Page Four T¥HE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BECLEFORTE. PA. February 15, 1945 w— The Centre Aeworrat, BELLEFONTE, PENNA. Proprietors Editor Associate Editor Business Manuger PAUL M DURBS CECIL A. WALKER about the same unty, carried the and Ky pound deer were fell over # bald recent in an aver Ories pecinm freak the sire three : THE Orrice CATx “A Little Nonsense Now and Then, is Relisned by the Wisest Men” = Love in the Moonlight the hey mosquito IBSUED WEEKLY EVERY THURSDAY MORNING Entered In the Postofice at Bellefonte Pa as Hecond oluss Matter sat on the tickled his WhS fn moonlight LTE bridge In face with he lovely he Bridee wa - the bridge of hi » » Darwin's Mistake ounut as they're two, there's from our wife, starved a mother monk from one to another thing tree and let taste, Why, if to steal from und get on monkeys life tien't descend pCO tree discus th ing VT ow listen you nge otl a descended r deserted hit ‘ f 1 ol Y { “1 tu ne or ' thm TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION " ; 4 o . : I¥ mothe Within Centre County | fence "Yoni Bx wvahle mm and oan nonks a $1 50 per year p 4 the rubies vould fore Outside of Centre County we ! ! " a | "my ‘ . at. ft vn rite $2.00 per year in advar nme other Rate to Seidiers 4 y : X ! ' ! f ¢ I but brother, ht $1.50 per year, $1.00 for 6 mont $2.00 per year, $1.25 for 6 month within the U > ht : . : idle the U. § y M mit Factory? He i om the label bearing he first Welen The date your subscription expires is plainly printed Tr name All credits are g by a change on the date of iabel ssue of each month, We send no re ot date on your lsbel after you re Matters for publication, whet! Centre Democrat office not later tha week. Advertising copy received All reading notices marked (*) are ad Legal notices and all real estate ady Subscribers changing postaffice add for same All subseriptions will be continued unle CIRCULATION OVER 7,000 COPIES EACH WEEK Where's the elpls unless Ww pecinl request ¥ ' (u Krged * Best advertising, must reach The Lo sire publiostion that must ran le ola nowe or news or n Tu Y 0OGH Advice here will be another Our alter nin ertisements one along nt theyre per line each issue ying us, are lable rulsemenis [6 Arie ' snd : : ene Bo sa otherwise directed LJ N » In Their Little Teepees Tos) 4 f bh BLANCHARD Member American Press Association M | National Editorial Association 8 Chex Car ty f ” rvammld Sunday School Lesson KINGDOM TREASURES L Be Stiff { Fhev'd For Cigarette Smokers ’ School Less \l 18, 195 Just Nageed to Death International Sunday for February GOLI IN . Matthew 13 13-21 Text: 14-46; 14 1 e|sson Jesus SPH ke vere “Kingd Hea n analog Never * - Woe Should The the tern to y principles 1 eventoal i era w i Pollowing th er, Matthex ables, whic! n § three pairs, treat) ' ship, the growth the kingdom. Using tions, Jesus sought the fundamental na spiritual realm There Tares, of the Seed of the particular son, the Treasure ni! Price In the Treasure, Why, wen all Grandpa » » » Line Forms on Right were tl Net o Needs Loosening 1p gl Parable i a man, dou dail titude OY ern \ | work (in this instance t ' Into n " / plowing) by apparent covers one of the tr times Gidden in the keeping in troublou hides the treasure other property field, Then law, the treasure revert fie becomes the owt y him - fomd riches. How true this was wn Old Hunters Discuss the lives of the } yn . ’ ne Valenbit Points on Deer's Horns with Jesus than - their Hyves befor Willingly votedly they f( is true of his disciple : ‘ \ tf tL) Crys all His righteousne Wanted Ht For Writing In the Parable of t { nrod ‘ t wash e’ Deghm Great Price we have te « ment Vhe ¥ : : Visite " _— a r AN y eB seking in this case 4 ¢ y ' 1 mont 'G: tv # v ih i as the best having nd : be 4 } good A jewel merchant visiting various marzet ters of commerce his stock of ge On one round he realizes 1s ¥ Peeping Tom and some Consolation wecordie k te wa forsook all Howed HI they Caveny biasck or whi alrea n gasoline i WAS 80 ciran thelr SCAT BELLEFONTE FROM 1815 TO 1925 to he M1 fine was particularly well known through- b bens y " " ths -lW wa rst storekeeper, was Out this section for his surgical abil. "he Tom ' bevvalem ¢ 4 mck 4 ’ {athe { Hen james M. and ties. Dr. Dobbins was best known ' . n cating Mis ¢ ‘ } triki ese brothers by the many hundreds of families > Df f Saubrah . Sanka tha wit) ne wr thelr leader. controll. who trusted and depended upon his . a tm by Token Ww his " hare Me 3 ] Y olith y town and unfailing care and willingness to a generation. ald the sick and suffering at any elected as UUme of the day or night At his great fron. [death many of his former patients though united in erecting a handsome mon. Belle. 'ument over his grave. Dr. A. W wed his Bayard, who had been a surgeon in ax Our army in the War of 1812. was also an active practitioner The only resident minister of the gospel during this period was the Rev. James Linn. He was not only beloved and respected by his own Presbyterian parishioners, but was A leader In every movement for the benefit of the community during his half a century of service, For sev. eral years hw acted as the head of the Academy board of trustees and ) who wa fT. became ter of Bald Eagle Valley ng his home In ndant i ner the mounted R ' re 14 t neeeeded him head his iron business, An- great war governor of and John Irvin Cur. distinguished major-general Cival War. Lowery, a Cars A surveyor, and an account. ant, and acknowledged to have been an expert in all these lines, helped in the bullding of the James Dunlop home, was the bookkeeper for both the Miles brothers and the John Dunlop iron plants and was so highly respected that he was put in charge of the county finances Yor more than 20 years. John Hall, with his tUltemill, the first heavy-ham- mering device in the county. the McKeen, with their hotel and tan- nery, and the Hays brothers with their large tannery establishment’ west of the creek, were still well od With his own people until known In business circles {erected their beantifil church In | Our physicians of those early 1839, which was nly 30 pn ly owe | days, after the death of Dr. William | Years Inter, solely on account of ita you, ds wor Weer, Robs Harris, were Constans Curtin and see Tr Je dew ve fy ow & 0% Daniel Dobbins. Dr. Curtin, Whose! Andrew Gregg, far many years ep ea Rats Mone honse was on the northeast our member of congress, had been Ww lor mle ad wecommendsd by | COPY of the “Dia J eceived | selected as a Senator of United PARRISH DRUG 5TORS | nie degree from Dublin, and States In 1007. He poe ' 9 Don’t Neglect Slipping ngside the m FALSE TEETH Pe 114 Do false teeth drop, allp or wabble when you talk, sal, ugh or sheets? iY Don't be annoyed and embarrassed by such handicaps FASTEKRTIL an alka. ine (non-acid) powder 10 sprinkles on your plates, keaps false teeth more firmly set. Glves confident feeling of see curity and added eomfort, Ne gummy, Tor ¥, pasty taste or feeling, Get FAS. TEETH today st any drug stores, Lemon Juice Recipe Checks th Ew Digue the Poth were — ; nin Aent i i" omething Now to help relieve con- i tn doneh, 401 y | , jon and frritation "CC © aid gO pa 2” n upper bronchial ike Irv tubes, muscular soreness or tightness, sportaman evil on in the North Mountalr SPST <= TONE young mothers va Rubon throat, chestand | 100k them as parables nn sermon back at bedtime. And at once VapoRuby | on perdition. 1 never Gweard of either on mounted cpecimen after the June PENETRATE S a @. flood of 1880, the bungalow contain - to bronchial % Ing them was washwd away Mave tubes with its special if left there over winter they went medicinal vapors \ f1 in the and preachers penter imsel! a good al “Burnham” just south of the town and ther he bullt a home on the lot now occtipied by the Farmers National Bank. Mr. Linn was the instigator in the erection of the stone Academy bullding which re. Rheumatic Pai off with It. There were storie am Quickly man saving his [ife hanging to the walls Ooms of a staffed deer In the food: | “ maybe Ht was Old Jumba's last act to save the hand who slew him wel 3 | Since the above interview wnewsi ® woh 2 gun of dispatch from Bergen, Genesee coun. ry ol » he ity, New York, tells of the KiIUNg of | shies ols a buck deer weighing 370 pounds as “ {he fell, a giant of a deer but a mere | plgmy beside Clinton county's Old Jumbo, The New York deer's antlers were massive, and owrried 14 points, henee (he caronss when taken into town was dubbed ‘Woodrow.’ An- of a i feom theumatu "wy thee that pacha wapply wake i hy ow ol. You need te tees 8 dey ren bate al 3) AR oplendid se ohtviasd wrth “waphe the mands Rola tod LT wid the plese only Bi Cet ) pam recipe ol works ary we 50 southing, comfort invites restful sleep ar for hours to relieve distress. And | | | Y VAPORUB Gives You this x ut action. its a keeps on works reruien fo ber! known home remedy ET IGKS noble they {owner of houses and lots in Belle- | fonte for many years and spent much of his time in the town while not at the nation's capital. In 1814 he and his family moved permanent. ly to this place. At one time they Hved at the north end of what is now the Brockerhoff jot In 1820, after much Senntor Gregg accepted tion of Secretary of the Commons wealth. In 1823 he was Bellefonte's first eandidate for governor of Penn- sylvania, running on the Pedersd ticket, but was defeated by the popfinr Andrew Schultz, His speech in the Benate urging the postpones ment of the declaration of war against Briton in 1812 until we had made proper preparation for such a was used against him with telling effect The Bar of Centre County was chiefly residents during outstanding mn the state, Tis lend er, age Jonathan Hoge Walker, for whose benefit Philip Benner had erected the present Linn residence had long been recognized as a great inwyer when he was: appointed the new Circuit Court in Pittsburgh in 18Y8 Charles Huston Wes ad knowledge as an authority on Penn- yvivania nnd law and was first ap- pointed as judge of this district and of the Supreme persuasion, the posi. conflict which wllefonte deende war confined this to 10 then Court fs Bn ustice Pennsylvania Thomas Burnside, who had been a member of our state senate and our representative In congress, suc- ceeded Huston as judge of this dis- trict He was also appointed as nudge of the Berks dnd Montgom - ery district and then suc- ceeded Huston as a justice of the state Bupreme Court. The appoint - ment of one justioe of that court to succeeded another from the same town that time unprecedent.- great compliment Of the remaining members Bar of Centre county resident Bellefonte Willlam W. Potter WW grands of the Col of county was at ed and was 10 our little of a Potter Valley was the time, educat- in his He be- ress, and refused which lead. frm nt nary Ik pany James who discovered Penn's typical lawyer of the ETracio SOC Tate of ave definitely ong for governor fered him t Hae the n the same clas Thatidens Stevens, guickly be. made mean: of his Oriente Pot. He lived it tern dow eet . from dey one Yegn Mike Milesharg Attorney. ng coun. the criminal Dartmouth ft ar active practitioner eHible mark ties, and # cOnETEERMAN the stone Hse room for aty Etting wn ~Cyenernl the present came here irinvhia iy rented Orne and was of res In our 2 well tnown fig from Servet of this and stood high thor of the district MM. Perrin was probably me of the most imteresting charac- ters Which otir Bar had then devel. oped. Clever and brilliant in nf tases well a= n contacts with his clientele twice elected a member of vi} % 1 ad ol ¢ tr [rn Tu rmes His his he war the As. PY handiing { ipd Lhe early age Frye Mamas me inde. As Ast irfonte from Card Bar he a mem - Was interest polities was * ’ wy pleted 10 the Assembly {or sev. eral tere erected the house Allegheny has been hundred at the southwest corner of and Howard streets which Hite altered | the past were prior to 81S Samuel Harris the Armor brothers Mall Samos] Hunter William HH Bialr, James and Hugh McClellan were all still wetive In the community. Prankiin B Smith of James Smith, the owner of Bmithfield, took his fath- Ts the business, and He was 30 and resi John David Tuma Wilson Hageerty ther oftd the own Trey Ir Mitchel ” h Pace in I f a ct iti af prod nent politician Shugert came here from Valley He was oounty 1814, taught the Acad and became its headmaster. He i in a house 50 feet south of Barrows Alley on the east side of Spring street, and his son, Stewart T.. became one of our politionl leads. Patrick Cambridge, whose store on Bishop street was at Perry Alley, joined Philip Benter In a big general store at the Allegheny street corner of Bishop street. In 1832 he wis elected ne our sheriff Hamilton Humes came from Lan- caster to Bellefonte. His son, Bd. ward C. Humes, for many years one of our leading bankers, was bom within six months of the family's arrival. Hamilton Humes started a general store and beeame a large buyer of real estate. He built the Conrad House, a block of stores where Crider's Exchange now stands, and the original portion of the Ma- sonic Temple. He erected houses in several parts of the town and a large warehouse on the eastern bank of the canal after It had reached the town. John Norris had been a res. ident of Lewistown before the for. mation of the Centre Bank of Penn. sylvanin. He was that organizations eMetent eashier until 1838 when the bank was closed In the year 1815 Bellefonte re evived five new citizens who were ive X onotary a : | pron Jo B Hal { Clerk ir cms [$fvedd ph fmox at gave some of his time to the actual sll to prove of the greatest value | teaching. His residence at first was [to ita future. Two of these, Potter land Blanchard, have already been : placed the old frame one. He labor | | Inteniention, Query & Answer Column | H T. L.-1o brown or blue eyes predominate? Ans. In countries of the world Inhabited by white races, brown eyes are In the majority. It was formerly true that bine -eved persons seemed 10 predominate ih the United States but the ratio has decreased steadily from the fact that when a browneeyed person marries a blieceved oe most of the children will have brow PRC the various originate? Ans New York, Rollywood, Ch the points of origin of most network D. C. R-—Has America? Ans. Agricultural and homemak several Central and South American e they are known as 5-V club: in Cuba in the United States to study 4-H me M. A. C.—~Where Mrs. Thom Ans. Mrs. Dewey (Prances Eileen #t the age of 11 moved with her C. C. N.—What rer has Ans. The Detroit River Average is one vessel every three min Mrs. J. C. M1 am a soldier's lotment, but he has insurance made ything should happen to my |} irance money? Ans You would not be entit ficlary is still Hving. If the bene has been designated monthly instalments Mrs. N. A. B--Can they networks was the CArTries nl wWiagow aE Lhe Where do most of the radio programs the 4-H Club movement greatest volume VW sba n eves which are sent over leago and Programs Washington been introduced ing clubs have been organized in ountries. In Venezuela, for instances 5-C clubs. Brazil] has representativ thos Dewey } Hutt) was born io Barents to Ras paren LH Du} FY, orn? of more Lonnage utes during the fe and recetving 0 his mother would 1 ont nad be ert wuld die woud and "w receive take a soldier that vol Force (Ground) and transfer him to Infantry? Ans MLC action” mean? Does ft mean ‘that in Ans These terme mean that Yes, the Army decides where a man car Just what exactly does the term “missing” or the inferred that he or she is dead. In many cases person is still alive, interned In a neutral country best serve ‘missing all probability the man is dead? person has n disappeared is A Ed v later found that the 8 prisoner of war, « was isolated in such a way that it was impossible to aseertain his wher ithouts referred to, the remaining three were two of the Valentine brothers George and Reuben B., and thelr partner, William A. Thomas, These ‘Quakers” from Chester coumy were men from well-to-do families whose progenitors were early settlers in the “Creat Valley” and prominent in the setivities that county They purchased the Dunlop iron plants, enlarged both Bellefonte Porge and Logan Purnace, and eventually erected Belleforte Pur. other mills at the ] al Co. now ex- these men and were of nace and place descendants continually sful In the conduct of their The Valentines and Thom. were the one business oon- Bellefonte where 1 8&8 Gays when the or Dear employees never rh times the Jom except at bs be “blowr death Valentines ts the firm was known his attentions 1 their plants aeatl hw Howard ’ y : " ‘ ri ot Ar ent a nu pari: the fina: and Thomas and devoted o the operations Some vers before became in Work: Val vai- row then B HARriy i ount- ine ter winl and his firm's business had 1 ihe and seme 10 have ot ine rrests William A considerable fe of his Thomas, however, took interest in matiers oul- firm's province. He op- hington Purnaoce for eral years, financed the Op Howard Furnace, sided tablishment of the Bald Eagle canal and was the moving spirit the creation of the Snow Shoe Land Association. That organization, with its and timber lands, brought ling of the Bellefonte A erated Was Bev ’ ning o in the es " oon) 8 117 ow Bad Thomas was Ager ins T Orgar rultural Association With all these prominent citizen: Bellefonte, In its early years was probably a: mach indebted to one active spirit. Philip Benner, iron. master extraordinary, was one of the most energetic characters this wotion has ever known. His whole history i= a romance full of reals nn. Romantic in the fact that as & boy of 15} joined the Revolution. ary armies in the place of hi= fath. er who had been captured by the British, and that hw came 10 Ose re county, befare *ither the own or the county had been formed, with a wagon ain of 53 persons to set. | tle at “Rock” on Spring Creek. which | spot was then sn absolute wilder. | ness. Romantic in his method of | shipping bar fron over the moun- | tain tralls to Pittsburgh, and In his loading a ship with ron at New Or. | leans to sail to Spain. His eareer was intensely practical in his abil ity to manage his business inter ests andl 0 make much money therefrom Benner owned many lots In Bellefonte, and operated through partners at jeast iness firme in the town. He was In. | terested In the Academy. the estab | lishment of the new tumpike to Lewistown, and in putting through | the canal by way of Bald Eagle Val | ley. In almost every public meet. ing held in the town Philip Benner was either the temporary ‘or the permanent chairman. In fact, In every activity of the town or coun ty this man was one of he prin. cipal leaders. The newspaper which he founded in the next decade, the “Centre Democrat” Is still one of the leading journals in the county. | middie of this Shoe Rallroad and Eagle Valley Raflroad for many years a man. Centre & Kishacoguil- Co. and helped to re. Centre County Agri Ky the miler of urnpike the the As 3 the ter came to Bellefonte. Many of houses erected 100 years the careful finish of his work. Al TOTTI Th HH liam here F. Packer, spent and then moved from which elected some yess to William-. pars Hace he vas ove Ty may Commonwesith In Inst year o Henry Brockerhoft! Philadeiphia. His of Philip Benner with romance He ber of Napoleons fird from Prance of Wa as governor of ¢ the { this H peri arrived fre like vouched me. guard” who after the battle 10 the wel $ career was sls had been a thot old Ler iin OIMILE shor He actu house w western continent agent for Philadelphia i we Centre saw 1 He open i for as an a clothing mae Te 1 is PINs tN reg ana he here poms { business . he Lown, rar SOINe Vea ith var “0 WUs part- real the ners and His Brocker? began put pure hase bulding was which was & SOULheTY Brockerh estate ff Row the half Ho series of shop mn df what now th he and his “Row the northern portior the ol and rebuilt the first two stories u present Brockerhofl Hotel He wi interested In many business enter es Oud he OWN we ihe ar Pennsylvaiua ise he purchases of of KG ne of U » ( We gina: partners Cer Abram S. Valentine - ff +3 Ve adopted Howard plant { ‘alentine, Ww doen Lana fs o the nous ory room for the Sunoco read law and became the legal vier of the firm. He was the member of that organisation | nterest In poiitaes nd was fected as a A Centre « stone eye member of sean res from nty Nutnre nt hon rarity up Mow mr Josue Pimples Disappeared You it in true, there Io a safe harm. ess medicated liquid onlled Kieeret that drier wu pimples over might. Those who towed simple direc tons and applied Kirerex upon re. tiring were SmMARingly werprised when they found their pimples bad Glsappeared. These asers sntheies- | thomily pratee Kleerex and claim they are Be jonger embarrassed and ate mow happy with their clear complex fons. Don't take our word Tor It, wee Kiserex tonight. Only $0c. IT one ap= | plioation Goss net satisfy, you get eur money back. There iv no risk so pot hesitate. Sold and recom. mended by TARR EN DRT ATORE Suggestions ! ® FLECTRIC AND WOOD. 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