car Overturns Motorist, Apparently Un- hurt in Mishap, Succumbs at Hospital Here been imped over the =» t 10:30 that morning by Paxion unlined on page three— Second Section) hee] Two Couples To Be Married Here | Emerick-Rightnour and Gil- len-Daye Weddings Sched- uled Saturday GROVER CORMAN The closing of the A. & P. Mar- ket on West High street, Bellefonte Saturday, August 30, will result in the opening of an independent food Two well known Bellefonte couples, members of the town's younger set, will be united in mar- Tiage here Saturday and wil] leave together late that night for a two weeks’ wedding trip to Canada Miss Mary Katherine Righinour. daughter of Mrs. Emma Rightnour, of East High street. Bellefonte. will become (he bride of Paul R. Emer- ick. son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Em- i | 3 Popiar week, it by Grover Was announced Corman, manager yesterday of the Corman reported that he has compieted arrangements for open- ing the establishment as the OCor-| srick or wr 4 - man Food Market next Thursday re OS aann gireft, and on with the same staff of clerks and Mr. and Mrs Jesse Dave of Ma oi assistants. The store wiil handle a sonburg. will become the pride. of compiete line of groceries, meats.| jon, Andrew Gillen. son of Mrs produce. seafoods, frozen foods and | 14, Gillen, of Bellefonte oe feeds. It will be operated on a cash | The Emerick- Rightno, r weddir basis, but a delivery system will be | will be heid at the home of Prius added he ride’s mother East rect The store opened ir 1920 as an (Continnet on Pape ei ¥ A. & P. grocery. In 1835 it was ex- | — panded into a market and has been | Service Station Here Is Entered, Robbed For the third time in two years thieves Friday night entered and Parade To Open Milesburg Festival robbed the Love Lane service sta tion on East Bishop street. opposite An attractive list of list of prizes is be- the Undine Fire Hall Loot taken ing offered by the Milesburg Fire Was valued at $30 Paul Howard, manager of the sta- which will be the opening feature tion, discovered the theft when he of the company’s annual two-day (reported for work about 7 o'clock festival The festival will be held | Saturday moming. A window in a | narrow space between the office The parade is scheduled to move | building and the building housing Continued on i" Pape Seven) | promptly at 7:30 p. m. (DST), with | the washing and greasing racks had the following organizations and! been broksn Undine Fire Com-! A check revosled that a table ra- cigars and Continued on pape fourLocond Section) Pine Hall Man Injured. J. D. Neidigh, 68. of Pine Hall fell Milroy Fire Company, | Pleasant Gap Fire Company, How- {ard Fire Company, Centre Hall Fire | {| Company, Pleasant Gap Band, Hobo | | Band from Milroy, and others, down stairs on Saturday, and suf- Prizes will be awarded as follows: | fered severe brulses and torn liga- {$10 to largest uniformed company ments of his back and neck. Mr. in line; $10 to best appearing com- | Neldigh had been seriously ll im {Continued on Pager Seven)
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