. . | The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County SECOND SECTION ‘Odd and CURIOUS in the A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week | dhe Cenfre Democraf NEWS, FEATURES BELLEFONTE, PA. THUR VOLUME (Rag. SDAY, JANUARY 7, 1943, NUMBER 1. it Random [tems MILK OF KINDNESS Mrs. nie Conner retired re- Loganton R.D. Youth Found | Our Schedule for the Year cently five years of cour- teous service as operator of a icipal bullding elevator at a City and her fellow employes presented her with: A milk cow named Jennle. A big chain to fasten the cow, and a heavy stake. A milk bucket, a milking stool. A feed box, and 26 one-dollar bills to buy feed for the cow. Occasionally dur- ing her five years of courteous service Mrs. Conner had expres. sed a desire to retire some day to her suburban home, where she might have a cow, HE'S BEEN AROUND One of the Navy's new, speedy landing boats drew alongside a crulser, anchored In a harbor. | High waves tossed the boat per- flously close to the ship. “Hey,” shouted the officious lieutenant, | elntives feel Jae You Susittied 0 ha that | Sheriff D. Edward Grenoble and tints on Guadalcanal and Tula. | COP. Neil J. Gallagher, of the Mo- | tor Police, immediately investigated » shot back LO the coxswain. { the shooting and saw Tyson at the Lock Haven Hospital about 9 p. m | He died about 11 p. m, the hospital reported. He had been found near a | woodshed, not far from his home | by his sister, Carrie, about 5 o'clock { the sheriff sald | Tyson, of course, thus Near His Home with Bullet Hole Through Forehead Believed to Have Been Accident, as Yictim Had No Apparent Reason for Taking Own Life; Died in Lock Haven Hospital : An odd accident—how it happen-| {ed will probably never be known. | resulted in the death of 19-year-old | Ray Tyson near his home at Logan- (ton, R. D., Friday evening, relates the Lock Haven Express. He was found #hot through the forehead Although it had some appearance | of suicide, the death was entirely ac- | cidental, Clinton county officials and | | Shoemaker said that he might have! been shot as he crawled through a | fence Sheriff Grenoble and Corp. Gal- | lagher visited the Tyson home and | inspected the gun. They were certain that the shooting was accidental and | that neither sulcide nor foul play was at all likely | The young man was unemploved | but only for a short time, having | woirked at the Pennsylvania Ord- nance Works at White Deer Valley unti] recently The coroner sald that with nol witnesses and with appearances | pointing to the fact that Tyson was | fatally wounded when his gun went off as he crawled through a fence, an inquest will not be held In addition to his parents and hi sister, Carrie, the young man Is sur- vived by three brothers and two! sisters, Ellsworth, John, Wane, | Idella and Grace, all at home He | Moshannon Valley Residents celebrated his 19th birthday on Dec. | . a : 4 ny 8 Endure 4 Hours Enforeed 9 i Funeral services were held Mon- | Darkness day at 2 p. m, at the McCloskey Fu- | —a—— neral Home in Mil Hall, with the| when 4 power shovel, said to be Rev. Arthur E. Yeagy of Loganton,|long to K. M Quiggle of Philipsburg officiating. Interment was made In| gocidentally snz=ned the 29 000 i Cedar Hill cemetery electric line supplying homes be- | tween Philipsburg and Ramey Mone day evening of last week, 12,000 or | more residents =Tre precipitated in | 0 an impromptu blackout The power went dead before 6 0'- lock and dinners which had been started on electric ranges remained v fp incooked. Persons listening to radio en Child Dies yrograms had the music fade awa) Skull Fracture When ind they sat around waiting for the | ‘ urrent to come back on but after | Sled Crashes hours of waiting many of them gave i 1p the vigil and went to bed. Men vho were “next” were better off than hose who were in barber chadrs with their hair half cut Others hunted up all sorts of old ights, some of which hadnt been , used for a score of years, and can- —— WILD HORSE Columbia County may not have cowboys or two-gun outlaws, but it does have a “wild horse” as Franklin township farmers can tell you. The horse, a bay mare, is believed to be one that escaped from a horse dealer a month or more ago. All attempts to rope it have failed. WHO WAS SURPRISED? En route to his mother’s home twenty-five miles away, to pay “surprise” A Severed Power Line; Blackout was not con- | conscious and ould not be | questioned | Inasmuch as the boy had not been {sick and had no worries, according {to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry | | Tyson, there was no incentive to | commit suicide. He had been in high { spirits, they said, before he jeft the { house to visit his trap line. He took {along a .22-calibre rifle Clinton County Coroner W. J % } vol ——— IR 'Hurled Off Bridge |Coaster Fatally After Hit by Train Hurt In Accident ———— i oil se -. ed to pay him a “surprise” visit, A REVENOOER George Campbell, of Vinita, of Jersey Shore Man's Body Dis-' Lock Hav covered Along Pine it an internal revenue collection. | Creek Shore AARONSBURG COUPLE | The body of James Arthur Bobet,! Chalmar Temple, three-and-a- INJURED IN AUTO CRASH 40, of Jersey Shore, was found late half-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs {Saturday morning along Pine Creek. Chalmar Temple, 8r., of Lock Haven, He was struck by a southbound New died Sunday afternoon in the Lock York Central freight train at 2:40 Haven Hospital of a compound frac- | p. m. Thursday on the Torbert rall- ture of the skull suffered in a sled- road bridge near Camp Kline, along ding accident Saturday afternoon. Jes and dim kerosene lamps fick- Pine Creek. | The lad was critically injured as cred in many of the homes. Bobst, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward the : When their car skidded during a power restored and by many of the residents ma : In the ope : street. He took Him de jy with their Trainmen sdid they saw his body Haven Hospital where Residen , Mr. and fall into the flood swollen t regaining conscious. fills, Brisbin, Houtadale, Ramey {Creek, but it was not found until ness, less than 3 hours after the and residents of parts of Decatur {Saturday morhing, when it was no- accdient, Woodward, Bigler, Gulich and Bee- CHANGES IN OFFICE HOURS {ticed lying on the bank in front of In addition to his parents, the carla townships, including the Ty- OF SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD the cabin of Clyde E. Carpenter, of child is survived by his paternal rone Pike ares, Gearhartville, Eden- . {Jersey Shore, about 300 yards from grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. P. dale, Newtown, Morann, Olnte The Bureau of Old-Age and Sur- the railroad bridge. | Bubb. Janesville, Madera and intermediate vivoss Insurance of the Social Se-| His bicycle, clothing and wallet, points were cut off. Graduate Nurses Are ' side of Osceola Mills, The shove] curity’ Board, located in Room 307 containing his registration card and Postoffice Building, Williamsport, lother identification papers, were Urged to Report which caused the break is used on — — {a conl stripping project. Every graduate nurse in Pennsyl- | now maintains service to the pub- found m short way from the bridge vania, whether married or single, lic daily from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m., along the track. except Sunday. This Was announced] The train crew said that the fire-| HITLER REPEATS CRY active or inactive, will be given an GERMANY WON'T FALL ta the bridge, struck him. taday by Paul W. Holmberg, acting map had seen the man before he manager. was struck, but that it was impos- +sible to stop. E : $50,000 Fire Loss > ————— New Year's message to the German people Friday repeated his theme that Germany would not collapse nor capitismse, and that in the end she would prove victorious. In a special proclamation broad- § fully Pvt. Paul R. Glenn, son of Mrs. Junes stock and fixtures of the Louis Return posteards Se being mailed Shapiro and the Dean Phipps stores | to all nurses and must be filled out » were practically a total loss, and the | at once and returned to Pennsylva- C8st by the Berlin radio, Hitler Y . Shapiro building which housed them | nia State Nurses’ Association, 400 #8ain discussed some of his favorite was employed by the Univer- was badly damaged. i hates—International Jewry, Presi. pany at Bellefonte seme fon into the U. 8. Announces Engagement | on December 20. No date has’ ars Thomas Koleno, of Clarence, War Man wedding. has announced the engagement of ly stated: her daughter, Miss Agnes Koleno, to ectly willing for Michael Donovan, son of Mrs. J. E. ration spinach. Donovan, of Lock Haven. | a nro — keeper first ciass, whose next of kin : . Rachel FP. Dem- z i El i E i & iff 5 2 2 i k E > 2 ED q of Chester Hill, Osceola | The break occurred on the Other Adolf Hitler fn his fourth wartime — By Clinton Describes Method of Some interestzig history of the] early iron industry in Nittany Val-, ley is related by Historian George H. Gobble and published by Col Henry W. Shoemaker in his “Morn ing Comment” column in the Al- toona Tribune, We reproduce the article by permiss of Mr. Shoe- maker Says veteran Historian George H Gobble Owing to your very evi- dent interest in ‘Old Polk Tales of Nittany Valley,’ may I add a few more detalls concerning the manu- facturing of the jron-ore mined in Centre and Clinton counties “As T sald before It was transport.- ed by four or six mule teams In huge Conestoga-type wagons tw Washington Purnace in Clinton county, located along Nittany moun- tain, and at the entrance to storied Colby's Gap,” which leads to beau tiful Sugar Valley: Cherry Run at the mouth of which the Colby family were fouly murdered in 1887 flows into Fishing Creek in this gap, and in those days was impound. ed In a huge earthwork dam from which the furnace derived its needs “History points out that the in- dustry was founded in 1808 by Wil- liam Beatly and John Dunlop changing hands intermittingly on down through the years, including 1855-1856 when Maria Christina won Jones Rumored For Police Post Tyrone Publisher May Be in Line as Adams’ Sue- COSSOTr Edward Martin queried Monday night at Philadel phias aboul reports that he would appoint Colonel Ben C. Jones, Ty- rone attorney, publisher, and com- mander of the 110th infantry, 28th division, as head of the Pennsyl- vania State Police, replacing Lynn | Sout Tat EY ve re Yard Conductor Fatally Injured ing along those lines In mind at present I woukin't say it won't come up for consideration, though.” | Run Over By Car While Lying Unconscious on Al- Colonel Jones has had wide ex. toona Street Governor-elect perience in military service, serving during the first world war with dis- | tinction as a lieutenant and later as a captain in the 311th machine gun battalion, 79th division, where | he was twice cited for gallantry in| John Oay, 56-year-old Pennsyl- action {vania rallroad yard conductor of After the armistice, Colonel Jones | Altoona, died of 8 broken neck and became active in the organization fractured skull about 4:30 o'clock of the national guard and became {ommander of the 103rd cavalry, ! Givision composed of guardsmen of" ' tater * { : street until he was Cadet Is Kille {tant from him. A police investi ; © A ———— | gation disclosed that Hill had been Robert C. Swope Dies in Alr- ioiigwios & oar driven by Patrick ‘ ] nl, who saw the man lying plane Crash Near Jack- | 5000 "0 of when a short distance (away and swerved the car to the | right, narrowly escaping hitting the | Aviation Cadet Robert Charles Man. Swope, son of Gayton W, and Ruth Hill it waz reported, unaware of (Cutshall) Swope, of Juniata, was the reason for the Cuzsolini automo- killed in an airplane crash eight bile swerving, continued straight miles from Jackson, Tenn. Friday ahead and in 8 moment had struck morning. The young cadet was on Gay who was lying in the street. 4 routine flight when the accident It was learned that Gay had not occurred. been on duty the night before, it Born in Huntingdon, September being his relief day. He had gone 21, 1922, he graduated from the Al- to town and is reported to have toona High School class of 1040, and been returning home when he met attended Thiel College for two years. with the accident. | He held civilian pilot's license at Deceased Is survived by his sec-! the time he enlisted in the army air ond wife, Mrs. Nettie Ulrich Gay; | forces, June, 1042. (one son, his mother and two sisters, Together di his parents, he is -— | also survived by one brother, Ed- ward, of the Naval Alrport, New Notice to Retailers York, and two sister, Peggy and Retailers whose business establish. | Nancy, both at home. ments are lotated in any of the | . fourteen counties served by the Wil-| Hamsport district office are request. | Fire of unknown origin destroyed | fusimum price lots on roeiy offer | the mill at Schuyler, near Turbot« | oy cost-of-living ville, Northumberland county, owned gy. philadelphia office, even though | and operated by Murray F. Herr. gic previous price lists i i son, Tenn, Fire Destroys Mill fet {mill served a large section, includ {ing Milton, Lewisburg ant Muncy. {The loss will run into thousands of | dollars, i a - N - | i w g § - io : i eT H 1! i , | Events of Nittany Valley Early Iron Industry Told Co. Historian Transporting Ore by Four or Six-Mule Teams; Tells How Charcoal Pits Were Prepared lr Spain $ queen regent of bought | through her financial advisors Christopher, and John Fallon, Span- lards of Irish origin, domiciled ir Philadelphia, for whom the plc- turesque ‘Fallon House,’ now called ‘Hotel Fallon,” In Lock Haven, wa named These well-fixed magnates down and rebullt the plant en of brick improvements a up through the mountain porting furnaces “Those days, and during my hood,” Historian went charcoal was made by cutting wood in 18 to 24 inch lengths, split convenient pieces and stacked end in huge pyramid -shaped moun These were covered with earth and sel an fire, through alr vents in the centers ‘A and stone, adding tram road for trans. he including charcoal to be used In boy Cobble on into on ds slow smudgy fire 50 as not 0 cons tirely and when maintained ame the wood en- the wood had be- come properiy charred, and all gas consumed, the fire was put out wi waler or other means, and cool somewhat, then hauled furnaces “Before lains tramroad inl was bulit, the charcoal (Continued on pe pe ¥ Critically Hurt When Hit by Car = Aged Watsontown Man Walks Into Side of Moving Automobile Milton Walker, about 75 SONoWn, wag 1 Year's night when walked into the side of a car driven bv Clarence of Wat- seriously injured New he h ants said his condition was critical. Witnesses to the accident told Chief of Police Charles Brown, who is conducting the investigation, that Walker was crossing the street op posite the railroad depot when he walked directly into the right fen- der of the car. Dogs Have War Jobs Patrol duty along the out- lying property lines of the A. C. & PF. plant at Berwick is a little more pleasant for A. C. & F. guards since army-trained dogs have been added to the force charged with the protection of the war plant Three dogs are now in service there, with three more having been alioted for the plant. A good workman ig worthy of his hire and a good wage is worthy of its work. canboilh Suliit lass Deed SulEllNg Oh Rud \ EASTERN WAR TIME: It may Be 8 a. m. 16 The rest of you people, but it still seems like the middie of the night STOOGE: For some reason or other the lyrics the song, “I Came Here to Talk Joe irritate department may be enough fel low, but his ples that he didn't have a chance to write never seemed to be + particularly impressive alibi. We rather think Joe is one of those guys who always meone else to do his talid sg for him. Maybe idea, but obviously be carried too far, Th the danger 1 i the gal The heck wit) J about US! GARBAGE: Colle ge 0 u % Ol ¢ " ior fk : § a lei J OF an airight gets 8G that’s it can AIWAYS might say Let talk a good 0 eres na oe! Blate Counci institu- muni - n system. Por » rate is $150 if paid in | be made » remaining sounds new reduced rates r its ig cipal } ordinary fam quarterly, or $56.00 ¢ aq vavance tir garbage collect family t ar Collections twice a week during Wonder how this to Bellefonte residents’ TOUGH JOB: One of x honins the oughest jobs It work ther while listening me, we find, was to I ia » under 1 children were being vaccinated NOISE: It's about time for Council to off the radio interference law wi has been mouldering on a shelf for some time. During the weekend ra- dio interference seemed 10 increase by leaps and bounds Here ani there in the oll-less wilds of Belle- fonte an ofl burner would blast pro- grams clear off the dial In the business section residents report horrendous noises supposedly from defective neon lights. As a starter we're able to report that one hotel aust around on their . This depart ment hasn't the faintest hope that Council will do anything effective in controlling noise, but maybe we can stir up a discussion which will serve to get individuals to do their own policing. UNEXPENDABLES: A Bellefonte Civilian Defense of - ficial vesterday rode the mange on samme of Beliefonte's professional people for their apparent lack of in- terest in helping out with Civilian Defense work. He declared that some Bellefonte ministers, lawyers, and some in the other professions show a decided shyness toward ser- ving tricks on various types of de- fense watches. Since volunteers for “black box” and aircraft spotting service are urgently needed, and since those two services are probab- iy the most important ones in the {Continued on Page 4 RE FARM QUESTION BOX ED W. MITCHELL Farm Advisor > General Electric Station WGY A. Any fanmer may become #2 member of his county farm bureau hi HEH
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