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A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week
Odd and
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in the
SECOND
SECTION
dhe Cenifre Democrat
NEWS,
FEATURES
NEWS
VOLUME 61.
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 19,
1942.
NUMBER 12.
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MODERN SOLOMON
A year-long fight by two New
York matrons for possession of
a four-year-old Germon Shep-
herd dog was quickly settled In
court. “Call him,” said Magis-
trate Ambrose Haddock, a prac-
tical man, “Here Prince! Here
Price!” called Mrs. Susan Resko.
The dog backed away growling.
“Hello Rex,” said Mrs. Helen
Eberhardt. The dog ran to her
wagging his tail. She put her
pocketbook in his mouth and he
trotted proudly about the court-
room. Rex and Mrs. Eberhardt
left together.
Mrs. Virginia E. St. Clair, 61, wid-
ow of W. H. St. Clair, was fatally
FAST DELIVERY
When T. B. Rinehart, grocer
of Gastonia, N. C, calls at the
door of his customers each morn-
ing, he carries a basket of pid-
geons on his arm. Writing a
grocery order on a piece of tissue
paper, he fastens it on a pidgeon
and releases the bird. Back to
the grocery store it flies where
Mrs. Rinehart wails, Before
Rinehart returns to the store,
the orders are filled and on their
way to the customer.
night when she
automobile while cross-
clock Friday
struck by an
ing the street near her home,
East Walnut street
| The victim suffered a fracture of
| the left leg. fracture of the left arm,
| fracture of the skull, deep lacera-
| tions across head and possible in-
ternal injuries, She was dead when
brought to the Lock Haven Hospital
| Police offifficers, investigating, sald
{ the driver was Ray E. Crissman, of
Lock Haven, R. D. 1. Crissman Is
| said to have been traveling west on
| Walnut street and is quoted as say-
| ing Mrs. St. Clair stepped from be-
| hind a parked car in front of De-
| Marte" s Restaurant into the path of
his vehicle.
| She was
street to her
1, 105 Junked Cars
In Centre County
| Survey Shows Enough Scrap
in State to Build Ten
Rattleshive
recent survey of Centre county
reveals 1,105 abandoned
ucks, which when con-
usable steel would build
of a huttiest ip
USES FEET FOR HANDS
Joan Whisnant of Tulsa, Okla.,
was born without arms, but has
overcome her handicap by using
her feet for hands, Now at 18, |
she plays a gultar, does embrol- I
dery work, drives a car, writes, |
swims, and rides horseback. Such
tasks as dressing, putting up her |
the
acci-
apparel ntly cros Sing
home when the
hair, feeding herself and wash-
ing dishes she considers com-
monplace and not worth men-
tioning.
TAXING POETS, TOO?
The internal revenue collector
is finding new evidence of the
broad scope of this year's income
tax law-—poets are paying teo.
“Come little ten-spot, shoulder
arms; we'll prove the Japs are
false alarms,” read a note at-
tached to one report. Another
pinned to a $5 bill: “Here's a
fin—to help us win.”
LONG NAILS OUT
Women's finger nails this
spring will be shorter, less oval
and perhaps even slightly squar-
ed, according to beauty experts,
who declare that “women can’t
wear long nails while dressing
the wounded, driving ambulances
and working with machinery.”
MUST WOW EM
Richard Vernon Denny, Cicero,
Ind, admits he's a lady's man,
His thirteenth wife recently hel-
ped him celebrate his 10st an-
niversary. Denny declares, “I
suppose 1 could have been mar-
ried 100 times during my life.”
FOUR QUEENS
Mrs. James Stallings, of Cen-
tralia, Il, gave birth to four
children during 1941. A set of
twins was born on January 2
and a second set arrived Novem -
ber 30. Al four were girls.
A
scrap yards
cars and tu
| verted
| two-ti
into
In reality enough
{ bulld ten 35.000-ton battles ships has
been found in Pennsylvania auto-
| moblle graveyards, a state-wide sur-
| vey shows
In 1223 scrap yards, the U. S. de-
| partment of agriculture and the
work projects administration found
[88,754 wrecked automobiles and
| trucks. Federal spokesmen estimated
| each averaged a ton of metal, {
“During recent months” sald
| James E. Walker, chalrman of the
| agricy ulture department's state war
| board ‘furnaces having an annual
capacity of severh] million tons have
| been forced to shut down solely due
l{o lack of iron and steel scrap. The
{iron and steel scrap shortage for,
{1942 is estimated to be a minimum |
tof six million tons”
The number of vehicles found in
nearby CORNY surveys included:
Blair county 1273; Bedford 2.086;
Cambria 1 763: Clearfield 407:
ingdon 150
wrap metal to
Karthaus Youth
Dies of Injuries
LANCASTER MAN IS
HELD BY JAPANESE | 16-Year- old Vietim Run Over
EE | By Truck While Walking |!
A Lancaster missionary, his wife
and a woman whose family came on Highway
from that section are included on TE |
the first list of Americans interned Badly injured on Tuesday of last]
by the Japanese, i week when run over by a truck near |
They are Robert H. Gerhard, 38, his home, Lawrence Rees, 16-year-
son of Dr. and Mrs. Paul L. Gerhard, old Karthaus boy, died in the Phil-|
of Lancaster; his wife, Mrs. Helen | ipsburg State Hospital TY
L. Gerhard, 38, native of Kansas, ‘night.
and Mrs. Alfred Ankeney, daughter Clearfield County Coroner E. 8!
of the late Dr. D. B. Schnader, a | Erhard, of Curwensville reported
native of Lancaster, that the youth was run over by al
+ ‘They were listed with 218 other truck operated by Lawrence McGov- |
American civilians through the In- ern and owned by Lloyd Hoover,
ternational Red Cross. Rees was said to have been walking
. | along the highway after dark when
A Navy survey shows that 20.1 per | he was struck by the truck. The
cent of its recruits are high school | driver testified that he did not see
graduates | the youth and was unaware of his
—— presence until he felt the bump and
stopped to see what he had run
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Help your country: Buy Defense
Bonds and Stamps!
ra—
‘Star Spangled Banner’ in A-Flat
A streamlined version of “The Star | {the nation and it will be given a
Spangled Banner,” easier on the ton- | {formal premiere before a national
sils of the man on the street, in the | conference of 6,000 public school mu-
camps and on the high seas, has been | sic directors in Milwaukee, March 26.
suggested at Penn State by army | The community band at Port Ma-
and college experts. tilda has pledged itself to conduct
Try A-flat and you won't be flat 8 local campaign to raise the $160
on those high notes, say Captain | necessary of the scores and distribu-
Howard Brownson, in charge of mu- | ton.
sic for the army's morale division,| “At times like these the inspired
and Dr, George Sallade Howard, as- | Words of our national anthem take
soclate professor of music in exten- | ON 8 new meaning.” sald Dr. Howard,
sion at the Pennsylvania State Col- | “It Is a song which every American
lege. {wants to sing and in this new form
They have collaborated on a new | Pro sing it 7y. American will
arrangement of the national anthem | y
putting it In the lower key of A-flat | penn State's department of music,
w I ! by es orl
by I. 1 ASE 2 Sally singable |) direct the first public civilian |
Mrs ge citizen.” f f th
But they didn't | per ormance o e new arrange-
stop there. ment by the Charlotte, N. C. High
To popular their arrangement, | School's 100-plece band, at the op- |
copies will be distributed without | {ening convocation of the National
charge to every army samp band in | Conference of Music Educators.
——— SE a a
Caught In Trap, I Dog Chews Paw
“Mac,” a Scottie owned by Mr. |W | which the owner did not visit daily
and Mrs. PF. A. Montgomery, of Tow- | as the law requires, and effected its
anda, is home again and minus one release only after it had chewed off
pav. The Waa caught in a trap,’ the paw which was gs
a
Eats, Sleeps Himself | Into Navy
{dent occurred
injured at Lock Haven about 11 o'-|
was | heard the impact as the car hit her,
{but knew
318 |
| found
land Charles
Hunt. |
{changed hig
Lock Haven Woman Struck |
By Car Near Home; Dies
Before Reaching Hospital ¥
Impact Tears Shoes from Victim's Feet; Driver, %
of Car Says Woman Stepped from Behind
Vehicle Parked at Restaurant
for pleces of broken |
from a bottle were strewn in
Neighbors in that area |
glass
the street
nothing of the accident
until one of them, Mrs, R. L. Rine,!
her shoes in the street. She
took them into the restaurant where
they were tentatively ldentified
Mr. Crissman picked up Mrs
Clair and rushed her to the hospital
where her three son Roy, Harry
all of Lock Haven, were
called
Mrs. St. Clair spent her entire
life in Lock Haven and was a meme
ber of St. Paul's Episcopal church. |
In addition to her mother and her |
sons, she is survived by one brother,
Harry H. Packer, of Lock Haven;
three sisters, Mrs, Mary Schnell, of
Brooklyn, N. Y.: Mrs, William Gard-
ner, of Erie, and Mrs. Carrie Poor-
man, lock Haven: and four grand-
children. Funeral services were held
at 2:30 Tuesday al the home
of her Roy St, Clalr, by the
Rev. FP. Graham Luckenbill. Inter-
ment was made in Highland ceme-
tery
P. m
SO,
Ralilroader Loses Arm
George F. Martz, Jr, 25, lost his
left arm in an accident in the yard
of the Pennsylvania Rallroad at
Northumberland while setting off
cars of an extra freight, of which he
was brakeman. He was removed to
the Mary H. Packer Hospital, Sun-
wury, by ambulance Amputation
above the elbow was neces
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First to Pay Tax
Darius D. Holllday 102-year-old
Civil War veteran was again the
first person In Wellsboro to pay !
borough taxes,
ary
f
i! expe
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The New Tenant
8t.|’
DON'T CRY, LITTLE DANDELION,
YOU'LL BE A TIRE, BY 'N BY
little dandelion
ir well-groomed
Don't cuss that
when it takes over you
lawn this spring
t might help produce
before the war Is over
Belentists are urging the Federal
House Agricultural Commitlee tO
make available funds for experimen-
tation in the use of plants and weeds
in the belief a certain type of
dandelion, properly cultivated and
developed, can be a source of much-
needed rubber
Their offic
is “kok-sagyz."”
other dandelion
The Russians, who developed the
kok-sagyz” type of dandelion
found it superior to the United States
weed, and Congress may be asked to
riment it
a new Li
re
that
Lal
for the variety
like
ial name
but it looks any
have
with |
Ax to the economic factor
« ry
iT V
in large scale
produced
could be
four
i0r
development, record
LOW ed natural rubber
made from the dandelion
about 31 cents per pound
-
Six Co-eds Nominated
co-eds have been nominated
for offices in the Women's Recrea-
tion Association at the Pennsylvania
State College. They are: For presi-
dent, Ann Drivas, Philipsburg, and
Pauline Crossman, Girard; for vice-
president, Margaret K. Ramaley of
Springdale and Lucille D, Weinstein,
Philadelp for treasurer, Frances
M Ar Spring, Md, and Grace
L. Judge, Mt. Lebanon, Pittsburgh
The losing presidential candidate
will become WRA secretary
Si
Big
gle
i. Buy De-
We've got Axis
Bonds and Stamps
{ense
Blair County Farm Wife
Seeks Permission to Prove
New Cure for Bangs Disease
Mrs. Suzanne Caum, Operator of Sunny Mead
Farm Belicves She Has Found Method of
Isolating Germ of Bovine Disease
A Blair County farm wife sought
permission of the state agriculture
department Monday to experiment
possible cure for Bangs disease,
Mrs. Buzanne Caum,
300-acre Sunny Mead farm, R. D
3, Altoona, conferred for three hours
with Dr. C. P, Bishop, director of
the a! industry bureau, and al-
0 with Agricultural Secretary John
H Light, and other departmental
officials in Harrisburg
The Pata withheld the an-
nouncement of whether she could
be allowed to have in her herd of 75
cattle an animal infested with Bangs
disease-contagious abortion—during
her experiments. The state buys and
destroys cattle found in state tests
10 be Infected
While commenting that “it is im-
possible to foresee outcome of the
experiment,” Becretary Light said,
he doesn’t have anything on which
we can base any hopes He added
Mrs. Caum had been offered state
laboratory facilities for her experi-
ment and had refused
“The test and slaughter method of
eradication is not the answer,” Mrs
Caum said after the conference
“The experiments I have made at
home lead me to belleve I have found
something other than a live culture
to isolate brucellosis-—the germ that
causes Bang sdisease
Mrs, Caum would not say whether
hes means was by injection of
rium, but added
“I have a specific token by which
an develop the germ. And by
this same token I also can de-
What I want to do is
own herd
a a
a
I-¢
Using
stroy try
I've worked
year and have had
it
in
on m
it
out
on
"RECALLS HISTORICAL EVENTS
—————— }
(By Henry W. Shoemaker) |
The report (current during the
hunting season) that Loganton
squirrel hunters back of the old
Herlacher place of the “summer side”
of heastiful Sugar ted’ had seen
what undoubted! patither:
tracks, pi many nl? Rg of the
iking of Perihsylvania beasts, not
only in that valley but elsewhere
Yet it seems extremely dublous for
the Pennsylvania lion to return (o
his oldtime haunts unless he has
habits and become sil-
ent Old Sugar Valley hunters as-
serted that the panther was his own
worst enemy, disclosing his where-
abouts by his nocturnal roaring
The Rev. Emery M. Deitrich, for-
merly of Hublersburg, Centre coun-
ty. and well known in Altoona, tells
the following:
‘My great-grandfather, John
White, lived in Heg¢la Gap, which
marks the dividing line between Rag
and Green Val which con-
tinues westward from Hecla Gap to
leasant Gap between the first and
second ranges of Nittany mountains
I think I could And the site of the
old cabin foundation which I have
known from childhood It was not
far from Logan's Path which led this
Hecla Gap across the mountains
southward to Penn's Cave
“The story is told of my great.
grandfather going to Sugar Valley
to help a pioneer family butcher
some years following the Ameri an
Revolution. As the custom wag he
was given a mess of fresh meat to
take along home He carried hi
rifle always. Coming along the path
he was suddenly confronted by a
panther which probably smelled the
meat and decided to attack. The ac-
was quick. My great-grandfath-
er drew his gun and shot the pan-
ih range in the breast,
just as he made a mighty
Valley
ley
Lite
tion
er at close
eyed orivyer
springing
Fire Chief Held
On Arson Charge
Berwick Official Claims He
Was Drunk When He Set
Fire to Church
Fire Chief Herbert Fish, 42. of
Berwick, nearly missed Sunday
school at Holy Trinity Lutheran
church on Sunday g@ Week ago, for
the first time in 12 years,
The reason was that he nearly
succeeded in burning the ehurch in
. la drunken moment before dawn that
” | day,
State Fire Marchal Donald Un-
ger disclosed Saturday.
Fish stopped a passerby outside
the church and asked if he didn't
smell smoke. Told no, he led the
man to an alley leading to the
church basement and repeated the
question. This time the man sald
yes, 50 he and Pish sent in an alarm
Fish then directed his firemen in
putting out a paper blaze in the
| basement.
Later that day, hair slicked back
and neat as a pin, Fish was on time
as usual for Sunday school in the
smoke-stained church. But former
Fire Chief Hudson Mulehof, whom
Fish succeeded in January after a
| write-in campaign for fire chief, had
his suspicions, Mulehof summoned
Marshal Unger, 1
According to Unger, Fish confessed
to starting the church blaze and also
a fire that destroyed an outbuilding
belonging to his brother-in-law and
neighbor, Harry Setzer, a few days
earlier,
And he admitted ringing two false |
alarms before he became chief—one |
in December, 1940, and one last]
November “on the wager of a beer, hl
| Unger said.
“I did things like that on the te
of the moment when 1 was drinking,” |
Fish was quoted as sa x
Fish has been a mem of the
| Berwick volunteer firé company for
| 20 years. Becoming fire chief was one
| of his big aspirations.
For the last two years, he has been
| employed as a truck driver and lab-
Seaman Max E, Casperson, of Em- , month because he was 13 pounds un-
porium, literally ate and slept his derweight. But a three-weeks' train.
way into the Navy. The son of bor- | ing routine of bigger meals and more |
ough secretary C, A. Casperson, Max | sleep made up the difference and he
was rejected by the Navy doctors last | reported for service, Priday.
orer by Berwick township, A bache-
lor, he lives with his mother,
Not many employers worry lest an
| employee works too hard,
| Berry does all her own work,
57th Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. W. Grant Berry
Observe Event Quietly at
Their Home
Mr. and Mr: Ww Grant Berry
mer well known residents of Logan-
ton, observed their 57th wedding
anniversary Sunday at their home
in Lock Haven Burrounded by their
children and families, the event was
quietly observed without formalities
‘Tie couple, 77 and 75 years of age,
respectively, are in good heaith, Mrs
and
always finds time each summer to
have an enviable flower garden,
Mr. and Mrs, Berry were married
by the Loganton Evangelical pastor,
the Rev. T. M. Morris, at the home
of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Heller, Loganton and went to
housekeeping in Loganton, where
for
ih
i
they resided until the disastrous fire.
of 1918 swept away their home and
contents, and they moved to Lock
Haven,
While a Loganton resident, Mr,
Berry had been assistant postmaster,
filling the post of Justice of the
Peace through appointment, and
later was elected to the office for
two consecutive terms; was school
director, secretary of the Board of
Health for many years, master
butcher and huckster. After he went
to Lock Haven, Mr. Berry tried his
hand at raising tobacco, for several’
years, to his sorrow, he says, and
| returned to Loganton in 1620 to op-
(Continued on Page Siz)
Couple Celebrate
jump over grandfather's head, car-
r¥ing his fur cap off his head in hi
paw Grandfather ran home un-
hyrt, got his boys and a lantern,
went back ang found the panther
ag. Mill clasping the fur cap in
his Paws. This occurred on the Hecla |
road to Penn's Cave
“This Logan Path
Indians travel from the Bald
Eagle Valley, through the Milesburg
Gap. to the Penn's Cave region and
on beyond to the Juniata Valley In-
Claw
“Rag Valley furnished
oil for the furnaces 3
fonte and MeCoy'
burg
Hundred: of char
stand in regular
was used by the
ne
18454
much char-
t Hecla Belle-
Gap and Mlles-
oal hearths still
lines and spaced
regularly to accommodate the wood
choppers, burners and teamsters
“Four gaps lead into Rag Valley,
Hecla, Fulton's, Markle's, and Lees
One other path, largely used,
Cross ~!
the ‘low-place’ Just south of
Hublersburg, leading to the Truck
enmiller’s place in Rag Valley,”
It Is generally supposed that the
ed
first sellers came to Sugar Valley
{about 1810, which would
story. Loganton, formerly Logans-
ville, the principal town of this ele.
vated and coal Clinton county val-
ley. observed (88 centennial last year,
hence was not lald out for several
decades after the first pioneers, who
were principally blg game hunters,
moved nlo the valley,
Recently several newspapers have
been g leefully gloating over what
they call the “exploding of the leg-
end that Edgar Allan Poe visited
Poe Valley, Centre county, to try and
pry loose a legacy from wealthy rela-
tives.” Pennsylvania has few enough
of these oldtime traditions and folk-
lore and no new ones are being cre-
(Continued on Pepe Siz)
Kylertown Girl
Assists on Radio
One of Research Committee
of Which Bellefonte
Girl is Member
Avanell Welker, daughter of Mrs
Elva K. Welker, Kylertown, a junior
in the Home Economics Department
of the Indiana State Teachers’ Col-
lege, is assisting with the research
work in conhection with radio
broadcasts presented over CGCreens-
burg Station every Thursday morn-
ing
These programs are presented by
the Home Economics Department of
| State Teachers’ College, Indiana,
Pa, under the supervision of Dr.
A. Pauline Sanders, director of the
department. The purpose of the pro-
grams is to help homemakers econ-
omize during this national emergen-
cy.
These programs were planned and
organized by a radio committee
made up of faculty members and
students, Dr. A. Pauline Sanders, di-
rector of the Home Economics De-
partment, Miss Ethyl V. Oxley, an
instructor of foods, and the follow.
ing students: Miss Audrey Bloom-
quist, Bellefonte; Miss Eleanor Bam-
ford, Midway; Miss Emma Lou Wet.
zel, Pittsburgh, and Miss Kathryn
Buckley, Youngwood, made up the
radio committee,
Be a regular on the home front!
Make regular payroll purchases of
U. 8. Defense Savings Ponds and;
i Stamps.
Three Injured
In Accident
Delaware Motorists Come fo
Grief When Their Car
Crashes Trailer
Three persons were injured on the
Port Matilda road late Friday night
when a car traveling towards Phil-
ipsburg crashed into a traller haul-
ing a power shovel.
The drivef, named Cooper, his wife
and daughter were injured in the
crash but the baby escaped injury
{ The new Philipsburg ambulance took
the four members of the family to
town for treatment. Mr. Cooper suf-
fered a fractured cheek bone, Mrs. '
Cooper had a lacerated ear, and the
daughter had abrasions of the back
and a bumped head. They were
from Deleware and were on their
way to visit relatives in the northern
part of the state.
Commencement Date
{ President GG. Mokris Smith at Sus-
i quehanna University has announced
that Dr. Francis B. Haas, superin-
tendent pf Public Instruction for
Pennsylvahla and long-time leader
in education, will be the speaker at
‘the university's 84th commencement,
May 25. Because of the accelerated
war-time program commencement
| exercises have been moved up from.
| June 8. Alumni Day has been shift.
led from June 6 to Saturday, May
fr
Buy Bonds,
For Victory:
| scope
{not claiming I have a cure or pre-
on her own herd of cattle with a!
operator of |
{the
mills, it was announced by the Com-
some success
slides)
with
in
smears (miecro-
recent weeks, I'm
ventative until]
my own herd.”
I can try it out on
ur.
Ducks Keep Schedule
Continuing a perfect 10-yea
ord, a flock of wild ducks arrived on
hedule Tuesday on dam at
Mill Columbia county
Holmes, wh
checks every year
r rec-
the
George
aam
rival
y HUves near the
on the §
of the ducks
ways put in an
10. Although
ducks may
the
and sald they al
aopearance
none of the
J In the presen
custom continue:
HoutzdaleWoman
Is Found Dead
Circumstane 68 Lead to Belief
Mrs. Yovorsky Had Been
Murdered
A woman, identified
her purse as Mrs
46, of Houtzdale, Pa. was found dead
Monday by police who broke
her room in an East Liberty (Pitts-
burgh) rooming house
The body wi
hich was
had been
QOors
iocked
The Coroner ordered a
tem exam’ hiaiion to
ath
by
Nellie
papers in
Yovorsky
into
ino
as clad only in a slip,
Lowe]
All
to the room wert
partially torn, a
stuffed into her mout
and windows
post
determine
cause of de
William Bris e
door to Mrs
82, who lived next
Yovorsky, said
heard what sounded like
in her room Bunday
last had been
Saturday
The woman had registered as Mr:
Nell McDermott Police said they
were told her husband operated an
inn at Madera, near Houtzdale
Dr J. W. Mc Means. coroner's
a scream
moming. She
v the larndlars
seen by the landlady
phy
sician, said after a preliminary ex-
‘amination, he believed the woman
had been slain.
“The towel was stuffed so far in
mately date Rev. Deitrich's thrilling | De victim's mouth that she could
not have done it herself”
sald
the doctor
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BELLEFONTE SCHOOLS TO
GET 354. 11 FROM STATE
State Treasure r G. Harcld Wagner
announced that having received the
Proper warrants, checks will be mail.
Low Ng & Cis-
for the follo Wing
hool
Purposes
Bellefonte Borough Schoo] Dis-
trict, $428 80, for national defense
vocational education. and Bellefonte
Borough School District, $225.31 for
out-of-school
youth
S—— Er —
Elk “County Lowery Tax
The Elk county tax millage for
year 1942 has beep set at 8%
missioners, Of this amount 8 mills
is county tax, 1 mill road bond tax
and ': mill for the 1941 bond issue
The county institution millage has
been set at 6 mills, a reduction of 2
{ mills over the year 1941.
Too little: too late: too bad!
There stil] is time to buy U. 8. De-
fense Bonds and Stamps.
| WRONG
i
i
| the
~
TREE:
tax collection
bY the
If the
employed
Board would take the trouble
check on the tax records they
learn that taxes they've been try
out of a Bellefonte resi-
paid, The they're
collect is
of the sa naine re
few doors on the sau
| resident they been
We hope Lake 1
wrong nerson. It
to watch
agen
Bellefon
lo mace
deny are ill
ing Ww owed
me
Ve
they
| COC WASTE REPORT:
The page 1 story
day's FRR | of “ Phila
paper regarding
the Wolf Rock
Phillipsburg, was
cember, mnells
by one of the
porters
date line
relating
appearing in
aeipiila
alleged waste
Camp S-118
aoanconed last
The story wri!
NEwWspaper's sta
id carrying a Phil
qu py
stories
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to enter will not all bad. In fact
it may be beneficial in many wa
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WATCHMAN:
The Watchman more
week the weekly newspaper
had been published here since 1855
gave up the ghost and became his-
tory in the newspaper profession
Probably because Lhe wide popular-
ity it enjoyed for years as The Dem-
ocratic Watchman was due to the
writings of its former editor and
Dublisiet, George R. Meek, it be-
gan to lose color when Mr. Meek
ret ired from the orga nization to be-
come postmaster of Bellefonte
CLOUDS GATHER:
As Beliefonte's new Councilmen
grow more accustomed io their new
positions and become more sure of
their ground in the Council] cham.
bers, the differences of opinion exist.
ing between various members is
steadily becoming oonsolidated. In
other words, We expect 3 prime ex-
plosion any day, now, The boys,
Monday night, had another little
sparring match feeling each other
oul like boxers in the first round
When the gong sounds for the sec-
ond round we expect te see both
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