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Bellefonte, Pa, January 23, 1931.

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FIFTY YEARS AGOIN CENTRE COUNTY.

Items taken from the Watchman issue

of January 28, 1881.

—D. F. Fortney has retired asDistrict Attorney and William C.Heinle has been sworn in to fill theoffice.

Christ's Reformed church atMadisonburg was dedicated on Sun-day. It cost $4500 and was entire-ly free of debt when it was conse-crated to the service of Christ,

How John Anderson has beenable to keep it away from us solong we don't know. We see Johnevery day and only yesterday headmitted that a new son had cometo brighten his home three weeksago— (This one must have been“Birdie” Editor's Note.)

Joe Ross and John Griffithare carrying on high out at Pleas-ant Gap, Joe is the father of anew boy and John is celebrating thearrival of a dear little girl in hishome.—A two horse sled load of pretty

girls and married ladies will leavehere this afternoon for the concertat Boalsburg tonight. Other partiesare going, also, but by more privateconveyances.

—Harry Kephart, Harry Sayresand Charley McClure were up to

Unionville on Sunday to see theirsweethearts.

~The weight of the snow lastFriday, after the rain, caused theroofs of several barns about here tocave in.Six weeks of first class sleigh-

ing ought to be enough to satisfylovers of the bufralo robes andsleigh bells, so we're for hasteningspring.

-—~Abe Weber, of Howard, gotcaught on the grand jury last week.If all the members of the grand in-quest were as good looking as Abethat side of the court room wouldbe resplendent.—Daniel Hall, master blacksmith

at Unionville, put 101 shoes onhorses in one day last week.--A very serious accident happen-

ed to Miss Lucy Barnhart, daughterof P, W. Barnhart, on Wednesdayof last week, in which she had oneof her arms broken and was injur-ed otherwise. With her brotherHarry she was coming to town loattend the funeral of a child of theirsister, Mrs. J C.,, Weaver, whentheir horse became unmanageable,ran away and threw them both outof the sleigh.

—Richard Miles Esq., an old andrespected resident of this county,died at the Curtin House, in Miles-burg, last Saturday, at the age of85 years.

—Burglars played the devil withthe store of John Diehl in Howardlast Thursday night. They brokein and relieved him of about theweight of $130 in cash.

Shannon McCormick Esq., Demo-crat of Democrats, and one of the bestfriends the Watchman ever had orhopes to have, dropped in on Mondayto cheer us a bit with his kindlyand encouraging words.

~Buildings broken down by lastFriday's heavy snow were: MonroeArmor’'s barn, Robert MecKnight'scoal shed, the H. L. Harvey barnon this side of Curtin, the AustinIddings barn in Central City and thebarn of W. G. Leathers near Mt.Eagle.

A sledding party of little folksmade a trip to Unionville last Sat-urday afternoon and had supper atMr. Thomas Taylor's temperancehotel. Ben Barnes furnished theteam and sled and a comical littlecolored boy, Charley Powell, wentalong to cut capers for their amuse-ment. In the party were MasterWillie Garman and Miss Annie Gar-brick, Master Jerome Harper andMiss Minnie Garman, Master James,Joe and Miss Kate Cheesman, Mas-ter George and Misses Carrie andUrsula Bayard, Master George Meekand Miss Bessie Evans. At Union-ville Masters Charley and HarryGriest and Eugene Hall added muchto their pleasure by loaning themsleds to coast with while the bigsupper they had was in preparation.

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BELLEFONTE MAN'S ARM

CUT HALF OFF BY SAW.

While at work sawiig !umbe¥ tobuild the porch at his new home, oneast Lamb street, shortly beforenoon on Monday, Lester Musser gothis right arm caught in a swiftlyrevolving electric circular saw andbefore he could pull away the armwas cut half off just a short dis-tance below the elbow. He wasrushed to the Centre County hospi-tal where every effort will be madeto save the member. While bothbones were sawed nearly off andthe flesh and tendons mutilated itis possible the arm can be saved.Just how he came to get caught inthe saw Mr. Musser has not beenable to reveal.

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HUTCHISON.—It was with ex-treme regret that residents ofBellefonte learned the passing

away of Mrs. Margarei Hutchison,

lastof her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Nettie

Hutchison, in Warren, where she

and her daughter, Miss Fannie, had

gone to spend the winter. Being in

her 92nd year Mrs. Hutchison wasnaturally in frail health and the

breakdown came about three weeks

ago, From that time she graduallygrew worse until the end.

Mrs. Hutchison was a daughter ofElijah and Frances Pearce Hewes,

and was born at Potters Mills on

July 12th, 1839, hence was 91 years,6 months and 3 days old. She was

educated in the public schools of

her home community and at the ageof twenty years married Dr. JamesF. Hutchison. The latter served as

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" a surgeon during the Civil war and

at the close of the war located in

Harrisburg. Dr. Hutchison died in1879 and the following year Mrs.Hutchison and children moved toBellefonte and this had been herhome ever since. She was a mem-ber of the Methodist church fromchildhood and during her active lifea regular attendant. A great read-er she kept herself informed on allimportant issues of the day andcould converse intelligently on mostany topic. A good friend and asplendid neighbor she will be sadlymissed in the many homes in Belle-

fonte where she was always a most

welcome guest,She was the mother of three chil-

dren, Harry L. Hutchison, who diedin December, 1929; Thomas, whodied a number of years ago, andMiss Fannie, the only survivor, whowas with her mother when shepassed away. She also leaves onebrother and a sister, Charles P.Hewes Esq. of Erie, and Mrs. JohnT. McCormick, of State College.

Funeral services were held at theHutchison home in Warren at threeo'clock on Saturday afternoon, afterwhich the remains were placedin areceiving vault there and later will bebrought to Bellefonte for intermentin the family plot in the Union

, cemetery,

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DECKER. Maurice J. Decker, a

native of Centre county, died at

Knoxville, Tennessee, last Friday,

following an illness of several weeks

with stomach trouble.

He was a son of Michael J. and

Elizabeth Decker and was born at

Potters Mills about fifty years ago.

His early life was spent on the farm

but when he grew to manhood he

left Centre county for the West and

during the past twenty-five years

had been in many States and had

engaged in various occupations.

During the past few years he had

sold roofing for Sears, Roebuck &

Co., and superintended the work

of putting the roofs on the build-

{ings. He had been working in Ohio

for the past five years and went to

Knoxville only about five weeks ago.

He was a member of the Lutheran

church and the Masonic fraternity,

He never married but is survived

by two brothers and a sister, Fran-

cis W. and James L. Decker, both

living near Centre Hall, and Mrs.

W. O. Rearick, of Milroy. The re-mains were brought to Centre coun-ty, on Monday, and taken to thehome of his brother, F. W. Decker,where funeral services were held onTuesday afternoon, burial being madein the Sprucetown cemetery.

| IfBEATTY.—Mrs, Mary Beatty,

wife of J. O, Beatty, died at herhome at Avis, on Sunday, followingan illness of nineteen months with acomplication of diseases.She was a daughter »f Mr. and

Mrs. John Wolfe and was born atSpring Mills 53 years ago. Most ofher married life had been spent atAvis. She was a member of theTrinity Lutheran church, the LadiesAid and Community club and priorto her illness was for ten yearstreasurer of the Rehekahs.She is survived by her husband,

one daughter, Mrs. Carl Thorson, at

home, and a son, Glenn Beatty, ofAvis. She also leaves her fatherand step-mother, living at State Col-lege, and the following brothers andsisters: Mrs. Elmer Jones, of Kla-math Falls, Oregon; Mrs J. K.Mortsen, of Seattle, Wash.; Mrs.

Jennie Shope, of State College;Mrs. Gilbert Dietzel, Mrs. CharlesHoffman, William Orvis and CharlesWolfe, all of Avis, and John Wolfe,of State College.

Funeral services were held in theLutheran church, at Jersey Shore,at two o'clock Wednesday after-noon, by Rev. H. F. Shoaf, burialbeing made in the Jersey Shore

cemetery.

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THOMPSON.Mrs. Laura E.Thompson, a native of Centre coun-ty, died on Tuesday of last week, atthe home of her daughter, Mrs.Thomas Cisney, at Brooklyn, N. Y,,following an illness of some weeks.She was a daughter of John H. andMary Biddle and was born at Wad-die, in Buffalo Run valley, 74 yearsago. A good part of her marriedlife was spent in Tyrone, In addi-tion to the daughter mentioned |above she is survived by two broth-ers and a sister, Rev, Edward J.Biddle, of Tyrone; H. W. Biddle, of |Osceola Mills, and Mrs. Samuel M. |Coulter, of Homestead. The remains |were taken to Tyrone where burialwas made in the Grandview ceme- |tery, on Thursday.

-We will do your job work right.

Thursday evening, at the home!

daughters, Mrs. Helen Thomas,

| McLaughlin, of Wingate.leaves one brother and three sisters,

MORRIS.—Word was received in

Bellefonte, yesterday morning, of the

death of Miss Eliza Igbert Morris,

at the home of her brother, Charles

Morris, at Searcy, Arkansas, on

Wednesday evening. She had been

in delicate health for several years.

The oldest child of Alexander and

Elizabeth Swartz Morris, she was

born at Apollo Pa., where her girl-

hood life was spent. The family

later moved to Tyrone and that was

her home until she came to Belle-

fonte twenty-three years ago. Fol-

lowing the death of her father, or

about six years ago, she went south

to make her home with her broth-

er, later going to Searcy, Arkansas,She was a member of the Presby-terian church and the Daughters ofthe American Revolution. Hersurvivors include four brothers,Thomas K, Morris, of Sheffield, Ala.;

Charles A., of Searcy, Ark.; Rob-

ert, of Bellefonte, and Alexander

Jr., of Pittsburgh.

The remains will be brought east

to Tyrone, and will arrive there at

10:42 o'clock tomorrow (Saturday)

morning. They will be taken direct

from the train to Grandview ceme-

tery, for burial in the Morris lot.

il fiSHANNON.—Merrill Shannon, a

native of Middleburg but who had

been making his home in Bellefonte

since March, 1930, with his sister,

Mrs. D. H. Heim, on Reynolds ave-

nue, died at the Centre County hos-

pital, on Tuesday evening, as the

result of dropsy and heart trouble.

He had been a patient at the hospi-

tal about a month.

He was a son of Mr. and Mrs.

John F. Shannon and was born at

Middleburg a little over fifty years

ago. He was a cement contractor,

He married Miss Florence Stecht, of

Middleburg, who survives with threeof

Wilkes-Barre, Nellie and Margaret,

who with their mother are now mak-

ing their home with Mrs. Thomas.

He also- leaves two sisters, Mrs.

Heim and Mrs. Alice Spaide, of

Reedsville. Funeral services will be

‘held at the Heim home at noon to-

day after which the remains will be

taken .to Middleburg where further

services will be held in the church,

purial to be made at that place.

il IBECHDEL.—Albert O. Bechdel,

passenger conductor on the Pitts-

burgh division of the Pennsylvania

railroad, died quite suddenly of a

heart attack, at his home in Altoona,

at 8:30 o'clock on Monday morning,

He and Mrs. Bechdel had been up

most of Sunday night owing to the

illness of one of their daughters.

Mr. Bechdel went tu bed at 4:30

and got up at 8:30. As he got out

of bed he fell to the ficor and a

physician was summoned. He stated

that death had been instantaneous,

Deceased was a son of James and

CRISSMAN-—Announcement of the

sudden and unexpected death of

Luther Hendricks Crissman, at his

home in Altoona at 7:25 o'clock on

Monday evening, was a distinct

shock to his many friends in Belle-

fonte, who had not known of his ill-ess. In fact he had been illbut afew days. A heavy cold with which

he had been suffering last week

developed into pneumonia on Satur-

day night and resulted in his death.

He was a son of W. Homer andSarah Bright Crissman and was

born in Bellefonte on September 6th,1894, hence was in his 37th year.

He was educated in the publicschools here and when the UnitedStates entered the World war in1917 he went to Camp Hancock,

Ga., for training as a corporal inTroop L. He went overseas early in1918 and was there attached to the108th field artillery, an organization

that was in service on the frontduring the long campaign which re-sulted in ending the war. Return-.ing home in 1919 he worked for atime for the Bellefonte Central Rail-road company and ran the Bush

House cigar store for sometime. About five years agohe went to Altoona and accepted

employment with the Pennsylvania

Railroad company where he had re-mained ever since. He was a mem-

ber of Bellefonte lodge, No. 258,Free and Accepted Masons, Royal

Arch chapter No, 241, of Bellefonte,and the P. R. R. Relief Association.

He married Mrs. Ella DeetersBathurst who survives with twostep-children, Herbert and Alma

Bathurst, his father, living in Belle-fonte, and two sisters, Mrs. A. B.Cromer, of New York, but who is

now at the family home here, andMrs. M. F. Broderick, also at home.An only brother, Frank W., Criss-man, was killed in France duringthe World war.

Funeral services were held at theGrace Methodist church, in Altoona,at two o'clock yesterday afternoon,by Rev. E. F. Ilgenfritz, burial be-ing made in the Rose Hill cemetery,

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HUGAR.—Relatives and friends ofEdmund J. Hugar were shocked tolearn of his sudden death which oc-curred at his home in Renovo, Pa.on the morning of January 6th,11931.

The deceased was the youngestson of James J. and Henrietta Hugar,and was born near Keewaydin, Pa.‘in August, 1877. At the time of‘his death he was in his fifty-fourth‘year, His boyhood days were spenton the farm = Later the familymoved to Karthaus and for a timehe was engaged in the millingbusiness there.

! About 1906 Mr. Hugar was unitedin marriage to Miss Nellie Fowler,

Lock Haven, Pa, and for a time,was employed by a mercantile firm

Catherine Bechdel and was born at, n that town. Later he moved to

Howard, Centre county, on January

3rd, 1880, hence was 50 years and

16 days old. When but twenty years

‘of age he went to Altoona and en-

tered the employ of the Pennsylva-

nia Railrcad company as a passen-

ger brakeman and twelve years later

was promoted to a conductor. For

a number of years the family lived

in Pittsburgh but twelve years ago

were transferred to Altoona. He

was a member of the Baum Boule-

vard Presbyterian church, of Pitts-

burgh; Howard lodge Free and Ac-

cepted Masons, the Williamsport

consistory and Jaffa Shrine temple,

of Altoona. He was also a mem-

ber of the Order of Railway Conduc-

tors.He married Miss Mary E. Hum-

mell, of Tyrone, who survives withtwo daughters, Audrey and Janet,both at home. He also leaves twosisters and a brother, Mrs. Jose-phine Mingle, of State College; Mrs.Walter Leonard, of Pittsburgh, andEarl Bechdel, of Kittanning.

Funeral services were held in theBroad Avenue Methodist church attwo o'clock on Wednesday afternoon,

burial being made at Tyrone.

il IFISHER.—Mrs. Katherine G. Fish-

er, widow of the late W. E. Fisher,died at her home at Wingate, ateleven o'clock last Friday night, asthe result of a heart attack. She

had not been feeling well for some

days but was able to be up and

around and assist with her house-

hold work. On Friday eevning shecomplained of a pain in her leftside and a physician was summonedbut she was past medical aid,She was a daughter of Henry and

Elizabeth Glossner and was born inMarion township on October 3rd,1854, making her age 76 years and4 months. She married Mr. Fisherabout fifty-five years ago and alltheir married life was spent nearWingate. Her husband died in thefall of 1928 but surviving her arethe following children: HenryRoy Fisher, at home; Edgar andJoseph, of Milesburg; John, of BaldEagle; Mrs. Clayton Lucas, of Miles-burg; Toner, of Curtin; Mrs. MaggieTice, of Bald Eagle, and Mrs. Ralph

John H. and Miss Jennie Glossner,of Jacksonville; Mrs. William White,of Dix Run, and Mrs. James Fisher,of Warriorsmark.

Mrs. Fisher was a member of theMethodist church, a good motherand neighbor and will be missed inher home community, Funeral serv-ices were held at her late home, atone o'clock on Tuesday afternoon,by Revs. M. H. Crawford and M. C.Piper, burial being made in theStover cemetery.

She also

¥ vo, where for many years he‘was in the employ of the Pennsyl-vania Railroad company.

Deceased is survived by his wifeand three daughters; also a brotherand three sisters. Funeral serviceswere conducted from the RomanCatholic church, Renovo, of whichfaith he was a lifelong member.

During the last few years of hislife Mr. Hugar had suffered muchfrom physical debility which requir-ed numerous surgical operations‘and consequent suffering. Lookingback through the years his boyhoodfriends will remember the deceasedfor his good comradeship and pleas-ing personality, though saddened bythought of his sudden passing.

ANNUAL CONVENTIONOF SCHOOL DIRECTORS.

The 44th annual convention of the‘School Directors’ Association ofCentre county will be held in thercourt house, Bellefonte, on Thursday,Jan 29th. Two sessions will beheld, at 9:30 o'cleck in the morning‘and 1:30 in the afternoon.

Devotional services at the openingsession will be conducted by Rev.A. G. Herr, of Milesburg, to be fol-lowed by the reading of the minutesby the secretary. The first ad-dress will be on “A Child Account-ing Program,” by J. Y, Shambach,of Harrisburg. This will be follow-ed by the roll call and an addressby Dr. Henry T. Colestock, ofBucknell University. T. H. Rote, ofSpring Mills, will give a report ofthe proceedings of the State con-‘vention of school directors.

Dr, Colestock will be the firstspeaker at the afternoon session andfollowing him county superintendentF. G. Rogers will make a few re-marks. He will be followed withanother talk by Mr, Shambach andthen an opportunity will be giventhe directors to ask any question onwhich they may desire information.Reports of committees will then bein order after which officers will beelected and the convention adjourn.

Officers at present are S. W. Gram-and joy Millheim, president; Miss Besse

Miles, Milesburg, and George H. Mc-Cormick, Spring Mills, vice presi-dents; Guy W. Stearns, Lemont,secretary, and F. P. Geary, CentreHall, treasurer.The standing committees are:Reorganization.-M. O. Stover,

Millheim, chairman; Denton S, Peter-son, Ferguson township; C. A.Spyker, Centre Hall, Sherman H.Confer, Curtin township; JosephGoss, Taylor township; E.E. Vonada,

Marion township; J. W. Orr, Howard.Resolutions.—R. H. Shook, Gregg

| township, chairman; Rev. J, F. Har-

kins, State College; Charles Hipple,Burnside township; John M. Kachik,

Snow Shoe township;Ross, Harris township: George Hazel,

Bellefonte; J. 8S. Williams, Liberty

township.

Charles M.

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Voices from the South

Hartsville, N. C., Jan. 1-31

Mr. Geo, Meek,Dear Sir:—

Find enclosed order for Watch-man for 1931. We have receivedthe paper very promptly and cer-tainly enjoy it. In fact, we alllook with much pleasurable antici-pation on the day it arrives hereand there are about a dozen fami-lies to whom it is later passed. Theyall seem to be as anxious to read itas we are.

RespectfullyJAMES A. McCAFFERTY

Mr. McCafferty is the foimer wellknown Bellefonte stone mason. Hehas been living in North Carolinafor some years and, we understand,is getting along splendidly. Wenever knew just what took Jimd wn south, but we always had aaspicion that a desire to be some-where where Democrats win once inawhile might have had something todo with the move, And, becauseof that, we thought of him in No-vember, 1928, and wondered what hethought of the political acrobaticshis adopted State went throughthen. In any event we'll bet Jimdidn't pour any water on old Furni-fold McL. Simmons’ mill after thatcampaign.

Knoxville, Tenn, 1-13-31 |

Dear Mr. Meek:

Among the things noted in thestrong weekly editorials of those whoare supposed, ultimately to inheritthe world—that's either Shakespeareor Bible for meek--is somethingabout those who read the paper too

it to |

much and their labels too little.sent you a check on November1930,+++

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Very Sincerely yoursH. W. MAC INTIRE

Mr. MaclIntire's trouble has been

a--ad up. He did remit, but his

check (ame just after we had cor-| rected our list in November and as| we did not coric:t it again untillast week our records showed that

| he had paid in advance, but the list,which is a copy of the label, could notreflect the payment until it waschanged again.

i As we have a great many in-

| quiries just like that of Mr. Mac-Intire it might be well for others

{ who read this to note that any pay-i ments sent this office after Satur-| day, Jan. 10, last, will be credited| on our books at once, but they willnot be noted on paper labels until| Friday, March 20th. In other words,

last week we corrected the list andtock enough copies to use for mail-ing for nine weeks ahead.Mr. Maclntire's reference to the

possibility of our inheriting some-thing reminds us of the fact thatever since our first lisping of the

, Beatitudes we have had a peculiarlittle reaction every time we go overthat third one, that promisesthat the meek are to inherit theearth.Inasmuch as we haven't, we con-

clude that it isn't our kind of meekthat the promise was made to.

Incidentally, we call Mr, Mac-Intire's attention to the fact thatwe knew the number of the Beati-tude he referred to and that's some-thing he didn't know.

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