August 5, 1943. — THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. SCOTIA Ensign Hartle Is (By FH. M. Williams) | We, the committee, have been ask- | ed many times the past few weeks | about the Scotia picnic, and last | week we were asked to make the an- | nouncement through the papers | about the picnic. No, there will not be any picnic this year due to the ban on driving. Hope this notice will reach all old Scotia people and | pion as chapel, Naval Afr Station, others as well who did attend the! picnic. But this is not the end of the | Jacksonville, Fla. The Rev. Pather Scotia pienie as some have pre- dicted and told us that they didn’t believe there would be any more ple- nics at Scotian. All the picnic ground has been destroyed and most of the shade trees have been cut down by the present Scotia Mining Company, but we will later on, hoping it will be next vear, find a good location the mines so all who attend around as they custome did each year and visit their | homes, Different locations have Innked over and we will find that will suit everyone M Lois Saxion of near State ited one evening last week with Grandpa Saxion at the Reed home Lois told us that she didn’t any items in the paper last week Well, Lois, will have to come over oftener urse that will be new: In falo don't wash Ensign Maurice C. Hartle, U 8. N,, son of Mr, and Mrs. O. J. and Mrs. John 8. Deprez, Rochester, N. Y., at a ceremony performed on Saturday morning, July 24, at St, ship high school as well as the U. S. Naval Academy, weeks recently at the Hartle home and with other relatives and friends walk Becomes WAC Leader Set. Ruth E. Pearee, an auxiliary first class, in the WAC detachment stationed at the Army Air Fordes fighter pilot school, Foster Field, Texas, has been advanced to the grade of leader, She i5 assigned as a clerk in the post personnel sec- tion. Sgt. Pearce is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Pearce of 328 South Allen Street, State College BLANCHARD two years we Sunday guests in our vicinity were SAW 50 many Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kunes, Charles and camel backs in Jr, and Misses Jane and Barbara there is At the present | Snyder of State College, Charles re- that is done to it is cently entered the school of physical here and there. It is education at State College, having ing how much traffic received a senatorial scholarship is on this road every day However, he bas been called for mili- is the stink hole in the tary service and leaves July 31st. have been asked this Miss Louise Bolopue spent her va- question many times by many of our cation with relatives in Osceola former Scotia residents. Who can Mills answer this question? About three Walter Lindsey of York, spent a weeks ago one of the former resi- few days with his family here, hav. dents came to the writer and asked ' ing made the trip to bid farewell to if he knew of any such place in the his son who left for the Navy. Rob- Barrens. the answer was no. This ert is now stationed at Great Lakes, article appeared in one of our county ‘Ill. Earl Holter, who left for the papers some time ago and was sup- Navy at the same time is also at posed to be told by someone who Great Lakes had visited this place many times, Rev. and Mrs. Shope left Wednes- and upon investigation the person day for a vacation trip to the north. who was supposed to have told it de- ern part of Pennsylvania nies of ever saving that there was Sgt. Lloyd Spangler, stationed at ever Such a place, and in conversa- Seymour Johnston Pileld N. C. had with many of the older resi- a short leave from camp and was of Scotia and the outlying home on Tuesday for the first since have first to hear anyone his induction in October that they knew of such a place LeRoy Winslow is vacationing In a conversation one day with Paul with relatives in Curwensville W. GGhaner. son of Wilson H, Ghan- Sunday guests at the Prank Cour- er. Paul told of different times of be- ter home were Mr. and Mrs. Frank- ing in the Barrens on hunting trips lin Courter and daughter of Beech during wason and that he came Creek, Miss Louise Courter of Lock upon a few skeletons of deer in dif- Haven. and Mr. and Mrs. Schreck ferent locations and one that he saw and son of Williamsport old Chimney Spring in a Many friends and neighbors hollow. These deer had been crippled Mrs. William Frey gathered at and wandered and with ex- home on Sunday to watch the an- heustion and loss of blood had laid nual blooming of her night-bloom- down and died there. He also told of ceres. The plant has three seeing others with part of a limb blooms this year and the flowers are thot off and crippled in many other eleven inches in diameter when fully wavs. Other hunters have told the open. This is an annual celebration same story shout seeing skeletons at the Frey home as the flower is iving around in different parts of the very rare Barrens Mrs. Madeline Harter left Satur. The writer. a former residemt of day evening by train io spend Sun- &cotia. who had lived there for 30 day with relatives at Danville vears and had traveled all through Mrs. Wilson Clark and twin son the Barrens on different occasions of Shinglehouse, spent the pin. on hunting trips and had worked ning of their vacation with the all through the Barrens while the twins’ grandparents, Mr. and Mrs MeNitt-Huvett Lumber Co. had their Harris Clark operations there. We as a crew con- Miss Sylvia Gardner was a weekend visitor Miller sisted of sixteen men and the fore- man, and our duty was to grade the road bed for a few miles and then Beaman Harold Bowman ‘had a start and build the railroad to its short leave from camp and spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bowman. Harold has destination Many side branches were taken " been stationed previous to his visit at Newfoundland. off these main lines and run through Miss Jean Kines, old been one College, vi and See you and of ox all our driving down the Buf- Run road in we over believe over rubbers that road as time. About all a few patches surpris there Just where Barrens? We JUS tion dents vicinity we sav deer of her near the there ing Howard, with June of the hollows and ravines in order to get as near the log cutters ag pos- sible without so much long hauling of the logs. Here I want to say that we worked all through most of these hollows and never once did we come to any hollow or ravine that re- sembled any place like a stink hole or any place where we found a lot of skeletons of any Kind lying around. Once in a while we would find a deer skeleton but not many. Near the old Chunney Spring is a very large hollow or a ravine, which- ever you choose to call it. Here, now and then you may find a skeleton or two. The reason for this is as I would suppose, that the deer when erippled would work their way to where there was water and may be- come exhausted and from loss of blood would die there. Many others are of the same opinion that I have talked to Quite a number of the old hunt- ers who the writer had talked to vears ago, told many tales about hunting in the Barrens and they told of following deer for many miles and sometimes would travel far into the night until they would come upon their deer which would prob- ably lie down from exhaustion, but none ever told any tales of ever find- ing such a place as a stink hole, Nearly all of these old hunters have passed on and there isn't any one to go to any more to learn much about this affair. but as we see it, we had never heard of such a place in the Barrens or had ever heard any cone talk about it until we read it in the paper Many fairy tales are told about different things about the Barrens and we try to find out anything ahout it. but we don't seem to find anyone who seems to know anything about it In all my fifty odd years that I have lived in this section of the county, with the exception of a few years that I spent in Bellefonte and with all my travels through the Bar- rens which I have done from Beotia to Gatesburg and from the old Grif- fin place to the most eastern side of | the Barrens, I never have found, or! heard anyone say anything about al place called a stink hole, Should this be true of earlier years and wich a lace did exist, someone would sure- | iy Know something about it now. But Charge oF he headuuacters, the as things are now we don't seem 10 4, give out information. Private find anyone who knows anything fret class William Watson will aso more than we do about it. earlier years the little ore mine of | and army engineers, Red Bank was operated with horses, | ———— mules and carts, and as one of the Rust Stains animals would die there at the mines’ Iron rust stains can be removed they were hatled far out Into the from linen by putting oné table- | Barrens into a hole or hollow some- | spoonful cream of tata into a gal. where and there left for the foxes lon of water and boiling the linen and other wild animals to feast on, lin this solution. who with her delphia, returned home on Monday. Mrs. Kunes remained for a longer visit Mattie Potts left on Sunday to make her home with her brother, William and family of Clearfield Philip Lentz returned home on Sunday from Jefferson county, where he attended the funeral of his bro- ther-in-law. Mr. Leniz expects to return soon to his sister's home To the citizens of Liberty Town- ship: There will be an mass meeting held at the Blanchard schoolhonse on Sunday, August 15 at 2:30 p.m sharp. in regards to the appointing of a committee to continue the up- keep of the honor roll which was erected in honor of our boys and girls in the service. Please remem- ber the date and place as there is some very important business to be transacted at this time Whether you have any boys or girls in the service or not don't forget that are there are fighting for your ence at this meeting, as the meeting the honor roll but as any person coming upon a pile of bones like his would surely know that they were not the bones of a deer. A number of years ago while lumbering in the Barréns near what then was known as the Jun- jata Junction, we were in a conver- sation with an old hunter who then lived in the Gatesburg, and he told many tales of hunting and trapping ail through the Barrens, and his many exper- iences on his hunting trips, mention. ing many things he saw and exper- fencfd, but we never once heard him or anything that resembled one. This ‘is our story and If any one has any- i thing or any light to throw on this ! subject the publishers will gladly ac- ‘cept and publish it. re ———— WAL Recruiting at DuBois i O'Conner, post chaplain, officiated. | Following a honeymoon the couple | is a graduate of the Cooper town. = | Flies Thunderbolt fl 1043 June class. |, Both he and his bride spent several | that the ones freedom and they deserve your pres- | is sorely in regards to the upkeep of | little community of mention anything about a stink hole | The Army Récruiting Service an. | notinces the maintenance of an WAC | | recruiting office in DuBois. Rachel L. Stadiem. 3rd officer WAC, Is In| During pe in the Army Recruiting Office | Married In Florida Hartle, of | Drifting, was married to Miss Suz- | anne Marie Deprez, daughter of Mr. | | i | | | took up their residence for the time | being at Jacksonville, Ensign Hartle | * Lieut. John I. Hoffer Lieut. Hoffer, who has just re- ceived his wings after completing advanced training at Eagle Pass, Texas, has been designated as a pl- | lot of a P-47 “Thunderbolt,” known as the fastest thing on wings, and has been assigned to a fighter squad- ron. Lieut. Hoffer is a son of Mr and Mrs. John Hoffer, of Philips- burg, his father being assistant cashier of the First National Bank of that city. He was graduated from the Philipsburg High School and from Penn State College, Upon com - pleting his college education he en- tered the Alr Corps, and received basic training at Randolph Fleld, Texas, known as "The West Point of the Air” From there he went to Sgt. John Lyons Pfe. William Lyons years military service to his credit Plc filllam Lyons was inducted March 18, 19043, and at present is stationed at Camp Crowder, Mo, as a member of Co. F., 804th STR.. He is married to the former Miss Relda Woomer, of Howard, R. D., and the couple are the parents of a six weeks old John William Lyons The above brothers, sons of Mr and Mrs. Clair Lyons of Howard, are two more of Centre County's contribution to the Allied cause Sgt. Jolin Lyons has been located at various camps in Mississippi and the Carolinas and at present is in Mississippl. As a former member of Battery B of Bellefonte, he has four son of — Liuniote Soldier Is Killed In Action Raymond Horton Went Juniata Gap, was killed in tion July 4, in the southwest Pacific area according Lo a War announce ment received last week. No delalls as to where he met death were giver Private Horton was the son of Mr and Mrs. Emanuel Horton. He was 35 years of age and was born in Bellwood, After Jeaving school he was employed by the Juniata Silk Mill, later the Pennsylvania Rall road and then the Clarence Forsht Coal Company In Medical Corps . of Plc JWood as ry Completes Mechanical Course of Mr Hall, has Lantz, son of Centre of James | Ear] Lutz pleted his aviation mechani Force Technical § Texas, He is maintenance to some alr bare 0 # Americas Fivine for Allled Vic a COnIres hws) now fitters work alr Studies Gunnery D. Fet Bel arg Ri Pfe. 300 is ir Boob and Darel Boob of Mr East High ¢ formerly Private the son and Mrs. Art SA ployed at Bishop March 20 ical Corpe Fort Harris Bellefont« Mr Mr Howard Mrs. Becht Delbert Ba we MT treet . ana WHS em- the Bunoco Gas Station Hi 1493, assigned WIAs ucted on Med - treet ing in Lhe anda Ind of the 1942 | Bagle Pass for final training. He is | 'a nephew of Frederic G. Hoffer, of Philipsburg, chief clerk to the Cen- tre County Commissioners and now a candidate for County Prothono tary * Serving Overseas mother has been visiting in Phila- | Pvt. Melvin Snook Training with the Army Engin cers, Private Snook. son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Snook of Beliefonte is now with the American Potfcees in England. Inducted January 18, 1943, He was assigned to Camp Claiborne, La. and after a period of training was transferred to New York and sent abroad. Pvt. Snook attended Bellefonte High School and was em- ployed at the Union cemetery before entering the service. He was mar- ried in July at New York to Miss Thelma Nihart of Marsh Creek Goes to “Lake Forrest Pvt. Harry R. Doutt, who recently completed his basic training at Camp Swift, Texas, and has been located for several weeks at the replacement center at Louisana State University, Baton Rouge. La. has received or- ders to report to Lake Forrest Col- lege near Chicago. He is now spend- ing a furlough with his parents, Mr and Mrs. Ralph E. Doutt of East Fairmont avenue, State College. Dies in North Africa Mr. and Mrs. David Boob of Mill | Hall R. D. 1, have received a letter from Sister M. A. Johnstone, written V-mail July 8. telling of the death of their son, Pvt. Harry Boob, 21, who was seriously injured while ger- | {ving with the infantry in North Af- rica. No official communication has been received from the War Depart. ment at yet, Five of Family Serve Five members of the family of Mr and Mrs. Samuel Lewis of Sunbury, are to serve their country, three hrothers already serving, one over- | seas, and their sister, Miss Margaret | having passed all examinations and having been inducted, Saturday into the WAC. Another brother, Lt. Sr. | | Grade, John, will enter training with | the Naval reserve soon. Completes Special Course Sgt. Clement P. Kuhn, of State College, son of Mr, and Mrs. C. T.| Kuhn, recently completed a special | course in aircraft and anti-aireraft | gunnery in Lansing, Mich. Sines | his induction last September, Sgt. | Kuhn has been stationed at the) Bedford Alrdrome in Bedford, Mass. | : : i Brothers Meet in Africa | Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kellerman of | Coleville, received word this week {that two of their five sons In | Army service met July 17 in Africa. {They are Pfc. Carl Kellerman and |Pvt. Paul Kellerman. The message revealed that the two soldiers are stationed near each other, ‘to Pittsburg, Calif {On completion of his third stage of # Rr # S-8Sgt. Tech. William B. John'ton Cpl. E. Ben Johnston am Two talerred to Henderson Field Cuadalecanal. where stationed at present with the 206th Ordnance Company Corporal E. Ben Johnston entered the service June 25. 194) He was sent from New Cumberland, to Camp Wallace, Texas Mar Dill Field, Florida: back tv Wilmington Del. by succeeding trans ors to Pat. terson, N. J. Staten Island, N. Y Port Dix, Md. and to San Francixeo Calif where he sailed Feb. 17. 1M2 for Australia At present he io in New Guinea with the 210th Coast Artillery Anti-Aijrcraft thousands of miles, Caledor under varied conditions of military tra service, the above brothers, sons of Mrs. Martha Johnston, of Pennwwi- vania Furnace, are working valiant. ly for Allied Victory. Two of them are overseas, and the third training to go Stafl Sergeant Technician William B. Johnston entered the service May 3, 1941. From New Cumberland he was sent to the Aberdeen Proving Ground. Md. and later to Port Sher- idan. TH. From there he went to Port Leonard Wood, Mo, and finally from whence he sailed about Peb. 25. 1943, for New Separated by months later he was o1 he is then tn TR nnady . — Studies Alr Mechanics Fred L. Carson. 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry P. Carson of Port Ma- tilda, i= studing aircraft mechanics arrived at the Army Alr Porees in the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command post at Scott Training Command at the Academy | Field, 111, where he will receive an of Aeronautics, La Guardia Field, intensive course in radio operating N. Y. Recently promoted to private | and mechanics to fit him for duty as first class, because of his aptitude a member of a bomber crew. Scott for technical traning displayed in| Field is located six miles from Belle- Army classification tests, Pfc, Car- ville, Til. in the “looking glass coun« son is now undergoing the first stage try.” immortalized by Charles Dick- of his training in the New York Civ. ens. Formerly a training ground for flian Schools area of the Technical aviators in World War I, it is now Training Command. Later he will devoted exclusively to the produc. attend. the Casey Jones School of tion of radio operators and mechan Aeronautics at Newark, N. J, and jes Roosevelt Pleld, Hineola, LL. I. N. Y. | Gets Radio Training Pfc. Frank R. Houser, husband of Mrs. F. R. Houser, of Lemont, has Promoted to Corporal The promotion of Michael J. Ren- aud, of Snow Shoe, from Private, First Class to Technician Fifth Grade in the United States Army, {was anhouinced today at the head- quarters of the Medical Field Ser- Training in Nerth Carolina | vice School, Carlisle Barracks, where Gerald A. Robison, son of Mrs. Corporal Renaud is a member of G. A. Robsion, 40 Curtin street, the Detachment Quartermaster Bellefonte, has arrived at North Car- | Corps. Corporal Renaud, son of Mr olina State College, Raleigh, for and Mrs. James Renaud, of Kar- course oh instruction lasting approx- thaus, entered the Army on October imately five months prior to his ap- | 20, 1041, and served at Camp Lee, training at Roosevelt Pleld he will be graduated as a skilled mechanic qualified to take his place in the combat crew of an army air forces unit Ipointment as an aviation cadet in Va. before being assigned to Care the Army Force Training Command. Upon completion of the course he | will be classified as a navigator, pilot | or bombardier and go on to schools | of the Flying Training Command for training in these specialties. Studies Use of Weapons Ready to begin his basic training Sicily. lisle Barracks Nurses In Sicily 14. Alleda Kreiser, a former Ber. (wick girl, who enlisted for overseas {service while serving at King's Coun- | | ty Hospital, New York City, has been soldier, Pvt. Ronald E. Hann, son of {lian fruits. She reports that the Mrs. Benjmain Hann, of 500 Beaver slacks the nurses wear cause much (avenue, State College, has éntered interest, the Sicilians apparently | the Armored Replacement Training | never having seen women wearing | | Centre at Fort Knox, Ky. to learn such apparel. the secret sof mechanized warfare. in a 15-week course he will learn Reorives Promotion the secrets of mechanized warfare.| philip W. Williams, of State Col- | i erate the vehicles which make up an | lege, who was called for service last | armored division. | May 24, has been stationed at Camp damien | Bowle, Texas. On July 10, he was Training at Fort Knox promoted to the rank of private first Max 1. Sampsel. 22, son of Mr. | class, Pfc. Williams was formerly and Mrs. Boyd Sampsel of Belle-! {employed by the chemistry depart- fonte, R. D. 2. is now enrolled at ment at the College. Knox College, Galesburg, Ii, for a, aem— course of Army Air Foree instruc. Is First Class Private tion lasting approximately five Earl C. Bartley, son of Mr. months prior to his appointment as Mrs. C. L. Bartley of Bellefonte, an Aviation Cadet in the Army Alri ls with the anti-aircraft battalion Forces, During this period he will at Fort Fisher, N. C, was recently | | reported as serving at the front in | With three other nurses she | which will make him a qualified has pieced out field rations with Sic- | WOODWAR Miss Elnora B i seeken gw land, was a of Mrs Oats harvests home Ca ig number of our {ArMers: cut This whrrwet gn part of thelr ro} jocality had a on Baturdsay heRy 5 3 evening tn Sgt. John F. Johnston member of equipment Corporal Johnston Johnston Brothers Penna Joh dealers Sgt F. Johnston enlis with the 540th Ordnance Company at Camp Lee, Va. December 1, 1042 He was sent from there to the Mis. sinsippl Ordnance Pla Jackson M jan later in Cooke. Calif atl pres. ent While ted Waller Bundas Mi» Chapel Mis. R iy dinner guests and 0 were Mr. and Wolfe's Mr nt at and Camp anc where he is stationed sister and Mrs H brother-in-ia 5 one Lev 007 Ben managed the farm im- Bpeciniized Tra gincers | ington + children MARTHA Btiver, son of Mr. and Btiver of "Martha, who FL. lewis, Wash, transferred to Army ning Program of En. of Warh- John C Hoy tationed at cently College Pvt and Mrs. | y tioned at Camp A Ore. has been promoted to private first class The Martha Methodist Bunday school plenie will be held at the Jo: Williams grove, Baturday., Aus 7 F ied Stiver Mr Bon Bliver, who is sta ds Aur wh A toons home of Mr spent and werkery and Miles ackman snd Mrs. John Spackmar home of Ty- ning at the BD Ross JACKSONVILLE fav school meses Satur. wii rd Vonada and afternoon at Mrs sna ahd Cyenrge “ Te $ vith Mr Pod Dixoon and | “e TR vere and mils Mr. an a | wevs Pridey svenine supper 3 the CC § home MM Noll i wii Vonada Harr Cer ! tors ad Shae fer AES Sumner and Mrs I3TRY and y with and and of Johnsonbaugh BUEN evening A Mise l¢ NE Johnson $e Noll home Mrs. Dean ID Leon Ales were irediay Rogers of Wednesday home srent : 8 t the plement business al Rock Springs HOw € Willlam and John en- a a contr his hrothers gaged In er hanging vice act and pap- tering the paint before et ser. Wins Silver Wings Aviation Cadet William © merman, son of Mr. and Mrs Zimmerman, Willowhank street, is member of class 43-G of student of - ficers and aviation cadeizs recently graduated from the Army Air Porces Advanced Flying School at Yuma Arizona Cadet Zimmerman was commissioned a second Neutenant and Flight Officer, and was given the coveted silver wings, symbolic of the aeronautical rating of pilot He has been placed on active duty in the new rank with the Army Alr Forces Before entering the final and advanced training at Yuma Field, Cadet Zimmerman completed his primary and basic training at Thunderbird Field, Phoenix. Ariz, and Marana Army Filving School, Tucson, Arizona He served with the Air Corps at Long Beach, Calif, prior to being called for aviation cadet training. He is a graduate of Bellefonte High School Qualifies as Baker and Cook Fully trained in the art of army cooking, Auxiliary Gayle 1. Palmer, Spring Mills, R. D. 1, is one of the graduates of the Bakers and Cooks school at the Second WAC Training Center. Daviona Beach, Fia. The members of her class were rated either first or second cooks and most of them have already been assigned to army posts. First and second cooks earn the stripes of non-com- missioned officers Philipsburg Boy Gets Wings Among the list of graduates from Ellington Field, Texas, who last week became fighting pilots is Alfred E Pelka, 1314 Presqueisle street, Phil- ipsburg. Cadet Pelka was commis- sioned a second lietitenant and was Zim- OM a CI IR CI rR RC a ‘awarded the customary silver wings. | a Visits Stiver Springs i A visit to Silver Springs, Florida's | famed and internationally known! underwater fairviand, recently was | enjoyed as a highlight of the ours’ rent Florida tour of duty of Private | Paul Bressler, of Bellefonte R. D. 2. | Aboard Lost Sub Donald Holguist, of Ridgway, was 13 W. Bishop Street FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY "1959 ESCO Milk Coolers To vou farmers who need a cooler this year, vou had better place vour order at once, one more shipment will be available this vear. The manufacturer will soon have their quota built, as probably only We Also Have the Agency for EMPIRE MILKING MACHINES SEE US AT ONCE—PHONE 2615 HUBERT M. ROSSMAN Bellefonte, Pa.
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