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VOL. L
BELLWOOD, PA.*
8DAY, APRIL 28, 1938
LOCAL NEK GOLUi
Short Items That Will Interest Our Readers
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BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE WEEK
Terse    Paragraph* Concerning    th*
Deiag af Oav Borough—Th* Cat. .
■sea Oar Subscribers  Enjoy
—Subscribe for the BuUetia.
—There promises to be a large attendance at the class play in the Y.
tonight.
—Get your ticket for the Senior
class play to be presented in the
Y. M. C. A. tonight.
—The simmering political pot is
getting warmer as the date of the
election approaches.
—Just so long as business, big
and little to hamstrung by unjust
tax laws, just so long will it stay in
the doldrums.
—Let us hope that when the
pump is again primed there will be
plenty of water In the well to keep
buisness going for an indefinite
period.
—It is reported that some of the
fruit buds have been greatly damaged by the severe freeze that visited this section early during the
present month.
—It te rumored that a wall known
Central Pennsylvania industry is
out to feM up and move to Virginia
High taxes on Pennsylvania industry is given as the sole cause.
—The apple sad    other blossoms
In Logan Valley never looked more
beautiful than this season.    No use
to go elsewhere to   get a view    of
beautiful blooms when they are all
around aa at home.
•Friends of Mr. John F.    Chil-
tpn, a former resident of .the boro-
1!**H« will regret to learn that he haa
oeefrauriotuny umntmeeu mans inswrnsV^'
tory rheumatism and for some time
has been confined    to his home    at
Ardmore, Pa.
—The candidates who are going
about the. state washing their dirty
linen and hanging It on. the line to
dry, where all the citizens can see
it, may have cause to regret their
action after the primary election to
a thing of the past.
—William W. Ctoney, a Tyrone
R. D. No. 8, WPA employe was
caught beneath a falling tree while
engaged on the Tyrone pike about
9 o'clock Monday morning, and re-
reei\*d injuries which resulted in
his-tleath in the Altoona hospital
during the evening. He was aged
47. years.
—Many of the daily newspapers
throughout tha country have increased their subscription price to
five cento a copy, due largely to
increased cost of paper and primarily to the Social Security law. It
will not be long until the weekly
newspapers will be compelled to do
likewise, the Bulletin included.
—'The house builders and painters
of the borough are now having their
inning sines the beautiful spring
weather has arrived. If all property
holders would make the needed repairs and do the necessary paint-
tog, employment would be afforded
a large number of men until late
next fall. Yet there to another
serious problem to this suggestion,
whence comes the money with' which
to make the- repairs?
—The Pennsylvania Railroad has
announced that it has token space
for SB attractive and education 1 exhibit, portraying modern railroad
transportation, at the Golden Gate
International Exposition on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay,
scheduled for the summer of 1939.
The exhibit will be housed in the
Vacation Land Building and will
occupy 1712 square feet, contract
for which has just been signed by
officials of the railroad and the exposition.
—The annual play of the Senior
Class of the Bellwood High School
will be presented la the Y. M. C.
A. this evening, and will also be repeated tomorrow night. The play
to be presented is a farce la three
acts entitled, "Call Me Charlie."
The play is being sponsored under
the capable direction of Mr. Willard
Bleed. A chorus of underclass
girls under too direction of Miss
Susan Hirsch aad Miss Houck will
entertain with dance numbers be-
toraeB the seta.
MRS. SITMANjaLS OF VISIT
Writ** Entertainingly, ta ■ Friend
All eat Places Near Philadelphia
From a letter addressed to a friend, written by. Mrs. William Sit-
man, Sr., who, with her husband,
to enjoying a prolonged visit with'
their son-in-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Justus Douglass at Devon,
Pa., near Philadelphia, we have been
(permitted to extract the following,
which will appeal to our readers,
especially friends of the writer:
We are enjoying fine weather-
down here. It is a delightful place
in summer and spring. Forsythia,
marigolds and dogwood blossoms are
all out to fell bloom. We are near
Valley Forge, which is a beautiful
place. Here are many dogwoods. I
never saw any other color than
white dogwood, but here are to be
seen both pink and yellow, and you
know in our community there are
only white. The season here is two
weeks in advance of other years.
Justus and Will were up to Valley
Forge the other day. It to only o
few miles from Devon. They saw
thousands of cars going and coming. Ths traffic was so great that
cars were not permitted to stop and
were required to keep moving.
Will and Justus were up in the
Poconos the other day on a fishing
trip, Will caught a sucker and
Justus three fine trout. They have
also fished in other nearby streams,
but without much success. WiU
wants to return to Bellwood and
lash the trout streams of which he
to familiar. IThe folks have been
doing much automobiling to points
of interest in the immediate vicinity
and to New Jersey and Maryland.
My health to fairly good and I am
taankful it to no worse.
A beautiful cemetery is located
about a mile distant from us. It
waa laid out two hundred aad twenty-three years ago.    It is called, St.
W..«arww"-'a<isW*B  aa'wiarr ^rrTB~aft Btt*yn
Mahr, about five miles from here.
Recently it was entered by vandals
and mnch damage done to the monuments. Here is where General At-
turbury, at one time president of
the Pennsylvania railroad, is buried, aa well as General Mad An-
thoney Wayne and Governor Earle's
father and mother and other relatives are buried. Former United
States Senator Pepper's home is
about two miles from here. Give
my best regards to all members of
the W. C. T. U.
ass,
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
The annuel second district Sunday school convention of Blair county will be held to the Presbyterian
church, Friday evening May 6 at
'7.45. The program will be of exceptional Interest as! it will be
different from previous convention
methods. Instead of securing one
speaker from a distance the program
committee has requested four local
ministers to deliver seven minute
addresses on vital Sunday school
themes. A new beautiful banner has
been purchased which will be awarded to the school that will have the
largest number of scholars present
in proportion to the number of
scholars enrolled in their respective
schools. There is much 'interest
manifested in guessing which school
will be fortunate In securing the
new banner. At this convention
there will be the election and installation of officers. The speakers
for the evening will be Rev. H. Paul
Coy, Rev. R. P. Knoebel, Rev. T.
M. Stone and Rev. H. G. Dooley.
S>   SB  S»
—Lieutenant and Mrs. George
Finley,' of Fort Logan, Colorado,
announce the birth of a son, April
13th, at toe Fitsimmons hospital,
Denver, Colorado . Mrs. Findley before her marriage was Miss Marjor-
ie Edmiston, youngest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Edmiston formerly of Bellwood.
—Motorists and others should remember when out in the country
not to pluck or remove trees or
flowers from private or public property. The penalty of the act of
assembly provides S fine of $25 for
each tree or flower removed. The
flowers are beginning to shoot on
the hill sides most everywhere in
the country and they present a beautiful appearance..
—Advertise ta the Bulletin.
—Every   member  et the   family
the Bullatta.
RECORD OF
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NO. Ii
PARK MOVING
Parson*  Who  Have  Pa***d
Thae ta   Eternity
Adam  Albert  S*halls*
Of Greenwood, widey known
an employe on the Pittsburgh djt)
sion  of the    Pennslvania    rail:
died at 6 o'clock Tuesday mon
at hto home after an illness, six
ing from a complication of ailmen
He  was    employed    for  thirty-
years as a fireman.    Mr.    Schi
was  born    at    Stockton,    Luze;
•county, on Oct. 7, 1886, a sou
Lawrence  F.  and  Clara     (KJ*
Schalles.    -Surviving are hto
who waa Miss Bessie Louisa    B,
ere of Lilly,, and   three   chf
Emerald  arid  Gwendolyn,    both
home, and % Albert, now located
the United States    army    at
Hoyle, Md., and five brothers, Hi
ry  W.   SchallesT'of Bellwood,  Wi
iam of    Portage,    Nicholas    I*
Swissvale,    Carl    F. of    Lilly .
George W. Schalles of Windber.
Schalles was a member of tha
Lutheran church and the B. of Lt%
and E.    Funeral services were held'
this afternoon from the Greenwood^
United  church,  followed    by interment in Greenwood cemetery.
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EARLY MORNING BLAZE
Clark street residents were given
a thrill this morning between 4 and
5 o'clock, when a fire, supposedly ot
incendiary origin, broke out In a'
building used far. coal and storage
purposes on the-lot in the rear oi
the home of Robert Markle, and
was entirely consumed, together
with its contents. Neighbors were
attracted by the reflection and an
alarm was sounded from the pub-
Ac building. Before the firemen or-
rived neighbors played a hose
stream on the burning building and
other buildings across the alley and
kept the blaze confined.    After th#j|f
firemen reached    the scene it~,
.,««.«,  M pi, i ho^'stta&iT
the burning embers.    The loss
amount to one hundred dollars u
which there was no insurance,
morning hours was calm which
much   in favor  of the  other  buildings across the alley, owned by W.
F.   Balsbach.
W.
Rapid  Progress  Being Mads By
P. A. WORKERS
The recreational    park and    fish
projects  that  is    being    constructed  by WPA under the spon-
rship of the Bellwood Sportsmen's
ciation    to    coming    along    in
style and wUl    probably    be
completed this year.
The force consists of sixteen men
under the foremanship  of Mr.  Ru-
Catherman and the efficiency of
Is- force cannot be questioned in
W of the remarkable amount    of
igress made in a two-week period.
Up fact that this park will be    a
icammunity asset has served  to stir
considerable interest in this pro-
and    both theWPA    and    the
men are well pleased with the
METHODIST CHURCH OFFICERS
eting
Selection Made at a Recent M*
of tha Congregation
Superintendent emeritus, Thomas
P. Gheer; general superintendent,
C. L. McElwain; assistants, Roy M.
Baker and Robert Kustaborder;
general secretary, E. C. Syling;
treasurer, Ethel Givin; librarian,
Thomas Hirsch, assistant, H. C.
Reed; home Dept., superintendent,
Mrs. W. A. Dysart, assistant, C. L.
McElwain; misaionaify supprintend-
ent, W. Howard Moore; temperence
superintendent, W. H. Moore; en-'
rolbnent secretary, Mrs. J. L. Hillard.
Adult departmenjt—sluiperintend-
ent, J. L. Hillard; assistant,, W. P.
Bush; secretary, Charles Hetrick;
chorister, H .E. Rothenberger; pianist, Mrs. D. N. DeRemer.
Junior department;—superintendents, S. S .Briggs; assistant, Irvin
Mitchell; ■ootjetary, Irvin Mitchell;
pianist, Mrs. Wm. Hommer; chorister, y
Young Peoples department—*'
counselors, Nellie Givin and Mrs.
Helen Menser; president, Sarah Ro-
wen; vice president,Wallace Fields;
secretary, Gerald Cox; assistant,
Elizabeth Hoover; chor "rater, Betty:
Rothenberger; assistant, Marjoriei.
Owens; organist, William Stone; assistant, Thelma Focht; treasurer,
Fay  Rowen.
Intermediate department—super**
intendent, Mrs. Willis Thomas; as*
sistant, Mrs. T. M. Stone; secretarjt
Dorothy Ebbs'; pianists Norma Deft
Reiner,.
Primary department;—superintend^
eat. Alma Reeder; assistant, M**<§
Lincoln Henry; secretary, Mrs?.
Ralph Dysart; chorister, Mrs. Lin>
coin Henry.
Beginners department—superior
tend en t, Lizzie Akers; assistants}
Dorothy .Hoover and Mrs. Fred M:
ler; secretary, Elizabeth Reed
assistant, Ruth Thomas; chorii
Mrs. Fred Miller; pianist, Mi
Ralph Rarick.
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—Receipt   books   for sale at
Bulletin office, ten cento aach.
Work on the road  leading    Into
park has developed to the stage
•re the    stone te being    placed
the • cut has been put through
• the state road. A by-pass has
B constructed above the dam
to stop the flow of water and
Hfctual wort on the dam will be
Started immediately.
, When completed the sportsmen
*will have something to be proud of
,-and the public in general will be
benefitted. The dam will be stock-
jes\ with fish, picnic tables and overhead shelters erected. Fireplaces,
drinking fountains, a good road
Wading into the park and a beutiful
■rove will al 1 add to making the
Place a real beauty spot and an
ideal recreational park.
I The sportsmen are still conducting their membership drive and de-
stfre all Interested persons to take
diet a membership, as all money
collected from memberships will be
used to pay the dub's share of thte
PreMp
■^i- aaa jijmu. 1 WOOO,   UUIO,   C»
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Tha woman's Chistian Temperance * damaved. ■**
Union held a very interesting meeting Tuesday, opening with a song,
land scripture reading by Mrs. Julia
Beard and prayer by Mrs. C. S.
White, a song "Thte is my Father's
World." with Miss Cox at the piano.
Reports were then given and plans
for the next meeting were made.
The program chairman, Mrs. H.
Paul Cox, presented the program in
a very capable manner. We will
not quit until the liquor traffic quits.
The W. C. T. U. will wage its
peaceful war so long as the need exists. Mrs. Smith presented a very
tolling truth in "Not so Easy." Mrs.
Cox told of the havoc of a liquor
heritage, featuring the lowered resistance and less vitality in drinkers' children, the effect on the mind
and the tendency toward epilepsy.
Drinking drivers involved in nonfatal, accidents have increased 50
per cent. Miss Cox read a very
comprehensive article on "Temperance Education and Social Responsibility." 'She then favored with a
piano -solo, .a "Swiss Song." The
W. C. T. U. benediction closed the
meeting.
TKIRD BOQSTER_MY APRIL 30
Big    Bargains Will Be Offered    by
Merchants on Sat in day
Next Saturday will mark the
third Booster Day to be conducted
by the Bellwood merchants. This
event was inaugurated last February and proved to be a great success. Another was held in March.
On both occasions the merchants
of the town offered genuine bargains to the public and hundreds of
people were attracted here from
places in the immediate vicinity
and elsewhere.
Greatly reduced prices will prevail on goods to be offered by the
business men. Many cash prizes
will be awarded, consisting of valuable merchandise. Tickets will be
given at all Booster stores when
purchases are made.
The Bellwood Furniture Company to offering an exceptionally
valuable prise an Innerspring mattress. This store will be headquarters for most all people who come
to town on Saturday. The management, which is always uptodate and
progressive, is leaving nothing undone to make the stay in Bellwood
on this occasion as pleasant as possible. The company invites all to
make their store their headquarters
when in town. Everybody te welcome,  especially strangers,.
Prizes will be offered by other
merchants of the borough.
PERSONAl^raRAGRAPHS
People Who Visit Here
Those Who Go Away.
MOVEMENTS OF OUR CITIZENS
Guest* Who Asa Eatartaiaed by Mam.'j
Woed Ho*to—Peneaal MsbUbb. •»
Those Whs Vtoit To aad Fra
Mr.    and Mrs. O. B.    Moore    of
Elisabeth, N.J., visited during tha
week    end at the home    of    Mrs.
Moore's brother, J. H. Gilmore   anaf^j
family on South First street.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Barraclough
of Bellefonte, Mr. Harry Barraclough and son Gilbert, and Mr.
Lionel Barraclough, of Barnesboro,
were callers at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Myers during the
past week.
Mr. Charles T. Derick, of Mt.
Union, circulated among friends in
the borough Wednesday afternoon.
He waa a caller at our office. Hto
mission here waa to look after some
needed repairs at hto property oa
Martin street. H^fl
—A large number of Bellwood
citizens attended ' the Pinchot rally
held in Jaffa Mosque in Altoona
Monday evening.
—Peter Redenberg, of R. R. 1,
Bellwood, escaped serious injury in
a rear end collision late Sunday
afternoon on route 22 in Alexandria, Huntingdon county. Redenberg
waa observing a stop sign when a
car driven by A. C. Aiken, of Lake-
wood, Ohio, crashed toto the rear.
 ' ibr^n»»er'ator>fto'htsit
damaged
FALL BALLOTS TOBE REMOVED
for
MARCH ON    GETTYSBURG
Acceptance from veterans of the
Civil war to attend the 75th anniversary of toe battle of Gettysburg
are coming in and from indications
members of the comittees say that
at least 1,000 will be present.
Twenty-five years ago when Governor John K. Teneer, of Pennsylvania, addressed the veterans then
attending the 60th anniversary he
issued an invitation for them to attend the 75th. Since that time the
final summons has come to many of
them but there are a few veterans
of the Civil war left. Acceptance
have been received from some of
them residing in Canada and from
ones living in the northern/ and
southern states.
The htotorial significance of the
battle of Gettysburg te important.
Dedications will take place including
a monument with an eternal light.
notices far sale st
| Balletta office, tea
—With a brilliant array of stars
to present its unique story and
catchy melodies, RKO Radio's "Radio City Revels" offers a real modern
novelty In screen entertainment.
Bob Burns, Jack Okie, Kenny Baker and Ann Miller head the cast of
aha tuneful offering, which te based on an ingenious theme—Burns'
queer faculty of writing catchy
to bto sleep. At. the State
Bellwood, May 8 and 4,
Action  I*  Necessary  to   Prepare
the   Sprint;   Primary'
Upon petition of County Solicitor
John J. Haberstroh, authorising the
county commissioners to remove
from ballot boxes the ballots cast
by Blair county voters at the fall
primary election last September,
presented to the court at Hollidaysburg on Tuesday, the same was
promptly granted by Judge Marion
D. Patterson.
This action is made necessary in
preparation for the spring primary,
scheduled for Tuesday, May 17. As
set forth by Mr. Haberstroh- in hto
petition, the state election code
provides that "official ballots shall
be preserved' in the boxes . for a
period of at least eleven months."
In his formal request to the
court, Mr. Haberstroh pointed out
that Blair county does not "have
additional primary ballot boxes and
tta purchase of same would require the expenditure of approximately; $500 and that would be an
extravagance and waste of money
to purchase new ballot boxes when
sufficient are in possession of the
election commission, for toe purpose of the coming primary election.
"Tour petitioners, therefore, pray
that they be permitted to open the
ballot boxes that were used in the
last primary election held Sept. 14,
1087, remove the contents, wrap the
same and store them In a way that
they could be readily referred to,
so that, the boxes could be used fee
the primary, election of May 17,
1088.
Your petitioners furthermore set
forth that they have not been notified by the district * attorney, in
writing, or by any court of record,
to preserve said ballots for a longer
period of time for the purpose of
pending litigation," the petition concludes.
The wisdom of requiring the election commission of the sixty-seven
conties in the state to keep the ballots intact for eleven months has
been questioned. It would seem
thst. our elections are an expensive
luxury and with change of the law
the expense of holding them mount
higher and higher, and in the final
analysis the property owner pays the
bill. It would seem that the time te
ripe to return to' the law whereby
every voter waa reqired to pay a
sell tax.
AFRO. DAYS
O, April    days are fickle days    we I
know;
There's    sunshine and there's    rain
and sometimes snow.
But March with all   its bluster had
to go.
Springtime  is  here! and April skies
Are above us, no time for sighs—
When birds are singing    glad    and'
free
Gay voices calling you and me:
"There comes a brighter day, arise!" I
O, April days are happy days!   the
brooks,
As they go ' hurrying on    through
sunny nooks—
A song they sing. Along tha baa|rdr,
RTrraen, lad springing* fBrfarl
flowers,
Dandelions through sunny hours
Look gay.    Wild geese are winging
"Worth,**
And the plowman once again   goes
forth
'Mid April's.sun and fitful showers.
ELLEN IRVIN.
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GRANGE PROGRAM
On Friday evening at the grange
hall at Duncansville, the sixth of
the series of educational programs
being conducted by the subordinate
granges of Blair county will beheld, with the Poplar Run grange
as the host for the evening/ The
fchairs will be filled by the officers
of the Bald Eagle grange who will
present a drill, while the program,
will be presented by members of
the Logan's Valley grange of Bell-
Wood.
The general theme of the educational series to "The Development of America." The topic fee
Friday evening win be "Civil War
Period and Life of Lincoln."
GRANT FOR BLAIR ROADS
Congressman Don Gingery has
been notified that the President has
approved the allotment of federal
funds in the sum of $250,000 to improve state owned reads throughout
Blair county, by grading, draining,
installing base, widening and ntshB'
lizing shoulders and pavement, constructing bridges and performing appurtenant work.
This is not a part of the federal
aid highway system, and ia being
sponsored by the Pennsylvania department of highways.
Headquarters for the purpose of
supervision will he located in Johnstown.
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—FOR SALE—$650 Player Piano
can be had for the unpaid balance
of $57.00 on sums of $10.00 per
month. Unusual opportunity, Rolls
and Free Delivery go with it. Par
information where Player Piano can
be inspected—Write to WALTHAM
PIANO CO., Box 210, Chester, Pa.
Please furnish references. St
—Hundreds of fishermen are to
be found daily oa the trout streams.
With the thousands of Idle men ia
Blair county they have ample opportunity to enjoy the sport. ' It it
said thst many of he fishermen are
meeting with success in luring tha '
finny tribe, aad if thte hasps up It
will be necessary far the State Fish
Commission to begin    stocking   the