Odd and CURIOUS in the = NEWS BOUT WITH BULL Using an eye-gouge and a nose-twist, William D. Slagle, a 08-year-old Cambria county far- mer, won a tough one-round de- cision over his 1,300-pound bull in a catch-as-can match on an Upper Yoder township farm. Attacking from the rear and by surprise, the bull gained the in- itial advantage, pinning his master to the ground with one horn in the farmer's mid-sec- tion, the other in his arm. Slagle gouged at the bull's eye, then twisted the ring in the animal's nose until, suffocating, the bull gave up. The farmer suffered a fractured shoulder and injuries to the head and side. Slagle im- mediately announced one bull for sale. ‘LOADED’ SATCHEL A man shoved a leather bag full of money across the counter to a teller in a bank at Jackson- ville, Fla. Suddenly five shots rang out and sulphurous fumes poured from the teller’s cage. The teller staggered back, three customers flattened to the floor and others fled to the street. Calm was restored when it de- veloped the money bag was one of those trick satchels designed to foil anyone trying to snatch it. The teller, new on the job, didn't know about the gadget and set it off. COST $500 Miss Evelyn Adams went into a restaurant at Berkeley, Cal, but the manner of her entrance will cost her $500. She stepped on the accelerstor, instead of the brakes in her car, and the auto plunged through a plate-glass window, i | | | | FINDS LEG BROKEN Helen Beadle, of Des Moines, Towa, drove slowly through traf- fic without accident, but went to the hospital with a broken leg. There had been no accident; she was just riding along, felt a pain and the leg was broken. EYELID WILL UPHELD The will of a man, who moved | his eyes to signify “yes” and | opened to say “no” has been sus- tained by a jury at Birmingham, | Ala. The decision involved the | estate of John Eberly, whose vo- Girl cal cords were paralyzed. MOM NOT THRIFTY Sergeant Richard Brumbaugh, of the army reception center at New Pa., received a seven-cent cake of soap from his mother in Altoona. Postage on the gift was eight cents. RIGHT! Mrs. Roy Clark arrived at a maternity hospital at Blooming- ton, Ind, with the remark, “Twins? Why, no, I'm going to have triplets.”. She was right. i An Heiress' Love for Working Men How a $5000000 heiress, whose | first husband was a mechanic and | whose second was a bartendé®r, has | found new happiness with a husky! miner in the carefree wilds of Ne-| vada. Don't miss this illustrated feature in the September 14th issue | of The American Weekly, the big | magazine distributed with the Bal- timore Sunday American. On sale | at all newsstands. — Hurt by Pitchfork The 14-year-old son of Mrs. Alice | Wettlaufer, of Wallis Run, received 2 punctured wound of the knee | joint was penetrated deeply by the | tines of a pitchfork. The wound was caulerized and tetanus vaccine | administered by the Ralston physi- clan, to prevent lockjaw. i Walk was traveling west on Spruce | { Street and that the car driven by | { Miss Sherokey was traveling north | | day | Milton, suffered a gash on the left forearm and bruises and lacerations | of the leg. The youth lost control! Bullet Kills Girl Accidental discharge of a small rifle killed 18-year-old Margaret | Maynard in her home at Bradford. Coroner Thomas R. Clark said the gun went off while the young wo- | man's brother, Roger, 13, was pass- | ing it to a companion, Our soldiers, sailors, and marines tion, uniforms and food. You can need planes, ships, tanks, ammuni- help to supply them by buying De- fense Savings Bonds and Stamps. - I, ninm$mn { Jail Fire Destroys | Property | able | home or any of its contents because i ¢ Oi | day {injured to the extent of a The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. SECOND SECTION dhe Cenfre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 60. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURS DAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1941, NUMEER 96. Salona Man Sentenced 10 to 20 Years for Assaulting Employer at Lock Haven Robert Welker Must Serve Penitentiary Term For Attacking Don Herr; Victim Robbed | After Being Slugged Over Head Robert Welker, of Salona, R. D,, was sentenced in the Clinton county court last week to a term of 10 to 20 years in the penitentiary for his | attack on Don E. Herr, August 18, at { his place of business in Lock Haven Welker had been in the County since his apprehension tha’ night, a few hours after he slugged Herr at the Otto Auto Parts Co, on | Bellefonte Ave. fracturing his skull in several places The attack on Herr, as he sat at a | bench mending a gun, occurred in | the | Herr manages back room of the store which After his apprehen- told police that he sion, Welker | struck Herr once as he sat at the | bench and that alter the wounded | man fell to the floor, he struck him Osceola Home Burns te Ground While Owner is Visiting Daughter While Mrs. Prank Kalke, Phoenix near Osceola Mills, was visiting at | the home of her daughter at Osce- ola Mills Thursday night, her home | burned to the ground Osceola Mills firemen rushed to the scene of the blaze but were un- to save the two-story frame Mhe proportions the fire had reached when the firemen were noti- fied. Neighbors of Mrs. Kalke, who is a widow, said Mrs. Kalke had left her home Thursday afternoon at about 4 o'clock two t with daugh- ter, Mrs, Paul Dempsey There was no one at the Kalke home when the {ire broke out. Ori- gin of the fire was not determined vid he Visd ner ris A inn ii Injured In Auto Collision | Accident to Philipsburg Resi- dent Result in Broken Knee Cap When the cars operated by Miss | Margaret S8herokey and John Walk i of Port Matilda collided at a street corner in afternoon Philipsburg last Wednes- Miss Sherokey was broken knee cap. The accident occurred when Mr. Walk, whose wife was a recent hospital patient was in Phil- ipsburg to get medicine for her Both automobiles were badly dam- aged and a telephone pole knocked down. A small girl from Clearfield, who was in the Sherokey car, suffer- ed bruises. She was (aken to the hospital but discharged later Chie! of Police N. R. Lamoreaux stated that the car driven by Mr on Ninth Street. He stated that there were conflicting stories about the Spruce Street car stopping at the corner - Injured by Mower. Thrown from a mower brother's farm near New Berlin one last week, Robert Hauck, of of a team made up of a horse and donkey and was thrown from the machine on a pile of rocks Freak Tomato Mr, and Mrs. Harrison Foust, of folk, Va, was entrapped Tuesday | Milton, are proudly displaying the results of their seasonable gardening inson, allegedly stole it {rom its] —a freak tomato, which in reality is! parking place along the P. R. R. twin tomatoes, with eight smaller freight station while the driver, | jones attached | Prederick Rebber, Norfolk, was eat- | Death Ends Plans for Wedding on his} again and again, then took two wallets from his clothes containing in all about $24. Welker, who had | procured a job only that morning at the store, used the barrel of a rifle | to hit Herr | Herr was in a serious condition | for several days at the Private Hos- pital, suffering from severe Irac- tures, but is now on the way Lo re- covery The court told Welker was very fortunate in not being charged with murder. If Herr had died as a resuit of the injuries, his assail- ant would have faced a charge of first degree murder, Judge Henry Hipple declared. Pleading gulity to charges of as- sault with intent to rob and robbery by violence, Welker was given the maximum sentence, $1 fine, costs and 10 to 20 years In the penitenti- ary. On the other charge to which he pleaded guilty, assault with intent to kill, drew three and a half to seven years in the penitentiary, in addition to a fine of $1 and the cost The sentences are 0 run concur- rently he he pm— ——— share way of the Do el your to preserve Ar Ty) life. Invest regu- larly in Defense Savings Bonds and siamps. nn AP —————— ito to no man evil for things honest t men Romans Recompense evil. Provide sight of all A New Exhibitor UNCLE Sav S Risen QUITE A DEFENSE Discovery of Tunnel At Harrisburg Recalls Similar Cavern In Centre County | Writer Observes C ave in Patton Township May Have Had Some Connection With ‘Grape- vine Route’ for Transporting Slaves Following the discovery of a tun- nel from the Susquehanna leading | into the center of Harrisburg, which CANDY CAUSE OF SUICIDE A reprimand from her father dur- ing an argument with her olde: Kis { ulted in a box of candy 16-year-old Catherir ter over re f : we the suicide © Zafaras, of nearby Turtle Creek. Po- CLINTON COUNTY MAN HURT BY TIRE RIM Harry A. Munro, of Island Route a patient in the Lock Haven Pri- from Mie JUS is vate Hospital and painful p i | a resus suffering 1 LeVere ir to njuries face I a peculiar accident early He was in- tire he was An afternoon n the rim of a was disclosed recently by workmen excavating foundations for the new Dauphin county court house, a resi- dent of Philipsburg wrote Henry W Shoemaker, of the Altoona Tribune CW erning similar cay ! Centre county With the unearthing of what ap- peared to be a tunnel of the wr ground rallroad for runaway sls underneath the site of the new rishurg courthouse, the leaders which monument were Dr. W riord and Rudolph Kelke he cave in Patton townsilj barrens of Centre county connection with the ‘grapevine for spiriting to Can- CLHOWER con - a “rn in the slaves lice sald the high school junior went room after reprimand father's 38 calibre revolver closet, loaded it and shot throat and I roughly id , Waddles' ar 1 work is her the y took her from the herself twice In to of 5 evidently Its into a that nding GUD e § i north of Scotia hands this leads {eet long travel 24 feet the human entrance i Passe must into one ] Wo chamber feet high Out labyrinths ed with rock falls to penetrate except knees While old claim, when ) 3 and nine ck fi~ blown nose and cheeks n off and str of this are but they are gnd rubbish on ! i some 50 ciutle hard e of De superior aw compound maxillary from a ia va bone in his upper J fractured nose and from puncture wounds in other parts of the body. His condition while very i as good as can be expeci- ands snd the barrens about h we people in discovered 1 he Bpanish war slirs pain » gt cave ed SO-THAT’S THE The Human Interest Side of Legal Oddities By Elliott H. Marrus LAW . Salute The Flag—-Must schou dren salute the flag and recit: Pledge of Allegiance during school exercises? In about 21% sta this is a compulsory part ol the public school curriculum. Many states have laws which specily ex- { actly what patriotic exercises are to { be held. Several children, members of a religious sect called Jehovah's | Witnesies, have Saused EA fa: { verstes by reftixing to site the fag, claiming that it was Against thei | religious teachings. The Jehovah's | Withesses believe that saluting the i flag is equivalent to worshipping a god other than the God, Jehovah a violation of the commandment “Thou shalt have no other Gods before me—Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, 6 nor serve them." Because of their refusal to salute the flag children In twelve states have been expelled from school. In S0Me CASES have even been whipped. When some of these cases reached the oourts, most of ths judges decided that the salute ana the Pledge of Aliegiance have noth- ing to do with religious observances The laws requiring the children to c the N ES, yon Ley these patriotic exercises take part In 15 been rend a declared valid have tht Mocatoriam-—"There pid English law providing th married a woman while she had no clothes on (or was wearing just a borrowed smock), he would not oe liable for any debls she incurred before the marriage such weddings took place in Bugland ax late an the 18th century. Keeping A Promise—Fred Sian man of New York City was arrest- ed and tried for stealing. When the jury acquitted hi the Judge said “Stahiman, are lucky. TT the sixth time you have been tried and acquitted petty larcen) You have been freed today. Take my advice and see 0 it that you will never be arresied agair Said Stahiman | arrested again, Judge, you that” He walked out of the courtroom st as he reached the stree: dead. A heart atiack was an at if a man 1 ty m you Sali {a ia for never be promise will I Patents-Some years ago. the pa- tent which fiad been Issued OT, a8 A number oO: wef candy, which can be eaten after i Nelson be - for a pen hel tor a Was the groun new In report. Mr. and Mrs sued the Cape Anne Tool Co cause their sleep was disturbed ive month period by the night work ai the plant. The court auditor awarded Mrs. Neison $300 and her husband $175. for their damage due 0 the noises emanating from the actory. Errors In The Bible?—Are there | any errors ia the Bible? Rev. Rim- mer, a New York City Presbyterian i eraser on really Lhe rudder invalid by court hal venuon the inventor 4 i was hot a - According to the Judge, all did was combine two elements—the pencil and the eraser—without producing some- thing new-—-which is a requirement for a patent. A patent has been Maued for a convention badge made this Wis [24] i ‘ ‘ i {the convention is over. Racing News-—<At the last session the Florida legislature a bill was introduced which sould prohibit the slate legislators [rom working as mutual clerks at horse ang dog rac- ing tracks. (Evidently law making does not keep them busy). It did not became a law because the state Migreseniadivey oled against it 44 0 30 Screwr Laws—Kissing in public is iimited three minutes in Tulsa Oklahoma. An old English statute forbid the playing of cards and bil- ards Union Scale—A wife's icas of sleep is worth $2 a night but her hus- bands is worth only $1.17—Accord- ing to a Massachusetts court's audi- of anyone finding a scientific error in the Bible. His offer sas taken up by William Fioyd, publisher of “The Arbitrator” who sued the minister claiming that after he had shown 51 definite scientific errors.” 10 Rev Rimmer, the latter rejused to pay the $1 000. Included among the al- leged “errors” were the Biblical statements that the universe was created in six days, that the Noah's Ark contained two of every kind of living things, and the statemensi that the “the coney and the hare chewed the cud” When the suit came up for trial, the Judge dis- missed it oh the ground that no proper Jegal case had been made out (Continued on Page Four) 0 Furniture Truck Snared Five Days Heavily-Laden Truck Trailer Imprisoned in Dense Forest Imprisoned five days in a densely foliaged snare, a huge furniture- laden truck-traller was freed from its bonds near Mill Run, Blair county, Saturday afternoon and an Altoona youth, aocused of driving it there was liberated from a larceny of an auto charge flied by the outl- | it's owner, {| The truck, filled with furniture of | an East End familly moving to Nor- morning early when Ralph C. Rob- ing in a nearby restaurant Patrolman Elmer M, Cashman of Three Injured In Automobile Crash Osceola Man Jailed After Ae- cident on Drunken Driv- ing Charge Mike Ponslick, Jr. of Mills, was lodged in jail Wednesday night following an automobile acci- | Osceola dent at Houtzdale in which three! persons were injured, and two cars, a utility pole and porch damaged Fonslick was found guilty of drun- ken driving at a hearing before Jus- | tice of the Peace Thomas Hender- ! son, Houtzdale, Thursday afternoon, according to the report of Houtz- Partridge. According to the chief of police, | the Fonslick car was Houtzdale from Osceola when it) struck the car driven by Elmer Ol- | | son, of Houtzdale. Olson was driv-| | ing towards his home on the edge of the Allegheny watershed, who dis-| town and was about ready to turn bridge consists of excavating and [face on September 15. Rapid pro-| dale’s chief of police, Thomas V.| {stone hill immediately east of it entering | May Complete Wages Should Road, Nov. Ist Be Checked Now Expect to Start Concreting Social Security Office Reports wf Route 64 Highway Workers Have Until Sept. 15 End of Year The Beech Creek Workers whose for the Lock Hav correspondent | en Ex wages for contractors highwa Creek pects for the 4.7 miles of new | mainder of this y ¥ on Route 64 between Beech | change in their and Howard boroughs, ex- 1937, to begin concreting the sur-|of the Social Security office at wil. | Hamsport. pointed out today. - gress is being made on the gradi : y ~ Le the work being concentrated on ig fill across the rav ine at Hunter wages in question were received, | Run the deep cut th h rough the lime- during which the worker can obtain | and cutting down the Schenck hill | ond using that material to make the | fill to the approach of the 3225-foot | long bridge across the Bald Eagle Creek east of Howard. i Work on the abutments of occur in his wage record. | In calling workers’ attention to this feature of the law while there is still time to have the first year's! this | TecOrd cleared up, I know of no one in recent years finding anything ancient in No doubt some of the cooking utensils or weapons of the slaves were found and these were elaborated with the passing of time become ‘Indian relics.’ “1 had been hoping Dr Beck of Altoona, whose the barrens it il to W. Frank articles on the most elaborate written, would a chapter on this cave been walting for such an appear. 1 had also meant to speak to my fellow townsman E J. ‘Jack’ Thompson, about “However, when 1 read of finding the tunnel in Harrisburg, 1 was time to tell about the mys ous cave in the barrens are and exact ever have ¥ and 1 had article to popular 11 p felt it ter If the Red- (Continued on Page Five) se s— 2 Sentenced On Morals Charge Clinton County Judge Sends Man and Woman to Penal Institutions R. Bollinger of Lockport Counts 4 Eu sodomy Clinton county three to ter Harry Clinton to » poy 4 ta plead t Years and ordered $1 § 11 Bollinger: Morris Kile s, pleaded for leniency hat tric wv ary and ine counsel noint ffm Came authorities ju the defer been ghuy munity, being ac nemity o the American Legion Pex Tanet od respected tive i ir » rganie HALON: The court replied defendant was a thing. but they did not see how could make d case Mrs. Gladys Fisher gullty to the same charge, the they ary fats ally A500 having i been taken into custody at the same [on time as Bollinger, was committed to the State Industrial Home for Wo- | men at Muncy. In passing sen- minister, in 1839 offered $1000 to tence Judge Hipple said “It is too | lane” bad we can’t send you away for life” Paul B. Turley, former OCC en~- roliee, who had admitted entering the Fisher hone and robbing Bal- lager of sutomobil> kevs and his cor taining identification end about $25 i ordered fine §1 rive from the penitentiary 1 148 % alle! cards T . cost ution 14 to 28 months To ay 1:04 a ad pro in in ————— —— at LIQUOR STORE WORKERS RECEIVE SALARY RAISES Governor James said yesterday salary increases for approximately 260 state liguor store employes were “on their way through now” and would become effective as of last August | i The increases were granted by the state liquor control board under an order reclassifying the method of computing salaries, by basing them | on bottle sales rather than on a doi- lar sales basis previously in effect -» Lightning Fires Barn. Lightning, cause of many barn fires in the Berwick section this | year, claimed another when fire that | brought, somehow 1837 : press states were not correctly reported to the! one of the three farms of Henry! that the H. L. Willams Company, Social Security Board have the re-| followed a bolt levelled the barn on Shaffer, at Rohrsburg. About one- ear 10 request a| third of the boss of $4.000 is covered | ang devote gil wage record for Mr. Holmberg, acting manager | of the farm machinery of Mr Shaf- | by insurance. In the barn was ali fer, together with about half of that of his son-in-law, Wm, Kile. Als» ng, plained that the law allows a per- destroyed was a quantity of new | gy the lod of 4 years after the year the siding and other lumber which had! been placed in the barn last week for improvements which were to (a correction of any error that may have started this week. On this] there was no insurance. Sportsmen Object Cameron County sportsmen feel Mr. Holmberg that they have been discriminated each night | stated that workers can obtain a 8€ainst in the stocking of streams tional [statement of thelr wage records on With fish. They claim that only 22- Miss Vesta Young, | i Random [tems BUCKET-A-DAY: | We hear so many parsons com- plaining about difficulty in firing | bucket-a-day water heaters that we | lee] moved to give to the world the results of our four-year scientific study of those valuable household gadgets. Let it be understood that we've tried every type and size Of coal available, and that we've gone into the matter with the sole idea of providing hot water in the house- hold 24 hours a day with a minimum of labor. Here are our rules: first stay home some Baturday night and use the money to buy an automatic temperature contro] for ur buck- stove, Buy hard Cow chestnut size. We could you why, but it would take wo much space Attach temperature re- gulaling gadget, build a fire, fill th stove to within two inches of being clear full fire will n £7 out after a full tank heated once again Lhe Y et-a-day k tell wie thw Vigil Viki From then on you need Vigil slove only twice every 24 mig- Say al noor night. In shaking use ghort rapid for the rap tion prevents clinkers from clogging grates This system has worked 50 success- fully for t} ve beet + ~a-day + al ithe p This : Urs pe . aour and down BLrokes i nr iC a ashe: i6 vital +3 the te 1 10 keep the bucket EX weeks without And water re 3 on 5 yn A corner that we aoe going new temperatu ouligin fire at all his system doesn't suggest that 3 Bas Maybe QeCalise it is 10 play nursemald a ap at i f you or 101 we ulomatic neater b way you twice day WEATHER ADAGE yr id 1 other day & talking mentioned : Was going to be a farmer might oid yop yo ANATY ry t there hoping the siore of adage: sinrm add to our wealher sared in we ne and fin ra iArmer: Wa) wou! 5 Of r Lhe Lrees Lhe Aves 4 a + die i: of the Wo expect iis | ARMENIANS: also pleading If you folks were around and old enough 0 know what was going during World War 1 you probab- iw remember that your waking hours | were blighted mostly with dima | thoughts of “The Starving Armen- : They were as much of a battle Cry, as we recall it as was the slogan “Save the World For De- mocracy.” Every time we shoveled Gown another chunk of corn pone (we haven't liked it since) or man- aged 0 get outside the black. sour, leathery stuff that passed as “War Bread” we felt as though we were caealing some Btarving Armenian out of the breath of life We have | & suspicion now, that a couple of good boatioads of food Tow ne worked wonders with the Starving Armenians of World War 1, bug it seemed as though their plight never BOL any better, and that no mater bow much we all gave to the ca 1s photographs from the stricken country showed the same spindly - legged ang poker-armed youngsters whose tummies were distended like baskets because they had to eat ETASS,—ai least that's what the pos- ters said, What we're getting around to is thay the U 8. today needs a “Starving Armenian” cam- ! paign to the public actually in- terested the war, We suspec: amt i makes no great difference i! the Armenians are not starving, as long as we in the United States are to reali most of the Ward is at A po that sooner or later we're going to have to forge “business as usual” : Our energies to - ing those who want pol Ne A ———— — Tent Meetings at Martin's Grove Beginning Sunday night, August i and continuing nightly at 7.4 o'clock (DST), tent meetings will be conducted at Martin's Grove three miles west of Beech Creek on ! Route 364. These meetings will be | conducted by the Rev. ang Mrs. R. J. DeBoer and Misses Vesta and Verna Belle Young, of Monument, Evangelistic messages wil] be given by Rev. DeBoer. Inspira- will be conducted by song leader and covered the truck-van abandoned in his driveway on a one-way tram road hemmed in | by crowding trees, said a local gar- | | laying the bases of concrete, active- The Fonslick car wig sald to have | ly going on. The concreting of the careened across the road where it] floor and sides of the bridge across | request to the Social Security Board | 000 of the millions of fish placed In Miss Verna Belle Wedding plans of a young Cleve- | through the automobile windshield. All Social Security Board offices the streams of the stale were re-| Solos, duets and tr land coule were forestalled by death | Thursday night when the bride-to- be was killed in an unusual automo- bile accident at Mercer. The victim was Nelle Mac Wells, | 18, who was killed instantly near Mercer, when the car in which she | was riding collided with a hay wag- on. Her head was crushed by planks from the hay wagon which crashed Be a a aS tb ———— S| i. Huge Roast of Approximately $5,000 was the loss when fire consumed a ten-wheel trailer truck and its cargo of green tomatoes, near Selinsgrove last week. | When two tires on the rear tandem blew out, the truck stopped to await another truck of the same line, Green Tomatoe Her companion, Shirl Hoffman, 21, escaped injury but William Brown, 55, of near Mercer suffered chest injuries when he was thrown from the wagon. The couple was return- ing to Cleveland from Barkeyville, Venango county, where Hoffman, the prospective bridegroom, had gone to obtain a birth certificate. Hoffman and Miss Wells had plan- ned to wed in a few days. S and the driver and his assistant napped. It is believed that the blaze started from overheated tires, and spread to the wooden crates, which contained the tomatoes, each wrapped in tissue paper. Only the charred shell of the van survived the flames, de Ice Freezes In Sullivan County Residents of Sullivan county last| week shook the moth balls from! thelr Winter overcoats and began to cut more firewood, With the re-| ory trees are beginning to shed their | | Classified Ads bring results, port of ice freezing on the edges of | many of the lakes that dot the mountain. Frosts have been report ‘er in the highlands, but none in the! offices and 9000 banks throughout lowland areas. Butternut and hick- leaves, open on a track. Van & 8 company, Norfolk, was disch by the alderman up- on payment of costs. What Your Mouth Tells About Your Character a person's lips an expressive of abilit , emotions and chances for success in a way than even eyes can possi! indicate, Read this in 8 in the September 14th issue of The Ameri. can Weekly, the big magazine dis- tributed with the Baltimore Sunday American. On sale at all news stands, Defense Savings Bonds are now avallable at more than 16.000 post | the United States, a Noted psychologist explains that more eloquently | 4 age crew took about four hours to took out a telephone pole and then Marsh Creek west of Blanchard has jack the tractor and trailer up, turn | went down over an embankment and | been finished. The tearing down of | it around and move ii out into the | i i knocked a porch post down and cav- | ed the side of the house in. slick car was totally wrecked. ] Home Fire Loss $9,000 i A Berwick Car and Foundry Com! pany employe, en route home from| work, discovered a fire in Almedia! and broke down the door of the welling, arousing two women who were upstairs sewing, unaware of the blaze. The women, Mrs, Edwin Hess, wife of the owner, and a neighbor, Miss Betty Temple, escap- ed narrowly. Loss in the fire is es- timated at $7.000 on the building and $2,000 on contents, Towanda Man Killed Frank Hancock, 20, of Towanda, was electrocuted Priday of last week, | while repairing a power line at Eas- ton. He was employed by a contrac. tor repairing the power line, and came in contact with a high tension wire. A L and require only a one-cent stamp.! Mr. H and that in some instances these has reason to believe that his wages 47,000. furnish post cards for use in mak-| ceived for Comeron County, whereas | jal fea ing the request. The cards are free| Elk County, it is reported, received | will reports may be incomplete or in- have not been correctly reported! To “Keep ‘em Flying” you must (Continued on Pape Siz) CENTRAL P Daniel Barnett, Central Pennsyl-, a soldier wearing the blue uniform vania’s oldest resident, observed his of the northern forces. 100th birthday on Tuesday of last th In speaking of the important ing Mr. Barnett's evenf, the Philipsburg Daily Jour. everything nal, on Wednesday, had the follow- as a ma Ing to say: } Yesterday Daniel Darnett, of Olanta, quietly observed his 100th | birthday anniversary at his rural Clearfield county home and last , night, much to his surprise and pleasure, he was serenaded by the Houtzdale American Legion band. | , oo The blare of martial music was office. sweet to the ears of “Danny” who liam Henry “years and years ago”. was himself pneumonia £333 EROS ——— country has passed through the : Ex HH) —- py 5 iv p- § 58 i ENNSYLVANIA’S OLDEST RESIDENT | terday. A number of years ago Dan- | Civil War, Maxican War, Spanish ny's birthday was quite an event but than a person can American War, World War and now he sa¥s that it has gotten to become is : § ¥ E 5 k ] i ; ; st £8
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