THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. January 29, 1942. - » Fifty Years Ago Shingletown, above Boalsburg, has Col. J. L. Spangler has been re- been made a postoffice, and we guess ported quite ill with the grippe at all are happy there now. It is the | . . only Shingletown in the United Hastings . We are: glad to See our friend and Councilman Mr, Isanc States. The Daily Keystone Gazette com- | Longacher able to be around again. { He had a long siege of the grippe. pleted its first volume this week While we do not agree With our es-| yp. 1 wie Reeser, formerly of this place, a rising young architect of teemed contemporary in all things Altoona, was shaking hands with his we must admit that it is a newsy and interesting paper. {many friends in Bellefonte, He was Dr. Fisher, of Zion, reports an|called home by the serious illness of unusually large amount of sickness | his mother. who is now slowly re- in that community, post of the cases | covering. : David Kunes, a respected citizen being grippe. On last Friday he vis- | ited some sixty patients and most : | of Bagleville, departed thig life on | Monday night, January 18, 1892, at of them were afflicted with the mal- ady. He says the disease appears to the age of 79 years and 10 months Deceased had been a member of the be more prevalent in the country | Disciple church for 18 years, Mr, districts. or ill be commence next | W. oy new rn I ho | Kuhes was one of a large family of ah that name who settled in that town | nearly a century ago. One sister, stone floors in the vaults of the pro- thonotary's and the commissioners Mrs. Susan Lingle, relict of Simon Lingle, and one brother, Christ offices in the court house. After this is completed the new metallic fur- 000" Co" iva niture will be put in place and ev- Kunes, still survive him ervthing will be in good order and! Mr. Benjamin Gentzle, of Spring well systemalized in those depart-| Mills township, called on us Tues- {day. We were sorry to see him mov- ing around by the use of crutches, ments, On Tuesday, January 19 the of- ficers of the Camp at State College #5 he received a fracture ol his leg were installed. There were 53 pres- | several weeks ago while trimming ent at the time and there were three | lréés in his orchard The var- applications for membership, Fol- lous fire departments of the bor- lowing are the officers; president, H, | 0ugh responded in fine style to a fire A. Sowers; vice president, M, D,/Alarm given on last Thursday. A dangerous blaze at Maitland's boiler works was fortunately put out in Snyder; M. F., E. R. Holmes; con- ductor, B. Frank Schaeffer; assist- time and little damage was done Marriage licenses were issued ant R. S., Hamill Holmes; F. 8, George Ralston; treasurer, W. S Glenn; inspector, Harry Sholly; out- the following couples: Elmer er guard, Daniel Martz; chaplain, F. Wolf, Logan Mills, and Annie E 8S. Taylor; R. G., William Gilliland; | Snyder, Rebersburg; Willan H Bohn, Lemont, and Mary R. Mays Linden Hall; Charles H. Smith and L. S. H. Hoy: trustees, M. D. Sny- der, W. 8. Glenn, Sylvester Slagle; delegate to state camp, David Lizzie Krebs. both of Pine Grove Holmes. The inspection by district| Mills; william A. Markley and Mary president Graham, of Eagleville, E. Baughman, both of Powelton: J W. Cone and Mary PF. Everette, both of Philipsburg: Frank C. Everette, The most remarkable and at first seemingly unaccountable stupor and Philipsburg, and Jeannette Wiley, Clearfield: J. T. Confer, Boggs town- sleep of Miss Carrie Hoffman, of hilipsburg, is peculiarly explained She lay in a comatose condition at ship. and M. C. Lucas, Hbward town- Superintendent Anderson's hom e|ship from Tuesday evening until Thurs-| day. and then only partially regain- ed consciousness, Miss Hoffman states, since the restoration of her mind and memory, that on Tuesday evening she was struck on the back of the head at the base of the brain by a snowball thrown by some ur- chin. It hurt her but little at first but before she got home stars danced before her eyes and she was soon in a trance. She is probably suffering from concussion of the brair It is said that Mr. william Grass- mire, of Milesburg, is the crack rifle shot of the Bald Eagle Valley, He has a keen eye and a steady nerve, and is always ready for a contest Applicants for liquor license are beginning to send in their petitions to the Prothonotary. Haag's hotel will again ask the court to grant them the privilege to sell to R On Friday evening, January 13, as a train load of logs were being tak- en down the tram road to Pardee, a railroad station on the LL. & T railroad, in the mountains about six miles east of Coburn, the crew Jost {control train owing to the slippery condition of the rails, and all the men jumped except Olley Specht, engineer, and fireman Wil Jordan. The train had gained a tre- mendous speed when Jordan and Specht jumped off. Jordan, it ig sup- posed, jumped off the wrong side and rebounded under the wheels of the trucks, where he was ground into a pulp. Specht escaped with a bro- Ken nose, sprained back and fee: The attending physician thinks Mr Specht will recover. He was brought in on a mule and Jordan was taken in on another dinkey. Mr Specht had just jumped in time, for the next instant the train jumped the of the Last Wednesday the State Editorial As- sociation met at Harrisburg and this county was honored by the selec- tion of Senator P. Gray Meek as president of that body Mrs James Kellerman, of this place, who had been seriously ill during the past three weeks with pneumonia; and the grippe, is slowly recovering Landlord John Uzzle has a fine crop of ice on his fish pond this sea- son. It is over ten inches in thick- ness and several carloads were ship- ped to Bellefonte. forty feet down the mountain, an entire wreck, Mr. Jordan lived at Pardee. He leaves a wife and sev- eral children, This makes the fifth accidental death in the same woods within seven years, Bruce Swengel and Willlam Pursley were Killed about five years ago: two months ago John L. Goodland. er met death in the same way. The fourth man was Asa Libby, killed five years ago by a falling tree Twenty Years Ago Poison liquor Killed 103 persons] Miss Essie Spangler was appoint- in the United States in the first 18'ed postmaster at Blanchard to suc- days of 1922, dispatches from var- ceed James Egan, World War vet- ious parts of the country revealed. eran, who resigned Miss Spangler Wood alcohol was the base of many, was well acquainted with the duties of the poison concoctions Pope Benedict XV died in his roy- | assistant. al apartments at Rome, Italy, on. Several nurses from the Bellefonte Sunday morning, January 22, follow- Hospital escaped injury Saturday ing a short illness with pneumonia. night when a sleigh on which they Pope Benedict was in his 88th year were riding upset and threw. them and had reigned as pontiff of the out. The horse and sleigh was own- Church of Rome for seven years ed by Clayton Heckman. The acci- and about four months Although dent happened when Here yas much Speculation in re- | frightened and made a sudden turn gard to § successor, there was no, - - outstanding candidate for the high ee Barsipun Waller. Retrusior, office. |church in Monument; and prepara- At the annual meeting of the tions were being made for dedicat- stockholders of the Hayes Run Pire ing the edifice, The building. of Brick company, held at Orvigton. di- | frame construction, was 40 by 45 rectors were re-elected as follows: feet in size and. cost approsimately Ellis L. Orvis, Charles BR. Kurtz and | $18,000, The church was to be non- Nelson E. Robb, all of Bellefonte; C | denominational S. Brown and Carroll W. Keller.| so riage ligenses were issued to Lock Haven; W. OQ. Bentley, Boston, wing : Edi Mass. and John K. Purst, New Cas- the follg couples: 7: A. n tle. These officers were elected: president, Carroll W. Keller: vige president, Nelson E. Robb; secretary and treasurer; W. O. Bentley, and chairman of the board, Ellis L. Or-' (00 " Aaronsburg: Joseph. Gb, Pan- vis. ik and Ma nes Shutika, both of A sight seldom seen outside the Clarence Ha Orient or tropical] countries was ph Mrs. BV. Goedbart, of Centre s00n to be found on a Centre county | . farm, Elmer Fetzer, of near Yarnell Hall. had the mislortune to make a Davis, Osceola Mills; Daniel Lewis Harmon and Mary Cecelia Malloy, both of Stale College; HafTley and Margaret S. Whitmyer, had completed training a team of Misstep and fell while descending | oxen and he expected to use them 2 Step at a neighbor's house. An ex- regularly in tilling the soil, Fetzer amination by a physician revealed laimed that he could his work that she had suffered a fractured : : 0 W'S Wor When she fell she was carrying | much as from any tractor-worked IN her arms a little niece, Anna Jane mueh more cheaply and produce as "iP field. 1 exhibition of his team Musser, and it wag believed that her at work, sing an old-fashioned | *0ts to protect the child resulted yoke, he felled a large tree, attach- 0 Der own Injury. ed a huge log chain to the trunk Raymond Kline, little son of Mr and com his picturesque land Mrs. Howard Kline, of Home team to move, With no apparent ef- stead, formerly of Pittsburgh. died fort the oxen pulled the giant tree from blood poisoning, the result of | track and landed on the rocks some tMNLTS a little over of the office, having been Mr. Egan's | the horse Lynn, Clearfield, and Ruth Laugetta Harvey W.! Brooks-Doll Post American Leg- { lon, Bellefonte, announced that it {would sponsor a home-talent min- |strel show at the Garman House early in February. The following Bellefonte Masons attended a meeting of the Consist. ory in Williamsport: George Bush, Donald Gettig, L, Frank Mayes, W, I. Fleming, Clyde Smith, Charles | { | over the County News . Dr. Donald M, Marvin, associate professor of economics at Penn | State, left last week for Washington, D. ©. to begin work as economlie | George Carpeneto of Bellefonte, has been named Centre county vice {president of the Firemen's Associa- {tion of Pennsylvania, The appoint- Beatty, George M. Gamble, Charles | gqvisor on Canadian problems for | ment was made by George A, 8mith Mensch (8r), and ©. Y. Wagner, After the meeting a reception and dance was held, | Fire which had its origin in an | overheated stove, slightly damaged tne home occupled by Carl Crone- miller, on Spring street, Mr. Crone- | miller had boarded up a fireplace and set a stove in front, and when the stove was fired one morning the boards at the rear caught fire Thirty-two harses, well trained In cavalry drill, arrived in Bellefonte from San Antonio, Texas, consigned to the local National Guard unit They were taken to the old sale barn on Wilson street, where they were to be stalled, Four men were to take care of the horses, accord- ing to Oapt. W. F. Reynolds, Jr, commanding officer of the troop REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Centre County Commissioners, Clair Hall, of Clarence, tract Snow Shoe Borough, 8! W. H. S8navely to Jacob H. Floruss et ux. of Flemington, tract in Walk- er Twp. $50 John L. Zimmerman, to Charles E. Zimmerman, et al. of Bellefonte, R. D. 2, tract In Walker Twp. 2, 500 B. Franklin Lutz, to Guy W, Ly ons, of Bellefonte, tract in Walke: Twp. $1 State College Borough to L. F Womer, et ux, of State College, tract in State College, $1 John T. McCormick, by executo; to Jean Canby Bischoff, et bar, of State College, tract in State Col- lege, $1 Cloyd 8. Harkins, ot al, to Henry Willett, et ux, of Philipsburg, tract in Philipsburg, $150 J. R. Irwin, et ux Charles, of Harris Harris Twp. $100 Harry E. Brown's Heirs, to E. Ruppe, et ux, of Akron, tract in Gregg Twp., $800 Harry W. Brown, et al, to E. Ruppe, et ux, of Akron tract in Gregg Twp., $400 W. F. Bradford, Adm.. to George H. Stover, et ux. of Centre Hall tract in Centre Hall, $3,575 to in M in to Foster Twp tract David Ohio David Ohlo SNOW SHOE The Ladies’ Bible class met at the home of Mrs. Harvey Smith last Wednesday night for their monthly business meeting and social at the time. Election of officers took place and the same ladies were reinstat. ed Mrs. Ann Musser, president Mrs. Florence Cole. vice president: Sally Ross, secretary; Miss Kathryn Dixon, treasurer: also a change of committees At a late hour lunch was served Those res. ent were: Mexiames Ann Musser, Francis Confer, Violet Kellander, Sally Ross. Althea Hammond, Clara Moore, Edith Walker. Viola McNam- ara, Elsie Shope, Florence Cale Mabel Irvin, Ann Stetier, Ellen Reese, Mary Smith, Laura France, Mary Hazzard, Florence Bradley, Dolly Wenrick, and Miss Kathryn Dixon The iadies’ Bible class and Friend. ly Circle class will hold a saurekraut supper in the M. E. church base. ment Saturday evening, Jan. 31, from 5 until 8 p, m. Everyone invited The Girl Scouts held an ice cream | party the home of Miss Mae France, Scout leader, last Wednes- day evening. Those present were: Misses Sally Budinger, Cleo Hall Mary Shive. Leanna Dahl. Barbara Cole, Margaret Morgan, Lois Swartz, Margaret Shaw, Norma Reese, Myra Dixon, Audrey Harnish Lois Bath- gate, Betty Irvin, Mae France and Mrs. Myra Budinger Those who attended the birthday party of Mrs. Ida Witmer at the home of Mrs Witmers daughter, Mrs. Earl Kauffman and (amily, Runville, were Mrs. Mabel Lucas, daughter Madge, Mr. and Mrs. Lem- oyne Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Roe Cale, + atl daughter Joy. and Mrs. Leona Os-. ' wald BOGGS TWP. Mrs. Beulah Symmonds of Phiia- deiphia, spent Thursday with her cousin, Mrs. Harvey Eminhizer Calvin McMullen of Harrisburg, spent the weekend at the home of Harvey Eminhizer. Borry to hear about Miss Hannah Eminhizer being ill at the home of LeRoy Sayers, where she makes her home. We wish her a speedy recov- ery. The sick around here are Jane; Egler, Gladys, Vivian and Harry Richner, and Lester, Sammy and Donald Confer. We wish them all a speedy recovery, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Richner his brother, Lee Richner. David McCartney went to Harris- | of Hublersburg, visited at the home of the Board of Economic Welfare, Dr (Marvin, who has been on the Col-| [lege faculty for the past year and a half, has been given a six-month leave of absence from his duties, His home is at 306. South Gill street, Waste paper and cardboard cols lections by the Boalsburg Girl Scout troop have totalled to 4800 pounds since the drive was started seven weeks ago, it is announced, The col- lection for national defense and funds for the troop is under the di- rection of Esther Grabam and su. pervised by Mrs. M. A. Clark, one! of the troops advisors. The drive for. paper will continue for some time, It was announced, Alrmen flying from the Bellefonte! alrport who haye been grounded since the outbreak af the war have received the necessary and are again able to take planes aloft, Henry Noll, manager of the alr field reports, A 24:hour guard at the alrport has been set up and precautions are being taken to all prevent any acls of sabotage. A rep- resentative of the CAA visited the field last week and pronounced everything in good coadition The Centre County Sportsmen's Federation organized for 1042 and passed on resolutions for changes in game laws at a supper meeting in the Harris township school in Boals- bury recently, Ralston “Red” Derr of Pleasant Gap was reelected to his second year of presidency of the Federation at the meeling, attended bY more than 100 representatives frome six of the ten county Other officers elected were: Reeder Jodon, Bellefonte, first presi- dent; Harry Corman, Spring Mills second vice president; Robert Boalsburg, third vice president; and Hassel Lose, Bellefonte, reelected gecretary-treasurer Six resolution including one from Representatiy Kenneth Haines of Rebersburg the compulsory wearing red by hunters, were passed upon by the Federation and wore taken by Pres- ident Derr, Centre Federa- tion delegate to the South-Central District meeting in Altoona Satur. day when they were approved Also included In the business at the meeting was the appointment of Mr Lose as delegate Dr. Logan J Bennett of alternale to the State meeting Harrisburg SCOTIA By HARRY WILLIAMS We are gi vice " io nf of count) and Lemont as Federation at ad for the return of our good neighbor Wiliam GG. Saxion. who returned home from the Phil- ipsburg Hospital last Tuoesday, At present he is getting along as well as can be expected. He has been re. calving many visitors ag many of his old friends have been calling on him. Recent visitors were Bdwerd Saxion, Monroe Daugherty of Apollo Bamue] Sellers, Ford City, Bamuel aims COeorge Saxion of Dayton, O and Mrs. J M Bricker ang son Samuel of Bellefonte On last Thursday Mrs. Dora Wil- liams and two ters, Mrz. Emma Davison and Mrs. Bess Stevens spent the day in Stat: Coliege with their sister, Mrs. Rella Johnson Mrs, Nellie Behrer had the misfor- tune last Wednesday of fracturing one of her ribs as she tripped and fell near the Read service station but is getting along fine at the time of this writing That man that writes them Ran- dom Items said something last week about Scotia being a deserted town and no automobiles Why You can Ls or night and se more than two cam parsed around and that is more thay he said he saw on High street, We may have even more than Mr, Ran- dom Item Man. Did you see In one of the papers where we may get an Army camp near here Of course we are not sure of it yet, but we will wait a while anyhow Visitors at the Williams homie on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. James A, Young and three children of Bush Addition, Bellefonte, Mr. and Mrs, Gordon Barto and four children, of Dungarvin, Mr. and Mrs Ghaner and son of Stormstown, Jean Young, the twin of the Young fam- ily, the latter is going to spend a few days with Grandpa and Grand. ma Williams mss ML — JULIAN Mrs. Margaret Boyer is very ill at this writing. Her {riends and neigh- bors all wish her a speedy recovery. Miss lois Brannan of Bellefonte, spent the weekend at the Harold | Alexander home, J. 8 Turner is not so well at this writing Mrs. Margaret Artz of Port Ma- tilda, is visiting her daughter, Mrs, Charles Alexander. Mr. and Mrs. John Wellar aad family visited at the home of the latter's mother, Mrs. Bertha Emin. hizer of Milesburg on Saturday Mrs. Gi. J. Maurer will soon have repairs on her home completed and will move into it in the near future, George Weller, Jr., little son o | Mr. and Mrs. George Weller, had the credentials | clubs.’ Hess, | coma up here any time of the day] Floyd | more than a mile to the barnyard. having been bitten by a pet deg. The burg to the Farm Bhow on Mon-| micrortune to fall on a piece of lof Pottsville, president County Coroner and | Bheckler of Milesburg, re 18] now have { more than thelr share of family rep- | iresentatives in the armed forces of {the nation. Oue son, Linn Sheckler, {recently enlisted in the Navy and | went to Norfolk, Va. for training. ! | Another son, James, is also in the Navy, stationed at [{Conn. A third, Sgt. Charles Sheck- {ler, is stationed at Camp Shelby, { Miss., with Battery B., 100th Field | Artillery Dean Zettle, Rex Searson, Elwood Heckman and Mylan Grove, repre sented. the Gregg Township Voca- tiona} School, Spring Mills, in the 126-plece Future Parmers of Amer. iea Band playing last week at the State Farm Show in Harrisburg Project winners who attended the show are: Ralph Walls, vegetable gardening: Raymond Swabb, swine, ang Glenn Wolfe, farm manage- ment. Harold Breon of State Col- lege, who Is music instructor at Spring Mills accompanied the group Btate hoping parent as they did Inst first al; raid Over munity Hay test older OCaollege school officials are that pupils, teachers and carry out their parts as well Wednesday in thel: rald practice if an alr does come to that com- Supervising Principal Jo sald that yesterday afternoon's went of! “without a hitch.” the students, acting as junic alr rald wardens, escorting the elemen- tary pupils to their homes No phone calls were received from parents at | the of the theoretical Mr Hays reported. "Yesterday's drill wag just like a football team walking through Mr. Hays sald Members of the Board of tors and afficers of the Farmer onal Bank & Trust Company Millheim all were re-elected at meeting of stockholders ly In the Municipal building Direc- tors are; J R, Miller H T Prank R 8S Stover LL. E Stover and 8. W CGramiey, of Millheim: John W. For- 37 of Aaronsburg: C. F. Cormar and Z. A. Weaver, of Coburn, and Kenneth G. Haines, of Rebersin The officers are: LL. E. Stover, presi dent; R. 8. Stover, vice president 8 W. Gramlies {. ficer: 8B 1 er: R H tellers aril time raid He plays Direc Na- the held recent. Pe i: cashier and trust « Hubler Smith ans nt cash- James Dx - and bookkeepers and Inncey JACKSONVILLE services on Sunday da} 8:30; worship, 10:30 Miss Elaine Dixson spent weekend with her grandparents and Mrs. William Boone Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Alley and daughter Bette, and Mr. Irvine Mey - ers were Sunday dinner guests at the John Schaefler home al Centre Hall Mr. and Mr: Hall, R. D., spent mer Swope home Mr. and Mrs. Richard Vonada and family called at the home of William Poorman and family of Howard Harry Beightol of Tennessee, Mrs Charlies Culby of Linden, Miss Char- iotle Beightol of Lock Haven, called at the home of C. E Aley and fam- ily on Friday afternoon. The former are Cousin Mrs. Aley Newion Weaver of Stale College Was a Sunday supper guest at the A. A. Oarreit home. Saturday evening callers at the home of Mr and Mrs. Robert Cona- way and family were Mis. Howard Hicks and son Myron of Milesburg, and Mary Oyler of Lower Nittany Mra, Thomas Delaney of Centre Hall. spent the week with her mo- ther, Mrs. Alice Betz, Caileis at the William Weaver home during the week were Mr. and Mrs. George Burd of Upper Marion Mr and Mrs. William Haines, Fred Haines of Upper Marion. Mrs. Ted Dixson, Mrs. Estella Dixson, Charles Harter and daughter, Mr and Mrs. Thomas Delaney of Centre Hall Mrs, Jack Mabus of Bellefonte, spent Thursday afternoon at the. C. E. Aley home Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Noll and children were Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. Elsie Noll, of State College Mrs Ieland Bechdel, Mrs. Marlin Hendricks, and Mts. Emerald Bech- del and daughter Emaline, are spending this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs Harris Bechdel. Callers at the home of Mrs. Lucy Conaway on Sunday were Mr and Mis ‘Mrs. Milford Etters and son Mil- iford of Yarnell, Mrs, James Shaf- fer and daughters, Mr, and Mrs. Homer Lose and son Earl of Belle | fonte, Ellsworth Conaway Gertrude Sheasley and daughter Shirley i Mill Hall M:s. Robert Conaway spent Wed- Qe Church Wie chool the Mr James Lucas of Mill Friday at El the of | nesday of last week with her par-| ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Beightol and family of Howard, assisting with the work while her mother is under the doctor's care, but who is | better at this writing. | Mrs. Charles Cronister and Mrs, ¢ Deimer Ertley and daughter Pegay {spent Monday afternoon at t he C. E. Aley home. Charles | Mrs. | Fred Kessling and Mr. and] of | ORVISTON | | There were 161 present at Sunday | school, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Molitz, son and daughter of Jersey Shore, were Sunday supper guests at the Clalr Butler home Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Page of Decatur, visited with Sherman | fer and sisters Mr, and Mrs. William Crispin of Julian, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Aber | of Lock Haven, and Mr George Bechdel of Williamsport, spent Bunday at the home of Clay- ton Watson Mrs. Paul Lomison afternoon and evening family Mrs. leo Condo spent end with her family Paul Lomison, Jackie Fewher Carol Confer and Paul Lomison, Jr motored to Noith Bend on Baturday alternoon Mr Mi John Daley of Bal- timore, spent the weekend with thelr parents Genevieve Nyman, who has been co nfined to her bed Is not improv- ing her friends would like to have her West Con- spent Bunday with her New London, | the weck- and Wednesday went to the Uncle Sam Roy Last ters held thelr the home of Mrs were 16 members business session and a pleasant ed by all After served the members of the presented Mrs. Leland Bechdel and Mrs, Vicor Smith, both members of the class, with a very nice end table lamp and ls interpiece glassbake | all wish the through Mr. and Mrs, A. J William Gillespie and Confer visited with Clearfield on Sunday My Alton Poorman and Almeda of A visit nN and Mrs, Barnhart 8 LeRoy training camp Much 1 Walker to help uccess to you, Le- Wednesday the Loyal Ds monthly meeting Grant Hahn, There present. After the Was over ocontests evening wag enjoy- refresiments were gN~- at ai Clans and frame We Happine ‘ ( pie Diale Iywed ang 16 all life Confer Mis Mrs. David relatives afternoon ian toona in PINE GLE 1 membershiy { chool hour R. C. Deashan will assist w1 geilstic services atl the Farm Bhow g iInsl week ) aughier aoe, ang as Ethel Gentzel of Bellefo ad at the Wiliam Hoover ho y Bunday Clair Fye, son of Mrs Annie Fye entered the U Army last week He is at the reception oetiler at New Cumberiand Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hoover nounce the birth of a daughter at the Philipsburg State Hospital The little miss has been named Lorna Joyoe Mr Mrs. Alden family were shoppers a on Saturday Mr. and Mrs family of Mineral 3 with Mr. and Mrs Meeker Mr. and Mrs James Dixon Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rowles of Port Matilda, were Sunday visitors the Mr. and Mrs. Alden Dixon's Mrs. Ira Plubell, who has been a surgical patient atl the Philipsburg State Hospital, is recuperaling at home Reuban Schmoke motored to Clearfield one day last week on bus. iness Marvin Moreau. son of Mrs. James Mackel, was called to Williamsport last Friday for fNonal examination for the U. 8. Army Jesse Benton, Jr. of Kvyiertown, visited with her sister, Mrs. Pauline Sones on Saturday Pvt. Carl Polmar of Carlisle, spent the weekend with his parenis, Mr and Mrs. Irvin Folmar Mr. and Mrs, Park Moore of Kar- thaus., visited with Mrs sister day 8 an- Dixon and { Bellefonte and Clair Li 8pr Leon NEA and atl SNYDERTOWN Church notes for Sunday, Feb, 1: Sunday Church school, 9:30 a m. | { Worship service will be announced later, if any day. Let's have a larger attendance | next Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dreese of Lemont, spent Sunday at the Wil- liam Haagen home Mr. and Mrs. William Poorman of lock Haven, spent Sunday at the William Heagen home. Mr, and Mrs. John Dorman spent | Saturday forenoon at the Harvey | Lutz home. Mr. and Mrs. Max Markie of Bellefonte, spent Sunday afternoon at the Elmer Stover home Visitors at the Ed Dorman bome {on Bunday were Mr. and Mrs. Will and Mrs, | Moore's | Miss Clair Benton, on Sun-, There were 71 present last Sun-, Clunese’ and the way Sunday School Lesson JESUS CALLS FOUR DISCIPLES International Sunday School Lesson for February 1, 1042, Come ye aller and I will make you 0 be- Mark 1 Golden Text me come fishers of men.” 17 Lesson Text: Math, 4: 18-22; Mark 1: 16-20; Luke 5: 1-11 The scene of our lesson this week is the Bea of Galllee, referred to In Luke's gospel as the Lake of Gen- nesaret. While this region Is not striking today, in the time of Je IV was rather important, containing as Farrar say many of which the largest had fifteen thou- said inhabitants, In our Lord's time il covered wilh a gay and nu- merous fleet thousand ves sels, from the ships of war down fishing boals: now 3 often diffi- cult to find a single crazy boat, even Tiberia, and the Arabs throwing poisoned into the water near the four great roads communicate the lake, it became a meeting place {or men ol many nations, Jews, Gal- leans, Syrians, Phoenicians, Arabe Greeks and Romans Jesus was teaching by the Sea entered Into a boat the crowded throngs about him. He pushed oul a We from the shore and sitting in the boat talked tg Lhe people on the shore. “The clear rip- pling walter playing gently around the beal.” comments Dr. Geikie, “the fields and vineyards and olive grove behind; cager listeners with their varied and picturesque Eastern dress; the wondrous preacher; the calmness and delicious coolness of morning, and, over all, the cloudless Syrian sky, must have made scene striking In the ex- wreme After his discourse lo crowd he oid Peter to cast his net again Peler had fished these waters from boyhood.” says PF. B, Meyer. “There wag nothing in the craft with which he was not familiar. The habits of the fish, the hours and spots moot suitable for taking them the effect of climatic condi il ‘ profics Viiiages wah of four - 0 it fish merely Dreaccrumos As with by EDore na to escape {rom the the a the sented any of other fu and n sucaeniy Dermen of his acgus ance IW which Er ienct WAS by universal maxims and practice eneration the night, which an wil of heart ail who have been greatly Christ? There ne escaping Al ac 1 moment in our perience : after becom hitter fa test we have the Master came During the ten y 1939, the Catholic increased 28 per cent, ac he Society for the Propaga {f the Faith During this sar i there was an increase missionary per cent increase of Chinese cler- 45 per cent increase of Chinese brothers 46 per cent increase of Chinese sisters; 83 per cent increase in the number of dispensary treat- ment per year; 14 Der cent increase ber of pupils in Cath- entary schools. In 1838 the tion was estimated of od the forces gy in the num m Catholic populs 3.182.950 olic ele * . * Sunday. Pebruary 1. will be ob- served by the Baptists of the world as a day of “united tharksgiving prayer. abd testimony.” according to the call issued from London, Eng by Dr. J. H Rushbrooke, president of the Baptist World Alliance. In connection with this day, British Baptists are celebrating the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the founding among them of the Bap- tit Foreign Missionary Society in 1792. “That” says Dr. Rushbrooke “was a year of war and confusion; but precisely then God brought a new and glorious thing to pass Surely it is conceivable that amid the turmoil and distress of a vaster war. he may bring to birth rome- thing yet more splendid.” * - » Something of the suffering of the in which Christian groups are trying to help | the victimg of war is pictured in this! ‘babies and children from other is- | ven | Fisher and son Mervin and wife of | | Bellefonte, and Rev. Oakwood and | Yile and son and two grandsons, of | Milesburg. report from Dr. John Hylbert, of Tinghai, Chekiang Province: “Daily new inmates arrive, little wasted lands where there is famine. Al- ready we have two overflow War Re. lief Nurseries; these are full yet room must be found for these little, neweomers, Many of them are too far gone to save their lives; they can only be made warm and comfort- able until God takes them Yo Hea- . Old men and women also arrive. begging for a place in the Hospibes for the Aged. These are full, not an emply bed. and there is a waiting list of those in the town who want to coms in. Urgent cases have lon board the ship of life Christian community and as surmes suprems control” Jesus called Peter, James and John to follow him, all of whom were fishermen. “Not by chance aig Jesus select his first companions | from among fishermen,” says Papini The fisherman who lives a great part of his days in the pure solitude of the water is the man who knows how to wait, He ls a patient, unhur- ried man who lets down his nets and leaveg the rest to God. The wat. ter has ite caprices, the lake its 1an- tages, no day is like another day does not know when he goes away Ud he will come back with hi boat full or without a single fish to cook for dinner. He commends him- elf for bad days by thinking of the good days which have been and which will come. He washes hb hands in waler and his spirit in solitude.” We see Bocrates calling discipic round him, even as Jesus did,” sa) W. J. Dawson, “explaining truth 0 them with an infinite patience en- abling them to realize that to know the truth is the only freedom; him- elf bearing indignity } poverly and hardships th the complete philosophic indif - to whom the only real he meanwhiise ROOT 1 make all mariyr sald, ‘Follow me 3 the ideas form- assionate aliegance » neither desired nor d wy 1} he 3 ie contrary, ae- s0 much intellectual con- 5 personal loyalty, He nev- speaks of truth after the mper- onal manner of Socrates; ‘1 am the ith, is his great formula, Jesus contemplated the spead of his kingdom by the conversions of fividuals one by ane. Personal folioweys is the agency pon, Dwight 1 eal evangelist, who was stianity by the Influence AY s about the { personal work the mountainside not becomes 8 broad riv the ¢ On its banks villages, where live Vegetation sic and CON down its stately iand: 50 if you 7 | one mas hundred maj and s0 the stream on broadening roils toward rweeping on- ward to la are 8 LOWS bosom to tary WIT one the too are full with bad cases of dysentery and malaria. All are poor free cases one cen pay hes days.” no urch was re- the Chinese A new Mcthodist ch cently completed by Christian fishermen of Bagan Si Api-Api on the sland of Sumatra This village is now rated the largest fishing community in world formerly it was second to Bergen Norway. For thirty years the Metn- odist church has had a chapel and a school here. One hundred seventy - cight Hokkien Chinese children are in the school. Government figures show that the revenue from opium sales diminished from 1.500000 flor- ines in 1825 to 500000 florines in 1940 in this region becanse of the sentiment created against it by the the # ® * “The German public is buying more. Bibles abd more religious books than ever before” savs a re- cent Swiss Catholic traveler in that country. “Sermons are much better than used to be. The clergy is con- scious of the call of the hour: there are only top many questions to be dealt with. and the people are more receptive to the word of God. The church is the only place where the Germans of today can still hear a comparatively free true, courageous word. T was rejoiced. and astonished to see that these preachers are now | over-cautious. Their preaching is up- | to-date, and deals, ‘exclusively with the fundamental truths of Christ fanity: and they courageomsly defend the rights of personality and the uniqueness of the Christian faith {over against the exaggerated na- tionalistie theories. . . With what tense attention do the Masses in crowded churches hang upon the words of these beloved priests!™ The American. Baptist Foreign Mission Society and the Woman's Baptist Foreign Mission Society, both with headquarters at 152 Madi- son avenue, New. York Gity. have is- sued a call for young Oliristian peo- * * struct a broken to be received in the hospitals ung | expecially for murs, — Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Miller and | da The 119s: body of Robert Cold, Oey hadi thn Shite Mayinuton; da; | glass, cutting his wrist to such an, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Neidigh ,.. on. of Mackeyville, called at! STUDENTS FROM 17 TO 20 26, a resident of Rush township, was found lying in the snow about a half mile form the Rounders’ Club house in that vicinity, discovery being while she wag in another part of the house. Hearing the childs, screams, she ran to the kitchen to Mrs. Ralph McCartney visited at extent that it required three stitch and scm Bobby of Bellefonte, spent | Mt. Eagle Thursday. i Mr. and Mrs, Ralph McCartney! and two children were Bellefonte {erat last es to close the wound. {| Thursday evening with Mr. and Mrs, The article in the Centre Demo- Sumner Noll and family. Sid] week concerning the Mr and Mrs. Charles Cronister the Harvey Lutz home on Sunday afternoon. We are glad to say that the diph- theria case at the Lucas home is made by Frank Reynolds and Bar- ney Robinson, of Philipsburg, who set out in search of the man after he was reported missing. At a cor- oner's inquest it developed that on the morning of an unusually heavy | snow Cole had walked from George Walk's home six miles across a mountain to the home of hig bro- ther, Henry Cole. He had dinner there and set out in the afternoon to go to the Nanty-Glo Hunting Club where his wife was {find that the dog had bitten the {lad's hand, presumably when the. youngster tried to take its bone | Whimpering and slashing his arms that probably saved him from a cal- | amity. The youngster, son Mr. | and Mrs. Grover Weaver, : his way home from of was shoppers Saturday. Bud. Robinson was a Sunday din- | | drowning accident vania Furnace stated that they did ner guest at the McCartney home. DOL know the hame of one of the tt | rescuers, It wag Elmer Stiver of Ju- a were Mr. Ty ‘oye | lian, Re D; 1. He, plunged into the water and wag successful in saving yO Sw ik lone boy's. life. Eimer was inducted into the army@iast Thursday and is at New Oumberland Hig many | everything, odist church will be at 11 a. m, this | coming. Sunday. Buy Defense Bonds now! | Preaching services in the Meth. near Pennsyl- and son of Warriors Mark. have moved into the other end of the Aley | home. We welcome them to our com- munity To Abandon Cressing The Public Utility Commission ap- proved plans of the Highway De- arin Sttyng Route oF lie Rendon Branch Company in Benton township, Col. | umbia A new crossing is to getting along as well as can be ex- | {at the Alvin Beck home on Sunday evening. | There was & good attendance al | church service last evening. | Kenneth Powers was to New York business, ! friends with for him the best of partment to abolish the grade cross- i giate Sunday on | We have no report as yet on the | condition of Mr. and Mrs. Will Beck {and family who were in a serious {mocident several weeks ago. A change in Navy Recruiting pol- (icy of great importance to young, men between the ages of 17 apd 20. Mr. and Mrs. Randall Erte] called | days and 8 a. Sundays.
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